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The first few months following the formation of a new small business can often be tumultuous, with unseen fees, new staff and location difficulties building to a crescendo of issues that need to be dealt with.
Throughout this busy period, it helps to undertake a few small actions that can significantly smooth things over in a number of areas. What's more, it's likely many of these actions performed during the founding months will continue to be a part of the business strategy as the company continues to grow.
Hold town hall meetings
A term that's grown to encompass a number of meeting types, at it's core a town hall meeting is a place for staff to speak their minds and raise any current issues. Often, these can be related to the current state of business operations, thoughts they have on improvements or even complaints.
These meetings can also be used to deal with unforeseen issues, as a quick fix that encompasses the view of all necessary parties. Holding these meetings may yield valuable insight, and they could become a part of the business culture over time.
Review the business plan
While most business owners would like to take out a plan and have that be the end of the process, you should ensure this document is reviewed on a regular basis to make sure both the plan and company are in line. In addition, this can be a good time to check whether goals are being met.
Businesses may want to consider using outside help here, to ensure the plan is properly fleshed out for future operations.
Invest in marketing
This can seem like something which needs to be done further down the line, but it's important to consider how marketing can help early on. For most small businesses, this means expanding customer outreach, attending trade shows and networking.
Considering the above points can go a long way towards ensuring the early months of a business are as stress free as possible.


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'Brexit' would foul up EU climate policy, Eickhout says
21 April 2016. By Laurel Henning.
A UK exit from the EU would wreak havoc on European climate policy, with some remaining member states likely to demand the revision of a bloc-wide emission goal, a senior Green lawmaker told MLex today.
Bas Eickhout said a "Brexit" would probably delay beyond the summer legislative proposals for how much each country should contribute to a target to cut the EU's carbon output.
Britons will vote on June 23 whether the UK should stay in the EU.
"It will be a mess for climate and all policy" if the UK leaves, Eickhout said in the Brussels interview.
Exiting the bloc would also compel Britain to submit a separate contribution to last December's UN climate deal, he said. The UK is now covered by the EU's contribution to the international agreement, which stipulates that the bloc will aim by 2030 to cut its carbon-dioxide emissions at least 40 percent compared with 1990 levels.
The UK is one of the EU's largest economies and has set its own climate policies, which Eickhout said makes it one of Europe's more ambitious countries in terms of reducing emissions. An independent British climate goal wouldn't threaten international carbon-output targets, but would disrupt EU policy, the Dutch lawmaker said.
As a larger economy, the UK is expected to take a greater share of the bloc's 40 percent emission goal. But a vote to leave the EU means that other countries would probably have to do more to cut their carbon output, he said.
Some countries will push for the 40 percent goal to be lowered, Eickhout said, noting that "Poland will support any reason" to cut that target.
The European Commission is expected to propose in July how much each country will need to reduce its CO2 output to contribute to the bloc's emission goal in relation to national gross domestic product.
But Eickhout told MLex that in the case of a Brexit, he would expect the commission's proposal to be pushed back to later in the year.
Commission officials have declined to speculate on the effect of an eventual UK departure on EU emission goals.
Delayed EU proposals could postpone the bloc's ratification of the UN climate deal. Countries including Poland and Italy want to hold off on ratifying the international accord until they know what their national objectives are for reaching the bloc's emission goal.
UN leaders of 167 countries are set to sign up to the accord tomorrow in New York.


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Nintendo made a few changes to Mario Kart 8 this week—some big, some small, some the size of a luxury card brand's new SUV. If nothing else, this gives us a good opportunity to pause and reflect on how one of the summer's biggest games is doing. So let's do that.
I've been playing Mario Kart 8 pretty much nonstop since it first arrived in May. Here are my thoughts after revisiting the game anew over the past few days.
A few small tweaks make for a big improvement.
The actual "update" part of Mario Kart 8's new content primarily consists of three things, all of which seem pretty small at face value:
- You can now display a map of the racetrack on your TV screen, all you need to do is press the minus button.
- The game will save the player's most recent vehicle combination for the next time they boot it up.
- Players can now change the focus of the videos that end up in the highlight reel to show different characters or episodes from a given race. Nintendo also said that you can now edit other people's highlight reels, though the effect of that will take longer to fully appreciate.
Nothing major, sure. But they're welcome improvements all the same that make the whole Mario Kart 8 experience ever more simple and intuitive. The mini-map is my favourite tweak. Having to look down at the GamePad just doesn't work in a racing game of this calibre—it's too fast-paced and intense to divert your attention so completely, even if it's just for a fraction of a second. It looks great, too:
Online multiplayer works very well.
There are always hiccups and technical glitches when playing a game through the internet, but so far Mario Kart 8's online modes have been running very smoothly on my end. The biggest frustration I've had is there just aren't enough players online sometimes for a solid race, but that's a bigger problem with the Wii U's commercial viability. It's incredibly easy to jump into the game and start racing or battling with other players, either regionally or globally. Not being able to trash talk still feels off to me when I'm playing with friends online, but I've also come to appreciate some of the inside jokes that players have come up with to taunt each other without using their words.
Playing online is great for the most part, in other words. But it's only great when you're playing the parts of Mario Kart 8 that are fun to play. Which leads to my next point...
It really needs a new battle mode.
In our original review of the game, Kotaku's Mike Fahey described the new battle mode as "horribly tedious, borderline unplayable." Since the core problem with the battle mode is that it uses the same tracks you race on, not much has changed then. Some people play this mode online, but I have to force myself to. This is especially frustrating because the items in Mario Kart 8 are great. I feel like another battle mode could basically be a new, cuter version of some car-fighting game like Twisted Metal, but Nintendo would need to make some bigger changes to its game than the ones it has so far.
The game's current roster sucks.
It took me a while to truly appreciate this, but Mario Kart 8 really comes up short with its character selection. The game has all the classics, no doubt—Shy Guy, Yoshi, Peach, Wario, Donky Kong...Mario, naturally. Hell, Luigi has achieve a new level of celebrity thanks to his glaring presence in the game. But did Nintendo really need to include all seven Koopalings? Or quite so many baby versions of characters who are already in the game? These characters are find on their own. But taken together, it's now clear that they overcrowded the game's starting line-up. Nintendo should have left some space for more of its iconic stars. Some of those are coming in another update later this year, but the additions that Nintendo made this week don't do much to rectify the situation. If anything, they make it worse. Which reminds me...
The Mercedes Benz DLC just feels...off.
In a divisive move, Nintendo partnered with the luxury carmaker Mercedes Benz to add a few of the company's vehicles to Mario Kart 8 alongside a special branded cup. Purists have equated this to Nintendo selling its soul to the devil or the highest bidder—whichever is worse in your book. After playing with the new cars, I wouldn't say that the DLC is that extreme. But that doesn't mean it's good. They don't make much of a difference when you're just driving on your own, since you only see the back of the vehicle then anyways. But when you play against other people online, something about seeing these shiny chrome vehicles sparkling in the virtual sun just seems weird. Mercedes Benz cars might look amazing in the real world. But their aesthetic is drab in comparison to the vibrant, whacky cartoon worlds that Nintendo is so good at making. The DLC is free, which makes downloading it fairly harmless in single player since you don't have to use the cars. But seeing a fleet of mini-SUVs in an online race can sure feel depressing.
There's some more good stuff coming—in a few months.
It's telling that Nintendo dropped a major announcement about the future of Mario Kart 8 just hours before the current update went live. The game is still incredibly fun, but all the low points I just identified add up to a concern that could very well be a dire one: after just three months, players are already worried about the new game growing stale. The lack of interesting characters and a weak battle mode put more pressure on the Time Trials, Cups, and Vs. races to carry the entire game. At the end of the day, that means you'll be spending a lot of time on the same 32 racetracks. They may be great. But even great levels can start to get old after a while.
Luckily, the new update promises a fix to this problem. Nintendo is rolling out two new DLC packs, each of which offer three new characters, four new vehicles, and eight new tracks. At $12 for both of them, that's a pretty awesome deal—especially when you consider that it's bringing people like Link, Tanooki Suit Mario, and Dry Bowser into the mix. But I have to wonder: will I still be playing the game regularly by the time they show up, ready for a new race?


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I wonder how many parts this series is going to end up with? At least three, I suppose, and probably more. Onward!
My trip to Houston was a very long one, with a 2 1/2 hour car trip to the airport, a 40 minute plane ride to St. Louis, a 2 hour layover, a 2 hour plane trip to Houston, and then an hour long trip to my dad's by car. I was completely exhausted by the time I got off the plane, but some family friends, i.e., my second parents picked me up and took me out to dinner here. It's a Houston institution, and I was able to geat REAL! GULF! SHRIMP! for dinner. I was so excited! I wish I'd thought to take a picture of my dinner, because I don't think people who haven't been to the gulf realize how big the shrimp is. And, oh so delicious!
After dinner, they dropped me off at Dad's house. He was sitting in his chair waiting for me to come home, and when he stood up, I'm surprised I didn't gasp. My dad, who in all my memory had been a big, hulking, barrell-chested man, looked withered and old. He'd lost at least 40 pounds since the last time I'd seen him – 20 pre-surgery, and 20 post. For the first time, he looked like an old man to me, and when I hugged him, his arms weren't rock-solid anymore. He showed me his scars, the worst being the one that went from his ankle up his thigh, the chest one had already mostly healed. We said goodnight and went to bed.
Now, I feel like I have to tell you this so you'll appreciate the oddness that occurred at Dad's house that week:
My step-mother and I have never gotten along, and while for the most part I suck up my anger and don't speak up to her (well, except THIS time). When my dad went into the hospital and his children couldn't get any information from her, I called my aunt, who called my uncle, who unloaded on my step-mother for not calling anyone. Because she hadn't called any of us directly, the story was skewed and we thought dad had been in the hospital for three days, when he'd only just been admitted. Rather than call any of us directly, she called HER daughter first, who then called my oldest sister's husband. Yeah, that's how much she didn't want to talk to us. Grrr.
Anyway, before the trip, I decided that I'd send her an email letting her know my schedule and that I was planning to stay the entire week so I could help out. I honestly wanted to stay with friends, but my dad was adamant that he would rather I stay there with him. So, I sent a short, cordial email realying that I was ready to do anything I could to help. She replied with what was probably the nicest email she's ever sent. She told me Dad was really looking forward to seeing me and that she was going to leave a car for me so that I could take him to walk at Wal-Mart (it was too hot for him to walk outside, and he could use the buggy for support) and to the chiropractor. She said that she was going to be busy at work, but she'd be home by 7 and on the weekend so that I could go visit my grandparents and sister. I started to feel better about everything.
Okay, back to the story!
The first day I was there, Dad and I just stuck around the house until it was time for him to go walk. We watched the first two Indiana Jones movies, and he napped a bit. By 8, he was getting worried because his wife wasn't home yet. He called her and left a message, and a little while later, he said he was going to call her again and went into his bedroom. I heard him talking, so I thought he must be on the phone until he came back out and said, "She's home, she came in the back door."
Oh-kay. The "back door" is a door in the master bathroom that leads to a courtyard. Houston was feeling the effects of a tropical storm at the time, and she chose to walk around the back of the house, through that door, rather than come through and say hello to me. This happened every time she was at home that week. I did not see her one time my entire visit. She had never done this before. She'd been incredibly rude, condescending, and talked smack about my kids before, but never this.
When I was able to get together with my older sister on the weekend, I told her about it and asked her if she knew why our step-mother would do this. She said she wasn't sure, but that while dad was in surgery (WHILE HE WAS IN SURGERY!), she was complaining to her daughter about everything I'd ever done or said to her that she didn't like. She actually said that I tried to keep them from getting married, which I most certainly did not. The only thing I can think is I might have told my dad that I wished he'd wait a little longer before getting married again. Who knows? Bitch is crazy.
So, that's what it was like at Dad's house – incredibly strange. Looks like the rest of the trip will have to wait for the next post! Here's a picture of the house, though, because it looks pretty:


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Swimming in the Ocean of Big
Remarks of Rajesh De, General
Counsel, National Security Agency, Georgetown Law School February 27, 2013
(as prepared for delivery).
Source : NSA.
Thank you for the introduction and the opportunity to speak
today at this distinguished event.
I'd also like to extend my appreciation to the Georgetown
Center on National Security and the Law, as well as to the Journal of National
Security Law & Policy for hosting this conference. I understand this is the
first year the Journal has been co-sponsored by Georgetown Law School and the
Syracuse University Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, after
many years at the McGeorge School of Law.
It is a special pleasure to be hosted by a publication that
was founded by a former General Counsel for the National Security Agency,
Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker. I'd also like to specifically thank Professor Carrie
Cordero for graciously extending this opportunity to me and for coordinating
this conference.
You have chosen a theme for today's conference that could not be more timely,
significant, or challenging: "Swimming in the Ocean of Big
Data: National Security Information in an Age of Unlimited Information."
Looking at the agenda, it is also clear that you have a number of participants
who are far more knowledgeable than I to help untangle the imperatives and
complexities attendant to big data. I have admired the work of many of your
panelists, and I have had the distinct pleasure of knowing several of them
personally, like Dan Weitzner, with whom I worked at the White House; Alex Joel,
the current Civil Liberties Protection Officer for the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence (ODNI); and Beth Cook, whom NSA recently welcomed in her
capacity as a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
Considering that both the ODNI as well as the Privacy and Civil Liberties
Oversight Board were recommendations of the 9/11Commission, for which I served
as Counsel, and were established by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism
Prevention Act, which I helped draft as a Hill staffer, it is especially
rewarding to see those institutions represented by such talented individuals.
So what do I have to add to this conversation, as the relatively new General
Counsel for an agency whose general approach is to stay mum whenever possible,
so much so that historically its initials jokingly have been said to refer to
"No Such Agency" or "Never Say Anything"? I have been General Counsel of NSA for
about ten months, and I am not expert on big data like those whom you have
assembled today. Moreover, much of what I have learned since joining NSA is
classified, so I must take caution in how I attempt to contribute to any such
discussion. Nevertheless, I believe strongly that it is important for agencies
like NSA to try to be a part of the public discourse to the greatest extent
possible, as ultimately its public legitimacy is strengthened by such attempts.
I believe what NSA does is important for the nation; it is my role to ensure
that its activities reflect its commitment to the rule of law; and I would
like to help bridge a gap that has already become readily apparent in only ten
months on the job: the gap between public discourse about NSA and the reality of
the legal rules, oversight, and accountability that I see at work every day.
There are three pervasive false myths about NSA that I believe are belied by
this reality, which I would like to address:
False Myth 1: NSA is a vacuum that indiscriminately sweeps
up and stores global communications.
False Myth 2: NSA is spying on
Americans at home and abroad with questionable or no legal basis.
False Myth 3: NSA operates in the
shadows free from external scrutiny or any true accountability.
My concern is that these false myths may not just color
public perception of NSA, but impede thoughtful discourse about the unique
challenges and opportunities posed by big data in the context of national
security. Before turning to these false myths, however, allow me to give you a
brief overview of NSA's mission and the complex, dynamic, and evolving
environment in which it operates.
I joined NSA as GeneralCounsel less than a year ago, in the spring of 2012.
About the time that I marked my six-month anniversary at the Agency, the Agency
celebrated a far more significant milestone - its 601 anniversary. NSA was
established by directive of President Truman in 1952, with the aim of
streamlining and consolidating the government's cryptologic assets in the
aftermath of the military expansion of the Second World War, in the midst of a
new conflict spurred by a surprise invasion on the Korean peninsula, and at the
dawn of a decades-long Cold War under the pervasive threat of nuclear conflict.
Cryptology is the business of making and breaking codes. Today, NSA employs more
than 30,000 men and women located at Fort Meade, Maryland and around the world.
NSA is the largest employer of mathematicians in the country; it has analysts
and linguists skilled in more than 120 languages; and about half of its
workforce consists of military men and women.
NSA has two primary responsibilities: signals intelligence and information
assurance. The legal framework for these responsibilities includes the U.S.
Constitution, Congressionally-enacted statutes, and Executive branch directives,
regulations, and other guidance. NSA's signals intelligence activities are
largely conducted under Executive Order 12333 ("United States Intelligence
Activities") and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ("FISA") -
both of which have been amended over the years. NSA's information assurance
mission is largely conducted under National Security Directive 42 ("National
Policy for the Security of National Security Telecommunications and Information
Systems") and Executive Order 13587 ("Structural Reforms to Improve the Security
of Classified Networks and the Responsbi le Sharing and Safeguarding of
Classified Information").
The signals intelligence responsibility is the part of the mission that most
people think of with respect to NSA- i.e., collecting, analyzing, and
disseminating signals intelligence for foreign intelligence and
counterintelligence purposes. Signals intelligence can be derived from signals
transmitting voice and internet-based communications, or signals like the
electromagnetic emissions from foreign radar and weapons systems. The
information assurance responsibility is to protect our communications on
national security systems, namely the systems that handle classified information
or are otherwise critical to military or intelligence activities. This is
accomplished through activities like standard setting, communications security
monitoring, and vulnerability testing.
NSA carries out these responsibilities as a member of both the Department of
Defense and the Intelligence Community. This duality reflects the fact that NSA
is both an agency with combat support functions and a national intelligence
agency. In other words, NSA supports military operations under the direction of
the Secretary of Defense and produces intelligence reporting in response to
national requirements coordinated by the Director of National Intelligence.
NSA performs its mission in an ever more rapidly evolving operational
environment, one characterized by persistent change in both the nature of our
adversaries and their communications. Foreign threats are no longer limited to
traditional nation state actors, or even widely-recognized terrorist groups like
al-Qa'ida and its affiliates. Moreover, adversaries today communicate through
means more operationally simple yet technically sophisticated than ever before.
As you know better than most, these changes are taking place against a backdrop
of increasingly complex, dynamic, and voluminous communications data flows
around the globe. Industry and academic estimates regularly chart the growth of
such trends, often in metrics of such dizzying scale that they can become mind
numbing: as of 2012, about 2.5 exabytes of data are created each day; more
data crosses the internet every second today than was stored on the entire
internet 20 years ago; global mobile traffic grew 70 percent in 2012, reaching
885 petabytes per month; and it is estimated that the number of mobile-connected
devices will exceed the world's population in 2013. Scale, however, is merely
one of the challenges for a signals intelligence agency like NSA - trends toward
greater mobility and the increasing adoption of internet-based encryption pose
additional challenges as well.
Perhaps the most alarming trend is that the digital communications
infrastructure is increasingly also becoming the domain for foreign threat
activity. In other words, it is no longer just a question of "collecting" or
even "connecting" the dots in order to assess foreign threats amidst more and
more digitalnoise, it is also a question of determining which of the so-called
"dots" may constitute the threat itself. As President Obama has recognized, "the
cyber threat to our nation is one of the most serious economic and
nationalsecurity challenges we face."
Many of us read in the papers every day about cyber attacks on commercial
entities. Hackers come in all shapes and sizes, from foreign government actors,
to criminal syndicates, to lone individuals. But as former Secretary of Defense
Leon Panetta warned a few months ago, "the greater danger facing us in
cyberspace goes beyond crime and it goes beyond harassment. A cyber attack
perpetrated by nation states or violent extremist groups could be as destructive
as the terrorist attack on 9/11." And as the President warned in his recent
State of the Union address, we know that our enemies are "seeking the ability to
sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air-traffic control
We also have seen a disturbing trend in the evolution of the cyber threat around
the world. As General Keith Alexander, the Director of NSA, describes it, the
trend is one from "exploitation" to "disruption" to "destruction." In
fundamental terms, the cyber threat has evolved far beyond simply stealing - the
stealing of personal or proprietary information, for example - to include more
disruptive activity, such as distributed denialof service attacks that may
temporarily degrade websites; and more alarmingly, we now see an evolution
toward truly destructive activity. Secretary Panetta, for example, recently
discussed what he described as "probably the most destructive attack the private
sector has seen to date" - a computer virus used to infect computers in the
Saudi Arabian State Oil Company Aramco in mid-2012, which virtually destroyed
30,000 computers.
Within this context,big data presents opportunities and challenges for the
government and the private sector. Improving our ability to gain insights from
large and complex collections of data holds the promise of accelerating progress
across a range of fields from health care to earth science to biomedical
research. But perhaps nowhere are the challenges and opportunities of big data
as stark as in the national security field, where the stakes are so high-both in
terms of the threats we seek to defeat, and of the liberties we simultaneously
seek to preserve. This reality is readily apparent in the evolving and dynamic
cyber environment, and perhaps no more so than for an agency at the crossroads
of the intelligence and the defense communities, like NSA.
Of course, NSA must necessarily operate in a manner that protects its sources
and methods from public view. If a person being investigated by the FBI learns
that his home phone is subject to a wiretap, common sense tells us that he will
not use that telephone any longer. The same is true for NSA. If our adversaries
know what NSA is doing and how it is doing it - or even what NSA is not doing
and why it is not doing it - they could well find ways to evade surveillance, to
obscure themselves and their activities, or to manipulate anticipated action or
inaction by the U.S.government. In sum, they could more readily use the ocean of
big data to their advantage.
Given the inherent limitations on discussing the details of what NSA does, I
thought it might be usefulto at least try to dispel certain misconceptions about
NSA - particularly certain misconceptions that are relevant to the topic of big
data. As one thinks about big data in any context, many of the same questions
arise - many of the same questions we think about in one way or another every
day at NSA: What are the characteristics of any data to be collected? How will
it be acquired? For what purpose? Should data be treated differently when
aggregated, or combined with other data sets? What can be done with data? Who
has access to it? How and when will it be disposed? What means are there to
enforce accountability with respect to the data? I hope to shed some light on
how NSA considers these questions in the context of discussing three false myths
that I have encountered even during my short time at the Agency.
False Myth 1: NSA is a vacuum that indiscriminately sweeps
up and stores global communications.
This false myth reflects the misguided idea that NSA can and does pick up any
communication, any place in the world, at any time. Put differently, this false
myth presumes that NSA' s discretion is the only meaningful limitation on the
scope and scale of its global operations. This myth, however, ignores the
reality of the legal, policy, and mission landscape within which NSA operates.
First, all intelligence activities of NSA must be properly authorized pursuant
to the law and must be conducted in accordance with the law. Though this
statement may sound simple, it is quite powerful. NSA only operates under
positive authority - if the law does not affirmatively authorize NSA to take an
action, the Agency cannot do it. Moreover, NSA must conduct authorized
activities in accordance with applicable legal constraints - including those
embodied in the Constitution, federal statutes, Executive Orders and other
Presidential directives, as well as relevant regulations and guidance -
that may limit NSA's exercise of its authorities. How NSA conducts its
activities is just as important as whether it may do so, and NSA must be able to
affirmatively point to the source of its authority for any activity.
As noted earlier, NSA is a foreign intelligence agency. Executive Order 12333
defines foreign intelligence as "information relating to the capabilities,
intentions, or activities of foreign governments or elements thereof, foreign
organizations, foreign persons, or international terrorists." This language
largely mirrors that which Congress adopted in the National Security Act of
1947. FISA contains a more intricate definition of foreign intelligence
information for the specific purposes of that statutory scheme, but all support
the same overall conclusion - NSA's mission is neither open-ended, nor is it
discretionary. NSA may only collect signals intelligence for a foreign purpose.
Second, NSA does not independently set its foreign intelligence collection
requirements. NSA's collection is driven by the requirements of U.S.policymakers
and warfighters, as established through the Executive Branch and funded by
Congress. For example, NSA's collection priorities are approved by the President
every six months as part of the NationalI ntelligence Priorities Framework. In
accordance with those priorities, U.S.policymakers, agencies, and the military
submit their specific intelligence requirements to NSA through a formal National
SIGINT Requirements Process. This process is an important policy means by which
the ocean of big data is further refined for NSA's collection efforts.
Finally, from a mission perspective it would be ineffective and inefficient -
indeed, it would be counterproductive - to simply collect and store as much
information as possible, even absent any legal or policy constraints. This
simple reality has never been more evident than in the era of big data. Every
day at NSA, conversations take place about whether, even within the bounds of
these legal and policy constraints, it makes sense to collect, use, or retain
certain information. Simply put, it would be neither feasible nor desirable to
just drain the ocean of big data into a government pool of big data.
False Myth: 2: NSA is spying on Americans at home and
abroad with questionable or no legal basis.
This false myth reflects both deep philosophical distrust of the secretive NSA
by some, and the reality that signals intelligence activities, unlike some other
intelligence activities, inevitably implicate the privacy rights of U.S. persons.
It also reflects more recent controversy over so-called "warrantless wiretapping"
under the President's Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP). Without getting into
details about the TSP (the authorization for which ended in 2007, but much of
which is still classified and the subject of litigation) or FISA (an intricate
statutory scheme), I would like to make a few general points about our current
operations to help dispel this myth.
First without on individualized determination of probable cause by a federal
judge, NSA does not target the communications of any unconsenting U.S. person
anywhere in the world when there is a reasonable expectation of privacy and a
warrant would be required for law enforcement purposes in the United States
(note that pursuant to statute and regulation, under certain emergency scenarios
the Attorney General can make an initial finding of probable cause, but if
within the purview of FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court must
subsequently make that determination). One point worth highlighting in
particular is that, amidst the controversy over the recent amendments made to
FISA in 2008 and reauthorized in 2012, an important change was made: targeting a
U.S.person abroad now requires a probable cause finding by a federal judge,
whereas previously it could be approved by the Attorney General alone under
Executive Order 12333.
Second, under even one of the more controversial provisions of the recent FISA
amendments, Section 702, where no individualized probable cause finding is
required, express limits were enacted:
Section 702 may only be used to target non-U.S. persons reasonably believed to
be located outside the United States.
Section 702 may not be used to intentionally target any person in the United
States or a U.S. person outside the United States.
Section 702 may not be used to conduct "reverse targeting" - i.e., targeting
of a person outside the United States if the purpose is to target a particular,
known person inside the United States.
Section 702 may not be used to intentionally acquire a "wholly-domestic
communication" - i.e., a communication where all communicants are inside the
United States.
Section 702 must be implemented in a manner consistent with the Fourth
Third, to the extent that information to, from, or about U.S.persons is acquired
incidentally as part of NSA's foreign intelligence mission, there are
specifically-tailored and externally-approved rules in place to address the
collection, handling, use, and destruction of such information consistent with
the Fourth Amendment. These rules are called "minimization procedures." Although
public dialogue has more commonly concerned the procedures required by statute (minimization
procedures are required by FISA, which must be approved by the FISC), NSA has in
fact long been required by Executive Order 12333 and Department of Defense
regulation to handle U.S. person information in accordance with procedures
approved by the Attorney Generaland consistent with the Fourth Amendment.
FISA defines minimization procedures generally as "specific procedures, which
shall be adopted by the Attorney General, that are reasonably designed in light
of the purpose and technique of the particular surveillance, to minimize the
acquisition and retention, and prohibit the dissemination, of nonpublicly
available information concerning unconsenting United States persons consistent
with the need of the United States to obtain, produce, and disseminate foreign
intelligence information." Not much has been disclosed about the details of
these procedures to avoid providing a roadmap to spies, terrorists, and foreign
governments looking to circumvent U.S. intelligence efforts, but I would like to
make a few general points here.
The underlying presumption for minimization procedures -
that information to, from, or about U.S. persons lnevitobly will be acquired
during the course of foreign intelligence activities - has been anticipated and
accepted by all three branches of our government for decades. The legislative
requirement for court-approved minimization procedures dates back to 1978, and
the executive branch has required Attorney General approved procedures for the
handling of U.S. person information since at least the signing of Executive
Order 12333 in 1981.
Minimization procedures ore multi-faceted in that they are designed to address
each stage of the intelligence process - from ocquismon to use to dissemination
to retention of information. Such procedures should be considered holistically,
withinterrelated constraints that span across the entire intelligence process.
These constraints may be procedural, technological, or substantive limits on how
information may be acquired, how it may be handled, who may see it, or when it
must be destroyed. Significantly, FISA provides that the dissemination of
information about U.S. persons is expressly prohibited unless it is necessary to
understand foreign intelligence or assess its importance; is evidence of a
crime; or indicates a threat of death or serious bodily harm.
Minimization procedures are specifically tailored - in other words, there is
no one-size fits all set of procedures for all datafor all time. As FISA states,
these procedures must be "reasonably designed in light of the purpose and
technique of the particular surveillance." Relevant to such analysis would be
considerations about the intrusiveness of the surveillance techniques involved;
the nature of the data acquired; the reason for the acquisition; and the
likelihood of any incidental U.S. person information.
These procedures are one means by which the acquisition, retention, and
dissemination of U.S. person information can be appropriately protected even in
the era of big data.
False Myth 3: NSA operates in the shadows free from
external scrutiny or any true accountability.
This false myth is obviously a product of the necessarily secretive nature of
NSA's day-to-day operations. There is no doubt that in a democracy like ours, an
important form of accountability is public transparency. However, it is
absolutely essential not to assume that the legitimacy afforded by public
transparency is the only way to achieve accountability, which may - in fact,
must, with respect to NSA - primarily be achieved through alternate means. There
is no perfect substitute for public transparency in a democracy; but when there
is also no way to provide information to those whom you seek to protect without
also providing it to those from whom you seek to protect them, we must largely
rely on such alternate means of accountability.
It is evident to me that I am the General Counsel for one of the most highly
regulated entities in the world. It is a reality that most audiences cannot
appreciate given the classified nature of intelligence work. Given NSA's unique
mission, however, it makes perfect sense. NSA is part of the Department of
Defense as well as the Intelligence Community. This means that NSA is subject to
the relevant rules and regulations for DOD as well as to those applicable to
other members of the IC. More broadly, NSA is subject to a spectrum of detailed
scrutiny from across all three branches of government as a matter of law, policy,
and practice. First, within the executive branch alone, NSA is responsible to
multiple stakeholders, including:
internal oversight officials, including an Inspector Generalto whom Congress
recently provided independent statutory authority under the 2010 Intelligence
Authorization Act;
the Department of Defense, which pursuant to presidential directive and
statute exercises supervisory authority over NSA, to include officials such as
the Assistant to the Secretary for Intelligence Oversight, the Under Secretary
of Defense for Intelligence, the General Counsel, and the DOD Inspector General;
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which pursuant to
presidential directive and statute is responsible for coordination of the
Intelligence Community, and has an oversight role with respect to certain FISA
activities, to include its own General Counsel, Inspector General, and Civil
Uberties Protection Officer;
the Department of Justice, which by statute also has an oversight role with
respect to certain FISA activities, and to which NSA like other intelligence
agencies is obligated by statute and Executive Order 12333 to report violations
of federal law;
the White House, to include the National Security Council, the President's
Intelligence Advisory Board, and the Intelligence Oversight Board, to whom NSA
like other intelligence agencies is required to report "any intelligence
activities ... that they have reason to believe may be unlawfulor contrary to
executive order or presidential directive"; and
independent entities such as the Privacy and Civil Uberties Oversight Board.
Second, apart from the multiple layers of accountabiity within the executive
branch, NSA is by law accountable to the legislative branch. As a member of the
Intelligence Community, NSA is required by law to keep the intelligence
oversight committees of the Senate and House of Representatives "fully and
currently informed" with respect to the Agency's activities. Given the unique
role of NSA and the range of its activities, however, oversight is exercised as
well by a host of additional committees as diverse as the armed services,
judiciary, and homeland security committees of both chambers of Congress. NSA,
for example, is required by statute to provide both the intelligence and
judiciary committees a copy of any decision, order, or opinion of the FISC that
includes "significant construction or interpretation" of any provision of FISA.
NSA also keeps Congress apprised of its activities routinely via testimony at
open and closed hearings; formalnotifications; other written submissions;
informal briefings, visits; and other means. In other words, we interact with
our Congressional overseers virtually every day.
Third, NSA is directly accountable to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court for those activities conducted pursuant to FISA. The Court is comprised of
eleven federal district judges appointed by the Chief Justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court. The FISC not only authorizes certain activities pursuant to FISA,
but it plays an active and constructive role in ensuring those activities are
carried out appropriately. As I noted earlier, it is evident that the manner in
which NSA operates is just as important as the authority under which it operates.
The rules of the FISC, for example, reflect this commitment in that "(if the
government discovers that any authority or approval granted by the Court has
been implemented in a manner that did not comply with the Court's authorization
or approvalor with applicable law, " the government must "immediately" notify
the Court. This obligation is one that NSA, together with our partners at the
Department of Justice, take seriously every single day.
Finally, NSA traditionally has maintained a strong culture of compliance among
its workforce. Employees receive basic mandatory training on NSA's
legalauthorities and the procedures that ensure the protection of privacy rights.
Personnelalso must receive refresher training throughout their career at NSA.
Follow-on training can include highly specialized legal and compliance training
focused on the specific requirements of the employee' s assigned mission. NSA
has also proactively established a corporate Director of Compliance to help
ensure that legal, technical, and operational requirements of the mission remain
aligned. NSA's compliance efforts draw from best practices across industry (such
as IT security and other heavily regulated industries like healthcare).NSA is
actively engaging with the broader compliance community to partner, to share
best practices, and to understand emerging trends.
Big data is transforming the world in which NSA carries out its mission, but NSA
is constantly evolving in terms of the mix of technology, resources, skills, and
authorities necessary to take advantage of its opportunities and meet its
challenges. What remains constant is NSA's commitment to the law; to the notion
that how the Agency conducts its activities is just as important as whether it
is authorized to conduct them. Although much of the detail by necessity must
remain secret, a great dealgets lost in the public discourse about the legal
framework within which NSA conducts its mission, its requirement for
specifically tailored and externally approved minimization procedures, and the
robust oversight structures in place across all three branches of government.
These features are as much a part of the I reality in which NSA operates today
as is the reality of big data.
See also :
Rajesh De, NSA General Counsel, Defends Warrantless Wiretapping Program by
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Illinois has one of the most restrictive medical marijuana programs in the nation. The list of qualifying conditions is short compared to many other states, and even if a patient can qualify, there will be no way to obtain medical marijuana until licensed growers are established and a limited number of dispensaries are in place. To make matters worse, patients are having a very hard time finding a doctor that will approve them as medical marijuana patients. Per WREX:
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"They quit calling back because I keep saying we haven't found anyone yet, we are working on it. But I get calls everyday. So far, I have not found any doctors who will prescribe," Epilepsy Foundation Director of Client Services, Barbara Vern-Lau said.
There are issues on rolling out business licenses for growers and dispensaries too. A goal was in place to have licenses issued by the end of 2014, but that goal deadline passed, and Illinois' Governor is not providing any explanation for the delays. Per the News Observer:
Without explanation, Gov. Pat Quinn's administration has conceded it missed its end-of-the-year target for deciding which businesses will receive permits to begin the state's pilot program with medical marijuana. Some observers think the decision could come in a matter of days.
The lag will force cultivation center owners to break ground during the coldest winter months, and, ultimately, delay harvest of the first cannabis crop. Patients who've paid $100 for marijuana registry cards will have to wait, perhaps until summer or beyond, before they can legally use the drug. Some patients say they'll continue to use pot they've obtained on the black market.
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Did you know that keeping your positions up to date on your Linkedin profile makes you 18 times more likely to be found in searches by members and recruiters?
Social networking has become an essential new tool for achieving your professional goals. When you join Linkedin, your goals are to be discoverable by headhunters and to develop professional connections that can help you with job search and career management. Just like any other social networking site, there are certain steps to take to make the most of your social networking experience. Do not confuse your Linkedin profile with a resume because it needs to be and can be so much more. It is more of a mini website where you can market yourself as a job seeker, service provider or entrepreneur seeking funding or something else.
Here is our take on how to create a Linkedin profile that will get you noticed by the right people:
1. A professional head-shot
A good first impression prompts people to read the rest of your profile. We all judge based on first impressions and the people who land on your profile will form an impression of you before they read anything you have written.The first thing that people notice about your Linkedin profile is your head-shot. A professional head-shot with an accompanying pleasant smile will go a long way towards making your profile inviting to read. Take a photograph of yourself in a business attire against a non-distracting background. Those photographs of you showing off your cute chihuahua or group pictures may be more suited for Facebook than your business profile. Appearance is important, so make yourself look like the job in every aspect you possible can.
2. Summary
Use this section to show what you can offer to other people. How can you help other clients or businesses? Wat problems can you solve? What results can you help others to achieve? Another thing to keep in mind is that we have become time-pressed, multi-tasking and instant gratification humans. When it comes to reading, we prefer to scan and that means that people who view your summary wants to know "what's in it for me?" in a matter of seconds. Make yours a benefit-oriented headline.
You can choose to do it either way:
a) If you have several skills, write a list of words naming those skills. Capitalise each word or skill and separate them using a vertical bar (straight up and down line on your keyboard). An example would look like this:
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b) 1 to 2 sentences summarizing your strengths and areas of expertise:
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One strategy is to look at the profiles of other professionals who are in the same line of work and see what they have put as their summary. If you see something outstanding, take their lead. Make your headline summary as compelling and concise to make yourself stand out from the rest of the competition.
3. Customise your profile link
When you first sign up for Linkedin and create a profile, your profile link will appear something like "linkedin.com/in/grsdqdw32309". Try to clean up this incoherent link and make it simple by changing it to your first and last names. It will make it easier for you to print this (eg. Linkedin.com/in/rhondasmith) on your name cards, email signature and any social media websites. In addition, you might not need a separate website and instead drive your traffic to your Linkedin page. If the name you want is taken, try including your middle name or using different variations of your name. A unique link will make it easier for people to search for you and appear on the first page of a search engine.
4. Get (loads of it!) recommendations
Recommendations are proof that you are as good as you say in your profile. It is a short statement or testimonial given to you, demonstrating your value to the organization. Let's say if an employer is deciding between two people for work and one person has lots of strong recommendations in their profile while the other has none, the employer is likely to give the former a shot at the opportunity to interview. You are not able to edit the recommendation and that is where the perceived value exists. You can ask for recommendations from colleagues past and present, bosses past and present and people you have worked with such as vendors and suppliers. Recommendations are also credible proof as the names of those making the recommendations will show up as hyperlinks next to their recommendations so that they can be easily checked and their praise corroborated.
In addition, having more recommendations helps determine how high you show up in rankings when people do a search on Linkedin. Due to the search algorithm, you will appear higher on the list with the same keywords if you have more recommendations.
5. Endorse your skills
There is a 'Skills' area that allows you to identify up to 50 different skills such as "technical recruiting", "multi-channel marketing" or "web content writing". Determine the skills you possess and that potential recruiters or employers would seek with your professional title and add a list of professional skills to your Linkedin profile. Once your profile is visible to the public, people can endorse you for each of the skills you listed. The more endorsements you have of your skills, the more discoverable you are to recruiters. Adding skills to your online profile makes you more discoverable in database searches and your skills more accessible to readers. While you can post up to 50 skills on your profile, listing fewer skills can mean more endorsements for each and more endorsements increase your visibility on the web. As you would want your contacts to endorse you for the skills, be selective and list out those skills that you want endorsed, with reference to your current job. Mutual skills endorsements are also encouraged and can go a long way in helping you build better relationships with people you know on Linkedin.
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Scaffolding Accident Claims
Workplaces should be safe environments where jobs can be carried out without health and safety fears. If you've been injured in a scaffolding accident, you may be able to claim. Our experienced personal injury solicitors can help you claim the compensation you deserve.
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Types of scaffolding accidents
Accidents in the workplace can range from the minor to the fatal. In the UK, according to the Health & Safety Executive figures for 2017/18, 1.4 million people are suffering from a work-related illness.
We can help employees, contractors and members of the public, who as a result of someone else's negligence, have been involved in scaffolding accidents. These accidents might involve:
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Not all accidents involving scaffolding happen at work. Sometimes innocent bystanders, residents or pedestrians are injured by falling debris, collapsing structures and a wide variety of mishaps.
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Soon after The Arnold Collection was launched our graphic designer Mark Goudie made a design for "Staff Only" T-shirts.
We had them printed and put them on whilst at the Arnold Sports Festival Australia…. And we got inundated with requests like "Hey bro where did you get that sweet T-shirt?" or "Ill buy that T-shirt off you right now for $50 – just swap t-shirts with me!".
So we realised that it was a winner!
Soon after that we needed to stop selling the T-Shirts for a while so we took them offline. Now we are back and this time we decided to release the ones people were constantly asking about – we call it the Stay Hungry T-Shirt.
Below is a heap of Merch we created to give the fans of this design a chance to have it the way they want it. We hope you enjoy it!
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I'm a black coffee person, nothing fancy. Or, I was a black coffee person, and then I ran Cafe Anna where people wanted more options than that, and all of a sudden I've developed a taste for fancy coffees. Luckily, I've also collected the equipment for fancy coffees, so it's more a blow to my calorie count than to my pocket book.
Here are some espresso drinks to try at home. If you don't have an espresso machine or milk frother, I believe you'd be fine warming up the cold brew strong coffee from the last post to stand in for the espresso, and there's this explanation of frothing milk at home (I'd recommend using the 2% milk, not the skim).
The other basic ingredients in these drinks are malted milk powder (it's in the baking aisle in most supermarkets), maple syrup (the not-fake kind! If you don't have access then make brown sugar syrup by warming 1/2 cup brown sugar with 1/4 cup water until the sugar is dissolved), homemade caramel sauce, and cocoa powder (I used Hershey's).
Note: These work as hot drinks but not as cold drinks, the espresso and milk need to be hot to dissolve the various things mixed in.
Espresso Dusty Miller
Large espresso (1/2 cup) mixed with 1 Tb of maple syrup, topped with 1/2 cup milk frothed with 1 Tb malted milk powder dissolved in it (mix in the powder before frothing), dusted on top with cocoa powder.
Caramel Espresso
Large espresso (1/2 cup) mixed with 1 Tb of caramel sauce and stirred to dissolve, topped with 1/2 cup of milk, frothed.
Cocoa Espresso
Same as above but add 2 tsp of cocoa powder with the caramel sauce.
Cocoa Macchiato
This is strong and very bitter, don't let the "cocoa" fool you. Mix large espresso (1/2 cup) with 2 Tb of cocoa powder and stir well – this will be super thick (what did we say? It's strong), top with 1/4 cup of milk frothed (use whole milk – even if that makes less of a foam it still tastes better).
Want more fancy coffees? Check out the last post on Iced Coffee.


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The base color of this wing pendant is a transparent purple (Molten Aura Royal Jelly), edged with stacked dot detail in white and purple. Strung with a sterling jump ring on cotton cord.
42mm x 20mm.
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Georgina Hoare MSc, MA. BPC Reg, BACP Reg & Accred, HCPC Reg
About me
I'm an experienced psychodynamic counsellor/psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and organisational consultant based in Wimbledon. I'm registered with BPC, HCPC and BACP (accredited and registered).
Over the last twenty years I've worked as a therapist in a variety of settings, NHS (learning disability, mental health and forensic services), education (primary and secondary schools) and the voluntary sector.
How I work -
All of us have times in our lives when we are struggling to cope and it can really help to speak to someone who is outside of your close network of friends and family. We live in a world which can feel very fast paced and having space for yourself to reflect in a safe environment can be a really valuable experience, to feel listened to, to be heard and to be understood.
I work Psychodynamically, which can sometimes also be described as a relational approach. What this means is that I'm both interested in understanding what is happening in the present for you and also thinking about whether there may be patterns from your past, which impact your thoughts or your behaviour which are getting in the way of you living an enjoyable life. Sometimes these patterns can get repeated in our therapeutic relationship and it can be a safe place to explore the meaning of this together.
How I can help -
I'm interested in thinking about the impact of significant life transitions such as becoming parents, parenting difficulties, bereavement including miscarriages, going back to work, career decisions, retirement, moving house, marriage and separation or divorce. I also support people with significant trauma such as experiences of domestic violence or sexual abuse, for men, women and the LGBT community.
Sometimes you may already have a formal diagnosis such as depression or anxiety or at other times you just not feel quite right, not feel happy with your life and want some space to explore this further.
Typically I would see you weekly at the same time each week for 50 minutes, but at times I also provide twice weekly therapy too.
I understand that starting therapy is a big undertaking and I usually suggest that we have a few sessions to see if we both feel that we can work together.
I am currently the Head of Talking Therapies at Wimbledon Guild and formerly the Director of Clinical Services at SurvivorsUK working with men who have experienced sexual violence.
Training, qualifications & experience
In addition to my qualifications below, I also regularly attend continuing professional development events and engage in ongoing clinical supervision.
2014 - MA Consultation in the Organisation (Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust)
2012 - Diploma in Clinical Supervision (WPF / Surrey University)
2003 - MSc Psychodynamic Counselling / Psychotherapy (Birkbeck College / University of London)
1997 - PG diploma in Music therapy (Roehampton University)
Member organisations
Registered / Accredited
Accredited register membership
Areas of counselling I deal with
- Abuse
- Anxiety
- Attachment disorder
- Bereavement
- Cancer
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emotional abuse
- Infertility
- Low self-confidence
- Low self-esteem
- Miscarriage
- Personality disorders
- Physical abuse
- Pregnancy and birth
- Redundancy
- Relationship problems
- Sex problems
- Sexual abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress
- Trauma
- Work-related stress
Therapies offered
£70 per 50 minute session for therapy or clinical supervision. At times I'm also able to offer some concessions depending on circumstances.
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|Sign language:
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I have vacancies on Monday evenings and Friday mornings for weekly psychotherapy. I have more flexibility for supervision times fortnightly/monthly
Types of client
|Older adults
|Employee Assistance Programme
Supervision & training
I provide individual supervision for counsellors/psychotherapists and arts therapists.View supervision profile


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Tommy Chong Announces He Is Fighting Prostate Cancer
Legendary Comedian Tommy Chong Has Been Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer
I was sad to read earlier this morning that Tommy Chong is battling prostate cancer. Tommy Chong told CNN that he was diagnosed 'about a month ago.'
"I've got prostate cancer, and I'm treating it with hemp oil, with cannabis," Chong told CNN's Don Lemon. "So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested."
Chong, 74, explained to CNN that he doesn't smoke marijuana, which he said he'd quit about a year ago "for health reasons," to treat his prostate cancer. Rather, he said the ingests the hemp oil "at night, so I won't be woozy all day."
"I'm taking it as a medicine," he said.
Below is a Tommy Chong interview with Time magazine. I think I speak for marijuana consumers everywhere when I say GET WELL TOMMY CHONG!


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Tour Package Details
Key Destinations –
Manas National Park
Duration: 6 Nights – 7 Days
Price: On Request
DAY 1: Pickup from Guwahati Airport / Railway Station to Shillong (Capital of Meghalaya); En Route visit – Barapani Or Umiam Lake. Night Stay.
DAY 2: After breakfast drive to Cherrapunjee (60 kms. 1and 1/2 hr), the wettest place in the world. The beautiful waterfall-Noh-ka-likai is at Cherrapunjee. You can also explore Eco Park, Seven Sister Falls, Cherrapunjee View Point and some of the caves in and around Cherrapunjee. Return to Shillong, en-route visit Elephant falls and Shillong peak for some breathtaking views. Stay overnight at your hotel in Shillong.
DAY 3: After breakfast drive to Mawlynnong (92 km / 2 hrs), Visit – the cleanest village in Asia. Living Route Bridge and Balancing Rock. Back to Shillong, Evening free for marketing. Stay overnight at your hotel in Shillong.
DAY 4: After breakfast transfer to Guwahati, visit – Kamakhya Temple, Sankardev Kalakshetra and Regional Science Center. Overnight at Guwahati.
DAY 5: Early morning transfer to Manas National Park. After lunch go for Jeep Safari, back to Hotel; Night Stay.
DAY 6: Early morning go for Elephant ride at 5 am or 6 am, then back to hotel. After lunch transfer to Guwahati.
DAY 7: After breakfast transfer to Guwahati Airport / Railway Station.
1. Meet & Greet upon arrival.
2. Hotel Accommodation (As per your package)
3. Transportation, including all sight seeing.
4. Fuel, Parking, Vehicle Permit and Driver Allowance.
5. Breakfast and Dinner.
6. 1 Time Elephant Ride & 1 Time Jeep Safari at Manas National Park.
1. Food. (LUNCH)
2. Air Fare / Train fare.
3. Personal expenses such as tips, laundry, telephone bills & beverages.
4. Additional sightseeing or extra usage of vehicle, other than mentioned in the itinerary.
5. Any cost arising due to natural calamities like, landslides, road blockage, political disturbances (strikes), etc (to be borne by the client, which is directly payable on the spot).
6. Any increase in taxes or fuel price, leading to increase in cost on surface transportation & land arrangements, which may come into effect prior to departure.
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Applications are taken annually from July 1st to the day before school starts. Call Community Services at 860-628-3761 to make an appointment. To see if you are eligible,click here.
You will need the following items when you come in to apply:
• Proof of Residency
• Proof of Income for everyone in the household
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." Albert Einstein
The Back To School Program provides qualified Southington students entering grades K-12 with new backpacks filled with school supplies and a $20.00 voucher to purchase additional needed supplies. A new school year means a new beginning and we believe that it is important that every Southington student should start off the year with new school supplies.
Community Services collects new items year round and we are always looking for donations of new items such as:
• Back packs
• Note books
• Zipped pencil bag
• Composition books
• Post its
• Folders
• Lined notebook paper
• Pens
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Cotton & Steel - Mushrooms and Creatures on Taupe Canvas
$10.50 All fabric priced and sold in 1/2 yard increments, eg. enter a quantity of 3 to purchase 1.5 yards
This product is currently sold out.
This charming Cotton & Steel print from the Mori No Tomodachi collection was designed by Hitomi Osumi. This is a light weight linen cotton canvas blend. Perfect for bags and home decor. Or, try the Wiksten Harem Pants for one of the little ones.
50% Cotton 50% Linen / 45" wide
All fabric sold in half yards.


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Wonderland Creek Greenways Improvement Project: Foothills Pkwy. to Winding Trail
Check out the video presented at the 2019 Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Manager's annual conference
Wonderland Creek project construction began in January 2016. The project extends from Foothills Parkway in the south to Winding Trail Drive in the north. The purpose of this approximately $30M project (cost includes design and construction) is to provide channel improvements for this segment of the creek to contain the flows associated with the 1% annual chance flood (aka 100-year floodplain). By creating these improvements, the city will be reducing the flood risk to numerous structures and dwelling units that are currently located within the 1% annual chance special flood hazard area floodplain. In addition, we will be building three new underpasses (1. at the BNSF Railroad 2. Kalmia Ave. 3. 28th St.) to provide safe passage for pedestrians and cyclists as we extend the multi-use path system from Foothills Parkway to 30th St. In order to create these new features, approximately 450 trees have been removed along the project reach. 1,884 new trees and shrubs were replanted.
Current Project Status
The Wonderland Project was completed on April 18, 2019! Contractors may be seen throughout the project area during the two-year warranty period to address any issues covered by the warranty. Thank you to everyone in the community for your patience and understanding throughout this project.
The existing 1% annual chance special flood hazard area floodplain along Wonderland Creek between Foothills Parkway and Winding Trail extends far beyond the creek banks and includes numerous structures. A 2009 flood mitigation master plan recommends flood improvements for this segment of Wonderland Creek.
A multi-use path connection is called for in the Greenways Master Plan and Transportation Master Plan from Foothills Parkway to 30th Street. The plans also call for a pedestrian and bicycle underpass at 28th Street. These two combined projects along Wonderland Creek will provide flood mitigation and trail improvements, fulfilling master plan goals.
Public Review and Input
- The final CEAP for the Wonderland Creek reach from Foothills Parkway to 30th Street was presented to the Greenways Advisory Committee Meeting on Aug. 31, 2010 and submitted to City Council on Oct. 8, 2010. Council concurred with the CEAP recommendations.
- The final CEAP for the Wonderland Creek reach from Diagonal Highway to Winding Trail was presented to the Greenways Advisory Committee Meeting on Oct. 11, 2012 and submitted to City Council February 2013. Council concurred with the CEAP recommendations.


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1 bedroom first floor flat in Dover
The Metropole, New Street, Dover, Kent
Guide Price£60,000
- 1x Bedrooms
- 1x Reception rooms
- 1x bathrooms
Dover Branch
01304 214876
Key features
- 1 bedroom first floor town centre apartment
- No onward chain
- Perfect first time buy or investment
- Close to all amenities including St. James, Dover town & Dover Priory railway station
- Must be seen!
- EPC energy rating E (54)
Floor plans
Floor plan
First Floor Room Dimensions
|Entrance Hallway
|7'8 x 7'2 (2.34m x 2.19m)
|Separate Cloakroom
|10'10 x 7'10 (3.30m x 2.39m)
|Shower Room
|11'1 x 10'11 (3.38m x 3.33m)
Map & Area
Map & area
Please note, the map markers may only show the centre of a postcode and not the actual address.
Local Information
Primary Schools
- Dover, St Mary's C of E Primary 0.2 miles (Ofsted report)
- St Richard's Catholic Primary 0.4 miles (Ofsted report)
- Priory Fields School 0.6 miles (Ofsted report)
Secondary Schools
- Dover College 0.2 miles (Ofsted report)
- Dover Grammar School for Girls 0.6 miles (Ofsted report)
- St Edmund's Catholic School 0.7 miles. (Ofsted report)
Train Stations
- Dover Priory 0.3 miles
- Kearsney 2.4 miles
- Martin Mill 3.4 miles
Motorway links
- M20 Junction 13: 7.1 miles
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