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12 homemade masa flour tortillas or store-bought tortillas
4 eggs, beaten
1 tablespoon sea salt
500 g panko breadcrumbs
150 g sesame seeds
sunflower oil, for deep-frying
2 cups plain flour
1 tablespoon chilli powder
1 tablespoon ground cumin
500 g boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into 2 cm pieces
1 whole cos lettuce, cut into 8 wedges
squeeze of lime
pinch of salt
1 small avocado, cut into wedges
Zesty crema
250 ml low-fat sour cream
juice of 2 lemons
zest and juice of 2 limes
pinch of salt
Preheat the oven to 180°C.
To prepare the chicken, add the beaten egg and salt to a shallow bowl and mix well. Add the breadcrumbs and sesame seeds to a separate shallow bowl and mix.
Half-fill a large heavy-based saucepan or deep-fryer with oil, set over medium heat and heat the oil to 180°C.
Combine the flour and spices in a plastic food bag, then add the chicken pieces, seal to close and shake together well to coat. Remove the coated chicken pieces from the bag and add them first to the beaten egg and then the breadcrumbs and sesame seed mixture. Fry the chicken pieces in batches for four minutes until golden and crispy. Remove using a slotted spoon or tongs and place on paper towel to drain, then transfer to the oven to keep warm.
Heat a medium non-stick frying pan over high heat. Lightly spray with oil and briefly fry the tortillas to warm them. Stack the tortillas, wrap them in a warm damp tea towel and set aside to keep warm.
Combine the salad ingredients in a bowl and toss together.
To make the crema, mix together the ingredients in a bowl.
To serve, transfer the warm tortillas onto taco stands or plates and top with a little of the salad, a few pieces of crispy chicken and spoonfuls of the zesty crema. Serve.
The chicken can be grilled with the same seasoning minus the breadcrumbs but won't be as crispy. Dial up the flavours with some new salsas each time you prepare these tacos – I like a spicy peanut and sesame salsa or tomatillo verde – while if you really adore chilli, top it off with some fried dried arbol chilli pieces.
This is an edited extract from Taqueria by Paul Wilson, published by Hardie Grant Books and available in stores nationally. Photographer: © Chris Middleton.


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5 January 2016 Edition
The murder of Seamus Ludlow
40 years of collusion, conspiracy and cover-up
Seamus Ludlow's body was found dumped in a ditch 100 yards from his home. He had been shot three times at close range – he had also been stabbed several times
ON SATURDAY 2 MAY 1976, 47-year-old forestry worker Seamus Ludlow had finished for the day at a timber yard in Ravensdale, County Louth, and went out to enjoy a drink and a few games of darts and rings with friends in Dundalk.
Described by locals as "a very kind man", the bachelor was known for his fund-raising work on behalf of various charities.
Leaving the Lisdoo Arms pub at about 11:30pm, Seamus decided to hitch a lift on the Newry Road back towards his home in Thistle Cross, Mountpleasant, where he lived with his sister's family and elderly mother. Sometime around midnight, a car stopped to give Seamus a lift. He was never seen alive again.
His body was found by tourists the following afternoon, dumped in a ditch 100 yards from his home. He had been shot three times at close range. He had also been stabbed several times.
Gardaí began to focus their investigation on the IRA as being suspected of the killing.
On Monday 3 May, however, the IRA's South Armagh Brigade issued a statement in which it said that "no unit or member of the IRA was involved in this foul killing", adding that it believed the British Army's SAS or one of its unionist proxies had been behind the murder.
The Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando, directed by and including serving British soldiers, had been active in the Border area and had been implicated in a spate of killings, including that of John Francis Green in County Monaghan a year previously, the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, and the Miami Showband Massacre.
Claims that Seamus's murder was the result of collusion between the British military and unionist death squads was given more credence the day after his funeral when eight SAS special forces soldiers were arrested by gardaí and Defence Forces troops on Flagstaff Road, more than half a kilometre south of the Border.
Two men in plainclothes were in the first car (fitted with false number plates) and in the boot were two submachine guns, handguns – and a dagger. Two more cars, containing another six armed SAS troopers, were stopped a few hours later.
Other items found to be in their possession included a detailed map of the north Louth area with the homes of 30 local republicans marked in pencil.
The arrest of the SAS undercover soldiers caused an international incident and sparked outrage among nationalists and those living in the Border area. The SAS troopers were taken to Dundalk Garda station, where 200 people surrounded the station, chanting "Murderers" and "Killers". The SAS soldiers were subsequently fined £100 each for taking weapons into the South without firearms certificates and released.
Initially, individual gardaí told reporters at a number of newspapers that the wounds on Seamus's body were consistent with "the use of weapons issued to operational SAS units". But, on 10 May, Gardaí issued a contradictory statement denying there was any link between the SAS and the killing of Seamus Ludlow, describing the claims as "totally without foundation". They later said they believed it to be a case of mistaken identity.
In the days after the murder, Seamus's brother-in-law Kevin – who lived just across the Border in south Armagh with Seamus's sister Kathleen – was abducted by British soldiers.
• Items found to be in the SAS men's possession included a detailed map of the north Louth area with the homes of 30 local republicans marked in pencil
The British troops, who were not accompanied by the RUC, called to the Donegan home and made offensive statements to Kathleen. They claimed they were acting under orders from the Garda and the RUC (something which was later denied).
"The man in charge said to me and my husband: 'Seamus Ludlow must be a very bad man. The IRA usually kneecap people but this time they killed him.' I said: 'It was not the IRA who killed him; you know who did it.' My husband ordered them out the gate," recalled Kathleen at the time.
Angry, Kevin cycled to the joint RUC/British Army base in Forkhill to demand an explanation. He was abducted by British soldiers, placed in a helicopter and flown to Bessbrook British Army base and then driven to Newry where he was interrogated by a British Army intelligence officer for more than three hours. The British officer was particularly interested in how the Garda investigation was progressing. The RUC also told Kevin that they had not sent the soldiers to his home.
Four weeks after the beginning of the investigation, it halted completely. Members of the Ludlow family say individual gardaí seem to have been under instructions not to talk to them. Seamus's brother Kevin says he was repeatedly told by senior Special Branch detectives that the IRA were behind the killing.
The inquest into Seamus's killing was held on 19 August 1976. It found that Seamus had been killed by a bullet wound to the heart. He had been shot at close range and his body later dumped in the ditch where it was found. Bizarrely, not one member of Seamus's family was present at the inquest as the first they heard about it was a phone call made 45 minutes before it began.
Seamus's elderly mother Annie was bedridden and died 18 months after her son's murder. The family did not have the heart to tell her that he had been murdered and she died believing her son had been knocked down walking home from the pub..
Human Rights lawyer Kevin Winters, who is representing the family, told An Phoblacht following a meeting between the Ludlow family and Sinn Féin Louth TD Gerry Adams at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dundalk:
"The family mean business in their quest for justice."
Kevin Winters says the evidence shows a "clear connection between the killers and the British military" and says the family's grief has been compounded by the authorities in the South "who haven't facilitated or helped them in the way they ought to have".
In October 1995, an investigative journalist met the family and provided them with new evidence which showed that unionists had been responsible for Seamus's murder.
They describe the treatment of Seamus's murder by the Irish authorities as "contemptuous".
"We've been messed about for 40 years," says Michael Donegan, Seamus's nephew, "being lied to, being lied about by the gardaí here. We were forced into a process that led us nowhere."
The family want to see recommendations from the Barron Report which called for the establishment of public tribunal of inquiry and that the Irish Government should bring the British Government before the European Court of Human Rights to force them to release files relating to collusion.
"The Barron Report has been shelved and we are no further on then we were 20 years ago," says Michael. "We want to get to the truth of what happened and we want to see people who made decisions exposed. There is no great demand among the authorities in Dublin to identify who issued the instructions for lies to be told, for the cover-up, for the failure to bring my family to the first inquest in August 1976, or the abduction of my father by the British Army."
• Michael Donegan, nephew of Seamus Ludlow, speaks to reporters at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dundalk
The Barron Report also highlighted how gardaí had been told that four named loyalists were involved in the murder but this line of inquiry was never pursued.
"The family feels very hurt and very upset by this whole event. There is a failure of people to admit what went on," says Michael.
He says successive Governments and the Garda have totally failed them.
"We would like to see an admission from this state saying: 'Yes, we mishandled this case' and to say they are sorry for it. We want to see the files opened, files they've never allowed us to see. They've been telling us to trust them after they lied to us for 20 years.
"They've been doing nothing but trying to obstruct us. And there's been no relaxation in that attitude towards us."
Kevin Winters says the family will now look at pursuing legal avenues, North and South:
"We will have no hesitation in unpicking and examining the collusion allegations and we intend on bringing a civil case against the authorities in the North of Ireland."
Kevin says the failure to implement the recommendations from the Barron Report was a lost opportunity:
"We have a representation going to Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald querying why the various recommendations from the Barron Report were not implemented. It was a big decision that could have helped give some element of closure to the families but they didn't take it."
• The family of Seamus Ludlow with their legal team from KRW Law and Sinn Féin TD Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams told An Phoblacht after meeting the family that representatives from all parties and none should work together to get to the bottom of such cases.
"This is not a party political matter. It is the responsibility of everyone in the Oireachtas to support the Ludlow family in the time ahead and we in Sinn Féin will do all we can to fulfil our responsibilities to raise it here, in the North and internationally."
Adams says what is needed is leadership from the Irish Government, who must stand up in the interests of its own citizens and be willing to pursue all legal and political avenues open to them.
"If this Government does the right thing then it is much easier to get the British Government to do the right thing," the Louth TD says. "I've consistently made the point that if Taoiseach Enda Kenny stands up in the national interest and that of an Irish citizen then the British Government will more easily be brought to do what is required. But if the Taoiseach isn't saying it to the British Prime Minister, why would David Cameron listen to any of the rest of us?
"There's a huge onus on the Taoiseach to stand up for citizens."


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The Dutch National Prosecution Service and police launched a so called Hidden Service on the darknet today. The set up took place within the framework of 'Operation Hyperion'. This first global Darknet marketplace enforcement operation ever, was conducted 22 to 28 October.
At the beginning of the appeal in the criminal case against Mr Geert Wilders about his remark regarding 'fewer Moroccans', the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (PPS) indicated that it does not completely agree with the verdict of the The Hague District Court of December 9th, 2016. Although the PPS believes that the Court of The Hague was right in convicting Mr Wilders for group insult and incitement to discrimination on 19 March 2014, it also find that the Court should not have acquitted Mr Wilders of two other charges.
According to the PPS, Mr Wilders' remark on 12 March 2014, made at the market in Loosduinen – namely that he represented people who vote for a city with, if possible, also fewer Moroccans – does indeed constitute group insult. According to the PPS, the 'fewer Moroccans' speech on 19 March 2014 in a cafe in The Hague does not only constitute group insult and incitement to discrimination but it also means that Mr Wilders incited to hatred against Moroccans. The PPS believes that Mr Wilders should not only be held guilty for his remarkt, but also be punished. The District Court, however, chose not to impose a sentence.
Moreover, the PPS believes that Mr Wilders deserved to be sentenced for his remarks. The Court, however, did not do so.
The District Court of The Hague today convicted Yvonne Basebya to a term of imprisonment of 6 years and 8 months for the role she played in the 1990's in the Rwandan Genocide. The Netherlands National Prosecutor's Office is content with the judgment, because it makes clear that perpetrators behind the scenes do not remain unpunished.
The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) does not reconcile itself to the decision of the court of appeal in Arnhem-Leeuwarden in the case against Vereniging Martijn and will therefore lodge an appeal in cassation. On 3 April last, the court of appeal judged that contrary to the PPS's plea, the appeal of Vereniging Martijn may be allowed and that the decision of the court in Assen on 27 June 2012, must be annulled.
Today the public prosecutor in the Court of Midden-Nederland asked the court to convict a 54 year old woman, who treated people with ibogaine at her home in Kockengen. One of the offences the suspect was charged with concerns the death of a Swiss man who was treated by the suspect with ibogaine resulting in bringing and leaving him in a helpless situation. According to the prosecutor the suspect's assistant in this case, a 44 year old man from Baarn, should also be convicted to a prison sentence of several months.
International telecom provider Vimpelcom and its subsidiary Silkway Holdings BV (hereinafter referred to as Vimpelcom) have accepted a settlement offered by the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (DPPS) totaling 397,500,000 US dollars. Vimpelcom is headquarted in Amsterdam. The DPPS accuses Vimpelcom of the criminal offences bribery of government officials and inaccurate books and records. It concerns the period around the time of gaining access to the Uzbek telecom market and thereafter (from 2006 up to and including 2012).
The Hague Court of Appeals has delivered its ruling in civil proceedings brought by a 48 year-old Georgian suspect of involvement in International Crimes. It found that there were no impediments to his extradition to Georgia. With this judgment, the Court of Appeals has confirmed an earlier decision of the Minister for Security and Justice allowing the extradition of the man.
Today, the Dutch police and the Public Prosecution Service brought down an extensive encrypted communication network of Dutch and possibly foreign criminals. In Nijmegen, a 36-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of money laundering.
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The theory that recruiting great employees is highly difficult is true, but what if your firm was making the recruitment process more complex than it had to be?
Almost one out of every four decisions that a small to mid-size company will make during a recruitment process will hinder their chances at staffing competitive talent. The consequences of these actions can result in a myriad of ill-fated outcomes, ranging from higher salary costs and wasted time to losing competitive applicants altogether.
Firms that are unable to streamline the staffing process on a regular basis are probably prone to committing one or more of the following seven deadly sins of recruiting: (more…)
Hiring is like meeting a new guy or girl you like for the first time. This wonderful person walks into your office and the two of you make a perfect connection right off the bat. You like the other person's vibe, how the person looks, and he or she seems to fit all your necessary requirements. You know how many business owners and hiring managers say, "I just really like the candidate, I think he (or she) will do great!" (I am pretty sure you have all either said or heard someone say something exactly like this before.)
In relationships, it's called the infatuation stage; in hiring, I call it the hiring by gut stage. (more…)
Recruiting is full of practices that seem to last forever. Unfortunately, many practices endure for years despite the fact that they add no value to the hiring process. I call these well-established practices "sacred cows" because many lon-gtime recruiters and hiring managers vigorously defend them even though both company and academic data shows that they should be discarded.
The need to identify and then kill these sacred cows was reinforced recently by some compelling research data revealed by Google's head of HR, Laszlo Bock. For example, extensive data from Google demonstrated that five extremely common recruiting practices (brainteaser interview questions, unstructured interviews, student GPAs or test scores, and conducting more than four interviews) all had zero or minimal value for successfully predicting the on-the-job performance of candidates. But despite this hard data, practices like brainteaser interview questions will likely continue for years.
Recruiting Has a Long, Checkered History of Silliness (more…)
Consider this scenario: A talent acquisition director makes a seemingly great hire for a specialized manufacturing role. However, several weeks after the new employee starts the job, another, better — actually, amazing — candidate is referred by a colleague.
The HR professional decided to bring in the late-coming candidate for an informal interview even though a true "job opening" no longer exists. After the decision makers interview the late-coming candidate, they acknowledged that he's a perfect fit for the culture, qualified for several potential future opportunities in the firm, and a prime candidate for leadership grooming.
The talent acquisition director considers two options: (more…)
The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good. — Joe Kraus, partner, Google Ventures
Each company for which we recruit has a special set of circumstances and a unique story to tell. Large organizations like Raytheon sit and sell differently then giant fast-food places like McDonald's. Google had its own special place and unique environment in terms of hiring, and hot Cambridge-based SasS startups like Quant5 also have their own set of challenges that require thoughtful navigation if hiring is to be successful. (Define successful as hiring the people you need, when you need them, and they do the job for which they have been hired.)
Like myself, those of you out there who have hired for startups know that even though a candidate might fit the bill in terms of qualifications, they still might not be the right DNA to be the right fit.
With this in mind, lets look at 12 factors that will address the people part of the equation in terms of the recruiting: (more…)
After closing 2007, at Veterans United Home Loans, the leading dedicated provider of VA Loans, we employed a 109-person workforce, all within our centralized Columbia, Missouri location. We will will advance into 2013 with more than 1,200 employees and a 22-office nationwide presence.
As the human resources director for one of the country's fastest-growing private companies, I've had the pleasure of witnessing the highs and lows, the meltdowns and meaningful moments, and seen the best and worst in people, along with the downright bizarre.
While the previous list would make a great piece in itself, that's not what I am most passionate about. What drives me is the opportunity I've been given, which has been hiring more than 1,000 extraordinary employees in the past five years, leading to recognition from Inc. Magazine as the nation's No. 29 job creator — No. 1 in the financial and banking industry — and being listed on Fortune Magazine's Great Place to Work list as the No. 21 best medium workplace.
Results like this are not the production of a boilerplate hiring method or template that fits every company, but the collective achievement of a unit that believes in working as a team to produce a superior end result for the user.
To understand what it takes to assemble a successful entity like Veterans United, read on before you hire your next applicant. (more…)
The hiring process is tough on everyone, especially the job seeker. It's even a little bit harder on them actually, since while talent acquisition and management pros are used to dealing with the complicated ins and outs of applicant tracking systems, assessment programs, video and mobile technology and much, much, more — job seekers only have to deal with the front end of those systems when they're looking, which is not "quite" every day.
And when they do go through your hiring process, they hate it. Here are the top reasons why: (more…)
Retained and contingent search recruiters can expect to see about the same level of business in 2013 as they have in the last half of this year, according to a Dice Holdings survey.
Only about 20 percent of corporate hiring managers expect to use external recruiters to fill jobs. But 28 percent will turn to retained and contingent recruiters to fill tech positions. Those results are virtually unchanged from a similar Dice survey in May, and have remained about the same for the last two years.
The difference in tech vs. all other types of searches can be chalked up to the tightness of the tech market and corporate hiring plans. While hiring by all employers is likely to be lackluster in the first part of next year, the intense competition for tech workers that has marked the last two years will continue in 2013.
Dice Holdings, parent company of the IT specialty job site Dice.com, and others in the financial service and energy sectors, says its most recent survey of tech recruiters and hiring managers found 64 percent of them will add new tech workers next year. Compare that to a second survey of all hiring professionals, which found only 46 percent expecting to add new hires. (more…)
While hiring by all employers is likely to be lackluster in the first part of next year, the intense competition for tech workers that has marked the last two years will continue in 2013.
Dice Holdings, parent company of the IT specialty job site Dice.com, and others in the financial service and energy sectors, says its most recent survey of tech recruiters and hiring managers found that 64 percent of them will add new tech workers next year. Compare that to a second survey of hiring professionals in all sectors, which found only 46 percent expecting to add new hires.
The results of the tech-only survey does show some softening of the market. In the spring, when Dice asked this same question, 73 percent of the respondents expected to make tech hires in the last half of 2012. That tracks with the general job survey in the spring when 51 percent of hiring managers planned second-half hiring. (more…)
All of us have heard about messy terminations, and some of us have witnessed them firsthand. The most memorable are the employee who is escorted from the building, scowling at managers on the way out, or the guy who punches a hole in the conference room drywall in a fit of frustration. There's also the person who quits without confrontation or communication, packing up their things when nobody's watching, and leaving an "I Quit!" note for their supervisor.
The circumstances around other terminations are just plain awkward, and when you see the ex-employee in the grocery store, you unknowingly head to the Tampax aisle (even though you're a single guy) just to avoid the conversation.
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If a person went into coma, say, 25 years ago or in the early 90's and regained his consciousness now, would s/he been able to recognise the world as it is now. S/he would not for one simple reason: the small device called cell phone wrongly known as mobile or smart phone almost in everyone's hands. The old and the young now have a set and pick it up almost involuntarily to operate it -either to receive a call or call up someone or simply to look for message, information or starting a chat or announce presence on a social site or even have a look at a video clip. The ubiquitous electronic gadget has become all powerful, demanding singular attention.
The person out of coma would have wondered what these people around him or her were doing with the small device flashing a colourful screen. If s/he were not attentive enough, chances were that s/he would have thought people all around have gone crazy. Who they are talking to or are they practising monologues or dialogues in a play? A little more scrutiny would have brought the person to such a fabulous world that the comatose survivor might have been transfixed in a state of disbelief. On the small screen, pictures, albeit small, move and talk like they do on a TV screen. What is more, those can be controlled by the mere touch of a finger tip (as in case of game).
Those using the cell phone or smart phone are hardly aware that they are no longer taking account of the time they spend on conversation that could be shortened if not for anything else at least for the cost it would involve. Yes, people belonging to poorer sections still have on their mind the issue of the conversational cost if they make a call. But the young ones, those romancing among them in particular, go on cooing for hours. What the amount of the bill is anyone's guess. Those who do not waste a single moment to press the game button on the smart phone also are least bothered about the cost.
Sure enough, this is the handiest gadget for communication. It can save lives or serve the most useful purpose because of the advantage it has to contact the desired people instantly. The gadget also helps stay connected on a regular basis between persons across the continents or on the other side of the world. No other gadget gives people such an advantage.
Yet without running the risk of exaggeration, it can be said that the gadget is grossly abused too. People become so accustomed to using it forget how much is too much of its use, whether it is absolutely necessary to make a call. At times some people go on talking sheer nonsense on the cell phone, forgetful that long conversation is injurious to health. Experts recommend conversation for not more than two minutes at a time.
Then there is a species which shouts at the top of their voice on the gadget in a public bus or place. They are unashamed of interpolating their sentences with abusive languages. Similar is the case with one of the love birds sitting next to you in a public bus, who uses expletives or gives free reign to intimate conversation causing everyone reluctantly overhearing embarrassment.
Failure to decide on the propriety while talking exposes the lack of culture on the part of the people concerned. There is no sense of being needlessly talkative. The cell phone takes its toll unaware of its users when they become addicted to it in some form or other. Particularly those who consider themselves highly active on social sites are likely to be the worst victims. Incorrigibility is their trademark and they sell their souls to the technology devil.
So, rational use of this gadget is desirable. But rationality is a precious commodity in human exchange of ideas and thoughts. What if an app was developed to warn people in the way caution or viewers' discretion is solicited by the TV channels! Perhaps this would be of help. But this goes against business of the service providers. They are unlikely to install such an app to make their business suffer. Here the government has a role to play by making a regulation in favour of such restrictions opted by customers or guardians where the users of cell phones are underaged in particular.
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As Club Captain for 2019 I extend a warm welcome to you here at East Brighton Golf Club.
The Course nestles just above Brighton Marina overlooking the English channel and with great views east, to Newhaven and to the west, Worthing.
Founded in 1893 and laid out by the distinguished golf course architect James Braid, this superb downs course offers 18 holes of delightful but challenging golf to its members and visitors alike.
East Brighton is a members' club, run by the members for their benefit and visitors. The clubhouse has the famous "Oak Room" which may also be hired for private functions, weddings or parties.
The staff in our Pro shop, Office and Bar will always have a warm welcome to all visitors to the club. I am very honoured to be Captain at East Brighton.
I look forward to seeing you all soon.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising that U.S. consumers do not eat any romaine lettuce due to an E. coli outbreak tied to the lettuce. As of November 20, 2018, there have been 32 people infected with E. coli across 11 different states, including 13 who have been hospitalized. People in California, [….]


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Sometimes, weather patterns become obvious enough that we can make pretty accurate predictions more than a week in advance. This has happened more and more in recent years, as computer models get better and better.
Even though Thanksgiving is more than a week away, it is clear that it will be on the cold side. In fact, all of next week will be colder than normal. Some of the days will be waaaay below normal.
Here is the world famous (and world's best) European model for Thanksgiving:
The purple area covering the entire Eastern U.S. represents much below normal air overhead-at about 5000 feet. Meteorologists use this level, since it smooths out differences due to elevation and day vs. night. We can follow the warm and cold air masses clearly. Also notice the huge area of waaaaay above normal temperatures over much of Canada. This could have implications for December, as we'll see later.
Below are the Canadian map for the same time as the one above, and the main U.S. model (GFS) for a day later, since it is moving everything more slowly:
That's a lot of agreement nearly 10 days in the future. If only there was so much agreement all the time!
The bottom line: Thanksgiving Day, and all of Thanksgiving weekend, will feature well below normal temperatures. The "normal" high in Philadelphia is 53, so I would expect highs in the 40s. Some of the days could see them closer to 40. Add the wind, and it'll feel like winter.
While the idea of a colder than normal Thanksgiving week and weekend seems clear, predicting precipitation that far ahead is a different story. Sure, we have to put weather symbols on the 10-day forecast, but there is more uncertainty with timing of the rain than the general temperature outlook.
Overall, it looks like a rather dry period between next Monday and the Monday after Thanksgiving. There could be some showers as a weak front moves through, perhaps Wednesday night, but it's still in the "chance" category. The rest of the holiday weekend should be dry.
The pattern that will give us the cold Thanksgiving week and weekend is the result of a "blocking pattern" in the upper atmosphere. Here is the map for next Monday:
This is a pretty extreme pattern for late November. The red areas are above normal pressures aloft; the blues are below normal. The dark reds and blues are the most extreme.
The blue over the Eastern U.S. allows the cold air to come in. And the "block" keeps it around for a while. The red area above that-near Greenland, is part of the block. Another block, even more extreme, is in the North Pacific.
But it may not stay that way. Winds at that level of the atmosphere blow along the lines. So look at the line that goes through Philadelphia, and trace it back. That shows you where our air is coming from. And that line extends into the Pacific Ocean, NOT the Arctic, Northern Canada, or even Central Canada. This would eventually push mild air into the western half of the U.S. and Southern Canada. So, without another blocking pattern, December could start mild across much of the country. Stay tuned-it's a tricky pattern.


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India's Got Talent Season 8 Auditions Dates 2018 (IGT) Auditions, Judges/Host, Repeat Telecast Timing, Venue Details – How to IGT Season 8 Online Registration..
India's Got Talent is slated for its 8th season premiere very soon. Like every season, this year too it promises to celebrate meritocracy and unearth India's finest talents. Where there are no discriminations, no biases and only 'hunar' talent speaks. It mines talents from every corner of India and give them a platform which they deserve to showcase their mettle to the entire world.
The energy and extravagance of contestants are primarily what makes it one of the best talent reality show on Indian television. Every season, every episode, audiences witness something spectacular and extraordinary and that is the crux of this show. Founded by Sakib Zakir Ahmed, India's Got Talent is a part of global British Got Talent franchise. It is one of the most successful reality television show of Colors Television.
The auditions and online registration are about to begin shortly and you need to be on top of your talent if you want to be a part of the show. So, keep on practicing and make our jaw drop when your day comes.
Judges/ Host
Since the fourth season, the show have been judged by the gorgeous Malaika Arora Khan, director Karan Johar and actress Kirron Kher. And most likely, they will return to judge the 8th season of the show. Bharti Singh and Siddharth Shukla will host the 8th season as they have been doing for the past couple of seasons.
India's Got Talent Auditions Venue:
The India's Got Talent Season 8 auditions is open to all the participants who have the talent in any filed.
India's Got Talent Auditions 2018
Kolkata Audition
Date: Saturday, 18th August 2018
Venue: Amity University Major Arterial Road (South-East), Action Area II, Newtown, Kolkata, West Bengal 700135
Amritsar Audition
Date: Tuesday, 21st August 2018
Venue: Urban Haat Near Crystal Chowk, Amritsar, Punjab 143001.
Delhi Audition
Date: Saturday and Sunday, 25th and 26th August 2018
Venue: Delhi Technological University Shahbad Daulatpur, Main Bawana Road, New Delhi, 110042.
Lucknow Audition
Date: Wednesday, 29th August 2018
Venue: Indira Gandhi Pratishthan Vibhuti khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow ,Uttar Pradesh 226010.
Mumbai Audition
Date: Saturday and Sunday, 8th and 9th September 2018
Venue: Thakur Public School Thakur Village, Western Express Highway, Kandivali (E), Mumbai 400101.
NOTE: IGT 2018 online registration will be updated here shortly once it announced by Colors TV.
India's Got Talent Online Registration Details
The steps that you need to follow to register yourself online for the 8th season of India's Got Talent are
- You can also register yourself by calling the crew members of the show, the details of which you can find on the official website of the show. (To Register SMS IGT to 56882 Or send your audition video to firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Also, you have to fill out the online form from the official website where you have to fill personal details like name, address, age and contact information.
Telecasting/Timings Details
- Show Name: "India's Got Talent"
- Season : 8
- Telecasting Channel: Colors TV
- Genre: Entertainment
- Launch Date: December 2018
- Telecasting Days: Saturday and Sunday
- Telecasting Time: Coming Soon
- Repeat Telecast Timing : Coming Soon
India's Got Talent Season 8 Winner & Prize Money
The IGT 7th season was won by Flautist Suleiman whereas aerial dancer Manik Paul won the 6th season. The winner takes away home a huge sum of 50 lacs INR along with a car.
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In China, California governor calls for more climate action
BEIJING, China – Failure to step up action against global warming would be "disastrous," California Governor Jerry Brown warned Tuesday, June 6, as he seeks to fill the US leadership vacuum on climate change.
Brown was speaking in Beijing where he is hoping to drum up Chinese support for his state's aggressive efforts to curb emissions in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Accord.
"There are still some in powerful places who are resisting reality, who are resisting the obvious science that we know governs our lives," Brown said during a speech on the sidelines of a ministerial-level clean energy meeting.
Brown is making several public appearances in the Chinese capital as part of a week-long trip to the country.
His full-throated call to action on the environment contrasted sharply with the low-key presence of US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, who used his appearance at the conference to talk up the benefits of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) in future energy production.
"Our experience with CCUS proves that you can do the right thing for the environment and the economy too," Perry said, adding that he looked "forward to international collaboration between US and Canada, and with other countries."
The US retreat from the Paris deal struck in 2015 is seen as giving China, the world's biggest polluter, a chance to snatch the lead in the global battle against climate change.
Beijing has said it will stick with the agreement despite the US withdrawal.
During his week-long tour of China, Brown plans to sign agreements focused on clean energy and technology cooperation with local governments.
His itinerary included a meeting with President Xi Jinping on Tuesday to discuss cooperation on green development.
"The world is not doing enough," Brown said.
"We're on the road to a very negative and disastrous future unless we increase the tempo of change," he added, comparing the fight to efforts to defeat fascism during World War II.
"The threat of climate is not of the same nature as the fascist forces that were threatening the world, but in some ways it may even be more devastating."
California, which has the world's 6th-largest economy, is one of a handful of American states that have pledged to continue fighting climate change regardless of action at the federal level.
The state – which has some of the worst air pollution in the country – has dramatically slashed its climate-warming emissions in the last decade.
It has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, and to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030.
Before setting off for China, Brown pledged California would resist Trump's decision to abandon the Paris deal, describing the move as "misguided and insane." – Rappler.com


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Once there, you will love the service, the quality of fishing and the local cuisine. It is relaxing to be in one of the chalets and offered to engage, for those interested in bird watching after a busy day of fishing.
Go on an adventure
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Russell Brand's dissolute rock god Aldous Snow was one of the highlights of 2008's Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and now with an expanded role he's still pretty damned hilarious. But with the increased screen time has come a need to provide Aldous with a more rounded character, which means that instead of showing up now and then to make humping motions and glower lasciviously, he's now grappling with daddy issues, relationship woes, and a relapse into drug addiction. Now, the scenes involving Snow's issues aren't bad per se. Trouble is, they don't mesh particularly well with the funny stuff. When Stoller follows an hour or so of binge-drinking and late-night partying with scenes about Aldous learning to face up to his addiction and growing the hell up, it feels like someone laced my candy with vitamins so I wouldn't feel so bad about gorging on empty calories. I know that we're all supposed to have positive messages in our Hollywood movies, but when it comes to comedy, everything is forgivable just as long as it's funny.
That said, Get Him to the Greek does mostly deliver the laughs. It's not as consistently funny as Forgetting Sarah Marshall was, but the highs are much higher this time out. As the hapless studio flunky assigned to accompany Snow to a special concert, Jonah Hill takes what in other hands could have been a straight-man stick in the mud and makes him just as funny as Snow, albeit in a fussier sort of way. And while I wasn't quite as taken with Sean Combs' work as Hill's vulgar, manipulative boss, I enjoyed the performance all the same, along with the rest of the supporting cast. And few can touch the Apatow team when it comes to great, out-of-nowhere cameos (there are two here, neither of which I'll spoil for you). But the movie's success rests primarily in Brand's shoulders, and he delivers not only in the comedic set pieces but also in the straight scenes and even in the concert sequences. If nothing else, Brand's performance is even more committed here than in Marshall, and while I'm not sure there's much more to be done with Aldous, it's a testament to Brand's talent that he's made it this far.
Rating: 6 out of 10.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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8 myths about property investment
If you're fed up with paltry savings rates and looking for a more attractive home for your money, property is an obvious place to look. But is it the right investment for you?
We are obsessed with property. Whether it's discussing house prices, renovating our homes or buying up flats to rent, bricks and mortar play a huge role in our lives.
TV schedules are packed with programmes showcasing the benefits of transforming your home or taking steps towards becoming a buy-to-let entrepreneur.
It's also a topic on which everyone has an opinion. In fact, there are so many myths it's virtually impossible for potential investors to sort fact from fiction.
We consulted the financial gurus to investigate the most popular property myths to help you decide whether it's the right type of investment for you.
This article is part of a wider series on investing, covering all areas from stocks and shares to buy-to-let, peer-to-peer and alternative investments. Click here to view the full guide.
House prices will always rise
While many property investors who started out in the 90s will have made a fortune from the house price boom, the market looks decidedly different these days.
Indeed, they are not immune from downturns. Between September 2007 and March 2009, the average price slumped 18.7% from £190,032 to £154,452.
That represents a staggering fall of £35,580, so whether property values rise depends on when you first buy.
And as our exclusive research highlighted, prices are currently looking far less buoyant than in recent years.
Property is a low-risk investment
Kate Faulkner, founder of information portal Designs on Property, says the idea of one property market moving up or down is outdated.
"We're seeing huge numbers of micro markets in which property prices within a mile of each other can be rising, falling or staying the same," she says.
It depends on the area and the demand for property. Some places will see huge competition between buyers while others won't attract attention.
"Average prices are no use," she says.
"The only person that can tell you what's happening is a good local estate agent."
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Property should always be your first investment
For anyone under the age of 35, the expectation is to save your money until you've bought your first house. However, with interest rates so low and wages stagnating, the average age of first home buyers has risen to 30 in the UK.
Click & Invest Investment Manager Alex Neilson suggests that leaving your deposit savings in a bank for over five years, may be a good low-risk option, but it's not always the best way to grow your money.
"If you're a young professional looking to buy a property within the next three to five years or more, then investing might be your best option," says Alex.
"Saving is always more suited for short-term goals but these days, most people are building up their deposit over a number of years, so for these kinds of long-term commitments, investing offers the potential for greater returns, " Alex suggests.
You can't make money from property anymore
House prices may not be soaring as they were a few years ago but that doesn't mean to say it's a no-go area, says Kate Faulkner.
"The nice thing about property is that however bad it is you can always make money – you just need to be savvier than before and get good tax advice."
If your intention is to sell your property portfolio to fund your later life then make sure you prepare well in advance.
"Many people want to liquidate their portfolios but leave it too late to benefit from tax mitigation, such as various allowances," she adds.
What's more, Rachel Springall, spokesperson for Moneyfacts, points out that many lenders have cut buy-to-let mortgage rates in the search for new business.
"The average five-year fixed rate on buy-to-let has fallen from 3.58% to 3.04% in just 12 months for those with a 40% deposit," she adds.
What's more, data shows that the number of mortgages on offer has hit its highest level since before the financial crash a decade ago.
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Buy-to-let is the best income source
"This has been a myth for years," says Kate Faulkner.
"A good financial adviser will make you a 4% return today and you'd be lucky to make that return out of buy-to-let unless you had a house of multiple occupation and were renting out rooms."
You need to factor in the costs associated with property ownership, including general maintenance, as well as how to cover the mortgage if the property is empty.
Improving a property increases its value
This isn't necessarily the case as it will depend on the property, according to Melfyn Williams, director of Williams & Goodwin estate agents and the former chairman of the National Association of Valuers & Auctioneers.
"There's only so much you can spend on a house," he says.
"Kitchens and bathrooms do help sell a house but there's no point putting a brand new £30,000 kitchen into your average three-bedroom semi-detached home."
In the same way as improving the inside, increasing the size of properties in the hope it will increase the value is no longer guaranteed.
There will be a ceiling to how much extra it makes, particularly if you end up with the best house on an average street.
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Property is a great diversifier
It's sensible to have a broad spread of assets – such as equities, bonds and property exposure – so you aren't badly hit if one area hits a problem.
However, you need to keep a close eye on where you are invested.
It all depends on your overall investment portfolio, according to Darius McDermott, managing director of Chelsea Financial Services.
"Most people's main investment is already their home so if they're buying more property they will have a lot of exposure to one asset class," he warns.
Property is better than a pension
If you are involved at the right time, your property can soar in value and make you a lot of money.
However, if you only end up buying a property in your thirties, you're losing the chance to start benefitting from compound interest.
Alex Neilson, investment manager at Investec Click & Invest, explains compound interest as the process whereby the returns on your investment snowball, increasing in value as you gain interest on your investment over time. "
"Time is the key factor here. If you want to really benefit from compound interest it's best to start as early as possible, so if you're buying property increasingly later in life, you are effectively losing valuable time to gain interest."
Another factor is where you will live if your home is your pension, Darius McDermott points out.
"You'll have to either sell or downsize.
"It's all very well thinking of it as your pension fund but emotionally letting go of the family home can be a lot harder than many people anticipate."
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So is property still a suitable investment option for you?
People will always need somewhere to live but that doesn't naturally mean that buying a property is a sensible long-term investment in such uncertain times.
Given the costs associated with buying a new house it's worth considering a wider range of investment options before putting all your eggs in one basket.
Disclaimer: All investment carries risk and it is important you fully understand these risks and are willing to accept them. You may get back less than you invested.
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The horse ran through the thick darkness of the night, tearing into its ominous black. The piercing whistle punctured the sound of the galloping hooves.
'Too close' she thought anxiously and pleaded her horse to race faster.
'Run, Karuppa. Save me from ignominy. Run'. Just then her faithful animal cleared a thicket with hurried ease. But he landed on a marsh, skidded and fell on his side pinning the queen precariously to the ground. She gasped for air. She could not breathe. She could not move. She could not scream. All she could hear is her daughter, Vellachi's wail.
She woke up with a start, sweating and shaking.
When I heard the queen stirring in her bed I knew she had a nightmare. My charpoy was laid very close to the queen's bed that I could hear a faint moan. I got up to check on her.
'Amma, are you awake?'
She nodded as she got out of her bed and went towards the palace balcony. I quietly followed her.
'What time is it?' she asked. The full moon was in the west, approaching the end of its night journey. 'Close to dawn' I answered and noticed pearls of sweat her forehead.
'Are you worried about tomorrow?'
I thought I saw her eyes glistening in the moonlight. She rarely cried. I have been with her for a year now to know that.
When she turned to me, she tried to rein her tears.
'I am sorry', she said. 'I wish it isn't Kuiyili'.
'If it isn't my daughter, Amma, it will be another daughter of the soil who goes on this mission tomorrow and whoever goes will never return to her mother's lap.' I said.
'It is destined that a daughter has to die for the kingdom and the mother has to grieve. If it is meant to be us, then so be it'.
We stared into the vast emptiness of the night, pondering over the previous day's happenings.
Our espionage team had been tracking the movement of the British for a while now and the latest tipoff about their ammunition storage was our chance to launch a surprise attack. Though our army was head and shoulder above the British army in bravery and valour, we lacked were guns and ammunition that could inflict injury from a distance. Their storage unit was in a temple where only women were allowed. The plan was that a few guerilla warriors would enter the temple carrying innocuous looking earthen lamps. They would then sneak into the storage unit, douse one of them in ghee and oil from the lamps they were carrying and slip out. That courageous warrior would then set herself ablaze detonating the entire stock. Before the enemy could recover from it, an ambush would bludgeon the enemy to defeat. Deep South, far from their power Centre, a decisive attack would cripple the British. Throughout the day, maps were drawn, military formations were discussed and strengths and flaws were identified. All agreed that the best-laid plan's success hinged on that one person of valour, who would agree to go on this suicidal mission. The person had only one shot at getting it right. If captured, the alerted enemy's retaliation would be gruesome. Kuiyili, as the head of the guerilla warriors, volunteered to be the self-immolator.
Ah!!! Kuiyili, my daughter. My only daughter, whom I trusted, would give me grandchildren and breath life into my mundane days. My daughter whom I clung on to for strength when my husband died unexpectedly. My daughter, my child, my life's justification.
I turned away from the queen to hide my tears and walked slowly to my charpoy.
I thought of my daughter as I hummed her favourite lullaby, the song that never ceased put a toothless smile on her face.
'Sleep your sleep, my dear.
Before the world jolts you up with her worries
Sleep your sleep, my dear.'
I am Queen Velu Nachiyar's helpmate. All of 13 years old, I was called upon to be her servant, when she was born. My queen is the only daughter of the King of Ramnad and is, predictably raised to rule the kingdom. Her prowess in archery horse riding and silambattam is matched by her eloquence in French, English, and Urdu apart from all the Dravidian languages. After her marriage with the Raja of Sivaganga, I accompanied her to her marital home along with my family.
I have been her faithful servant and at times, even her guide and a mother. Today, when she gets ready to fight her first battle against the East India Company, I am sacrificing my own flesh and blood for her cause.
Eight years before in 1772, our king, Muthuvaduganathar of Sivaganga was on his way to the temple, when the army of British East India Company and Nawab of Arcot ambushed him. They had been planning to bring the kingdom of Sivaganga under the company's realm. The King was slain and the British usurped the ruling powers of Sivaganga. When the news reached her ears, Velu Naachiyar could muster to feel proud about his valiant death. But what she could not comprehend was the gore that the enemy unleashed on her subjects that went beyond the fair show of might. There were slain and mutilated bodies of women and children everywhere. Then there was no time to cry. She had a kingdom to retrieve and a daughter to save and deaths to avenge. She knew she would be their next target. She disguised herself and escaped, seeking refuge in the adjacent kingdom of Virupaachi Gopala Nayakaar.
A fierce fighter that she is, she is also an artful negotiator. During eight years of exile, she appealed for support from small fiefdoms. She sought military help from Hyder Ali of Mysore. Her dignity in the time of distress and her well-articulated Urdu so impressed the King, that he promised infantry and cavalry support. The benevolent King treated her as the Queen she is and not as a refugee.
The Queen after gathering a strong army, including the formidable guerilla women warriors, was ready to strike. A network of spies kept trickling information about our enemies.
Finally, after eight long years of licking the wound, the tigress was ready to pounce.
Tonight, my daughter will visit me to seek my blessing. I took leave of my queen earlier in the afternoon to prepare my daughter's last meal, her favourite fish curry. I will make it less spicy, for it might smart her tongue. I will make balls of rice and feed her as I did when she was a young girl.
How naughty she was then. Agile as she was, she would scale the wall and sit in the attic, teasing me to find her. To amuse her, I would search for her in the pots and pans and pretend to cry when I could not find her. Then she would jump down and hug me and wipe away my mock tears.
I am lost in these thoughts, when a soldier from our army, knocks on my door. Commander Kuiyili is still in discussion, he informs me. She will be late by a few hours. But a few hours is all that is left, I think. My eyes are glued to the door, each rustle, and creek, proving to be a disappointment to my expectant stare.
Finally, she is here. She is running late, she says and does not have time to eat. She touches my feet and ironically, I bless her with success.
What do I tell her?
Where do I start?
Do I ask her if it will hurt? Of course, it will.
As a two-year-old, she had singed her fingers once when she tried to touch a boiling cauldron. She had cried for hours.
Amma…. Amma….
Maybe she read the dilemma in my eyes or is she scared my yearning may break her will, for she immediately gets ready to take leave of me. She reaches for the door and hesitantly turns towards me for the last time. I run to her and she hugs me tight for one last time. Before I realize, she is gone, her warmth and smell, still lingering on me.
I stand there, looking at the door for a long time, not knowing what to do. Leaving the food untouched, I head towards the palace.
When I reached the premises, Anxiety hung in the air like an obnoxious smell. At the order of the Queen, I am conducted to the grand hall, where the commanders and the Queen herself are assembled, eagerly waiting for information from our messengers. I learn Kuiyili had already entered the temple in the guise of a devotee. The silence in the cavernous room is deafening. When the Queen sees me enter the room and she nods in acknowledgement. Each one of us in the room is occupied in our own thoughts, fixing their vacant gaze on the floor. We hear the approaching hooves of a sprinting horse and I can see muscles and fist clenched in apprehension. There are muffled murmurs before the messenger reached our hall. He heads towards the queen, his face barely hiding his pride while he delivers the parchment. All of us try to read the Queen's eyes as it runs over the information on the parchment.
'Victory', she says and the crowd breaks into a rapturous celebration. The crowd hails the Queen, the kingdom, and Kuiyili. The queen calms the crowd to deliver her speech before they disperse to carry on their dawn attack.
'Now that the first sword is drawn, there is no looking back. Our Kuiyili is the Phoenix. From her ashes, she will raise and kindle the fire of a thousand of us to fight for what is rightly ours. Long live her fame. Long live the Kingdom of Sivaganga' she proclaimed with fervour.
Tears stream down from my eyes. I am sure they are tears of joy and pride. The cacophony is muted to me and all I can hear is my daughter crying out for me, amma….amma…. when the fire tasted her ebony skin.
Oh Kuiyili, Won't you come back to me?
Won't you jump from above and hug me and wipe away my tears?
Kuiyili was the head of 'Udaiyaal Army', the guerilla warriors, in Queen Velu Naachiyar's regiment. After the suicide attack, the Queen valiantly won against the British, re-captured her kingdom with the help of Hyder Ali. She held Nawab of Arcot as captive and exchanged him for her kingdom and a deal that there would be no more invasion. She was crowned as the queen of the Sivaganga.
Velu Nachiyar is the first queen who revolted against the British. She went on to rule the kingdom of Sivaganga for another 10 years. She died of natural causes in the year 1790, passing on her crown to her daughter, Vellachi.
Kuiyili's mother is fictional. All other characters, dates, and incidents are true to the best of writer's knowledge.


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Hi everyone,
It's Monday-Friday! I wonder what we'll do with it. I have plans to finish a story, draw up some proposals based on a chat I had last week with an editor, do the Skype school visit, and attend the musical performance of Robert and Cindy Leger on Friday evening. It promises to be an excellent week.
I also want to write a poem inspired by this month's word: SOUR. By the way, Cory Corrado sent me a note to say I used this same word in July 2011. Thank you, dear Cory, for paying attention and keeping the record. Given how long it has been since the first time, I'm going to stick with using it this month too. Sorry about the duplication but hopefully by now we have had time to forget our original sour impressions.
So let's fan out and have a good week, everyone, or at least as good a week as you can. On your mark, get set, go!


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Ancient Arctic Forests Project
As ice melts in the Arctic regions ancient forests are uncovered that existed at the very tip of the world in Northern Canada, Greenland and Europe, right up to the North Pole millions of years ago. These forests existed before the ice age when the climate was warmer and the atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were much higher. Unfossilized wood remains have been discovered in areas of northern Canada. I'm interested in the memory of this wood, what it can tell us about the past and what we can expect as our trees move north into the future. Thanks to Dr. Joel Barker and Dr. James Bassinger, I got my hands on some of this wood to scientifically analyze and use as a stepping off point for a larger project…..seeing into the future. I am fortunate to work with brilliant thinkers on this project including: James Bassinger (geologist, University of Saskatchewan), Joel Barker (biogeochemist, Ohio State University), Anna Jacobson (anatomist, California State-Bakersfield), Bradon Pratt(ecophysiologist, California State-Bakersfield) and Maciej Zwieniecki (ecophysiologist, University of California, Davis).
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The Catholic Church continued to heap insult upon injury when it revealed its long-awaited new rules on clergy sex abuse, rules that the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said signaled a commitment to grasp the nettle with "rigor and transparency."
The church still believes in its own intrinsic holiness despite all evidence to the contrary. It thinks it's making huge concessions on the unstoppable abuse scandal when it's taking baby steps.
The casuistic document did not issue a zero-tolerance policy to defrock priests after they are found guilty of pedophilia; it did not order bishops to report every instance of abuse to the police; it did not set up sanctions on bishops who sweep abuse under the rectory rug; it did not eliminate the statute of limitations for abused children; it did not tell bishops to stop lobbying legislatures to prevent child-abuse laws from being toughened.
There is no moral awakening here. The cruelty and indecency of child abuse once more inspires tactical contrition. All the penitence of the church is grudging and reactive. Church leaders are merely as penitent as they need to be to protect the institution.Continue reading the main story
Can you imagine such a scene in the confessional?
"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I am as sorry as my job or school requires me to be."
"But my daughter, that is not true penitence. That's situational penitence."
After the Belgian police bracingly conducted raids on the church hierarchy, inspired in part by the horrifying case of a boy molested for years by his uncle, the bishop of
In a remarkable Times story recently,
"The future pope, it is now clear, was also part of a culture of nonresponsibility, denial, legalistic foot-dragging and outright obstruction. More than any top Vatican official other than John Paul, it was Cardinal Ratzinger who might have taken decisive action in the 1990s to prevent the scandal from metastasizing in country after country, growing to such proportions that it now threatens to consume his own papacy."
Stupefyingly, the new Vatican document also links raping children with ordaining women as priests, deeming both "graviora delicta," or grave offenses. Clerics who attempt to ordain women can now be defrocked.
On Beliefnet, Mark Silk, a professor of religion at
After the Vatican launched two inquisitions of American nuns, it didn't seem possible that the archconservative Il Papa and his paternalistic redoubt could get more unenlightened, but they have somehow managed it.
Letting women be priests — which should be seen as a way to help cleanse the church and move it beyond its infantilized and defensive state — is now on the list of awful sins right next to pedophilia, heresy, apostasy and schism.
Archbishop Donald Wuerl of
But if it was reserved to celibate men centuries ago simply as a way for the church to keep land, why can't it be changed? If a society makes strides in not subordinating women, why can't the church reflect that? If men prove that all-male hierarchies can get shamefully warped, why can't they embrace the normality of equality? The Vatican's insistence on male prerogative is misogynistic poppycock — enhancing American Catholics' disenchantment with Rome.
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"The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door."-Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes (WWRWW)
Motherhood has been a door for me. I learn so much from Tara...how she fully embraces each moment, delves right into whatever activity she's doing...and is full of fun and playfullness. How she surrenders to joy and expresses all of her emotions; without holding anything back. How she's always standing at the edge of wonder...unleashing magic every chance she gets. How she can grow wings out of laughter and thin air. Sounds so simple...but I have to intentionally practice that.She is my teacher and ...I am filled with deep love, humility and grace for the experience + opportunity. Motherhood has opened the door to my deeper, most authentic bare self.
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On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Regan Heath <email@example.com> wrote: > > That's pretty much exactly what I suspected was happening. I've had the same > problem myself on another occasion... out of interest is there any way to > force the file closed without flushing? No, IndexOutput has no such method. We could consider adding one... > From memory I tried everything I > could think of at the time but couldn't manage it. Best I could do was > catch and swallow the expected exception from close and carry on. I think that's the best to do w/ today's API; but, you should save the first IOE you hit, then force close the remaining files, then throw that IOE. > So, the only option for us is to upgrade the version of lucene we're using > to the current trunk? Is there no existing stable release version > containing the fix? If not, when do you estimate the next stable release > with the fix will be available? I don't think any release of Lucene will have fixed all of these cases, yet. Patches welcome :) Actually, the best fix is something Earwin created but is not yet committed (nor in a patch yet, I think), which adds a nice API for closing multiple IndexOutputs safely. Earwin, maybe you could pull out just this part of your patch and open a separate issue? Then we can fix all places in Lucene that need to close multiple IndexOutputs to use this API. Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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How We Met: Stephanie's Perspective
Several months after my move to Pittsburgh, a friend of mine asked me to look over their online profile, and it made me curious about who was online in Pittsburgh. Late one night, I haphazardly tossed together a profile and activated a free account. After just a week, I was ready to shut it all down. The constant messages from puppy-esque undergrads and "hey baby"s from gold-chain-wearing men twice my age only confirmed my decision to stay out of the dating game. That night, however, I got a message from someone called Ryan who didn't fit into either of the aforementioned undergrad or gold chain categories. He was my age, looked normal, was active in his church, and liked cats. That was a good enough start for me, so I gave him my email and said to send me a message since I was shutting everything down. That was 4th of July, and when my parents (who were visiting) asked if there were any new guys in my life, I blithely replied, "Oh, no, I'm not interested in a relationship right now." Famous last words.
Throughout our first couple of messages, I still thought it would be a fun distraction, maybe a couple of nice dates, but that was it. I didn't realize we were getting into a rhythm, nor did I realize how much I was beginning to look forward to these emails until they suddenly stopped coming. A whole 24 hours went by in complete radio silence while I fumed–I thought he liked me! It wasn't until the next morning rolled around that I realized that not only had I not gotten any emails from him, I hadn't gotten any emails from anyone. It wasn't radio silence, it was a problem with my phone which prevented it from notifying me of new messages. When I logged on to my email from my computer, there it was–a bright, shiny message that had been waiting for all along. I'd never been so happy to have a technological problem in my life.
We continued to email even more frequently, and I began to realize this wasn't as much of a toss-away fling as I thought. When the topic of U2 came up and he invited me to the concert, I suggested dinner first. That day at work, I could barely concentrate. I zipped out to change in the bathroom as soon as I could physically get away from my ringing phone, but I almost turned around several times on my way to the restaurant. What whas I doing? I didn't want a relationship! I was supposed to be practicing being on my own! I was still unsure as I waited nervously in the lobby.
All that changed, however, when Ryan walked through the door, smiled, and shook my hand. Immediately I felt something settle inside me, and it was the best first date I had ever had. We talked for hours, and not once did I feel I had to monitor what I was saying or hide any part of my personality. I was so thrilled about the whole thing that I was on the phone with my parents before I had even left the parking lot.
On the way in the U2 concert, Ryan mentioned he had tickets to another concert in March, if I was interested in going. I said we would have to see how August went first, but I was secretly flattered he was thinking so far ahead in the future. I was still nervous about making a commitment, but with each sideways look and smile, it was getting easier to imagine.
That night, as we sat entranced before the pulsing lights and anxiously tried to avoid touching elbows, knees hands, or any other body part, Bono invited a couple to dance on stage. He said that great love stories begin with U2, and it turns out he was right! And turns out it was on God's time, not mine. What a blessing.
How We Met: Ryan's Perspective
When I received a notification on OkCupid that someone had viewed my profile that day on July 3, 2011, I had no idea what was about to unfold. OkCupid is a free online dating website which I had been a part of for over a year, but never really treated seriously. I wasn't finding anything on there and was getting to the point where I was going to close my account and try other sites. Well that evening, everything changed. I viewed Stephanie's profile (though I didn't know her name yet at the time) and really liked everything that I read. We had a lot in common and shared similar core values. But something compelled me that night. Over the past weeks I had realized that my profile wasn't an accurate description of me (writing an entire profile about yourself is awkward and harder than it sounds) but I lacked any motivation to change it because I was thinking that the online dating thing just wasn't for me. Reading Stephanie's profile changed that. I re-wrote my entire profile the right way that actually reflected my personality and sent her a message saying that my profile had been pretty lame and that I had recently re-written it. The next day, she replied to my message saying that she was going to be getting off of the dating website but she gave me her e-mail address so that we could continue talking.
Everything was going great as we talked for a couple weeks. I immediately felt comfortable talking to her and enjoyed our e-mail conversations. I found out that one of her favorite bands was U2. I had an extra ticket to their concert, which was coming up two weeks later. I invited her to the concert with me, and we decided that we should meet before the concert, to make it less awkward as a first date. On July 22nd, we went out to dinner on our first date. I was nervous going in but all of that slowly faded as dinner went on. I felt very comfortable around her in a way that I hadn't felt before on a first date. We stayed and talked in the restaurant for hours! The U2 concert was the following Tuesday and was a lot of fun. Bono said something that night that we have remembered ever since. He said "great love stories start with U2." At the time we both tried not to make eye contact when he said that because it was still the second date, but that has stuck with us throughout our relationship.


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Game Notes | ESPN+ | Live Stats | Tickets
Baltimore, Md.-- UMBC women's basketball returns from a snow filled trip in Albany to take on the Catamounts for the team's annual Midday Madness game on Wednesday morning. The team will host students from nearby elementary schools as the Retrievers look to get their first win in America East play. UMBC is coming off a 64-44 loss to UAlbany on Saturday to fall to 7-11, 0-5 AE on the year.
Vermont Game Info:
What: UMBC Retrievers (7-11, 0-5 AE) vs. Vermont Catamounts (7-11, 3-3 AE)
Where: UMBC Event Center - Baltimore, Md.
When: Wednesday, January 23 - 11:00 a.m.
How to Watch: Live stream on ESPN+ ($$), live stats at UMBCRetrievers.com
Promotions: Midday Madness
Social Media: @UMBCwbb, @UMBCAthletics, #RetrieverNation, #WE, #AEHoops
Scouting the Retrievers:
-The Retrievers come into the midweek matchup at 7-11, 0-5 AE on the year after dropping their sixth straight to UAlbany, 64-44 on Saturday afternoon. Sophomore Janee'a Summers (Bound Brook, N.J.) led the team with nine points and seven rebounds as no Retriever reached double figures.
-Summers leads UMBC in scoring at 11.8 points per game. She is the lone Retriever averaging double figures, with juniors Te'yJah Oliver (Clinton, Md./Riverdale Baptist) and Tyler Moore are second and third on the team at 9.9 and 7.1 ppg respectively. UMBC is averaging 58.4 ppg as a team, giving up 62.5 ppg to opponents.
Scouting the Catamounts:
-The Catamounts come to Baltimore also at 7-11 on the year and 3-3 in America East play after a thrilling 58-57 win against Binghamton on Saturday in Vestal. Trailing by four with 20 seconds left, Vermont hit a pair of free throws, getting a split by Binghamton on the next possession. The Catamounts hit the game tying three the next possession with under ten seconds to go and won in overtime.
-Hanna Crymble leads the Catamounts at 15.7 ppg and 6.0 rpg, the only Vermont player over double digits in points. Candice Wright is second in scoring at 8.3 ppg and leads the team and the conference in blocked shots with 56. Vermont averages 52.7 ppg, giving up 60.2 to opponents.
All-Time Series:
-This will be the 33rd meeting all-time between the two schools with the Retrievers leading the series 17-15. UMBC has dominated the series of late, winning eight of the last ten matchups, with just one loss since 2014.
-Last year the two each won the other's home court. UMBC pulled off a come from behind 52-51 win in Burlington on a Lakiah Sims layup with 58 seconds left in the contest.
Vermont Connection:
-UMBC assistant coach Courtnay Pilypaitis will be coaching against her alma mater on Saturday. Pilypaitis amassed over 1,900 points, 800 rebounds, and 600 assists. She finished with 1,993 points scored, 905 rebounds, and 636 assists in 4,060 minutes played.
-Pilypaitis led the Catamounts to back-to-back America East Championships and NCAA Tournament appearances in 2009-10. The four-time all-conference selection helped Vermont earn their first ever NCAA Tournament win with an upset against Wisconsin in 2010. She earned America East Rookie of the Year honors, as well as being named conference Player of the Year as a sophomore.
Moore Where That Came From:
-Junior captain Tyler Moore (Portsmouth, Va.) has seen a rise in her play since being inserted into the starting lineup on December 9. In that stretch, she has four double digit scoring performances coming in four of the last five games. She is shooting a career best 39 percent from three and 38 percent from the floor this year, averaging 7.1 ppg and 10.2 ppg over that stretch.
Conference Honors:
-Junior Te'yJah Oliver and freshman Kayla Jackson (Rochester, N.Y.) were named America East Player and Rookie of the week respectively on December 24 for their efforts against Morgan State.
-Oliver and Jackson join Janee'a Summers, Paula Rubio (Madrid, Spain) and O'lesheya Braxton (Paterson, N.J.) who earned America East Player awards earlier in the season.
Up Next:
-The Retrievers will remain in Baltimore to take on New Hampshire on Saturday, Jan. 26. Tip-off with the Wildcats is set for 12 p.m. on ESPN3.


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Our first book in the series follows Martyn while she chronicles-- in words and sketches-- the suffragist movement, two political conventions, and the lives of noteworthy women and men during the tumultuous years of America's Progressive Era. Here, you'll find women marching for the vote, child workers dreaming of a better life, teenagers dancing the Bunny Hug in dimly lit clubs, long skirts and big hats. Criminals and politicians, artists and archbishops, corsets and conventions, romance and rebellion--Martyn covered it all, with sensitivity, wit and whimsy.
In his review, Frank Absher, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, writes:
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perspective...Martyn was an excellent writer, but her features gave her a chance to display her secret weapon: an ability to illustrate her subjects in pen and ink...
It is easy to discern in reading these articles that Martyn was quite a character herself...Her descriptive writing style, which relied heavily on her interview subjects and her surroundings, truly set her work apart from the day's standard news stories."


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Sleigh Bells Announce June U.S. Tour Dates
Brooklyn-based noise pop duo Sleigh Bells – a.k.a. Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller - have just announced additional summer tour dates in support of third studio album Bitter Rivals (out now via Mom + Pop). PRESS HERE for tickets to a high-energy Sleigh Bells show near you.
Following the release of the highly lauded record Bitter Rivals, Sleigh Bells made late night appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, received numerous year-end list accolades and sold out venues across the U.S. Additionally, the band has solidified themselves as festival favorites, having just played in front of massive crowds at Coachella (for the third time!), and wowed audiences at SXSW and Counterpoint. Sleigh Bells are also set to perform at NYC's Gov Ball, Toronto's NXNE and Firefly in Delaware.
North America Tour Dates
6/7/14 Randall's Island, NY @ Governors Ball NYC Music Festival
6/9/14 Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall
6/10/14 Providence, RI @ Fete Ballroom
6/12/14 Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony
6/13/14 Louisville, KY @ Mercury Ballroom
6/14/14 Indianapolis, IN @ Vogue
6/17/14 Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts
6/19/14 Toronto, ON @ NXNE – Yonge Dundas Square
6/21/14 Dover, DE @ Firefly Music Festival
Praise for Sleigh Bells' live show:
"…[Coachella women] were usually the best or most definitive performers onstage…[including] Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells, an electro-punk shouter who has turned into a powerful soul singer…" – New York Times
"Most Dynamic: Sleigh Bells. From the dependably fierce vocals of singer Alexis Krauss to the flashing white panels of light behind the band, Sleigh Bells managed to be both experimental and human…The dancing never stopped." - Rolling Stone("20 Best Things at Coachella 2014's Second Weekend")
"As the amped-up frontwoman of a group that defies definition, Krauss owned the stage…displaying a punk sensibility, if not the pedigree…it was impossible not to get wrapped up in this whirlwind storm of stamina that takes primitive punk and electro-hip-pop to an eardrum-splitting level with mash-ups of sounds and genres." – Huffington Post
"…[Sleigh Bells] delivered a scorching evening set that delivered on the promise we all saw back in '09, when the band had just introduced their thunderous genre-blending aesthetic. A big night, and a demonstration of extended vitality and relevance, for one of the last five years' most important bands. – Revolt TV
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Protecting Consumers from Defective Products
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RPA streamlines the whole process of email classification, reading incoming email and using DataRobot AI to create a machine learning model to classify the request. From there, DataRobot predicts the appropriate channel for follow-up and RPA can forward the email to that department. With a timely follow-up from the assigned department, the workers in the department can focus on higher value work and get more time back to answer customer phone calls. This ultimately leads to a higher customer satisfaction and more timely responses.
RPA uses intelligent OCR to extract application data from the paper application and make it available in digital form. It performs client outreach for missing information and then routes the completed application to DataRobot to assess the risk and provide an interest rate quote. After obtaining all the approvals, the RPA robot will then send the decision on the loan to the customer.
Predicting when equipment will fail is a huge cost saver for businesses. Ensuring that a company has the right replacement part on hand and the right maintenance person to fix the problem ahead of time keeps operations running smoothly. RPA helps businesses to get ahead of the problem by gathering service logs and calling upon DataRobot to flag faulty equipment or outages. It then creates alerts for areas predicted to suffer issues and repairs equipment before an expensive outage can occur.
How a customer navigates their way through a company's phone tree can make or break their experience with a company. RPA walks through a number of steps that make the process seamless. After pulling the customer profile information, RPA calls out to DataRobot, which predicts which department the customer wants to speak with, as well as the customer lifetime value and churn risk. It allows the best call center reps to deal with the highest value customers and allows customers to get routed more effectively.
By looking at historical call volume, RPA combines information and calls out to DataRobot. DataRobot Time Series can forecast expected call volume and alerts managers if they are understaffed. Staffing schedules can be built on forecasted demand, resulting in reduced waiting times and lower staff costs.
Machine learning models can be developed with data from several public sources. Using historical data such as Medicare, the National Provider Identifier (NPI) Database, and the CDC, datasets can be combined to derive an aggregate of drugs prescribed by county and opioid deaths. By understanding how all drugs are prescribed at a county level, agencies can identify relationships between non-opioid based drugs and their effect on the opioid death rate nationally.
By looking at historical and categorical data on its employees, a company can predict future employee churn and offset it by hiring or by instituting the organizational changes necessary to fix the problem. Further analysis can also uncover future gaps in talent that will need to be addressed to ensure optimal business performance.
Since it is inefficient and time-consuming to investigate every claim of medical fraud, it pays to use automated machine learning to predict fraud. Solutions can become obsolete just as quickly as they are developed, and it can be hard for the people you hire to keep up with every claim. RPA and automated machine learning can monitor the threat landscape and stay ahead of fraud in real-time.
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