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Jaws Theta Chi, often shortened as JOX, is one of the six fraternities at Monsters University who appear in the 2013 Disney/Pixar animated film of the same name.
Official Description
- Big on brawn but short on brainpower, the Jaws Theta Chi (JΘX) fraternity brothers are rarely seen without their flashy letterman jackets. The JOX are brutal competitors who never hesitate to do whatever it takes to beat their opponent, even if it's breaking the rules. Despite practically living at the gym or on the field, these sports-loving monsters often prove that bigger doesn't always mean better when it comes to Scaring.
Role in the film
JOX was one of the fraternities competing in the Scare Games. During the first event, JOX succeeds the obstacle course, but are subsequently disqualified after it is discovered the members were wearing a special protection gel that keeps them from having allergic reactions to the obstacles in the game, allowing Oozma Kappa to take their place in the running.
- Their Greek abbreviation is a pun on "Jocks". It is parodied from "ΙΘΧ": Iota Theta Chi.
- Omar Harris was originally colored blue and a part of the Roar Omega Roar (at the time called EEK) fraternity.
- Big Red and George Sanderson are the only members of JOX to speak in the film.
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Elephant Learning Math Academy {My Review}
We've had the good fortune of receiving a 12-month subscription to Elephant Learning Math Academy to review. This program promises one-year improvement in math by using it for only 30 minutes a week for 12 weeks.
Doing some research, I found that this online math program covers a wide range of students from 2 to 16 years of age. I signed on as soon as our link arrived and created a student profile for each of the boys. They began by playing math games that taught and tested them on their math skills.
Easy to Use App
Once they each had a profile, I was able to share a QR code with them that allowed them to log into their personal area. It makes it super easy for them to use the app on their Ipad or tablet.
Little Tots Counting Games
I have to be very honest, having a two and a half-year-old play math games on an app does take quite a bit of supervision (well it does in our case) but he does like it. There is a lot of counting with different ways of asking and answering the questions. Little Monster is having fun and counting outside of the program so he seems to be learning.
Finding Strengths and Weaknesses
Once your students are older they can begin by reviewing their 'math age'. This helps them (and you as their teacher) identify where they may need a little extra help. It also provides a small explanation of the process in case your child just needs a little reminder.
Once your child has tested out they will be assigned the appropriate grade level of math work to use as a supplement for 10 minutes, three times a week. I found EJ preferred to play for 20 minutes because he was having fun and didn't want to stop too quickly. This could be due to his ADHD since once he gets into something he doesn't like a lot of change.
One thing I did find when he was working on it was I heard a lot of, "Oh man, that was right, why did it mark me wrong?" followed up with, "or maybe I hit the wrong button." EJ does tend to get ahead of himself at times so I reminded him to slow down a bit before he hit enter.
Flexible Program
Because we used this as a supplement to EJ's regular math program I was a bit concerned that the work he was doing on either one would not match the other. I needed have worried though since you as the parent/teacher have the ability to change assignments for your students.
Since he is working on pre-algebra now I was able to try out the level before it as suggested by the program (it is better for the program to move up to the child rather than the child moving backward). Once we saw how he was doing with this I simply went into the dashboard again and clicked on the prealgebra test. This way it was ready for him the next time he signed on.
EJs Thoughts
This math program was good because it knows how my work is going and gives me questions about the ones I need to learn more. There are different voices with different accents and sometimes they would say EJ but sometimes they would say Eeej. It was kind of funny.
I mostly liked playing this math game since it was only for 10 or 20 minutes a day but sometimes it was kind of young for me. I would have liked it better if it was more just the numbers and not always animals or robots and things but it was still ok.
My Thoughts
I really liked this math program/game for Little Monster. It was a short amount of time and moved quickly enough to keep a two and a half-year-old interested. As I said earlier, he does need some help and supervision but he is learning how to count better all the time.
As a supplement to EJ's regular math program, I found it made a positive effect as well. It is a cross between a game and an online work program so it stayed interesting. I know he found it a little young at times but I do think it has been helping him to review his work, remember the processes, and stay on top of what he is working on now.
For myself, I liked that I could easily keep track of how much time he was using the program plus how he was doing in each topic area. The dashboard is easy to access and the numbers are right up front for knowing where he might be needing a little extra help.
Find them on social media
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElephantLearningApp/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/326018460521178485/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-trzn9RVkSyRnycLYfoXwA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elephantlearningapp/
Final Thoughts
Overall this program fit well with our family. One of the positives for us was that even on travel days when we might not be doing a full math lesson, EJ was still able to sign on and do ten or twenty minutes when we stopped for lunch. This made it so he was keeping math in his mind every day. Something very important for a child who has memory issues.
Be sure to check out what other Crew families had to say about Elephant Learning Math Academy by clicking on the image below.

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One of the most conservative members of the US Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, has died.
Justice Scalia's death could shift the balance of power in the US high court, allowing President Barack Obama to add a fifth liberal justice to the bench.
The court's conservative 5-4 majority has recently stalled major efforts by the Obama administration on climate change and immigration, BBC reported.
Justice Scalia, 79, was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. He died in his sleep early on Saturday while in West Texas for a hunting trip, the US Marshalls Service said.
"For almost 30 years, Justice Scalia was a larger-than-life presence on the bench," President Obama said, calling him "an extraordinary judicial thinker" with "an incisive wit".
The president said he intends to name a replacement in due time, despite calls from Republicans to wait until the next president is elected.
"There will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the Senate to fulfil its responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote," Obama said.
Born in 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey, Justice Scalia was the first Italian American to serve on the high court.
He was one of the most prominent proponents of "originalism"—a conservative legal philosophy that believes the US Constitution has a fixed meaning and does not change with the times.
In the majority, he supported business interests and was a strong advocate for the death penalty, but he often parted with his conservative colleagues on issues of free speech.


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Unless our venue is privately rented out, we are partnered with LuLu Lemon to provide free, entertaining yoga classes every Wednesday. These classes happen inside our brewery or outside on our green space depending on the weather. We also offer happy hour specials on our brews immediately following the class
Even though Jefferson Arms Apartments in Baton Rouge, Louisiana provides you with all of the comfort, convenience, and entertainment you could possibly desire, we encourage our residents to venture outside of our apartment community and explore all that the city has to offer!
Event Time/Date:
Wednesday, December 28, 2016— 6:00 PM
Event Venue Location:
Tin Roof Brewing Company
1624 Wyoming Street
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802


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Nursery R 2019 - 2020
Mrs Roche
Hello and welcome to my class page
Mrs Roche, Miss Davies and Miss Kaur
On this page you will find information about the current topic, news and updates regarding special events and dates to remember as well as access to photographs of the children and the fun things they have been doing whilst in school.
Home Learning and Tapestry
A big thank for all the home learning observations submitted to Tapestry! We really appreciated all your hard work and support for the children's learning. It is so important that even during this unprecedented time that children are still learning and progressing as much as possible.
A quick reminder- Each day there will be a piece of work uploaded by the teachers onto the MEMO area on Tapestry these have to be accessed through your web browser and NOT the APP. There will be a phonics, maths and literacy lesson and on Friday there will be an investigation lesson! Please try to complete these lessons with your child daily and upload the tasks to Tapestry as an observation for your class teacher to view. Also, please do not forget to read with your child follow the link for lots of free Ebooks https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html
Welcome to the new term
Summer 2 'When I grow up'
During this topic the children will be reflecting on their year in Nursery and learning about the human lifecycle. We will explore the past, the present and the future by looking at how we have grown and how we continue to grow. The two main texts we will use during this topic are: 'When I grow up' written by Tim Minchin and 'Busy people books' linked to occupations. Please find below a video of the story 'When I grow up' via YouTube:
During this topic we will continue to focus on the children's mark marking and writing skills linking this with their phonics. We also aim to encourage lots of creativity and imagination through our Understanding of the World; thinking about ourselves how we have grown and what may happen in the future?; what aspirations we have for 'when we grow up'.
Through this term we will continue with both: Shape, space and measure and number elements of maths. We will be repeating some key skills learned through the year working towards mastery of numbers 0-10 and preparing the children for their learning as they move towards Reception class.
Also during this period of uncertainty, we still love to see what the children are learning and getting up to. So please do upload to Tapestry your family celebrations of all types e.g. Religion; births; birthdays as it's really important that we still celebrate these milestones even if we can't have a party and invite family and friends.
Useful links:
'Development matters' This document supports our assessment. Please see all statements within 22-36 months and 30-50 months for all areas to support your child with development points for this term.
'Tapestry' This is your child's online Learning journal and will be a working document from the start of Nursery to the end of Reception. https://tapestryjournal.com/
Phonics https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase1Menu.htm
Phonics play This site can be used to support your child's learning within phonics. The link below will take you to the free learning zone for Phase 1 phonics. As the year goes on you may wish to trial the games in the phase 2 learning zone.
Reading https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
Art and Design https://www.purplemash.com/login/
Music https://charanga.com/yumu/login
Maths https://play.numbots.com/#/account/school-login-type
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The Photography Show 2019
The biggest photography show of the year
Come and pay us a visit!
It's the biggest photography show of the year and we'll be there. Join us at The Photography Show in Birmingham from the 16th to the 19th of March. Visit the Loxley Colour stand (G132) to see our full collection of products and have a chat with the team. We're on-hand to answer any of your questions and help you find the perfect products for your photography.
What's on?
1. The Loxley Colour main stand - G132
View products, preview the NEW Adore Book, enter £500 lab credit prize draw, and get all the info you need on the Spring Sample Sale.
2. Loxley's love shack - H131
New for 2019. Come along have a chat, hang out and relax.
3. Album Gallery
Here we will be showcasing our favourite albums in an exhibition wide Album Gallery.
4. Loxley sponsored Live stage
5. The People's Gallery


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Art Hop
By: Lorraine Austin
Discover Kalamazoo, Communication & New Media Coordinator
Kalamazoo, Mich. — Art Hop is tonight, and it's one of the great things to do in Kalamazoo.
Usually held the first Friday of the month, July's Hop is scheduled for the 9th because of the holiday. I'd highly recommend it as something you can do alone, with friends or with family that's a) fun b) free c) interactive d) a superb way to explore our downtown. And you don't have to characterize yourself as an "artist" to really enjoy it.
If it were up to me, I might just tweak the name a bit. Art Hop sounds a bit frantic and perky. I get the reference . . . hopping from one spot to another. In my opinion, it's actually more of an Art Saunter, perhaps an Art Glide – because what happens between stops is just as important to the whole experience as the designated stops themselves. Folks frolic on the Mall as street musicians' tunes permeate the air. Residents and visitors share critiques of what they've seen/where they should go next. It really seems like everyone who's out and about on an Art Hop night enjoy a sort of kinetic kinship. It's not only okay to chat with folks you don't know, it's expected. Friends and family from out of town always come away thinking that Kalamazoo really GETS the idea of community.
Not to minimize the actual designated stops . . .
A few months ago, I invited my sister, who is a professional artist, to go hopping with me. She really appreciated the access to the artists – all of whom were very willing to share information on techniques and materials. They seemed as interested in her endeavors as she was in theirs. What a treat for her to find others with similar aesthetics. I, of course, usually glazed over midway through their mutual admiration – but that was okay. I meandered to discover another piece on display or nabbed a glass of wine or tasty nibble (yes, many of the stops offer edible treats in addition to those for the eyes).
If you're headed to this Friday's Art Hop, we'd love to hear about it. Which stop did you like best? Tell us about an experience you had outside of the designated Hop sites. Visit the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo for more information about Art Hop.
For more information about things to do in Kalamazoo MI, visit Discover Kalamazoo.


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Here is TWN Contributor Nir Rosen's latest article on Iraq that ran in "The National" on 26 September 2008.
We Run the Road
Nir Rosen reports from Majd al Anjar, where the rage of young men mixes with the sectarian fervour spilling over Iraq's borders.
On May 12, a few days after street fighting erupted in Beirut, I drove to Majd al Anjar, a Sunni stronghold in Lebanon's Bekaa, close to the Syrian border, where gunmen were still blocking the motorway from Beirut to Damascus.
At the edge of town, several hundred men with automatic rifles, rocket propelled grenade launchers, pistols and hand grenades stood before earthen barriers and fires. Some wore masks. There was nobody in command – this was a mob, not a militia. The men were angry, afraid, suspicious, shouting at strangers and each other, each one an authority unto himself, carelessly swinging weapons around, oblivious to where they were pointing. Some rested the barrels of their rifles on top of their feet, a sign they had no professional training.
Lebanese soldiers stationed at the intersection perched indolently atop their armored personnel carriers, phlegmatically watching the anarchy. The road was blocked to vehicles, but hundreds of Syrian labourers descended from buses to walk through the roadblock toward the border. Two old men were detained as they passed through the mob – their identity cards revealed they were Shiites, and locals sitting nearby swarmed around them. Rifles were loaded and a frisson of blood passed through the crowd, but the men were eventually released.
Majd al Anjar occupies a strategic location on the road to Syria, but it is also a crossroads for the sectarian fervour unleashed across the region by the American invasion of Iraq. The town has dispatched numerous suicide bombers and fighters to Iraq, where they have targeted American troops and Shiite civilians alike. The war – and the rise of a US-backed Shiite government in Iraq has stoked fury here that borders on racism, fired by irrational fears of a "Shiite crescent" encircling vulnerable Sunnis.
Analysts talked of the "Lebanonization" of Iraq as the country spiralled into civil war after the fall of Saddam, and now Lebanon – a weak state awash in oceans of arms – faces the spectre of Iraqification. In Majd al Anjar, angry young men are not waiting for leaders to emerge; they are prepared to take matters into their own hands.
By 2007 Lebanon had come to feel more and more like post-war Iraq, with new neighbourhood militias arming themselves and sectarian tensions rising to a boil. The conflict, ostensibly over politics, pitted Sunnis against Shiites, with Christians essentially marginalised and politically insignificant. After the war in Iraq – which empowered Shiite Islamists and removed a key opponent to Iran, Saddam Hussein – and Hezbollah's July 2006 war with Israel, many analysts suggested a "Shiite revival" was underway. But as the Lebanese political scientist Amer Mohsen told me, it would be more accurate to talk of a general resurgence of sectarian identities across the Middle East: "There is a Shiite revival, a Sunni revival, a Druze revival, an Alawite revival and a Kurdish revival – all happening simultaneously."
In the summer of 2007, tensions had deepened and a sense of foreboding was widespread. The July war was a fresh memory, and many feared that neither Israel nor Hizbollah considered it settled.
A third war – "the next civil war" – loomed on the horizon, and the fighting in the camps and the street clashes between Sunnis and Shiites earlier in 2007 seemed to indicate that the chaos unleashed in Iraq was spilling across its borders as fighters, weapons, tactics and sectarian conflicts migrated to Lebanon.
Tensions between Sunnis and Shiites exploded in May 2008, when Hizbollah and its allies – alarmed by moves against its communications network – closed down the road to Beirut's airport. Demonstrations turned into clashes, and Hizbollah quickly took control of the streets, vanquishing poorly trained Sunni militias in and around Beirut. By the second day of fighting Hizbollah men were patrolling the streets of the capital, calling into question their prior commitment never to use their weapons inside Lebanon. The conflict quickly spread, stirring the more militant Sunnis of the Bekaa and northern Lebanon, and on May 9, the irate shabab of Majd al Anjar closed the motorway to Damascus.
Few roads lead into the tightly connected homes and narrow streets of Majd al Anjar – whose many mosques and ethos of austerity and solidarity have always reminded me of Fallujah. At the makeshift roadblock I met one of the local leaders, a red-headed 34-year-old whom I will call Omar. He carried a tiny pistol he could hide in his pocket and wore a ski mask, but raised it above his brow so we could speak. Omar talked like the takfiris I knew in Iraq, radical Sunnis who declare other Muslims, especially Shiites, to be kufar – infidels. He used an anti-Shiite slur, "rafidha" (meaning rejectionists), and said Lebanon's Shiites had been armed by "nusayris", an insulting term for Alawites – meaning the Syrian regime. The Shiites, he claimed, were agents of the Israelis; if Shiite holy sites in Iraq had not been liberated from American occupiers, he asked, how could Hizbollah claim it would liberate Jerusalem from Israel?
"Resistance," he continued, referring to Hizbollah, "is not about entering Beirut and humiliating its people. This roadblock is for victory in Beirut and the Sunnis. We won't open the road until they open the airport." To Omar, Hizbollah – "the Party of God" – was "Hizb al Lat", the Party of Lot, meaning the party of sin. Like many other salafists, he also called them "Hizb ash Shaitan", the party of the devil. "We are the shabab of Majd al Anjar," he said, "we fight the 'rafidha'. We are known as fighters. We ruled for hundreds of years. We have many mujahideen and martyrs in Iraq." He told me that many jihadist websites had published calls for Sunni volunteers to come fight in Lebanon: "If the Sunnis of Beirut call us we will come."
Omar had no formal military training, though "from age 10 I'm using weapons," he said, "and many guys from here are like that." But Omar's life changed when he fell under the influence of a man named Abu Mohammed, a local of Kurdish descent also known as Abu Shahid al Lubnani – who served as a deputy to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the slain founder of al Qa'eda in Iraq. Abu Mohammed also died fighting in Iraq, in a failed attack on Abu Ghraib prison. "Abu Mohammed gave me my creed," Omar said, explaining that he became devout seven years earlier under the older man's influence.
Abu Mohammed was trained in Afghanistan and took part in the first appearance of al Qa'eda in Lebanon – when jihadists led by a Lebanese veteran of the Afghan and Bosnian wars named Basim al Kanj battled the Lebanese army at the end of 1999. Kanj recruited fighters from slums and camps to set up his own network, which included some men from Majd al Anjar. He set up training camps in Dinniyeh, east of Tripoli, and soon clashed with the army in a bloody standoff that killed 15 of the Islamists along with 11 soldiers and five civilians. The Dinniyeh group was not large, but dozens of salafis around the country were arrested – and radicalised in prison. Abu Mohammed was eventually arrested at a mosque in Majd al Anjar in 2002, but he was able to use connections and pay his way out of jail after only four months. He headed to Iraq, where he was said to have dispatched the car bomb that killed the Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
At least seven other young men from Majd al Anjar were martyred in Iraq, and Omar had a plaque in their honour mounted in his living room. His own brother-in-law was killed fighting in Rawa, in Anbar province, in June 2003. I had visited Rawa the day after Omar's brother-in-law died, one of dozens of Iraqi and foreign fighters killed in a desert camp by the Americans; locals buried them near a mosque, placing their ID cards in bottles that served as makeshift tombstones. One of them was the son of Abu Mohammed – this is why he was also called Abu Shahid, the father of the martyr.
Omar was arrested in 2004, accused of plotting to bomb western embassies. But he was released in 2005, along with other jihadists, at the same time as Samir Geagea, the leader of the right-wing Christian Lebanese Forces, who had been convicted of war crimes – in a move widely regarded as an attempt to bolster the Sunni credentials of the Future Movement.
After the invasion of Iraq, he told me, Omar worked smuggling weapons and fighters into Syria and then on to Iraq. Abu Mohammed would come in from Iraq and meet him in Damascus. Omar delivered truckloads of weapons – bombs, explosives, missiles and silencers. The two men bribed Syrian customs officials and moved goods on clandestine dirt roads. Omar's friend Ismail Khatib purchased the weapons and handled communications with their comrades in Iraq. "We were a very tight group," Omar said, "we couldn't be penetrated." But after a fighter from the group was killed in Iraq and two lorries of weapons were seized, the authorities began to watch them, and Omar was arrested in September 2004, two months after his last delivery of weapons to Syria.
Majd al Anjar had become a critical smuggling centre, an important stop in the network that moved fighters into Iraq from Lebanon and its Palestinian camps, especially Ain al Hilweh. Dozens of men from the camp had become martyrs in Iraq, among them a friend of Omar's named Abu Jaafar al Qiblawi, who was killed alongside Zarqawi in June 2006. Omar had smuggled Abu Jaafar into Syria and Ismail took him into Iraq – in Zarqawi's last video, Abu Jaafar can be seen handing him a machine gun. In Abu Jaafar's own last will, filmed on the banks of a river in 2005, he addresses his parents, gun in hand, calling on his brothers to join the jihad.
Omar and his associates were caught with fifty kilograms of TNT and five kilograms of C4. All of the men were tortured by members of the Ministry of Interior's Information Branch, Omar said – he was hit in the back of the head with a club and his legs remained bruised for months after the beatings. Ismail died in custody – allegedly tortured to death, though the authorities denied it – and news of his demise sparked riots and demonstrations in Majd al Anjar, while Sunni politicians called for the resignation of interior minister Elias Murr.
After Ismail died, Omar lost his connections to Iraq, and there was no more work smuggling for the jihad. He bragged wistfully about those days: "We are al Qa'eda," he told me, "we had connections to Abu Shahid." Omar knew seven or eight men in town who had returned from Iraq, and he said there were others as well. I met one middle-aged Iraqi Baathist who was said to have been in the resistance, but he refused to discuss his past except to say that he served the state. "I'm wanted for terrorism in Syria," Omar told me, adding that he was wanted in Lebanon as well, for opening fire in a fight.
Shortly after I arrived at the roadblock, a convoy of expensive cars arrived carrying Sheikh Mohammed Abdel Rahman, the head of the Sunni religious endowment in the Bekaa. A loudspeaker was set up and hundreds of the men surrounded him as he addressed the crowd.
The Sunni elite feared young men like Omar over whom they had little control, and Sheikh Mohammed had come to attempt to exert some influence. Representatives of the Future Movement, Omar told me, had asked them to lift the roadblock, but they refused to back down. Locals voted for the Future Movement out of Sunni solidarity, according to Omar, but they did not belong to the party.
Sheikh Mohammed addressed them directly. "You represent Majd al Anjar," he said, "the decision to open the road is yours. It's impossible to open the road without your agreement. The decision must protect the interest of the town and the people of the town and the shabab of the town." The issue was protecting the Sunni sect, its dignity and autonomy, he said. "The Islamic Sunni resistance begins today," he said. "We work for Lebanon, and they work for Iran." Young men shot into the air as he spoke.
The following Friday I visited the Abdel Rahman Auf mosque in Majd al Anjar, known locally as the "wahabbi" mosque. Omar met us at the edge of town and took us to the mosque, where he handed us off to a chubby, bearded friend. Expensive cars were squeezed into every available space outside the mosque, which was full of boys and young men. In his sermon, Sheikh Adnan al Umama described Hizbollah's "barbaric raid" on Beirut and condemned Iran.
There was a battle of creeds, he said: "These people who came against us are secular and infidels, and if they are honest about what they say then we have to be ready to fight them. We saw them invading Beirut with hearts full of hate and accusing us of the murder of Hussein." It was time for Sunnis to stop being afraid of "them" – meaning Shiites – and time to start rising. "From this podium, I say that until the government is able to defend us we insist on carrying our guns," he said, "and we will resist with our women and children and all the power we have. I praise our heroes who blocked the road. Yes, they did the right thing. And for those who invaded us under the name of resistance, we wont forget that your guns that invaded Beirut under the name of resistance are not resistance weapons anymore."
Before the end of the sermon, a thick older man with a long gray beard snatched my friend's notebook and demanded mine as well. After the prayer ended, a group of men surrounded us, but Omar's friend vouched for our presence.
The next day I visited Sheikh Adnan at his home. Landscape paintings and gaudy European art decorated his living room. He was young and quick with a smile, more jovial than I had expected after the tone of his sermon. He usually tried to avoid talking about politics, he said, and to focus on religion, because politics always change.
Shiites in Lebanon, he continued, were acting as they had in Iraq – but the Sunnis in Iraq were stronger because they had at their disposal weapons belonging to the former regime. Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri, he said, erred when they called for al Qa'eda to come to Lebanon because they did not understand the country: it was too divided and mixed for jihadist groups to establish a stronghold.
But after the Hizbollah takeover of Beirut, he argued, it was natural that Sunnis would want to arm themselves. His sermon, he explained, was not a call for fitna – internal Muslim conflict – but a warning of the danger facing Sunnis. He felt that Lebanon's Sunnis were still searching for a leader to represent them; the Future Movement, he said, had no creed, only the desire for money; Lebanon's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani, was too close to the Saudis and the Future Movement and did nothing to respond to Hezbollah's actions in Beirut.
Afterwards we went to see Omar at his house. "We are not in line with Shiekh Adnan," he told me. "He is moderate, as they say." Omar and his friends followed the fatwas of scholars associated with al Qa'eda.
Omar's sitting room was a shrine to jihad: he had a large collection of ammunition shells and grenades on display in a cabinet and framed pictures of the September 11 attacks – the Twin Towers aflame and a smouldering Pentagon – greeted visitors near the doorway. When his little boy wandered in, Omar asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, and the child, grinning, said "a mujahid!"
A tall, thick man – wearing jeans and a T-shirt that were both too tight, in the true Lebanese style – came to see Omar, wearing a pistol on his belt. He introduced himself as Walid, and Omar explained he had been one of the organisers of the roadblock. Motioning to the pistol, I asked if he was police. "No," he said, "I'm a mujahid." He explained that the decision to close the road had been taken spontaneously by the shabab. "Our conscience and our honour made us close it," he said, "I smoke hashish, I'm not religious. It was something from the inside."
I visited often in the spring and summer. Omar was never without his 9mm Glock pistol; it was always in his hand, his lap, or next to him on the table. The gun was another symbol of the spread of the Iraq war – like many Glocks I had seen in Lebanon, it had been smuggled into the country after being issued by the Americans to the Iraqi security forces.
One day in June, as I was sitting with Omar, he picked up the phone and then grabbed the pistol and ran out the door. Three unfamiliar cars with tinted windows had driven into town. He called Walid to report the news. "They might be military," he said. "Park your car and I"ll send someone to pick you up – they're raiding your house." "Don't worry about me, I'll start shooting if they get close to my house." Omar took out a walkie talkie and contacted other men in their network. Before long Walid burst through the door with a thuggish-looking friend, sweating and out of breath. He was carrying a new AK-47 with a scope and flashlight. His friend carried a belt-fed machine gun. "If Saddam Hussein was alive he would help us with ammunition," Walid said. "That's why they killed him."
"I never carried a rifle before," Walid went on, "but since the Shiites attacked I started carrying one." He wore an vest laden with extra ammunition and several American hand grenades that he said cost $50 a piece. Walid claimed he had forced Shiite officials at the Masnaa border crossing to stop working there. This was why security officers were paying a visit to the town. His thuggish friend put it succinctly: "We and the state are opposed."
"Before May 8 I used to love life," Walid said, "I would never sleep, I was into women, drugs, alcohol, I was living life to the fullest. Something happened in my heart I cant explain to anybody. Since May 8 I am a different person. I started praying five times a day, feeling more confident when I'm fighting." Now he fantasised about becoming a suicide bomber. "I should be doing martyrdom operations too," he told me, his eyes darting to Omar, looking for approval. "I would like to blow myself up during Nasrallah's speech when there is a large group of people."
He got so much pleasure from shooting, he said, and he surmised that if he went on a martyrdom operation his soul would feel even better. Omar, for his part, said he expected suicide operations to begin against Shiites in Lebanon. "I wont be surprised if it happened, and we are waiting for it to happen," he said.
Omar didn't seem to have a job, but I soon realised he had a lucrative underground business selling weapons. One afternoon as we drove through the narrow alley leading to Omar's house, a man casually stopped the car and stuck his head in the window – as if it was the most natural thing in the world – to ask if he could buy 2000 rounds of ammunition. "Come to my house," Omar said, and when we arrived his living room looked like an armory. He had an RPG launcher, boxes of ammunition, eight rifles, two machine guns. In a box that once contained a dress from Syria, Omar had stuffed an assortment of grenades. To my displeasure, he took some out to play with, showing me how to take them apart. He also had some Israeli C4, which he brandished as if to prove that anything can be smuggled.
I asked him if he was worried about the authorities. "The army is not allowed in here," he replied, and I asked who prevented them from coming. "We don't allow them," he said, "none of them will survive. Do they want another Nahr al Bared?" The police were also barred, he added: "if they come the whole town will fight."
Opponents of Hizbollah like to describe it as a state within a state. But outside of Beirut there are few signs of any state in Lebanon, or any authority willing to assert itself – and for Sunnis, in Majd al Anjar and elsewhere, there is no Hizbollah to step into the vacuum.
Omar referred to a man called Abu Hudheifa as his sheikh and emir. When I met him he had just been released from a 10-month stay in prison; in 2004 he was arrested in Syria for trying to enter Iraq and spent eight months in a Syrian jail and three more in a Lebanese prison; he was tortured in both countries, he said.
Abu Hudheifa told me he thought Majd al Anjar was special because it had a lot of religious people of the same colour – meaning Sunni. "We have a lot of people who went to Iraq and were killed there so we have people who love jihad," he said.
One night in June close to midnight Omar called to tell me they had just received word that two local boys, Abdallah Abdel Khalaq and Firas Yamin, had blown themselves up in Iraq on two consecutive days. 20-year-old Abdallah had called his family to say goodbye and announce his plan. At noon the next day he blew himself up while driving down a crowded Baghdad street. Two hours later his companions informed his parents, who proudly distributed sweets to celebrate. "If I had a chance" to go to Iraq, Omar said, "I would go."
But the ideology of jihad often seemed less important than the sheer will to fight – against whoever could be found. One night the Lebanese army arrested one of their men in Masnaa; the next morning we drove through Majd al Anjar with one of Omar's friends. "We are ready," he said to a woman on the phone. "Still ready. We didn't sleep last night." The men skirmished regularly with nearby Shiites, whom the men called Hizbollah, probably inaccurately. "Last night we went down to Marj," Omar's friend said, "patrolling with our cars with tinted windows, driving back and forth in the main streets of Majd al Anjar and Marj. We had guns, we were ready."
Another one of Omar's friends, who they called Dr Saadi because he had a PhD in history, had been imprisoned for his alleged involvement in the 2000 Millennium plot to blow up hotels and Christian sites in Jordan, and travelled to Fallujah after his release. There was no true Sunni party in Lebanon, he complained: the Future Movement were mercenaries without belief who controlled Lebanon's Sunnis but obeyed orders from the Americans. But one day soon, he promised, salafists would raise the Sunni flag in Lebanon.
As we talked bursts of AK-47 fire rang out nearby, and all the men laughed, especially when they saw me flinch. A friend had been released from prison, Omar explained, and was firing rounds into the air. "Army intelligence captured him," Omar explained, "but we threatened to block the roads, and now he is celebrating."
Like many salafis I have met, Saadi was openly envious of Hezbollah's confrontation with Israel but contemptuous of its failure to fight beyond Lebanon's borders. "Hizbollah protects the Jewish border with orders from the Syrian regime," he said. The goal of Hizbollah's "takeover" of Beirut was to weaken Sunnis in the Arab world, he argued.
"Sunnis have woken up," Saadi continued. "Sunnis around the world are mad after what happened in Beirut. The result will be a thousand Zarqawis going after Hizbollah."
— Nir Rosen is a fellow at the NYU Center on Law and Security and the New America Foundation. His reporting was supported by a grant from the Nation Institute.


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A fun and flexible way to help the animals and generate funds for the shelter is to volunteer at the HSCO Thrift Store. The store raises 40% of yearly revenue for the programs and services we offer in Central Oregon. Volunteers play an essential role in our Thrift Store operations by assisting customers, receiving donations, sorting and pricing items, while working in conjunction with HSCO staff.
"I started volunteering when I first moved to Bend in 2007 because I was so relieved to finally live in a town with a first-rate shelter for homeless animals. Since I could not bear to look into the hopeful eyes of the animals when I visited, I decided to put my retail skills to use, earning money for their caregivers. And when I was rewarded with the sincere appreciation of the Thrift Store Staff, it was a no-brainer to come volunteer every chance I got." – Meredith S.
We are looking for volunteers who:
- Like to have fun
- Work well with customers
- Like to learn new skills and share your skills with us
- Can commit to a minimum of 2 hours per shift and 8-10 hrs. per month, unless otherwise discussed with management
- Are over 16 years of age
Benefits of volunteering at the HSCO Thrift Store:
- Help raise needed funds for shelter animals
- Practice and learn new skills
- Meet new people
- Gain hands-on experience in a retail environment
Volunteer Requirements
- An online volunteer application must be submitted for consideration into the HSCO Volunteer Program.
- Make a commitment of six months with a minimum of 1 two-hour shift per week. Your individual availability will be considered; please discuss this with the Volunteer Department. We do not accept short-term volunteer due to extensive training requirements.
- Attend a mandatory volunteer orientation and any other trainings based on your volunteer placement
- If you need community service hours for Court Mandated Hours please read the requirements here.
- If you need community service hours for school projects, please visit the Service Opportunities for Students page here.
- Individuals 16 years and older may volunteer without direct adult supervision, but in some individual cases supervision may be required and is at the discretion of Management. Both the youth and the adult must complete individual applications.
- Have regular access to the Internet and an email account.
- Every applicant (age 18 years or older) will need to pass a background check.
- There is a nonrefundable $25.00 on-boarding fee which includes the background check, HSCO volunteer t-shirt, ID badge & training. All approved volunteers will be responsible for the fee prior to completing the background check. T-shirts will be provided at the completion of the first shift. This insures that we are able to dedicate more resources to our animals and we thank you for your support. If this constitutes a financial hardship for you, you may request a fee waiver by contacting us directly.
Volunteer Orientation & Training
A general volunteer orientation is mandatory for all approved applicants. This orientation introduces you to the volunteer program and opportunities, as well as HSCO's programs, services and policies. After completing this orientation, you will then sign up for specific trainings based on your volunteer placement. Volunteers that have been inactive for over six months are required to attend a refresher course to be updated on the volunteer program. Any volunteer that has been inactive for over one year need to reapply for the program.
HSCO Thrift Store Volunteer Application
We welcome you to apply to our volunteer program if you can meet the above requirements.
If you are also interested in volunteering at the HSCO Shelter, you must fill out a HSCO Shelter Volunteer Application as well. Click here to learn about the Shelter Volunteer application process.
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As a business owner, you are usually run off your feet with the challenges of operating your business avocat buzau. The last thing you need to worry about is a legal problem. Many business people put off dealing with a legal problem because they don't know where to turn, don't have the time, or most often, are afraid of how much it will cost and how much time it will take.
Legal issues come in many forms:
· A customer failed to pay an account despite many promises. · You just received a letter from a government agency. · You just found out that your former manager has set up a competing business and has stolen your best customer and one of your key employees. · You have just been sued for $100,000. · Someone told you that one of your standard form contracts won't stand up in court and you are worried about it. · You have a dispute with your landlord. · You have a problem with a US or European customer. · Your business has been defamed on the internet. · You just found that your warehouse manager has been sexually harassing a female employee. · An employee is damaging your business but threatens to sue if you fire him. You are not sure how to handle it. · You are involved with a Workplace Safety Insurance claim.
These examples are just the tip of the iceberg of the kinds of legal issues business people run into frequently.
Tip #1 – Seek out legal help at the first sign of a problem
Suppose a competitor has been passing off its business under your name and it's costing you customers and sales but it's hard to estimate the amount. Unless you act promptly, it may be too late to seek an injunction from the Court. If you think you have a claim against another party under a contract, a limitation period begins to run from the time the contract is breached and usually expires two years later. It's not a good idea to leave the claim to the last minute.
If you have an issue with an employee who is working unacceptably, it's important to develop a legal strategy as early as possible. The longer you wait, the more it may cost your business.
The short point here is that it is important to seek advice as soon you detect a problem and before anything has been done to make it worse. Crisis management is always more expensive and time-consuming than early response.
Tip #2 – Have a team of lawyers to call on when you need them.
Every business should have a team of on-call lawyers. This is less expensive or complicated than it sounds. All you need are the telephone numbers and email addresses of trusted corporate, employment law and litigation lawyers. Depending on the nature of your business, you may also need an intellectual property lawyer, who deals with trademarks, patents and copyright. You may even need a tax lawyer because not all tax issues can be solved by an accountant.
If the amount of your legal dispute is very small, such as a claim or complaint by a customer for $1,000 or less, it will be uneconomic to hire a lawyer. Fortunately, there are other helpful resources. The BBB has a dispute resolution process which permits BBB businesses and their customers to resolve disputes by arbitration or mediation. You don't need a lawyer and the only cost is a small administration fee. More information about this process is available on the BBB website.
If your case is in the Small Claims Court ($10,000 or less), you might need a paralegal who specializes in these kinds of cases. Paralegals are now regulated by the Law Society but they are not lawyers and they are not a substitute for an experienced lawyer.
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As a business person, you have learned that success is often the result of building relationships. The relationships you build with your lawyers can be just as important to your business success as the ones you have with your customers, suppliers, banker and insurance broker. A relationship with your lawyer built on mutual trust and respect will save you many sleepless nights over the years and probably make or save you a lot of money.
There are several ways to find good lawyers for your business:
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When looking for a lawyer on the internet, look for someone who has experience in the field you require. The first name on a Google search may not be the best choice. Some lawyers have written extensively about the law. This is a useful indicator of expertise and standing in the legal community.
Some lawyers list cases they have been involved in on their websites. Broad litigation experience in complex business matters over many years is a good indicator of competence.
The Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario, Canada) has a lawyers' referral service. The service provides a name but you have to check the details out yourself. · The Law Society certifies specialists in several areas of practice. Certification as a specialist signals that the lawyer has achieved a higher standard of experience in his/her area but certification isn't mandatory. Many competent lawyers have long experience in a field without applying for certification. You have to decide if this is important to you.
· If your problem is outside Ontario, find a local lawyer first. Many firms have networks with lawyers globally and are able to refer to lawyers in the USA or other countries. Refers between colleagues are often more effective.
When you call, don't expect the lawyer to solve your business problem over the telephone. The first discussion is for the lawyer to identify whether s/he can represent you and for you to assess whether the lawyer appears to have the skills to deal with your problem. If you have a legal problem the lawyer believes his/her firm can resolve, an office meeting will be arranged.
In business matters, lawyers customarily charge a consultation fee for the first office meeting. At the meeting, the lawyer will give preliminary or urgent advice and develop a go-forward strategy. The lawyer may be able to give a partial fee estimate and will ask for a retainer to cover some of the work. No lawyer can guarantee the outcome. At this early stage, there are usually a lot of unknown matters. While the lawyer may be able to give you a partial fee estimate in a litigation matter, it's impossible to say with accuracy how much it will cost. It depends on too many unknown factors.
It will be then up to you to decide whether or not to hire the lawyer to represent you further. The decision you make will depend on your sense of confidence in the lawyer. Has the lawyer listened to you? Have your questions been answered? Does the lawyer appear to understand your problem? Has the lawyer presented the risks and downsides of your case? Every case has risks and costs. Beware of a lawyer who tells you only what you want to hear without assessing the strengths of the opposing party's case.
Some lawyers will accept a monthly or annual retainer which entitles the client to telephone advice a few times a month. More complicated issues require separate engagements.
Tip #4 – The least expensive lawyer is unlikely to be the best person to handle your legal problem
Consider this scenario: you are looking for a lawyer for a complicated lawsuit. You call Mr. Jones, who answers on the first ring. You tell your story, which has many facts the opposite party disputes. Mr. Jones says, "You have a great case. I'm sure you're going to win." When you ask how much it will cost, Mr. Jones says "Don't worry, you won't have to pay me anything unless you win. Just come on down to my office and we'll get started."
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When you retain a lawyer, you need a trustworthy advisor, who will point out the weaknesses of your case as well as the strengths. A litigation lawyer who is waiting by the phone for your call and tells you exactly what you are hoping to hear may be too hungry or too inexperienced to manage your case. He may be in over his head and will bail out as soon as your case takes a negative turn. By then, your legal situation may have worsened. It will be more expensive and perhaps impossible to repair it.
Even worthwhile cases require careful analysis and risk assessment. An experienced litigation lawyer will typically do his by for fees on an hourly basis plus GST and any out-of-pocket expenses necessary for your case.


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M. Elizabeth Ginway
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Brazilian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Latin American Science Fiction, Brazilian Detective and Crime Fiction, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brazilian Narrative, Machado de Assis, Brazilian Cinema, Brazilian Culture, Portuguese Language
M. Elizabeth Ginway is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Florida. She is author of Brazilian Science Fiction: Cultural Myths and Nationhood in the Land of the Future (2004), which was nominated for the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize by Bucknell University Press. This book was published in Portuguese translation in Brazil in 2005. Several essays on Brazilian science fiction and fantasy also appeared in a volume called Visão Alienígena [Alien Vision] (Devir, 2010), and she co-edited a volume of essays, Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice (Palgrave, 2012) with J. Andrew Brown. She has published articles in Alambique, Brasil/Brazil, Extrapolation, Foundation, Hispania, Luso-Brazilian Review, Modern Language Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, and Science Fiction Studies. In addition to teaching nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazilian literature, she has extended her SF interests to Spanish America, and her comparative study on science fiction and fantasy, Sexuality, Cyborgs and the Undead: The Body in Brazilian and Mexican Science Fiction" will be published by Vanderbilt University Press in December of 2020.
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This week, we're talking with Kelleen Nitsch, founder of Nitsch Theatre Arts. The program aims to make theatre experiences available to kids ranging in age from 5 to 18. Since its start in 2015, NTA has grown from 6 participants, to over 200.
Nitsch talks about the model that has enabled her to expand so quickly: NTA produces multiple productions of the same show, with a different cast in each of the communities they serve. Those productions share a set, costumes, and choreography -- and by sharing those resources, each company needs less rehearsal time.
Nitsch explains how NTA's system works, and about the effect she's seen in some of the students who have participated in the program.
Nitsch Theatre Arts is presenting a Christmas Cabaret, tonight at 6:00 in Eureka College's Pritchard Theatre. Rehearsals for their spring productions of "Madagascar Jr." begin in January.


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Ten Percent Tariff Proposed on $200 Billion Worth of Imports from China
The Trump administration is proposing to further escalate its efforts to address concerns with China's policies on intellectual property protection by imposing an additional ten percent duty on 6,031 tariff lines from China with an import value of approximately $200 billion. The full list of products that could be subject to this tariff is here.
(Click here for ST&R's web page providing comprehensive information on all U.S. tariffs imposed under Section 301 and Section 232 as well as the retaliatory tariffs trading partners are levying on U.S. goods.)
Earlier this year the administration determined that China's acts, policies, and practices related to technology transfer, intellectual property, and innovation are unreasonable and discriminatory. In response, the U.S. began assessing an additional 25 percent tariff on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods effective July 6 and has proposed to extend that tariff to another $16 billion worth of imports from China at some yet-to-be-determined date. China has responded with identical measures.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer pointed out that these tariffs followed a "thorough" investigation under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act. By contrast, he said, China's action is "without any international legal basis or justification." Lighthizer claimed that pursuing higher tariffs on another $200 billion worth of Chinese goods is thus "an appropriate response … to obtain the elimination of China's harmful industrial policies."
However, the proposal was met with concern. Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said it "appears reckless and is not a targeted approach." House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, said U.S. and Chinese leaders should "begin crafting an agreement that levels the playing field" between the two countries or risk "a long, multi-year trade war … that engulfs more and more of the globe." The Retail Industry Leaders Association and the National Retail Federation said the tariffs would harm U.S. consumers, workers, and businesses.
According to Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg professionals in China, that country's Ministry of Commerce reacted to the new tariff announcement by stating that Beijing will be forced to take necessary countermeasures. Since tariffs may not be the most feasible option, a CNBC article states that other possibilities include "delaying approvals of mergers and acquisitions involving U.S. companies, holding up licenses for U.S. firms and 'delaying and ramping up' inspections of American products at borders." China also said it would immediately lodge an additional complaint with the World Trade Organization, though U.S. ambassador to the WTO Dennis Shea said "the WTO currently does not offer all of the tools necessary to remedy this situation."
In the meantime, USTR will hold a public hearing Aug. 20-23 in Washington, D.C., to gather input on the proposed ten percent tariff. Requests to appear at the hearing, summaries of expected testimony, and pre-hearing submissions are due by July 27 and post-hearing rebuttal comments are due by Aug. 30. USTR is also accepting written comments through Aug. 17.
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Name a Horror character you relate to on a spiritual level? Who is your Horror spirit animal?
R.J MacReady. There are times when all I want to do is lock myself away and get drunk!
You've gotta go through some bad ideas to get to the good ones. Tell us one of your bad ideas. How do you get past the bad ones to find your spark?
I've never had bad ideas, just concepts that were over done at the time, so were rejected. Writing a horror story that hasn't been seen or read before is difficult and sometimes its down to your skills as a filmmaker to turn a common concept into something special and fresh.
Do you consider yourself part of a horror community?
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When you're building the world of your film, where do you look for inspiration?
For inspiration, I look to the work of Neil Marshall and particularly his film 'The Descent'. He proved on a small budget that you can create a suspensful film through clever use of space, light and sound. Cast well, keep the rules clear and build everything else around that.
What would you do if you woke up inside of your film?
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Who would be on your ultimate horror villain squad?
The following villains had a massive impact on me growing up so inevitably have made my ultimate horror villain squad list: Freddy Krueger, Candyman, Pennywise (1990) and John Ryder from 'The Hitcher' (1986)
Lightning round: Freddy or Jason? Stephen King or H.P. Lovecraft? Practical or CGI? Post Apocalypse or Pre Apocalypse?
Freddy | Stephen King | Practical | Post Apocalypse
And finally, Ghostface would like to know 'What's your favourite scary movie?'
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Fiji's Ambassador to Belgium and former COP23 envoy to the UNFCCC, Deo Saran speaking to youth delegates from around the world
The power of young persons in the fight to achieve climate ambition is one that deserves recognition.
That is the one that Fiji believes will strengthen climate action.
This was highlighted by Fiji's Ambassador to Belgium and former COP23 envoy to the UNFCCC, Deo Saran at the Young and Futurations Day, a side event at COP24 in Warsaw, Poland.
Speaking to youth delegates from around the world, Saran praised them for their commitment to achieving climate ambition and reminded them on the importance of maintaining momentum.
He adds their dedication to this process gives us hope that we will achieve our target to limit the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius, above the pre-industrial level and pursue efforts to keep it to 1.5 degrees.
The youth delegates from around the world at the Young and Futurations Day in Warsaw, Poland.
The Ambassador reminded the youth delegates, many of whom are from Small Island States, on the importance of the Talanoa Dialogue and the need to maintain momentum.
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Collapse Into Now , R.E.M.'s 15th studio album, won't be released until March 8, so this is quite a tasty little preview. Clocking in at just over 3 ½ minutes, Discoverer is a feisty, blurry, live-sounding slice of electric psychedelia, though a step back from the brutish immediacy of 2008's Accelerate.
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Home-repair scams // Con man reveals how pros operate
Chicago Sun-Times April 26, 1987 | Larry Weintraub A con man who spent more than half his life cheating people on home repairs has revealed in detail the secret techniques ripoff artists use to fleece unwary homeowners of millions of dollars.
Springtime in the metropolitan area always brings a bumper crop of "down men," "setup men," "junkmen," and "closers" – fast-talking pros set to empty the pockets of innocent householders, said Jeffrey Serafin, who perfected his sales skills across the nation and has practiced them for the past year in Chicago's western suburbs.
After a troubled Serafin made the decision to leave the rackets, he told his story to the Chicago Sun-Times and lawmen, naming crooked contracting firms and individuals, many with mob connections.
He was shot and wounded for blowing the whistle on his former associates. Authorities say they are taking his account of the crimes seriously and are working to build cases based on the information.
The leading figures in Serafin's narrative concentrate on heating scams in April and May, then switch in June to air-conditioning. But he noted that similar con games are played by unscrupulous peddlers of siding, waterproofing, plumbing, roofing, sewer and other repairs and remodeling.
They refer contemptuously to their victims as "mopes," "mooches," "fish," "suckers" and "paychecks," and despite Illinois' Home Repair Fraud Act of 1986, which stiffened penalties, con men continue to rake in huge, illicit profits at a record pace, said Serafin.
Statistics compiled by the Illinois attorney general's office and the Better Business Bureau show homeowner fraud was higher last year than in 1985 in virtually every category.
Principal home-repair scams that Serafin cited include: Conning new homeowners – misrepresenting themselves to new homeowners as the regular heating contractor for the old owner as a means to get in the door to work their scams. Setting time bombs – fiddling with controls on heating systems during hot weather – or air-conditioning in winter – so the equipment won't do its job months later. Juicing a boiler – squirting liquid inside equipment to fake leaks. Spiking a boiler – ruining perfectly good equipment. Tops and bottoms – selling complete chimney liners but installing only the end pieces that are visible.
The man who left the ranks of con men to cleanse his life has been warned by his old collegues that he will not live to testify against them.
In order to regain custody of his three children and fulfill promises he made to a priest and the "respectable woman" he loves, Serafin, who claims to be one of the top five hustlers, or closers, in the Midwest, told federal and county authorities he is willing to provide the evidence they need.
On April 18 – after he began telling authorities the names of his former colleagues in home-repair con games – Serafin was shot by an unknown assailant. The bullet tore through his right thigh. He is now under police protection at an undisclosed location.
Rather than allow his former collegues to practice their shady skills in this busy season for home repairs while investigators run down his leads, Serafin, 29, decided to unveil the "theatrical productions" crafted to harvest home improvement dollars.
Historically, elderly people and women alone have been most easily duped. But the mind games are so sophisticated that Serafin himself has conned "lawyers, doctors, engineers, even an architect." "I've been told `no' five times and still walked out with a signed contract," he boasted. go to website hp warranty check
Con men have a name for the cloud of verbiage they use. They call it "the gas." Here are Serafin's accounts of some typical "gas" attacks: THE NEW OWNER "Sharpie contractors subscribe to real estate trade magazines which report sales of older homes. They list addresses and names of the old and new owners.
"We'll go to a house. `Hi, is so-and-so (the former owner) in? It's the heating men.' The pigeon figures you're the regulars.
"`She doesn't live here any more,' he'll say. `We bought the place a couple of months back.' "`I wondered why we couldn't reach her,' you'll tell him. `We came out to see why she hadn't called for the warranty check on the burner. We put it in. If you're the new owner, you get the same deal. Open the back door and we'll show you what to turn on, blah, blah . . .' or off, or whatever.
" You're dressed as a serviceman or your partner, the `down man' or `setup man,' is. You keep spouting gas as you head for the basement.
" `You've got a 25-year-old boiler. It must need cleaning. You haven't had it cleaned or anything, have you?' See, you're pumping him for information.
" `Oh, no, nothing,' he says. `We just moved in.' "He's glad to see you. They don't know squat about the heating system. So far, everything he's discovered about the house is gonna cost him. It's about time he found a bonus. Now you know it's all right to write a cleaning.
" `We'll get you cleaned up for $28.50,' you tell him. `We'll clean it and go over it with a fine tooth comb, make sure everything is alright. This used to be oil heat, but we converted to gas, put this burner in. That's what's warranteed. No way this obsolete boiler is gonna be warranteed.' "You've planted a seed now. He's not going to be surprised when he needs work, but you're not going to push him just yet.
" `Give me $14 down and the balance when we're through,' you tell him. You go from there next time. You've made expenses, even if nothing more happens.
"If you get in the house and find a more modern unit, have a look with the flashlight and shoot for a repair. We call it a wipeoff.
" `Your burners are warping,' you tell him. `We'll rebore them, clean them out, blah, blah, small crack, blah, adjust your blah, blah.' " SETTING A TIME BOMB "Now you send him upstairs to turn the thermostat up, down, whatever. You've gotta get rid of him long enough to screw around with the system.
"You could just set the controls way down and put your sticker up. When the heating season comes in the fall, all he'll see is that it doesn't work. It comes on but something isn't right. Then he sees the sticker and calls.
"You send the down man. Before he goes, he checks the office records to see when you were last there, what you told the guy that time and what you did before leaving. Those books are very important. Sometimes operators steal each other's records and go to war over it. Those are your sucker lists.
" `What's the problem?' the down man asks when he's there. He's feeling them out. A good setup man can tell in five minutes what you'll spend. He might `juice' your furnace so we can sell you a new boiler you don't need." JUICING "A setup man sometimes uses a plastic bottle called a `juicer' to squirt liquid deep in your boiler while you are upstairs diddling the thermostat or wherever he sent you. Usually, he squirts baby oil so it doesn't evaporate. He wants it to still be there when the closer – waiting about 10 minutes away – arrives. He tells the customer:
" `I can see it's been leaking, but I don't know if I can seal it.' Your guy shows it to the fish. `To be honest, I don't run into this very often. Let me call the service manager. Maybe we can seal it. That would save you a lot of money.' He's planting seeds again, the expectation of expense.
"`If it were a pump or gas valve I could fix it right up for you. But my service manager is the expert on that. He's the only one who can OK a seal.' "When I get down to the basement, I'm cranky. `Why are you bothering me?' I complain. `I've got four more calls to make this afternoon, blah, blah.' " `You know I can't do a seal on my own,' my guy says. `Look what happens when the heat goes on.' Then he sends the fish up to the thermostat and fills me in on how the scam is going.
"The fish returns and I pull my head out of the boiler. I'm still sore at my down man. `How long have you been with this company? Can't you tell when a boiler can't be sealed? There's no way to seal this.' " `What about the warranty?' the down man wants to know. The pigeon is right with him.
" `Well, I can give you an allowance.' I'm working the guy now. `It'll help quite a bit. Really, with an allowance it isn't going to be that bad.' " `What would a new one cost?' the mooch wants to know. I've been waiting for him to ask. Now I send the down man to fetch catalogues from the car and copy the old boiler's serial number. It's all a lot of crap. I say while we're waiting, `Let's go upstairs. We can have some coffee and see what's what.' "The real reason we went upstairs was to get the wife involved. You've got to sell them both.
"Let her husband explain. He saw the drops. Let him be the smart one and sell her for you.
"I make a call to the office. `Warranty number blah, blah. Yeah, put me in the computer.' If they're resisting, I might give 'em: go to web site hp warranty check
" `I want your business now and 25 years from now. I gotta take care of you. You want some alley mechanic coming in here, some fly-by-night messing you over? You got a leaky boiler. It could blow. Don't you read the papers? People get hurt, killed.
"Listen, I'll give you $500 for the old pump and burner. We'll buy back the burner.' All the time, I'm showing him my books. `Normally the boiler would be $3,200,' I say. I can always come down.
" `Subtract the $500, it's $2,700, with a year's free service, copper boiler, blah, blah, save you half of what you spend on gas, pay for itself, blah, blah, blah.' I've got a line for every objection. There's no way they're getting off the hook. SPIKING A BOILER "Once they sign, the real bum's rush begins. Never tell them they have three days to change their mind. `You'll have heat tonight. We'll get the old boiler out and the new one in,' I say. We call another member of the team, `the junkman.' All he does is remove boilers. He'll have it out in 30 minutes.
"There goes any evidence of what you might have done to the old one. If you think the mooch might be coming out of the gas, give your setup man the high sign. He'll spike the boiler, put a hole in it.
"Installers come out that night. Otherwise the sucker might shop around the next day for a deal. If he starts worrying about the price, get on the phone and give 'em more gas. You're now hustling your boss on their behalf.
" `I know how low I can go. I gave them everything I can. What can you do? They're really nice people.' Cover the mouthpiece and ask, `Are you senior citizens? No?' Give them a big wink and say to the phone, `Yeah, they're senior citizens. Give them the 10 percent.' "Now you've knocked a couple of hundred dollars off, but for over $2,000 you sold them something they didn't need that cost the company about $400." TOPS AND BOTTOMS "This month and next, they're working those files, looking for easy fish. We call them laydowns. The sharpies are pushing chimney liners. You phone to say a man is coming out to put the warranty sticker on the boiler or whatever. `How's it running?' They don't know. That's promising. `I'll check it myself.' "At the house, you're puzzled. `Hmmm. It shouldn't be doing that. Look, Missuz, you spent $3,500 for a boiler and you're burning it up. It's warping, blah, blah. If you don't have the proper draft, you lose the warranty.' "Send her to diddle the thermostat and toss the handful of broken bricks you carry in the cleanout door. When she gets back, check the door and show her what you `found.' "You sell her a liner, `all surgical stainless steel, a year's free service and 25-year warranty. No charge for resealing the furnace.' The whole package for maybe $2,000.
"What she gets is a draincap on top and a bottom – just what shows. And the shaft." Larry Weintraub


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Everyone says that median survival age in Québec is 53 years. I have also heard the expression "life expectancy." Would you explain these two expressions?Air Jordan
The expressions "life expectancy" and "median survival" are often used interchangeably because they both represent the estimated mean value of life span. However, the two numbers are obtained by different calculations, and median survival is the better indicator with regard to cystic fibrosis.
Life expectancy refers to average life span. To obtain that number, it is necessary to have a good idea of the longest probable life spans in a given population. Consequently, life expectancy is often calculated for large, stable populations, such as the population of Canada, or for disease groups in which the survival time from time of diagnosis to time of death is short. This number cannot be calculated for the cystic fibrosis population because survival time is increasing and we do not know what the ceiling is.
Median survival specifies the age beyond which 50% of the population in question can expect to survive. This calculation requires no prior knowledge or speculation about the longest survival time. Median survival in cystic fibrosis is based on current death rates calculated for each year of age. In 2017, the current median survival age of people with cystic fibrosis is 53 years. If the death rate continues to decrease, this figure will become an underestimation of future survival.
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