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2.1 Local Safeguarding Children Board - Role and Function
Chapter 3 of Working Together to Safeguard Children sets out in detail the arrangements for the work of each Local Safeguarding Children Board. This chapter provides a summary only.
In November 2013, this chapter was extensively updated in line with Working Together to Safeguard Children, and should be re-read throughout.
|Role and Functions
|Scope of the Role
|LSCB Chair
|Role of Elected Members
|Role of LSCB Members
|Monitoring and Inspection
|Annual Report and LSCB Annual Business Plan
- The Children Act 2004 required each local authority to establish a Safeguarding Children Board.
- The Pan Lancashire Consortium Manual covers the:
Role and Functions
- The overall role of the LSCB is to coordinate local work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and to ensure the effectiveness of what the member organisations do individually and together.
- Specific objectives of the LSCB are to:
- Develop and agree inter-agency policies and procedures for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, consistent with Working Together to Safeguard Children, including:
- The action to be taken where there are concerns about a child's safety or welfare, including thresholds for intervention;
- Training of those working with children or in services affecting the safety and welfare of children;
- Recruitment and supervision of persons who work with children;
- Investigation of allegations concerning persons working with children;
- The safety and welfare of privately fostered children;
- Cooperation with neighbouring children's social care services authorities and their Board partners.
- Participate in the planning of services for children in the local authority area;
- Communicate the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of the child;
- Develop procedures to ensure a coordinated response to unexpected child deaths;
- Monitor the effectiveness of what is done to safeguard and promote the welfare of children;
- Undertake reviews of serious cases and ensure lessons are understood and acted upon;
- Collect and analyse information about child deaths.
- Develop and agree inter-agency policies and procedures for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, consistent with Working Together to Safeguard Children, including:
Scope of the Role
- In order to fulfil its statutory functions, an LSCB should use data and, as a minimum, should:
- Assess the effectiveness of the help being provided to children and families, including early help;
- Assess whether LSCB partners are fulfilling their statutory obligations;
- Quality assure practice, including through joint audits of case files involving practitioners and identifying lessons to be learned; and
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of training, including multi-agency training, to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The Children's Safeguarding Performance Information Framework provides a mechanism to help do this by setting out some of the questions a LSCB should consider.
- Whilst the LSCB has a role in coordinating and ensuring the effectiveness of local individuals' and organisations' work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, it is not accountable for their operational work.
- Each Board partner retains its own existing lines of accountability for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children by their services.
- Whilst the LSCB does not have the power to direct other organisations, it does have a role in making clear where improvement is needed.
- Each member of LSCB has a corporate responsibility to keep their own agency and organisation informed of the work of LSCB and particularly to highlight through their organisational governance arrangements any risks associated with that organisation not meetings its statutory responsibility in relation to safeguarding children.
- A key role of the LSCB will be to monitor the effectiveness of each agency/organisation both individually and whilst working in partnership to deliver the desired outcomes for children within its LSCB.
- Each LSCB will hold agencies and organisations individually and in partnership to account for their performance in delivering the identified strategic outcomes.
- Each LSCB will formulate performance measures for the Board as a whole and, where appropriate, for individual agencies/organisations. Where LSCB considers that a Board Partner is failing to meet its commitments and performance measures or is failing to work in partnership with other agencies/organisations, it can require the agency or organisation in question to prepare an action plan to be submitted to LSCB in order to remedy such failings.
- In addition the LSCB may:
- Place a specific item as to performance on the next available LSCB agenda and require the defaulting agency or organisation to submit a formal report or presentation to LSCB; and/or
- Require the agency or organisation in question to report through its own governance arrangements any associated risks in the agency/organisation not meeting its statutory obligations in safeguarding children. The agency/organisation will then be expected to formally report back to LSCB with mechanisms to address those risks; and/or
- In exceptional circumstances the chair of LSCB, with full agreement from the Board, may request the attendance of the Chair or Chief Executive of the partner agency/organisation to the next available meeting of LSCB in order to explain the performance failings of that member agency/organisation, and the chair of the Board may then if appropriate, explain the concerns of the Board to the relevant Inspectorate and if necessary, Government Department.
LSCB Chair
- In order to provide effective scrutiny, the LSCB should be independent. It should not be subordinate to, nor subsumed within, other local structures.
- Every LSCB should have an independent chair who can hold all agencies to account.
- It is the responsibility of the Chief Executive (Head of Paid Service) to appoint or remove the LSCB chair with the agreement of a panel including LSCB partners and lay members. The Chief Executive, drawing on other LSCB partners and, where appropriate, the Lead Member will hold the Chair to account for the effective working of the LSCB.
- The LSCB is made of organisations which will designate particular, named people as their LSCB member so that there is a consistency and continuity in membership.
- Members will be those with a strategic role in relation to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children within their organisation. They should be able to:
- Speak for their organisation with authority;
- Commit their organisation on policy and practice matters;
- Hold their organisation to account.
- Members of the LSCB must include:
- Children's Social Care Services;
- Adults' Social Care Services;
- NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups;
- NHS Trusts and NHS Foundation trusts;
- Police;
- Probation;
- Youth Offending Team;
- Any Secure Training Centre;
- Any prison which ordinarily detains children;
- Two representatives of the local community; (Their role is described in 3.10 of Working Together to Safeguard Children.)
- Representation from schools, which means taking steps to ensure that the following are represented: the governing body of a maintained school; the proprietor of a non-maintained special school; the proprietor of a city technology college, a city college for the technology of the arts or an Academy; and the governing body of a further education institution the main site of which is situated in the authority's area. Independent schools should also be included as appropriate.
- Other members may include:
- Faith groups;
- State and Independent Schools;
- Further Education Colleges;
- Children's Centres;
- GP's;
- Independent Health care organisations;
- Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations;
- Armed Forces;
- Immigration Service.
- The LSCB should either include on its Board, or be able to draw on appropriate expertise and advice from, frontline professionals from all the relevant sectors. This includes a designated doctor and nurse, the Director of Public Health, Principal Child and Family Social Worker and the voluntary and community sector.
- In addition, the LSCB will make strategic links with other organisations and individuals, for example Substance Misuse Services, the local MAPPA, dental health services, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Coroner, either through inviting them to join the Board or through some other mechanism.
- The LSCB also need to draw on the work key national organisations and liaise with them where necessary, for example the Child Exploitation and OnLine Protection Centre (CEOP Command).
Role of Elected Members
- Local authority Elected Members and non-executive directors of other board partners are not members of the LSCB. Their role, through their membership of governance bodies such as the cabinet of the local authority or a scrutiny committee or a governance board, is to hold their organisation and its officers to account for their contribution to the effective functioning of the LSCB.
- The Lead Member for Children's Services should be a participating observer of the LSCB. In practice this means routinely attending meetings as an observer and receiving all its written reports.
Role of LSCB Members
- The individual members of the LSCB have a duty as members to contribute to the effective work of the LSCB, for example, in making the LSCBs' assessment of performance as objective as possible, and in recommending or deciding upon the necessary steps to put right any problems. This should take precedence, if necessary, over their role as a representative of their organisation. Members of each LSCB should have a clear written statement of their roles and responsibilities.
- To assist the LSCB with its objectives, each LSCB has a supporting structure. Terms of Reference for each of the Boards sub-groups are available through the LSCB websites.
- All groups working under the LSCB should be established by the LSCB, and should work to agreed terms of reference, with explicit lines of reporting, communication and accountability to the LSCB. This may take the form of a written constitution detailing a job description for all members and service level agreements between the LSCB, agencies and other partnerships. Chairs of sub groups should be LSCB members.
- Since the boundaries between Lancashire, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen LSCBs and their partner organisations such as the health service and the Police are not co-terminus, the LSCBs of these areas will collaborate as far as possible on establishing common policies and procedures, and joint ways of working, under the function around "Co-operation with neighbouring children's services authorities and their Board partners".
- The LSCB will put in place arrangements to ascertain views of parents and carers and the wishes and feelings of children (including children who might not ordinarily be heard) about the priorities and the effectiveness of local safeguarding work, including issues of access to services and contact points for children to safeguard and promote welfare. LSCBs should also consider how children, parents and carers can be given a measure of choice and control in the development of services.
Monitoring and Inspection
- The LSCB's work to ensure the effectiveness of work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children by member organisations will be a peer review process based on self evaluation, performance indicators, and joint audit. Its aim is to promote high standards of safeguarding work and to foster a culture of continuous improvement. It will also identify and act on identified weaknesses in services. To avoid unnecessary duplication of work the LSCB will ensure that its monitoring role complements and contributes to the work of both the children's trust and the inspectorates.
- Where it is found that a Board partner is not performing effectively in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and the LSCB is not convinced that any planned action to improve performance will be adequate, the LSCB chair or a member or employee designated by the chair will explain these concerns to those individuals and organisations that need to be aware of the failing and may be able to take action.
Annual Report and LSCB Annual Business Plan
- The Chair must publish an annual report on the effectiveness of child safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the local area (this is a statutory requirement under section 14A of the Children Act 2004). The annual report should be published in relation to the preceding financial year and should fit with local agencies' planning, commissioning and budget cycles. The report should be submitted to the Chief Executive, Leader of the Council, the local Police and crime commissioner and the Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board.
- The report should provide a rigorous and transparent assessment of the performance and effectiveness of local services. It should identify areas of weakness, the causes of those weaknesses and the action being taken to address them as well as other proposals for action. The report should include lessons from reviews undertaken within the reporting period.
- The report should also list the contributions made to the LSCB by partner agencies and details of what the LSCB has spent, including on Child Death Reviews, Serious Case Reviews and other specific expenditure such as learning events or training.
- The LSCB will produce an annual business plan setting out:
- A work programme for the following year to include measurable objectives;
- Relevant management information of child protection activity in the previous year;
- Progress against objectives established for the year ending.


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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The Unsolved Problem of Labor
90 percent of them are members of unions.
Many of the NYU students who go in and out of the Brown building, where hundreds of women died, wear trendy clothing made in sweatshops. The clothing is not cheap, it is cheaply made. Those students who wanted a moral alternative bought clothes from American Apparel, which promoted its clothes as sweatshop free, turning the company into a major player in the garment industry. But American Apparel started out by subcontracting its manufacturing to Sam Lim, since then it has employed large numbers of illegal aliens and the lawsuits charging the AA boss with sexual harassment and blackmail, suggest its office workers might envy Norma Rae.
The tale of the Triangle Waist Company is intertwined with that of the ILGWU, the union which represented female garment workers. But the ILGWU no longer exists, instead it has been merged into a restaurant workers union, and even that combined union has half the membership the ILGWU did. The combined union is run by a Yale Phi Beta Kappa grad, whose wife, another Yale alumni, cozily runs the union's health plan. Additionally he serves on the Board of Trustees of Washington D.C.'s high end liberal public policy think tank, the Brookings Institute. It's enough to make the NYU tenants of the old home of the Triangle factory seem downright lower class.
What happened to the unions? A union is an organization, not the expression of the collective will of the workers. It is not fundamentally different than the sweatshops, it just operates on another business model. A sweatshop and a union both run for the benefit of the bosses, they just have a different set of customers, the sweatshop's customers are the brands and the union's customers are the workers. Both the sweatshop and the union win over their customers with ruthless tactics, but the final profit goes to the bosses.
The Triangle era saw ruthless exploitation and conflict between workers and bosses. The bosses suppressed worker discontent and strikes by hiring local gangs for protection or relying on the Democratic party's Tammany Hall machine to send out its cops, at a time when promotion in the New York City police force meant paying money to the boys on top . The workers turned to gangs and to left wing radicals, who built up their unions, took them over and turned them into a trust that controlled entire industries. The trust was integrated into the political machine. Soon the sweatshop workers and owners were both working for the same people.
The ILGWU, which newspapers and labor mythmakers would have us believe that the falling women of the Triangle Waist Company died for, used gangsters like Little Augie and Lepke Buchalter, head of Murder Inc, to maintain control over the trust. And though much is made by feminists of the ILGWU being a mostly female union, it was and in its current incarnation is still run by men who did not tolerate any dissent. When the Depression killed the boom that had powered the garment business, it also killed the ILGWU's trust. Only federal intervention by FDR's labor regulations turned the tide. But that too was only temporary. Once the garment industry was able to begin outsourcing to cheaper labor abroad, the ILGWU began dying a slow death.
The union's business model depended on raising the cost of labor, and charging the workers for doing their organizing for them, which conflicted with the garment industry's need to make clothes as cheaply as possible. Now those same clothes are being made in China or Chinatown. The ILGWU, like so many unions, promised the good life, but they could only deliver temporary raises followed by the decimation of the industry itself. It was enough time for a generation to get on its feet, but not for those that followed it. There are still garment worker union members and plenty of them work in sweatshops while making below minimum wage. This is no paradox. A large membership means wealth and power for those on top. It doesn't necessarily mean anything for those on the bottom. Cheap garments will always be made, whether they will be made cheaply by union or non-union members. They fill a need and as long as people buy based primarily on price considerations, the sweatshop will go on existing.
That is what makes the problem of labor so difficult. Over a hundred women died in the Triangle Waist Company fire, but how many hundreds of thousands of women lived because the garment industry, with all the ugliness of its sweatshops and child labor, provided a way for them and their families to come to America. How many of them would have survived under Nazi or Communist rule?
It isn't a cheerful question to ask, but any moral consideration of the Triangle Waist Company must also raise that question. The possibility that the garment industry still saved far more lives than it took. And that moral consideration is often at the heart of unregulated capitalism. Does its ultimate prosperity justify its abuses?
Today China has slave labor, widespread pollution and a rising middle class. And America has a tightly regulated labor market and a declining middle class. Liberals despise trickle down economics, but prosperity is undeniably trickling away from the regulatory republics of the West and into the maw of Chinese crony capitalists. And the Chinese sweatshop workers in New York, slaving over machines in hot rooms, the way their Jewish and Italian predecessors did, are more likely to have children who will go to Yale, than the Black and Hispanic government employees living on generous union negotiated salaries
New York City has lost 2 percent of its Black residents who are mainly moving to the non-union south, because there are jobs there. The large Black populations in Northeastern cities had come for the jobs in booming urban industries. Particularly during wartime, when so many American workers were fighting in Europe or Asia. When those industries moved abroad, they left behind ghettos full of people who could no longer find work. The race riots had far more to do with joblessness, than with discrimination, as can be seen by looking at the much milder race riots during WW2 when jobs were available.
The liberal northeast is a union paradise, and yet black people are deserting it. They are abandoning strongholds like New York, Chicago and Boston. And it's not just the Northeast, even a Pacific liberal haven like San Francisco is losing its black population. The Federal government is going after Marin County for its lack of diversity, accusing it of violating the Civil Rights Act. But officials have tried to attract Black residents with the usual diversity buzzwords, but how do you do that without jobs? Every article about Black emigration from urban areas uses those same buzzwords and all of them miss the point. Chicago, New York and San Francisco did not suddenly turn racist-- they turned jobless.
While unions can lock in a guaranteed number of jobs at a given salary-- they can only do so at the cost of reducing the overall number of available jobs. You can have a 100,000 very good jobs, a 1,000,000 average jobs or 10,000,000 miserable ones or a 100,000,000 slave labor jobs. The unionized northeast has gone with the.100,000 and China has gone with the 100,000,000. Which is why they have jobs and we don't. That is not to say that we should be imitating China-- rather it is important to understand the dynamic at work here.
Liberalism's celebration of diversity is properly a celebration of capitalism. That diversity would not exist without it. America was built by everyone from indentured English and Irish servants, German, Irish, Jewish and Italian factory workers, Swedish farmers and miners to African-American slaves, and half the world, from Norway to China. Many of them were treated badly, but the larger story may be what they and their descendants achieved here. Liberals like to fit that into a narrative that begins with exploitation and ends with regulation-- but then why are so many of the millions of White and Black workers who depended on major industries out of work?
Their answer is that government solves everything. But let us take a look at another fire that happened not far from the site of the Triangle Waist Company fire and is much less remembered today. The fire on board the General Slocum.
In the summer of 1904, the General Slocum, a ship taking the women and children of the ethnic German community in Manhattan, for an outing caught fire. But its safety equipment from life jackets to hoses were completely useless. Over a thousand women and children died within sight of the shore. Died in useless and senseless ways that would have never happened had the safety equipment been inspected. But the 'inspectors' were part of the Democratic party's corrupt Tammany Hall network, who were appointed by political patrons to a lucrative office and were notorious for passing anything. Life vests filled with iron bars and rotten hoses on the General Slocum got their approval. The regulations were there, but government corruption ensured that they would not be enforced.
Both these events were at least as horrifying as the Triangle Waist Company fire, and had a much higher death toll. But they are not remembered because not only do they fail to make a pro-labor point, but they actually make a much more dangerous point about the inherent corruptibility of government authority. They remind us that regulation is law and law is enforced by men through a bureaucracy overseen by political patronage. And that such systems are no more moral or ethical, and no less greedy, than that of the sweatshops. As we confront a 15 trillion dollar deficit and an uncontrollable orgy of greed by politicians and public sector unions who are their electoral base, we are reminded of that every day.
The only answer may be that there is no answer. It is men who make moral choices, and it is the individual, whether in a corporation, a union and or a government who does or does not do the right thing. The problem of labor cannot be solved by creating more organizations, as that only creates more hierarchies which also treat workers as cash cows. They cannot be solved through passing laws in one country, while its citizens purchase the benefits of slave labor from another. There may be no solving it at all. And on the former site of the Triangle Waist Company, students pass holding iPod's made by abused workers in China whose economy is nevertheless threatening to dominate the 21st century.
9 comments:
- Wolfie said...
I don't entirely agree with your rather negative conclusion. Globalization is an American corporate and government bilateral creation and it can be stopped just as easily as it was started. Labour has gone abroad because the cost of business and labour are high; the former is high because government is too large and not concentrating on the social requirements of business as it should and the latter is high because the cost of living is too high and that is thanks to government subservience to finance (seen through high housing cost/finance and currency devaluation). You're right to identify government corruption as a key factor but I believe that it can be tackled, whereas you seem resigned.
- 31/3/11
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
actually I was speaking about a dynamic of labor far more fundamental and predating globalization
globalization is just companies and consumers seeking out the cheapest manufactured products
- 31/3/11
- Anonymous said...
it was the Triangle Shirt Waist not Triangle Waist.
- 31/3/11
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
No, it was Triangle Waist Company
see a New York Times 1911 article of the day
- 31/3/11
- Keliata said...
Wow, I had never heard of this tragedy before. Horrible. Immigrants certainly did work under horrendous conditions, but I often wonder what their fates would have been in they stayed in the old country.
Not the right time period but think about the poor women in particular forced into prostitution just to have one meal a day or a bed for the night. I wonder if they would have willingly worked in a sweathouse versus just to have something to eat and somewhere to sleep.
"As we confront a 15 trillion dollar deficit and an uncontrollable orgy of greed by politicians and public sector unions who are their electoral base, we are reminded of that every day. "
Quite true. Just to show how absurd some public unions are, the Buffalo PBA got the city to agree to paying cops an entire day's pay just for giving blood once a year. They call it "Blood Days."
Granted, that was approved under a previous adminstration but good luck trying to get the city to reverse it.
- 31/3/11
- Anonymous said...
one of your best articles, from many different angles.
- 31/3/11
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
thank you, I appreciate that
- 31/3/11
- DavidD said...
Did you mean "The sweatshop's business model" or "The union's business model"?
- 2/4/11
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
yes indeed, thanks
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So what exactly is an Open Space?
Wikipedia says it's "a method for organizing and running a meeting or multi-day conference, where participants have been invited in order to focus on a specific, important task or purpose. OST [Open Space Technology] is a participant-driven process whose agenda is created by people attending."
It is often called an un-conference due to the lack of a pre-determined schedule: what this means is that there is no fixed agenda for the two days, with the exception of lunch and dinner breaks. Participants get together in the morning and decide what topics to talk about, when, and in which room. This ensures the content of the un-conference is highly relevant to the people attending as the content itself is…chosen by them!
Open Spaces are highly energetic, inspiring, and surprisingly efficient ways of sharing knowledge, challenging ideas, coming up with creative solutions to problems, and starting new projects. It's an experience in and of itself which never fails to leave participants with a sense of wonder.


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Go Laddie Go!Clan Guthrie sponsors a tent in over a score of Highland Games across the nation. This provides you a ringside seat to watch all the excitement and enjoy the company of other Guthries.
Clan Guthrie Pipe BandClan Guthrie members Robert Guthrie, Bill (played for Alexander at Grandfather Mountain), David, David's sons Jim and Mike, David's wife Monica, their cousin Jennifer Zimmerman, and their Nephew Gordon Guthrie are the Clan Guthrie Pipe Band. You may have read about them in one of the issues of the Clan News.
Highland Games Attended by Clan Guthrie
To become a tent host/hostess, please contact:
Where to Find Highland Games in Your Area
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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
2Sa 8:1, 2. David Subdues the Philistines, and Makes the Moabites Tributary.
1. David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines—that is, Gath and her suburban towns (1Ch 18:1). That town had been "a bridle" by which the Philistines kept the people of Judah in check. David used it now as a barrier to repress that restless enemy.
And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
2. he smote Moab, and measured them with a line—This refers to a well-known practice of Eastern kings, to command their prisoners of war, particularly those who, notorious for the atrocity of their crimes or distinguished by the indomitable spirit of their resistance, had greatly incensed the victors, to lie down on the ground. Then a certain portion of them, which was determined by lot, but most commonly by a measuring-line, were put to death. Our version makes him put two-thirds to death, and spare one-third. The Septuagint and Vulgate make one-half. This war usage was not, perhaps, usually practised by the people of God; but Jewish writers assert that the cause of this particular severity against this people was their having massacred David's parents and family, whom he had, during his exile, committed to the king of Moab.
David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.
2Sa 8:3-14. He Smites Hadadezer and the Syrians.
3. Zobah—(1Ch 18:3). This kingdom was bounded on the east by the Euphrates, and it extended westward from that river, perhaps as far north as Aleppo. It was long the chief among the petty kingdoms of Syria, and its king bore the hereditary title of "Hadadezer" or "Hadarezer" ("Hadad," that is, "helped").
as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates—in accordance with the promises God made to Israel that He would give them all the country as far as the Euphrates (Ge 15:18; Nu 24:17). In the first campaign David signally defeated Hadadezer. Besides a great number of foot prisoners, he took from him an immense amount of booty in chariots and horses. Reserving only a small number of the latter, he hamstrung the rest. The horses were thus mutilated because they were forbidden to the Hebrews, both in war and agriculture. So it was of no use to keep them. Besides, their neighbors placed much dependence on cavalry, but having, for want of a native breed, to procure them by purchase, the greatest damage that could be done to such enemies was to render their horses unserviceable in war. (See also Ge 46:6; Jos 11:6, 9). A king of Damascene-Syria came to Hadadezer's succor; but David routed those auxiliary forces also, took possession of their country, put garrisons into their fortified towns, and made them tributary.
And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,
9. Toi king of Hamath—C�le-Syria; northwards, it extended to the city Hamath on the Orontes, which was the capital of the country. The Syrian prince, being delivered from the dread of a dangerous neighbor, sent his son with valuable presents to David to congratulate him on his victories, and solicit his alliance and protection.
Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
10. Joram—or Hadoram (1Ch 18:10).
Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;
11. Which also king David did dedicate unto the Lord—Eastern princes have always been accustomed to hoard up vast quantities of gold. This is the first instance of a practice uniformly followed by David of reserving, after defraying expenses and bestowing suitable rewards upon his soldiers, the remainder of the spoil taken in war, to accumulate for the grand project of his life—the erection of a national temple at Jerusalem.
Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
13. David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians—Instead of Syrians, the Septuagint version reads "Edomites," which is the true reading, as is evident from 2Sa 8:14. This conquest, made by the army of David, was due to the skilful generalship and gallantry of Abishai and Joab. (1Ch 18:12; compare Ps 60:1, title.) The valley was the ravine of salt (the Ghor), adjoining the Salt Mountain, at the southwestern extremity of the Dead Sea, separating the ancient territories of Judah and Edom [Robinson].
And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.
2Sa 8:15-18. His Reign.
15. David executed judgment and justice unto all his people—Though involved in foreign wars, he maintained an excellent system of government at home, the most eminent men of the age composing his cabinet of ministers.
And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
16. Joab … was over the host—by virtue of a special promise (2Sa 5:8).
recorder—historiographer or daily annalist, an office of great trust and importance in Eastern countries.
And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;
17. Zadok … and Ahimelech … were the priests—On the massacre of the priests at Nob, [1Sa 22:19], Saul conferred the priesthood on Zadok, of the family of Eleazar (1Ch 6:50), while David acknowledged Ahimelech, of Ithamar's family, who fled to him. The two high priests exercised their office under the respective princes to whom they were attached. But, on David's obtaining the kingdom over all Israel, they both retained their dignity; Ahimelech officiating at Jerusalem, and Zadok at Gibeon (1Ch 16:39).
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.
18. Cherethites—that is, Philistines (Zep 2:5).
Pelethites—from Pelet (1Ch 12:3). They were the valiant men who, having accompanied David during his exile among the Philistines, were made his bodyguard.
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments by Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
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The Palva family doesn't need to pack up their car or pay for expensive flights to get away from the pressures of urban life. Instead, they need only walk or bike 2 kilometers from their Helsinki home down a nature trail to their tranquil seaside cottage. Designed by Verstas Architects to have a meager footprint of only 14 square meters, the Palvas' home away from home has the lightest possible impact on a leafy park in the heart of the city. In fact, small urban cottages like this one, which are apparently en vogue in Finland, actually help to protect the ecology and social security of Helsinki's urban parks.
Distant vacations are costly – economically and environmentally – but everybody needs an occasional break from the grind in order to maintain their sanity. Thanks to their new, low-cost, minimalist city cottage, the Palva family can take a vacation whenever they want! Although its small footprint ensures a small expenditure of natural resources, it also challenges the family to divvy up space so that everyone is comfortable.
This is achieved by giving the fixed furniture dual purposes – such as the sofas that can also be used as both beds and storage space – and with a kitchen area that is easily converted into homework space for the children. Even in the winter, solar energy provides the entire home with electricity, while the fetching wood-fired stove can crank out plenty of heat to keep this nature-loving family nice and warm during fierce winters.
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Attendance:400 approx
Programme:44 pages, .30pence
A brief history......The first match was played in 1908 with the proceeds being shared between the 3 local hospitals in the Cheshunt/Waltham Cross area:-The Prince of Wales,Waltham Abbey and Cheshunt Cottage (all of which have now long since closed). The annual match was founded by local shopkeepers and businessmen and was originally played at the Cheshunt Recreation Ground in Albury Ride-which is now behind Cheshunt FC (Cheshunt Cricket Club now play there). After the Second World War the match was transferred to the Waltham Cross Playing Fields where the match remains to this day. The proceeds are now split between 3 local charities,Cheshunt Age Concern,Isabel Hospice Specialist Nurses,The (Herts & Essex Border Branch of)The Friends of the Samaritans. Last year £4,200 was raised throughout the year for the charities.
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Tom "Mel" Stanton shared an interesting story on Facebook the other day. While it's never a good idea to give Mel too much credit for anything, I have to admit that the story that he posted grabbed me.
It was written by a young man who is only 24 years old. Perspective is always important, and from where I sit and how I'm sitting, 24 looks pretty young to me. This young man had recently gotten a terminal cancer diagnosis. He didn't write about not having the chance to have a life full of fun. His biggest regret was that he had not made a difference in this life (The full post of "Powerful Words from a Dying Man" can be found on the website tranquilmonkey).
Here are three quotes from his writing that resonated with me: "The cancer diagnosis came too late to give me at least a tenuous hope for a long life, but I realized that the most important thing about death is to ensure that you leave this world a little better than it was before you existed with your contributions."
"Most of all, don't procrastinate."
"We care so much about the health and integrity of our body that until death, we don't notice that the body is nothing more than a box – a parcel for delivering our personality, thoughts, beliefs and intentions to this world."
In addition to the poignancy of his words, the youth of this person is what grabbed me. Most of the time we hear about regrets and wisdom from the dying, the people have had the chance to live and learn from a longer life. For example, a palliative nurse recorded the most common regrets of the dying and put her findings into a book called "The Top Five Regrets of The Dying." The number one regret: "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me." My daughter will (allegedly) graduate from high school in a few short weeks. This is the time of year that guest speakers and valedictorians (you know, the people who earned great grades in high school – I always hated those people) deliver inspiring commencement addresses to graduates who won't listen, while their parents and loved ones in the audience do. The graduates are too excited and are thinking about the parties that won't get going until the interminable commencement ceremony is finally over.
I'm not picking on this particular graduating class. There's only one reason I know the graduates don't listen. You do, too. We can all relate to this … we've all been there a few lifetimes ago, squirming in a folding chair with a gown covering only our boxers, socks and white Converse high-tops.
The other thing is, all of these great speeches are aimed at the graduating seniors. It's as if we're saying, "You made it through high school, so take some advice – you've earned it." George Bernard Shaw is credited with saying, "Youth is wasted on the young." Don't let the words of a great commencement speech go to waste on these young'uns. The class of 2017 doesn't need, nor will they heed, this advice. We old farts act like we're just bystanders after our class graduates high school or college. The truth is that we never truly get done learning in life. We're all underclassmen and underclasswomen in the long game.
Commencement is the beginning … not the end. Commence with living your own life.
When you anticipate something greatly, you think to yourself, "I can't wait." Don't. Ever. Do it now. Don't procrastinate. Anti-crastinate. Be pro-move. Live pro-do. Get things pro-done.
As Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "A man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." Don't let the circumstances make your choices for you. Bend those darn circumstances to your choices, not the other way around. It ain't easy. Life can be tough. You must be tougher.
Again, I must risk inflating Mel's ego by complimenting him once more. Years ago, he and some friends were talking about something they believed in and then, here's the key point, they acted on it. Getting the ball rolling is always the hardest part.
Speaking of rolling balls, "Caddyshack" is one of the greatest cinematic accomplishments of all time. While I don't know how many Academy Awards it won, I'm sure it was a ton. One of the reasons it stands the test of time is because of the buckets full of memorable quotes. People still quote that movie even though it premiered 37 years ago in 1980. If you doubt me on this, drop by Meekwon this or any weekend and you will hear "Caddyshack"quotes all day. One of the most famous quotes came from golf guru Ty Webb (played by Chevy Chase), who was dispensing advice about golf and life to his young caddy, Danny Noonan. Ironically, Danny was about to finish high school and couldn't figure out what to do with his life. To demonstrate how important it was for Danny to trust himself, Ty blindfolds young Danny on the golf course and tells him to hit the ball.
As his Zen-like mentor, Ty advises him, "Be the ball, Danny." When Danny promptly hits his shot into the water, Ty admonishes him with, "You're not being the ball, Danny."
If Ty Webb were the featured speaker at your life commencement ceremony, he'd say, "Be the box, Danny." Be the box that counts. Good luck graduates of the Class of Forever.
Jack Henke is a Cedarburg resident, president/creative director of Henke & Associates, blogger and content creator.
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Did you know that the FDA approved genetically modified salmon for human consumption?
This fish is developed by AquaBounty an American company which in my opinion, has no respect for humans or the environment. Can you imagine the damage that can be produced if these fish get into the wild and contaminate all the other fish?
We have seen the damage that all the other GMO have caused; Obesity, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease. Please say no to GMO, please say no to GM fish, read the labels, ask the government to label these.
And remember… Eat Healthy, Be Happy!


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8 is great, yep it is. I like the number 3 better, but for this 8 will work. It is always an honor to get an award because, in my mind, I must be doing something right or maybe it just means someone loves me. Well this time it is Christina at Rant-Rave-Roll. You should go check out her 8 is Great list.
I know you are all dying with anticipation to know 8 more things, in several categories, about me. So here goes, in no particular order. Enjoy!
- Summer vacation
- Nike 1/2 Marathon
- Starting and completing my first quilt
- My garden to produce veggies
- Sunday soccer during the summer
- Getting a cupcake from the Cupcake Shop for Mother's Day and sharing one with my SIL
- Building my fantasy dream home
- Paying off the excavator
- Went for a run
- Bought drip line for the garden
- Bought tomato cages
- Set up most of the drip line...ran out and bought more today
- Laundry
- Made breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Fought with my 6 year old
- Bought my 22nd tomato plant
- Take my family on a tropical vacation.....Hawaii maybe?
- Knit
- Visit my sister more often (she lives in Australia)
- Spend more time with hubby (he is a bit of a work-a-holic)
- Disappear when my kids are all yelling "Mommy" at the same time (usually they are fighting and all tattling at the same time)
- Sleep in at least one day a week.....no husband to wake me to prepare lunch and no boys to wake me to make cocoa
- Wave a wand and my areas of clutter would just put themselves away
- Transport myself into the future to see how my kids turn out
- Days of Our Lives
- Survivor
- Desperate Housewives
- The Biggest Loser ( I find it to be a bit inspiring to watch these people change their lives)
- Lost
- Grey's Anatomy
- The Amazing Race
- Ugly Betty


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POPSUGAR Debuts New Brand, New Website, and New Daily Show Focusing on Influential Tastemakers and Shoppers
SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, and NEW YORK, February 20, 2013 — Today POPSUGAR Inc. announced a new brand and website, POPSUGAR; an enhanced shopping site, POPSUGAR Shopping; and a new daily show, POPSUGAR LIVE!, that together cement the company's leadership in content and commerce for influential tastemakers and shoppers. POPSUGAR is delivering the industry's most comprehensive, digital first destination that combines editorial, video, shopping, and search, all in one place.
Commenting on the news, Founder and CEO Brian Sugar, POPSUGAR Inc., stated, "POPSUGAR is everything women love, all in one place. With the rebrand, we are celebrating our greatest success: becoming the leading online destination where content and commerce connect. Whether you are reading about the latest trends on the runway, tuning in live to the Oscars red carpet, or searching for that 'must-have' item, you'll find it all on POPSUGAR."
The New POPSUGAR: "Everything Women Love, All in One Place"
POPSUGAR has redesigned its website with a new visual identity and product features that place content and commerce center stage. From the color palette to the improved universal navigation of the site, women can more intuitively read, watch, and shop, all in one place. Enhancements and new features include:
- New Homepage: The new POPSUGAR homepage features a carousel of trending content: photo galleries, videos, and also LIVE video content. The new homepage also features three different views: List, Full, and Grid, which will automatically default to your preference, showcasing breaking news and also content that is "most popular" from the various content channels.
- Streamlined Content Channels: The new navigation features dedicated content channels focused on celebrities, fashion, beauty, entertainment, fitness, living, and more. These channels present curated editorial slideshows, videos, and more. Robust algorithms will also recommend relevant stories and videos based on what you are reading and watching.
- POPSUGAR Shopping (formerly known as ShopStyle): POPSUGAR Shopping delivers unparalleled core search capabilities and now also offers curated editorial content and videos. POPSUGAR partners with thousands of leading retailers and fashion brands, including DVF, J.Crew, Macy's, Neiman Marcus, NORDSTROM, and many more. Shoppers can search for millions of products and shop from the best selection of items in fashion, home, kids, and more from around the web, all in one place.
- POPSUGAR Video: POPSUGAR Video has been redesigned to feature a carousel of popular and current videos. Video is also prominently featured on the POPSUGAR homepage.
- New User Profiles: The new POPSUGAR allows you to create your own user profile, create "lists" of items you love, bookmark your "favorite" items, shop, and share your looks with the community.
- New POPSUGAR Shopping Mobile App: POPSUGAR Shopping is also available on mobile devices including iPhone and iPad in addition to the enhanced POPSUGAR mobile app.
In support of the new brand launch, POPSUGAR will be unveiling an advertising campaign in the second half of 2013.
POPSUGAR today also announced it is premiering POPSUGAR LIVE!, its new live, daily show featuring entertainment news, lifestyle, and shopping programming. The show will launch live twice a day, at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. PT, and stream continuously on a 24/7 basis. POPSUGAR reporters Matthew Rodrigues, Allie Merriam, and Becca Frucht will anchor the show out of the POPSUGAR studios in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.
Every day, viewers will hear from POPSUGAR's style, entertainment, and lifestyle editors as well as celebrities, stylists, designers, chefs, fitness experts, and more. Each show is approximately 20-30 minutes long and will feature 8-10 segments, including a new daily video shopping series, Daily Obsession, in which our experts bring viewers deals on items hand-selected by our editors. Segments of POPSUGAR LIVE! will also be available on demand, so viewers can experience the programming at any time and on any screen.
Commenting on the launch of POPSUGAR LIVE!, David Grant, President, POPSUGAR Studios, stated, "Women in our 18-40 demographic came of age in a digital, multiscreen, 24/7 world, and they expect to be able to be informed and entertained at any time and on any screen. With POPSUGAR LIVE!, we are adding an immediate live experience to complement our extensive on-demand programming, so they can come to us at any time to get access to the best in lifestyle editorial content and shopping, online."
POPSUGAR LIVE! is the newest addition to the existing, unparalleled catalog of original, premium-quality video programming, which includes more than 250 new, original videos per month delivered to an audience of over 40M visitors per month*. Programming is available both live and on demand and spans celebrity, entertainment, fashion, beauty, fitness, and food content, culminating in an impressive 13M hours of video watched*. POPSUGAR Video is also available on mobile and connected devices, including Roku and Kindle.
For more, go to POPSUGAR.com and the POPSUGAR Facebook page, and follow @POPSUGAR on Twitter.
*2012 POPSUGAR internal metrics and other third-party data; comScore reports.
About POPSUGAR
POPSUGAR is where content and commerce collide. POPSUGAR delivers the biggest moments, the hottest trends, and the best tips in entertainment, fashion, beauty, parenting, fitness, and food, and the ability to shop for it all, in one place. Founded in 2006 by Lisa and Brian Sugar, POPSUGAR is funded by Sequoia Capital and Institutional Venture Partners and has offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and London. POPSUGAR has over 40M users and growing. For more information, visit POPSUGAR.com and follow @POPSUGAR on Twitter.</p>


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Animal jokes
Animals carry sense, wisdom, and power. A living creature that feeds on organic matter, naturally focus on sense organs and nervous system. Animal jokes are based on horse, fly snake, cheetah etc. These are the living creature on which the jokes are based and able to respond fast. Animal are loving nature and god gifted to environment.
Foxy Animal Jokes
1. When geese fly
When geese fly in a "V", why is one side longer?
Because there are more geese on that side
2. Why do cows wear bells?
Because their horns don't work
3. What did the turkey say to the chicken?
Gobble gobble
4. Why do hens lay eggs?
If they dropped them, they'd break
5. Two snakes meet each other…
First snake: I hope I am not poisonous.
Second snake: Why?
First snake: Because I bit my lip!
6. In an elephant's school, some loafer elephants were hanging around in the canteen. A sexy female elephant passes by the canteen.
Then one of the elephants says: "Look yaar, 3600 – 2400 – 3600!
7. The chicken and the egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face while the egg is frowning and looking slightly annoyed.
The egg mutters "Well I guess that answers that riddle".
8. A man walks into a shop and sees a cute little dog. He asks the shopkeeper "Does your dog bite?"The shopkeeper says, "No, my dog does not bite."
The man tries to pet the dog and the dog bites him. "Ouch!" He says, "I thought you said your dog does not bite!"
The shopkeeper replies, "That is not my dog!"
9. Daughter told to her mother, "Right now I have seen a healthy white big cat went out from our kitchen"
Mother told," It is good sign and fortune to see a white big cat."
Daughter replied, "Yes fortune is that it has eaten all of your foods."
10. Ek bar ek chitti ne Hathani ke Kan mein kuch kaha toh hathni behos ho gayi.
Phir kisine chitti se pucha ke tune kya kaha?
Chitti Boli: Maine itna hi kaha ke "Main tumhare bacche ki maa banne wali hoon!"
11. Where do mice park their boats?
At the hickory dickory dock.
12. Where did the sheep go on vacation?
The baaaahamas
13. What do you call a thieving alligator?
A crocodile
14. What goes tick-tock, bow-wow, tick-tock and bow-wow?
A watch dog
15. What do you call a girl with a frog on her head?
16. What is a cheetah's favourite food?
Fast food!
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Akbar Birbal Story
Akbar Birbal stories are a basic part of rich Indian inheritance. These are the most popular stories among all age
groups that encourage moral values and qualities. This collection of stories is based on the relationship shared between Akbar and Birbal. Akbar was an uneducated king who ruled the Mughal Empire between 1542 and 1605 and Birbal was one among the educated people whom Akbar had invited to his court. After the two met at the court they exchanged knowledge and sentiments with each other that were later compiled to attractive stories that imparted a moral.
Akbar Birbal is a series of Hindi mobisodes launched by Rajshri on the Rajshri.com portal on July 1, 2008. Mobisodes of Akbar Birbal Remixed are available in SMS, MMS, video and audio formats.
The show will next be made available on the TV, home video and FM Radio. Akbar Birbal stories are absolutely the most popular stories among people of all age groups. These stories are full of wit, humor and cleverness.
Story of intelligence
The Three Questions – Akbar & Birbal
King Akbar was very fond of Birbal. This made a certain noble very jealous. Now this courtier always wanted to be chief minister, but this was not possible as Birbal filled that position. One day Akbar praised Birbal in front of the aristocrat. This made the courtier very angry and he said that the king praised Birbal unjustly and if Birbal could answer three of his questions, he would accept the fact that Birbal was intelligent. Akbar always wanting to test Birbals wit readily agreed.
The three questions were
1. How many stars are there in the sky?
2. Where is the centre of the Earth and
3. How many men and how many women are there in the world.
Instantly Akbar asked Birbal the three questions and informed him that if he could not answer them, he would have to leave as chief minister.
To answer the first question, Birbal brought a hairy sheep and said, "There are as many stars in the sky as there is hair on the sheep's body. My friend the noble is welcome to count them if he likes."
To answer the second question, Birbal drew a couple of lines on the floor and bore an iron rod in it and said, "this is the centre of the Earth, the courtier may measure it himself if he has any doubts."
In answer to the third question, Birbal said, "Counting the exact number of men and women in the world would be a problem as there are some specimens like our courtier friend here who cannot easily be classified as either. Therefore if all people like him are killed, then and only then can one count the exact number."
Moral: There is Always a Way.
The Wicked Barber's Plight – Akbar & Birbal
Birbal was not only ruler Akbar's favourite minister but also a minister dearly loved by most of the masses, because of his ready wit and understanding. People used to come to him from far and wide for advice on personal matters too. There was a group of ministers that were jealous of his growing popularity and disliked him powerfully. They supposedly showered him with honour and compliments, but on the inside they began to hatch a plot to kill him.
One day they approached the king's barber with a plan. As the barber was very close to the king, they asked him to help them get rid of Birbal permanently. And of course, they promised him a huge sum of money in return. The wicked barber readily agreed.
The next time the king required his services, the barber started a conversation about the emperor's father who he also used to serve. He sang praises of his fine, silky-smooth hair. And then as an afterthought he asked the king that as he was enjoying such great prosperity, had he made an attempt to do anything for the welfare of his ancestors?
The king was furious at such impertinent stupidity and told the barber that it was not possible to do anything because they were already dead. The barber mentioned that he knew of a magician who could come of help. The conjuror could send a person up to heaven to enquire about his father's welfare. But of course this person would have to be chosen carefully; he would have to be intelligent enough to follow the magician's instructions as well as make on-the-spot decisions. He must be wise, intelligent and responsible. The barber then suggested the best person for the job – the wisest of all ministers, Birbal.
The king was much energized about hearing from his dead father and asked the barber to go ahead and make the activities immediately. He asked him what was needed to be done. The barber explained that they would take Birbal in a procession to the burial grounds and light a pyre. The magician would then chant some 'mantras' as Birbal would ascend to the heavens through the smoke. The chanting would help protect Birbal from the fire.
The king happily informed Birbal of this plan. Birbal said that he thought it a brilliant idea and wanted to know the brain behind it. When learning that it was the barber's idea, he agreed to go to heaven on condition that he be given a large sum of money for the long journey as well as one month's time to settle his family so that they had no trouble while he was gone. The king agreed to both conditions.
In the duration of this month, he got a few trustworthy men to build a tunnel from the funeral grounds to his house. And on the day of the ascension, after the pyre had been lit, Birbal escaped through the concealed door of the tunnel. He disappeared in to his house where he hid for a few months while his hair and beard grew long and unruly.
In the meantime his enemies were rejoicing as they thought that they had seen the last of Birbal. Then one day after many, many months Birbal arrived at the palace with news of the king's father. The king was extremely pleased to see him and ready with a barrage of questions. Birbal told the king that his father was in the best of spirits and had been provided with all the comforts except one.
The king wanted to know what was lacking because now he thought he had found a way to send things and people to heaven. Birbal answered that there were no barbers in heaven, which is why even he was forced to grow his own beard. He said that his father had asked for a good barber.
So the king decided to send his own barber to serve his father in heaven. He called both the barber and the magician to prepare to send him to heaven. The barber could say absolutely nothing in his own defence as he was caught in his own trap. And once the pyre was lit he died on the spot.
Moral: Nobody dared to conspire against Birbal again.
Birbal's Wisdom
One fine day, Akbar lost his ring. When Birbal arrived in the court, Akbar told him "I have lost my ring. My father had given it to me as a gift. Please help me find it." Birbal said "do not worry your Majesty, I will find your ring right now."
He said, "Your Majesty the ring is here in this court itself; it is with one of the courtier. The courtier who has a straw in his beard has your ring." The courtier who had the emperor's ring was shocked and immediately moved his hand over his beard. Birbal noticed this act of the courtier. He immediately pointed towards the courtier and said, "Please search this man. He has the emperor's ring."
Akbar could not understand how Birbal had managed to find the ring. Birbal then told Akbar that a guilty person is always scared.
Moral: A Guilty Conscience needs No Accuser.
Birbal caught the Thief
A rich merchant's house was robbed. The merchant assumed that the thief was one of his servants. So he went to Birbal and mentioned the event. Birbal went to his house and assembled all of his servants and asked that who stole the merchant's things. Everybody denied.
Birbal thought for a moment, then gave a stick of equal length to all the servants of the merchant and said to them that the stick of the real thief will be longer by two inches tomorrow. All the servants should be present here again tomorrow with heir sticks.
All the servants went to their homes and gathered again at the same place the next day. Birbal asked them to show him their sticks. One of the servants had his stick shorter by two inches. Birbal said, "This is your thief, merchant."
Later the merchant asked Birbal, "How did you catch him?" Birbal said, "The thief had already cut his stick short by two inches in the night fearing that his stick will be longer by two inches by morning."
Moral: Truth will always prevail.
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The original Mortal Kombat games were great for many reasons. They had one of the more in-depth fighting game stories, a cast of colorful characters, really cool music, and of course, lots of gore. Beyond that, the games were also filled with a ton of secrets that could be unlocked with specific buttons combinations. Many of these secrets have been discovered throughout the years, but even now, after two decades, there are still hidden treasures being found within these classic titles.
This recently unearthed secret is called the EBJ menu, and it can be found in the arcade versions of the original three games. The reason it has taken this long to discover is because in order to access this menu, players have to press the block buttons on the player one and player two side of the controls a specific number of times in an alternating pattern.
The pattern for the first Mortal Kombat is P1 (5 times), P2 (10 times), P1 (2 times), P2 (1 times), P1 (2 times), P2 (3 times), then P1 (4 times). In Mortal Kombat 2, the pattern is P1 (5), P2 (10), P1 (2), P2 (8), P1 (2). This will let players watch the game's various character endings, enter their initials, and even see a message from series creator Ed Boon with a few names of folks he wants to say hello to.
In Mortal Kombat 3 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, the pattern is P1 (5), P2 (10), P1 (3), P2 (1), P1 (2), P2 (2), P1 (3), P2 (4). This one has the same options as MKI and MKII with a some other extras like activating "hiddens" that can be accessed using the Kombat Kode, such as the character Smoke. You can also watch a Fatality demonstration and even play the classic Galaga.
There are apparently more secrets hidden in these games, so it will be interesting to see what folks dig up in the coming years.


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President-elect Donald Trump has some scathing words for US companies not committed to hiring American workers.
According to the future President, "Make in the USA or pay big border tax!"
Since winning the election Mr. Trump has made it very clear that he wants US companies including United Technologies, Boeing Co, and Lockheed Martin Corp to keep some form of product manufacturing in the US. With popular automakers like Ford and GM known for outsourcing jobs to cheaper countries such as Mexico, this change in American policy is huge. In response to this new government action, Ford CEO Mark Fields recently announced that his company will scrap plans for the creation of a $1.6 billion Mexican car factory in favor of staying in Michigan. This move will likely result in 700 jobs for the area. According to Fields, the move to abandon the plan was a "vote of confidence in Trump, but primarily a response to a decline in North American demand for small cars like those that would have been made at the Mexican plant." Furthermore, Ford plans to invest over $700 million to expand the Flat Rock, MI auto factory.
This is another win for the future Trump administration and has my full support. In order to bring back a state rebuilding its identity, jobs must be present. These jobs will help the state in its rebound and is a great symbol for our future President who is looking to make a big statement on his support in American jobs.


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Review for International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region, New York, NY, USA
The NGO known as the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), continues to be a highly respected global provider of sexual and reproductive as well as quality health care, with an amazing umbrella network of clinics and services in over 150 countries and millions of volunteers. The federation's unquestionable commitment to health care Access, Adolescents, Advocacy, Abortion and in more recent times HIV/AIDS, allow its volunteers and staff to come into direct contact with the needs of humanity and especially the poor and underserved. Impressed with their work, I became a volunteer almost four decades ago.
The organization's ongoing support for local member organizations is offered in a variety of forms including, training in health matters, administration, procedural guidance and all aspects of the management of a Non Governmental Organization This guidance has benefited the forty-one (41) member countries of the Western Hemisphere region including, small developing states like Barbados and the Caribbean Islands.
At a personal level, I have been proud to sit amongst other volunteers from this region and indeed the world body, to serve on its committees, share experiences and advise, and to be part of a variety of sustainable planning objectives, which continue to benefit those in need and those without a voice, in the important corridors of decision making especially in health and human rights matters.
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Areas of poverty in Barbados and other regional countries, where contraceptive use has been encouraged and where participation in outreach programmes in the villages and the inner city, has resulted in higher attendance at our clinics, less unwanted pregnancies and an awareness of HIV/AIDS prevention and training for the youth in these matters. Our trained staff also visit and provide information to young adults including those in class rooms at various institutions of learning.
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Seek to attract more funding for essential programmes in pockets of poverty across the world and encourage more lobbying to 'bring on board' more governments in the fight for a healthier world.


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We found 1 episode of Troublesome Terps with the tag "crossover".
Episode 21: Looking for Trouble with the Vocal Fries
18 April 2018 | 1 hr 36 mins
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Hungry for more podcast? This month, the Terps are looking for trouble with the tasty Vocal Fries! Together with Vocal Fries hosts Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa, Jonathan and the Alexes discuss a wide variety of different topics from linguistic discrimination to gendered language to code switching and what's up with French in Canada or with Spanish in Arizona.


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Jerome Bocuse
Jerome moved over seas to the United States in 1990 to attend the Culinary Institute. He then furthered his studies at the International School of Hospitality in Miami, Florida. After graduating, Jerome was positioned to oversee Les Chefs de France, the traditional French Restaurant in France's pavilion at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Jerome successfully managed this restaurant for many years, later to become the President of his own company, JBI LLC, which now operates two restaurants serving over a thousand covers per day, a bakery and two specialty carts. In 2012, Jerome is developing 3 new concepts with a new extensive bakery, a unique ice cream parlor and a new high-end restaurant in that same location in Epcot's World Showcase.
Along with Chefs Thomas Keller and Daniel Boulud, Jerome is on the board of directors of the Bocuse d'Or USA. Together they are active in raising awareness for the non-profit organization that selects the U.S. candidate that will later be supported in competing in the international finals of the Bocuse d'Or in Lyon, France.
In January, 2010, Jerome was appointed the new president of the SIRHA, one of the biggest professional food trade shows in the world with 2200 exhibitors attracting over 160,000 visitors. In addition, the show is the host of the World Pastry Cup as well as the Bocuse d'Or world finals.
Jerome currently resides in Orlando, Florida with his wife Robin and his 6-year-old son, Paul, named after his Grandfather.
In addition to his career and involvement in these organizations, Jerome is very passionate for high adrenaline sports such as paragliding, water skiing and racing cars. He was ranked among the top water skiers in the world and just recently won the 2011 Championship of the Ferrari Club Racing Association while racing a F430 Ferrari Challenge car.


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Lake Chapala, Close to Home & Close to Perfect
January 21, 2017
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for your visit. I subscribe to "International Living" and have for many years. I recently received their "Retirement Index" supplement to my subscription.
I was pleased to find they quoted me "AGAIN". I'm quoting their recent supplement included with their recent mailing to me in which the head line reads, "Mexico, The Real Story: Close to Home and Close to Perfect."
On page 2 of their supplement they state "As a retired police officer and attorney from Dallas says about Lake Chapala where he lives, if you spend wisely, you can have a "caviar lifestyle on a tuna fish pension."
"For a couple: he says, " ' I think if your home is paid for here you can live a very nice lifestyle on $1500 a month. The more you have above this, the more luxury you will have, remember your property taxes (mine have always been under $99) , and you will likely save on utilities given the temperate climate, and the lack of crazy weather… no hurricanes, typhoons, floods, or major earthquakes means you don't need to insure against weather disasters.
Best of all, Mexico offers a retirement discount program that offers all foreign residents some very nice discounts.
'As our friend from Chapala adds,' "With free discount cards for folks 60 and over you save on a variety of goods and services. Half price fares on luxury buses allows you to have affordable vacations all over Mexico and more…'
As a published author, a blogger, Buyers Only Realtor and resident/citizen of Mexico I could not be happier that the popular International Living magazine has now quoted me a second time as I share my love for Lake Chapala with the world.
I'd also would like to share my love for our area with you. One way I do this is with my 5 star rated book available on Amazon.com
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All for now, Siempre tu amigo, Sid


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Mark Martin
Mark Martin has truly made a lifelong commitment to horticulture, education and helping others. He knew horticulture would be his career path when he was only eight years old. He began by helping his mother plant bulbs in their extensive backyard garden and marveling at the abundance of flavors that came from his grandfather's vast vegetables garden.
Mark became involved in 4H when he was quite young, and by the age of 16 was among the top 10 in the state for judging and winning contests. His first experience in national judging ranked Mark ninth in the country. He traveled across the country to judge with other national contenders for the National Junior Horticulture Association. Before he was 21, he was ranked number one. At the same time, he also was involved in FFA from District 214 representing the state of Illinois where he received a gold and silver medal for judging.
Mark has been an adjunct instructor at MCC in the Horticulture Department since 1996. His fellow co-workers consider him an "exceptional person who tirelessly gives his time and talent to all organizations with which he is affiliated," and he has spent hundreds of hours consulting and advising on various ways to help the MCC Horticulture Department. Mark has tremendous passion for giving back to young minds and hearts—to plant seeds for the future.
While working toward his associate's degree in Horticulture at MCC, Mark began his own interiorscape company in 1982. He started with plant rentals and wedding design, and within five years he built his first greenhouse to support the growth of Interior Tropical Gardens. The company is extremely successful and employs many people from the McHenry County area.
Mark is the founder of National Indoor Plant Week, which was established to increase public awareness of the importance of indoor plants. National Indoor Plant Week is one of two trademarks Mark registered through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The other is for Mark's newest endeavor to increase the understanding and appreciation for live plants called the Happy Plant Family.
Mark is also committed to giving back to the community. He founded the 501(C3) charitable organization, It's All About Kids, over 18 years ago to raise money for McHenry County families who have a child suffering with cancer. Every year this organization holds several fundraising activities to provide money to local families as well as pediatric cancer research at the Children's Hospital in Chicago. It's All About Kids has donated over $130,000 to Children's Memorial and twenty-eight McHenry County families have received up to $8,000 each to help with their many expenses.


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In January, NOAA announced its plans to expand aquaculture in the Gulf of Mexico, but those plans are now being challenged.
The decision to expand fish farming in the Gulf was made in order to meet the growing demand for seafood and increase job opportunities in the seafood industry. It will allow for up to 20 industrial facilities and a total of 64 million pounds of fish to be produced every year.
"This is all about managing and expanding seafood farming in an environmentally sound and economically sustainable way," Michael Rubino, of NOAA Fisheries Office of Aquaculture, said in a news release. "The permit process we've laid out accounts for the region's unique needs and opens the door for other regions to follow suit."
Last month, however, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a new lawsuit challenging the ruling. CFS is representing many stakeholders in the Gulf of Mexico including Florida Wildlife Federation, Gulf Restoration Network, and several fishing associations and organizations.
"Offshore industrial aquaculture will cause irreparable harm to the Gulf ecosystems and coastal communities," George Kimbrell, senior attorney for CFS and counsel for the plaintiffs, said in a news release. "We need to better manage and protect our native fisheries, not adopt destructive industrial food practices that put them at risk. This lawsuit, brought by a range of concerned stakeholders, aims to halt these shortsighted plans."
CSF says the "questionable permitting scheme" is an effort to push industrial aquaculture without new laws.
"The U.S. Congress has never given express authority to NOAA/NMFS to enact such extensive and far reaching regulation. If this regulation goes into effect, the existing $15 billion recreational and commercial fishing industries will be forced to carry the burden of the damages that may come as a consequence," said William Ward, Esq., of the William Ward Law Group, PLLC.
To learn more:
- Read about the aquaculture plans: NOAA expands opportunities for U.S. aquaculture
- Read CFS's news release: Fishing and Public Interest Groups File Challenge to Feds' Unprecedented Decision to Establish Aquaculture in Offshore U.S. Waters
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Hadoop requires specialized skills. It is relative of course, but in the last couple of years, as many companies have deployed significant Hadoop infrastructure, there has been a lot said and written on this point. It takes substantial time and technical resources to get Hadoop up and running at most companies. An article in the Wall Street Journal, citing a 2015 Gartner analyst survey on Hadoop adoption and use, reported that "implementation and deployment hurdles [of Hadoop] inside big companies aren't unheard of, and some CIOs have noted they are taking a cautious approach to Hadoop adoption." Around the same time, Fortune.com made a similar point on a shortcoming of skills and early successes.
Still, a lot of work has been done to ease deployment. The Hadoop vendors have done their part to make the platform easier to administer. And, we at Teradata have offered a Hadoop appliance, preconfigured and optimized specifically with the goal of running enterprise class big data workloads easier. So, with Hadoop adoption on a good trajectory, a lot of attention turned to the tools to extract insights from data in Hadoop. From the early days of MapReduce and Hive, to newer SQL-on-Hadoop tools like Presto, to the rise of Apache Spark, the community, including our developers and engineers at Teradata, has taken some good, iterative steps to make it easier to analyze Hadoop data.
So, with Hadoop adoption on a good trajectory, a lot of attention turned to the tools to extract insights from data in Hadoop.
Today, we at Teradata are taking the next iterative step by announcing Teradata Aster Analytics on Hadoop 7.0 [link to press release] will execute natively inside the Hadoop cluster, now integrated fully with YARN and managed by the YARN resource manager. This is an important step in raising the use and value of Hadoop for companies that have invested so much in the infrastructure. With Aster Analytics on Hadoop, companies can deploy the best of Aster with pre-packaged and powerful analytics on any new and existing Hadoop cluster. It gives our customers even more choice and lets them realize ROI from Hadoop data that they might not be fully realizing today.
Aster Analytics on Hadoop is all about connecting analysts with big data at scale. As mentioned in the open, most Hadoop deployments today are way too technical, making it very hard for the standard business analyst to access the data, beyond simple BI and reporting use cases. Advanced and algorithmic analytics to find new insights and predict future outcomes requires hard-to-find data science skills. Aster Analytics' simplified approach to advanced analytics, now running natively in Hadoop, gives analysts the expanded SQL repertoire to do path analysis for understanding the customer journey to conversion, graph analytics to find influencer networks, machine learning on sensor data to predict part failures and many other advanced analytic use cases directly against Hadoop data.
Hadoop can be tricky. But, with Teradata Aster Analytics on Hadoop 7.0 we are taking an important step in helping our customers more easily unlock value from big data.


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