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COSHH Assessment & Safety Posters
Part of providing a safe environment for employees to work in, especially if that environment is one with hazards, is by carrying out a COSHH assessment to determine which hazards are present and how and what way they are a hazard to employees or potential visitors.
You then need to determine how you can reduce and prevent the harm caused by these hazards. This often involves signs and labels warning of the hazards present, but in some situations, you may also need to provide safety information in greater detail, in which case a COSHH assessment safety poster is necessary.
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Once an assessment has been carried out, the next step should be to provide safety posters. We have a wide range of posters available that you may find useful, including a COSHH Safety Poster, and various pocket guides, including one specifically for hazard warning symbols. Our range also includes a number of wall charts, which can help if you have a large number of employees. A wall chart can also serve as a reminder to your workers about how to work with hazardous materials and chemicals. It is easy to get acclimated to certain situations, even when they involve dangerous materials or hazards, so it's important to have reminders on hand in case of complacency or forgetfulness. It is incredibly important to make sure that your workplace complies with the relevant COSHH regulations, not only for your employees and workers' health and safety, but also to adhere to the law.

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In Italy, there is no good Italian restaurant without a "Barista" corner! Coffee, especially espresso, is an important part of Italian cuisine and culture.
There is no better way to close a perfect meal than with a classic Italian espresso – Illy, of course. If you combine the pleasure of superb espresso coffee and an artistic touch, what do you get? The Illy Espresso coffee served in decorated unautographed cups painted by famous international artists.
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Leo Panitch: Toronto's right populist Mayor is accused of crack use and PM Harper accused of covering up corruption in the Senate – their more serious crimes are attacks on workers rights and on public services
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YOu don't say what you are willing to spend for your enjoyment. Media centers have started to come down in price and would certainly offer many of the things you are asking about.
I'm looking to put together a Home Theater for my living room and I'm a bit of a novice. I want it include a DVD recorder that plays CDs and has a 5-disc changer, . Since most HTIB packages don't seem to have a DVD recorder, I guess I'll piece components together.
I'd like to be able to either hook up my mp3 player (an iRiver) or otherwise access mp3s from another storage medium (flash drive, or copied directly to a hard drive on the player). I'm not sure if this is a function of the DVD recorder or if I should be looking for this functionality as part of the audio component. Am I looking at this the right way?
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Danyiri Rescue
A downloadable game for Windows
The Danyiri were happily living on a distant planet when they spotted something strange happening on Earth. The pets were being abducted by those nasty Squiggles. They have made it their mission to stop this but they need the help of the Earthlings. Will you help them?
Your task is to place the Danyiri on the right spot of this route so that they can intercept the boxed pets but avoid the Squiggles.
- Full instructions and an interactive tutorial included.
- Includes a story (can be skipped but is short & fun).
- Game starts off easy with only 1 Danyiri and becomes very challenging as more routes, Danyiri and Squiggles are added.
- See an image of the pet you rescued at the end of every level.
- As the game progresses you get devices to help you intercept the pets like portals, pause, speed-up and slow-down.
- There are interactive hints that will give you as much help as you want - choose out of the 3 options or use them together to get 95% of the solution (100% in some cases). In most cases there's a variety of ways to solve the puzzles. The hints are just 1 option.
- Hint 1: Shows you where to place the Danyiri
- Hint 2: Shows you what devices to use
- Hint 3: Shows you where to place the devices.
- Two modes - casual & expert mode and you can switch between them at any stage and as often as you like.
- In casual mode the boxed-pets will keep circling on their routes until they're intercepted.
- In expert mode you have to intercept them before they stop circling - large numbers indicate your target. Warning: Expert mode can be very tricky!
- Collect 3 treats to get gold. A treat is collected when the Danyiri touches it.
- There is no time limit - take as long as you want to decide where to place the Danyiri - try a few things, have a look at the board and use that restart button. Nothing starts moving or counting down until you click START.
- Duration: If you work out the puzzles yourself then this is a very long game + - 10 hours at least.
Danyiri Rescue is a puzzle game with unique game play.
Danyiri Rescue - Casual Game from Evolutionary Games on Vimeo.
System Requirements:
Recommended: 1.80GHZ 2 Gig Ram
This game was tested to work on Windows 10.
This game is written in the resolution 1920 x 1080 and will be that size if played in window mode on a monitor larger than that. It will stretch to fill your screen if played full-screen. It will stretch to fill your screen on a square monitor as well. (Should you prefer it doesn't stretch and want the black bars top and bottom instead, feel free to ask - it's a press of a button from my side to give you a version like that.)
This game was also tested and working on Windows XP, 504mb Ram 1.73 GHZ.
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Air date: July 1st, 2013
Episode PREVIEW:
- Desiree flies her eight remaining men to the cultural and romantic hotspot of Barcelona. Drew and Kasey, however, share the burden of a terrible secret concerning James, who they feel is not there for the "right reasons." The guys are intent on making sure that Desiree learns the devastating truth about this man, but when will it be the right time to tell her?
Meanwhile, Drew has his own romantic and emotional one-on-one date with the Bachelorette. The group date features a face-off between six pumped up bachelors and an all-female professional soccer team. But buckle up – the after party features one the most visceral, ferocious fights in "Bachelorette" history. And when Desiree finally confronts James, she drops a bombshell. Zak helps to take Desiree's mind off the drama with a revealing one-one-one date that ups the romance. But the tension is unbearable as the rose ceremony nears and no man feels safe. Who will survive to travel to the exotic island of Madeira?
So… who is not here for the right reasons?
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- Drew's one-on-one date offers the opportunity for one of the more reserved men left to let loose and open up to Desiree. They explore Barcelona, walking the ancient streets of the city and taking in its world renowned architecture. When the two stop for local tapas, this shy bachelor gets emotional, opening up about his personal hero — his recovering alcoholic father, who had turned his life around only to now face cancer. At their private dinner in a magical courtyard, Drew proves he has a spontaneous side after all. Passionate kisses in a secluded alley show Drew's other side, but then, when the night couldn't get any more romantic, he stuns Desiree by telling her that James – a man she has feelings for – is not what he seems.
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- Desiree invites six of the men to the beautiful RCD Espanyol futbol stadium to practice Europe's number one sport, soccer. Little do they know that they'll suit up and compete against some of Spain's top futbol players – a very intimidating all-female team. James feels the chill from the rest of the men, but not just for his performance.
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- The after party features a nasty face-off between the men, as some decide to confront James about what they believe are his plans to hurt Desiree in the end. Trapped in lies, the situation explodes with a heart-pounding, finger pointing and screaming stand-off. Once the Bachelorette is told about James' nefarious intentions, confirming what Drew told her, she takes drastic steps to confront the wayward bachelor. What Desiree decides will shock everyone.
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- The last one-on-one date with Zak helps Desiree to forget her problems as they arrive at an exclusive art studio for private lessons. They sketch live models in classic Spanish clothing – one model minus clothing – and there is a surprise guest model. That night, after leading Zak to a romantic, candle-lit table deep inside a cava cave, Desiree discovers another deepening connection with a bachelor who freely admits that he is completely smitten with her.
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- No cocktail party is planned, but the men are very anxious. Desiree drops by and the men are both surprised and shaken by her actions. The only question is — which five bachelors will remain to travel to the tropical destination of Madeira, Portugal, as the hometown dates are fast approaching?
So here's the big question: who is Desiree saying this to… and about who?


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The "12 Days of Holiday Art" series kicked off on Dec. 14
Christmas is coming, and to celebrate the Wilmington-area Arts and Entertainment blog – more succinctly known as the WAE – is featuring one seasonal work of art by one local artist each day through Dec. 25.
The "12 Days of Holiday Art" series kicked off with Wilmington painter Clair Hartmann's "The Missing Ornament" on Dec. 14.
Though Hartmann is by no means a one-trick painter, one subject – dogs – does dominate the majority of her works. Hartmann is known for her pet portraits.
"I feel a connection with them," Hartmann wrote in a Facebook message. "They make me smile. "
Hartmann herself has two dogs at home: a rat terrier named Frida who was rescued at at a kill shelter last year, and a Jack Russell terrier named Chumley who was found on a busy highway about five years ago. The two terriers inspired "The Missing Ornament," which depicts a sly Jack Russell terrier posing with a red decoration he presumably plucked from the family Christmas tree.
"I love my Jack Russell and rat terriers and I felt (the painting) conveys the mischievousness and sport of the breed," Hartmann said.
After completing "The Missing Ornament," Hartmann decided to turn the piece into a greeting card. The card, as well as a series of "All is Calm" holiday greeting cards depicting some seasonal canines calmly resting, is available on Hartmann's Etsy page, or at Sun Gallery and Gifts, 4414 Wrightsville Ave. in Wilmington.
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text: The Holy Saturday! The History of Holy Saturday: Also known as the Easter Vigil (a name more properly applied to theMass on Holy Saturday night), Holy Saturday has had a long and variedhistory. As the Catholic Encyclopedia notes, "in the early Church this was the only Saturday on which fasting was permitted." Fasting is a sign of penance, but on Good Friday, Christ paid with His own Blood the debt of our sins.Thus, for many centuries, Christians regarded both Saturday and Sunday, the day of Christ's Resurrection, as days on which fasting was forbidden. (That practice is still reflected in the Lenten disciplines of the Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, which lighten their fastsslightly on Saturdays and Sundays.) By the second century, Christians had begun to observe a total fast (no food of any kind) for 40 hours before Easter, which meant that the entire day of Holy Saturday was a day of fasting. No Mass for Holy Saturday: As on Good Friday, there is no Mass offered for Holy Saturday. The Easter Vigil Mass, which takes place after sundown on Holy Saturday, properly belongs to Easter Sunday, since liturgically, each day begins at sundown on theprevious day. (That is why Saturday vigil Masses can fulfill our Sunday Duty .) Unlike on Good Friday, when Holy Communion is distributed at the afternoon liturgy commemorating Christ's Passion, on Holy Saturday the Eucharist is only given to the faithful as viaticum —that is, only to those in danger of death, to prepare their souls. In the early Church, Christians gathered on the afternoon of HolySaturday to pray and to confer the Sacrament of Baptism on catechumens—converts to Christianity who had spent Lent preparing to be received into the Church. (As the Catholic Encyclopedia notes, in the early Church, "Holy Saturday and the vigilof Pentecost were the only days onwhich baptism was administered.") This vigil lasted through the night until dawn on Easter Sunday, when the Alleluia was sung for the first time since the beginning of Lent , and the faithful—including the newly baptized—broke their 40-hour fast by receiving Communion. The Eclipse and Restoration of HolySaturday: In the Middle Ages, beginning roughly in the eighth century, the ceremonies of the Easter Vigil, especially the blessing of new fire and the lighting of the Easter candle, began to be performed earlier and earlier. Eventually, these ceremonies were performedon Holy Saturday morning. The whole of Holy Saturday, originally aday of mourning for the crucified Christ and of expectation of His Resurrection, now became little more than an anticipation of the Easter Vigil. With the reform of the liturgies for Holy Week in 1956, those ceremonies were returned to the Easter Vigil itself (that is, to the Mass celebrated after sundown on Holy Saturday), and thus the original character of Holy Saturdaywas restored. Until the revision of the rules for fasting and abstinence in 1969 (see " Reader Question: Observing Lent Before Vatican II " for more details), strict fasting and abstinence continued to be practiced on the morning of Holy Saturday, thus reminding the faithful of the sorrowful nature of the day and preparing them for the joy of Easter feast. While fasting and abstinence are no longer required on Holy Saturday morning, practicing these Lenten disciplines is still a good way to observe this sacred day.


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MS Dhoni knows when to hand over ODI captaincy to Virat Kohli says former selector Pranab Roy
Former Indian selector Pranab Roy has admitted that his decision to pick MS Dhoni in 2004 for the ODI series against Bangladesh is the best decision he made as a selector. He also weighed in on the captaincy debate and reaffirmed that MS Dhoni knows when to hand over the limited-overs captaincy to Virat Kohli in an interview with TOI.
Before Dhoni was selected in 2004, there was huge debate as to who would be India's wicketkeeper and take over from Rahul Dravid, who stepped in as a part-time keeper. After a lot of debate, the selectors led by Kiran More, picked Dhoni over Dinesh Karthik, Parthiv Patel and Deep Das Gupta, a scene which also appeared in Dhoni's biopic, "MS Dhoni: The Untold Story".
Also Read: Mohammad Kaif speaks about MS Dhoni's first-ball run-out on ODI debut
Speaking about the selection meeting, Roy, who is currently playing the role of a match referee in the ongoing season of the Ranji Trophy, said: "Actually, there was two other names too that were discussed. Deep Das Gupta and Parthiv Patel. But the selectors stuck with Dhoni. Rahul Dravid had already carried on the role of a wicket-keeper batsman for a long time, thus we went with Dhoni.
"Definitely, Karthik and Parthiv are terrific cricketers and that is why they are still playing and doing well. But Dhoni's case is different. He was much above the rest of the wicket-keepers in India at that time. Every match he was doing well. That's why he was given a chance and he proved that he was better."
"Probably, the decision to back him during the selection (in 2004) is the best I have made as a selector," he added.
There is no replacement for Dhoni in limited overs: Roy
After Virat Kohli led India to another successful series at home and the No.1 spot in Tests, the rumours surrounding him taking over from Dhoni have begun to circulate once again but Roy admitted that more than anyone else, Dhoni knows when to "hand the baton" over to his successor.
"At the moment, there is no replacement for Dhoni in limited overs. He is too good a player and a leader. There is no need to think of changing captaincy. Dhoni knows when to hand the baton to Kohli," the 59-year-old said.
The former Indian international admitted that he was "surprised" when Dhoni decided to retire from Test in the middle of the Test series against Australia in 2014/15, having followed the Indian limited-overs captain from his U-16 days.
Despite his retirement from Tests, the 35-year-old continues to lead the limited-overs side and will look to take India to No.3 with victory in the five-match ODI series against New Zealand, which begins on October 16.
Recalling the time when Dhoni announced his Test retirement, the former selector said: "I was surprised at that moment. After playing 90 Tests, I thought he would continue though we lost a few Tests in England and Australia. But again you have to respect his decision."


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Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Death or Canada film update
The film will be airing on Canadian television starting on 16 March from 8 to 10 pm on History Television, it is an excellent production.
More information about this interesting and important film is available at:
The official website for the film is located here:
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Death or Canada
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The new film Death or Canada screens at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto on Thursday March 5, 2009 at 7 p.m. It is the story of the Irish Famine of 1847. A call had gone out through Ontario Genealogical Society for people who were linked to the 1847 famine.
The show has already been seen on TV in Ireland, and was well received.
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Ulster Heritage Newsletter Launched
Jim has also given the Ulster Heritage forum a new look and this is already turning into a very good place for all of us with
The Ulster Heritage newsletter can be subscribed to by going to the opening page of the Ulster Heritage main website: http://www.ulsterheritage.com/
The Ulster Heritage Forum can be accessed by going to the homepage of the Ulster Heritage website and then clicking on the Ulster Heritage DNA page located on the menu on the left side of the page.
Jim has built a linked database of nearly 250,000 people, over the years, which has been of great assistance to him in tracking his family tree. His keen interest in computers has led him to currently being the webmaster for the McCain DNA Project, the Ulster DNA Project and the Ulster McKane website, as well as his own personal websites. He has a great deal of public speaking experience, has taught many training classes and has always been very involved in community services. As a member of the Waterloo-Wellington Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, he organized and taught a number of classes on using computers for genealogy. Jim and his newsletter and forum are great assets for both Canadian and American researchers.
Many thanks to
Thursday, 12 February 2009
The Bonnie Blue Flag
It may be news to some outside of Dixie, but there is a flag that has long been associated with people of
American and British settlers flooded into this area and most of these families were of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry, with the majority being of
the Bonnie Blue Flag
On 11 September, 1810 a troop of West Florida dragoons set out for
The flag was a single white star on a blue field. The flag unfurled in 1810 was made by Melissa Johnson, wife of Major Isaac Johnson, the commander of the West Florida Dragoons. The flag is called by two names commonly, the Bonnie Blue Flag and the Lone Star Flag. It saw use in the 1820s and 1830s as the Scots-Irish pushed into
On January 9, 1861 the convention of the People of Mississippi adopted an Ordinance of Secession. With this announcement the Bonnie Blue flag was raised over the capitol building in
The Lone Star/Bonnie Blue flag has been in constant use from 1810. You will frequently see it today on license plates on cars and trucks and families fly the flag across the US South and beyond. The Bonnie Blue flag today is as popular as ever and still conveys the same spirit as the original lone star flag and it is part of our Ulster Heritage.
Barry R McCain
Thursday, 5 February 2009
The Moses McKane Mystery
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
A Personal Journey
The Scotch-Irish did NOT stay in their little towns for generations. Considering the times, I find their movement amazing. One man, Moses White, is found in the records of the Dutch Reformed church in
The Scotch-Irish began as Presbyterians, but within one or two generations became Methodist, Congregational, Reformed Presbyterian, Baptist, or any other of the numerous denominations that have served our country's religious needs. There is some valid speculation that many of the second generation of Quakers to
The local and national historical and genealogical societies are great resources for 1718 research. By contrast, universities and colleges in
There is no such thing as a Scotch-Irish surname. Our names may have originated, and may still be found, in
My generation is largely ignorant of its past. In fact, not until I had completed research on my Boyd family did my 70-something mother discover her Presbyterian roots. She had always thought she was the 'first' in the family to be Presbyterian. Seeing her cry while reading about her ancestors in
No one has yet written a definitive book about the methodology for Scotch-Irish research in
Colin Brooks is a genealogist specializing in Scotch-Irish research in the 18th century. Project developer of the 1718 Migration research. Co-author of the Northern Ireland website: http://www.1718migration.org.
Monday, 2 February 2009
The Knox Families of Raphoe
The Knox families have long been an integral part of Irish society with a long list of very distinguished men and women. In the course of Ulster history they have have also sent many sons and daughters into the world in the Diaspora and their story continues. Ivan Knox, poet and historian, from Corcam, Donegal, has been collecting Knox family history for over half a century and some of his records are in the link above.
Irish Lesson in Ulster
This friendly, informal course is an introduction to the language and culture of Ireland. It covers the vocabulary and phrases needed to have a social conversation, including how to greet people and discuss the weather.
Whether you are a complete beginner or already have some knowledge of Irish, this course will enable you to speak, read and write the language.
Classes are held in Teach an Cheoil- The Comhaltas Centre at the Dunloy GAA pitch.
Fees will be £30.00 (£20 concession) and for further information contact Máirín Gaston on 077 8050 8366.


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With the declaration of Initial Services Galileo is moving from a global satellite navigation system in testing, to a live, operational service.
For the first time, European satellites are providing users with global positioning, navigation and timing information. In the lead up to Galileo Initial Services, many forward-looking companies have created Galileo-enabled receivers, chipsets and modules – many of which are already available on the market.
Today, 17 companies, representing more than 95% of the global satellite navigation supply market, produce Galileo-ready chips. These companies include:
- Key chipset manufacturers like u-blox, Broadcom, Mediatek and Intel.
- STM, a leading European chipset manufacturer in the automotive sector, has announced Galileo-ready "Teseo" chips for vehicle telematics and navigation systems.
- Qualcomm, the market leader for smartphone chips such as Snapdragon, has already built Galileo into its devices, meaning that many smartphones are Galileo-ready
In the consumer market:
- The first European-designed Galileo smartphone by Spanish technology company BQ is already on the market.
- By 2018, Galileo will be found in every new type-approved vehicle sold in Europe, thereby enabling the eCall emergency response system.
You can find up-to-date information on all available Galileo-enabled products at www.useGalileo.eu.


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BEIJING (AP) — China's economy, the world's second largest, grew 7.4 percent last year, its slowest expansion in nearly a quarter century. Forecasters expect growth to wane further in the next several years as China emphasizes consumption over polluting heavy industry and manufacturing, which suffer from overinvestment and overcapacity. The IMF predicts growth of 6.3 percent in 2016, a dramatic shift from double digit rates in previous years that is creating winners and losers.
Industries that profited from China's building boom are being battered by the ruling Communist Party's effort to reduce reliance on investment and nurture more sustainable growth based on domestic consumption. Developers are losing access to credit and building permissions. Suppliers of steel, copper, cement and other building materials have seen orders dry up. That has wiped out jobs in construction and real estate sales and sent shockwaves abroad, hitting countries as far away as Australia and Brazil that export iron ore and other commodities. One developer, Kaisa Group, just missed a $23 million interest payment on a bond abroad, alarming investors. Export-driven manufacturing industries that employ millions of people have been hurt by weak global demand. As explosive growth in auto sales cools, China's domestic brands are losing market share to global rivals and their state-owned manufacturing partners. Sales of cognac, Swiss watches, designer clothing and other luxury goods have been hurt by a ruling party campaign to rein in corruption and official extravagance. So has revenue at upscale restaurants and Macau casinos.
Big winners straddle the worlds of technology, private business and consumer brands — areas communist leaders want to promote as new sources of growth. E-commerce giant Alibaba Group's revenue rose 54 percent in the quarter that ended in September. Revenue for rival JD.com jumped 61 percent. Milk producer Modern Dairy Ltd.'s revenue rose 86 percent in the six months ending in June. Novice entrepreneurs in some areas are benefiting from rule changes meant to make it easier to set up barber shops, restaurants and other small businesses. Energy-intensive industries including trucking benefit from the slump in global crude prices. E-commerce has produced unusual winners, including fledgling smartphone maker Xiaomi, which used Internet-based sales and marketing to slash costs and passed Samsung last year to become China's No. 1 brand by number of handsets sold. A stock market boom has brought a surge of revenue and profit to brokerages and finance firms.
— COAST vs HINTERLAND
The slowdown is squeezing China's prosperous east cities but inland the impact is even bigger. Regions that relied on coal mining, steel and other businesses tied to heavy industry and investment are struggling. Growth rates in areas such as Heilongjiang province in the northeast have fallen close to zero. Local authorities in coal country in China's north have orders to nurture clean energy and other new industries but their efforts are slow to gain traction. Even prosperous areas have suffered: In the southeastern provinces of Guangdong and Zhejiang, home to export-driven producers of furniture, clothing and toys, weak foreign demand has forced hundreds of small factories to close.
Government-owned companies in oil, steel, banking, telecoms and other industries still enjoy monopolies and other privileges, but the ruling party's plans, if carried out, will force them to compete. State companies still would be guaranteed control of an array of industries but the party says "market forces" will play a bigger role in allocating credit and other resources. In banking, regulators are gradually shifting the state-owned industry, which until now served to subsidize government companies, toward a market-oriented model with more lending to private business. State-owned steel and aluminum mills are under pressure to make their operations cleaner and more efficient. Oil giant Sinopec Ltd. is looking at ways to use its thousands of filling stations to sell groceries and other goods.


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There's nothing Whoopi Goldberg loves more than whining about Donald Trump every day on her liberal talk show The View. However, on Tuesday, Whoopi took things too far when she tried to make it look like President Trump was mocking the September 11th terrorist attacks by taking one of his quotes out of context.
Whoopi reportedly slammed Trump for saying that his recent appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" helped give the show its highest ratings "since the World Trade Center came down" on 9/11.
"You know what man, that's sacrosanct," Whoopi barked, according to Too Fab. "You don't use 9/11 to bolster yourself. What the hell?!"
"This is a tasteless thing," Whoopi added.
Of course, Whoopi is ignoring the fact that as a proud New Yorker, Trump was personally affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks in ways that she could never understand. Twitter users immediately let Whoopi know that she took her attacks on Trump too far:
@TheView @WhoopiGoldberg Whoopi, you have to get a life. Will this go on for the next 8 years, or that right you're leaving in May thank God. Get over it you lost.
— Robert Fitzgerald (@bobfitz38011) April 25, 2017
@TheView @WhoopiGoldberg Wow even your haters don't care what you have to say anymore so irrelevant that you can't even get comments good or bad. @TheView has died
— Karen Raymond (@kkrymnd) April 25, 2017
@TheView @WhoopiGoldberg Whoopi is the master of tasteless!
— Carolyn McClarnon (@CarolynMcClarn1) April 25, 2017
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I read elsewhere on the net recently of several conservative artists who claim it takes almost a year to get their online certificate of registration. In my case it is the typical slow Washington offices taking a very slow 6 months. I remember way back in 1978 when I first registered a title with them by mail it took about that long. These days, the Library of Congress has what they call the ECO system or "Electronic Copyright Online" option. It initially seemed faster when they first started it as I was a tester of it with my work. The copyright went right through and within about 45 days I received by mail a copyright certificate. Then it started to slow down as the months went by. I honestly believe this is what has really happened. It's been my understanding these days that a usual copyright of material through ECO takes about 3 to 6 months if the submission was better. If there are issues, it could take a year.
According to my correspondence with the Copyright Office, they said the copyright is when it is officially submitted to them, so even if you have submitted something, it is protected when the initial submission and registration are performed online. There is a benefit to electronically filing over mailing a hard copy of the literary works. That instant file time is noted, so rest assured, the Obama Administration or anyone else has not yet weaponized this against their political foes. Whether it stays that way will remain to be seen, and when that day comes, you will most likely see artwork die in this country.
The U.S. Copyright office is located at this link http://www.copyright.gov/
To Register through the ECO system go here. http://www.copyright.gov/eco/
If you want to search titles, authors and the records in the copyright office, you can go here… http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First
Remember, if a title or artist doesn't show, it could be either that they did not register their work with the government or if new work it might be pending which case it would not show up.


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Ohhh Sofia Luna...such a little doll. I have not had a gal newborn in the studio in so long so it was sooo much fun to incorporate lots of fun headbands, pinks & purples, and shiny little crowns! Sofia was 12-days old and love to be wrapped up and swaddled the whole session. We did not hear a peep from her if she was snug as a bug.
I was so excited when Lissette contacted me to set up a newborn session for her little gal. I had held a session for her first born, Julian, last summer for his 1st birthday with an awesome Cake Smash. This year, I also got some fun pictures of Julian now that he is 2 and is also an awesome big brother!
I've known Lissette for many, many years. She was always "Marcella's little sister" growing up. We'd walk to elementary school together almost every morning and it's so awesome that we reconnected after so many years. She has grown into a wonderful woman and mother of two. She has her hands full with two but I know Julian is going to be a great big help with his new little sister. I loved seeing this family again and I can't wait to see Julian and Sofia grow up!
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text: UPN names top ad sales exec Published on September 17, 1998. Mike Mandelker was named New York-based exec VP-network sales for TV network UPN, Los Angeles. The appointment had been expected. Though UPN has been searching for someone to take its chief advertising sales post all summer, Mr. Mandelker only became the leading candidate for the job last month. That was when, in a major surprise, he left NBC after losing a power struggle to become its head of ad sales. Mr. Mandelker, who had been with NBC since 1984, was most recently senior VP-general manager of eastern sales for the network. At UPN, he succeeds Perri Stein, whose UPN contract expires next month. Ms. Stein has already left the network by mutual consent. Mr. Mandelker will report to Los Angeles-based Dean Valentine, UPN president-CEO.Copyright September 1998, Crain Communications Inc. Most Popular In this article: News


text: Listeria Reach For The Fries? Apple Slices Recalled For Possible Listeria Contamination If you've been applauding yourself recently for choosing the apple slices over the french fries for your kid's fast food meal, or an apple-laden prepackaged salad for your own dinner, you might want to hit the pause button. Morning headlines: Thursday, October 20, 2011 By Julie Bierach & The Associated Press • Oct 20, 2011 (UPI/Bill Greenblatt) Cardinals win Game 1 of World Series The Cardinals claimed Game 1 of the World Series last night at Busch Stadium against the Texas Rangers. Pinch-hitter Allen Craig drove in the go-ahead run to give the Cardinals a 3-2 win. Lance Berkman put the Cardinals ahead with a two-run single in the fourth, and Rangers catcher Mike Napoli tied the game with a home run the next inning. Pitcher Chris Carpenter got the win, allowing five hits in six innings. Allen Craig says it worked out to have Carpenter on the mound during the first game. Morning headlines: Friday, September 30, 2011 By Julie Bierach & The Associated Press • Sep 30, 2011 UPI/Bill Greenblatt Slay hopeful Mo. lawmakers agree to tax credits St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay remains hopeful that Missouri lawmakers will agree to tax credits to help develop an international air cargo hub at Lambert Airport, even as the effort appears to be stalled. Slay told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the job-creation potential is simply too great to give up on. Slay says the major problem lawmakers have with the proposal is the issue of expiration dates for some tax credits. 2 more illnesses reported in Mo. from cantaloupe By The Associated Press • Sep 29, 2011 (via Flickr/News21-usa) Missouri health officials say the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed two more illnesses in Missouri that are linked to tainted cantaloupe. The state Department of Health and Senior Services said Thursday that Missouri now has had three cases of listeria that are tied to contaminated fruit grown on a farm in Colorado. Morning headlines: Thursday, September 22, 2011 By Julie Bierach & The Associated Press • Sep 22, 2011 UPI/Bill Greenblatt Duncan, Napolitano to visit Joplin U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will be in Joplin Thursday to visit the city's "mall school." That's the shopping mall school where 11th- and 12th-grade students began attending classes last month after Joplin's high school was destroyed in a tornado. The May 22 tornado either destroyed or damaged 10 schools in the area, at an estimated cost of $151 million. New federal courthouse could soon hold Bond's name


text: I used to live in France and a lovely lady name Francoise shared this recipe with me. 1. Wash and thinly slice the potatoes.2. Pour the cream and milk into a heavy based saucepan and begin to heat on a low to low moderate temperature.3. Slice or crush the garlic cloves and add to the cream and milk mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste.4. Add the potato slices to the cream and milk mixture. Stir gently to make sure that all the potatoes are coated in the crea/milk mixture.5. Heat gently until the potatoes are still firm but have lost that 'raw' taste. This should take approx. 15 - 20 minutes. Stir regularly to prevent the potatoes from sticking to the base of the pot.6. Preheat the oven to to 160C/320F/Gas 2.7. Grate the cheese.8. Put the potato and cream/milk mixture into an ovenproof dish and sprinkle the grated cheese on top.9. Cook until the cheese is golden and bubbling (approx. 30 - 40 minutes).10. Serve immediately.Hints and tips * If the skins of the potatoes are in good condition, there is no need to peel them - just wash and remove any eyes. * Pour in the cream first and use the milk to rinse out the cream carton. * Put the lid on the saucepan to make sure all the potatoes are properly cooked. * Be careful not to heat on too high a temperature as the cream and milk will boil over. * Add the salt before serving instead of during cooking, as the potatoes will absorb the salt. * This recipe is extremely flexible - you can use vary the quantities of any of the ingredients listed according to your own personal taste and it should still be yummy!! Please note: this recipe has been created and uploaded by a member of the Tesco Real Food online community. Tesco does not test customer recipes so cannot accept responsibility for the content, validate the results or answer queries regarding them.


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Francesca Marciano is an Italian screenwriter, novelist and actress. Her works include, The End of Manners, Casa Rossa, Rules of the Wild and The Other Language. Casa Rossa won the Rapallo Carige prize for women writers in 2003.
She is also a documentary filmmaker and divides her time between Rome and Kenya.
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Garron calls a war council. You are led into a room deep underground is shielded with lead. The room feels oppressive and claustrophobic, as if the rest of the world no longer exists when you are there because it is so cut off. There is a large map of Terrestia on the table, marked with alliances and political situations in different areas. Overlaid on the Sinster range is an approximation of the former locations of Ancient kingdoms.
"We should be able to talk in here." Garron opens. "It is, perhaps, one of the most heavily shielded places in Terrestia. Now, what did we learn from our battle with Kendrick"
History = 28 (Garron)
Historically, Kendrick rarely fought against armies. He made his way behind defensive lines, heading deep into allied territory, and would slaughter villages and towns, transforming them into new armies to be used deep in areas where they thought was "safe". On the other hand, while Kendrick himself was rarely seen in combat himself, his "Black Wind" was utilized in quite a few battles, and it was evident enough that Kendrick was the one bringing it that he himself began to be called the Black Wind as a title.
The Black Wind itself was quite demoralizing. Survivors of battles within the darkness often came out stark raving mad, catatonic, or simply more subtly changed somehow, as if a different person walked out wearing the same skin. The forces of the undead, on the other hand, were significantly bolstered within the shadow, and even priestly Turnings were somehow turned around against the living instead of the dead. And simple zombies and skeletons became something more-- although exactly HOW much more is unclear, due to the state of most survivors.
Off the battlefield, and into the slaughter ground, Kendrick's Modus Operendi was a lot clearer. He would walk into a town, and the inhabitants would begin slaughtering each other.
Insight = 42 (Ancor)
Perception = 35 (Ancor)
Despite initial appearances, Kendrick was actually doing what he could to avoid confrontation and a fight with the party. His efforts were clearly involved in gathering up as much undead as possible and getting them out. He just happened to have what amounted to a BFG in his back pocket, and decided to use it from range to help cover the Vampire Lords.
The Vampire Lords efforts were more interesting. They were certainly attacking the Tree of Life, but more than that, they were actually shielding the effects of its aura from the other undead.
Perception via Arcana = 23 (Notos): They were doing something to the tree beyond merely damaging it / shielding others. Unfortunately, you were a bit busy at the time, and unable to really concentrate on what they were doing. You can't quite remember, or weren't paying enough attention.
Diplomacy (Priests) = 44 (Notos)
The priests were mostly engaged with the rank and file undead. Those within the tree's aura did, in fact, die very easily. However, outside that aura, the undead was very difficult to kill or defeat.
It seemed that Kendrick was not exactly commanding them, as one commands a mortal army. There were a few intellegent undead scattered about the army, and they acted more like sheepdogs than like military commanders; sometimes they would push (with rebukes, and such) and sometimes they would pull (with "bait" of sorts).
Arcana = 44 (Garron)
Arcana (Necro) = 39 (Corvus)
Kendrick's beam attack, Discordant Thanatopsis, was horribly vicious. The wraiths it created were actually wrenched from the Shadow Realm, slaughtering future possibilities of yourselves and turning them into the undead. To be caught in the beam itself would be to unmake your mind on the astral plane, causing it to cease to exist, severing it from the Etherial and Shadow Realms. The Shadows of your future will then continue to exist without a present, ever, which does very odd things to the world in a manner reminiscent of a prophecy. Things you might have done might still get done, but without a you to do it. And furthermore, the spell twists your future shadows to the will of the Necromancer.


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Professor Catherine Moriarty is Curatorial Director of the University of Brighton Design Archives.
Her work engages with issues that lie at the heart of current research in the humanities – cultural memory, inter-textuality, visual and material culture, particularly sculpture, and the research potential of digital content.
Curatorial Director of the University Design Archives, Catherine Moriarty's work engages with issues that lie at the heart of current research in the humanities – cultural memory, inter-textuality, visual and material culture, particularly sculpture, and the research potential of digital content.
Professor Catherine Moriarty is Curatorial Director of the University of Brighton Design Archives and Professor of Art and Design History at the University of Brighton.
Integral to Moriarty's development of the University of Brighton Design Archives is her conviction in curation as a creative practice. Initiating artists' residencies, exhibitions, and research projects of different kinds, she is interested in the archive as a site of inquiry.
Recognised as an important locus for the study of design internationally, the Design Archives and the work of its team was endorsed by HEFCE in 2010 with a significant funding award from the Museums, Galleries and Collections Fund. The Design Archives is one of only 31 university museums nationally to receive funding from this source.
Moriarty has directed a variety of projects, most recently Exploring British Design in 2014/15, an AHRC-funded collaboration with the Archives Hub. She has written on the history of the Design Council's photographic holdings, and on the relationship between sculpture and design. In 2007 she curated an exhibition on the work of the designer and sculptor Bernard Schottlander with the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds and, in 2013, an exhibition about Barbara Jones with the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Her professorial lecture, took place in October 2014, entitled Curating the Past: the monument, the archive and the database.
Moriarty led a major Leverhulme funded research project, the National Inventory of War Memorials, at the Imperial War Museum between 1989 and 1996. Completing her DPhil at the University of Sussex in 1995, her publications on commemoration and figurative sculpture after the First World War are recognised as key sources in the scholarship of cultural memory and conflict. Her monograph on the sculptor Gilbert Ledward (1888-1960) was published in 2003, she contributed to the Tate Gallery/Yale University Press History of British Art in 2008, and in 2011 she contributed an essay to the book accompanying the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition 'Modern British Sculpture'. In 2014 she became co-editor of the Sculpture Journal, along with Peter Dent and Jon Wood.In 2004 Moriarty was awarded an Australian Bicentennial Fellowship by the Menzies Centre, King's College, London and a British Academy research grant. In 2005 she was a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne's Australian Centre and in 2007 she curated an exhibition for the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne. In 2008 she was awarded the prestigious University of Melbourne Macgeorge Fellowship. The culmination of this research, the book Making Melbourne's Monuments: the Sculpture of Paul Montford, was published by Australian Scholarly Publishing in 2013 with support from the Paul Mellon Centre.
Re-examining Barbara Jones' radical Black Eyes and Lemonade exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1951
In-depth study and catalogue raisoneé of the work of sculptor, Paul Montford (1868-1938) published by Australian Scholarly Publishing in 2013.
An essay exploring the word 'khaki' in various contexts, each touching on its association with dust and ideas of the particle.
Illustrates how the experiences of war can be embodied in and represented by an endless variety of artefacts.
An exhibition exploring the sculpture of the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, 2007.
Monograph grounded in archival research and funded by the Henry Moore Foundation in 2003
A study drawing together ideas about the structural and symbolic significance of the greatcoat in monumental contexts, 2004.
An exhibition with the Henry Moore Institute linking the design and sculptural elements of Bernard Schottlander's work, 2007.
An essay on portrait photography and the commemoration of the First World War, 2004.
A chapter in the publication accompanying the exhibition 'Figuring Space: Sculpture/Furniture from Mies to Moore', 2007.
This paper derives from a conversation between Moriarty and Weight that formed part of the 2007 conference 'The Archival Impulse' at Tate Britain.
Video of Catherine Moriarty's Professorial lecture, 2014 and on BBC Genius of Design, 2010.
Doctoral Students
Liz Bruchet 'Curatorial Practice and the Archive. ' Recipient of an AHRC studentship. Due to complete in 2018.
Dora Souza Dias 'Representing the graphic design profession on the world stage: a history of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations.' Due to complete 2018.
Fearghus Rouslton 'Justa notha teenage rebel: Belfast Punk and the Troubles 1974-1979. ' AHRC TECHNE award. Due to complete 2018.
Althea Greenan 'Slide walks: understanding the Women's Art Library slide collection.' Completed 2017.
Tom Wilson 'Design Strategies and the Representation of the Commonwealth: From Institute to Museum.' Recipient of AHRC collaborative studentship. Completed in 2016.
Anthony McIntosh 'Public monuments: memory, manifestation and the accumulated significance of place.' Recipient of an AHRC studentship. Completed in 2014.
Leah Armstrong 'Towards an atlas of the of the Design Professions in Britain 1930-2010.' Recipient of an AHRC collaborative studentship. Completed in 2013.
Ruth Cribb 'Eric Gill and transformative practices in British sculpture 1909-1940: networks, contexts and contradictions.' Recipient of an AHRC studentship. Completed 2013.
Moriarty, Catherine (2016) Monographs, archives, and networks: representing designer relationships Design Issues, 32 (4). pp. 52-63. ISSN 0747-9360
Moriarty, Catherine (2015) 'The museum eye must be abandoned': figureheads as popular art Sculpture Journal, 24 (2). pp. 229-248. ISSN 1366-2724
Moriarty, Catherine, Stevenson, Jane, Johnston, Pete, Kisby, Anna and Hart, Tom (2015) Exploring British Design [Research dataset/database]
Moriarty, Catherine (2015) University of Brighton Design Archives: the Icograda Archive The Design Resources in the Visual Culture, 22 (2). pp. 2-9. ISSN 0919-6803
Moriarty, Catherine and Breakell, Sue (2015) Joseph Emberton: the architecture of display [Exhibition]
Moriarty, Catherine (2013) Making Melbourne's monuments: the sculpture of Paul Montford (1868-1938) Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne. ISBN 9781921875595
Costin, Simon and Moriarty, Catherine (2013) Black Eyes and Lemonade: Curating Popular Art [Exhibition]
Moriarty, Catherine (2010) Dust to dust: a particular history of khaki Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture, 8 (3). pp. 304-320. ISSN 1475-9756
Moriarty, Catherine (2010) The Cenotaph In: Curtis, Penelope and Wilson, Keith, eds. Modern British Sculpture. Royal Academy of Arts, London, pp. 46-51. ISBN 1905711727
Moriarty, Catherine (2009) 'The Returned Soldiers bug': making the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne In: Saunder, N. and Cornish, P., eds. Contested Objects: Material Memories of the First World War. Routledge, London, pp. 144-162. ISBN 9780415450706
Moriarty, Catherine (2008) Designs for solidarity: photography and the Cuban political poster 1965-1975 Photoworks Magazine (11). pp. 58-63. ISSN 1742-1659
Moriarty, Catherine (2008) A distant grief: Australians, war graves and the great war Australian Historical Studies, 39 (2). pp. 273-274. ISSN 1031-461X
Moriarty, Catherine (2008) First World War memorials In: Stephens, C., ed. The History of British Art 1870 - Now. Tate Publishing, London, UK, pp. 108-109. ISBN 9781854376527
Moriarty, Catherine and Weight, Angela (2008) The legacy of interaction: artists at the Imperial War Museum 1981–2007 Tate Papers (9). ISSN 1753-9854
Moriarty, Catherine (2007) Anticipatory forms: Henry Moore and post-war British furniture design In: Curtis, Penelope, ed. Figuring Space: Sculpture/Furniture from Mies to Moore. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, pp. 57-68. ISBN 9781905462117
Moriarty, Catherine and Worsley, Victoria (2007) Indoors and out: the sculpture and design of Bernard Schottlander Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK.
Moriarty, Catherine (2007) The commemorative sculpture of Paul Montford Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, Australia.
Moriarty, Catherine (2006) The Place of Photography in the Life and Work of Paul Montford Sculpture Journal, 15 (2). pp. 239-256. ISSN 1756-9923
Moriarty, Catherine (2004) "Remnants of patriotism": the commemorative representation of the greatcoat after the First World War Oxford Art Journal, 27 (3). pp. 291-309. ISSN 0142-6540
Moriarty, Catherine, Games, Naomi and Rose, June (2003) Abram Games: Graphic Designer Lund Humphries, London. ISBN 0853318816
Moriarty, Catherine (2003) Robert Adams In: Curtis, Penelope, ed. Sculpture in 20th Century Britain: A Guide to Sculptors in the Leeds Collections. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, pp. 2-3. ISBN 1900081040
Moriarty, Catherine (2003) The Sculpture of Gilbert Ledward The British Sculptors and Sculpture Series . Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, UK. ISBN 9780853318316
Moriarty, Catherine (2003) "Though in a picture only": portrait photography and the commemoration of the First World War In: Braybon, G., ed. Evidence, History and the Great War: historians and the impact of 1914-18. Berg, Oxford, pp. 30-47. ISBN 1571817247
Moriarty, Catherine (2002) "The sea goeth it all about": maritime themes in British public sculpture In: CRD Research Papers, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2002.
Moriarty, Catherine (2001) Image or Object? Understanding Photography in a Digital Age In: Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference, Sheffield, September 2001.
Moriarty, Catherine (1999) The Material Culture of Great War Remembrance Journal of Contemporary History, 34 (4). pp. 653-662. ISSN 0022-0094
Moriarty, Catherine (1995) The Absent Dead and Figurative Sculpture Transactions of The Ancient Monuments Society, 39. pp. 7-40. ISSN 0951-001X
Papers on the research implications of electronic resources and digital imaging
"'The Sculpture of Gilbert Ledward' (2003) ... should guide scholars in their consideration of work of other sculptors of the period."
(The Burlington Magazine, December 2004)
'The Absent Dead and Figurative Sculpture', Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, vol. 39, (1995) cited as a key text in Penelope Curtis' Sculpture 1900-1945, Oxford University Press, 1999
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All in a year's work for fallen star Bo
Bo Guagua, the Harvard educated son of former Communist leader Bo Xilai, made a spirited defence of his father two days after Bo was stripped of all his Communist credentials. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.world Updated: Oct 02, 2012 23:57 IST
Bo Guagua, the Harvard educated son of former Communist leader Bo Xilai -- whose journey from "charismatic" to "disgraced" and "expelled" finished his political career in less than a year -- made a spirited defence of his father two days after Bo was stripped of all his Communist credentials.
"Personally, it is hard for me to believe the allegations that were announced against my father because they contradict everything I have come to know about him throughout my life. Although the policies my father enacted are open to debate, the father I know is upright in his beliefs and devoted to duty," he wrote.
He could be particularly perturbed about one allegation, of which the state-run Xinhua news agency made a passing, sneaking reference, "Bo had or maintained improper sexual relationships with a number of women."
If allegations of corruption and involvement in the Neil Heywood murder case ensure several years in jail, maintaining a string of mistresses could bury Bo's reputation forever.
Millions of Chinese microblogs buzzed about who these women - apparently many actors, singers and celebrities included.
Some women celebrities quickly updated their statuses on Weibo (microblog) accounts that they did not know Bo.
A top Chinese woman actor, among the few known worldwide, has sued two news publications couple of months ago for linking her name with Bo.
But the slew of allegations raises a question: did Bo become corrupt, abused his power and got involved in sexual impropriety all in one year? Is such a rapid fall of perceived morality possible?
About two years ago - and this is only one example – party mouthpiece China Daily's blog gushed about Bo in the usual glowing, flattering way newspaper in China talk about the country's leaders.
"The charismatic leader of China's largest municipality (Bo) found himself at center stage on Saturday, surrounded by close to 200 surprisingly cheery reporters at the Great Hall of the People, where he vowed to continue his high-profile crackdown on crime," it said.
Or does that mean Bo's allegedly corrupt ways were accepted - probably like that of others in the CPC - till his popularity and ambition singed his contemporary 'princelings'?
These doubts will remain. Even if state media continues to portray Bo's fall as the CPC's way of ensuring that no member will be spared for walking the path of corruption, crime and sleaze.
First Published: Oct 02, 2012 17:13 IST


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A Century of Progress Memorabilia collection, 1933-1999
A Century of Progress International Exposition was held in Chicago during the summers of 1933 and 1934 to commemorate the 100th year anniversary of the incorporation of the city of Chicago in 1833. The A Century of Progress Memoribilia collection includes printed materials such as pamphlets, broc...
General Electric publicity photographs of the Century of Progress, 1933-1934.
Night views of various buildings and general views at the Century of Progress showing the use of light as decorations. Images created as publicity for the General Electric Company.
Hammond Organ Company collection of visual materials
Visual materials relating to the Hammond Organ Co. (incorporated in 1928) and to inventions by its founder Laurens Hammond. Subjects include portraits of Hammond and family members, various views of construction of organs, and many different models of organs. Includes images of a self-shuffling b...
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Narration to accompany electrical exhibits at the Century of Progress International Exposition in Chicago, Ill.
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. Archive, 1844-2005
Founded in Chicago in 1864 by Canadian immigrant Richard Robert Donnelley, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company is a leading global provider of printing and print-related services. The archive contains business records, product samples and promotional material, biographical files and personal papers, hi...


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Mary-Kate Olsen raised the roof (by partying on it!) during a pre-Fashion Week bash in New York Thursday night.
The fashionista was among the first guests to arrive at Dazed & Confused magazine's MINI rooftop bash, held in a converted loft space. A casual Olsen was there to check out psychedelic Brooklyn-based rockers MGMT, who performed at the party – but she arrived almost two-hours before the band took the stage. To pass the time, the starlet took a seat in the grass, sipped some beer and talked to her friends.
During the set, she danced along and not even some spraying beer halted her groove!
Also at the party: Gossip Girl actress Jessica Szohr, model Jessica Stam and Solange Knowles.
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Here's some free media advice for Hilary Clinton now just trailing Donald Trump in the polls: Stop smiling and waving to "people you recognise" in the crowd. It's insulting to everyone else, looks (and may well be) dishonest and makes you appear like a movie star rather than a future leader of the Free World. Get some gravitas!


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The Chief Guest at the Inaugural Session of the Annual Day Celebrations of the Delhi School of Economics on 16 January, 2015 was our Chancellor, Prof. C. H. Hanumantha Rao. When I read the text of his address, I was struck by several of the observations he made and felt that many among us would be keen to learn some of the history of major institutions such as the Delhi School of Economics (DSE) and the Institute for Economics Growth (IEG), and also of the personal history of stalwarts who were associated with these institutions. Prof. Hanumantha Rao has been kind enough to let me reproduce the address in this blog.
The Delhi School of Economics was founded by Professor V. K. R. V. Rao with a high ideal of training economists and other social scientists for their effective participation in nation-building. The existence of the Delhi School of Economics on the pattern of the London School of Economics inspired many among the younger generation in different parts of the country to benefit from this opportunity opened up for advanced learning. The same inspiration brought me with a zeal to the Delhi School of Economics in August 1957 from the Osmania University. I was lucky to be registered for Ph.D. at the DSE with encouragement from Prof. A. M. Khusro.
My first opportunity to listen to Prof. V. K. R. V. Rao at the DSE was in this Vivekananda Hall on the occasion of its Founder's Day on 14th November, 1957. He spoke with great passion about the ideals of the DSE. First and foremost among these ideals he said was freedom of thought and expression. I came to know years later that his founding the DSE owed primarily to his own struggle for freedom of thought and expression. He narrated how, while speaking as a member of an official delegation in those days, he was interrupted by its head, a civil servant of the ICS cadre, by saying that economists are expected to 'produce' arguments in support of the official line and not air their 'own' views! This infuriated Prof. Rao who decided to resign from his post in the government the very next day to start an autonomous institution where scholars can enjoy freedom of thought and expression to be able to contribute to policy-making in a fearless manner.
Achieving academic excellence was another great ideal for him. For this purpose he recruited professors of great distinction from different universities in India and abroad. Apart from Professors B. N. Ganguli and P. N. Dhar who together with him formed a trio in the then small department of economics working tirelessly towards shaping the DSE, he brought, in the first round, eminent scholars like professors K. N. Raj, B. V. Krishnamurthy, M. N. Srinivas, M. S. A. Rao, Tapan Roy Chaudhury, A. M. Khusro, Siva Subramanyan, George Kuriyan, V. L. S. Prakash Rao and others.
The third ideal which he passionately exhorted the teachers and students to follow was social commitment which he thought was as important as technical competence. Drawing inspiration from the freedom movement, he felt that ensuring a just social order in the country was not possible without social commitment. Towards this end, he strongly believed in the need for an inter-disciplinary approach in addressing socioeconomic problems. Therefore, in all the institutions he established, namely, Delhi School of Economics, Institute of Economic Growth, and the Institute for Social and Economic Change at Bangalore, he took great pains to accommodate different disciplines in social sciences to facilitate fruitful interaction.
Thanks to the functioning of our democratic set-up for over 60 years and the existence of institutions such as the University Grants Commission and the Indian Council of Social Science Research, we enjoy today far greater measure of autonomy and freedom of thought and expression when compared to the immediate post-independence period.
In respect of academic excellence too, we are today in a much better position than in the early years of the DSE. I was a witness to the virtually demoralizing intellectual atmosphere in the room where the Ph. D. scholars used to be seated. I found that quite a few of them had already spent 5 to 7 years or more groping for the subject. To a considerable extent, this reflected the research culture in a typical Indian university in those days. The emphasis then was on producing a bulky thesis after a great deal of reading and summarizing the literature, with an objective of making a 'lasting' contribution to the subject! Happily, the focus gradually shifted to the quality of research questions addressed in the thesis, methods of analysis followed and the significance of the findings arrived at.
At the time of founding of the IEG in 1958, certain sections of the DSE, including the Economic Development Section, headed by Prof. A. M. Khusro, and supported by the Ford Foundation, where I was a Ph. D. scholar, were shifted to the IEG. Having been associated with the Institute of Economic Growth in the neighbourhood for 50 years until its Golden Jubilee Celebrations in 2008, I can testify to the beneficial impact that the DSE had all along on the research work done at the IEG.
Many in the IEG faculty had completed their Ph.D. from the DSE and continued their academic links with the parent institution. IEG faculty has had an active collaboration with the DSE in providing guidance to the M. Phil. as well as Ph. D. students. The use of econometric techniques was virtually non-existent in the early years of DSE, but very soon became popular with the stalwarts in the subject like Prof. A. L. Nagar and Prof. K. L. Krishna coming on the scene. The IEG and DSE have had major collaborative projects in Macro-Econometric Modelling for India with Professor K. Krishnamurthy of IEG and Professor V. N. Pandit of DSE as leaders of the project. When academic institutions happen to be next door neighbours with common interest, scholars across these institutions easily walking into each other's rooms, not uncommon in both the institutions, for exchanging views and engaging in discussions could perhaps prove to be as fruitful as projects jointly undertaken.
The scholars of both the institutions are well-known for their broader approach to development. For example, the issues of sustainability and social justice have figured prominently in their research agenda. Besides, they have actively participated in shaping socio-economic policies in the country as members of various expert committees and commissions. Prominent among economists well known for their broader approach to development are Professors V. K. R. V. Rao, P. N. Dhar and Raj Krishna who starting from the DSE made substantial contributions at the IEG. Similarly, the contributions made by scholars like K. N. Raj, Sukhamoy Chakravarty and Amartya Sen from the DSE on broader issues of development have greatly inspired scholars in both these institutions and in the country at large towards engaging themselves on socially relevant issues. We from the DSE and IEG are proud of the fact that Prof. Manmohan Singh, the architect of economic reforms in the country as Finance Minister in the early 1990s had been a professor at the DSE before he joined the government, and is president of IEG. Again, as Prime Minister he brought in the perspective of 'inclusive growth' which has been widely supported in the country.
All these scholars have been open to inter-disciplinary approach to development. Carrying this tradition forward requires harnessing satisfactorily the potential for collaboration between scholars working in different disciplines. Some interaction between such scholars is inevitable when they are working under the same roof, as, for example, when they meet every day at tea in the common room! A more serious exposure to each other's work takes place through participation in seminars. Attending each others' seminars apart, it needs a deliberate effort to formulate projects where scholars from different disciplines collaborate on issues of applied nature. Most of our failures on the policy front are traceable to the lack of such a broader inter-disciplinary approach.
Finally, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the organizers of this event for remembering me as an old boy of DSE and providing me the opportunity of meeting so many friends at these celebrations.
The emphasis added above is mine. I believe that we can all benefit from more interaction, by enjoying each other's work in whatever way possible. Institutions like the DSE and the ISE or indeed the CSEC or CESS in Hyderabad have all benefited from a strong emphasis on interaction and collaboration, and there is much to learn from examples, especially when they have touched our lives so strongly. Prof. Hanumantha Rao's tenure as our Chancellor ends this month. We are truly fortunate to have been associated with him.


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World Toilet Day is no joke: Bob McDonald
Lack of sanitation poses major health risk to millions
November 19th was World Toilet Day, an effort — through a United Nations agency known as UN-Water — to raise awareness of the fact that 2.4 billion people around the world do not have access to improved toilets and sanitation.
In fact, more people worldwide have mobile phones than toilets. It's a problem that especially affects the health of women and children.
Getting rid of our waste is an issue that goes back 10,000 years, to when we entered the Neolithic or "New Stone Age." For various reasons, people changed their behaviour from a hunting and food-gathering lifestyle, to tilling the land. Spears were replaced by hoes. The birth of agriculture meant people stayed in one place, gathered in villages that grew into towns, that grew into cities, that spawned our modern civilization.
But throughout most of that remarkable development and resulting population explosion, waste management has been an issue that just hasn't gone away.
Toilets, in some form, have been around since the time of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. But their function was to simply move the waste out of the home, using water that was poured into gutters or sewers and eventually ended up in rivers, which supposedly carried it away.
That "out of sight, out of mind" philosophy backfired, because those same rivers were also used for drinking water and preparation of food. Throughout the ages, epidemics such as cholera and plagues have claimed millions of lives, largely due to poor sanitation.
In fact, the introduction of proper water treatment has been a major contributor to extending human life expectancy.
Sadly, this technological fix for a global health problem has not reached more than a quarter of the world's population. According to UN documents, "Stark inequalities in access to toilets threaten the survival, health, safety, and dignity of vulnerable populations, despite their human right to water and sanitation."
While the spread of disease is still a major concern, a surprising impact of poor sanitation is malnutrition. Children who are exposed to contaminated water can develop chronic diarrhea and intestinal worms. Their bodies cannot absorb nutrients from food as well, resulting in stunted growth and poor health. If those children later become mothers with stunted growth, their babies will be underweight as well, and so the vicious cycle continues.
In other words, sending clean water technology to the developing world is more valuable than sending food.
This week, the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, UNSGAB, released its latest report on the need for adequate sanitation, healthy aquatic ecosystems, and sound water management, to ensure sustainable development by 2030.
Here in the West, toilets are often the source of humour. Even the sound of a flushing toilet can get a laugh. But for more than one quarter of the world's population, it's no joke. In fact, the sound of a flush would be most welcome music to their ears.


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The splurge was suggested by a friend.
''It`s your honeymoon! You`ll spend what you spend. Why don`t you stay a few days at the Hotel du Cap?'' When she talks about her travels, she says:
''We went to the Excelsior'' instead of ''We went to Rome.''
''The Splendido is definitely a big-splurge hotel,'' said the travel agent. ''But what`s a couple of days?''
''Now that you`ve saved so much money on budget hotels, you deserve a big splurge,'' even the most budget-conscious guide books tell us.
So you begin to believe the hotels` press releases. If you stay in a converted castle, you`ll become a princess. You`ll be waited on hand and foot. Ladies-in-waiting will bring you champagne in the bathtub. You`ll hobnob with heads of state and movie stars. It`s a modern-day Cinderella story.
But I don`t think the big splurge works.
I think if you`re the kind of person who can afford to travel in the style that requires a couple of bills a day on hotels, then you`ll be happy hopping from the Plaza to the Ritz to the Carlton to La Samanna.
But if you`re the kind of person who still sneaks a copy of Arthur Frommer into your flight bag, you`re going to have a hard time making the transition from that charming little hotel on the Left Bank where the bath is down the hall to the castle on the hill. You`ll be expecting too much. And the letdown can be as disappointing as a Christmas that doesn`t measure up.
For starters, what are you driving? Are you going to be able to look the valet at the Beverly Hills Hotel in the eye when you drive up in a Ford Escort and he`s got his hands full with Mercedes? Have you got the moxie to pull up to the Splendido in a rented Renault when the jetsetter in front of you is in a Ferrari?
And what about your luggage? Do you have a matched set of Vuitton bags?
Or mismatched vinyl?
Do you have the wardrobe for this escapade? Furs? Diamonds? Lots of wrinkled linens? No fairy godmother is going to magically dress you for the ball.
And more important, do you have the cash? The daily rate for the double is only the beginning. It`s not only the rooms that are more expensive at the luxury hotels of the world. It`s the food, the drinks, the tips, the services, even the phone calls.
We decided to make the big splurge at the Splendido, an elegant old villa turned luxury hotel in Portofino, Italy. In no time at all we realized that it would have been more aptly named the Spendido. I made the mistake of ordering a bellini, a cocktail made of champagne and fresh peach juice. It cost $7. We accepted a can of tennis balls from the concierge without asking the price.
''You`ll take care of it when you leave,'' he said. Indeed. When we left he
''took care'' of us to the tune of $9.
A friend who by odd happenstance found herself in the Ritz in Paris once ordered a bowl of fruit from room service without asking the tab in advance. It cost $75. ''It was in a really nice silver bowl with ice and everything. And there was a separate bowl to wash your hands,'' she recalled. But it was only a few francs worth of fruit.
A well-heeled businessman I know who took the steep room rates at the Carlton in stride, invariably went down the street to a local cafe for breakfast. ''I`m not going to pay big bucks for a croissant,'' he complained, well aware that more budget-minded hotels give you a croissant.
But worse than depleting your cash reserves, these hotels isolate you from the real people. If you`re traveling in Europe, do you want to be surrounded by Americans? We walked into the lobby of the Carlton in Cannes only to see a sign welcoming a convention of American insurance salesmen and to hear people demanding in English, ''Where is the toilette?''
We settled down by the pool at the Splendido when two couples started screaming at each other in recognition across the pool. ''You`re from Ocean Parkway!'' There`s a wall full of pictures of movie stars who slept there and a spaghetti dish named after Elizabeth Taylor, but the famous eluded us.
A friend who had been staying at small hotels all through Italy had long looked forward to a big splurge at the Cipriani in Venice and was deeply disappointed.
''It was filled with a bunch of boring old English snobs who talked about Wimbledon and stocks and bonds,'' she recalls. ''Nobody talked to me. And I really expected to see some movie stars. Givenchy was the only celebrity there when I was there. Besides, the rooms are small and the service is terrible. And they forgot to wake me up in time to get the water taxi so I could get to the train.''
All in all, I`ve discovered that I`m more interested in sleep than status when it comes to hotels. I`d rather spend my money on almost anything else than a four-star hotel. I make restaurant reservations before I make hotel reservations. When people ask me where I stayed, the answer that comes to mind is the name of a city, not the name of a hotel.


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Oriental Memoirs. Selected from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years Residence in India.
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Russian parliament approves US adoptions ban
Latest update : 2012-12-27
Russia's upper house of parliament has unanimously approved a bill banning US citizens from adopting Russian children on Wednesday, pushing it one step closer to becoming law.
Russia's upper parliament house unanimously approved a bill on Wednesday that would ban Americans from adopting Russian children, in retaliation for a U.S. law that punishes Russians accused of human rights violations.
The bill, which President Vladimir Putin has hinted he will sign, would also outlaw some U.S.-funded non-governmental organisations and impose visa bans and asset freezes on Americans accused of violating the rights of Russian citizens.
It is Russia's response to the Magnitsky Act, a law signed by U.S. President Barack Obama earlier this month to bar Russians accused of human rights violations from entering the United States and to freeze any assets they hold there.
The Federation Council, Russia's upper parliament house, voted 143-0 to approve the bill, which has drawn condemnation from rights activists and Kremlin opponents who say lawmakers are playing a political game with the lives of children.
Putin has signalled support for the measure despite unusual criticism from some government officials, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and a deputy prime minister who has warned Putin that it could violate international agreements.
The U.S. law and the Russian response are adding tension to the relationship between the countries, which is already strained over issues ranging from Syria to Putin's treatment of opponents and restrictions imposed on non-governmental organisations since he began a new term in May.
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