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It's been accused of many things: international drug dealing, insurance fraud, counterfeiting U.S. dollars. The list of alleged international illicit activity by North Korea's Office 39 is long and complex.
But one thing is for sure: It is involved in the acquisition of hard currency for Kim Jong Un and the DPRK's ruling elite, and has employed a variety of schemes to raise these funds.
Office 39's purpose, at least in principle, is the funding of North Korea's "royal economy": the money funding the luxurious lifestyles of Kim Jong Un and his inner circle. Or, as one source put it: "buying the Danish hams and the French cognac."
Getting concrete information on Office 39's activity is extremely difficult if not involved in national intelligence sources, Martin Uden, former coordinator of the Panel of Experts at the United Nations on North Korea sanctions, told NK News.
The UN Panel looked into the activities of Office 39, he said, but added that "the panel is not fed by any member state a stream of intelligence".
"All the member states do is tell us when they have seen a violation," he said. "Member states don't share things that they regard as their own secrets".
In the days of Kim Il Sung, the North Korean economy was run much like any other planned socialist economy, with an income and sales tax on various items usually pegged at three percent for funding state projects and the often lavish lifestyles of Kim Il Sung and the elites.
But it was in 1974 that Kim Jong Il – then a rising star eager to build his own power source and patronage system – set up Office 39, Ken Gause explains, a senior analyst who specializes on the North Korean leadership at CNA Corporation's Strategic Studies (CSS) department.
"It was a way of ordering, bringing in money to support his element of the regime," he said, "and a lot of this was done through illicit financing deals, you know, counterfeiting, reinsurance scams, a variety of things, some more nefarious than others."
To raise the additional revenue for ensuring the heir apparent's smooth consolidation of power, they "basically created another center of power," he said.
"…there was a lot of work to be done, a lot of people to be bought off, a lot of palms to be greased"
Kim Jong Il did not have broad support throughout the regime, so Gause said, "there was a lot of work to be done, a lot of people to be bought off, a lot of palms to be greased."
Through the growth of Office 39 North Korea went from a communist state like any other to one with a special slush fund for its elites. Then, with the collapse of the North Korean economy in the 1990s and the ongoing effects of international sanctions, North Korea's elites came to increasingly rely on the "royal economy".
"The Kim family has been having trouble getting the money out of the banks it had stored abroad so that is putting significant pressure on the regime to have to resort to the Office 39 funds," explained Gause.
Now, he estimates these endeavors earn the Bureau "probably several hundred million" a year, and said that North Korea's "royal" economy controls roughly $6 billion. If true, this could mean that North Korea's political elite controls a pot of money worth half the country's GDP.
"(Kim Jong Un) is not just sitting on(those funds)," said one Office 39 financial expert, who wished to remain anonymous for professional reasons. "This money is used to prop up the elite pillar of his support".
In theory Office 39 is just another office of the Korean Workers Party, subordinate to the Central Party Secretariat.
But in practice, Office 39 is under the direct control of the Kim family, with its directorship reserved for Kim family members or those who have proven unwavering loyalty to the Kim dynasty. It is independent from the government, acting purely as source of cash for the Kims and their affiliated elites.
"One can hardly say that they are actually an 'arm of the party' since their directors answered directly to Kim Jong Il and now Kim Jong Un," Steve Sin, a former counter-intelligence officer specializing in the Asia-Pacific region, told NK News.
Office 39 remains the Kim family business, with rumors that Kim Yo Chung, Kim Jong Un's sister, being mentored by Kim Sol Song, Kim Jong Un's half-sister, in managing the family slush fund, an anonymous source with extensive experience investigating the activities of the bureau said.
In charge of directing the Bureau's activities is Jon Il Chun, who also serves as director of the Daesong group. In his long career Jon has served in various roles in the State External Economic Affairs Commission and the Korean Workers Party Finance and Accounting Department, as well as a five-year stint as vice chairman of the North Korea-Rwanda Friendship Association, an analysis of his profile on the NK Leadership Tracker shows.
Jon succeeded Kim Tong Il, who was director until 2010 and a true Kim Jong Il loyalist — even serving on the late Dear Leader's funeral committee. Much of Kim Tong Il's job involved the sale of precious metals, said Michael Madden of the NK Leadership Watch blog.
"In 2009 he was subjected to a travel ban in the EU, which made doing his job somewhat difficult," Madden said, which could explain his demotion. Kim Tong Il remains at Office 39 in a management capacity.
Jon may not be in his current position for too long, Gause told NK News, as the ruling family seems keen to cement its control over the bureau.
"At some point, it's expected that somebody will be brought in who's fairly close to Kim Jong Un," he said, "maybe Kim Jong Chul, who will take over the apparatus since he seems to be relying heavily on the Kim family directly, compared to cohorts who have been close to the Kim family".
Office 39 sits at the top of a complex pyramid of international trading conglomerates, which serve a crucial role in organizing and legitimizing Office 39's international activity, whose ambiguous titles often mean the foreigners they do business with have no idea they are working with the DPRK government.
The bureau places significant pressure on international diplomats to raise the appropriate "loyalty funds" each year, which are transferred back to Pyongyang, particularly around the time of Kim Jong Un's birthday.
The most prominent and largest of these conglomerates, appearing on almost every Office 39 apparatchik's CV, is the Daesong Economic Group, which Madden estimates has "thousands of employees and at least 18 branch offices located in foreign countries".
While Daesong does not have any official link to the North Korean diplomatic service, he said, there have been "many instances during the last 25 years where Daesong staff met with or worked with DPRK diplomats," Madden says, "with Bureau 39 sometimes "(compelling) diplomats to use their credentials to smuggle goods".
Many noted the incongruity in July when North Korea, a serial money launderer, was granted observer status on the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). However, their participation follows a trend noted by experts, in which Office 39 appears to have winded down – or at least toned down – its arms dealing and drug smuggling and focused more on legitimate business.
Much of the Office's recent activities in the previous decade almost certainly did involve counterfeiting goods, particularly "superdollars", as revealed by a 2009 investigation carried out by Vanity Fair magazine. Considered one of the most accurate forms of counterfeit dollars to ever circulate, the superdollar was a key source of funds for Office 39 for much of the 2000s, until the United States and international pressure forced them to tone down their activities.
A particularly notorious incident involved Office 39's bureau in Europe, which operated through a Daesong-controlled bank known as Gold Star Bank, based out of Vienna. Austria's Federal Ministry of the Interior grew increasingly concerned about the presence of a North Korean-controlled bank operating there, with a report released in 2003 warning of "detectable efforts by the North Korean secret service to place its agents in diplomatic and non-diplomatic positions in Austria".
"The camouflage for these activities is Europe's only established branch of the North Korean state bank, which is located in Vienna," it said, arguing that it was involved in "money-laundering, the distribution of forged currency and illegal trade with radioactive substances".
The bank was closed in 2004, and the Austrian government served Kwon Yong Rok, Office 39's man in Vienna, with an arrest warrant, charging him with "luxury goods violations".
Kwon fled the country before he could be formally charged, and recently served, according to the source with knowledge of Office 39, as head of "the reception committee that met the Russians when they were (in North Korea) in February".
But it seems Office 39 was determined to maintain a foothold in Europe. A Wikileaks document, dated from 2007, reveals that the U.S. State Department warned the Swiss government of "possible North Korean financial activities in your country".
"The United States has information that North Korea may be seeking to establish a new bank in Switzerland that would be similar to Golden (sic) Star Bank," it read.
Office 39 was also notorious for its role in the international drug trade, with widespread rumors that it was involved in the alleged drug trafficking by North Korean embassy officials, pressuring its diplomats to raise "loyalty funds" through drug dealing in foreign countries.
NK News's expert on Office 39 who wished to remain anonymous confirmed this, telling NK News that North Korea "was known for producing pharmaceutical grade amphetamine," and that the bureau had begun selling crystal meth "to replace some of the funds" lost when the economy collapsed during the famine.
Japan proved a lucrative market, the source said, with North Korea turning to "the meth trade to replace some of those funds because the Japanese appetite for meth was just insatiable.
"So in the very late '90s and early 2000s North Korea (was) sending meth to Japan by the shipload".
But as with the counterfeit currency, international pressure and law enforcement caught up with the North Koreans, as it did in 2003, when the Australian military intercepted the North Korea Pong Su freighter, found in possession of 150 kilograms of heroin.
"Ever since those years they've been a little more circumspect in dealing in narcotics," the source said.
"The Japanese blacklisting on North Korean goods and the closing of the ports except for vessels in distress," he said made "everything so much more roundabout…I think that really caused them to start looking for a different model".
But experts agree that, in recent years, Office 39 may have been moving away from the illicit drug trade and counterfeiting, increasingly focusing on bootleg cigarettes and pharmaceuticals, while facilitating business deals with foreign companies.
"They're making less than they used to, because they've had to distance themselves from the retail end of it," the Office 39 expert told NK News, saying this could be due to its domestic production and use getting out of control.
"A lot of the manufacturing and trafficking of methamphetamine, for example, has been taken over by other DPRK entities that have no ties to Office 39," said NK Leadership Watch's Michael Madden. "Office 39 these days receives a lot of its income from its own logistical, accounting and administrative networks."
Office 39 could also be playing a key role, too, in North Korea's burgeoning natural resources industry, of which it exported $2.88 billion in 2012, said Steve Sin, the former East-Asia counter-intelligence officer.
"While not all of this amount would be controlled by Office 39," he said, "certainly some of the minerals were exported through the holding companies operated by the Office" he explained.
The bureau could also be involved in running North Korea's international restaurant chain "Pyongyang" which has branches across China, as well as in Jakarta, Phnom Penh, Saigon and others, according to investigative journalist Bertil Lintner. Kim Myung Ho, a defector who ran a Pyongyang branch in China, said employees are expected to send up $30,000 a year back to Pyongyang.
Experts believe that Office 39's activities are actually becoming more decentralized.
"There are more people vying to earn – and a lot of the businesses have been carved up between different senior cadres along institutional (party and security organizations) and geographic lines," said Madden.
After years of raising funds to furnish the lavish lifestyle of the ruling family, it now seems a growing number of those working for North Korea's government realize the potential to get rich both inside and outside the country, and Office's 39's monopoly on the acquisition of hard currency may be slipping.
Additional reporting: Leo Byrne
Main picture: E. Lafforgue

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Soon after Akron was named a Tree City USA community for the 14th time by the Arbor Day Foundation, Akron City Council authorized the city to apply for $1,461,803 million in Federal stimulus money to improve the city's forestry landscape.
Council passed legislation authorizing the Director of Public Service to enter into a grant agreement with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for the federally funded Urban Forestry Recovery Project.
The grant will be used to remove 1,075 Borer-infested Ash trees throughout the city and replace them with similar trees; remove and replace storm damaged trees; and conduct a tree survey and plant trees to increase the city's canopy density.
Trees in cities have been proven to promote healthier communities. Leaves filter the air by removing dust and other particles. Trees also moderate the climate, conserve water and provide habitat for wildlife. Trees in urban areas in particular are credited for reducing the "heat island effect" cased by pavement and buildings.
Akron has met four standards set by the Arbor Day Foundation to be called a Tree City USA community by having a tree board or department; a tree care ordinance; a comprehensive community forestry program; and an Arbor Day observance and proclamation.


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Well I have reached the end of my birth month celebration and month long posting of birthday cards so I am ending on a sunny post featuring my all time favorite flower- the sunflower! This card is on trend with all the buffalo check stuff everywhere these days. I used the Buffalo Check Background #147797 stamp to create the rustic look. For the focal panel I made the sunflower by punching the petals from the Garden Impressions DSP #146289 using the Christmas Bulb Builder punch #148013. For the bold center, I used the Stitched Shapes Framelits #145372 and added the sentiment from the So Many Shells retired stamp set.
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Sunny Birthday
Filed under Birthday, Cards, Friendship, General
Penguin Birthday
Today's birthday post is from my friend Mindi who I just recently introduced to card making and Stampin Up. In fact during my recent purge of my craft room I gave Mindi some of my left over Stampin Up stuff so she paired that with her own Stampin Up supplies and created this adorable birthday card for her penguin loving friend. Good job Mindi!
Tropical Celebration
Today's birthday post features all products from the Tropical Escape Stampin Up product Suite. I used the Tropical Escape #146916 DSP for the papers, the stamped flowers and leaves are from the Tropical Chic #146753 and then cut out using the coordinating Tropical Thinlits Dies #146831. The little sentiment is from the Itty Bitty Greetings #146916 Stampin Up stamp set.
Birthdays are Gold
Today's post is another birthday card featuring the Broadway Bound #146277 DSP from Stampin Up. The sentiment is from the now retired Sweet Cupcakes and coordinating Cupcake Cutout Thinlits.
Varied Vases birthday
Today's birthday card post is from a guest designer and my friend Sheri. She loves Stampin Up as much as me and made me this sweet card featuring the Varied Vases #146644 stamp set from Stampin Up. I absolutely love this card because I don't own that set (surprise) and the colors are bright and cheery!
Accordian Gift Card Holder
For today's birthday post I have opted to show an easy birthday gift idea that holds gift cards or other small items and then folds up and is tied with a cute ribbon. This gift card holder features the Broadway Bound DSP #146277 from Stampin Up.
Filed under 3D Item, Gift card, Uncategorized
Be Jolly
Its the 25th of the month and its time to take a break from the birthday posts to post the monthly Christmas card. This card starts with DSP layer from the Stampin Up In Color DSP #146963. For the feature panel, I textured the whisper white layer with the Swirls and Curls Textured Impressions Embossing Folder #147923 and added a stamped candy cane from the Candy Cane Season now retired stamp set and punched out with the coordinating Candy Cane punch (retired). I finished by adding a the sentiment from the Candy Cane Season.


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When the Stalinist Soviet Union collapsed, the capitalists of the world rejoiced. Socialism and communism were declared dead and buried, and they promised a new era of peace and prosperity, a "New World Order" – all under the watchful eye of US imperialism.
They went so far as to proclaim the "end of history" and expected the workers of the world to meekly accept the idea that "There Is No Alternative" to capitalism. A "New Economic Paradigm" was theorised, according to which the boom-bust cycle of capitalism was abolished, and markets and economies would only go in only one direction: up.
The labour leaders and reformists buckled under this pressure and moved far to the right, openly embracing capitalism, adapting themselves to it and abandoning even the pretence of fighting for socialism. The ideas of Marxism, communism or socialism were vilified, caricatured, and dragged through the mud.
Against this endless stream of lies and distortions, the International Marxist Tendency have stood firmly in defence of Marxist theory and the traditions of the October Revolution, led by Lenin and Trotsky. Ted Grant, leading theoretician in the Trotskyist movement since the 1930s and founder of the IMT, explained that, on the contrary, the collapse of the USSR was only the prelude to the greatest economic and social crisis in the history of capitalism.
With the world capitalist crisis of 2008, our analysis was proven a thousand times correct. Capitalism has since become a failed system in the eyes of millions of workers and youth. Who now, can doubt or deny that capitalism means extreme polarisation and inequality; with enormous wealth at one pole, and war, misery, austerity, cuts, discrimination, and repression at the other? We live in an epoch of war, revolution, and counterrevolution.
The capitalist crisis has destabilised the entire planet, and any measures by the ruling class to re-establish any semblance of economic equilibrium can only further aggravate the political and social instability. But the working masses will not take these vicious attacks lying down, and a wave of revolutions is sweeping the planet. In one country after another, there have been uprisings, general strikes, mass mobilisations, and protests on a scale not seen in decades. The credibility of the bourgeois institutions, the establishment and the ruling class is crumbling even in the core imperialist countries.
The objective conditions for a socialist world exist today. The technology, productivity and knowledge are present for a radical reorganization of society. By pooling the world's resources into a rational and democratic plan of production, distribution, and exchange, in harmony with the environment, we can feed, clothe, house, educate, and provide high quality healthcare to everyone on the planet.
10 years after the 2008 crisis, polarisation of wealth has reached unprecedented peaks. At the beginning of 2018 just 42 individuals possessed more wealth than the poorest 3.7 billion people on the planet. This is an absurd and criminal contradiction.
The working class is the majority of the world's population and is desperately seeking a way out of the impasse of the system, along with the other layers of the oppressed masses. However, the will to struggle and sacrifice is not sufficient for the successful completion of the socialist revolution. As Leon Trotsky explained, what is missing is the revolutionary leadership, which cannot be improvised once a revolution breaks out. The International Marxist Tendency has been patiently and persistently building the revolutionary organisation in a growing number of countries. We have set ourselves the target of playing a key part in resolving the biggest question of our epoch, that of a revolutionary leadership for the working class.
For Marxists, theory is an indispensable guide to action. That is why we launched in 1995 Wellred Books and in 1998 the In Defence of Marxism website, which have made available a wealth of Marxist theory and analysis of all the major political developments on a world scale.
However, as Karl Marx explained, the point of Marxist philosophy is not merely to interpret or explain the world – but to change it.
Marxist.com is not just a news and analysis website, it is the public face of the IMT, an organisation you can join and build.
Young people around the world are thirsty for Marxist ideas and are stepping up to extend the work of the IMT in one country after another. New members are joining daily and new areas of work and sections are developing, based on sound understanding of Marxist theory and the methods developed through the lessons and experience of the revolutionary struggle of the working class. From providing political education to intervening in youth and workers' struggles and revolutionary mass movements, the comrades of the IMT are on the front lines of the class struggle.
Marxism is international or it is nothing. And the international is first and foremost its ideas, methods, perspectives, banner, and traditions. The work of the IMT is laying the indispensable foundations of a theoretically trained and far-sighted cadre organisation, steeped in the ideas of Marxism and steeled in the class struggle. But there is much more to be done – and we need your help.
Capitalism and all its institutions are being discredited in the eyes of an ever-growing number of people by their own experience on a daily basis. It has nothing to offer the workers and youth. Now is the time for the Marxists to press forward boldly and with confidence: we ask you to join the IMT and the struggle for a socialist future!
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Warrior is a 2011 Lionsgate and Mimran Schur Pictures action drama film about two brothers that enter a Mixed Martial Arts tournament. Brendan, a family man, is seeking the prize money to save his house for his wife and daughters, while Tommy, an Iraqi War hero, plans to give the money to his best friend and fallen comrade's widow and two kids. This brings them to a head-on collision when their estranged, recovering alcoholic father, Paddy, agrees to train Tommy for the tournament.
The film stars Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Jennifer Morrison, Frank Grillo, and Academy Award Nominee Nick Nolte.
The music is written and composed by Academy Award Nominated Composer Mark Isham.
The film is written by Gavin O'Connor, Anthony Tambakis, and Cliff Dorfman, based on a story by Gavin O'Connor and Cliff Dorfman.
The film is produced by Lionsgate, Mimran Schur Pictures, Solaris Entertainment, and Filmtribe, and is distributed by Lionsgate.
Warrior is directed by Gavin O'Connor.
Simply put, Warrior is one of the best movies to come out this year. It was such a pleasure to watch this movie, especially in this dead month known as September. Disguised as a no-holds-barred MMA action movie (no doubt to hook in the UFC fans and younger crowds), Warrior in reality is an amazing character drama about 3 men and their extremely tense relationships with each other, as well as their own personal matters and demons, that keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time. Some critics are saying that this is the Rocky of this generation, and while it isn't that good (and let's face it what really is), I definitely understand the comparison.
Tom Hardy delivers the performance of his career as Tom Riordan/Conlon. The transformation he had to go through in order to play Tom was intense. Hardy went through a demanding training routine for gaining muscle during the film's pre-production, gaining around 28 pounds of muscle and raising his overall weight to 205 pounds. This is a man that always delivers his "A" game when it comes to his career. While the role that got Hollywood's attention was the 2008 British film Bronson, the role that got the American public's attention was his role of Eames in 2010's Inception (a special shout out to Praetor Shinzon from Star Trek Nemesis…one of the only good things from that movie). But I believe this is the role that will get Hardy an Oscar nomination. The same can be said about his co-star Joel Edgerton. Best known for playing Owen Lars aka "Uncle Owen" in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (although I would rather just forget those movies even exist), Edgerton has never been truly exposed to the American audience quite like this, and he proved he is more than capable of acting with the best of them. To top it all off, Nick Nolte delivers a riveting performance as Paddy Conlon, the brothers estranged recovering alcoholic father. The levels of emotion Nolte goes through in this film are truly incredible, and it is by far the best thing I've seen the veteran actor in. The rest of the cast adds just adds more class and credibility to this already impressive group. Just a huge congratulations to the entire cast of Warrior.
The story was one of the more interesting parts of the film. It's a rare thing to see a film have more than one main focus of the film, but it can be debated that Brendan and Tom were both co-stars of the film. The film jumps back and forth, starting with Tom's story, then Brendan's, Tom, Brendan……until the two come to a head. Even until the very end of the film when the brothers are squaring off with each other, I was left thinking which one was actually going to win out in the end. That's rare for a film to do that to me, and that's what I mean about keeping me on the edge of my seat. I was completely involved in the film in my seat!!!
The music in the film was overall okay. Composer Mark Isham did the extremely smart thing with this one and let the music be a background character to the already impressive cast. The music was really understated but played well during the scenes it needed to. A special mention to the composer's song choice towards the end of the film. Not many scenes give me chills because I am so into the film, but that song put it over the top for me. I teared up a little during that scene.
Director Gavin O'Connor is no stranger to the sports drama film, but this is by far his best work. The man really fired on all cylinders with this one. Instead of relying on fancy camera work and special effects, he directed the actors and just let the camera record it. He relied on the strength of the story and the talent of his cast. Although I didn't really care for the quick cuts during the cage fighting scenes during the tournament, I do understand them. Despite the shaky cam, you could still follow most of the fighting. The fights were realistic, and you could almost feel the punches and kicks as they landed on the bodies of the fighters. I wouldn't be surprised if Gavin O'Connor received an Oscar nomination for Best Director when Oscar Season rolls around.
In this dead month of September, getting a good movie is a rare thing, but getting an amazing movie is almost unheard of. I'm extremely happy that Warrior was released in this month, and I urge everyone to see it at some point!!!
an 8.5 out of 10
(release date: 9 September 2011)
Nick Nolte has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Tom Wingo in Columbia Pictures' The Prince of Tides and his performance as Wade Whitehouse in Lions Gate Films' Affliction.
Mark Isham has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Columbia Pictures' A River Runs Through It.


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Ninh explains The Rules of Field Hockey
Field Hockey more commonly known as just hockey, is a
game play with two teams of 16 with 11 players taking to the field
at any one time. They consist of one goalkeeper three defenders, four midfielders and
three forwards. The object of the game is for your team
score more goals than the opposing team. To score a goal, a player must use their
hockey stick and shoot the ball into the goal. The
ball must completely cross the goal line for the goals to count. The field is
100 yards long by 60 yards wide and there are lines at the halfway point and at 23 meters Goals are 12 feet wide and 7 feet high
and surrounding the goals are the shooting circles which form a 50 meter radius around the
goals. The winner the coin toss starts the game. Once team has possession of the ball
they will try and move the ball towards the opposing goalkeeper and try and score. You can pass the ball
directly between team mates. Lift the ball so long as there's no one
in the way, or dribble the ball by running and controlling the ball with the
flat side the stick only. Unlike in ice hockey, a field hockey
stick has a flat side and a rounded side and you're only allowed to touch the ball
with the flat side stick. Should you touch the ball with the wrong
side of the stick, the other team will be awarded possession of the ball. The idea is to set up in good field
position to be able to shoot the ball towards the goal. The opposing team will try and stop you
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knockout competition extra time and penalty shootouts can be used to determine the winner. That's basically the gist of it, but there's a few other things you'll need to understand before playing or going to a game. For example:
Substitution There are unlimited substitutions in field
hockey, and they can be made at any time so long as the player be substituted comes
off first. Free Hit. A free hit is awarded to the
other team if a player kicks the ball If a player touches it with any part of the
body except the stick. If there's more than one person trying
to tackle ball carrier or by deliberately causing an obstruction or intentionally shielding the ball
and getting in the way. Dangerous Play. Dangerous Play is usually excessive body
contact with another player. It can also be using the stick in a
dangerous manner, playing the ball dangerously by lifting the ball within five
meters above the player, or playing the ball dangerously above shoulder height. Dangerous play
can be punished by either a green card which is a warning, a yellow card where the
players sent off temporarily for five minutes or a red card where you are sent off the pitch without substitution. Long Corner: If a defender
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deliberately hits the ball behind their own goal line. The attacking
team places the ball at the short corner mark inside the circle, and only the goalkeeper and four defenders can guard the net All other players must be outside the circle.
The ball is then hit into play and is usually stopped and then shot
towards the goal. Penalty Stroke: If a defender intentionally fouls a player with a legitimate chance to score, a penalty stroke will be awarded to the attacking team. The ball is placed on the ground at the penalty spot, and just like ice hockey it's one shot only.
Any goals scored count towards the overall score. Penalty Shootout.
For games where a winner must be determined in the event of a draw, a penalty shootout may occur. There are 5 shooters on each team and each one is are allowed 8 seconds to shoot the ball Only the goalkeeper is allowed to guard the net and any rebounds can be shot into the goal so long as 8 seconds has not expired. Team in the most goals after the
shoot-out wins. Now that's a lot to take in, but as you watch or play field hockey the rules will become clear. If you found
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A Bouquet of Tulips For You
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I really like that pink one! I used to have some like that and always loved the shape of them. I like the way the sun shows through the red one, too. Lovely! I can't wait for spring!ReplyDelete
the frames you put on these really accent the individual blooms to show them off. nicely done, ruth!ReplyDelete
I, too, like the way you've captured the light shining through the blooms on a couple of these. They're all beautiful. And the frames certainly do set them off nicely.ReplyDelete
I do feel the awe and wonder of God's creation as I enjoy your tulips - as well as when I look outside and see everything covered in white and more flakes dancing from the sky! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that shade of pink! My girls bought me a dozen of that color of tulips and they lasted longer than other other tulip bouquet I ever had. I know it can't be the color that made them last longer - but I sure enjoyed them!ReplyDelete
Stunning!!! All of them.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous tulips, Ruth... I love tulips and can't wait 'til we have some in bloom here.ReplyDelete
Glad you got your snow!!!! Wish we had have gotten some this winter... Sigh!!!!
I love them all Ruth but my very favorite is the pink or apricot. Beauiful springtime shots. Enjoy the snow! DianeReplyDelete
I WILL pick a favorite, the first and last one. So delicate, and perfectly shaped, so pale and beautiful!! We got quite a bit of snow today and schools were closed, then it is to be 70 degrees in a few days. Wild! Quite a few jonquils have come up already, they are so confused!ReplyDelete
Marvelous. Such lovely colors!ReplyDelete
Lovely tulips, Ruth. That's a great thing to do - stopping to enjoy the moment of beauty in the flowers!ReplyDelete
I would have a hard time choosing a favorite too--they are all beautiful. I love the background treatment too. Spring, Spring--please come soon. Have a good week. Mickie :)ReplyDelete
Your tulips are magnificent Ruth.ReplyDelete
Thank you for your kind thoughts and prayers.
Beautiful photos and a lovely look ahead to spring! Tulips don't do well here, so I have to buy them at the store if I want any. Today I brought home daffodils. It may still be winter outside but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy a little color inside.ReplyDelete
Really impressed with these, and I like those internal Borders that you have added. Keep up the good workReplyDelete
Of course the first is my favorite - the pink and green . . . just something about those two colors together! I found that once I started taking macro photo's - I was slowing down and really starting to pay attention to the world around me. Flowers and birds that you usually see for just a second - as you pass by - are able to be looked at so much more carefully. It's a good reminder to us to - not walk past anything - or anyone - with just a casual glance - when there is so much more on the inside too see when we take a more than just a moment!ReplyDelete
Tulips are my favorite :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful tulips one and all.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing their beauty with us. I'm not able to grow them down here in s.e. FL so I always enjoy them via gardens on the web.
so much brilliant and beautiful color here and you are right, hard to pick a favorite, but i am going to pick the second orange one for mine today. gorgeous shotsReplyDelete
Ruth, you yard must be a garden of beauty to behold....These flowers are incredible and your photography skills are amazing...ReplyDelete
God pulled out the stops when He started creating flowers, didn't He?
I hope you have a good day....
They're all beautiful Ruth; but my favorite one is that lovely pink!ReplyDelete
Tulips really show off in front of a camera - maybe because light comes through the petals and we often do not slow down long enough to notice. The last shot, looking down into the tulip is beautiful as well.ReplyDelete
Ruth, oh what lovely shots! I do so love the tulips! I think because of the huge variety and the wonderful colours!ReplyDelete
Snowed here last night. I wish spring would get here. Clocks change this weekend and it's still playing winter!
They are all beautiful but for me the red ones are always my favorites. : )ReplyDelete
I DO love Tulips, and anxiously await them each Spring. I really like what you have done with these photos too. Take care.ReplyDelete
Our snow is nearly all gone. YEA!
Tulips...one of my favorite flowers.ReplyDelete
Your pictures are so beautiful and I thank you for capturing the beauty of each flower. I once had a bed of tulips and just as soon as the flower would pop out, the tiny rabbits would eat them...so frustrating but glad I could feed the bunnies..
Each one is beautiful Ruth. I love tulips, however our climate it too warm for them to grow well. I plan to grow a handful in a pot this winter.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMar 6, 2012, 10:23:00 PM
SO gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Exquisite images--I always love the flower photographs.ReplyDelete
These are beautiful, Ruth. Right down to the pretty frames and your thought for today. :)ReplyDelete
Ruth: Beautiful colors and a sure sign we want spring to arrive.ReplyDelete
Beautiful tulips. It's good to have photos to look back on for remembering and anticipationReplyDelete
Those are all so beautiful. I especially like the pale pink one. I planted some similar in color but it seemed after the first year they didn't bloom in that same soft pink shade--they were other colors instead.ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing these lovlies with us!ReplyDelete
Although I'm looking forward to spring, I also enjoy the snow because it's so beautiful. You have such gorgeous tulips!ReplyDelete
This is a beautiful bouquet you've shared with us. The colors are simply gorgeous. One advantage of walking around with a camera in hand is that I become more aware of the subtle changes I see in God's marvelous creation.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous Ruth.ReplyDelete
These are beautiful! the deer usually eat ours before we can see them, a multi colored salad bar to them!ReplyDelete
these are so pretty ruth!! your right, good thing we don't have to pick a favorite, impossible!!ReplyDelete
These tulip photos are stunning, Ruth! I especially like the last one with the brighter orange color on the inside of the petals. I cannot grow tulips where I live unless they are in containers because the gophers eat all of the ones planted in the ground (grrr). If the gophers don't get them, the deer do. Oh well, I have my daffodils.ReplyDelete
They're all beautiful, Ruth. You have a green thumb and great eye.ReplyDelete
Ruth, I'm addicted to God's creation - and you're pretty good at photographing it!ReplyDelete
It's a beautiful bouquet.. thank you. I'm looking forward to seeing flowers in bloom again.. it should be soon. Until then, I'll just take in the beauty of yours.ReplyDelete
Pretty pictures:) I love taking photos of flowers!ReplyDelete
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Welcome to the Didactic Program Dietetics (DPD) in the Department of Health and Human Development--the only dietetics program offered within the state of Montana. The Dietetics option is one of two options offered in the Food and Nutrition major; the other is Nutrition Science.
What's a Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD)?
Didactic Program in Dietetics is a term used by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) to describe the program approved under the standards of education as meeting academic requirements leading to at least a bachelor's degree. ACEND is the accreditation body of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
The dietetics option at Montana State University-Bozeman has been granted initial accreditation as a Didactic Program in Dietetics by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, a specialized accrediting body recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation and the United States Department of Education, 120 Riverside Plaza, Suite 2190, Chicago, IL 60606, phone 312 877-5400. A graduate will attain a verification statement upon completing the ACEND-approved dietetics program curriculum in addition to a minimum of a "C" or better in each required program course at graduation. A graduate is then eligible to apply for a ACEND-accredited supervised practice/dietetic internship. Upon completion of the post-graduate dietetic internship, students are eligible to take the national registration exam for dietitians. Once the individual has passed the exam, the individual is then a "registered dietitian" or "registered dietitian nutritionist." The dietetics option has a strong foundation in food and nutrition, food service management, and science components. Registered dietitians may find employment in health care facilities; industrial, school, and university food services; community nutrition services; private practice; sales for food service or health products; and other related fields.
Effective January 1, 2024, the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) will require a minimum of a master's degree to be eligible to take the credentialing exam to become a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN). In addition, CDR requires that individuals complete coursework and supervised practice in program(s) accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND). In most states, graduates also must obtain licensure or certification to practice. Graduates who successfully complete the ACEND-accredited DPD program at Montana State University are eligible to apply to an ACEND-accredited supervised practice program.
For more information about educational pathways to become a RDN please visit ACEND.
Mission Statement of the MSU Dietetics Program, Program Goals and Objectives
The mission of the Montana State University Didactic Program in Nutrition and Dietetics is: to prepare graduates to be successful in obtaining accredited supervised practice programs and to become competent entry-level registered dietitians who have the potential to succeed in clinical, food service, and community settings. Our program promotes an understanding of sustainable food systems in relationships to health and fosters a strong commitment to community service.
Program Goals and Objectives
The program will prepare graduates capable of succeeding in accredited dietetic supervised practice programs and/or graduate programs and employment in nutrition- and dietetic-related fields.
The program prepares graduates capable of succeeding in accredited dietetic supervised practice programs and/or graduate programs and employment in nutrition and dietetic related fields.
Objective 1: At least 80% of program students complete program/degree requirements within 3 years (150% of the program length).
Objective 2: 60% of program graduates apply for admission to a supervised practice program prior to or within 12 months of graduation
Objective 3: 70% of program graduates are admitted to a supervised practice program within 12 months of graduation.
Objective 4: The program's one-year pass rate (graduates who pass the registration exam within one year of first attempt) on the CDR credentialing exam for dietitian nutritionists is at least 80%.
Objective 5: 80% of program graduates accepted into a dietetic internship will rate how well-prepared they were for supervised practice at least a 3 on a scale of 1-4.
Objective 6: 80% of program graduates accepted into graduate school will rate how well prepared they were for graduate school at least a 3 on a scale of 1 to 4.
Objective 7: 80% of the supervised practice directors (preceptors) or graduate program major professors will rate preparedness of MSU Dietetics Program graduates for a supervised practice and/or graduate school at least a 3 on a scale of 1 to 4.
Objective 8: 80% of program graduates who were not accepted (or did not apply) to an internship or graduate school will rate how well-prepared they were for employment in nutrition or dietetics related field at least a 3 on a scale of 1-4.
The program prepares graduates who have an understanding of sustainable food systems in relationship to health and show a strong commitment to community service.
Objective 1: 80% of senior level students at their exit interview will rate their education in sustainable food and its relationship to health at a 3 on a scale of 1-4.
Objective 2: 80% of graduates on the one-year survey will rate their education in sustainable food systems and its relationship to health as a 3 on a scale of 1-4.
Objective 3: 80% of the graduates responding to the Alumni survey will rate their preparedness for applying sustainable food systems knowledge in their current or future employment settings as a 3 on a scale of 1-4.
Objective 4: 80% of senior level students at their exit interview will report being involved in one or more community service activities independently or as part of the student dietetic association during their academic career at MSU.
Objective 5: 80% of graduates responding to the Alumni survey will report being involved in their communities and professional organizations.
The program outcomes data are available upon request from the Didactic Program Director.
Didactic Program in Dietetics Faculty
Melody Anacker, MS, RDN
Asst Teaching Professor and Program Leader; Director, Didactic Program in Dietetics
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Carmen Byker Shanks, PhD, RDN
Assoc Professor
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Michael Fox, MS, RDN
NTT Instructor
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Janet Gamble, MTeach, RDN
NTT Instructor
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Coleen Kaiser, MS, RDN
NTT Instructor; Director, Montana Dietetic Internship
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Colleen McMilin, PhD, RDN
Asst Professor
406 994-6369
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Anne Shovic, PhD, RDN
NTT Instructor
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Keri Hilson announces her first official UK tour dates in London and Birmingham this October. With what's set to be a duo of electrifying shows, they follow the release of the sassy singer's bubbly and brazen album 'No Boys Allowed'.
The singer/songwriter, who first grabbed our attention as the writing genius responsible for hits by Britney Spears, The Pussycat Dolls and Usher, will be dazzling her fans with her hit songs including wildly popular tracks from her two albums, including her certified Gold, Grammy nominated debut: 'In A Perfect World'.
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The Cheetah is the fastest, easiest no-cam sail we?ve ever built. The
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Hallandale Beach investigated for possible corruption
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Red Light Cameras Kicked Out Of Hallandale
Commissioners Julian, Lazarow, Sanders and Lewy voted to remove red light traffic cameras as soon as legally possible at Wednesday's commission meeting.
As soon as legally turns out to be in 45 days according to the contract. I have attached the termination clause of the contract here.
January 23, 2014 | By Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel
HALLANDALE BEACH — Red-light cameras are getting the heave-ho in this seaside city.
Saying he was following through on a campaign promise, Commissioner William Julian made a motion Wednesday to get rid of the cameras as soon as legally possible.
Commissioner Michele Lazarow quickly agreed.
"I absolutely do not feel they should be in Hallandale," she said. "I don't believe we need them here."
The motion passed 4-1, making Hallandale Beach the first city in Broward County to get rid of the cameras.
Mayor Joy Cooper dissented, saying the cameras help stop red-light runners and make the city's streets safer.
Hallandale Beach has a contract with Arizona-based American Traffic Solutions for three red-light cameras.
A clause in the contract allows the city to get rid of the cameras after giving the company 45 days' notice, records show.
Because the issue was not listed on Wednesday night's agenda, no one from the company was at the meeting.
Hallandale Beach officials challenge Broward Inspector General
Accused of mismanaging taxpayer funds, Hallandale Beach turns the tables and accuses the Broward Inspector General of "factual inaccuracies."
By William Gjebre
Hallandale Beach officials have fired back at Broward County investigators who last month found "gross mismanagement" of tax funds at the city's Community Redevelopment Agency, accusing them of "numerous factual inaccuracies" and challenging their legal authority.
In its official 10-page response to the Broward Inspector General's report, the city also said the OIG had misinterpreted the state statute governing the CRA.
"It is this failure which results in the [Office of Inspector General] erroneously coming to certain conclusions that the city and CRA grossly mismanaged public funds," says the report approved by City Manager Renee C. Miller.
The Inspector General's preliminary report in March, after a year-long investigation, concluded that top city officials had grossly mismanaged millions of dollars in public funds "entrusted to the care of its" CRA. It identified at least $2.2 million in questionable CRA expenditures between 2007 and 2012, including inappropriate loans to local businesses and grants to nonprofits.
More than $400,000 in bond proceeds also were said to have been used improperly, according to the Inspector General's report.
The report identified several contributing factors to the mismanagement: the city commingled CRA money with city funds instead of setting up a separate CRA trust fund in years past; the city improperly spent on parks and other activities outside the CRA's boundaries; and it failed to access and verify work performed by nonprofits that received grants.
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Hallandale wipes out fines owed by developer
By William Gjebre, BrowardBulldog.org
Hallandale Beach city commissioners have let a prominent developer off the hook for nearly half-a-million dollars in fines for property code violations accumulated before it bought the land at a much lower price than paid by the former owners.
In a contentious 3-2 vote on Wednesday, commissioners eliminated a trio of liens on property owned by the family of longtime Miami developer Tibor Hollo.
Jerome Hollo, an executive vice president with his father's flagship corporation Florida East Coast Realty, said the commission's decision allows him to move forward to obtain financing for a proposed 250-room hotel, residential and retail complex called "Bourbon Street" on 3.55 acres in the 800 block of N. Federal Highway, next to the Mardi Gras Casino.
"It's going to be a wonderful project for the city," said Hollo, who is also an executive with the company that purchased the property, 801 N Federal LLC. The younger Hollo appeared personally at Wednesday's meeting at the request of the city commission, presenting them with preliminary architectural renderings of the proposed project.
But while the commission majority felt the $453,000 in fines were unfairly punitive, two other commissioners, William "Bill" Julian and Michele Lazarow, opposed the measure excusing the fines.
"I have a hard time forgiving this amount," Julian said, adding he believes it would be the largest fine mitigation in the city's history.
Julian said the Hollo group knew about the city's liens when it bought the property in 2010 for $2.5 million. He also noted that the previous owner paid $12 million for the property in 2006.
"You got a heck of a deal and you are coming in [seeking relief]" knowing all that, Julian said.
"This is taxpayers' money and I am being called to waive it," said Lazarow. "We are trying to protect the taxpayers."
But Mayor Joy Cooper, Commissioner Anthony Sanders and Vice Mayor Alexander Lewy agreed that total relief was appropriate.
"There is no money leaving the coffers of Hallandale Beach," Lewy said. He added that well-off developers should not be treated differently than "mom and pop" property owners.
Preliminary rendering of proposed "Bourbon Street" development
The Hollo group, Lewy said, "wants to do construction."
Commissioner Sanders indicated Hollo should not be penalized for getting a good deal on the property.
"He did a good business deal," Sanders said.
Mayor Cooper said the intent of fines and liens has been to get property owners to clean up their property and comply with city codes, not to be punitive. That approach is common in many cities, she said.
Cooper noted that then-city manager Mark Antonio had asked the Hollo group to clean up the land under a city initiative to enhance and make properties attractive for development. Hollo's group was told that if they complied the fines would be dropped, according to city documents.
"You did what Mark Antonio asked," said Cooper.
Cooper accepted a $500 contribution from Tibor Hollo for her successful reelection campaign this past November.
Read Hollo's campaign contribution on Cooper's report.
Keeping you informed,
Hallandale mayor, ex-city managers defend millions in suspect spending to county agents
By William Gjebre, BrowardBulldog.org
Current and former top Hallandale Beach officials defended – or offered excuses for – the handling of millions of dollars in community redevelopment funds to county investigators who have now accused the city of "gross mismanagement."
The Broward Inspector General's office slammed the city last week in a 50-page report, citing "numerous" improprieties and deficiencies.
Mayor Joy Cooper staunchly defended the controversial spending by the city's property tax funded Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), which she chairs, according to the report.
For example, the mayor said a $50,000 "loan" to the South Florida Sun Times, a local newspaper where she has been a columnist since 2003, was an appropriate 2009 CRA expenditure that she likened to an incentive for a struggling business.
"They were having issues and might fold," Cooper said.
Under the terms of the deal, the Sun Times was only required to repay half of the loan – $25,000 – even though the paper's owners paid themselves $469,000 in salaries the year before. Cooper told investigators she was unaware of those prior salary payouts when the CRA Board approved the generous loan.
Former city managers Mike Good and Mark Antonio, who oversaw the huge pool of CRA funds during most of the past 11 years, admitted to investigators that they never had any training regarding the state law (Chapter 163) that governs CRAs.
Good, in charge for most of that time, told Browardbulldog.org this week, "I don't think anything was grossly mismanaged during my administration" adding "I will be vindicated" and so will the city.
Antonio did not respond to a request for comment.
The 14-month probe by the Inspector General began after a string of stories in BrowardBulldog.org about questionable city loans to local businesses and land purchases through the CRA.
Last week's preliminary report found at least $2.2 million in "questionable" CRA expenditures between 2007 and 2012 – including loans to local businesses and grants to nonprofits. The report also found that bond proceeds had been improperly used.
The report said the city was supposed to set up a separate CRA trust fund in years past, but instead co-mingled CRA money with city funds. It also said CRA funds were improperly spent for parks outside the CRA's boundaries and city fireworks displays.
In one case, investigators reported finding "probable cause" to believe that the founder of one local nonprofit diverted about $5,000 in grant funds for personal purposes, including making a payment on her Orlando timeshare. The matter was referred to the Broward State Attorney's Office for prosecution.
Keeping you informed,
Three Hallandale Beach City Commission members Experience a Taser
London Votes NO! To Lifeguard Outsourcing
Budget Meeting
Cooper on Pensions
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Cuptakes – desktop wallpapers for the girly girls 1.7
Cuptakes, wallpapers for the girly girls, now for your desktop!
As a graphic designer, I have always wanted to have a more girly selection of wallpapers for my desktop, iPhone and iPad. Unfortunately, most of the wallpapers and apps out there are for the male world... I say.. what about us ladies?! With that, Cuptakes was born!
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