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"There are points in your career where you start to cook the way you want to eat; that's where I am now." – Chef David Burke
David Burke is world-renowned as a chef, artist, entrepreneur, cookbook author, innovator and inventor. In 2009, he won the James Beard Award for Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America and was twice nominated earlier for Best Chefs in America. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a student at the École Lenôtre Pastry School in Plaisir, France, his 30-year career includes opening over a dozen celebrated restaurants. David is often recognized from his TV appearances on Bravo's Top Chef Masters, NBC's TODAY Show and as a featured guest on Rachael Ray's Every Day Show. In 2015, David joined ESquared Hospitality as a Culinary Partner to open new restaurants nationwide including his latest restaurant, Tavern62 by David Burke which opened in October 2016 on New York City's Upper East Side. For our first interview of the New Year, we sat down with David to ask what's currently on his plate.
It's the beginning of a New Year, a time when many are making a fresh start and making resolutions about diet and nutrition. What are some easy ideas to incorporate more vegetables and fruits into a daily diet?
Have pre-cut fruit and vegetables ready in your refrigerator and make olive oil-based dipping sauces for them. Winter is a good time to make vegetable soups and stews. I would also recommend buying an Indian cookbook (lay off spices if you don't like heat) to get inspiration for vegetarian dishes.
Are there any professional secrets or tips you can share on your favorite ways to prepare vegetables?
I like to slowly sauté my vegetables. Cut them smaller and add olive oil, onion, and garlic, then let them caramelize. That works for home fries, a vegetable hash, a filling for a pasta, a purée, or the base of a soup.
When you're cooking at home or for friends, what are some of your favorite meatless dishes?
Pasta. Cous Cous. Eggplant Parmesan. Stuffed Zucchini Boats. Couch potatoes, which we serve at BLT Prime by David Burke. Cabbage is also really underrated.
At your new restaurant Tavern62 by David Burke, what winter vegetables are you looking forward to using and where do you source them from?
Salsify, parsnips, parsley root, celery root, butternut squash, kale, and cabbage. We source produce from the Hunts Point Produce Market.
Sustainable foods are a topic of discussion these days. What are your thoughts on the subject and why is this important?
With any good business comes responsibility. Responsibility of keeping a sustainable supply is important for the future.
Your restaurants are typically meat heavy or meat-centric. Why are you interested in supporting and participating in Meatless Monday?
My restaurants are designed for great business that highlight hospitality and give our customers what they want. My personal choice and vision for the future is to start segueing into more vegetarian-centric and healthy eating options because no matter what other food trends come and go, customers being more aware of what goes into their food is a trend that will only continue to grow.
I think we go through cycles. There are points in your career where you start to cook the way you want to eat; that's where I am now.


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It took four times as long as expected, but technicians finally finished repairs and modifications to the heatshield tiles on the space shuttle Columbia. Associate space agency administrator John Yardley said the last of 30, 761 ceramic tiles was bonded to Columbia's aluminum skin, clearing the way for the movement of the rocket plane to the Vehichle Assembly Building -- a key step toward the shuttle's first test flight.
Mr. Yardley said he believes there is an even chance that astronauts John W. Young and Robert R. Crippen will be able to take off in the Columbia on the target date, March 14.

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It's the morning after the night before, and Miriam Margolyes is knackered. She didn't get in until 1am after doing her one- woman show, Dickens' Women, in Guildford and catching the last train home.
Now it's 9am the next morning, she hasn't had time to brush her hair let alone go for her daily swim, she's on antibiotics for a chest infection, and in two hours a car is arriving to take her to the BBC to record a radio programme. Yet here she is in her rambling townhouse in Clapham, London, 71 years young, smiling like a Cheshire cat, and talking loudly and lengthily about anything and everything.
It's the morning after the night before, and Miriam Margolyes is knackered. She didn't get in until 1am after doing her one- woman show, Dickens' Women, in Guildford and catching the last train home. Now it's 9am the next morning, she hasn't had time to brush her hair let alone go for her daily swim, she's on antibiotics for a chest infection, and in two hours a car is arriving to take her to the BBC to record a radio programme. Yet here she is in her rambling townhouse in Clapham, London, 71 years young, smiling like a Cheshire cat, and talking loudly and lengthily about anything and everything.
"My favourite actress, Dame Eileen Atkins, came to see the show last night," she booms in that proud and sinewy voice that wraps itself around vowels and wrings out consonants. "That, for me, meant everything ... Where are you going?" she bellows to the photographer, who is setting up downstairs in Margolyes' sitting room, which is packed with two vast shelves of books by or about Charles Dickens ("the man in my life") and lots of 19th-century caricatures of ample naughty ladies (not unlike their owner, in fact). "Go and have a look at my pictures," she instructs the photographer. "They are Gillray, Rowlandson, and Heath. And they are very, very good."
Now she's on to her one-woman show, in which she plays 23 of the great writer's female characters and discusses his complex view of women. Dickens' Women originally opened at the Edinburgh Festival in 1989, and has since been nominated for an Olivier and played to adoring audiences all over the world. (Everyone adores Margolyes, incidentally; she tells me this herself.) In her view it remains the greatest thing she's ever done. "I'm passionately proud of it and committed to it," she announces. Now a pause big enough to house a Shakespeare soliloquy. "I know people think of me as a comic actress but I am not," she says, the voice dropping to a conspiratorial whisper. "I am not a comic actress and I never have been. I play comic parts and that is the difference."
After more than two decades and during the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, the show finally returns to Edinburgh. "I know, it's lovely," she sighs. "I find it moving and thrilling and a little scary. Because I'm not under the auspices of the festival proper. I am the festival improper." This is accompanied by a great rude grin. "I think it shows I've got guts. I must take my chance alongside the many others."
My first sight of Margolyes is when she bursts out of a room with her father's name on the door. "Joseph Margolyes", the burnished sign reads, "Physician & Doctor". When her father, a Glaswegian Jew from the Gorbals, retired she took the sign from his Oxford practice and hung it here in her London home. He lived in the basement of this house for the last ten years of his life until he died in 1995 at 96. We move next door to a cluttered study where Margolyes sits in his old chair and points out a portrait of him on the wall and a photo of him smiling toothlessly on his 90th birthday. Her mother, a Jewish property developer, is an equally formidable presence in the room. Margolyes shows me pictures of the proud, stylish woman who "always wore a cape" and was "the person I loved most dearly". Her parents continue to mean everything to her.
But first, their daughter. She is barefoot and dressed in a colourful kaftan and scarf. Her puffball of grey hair makes it look like she's just stuck her finger in a plug socket. She is wearing no make-up and has fantastic skin, saucer eyes, and an expressive, mischievous face that makes her look like she's about to crack a joke or give you a row. (In fact, she does pull me up at one point for inserting "like" into a sentence.) But, as is often the case with bombastic, attention-seeking people, there is a much quieter and more vulnerable side to Margolyes. "Has anything surprised you about me today?" she asks at the end of the interview. I tell her she is more serious than I thought, and that I expected more swearing and jokes about breasts and bodily functions (she has mooned Warren Beatty and flashed her breasts at Martin Scorsese in the past.) "Ahhhh," she says sonorously. "Well, this is what I'm really like."
"I think I was a bit trivial as a young person," she continues. "But I'm not trivial any more. I'm so different from the image that people have of me that it's quite disturbing sometimes. You know, I would like to be a scholar. I'm often quite withdrawn."
How would she describe her public and private selves? "My public persona is of a cheery, roly poly, friendly, funny, sunny, naughty, middle-aged to elderly person," she says, which sounds about right. After all, we're talking about the first woman to use an expletive on British TV when she appeared on University Challenge in 1963 as a Cambridge student. Oh, and even the Queen once told her to shut up. "In my own private view of myself I am very thoughtful, quite elitist, and very judgmental," she goes on. "Much more serious and possibly more unlikeable than I'm perceived to be. But I'm very cunning." Now the cat's grin again. "I've always been cunning. And I know how to appear. I know what people want and I give it to them."
Most recently, we saw Margolyes the cunning performer on The Graham Norton Show, where she bantered with rapper Will.i.am ("I don't know many black people") and failed to recognise Prince William because of his bald patch. It was classic Margolyes: cheeky, silly and bossy. She tends to fall somewhere between naughty little girl and old tyrant and comes across as curiously ageless. She has never seemed younger than middle-aged, yet even in her seventies she remains the puppyish girl. It's a loveable combination, but she thinks it means people don't take her seriously enough.
"I have not been at the National," she mourns. "I have not been at the RSC. I have been asked once in each case and I wasn't free. The offer has not been repeated. And unless I am invited to perform with one of the major companies or one of the major directors I don't consider that I've made it. At all. No."
So never mind the Bafta for The Age of Innocence, in which she was directed by Martin Scorsese, her role as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter franchise or the sexy bunny she voiced in those Cadbury's Caramel ads of the Eighties. She clearly has high standards. "Yes," she replies. "And I do know that going on The Graham Norton Show is not going to get the RSC to cast me as Mrs Malaprop." She leans forward and looks down her nose at me imperiously. "But they should!" Actually, she doesn't think her parents would have liked it either. "I'm sure if I thought about mummy and daddy more I would never appear on The Graham Norton Show," she says, looking miffed. "I think they'd be very pissed off." It was entertaining, though. "I am very entertaining," she agrees. "But I'm naughty and they wouldn't have liked that."
Margolyes was born in 1941 in London's East End, a child of the war, conceived in an air raid. "They clung to each other," she says. "In terror, I suppose." The family almost immediately moved to Oxford. Her parents were very different to one another. "Maybe the two halves of my character are me becoming my parents," she muses. So her exuberance is from her mother and her thoughtful side from her father? "Yes," she says. "My mother was tempestuous, shrewd, and outwardly very confident, though in fact she was not confident because she was not educated. She was very affectionate and loving. Oh, she loved life." It was her mother who insisted on elocution lessons and invited the famous intellectual Isaiah Berlin, one of her husband's patients, to dinner so she could ask him to sponsor her daughter's application to Cambridge.
And her father? "He was a Glasgow man. A very measured character, suspicious, frightened of the world, and a very good doctor. He took his work seriously, as I do. He loved words and his vocabulary was excellent. He had integrity. He was a good man." How did his side of the family end up in Scotland? "My grandfather came as a peddler selling jewels," she says, showing me an old photo of his family at a photographer's studio in Glasgow in the 1890s in which her father is just nine years old. "Eventually he got a nice big shop in St Enoch's Square and did very well. He passed it to my uncle, who was a millionaire by the time he died. You know, I love Scotland. It received this immigrant family. It is a country remarkably free of anti-Semitism. For me, Glasgow is where the heart is. I had the great joy of appearing at the Citizens Theatre last year and I just kept thinking, 'oh if only daddy was here to see me'."
Margolyes was a supremely confident and happy child. "I was very much loved and that makes you confident," she notes. "I have always had charm, and known it. Even people who don't like what I stand for can't help liking me because I'm a nice person. I just am. So I was a naughty, performing little girl, probably quite spoilt, with an enormous capacity for friendship."
Cambridge was where Margolyes became herself. She started wearing a fur hat, smoking a pipe and joining drama societies. She was the only woman in the 1962 Footlights Revue, acting alongside John Cleese and Bill Oddie at a time women were only allowed to be guest members. The first person who directed her was Sir Trevor Nunn. "I wanted to cut a dash," she tells me. "I wanted to be somebody that people would remember. I was a bit silly. But I had always assumed it was absolutely right to go up on a stage. My mother guided me into performance because she had wanted to be a performer herself. It was second nature to me."
After Cambridge, Margolyes sold encyclopaedias door to door and wrote to everyone she could think of asking for an audition. Eventually she was hired by the BBC Drama Repertory Company and started appearing on radio. From the beginning, it was her voice, that instrument honed by her mother, that made her. "Well, it certainly wasn't my body, was it?" she guffaws.
In 1968 Margolyes met her partner, an Australian academic. They have been together 44 years. "We were introduced by a mutual friend. I knew immediately that she was the one. Immediately! She had no idea, though. She didn't even know I was gay, although we called it queer at the time. She thought I was a very noisy woman, pleasant but noisy. And then I invited her to lunch and propositioned her. And she never went home. It was wonderful. She has had a lot to put up with over the years but our true love has grown and deepened and been essential for both of us. A life shared."
Her partner lives in Holland, Margolyes is in London, and they share homes in Italy and Australia. They meet up whenever possible. It's been a long, loving relationship, but sadly also one that her parents could never accept. "Oh no, it was horrifying to them unfortunately," Margolyes says. "Such a disappointment."
She came out to her mother in her twenties. Three days later her mother had a severe stroke that left her crippled. Another seven years of illness followed, and then she died. "I can't know if it was connected," Margolyes says. "People say to me, don't be silly, it couldn't possibly... that wouldn't have done it... but the fact is I caused her pain. The creature who loved me more than anyone else except my partner... I caused her pain." But Margolyes can't be responsible for her mother's response to her sexuality. "It is unacceptable to me," Margolyes replies without hesitation. "My parents did not have the mindset to deal with it. I think people go around these days incredibly indulgently. I don't think it's right to tell if you know that it's hard for the people who have to hear it. It's very selfish to lay that on them just so you can be out." It's a controversial position and I tell Margolyes that I think she is being harsh on herself and other gay people who just want to live a life openly, and without shame. "Yes, I know people completely disagree with me, including my great friend Ian McKellen," she says. "But this is how I feel. I hurt the most dear person and I regret it."
Our time is up, the car has arrived, and Margolyes is already bossing the driver and offering me a lift to the station. She has switched back to performance mode, charming the socks off everyone, and showing the flamboyance she inherited in spades from her mother. But the other side lurks in there too, the studiousness that comes from her father. Margolyes is nothing like her deeply conventional parents, yet everything she is comes from them. I ask her how she feels about ageing. "Frightened," she says, shifting again into serious mode. "I worry about having a stroke like my mother did. I have very bad knees. I don't think there is a lot to be said for ageing."
Yet she doesn't have the face of a 71-year-old. "Yes, I've kept my face," she agrees. "I think it must be very scary to have been a beautiful woman and to see that you are losing your looks. I have never been a beautiful woman. I'm not losing my looks, I'm gaining new ones." She laughs and starts ordering the driver to put my bags in the car. "You can tell people off when you're old though, which is nice," she says, the naughty smile pushing at the corners of her mouth again. "And I do so like bossing people around."
Dickens' Women, August 8-25, Pleasance Courtyard, 2.30pm, tickets £16.50-£17.50, box office tel: 0131-556 6550, www.pleasance.co.uk


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A reliable and well placed source called me today to let our readers know that the entire 1921 census of Canada has already been digitized plus a geographical index. It's sitting on a server ready to go online (free). Problem is that the Harper Government has put a hold on its release. Apparently a senior member of our government believes that the only persons interested in the 1921 census are "three old ladies in Kingston" who only want to use it for genealogy. In his mind that makes releasing the 1921 census an insignificant priority.
That said, there probably are "three old ladies in Kingston" who would like to use the 1921 census for genealogy... along with tens of thousands of other Canadians of all ages who have an interest in accessing the 1921 census for a variety of good reasons including family history research.
A few years ago a different government tried to block the release of post-1901 Canadian census records. Our subscribers and a host of volunteers across Canada launched the Post 1901 Census Project to ensure that those records were released. Thousands of people wrote letters and emails. Money was raised to pursue the matter in the courts. That effort was successful.
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It is time for us to let The Honorable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage & Official Languages and our local MPs know that there are a lot of us who are interested in the 1921 census of Canada being released. They may not be concerned about "three old ladies in Kingston"... but a lot of mail from a lot of different constituents across the country may be enough to trigger action.
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It's Friday. And summer. We all need a break. So this: A tech support call with Ryan Gosling's character from The Notebook. Enjoy.
It's Friday. And summer. We all need a break. So this: A tech support call with Ryan Gosling's character from The Notebook. Enjoy.
Ring, Ring
Hey girl.
"Uh, hi. I was trying to reach tech support? With whom am I speaking?"
I'm Noah Calhoun.
"Hi Noah."
"I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life."
"Uhhh, okay, well hopefully you can help me. My iPhone keeps freezing."
So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this every day.
"Really? I was hoping I could get it fixed today. I submitted a ticket last week, but never got a response."
I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you every day for a year.
"That's weird. Do you mean emails? Why would you mail me a letter?"
What... do... you... want? Whaddaya want?
"Oh…well, I just want my iPhone to work. Or maybe I can just get a new one? Don't you have some replacement iPhones there you could send?"
Now you know that I want to give you all the things that you want, right? But I can't, because they're gone... They're broken.
"They're all broken? That stinks. Maybe I don't want an iPhone. Actually, one of your colleagues promised we'd be able to get Androids later this year, and I kind of had my heart set on it. Do you think I could get that instead?"
It's not about keeping your promises, and it's not about following your heart. It's about security.
"Yeah, I know Androids are more virus prone than iPhones. Okay."
We can just finish out the summer and see what happens then.
"The summer?! I can't really deal with a broken phone all summer. My parents want me to come to their lake house next week, but my boss says I need to check email…"
Stop thinking about what everyone wants, stop thinking about what I want, what your parents want! What do *you* want Allie?
"I want a new iPhone!! And my name isn't Allie."
I'm not usually like this, I'm sorry.
"It's ok. So……I guess there really isn't anything you can do to help me?"
Would you just stay with me?
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Regusci, Cabernet Sauvignon, 2007
Regusci is currently among my top 10 wineries in Napa. Their Cabs, Zins and Merlots are fantastic. This one was shared with friends over a fish barbecue. It's a great wine, though I was more impressed with it at the winery than at home. Maybe it was the relatively warm day. Still, it's a great Cab, very well-balanced and flavorful, some fruit, some nuances of spices. Definitely not an everyday wine, given its high price ($50 at the winery) but definitely a wine to be had more than once.
Posted by Eduardo Pinheiro at 22:15 Labels: 2007, cabernet sauvignon, Regusci
Peju, Merlot, 2007
Peju is a boutique winery along Santa Helena Highway in Napa, CA. This 2007 Merlot has recently been released and it packs some massive tannins, thanks to its relatively high dose of petit verdot (13%, versus 84% merlot and 3% cabernet sauvignon). Nonetheless it's a pleasant, strong wine to be had with flavorful meats and cheeses. Definitely good, albeit on the high end of the price range for its class, $35 at the winery.
Summers, Charbono, 2007
This Summers, 2007 is only the second Charbono I've tried. Both of them were from California. It's a grape I need to learn to appreciate. It's definitely delicate and nuanced. Very pleasant, but somewhat hard to describe why. I guess it doesn't oscillate in the palate and doesn't leave a different impression in the after taste but at the same time is not bland, like one would expect from such description. It's smooth throughout. I'd pair it with lighter foods, maybe pasta with pesto. Reminds me of some pinots, but that's just a rough approximation. Another gift from friends. Must try it again sometime.
Kirkland Ranch, Carbernet Sauvignon, 2002
This 2002 Cab from Napa Valley is very interesting. It definitely does not overpower the palate. It's almost with no strong distinctive flavors and nonetheless it's still quite pleasant. Its slightly old age did it some good and it seems the flavors settled among themselves. Not too sweet and not too tannic, this is a great wine to go with foods with delicate sauces and little spices, since it won't get in the way of the appreciation. Or a nice rib eye, which was the case today. This bottle was a present from good friends, aged at their cellar. I would definitely repeat, if only I could find more. Maybe I need to pay Kirkland Ranch a visit, in Napa.
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Tres Picos, Grenache, 2009
Here's the younger brother of a wine I really like, the Tres Picos. This one is quite good, but is not quite the same pleasant wine as the 2008. The 2009 Tres Picos is still well-balanced and definitely not a strong wine. The nuances of spices are stronger in this one, which is quite interesting. It has a more caramel-y finish than the 2008 and it could age a bit longer into something quite exotic. Goes for the same nice price of $13. Definitely a wine to have available in the everyday cellar.
Posted by Eduardo Pinheiro at 20:13 Labels: 2009, Grenache, Tres Picos
Borsao, Grenache, 2009
This wine from the Bodegas Borsao in Spain is made from the Grenache (Garnacha, in spanish) grape. It's the poor cousin of the Tres Picos wine. Despite its similarities to Tres Picos, it reminds me a lot more of the portuguese wines such as Capote Velho and Berco do Infante. This one too is a bit bitter and spicy but quite pleasant. Definitely not as good as Tres Picos, but not bad either. Should do well with pasta or chicken. For about $10, it's a good value.
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Growing up, having stability in life was very important to me. I've had the same best friend since I was four years-old; I went to one elementary school, one middle school, and two high schools. But the most stable area in my life was my home. I've lived in the same city, on the same street, in the same house, all my life, so even if everything else in my life was in disarray, I could always count on my home being the same.
In August 2005, the city of New Orleans was issued a hurricane warning. Nobody really paid any mind to it, because it was hurricane season, our everyday lives consisted of voluntary evacuations and threats of a hurricane that would wash the city away. Just that previous month there was a hurricane that was supposed to "wipe the city out," and after all the panic, it didn't even rain, so this time, I and half the city, felt as though we had nothing to worry about. Then there was a mandatory evacuation issued to the city, I had never evacuated before, but this time I had to. So when I evacuated here, to Hammond, it almost seemed like a vacation, until the next night. I sat down with my family and watched the news; I watch how my entire city, the only place that I had ever known, was being destroyed by some thing that I didn't even take seriously. Then I had to move to Texas, because my home, my haven, was destroyed, and I knew that my life would never be the same. Although I was upset about the destruction that had been done to my beautiful city, I was most devastated about the destruction of stability to my life.
No matter where i go, or what I become, my home will always be accepting. There I have nothing to prove and no one to please, I will always be welcome there, and simply I belong.
Looking back on all the memories of home, there are many things that stand out and other things that I'll probably never remember, but there is one thing that will be with me forever, and that's the impact that my home, flaws and all, has had on my life, and the person that I am today.
I believe that no matter where you go, or how many places you have a house, once you've found a place that you can call home, you'll never find another place like it.
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Earth Day could be a really serious, intense kind of day. And there is a lot out there about the hard stuff; climate change, pollution, habitat destruction etc.
But the other side is that if we celebrate the earth, if we fall in love with our planet, then we will inevitably take better care of it.
So this is a post of celebration and photos…
A weaving from fabric dyed by plants
Clay prints of leaves and twigs found on a walk
Rowntree park is my local "earth space". It's a wondering park with lots of greenery, wilder parts, more manicured parts. It's often busy and is clearly a very valued space for many people.
My tree oracle deck offers me guidance
My tree again! It's actually in Rowntree Park so you can see that I really do value my local green space.
And totally differently, this is the coast of Ireland. A harsher rocky place, on the west coast facing the vast ocean.
The earth is amazing, diverse, vast, intense, beautiful… Our home. Let's treat it the way we treat our individual homes.


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It seemed that investors from new york city to Los Angeles were dancing in the streets at the start of last year. And why not? Nineteen ninety-five was one of the best ever for mutual funds- equity funds were up 31.08% compared with the overall S&P 500 stock index of 37.5%. But by the end of 1996, the tempo had slowed, although the year overall wasn't anything to frown at. The average stock fund rose about 20% in 1996 versus 22.96% for the S&P 500.
The past two years have been a class act, say industry gurus. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed more than 2,600 points, the S&P 500 soared 69.17% and the average general stock fund gained a total of 56.23% during 1995 and 1996. That represents the best back-to-back performance since 1979 and 1980, which had a total 75.10% gain, according to Lipper Analytical Services Inc. in Summit, NJ, which analyzes and tracks more than 31,000 funds worldwide.
In fact, a record $222.08 billion poured into equity mutual funds in 1996, with total assets of all funds climbing to $3.54 trillion, according to the Investment Co. Institute (ICI) in Washington, D.C. The average monthly deposit into mutual funds was $18.5 billion, compared with $10.7 billion in 1995.
Today, an estimated 63 million Americans own mutual funds. A big factor for the widespread popularity is a boom in retirement accounts. ICI estimates that through the end of 1995, retirement assets–401(K)S, 403(b)s, pensions and individual retirement accounts–accounted for nearly 36% of all mutual fund assets. Companies are increasingly offering 401(k) plans to their employees and are constantly adding to the number of mutual fund options within those plans.
It was clear in 1996 that the best performing sectors were natural resources funds (up 32.74%); real estate funds (up 30.80%) and financial services (up 28.01%). This stands to reason, says A. Michael Lipper, CPA and president of Lipper Analytical Services, "given that real estate funds invest in REITs (real estate investment trusts), which are currently awash with cash; financial services funds invest in some of the world's biggest banks; and natural resource funds own some of the world's biggest oil companies."
What can investors hope for this year? The forecast for 1997 is mild in comparison to the last two years. A tumultuous storm isn't on the horizon–just a slight correction, meaning share prices might surrender some of their heady gains at some point during the year. The economy is expanding slowly but steadily. Inflation and interest rates remain low and aren't likely to rise and if they do, only slightly. Wall Street sages aren't predicting Armageddon–just the end of high double-digit market gains.
"Going forward, one would expect domestic stock fund performance to return to more normal levels–the 12% range," says Lipper. No matter. The prudent investor knows that mutual funds should be viewed as longterm investments. And mutual funds–particularly equity funds–remain the best place for investors to park their money.
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Paul Michael Levesque, better known as the wrestler Triple H, was born on July 27, 1969 in Nashua. He is currently still wrestling under World Wrestling Entertainment's "RAW" brand, works as a senior advisor to Vince McMahon, chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment, and is married to the daughter of Vince and Linda McMahon, Stephanie McMahon.
Paul was a lanky, skinny kid who made a decision at the age of 14 that would change his life forever. He was offered a free one-week membership to a local gym. For the next three years he spent almost every day at that gym, developing his body into a 6' 4", 210 lb. contender and winning several bodybuilding competitions including the title of Teen Mr. New Hampshire at the age of 19.
He was coached initially by former wrestler Ted Arcidi and he soon enrolled at Walter "Killer" Kowalski's Pro Wrestling School in Malden, MA. He trained four days a week under his tutelage. Levesque began his professional wrestling career in 1994 with World Championship Wrestling using the names Terra Ryzing and Jean-Paul Levesque. By 1995, he had joined the World Wrestling Federation where he began to develop the character of the wealthy sophisticate Hunter Hearst Helmsley, which was later shortened to Triple H.
He began to win championships, as he created different stables (or storylines involving other wrestlers) including D-Generation X, a group of rebels who acted out, doing and saying what they pleased. The group included Chyna, Rick Rude and Shawn Michaels. Though they disbanded in 2002, they reunited twice more as a duo of Triple H and Shawn Michaels, the last time in March 2010 just before Michaels' retirement. They also came together for one night only, in 2010 at a Tribute for the Troops event. He was also part of another stable from 2003-2005 called "Evolution" which included wrestlers Batista, Ric Flair and Randy Orton.
Over the years, Levesque has won 13 World Championships, King of the Ring in 1997, 2002's Royal Rumble, the second Grand Slam Championship winner, and the seventh Triple Crown Champion.
In 2001, during a tag team wrestling bout with Austin against Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit he sustained a severe injury, tearing his quadriceps muscle and causing it to come off the bone. The injury could have ended his wrestling career but Levesque had surgery, and though he missed 8 months in the ring, he returned in 2002 as a fan favorite. His wins and the success of his career would continue in the years to follow. He tore a bicep muscle in early 2010 and when he returned in October, he won his first match against Alberto Del Rio.
Levesque had previously dated another New Hampshire native and wrestler, Joanie Laurer (also known as Chyna). He met Stephanie after their breakup and married her three years later. They have two daughters together, Aurora Rose and Murphy Claire and reside in Greenwich, CT.
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TrapWire, a company founded and run by former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers, that offers to track "suspicious" activities from surveillance video, has been spotlighted in a new Wikileaks release.
The system is described on the TrapWire's website as "a unique, predictive software system designed to detect patterns of pre-attack surveillance and logistical planning." The U.S. Department of Homeland Security paid TrapWire $832,000 to deploy Trapwire in Washington DC and Seattle in December 2011, according to federal spending data records.
The information on Trapwire's contracts emerged from one of the five million internal emails from Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based company that brands itself as a "global intelligence" provider, were recently obtained by Anonymous, the hacker collective, and were released in batches by WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website, earlier this year.
The Trapwire technology was created at Abraxas corporation, which was founded by Richard "Hollis" Helms, a former CIA agent (but not the former head of the CIA under Nixon). Abraxas spun off Trapwire into another company which still has several senior employees who once worked at the agency. They include Dan Botsch, who worked at the CIA for 11 years as a Russian and Eastern European analyst, Michael Maness, a 20 year CIA veteran who worked in counterterrorism and security operations in the Middle-East, the Balkans and Europe, and Michael K. Chang, a 12 years CIA veteran on counterterrorism operations.
The company appears to have deleted the list of senior employees from its website when the Wikileaks release occurred. But the company still promotes their prior experience: "Our professionals have led successful intelligence operations against terrorist organizations and fought on battlefields across the globe."
The software has been described as a real life version of a system portrayed in Minority Report, a Hollywood blockbuster. "Anyone who takes a photograph at high-risk locations is logged as a suspected terrorist on a vast network of secret spy cameras linked to the U.S. Government, according to leaked emails," writes Rick Dewsbury at the Daily Mail, a tabloid newspaper in the UK.
Mainstream media have reacted more cautiously to the TrapWire leaks. The New York Times commented that the "reports appear to be wildly exaggerated" noting that the Homeland Security had ended trials on the technology last year "because it did not seem promising." The company refused to comment.
While TrapWire is now keeping quiet about its software, a similar UK venture is doing the opposite. Tag and Track, a technology developed by Kingston University researchers, is now being marketed by Ipsotek.
"The notion that you can tag a person and let the system do the tracking is a dream come true for CCTV operators," says Professor Sergio Velastin who is also co-founder of Ipsotek. "The system relies on the identification of a person through features, such as their appearance, which different cameras can then pick up on."
Ipsotek has sold its products to the Australian parliament and to airports in Belfast and Edinburgh. In a Reuters video report, the company demonstrates how it can follow any individual that an operator identifies and tags when analyzing video footage. The Tag and Track software then creates a unique colored trail to show where that individual has traveled.
A similar technology called Footpath, which is manufactured by Path Intelligence in the UK, tracks individuals based on the strength of their cell phone signals. The system was piloted by Forest City, a shopping mall company in the U.S. in Promenade Temecula in Temecula, California, and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Virginia last year.
The pilot project was canceled after privacy advocates pointed out that it was most likely illegal and members of Congress started to raise questions.
How accurate are these new video surveillance technologies? "(I)t's extremely difficult, and probably impossible, to distinguish the one-in-a-billion terrorist from innocent people doing ordinary things like taking pictures," Jay Stanley at American Civil Liberties Union told the New York Times. And therein lies the greatest danger.
TrapWire Leaks Shine Light on New Video Tracking Technologies
TrapWire, a company founded and run by former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers, that offers to track "suspicious" activities from surveillance video, has been spotlighted in a new Wikileaks release.
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford – who has apologized in recent weeks for using vulgar language on live television and admitted to public drunkenness and crack cocaine use – is getting professional help but still harbors dreams of running for prime minister as his new TV show premieres tonight.
"I've admitted to drinking too much, OK," Ford told Fox News Sunday. "So I'm dealing with it. I'm training every day. I'm in the gym two hours every day. I'm seeking professional help. I'm not an alcoholic. I'm not a drug addict."
Just as the embattled mayor is getting help, he is also getting his own reality-TV show.
"Ford Nation" will feature Ford and brother Doug Ford, who is himself a member of the 44-member Toronto city council that stripped the mayor of some of his powers. The show will air Mondays at 8 p.m. on the tabloid Sun News Network but there were few details about the format released.
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PERTH, Australia (AP) — South Africa beat France 2-1 at the Hopman Cup on Friday when Jo-Wilfried Tsonga had to retire in the deciding mixed doubles with a groin injury.
Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa beat France's Mathilde Johansson 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 before Tsonga defeated Kevin Anderson 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3) in a match during which the French player appeared to slightly injure his groin while stretching for shot during a rally.
Scheepers and Anderson had won the first set of the mixed doubles 6-3 and were trailing 2-1 on serve in the second when Tsonga indicated that he could not continue.
Serbia was to play Germany later Friday, where a win by the Serbian team of Novak Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic would advance them to Saturday's final against Spain.


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If you want to rock her world and give her a night she'll never forget, here are 5 tips for giving a woman multiple orgasms. Multiple orgasms are simply orgasms that occur one after the other in a relatively short period of time. Once a woman has had one orgasm, she can have another one fairly quickly. Follow these steps to make sure this lovely thing happens.
- Create the right atmosphere. It should be romantic, sensual and relaxing. Think wine, flowers, candles and sexy music. Choose a setting with few distractions. Make certain that you are freshly bathed and groomed.
- Pleasure her physically to heighten her arousal. This means foreplay, and lots of it. Women need kissing, touching and exploration before they are ready for sex. Tease and prime her body both orally and manually. Focus on touching or licking her clitoris. Insert a finger into her vagina and locate her G-spot as well. These techniques will arouse your woman and make her ready for an orgasm.
- Pay attention to what excites your woman the most. Always communicate with your partner to find out what she enjoys and where she wants to be touched. If your touch elicits a favorable response, increase the pressure and the tempo of your fingers and tongue. You will be able to gauge her excitement level from her breathing, moaning and facial expressions. If she loves it, do more of it.
- Stimulate her erogenous zones simultaneously. For example, if she likes having her nipples teased and her G-spot rubbed, do both things at once. The intense excitement she feels will lead to her first orgasm.
- Be aware that after her first orgasm, a woman's vaginal area becomes sensitive to touch. You will want to continue manually or orally stimulating her in order to give her multiple orgasms, but do so with a far lighter touch than before. When she indicates that she is ready for more, you can use a firmer touch to help bring on her next orgasm. This is a skill which takes some practice, but you will have fun learning how to please your woman.
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I love bbq! I mean it is one of my all-time favorites like pizza. I think i can eat it 7 days straight and be perfectly fine with it! That says a lot as I normally want my meals to be varied.
A local resto in QC offers value for money bbq!! The pork bbq was 18 inches and is served hung. Nice. 🙂
It is a great buy for about 150 I think for the combo meal. The isaw baboy and isaw manok are ok and can offer variety but I like the pork bbq best.
The pancit there is good too – flavorful and with lots of ingredients. I have not ordered other menu items as I normally get full on the bbq. 😋
Have tried many bbq places and this is one of those I go back to. 👍
I normally rate high and since I have gone back to this place several times already – 4.5 😋


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500 Centre Street Fernandina Beach, FL 32034 | 904.261.5571 | 800.940.8951
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Welcome to this large, open and bright, pool home in Green Meadows subdivision. This home is in a cul-de-sac with pond frontage & includes 6 acres for extreme privacy! This home features 4/3.5 with 3 bedrooms & 2.5 baths in main house. In addition to the main home, there is a mother-n-law suite that provides a 4th bedroom, bath and large living area. Main home has a split floor plan with some new flooring, new paint & modern light fixtures. Huge great room & dining area as well as an area upfront for an office. Large master suite with tray ceiling & bay window. Master bath features garden tub, large walk-in shower & dual vanities. You will love the new granite & stainless appliances in the kitchen! Both heating and air systems and water heaters have been replaced since 2015. Most pool equipment is only 2 years old as well. You'll enjoy the large screened porch across the back of the home with a view of the wetlands, pond & pool! Boats & RV's allowed behind fence.
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Latest The Order: 1886 Dev Diary Focuses on the Weapons
In the most recent behind-the-scenes developer diary for The Order: 1886, titled Tools of the Trade, developer Ready at Dawn talks about the weapons featured in the game.
For a written look at the weapons Creative Director Ru Weerasuriya said, "We used weapons based on existing technology in the Victorian-Era, but also created others that stretched the realm of what was possible at the time."
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Because our Industrial Revolution is a result of the war between Humans and Half-Breeds, many of the inventions of our timeline are primarily focused on ways to aid in this fight. Guns such as the Carbine, the Coach Gun or the Maschinenpistole are common occurrence in the game and represent the technology of the era. While others based on electricity such as the Arc Gun, or based on alternate ammunition such as the Aluminum Iron Oxide of the Thermite Rifle, provide a way for us to use real technologies and materials of the times, while building weapons that did not exist.
Whether real or invented, we always made sure that every weapon we designed followed specific guidelines regarding their assembly, their material use and their craftsmanship. They needed to feel grounded in the real world of the late 1800s. The end goal behind fusing all these weapons into the game was to provide diversity in combat and a fun-factor for the player by showcasing their advantages in different combat scenarios.
Some of these weapons were even purposely designed to feel somewhat dangerous not only to your target but to the user as well. We made sure they retained the feeling that they were still in their prototype stage and being field tested. This also reinforced something that was true of the era as often inventions and innovations would find themselves in use well before they were deemed safe to the public, very much unlike the stringent testing and safety regulations that are required today.
The Order: 1886 will be released for the PlayStation 4 on February 20, 2015.
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More specifically, a Sapphire Radeon X850 XT PCI-E onto a PowerColor Radeon X850 XT AGP?
And most importantly, I have an RMA for returning my faulty card. Should the PCI-E stock cooler fit, will this
affect the return of said product?
Hope this post makes sense. I've learned the moral of the story: (a) Don't throw away anything! (b) return faulty products/do not assume after market coolers will help!


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The NTMB+ GFL is a preamp voiced for fretless bass that incorporates fully independed Bass, Mid and Treble controls with very low noise and a wide boost/cut range.
It is a single module for ease of installation and includes a gain trim.
The sound is very clear and transparent. Distortion is well below 0.001%. This preamp can be used with either 1 - 9 volt battery ( 9 volt operation) or 2 - 9 volt batteries (18 volt operation) which yields 6 dB extra headroom.
In 9 volt operation the NTMB+ uses approximately 750 microamperes of current from 1 - 9 volt battery. This means 1 month of continuous duty or more than 6 months of average usage.
In 18 volt operation the NTMB+ uses approximately 1000 microamperes of current from 2 - 9 volt batteries. This means more than 3 weeks of continuous duty or more than 4 months of average usage.
Other Details:
Mid frequency options.: 250, 500, 800Hz
See wiring diagram below


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Is it Better to be a Jock or a Nerd?
In answer to the eternal question "Is it better to be a jock or a nerd?" I submit the following: Michael Jordan in his career earned over $300,000 a game: $10,000 a minute.
He earned $40 million in endorsements in his last years of playing, that's $178,100 a day
Assuming he slept 7 hours a night, he made $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.
If he went to see a movie, it cost him $7.00, but he made $18,550 while he was there.
He made $7,415/hr more than minimum wage.
He made $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.
If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.
If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.
If you were given a tenth of a penny for every dollar he made, you'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a year.
Every year of his career he made more than twice as much as all of our past presidents for all of their terms combined. Amazing isn't it? But, Jordan will have to save 100% of his income for 270 years to have a net worth equivalent to that of Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft. NERDS RULE!!!
Insane Observation
Let me make an observation. Michael Jordon and Bill Gates are blessed by God! They are abundantly and thoroughly blessed. The evidence of such wealth must mean they have found pleasure in the sight of God and God is blessing them. It simply couldn't mean anything else.
In contrast I have a friend who came home and found his wife in the midst of a fatal asthma attack. She died leaving him with three boys under the age of six years old. Let me make the observation, this friend of mine was cursed by God. The evidence of such tragedy could only mean he found displeasure in the sight of God and God cursed him. It simply couldn't mean anything else.
Is there any one reading this that would like to stand up and say, "That's a bunch of bull!" If you aren't willing to say it, I will. BULL! The idea that when things are going well you must be pleasing God, and when things are going bad you are displeasing is a thought and a theology born at the "gates of hell", perpetuated by a "consumer driven American society" that has inundated us with the idea that more is better, bigger is best and faster is more favorable. A society that has taught us from mother's knee to our death bed if you do the right things we will be rewarded.
I listened to an evangelist at the Fargodome a number of years ago tell twenty-thousand young people that if they would give their lives to Jesus they would be guaranteed a attractive spouse and a good career. Really! Theologians call this kind of thinking "prosperity theology." I have another name for it. Bulls#%**! I can say with assurance this thought has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity. Let me give you two examples of how prevalent this idea is, even in the church.
Idea #1: "I should follow Christ and there will be a divine worldly payoff."
If I follow Christ I will live a long and happy life. One defined by a full belly, a long and marvelous career, 2.2 children, a well-trained dog, and a dutiful spouse. Then at life's end you will slip into the gently by and by and things will really get good. You cannot imagine how much I would love to tell you that and have it be true. But there are facts I simply cannot ignore.
Fact One: The friend I had whose came home to a wife in a fatal asthma attack is and was at the time one of the finest pastors I have ever known. Fact Two: Statistically, well over half of all the children who died in the eighties and nineties on the continent of Africa were Christian. Fact Three: Really rotten things happen to really good people.
Ponder the biblical evidence. Paul, the greatest of all the New Testament Christians dies in prison in Rome. Peter is crucified upside down. Stephen is stoned to death. John dies on the Island of Patmos in exile. And through the ages the list has grown and grown.
Jesus said, Luke 9:23 "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me." Cross! Say it with me. Cross! Not silver spoon! CROSS. Christianity does not change the circumstances of our life it changes us. It breaks into our private ego-centric, little lives and introduces us to a purpose and a privilege greater than ourselves. Christianity does not say, "Great I'm glad you are following Jesus here is you silver spoon. It says "great, here is your burden, here is the care of your neighbor, here is seven hundred soldiers in Iraq – make sure they get home safely, here is the same sacrificial love that killed your founder, and here is your cross."
Idea #2: "I should follow Christ to avoid punishment for my sin."
Although it is true to follow Christ is to have our sins washed away, it is and always will be poor motivation. It is to say, "I love my wife because if I don't she will beat the heck out of me." That just don't cut mustard for long.
In June, I will be married to Bev for twenty-four years. Botabeem botaboom! Wow! Twenty-four years. Let me tell you why I love her so much. Oops! I can't. You see there is no way to put into words those things that are intimately knitted into your soul, over time. It's impossible! I couldn't possibly explain to you how even in Iraq, at war, she is as close to me as if we were sitting on the sofa together. I, the wordsmith, have no words. It simply is the truth. If I could not love her, I could not be who I have become, who God has made me. So, I must love her.
It is the same with God. If I could not love Jesus, I could not be who I have become, who he has made me to be. So, I must love him. When the disciples learned this they could not be quieted. Jesus said about them, I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out."
The idea of punishment has no place in the mind and heart of a Christian at all. God has taken your sin, your punishment, your shame and has cast it as far as the east is from the west. Though your sins be as scarlet, you are white as snow.
Final Answer: So, if it isn't for payoff, or the avoidance of punishment why be a Christian at all? It is the million dollar question. Why do 110 million Americans get out of bed on Sunday morning drag themselves to worship? Why should you belong to a church, give money to a church, or even bother with church?
Or, to make things more specific why should you care about the burdens of someone else? Why should you pick up the burdens of the world? Why should I go to bible study, memorize scripture, teach Sunday school, or one of the many other things that can be done.
Well don't do them because you have to. Do them because you get to. I get to be included in the purposes of God. I get to be part of the economy of God. I get to be used by God to make the world a better place for myself, my children, my spouse and my neighbor. I get to be involved in God reconciling the world. I am an insider in an outsider world. I have a place. I am blessed.


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Scotland Yard backs IPCC call for evidence law change
The Metropolitan Police has supported calls for changes to the law to allow more details to be revealed in cases where the police have shot people.
Earlier the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said legislation related to intercept evidence was an "obstacle".
It has emerged there may not be an inquest into the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot by police last August.
His death in Tottenham, north London, sparked days of rioting.
But sensitive police material may have to be withheld from the coroner, it emerged earlier this week.
The Duggan inquest echoes the case of Azelle Rodney, who was shot by police in Edgware, north London, in 2005.
The coroner in that case was not able to hold an inquest because of intercept evidence - from either a phone tap or a bug - and it will be the subject of a public inquiry later this year.
Mark Duggan's aunt, Carole Duggan, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the family wanted to learn the "truth", adding: "We definitely want an inquest to be held and we deserve one."
In a statement to the Today Programme, the independent watchdog said some sections of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), which bars intercept evidence from legal proceedings including inquests, prevented it giving information to grieving families.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh said the IPCC had been "really shrewd" in the way it had released its statement.
He said calling for changes to the law on intercepts was a "valid question we want to pursue with them and legislators".
Mr Kavanagh said the Met "supports the IPCC position".
On Monday the IPCC said it was likely to have information about police "decision-making" relating to Mr Duggan's death that could not be disclosed to the coroner.
In those circumstances an inquest, with a jury, could not be held.
An inquiry, headed by a judge, would have to take place with some evidence potentially heard behind closed doors.
The Liberal Democrat peer, Lord Carlile, was the independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation.
He says the law relating to fatal police operations should be re-examined.
Lord Carlile said: "If there was a case I which, for example, a human covert intelligence resource was at risk, or if a phone intercept would reveal that kind of risk, then there would be good proportionate reasons for keeping it secret.
"But, in general terms, I agree with the chair of the IPCC. It is time to review the law," he added.
Mr Duggan's family have accused the IPCC of being obstructive.
IPCC deputy chairwoman Deborah Glass has now issued a statement saying how "frustrated" the body is when "anyone or anything" gets in the way of its ability to provide information or ensure a case is heard fully in public.
The statement said: "The IPCC believes that it is essential for families to play a full part in any process which establishes how and in what circumstances their family member died.
"Our principal statutory duty is to secure and maintain confidence in the police complaints system and one way in which this can be achieved is by ensuring that there is proper public scrutiny when someone dies at the hands of the state."
Ms Glass did not refer to the Duggan case directly, but said the IPCC's hands were sometimes "tied" by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
She said it was a "breach of the law" even to explain why some information could not be disclosed.
The IPCC's view, she said, was that the law "needs to be changed".
England riots
Mr Duggan, a father-of-four, was a passenger in a minicab which was stopped in Tottenham, north London, by police as part of a planned operation on 4 August 2011.
He died of a single gunshot wound to the chest.
The IPCC initially said he had shot at officers, but ballistic tests later revealed that claim was untrue.
Anger over the shooting sparked riots in Tottenham on 6 August, with the unrest spreading across London and to other parts of England.
At a pre-inquest hearing in February, the IPCC admitted making a "mistake" by saying Mr Duggan had fired at officers.
That hearing heard the family of Mr Duggan had suffered a "complete breakdown in confidence" in the police watchdog.


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At my daughter's school the 3rd and 4th grades all worked together to fold 1,000 Origami Cranes of Hope to sell at the school to benefit the Red Cross in Japan. The school children raised $5,061.50. The following link is to a video showing a small fraction of the 1,000+ wishes collected from their Cranes of Hope For Japan Relief fundraiser. One of the student's father will deliver the messages of hope to an elementary school affected by the Quake/Tsunami.
If you would like to donate to the Japanese Red Cross or your national Red Cross you may do so here!
I am proud of all of the children and my daughter for taking on the task of learning to fold Origami Cranes (not an easy task!) and for going to school early two days to fold cranes!
Update 4-20-11: There were 720 cranes left over from the sales which were then donated to the high school effort that partnered with a company and they received $2 for every crane which added an additional $1,440 to the total donation!


text: Multimedia Laser Light water Fountain has been Started for Public Sector-17 Plaza, Chandigarh. It was inaugurated by Sh.K.K.Sharma, Advisor to Administration, Chandigarh. Mayor Harphool Chand and Area Councilor Pradeep Chabra were also present in month of November 2014. It is now enhancing the beauty of plaza sector 17. More visitors are visiting sector 17 plaza to see the fountain which increase business and activities. Multimedia Laser Light water Fountain starts in evening every day. One by one Songs Music played in best quality of sound system installed there and water Fountain moves here and here accordingly in very accurate manner. It gives best experience and feel while shopping in plaza, sector 17 and watching this Multimedia Laser Light water Fountain.


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After Joe and Nick finished obliterating each other during an intensely heated round of Halo, the Jo Bros answered even more of your questions -- see! I really am asking them your questions -- behind the bar area of their kitchen, where Joe pretended to mix me fake drinks. Joe played the ridiculous ringtone on his iPhone (check out the clip below) and Kevin called and left a voice message on their website.
Ooh also, as much as I love my mom, their mom, Denise, is so awesome that we she almost makes me wish she were my mom, too. And not just because she complimented me on my new purse, though clearly we share the same excellent taste.
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