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A Chinese lawyer who defended activists and others involved in politically sensitive cases has been sentenced to 12 years in prison on fraud charges, his lawyers said.
Xia Lin was sentenced by the Beijing No 2 Intermediate Court, nearly two years after being detained, lawyer Ding Xikui said.
"We've been striving to defend his innocence," Mr Ding said. "Even one day in prison is too much."
Mr Ding said Mr Xia planned to file an appeal.
Mr Xia's sentence appeared to be the heaviest for a government critic since economist and Uighur minority rights advocate Ilham Tohti was sentenced in 2014 to life imprisonment on separatism charges after he made calls for Chinese-Uighur reconciliation and greater economic justice.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, identified by the party as an existential threat to its rule, is serving an 11-year sentence for subversion.
"The harsh sentence against Xia Lin sends the sternest warning yet to the community of human rights lawyers that they must toe the party line," said Maya Wang, a Hong Kong-based researcher with Human Rights Watch.
Ms Wang said president and party leader Xi Jinping has made clear that, despite its calls for strengthened rule of law, the party intends to use the legal system to enforce its uncontested rule. "Anyone who challenges this aspiration will not be tolerated."
Mr Ding and advocacy group Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders said the charges against Mr Xia, who was born in 1970, related to money he borrowed from friends, who asserted they loaned it freely and had not brought legal complaints against him.
He was accused of defaulting on that debt, but no convincing evidence was provided, they said.
"He had indeed borrowed money from people, but it is just normal borrowing and lending money," Mr Ding said.
The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders said Mr Xia was detained on November 8 2014, as he began preparing to defend Guo Yushan, the head of a Chinese think tank, the Transition Institute.
It said Mr Guo had been detained a month earlier for supporting the Occupy Central pro-democracy movement in the semi-autonomous Chinese region of Hong Kong.
The group said that, lacking evidence of fraud, investigators instead focused on Mr Xia's association with government critics, including artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei, whose design company, Beijing Fake Cultural Development, he helped defend from a demand for 1.85 million dollars (£1.43 million) in back taxes and fines brought in 2011.
Mr Ai ultimately lost the case, despite claims of widespread legal irregularities.
"The numerous legal violations, not least the length of time it took to bring Xia to trial, demonstrate the flimsiness of the authorities' case.
"Xia Lin should be freed on Thursday and compensated for his time in detention," human rights researcher Frances Eve said in a statement.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang discounted such accusations, saying such groups likely did not represent mainstream opinion about China in the international community.
Mr Xia's case "falls within China's internal affairs... and will be handled in accordance with law," Mr Lu said.
President Xi's campaign against dissent began gathering steam in the summer of 2015, when about 300 activists and lawyers were initially seized in a round-up and questioned before most were released.
But more than a dozen of those detained last year remain in custody.


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World Enough and Time: Cora's Bond 6
The Sixth Book of the Second Billionaire Vampire Serial
NY Times bestselling author V. M. Black returns with the triumphant final book of the hit vampire serial!
Cora Shaw's last tie to her old life is shattered when her best friend Lisette is captured by a vampire faction opposed to her fiancé Dorian Thorne. Even with the billionaire Dorian's vast resources, can Lisette be found alive before Cora's wedding date? And if she isn't, how can Cora hope to face what is supposed to be the happiest day of her life?
But events take an abrupt turn for the deadly as all the different pieces of the puzzle come into abrupt and lethal focus. Finally, Cora knows what the vampire faction is planning—but it might be far too late for them all.
This book is incredible! All of V.M.'s other books have been excellent, but this one is a triumph. It is full of rich description. If this is her trajectory then the stars will be her companions.
This woman can write! Detail, mystery and action along with drama and hot romance gives you the wow factor of 10 stars. I LOVE the book and I LOVED the series.
Sexy vampires-check! A fascinating menagerie of human and supernatural characters-check! Danger, abduction, murder, suspense and intrigue-check! Exquisite romance, undying love, a fealty for all time and beautiful sex-you betcha! This is hands down, one of the best serials I've ever read! Absolute perfection!
My gaze locked on my phone's screen, which displayed the image of the curly-haired man from the video that Dorian's bodyguards had sent to me last week. I stared at it so hard my eyes watered, willing the man's slightly blurry features to assume some other shape. But they stayed stubbornly fixed—and all too sickeningly familiar.
The realization crept over me even as I tried to fight it off.
No. No, no, no, please, no.
I could hear my own heart in my ears, beating too loud, my breath coming too fast. Mutely, I looked up to meet Dorian's concerned gaze, but his eyes seemed suddenly strangely far away, like I was looking at them through a tunnel as the ground dropped out from under my feet.
"It's the Kyrioi. They have Lisette." The voice was mine, speaking the words I didn't want to believe but that had to be said.
Dorian crossed the space between us in two strides, before plucking the phone out of my nerveless fingers and bringing me abruptly back to myself. I swayed, grabbing the back of the nearest chair for support.
Not her. Not Lisette. Of all the things to happen, of all the people to be swept up into this—
"What is this?" he demanded, his brow furrowing at the picture on the phone.
"He's the guy who left that note on my car." My words tumbled over each other in my haste to explain. I didn't want to be talking. I wanted to be doing. Dorian had to fix this. It was all my fault, our faults, and he was the only one who could make it right. "On Wednesday, when I went to the closing for my grandmother's house, he left another threatening letter, remember? The bodyguards recorded it, and I asked for the video to be forwarded to your security team so you could find out who he is. And now he's got Lisette."
My best friend, kidnapped by Dorian's enemies. All because of me.
It didn't seem real. Nothing did. Not the soothing neutral bedroom that surrounded us. Not the news of Lisette's disappearance. Not even Dorian. None of this could be happening—not to an ordinary girl from working-class Glen Burnie. Not to me.
Not to Lisette….
Dorian's gaze took in my turmoil swiftly, but he shook his head. "You asked to have him checked out, and he was. The boy is a nobody. He's not an agnate—or even another aether. He's just a human."
"Just a human?" I repeated, my hands curling reflexively into fists. "Lisette's just a human! Which human is he? There are, what, seven billion in the world now? Who is he?"
"Does it matter? He does whatever his master bids him to, and finding him will get us no closer to whomever that is," Dorian said dismissively.
I snatched my phone out of his hands and waved it at him. "It matters because he was the last person to be seen with Lisette at the bachelorette party. I didn't recognize him then. He was just some guy talking to her in the bar. But I remember him now. He left the threat on my car, so that means he belongs to the Kyrioi. He's got Lisette, which means that the Kyrioi have her, which means she was taken because of us—because of me."
But Dorian just raised one of his black-winged eyebrows skeptically, without any
urgency in his expression. "Why would the Kyrioi have any interest in your friend?"
"To get at me?" I suggested. "To get at you? Does it even matter?"
"I don't care about her," he said flatly.
"But I do. Aren't you upset that I'm upset?"
He certainly didn't seem to be, and the significance of his indifference was a second, sickening shock. How could I have been so stupid? How could I have thought that I was something more to Dorian than what I did for him? I was indulged, yes, and loved, in his way, but as his cognate, not as myself. Not as a person whose feelings and desires were respected simply because they were mine.
"If upsetting me through you was what someone wanted, he would have done better to kill her outright," Dorian said. "Agnates rarely do a thing without a reason, and I see no point in kidnapping your friend."
I seized at the first thought that came to me. "Maybe it's because you took Lucretia. So they're going to take Lisette. Look, does it really matter why Lisette was kidnapped? We know that she was, and we know who did it. We have to save her!"
His frown only deepened. "An attempt to recover her seems to me the only possible advantage they could hope for by taking your friend. To use her as bait to lure the Adelphoi into a trap."
"But you're going to save her anyway, aren't you?" I pressed. "She's not a part of this. It isn't her fight. She doesn't deserve to be caught up in it all."
"Do any of us deserve it?" Dorian retorted. "How about the twenty-five hundred humans who die every day to slake the thirst of the agnatic race? Do they deserve it? Are you honestly asking me, Cora Shaw, to risk everything we have left for the sake of one human, merely because she's your friend?"
"Yes," I said instantly.
Throwing Lisette away because she wasn't of any significance—that was the coldly logical thing to do. But it was also the wrong thing, and not just because she was the closest thing to a sister that I had. I didn't know how to explain to him that saving Lisette was made more important because she wasn't crucial to his plan.
I knew deep in my bones that Dorian's Adelphoi needed to save her. They needed to do it for the same reason that a decent society had to try to save the most fragile of babies, the worst burn victims, and the sufferers of the rarest and most terrible diseases—and why people feel compelled to risk the living to retrieve the bodies of the dead.
Did any of those choices make sense, from the high mountaintop of the most remote logic? Of course not. But those were the decisions that represented the very best in humanity, its deepest capacity for compassion, for charity.
And I might not have witnessed the thousands of years of history that Dorian had seen, but I knew that the moment that people started weighing out greater and lesser goods, it was always a matter of the shortest time before they were committing the worst of evils in the same name. I couldn't imagine that the Adelphoi, with all the darkness inside them, would be above that.
I couldn't lay out any of those arguments then, not with fear swirling so thick in my head that it almost choked me. All I could do was square my shoulders and face down Dorian's harsh reason with an even voice and a raised chin.
"Yes, we have to save her, or else the Adelphoi don't stand for anything."
Dorian frowned down at me. Gone was the teasing, gently challenging man who had asked me to trust him only minutes before. In his place was the icy Dorian I'd first met, the distant agnate with chilly depths that I'd never begin to understand.
I met his icy gaze steadily—not without fear, for I realized that I'd made the choice to tie myself to him, forever, whatever he might prove to be. Yet I met his gaze in spite of that and refused to flinch even as he stepped so close to me that our bodies almost touched, his eyes searching my face.
Finally, as if he'd made some discovery in his examination of my expression, Dorian gave a curt nod.
"I understand," he said.
Did he really? Could he? I wasn't sure, but I'd worry about it later: about both his initial refusal and his final capitulation. Right now what mattered was that he'd save Lisette—and, whether he knew it or not, his ideals.
"Thank you," I breathed. "We have to go to the apartment—"
"No." He cut me off. "There's no point in it."
I opened my mouth to retort before I realized that he was right. The apartment was the one place other than here at Dorian's mansion that she was guaranteed not to be. Except….
"You'll need to get her scent or whatever, won't you?" I asked uncertainly. "For the…bloodhounds or whatever it is that you use."
He smiled without humor. "For this? Djinn. As much as I loathe dealing with them, this is where they excel. I'll handle it. Give me your phone."
"For the djinn?" I asked even as I automatically handed it over.
"No. For her phone number, unless you know it by heart," he said.
I shook my head. "But Christina called her already. She's not answering."
"I don't intend to call her," Dorian said, pocketing the phone. "I plan to find the current location of her phone—and failing that, the last location from which she called anyone."
"Okay, so when you find it, I want to come, too," I pressed.
"Not this time, Cora."
His dismissive tone made me bristle.
"This time?" I repeated, my stomach knotting. "What time have you let me come with you? Not ever. Not once. Any time you do anything important, you pack me out of the way or lock me up, and then you go off and do your grown-up stuff while you expect me to sit and wait for you to come back. Lisette's my friend! If anything was ever my business, this is."
"You'll slow me down," he said bluntly, his eyes narrowing. "You'll make me weak because I will be afraid for you. Do you want to feed your pride, or do you want to save your friend?"
I stepped back as if he'd slapped me. "That's not fair."
"Fair?" It was his turn to repeat what I had said, and the word turned ugly in his mouth. "I don't care about fair. I care about true. Tell me that it's not true, and I'll take you along this instant."
I wanted to argue with him—to lash out against not just him but his world that made me so powerless. But I knew it wouldn't do any good, and more importantly, I'd just selfishly waste his time when he should be saving Lisette.
So I made myself nod, not trusting myself to speak. Not trusting any of the things I'd come to rely on in such a short time.
Dorian's face softened then, and for the first time since I'd told him of Lisette's kidnapping, I saw in his expression the echoes of the angel rising to whom I'd given so much. He reached out and caressed my jawline with the backs of his knuckles as he had so many times before, and I caught his hand and pressed it to my cheek.
"I'll come back to you, Cora," he said softly. "I'll always come back to you."
I nodded again and squeezed my eyes shut against everything I wanted to say. He moved silently, but I could feel the breath of air as he passed, and I heard the click as the door to my bedroom shut.
I let out my breath and flung myself into the nearest chair, wanting to scream, wanting to cry. Instead, I hugged a pillow silently against my chest with all of my strength, too aware of Dorian's guards watching me silently through the hidden cameras.
When Dorian and I were apart, the guards kept me safe from anyone who might penetrate the mansion's defenses, but their scrutiny also meant that unless I was in the bathroom, I was never truly alone. Even at the extremity of my grief and frustration, I didn't want to shame myself or Dorian by throwing a fit in front of them. While I'd lost all dignity in front of them at least once before, now my awareness of them and the relationship that I had with them through Dorian checked my actions even as my mind teemed with a thousand thoughts that sent me deeper into my spiral of guilt.
Lisette. Oh, God, why Lisette? I'd made lists in my mind a thousand times of everything my relationship with Dorian might cost, but I'd never imagined that anyone else would pay the price. Especially not Lisette, who had done so much that was good and selfless and whom I wanted to protect more than anyone in the world. In a sudden bolt of white-hot fury, I wanted to somehow reach out through space and crush the hearts of those who wished her harm.
But that was impossible, and none of the things that were possible for me would do her any good. The realization was bitter, and it quickly quenched useless my anger. If anything, my role was to be as quiet and unobtrusive as I could, doing nothing and asking for nothing that might distract the people who would actually be able to help Lisette.
The important people. Because I didn't fool myself for a moment that I mattered to the Adelphoi one bit more than any human did except in my role as Dorian's cognate.
So I resolved to behave. To be the good, quiet girl until Dorian came home again.
A small, despairing part of me wondered if I would ever again be able to be mad or sad or happy without restraint, without wondering what it might make others think or say or do. But that thought was just an eddy in the river of fear that ran through me at the thought of what might have happened to Lisette.
Dorian's comment about the Kyrioi killing Lisette outright echoed in my ears, and I hugged the pillow even harder, as if I could squeeze the thought from my mind. How did I know they hadn't done that already? Everything was just a guess right now.
I couldn't hold still any longer. I sprang to my feet…but then I just stood uncertainly, still clutching a throw pillow in one hand. There was nothing for me to do. With a huff of frustration, I tossed the pillow back onto the chair and began pacing the room. The minutes ticked by, piling up one after another. Outside my window, the dull shadows thrown by the shrouded sun slowly lengthened, but that was the only sign that time was passing. It felt like it must have been days already, but the sun still hadn't set, and there was no word from Dorian.
Why wasn't there any word from Dorian?
When the knock on my door finally came, I jumped, my heart thundering, and whirled to face it just as it flung open.
"Dorian!" My lips had already formed his name.
But it was Clarissa who was on the other side.
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Gibbs leaves Millwall with Livermore set to assist Harris
NIGEL Gibbs has cut-short his time at Millwall following the sacking of manager Ian Holloway on Tuesday morning.
Gibbs, who joined the Lions initially as a first team coach in December, moved up to become Holloway's no.2 a month ago.
The 49-year-old was expected to move on at the end of the season anyway but has now stepped aside in the wake of Holloway's departure.
"Gibbo has moved on with Ollie, who brought him to help in the short-term," said chief executive Andy Ambler.
"Gibbo is probably the most honourable man I've met in football after Kenny Jackett, so we've accepted his decision."
Neil Harris, who will be in charge for the final ten games of Millwall's season, is expected to be assisted by former teammate David Livermore.
Livermore has been a youth coach at The Den since 2012, working predominantly with the U18 squad.


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Dear Survivor,
We've had a long, challenging election season. In many ways, election night brought it all together in a way most of us could have never imagined.
There aren't enough words to describe the emotions we are feeling. The election results were incredibly painful. We'd like to say that we're surprised, but we know that racism and misogyny are real, and that rape culture and violence against women is ingrained in our society. The election of Donald Trump – a candidate who made numerous offensive statements and is accused of being a sexual predator – was just a horrifying visual manifestation of it. It was a reminder of the reality that we live in a society that ignores abuses of power – especially when it is perpetrated by people of privilege. It was an all too triggering reminder for those of us who have been the victims of such abuses of power and how loud we have to scream and still not be heard or believed. All the progress we have made seems erased, and our intersectional identities and lived experiences ignored. I think all of this is especially hard when we know that these systems of oppression are at the very root of what we are fighting against: gender inequity, violence against women, rape culture.We don't know what the next four years will be like. But, we do know that we live in a day and time where people are not willing to be silenced any more, and that we at HEART will work even harder to be heard and to uplift the voices of those we serve. Your continued courage and bravery speaking up about your lived experiences as a sexual assault survivor are both inspiring and an example of your resilience. By speaking up, sharing your story, and insisting on change, you are not only raising and awareness on an injustice that is far too common in 2016, but you are protecting so many from being abused or assaulted in the future. What you're doing is hard, and ultimately will require a culture shift. It will not happen overnight, and with so many who are so opposed to this work, it may even take much of our lifetime. But we are more motivated than ever to continue this work.
We see you. We hear you. We believe you.
We are so proud and humbled to serve alongside you as we continue to work toward progress, and your commitment to truth and justice is our daily inspiration. Yes, it may seem like we've taken many steps back and there is still so much left to do, but there is reason to hope. And for us at HEART, you all are that reason.
Eternally grateful for your courage,
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Hiee..... continuing my tour of Orissa..... here I come again with few more precious ... charming handicrafts ..art .. decor .. craft..and talent of Orissa. It is never possible to cover any state at once..... you need to walk more and more..! After-all ......India is a soil of talent..and its each and every state is enriched with skillful work.. heritage ... precious art ..and unlimited choices.
So...after the fabulous ... patch work.. on fabrics.. and breath taking ceiling and wall hangings..etc.. its time to move on and explore more of the hidden talent of Orissa.
Wooden Crafts : Expertise wooden crafts with skilled carving work ..can be found at Orissa. Wood work..cane work..bamboo work.. etc are the specialties of the wooden handicrafts.
Wood craved box ..... wooden painted box .. etc will charm the beauty of your decors. Simplicity with the touch of talent will give the perfect look to the spaces.
Small wood/bamboo hut ...... will ensure to brighten the charm of your outhouse.. or exteriors .. or can be an add on beauty to your landscaping. A small .. and open place to relax in the evenings .. and to entertain your morning hours.
Such a marvelous work on wood...... by painting..carving ... binding the bamboo and cane together ..etc. is the preserved heritage and well maintained talent of Orissa and they keep introducing new home decor products and things with the changing time and fashion.
Tribal paintings : The best way to explore the art,living style , traditions , culture of Orissa's tribal community. Simple painting with not very much of vivid colors and difficult designs can also bring the "village atmosphere" to your .. farm house.. or out house.. etc.
Each of the painting carries the culture of Orissa .. they speak the living style .. traditions etc. Each and every painting has its own specific message and story behind it. Mixed in the colors of hard-work , simplicity and culture .. they are one of the best way to bring home "village culture" for a change. :)
Metal works : I wish ...my eyes were camera ..and my mind was a memory card which can behold the beauty of such a metal work I have never seen before. This is just not the work of skilled and talented people .. in fact its a work of blessed people.
Heavy metals .. designed .. curved .. modified in such a beautify manner ..will always bring the spark to any of the furniture ... corner it is kept at.
Pottery/clay work : Bring them home......bring them for your offices .. to gift ..to keep at your favorite place of residence .
"Jaganath ji " is waiting to get a small corner of your home... or office. Beautifully painted idols of "Lord Jaganath ji " are the most attractive and tourist pulling clay item to be taken off.
Toys.. show pieces .. clay art...magic of talent is something which your will find in this soil of Orissa.
Other decor items : Most interesting and different section of this post .. look..what I got.
Garden umbrella for your gardens ........landscape..exterior's. Give in a royal sort of touch to your "landscaping" ....... its a perfect one to protect you from sun ..and give your garden a "maharaja touch".
I know.....these foot-wears for not for decor's.. just found it interesting to share. Couldn't stop myself sharing this with you guys. :)
Hmm...... super decorated ..painted bottles ....to enrich the beauty of your kitchen corners or living area or dinner area. Different ..and too precious to own. :)
Last but not the least..... another play of clay...and pottery. Perfection in color, size, design etc ..makes it a pure blend of decor to charm the spaces.
Journey of Orissa....here comes to an end ..or say a small halt ...I never know.. may be on the path of designs and decor's .. my roads again takes a turn to Orissa. :)
In-between... you guys also keep travelling to this interesting path of design and decor...and even I will keep exploring the universe of such a talent .. hard-work .. and skillful art.
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A Sector Group was a formation of the Imperial Navy, and to some extent the Imperial Army,[1] defined as the total naval strength available to a sector. Command of a Sector Group was delegated to a High Admiral. Usually, "high admiral" was a title granted to the sector Moff; however, in cases where sector naval forces were constantly engaged in high-intensity operations, the high admiral was a separate position to the Moff to allow the latter to concentrate on running the sector without devoting a disproportionate amount of time on naval matters.
The Sector Group level of organization came about somewhat by accident: the Moffs of the Empire's sectors, installed under the Sector Governance Decree in the final days of the Republic, complained that the Imperial Navy's force requirements in quelling Separatist holdouts routinely robbed their sectors of resources without sufficient consideration for local security needs. Under the Sector Governance Decree, the Moffs held the power of the old Governor-Generals to raise forces and began raising their own local militias. Alarmed by the prospect of local military forces not loyal to Imperial Center, the Admiralty stepped in and created Sector Groups, local forces directly controlled by the Moffs but carefully scrutinized by Coruscant.[2] In addition, the Sector Group was also created as a means to ensure both the Imperial Army and Imperial Navy could work together on a common goal, due to the jurisdictions under the Old Republic making it impossible for the Republic Army and Navy, respectively, working together.[1]
The early Sector Groups were drawn largely from the old Planetary Security Forces, nationalized in the final days of the Galactic Republic. Sector Group HQ included a squadron under the personal command of the Moff, and some Moffs with political connections or proven tactical ability sometimes had more squadrons available to them.
On average, a standard Sector Group was composed of 2,400 ships, of which 24 were Imperial-class star destroyers and an additional 1,600 were smaller warships.[3] The Group's combat elements were split between "Superiority" and "Escort": a superiority fleet was a space-combat force spearheaded by six Star Destroyers, each nominally accompanied by a battle squadron of eighteen smaller ships; escort fleets, meanwhile, were composed of force escorts and were designated for combat against pirates and raiders, which in practice meant that they were the Empire's first line of defense, protecting civilian freighters, attacking corsairs' hideouts, and guarding remote outposts.[4] Officially, the Sector Group is the largest unit in the Imperial Navy. However, there does exist even larger naval forces to be assembled than Sector Groups known as regional groups or Oversector groups, although these are not considered part of the standard Order of Battle.[5]
Additional Sector Group resources outside the combat element included the assault fleet, capable of deploying four entire surface Armies; the support fleet, used to fulfill the immense logistical requirements of the Sector Group, the deepdock fleet, which provided repair capability; and the bombard fleet, a rare formation nominally composed of eighteen Torpedo Spheres, used to break down planetary shields in offensive operations.
In 10 ABY, New Republic historian Arhul Hextrophon recognized that, owing to Sector Group resources like Super Star Destroyers and Torpedo Spheres, it had been almost impossible for the Rebel Alliance to properly estimate the power of the average Sector Group during the Galactic Civil War. He made this observation in a guest lecture at the Brionelle Memorial Military Academy on Chandrila shortly after the Battle of Calamari.[6]
- Imperial Sourcebook
- Death Star Technical Companion
- Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments from the Rim
- Death Star Technical Companion, Second Edition
- Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook
- Imperial Sourcebook, Second Edition
- Star Wars Miniatures Battles Companion
- Platt's Starport Guide
- Flashpoint! Brak Sector
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 11 (STA3, Imperial Star Destroyer)
- Star Wars: Imperial Handbook: A Commander's Guide


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Sonus faber The Sonus faber
The Sonus faber is the "non plus ultra" of a dream. A concentrate of experience, intuitions, hard work and design that finds its meaning in rendering the music more vivid, natural and captivating. A Sonus faber has never been previously designed considering such a multitude of "points of view". Besides the variety of solutions, the result exceeds the sums of the elements involved. A design that re-echoes a know-how as old as music, together with a vision of what will come. An authentic the Sonus faber.
The lyre: between inspiration and functionality
The "lyre" is the instrument par excellence of drama, and it is also a reference to the "lyre" shape. I was inspired by this fascinating instrument, together with musical references and universal myths such as the sphynx, with its air of mistery. Nothing in this object was
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Earlier this afternoon, the weigh-ins for tomorrow night's "Latin Collision" co-promoted by Holmes Boxing and Orthrus Promotions took place at the Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino just north of Santa Fe.
The card has now been reshaped to six-fights. If your interested in attending tickets range from $30.00 – $75.00 and can be purchased through the event hotlines 505-795-2772 / 505-699-2845 or through any of the featured boxers on the card. Doors open at 6pm and the first bout is scheduled to start at 7pm.
For those unable to attend the fights tomorrow they are expected to air live on www.OrthtrusPromos.com.
Fans are encouraged to hash-tag the event as #LatinCollision
Main Event:
Tony Valdez 115.8 vs. Felipe Rivas 115.6
Co-Main Event:
Brandon Holmes 123.9 vs. Eric Gonzales 124
Angelo Leo 118.8 vs. James Piar 119
Patrick Holmes Jr. 135 vs. Lucas Pedraza 134.2
Brian Mendoza 155.1 vs. Daniel Gonzales 157.7*
*Gonzales failed to make the 155lb +1 weight-limit. Fight will now take place as 160lb. bout.
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Fun, Safe Winter Projects for Kids
Winter survival is something that humans have long had to contend with. Earlier in our history, the major concerns revolved around food availability and warmth. Nowadays we find ourselves with these needs neatly met, allowing us to turn our attention to other basic needs such as finding fun projects with which to keep the kids busy during the long, cold months that loom ahead. To save you some searching, here's a safe, simple, and fun craft to get you started.
Build a snowman! Don't worry, there are no coat or mittens required to make this guy, just a little help from Elmer (glue, that is) and a few supplies you probably already have lying around the house.
To begin, you or your mini crafting partner will need to gather: white glue, one small paper clip, a piece of waxed paper, a few scraps of black and orange paper, a hole punch, child-safe scissors, two tiny twigs, and a scrap of string or yarn long enough for hanging purposes.
Start the project by laying down a large enough piece of waxed paper to accommodate your snowman.
Next, show your child how to squeeze out or spread the white glue onto the paper into the shape of a snowman (Tip: It always helps if you make you own, it will prevent you from accidentally hogging all the fun in the noble name of instruction).
The next step is to unfold the paper clip for your little artist and shape it into a thin V before showing him or her how to put the ends of the paper clip into the glue at the top of the snowman to make a hook to hang it from later on.
Use the twigs to fashion arms and the hole punch to make black circles for use as buttons and eyes and arrange them however you and your child see fit (if they start to sink, wait until the glue dries a bit to try again).
It may take a few days, depending on how crazy you get with the glue, but make sure to let your finished snowman dry thoroughly before trying to remove it from the waxed paper.
Once the glue is dry and transparent, put the finishing touch on by threading the bit of yarn or string through the paper clip hook in Mr. or Mrs. Snowman's head. Depending on the length of string, your little one can turn their snowman into a festive necklace, a charming window decoration, or an ornament cute enough to give as a gift. Be creative- the possibilities are almost endless!
During the holiday season, don't forget to protect your children and other loved ones with a home security system, which can provide a lifeline in case of medical emergencies, fires, and of course burglaries. I personally recommend ADT home security systems. ADT is the leading provider of home security systems in the U.S., with more than 100 years of experience.


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Our Staff and Board of Trustees spent a lot of time in 2017 defining the values that as a school we believe are crucial to your child's development. After much consultation and consideration, we have settled on the following:
At the core of our values are 'whanaungatanga' and 'identity'.
The foundation of our identity comes from who we come from.
Relationship, kinship, sense of family connection – a relationship through shared experiences and working together which provides people with a sense of belonging.
The act of using original and imaginative ideas to create something, approach something differently or solve a problem – 'thinking outside of the box'.
The quality of being truly the best at something!
A 'sense of pride' that is developed through your positive relationships and actions with others.
The quality of being dedicated to something – a task, a team, a goal…
The ability to cope or recover from difficult situations.


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Springtime in Nashville means warmer walks on the greenways, balmy back porch evenings, and – of course – the start of the Nashville Sounds baseball season. But for Music City cinephiles, April brings amped-up anticipation for the now-10-days-long Nashville Film Festival. This is the first year the fest will be held at the Regal Hollywood 27 theaters, and while the change of venue will affect the overall feel of the event, the lineup of documentary and narrative features looks predictably strong. For me the festival is a rite of spring, and every year I anticipate writing this preview of the fest flicks that explore the kinds of issues we illuminate year round in the pages of The Contributor: poverty, homelessness, chemical dependency, vulnerable marginalized communities and the power of art to heal individuals and communities.
The Nashville Film Festival runs April 20-27 at Regal Hollywood Stadium 27 & RPX. Tickets are on sale now: https://nashvillefilmfestival.org.
Chasing Evel: The Robbie Knievel Story
Professional daredevil Robbie Knievel has a lot in common with his famous father, motorcycle stunt pioneer Evel Knievel: Robbie's an even more talented cyclist than the old man, and he bridged the gap between his father's first famous mega-jumps and the X Games culture we know today. Robbie's also an alcoholic like his dad, and while his stunts on Fox TV in the 1990s brought massive ratings, Robbie's now in his mid-50s living in an RV, drifting through the deserts of the American Southwest like a "modern gypsy." Chasing Evel revs the throttle on the glory, fame, riches, violence, abuse and egos in the Knievel saga. But it's ultimately a story about family, fathers, sons and the terrifying risks that come with forgiveness and redemption.
G Funk
Before 1992, hip hop was a $600 million musical genre. After 1992, black urban beats and rhymes became mainstream music everywhere in America, morphing into a $10 billion industry. In 1992, Dr. Dre released his debut solo album The Chronic. The record introduced talents like Snoop Dogg, Warren G and Nate Dogg. It also combined funk samples, synthesizers and female background vocals to create a new subgenre: G Funk. This documentary takes viewers into the Long Beach, Calif., neighborhoods where Snoop, Nate, Warren and Dre first met and it follows them into the clubs, house parties and studios where their music was invented. G Funk also illuminates the drug and gang cultures on both the West and East Coasts in the 1990s, and it shows how the rise of G Funk led to the fall of two of hip hop's brightest stars.
Finding Kim
Finding Kim is an eye-opening journey through one transexual's physical transformation from a woman's body to a man's. While transsexuality is more accepted than ever, a quick dive on Google will reveal scientists, psychologists, politicians and religious leaders who all offer conflicting views about the connections between biological sex and gender. It's a controversial subject and Finding Kim doesn't do much to clear that controversy – I could see people on either side of the transsexuality debate finding plenty of support for either argument here. Finding Kim's real strength is its specific spotlighting of Kim's physical transformation – including some not-for-the-squeamish surgery scenes. I learned a lot watching this documentary, and you will too.
The Road Movie
When's the last time you went on a real YouTube binge? If you're like me, the videos of the 2013 meteor explosion over the Urals city of Chelyabinsk had you scrolling and streaming for hours. Tons of videos of the beautiful and terrifying event were captured by regular Russian citizens via their dashboard cameras, and the only thing weirder than the meteor was the ubiquity of dashcams in Russia. Filmmaker Dmitry Kalashnikov's The Road Movie is a feature length edit of Russian dashcam videos found on YouTube and other sites. The cameras capture tons of hilarious and harrowing car wrecks, scary storms, disturbed pedestrians, breathtaking landscapes and city sidewalks all set to the profane and profound chatter of hundreds of drivers and their passengers. This is a movie that seems like a gimmick, but it's much more than that – it's an unmistakably 21st century portrait of a place full of history and a people full of humanity.
According to Google, the Italian word "spettacolo" translates to the English word "show." As the title of filmmaker Jeff Malmberg's new documentary, Spetacollo might more specifically be thought of as "a play," and even more specifically as the annual theatrical productions that have been staged in a tiny Italian village for the last 50 years. After centuries of poverty, illiteracy and war, a community of poor farming families turned their piazza into a stage and began casting themselves in their productions.
After putting on a couple of Italian costume classics, they started creating their own plays about their actual lives and the challenges they face. Spetacollo captures an anarchic experiment in mass art therapy and it's a wondrous, art affirming beauty of a film. Those who've seen Malmberg's deep and delightful Marwencol know that the director has a flair for capturing the healing capacities of creative work, and he's done it again with this one.
Swim Team
The great thing about Swim Team is that the movie never forgets to be a sports documentary about the New Jersey Hammerheads high school swim team and three teenage boys who are coming of age one exploding flip turn at a time. It also happens to be a movie about growing up – and going for Special Olympics gold – while on the autism spectrum. The other star of this movie is the New Jersey community that surrounds and supports the boys and their families, and insists on their participation rather than pushing the boys to the sidelines. New Jersey has the highest rate of autism in the United States, and director Lara Stolman's debut offers a great example about how you can best capture the lives of people with disabilities by capturing them as people first.
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (pictured in cover photo)
Back in May of 2012 you might have caught an award-winning animated short from Spain when it screened at the Frist Center as part of their Unexpected Tales film series. Birdboy takes place in a remote woods where a village of small mice, rabbits and other cuddly creatures live, work and go to school. An industrial catastrophe gives Birdboy a not-so-happy-ending, and this new cartoon feature picks up with the characters several years later as angsty adolescents navigating into their post-Apocalyptic futures. Filmmakers Alberto Vazquez and Pedro Rivero make beautiful movies that are also deeply sad and genuinely frightening – this one's a little bit like The Secret of Nimh meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road. This stuff is too sardonic and macabre to be recommended for most children, but if you love gorgeous animation that's not afraid of deep dark themes and subjects, don't miss this one at the fest.
The Migrumpies
Did you ever see the Twilight Zone episode where the WWII American soldier suddenly becomes a Japanese soldier who must come to grips with being the very kind of person he's bent on killing? The Migrumpies by Arman T. Riahi is a funny, irreverent, yet illuminating take on immigrants, racism, stereotypes and status. It's got its own ways of turning the tables on our limited expectations and beliefs about ourselves and others. Benny and Marko are well-to-do young men who pretend to be petty criminals and hard-nosed migrants so that they can land roles as the stars in a documentary TV series about life in an ethnically diverse suburb of Vienna. The pair play their parts so well that they end up seeing the lives of immigrants up close – and even discovering stories of their own. For Americans living in Trumpland it's a particularly timely story, but it's also too busy being funny to bother preaching.
The Meanest Man in Texas
According to Wikipedia, Clyde Thompson was "an American prisoner turned chaplain." In another life Thompson also earned the label "The Meanest Man in Texas." That moniker is the name of a new biopic about Thompson directed by Justin Ward. Thompson was convicted of several murders and was a serial escape-attempt- er. This would be a lot harder to tell if he hadn't made a shocking turnaround after landing in solitary confinement in an old prison morgue with three life sentences to his name at the kind of rock bottom that most can't imagine. The Meanest Man in Texas is one of those movies that's hard to believe, but it's all true.
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Below are links to PDFs of court documents in the criminal case of False Prophet Ronald Weinland, which were downloaded from the federal court system's Electronic Case Filing system called PACER. The numbers in the bracket for the links are the docket numbers which are indexes to the filings in the criminal case.
Anyone who doubts the authenticity of the documents on this website may download the documents directly from the US Federal Court's online PACER system. Register for an account there. Then login to the files for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Then select "Query" from the banner at the top of the next screen. Then enter "2:11-cr-70" into the Case Number field and click the "Find this Case" button. This will enable the "Run Query" button at the bottom, click it. Clicking the "Docket Report" link will proceed to a dialog to list the docket entries with links to individual PDFs. Beginning at this point will generate page charges, including for listing the docket. The Pacer system charges $0.10 for each page (those on this site are no cost to you). Clicking "View a Document" bypasses the charges for listing the docket, but charges for the file apply.
The docket number is given below with a link to the PDF on this site. The way WordPress is setup, the link may take you to another page, if so then click on the link there to view the file.
As the criminal process worked its way through the courts, I made a series of blog posts commenting on these transcripts and other input including from trial jurors. Quite a bit of reading material, you may follow this link or if you prefer continue on down in this page to get the court documents and transcripts.
Indictment on November 10, 2011 and Other Preliminary filings:
- {1} Indictment
- {9} Arraignment
- {10} Order for Pretrial Discovery
- {11} Order for Conditions of Pretrial Release
- {12} Ron's posting of unsecured bond
- {13} Receipt for Ron's Passport
Discovery and Continuances prior to the trial
- {14} Defense Motion to Continue Trial
- {17} Order Continuing Trial to March 20
- {20}Defense Motion to Preserve Notes
- {23} Government Response
- {24} Order Denying Motion to Preserve Notes
- {26} 2nd Defense Motion to Continue
- {29} Order Continuing Trial to June 4
Motions in Limine prior to the trial
- {31} Defense Motion to Exclude Testimony of Agent Palmisano
- {32} Defense Motion to Exclude Religion from Trial
- {33} Defense Motion to Exclude Lay Member's Testimony
- {34} Government Motion to Exclude Defense Witnesses
- {35} Government Motion to Exclude Sermon Recording
- {36} Minutes of PreTrial Hearing on May 21
- {40} Government Response re Religion
- {41} Government Response re Lay Member's
- {42} Orders
- {43} Government Response re Excluding Agent Palmisano
- {44} Defense Response re Sermon Recording
- {45} Defense Response re Excluding Defense Witnesses
- {48} Orders, Minutes of Motion Hearing on May 30
- {49} Orders re Defense Expert Witnesses
- {51} Government Response re Parsonage Allowance
- {52} Defense submittal of sermon transcript
- {52} Defense Transcript of portion of December 2002 sermon in which Weinland tell his followers he plans to open a Swiss bank accout.
- {53} Defense Motion on Parsonage Allowance
Trial Transcripts and other filings for the actual trial which began on June 4:
- {70} Exhibit and Witness List
- {71} Jury Seating Chart
- {54} Minutes for Monday, June 4
- {76} Government's Opening Statement.
- {73} Defense Opening Statements
- {75} Joyce Garrett
- {55} Minutes for Tuesday, June 5
- {72} April Combs
- {80} Eileen Sharkey
- {84} Terry Wrozek
- {82} Tom Volle
- {56} Minutes for Wednesday, June 6
- {74} Ralph Dowd
- {77} Donna Kautz
- {78} Audra's testimony part 1, on Thursday afternoon
- {89} Audra's testimony part 2, on Thursday afternoon
- {57} Minutes for Friday, June 8
- {81} Audra's testimony part 3, on Friday morning
- {90} Audra's testimony part 4, on Friday afternoon followed by Special Agent Palmisano's direct testimony
- {61} Minutes for Monday, June 11
- {79} Cross examination of Agent Palmisano, 5th day of trial on Monday morning
- {83} Rule 29 Motion
- {64} Minutes for Monday, June 13
- {66} Jury Instructions
- {65} Jury Verdict Form
Judge Reeves granted Pre-Sentencing Release to allow False Prophet Ronald Weinland to wear the GPS ankle bracelet of humility so he could stay comfortably in his mansion on the golf course while he watched cable TV, reviewed member's tithing, and plotted his next move:
- {67} Order for Conditions of Release
- {68} Ron posts his house and some gold as initial bond
- {85} Joyce Garrett puts up her house as bond
Sentencing Phase
- {69} Sentencing Order (defining the process)
- {91} Defense Motion to Acquit
- {93} Government Response to Motion to Acquit, summarizing evidence.
- {94} Order Denying Motion to Acquit
- {96} Order Continuing Hearing to October 29
- {99} Order Continuing Hearing to November 14
- {103} Defense Motion against Pre-Sentencing Report
- {104} Defense Motion for Downward Variance in Sentencing
- {106} Sentencing Memorandum of Government *
- {109} Minutes of Sentencing Hearing on Nov 14
- {110} Notice of Ron's Right to Appeal
- {112} Sentencing Order
* In a blog post written shortly before the sentencing hearing, I made my own sentencing recommendation, recommending that Ron not be charged criminally for Laura's travel expenses nor for the Swiss bank account. Read it here.


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I have had headaches & migraines since I was a young teenager. Each year approximately 45 million Americans suffer from headaches. (That is 1 in 6 people). One of the reasons I got interested in Aromatherapy was because I was taking a lot of OTC pain relievers to help with my headaches and they weren't working all that well; I was also concerned about the long-term effects of pain reliever usage on my stomach. I decided then, that I wanted to go a different route, to manage the ongoing pain that I was experiencing.
With our busy lifestyles, our daily stress can cause a lot of different physical symptoms which can include, you guessed it…Headaches. (Other causes of headaches may include certain foods, air pressure as well as anxiety, lack of sleep, and dehydration). It is important to take the time to manage your stress and to understand your headache and/or migraine triggers.
There are different types of Headaches:
Tension Headaches:
With a tension headache, you tend to feel pain as well as the pressure across your forehead and at the back of your head. You may also find that your neck and shoulders muscles get really tight too.
Migraine Headaches:
If you have ever had a migraine, you know how painful they can be. The main symptoms are feeling the pain on one side of your head, seeing spots or having a sensitivity to light as well as nausea. The duration & symptoms may vary each time you experience one.
Migraines can be triggered by everyday things like stress, foods, too much or too little sleep, hormones, and certain smells.
Sinus Headaches:
If you have had a sinus headache, you will recognize how the symptoms differ from that of a tension headache. Usually, you have some form of sinus congestion, either from a cold, allergies or a sinus infection. While symptoms may vary (You may have a stuffy nose, a cough, or be sneezing) you will definitely feel some form of facial pain and/or pressure.
Hormonal Headaches:
A lot of women have experienced hormonal headaches at some point in their reproductive life. Women who experience PMS may have headaches as one of their symptoms. Dips in hormone levels (Especially estrogen) may be the cause. Hormone headaches can also happen during pregnancy as well as perimenopause & menopause.
TMJ Headaches:
You can get a headache if you clench your jaws either when you sleep, are stressed or if you grind your teeth. There may be pain in your jaw, the Temporomandibular joint, as well as the side of your head. ( Talk to your dentist to get more info.)
Below is a list of things to try to manage your Headaches/Migraines:
- A hot pack that heats up in the microwave to soothe your neck and shoulders if they are tight.
- A gel eye mask that can be kept in the fridge.
- Lemon Balm tea to ease any stress that you may be feeling
- Spearmint tea to calm any stomach upsets or nausea.
- Black Tea. (Everyone is different, some people find it a trigger, for me, I find it helpful)
- A hot steamy shower if you have a sinus headache. (You can also use steam inhalation)
- Blackout drapes in your bedroom, especially if the light is an issue.
- Essential oils to help ease the discomfort as well as the other symptoms of your headaches & migraines.
Ways to use essential oils are:
Diffusing: I like to diffuse a mild essential oil if I feel a headache coming on and to ease my stress. My favorite is Grapefruit, with honorable mentions going to Tangerine & Neroli. (For me, now is not the time for a stronger scent)
Personal Inhalation: Try using smelling salts or a personal inhaler. This is a simple way to use essential oils when you are at home or out in public without impacting others around you.
Topical Use: Dilute the appropriate essential oils in a roll- on or dropper bottle to apply to your temples, forehead & the back of your head if you have a migraine or a tension headache. (Also apply to your neck & shoulders for a tension headache)
Apply to your temples, your jaw, your temporomandibular joint (TMJ), under your ear, as well as the side of your neck if your headache is caused by clenching or grinding your teeth.
Apply a well-diluted blend to your forehead, temples, sides & under your nose if you have a sinus headache. (Best for older children & Adults)
Which Essential Oils to use:
For a Migraine, Tension, TMJ or Sinus Headaches in Adults & Older Children essential oils to consider: Peppermint, Eucalyptus Radiata, Frankincense, Cajeput, Rosemary, Sweet Basil, Niaouli, White Thyme, Lavender & Lemon.
For younger children or if you get triggered by the stronger scented essential oils consider: Geranium, Rosalina, Lemon, Grapefruit, Roman Chamomile, White Pine, Spearmint (If you are feeling Queasy) and of course, Lavender
For Hormonal types of Headaches consider adding: Bergamot, Clary Sage, Geranium or Sweet Marjoram.
I have used all of these essential oils at one time or another. I don't use Peppermint essential oil because it can trigger a migraine, so I have been working on new blends to help me thru this new development. I find that the lighter scented blends that I make for children & the elderly are becoming my new favorites. Everyone responds differently to essential oils, & what works well for us now may change in the future
My Blog is for information only & is not meant to diagnose or replace medical advice. Essential oils should not be ingested & always need to be diluted before topical use.
- If you get a lot of headaches, you may want to consider seeing a healthcare professional to get a proper diagnosis to see what may be causing them.
- Always use proper dilutions when using essential oils topically. Check out my FAQ or my Essential Oil Safety pages for more info. Use caution if you take medication, are pregnant or epileptic.
- Battaglia Salvatore. (2003) The Complete Guide to Aromatherapy. 2nd edition, The International Centre of Holistic Aromatherapy, Australia,
- Worwood, V. A. (2016). The complete book of essential oils and aromatherapy: over 800 natural, nontoxic, and fragrant … recipes to create health, beauty, and safe home an. New World Library.
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Veterinarians and nutritionists have known for decades that birds fed seeds and assorted supplements develop malnutritional diseases. Many of these diseases are similar to such diseases in humans and they may take decades to be obvious. At that time correction may not work or it may involve hundreds of dollars in medical intervention. Conversion of a bird from organic seeds to a balanced and proven health-benefitting diet like Harrisons Bird Foods (formulated) is advised in all cases.
Certified organic peanuts (no shell).
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Welcome to our Wine List
At the Black Horse, our wines are constantly updated to offer our guests a choice of interesting wines for the best price. Our cellar includes Red Wines and White Wines with a varied array of terroir, flavour and aroma. It also includes Dessert Wines, Champagnes & Sparking Wines. We've given our favourites the accolade "Landlord's Choice". We hope you enjoy them


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Dubai Tourism to Inaugurate 'HITEC Dubai 2018'
HITEC Dubai 2018, the Middle East's largest hospitality technology exhibition and conference, will be inaugurated by Dubai Tourism on 5th December 2018. The annual business-to-business (B2B) exhibition will give Middle East buyers, currently worth over USD 75 billion, access to the world's leading technology solution providers and experts in the hospitality sector.
Commenting on the critical role technology is playing in driving tourism, Issam Kazim, CEO, Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DCTCM)stated, "Dubai is a global hub of innovation with the ongoing development of technology at the centre of our strategy. Disruptive technologies are creating new opportunities for our industry while reengineering the marketplace, and Dubai is at the forefront of capitalising on these emerging technologies to optimise travellers' journey. We will continue our focus on harnessing the power of data to redefine the customer journey whilst strengthening developments of advanced technology solutions as we invest in entrepreneurship and environmental sustainability that sets a new benchmark for global travel. As such, we are delighted to support HITEC Dubai as the tourism sector continues to lead the way when it comes to evolving technology."
Dubai Tourism is the destination partner for HITEC Dubai 2018 that will feature regional and international case studies, thought provoking panel discussions and technology demonstrations from 70+ solution and service providers. Co-produced by Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) and Naseba, the two-day trade show will be held on 5th and 6th December 2018 at the Madinat Jumeirah Dubai.
Frank Wolfe CAE, CEO of HFTP, said: "It's an honour to receive DTCM's endorsement to HITEC Dubai for the second consecutive year and have their CEO Mr. Issam Kazim lead the show's official opening ceremony. DTCM's support reemphasizes the government's commitment to transform the hospitality industry through proactive adoption of innovative and intuitive technology, and further position the UAE as a regional driver of innovation."
Few industries have felt the impact of enabling technology like hospitality. HITEC Dubai's Advisory Council Chairperson Laurent A. Voivenel, Senior Vice President, Operations and Development for the Middle East, Africa and India for Swiss-Belhotel International, said, "Technology holds the key to a more advanced, sustainable and smart future which is revolutionising the hospitality sector like every other industry. Tech-savvy tourists are demanding more from hotels and therefore it is essential to give them the enhanced experiences they crave. Internet of Things, Cloud Technology, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Blockchain, etc are all paving the way for the future of technology in the hospitality sector and HITEC Dubai will give be a great platform to see the latest developments transforming our industry."
Naseba offers global business facilitation services. The company creates growth opportunities by bringing together people, partners and ideas. It helps clients raise capital, enter new markets, secure partners, close sales and educate workforces. Naseba's goal is to create opportunity and add economic value at every stage of its client's journey. It does this through three key areas: investor services, commercial services and leadership services. Since inception in 2002, Naseba has facilitated deals totalling billions of dollars for its clients. The company has connected over 100,000 global executives through more than 1,000 proprietary business platforms and is an expert in growth markets.
About Dubai's Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism)
With the ultimate vision of positioning Dubai as the world's leading tourism destination and commercial hub, Dubai Tourism's mission is to increase the awareness of Dubai among global audiences and to attract tourists and inward investment into the emirate. Dubai Tourism is the principal authority for the planning, supervision, development and marketing of Dubai's tourism sector. It markets and promotes the Emirate's commerce sector, and is responsible for the licensing and classification of all tourism services, including hotels, tour operators and travel agents. Brands and departments within the Dubai Tourism portfolio include Dubai Business Events, Dubai Calendar, and Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment.
HITEC Dubai
Madinat Conference Centre — Dubai, United Arab Emirates
About HFTP
Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) established in 1952, is an international, nonprofit association, headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with offices in Hong Kong, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Dubai. HFTP is recognized as the spokes group for the finance and technology segments of the hospitality industry with members and stakeholders spanning across the globe. HFTP uniquely understands the industry's pressing issues and assists its stakeholders in finding solutions to their challenges more efficiently than any organization. It does this via its expert networks, research, certification programs, information resources and conferences/events such as HITEC. HFTP also owns the world's only hospitality-specific search engine, PineappleSearch.com. For more information about HFTP, email [email protected] or download the HFTP/HITEC media kit via the HFTP website.


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Magnetic resonance allows the study of systems-level processes in both brain and body by magnetically aligning and then tracking the relaxation properties of atoms in the body (usually those in water). Douglas Rothman, Ph.D., professor of diagnostic radiology and biomedical engineering and director of the Yale MR research center, uses MR spectroscopy to measure chemical pathways in the body, including liver metabolism, as well as brain neurotransmitter and energy cycling. Other studies at the Magnetic Resonance Research Center look at changes in blood flow (the primary measure of functional MR, or fMRI) or brain volume in cases of epilepsy and autism. Because MR is nonionizing and provides good contrast between soft tissues, it has applications from tracking the mechanisms of drug action in the brain to visualizing injury and noninvasively identifying tumors. Frontiers of MR involve combining it with other techniques like recording of electrical potentials, for even more precise understanding of the interplay between brain function and signaling.
Positron emission tomography
What imaging technique can be used to study drug addiction, Alzheimer disease, eating disorders, cancer, and diabetes? These diverse conditions can all be imaged using PET, which tracks radioactively labeled pharmacologic agents as they circulate through the body. Established in 2007, the Yale PET center does roughly 1,000 scans a year, many that focus on drug distribution and binding in the brain. A team of more than 50, led by professor of diagnostic radiology and biomedical engineering Richard E. Carson, Ph.D., develops new tracers; scans patients and disease model animals; and analyzes the flow and molecular mechanisms of administered treatments; as well as the metabolic processes of tumors and inflammation. New forays in PET research include imaging the action of cancer drugs and the presence of beta cells in the diabetic pancreas.
Confocal microscopy
Yale's confocal microscopy facility, one of the first in the country, pushes the boundaries of what can be seen in living cells and tissues. Instead of flooding a sample with light, confocal microscopy uses point illumination and a pinhole to increase the depth resolution of an image, enabling the visualization of 3-D structures within cells. Now, the facility's three microscopes, including a combination confocal/two-photon system, are being used by 70 different labs, says director Michael H. Nathanson, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and cell biology. "The facility is a workhorse, giving people throughout the medical school access to state-of-the-art microscopy plus highly skilled technical support," said Nathanson. Among the cellular mechanisms being probed with microscopy are signaling pathways in cell nuclei and cytoplasm. Another project has identified how human papilloma virus can enter cells. Among others, Joerg Bewersdorf, Ph.D., assistant professor of cell biology and biomedical engineering, is developing improved microscopy tools, ensuring that YSM faculty will always have access to the latest cutting-edge techniques.
Electron and cryo-electron microscopy
Since joining Yale at the end of 2011, electron microscopy (EM) facility director Xinran Liu, M.D., Ph.D., has brought biological and cryo-EM under one roof. The facility takes on about one new project per day, estimates Liu, including imaging animal and plant samples from nonmedical departments like forestry. With traditional EM, for example, the changing morphology of genetically manipulated cells can be tracked, and fluorescing agents can be introduced to localize proteins within cells. Cryo-EM uses frozen samples that are unadulterated by staining or fixation to get a clearer view of native protein structures. By tilting samples systematically as they are being bombarded with electrons, researchers can create volumetric reconstructions of samples that reveal 3-D structures of individual proteins and receptors, down to the resolution of ångstrõms.
X-ray crystallography
Using X-ray diffraction to visualize the structure of molecules is essential to modern drug discovery research, says macromolecular X-ray core facility director Ya Ha, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology. The interactions of drugs with cellular target sites are no longer a black-box process, as the diffraction pattern of a crystallized sample can reveal the atomic blueprint of how and where drugs bind with protein. Another facet of research involves looking at how molecular structure changes in cancer, Alzheimer disease, or cerebral cavernous malformations. Only about 1 percent of the protein structures in the human genome are known, so a substantial effort of X-ray crystallographers at Yale also goes toward the basic research needed to solve these structures. A fundamental life science discovery was solving the structure of the ribosome's subunit using X-ray crystallography, a feat that earned Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry Thomas Steitz, Ph.D. the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2009.


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Samsung NC20 (21GBK)
Finding a netbook with a decent-size screen is almost as difficult as finding one with a full-size keyboard. The Samsung NC20 (21GBK), however, is currently the only netbook that comes with both, and it's one of maybe three netbooks that house a 12-inch screen. Based on past experience with VIA processing parts, I figured those components in the NC20 (used instead of the common Intel Atom ones) were going to rain on its parade, but the system performed better than I expected. The only ostensible bump in the road is whether to spend a considerable premium over smaller netbooks like the ASUS EeePC 1000HE.
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Driven by the vision of accident-free and autonomous driving, ADAS and automated driving functions offer great potential for innovation in the automotive industry. But while the systems become increasingly complex, the development effort has to stay manageable. And it can: With a well-coordinated tool chain in which perfectly matched tools interact smoothly throughout all develop-ment steps. With the help of dSPACE tools, you can get your autonomous driving functions safely on the road.


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Let us show you why the MCO Downtown Toronto Invisalign, MCO Markham Orthodontist, MCO Scarborough Orthodontist, MCO Stouffville Orthodontist, and MCO Oshawa Orthodontist Teams are regarded as the top orthodontist in Richmond Hill, Toronto, Stouffville, Oshawa, Scarborough, Whitby, Bowmanville, and Markham Orthodontists for braces and Invisalign.
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Invisalign Wedding Smiles in Toronto and Markham
Last year, we had over 10 patients begin Invisalign braces with us in preparation for their Toronto wedding smiles. They have now sent us some photos and we're happy to share them with you. Thanks to Tammy, Omar, and Lisa for sending us some pics of your special day!
Of note, many of our patients were not finished with their Invisalign treatment going into their big wedding day, but all of them had a noticeable improvement in their smile. This is important because a lot of Invisalign patients are concerned with other people noticing their Invisalign and attachments. Some of our brides and grooms even took photos with their aligners in, and nobody knew!
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Radio Stars Needed!
What better time to start a new hobby than the New Year?
This year why not consider becoming a radio DJ?
Chippenham Hospital Radio broadcasts to patients and staff at the towns Community Hospital and can also be heard online, is currently looking for volunteers.
The radio station broadcasts a mix of music, sport, news & local information to keep listeners in touch with their community.
Station Manager Simon Hyde said Were looking to grow our small team of volunteers and want to hear from anyone keen to get behind the microphone and provide some much-needed company for people who either visit or have to stay in hospital. It might seem a bit daunting at first but training and support is offered for anyone keen to have a go and you never know you could be a radio star of tomorrow.
BBC Radio 2 DJs Ken Bruce and Simon Mayo, ITV This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield and Life on Mars actor Philip Glenister are just some of the famous names who started their careers at hospital radio.
If broadcasting isnt for you there are other ways you can get involved including ward visiting, fundraising or helping out the management team with the running of the organisation, which is a registered charity.
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks
Jean Auel
author of the Earth's Children series
The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone and the upcoming finale , The Land of Painted Caves,
Ten Terrifying Questions
1: To begin with why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself . Where were you born? Raised? Schooled?
I was born on February 18, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois, the second of five children. My grandparents were Finnish immigrants and my parents were born on dairy farms in Northern Michigan, about 150 miles apart, and met in Chicago when they moved to the big city to find work. I grew up in Chicago, although the family used to drive to Michigan in the summer and spend time on both of my grandparents' farms, so I knew that milk didn't just come from a grocery store. My parents were intelligent, but they were working people. Advanced education was never stressed. My mother's goal for me was the same as that of most mothers of teen-age daughters in the 1950's: get married and have children. In truth, it disturbed her when I turned out to be bookworm who was always reading, and then learned typing and shorthand so I could have a career as a secretary. That was a bit too independent for the 50's.
But, in 1954, shortly after graduation from high school, I married Ray Auel; he was 19, and in the Air Force. It was the Korean War then and Ray was training to maintain airplanes, particularly the hydraulic mechanism of the in-flight refueling system. Fortunately, by the time they were ready to send him overseas, the war was over. He was discharged in 1956. His father lived in Oregon, and we wanted to start our new life in a new place, so with one child and expecting a second, we moved to Oregon.
Ray went to college on the GI Bill—funds made available to veterans by the Government for education that was interrupted to serve in the military—and worked full-time to support a growing family. I worked at temporary and part-time clerical jobs to help out, and had more children: five before my 25th birthday. I now have 15 grand children and eight great grandchildren.
My world was rather limited in those days. I needed more than children and house to engage my mind. I always loved fiction, but I began reading more extensively, often my husband's text books—psychology, history, philosophy, science—not following any class plan but out of interest and a desire to learn, and when I was 28, in the early 60's, "the times, they were a-changing."
I decided it was my turn for more education, and what I decided to study was physics. Why physics? I already knew that I could learn from reading. I decided that if I was going to go to school, I wanted to learn something I didn't know, and I didn't know how things worked, that wasn't part of what women learned when I was growing up. I defined physics as the science of how things work, and to learn physics, I needed math.
But a large family has large expenses, so I got a full time job in the billing department at an electronics company, Tektronix, and began evening classes in algebra. That set a pattern for the next 12 years. Eventually, I came to realize, that one doesn't become a physicist going to night school.
But after several years of algebra, trigonometry, analytical geometry, differential and integral calculus, differential equations, physics, electronics, I also learned that one can overcome a culturally established aversion to math and science and along the way gain enough confidence to begin applying for higher-paying technical jobs within the company.
I first transferred to marketing as a statistical typist, then to a beginning position in engineering: designing printed circuit boards. That was something everyone had to learn on the job, there were no schools to teach it, it was too new. After several years I wrote an instruction manual for trainees and my boss asked if I'd like to become a technical writer, translating schematics and engineering jargon into instruction manuals for customers.
Then I found out about a program the company had developed with the University of Portland—a Catholic university that often exchanged instructors with Notre Dame. The original intent was to give managers who had gained experience working their way up, the benefit of the knowledge of an advanced degree in business. People could be admitted directly into the MBA program if they secured various letters of recommendation, had a meeting with the dean of the of the college of business and, most importantly, if they passed the Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business. Though graduates with Bachelor degrees also had to pass the test, and some people with degrees were in the program, mostly engineers, to be admitted into the MBA program without an undergraduate degree, you had to score at least 50 points higher.
Neither my husband nor I had an undergraduate degree, though we had both taken college courses. We got the necessary letters and met with the dean, only after we took the test and passed it with the higher score. We were both accepted. Four years later, in May 1976, we both received MBA's from U of Portland. I was 40 years old, and by then, after going through a management training program at the company, I was a credit manager.
So how did I go from a reasonably successful career in business to writing novels set in the Ice Age? It began with discontent. Circuit board design had been fun, it was puzzle-solving for pay, but though the company had paid for my business education, the MBA, I discovered there was no place for me to grow. I kept running into a brick wall when I wanted to move up— nowadays it's called a "glass ceiling." In November 1976, a few months after getting my MBA, after 12 years with the electronics company, I quit. I planned to look for some other wonderful, exciting job in business.
I spun wheels applying for jobs, trying to decide what I wanted to do. Then, one day in late January 1977 I got an idea for a story about a young woman, who was living with people who were different, not just superficially–color of hair, or eyes, or skin–but substantially different. Of course, they thought she was different and viewed her with suspicion, but they allowed her to stay because she was taking care of an old man with a crippled arm.
I don't know where that thought came from, I can't tell you any more than any other writer can where ideas come from. Most writers don't know, though if pressed, they may think of something in hindsight to satisfy questions. I'd been writing poetry for about ten years, but not fiction. But I began to wonder, could I write a short story like that?
That's how it began. I wonder if I can write a short story?
2. What did you want to be when you were twelve, eighteen and thirty? And why?
I don't remember what I wanted to be when I was twelve. When I was eighteen, I wanted to get married, and did. When I was thirty, I wanted a better, higher-paying job.
3. What strongly held belief did you have at eighteen that you do not have now?
If I recall correctly, any strongly held beliefs I had at eighteen, I still have. People should be treated decently, if you live in a democracy, you should vote, things like that.
4. What were three big events – in the family circle or on the world stage or in your reading life, for example – you can now say, had a great effect on you and influenced you in your career path?
One – From a very young age, I have always loved to read.
Two – In 1976, I got angry at what I considered to be the unfairness of my boss, and quit my job.
Three – I got an idea for a short story and decided to try to write it.
5. Considering the innumerable electronic media avenues open to you – blogs, online newspapers, TV, radio, etc. – why have you chosen to write a book? Aren't they obsolete?
When I started writing, more than thirty years ago, most of those electronic media were not available to me. Perhaps I'm a bit obsolete, but I don't use most of them anyway. I still love to read stories, and while I like books, with pages, so long as there are stories to read that can capture my imagination and bring me inside them, I'll read them in any form that has words telling stories. I don't think words will become obsolete.
6. Please tell us about your latest book.
The Land of Painted Caves is the sixth book in my Earth's Children® series. The setting is Ice Age Europe some 25,000 to 35,000 years ago when we, Cro Magnons, large-brained, anatomically modern humans, first appeared there. But we shared that cold ancient earth with another kind of human, the ones we call Neanderthals, with brains even larger than our own. Each book follows the life of a Cro Magnon girl, who at five years old loses her parents and the rest of her people in an earthquake. In the first book she is found and raised by a clan of Neanderthals. The story continues in the next books as she discovers her own kind of people again, travels across Europe with the man whose life she saves, and grows to love, until they reach his home in what is today southwestern France, and has a child of her own. Though the books are a close series, each can be read as an independent novel. In this last one, we not only continue to find out how people survived, but how they lived and died, loved and hated, dreamed, aspired, failed, hoped and succeeded in that harsh and beautiful prehistoric land.
7. If your work could change one thing in this world – what would it be?
War is not the natural state of human beings. It is something we learned, and therefore can unlearn.
8. Whom do you most admire and why?
I do not have one person that I admire most. I admire many people in many walks of life, usually people who are intelligent, thoughtful, daring, and caring.
9. Many people set themselves very ambitious goals. What are yours?
My most ambitious goal was to write a story that I loved and get it published. I never dreamed that the book I wrote for myself would find more than 45 million readers in more that 35 countries. How could I wish for a more ambitious goal?
10. What advice do you give aspiring writers?
The way to learn to write is to write. Write what you want to write, not what you think the market wants. Write the book you always wanted to read, and write it the very best you can.
Jean Auel, thank you for playing, and thank you for your most generous answers.
The Land of Painted Caves – the finale of Jean Auel's 45 million copy 30 year saga – pre-order here now for the world-wide release date of March 29.


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Teach Your Children the Significance of These 5 Words
When you teach your children the value of these 5 words, they're sure to grow up into happy, healthy and secure adults.
Raising children isn't easy. They don't come with a manual that tells you how to raise them into becoming happy adults. That's certainly what we all hope for and what parents want for their children. Teach your children to trust, feel, understand, share and love, and they will have the skills they will need to blossom in life.
We make mistakes. Besides, sometimes we don't even meet the expectations we set for ourselves. We may fear that we won't be able to respond to the needs of our children throughout their life. However, one thing is clear: it's not about being the perfect parent. It's simply about being a good parent, guide and source of support.
We can't obsess about solving every problem our children may have. Accordingly, sometimes it's better to teach our children strategies and ways to accomplish things for themselves and find their own solutions. That's why words are key in raising children. Today, we'd like to show you the most appropriate words that every child needs to hear.
Teach Your Children the Value of These 5 Words
1. Trust
Putting your trust in your children is essential for them to develop a sense of security and autonomy. We've already talked about the risks of overprotectiveness on our site before. This pattern prevents children from having their own learning experiences by controlling almost all aspects of their lives.
The phrase, "I trust you" should be impressed on them at an early age to teach them responsibility. In this way, they will know they have your unconditional support to start making their own decisions.
You'll be interested in reading: Teach Your Child the Importance of Responsibility
2. Feel
"How do you think children feel when you make fun of them?"; "How do you think people feel when you treat them badly?"; "Feel your own happiness when you manage to do something for yourself"; "Feel your own well-being when you hug your grandparents and tell them that you love them"…
Life isn't just thinking about what we want and what we don't have. Therefore, it's not about "accumulating things" but about feeling good with what we do every day, enjoying our friends, family, pets… Children need to learn early on the importance of "feeling your life to the maximum, with happiness and integrity."
3. Understand
Our children should learn at an early age the importance of understanding others and putting themselves in the other person's shoes. It's vital that the intellect be balanced with emotional intelligence. Life isn't just about understanding educational concepts like knowing how to multiply or understanding the ideas in a text book.
We also need our children to understand the complex world of emotions. Moreover, they should learn to talk about how they're feeling and to express their needs and concerns.
4. Share
"Share your happiness; form positive relationships with those around you, sharing what you have and accepting the kindness of others." If we instill this essential concept into our children, then we'll prevent them from becoming egotistic, thinking only of themselves and putting their needs ahead of others.
If they learn to share, they'll have more secure and closer relationships with others, they'll have better friends and form healthier relationships.
See: Values in the Home: The Secret to a Successful Generation
5. Love
In order to raise happy children, not only do you need to teach them to love and care for those around them but also it's vital to teach your children to learn to love themselves. Self-esteem is really important for maturity and security.
Loving yourself and being able to show love to others is, without a doubt, a foundation for developing emotional intelligence. Therefore, don't hesitate to instill these words in your children every day. Love, trust, understanding and knowing how to share are bridges to growth so that they can become happy adults.
Raising children is a daily adventure that should be approached with patience, dedication and love. Don't be afraid to make mistakes: no one is perfect when it comes to giving advice or serving as an example. What's important is that our children always know that we love them and that we support them in all that they do.


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We are located at the corner of 24 1/2 Road and G Road. We have a red roof and our church sign is a block of stone with our name engraved in it at the roundabout.
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How to Find us
We are located at the corner of 24 1/2 Road and G Road. We have a red roof and our church sign is a block of stone with our name engraved in it at the roundabout.
What to Expect
We gather as a church every Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. and scatter throughout the week in various Journey Groups. Be sure to check out our iConnect Coffee when scheduled to meet the staff, find out more information about the church and hear about the various Journey Groups.
Sunday gatherings are casual and personable. We want you to feel like you are with family so we even have great coffee and delicious homemade cookies. Whether you've written a dissertation on theology or you've never read the Bible, we invite you to come as you are.
Sunday gatherings are a blended mix of modern songs and old time hymns. We believe singing as the gathered people of God focuses our minds on the truth of the gospel and engages our hearts in prayer. While we aren't married to a particular style of music, we are married to Jesus and our singing will always make much of him.
Sunday gatherings make much of the proclamation of Scripture. Most of our preaching is expository because we want to teach the whole counsel of God. We believe preaching is more than hearing truth; it is a rally cry to be transformed by the power of Christ. The Bible's supreme message is the Gospel and all our preaching flows to that message.
Sunday gatherings are family friendly. We have a wide variety of age appropriate environments for kids so they can learn about Jesus in a way that is uniquely designed for them. However, we don't believe children are a distraction by any means and so parents are more than welcome to bring their kids into the service.
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Keefer Court Bakery & Café: A Tiny Space Brimming with Treats
When I'm feeling hungry and I need quick, affordable, and most importantly, delicious food, I immediately head to one of my favorite spots on the West Bank, Keefer Court Bakery & Cafe. The name may not invoke thoughts of tender meat filled buns, warm soups, or expertly decorated cakes, but Keefer Court is an impressive shop serving up Hong Kong style food and baked goods.
With its red and gold front, this humble looking shop may be small in size but packs quite a lot into a tiny space. Immediately upon walking in customers will see a bakery counter brimming with freshly baked golden buns, cakes, and cookies. During my most recent visit, I popped into the bakery and found three other customers already in line. With four of us standing in front of the bakery case, the tiny restaurant was already crowded, but that didn't bother me. It gave me time to pick out what treats I was going to bring home with me (see: eat in my car). When I want something savory I always go for the meaty BBQ pork or slightly spicy curry beef buns. If I'm craving something sweet, and I'm always craving something sweet, I choose a tender roll cake or a shiny, golden custard bun. Items can be boxed up and taken to go, or if you order from their full menu of hot foods, you can dine on noodle soups, rice plates, and stir-fries in the cozy seating area in back.
Have a special occasion coming up? The bakery can also customize a cake for your next birthday, wedding or party. Staff is friendly and service is fast. And while the bakery accepts only cash or check there is an ATM conveniently located on site.
So the next time you're feeling hungry and looking for something fast, filling, and delicious, stop into Keefer Court Bakery & Café.
For more information, check out keefercourt.com.


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