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Turn your Mountain Creek ski day into a vacation by finding the best lodging at the best rates. There are a few walk-to-slope options, and plenty more large lodges and quaint Bed & Breakfasts in the surrounding towns of Vernon, Mcafee, and Hamburg. Get the most out of your ski day by staying close to the resort. Browse our hand-picked selection of Mountain Creek lodging options. The Staff Picks will help you find your ideal hotel during your ski vacation....Read more
Choose to stay at a variety of quaint Bed & Breakfasts and exquisite lodges throughout the Hunter Mountain area, which includes the towns of Hunter, Tannersville, and Windham. The quintessential East-coast accommodations at Hunter Mountain will have you coming back year after year. Our hand-picked selection of lodging based on local insight and our one-of-a-kind staff picks will help you find the perfect hotel for your Hunter Mountain stay at the best available rates....Read more
Whiteface Lake Placid has the highest elevation in the Northeast, greatest vertical east of the Rockies, and snowmaking on 98% of our terrain. Long cruisers, endless Adirondack vistas, and a separate mountain area for kids and families make Whiteface the complete mountain. In our place, you get mountains of fun….serious fun. On the mountain it's stuff of winter legends. Off the mountain, well you know we've been the top-ranked resort in North America for 15 straight years according to the readers of SKI Magazine. We have the greatest vertical drop east of the Rockies and trails for everyone in your family. This is where the world's best come to train and compete and where kids come to learn and have fun. At the top of Whiteface, spare a moment to take in the views of the surrounding Adirondack peaks of New York. Spot Lake Champlain and Vermont to the east. Breathe deep. Point your skis downhill. Let them go. This is the face of eastern skiing....Read more
Jack Frost is a ski resort with 21 trails and 9 ski lifts on 100 acres located in east central Pennsylvania. As opposed to its brother, Big Boulder, Jack Frost has a great number of ski trails not dedicated to terrain parks. The left side of the resort, looking up, is filled with black diamonds. In the middle and to the right, intermediate and beginner trails dominate. Jack Frost offers night skiing, grooming, snowmaking, dining, lodging, tubing, instruction and rentals....Read more
With 8 ski lifts, 15 trails, and 55 acres, Big Boulder is a ski resort in eastern central Pennsylvania. The self-proclaimed east coast freestyle headquarters, almost every run is filled with a terrain park. A learning hill, a couple long beginner slopes, and a couple harder slopes to the far left are the only non-terrain park runs at Big Boulder. Taking beginners and kids to Big Boulder is not a problem, with lessons, rentals, tubing, grooming, and close lodging. Come here to shred it up. Big Boulder is in partnership with Jack Frost, making a nice one-two ski combination....Read more
Located in Warwick, NY Mount Peter is the oldest operating Ski area in New York State with 70 acres of winter fun – 5 lifts, 16 Trails for beginners to advanced. There are 2 learning areas with carpet lift and a tow lift. A Terrain Park and Racing arena! Mount Peter is 30% beginner – 30 % intermediate - 30% advanced and 10% expert and has 100% snowmaking - Skiing and Riding 7 days a week with night skiing. Mount Peter offers Free Beginner Lessons on every Weekend and Holiday! There are 2 lodges, and an outside grill for your enjoyment. Be sure to stop into Pete's Place to say hello and relax if you want a brew. Remember Pete's Closet for some awesome swag or some new goggles!...Read more


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I remember reading several of your postings. You seem to suggest that all life insurance policies give a poor return on investment. Are there any exceptions? Maybe some of the policies can give a satsfactory return, compared to other types of low risk investments, right? How do we tell what is a good and a bad investment, rather than brush all of the policies as bad?
I agree with you. There could be some types of policies that offer a good return.
The consumer needs to know how to tell a good or a bad investment.
The clue is given in the Benefit Illustration. You need to know what to look for.
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No business owner wants to be subject to an employee lawsuit, but the odds are good that any business will be at some point. The question for HR management is whether the organization is prepared when it does happen.
There are two major aspects that need to be addressed when it comes to employee lawsuits. These are prevention and preparation. Building a culture and management structure that minimizes the prospect of employee claims is an ongoing effort. Preparation is largely an HR task that can be integrated into standard management practices.
Why Employee Lawsuits Happen
There are a number of reasons why employees, or recent former employees, seek to make claims against employers. But the most common reasons fall under the categories of wrongful termination and discrimination and harassment.
How common are employee claims in the U.S.?
According to a report by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) there were a total of 84,328 charges made by employees in 2017. Of these, a significant percentage end up as litigation. In addition, certain states are far more likely to have employee charges and lawsuits than others due in large part to certain labor laws in effect in these states.
In 2016, US companies had at least a 10.5% chance of having an employment charge filed against them, according to the Hiscox USA annual report for 2017. Of these, 10 states have a significantly higher risk of employee lawsuits than the national average. They are:
- Washington DC (+81%)
- Delaware (+55%)
- Nevada (+55%)
- New Mexico (+50%)
- California (+46%)
- Mississippi (+43%)
- Alabama (+39%)
- Illinois (+35%)
- Georgia (+19%)
- Connecticut (+19%)
Unfortunately, many of these employee charges could be prevented or mitigated with proper management practices and policies.
Employee Charge Prevention Practices
Here are some best practices for HR management and organizations for minimizing and preventing the occurrence of employee complaints.
Know the Law
Recruiting and hiring laws and regulations are just as critical as ongoing employment labor laws. It is the responsibility of the HR management and others directly involved with recruiting, hiring, training and supervising employees to be clear and up-t-date on both federal and state employment laws.
It is said that knowledge is power and, in the case of employee claims, knowledge of the law is the power to prevent claims.
Be Insured
Be clear as to your organization's exposure to risk and maintain a comprehensive commercial liability insurance policy. Not only does it take almost a year on average for an average claim to be resolved, almost a quarter of claims result in legal and settlement costs.
In fact, the average cost for cases that resulted in a defense and settlement payment is $160,000, according to Hiscox.
Define Job Descriptions
Misunderstandings and miscommunication of required work, expectations, performance standards, and so on can often lead to a claim from an employee. This can be largely mitigated with a comprehensive position agreement that documents responsibilities, management hierarchy, acceptable practices, and other job information vital to clearly define what's expected of the employee each day.
A well-written, comprehensive job description both the employee and employer to be clear before and after the candidate is brought on board.
Document Policies & Actions
Having a compliant and comprehensive employee handbook is essential. And so is the practice of maintaining detailed employee records. Policies regarding disciplinary actions and termination must be in writing and available to each employee.
If a manager files a report when an employee is reprimanded or rewarded, this should be documented. If job descriptions are updated or revised, it needs to be in writing. When it comes to employer-employee relations and interactions, the more documentation the better.
Best Practices for Personnel Files
One of the first things that are requested in the event of an employee charge is the employee's personnel files. These files, along with a comprehensive employee handbook, are your best defenses.
The following tips, drawn in part from information at Business Management Daily, will help in keeping your personnel files accurate, safe and complete.
File Organization
When setting up and organizing personnel files for an employee any medical information should be kept in a separate file from their personnel file.
Items considered personnel records are those kept by an employer about an employee's qualifications for employment, promotion, transfer, additional compensation or disciplinary actions. Also, an employee's personnel record cannot include personal information for another person.
An employee's medical information would include medical certifications, doctor's notes, requests for family or medical leave, results of medical exams, and related items. All medical files should be kept in a locked and secure location with access limited to managers with a legitimate business need.
In addition, a good practice is to keep an employee's I-9 and EEO-1 documentation should be kept separate from the personnel files. Although this is not a legal requirement, in the event of an government agency audit, this can limit their access to personal employee information. Not only that, but it will make it easier for you to extract the information when the government asks for it.
Keep in mind that there are no laws requiring that you keep personnel files. However, there may be federal, state and industry-specific laws that require certain types of documentation to be retained for your business.
Records Retention
There are some laws that require that certain records be kept for specific periods of time. However, despite the temptation to keep "everything" indefinitely, it's safer and more efficient to only keep what you are legally required to. Not only to physical records take up space, but the more you have on-site, the more information you have at risk in the instance of a security breach.
However, you need to be certain of what is required as disposing of some records too soon could result in non-compliance.In addition, should an employee make a charge, you may need them to defend against claims in court, or to comply with a court order or agency investigation.
Because federal and state statutes typically dictate record-keeping retention requirements, it is best to seek additional assistance such as the EEOC or SHRM for guidelines and other resources.
Relinquishing Records
Certain states have laws that allow employees to access their personnel records. However, this does not necessarily mean you are required to hand over everything. In these instances, an employee is usually allowed to view their file on the company premises and to make copies of documents. Remember that these documents are essentially the property of the organization, not the employee.
If a particular state does not have a law, or the existing law does not include former employees, the employer has the discretion of whether to give the employee, or ex-employee, access.
Typically, government agencies cannot access personnel records without some type of consent. In California, for example, a recent law was passed to place parameters on accessibility to employment records by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. In those instances where the immigration agency is preforming an audit, employers can ask federal agents for subpoenas before handing over employee personnel records, primarily I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification forms.
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Great day!!!
Pastoral visit this morning.
I took off at noon
met up with friends at a park n ride
drove to Longview (3 hours)
hung out at a hotel
totally played groupie
Keith Anderson
extremely shy *me*
went to theater
waited in the chilling air for 2 hours
got 4 th row seats
AWESOME unplugged concert
2.5 hours long
waited in line for meet n greet
got picture
got autograph
drove home (3 hours)
froze my ass off changing cars
had to stop and get gas
got home shortly after 2
Howie scared the shit out of me
he was up reading
my phone called him at 1:23 on its own
HAD to blog a bit
will be back in full tomorrow
good nite
til next time...ciao!
The life and times of the Hughes Family and all it's goings on...more times than not, it'll be the random thoughts I have and their explanations
Sunday, February 21, 2010
2 am ramblings
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Having been in many large conferences and churches as a spectator, it is our desire that no-one comes to church as a spectator. In a football game, there are only 11 people on the pitch and thousands of people who are simply paying their money and attending. Unfortunately, there are many churches which are just the same - except it might be a bit difficult finding 11 people doing the stuff.
We want every Christian to have experience of leading others into the new birth, into the baptism of the Holy Spirit, into water baptism. We want every Christian to be able to have times they have laid hands on the sick and seen them recover, we want every Christian to see church as a kind family, the best place on earth, the place where they are recognised and valued.
The way to ensure this happens is through cell groups. Cell groups are groups of between 4 and 15 people who meet in a house or other venue for the purpose of helping each other become better Christians. This means they will worship together, pray for each other, use the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit, serve each other in love and talk about how to make the sermon on Sunday part of their every day life.
For more information on the value of cells, have a look through some of these articles:
As our church grows this website will have lists of all current cells and cell leaders. This information will be available to our members so they can join the cell that is best for them to become the best Christian they can be. It will also include many accounts of how people are healed, set free from sinful habits, and had their lives changed for the better through these wonderful small groups we call cells.
For information on joining a cell near you, contact email@example.com


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Do you owe thousands of dollars in delinquent taxes to the state of Oklahoma? Or even owe more to the federal government? If you have back taxes, the federal government and the state of Oklahoma will aggressively attempt to collect what is owed. Tax Defense Partners can help you by mediating and negotiating on your behalf for a tax relief solution.
If you owe back taxes, the federal and Oklahoma State will regularly attempt to collect what is being owed. The good news is that the government is only legally allowed to collect unpaid taxes for 10 years from the start date. If you fail to pay your debts by the due date, you will usually receive a tax bill which states the estimated or actual amount you owe. If you still fail to pay after receiving the tax bill, tax penalties are added to your tax debt. If you still ignore the bills, the government will place a tax lien against you. A tax lien limits you from refinancing any loans connected to your property and you will not be able to sell any of your properties. Tax liens are also reported to credit bureaus which will make it difficult for you to get a new loan or apply for a credit card.
Tax Defense Partners will help provide tax debt relief by:
There are certain situations where the IRS will consider an "offer in compromise". You need to work with a professional tax debt relief lawyer who will convince the IRS that paying the full amount will cause you financial hardship. Also, for the IRS to allow partial payments, your tax debt relief lawyer has to prove you are currently not bankrupt.
Solving back tax problems is quite stressful and a confusing affair. Unless you are a qualified tax debt relief lawyer, you cannot successfully solve your tax problems on your own. Tax debt lawyers spend years learning tax laws and they have to keep up with changing tax laws in order to efficiently help their clients. Hiring an Oklahoma tax debt relief lawyer makes things so much easier.
You cannot go to jail simply because you owe taxes. However, if there is proof that you are willfully not paying taxes on earned income, the government can charge you with tax evasion.
Tax Defense Partners comprises of tax debt relief lawyers who are experienced and qualified in all matters pertaining to tax matters in Oklahoma. Our attorneys will help you solve your tax problems by finding a tax relief solution that is right for you. If you are ready to get started call us today at 800-600-4300 to schedule a free consultation


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|A barley hanging on Pat getting some sustenance at the Veggie Grill in West Hollywood
Okay folks, enough with my dreary and boring leg injury and recovery. With this post we are returning to Ron and Pat's Fabulous Trip to Los Angeles, California.
This won't be a long post because it is still very uncomfortable for me to sit at my computer and upload videos and photos. But that could be a good thing too. My condition forces me to be succinct.
The photo at the top of this post you'll see a very tired Pat. Whenever Pat and I get together in person, I wear out the little guy. Poor Pat, he tries to keep up with me but I just wear him down. But to give him credit, he makes every attempt to keep up with me even though he's falling asleep and tends to get a bit grumpy. After all, he's used to traveling solo and not with a high maintenance, all about me, ego driven A-personality like yours truly.
Pat had been to Los Angeles before. He wanted to stay at the Historic Hollywood Hotel. He said "It was fine for me." But what is "fine for Pat" I suspect doesn't quite meet my fussy standards. So we stopped by for a look see. As you can see from the outside, non too impressive. But as Pat said, "Good location."
|The non too grand entrance of the Historic Hollywood Hotel
|Pat (in white T-shirt and baseball cap) in the lobby of the Historic Hollywood Hotel
I don't remember what we did with the rest of the day. I think we went back to where we were staying, The Hollywood Bed and Breakfast (notice the prolific use of the name "Hollywood", what's that all about?) for a bit of a rest.
Later on I dragged Pat back to the Veggie Grill in West Hollywood, near where we were staying for our dinner. Oh how we loved that place. Somebody is onto something with that concept. Fresh vegan options at a reasonable price in bright surroundings, which helped to keep Pat awake.
|Pat waiting for me at the Veggie Grill, poor guy, head drooped over. Maybe it's me.


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Research reported this week in HealthDay, U.S. News and World Report's e-Newsletter, states that how long a patient takes opioid painkillers after surgery is a much stronger risk factor for addiction and overdose than the dosage of the opioids taken.
How Long Patients Take Opioids after Surgery Is Stronger Risk Factor for Addiction than Dosage
An estimated 80 percent of abused controlled substances are obtained by prescription and legally dispensed to the abuser, an abuser's friend or a family member. In many cases, opioids are obtained through so-called "doctor shopping" — seeing multiple doctors and obtaining a prescription from each.
E-prescribing is moving to the forefront of healthcare IT thanks to the benefits it brings to patients, physician workflow efficiency, and pharmacies. In fact, 90 percent of pharmacies in the United States now accept electronic prescriptions and 70 percent of physicians use e-prescribing, according to the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT. With this level of adoption, the industry is well on its way toward enjoying the patient safety, efficiency and cost savings benefits associated with e-prescribing.
A recent study by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and posted on their web site highlighted the fact that most U.S. studies of national trends in medical and nonmedical use of prescription opioids have focused on adults. Given the limited understanding in these trends among adolescents, the AAP examined national trends in the medical and nonmedical use of prescription opioids among high school seniors between 1976 and 2015.
A study published by Penn State University revealed that overdose deaths from prescription opioids in the U.S. quadrupled from 1999 to 2015, reaching 22,000 in 2015. This increase has been fueled by a dramatic rise in the amount of opioids being prescribed, creating a vast supply of drugs at high risk for misuse. Prescribers, therefore, are a vital link in addressing the current epidemic of overdose deaths and substance use disorders. The challenge is to develop and implement systems that help prescribers identify potential cases of misuse or diversion, while still allowing appropriate prescribing of opioids for pain control.
What prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) do for our healthcare providers is give them additional insight to help make better decisions in a difficult [medication] situations. PDMP information empowers providers to do what is best for patients.


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The Browns selected Notre Dame safety Jamoris Slaughter this afternoon in the sixth round (No. 175) of the NFL Draft.
The 6-foot, 195-pound Slaughter missed 10 games this past season as a senior after rupturing the Achilles� tendon in his left leg Sept. 15 against Michigan State. During a conference call, Slaughter said he's about 90 percent now. He expects to be 100 percent by training camp and compete for the starting free safety job.
Slaughter started 10 of the 13 games in which he appeared in 2011 and compiled 45 tackles, two pass breakups, one interception and a forced fumble.
The Browns need help at free safety, where Tashaun Gipson and Eric Hagg are in the mix for a starting job. NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock believes Slaughter will compete for the job, too.
�Ultimately he�ll compete for a starting free safety job,� Mayock said during NFL Network�s broadcast. �That�s an excellent pick for the Cleveland Browns.�
Slaughter is known for his toughness and even played some outside linebacker for Notre Dame.
The Browns have two seventh-round picks remaining (Nos. 217 and 227).


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Not that long ago, if you wanted to make a Pisco Sour, you didn't have much choice of brands. If you were lucky, you could find a bottle of BarSol. Now, many liquor stores stock a wider variety of the South American brandy. Here are a few to look out for.
Alto del Carmen Pisco Reservado ($25):
While Chile produces more pisco than Peru, its alcohol has a lower profile in the United States. Liquor.com advisory board member David Wondrich likes Chilean distillery Pisco Capel's Alto del Carmen, made from 100 percent muscat grapes and aged for up to eight months in American-oak casks.
Campo de Encanto Pisco ($35):
It's often a good sign when a brand is co-founded by a well-known bartender. Campo de Encanto is no exception: Duggan McDonnell, who owns San Francisco's famed Cantina, helped create the award-winning Peruvian spirit, which has savory almond and olive notes with a lovely floral finish.
Pisco Portón ($40):
This Peruvian liquor (pictured above) was introduced last spring and is a blend of three grape varieties: quebranta, torontel and albilla. Master distiller Johnny Schuler uses a copper pot still, and then he rests the pisco for up to eight months before bottling.


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OLFA Maker…. Sandra Johnson designs
This past February at QuiltCon, Sandra Johnson @sandrajohnsondesigns caught our eye has she walked past our booth in quilted pants! Yes quilted pants! We knew we HAD to talk to her. We just posted our interview with Sandra on the blog – head on over to check it out! You can find our interview with Sandra on the blog here: https://bit.ly/2InU9Cq


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PREMIERE: Watch Hockey Dad's Ripper LA Backyard Party Gig In Their 'A Night Out With' VideoWritten by Zanda Wilson on September 1, 2016
Aussie surf rockers Hockey Dad are currently living the dream; fanging around and having a blast on their North America 2016 tour.
Now they've joined the growing throng of bands who've made music videos giving their fans an inside look into their touring lifestyle – with a new clip for their track A Night Out With from their debut album Boronia.
The video was shot by ex-professional skater Laban Pheidias, and starts off with the band playing in a backyard in LA, complete with a blow-up party pool on hand. We then get an inside look as they hit up one of their US shows before they end the evening with a few beverages sitting around an open fire.
Hockey Dad will head back to Australia at the back end of September for a run of shows around the country. Details and tickets from their official website.


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Marion Ellyard
Marion Ellyard lives in Byron Bay, is a passionate mother, partner, meditator, presenter and certified counsellor. She has been running the Taste of Love Festival passionately for 4 years (formerly known as the sex & Consciousness Conference) believing that by making teachings of tantra, relationship advice and sexuality available in a broader way a lot of improvement can be happening for singles, couples and families alike in theri journey of connection, communication and aging together. She is available for private and skype sessions for singles and couples specialising in the areas of trauma release, coaching, intimacy and relationship, meditation and body psycho therapy.
Beyond any judgement, from a place of full acceptance, there lays a vast void and silence. When we presence into that we can connect to what informs us of who we already are. After a long journey, uncovering obstacles, wounds and vulnerability, finding true power and joy, meditation and travelling the whole world, countless workshops and courses, Marion feels it was all worth her while. Belonging now to a loving community finally it is time to step into service to show you all the aspects that you are, creating workshops, organising speakers and the festival is the most challenging yet wonderful way of doing so, bringing to you what gives life, and doesn't take life, what brings joy, not pain, what brings connection instead of separation.
'Not needing to be anything but being my best at what I feel called to do and what I need to be doing in everyday life gives me humility, joy and purpose and I am delighted to meet so many wonderful travellers on the way everyone holding their unique contribution and teaching and spark of love, wisdom and life.'


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Just listed! New construction at 31 Bernini Way, Monmouth Junction. Located in the Venue at Princeton Parke, an adult community in South Brunswick
This is an all-inclusive smart home with many upgrades. First let's start with the nine-foot ceilings throughout and the dramatic two-story entrance foyer. Beautiful hardwood floors throughout and two-panel interior doors, designer lighting and recess lights. The enhancements feature custom kitchen cabinetry with a breakfast bar. There are granite countertops and backsplash. The GE Profile stainless appliances include double ovens, five-burner gas cook top, dishwasher and side-by-side refrigerator.
The two-story great room is the focal point upon entering featuring a gas fireplace operated by remote.
This floor also features a formal dining room, den/study, full bath and laundry room.
Three full baths include granite vanity tops and ceramic tile.
The owner's suite is located on the first floor with double door entry, tray ceilings, full en-suite bath featuring double sinks, a soaking tub and double shower.
The second floor features an open loft overlooking the entrance foyer and the family room. There are two bedrooms on this level and a full bath.
Conveniently located off the Route 1 corridor, just minutes North of Princeton, and close to NYC train and bus. Shopping, dining, theatre…it's all right here.
This home is being offered at $637,500. Joyce Ann Staples, Realtor-Associate with the firm, invites any and all inquiries on this property and can be reached on her direct line: 732-297-9198 and cell 732-406-0631; or email: email@example.com


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Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease with poorly understood causes.
In multiple sclerosis (MS), our immune system mistakenly attacks myelin, or the sheath that covers the axon.
The axon is the projection that allows brain cells to send electric signals carrying information.
As the damage occurs, various functions — such as motor and cognitive functions and sight — are gradually impaired.
According to Atlas, an MS resource put together jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the MS International Federation in 2008, on a global level, "the median estimated prevalence of MS is 30 per 100,000," and the United States has one of the highest prevalences of MS cases.
What exactly causes MS is yet unclear, meaning that, currently, treatments focus on managing the symptoms of the condition rather than eliminating its biological triggers.
But emerging research from the University of Geneva and the Geneva University Hospitals — both in Switzerland — may have just brought us one step closer to understanding what drives the development of this disease.
"We decided," explains senior researcher Doron Merkler, "to analyze the infectious factors [in MS] by studying the autoimmune reactions provoked by different pathogens."
|Read on: What causes multiple sclerosis? Landmark study finds clue


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Nominees can be anyone in our community past or present. Also, it can be someone who is, or has served our country; as well as members of our Police, Fire, and EMS.
Nominations have ended!
Nominees have been chosen and contacted. Come see who has been chosen each evening 6 pm at the Parkview stage!
Thank you to everyone that sent in nominations, we have great people in our community!
4 nominees will be selected, winners will be contacted by June 3rd to make arrangements to be honored each evening at the festival, June 12th -15th, during opening announcements (6pm) We would also like Turtletown Heroes to participate in the parade Saturday, June 15th.
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Price: $ 25.99
With this sturdy anchor trolley kit for kayaks & canoes, neither windy weather nor a choppy current can spoil your fishing fun. Helps keep your vessel in one spot in the ideal angling position.
Don't let windy days and rough waters ruin your next fishing trip grab this Anchor Trolley Kit from OceanMotion. This system uses a rope and pulley to help you shift the position of your vessel without pulling up your anchor.
Imagine having complete flexibility of your kayak's position and not worrying about the weather. Built to last, your new anchor trolley is constructed of heavy-duty, stainless steel hardware and type IV 750 paracord with a breaking strength of 750 lbs. What's more, you can even remove the line and use it to tie off your vessel when docking.
Makes kayak's position adjustable while anchored
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Great gift for kayakers
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Also makes a practical gift for your favorite kayaking fanatic.
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Start: Raymond Peak (1059)
Camp: Disaster Peak (1035)
7:45 a.m. I didn't wake until just before sunrise. I had Pearl Jam in my head and put on the album. I had eaten more sugar than the night before and didn't sleep as well because of it. I had slept a full ten hours though. I was clear headed and I packed quickly. I was reminded of being a young teenager. "I am here because of how I grew up," I said to a large and contorted pine as I stretched. I began to walk and eat, and I stopped to wash my feet in the first creek I came to. Pearl Jam was still playing. The water drove away the itch but my toes ached from the cold.
9:30 a.m. I find myself in a world of hoodoos, fins and spires like Bryce, but gray.
10:45 a.m. Arrived at a place to which I will certainly return, quite possibly the most beautiful and fun lake I've yet seen: Upper Kinney Lake (mile 1052.) I spent a while walking along the south side of the lake taking photos and exploring the cliff jumping possibilities. It is hot and sunny, but the water is low this time of year and too shallow for anything worth getting wet for. It would be easy enough to access this lake from Ebbetts Pass and it would be a fun place to camp with friends.
11:40 a.m. Ran out of water and had to fill at a dark pond reflecting black basalt cliffs. As I drink I watch tiny red arthropods fight the suction of my revamped Sawyer Squeeze. The new rubber washer is working wonderfully.
12:00 p.m. Reached a deserted Ebbets Pass and kicked off my worn tennie's. I sat in a beam of sun upon a perfect rock throne eating that most affluent of aliments, the Golden Grahams treat bar. I'd prepared them two days prior at the Mellow Mountain, splitting the batch with Girly Girl. This was my last one. Fortified with 85% dark chocolate, the bar I'd eaten at 4:00 p.m. yesterday had kept me going until late in the evening; I was getting an earlier start today. Noting also that yesterday I'd spent between two and three cumulative hours taking breaks, I resolved to keep my stop short. I crossed the crumbling single lane blacktop and began a climb that quickly changed to a sunny descent into Noble Canyon.
12:32 p.m. I can see my path across the wide volcanic valley that is the head of Noble Canyon, switchbacking 1000′ feet up almost barren black lava. On my side, I walk on crumbling granite. In the back of this valley I find two icy creek's that are unmistakably snowmelt. Today and over the last week it has become apparent that spurred by snow and rain the creeks have begun to flow again, colder than before. I fill two liters so that I can make lunch atop the saddle.
1:55 p.m. I walked slowly for the last few feet before reaching the saddle at 9,321′. This is the highest I've been and I wanted to revere it. Armin van Buren played a Ferry Corsten track that I'd loved and almost forgotten in his A State of Trance podcast #7 from 2001. I made lunch with precision and efficiency.
2:30 p.m. Packed and continued hiking.
4:00 p.m. Filled last water for 8.5 miles.
5:45 p.m. The air seemed not to contain enough oxygen. As I climbed I ran short on breath and had to stop to rest. My stove threatened to extinguish itself when enshrouded by a windscreen, and the water seemed to keep at a boil without any heat applied. I knew I was high.
Gushing spring below trail at Guthook 1036.1, Halfmile 1036.1.
There seems to be an unmapped spring 1/10 mile north of this junction, 15′ below trail. I'd be interested in knowing if it is there at other times of the year.
6:15 p.m. The effects of the setting sun on the surrounding formations – limestone, lava and granitic rocks all in close proximity – was so astounding that I stopped and took off my pack. I took photos and sought to make camp. I climbed a nearby hill but thought better of camping there or anywhere nearby once I approached the precipitous northern edge of the saddle and discovered a bone chilling upslope wind. I hiked on until I was in the trees and set up my tent.
7:40 p.m. With tent set and belly full, harmonica in hand and muscles stretched, I lay down, feet elevated, down jacket on.
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A few days ago we showed you some of the more popular idiomatic expressions of Portugal and also their meaning and the history behind them. In this article we are going to carry on with this and show you some more.
"Andar à toa" – Means to be disoriented and lacking direction. "Toa" is the name given to the rope that ties one boat to another. The boat behind is being towed and so does not have control over its course.
"Lágrimas de Crocodilo" (crocodile tears) – This expression is international and it means to cry without emotion – to shed false tears. Crocodiles have tear glands that are stimulated when they eat, so they often cry without apparent reason!
"Onde Judas perdeu as botas" (Literally: Where Judas lost his boots) – In the history of the Christian religion, Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 silver coins. After doing this – and being directly responsible for his capture and crucifixion – he became depressed and hung himself from a tree. It so happens that Judas committed suicide without the money and without his boots, in which he had probably hidden the money. So a group of soldiers went looking for them, although we do not know if they were found or not. These days the expression "where Judas lost his boots" means "somewhere inaccessible".
"Sardinhas em lata" (Sardines in a can) – This is an easy analogy to guess. When sardines are in a can they are very close, almost stuck, together. It is used to illustrate situations where there are many people all jammed together – overcrowded. It is often used when referring to public transport.
"Com a corda toda" (Literally: With the whole rope) – In the past, toys that moved had to be propelled. To do this you had to use rope or string. The rope/string was the mechanism used for them to move. And the more you gave them the more they moved. This is why with the "whole rope" means with "full force".


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this past week has been a graphic novel of first-world problems on the domestic front. my favorite animator went to the local Home Depot to purchase our new fridge and stove (i was at home hyperventilating and swallowing antacids, as i tend to do whenever we have to spend more money than a typical trip to the grocery store). he arrived at the parking lot, only to find that they were turning people away because a broken water pipe had shorted out the electricity for the entire store. perhaps the universe was trying to send us a message.
i have been distracting myself with... you guessed it... wooly things. i finished the second sock from last week! note: i did not wash/block them because life is too short for such pointless things. i stacked them together, folded them in half, then passed them off to my favorite animator.
they are fraternal twins, as he made a point of discouraging my obsessive need for evenness. so we have fraternal cuffs...
fraternal heels...
even cute fraternal toes. this would drive me insane, but they are not going near my feet, so... not my problem.
the pattern is Susan B. Anderson's How I Make My Socks, and the yarn is Regia Cotton Horizont Color in the (uninspiringly-named) 6404 colorway. i used most of the hundred gram ball for the socks, but there was about seventeen grams of leftovers, which will likely come in handy for repairing heels and toes. and, yes, that is a kitty in the background.
Baby Bear has been spending so much time napping outdoors, that her grey fur has taken on a noticeable bronze highlight.
still, she is on her best behavior out there below the peppers. this is probably the first time i have photographed fibery things without constantly having to move her out of the way or to wrestle yarn from her mouth. i seriously love this crazy little cat.
i was on such a roll when the socks came off the needles, that i went on a frantic search for my next project. i will likely be casting on three or four new items in the coming week. it is next-level madness, and it just keeps getting worse. i was putting down my camera after taking photos of the socks (and cat), when there was a knock on the door. it was the UPS guy. he was delivering a box of yarn. in my defense, i used up eighty-three whole grams of fiber making those socks. clearly i needed to replace it with over a kilo of new stash! the box contained more than enough yarn for two cardis. the pale lilac(superwash wool) will become a Christmas gift for his mom, and the light-grey (alpaca/wool blend) may possibly become a cardi for self, hopefully before it starts to snow.
i seem to be on some sort of lilac and grey kick, because i pulled a gigantic bag from deep-stash earlier this week, and it contained this assortment of alpaca yarn. there were close to fifty balls in total, and i have already designated them for a long-term project, which i will discuss in more detail once i cast on.
then there was that nagging voice in the back of my head telling me that i really want to knit another pair of socks. it is seriously that addictive. i am awaiting the arrival of new (non-bendy) needles, and he has already picked out the sock design he wants next, so that too should be in the works in short order. i may have also purchases three new patterns in the past twenty-four hours. to merely suggest that i might be losing it would be something of an understatement. in my effort to distract myself from stressing over stupid stuff, i managed to skip right past casual enthusiasm and boarded the express elevator to next-level insanity. good times.
the single sanest part of the past week was a moment less than a minute long. i pulled back the curtains on the west-facing windows just in time to see the full moon suspended at eye level in the morning sky. i dove for my camera and managed to get the lens cap off in time to grab a few quick shots.
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Connor Clifton was drafted in 2013 by the Arizona Coyotes out of Quinnipiac, but failed to reach an agreement with them by the August 16, 2017 deadline. The organization stated that there just wasn't a fit for him and it was best they both go their separate ways. The Coyotes' loss was the Bruins' gain as they quickly signed him to an AHL deal when he hit the open market. Quinnipiac's captain as a senior, Clifton played four colligate seasons with the Bobcats before turning pro this season and was ready to bring his aggressive style of play to the Providence blue line.
Unfortunately for Clifton, his play early in the season was too aggressive. He took a lot of risks and his puck management was not up to the level of other Providence defenders, so he had a hard time cracking the lineup. In eight of the team's first 10 games, Clifton was a healthy scratch. When he did get a chance to play early on, it was far from smooth sailing. He recorded just a single assist with a minus-two rating over 12 games.
As he got more and more comfortable with the AHL, his game began to improve all around and his physical play was on display full-time. Though not the biggest guy on the ice (just 5-11, 190lbs) he is not afraid to deliver hits regardless of the opponent and opposing teams knew when he was out on the ice. He backed away from no one and was a noticeable presence to anyone watching.
From February until the end of the season, things really began to click for the rookie. Over the final 26 games of the season he posted 10 points and a plus-11 rating, adding in some offensive skill with his punishing hits. He still played an aggressive style, but knew how to manage it better than in the earlier days of the season. He finished the year with 13 points and a plus-11 rating while playing his best hockey down the stretch.
In a season where plenty of Boston prospects developed, Clifton may have improved the most from October to April. His energetic play and overall improvement led to his first NHL contract at the end of the season when Boston signed him to a two-year entry deal May 3. As a right shot defenseman, it may be tough for him to make Boston's roster out of camp with that side pretty much locked. However, he is likely going to be one of the first options should an injury arise while he continues to grow in 2018-19.
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OBX: Day 5August 26th, 2006
The last day has arrived and it was a great day to end my vacation on. After a hearty grits and country ham breakfast, we all went down to the beach and enjoyed the sun, sand and minimal surf. The group rented a kayak and people took turns paddling out to a nearby school of dolphins that came close to shore to play in the water. The beach here has fine-grained sand, so it is difficult to run in and it is tough to get rid of. "Sitting at the beach" never has really appealed to me…. don't know why really, but it could be because I see the beach as a sandy, salty, sunburning place that makes people want to take a shower and get all that junk off of them. I also can't just sit there. Even with a book in my hand, I think browning in the sun for the sake of browning is a very vane process that gets people burned more often than tanned. I did hang out on the beach for an hour or two, tossing the football and frisbee around and putting my legs in the shorebreak. After that, I knew I had an air-conditioned house waiting for me just a short walk away, so there's no need to remain in the hot sun. (You can probably see why I like living in Seattle) After cooling off a bit, I went out to pick up lunch for the group, typical carolina barbecue pork sandwiches. If you're not familiar with carolina barbecue, it is different than what the rest of the country considers barbecue. Here in North Cackilacky, they use a vinegar-based sauce, rather than a tomato-based sauce. This gives the meat (chopped/pulled pork) a tang and refreshing taste.
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Mind Gardens – A new series of blog posts
For a garden to be more than just a comfortable place to sit in to drink a cup of coffee there needs to be some sort of idea underpinning its design. Ideas together with constraints guide the design process and … Continue reading
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New Planting Scheme: Low-growing, for an open, sunny site
Laren, the Netherlands, September 2018 design Piet Oudolf Five theme plants along with up to 25% of so-called complementary plants create many of the planting schemes in my series of eBooks on perennial meadow gardening. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 2018 design … Continue reading
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Autumn Fades into Winter
Here are the last glimpses of autumn in my Amsterdam trial gardens. As a photographer I can make carefully composed images, but this "walking video" gives you the wider view.
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Indian Summer Reward
Asters, grasses and autumn tints are the main ingredients that brought my garden to its final crescendo this year. Following a long hot and merciless dry summer in which everything struggled including myself, autumn arrived with just a little … Continue reading
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Dutch Perennial Gardens in the Dry and Hot Summer of 2018
Beauty is to be found in the chaos of nature and this year, in the struggle for life amidst the perennials and shrubs in my gardens. A drier than average spring followed by a totally dry summer in which a … Continue reading
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Shrubs in late spring
It is in late spring, just after the tulips have ended, that I become delighted by the many flowering shrubs and distinctive foliage colours that seem to dominate the garden. Of course there are various perennials flowering including Euphorbia, Geum, … Continue reading
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Spring into action
My last post showed the garden three weeks ago just after I had knocked down all the perennials with the question "would you want your garden looking like that?". Well, as promised, the perennials have reappeared rapidly to cover the … Continue reading
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Would you want this in your garden?
Not everyone would want their garden looking like mine does at this moment. However, what I see is a clean slate; the garden's perennials have all been broken into small pieces and dropped on the ground where they will rot … Continue reading
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Light Up The Winter Garden
Winter has really arrived here in Amsterdam. It is cool and wet and I am glad that I have finished my replanting projects. Last week I weeded here and there, tidied away broken or flopped stems, and topped up the … Continue reading
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Grasses in early Autumn
Miscanthus sinensis 'Vorläufer' Ornamental grasses bring excitement and interest to the garden throughout the year when we take advantage of their exceptional qualities, but it is in early autumn that they can steal my heart. Molinia caerulea Subsp. caerulea and … Continue reading
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I will be backing Theresa May in this evening's confidence vote. I hope that the ERG will finally be shown for what they are, a small and unrepresentative faction pushing for a version of Brexit that has no chance of passing the Conservative Party let alone the House of Commons. It was irresponsible and self-indulgent for a few individuals to be pushing their own leadership ambitions at such a time of national crisis and particularly to have done so whilst our Prime Minister was meeting EU leaders abroad.
No one should doubt Theresa May's personal integrity and sense of duty and the contrast with those scheming to take her place could not be in sharper relief. Whilst I continue to hope that the PM will move to take her deal direct to the people, I have great personal respect for her determined efforts to try to find a compromise through the Withdrawal Agreement and Future Framework.
I hope we will now be spared the ERG posturing for a while as, following an unsuccessful leadership challenge, there cannot be another for 12 months.
Although I personally do not think that we should have another vote. Thank you for your clear statement. I hope that you are one of many and that the Prime minister is recognised for her integrity as stated and has a clear majority supporting her this evening
- Hazel Howe
What a joke! Sarah has undermined Theresa May at every opportunity during the withdrawal negotitations and no wishes to support her. Your stance is somewhat hypocritical Sarah and is only designed to thwart the efforts of those genuinely honouring the referendum result. Your support is shallow to say the least.
- David H
So in the midst of the most important negotiations in our lifetime the ERG and followers have lobbed a grenade into the tory party. Now there's loyalty to the country for you. I don't like the deal we have waited two years for, but all the ERG can offer is chaos. No wonder John Major called his anti EU mob B*****ds!
- Bob
If you are going to support our PM, then really support her. Enough of this 'Peoples Vote'. I do have doubts about some aspects of the deal but if you support her, then do it fully. Please get on with honouring the manifesto on the basis of which you were elected. I would also say that you may be surprised at the size of the support in the country for this "small and unrepresentative faction" as you put it judging by the comments on these recent blogs and how this support will grow if Brexit is thwarted.
- Patrick, Brixham
We are in a pickle, no doubt about it. Ms May's government had to be dragged though the Supreme Court for Parliament to trigger Article 50. May resisted a meaningful vote in Parliament, and it only just squeaked through (thanks to Sarah and others). She's trying to deny the public a referendum on the facts, and now she's denied Parliament a vote on her doggy deal. But she'll all we have. The ERG group are a bunch of Dad's Army fanatics. So Sarah is correct. it's a complete shambles, we are laughing stock, and the last thing we need now is a Tory Leadership election. But May needs to compromise and offer the people a vote on her deal. She's a lame duck leader now.
- Richard
Sarah, I hope you continue to campaign for a people's Vote. It is the only democratic way forward with the government not functioning and destroying itself with its political infighting. Never before has democracy been so important. The first referendum should never have been taken as a final say, it should have been purely advisory. Also, it was so close that the result should not have been followed on such an important issue which will affect us permanently for the rest of the future. Those nasty self interested hard ERG Brexiteers have no interest in democracy or the interests of the people, many of whom already struggle to make ends meet, and I hope that they are voted down tonight . I'm not a fan of May, but the alternative is worse! Please know that you have lots of support. Helen (member of Devon for Europe)
- Helen Petit
These are not my original ideas but the 40 reasons below come from the Conservative website. Can you Sarah counter the reasons why we should honour the people's vote already cast. I'm certain your constituents who you should represent, will not support your change of views so I would ask you again to change back to your original position of wanting to leave. Listen to your constituents....please.
Free movement will come to an end, once and for all, with the introduction of a new skills-based immigration system.
We will take back full control of our money which we will be able to spend on our priorities such as the NHS. We will leave EU regional funding programmes – with the UK deciding how we spend this money in the future.
The jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in the UK will end.
In the future we will make our own laws in our own Parliaments and Assemblies in Westminster, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.
We will leave the Common Agricultural Policy.
We will leave the Common Fisheries Policy and become an independent coastal state again, with control over our waters.
We will be able to strike trade deals with other countries around the world. Deals can be negotiated and ratified during the implementation period and put in place straight afterwards.
We will be an independent voice for free trade on the global stage, speaking for ourselves at the World Trade Organisation, for the first time in decades.
We will be freed from the EU's political commitment to ever closer union.
We will be out of the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, recognising the UK's long track record in protecting human rights.
A fair settlement of our financial obligations, which will be less than half what was originally predicted.
Both the one million UK citizens living in the EU and the three million EU citizens living in the UK will have their rights legally guaranteed so they can carry on living their lives as before.
We will have a free trade area with the EU, with no tariffs, fees, charges or quantative restrictions across all sectors, helping to protect UK jobs. We will be the only major economy with such a relationship with the EU.
We've agreed with the EU that we will be as ambitious as possible in easing the movement of goods between the UK and the EU as part of our free trade area.
We will have an implementation period after we leave the EU during which trade will continue much as it does now. This will allow Government, businesses and citizens time to prepare for our new relationship.
The deal will see a greater reduction in barriers to trade in services than in any previous trade deal.
There will be an agreement that means UK citizens can practice their profession in the EU.
A comprehensive deal that secures access to the EU market for our financial services sector meaning the EU cannot withdraw it on a whim. This will provide stability and certainty for the industry.
A best in class agreement on digital, helping to facilitate e-commerce and reduce unjustified barriers to trade by electronic means.
We have agreed that there will be arrangements that will let data continue to flow freely, vital across our economy and for our shared security.
Trade arrangements for gas and electricity will help to ease pressure on prices and keep supply secure.
Strong rules will be in place to keep trade fair, so neither the UK nor EU can unfairly subsidise their industries against the other.
We will have a comprehensive Air Transport Agreement and comparable access for freight operators, buses and coaches.
We have agreed that there will be arrangements so we can take part in EU programmes like Horizon and Erasmus.
There will be a co-operation agreement with Euratom, covering all the key areas where we want to collaborate.
Visa-free travel to the EU for holidays and business trips will continue.
Our new security partnership will mean sharing of data like DNA, passenger records and fingerprints to fight crime and terrorism, going beyond any previous agreement the EU has made with a third country.
Our new security partnership will enable the efficient and swift surrender of suspected and wanted criminals.
Close co-operation for our police forces and other law enforcement bodies.
We will continue to work together on sanctions against those who violate international rules.
We will work together on cyber-security threats and support international efforts to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
Disputes between the UK and the EU on the agreement will be settled by an independent arbitrator, ensuring a fair outcome.
We will meet our commitment to ensure that there is no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
We will keep the Common Travel Area between the United Kingdom and Ireland, ensuring everyday life continues as now.
We will keep the Single Electricity Market between Northern Ireland and Ireland, which will help maintain a stable energy supply and keep prices down in Northern Ireland.
Both sides will be legally committed, by the Withdrawal Agreement, to use "best endeavours" to get the future relationship in place by the end of the implementation period, helping to ensure the backstop is never used.
An agreement to consider alternative arrangements to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, including all facilitative arrangements and technologies, and to begin preparatory work on this before we leave the EU, reflecting shared determination to replace the backstop.
In the unlikely event we do have to use the backstop, a UK-wide customs area will ensure there is no customs border in the Irish Sea.
Gibraltar's British sovereignty will be protected.
The deal delivers on the referendum result. It takes back control of our money, borders and laws whilst protecting jobs, security and the integrity of the United Kingdom.
- Mike Freeman
I agree with David H. Sarah Wollaston, in her capacity as MP for Totnes, has been disloyal to the party and its leadership on too many occasions for anyone to think that she is a true Tory. I suggest that she is supporting the PM on this occasion because any potential replacement would be a real Brexiteer.
- Lewis Mosse
People will remember Sarah Wollaston as just another sycophantic anti-democrat intent on keeping someone in office who has no concept of democracy, sovereignty or any of the other things people voted for in the referendum. The people had their vote already, respect it.
- Peter Hearn
117 votes. No Backstop here! The truth is that May is running out of road and the next leader will be Boris Johnson. Elected by the members. Sarah can stop pretending to be a Tory then.
- George, Paignton
2 faced or delusional , which is it Sarah??
- Peter Mulloy
ERG posturing? are you going to stop your posturing for a peoples vote that we've already had?? and get behind the parties commitments, maybe you just can't let your personal views be put before, Democracy , your constituents, and your Party. You are supposed to stand by the peoples (including constituents) wishes, Leave the job please if you can't do it.
- peter paignton
Write to the Totnes Conservative Assoc. asking for a new candidate at the next election. Sarah W has undermined democracy and the party on whose back she was elected. She clearly has more sense of self than of duty to the people who elected her.
- John
Boris as PM
Saints and Angels of mercy protect us
- Bob
Putting aside the internal power struggle within (all) parties. Our MPs, from all sides clearly recognise that parliament is pre-eminent and that MPs are voted in by constituents. They clearly feel that the referendum does nor carry the weight of a normal election process. So be it.
Consider then the outcome of the referendum based on constituencies. 63% Leave 37% remain. Had this been a NORMAL election, Leave would have a majority of 174 seats. I have excluded Wallasey which was 50/50. Source https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/parliament-and-elections/elections-elections/brexit-votes-by-constituency/
It seems to me that our democracy is lying in taters thanks to Westminster self interest and pity squabbles. Keep in mind this whole debacle is a Conservative debacle, created by 30 years of infighting, a moment of weakness (and ignorance) by David Cameron and a complete late of focus on what is important for the country from all sides of the house.
- Geoff
Seems to me that what is required is an outbreak of common sense on behalf of Cons members which one would hope might infect the idiotic faction led b the ERG. Sarah a 2nd referendum is a pipedream ,the cons party is going to split anyway so Mays deal is all we have !!
- Derek
Just one word sums up Wollaston - TRAITOR - a traitor to her constituents, her party, her country and above all democracy !!!"!
- Pete


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Although it was already official, last weekend, all the trophies were awarded to the best teams in the League of Alcorcón. And again, two of our teams were at the top.
Our Beginners were champions of their category.
While our Infantile has been third in the Southern Commonwealth League.
The effort of the whole year was well-worth it!


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(This is the second part of the script for the presentation by Andrew Drummond to the Offshore Alert Conference (Europe) in the City of London on November 13th 2018.* )
Then there was a murder in Bangkok…….
(29 New Zealander Ian Travis had broken away from Foreign Currency International to set up his own boiler room Platinum Asia, infuriating boss American James Muller.
Within a week he was gunned down in his BMW in the city centre. The gunmen were caught and made to re-enact the crime for cameras. Then warrants for conspiracy to murder were issued against Muller, his Thai wife and Jalit Sanitchon, the man who'd checked out my car, when I followed the FCI workers earlier. Muller was happily extradited by a court in Atlanta. But after his return all murder related charges were dismissed.
Then came the kidnappings.
First (30) Paul Hayward was kidnapped by Thai Police and taken to an office where cops played a Thai card game called hi-lo while he arranged to pay US$800,000 for his release. Piece of cake! And so, this was followed by the kidnapping of (31) Mark Hutcherson also by police.
Hutcherson, who was described an oil company executive, had paid US$400 000 before his wife raised the alarm through the U.S. Embassy.
Through his marriage, Hutcherson was brother-in-law to a former governor of Bangkok. That together with the Embassy involvement may explain why arrests had to be made.
Three sergeants from Crime Suppression and Metropolitan Police Divisions were charged, and a warrant was issued for the Colonel in the Crime Suppression Division, who got away with the cash. Two Thai-American brothers (32) James and John McCleary were also picked up elsewhere.
The Thai media were fed a story that the McClearys were professional American kidnappers with a long criminal history. In court, they admitted they had been employed by Hayward and Hutcherson but were now teaching English and produced documentation showing they had no previous convictions in the U.S.
They claimed they'd never met the strangers beside them in the dock.
But the McClearys got 18 years and the police only 12, and the police defendants had their heads covered as they walked with (33) John McCleary from the court.
John McCleary started writing to me from prison through a Buddhist monk (34) who had a Scottish accent and American passport. Monks were very useful because when they visited prisons they were allowed to visit prisoners in isolation.
(35) I should have said 'when looking for foreign crooks in Thailand also investigate the monkhood and police'.
Lockie Campbell, who also visited prisons, is a former Scots post office robber and member of the Glasgow gang, the Tongs. Sadly, he didn't reform and is now doing time in Barlinnie for drugs dealing.
(36) Niels Colov is a long-term head of foreign police volunteers in Thailand. He's a former underworld figure from Copenhagen who's done time for pimping and coercion. To impress the Thais, he even awarded himself a UNESCO Cross. There's no such thing. But the Thais didn't realise You can't beat Thailand for Star Wars bars.
McCleary wrote from jail that had he been set up by Hayward after resigning as his bag-man after a violent row over the death of Hayward's American accountant from a heroin overdose.
I can't go into this. But it's basically another allegation of murder. McCleary claimed that he spoke to the people who forcibly injected the heroin. I can't verify apart from the fact that the man died from an overdose.
But, saying that Hayward was vengeful, John McCleary took documents with him for insurance.
After his arrest, he said, he had been (39) tortured by police with a hammer for those documents. Subsequently he had to have seven toes amputated.
As bag-man, McCleary said each month he was accompanied by an armed escort and paid out between US$600,000 and US$700,000 to the Immigration, the Metropolitan, Crime Suppression and the Economic Crime Police Divisions. The last payment is a bit like paying off the City Fraud Squad.
Meanwhile the stolen files were delivered to me by our man in saffron robes.
They included accounts, load cards, lists of British victims from scams carried out under the fake company (41) Jackson Cole, handwritten details of bank transfers to HSBC and the China Trust in Hong Kong and details of (42) seller's commissions and Jackson Cole's terms, signed by Hayward/Hilton (P.H).
(43) McCleary, incidentally, was released on a Kings Pardon in late 2016 and talks to me from Florida where he has armed himself with an automatic.
Time has passed and now together with a group known as the FRG – Fraud Recover Group, composed of 90 victims who had lost US$20 million to the Bangkok 5, I had a good handle on Paul Hayward.
We had the details of all his (44) fake companies
What products they sold.(45)
What banks they used (46)
And we knew the banker couriers, who would set up the accounts and dormant companies and pick up the cash. (47).
We also had print-outs of their air-travel and destinations which linked to where they had set up fake companies and bank accounts. The man, David Strudwicke, I knew. He had a pub in Chiang Mai, (Thailand's northern capital) called the Bear's Den. In Taiwan, and Singapore he was worth millions!
Michael Lee Port had been arrested in Singapore where he was actually successfully prosecuted and jailed. He had named his boss as Paul Jan Hilton. But it was clear from internal police messages that Britain's city fraud squad did not realise that Hilton was Hayward's pseudonym. So for a while they were chasing a photographer called Paul Hilton.
Then I obtained a list of Hayward's acquisitions in Thailand. Jaw-dropping stuff. Over 100 companies. Hayward's name was not on any but members of his family were.
But the list came with diagrams and charts explaining Hayward's control, through his wife, lawyers, policeman, friends, and associates, or through holding companies etc. Something odd was obviously happening in the Land Office.
Hayward was massively circumventing Thai ownership laws put in place to stop foreigners like Russians, buying up the whole country. – just like we do here! (joke).
He'd also have to prove he brought cash into the country to buy bars, clubs, restaurants, principally in Bangkok, but also all over Thailand with money, much of which was coming over the Malaysian border, according to McCleary, organised by a woman called Sumali, in cases of US$100 bills.
I passed all this on to the Serious Organised Crime Agency in Bangkok, AMLO, the Anti-Money-Laundering Office, and the Department of Special Investigations.
The Thais said they wanted to act. The DSI even offered me a desk. But I saw their eyes glaze over. I could see the problem. I could not spend my days with them and they needed specialist advice, preferably from our fraud police. SOCA, as far as I can tell, lost all the files, when they became the National Crime Agency.
Other journalists were noticing something was odd. (48) The banks in Hong Kong were being rightly blamed for aiding the money laundering operations by flouting Know Your Customer codes, as a colleague Benjamin Robertson wrote in the South China Post.
The Guardian's consumer champion (49) Tony Levene also warned in his column – beware the man posing as Paul Hilton.
Jackson Cole and Legacy Global Wealth were boiler rooms, he warned, the latter trading out of the Pacific Star Building in Manila.
(50) I also learned later that Hayward was known to fans of Crawley Town Football Club in Sussex as 'Hong Kong Paul and was ploughing the start of £5 million the club's way through (51) 'Eclipse Management', a successor to a company called 'Hospitality Venture Group' set up in his mother's name.
Again, Hayward's investments were held in the names of directors. It smacked of money laundering but he sold out when I wrote the story.
Without notice, he called me. He was very friendly. We didn't need to be enemies, he said, while enthusing about his purchase of Nana Plaza. For instance he was insisting he was going to clean the place up and get rid of the Thai lady boys. I remember thinking that's the last place the sex tourists wanted cleaning up. Finally he asked if he could assist me, perhaps by funding.
I declined and asked, 'Don't you think you'll ever be caught.' 'No', he said, 'I don't even have a bank account'. Then I told him I had friend who needed to leave the country by passing immigration. No problem, he said, 'I can give him a 'walk through' at Bangkok airport, or car over the Malaysian border. '
I knew he could. and I had had other reports of British criminals getting 'walk-throughs' at Bangkok airport. I never called back to give him the name of my fictitious friend.
Part 3 will be published tomorrow
- During presentation there were some deviations from the script and some abbreviation due to time constraints.