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President Obama has launched a new national initiative against youth violence in the wake of the brutal killing of Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old sophomore at Chicago's Fenger Academy High. Derrion's fatal beating by several other teens, captured on video from an onlooker's cell phone, has inundated the nightly news and the blogosphere —prompting U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the former chief of the Chicago public schools, to visit Chicago this past Wednesday to address the issue of youth violence.
But to many parents, students and teachers in Chicago, Duncan's visit to Chicago represented the perpetrator returning to scene of the crime.
That's because Duncan's "Renaissance 2010" initiative that he helped launch beginning in 2005, ordered dozens of Chicago's public schools closed and thousands of students reassigned to campuses outside their neighborhoods —and often across gang lines.
The closure of these public schools was a move by Duncan to bring in privatized charter schools that take public funds and place them in schools outside of public oversight. In numerous school board meetings and protests, community members have warned Duncan that the reckless closing of schools would have dire consequences—from the loss of cherished education programs and neighborhood schools, to the increase in gang violence.
Before the 2006 school year, an average of 10-15 public school students were fatally shot each year. But as schools were shut down and public education was eroded, deadly shootings soared; 24 in the 2006-07 school year, 23 in the 2007-08 school year, and last year ended with a record 34 deaths and 290 shootings.
"You have a trail of blood and tears ever since they launched (Renaissance 2010)," said Tio Hardiman, director of the anti-violence organization CeaseFire Illinois, in story by MSNBC. "There's a history of violence associated with moving kids from one area to another."
Investing in our public schools and after-school programs (rather than siphoning off money from them in the form of charter schools), and investing in job programs and universal healthcare before investing in failed banks, could go a long way towards alleviating the conditions of hopelessness that breed violence.
But even reprioritizing spending on social services and education isn't enough to save America's youth from violence.
Inauspiciously, the Obama administration chose October 7th to issue its press release calling for a "National conversation on values to address youth violence." October 7th marked the 8th anniversary of the War in Afghanistan—a war that has enlisted tens of thousands of America's youth to carry automatic weapons to a foreign land to participate in the unhinged brutality of an occupation. As Obama considers whether to bow to the generals and send an addition 40,000 troops to Afghanistan—a war widely becoming known as "Obama's Vietnam"—already some 800 Americans and thousands more Afghans have been killed in this conflict.
If Obama wants his national conversation on youth violence to be more than platitudes and media hype, he would do well to revisit these words delivered by fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr. in his famous "Beyond Vietnam" speech:
We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. So we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would hardly live on the same block in Chicago…
…I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.


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Home Remodelers See A Decline in Home Show ROI. So Whats Next?
Home and Garden shows are simply not what they used to be. While the drastic change in the way homeowners shop for home services companies is certainly a major factor here, technology also plays a huge part.
In the past, home and garden shows have typically resulted in a big surge of leads for landscape contractors, kitchen design firms, and custom home builders who set up their booth and talk to the attendees. The problem with this strategy even when it worked, is that all the leads come in at once at the show and over the next week or so. Yikes!
Most small business owners in the remodeling industry do not have large sales teams chomping at the bit to try and close these new leads. In fact, many times it's just the owner himself answering the call.
Most of these new leads are going to want their contractor of choice to start their project yesterday, which means that booking out any more than a few months worth of work is next to impossible. Most homeowners will just move on to the other guys that were at the show until they finds someone who has availability to start sooner.
But let's just say that by some chance you are able to close these leads at a rate above the home remodeling industry average of 33%. Is your small to medium sized construction company able to deliver on the work? Chances are pretty good that with the difficulty owners have with finding good employees, you won't be able to produce.
So don't home shows seem less than ideal for a construction marketing strategy then? More leads than your company handle all at once with no leads the other months of the year, and if you close at a great rate, your company will sink because you won't be able to scale fast enough to meet demand.
What if their was a way to reach your target prospects where they shop and research today: online. After all, all relevant research shows that at least 75% of purchases are made only after online research.
What if you could drive consistent leads throughout the year that your company can actually deliver on? And what this way also allowed for an easy way to qualify leads while guiding them through the sales cycle before you even talk with them?
Well, there is. It's called Inbound Marketing with HubSpot. Read more about it here if you'd like.


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"The Fall of the Priestess" is a musical composition written by Georgy Gurdjieff, one of the most mysterious philosophers and spiritual leaders of the early 20th century, for a show of dancing to rhythmical music that he composed in Paris of 1923.
i love this song !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think you have mixed up the left and right...blue must be the color of right-hand and green for the left ones..


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The Path To Finding Better Tips
Factors to Consider When Hiring an Online Counselor
There are different ways that life can change and hence you should find ways to ensure that you control your life. That demonstrates that you should make sure that you do acts of kindness to other people. Being kind to another person will ensure that you feel appreciated and loved and remember that you do not have to spend money to be kind to another individual. In addition, you should make sure that you make changes in your life so that you can live a fulfilling life. That means that you should watch YouTube videos so that you can learn more new things that you should try. There are very many things that you do not know, and hence you should try to challenge yourself each day. Another way to change your life is through finding time to rest. Another way to alter your life is through speaking to a counselor.
Therefore, ensure that you understand your needs so that you can find the right service provider for you. You can easily receive the counseling services from an online counselor. You should find time to search for the right online counselor. There are a lot of online counselors that are available, and hence you can be sure that you will find the best one for you. The other element that you should think about when searching for the right online counselor is the reputation. Therefore, you should aim to find the online counselor that has a good reputation. In addition, ensure that you find an online counselor that has adequate experience in his work as that is an indication that he has dealt with many customers. It is important that you find an online counselor that has reasonable prices for his services.
Therefore, you should ask for various budgets so that you can make a comparison and find the online counselor that matches your budget. Therefore, you should ensure that you ask your potential online counselors if they are insured and also licensed. Make sure that you find an online counselor that has good listening skills and one that will try his best to offer good quality services. That means that you should around your area for professional online counselor that are available. Ensure that you ask your friends if they received superior quality services and if the prices were affordable. Therefore, you should ensure that you take your time as you conduct your search so that you can find the best online counselor for you.


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My Chinese Husband, Almost Switched at Birth
When someone gives birth to a baby boy, you wouldn't say "can we switch babies?" Unless, of course, you happened to be neighbors to my Chinese husband's family.
As the third son in the family, John dashed his mother's hopes of finally giving birth to a girl. Their neighbors had the opposite problem — they had just birthed another girl, the third in their family. So the neighbors came to John's parents, with a different kind of indecent proposal.
The way my mother-in-law and father-in-law tell it, there was no question what they would do. "He's our son, we could never give him away," my mother-in-law declared emphatically at lunch one day, as my father-in-law nodded his head, adding how the neighbors "had a crazy idea."
But what about the neighbors themselves? I never got a chance to talk to them, but I have to believe they were simply anxious to get a son. After all, according to China's longstanding Confucian values, it's the son who must care for the parents. To the traditional Chinese, not having a son is like not getting a social security package. Plus, it's just unfilial — sad, but true.
While I'm glad my in-laws never traded John away, I wonder what became of the neighbors. Did they learn to embrace their daughters as triple the happiness? Would they allow their daughters to care for them, as sons?
It's hard to say. Even today, in my husband's rural hometown, families may have a second child only if their first is a girl. The underlying message — that no one should have to "make due" with one girl — just doesn't jive with my feminist sensibilities.
Chairman Mao once said that women hold up half the sky. But three young girls, young precious lives, couldn't hold up a certain family from imagining the possibility of swapping their infant girl for the infant boy that would grow up to be my Chinese husband.
Have you ever heard about families going to great, often outlandish, lengths, just to get a boy?


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The need to practice fast-holstering a handgun for self-defense is debatable and, in many cases, dangerous.
Why practicing quick holstering a handgun might not be needed:
- Many shooters overemphasize fast holstering in practice.
- This training can be dangerous and in a real-life scenario most likely unneeded.
- Holstering a drawn handgun should be a slow deliberate process.
- You should only worry about holstering a gun once you are certain it is not needed.
Because of my vocation, I spend a lot of time on the range. I won't say I've seen it all, but I've seen a lot. And, to be honest, a lot of what I've seen just does not make a whole lot of sense. Take for example the motions some handgunners go through after they shoot their gun. They'll pull the handgun in close to their body, jerk their head left and right like they're trying to shake water out of their ears, and then shove the handgun back in their holster faster than Bill Hickok could have pulled one out of his.
Though I'm sure I've not considered every scenario, the times that you'll need to holster your handgun in a hurry are as rare as the times you'll hear Britney Spears whisper in your ear, "My place or yours?" As a cop, I pulled my handgun countless times. I also saw other cops do the same. Never was I in, or did I witness a situation where, the handgun had to be holstered in a hurry. That's a good thing because holstering a handgun in a hurry is one of the leading causes of self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
In a defensive situation you should only holster your handgun when the shooting is over or when you realize shooting will not be needed. In either case, there is no rush; you're safe and the threat is no longer present or has been neutralized. Yet, too many shooters practice fast holstering on the range. Either they think it looks cool or they're in a hurry to run a drill again. Eventually, they'll forget to remove their finger from the trigger and when that finger contacts the holster it is often followed by a loud noise and the creation of extra unneeded but mostly unwanted holes in the body.
When it's time to put your handgun away, take a breath, slowly and carefully evaluate your surroundings, address ammunition needs, and then, deliberately, slowly and reluctantly, put that hog's leg away. That soft thing you sit on and those legs that carry you around will appreciate the consideration.
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We've heard plenty of taxi horror stories; this one though has a curtain call on the side of justice.
A recent video has surfaced showing a would-be robber holding a taxi driver at gunpoint in Pennsylvania. The poor driver, obviously in a panic-stricken state, tries to convince his attacker that he has no money.
What happened next is rather unexpected, and the product of really incredible timing.
Watch:As you can see in the taxi surveillance video, which was obtained by WFMZ-TV, a TV station in Pennsylvania, the hooded criminal (literally) didn't see the police coming. As he was about to rob the driver blind, a cop car pulls up behind them. Deputy Terry Ely approaches the taxi after it failed to move when the light turned green.
The rest, as they say, is (stupid criminals) history.
The wrongdoer, identified as 18-year-old Victor Martinez-Herrera, was arrested, jailed, and charged with robbery.


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Thursday, 22 December 2011
The top-5 most popular posts on the Digest this year
Here are the Digest top 5 posts for 2011:
How walking through a doorway increases forgetting? (over 39,000 page views so far!) This study, by Gabriel Radvansky at the University of Notre Dame and his colleagues, showed how walking through a doorway creates an episode boundary in our memories.
Toddlers won't bother learning from you if you're daft (over 11,000 page views so far) Diane Poulin-Dubois and her team at Concordia University demonstrated that children as young as 14 months are discerning in who they learn from. Many infant participants didn't bother copying the behaviour of an adult who had previously acted surprised for no reason.
The books and journal articles all psychologists should read (over 10,000 page views to date) The one-on-one series of interviews with leading psychologists in The Psychologist magazine includes a challenge to name one book or journal article that all psychologists should read. This post gathers all the answers together in one place.
Psychology to the rescue (over 9,000 page views to date) This post is the "menu" for our anniversary feature in which psychologists shared their experiences of using psychology in real life. A selection also appear in this month's (Jan 2012) issue of The Psychologist.
Is it time to rethink the way university lectures are delivered? (over 8,000 page views so far) Physics students enrolled on a week-long course of unconventional lectures, including group discussions, quizzes, mutual critiquing, instructor feedback and clicker questions, showed a dramatic improvement in their academic performance, and far greater engagement, as compared to a control group of their peers who sat and listened passively to a highly skilled lecturer.
Are you surprised that these were the most popular Digest posts? Which were your favourites this year? If you like, you can use the archive menu at the top of the right-hand column to browse through the year's posts. Merry Christmas!
Post written by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
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Thank's a lot!!
I have tips for students:
steps to write a research paper
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Guyana is an amazing blend of the Caribbean and South America. The name Guyana means in Amerindian "Land of Many Waters". Guyana is a tropical paradise with vast open spaces, savannahs, pristine rainforests, mountains, rivers, waterfalls, bountiful wildlife, numerous species of flora, a variety of fauna and spectacular birdlife. Inland Guyana has a multitude of immense waterfalls, creeks and rivers; virgin rainforest andan abundance of wildlife. Guyana is English-speaking; with cricket and calypso music, it's culturally connected to the Caribbean region.
It has been 42 years ago, the last time (1975)that I was in this area as a marine based on the island of Curacao. Guyana is also known as the bridge between South America and the Caribbean and is the only English speaking nation in South America. (be warned, with a very strong creole accent). Tap water in Guyana we are told is not safe for drinking hence our filters in the truck did do overtime making it drinkable. Arriving by ferry from Suriname the road to Georgetown was one long stretch of small villages with a mix of Dutch, English and US names such as Washington, Middleton, New Amsterdam. It took a little over 4 hours to reach Georgetown from the Suriname border. Guyana is a country that promotes itself as an eco-tourism destination, but arriving in Guyana and Georgetown does not give you this feeling. Georgetown the one-day garden city is fading away, the beaches are filthy and the streets are littered with rubbish. It does not represent what it looks like in the tourism brochures. However, we did not come to Guyana for Georgetown or the beaches (lucky), we came for the interior and the fact that parts are accessible in a vehicle. (4×4 helps a lot).
GEORGETOWN to BORDER BRASIL
Once we left Georgetown it is 575km to Lethem straight down the middle of Guyana and the rainforest. The first 70km is tarmac, however after Linden it is a mix of red soil, sand, loam and clay. (If it rains this becomes muddy and very slippery). Once we passed Linden it felt like we drove into nature's garden of Eden. The forest became ticker and not before long we were in thick jungle where the sun never reaches the ground. This part of Guyana is made up of many small Amerindian communities hidden from the road/track and only accessible via small narrow tracks. This area contains mountains, rivers, rainforest and savannah. It is home to over 850 recorded bird species. Many unknown birds, insects, spider and snakes are still found by scientists. The area is also home to the Giant Anteater, Giant River Otter, Capybara, Anaconda, Black Cayman and Jaguar (Guyana's national animal).With just over 3000 tourists a year Guyana is the undiscovered corner of South America. Sugar Loaf in Rio De Jaineiro (Brazil) receives 3000 tourists per day. Hence it is safe to say that Guyana is an undiscovered country in South America. With most of the population living in the coastal regions once you travel inland the country is relatively unpopulated.
In the 4 weeks we spent in Guyana we barely scratched the surface of this beautiful country. Camping at a secluded jungle stream or trying to make a path in dark thick rainforest where a torch is required during daytime is something we will never forget.
We are at a loss to understand why so many overlanders ignore this pristine area full of perfect bush camps and 4WD opportunities. Not to mention that they miss the opportunity to see the Victoria Amazonia, a very large water Lily and at sunset the bud of this flower will open and can become as large as table seating 4 to 6 adults. After around 1 hour of leaving Rock View Campground and within a 2 km stretch we drove from dense rainforest into wide open savannah. Despite having a bone-dry road surface on either side of the road the savannah was still under water.
Our plan to visit the Central and South Rupununi failed due to flooding and washed away bridges. Unfortunately we had to cancel the visits to Dadanawa Ranch, Bottle Mountain, Kanuka Mountain, Shea village, Shea Rock and Aishalton.
A very big thank you to the people of
1. Anaula Lodge (Suriname) Jeffrey and Miriam in particular but all your staff are great. Good luck with your new venture at Biggi Pan. Jeffrey, we may catch up in Australia one day?
2. Domburg Marina (Suriname) Nettie and Jelle, Huub and Rob, say hello to the regulars. And the resident DJ Gerben.
3. Marudi Creek (Guyana) (Paul)
4. Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and development, (Guyana) Dr Racheal Thomas Caesar, Adith. Racheal when in OZ you are welcome any time.
5. Atta Lodge. (Guyana) John Christian, you made me bird crazy and your eye for wildlife and photos are the best we have seen sofar. Thank you Adith and John for allowing us to camp at the rainforest canopy.
6. Rock View lodge and Campsite. (Guyana) Colin and son Janio (we should have had more beers?!?!?!) We missed you in Boa Vista, but did meet the Guyana Consul and her Dutch husband.
The above people who are so committed to Eco tourism and without all of you, your advice, recommendations and help our experience would only be half.
Guyana the Positives.
1. Pristine Nature
2. Phenomenal Bird Life
3. Great Bush Camping
4. Great Off Roading if you wish
5. Unknown destination
Guyana the negatives:
1. Very expensive, a simple bush walk less than an hour they will charge 50USD p.p. (including travelling time of the guide). In a country where the average wage is less than 300USD per month how can this be justified?
2. Tourists are being well and truly overcharged
3. Inland ferries must be the world's most expensive
4. Being promoted as an eco-tourism destination, Georgetown is a filthy city and has dirty beaches, the track from the Lethem turnoff and the ferry is full of littler. The eco-tourism message seems to have gone no further to those who market Guyana as a tourist destination.
5. We arrived from Suriname and received a 90-day visa for ourselves but just 14 days for the truck. Despite pleading for an extension, no luck. We were required to go to Georgetown to extend from 14 to 30 days which took only 10 minutes……..
The Roads
1. Bitumen from Suriname Border to Georgetown. (all side roads are dirt in various states from poor to a nightmare)
2. Georgetown to Linden is all bitumen (all side roads are dirt and in various states) 3. Linden to the Lethem Turnoff, a disaster of broken up bitumen and potholes.
4. Lethem turnoff (past Linden) to the ferry. A mix of perfect gravel, potholes, clay and sandy loam. Tracks off the main track offer some great 4WD to waterfalls and secluded campsites. We travelled in August during a fair bit of rain making the track a challenge.
5. Ferry to Lethem, first 55KM perfect after this slow going. We drove this route after a couple of weeks of heavy rain and the road was closed 100KM before Lethem due to bogged trucks. However, after 6 days of sunshine it surprised us how quickly things dry up. But trucks leave deep hard ruts and potholes to cope with.
6. The talk is that the road will become an all-weather road (bitumen), however that talk is now going on for many years and like so many other things in Guyana.
1. Made of tree stumps
2. They supposed to carry heavy trucks however our 12500Kg had a few moments, and due to the severe weather, many bridges had partly collapsed and/or timber missing.
3. A word of warning: check every bridge before crossing if partly collapsed or timber missing (if you drive a truck) For our American friends: a Toyota Landcruiser is not a truck or a big rig.
Well did we enjoy Guyana? YES, WE DID, would we recommend: it: YES YES, but be selective. We saw more wild life (mainly birds) at secluded camp sites than during tours. Is it safe? Yes, it is safe, despite the reports in the local newspapers who appear to thrive on bad luck stories, killings and other negative headlines.
Our recommendations
1. Spend as little time as possible in Georgetown.
2. Camp at Marudi Creek Resort 40 odd KM south of Georgetown.
3. Bush camp north of the river (waterfalls)
4. Spend as much time South of the river (past the Kurupukari Ferry)
5. Spend time at Iwokrama Resort, say hello to Dr Racheal and to Adith
6. Spend time at Atta Lodge, say hello to guide John Christian
7. Avoid Surama, a real tourist trap and way too expensive, cock of the rock walk cost 30USD plus 15 USD for the guide, (all up 1 hour) plus 20USD for a community fee and 20USD for camping. We only saw one cock of the rock. There was also a charge for the village tour. I can't remember the cost as we declined and decided to camp elsewhere?
8. Spend Time at Rock View Lodge, say hello to Collin, a real character and tourism pioneer, enjoy a few cold beers in the Dakota Bar.
9. Spend as much time as possible bush camping.
10. Do all your tours on the river in Suriname (less than 50% of the cost of Guyana)
11. Do all your shopping in Brazil or Suriname as food is very expensive in Guyana and of mediocre quality.
12. Buy ticket ferry (Kurupukari) in Georgetown Western Union but you can buy the tickets at the ferry, at the time of writing. We are told this money never goes to the owners?
13. Following Julie Turk"s (Tuck struck) comment, we decided against visiting the Kaieteur water falls. Having seen Victoria Falls, Iquazu, Niagara and many smaller ones I am unwilling to spend up to 300USD to get to the falls, Ferry-Guide-Boat ride and other fees.
14. Ensure you organize insurance through Azura *1. It will cover Guyana and Suriname (2 months 50AUD, 32 Euro or 37 USD and this included our scooter and was for a 12000KG truck.
15. Visit the Rupununi, according to Julie Turk (Tuck struck) visiting the central Rupununi is a must. Our plan to visit the Southern Rupununi also failed but we are told it is a must. We never made it due to lots of flooding rain and washed away bridges.
16. We travelled at the end of the Wet Season, (August). In my book this is the time to visit the rain forest as it is at its best. But be prepared for slippery roads, mud and mozzies.
*1 we entered Suriname from French Guyana and organized our insurance at the border. Not sure how this works when you enter from Lethem.


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26 • manag i n g co p d Signs When FEV 1 is >50% of predicted, there may be no abnormal signs. The typical patient with more severe COPD shows a large, barrel-shaped chest owing to hyperinflation, diminished breath sounds, distant heart sounds owing to emphysema and prolonged expiration. Patients may also have generalised wheezing on expiration. Diagnosis Diagnosis is commonly made from a history of progressive shortness of breath in a chronic smoker and is confirmed by spirometry, which shows an FEV 1 /forced vital capacity (FVC) ratio of <70% and FEV 1 <80% of predicted.
Indeed the abdominal wall muscles may also be active. Breath sounds may be quiet and there may also be crackles present in the lungs. A wheeze is often heard and may lead to diagnostic confusion with asthma. It is essential to remember that many chest diseases may lead to an audible wheeze. Signs of cor pulmonale (right heart failure) must not be missed and should be specifically sought out. They include a raised jugular venous pulse, an enlarged heart with a loud second heart sound and perhaps even a right heart gallop rhythm.


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The Treasury says Cat-standard mortgages are straight- forward, clear,
fair and easy to understand.
After reading the four-and- a-half pages of the Treasury's document
embodying the standard, none of these descriptions sprang readily to mind.
On account of this, it is undoubtedly going to take providers some time to
absorb and evaluate the new stand-ard but those with products that meet it
can from now on legitimately advertise their products as Cat-standard.
The final version confirms the Government's intention to make the standard
as inclusive as possible by covering an expanded range of both capital
repayment and interest-only mortgages, new and existing borrowers and by
deciding borrowers would not have to borrow more than £10,000 to qualify
for a Cat-standard mortgage.
The final standard differs from the draft issued in January by extending
the types of mortgages covered to include discounted and cashback loans.
These represent around one-third of all mortgage business written and it
would have been perverse to exclude them from the Cat- standard domain.
The final draft divides mortgages into two groups – variable rate and
fixed or capped rate. Within these two groups, there are conditions
relating to charges, access and terms. For charges, there are some common
conditions and some specific to each mortgage type. For access and terms,
all conditions are common.
As far as the common conditions for the two mortgage types are concerned,
under the charges heading, the final standard clarifies the payment of fees
by borrowers to brokers by specifically banning them. It also states the
timing for crediting all payments in a slightly different way.
All payments must be credited in full when they are cleared through the
banking system, with interest adjus-ted accordingly. This means the final
repayment to close a Cat-standard mortgage cannot include interest for any
period after the date of the finalpayment.
Where access is concerned, the only change is that borrowers should not
have to borrow more than £10,000 to qualify for a Cat-standard mortgage.
Under the terms section, the standard now stipulates that lenders need to
give borrowers at least three months' notice of any upward variation in
fees or other terms not to the borrowers' advantage other than changes in
interest rates.
Whereas the draft standard said that borrowers in arrears equivalent to up
to three months' repayments should pay only standard interest charges on
the outstanding debt, the final standard extends this period indefinitely.
In general terms, the main areas in which providers will have to adjust
their practices in order to meet the standards principally relate to the
calculation of interest, the timing of the crediting of payments, including
lump-sum payments, defining any outstanding redemption liabilities in cash
terms and areas of portability.
The first three confirm and to some extent tighten the draft standards,
the requirement of portability has several aspects which indicate a
loosening of the rules.
Portability is generally thought of as being able to continue a mortgage
when moving from one property to another. The final standard int- roduces a
number of clarifications to the original borrower's entitlement to continue
the loan, provided that the lender is prepared to lend on the new property.
The lender should let aborrower continue with an existing mortgage if the
new property is acceptable as security and the borrower remains
Providers would be well within their rights to limit the sizes of new
mortgage offers to those of the original Cat loans or to offer new
mortgages only at different rates.
This and other clarifications to the recommendations suggest that, whereas
portability is an important condition within the Cat standard, it has been
framed so loosely that it carries no real weight.
The standard also makes existing borrowers eligible as new borrowers for
Cat-standard products without incurring penalties. At present, the mortgage
market caters principally for new borrowers.
In issuing the final version of the standards, the Government has put the
seal on its policy of altering the culture of yet another area of personal
Already, concerns over the potential negative impact of the Cat standards
are being voiced. Providers may decide to attach higher interest rates to
Cat mortgages in order to "pay" for Cat requirements such as daily
calculation of interest.
Consumers could be encouraged to go for Cat-standard loans but have to
suffer higher interest rates for a refinement that is never likely to be
used. In the same way, since brokers are unable to charge fees for
recommending Cat mortgages, they could be reluctant to do this even though
it may be in consumers' best interests.
A further concern relates to the potential knock-on effect on savings
rates of mortgage providers having to offer the same Cat-standard deal to
existing customers. New customers get the best terms. Forcing providers to
offer similar terms to existing customers to meet Cat standards will
obviously need to be funded.
This could encourage providers to reduce savings rates to maintain their
operating margins.
In setting out to define a set of mortgage attributes that are in
consumers' interests, the Government may have stipulated conditions that
the ind-ustry may not rush to meet.
The Government also did not take the opportunity to introduce its own view
of prudent lending by not set-ting limits on the loan to value ratios or on
borrowers' inc-ome multiples.
It has left these up to the lender in the same way it has left regulation
to them rather than to the mortgage advisers in the field.
Cat claws at margins
The Treasury says Cat-standard mortgages are straight- forward, clear,


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It's been a year since Canada lost singer/songwriter, musician, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen.
His music still lives on.
With that, I decided to choose my favorite 10 songs.
While compiling this list, I was struggling off if I should include Hallelujah on the list.
After asking people online, the consensus was to include it.
- First We Take Manhattan
- Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
- Suzanne
- Dance Me To End of Love
- One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
- Hallelujah
- So Long Marianne
- Closing Time
- Treaty
- Stories of the Street


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I recently came down with tracheitis, a nasty bacterial inflammation of my trachea. While the majority of my time was spent in bed with a fever and death cough, I accidentally managed to have a lovely sick day. My doctor's appointment wasn't until the late afternoon, and it wasn't long before I was bored. I decided to [ ... ]Read More


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Replying today to AUGB's open letter to President Yanukovych, the Foreign Office has set out what the UK Government presently believes is most important for their relationship with Ukraine. The letter says that the rebalancing of relations with Russia has come as no surprise, but that the UK places the greatest priority on three factors:
(i) the delivery of reforms necessary for deeper integration into the EU, including conclusion of a substantive EU-Ukraine Association Agreement
(ii) building on the progress made over recent years on democracy, human rights and media freedoms and
(iii) resumption of co-operation with the IMF.
The Foreign Office welcomes President Yanukovych's statements of commitment to all of these objectives and looks forward to their delivery. The UK and EU have stressed the importance of these issues in contacts with the new administration in Ukraine and will continue to do so, as well as offering support.
It is not unexpected that the UK Government has a different perspective from the Ukrainian community on the threats to Ukraine's sovereignty, but it is clear that there is still significant impetus to tie Ukraine more closely to the EU. If President Yanukovych drags his heels in delivering his commitment to EU integration, that may well change the view of European governments. Similarly, it is clear that the UK and other Governments will be looking for further progress on democracy, human rights and media freedoms. For the moment, the UK and other EU Governments are trusting President Yanukovych to deliver his promises.
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Alice Glass & Zola Jesus played Music Hall of Williamsburg (pics, video)
Alice Glass and Zola Jesus wrapped up the North American leg of their joint SnowBlood Tour in Brooklyn on Sunday (5/13). After an opening set from Pictureplane, Zola Jesus took the stage with longtime collaborator Alex DeGroot on guitar and Louise Woodward on viola. They focused on material from their 2017 album Okovi, including "Witness," which Nika Roza Danilova said is about her uncle's suicide attempts.
Alice Glass closed out the night, playing her first NYC show since her opening set for Marilyn Manson last year. Joined by a drummer and former HEALTH member Jupiter Keyes, who also worked with her on her self-titled 2017 EP, she played many of those songs, along with a few Crystal Castles songs during her short but energetic set that had the crowd jumping. Check out pictures from the whole night in the gallery above, and some fan-taken video clips below.
Alice has another NYC show this week, at Public Arts on Thursday (5/17), and tickets are still available. Pictureplane also opens this one (but Zola Jesus had to drop off).
Zola Jesus plays some upcoming festivals, including Pitchfork, Boston Calling, and Upstream.


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This is to inform all the old students and students seeking new admissions in Jampel HSS, that the school will be reopening only from 15th of February, 2019 instead of 10th February posted earlier.
Reporting date for all boarding students is on 15th February 2019.
Dear Students,
If you wish to study in Jampel HSS, Haa, one of the BEST private schools in Bhutan (ranked 2nd amongst private schools by Education Monitoring Division, Thimphu ), you may visit the school campus from 9th February for admission. The school offers SCIENCE, COMMERCE and ARTS.
For details, please contact:
Principal @ 77285580 / 17475363
Proprietor @ 17111478 / 77111478
Admissions Open for 2019
Study in one of the BEST private schools in Bhutan with an EXCELLENT set of Teachers. Admissions open for classes IX to XII. The school offers Arts, Commerce, and Science.
Please contact the following numbers for the details
1. Principal @ 975-77285580 / 17475363
2. Proprietor @ 17111478 / 77111478
Reporting dates:
- Boarders report on 10th February (Sunday evening).
- Dayscholars report on 11th February (Monday morning) for assembly.
Requirements for BOARDING STUDENTS
School dress will be available in school canteen.The boarding students should bring the following necessary item:
- Mattress
- Quilt
- Blanket
- Bed sheet
- Blue bed cover
- Casual track suits
- Kabney / Rachu
- Bucket and jug
- Games and sports shoes
- Plates and mugs
Welcome to Jampel HSS
A school deeply committed to the mission of challenging and inspiring each student to achieve their dreams and to become a passionate learner to adapt and contribute to our rapidly changing country Bhutan. The school, founded in 2013, enters the fifth year of operation on the beautiful purpose-built campus at Haa under Bjee geog, 9km from Haa town.
The school continuously strives to give its students the quality education with its set of experienced and qualified teacher dedicated and focused for students learning and safety. This is why the school made its student take the 2nd position in BHSEC, 2015 examination.


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Evolving international academic systems have motivated The Anderson School of Management at UCLA to change their requirements for international applicants. According to a post on their MBA Insider Blog, Anderson will now consider applicants with three-year undergraduate degrees. The school will also admit some international applicants without TOEFL or IELTS scores. The changes come in the midst of an increase in applications to American business schools from students outside of the United States.
According to recent data from the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), international applicants comprised 53% of applicants to full-time MBA programs last year. So far in 2011, 46% of b-schools have reported a rise in international applications. About 1/3 of this year's incoming class at Anderson is made up of international students.
However, a 2009 study from GMAC –which owns and administers the GMAT- showed that the proportion of GMAT test scores sent by international students to programs in the United States has declined from 75% in 2000 to 42% in 2011. This larger trend is surely one reason why Anderson is aligning itself with the academic systems of other countries, particularly big feeders to American business schools like India and Singapore.
While the standard for admission to Anderson remains a four-year degree or its equivalent, the program will now use its discretion to admit candidates with three-year undergraduate degrees (like the new European standard) if their overall academic profile and application are strong.
The post stressed that a TOEFL or IELTS score remains "the best way for international applicants to ensure competitiveness in our evaluation process." However Anderson will allow for some exceptions if students were schooled in English. "Our standard for English fluency still requires a TOEFL or IELTS score from all applicants who were not educated in English. But we will consider applications from those without TOEFL or IELTS scores if the candidate earned a degree where the sole language of instruction was English," the blog read. Anderson will, however, look at other indicators like other verbal scores and essays, "to ensure total fluency within the incoming class."
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Here is Dress Detail For Black Heavy Formal Party Wear Pishwas Churidar
Dress Detail:-
Top: Black pure chiffon anarkali dress having embroidered neckline. Embellished motif implemented on empire waist and before side slits. Embroidered border implemented on hemline. Large motifs implemented before hemline.
Bottom: Black pure grip churidar pajama. fully elastic.
Dupatta: Black pure chiffon dupatta having small embroidered motifs scattered all over the dupatta. finished with silver balls.
Embellishment work includes: silver kora, stones, dabka, sequins and tilla work.


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Large Persia Earrings
Large Persia Earrings
Inspired by Iranian art and design, this collection features elegant strands and intricate designs; creating classic, feminine pieces to be worn everyday.
These statement earrings have been cast from a master; handcrafted and finished by myself. Long, elegant and flattering, these make the perfect boho accessory.
-Handmade item
-Sterling silver
-31mm x 28mm
-35mm drop
About the collection:
Lotus flower like charms and mandala style creations are the 2 main features of the Persia Collection; Iran, a country whose architecture, design and culture I've found fantastically beautiful and drawn inspiration from.


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In today's world, employees demand around-the-clock access to their email accounts from any device. That's why solutions like VMWare's Airwatch are so important. But when Airwatch fails, an organization's entire email system can falter, crushing productivity and communication.
The modern business workforce has been untethered from the physical office, with employees now able to run free, making deals and managing accounts from planes, trains and automobiles, not to mention their own homes. This freedom is, in part, thanks to software like VMWare's Airwatch, which ensures that no matter what device data winds up on, those endpoints are connected and in-synch.
This puts extra pressure on IT departments, who are now tasked with not simply problem-solving normal glitches and providing in-house security, but must also watch over a wide range of endpoints, some company-issued and others BYOD. Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), which keeps different endpoints synched up, even if they're offline, is just one of the many programs that must be monitored.
Some problems can arise if MSMQ isn't working as it should: including expired certificates, network problems preventing endpoints from being reached, MSMQ queues not processing messages, general issues with databases and the system as a whole.
Which raises the question, what is monitoring the monitors?
GSX for AirWatch module is one solution. It keeps an eye out for all of the above dangers, and automatically notifies administrators and IT when any problem is spotted, and does so before end-users are even aware something has gone wrong.
Checking MSMQ health via GSX for AirWatch is as simple as a pull-down menu. If the system is functioning as it should, the MSMQ queue will be zero, meaning that all messages are being processed without any delay. If the queue is ever more than zero, alerts go out instantaneously, thanks to real-time monitoring. GSX provides all of the critical information needed to administrators so they can quickly solve the problem, preventing any slow-downs or outages.
GSX for AirWatch's key features include:
- Testing end-user experience in real-time from multiple locations;
- Diagnosing network and connectivity latency;
- Monitoring AirWatch and email systems, such as Microsoft Office 365, or any other on-premises email servers, like Exchange or Domino;
- A single dashboard for instant troubleshooting and able to pinpoint email delivery issues;
- Performing end-to-end ActiveSync scenarios.


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This is the first of a series. This cap has recently joined a close friend of mine on a spiritual journey; walking from LA to Brazil. Good luck and God bless.
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When I type www. into my browser, the first suggestion is Facebook. (They are in order of most visited :]) But right below that comes Pandora-www.pandora.com. What is Pandora? Well, it's an online "radio station". You create an account, log in, and Pandora will guide you through the rest! Basically, you type in the name of a song or artist that you like and Pandora will play you music that is similar to the song or artist. (If you want to add more artists, just click on the add variety button from the menu). That's how I discovered more songs of Jack Johnson. It's also how I discovered Adele. Her song, Chasing Pavements, almost won a Grammy. But I don't like that one so much, and it didn't even play on Pandora. Pandora plays the music of the artist that is lesser known. Instead of that song, they played a blues song by Adele which I think is better than the song that became popular. I discovered Adele by putting in Amy Winehouse, and they also played lesser known Amy Winehouse songs which are way better than Rehab, which is the song that became popular. I liked John Legend before, but I only knew a few of his songs. Pandora played him, and it inspired me to get the album out of the library, listen to it, put every single song in my itunes library, and discover that JOHN LEGEND IS AWESOME!!!!!!! (Does anybody sense a blog entry coming up……) So Pandora: 4 out of 5 stars. The only problem is that when you first start listening, they repeat some of the songs when you open the page again. But when you listen to them as often as I do, you find awesome new music every day!! To listen to my Pandora radio station, click here.
UPDATE: apparentely, you have to create an account to listen to my radio station….but that doesn't matter since after reading this you will create one anyways, right? :]


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As we are quickly approaching to the end of another year, and the beginning of a new one, I began wondering what this Mars Retrograde in Leo again happening around the Winter Solstice, which normally extends to about six weeks to an unusual length of almost eight months in Leo, means in our daily lives for the coming year. My astrology group has been discussing Saturn Retrograde and it's meaning in the natal chart and how it may show the absence of the father figure or beneficial guidance or mentoring. I began wondering what Mars Retrograde would indicate in a natal chart and as a transit to us individually, and as a collective whole. The Mars Retrograde will square my Sun, so I have decided to think more deeply on the matter, and what I can do to make it benefit me more, then it normally might have done. Thinking that Mars would react like Mercury Retrograde, but not as noticeable to the general public, I am determined to be careful and cautious of the actions of this red planet.
Mars in principle means strength of will, desire to conquer and conquest, perseverance and stamina, aggression and passion, and the ability to actualize and accomplish one's objectives. Being retrograde these actions tend to come into reality more carelessly and without forethought. With retrograde we don't need an excuse to cause problems, as we jump into action before understanding the situation. We tend to appear to be quick tempered and far too quick to act in any situation and our anger is unreasonable. Our actions may be full speed ahead, but nothing is apparently accomplished. Our nature may be normally docile and gentle, but a violent streak might appear unexpectedly. With the planets still indicating a difficult period ahead of us, we need to be vigilant with our actions and with Mercury Retrograde, the need to look with care before deciding on what actions we need to take.
Mars Retrograde in a natal chart may point towards a need to understand aggression, action and passion and how to use it, as a benefit in one's life. What we saw in our childhood, how we understood it and how we incorporate it in our thinking, is how the retrograde affects us now. Our ability to harness the Mars energy and to use it to our benefit, will determine how successful we become in this life. Mars the god of war anticipated all situations before going into battle, and in reality was using the talents of Mercury to keep ahead of his enemies. Retrograde planets in the natal may also indicate that the blessings will come later in the person's life, or that the person uses that energy in a different way.
With Mercury and Mars doing their thing, our main mantra for the coming year should be like the Fool Card in the tarot "So look before you leap". How successful we will be in the coming years will depend on our foresight, our understanding of the nature of retrograde planets and our ability to use Mar's and Mercury's energy to fulfill our convictions, hopes and desires.


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Digital is dead.
No more.
There, has that got your attention?
And this is coming from someone with "Head of Digital" in their job title less than a year ago.
I'm sadly attending a family funeral myself this morning.
The celebration of a great life.
A strong innings.
Reflections and anecdotes to bring a wee smile and warmth to hearts amidst a harsh reality that a chapter has closed.
Not dissimilar to this perspective of digital herewith.
So, what am I really saying here?
Digital of old has had its time.
In the contemporary sphere, Digital is a given.
Digital execution was commonly undertaken in isolation, rather than being part of the strategy.
It was the Emperor's new clothes.
But it needed to be connected end-to-end.
For many that was always the intention.
They just didn't know how.
Or the costs seemed inaccessible.
Or they couldn't demonstrate return on investment.
Or they couldn't attribute the benefits.
And the noise pollution of "digital first" meant few would cut digital in favour of "old school" marketing or CRM.
So, Digital set out beating an isolated path.
Building a shiny silo for itself, hived off from the rest of marketing.
And the followers missed the above and just thought it was always meant to be that way.
There have been huge Digital successes, of course.
Just think of the transformation of the gov.uk services, with its aim of creating 'digital services so good that people prefer to use them'.
A digital by default agenda, expertly delivered, with incredible transformative impact on how the population of an entire nation accesses crucial information and transacts crucial tasks.
Or the Transport For London digital redevelopment – not just a pretty facelift, but a huge shakeup of how the organisation delivers information to the millions using the transport network on a monthly basis.
The redevelopment of a responsive website from the ground up truly did move TFL - from being mere providers of information, to becoming a real-time personal travel assistant for 20 million monthly visitors.
It's undeniable - Digital initiatives can be massively successful, and have enormous effects for an organisation and for their customers.
And like all good obituaries, I do need to pay attention to the legacies:
There are some fantastic digitally native business models out there.
Drafting in key players from the likes of Amazon and Google with their digital playbooks can be a key aspect of the transformation or recovery strategy of many a long-standing, "traditional" organisation.
After all, the digital revolution has helped those who've embraced it to do so much:
- Using agile as a way of working
- Getting really focused on data & analytics
- Protecting customer information with paramount concern
- Activating the technical capability to drive the benefits
And don't get me wrong.
I'm not in denial.
For me this is a celebration of a fruitful life.
And I know there are some deep pockets still sat under "Digital" as a budget heading.
But the digital channel is circumstance rather than immutable fact, and with the pace of change and consumer evolution in the past decade it would be naïve to imagine that the channel preferences of today will prevail for evermore.
The "digital" moniker attached to [most of] these successes is erroneous.
They weren't successful just because they were digital.
It was invariably because of CRM.
Because of an understanding of customer wants, needs and aspirations.
That's the valuable content within these playbooks that are so sought after.
Today these wants, needs and aspirations extend across channels.
Customers want that end-to-end connection.
Given, for example, that the Hadoop data lake now ingests more every month than was previously produced globally in the entire past 185 years, it's evident that truly progressive businesses are on board with this line of thinking – pooling data from as many channels as possible to deliver superlative customer relationship management in a way that just wasn't possible even three years ago.
Experience First.
Primary Customer Relationships.
That's what the customer wants.
That's what will drive the commercials.
That's what will optimise the return on investment.
These are the pillars of a business model that is better equipped to stand the test of time.
In this respect, Design helped Digital greatly - when able to resist the temptation to design for the sake of it: the advancement of the usability phenomenon is increasingly to the benefit of every channel.
In many ways, "Digital" attracted the kind of lustre that's gilding "AI" today.
There's a lot of hype in the market about AI right now - but it's not new.
AI technologies such as "predictive", "adaptive" and "machine learning" have been the heart-beat of the best decision-driven CRM for some time.
So, what does all this mean?
If Digital is dead, where do we go from here?
My answer: we move on.
That which was Digital is now broader – stronger, faster and better when actually run by someone else – or at least as a cross-business collaboration.
In our work, we regularly turn around major decisioning projects in as little as 16 weeks – because we consider an organisation's channels as equal to one another at the outset until proven otherwise, rather than blindly succumbing to the draw which digital possesses elsewhere.
Contemporary Digital needs to be absorbed back into the bigger CRM picture, breaking down the silos that can plague 'digital first' organisations.
It's still important – but so are the rest of the elements that make up CRM.
Only by considering channels as a cohesive whole can we truly provide rounded solutions to customer pain-points, preferences and priorities.
Only by feeding digital data in alongside data from other channels can we even begin to approach that nirvana of marketers worldwide – the holistic customer view.
Every customer is right to expect to become better off through their engagement with a company. No matter what the business, organisation or service customers are dealing with, it's only efforts to deliver a holistic, channel-agnostic customer experience that can truly deliver this improvement for the customer in the long-term.
I stand by my contentious statement. Digital is dead. Long live CRM.
Rob Mcleod
Client Partner
Rob is Engagement Lead at Royal Bank of Scotland. He is passionate about positive customer experiences and committed to using insight to drive value and effective ROI through the marketing process. He's fanatical about driving better customer outcomes through the orchestration of data and technology. Rob has extensive cross-sector experience, including Financial Services, Travel and Tourism, FMCG and Media, with over 15 years working at the forefront of strategic communications consultancy and integrated marketing.


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Soul: Supportive.
The Cleric is the starting class for players who have chosen the Supportive soul as their core. The Cleric is the basic healer and sawbones of any team. The Cleric can use powerful heals and purifying auras to aid allies in the heat of the battle, though can also use holy attacks to ward off enemies if the Cleric becomes swamped by foes.
- Banish - Strikes an enemy for 40/60/80/100/120% of damage. Knocking them back 2 squares away and rooting them for 1 turn.
- Holy Light - Range up to 4 squares away. Heals the ally for X. (On level 3+) Decreases all damage taken by 5% for 5 turns.
- Divine Rain - 2x2 area of effect heal. Heals everyone affected by it for X.
- Smite - Range up to 3 squares away. Deals X damage. Deals 200% damage to Undead targets. (On level 3+) Makes the target bleed for 2 turns dealing additional 10% of the Smite's damage.
- (Passive) Cleanse Aura - Cures all negative status from allies 4 squares away each 5/5/4/4/3 turns.
(Active) Strikes an enemy for 40% of damage and reduces your threat level to 0.
(Passive - works every A seconds) Heals the ally for X. Decreases all damage taken by Y% for Z seconds.
(Passive - works every X seconds) Heals entire party for Y.
(Passive - works every X seconds) Deals Y damage. Deals 200% damage to Undead targets. (On level 3+) Makes the target bleed for Z seconds dealing additional 10% of the Smite's damage.
(Passive) After casting Banish, all negative status effects are cured after X seconds.
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Expect to hear Scandinavian electro, Louisiana bounce, Chicago house and an earful of other styles at Alamo – Dublin's newest gay night, this Sunday, February 28th, in Wigwam.
DJs Will St Leger and Tara Stewart will provide a few tunes on the night. Will is one half of Dublin-based electro duo Faune and he'll be playing the basement from 12:30 a.m onwards. A well known figure on the Dublin music scene, he also has his own show on Phantom 105.2 FM called 'The Weekender'. He is also an activist/artist and the man behind the Walls Of Equality street art.
Tara Stewart is another well known DJ with her own show on RTE 2XM – POPTARTS, which airs on Thursday nights from 7-9 p.m.
Doors burst open at 10:30 p.m and tickets are €5.


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Captaincy of Bahia
The Captaincy of Bahia, fully the Captaincy of the Bay of All Saints (Modern Portuguese: Capitania da Baía de Todos os Santos), was a captaincy of Portuguese Brazil.
Donatary CaptaincyEdit
King João III of Portugal bestowed the donatary captaincy on Francisco Pereira Coutinho on 5 March 1534[1] as a reward for his service at Goa.[2] The initial grant was notionally for 50 leagues of coastline around the Bay of All Saints,[1] from the mouth of the Rio São Francisco to the Rio Jaguariçá. In practice, the early captaincies' boundaries were not respected[1] but the settlement was too small for it to matter.
Arriving in Brazil in late 1536, Pereira Coutinho and his men slept on their ships until they had completed the construction of about forty adobe homes, which he christened the village (povoado) of Pereira.[3] This was located in modern Salvador's Ladeira da Barra neighborhood and was quickly elevated into a township (vila) with a municipal council (concelho), which became known as Vila Velha ("Old Town").[4] A fortified house, the Castelo do Pereira, was also established. The settlement was assisted by "Caramuru", a Portuguese noble (fidalgo) named Diogo Álvares Correia who had lived with the Tupinambá Indians since a shipwreck in 1510.[5] He was granted a concession (sesmaria) authorizing the authority he already wielded over a native village of 300 huts and over a thousand men.[6] By 1545,[7] the colony had a sugarcane plantation with two mills (engenho,)[8] as well as smaller cotton and tobacco fields. However, mistreatment at the hands of Pereira's settlers caused the Tupinambá to turn hostile and in that year the settlement was abandoned, with the survivors fleeing to Porto Seguro. When they returned in 1547 or '48, their ship was damaged off the southern shore of Itaparica and the survivors captured by the Indians there. Caramuru was spared[5] but the captain was consumed by the Tupinambá in a cannibalistic feast.[9]
Royal CaptaincyEdit
Upon the discovery of Pereira Coutinho's death, King João immediately appropriated the captaincy from its heir Manuel Pereira Coutinho in exchange for a hereditary pension of 400,000 reals.[10] (The family was not interested in remaining in the Americas in any case.)[11] In 1549, Tomé de Sousa was dispatched to the area as a royal governor general, founding Salvador de Bahia near the ruins of Pereira with soldiers, Jesuits, nobles, and other colonists.[11] He was separately considered the administrator of the royal captaincy (Portuguese: capitania real) of Bahia.[11]
On 10 November 1556, Joao III split off the separate captaincy of Itaparica for Antonio de Ataide.[10] The concession granted to Álvaro da Costa by Governor-General Duarte da Costa on 16 January 1557 was turned into the captaincy of Paraguaçu by a royal letter of 20 November 1565.[10] In 1580, Bahia passed with the rest of Portugal into the Iberian Union, whereby it was united with Spain and ruled by its kings from Madrid. The captaincy of Sergipe, created by King Philip II of Spain in 1590, was long subordinated to the captaincy of Bahia in the manner of one of the earlier concessions. (It was not given autonomous status under a decree of João VI of Portugal on 8 July 1820.)
In 1621, King Philip III replaced the Governorate of Brazil with the states of Brazil, still based in Bahia and now controlling the south, and the Maranhão, which was centered on São Luís and controlled what is now northern Brazil. As Spain was then prosecuting a war against the independence of the Dutch, the Dutch East and West India companies tried to conquer Brazil from them. Salvador, the capital of the captaincy, was captured and sacked by a West India Company fleet under Jacob Willekens and Piet Hein on 10 May 1624 and held until the Recapture of Bahia by a Luso-Spanish fleet in May of the next year. John Maurice's two subsequent attempts to retake the town in April and May of 1838 were unsuccessful.
The captaincy of Espiritu Santo was repurchased by the crown in 1715 and administered as part of Bahia until 1809.
The captaincies of the Governorate of Brazil (1574), including that "of our Magistrate" at Bahia
Brazil between 1572 and 1578, when Salvador was the capital of the Governorate of Bahia
The captaincies of the State of Brazil in 1709
The captaincies of the Viceroyalty of Brazil in 1750
The captaincies of the Viceroyalty of Brazil in 1817
The captaincies of the Kingdom of Brazil in 1822
On 28 February 1821, Bahia was notionally made a province of the Empire of Brazil,[citation needed] although Salvador was not surrendered by Portuguese forces until July 2, 1823.
- Francisco Pereira Coutinho (1534–1548?)
- Manuel Pereira Coutinho (c. 1548)
See alsoEdit
- Other Bahias
- Captaincies of Brazil, the other divisions of the country under colonial and royal rule
- Provinces of Brazil, the divisions of the country under the Empire of Brazil
- States of Brazil, the divisions of the country under the Republic of Brazil
- ^ a b c Augeron & al. (2007), p. 25.
- ^ Augeron & al. (2007), p. 31.
- ^ Augeron & al. (2007), p. 40.
- ^ Augeron & al. (2007), p. 41.
- ^ a b Bacelar, Jonildo, "Caramuru: O patriarca da Nação Brasileira", Guia Geográfico: História da Bahia. (in Portuguese)
- ^ Augeron & al. (2007), p. 36.
- ^ Augeron & al. (2007), p. 37.
- ^ Augeron & al. (2007), p. 38.
- ^ Augeron & al. (2007), p. 44.
- ^ a b c Augeron & al. (2007), p. 50.
- ^ a b c Augeron & al. (2007), p. 45.
- Augeron, Mickaël; et al. (2007), "Creating Colonial Brazil: The First Donatary Captaincies, or the System of Private Exclusivity (1534–1549)", Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500–1750, Atlantic World, No. 11, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, pp. 21–54, ISBN 978-90-04-15676-0.


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Elephant Pepper Camp happens to be situated smack bang in the middle of prime lion habitat! Vast grasslands surround the luxury-tented camp for as far as the eye can see. Large herds of Wildebeest, Zebra, Topi and gazelle are dotted all over: plenty of food for Africa's apex predator. So much food in fact that this area houses a lion pride that last month numbered over 25 individuals!
Where there are lions so there are hyenas. And in this areas there are masses of Spotted Hyenas. Coming from South Africa, I am used to seeing small groupings of four or five individuals. Here, in the Mara, it is not uncommon to come across clans of 20 – 30 patrolling throughout the night. Of course, here at Elephant Pepper Camp, you are allowed to go out after dark for a night-drive, and night is when hyenas and lions tend to get very exciting.
Even if not out in the jeep, even if just in your tent, you get to witness this excitement first hand. The thin canvas walls of your tent allow the incredible sounds of the nighttime to reward your ears. There is absolutely nothing like lying in bed listening to the roar of a lion, the whoop of a hyena, or better still, the two gladiators in the middle of a disagreement!
It happens most nights…
Written and photographed by Adam Bannister


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Oil pulling is one of Ayurveda's most ancient forms of detoxification for not only the teeth but the entire system.
It is a great way to achieve better digestion, healthier skin and to cleanse toxin's out of your body. In this holistic ancient medicinal approach, there is a term my teacher often uses, " more wants more".
In terms of cleansing the mouth, why put something acidic in your mouth in the morning or evening when the mouth is usually trying to eliminate acidity? Toxins often taste acidic?
Acidity in the mouth comes from a P.H. unbalance in the system. In other words, more acidity with more acidity will not help cleanse the mouth. This will usually even damage the teeth by burning the enamelled protection layer of your teeth.
There are different types of toxins and you can easily determine this by looking at your tongue in the morning. In Ayurveda the best time of day to practice oil pulling is in the morning. Toxins surface on the tongue after a night of rejuvenation. This is the most effective time of day to practice oil pulling.
It can also be practiced in the evening or any time of day. Make sure to buy good quality organic oils to receive the full benefits.
"How Does Oil Pulling Work?
Sesame oil, coconut oil all have benefits. Sesame and coconut oils herbalized with are used in Ayurveda regularly to detoxify or "pull" toxins from the skin that they are applied to. The theory is the oils are lipophilic, meaning they attract other oils. The fatty layers in our skin are well-known dumping grounds for fat-soluble toxins.
Some of the fat-soluble toxins that we are regularly exposed to are:
o heavy metals
o parasites
o pesticides
o preservatives
o additives
o hormones
o environmental toxins
When applied to the skin, these oils may attract toxic fat molecules to the surface, cleansing them through the body's largest detox organ: the skin." ( lifespa.com- The truth about oil pulling)
I practice this in the morning when surfacing toxins are released from the tongue for 15-20 mins. Finish by scrapping your tongue. A free tongue scrapper will be a small teaspoon that you must wash a disinfect after each use. After you finish oil pulling, I highly recommend you scrape the leftover oil and toxins off your tongue and you might just discover a beautiful pink tongue! To save time in your busy schedule you may want to practice oil pulling in the shower. 🙂
By practicing oil pulling you can eradicate symptoms according to the colour of your toxins
Symptoms related to the colour of your toxins
Brown tongue coating on the tongue-Sesame oil
- Bad breath
- Sensitivity to cold drinks, stains on the teeth, febrile teeth
- Abdominal pain, distention, gas and constipation
- Nervousness, anxiety, fatigue, dullness
Yellow coating on the tongue-Coconut oil
- Bitter our sour taste in the mouth
- Bad breath
- Little thirst, loss of appetite
- Sensitivity to warm drinks, and external heat
- Anger, irritability, impatience, fatigue, dullness
- Acid reflux, sensitive skin, prone to external and internal inflammation including the gums
White coating on the tongue-Sunflower oil
- Salty, sour taste in the mouth
- Throat and sinus congestion
- Congested chest, the chest may feel tight and painful
- Pasty rich saliva, nausea
- Mucous in the urine and the stool
- Lethargic, depression, attachment, difficulty letting go ( emotion's, objects, idea's)
Start today for brighter and whiter teeth, beautiful skin, a pleasant breath. It can slowly eliminate stains from the teeth. Oil pulling even gives healthier hair, healthier gums and a lustre to the eyes! Coconut and almond oil can be used on all 3 types of toxins but the one recommended is the best.
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TBILISI, August 12 – International efforts to mediate an end to the conflict between Georgia and Russia were set to intensify Tuesday, but Moscow signalled it opposes a peace plan calling for an immediate truce.,
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency, was due in Moscow to hold talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on a plan to end the conflict.
But Russia's ambassador to the UN on Monday rejected the proposed Western draft resolution in the Security Council based on a three-point French peace plan.
"I cannot see us accepting this French draft," Vitaly Churkin told reporters, referring to a French-drafted text agreed by Western ambassadors.
The plan, which Tbilisi has accepted, calls for an immediate truce, respect for Georgia's territorial integrity and a return to the status quo that prevailed before Georgian troops punched into South Ossetia last week to wrest control from Moscow-backed separatists.
Churkin objected to the fact that the draft resolution did not refer to "Georgian aggression and to the atrocities we have seen."
Moscow has accused Georgian forces of killing 2,000 civilians as well as Russian peacekeepers in what it described as war crimes.
Churkin however expressed hope that an acceptable draft would eventually be worked out and listed two Russian conditions: Georgian forces must pull out of South Ossetia and "the Georgians (must) agree to sign agreements on the non-use of force with the Ossetians and with the Abkhazians."
Earlier on Monday Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov dismissed the EU efforts.
A "ceasefire agreement is signed by two sides when they meet," he told CNN television, adding that Georgia must reach accords first with South Ossetia and Abkhazia, another breakaway region, which has rejected talks with Georgia's current leaders.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, who currently heads up the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, were also to push the peace plan in Moscow on Tuesday.
Sarkozy was also expected to travel to Tbilisi later Tuesday to meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Russia's Vesti-24 television channel reported intense gunfire in the heights of the Kodori Gorge and bombardment of the area by Abkhaz warplanes.
Russian forces pushed further into Georgia on Monday, moving briefly into the western city of Senaki, destroying a military base, Russian and Georgian officials said.
Georgia initially claimed Russian soldiers had occupied Gori, a key city linking the western and eastern parts of the country, but officials later said Russian troops were stationed nearby.
The UN refugee agency said that 80 percent of the 50,000 population of Gori had fled because of Russian attacks.
Russian forces also entered Georgia's Black Sea port of Poti on Monday, Georgian and Russian officials said, but Moscow described it as a reconnaissance mission.
Saakashvili said in an address to the nation that "the majority of Georgia's territory is occupied."
Georgian armed forces were moved back to Mtskheta, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) from Tbilisi to defend the capital.
In a phone interview with CNN later Saakashvili said Russia was menacing the capital Tbilisi but vowed: "Georgia will never surrender."
The "Georgian people will never surrender freedom and democracy, because democracy is stronger than any of their tanks, any of their bombings, any of their brutal equipment."
Meanwhile, the South Ossetian separatist government said Georgia had resumed an artillery bombardment of its capital, Tskhinvali, where residents reported many deaths.
A Russian military spokesman said 9,000 troops and more than 350 armoured vehicles would be deployed inside of Abhkazia.
Russia's military acknowledged it had lost 18 soldiers and four planes in the conflict but gave no details of its latest operations. It has said 2,000 people have been killed in South Ossetia, a figure Georgia disputes.
There were growing international calls for a halt to the fighting which has left hundreds reported dead and driven tens of thousands out of their homes.
US President Bush, Georgia's staunchest ally, on Monday urged Russia to accept the French-EU peace plan.
"Russia's government must respect Georgia's territorial integrity and sovereignty. The Russian government must reverse the course it appears to be on and accept this peace agreement as a first step toward resolving this conflict," he said following a crisis meeting with his national security team.
In his sharpest-yet condemnation of the violence, Bush called Russia's actions "unacceptable".
"Russia has invaded a sovereign neighboring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people. Such an action is unacceptable in the 21st century," said Bush.
An extraordinary Russia-NATO council meeting was set to be held in Brussels on Tuesday at Moscow's request to discuss the conflict, according to an Alliance spokeswoman.
Russia's ambassador to NATO insisted on the meeting after Georgia announced that its Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili was scheduled to attend a meeting of NATO's North Atlantic Council in Brussels on Tuesday.
"A war is underway and our colleagues need to listen before consulting with their capitals and making decisions. They need to listen to each party," Rogozin said.


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Stratigraphic Analysis of Rocks Exposed in the Wachusett-Marlborough Tunnel, East-Central Massachusetts
James W. Skehan, A. Adel Abu-Moustafa, 1976. "Stratigraphic Analysis of Rocks Exposed in the Wachusett-Marlborough Tunnel, East-Central Massachusetts", Contributions to the Stratigraphy of New England, Lincoln R. Page
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An unusually complete section of several important Paleozoic(?) formations was exposed in the 12,806-m-long Wachusett-Marlborough Tunnel in the Clinton, Shrewsbury, and Marlboro quadrangles of east-central Massachusetts. The Marlboro Formation, the stratigraphically lowest formation cut by the tunnel, is at least 2,705-m-thick and has been divided into 31 members composed of distinctive sequences of eight lithologic types or facies referred to herein as lithologic units. Several of these units have recognizable subdivisions.
The overlying Nashoba Formation, at least 3,740 m thick, has been divided into 30 members composed of distinctive sequences of seven of the same eight lithologic units that form the members of the Marlboro Formation. Some of the lithologic unit subdivisions that are recognized in the Marlboro also occur in the Nashoba, but others do not. Additional lithologic unit subdivisions are found only in the Nashoba.
The layered rocks above the Nashoba Formation are divided into 15 unnamed formations or members composed of distinctive sequences of 12 lithologic units. Five of these lithologic units are recognized in the Nashoba and Marlboro Formations, but the other seven lithologic units are restricted to the unnamed formations or members.
Of the total measured stratigraphic thickness of 7,834 m, the Marlboro Formation makes up 34.5 percent; the Nashoba Formation, 47.7 percent; and the unnamed formations or members, 17.7 percent.
The northwestern part of the stratigraphic succession is in the chlorite and biotite zones of metamorphism, whereas the remainder of the succession ranges from the sillimanite-potassium feldspar to garnet zones or their mafic rock equivalents.
The originally sedimentary and volcanic section has been thickened by the intrusion of 2,521 m of igneous rocks. Three plutonic bodies (the Ayer Granodiorite, the Rattlesnake Hill muscovite granite, and the Andover Granite), having a total thickness of 1,422 m measured normal to the enclosing strata, account for 56 percent of the thickening.
The Marlboro Formation has been thickened 14.1 percent (444 m) by intrusive rocks; the Nashoba Formation, 17.9 percent (816 m); and the unnamed formations or members, 47.6 percent (1,260 m). The Andover Granite cut by the tunnel is intruded near the transitional boundary of the Nashoba with the Marlboro Formation and encloses rocks of Nashoba affinities. The unnamed formations have been thickened chiefly as a result of the intrusion of the Ayer Granodiorite and the Rattlesnake Hill muscovite granite plutons. Eighteen members of the unnamed formations or members compose a section 956 m thick which is devoid of intrusive rocks.
The protoliths of the layered rocks in the Wachusett-Marlborough Tunnel section were a succession of sedimentary and volcanic accumulations formed in environments that ranged from pelagic to shallow marine to subaerial. The protoliths of the Marlboro Formation were dominantly basaltic pyroclastic rocks and lava flows with interlayered quartz-rich and calcium carbonate-rich sedimentary rocks and limestone. The protoliths of the coticule (a garnet-quartz rock) and epicule (an epidote- and (or) hornblende-quartz rock) and quartzite, closely associated with calc-silicate rocks and amphibolite, were probably manganese-, iron-, and aluminum-rich sandstone or chert. These sedimentary rocks had well-developed beds that had been deposited as part of a volcanic sequence probably in a pelagic to shallow marine environment. The protoliths of the Nashoba Formation were probably predominantly sedimentary rocks whose clastic particles were derived from the weathering and erosion of volcanic rocks, including ultramafic and mafic to felsic flows, pyroclastic rocks, sandstone, limestone, and sandy lime mudstone. The Nashoba Formation is also made up in part of rocks whose protoliths were the same as those of the most common rocks of the Marlboro Formation.
The protoliths of the lower unnamed formations and members were probably fine-grained strandline deposits that graded upward into interbedded quartz-rich shale and high aluminum, sulfide-rich euxinic shale that formed offshore in an enclosed, noncirculating basin. These sedimentary rocks graded upward into a mixture of sandy lime mudstone, shaly sandstone, and volcanogenic sedimentary rocks, which were succeeded by more interbedded sandy lime mudstone and sandstone. These were overlain by a unique hornblende-actinolite ultramafic, pyroclastic volcanic rock, which was in turn succeeded by a thin, felsic, volcanogenic sequence.
The northwestward-dipping stratigraphic section is folded and cut by numerous faults. The axial planes of the folds commonly are overturned to the southeast; this suggests that the upper beds have been transported eastward relative to the strata below. Although premetamorphic faults are present, the dominant faults are postmetamorphic, northwestward-dipping thrust and reverse faults. Northeast-ward-striking, steeply dipping normal faults, mostly formed later than the thrust faults, are cut by northwestward-striking faults and by faults of other orientations as well; these are typically marked by quartz, calcite, and barite veins.


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Over the years many people have asked us: Should I get my Carpets Cleaned in the Winter? Some reason that perhaps it's too cold or that the weather is not conducive to Carpet Cleaning.
Actually, the answer is quite simple: Winter is a great time to get your Carpets Cleaned! Especially, if you live in a northern climate. Why you ask? Winter here in Wisconsin can be pretty intimidating. With the cold weather usually most of us are running our furnaces and fireplaces. Under these frigid conditions usually our homes are quite dry when the heat is running. Dry air means much quicker evaporation which in turn means much faster drying and Great Carpet Cleaning Results!
The more important question to ask yourself is: Should I get my Carpets Cleaned before the guests arrive at my home OR do I wait until the parties are over and clean everything up then?!