text:
12th October 2016, London – New report from Transparency International UK highlights that incentive schemes can lead to bribery, corruption and other unethical conduct.
The report "Incentivising Ethics: Managing incentives to encourage good and deter bad behaviour" comes in the wake of Wells Fargo agreeing to pay US$185 million in settlements to US regulators over admissions that, in order to meet sales targets, employees of the bank had created around two million unauthorised customer accounts and credit card applications since 2011.
Whilst noting that incentive schemes are an important part of encouraging appropriate behaviour from staff, the report highlights that pressure to meet targets, the imperative to "get the job done" and the need to win business have frequently led to shortcuts, resulting in various forms of corrupt and unethical behaviour.
Peter van Veen, Director of Transparency International UK's Business Integrity Programme, said:
"As the allegations surrounding the creation of fake accounts at Wells Fargo show, getting your incentive structure wrong can have dire consequences for your company. Companies have invested heavily in anti-bribery, anti-money laundering and anti-fraud systems but if the incentives encourage staff to act only in the short-term interest then those investments are likely to be severely compromised."
"Some industries still rely heavily on financial incentives and, not surprisingly, those also are the industries that struggle to ensure ethical behaviour in their ranks. We hope this report is a useful contribution in addressing this challenging area."
Key recommendations include:
- Incentives should be linked to the company's overall business strategy and aligned with the company's values, code of ethics and compliance programme
- Incentive schemes should actively encourage ethical behaviour through the use of non-financial targets that reflect and drive ethical behaviour
- Companies should consult with staff to make sure targets are realistic and achievable and to find out where things are going wrong
Dominic Kavakeb
020 3096 7695
0796 456 0340


text:
Six months ago, we launched Talkshow in the App Store, with the goal of giving people an easy way to have simple, uncluttered conversations in public. Today we have some tough news: on Thursday December 1, we're shutting down the Talkshow app and website. While we have enjoyed the conversations that have happened on Talkshow, and are grateful for the community that has formed around the product, we don't see it getting big enough to have the impact we had hoped for. We're sorry, and we're going to try to handle this transition in the right way.
I like Talkshow, and am sad — but not shocked — to see it go.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
linn meyers is best known for her intricate line-based paintings and drawings, and her large-scale installations. This book provides a comprehensive survey of works made between 2004-2018, including paintings and site-specific wall drawings, as well as detailed preparatory drawings and graph paper drawings. The book includes a poem by Seph Rodney, plus essays by Jonathan Frederick Walz and Anne Collins Goodyear. linn meyers' large projects require a great deal of endurance and involve drawing in the gallery space over the course of days, sometimes weeks or months, accumulating lines into dense and intricate compositions. The scale of these projects allows meyers to respond to the existing architectural features, magnifying the wholly committed performativity of her process. On meyers' exhibition for The Hammer Museum, Senior Curator Anne Ellegood wrote, "The sense of being present while viewing the work is also amplified at this larger scale, allowing viewers to experience the work not just visually but also physically. To see a wall drawing is to be surrounded by it and to feel oneself to be part of the work."
linn meyers (b. 1968) currently lives and works in Washington, DC. She earned her BFA at The Cooper Union, New York and MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. meyers has had solo shows at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC; Sandra Gering Inc, NYC; Gallery Joe, Philadelphia; The Huntington Museum, Huntington, WV, and The Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, among others. meyers has also participated in group shows internationally including the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, KUK Galerie, Cologne, Germany; Hilbert Raum, Berlin, Germany, and Paris Concret, Paris. She has received numerous awards including the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Artist-in-Residence at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Artist-in-Residence at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Artist-in-Residence at the Tamarind Institute, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Excellence in Drawing Award from The Cooper Union, Artist-in-Residence at the Bronx Council on the Arts, Artist-in- Residence at The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY; Artist-in-Residence at The Bemis Center for the Arts in Omaha, NE, and Artist-in-Residence at Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland.


text:
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (Shana) -- Iran s cumulative production of the South Pars Oil Layer (SPOL) has crossed 4.7 million barrels, an official with the Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) said.
Production ِDirector of IOOC Mohammad Hossein Daneshfar told Shana that all the oil produced from the field has been exported so far.
He said the 9th oil consignment from the field has been loaded by the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) that is operating at the offshore field.
"The consignment was loaded on Tuesday and the 10th one is scheduled for mid-December," Daneshfar said.
Iran started trial-run production of SPOL on March 20 2017 but Iranian President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated the project in a ceremony on Sunday, April 16 2017.
The project is being developed under the newly-devised model of oil contracts, also known as Iran Petroleum Contract (IPC).


text:
Episcopal Appointment: Our Holy Father Pope Francis has appointed Rev. Francis Duffy from the Diocese of Kilmore as Bishop elect of the Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnois. We congratulate Fr. Francis on his appointment and welcome him to our Diocese.
Kiltubrid GAA Scrap Metal Collection: If you have any unwanted scrap metal (old washing machines, old machinery, car/tractor batteries, sheets of iron, old ranges, old cars) or anything, whether it be big or small please contact Tony Redican or Andy McNabola on 086 0742064.
Astro Kids Summer Camp Location: The Astro Kids Summer Camp will take place at Keshcarrigan Astro Turf Sports area from 12th-16th August inclusive, 10am-2pm. The age groups are 5-12yrs and registration is €30 per child, additional child €20. Fully insured. Ran by Certified P.E. Teacher Sinead Byrne. Contact 087 7563583
Water Safety Classes: Registration for Irish Water Safety classes at Drumshanbo Outdoor pool for the week of Mon. 29th July took place in Aras Phadraig on Wed. 17th July. Anyone who did not get the opportunity to register may do so at pool gates at 8.45am on Monday 29th July prior to commencement of classes.Full payment required on registration please.


text:
You have no items in your shopping cart.
Cart Subtotal: €0.00Checkout
Due to high demand, the delivery of your order and response from our customer service may take a little longer than you are used to from us.
Always fast shipping
Thousands of satisfied customers
Secure payment
Returns within 60 days
As a specialist in moped parts we supply complete carburettors for all the classic Puch mopeds. These are the famous Bing carburettors (replica and original) and carburettors of the mark Polini. Many carburettors are available in original quality. Where this is not possible, we always have an affordable alternative altermarket in stock so you can order the right parts. P>
Finally, we only provide next to the wide range of Puch carburettors all related items such as air filters, manifolds and fuel hoses. Spare parts for PHBG Dellorto Carburettors can be found in the following categorie: Universal PHBG Parts p> Hide…
There are no products matching the selection.
Please wait...


text:
The son of Scandinavian immigrants, Arthur F. Hussander grew up in Chicago. He received a degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1889. In 1900, he was a draughtsman in the Architect's Department of the Board of Education. Two years later, he had been promoted to serve as one of seven superintendents of construction. In 1903, his salary as superintendent was $45 per week. He worked in this position under three successive head architects: William B. Mundie, Robert B. Williamson and Dwight H. Perkins. When the Board of Education removed Perkins from his position in 1910, they appointed Hussander Acting Architect. He continued to work under the "acting" status for two years, and served as the official Architect to the Board from 1913 through 1920.
In contrast to the progressive design of schools during the tenure of Dwight H. Perkins, Hussander produced handsome schools in a Classical style. He did, however, follow up on some of Perkins's design philosophies such as providing windows in every classroom, raising the grade levels of basements to provide healthier spaces, and improving ventilation. Hussander prepared plans for more than 60 new Chicago Public School buildings and 45 additions to existing structures. His school designs include Lindblom Technical School; Senn High School; Carter Harrison Technical School (now Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy); and Bell, Herzl, Parkside, Peirce, Pope, Thorp, and Riis elementary schools are examples of his work. Hussander also maintained a small practice designing apartments, commercial buildings, and churches in Chicago. He served as the First Vice President for the Illinois Society of Architects in 1917, and as President in 1918 and 1919.


text:
(Image Source: http://www.skyhighkites.co.uk/product_images/l_33_1.jpg)
look how these fish swim
across clouds and painted waves
rainbows high and low
This Haiku is shared with Carpe Diem - Kite.
Beautiful interpretation! :)ReplyDelete
Thanks Soumya :-)Delete
Wow :-) These lines are amazing!ReplyDelete
Thank You Divya :-)Delete
Now who could have thought of that! beautifulReplyDelete
Wow! How brilliant was that!ReplyDelete
The fishies look like sail boats to me, no matter, almost the same feeling of freedom ... beautiful, Mr. G ... Love, cat.ReplyDelete
Paper fish , flying in sky, wonderfully imagined!!ReplyDelete
Thank You Reshma :-)Delete
A real beauty Amrit ... very strong in its imagery. Thank you for being here again.ReplyDelete
Thanks Kristjaan :-)Delete
Thank You Celestine :-)Delete
Prettiness in pretty words,Amrit.ReplyDelete
Beautiful :)ReplyDelete


text:
David and Yifat Abudraham, residents of the threatened Givat HaUlpana neighborhood, have withdrawn a motion they filed with the High Court two days ago, against the planned demolition of their home.
The decision was made because the motion's chances of being accepted were deemed very low, and also because of "pressure" being applied to the couple.
The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, which helped file the motion, said that several Knesset members and public figures had asked the couple to withdraw the motion because it could negatively affect the schedule for advancing bills legalizing disputed Jewish construction.
The motion had appealed to the High Court to postpone a demolition order, arguing that the order violated the Basic Law that protects "human dignity."
The motion also stated that the High Court justices acted unreasonably in ordering the demolition of the homes before a lower court decided a lawsuit over ownership of the land.
Sources in the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday that the Arab claiming to be the owner of the land that Givat HaUlpana was built on refuses to compromise over it. He has told authorities that even though he will not be able to build on the land, he has no intention of selling it. In the Palestinian Authority, Arabs who sell land to Jews are subject to the death penalty.


text:
The worldwide professional PDF Tools.
PDF Converter, PDF Creator, PDF Writer, PDF Decrypt, PDF Split, PDF Merge
About us
PDF To More Converter
PDF To More Converter is a perfect convert tool for PDF documents, which can helps you convert PDF documents to HTML, PostScript, EPS, plain text and Dozens of image formats, like TIF, TIFF, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, EMF, PCX, WMF, ICO, TGA, WBMP, JP2,JPC, PGX,PNM, RAS, JBG, MNG, SKA, DCX and so on.
Learn more
Buy Now
PDF To IMAGE Converter
PDF To IMAGE Converter is a perfect convert tool for PDF documents, which can helps you convert PDF documents to image formats, such as TIF, TIFF, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, EMF, PCX, WMF and so on. Original document layout is fully preserved. Original PDF formatting and interrelation of text and graphical elements on each page.
Learn more
Buy Now
PCL To PDF Converter
PCL To PDF Converter is a powerful convert tool designed to convert PCL and PXL print files to Adobe Acrobat PDF files, which can helps you convert your PCL4, PCL5e, PCL5c, PCL XL (PCL6) print files into Acrobat PDF documents. PCL To PDF Converter is the fastest and most accurate converter of PCL, PXL, PX3 to PDF formats.
Learn more
Buy Now
PDF To TIFF Converter
Buy Now
PDF To TIFF Converter can helps you convert PDF files to TIFF (Tagged Image File Format),
Learn more
PCL To IMAGE Converter
Buy Now
Convert PCL to image formats, such as TIF, TIFF, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, EMF, PCX, WMF and so on.
Learn more
PCL To TIFF Converter
Buy Now
PCL To TIFF Converter can helps you convert PCL and PXL print files to TIFF Format.
Learn more
TIFF To PDF Converter
Buy Now
TIFF To PDF Converter can helps you convert TIFF files to Acrobat PDF documents.
Learn more
PDF Split-Merge
Buy Now
PDF Split-Merge can helps you split large PDF files into smaller PDF files, and merge one or more PDF files.
Learn more
PDF Stamp
Buy Now
PDF Stamp can helps you add images, texts, and Line watermark to a batch of Acrobat PDF documents.
Learn more
Top Tips
PDF Converter
PDF to EMF
PDF to IMAGE
VICAR to PDF
PDF to WMF
PDF to GIF
PDF to Raster
XBM to PDF
PDF to BMP
PDF to PNG
PDF to ICO
XWD to PDF
PDF to TGA
PDF to PCX
PDF to WBM
IMAGE to PDF
PDF to JP2
PDF to JPC
PDF to PGX
EMF to PDF
PDF to PNM
PDF to RAS
PDF to JBG
PDF to JPEG
PDF to MNG
PDF to SKA
PDF to DCX
PDF to PS
PDF to PSD
PDF to FITS
PDF to XPM
PDF Password
PDF to XBM
PDF to VIFF
PDF to PCL
PDF Stamp
PDF to PS
PDF to EPS
PDF to PS2
PDF Merge
PDF to EPS2
PDF to PS3
PDF to EPS3
PCL to IMAGE
PDF to PDB
PDF to ART
PDF to JNG
PCL to Raster
PDF to PALM
PDF to SGI
PDF to VICAR
PCL to TIFF
PDF to SUN
PDF to PTIF
PDF to PPM
XPS to EMF
PDF to PGM
PDF to PBM
PDF to PAM
XPS to WMF
PDF to PICT
PDF to PCD
PDF to EPSF
XPS to Raster
PDF to MAT
PDF to FAX
PDF to DPX
XPS to TIFF
PDF to DIB
PDF to AVS
BMP to PDF
PostScript Converter
PNG to PDF
ICO to PDF
TGA to PDF
PS to IMAGE
PCX to PDF
WBMP to PDF
JP2 to PDF
PS to JPEG
JPC to PDF
PGX to PDF
PNM to PDF
PS to PCX
RAS to PDF
JBG to PDF
MNG to PDF
PS to BMP
SKA to PDF
RAW to PDF
PSD to PDF
PCL Converter
ART to PDF
AVS to PDF
CALS to PDF
PCL to JPEG
CUR to PDF
CUT to PDF
DCM to PDF
PCL to WMF
DCX to PDF
DIB to PDF
DPX to PDF
PCL to JPEG
FAX to PDF
FITS to PDF
JNG to PDF
XPS to GIF
MAT to PDF
MONO to PDF
OTB to PDF
XPS to JPEG
P7 to PDF
PALM to PDF
PDB to PDF
XPS Converter
PAM to PDF
PBM to PDF
PGM to PDF
EPS to PDF
PPM to PDF
PCD to PDF
PICON to PDF
EPS Converter
PICT to PDF
PIX to PDF
PTIF to PDF
PS to JPG
PWP to PDF
RLA to PDF
RLE to PDF
PS to PNG
SCT to PDF
SFW to PDF
SGI to PDF
PS to WMF
SUN to PDF
TIM to PDF
PCL to EMF
XPS to IMAGE
VIFF to PDF
WPG to PDF
PCL Converter
XPS to PDF
XCF to PDF
XPM to PDF
PCL to GIF
PS to PDF
IMAGE Converter
PDF Creater
PCL to PDF
PS Converter
GIF to PDF
WMF to PDF
XPS to Raster
PS to TIFF
Raster to PDF
PDF to TIFF
PDF Encrypt
PS to GIF
TIFF to PDF
JPEG to PDF
PDF Split
PS to EMF
PDF to EPS
PS Converter
PDF Decrypt
PDF Watermark


text:
#Insurance Related: What PM's UK trip brought to India?
I was wondering if there is any profitable business done for Insurance sector then I came across a single and same line from different news articles… Standard Life, Bupa and Aviva have applied for regulatory approval to invest a combined £238m in India, and with the passage of Modi's Insurance Bill, Lloyd's of London plans to establish its presence there.
And.. moreover…. I'm still wondering.. weren't those three were already curious to enter and grasp more of the Indian market already? Correct me if I'm wrong but I think like. Also Lloyd's coming in India because Modiji went there and the FDI was increased in just the near time but they were already looking for the entrance in India. Here's the article from Times Of India dated March 27, 2015 Lloyd's in talks to set up reinsurance biz in India . So basically the figure is the only thing which is new right now and which haven't been split up between companies. We couldn't find more of info about the amount or so but we hope to see something big coming to Insurance sector from these "British" Insurance Companies! (as said in an article to relate it to PM's trip :p)
And yeah thanks the Insurance Bill is passed very well as it isn't inside the political role anyhow in India 😀


text: Aromatherapize your house with your rice cooker! #Do It Yourself#fragrances#odors#slow cooker Updated Oct 12 2015 (Posted Jun 20 2012) Stephanie Kaloi I love my 6-cup rice cooker (it also comes with a steaming tray). I love lavender. And I loooooove the idea of using my 6-cup rice cooker to make my apartment smell like lavender! Lo and behold, this Reddit post came along and informed me that there's a way to make that happen, and I'm going to tell you all about it. What you need An adorable rice cooker — we've had this one for nearly six years and it's so far never failed Something fresh that you love to smell. I shot a wedding the weekend before I attempted this little aromatherapy trick. Luckily for me, the bride and groom handed out satchels of lavender as a gift. Score! You can also use any herb, flower, mint, etc. that you want. Water: so fresh, so clean. How you do it Empty your herb or flower of choice into a your clean, dry rice cooker. Related Post At home perfumery: How to make your own signature scent If you're a perfume junkie but tired of wearing the same scents as everyone else with access to Bloomingdales, maybe it's time you learned to... Read more Cover said herb with water. Note: the directions I followed weren't very detailed, so I wasn't sure if the lavender needed to be covered or just floating. It turns out lavender just kind of floats around unless you stir the water into it, so I used my hands. Turn on the rice cooker: I always turn mine on AFTER putting in whatever I'm cooking/aromatherapizing. You don't have to… it's just what I do. Put the lid on the rice cooker. This may be a no-brainer to some, but I wasn't sure if I should do this with the lid off (maybe it would waft better?) or on. I tried it without the lid on first and not a lot happened, but after I put the lid on the cooker the water began to bubble and the scent of lavender filled the room around 10 minutes later. When you're ready, take the lid off. I turned off my rice cooker after around 40 minutes — it got hot in my apartment, and I also wasn't sure if the thing would ever go off by itself. I took the lid off because it seemed like the logical thing to do, and it worked! The lavender scent lasted for around 1.5 hours, and this was with a fan on and the patio door wide open. Enjoy the sweet scent! Mmm, lavender. Things to keep in mind As long as you wash your rice cooker afterward, this shouldn't make rice (or anything you cook in it after) taste like whatever herb you used If you live in a small space (like a one bedroom apartment) this will heat up your area VERY quickly. If you also live in Alabama (like this girl) and it's 90+ degrees, be especially aware My favorite thing about this little experiment is that you can get a similar effect to using an oil burner, but the aroma isn't as all-consuming and lavender seeds are typically way less expensive than essential oils. Inspired by this Reddit post. Reporter Name * Reporter Email * Original text Enter the original text here. Edited text* Enter your suggested copyedit here. Notes You can add a note for the editor here. * Required information. Fix Typo Stephanie Kaloi I was the editor of the now-defunct Offbeat Families, and owner/photographer at Stephanie Kaloi Photography in Portland, OR. PREVIOUS Use press-and-seal wrap to protect fridge shelves NEXT How can we tactfully have a long-distance baby shower? Show/Hide comments [ 17 ] This works with a crock pot also, and might not heat up your apartment so much. I like to put a couple of cinnamon sticks and a few drops of vanilla in my crockpot with a small amount of water and make it smell like I'm baking…lol, AS IF! Also they sell little tiny crockpots just for this, if I am not mistaken….. Reply OOHHH! Tiny crockpots? So cute! We also use an oil burner (very similar to those) and oils to do a similar thing. I liked this because it was just so incredibly easy and you didn't have to keep refilling it with water. I'm intrigued by the tiny crockpot idea! Reply apparently it is called the "little dipper" Crock-Pot 32041-C 16-Ounce Little Dipper. Reply I bet if you didn't wash your rice cooker and just rinsed it, maybe the flavor of whatever herb you used to do this would get into the rice and make tasty rice. I guess as long as it's foodsafe it wouldn't be a big deal. I wish I had a rice cooker now! Reply … Not sure I'd want lavender flavoured rice with my fish, personally! 😛 Reply I was just thinking lavender rice sounds like it would be good! Reply I once repurposed a never-used fondue pot to heat scented oil in my house. Same general idea here, I guess. Reply thats brilliant Reply Hey! That's neat! I'm going to try it with orange peel, too. Reply All these awesome ideas to make things smell good. 😀 Thanks! Reply I've done this with a combo of lemon peel, rosemary and vanilla, it smells like heaven and lasts for quite a while (with doors closed of course!) Reply Hi! Original Redditor here! The beauty of using a rice cooker is that it turns off automatically after a certain amount of water has evaporated (by weight). You probably shouldn't leave these things completely unattended, but it eases my mind to know that it's not going to boil the water dry and start burning. Thanks for featuring my post! IMMD! Reply Kind of off topic, but I have the same rice cooker! And it is awesome! The steamer basket makes cooking rice/quinoa and vegetables at the same time so much easier. Reply I'm off to college as a mature student in September, and this sounds like a great alternative to an oil burner for decongestant essential oils (not allowed candles in the dorm room). Reply I hate to be the party-pooper here, but I would personally probably only use herbs that are food safe. I know you wash the pot out after, but I'd still worry (especially with some of the scented oils) because some things never really wash out. The good news is that buying a second pot is often a option with a lot of rice cookers, so you could have your scent pot and your food pot. 🙂 Cute idea! & I love that the original Redditor thought about the auto-shutoff that rice cookers have. Smart. Reply Another option is to use this method with lavender outside on the patio. The scent will keep mosquitoes at bay. If you want to keep the flies away too just add a couple of drops of peppermint oil. 🙂 Reply You can do this by making lavendar tea on the stove, water, lavendar buds, voila Reply Join the conversation Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. No-drama comment policy Part of what makes the Offbeat Empire different is our commitment to civil, constructive commenting. Make sure you're familiar with our no-drama comment policy.


text:
Listen to this post
Lyda Gail Routh
Jan. 31, 1943 ~ Aug. 27, 2018
Lyda Gail Routh was one of two twins born to Doris and Milbank Franz on Jan. 31, 1943, in Clark, Colo. She married Ed Routh on June 3, 2005. He survives. They lived in Grand Junction prior to moving to Rangely in 2004. Lyda, known to many as Gail, enjoyed fishing, cooking, painting and crafts of all types. She was loved very much by her family and friends and will be greatly missed. A memorial service will be held Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. in the Rangely District Hospital meeting rooms. Potluck will follow with side dishes and desserts suggested.
The services will be under the direction of Blackburn and Sons Vernal Mortuary and Cremation Care.


text:
Visit Invercargill's premiere hotel and conference centre. At the doorway of Invercargill, Ascot Park Hotel offers not only a quality accommodation but also a conference venue with a number of conference rooms and function amenities. Set in stunning Southland, Ascot Park is the gateway to Fiordland, Catlins and the outlying areas of the Southern Province.
Hotel facilities:
Room facilities:


text:
Allen, Texas Woman Gets Midsection Makeover With A Tummy Tuck Procedure*
- Age:
- 30 - 39
- Gender:
- Female
- Ethnicity:
- White
- Height:
- Undisclosed
- Weight:
- Undisclosed
- Gallery:
- 31210
Procedure Details
This patient presented for evaluation on procedures to improve the appearance of her midsection. She expressed desire to tighten her abdominal muscles and remove excess skin that had stretched with pregnancy. She also stated she would love to remove stretch marks as well, if possible. After consulting with Dr. Schwartz about what options would give her maximum results, she elected to have a tummy tuck. Her pictures below are taken 6 months after her surgery.More
Tummy Tuck Procedure
Tummy Tuck Procedure
6 months post-abdominoplasty procedure. More
Popular Searches
* All information subject to change. Images may contain models. Individual results are not guaranteed and may vary.


text:
Today is National Peanut Butter & Jelly Day! To celebrate here at Dippin' Stix, we mixed a few of our products together with an extra ingredient and made a super easy and tasty dip. It's so good, you might just want to eat it with a spoon! What You'll Need: 5 trays of Dippin' Stix Apples […]
RECIPE: PB&J Yogurt Dip
April 2nd, 2015 · No Comments
Tags: Dippin'Stix · Recipes


text:
Signs of rescueing Thai children cornered inside cave ... would take months!
Signs of rescueing Thai children cornered inside cave ...
would take months!
The phenomenon which has by now gripped the whole world is operations being conducted to rescue 12 children of a football team trapped inside a cave in Thailand and their coach too.
At the time all 13 of them had entered the cave known as 'Tham Luang Nang Non' in Thailand last 23rd a state of heavy floods had taken place. As access points as well as exits of the cavern were blocked due other factors caused by the flood, they had no way out. On complaints made by theirparents the police got clues that the victims were stationed at a really difficult location. their bicycles, shoes and footmarks emerged as evidence in this case. Whatever it is, it was later realised that it was not possible to anywhere close to the spot where they were trapped.
When news circulated that it had not been possible to rescue the children even after a lapse of several days, divers from Britain, Australia and a number of other countries were employed for this very purpose. After a period of six hours 2 divers were able to dive across openings of tunnels and get close to where the victims were and thus were able to provide some food and medicine to these victims who were hunger stricken by that time. Sine the route that the divers used was so arduously located, there was no possibility to even bring one victim with the divers. These divers took as long as five hours to reach the spot from where they took off. The divers were able to video the circumstances to show that the children were in good health and it was indeed a fine occasion for the amazed parents of these children to find some consolation.
Rescue operations are still in a complex state because most of these children are not able to dive or even swim with rescue operations becoming even more difficult as a result of moving down the route concerned with floods on the other hand aggravating. Specialists on the other hand have pointed out that they could be rescued with victims creeping out through the openings after the floods have subsided by diving with great difficulty. What some others say is that it would take approximately 4 months for the children to be rescued.


text:
The mic on my earbuds died only hours before Dan Tharp, Paizo's Marketing Manager, called Troy and me to tell us that Paizo has been working in secret for nearly two years on the new Pathfinder. "I've got big news for you guys," he said as I pressed the receiver of my cell phone into my ear. The freezing January wind coming off the Hudson River was making my hand numb, but the news was too exciting for me to worry about something trivial as frostbite. "Jason Bulmahn and Erik Mona want to come to your studio and run you guys through a recorded demo of the new Pathfinder Playtest," Dan continued, "and we wanted to see what you guys need from us to make that happen."
I was introduced to Pathfinder by a game designer named Chris Merwin, back when he was working on his own campaign setting. We've mentioned him many times on the Glass Cannon Podcast and especially on Cannon Fodder, but rarely by name. He's the wizard behind the curtain, the mysterious GM that ran the first game Troy, Skid, and I played in together. He elevated the game well beyond anything we played when we were kids, and I think it's safe to say that without Chris Merwin there never would have been a Glass Cannon Network. Chris is the one that bought Troy Lavallee the Pathfinder Core Rulebook and put it in his hands! Before that fateful day, though, I remember asking Chris why he played a game called Pathfinder instead of Dungeons & Dragons. "Paizo is much more supportive of amateur game designers," he explained. Chris was able to use Paizo's Community Use Policy to give his world a rules system that was easily recognizable to gamers everywhere, and he didn't have to pay Paizo anything to do so. This sort of community-focused thinking has always been at the core of Paizo's philosophies and so it should not have come as such a shock when Paizo's Marketing Manager called my friends and me to ask us to try out their new game months before the beta test would start. But it did.
My giddy excitement at Dan's announcement was quickly suppressed behind a facade of professional curiosity and logistical planning. Years of working in the entertainment industry will do that to a person. Be cool, I thought, act like you get offered the opportunity to demo a new game by Paizo on a weekly basis. But the truth was that this was very new territory for me; for all of us at the Glass Cannon Network. We were about to sit with one of the people behind the design of Pathfinder and get a first look at the newest iteration of the game. How do you prepare for that?
Luckily, Erik and Jason made it easy on us. "Let's meet at a bar and start talking over some of the big changes before we actually sit down to record," Jason suggested. He was speaking the language of GCP Nation. We always meet in bars! On the Friday night before we recorded, Troy, Skid, Matthew, Grant, Jason and I grabbed a table in a dark corner of a midtown sports bar. Jason, casually looking over his shoulder to make sure no nerds were within earshot, launched into a point-by-point journey through the major changes in rules of Pathfinder, all while making it evident that the essence of the game experience would not change at all. "The game you all know and love is not changing beyond recognition," Jason assured us, "you will still, in every sense, be playing Pathfinder. Don't panic." And then he laughed. Jason has an infectious, hearty laugh that makes you feel like all's right with the world.
As he walked us through the changes, I could not help but take note of his raw, unfiltered excitement. The man was finally getting this chance to reveal the work on which he and his team had been toiling in secret for the better part of two years. Though, it wasn't simply relief or the rush of the dam breaking, it was the genuine love he has for his work that poured through every twist and turn of his explanation of the new game. He would look at us slyly, with a knowing smirk, and declare, "What do you think happens when you fall now?" (Pause for effect.) "Get ready for this…" and his eyes would light up. The energy was infectious and we hung on his every word; throwing out clarification questions, complimenting the reasoning on changes, and periodically bursting out in raucous laughter that seemed to irritate a nearby couple who had come to watch figure skating. Who goes to a bar to watch figure skating? Then again, who gets together with their adult friends and makes believe they are a half-orc? I probably shouldn't judge.
Erik Mona, Paizo's Publisher and Chief Creative Officer, arrived as we were finishing the first pass on rule changes. We were roughly three hours in and we had barely made a dent in Jason's several-hundred-page m
As the night ended and we went our separate ways, I was left thinking about how much Pathfinder has meant to me over the last several years. It has opened up a world of creativity to me that is, sadly, so often stymied in New York City. Ironic, I know, but with literally millions of creative people, all competing for their voices to be heard, there is a lot of noise. And the price to cut through that noise can be steep. It wasn't something that I could ever afford, and while I never had designs to be a professional performer, I was nonetheless frustrated that I couldn't even do it for the sake of the art. I spent most of my twenties frustrated and disillusioned with the writers and performers I met in New York. Then I met Skid, and Troy, and Chris Merwin. And within the year we were all playing Pathfinder. That was the kiln in which what would become the Glass Cannon Network was born. We pushed each other every session to create better stories. It was the most inspiring and rewarding creative experience I had in New York City up until that time. Without the game; without the work that writers and designers like Erik Mona and Jason Bulmahn and their teams put in over the years, that experience wouldn't have been possible.
Personally, though, Pathfinder brought me closer than I could have imagined to Troy and Skid. I never would have had the pleasure of Grant's friendship at all if it wasn't for Pathfinder, and Matthew would only have known Troy or Skid from the occasional birthday party for my daughter if he hadn't put together a level one fighter for a PFS scenario in my apartment one day (the last fighter level he ever took, incidentally). None of us could have known when we first bullied Troy into GMing Jade Regent, or asked Grant if he wanted to join a new AP called Giantslayer, that Pathfinder would lead us into an adventure together in our real lives more interesting, hilarious, fun, and unpredictable than even anything in the pages of the adventure. Well, maybe not anything.
We all arrived at the Attic on Sunday afternoon with a renewed vigor. The changes we had learned about on Friday were so exciting and real and engaging that the room was electric with anticipation for the fresh new adventure to come. As Grant was wiring Jason up with a body mic and Erik was practicing his best Terry Gross impression during sound check, the mood was light. A new group playing a new game for the first time. There's nothing quite like it.
Eventually, we hit record and the tape was rolling, so to speak, on the first public demo of the next edition of Pathfinder. As I settled in next to Erik Mona and across from Jason Bulmahn for the game, I couldn't help but think of Chris Merwin. I should text him, I thought. Chris had long since moved to Europe and then back to Atlanta and we hadn't spoken in a long time. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. Plus, he wouldn't believe this! But he probably would. He knew all those years ago what I've just come to understand: that Paizo walks side by side with the players that love their game and they'll never stop including them, every step of the way.
-Joe O'Brien, The Glass Cannon Network
Along with recording the Pathfinder demo, Jason and Erik also joined us for Cannon Fodder, our monthly behind-the-scenes show. You can hear their interview here.


text:
Red Green Saloon
Posted by JRW on August 15, 2011
This entry was posted on August 15, 2011 at 6:55 pm and is filed under Browse, Photos. Tagged: Buildings, People, Social. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.


text:
Source http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/allfacebook/~3/qPR6cWZAaeg/613305
Twitter has started sending visual prompts to top users on the social platform to encourage them stop using Instagram to share links to images, and use Twitter's internal imager sharer instead.
First spotted by Mashable, the pop-ups show how links to Instagram don't show the image on Twitter, whereas photos shared on Twitter display automatically within user timelines.
Check the screen grabs below.
It wasn't always this way. Instagram images once showed up nicely on Twitter, but back in 2012 the company pulled the plug. Since then, Instagram links shared on Twitter have been text-only. Not that it's hurt their growth — Instagram recently surpassed Twitter for active users and generates a lot more engagement for brands.
Not only that, Instagram has more followers than Twitter. On Twitter.
Twitter is clearly worried, even if they want you to think that they don't care.


text:
Safety Publications/Articles
From The Right Seat
Making A Living As A CFI.Whenever I walk into a retail store I'm reminded how lucky some business owners are. They have to be lucky to stay in business, considering how little service they offer their customers. I don't mean to sound cranky, but in some places you get the impression that you're doing the store a favor by showing up with your money. That's why my mom shops at Nordstrom. What's their secret? A reputation for treating each and every customer well.
As flight instructors, we are equally dependent on providing our customers with good service. This means making them feel like we appreciate their business, not like they're imposing on us. Little things such as listening, following up on all solo flights with a congratulatory phone call, keeping the airplanes clean, and greeting anyone who walks through the door are all part of providing good service. The first time I walked into a Waffle House, I thought I was on Candid Camera. Everyone yelled, "Hello" in unison. I felt as if I had stumbled into a herd of long-lost friends. When I'm on the road, guess where I eat?
If you want to keep your customers happy, make them feel important. Offer good service. And tell them you appreciate their business. Say "thank you" a little more often. The payoff is worth the extra effort.
From The Right Seat
Making A Living As A CFI: It Can Be Done
I can't tell you the number of times I've heard someone say, "You can't make a living as a CFI." For some people this may be true, but it doesn't have to be. Given enough experience and the right conditions, you can easily make a decent living as a flight instructor.
There probably has never been a better time to be a flight instructor. The airlines are hiring, which makes it difficult for many flight schools to hold onto their high-time instructors. Look in any major aviation publication and you're sure to see want ads for CFIs. In my travels around the country, I've even heard of FBOs closing their doors or eliminating their flight training departments because they can't find qualified CFIs. If you're interested in working as a full-time flight instructor, here are a few things to consider.
Before a flight instructor can expect to make a reasonable wage, he or she needs a little seasoning. Expecting a top-dollar hourly fee during the first year of teaching is unreasonable. Those with a few years of experience in the business, though, can expect to charge fees ranging from $35 to $60 an hour, and higher.
I know several CFIs who charge $500 a day for training in specific airplane types. These folks have acquired enough additional training to qualify themselves as experts in specific makes and models of airplanes: Malibus, Bonanzas, cabin class twins, etc. One CFI whom I know has developed such a well-established reputation that operators fly their airplanes from all over the United States to his home airport just for a full day of specialized training. He's completely booked months in advance.
Treating flight instruction as a business is the key to making a good living. For instance, many years ago I met a CFI in California - let's call him Hank - who makes well over $50,000 a year as a full-time flight instructor. Here's his strategy.
First, Hank has his students sign a contract for at least three two-hour lessons per week. This forces them to make a strong commitment to flight training. If the student has to cancel, the lesson can be rescheduled if notice is given at least 24 hours in advance. The results of a missed or hastily cancelled lesson are clear: Payment is expected regardless of the excuse.
Given that each student consumes six hours of his time per week, Hank limits himself to working with only five clients at a time. This totals 30 hours of revenue-producing time per work week. An additional 10 hours of nonrevenue time is invested in lesson planning and recording keeping, resulting in a 40-hour work week.
The beauty of this arrangement is that Hank makes money even when he is grounded by poor weather. After all, students need ground instruction in preparation for their certificate. He never fell into the trap of thinking that ground instruction deserves less recompense than airplane instruction. Why should it? After all, ground instruction has its own inherent risks. What about getting bitten by the airport dog or poisoned by airport coffee? (The secret here is to get the dog to drink the coffee.)
Hank charges $35 an hour for flight or ground instruction. At 30 hours per week, this produces a guaranteed weekly income of $1,050. Over a 50-work-week year, he earns a minimum annual income of $52,500 from flight instruction. This doesn't include income from other peripheral activities associated with flight training, such as finder's fees for airplanes sold, consulting fees, or other services rendered. In reality, Hank makes more than $52,500 per year.
Although Hank now relies strictly on word-of-mouth advertising, he originally advertised in medical and legal magazines. He'd place a small classified ad that offered a free consultation for anyone considering flight training. During the consultation, he'd explain his flight training program, the contract, and the pros and cons of owning an airplane. Of course, he always dressed professionally and had professional brochures to distribute, too.
Can you see why Hank was successful? He directed his marketing to the folks with sufficient disposable income. Sure, not everyone can afford to pay his prices, but Hank isn't marketing himself to these folks.
Can you earn a similar living as a CFI? With a few qualifications, I'd say, "Absolutely." First, being in a large metropolitan area helps. Good weather helps, too, though with the sophistication of modern simulators the weather is becoming less and less of a hindrance to flight training, even for those taking primary instruction.
The next time someone says that it's not possible to make a good living as a CFI, please mention Hank's story. Remember, the average CFI in the business is becoming less and less experienced - they're all getting hired by the airlines. Therefore, it's not unreasonable to expect that the chances of making a good living as a full-time CFI are becoming better and better.
By Rod Machado


text:
Hi Fiona, I have sent you message, please reply as soon as you can I have the answers you are looking for.
Type: Posts; User: Sea Turtle
Hi Fiona, I have sent you message, please reply as soon as you can I have the answers you are looking for.
You could use black cable sleeving. You can get silicone tubes at like 3mm dia. which might do it. Depends if it's operational or not. If it is then you might need some more specialised stuff
Haha, thanks Davie!
Hi all,
Have just noticed that my pictures don't show up on the 'Members Photos' bar at the top of the 'Forum' page where the latest 4 are. I then go onto the Recent 1 Day and my photos show up on...
Great site full of great people!
It does work on some of the uploading area, it's only on the 'by country' and the big folders.
I now have a FinePix S3500 which was brilliant on my trip to Looe today. Look in the recent pictures and see the difference!
Thank you all for the help!
Hi all, my Dad's been telling about a boat that went down out the back of the Mewstone called the 'Yendor'. He tells me that her name came from the owner who was apparently called Rodney, Yendor =...
Thanks for the replies guys! I was thinking about something cheap which I can leave with the boat so I don't have to cart it round and very often end up forgetting it :mad: , like yesterday...
Wonder what bait they're using... probably not the rubber eels I've used in the past...:p
Hello there!
I was just wondering about what cameras you guys are using. Most of my pictures, ones that don't have a date in the corner, I have taken with my 6 year old Samsung Tocco Lite phone,...
Okay, thanks Davie!
Hi all!
Just wondering if there was a limit to how many pictures you can upload in 1 go, because I have a ton of pictures and the ones I have uploaded are only the best of 1 folder. I still have...


text:
Outstanding Professional Achievement
Rebecca Banks
Classic Culinary Arts, 2005
Wine Director, Balthazar in New York, NY
Rebecca Banks currently manages the wine programs at the Keith McNally-owned Balthazar Restaurant, Schiller's Liquor Bar, Lucky Strike and the upcoming Cherche Midi on the Bowery (co-writing the list with a colleague). She also developed the wine list and wine training program for Balthazar London (opened in February 2013 in London's Covent Garden neighborhood). Rebecca also consults on separate beverage programs, including Chelsea's Heath and Gallow Green Restaurant.
She holds the Advanced and Diploma Certificate from the Wine and Spirits Educational Trust and has taught classes, including Fundamentals of Wine and Wine and Food Pairing at The French Culinary Institute, as well as informal classes at wine shops and private venues throughout the city. Rebecca is a regular member on the tasting panel at Wine and Spirits magazine and involved in a Brooklyn-based tasting group. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Ben, son Jonah (3), daughter Hazel (1) and two ornery cats.


text:
Home » Urgent Assignment Help » Arts Assignment Help » Architecture Assignment Help
Architecture Assignment Help
Architecture is an extensive field of study involving planning, designing, structuring and implementing the construction of buildings. It deals with an expansive body of knowledge including an in depth study of mathematics, drafting, history, geology, environment, geometry and much more. Students always look out for experts who can provide best architecture assignment help as Colleges and Universities have made strict rules and regulations for the completion of assignments. Students often find it difficult to cope up with their studies due to which they need architecture homework help by professional experts. Presently, architectural studies have also brought into its fold a higher usage of information technology and computers. Tools like computer aided designing, structural designing, etc. are some areas where architecture depends on computer education.
Architecture deal with more than just making construction plans of structure; they are a study of culture and heritage as well. Architectural designs are most often perceived as status symbols, cultural signifies and works of arts. By taking architecture assignment help, students have the facility to keep all their answers as data for a long period of time. Seeking architecture assignment help is generally a norm everywhere in the world. With so much about society and their respective cultures to know about, architecture assignment help relating to modelling city plans and monuments become extremely easy for students. Experts at Ask Assignment Help are ready to provide architecture assignment help to students so that they can boost the grades of their course.
Where it becomes quite a challenging job for students to complete their assignments on time, architecture assignment help delves deep into the requirements of the students and deliver productive work that can be submitted for good grades. Architectural courses and studies across various universities extend beyond the scope of merely designing buildings. Architectural studies include both the process and product of planning layouts or models of structures. Graduate and post graduate studies of architecture involve subjects ranging from topography to drawing to sociology. A list of thematic studies that we cover while providing architecture assignment help are given below:
- Designing and planning of physical structures.
- The art of designing non-building structures
- Modeling the style of buildings and various physical structures
- A unified knowledge of fine arts, technology, sciences and humanities
- Macro level designing activity (designing urban cities, landscape architecture, offices and state of art structures)
Architecture Homework Help
Ask Assignment Help caters to all the fields of study in architecture while providing architecture homework help. We assists students to draw, design, and model as well as assess the feasibility of projects given by their respective courses. Architecture studies do not only cater to fulfill physical human needs but also addresses general economic laws and legislation of the location of construction. The types, on the above basis, can be discussed as:
- Domestic Architecture: These are made for social needs, like providing shelter and security to individuals, families, and groups of individuals living together. For example, flats and apartments.
- Religious Architecture: These are essentially religious monuments that are designed in a specific way to fulfill the spiritual needs of visitors. For example churches and temples.
- Recreational Architecture: These are built to address the aesthetic pleasure of individuals who visit the places during their holidays and vacations. For example lounge, adventure theme parks.
- Vernacular Architecture: These are certain dwelling places that have been practised for ages as solidified cultural structures in a particular region. For example, barns in villages.
- Power Architecture: These serve expressive functions to demonstrate a certain radiance of power from the structure itself. For example, palaces, gardens, villas, etc.
- Educational Architecture: These are institutional buildings that are specifically built to harmonize individuals mentally so that their minds develop within the environment and they contribute into their education to the best of their abilities within the premises. For example, universities and colleges. We provide architecture homework help with a coordinated approach.
- Commercial and Industrial Architecture: These are generally similar to power structures because their measurements and planning and all built to create a certain impact on the individuals visiting the space. For example, corporate houses and offices.
- Group Housing: These are pieces of domestic architecture built for community housing purposes. For example, residential colonies.
Architectural studies are defined by the types of architecture a student aims to specialize in. These types of architecture are established by societal norms, arising over centuries of building construction and the psychology behind structures. Students often need architecture homework help from professional experts to score good grades in their exam or class. Architectural studies are classified on their types depending on the typology, the role of society to determine culture represented through structures, and so on. Types are also identified by the physical needs of human beings who aim to use buildings or monuments for purposes of landscape gratification, particular uses, and lots more. Our experts provide dedicated architecture homework help to students at affordable prices. Our experts understands the need for students to get architecture homework help by professional experts. Some of them are given below:
- Lack of time in completing the assignment
- Lack of knowledge related to architectures
- Lack of interest which is required to complete the assignment
- Extremely complicated assignments
- Insufficient skill


text:
If you've been waiting for the newest, most exciting Alfa Romeo model to arrive at an Alfa Romeo dealership near Auburndale, FL, you simply must come to our showroom and see the long-awaited 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sedan.This model has been anticipated for years and talked about for months, and you have waited patiently for weeks on end. Well, the wait is finally over! We now have four of these unbelievably beautiful automobiles in stock at Alfa Romeo of Winter Haven.
More likely than not, you'll be so enamored of the car's appearance that you'll find yourself wanting to drive one home the very first day. If not, the unforgettable lines and refined design will have you thinking about it day and night, until you come back again for a second look. Marked with characteristic Alfa Romeo elegance and poise, this luxurious sedan is alluring from one end to the other– the wheels mesmerize, the headlights are sleek and inviting, and the hood design and roofline are a work of art.
Underneath the hood of the Base Trim and Ti Trim, you'll find a 2.0-Liter I-4 engine with 280 HP. (The Quadrifoglio Trim comes with a 2.9-Liter V-6 engine and 505 HP.) The base model comes with 17' silver aluminum wheels; the Ti Trim, 18" gray aluminum wheels. No matter which model you choose, in the end, you'll be in love with this model!
Alfa Romeo of Winter Haven is incredibly excited that the 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia sedans are finally on our showroom floor here at 190 Avenue K SW in Winter Haven, FL. We're open for your convenience Monday through Thursday from 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. So come on down and see these exciting new exotic autos near Lakeland today!


text:
Philadelphia Restaurant Festival 2017 (Gallery 1) view event
The Academy of Natural Sciences - Thursday, Jun 15, 2017 6:00 PM
Photographer: Luis Limon
(133 photos; 100,440 photo views)
Wow, what a night! Thank you to everyone that came out for the 2nd Annual SOLD OUT Philadelphia Restaurant Festival! The food was tasty, the craft cocktails & beer flowing. A great night was had by all. Do not miss out next year!!
view more photo galleries »
new! View This Gallery on FacebookBe Sure To Tag You & Your Friends! :)
Follow Us on Twitter!


text:
एस सॉफ्टवेयर एक्सपोर्ट्स
बीएसई: 531525 | NSE: N.A | ISIN: INE849B01010 | Computers - Software Medium & Small
|कंपनी इतिहास - एस सॉफ्टवेयर एक्सपोर्ट्स
Ace Software Exports Limited was incorporated on 17th August 1994 as a public limited company by Mr. Sanjay Dhamsania, Mr. Vikram Sanghani and Mr. Jay Sanghani. The company received certificate of commencement of business dated September 23, 1994 from Registrar of Companies, Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli. They were engaged in the business of database creation since October 1992 under the Partnership Firm, Ace Software Exports. Ace Software Exports, the Partnership Firm has exported 100% of its production to Apex Data Services Inc., U.S.A. since inception. Ace Software Exports Limited has acquired the fixed assets and the running business of the Partnership Firm. The Company has signed a fresh Agreement with Apex Data Services Inc. for buy-back of 100% of its production. There is no agreement for takeover of business from Ace Software Exports. The Assets acquired by the company from the firm and the basis of transfer is as under. Computer and office equipments of Rs.48.07 lacs have been acquired by the company. These have been sold by the firm at book value without any revaluation. 240 Equity shares each of Rajkot Computer Education Pvt. Ltd. and Ace Computer Education Pvt. Ltd. acquired at a cost of Rs.15 lacs and Rs.25 lacs respectively. These companies have been promoted by the promoters and are under the same management. These have been transferred at book value which represents cost of acquisition to the partnership firm. * 240 Equity Shares (Face value Rs.100/-) 15,00,000 of Rajkot Computer Education Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot. The valuation of 240 shares acquired by the company is arrived at by the company on the following basis which was done on March 31, 1995 I - Equity Capital 50,000 II - Reserves and Surplus 1,27,471 III - Capital Expenditure written off in the books upto 31/03/95 (Approx. Value) a. Software 40,000 b. Technical Know-how 95,000 c. Technical Reference Material 1,00,000 d. Courseware Material 35,000 2,70,000 IV - Differential cost of replacement of fixed assets a. Furniture 5,41,848 b. Plant and Machinery and office equipments 1,94,853 c. Building 15,86,812 23,23,513 V - Goodwill 6,00,000 Total 33,70,984 Net Asset Value Per Share (33,70,984/500) is Rs.6,742/- Cost of purchase per share (15,00,000/240) is Rs.6,250/- * 240 Equity Shares (Face value Rs.100/-) of 25,00,000 Ace Computer Education Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad. The valuation of 240 shares acquired by the company is arrived at by the company on the following basis which was done on March 31, 1995 I - Equity Capital 50,000 II - Reserves and Surplus 5,61,565 III - Capital Expenditure written off in the books upto 31/03/95 (Approx. Value) a. Software 6,65,000 b. Technical Know-how 1,95,000 c. Technical Reference Material 2,50,000 d. Courseware Material 1,50,000 12,60,000 IV - Differential cost of replacement of fixed assets a. Furniture 6,47,909 b. Plant and Machinery and office equipments 2,94,550 c. Building 23,59,000 33,01,459 V - Goodwill 8,00,000 Total 59,73,024 Net Asset Value Per Share (59,73,024/500) is Rs.11,946/- Cost of purchase per share (25,00,000/240) is Rs.10,417/- PRESENT BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY The main area of operations which were carried out in the Partnership Firm, which now will be carried out by the Company has been the development of Software as per the clients' specifications. In software, the Company's specialisation has been in creation of databases. The Promoters have earlier handled a large number of assignments which include creation of Regulatory and Legal Databases, Financial Reports, Historical Literary databases for systems ranging from PC based CD-ROM Products to On-Line Mainframe products including workstation based Full - text search and Retrieval Systems for entities based in the United States, viz. Nuclear Power Plants, Leading Corporations, CD-ROM manufacturers etc. The Company has perfected the technology for delivering quality products to its clients. It guarantees 99.995% accuracy, less than one error in twenty thousand, and routinely delivers 100% accurate work. MAIN OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY The main objects of the Company as stated in the Memorandum & Articles of Association of the Company are: 1. To carry on the business of Exporters, Importers, Lenders and Hirers, Traders, Dealers, Buyers, Sellers, Commission Agents, Contractors, Sub-Contractors, Repairers of Computer Software and Hardware, Data Processing, Computer Aided Designs [CAD], Computer Aided Manufacturing [CAM], Conversion of all types of Engineering/Drawings to Electronic Media and other allied peripherals and media products of all types and telecommunication. 2. To establish and run data processing/computer centers and to offer consultancy and data processing and other services that are normally offered by data processing/computer centers to industrial, business and other types of customers and to import training on electronic data processing computer software and hardware, to customers and others. To conduct seminars, conferences for all matters relating to computer hardware, software and other related matters. The present and the proposed activities of the company as laid out above are within the purview of the Objects of the company as set out in the main objects clause of the Memorandum of Association of the Company. SUBSIDIARY The company does not have any subsidiary. 2003 -Board of Directors approves buyback of shares. 2004 -Board recommends Dividend of 5%. 2008 -E-mail ID for Investors Complaints:firstname.lastname@example.com
|स्रोत: रेलीगरे टेचनोवा


text: Affibody molecules represent a novel class of affinity proteins with a high potential as tracers for radio-nuclide molecular imaging. In this comparative structure-property study, a series of Affibody molecules with the Tc-99m-chelators maGGG, maSSS, or maESE attached to the e-amine of the internally positioned K49 was prepared by peptide synthesis, for comparison to molecules with similar chelators positioned at the N-terminus. The conjugates were labeled with Tc-99m and evaluated in vitro and in vivo. It was found that both composition and position of the chelating moiety influence the label stability, biodistribution and targeting properties of HER2-binding Affibody molecules. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


text:
Become a Patron Today
Help us enhance and expand Italian language and culture instruction by becoming a Patron of the Italian language! Contributions to the Patrons of the Italian Language are fully tax deductible.
|Platinum Patron
|Gold Patron
|Silver Patron
|Bronze Patron
|Supporter Patron
|up to $1,000.00
|Premier listing of company name & logo on website
|Invite to all events in collaboration with Consulate General of Italy in Boston
|Special commemorative recognition
|Commemorative limited edition "Italian Treasures in US"
|Company name in event program & signage at specific events
|VIP seating and mention at special events
|Commemorative recognition
|Mention in promotional material
|Patron's newsletter subscription
|Use the Patrons logo on site
|Choose Your Enrollment


text:
Skip to page content
Unfortunately, this low price guaranteed offer has ended. The offer ended: Thursday, May 9, 2019 9:01 AM
The good news? You can check out hundreds of more deals that you can Bid on or Buy-It-Now, all backed by the SkyAuction Best Price Guarantee.
New to SkyAuction? We are the web's leading travel auction site, offering thousands of super discounts on flights, cruises, hotels, vacation rentals, and more every day. You can register to bid with our simple, secure, fast, and free registration page.
$100 Restaurant Certificate valid at Four Cuts Steakhouse in New York City!
Four Cuts Steakhouse in New York City is the first boutique steakhouse venture for Executive Chef Christopher Miller. Known as New York's "steak whisperer," Chef Miller's menu boasts steakhouse classics in addition to an array of delicious seafood dishes.
Prior to opening Four Cuts in the Sutton Place neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Miller was the Executive Chef of Bobby Van's for over 13 years and has had additional experience in the kitchen of Ben Benson Steakhouse, Mortimer's, and Bryant Park Grill.
Located in the Sutton Place neighborhood, the space was designed by C3D Architecture who set out to create a sleek look of modern design with rustic elements associated with traditional steakhouses. The result is an elegant, welcoming dining room.
Each tabletop and each of the chairs designed by Franco Lucic of LMF Group are crafted from Walnut wood. In addition, Marlaina
Four Cuts Steakhouse
1076 1st Avenue
New York, NY 10022


text: Our next meeting on 23rd June will be our summer food and wine evening, when we will taste eight different wines and a selection of French cheeses and pates. If you are not sure of the arrangements please contact me immediately: Sylvia is organising the transport. Peter will bring a selection of wines from the Italian Rivera to the meeting on 21st July; we do not meet in August. If you are interested in joining the group please contact me. Michael Switzer 01858 555268.


text:
2014 Spring Auditions!
When: Saturday, January 18 2pm – 8pm
Where: Houston Hall Rm. 301
Please come prepared to sing a solo (1 verse and chorus) of your choice for the audition.
If you have any questions, feel free to email us at Full Measure Email. See you at auditions!


text:
How to stop a sauce from going lumpy, how to keep a sauce warm and how to stop a skin forming on top of a sauce.
If your sauce is lumpy, use an immersion blender to smooth out the sauce in the saucepan.
If you don't have a stick blender, put the sauce in a stand blender or food processor and whizz with a little warm water. Return to the saucepan and reheat.
More sauce tips
How do you stop a sauce from going lumpy?
If you are adding liquid to a flour and butter base, it is safer to add it little by little rather than all at once, whisking or beating in between each addition. If you pour in the liquid all at once, you will get lumps. If you want to be brave or are a more experienced cook, you can pour all the milk in and beat the sauce vigorously over the heat. If the sauce becomes lumpy, whizz it in a blender or use a stick blender to smooth it out.
How do you keep a sauce warm?
Keep the sauce in a bain marie or in a bowl suspended over a saucepan of hot water. Make sure the water doesn't touch the bottom of the bowl or the sauce could over-cook.
How do you stop a skin forming on top of a sauce?
Place a piece of cling film or moist parchment paper (moist side down) on top of the sauce until you are ready to use it.
You may also like:


text:
Exhibition "Germans and Fun?"
German Satirical Cartoons on Current News by Greser&Lenz
Runs 4 May – 29 June at the German Historical Institute London
Mo, Tue, Wed, Fri: 10 am- 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am – 8 pm
Free Admission
Exhibition Opening:
Thursday 3 May 2012 at 6pm
at the German Historical Institute London
Introduction by
Johannes Leithäuser (Political correspondent of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in London)
and Anita O'Brien (Curator of the Cartoon Museum, London)
Do Germans have a sense of humour? The exhibition shows a specially chosen selection of cartoons by the German cartoonist duo Greser&Lenz. The satirical cartoons are dealing with topics from German, British and international current news and with current political and social debates. They illustrate a German view of the world and a very German sense of humour.
Achim Greser and Heribert Lenz are two renowned German cartoonists working for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - one of the biggest German daily newspapers - , the newsmagazine Stern and the satirical magazine Titanic.
Anita O'Brien, Curator of the London Cartoon Museum, talks about the importance of German cartoons from a British gaze at the inauguration of a Greser & Lenz exhibition at the German Historical Institute London in May 2012.
Heribert Lenz speaks to journalist Daniel Zylbersztajn (dzx2) during the opening of the German and Fun? Exhibition of Greser and Lenz at the German Historical Institute of London (German Language). The quality of the sound is poor due to high ambient noise, the content was therefore only useable in transcript written form. I didn't have a directional mic with me that could have assisted and Mr Lenz spoke quietly which is why the questions (from behind the mic) are picked up well against Mr Lenz. It was decided to make this available for public interest. The exhibition about Geser & Lenz run(s) at the German Historical Institute in London during May 2012.


text:
BWT Extends Market Leadership Proceeding Fit and Well Equipped into a Challenging Year 2009
"Although we are affected by the weak market environment, we are aware of the fact that for water in general there is no recession. Thanks to our organisation and the commitment of our employees we can react flexibly to the challenges on the market.
In our new business, Point-of-Use, we achieved extraordinary growth of +54%. In view of our investments in product-innovations we do not let ourselves get unsettled by the global economic turbulences and we consequently and persistently follow our strategies", says Andreas Weissenbacher, Chairman of the Board of the BWT Group.
In 2008, turnover advanced by 3% reaching € 410.2 million after growth of 10% in 2007. Some regions were able to maintain their high level achieved in the previous year with most countries still having registered growth. While business in the residential and commercial technology (at the Point-of-Entry) increased by 2%, the Point-of-Use (small, professional filter systems for the end consumers and caterers) advanced by more than 54% generating € 17.4 million.
Investments in the market launch of the PoU-segment as well as generally low sales growth led to EBIT declining to € 29.2 million from € 36.3 million in the previous year. Net income of € 20.6 million was 21.4% below the year 2007 record of € 26.3 million. Earnings per share amounted to 1.16 € for the year 2008. Operating cash flow increased by 25% to € 28.1 million and allowed internal financing of the increased investment programs and share buy-back programs as well as the reduction of the bank liabilities.
Despite substantial investments of € 16.6 million (after € 13.9 million in the previous year), dividends of € 6.8 million (0.38 € per share) and the share buyback of € 5.3 million (about 0.3 million shares), BWT increased the equity ratio as of 31/12/2008 to 49.0% and continued to reduce gearing, from 20.4% in the previous year to 18.8% at the end of 2008. Moreover, for the first time more than € 12 million were spend on research and development. The innovative PoU-product program was extended in the field of professional users in gastronomy, catering, with backing ovens, steamers and vending applications introducing new standards of quality. Also in 2008, many new key accounts choose BWT for these new products.
New BWT subsidiaries were set up in the Netherlands and Russia.
Andreas Weissenbacher: "We could reduce a decline in sales from 11.3% in January 2009 to 6.3% in February. In the PoU-business we achieve growth of 80% in particular with the BWT bestmax professional filter-cartridges. Nevertheless, guidance on earnings for the year 2009 is difficult to give. In spite of many measures to reduce costs and optimize processes, declining results in comparison to 2008 cannot be ruled out. Close relations with clients established for years, strong service and distribution networks as well as the good position as the European market leader with a strong balance sheet and a full pipeline of product innovations are important foundations for BWT to emerge stronger out of this unfriendly economic climate."
Source: BWT Wassertechnik GmbH


text:
Combining two Dutch Trades
Centerpiece is series of sculptural vases with a combination of two traditional Dutch crafts. A combination of fragmented Delfts Blue vases with beautifully hand crafted wicker braiding.
Filling in the missing parts of the fragmented vase by elegantly combining the two materials which are visible by contrast. During the research of Rotan I came to the discovery that the Netherlands has a very long history with wicker and basketry.
Nowadays there is little respect left for this particular craftsmanship. Today basketry is used for everyday products and I wanted to give this craft and material the respect that it deserves, an homage.
Bringing two traditional crafts together, basketry and Delft Blue into one contemporary object.
Centerpiece is nominated for the:
DOEN | Materiaalprijs 2011
MEMORABILIA | RECIPROCITY design Liège 2012


text:
This event has passed.
City of St. Petersburg STEM Festival/Marine Quest (Science in the Sun)
October 20, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Participate in the 8th Annual St. Petersburg Science Festival, a regional celebration where families and the public can explore the wonders of hands-on science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM). The 2018 public festival will be held on October 20 from 10am-4pm, along the waterfront campus of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. The event is held in conjunction with MarineQuest, the annual open house of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.


text:
Show all categories on graph
This poll has completed. It ran from Jan. 20, 2018, 2:36 a.m. through Jan. 25, 2018, 10:06 a.m.
SIMBA | CSBAG 0.1: According to you, which sector should be given priority in the 2018/19 national budget?
The Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG) believes that Citizens of Uganda should be given the opportunity to participate in debating priorities for Uganda's national budget. We want to hear what you think is most important to your own development in the coming financial year.
QuestionAccording to you, which sector should be given priority in the 2018/19 national budget?
A. Security
B. Roads & Energy
C. Education
D. Healthcare
E. Agriculture
F. Other (please specify)
InstructionsGo to messages on your phone & type SIMBA (SPACE) DISTRICT (SPACE) ANSWER (a, b, c, d, e or f) and Send your message to 8585. This SMS is totally FREE of charge. I encourage women and girls to participate. DO NOT let men speak for you. Make your opinion count!
This poll is brought to you by Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group and Trac
Results by location
Geo-mapped data


text:
Special Price $349.00 Regular Price $375.00
Stereo direct box for high-output digital sources Jensen transformers for warm Bessel curve Virtually zero distortion from 10Hz to 80kHz Stereo-to-mono merge (Y-mix) on each channel Built tough to handle the extremes
Radial JDI Duplex Passive Stereo Direct Box The Radial JDI Duplex Mk4 is a full-featured passive DI designed to enhance connectivity for the touring professional and AV integrator. The Duplex comes equipped with 1/4" connectors for -10dB consumer electronics and XLR inputs for +4dB professional line sources. Each Duplex channel employs the same high-performance Jensen audio transformer as the industry standard Radial JDI direct box and has the same pristine audio signal path with virtually zero phase, harmonic and linear distortion. Natural transformer saturation and warm Bessel curve makes the Radial Duplex the perfect choice for rounding out highly dynamic instruments, like digital keyboards, that can sound harsh when driven hard. Transformer isolation also provides the benefit of eliminating troublesome ground loops that can cause hum and buzz and can interfere with video displays. Radial's innovative 'book-end'™ design provides protective zones that shield connectors and switches from the abuses of professional touring . A welded I-beam inner frame is designed to eliminate outside stresses that could torque the PC board and cause premature solder point and trace failure. A 14-gauge steel shell couples with the mu-metal transformer shield to eliminate stray magnetic field interference from power transformers and a full-bottom no-slip pad provides plenty of stay-put and helps reduce electrical coupling from amplifier chassis hardware. The Radial Duplex Mk4 is the worlds finest passive stereo direct box.
|Free Shipping
|UPC (Universal Product Code)
|MPN (manufacturer part number)
|Features • Best sounding stereo DI in the world! • Linear response from 10Hz ~ 40kHz • Enhanced connectivity: 1⁄4", RCA, and XLR inputs • Extraordinary level handling without distortion • Built to handle the rigors of live touring Applications • Digital piano, samplers and keyboards • Stereo bass guitar & synth setups • CD, DJ mixers and DVD players • High output balanced +4dB sources Cool Factors • 'Plug & play' easy-to-use! • Transformer isolation eliminates hum & buzz • Virtually impossible to overload • No battery or phantom power required • Makes just about anything sound better! • 3 year transferable warranty • 20 years on the transformers
|Circuit type: Passive transformer isolated Dynamic range: 135dB Signal to noise: 119dB Frequency range 10Hz to 40kHz Linearity: 0.1dB - 20Hz to 20kHz Phase coherence: 4º at 20Hz 0º at 1kHz Distorton: 0.006% @ 20kHz CMR rejection: 100dB @ 60Hz Input: 4 x ¼ jack (CH-1 & CH-2 In & Thru) 4 x RCA (CH-1 & CH-2 In & Thru) (mono-merge function for L & R) MERGE MIX function: Stereo to mono merge switch x 2 Input impedance: 140kHz PAD: -15dB pad on input x 2 HI-CUT filter: 10kHz low pass switch x 2 Output: 2 x balanced XLR-M Transformers: 2 x JENSEN JT-DB-EPC Ground lift: LIFT switch - XLR outs pin-1 Construction: 14 gauge steel chassis and outer shell, baked enamel finish Size (TX and RX): 6.25"w x 5.0"d x 1.875"h (159 x 127 x 48mm) Weight: 2.9 lb (1.32 kg)
|Producut Video


text:
Brisbane Roar Men's Stadium T-Shirt
- Write a review
- Add to wishlist Added to Wishlist
Always have your A-League pride on show in this Brisbane Roar Men's Stadium T-Shirt. Constructed with a polyester fabrication to keep you cool and comfortable while you're in the stands, the tee features ribbed sleeve cuffs and a crew neck to complete the look. The chest features a sublimated team graphic with a faded effect that subtly displays your Brisbane Roar fandom.


text:
City of EffinghamHome Menu
City Calendar
Derby Day
- Date: 05/04/2019 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
- Location: Tuscan Hills Winery
2200 Historic Hills Drive
Effingham, Illinois 62401
Don your favorite hat, dress your man in pastels and come ready to bet on your favorite horse for a big screen viewing of the 2019 Kentucky Derby! Of course there will be mint juleps, pretty in pink slushies and bucket specials on the Derby's official sponsor, Blue Moon! Come out and enjoy a little bit of Kentucky tradition right here in your backyard!Return to full list >>


text:
Friday, March 08, 2013
Let's talk about the exodus of 600,000 whites from London
It is not wrong to discuss the cultural changes that large-scale immigration can cause, such as 'white flight' from certain areas in London
Imagine if Glasgow disappeared. Not overnight and not physically, but imagine if everyone who lived there decided to leave, in the space of 10 years. Argyle Street, in the city centre – empty. Byres Road, next to the university – derelict. The Crow Road – abandoned (except, perhaps – if this were an exciting new BBC drama – for an old Iain Banks novel, rain-damaged pages flapping in a gutter, symbol of the great evacuation). All those tenements, riverside apartments, suburban villas, all lying vacant. You'd sort of notice, wouldn't you? You'd expect people to talk about it, at least.
If your geographic history differs from mine, and you've no mental image of Glasgow to play with, consider, instead, Sheffield, or Nottingham, or Belfast. All cities of about 600,000 people. Imagine if everyone who lived there upped and left.
Not the opening scenes of a dystopic science fiction screenplay, but the unfictional, real London, whose white British population has declined by roughly the population of those cities in the 10 years between the last two census surveys. "White British" (as opposed to Eastern European) citizens now make up less than half of London's population. This is a change of profound significance, by any historical benchmark.
We have an ugly phrase to describe the phenomenon – I used it a fortnight ago, in a piece about the Tories' attempts to woo votes from ethnic minorities (a term whose meaning has changed: in London, at least, we're all "minorities" now). The departure of people from London's hitherto majority grouping is called "white flight".
It's tempting to be caustic about the current, undoubtedly brief, spasm of media interest in the phenomenon. No one seemed to mind as inner London became more and more multicultural: that was what made it so "vibrant", after all. Only as the profile of the suburbs changes (Enfield's white population has dropped by nearly 25 percentage points in 10 years, for example) is it worth any serious attention: the BBC website carried a piece just this week.
To read the BBC article, by the home editor Mark Easton, there is nothing to worry about. Indeed, the historic shift of London, from a city of white Britons to a mixture of minorities, is a cause for celebration, and not just because of that oft‑lauded "vibrancy".
That the proportion of white people in the borough of Barking and Dagenham has dropped from four fifths to less than a half in a decade is nothing more than the natural desire of increasingly prosperous people to retire to the seaside. I'm paraphrasing Mr Easton a little, but that was more or less the suggestion in his commentary. It's a rising tide of prosperity that first of all flushed the Eastenders from Bethnal Green to Dagenham, and it's the inexorable rise in property values that leads their descendants to move from metropolitan Essex to that beautiful county's coastline.
"Leigh[-on-Sea]," said Mr Easton, "is a particular favourite." After all: "Many residents from Barking and Dagenham will have taken the train along the Thames Estuary towards Southend on a work excursion – the old beano to the seaside." And so everything is dandy?
Fundamentally, none of this is strictly about "race", but rather the cultural constructs we layer on to genetics. There are good and bad neighbours of every hue, of course. But the scale of white flight demands more than issuing congratulations to the second and third generation children of immigrants, who've done well in life and moved from Zone 2 to Zone 5 of the Central or Northern Underground lines. It's also absurd to assume that the grandchildren of cockneys are moving still further out, just because their houses have increased in value.
Take Bethnal Green. The people leaving Dagenham now are themselves displaced Eastenders. The borough they first left behind would be unrecognisable to their grandparents, with a mayor whose election was supported by an Islamist group with unpleasant (to put matters mildly) views.
Hate crimes disfigure its streets: in an ironic reversal of one reason for the East End's fame – that it was where indigenous, working-class Londoners faced down home-grown fascists – the streets of Bethnal Green and Whitechapel are now scenes of increasingly violent attacks on gay people.
The BBC doesn't talk about this, oddly, or wonder why the Eastenders' movement is always away from their original homes: there are plenty of expensive properties in E2. (In 2001, I moved to Bow, from Harlow: my neighbours in Essex thought I was mad, for reasons unconnected with relative property prices.)
Discernment is required: nobody decent is arguing for a return to the homogeneity of Call the Midwife's Poplar. Finally, politicians have admitted that to notice the scale of the immigration engineered by the last Labour government doesn't make one racist.
But neither is it wrong to discuss the cultural changes that large-scale immigration can cause. Six hundred thousand Londoners have left. They didn't all sell ex-council houses in Barking, in order to purchase five-bedroom cliff-top villas in sunny Leigh-on-Sea.
Social workers arrived at hospital to take woman's baby while she was in LABOUR over concerns for its welfare
Bureaucratic evil abounds in Britain
A mother has told how social workers turned up while she was giving birth in hospital to say they would be taking her baby into care.
Without consulting her, social services chiefs had decided Kelly McWilliams was unfit to look after her baby because she had suffered from depression five years earlier after her ten-year-old son was found hanged.
The officials arrived without warning to say the baby would go straight into foster care as they were concerned about Mrs McWilliams's mental health.
But the baby, a girl named Victoria, had serious breathing problems and was transferred to intensive care.
Mrs McWilliams, 36, said she was only allowed to spend two hours a day with her daughter, supervised by a social worker.
She was forced to call a lawyer from hospital and ended up in court two days after the birth to plead her case.
Victoria's father, who lived apart from Mrs McWilliams, was given temporary custody of the baby when Victoria was discharged from hospital ten days after her birth, and for four months Mrs McWilliams was only allowed two hours of supervised time each day with her child.
Last night, the mother of five from Doncaster said: 'I feel very, very angry and very, very let down because I had overcome my mental health problems and was in a very good place and I was feeling proud and ready to be a mother.
'Then this came along and crushed me. I lost precious time with my daughter. I missed her first smile, I missed so much.'
The social workers were able to take Victoria into care after obtaining an emergency protection order from Doncaster Magistrates' Court.
Mrs McWilliams said: 'They literally just walked in very coldly and said as soon as I had delivered my baby she was going to get placed into foster care.
'I was in labour when they came in. To be honest I didn't actually believe them, at first I thought it was some kind of joke.'
When she asked why Victoria had to be fostered, she said they replied: 'Because you are not well.'
According to Mrs McWilliams's lawyer, Doncaster social services had gone too far when Victoria was born in August 2011, having failed to carry out a pre-birth assessment or case conference to discuss any possible intervention.
Solicitor Sarah Young said that if proper procedures had been followed, social services may not have needed to take action. Miss Young added: 'I think it's a shocking example of a massive over-reaction by social services in Doncaster.'
Victoria is now 18 months old and happily living with her mother. But Mrs McWilliams is demanding an apology from Doncaster social services, which she fears has not learned from its mistakes.
Her case follows a series of major failings by care bosses. In November, an Ofsted inspection found that children's care in Doncaster was still 'inadequate'.
The service had already been criticised over the deaths of seven children and failures that led to the torture of two boys by two brothers who were in foster care.
Mrs McWilliams said: 'People need to know what Doncaster social services are like, because they make mistake after mistake but they are not paying for it. 'To me, they have got more power than the police, they can do what they want when they want.
'Nobody can make up for what they have taken away from me. They need to change the way they work. It can't happen to anyone else. I was an experienced mum and yet I had to be supervised all the time I was caring for Victoria.
'I am constantly terrified that there will be a knock on the door and that someone will come to take Victoria away from me.'
Chris Pratt, director of Doncaster's Children and Young People's Services, said: 'It's inappropriate for us to comment on cases involving individual children. However, when any matter of concern is raised with me I do ask for this to be examined and I have done that in this case.'
One threat to free speech recedes
Leftists get nervous about free speech restrictions too
Often, when I make the points I made in my recent post, "Why Am I So Cheerful?", people hand me their distress. That is, they argue back about why I shouldn't be cheerful or why they shouldn't be cheerful, all based on why the world is much worse than I think and is getting even worse.
I actually haven't had that kind of pushback this time but the point I want to make is that it's important to look at one's past predictions about how awful the world would get and measure them against what actually happened. Last week, I came across an October 2008 piece by Michael Barone. It was titled "The Coming Obama Thugocracy." In it, he made the case that candidate Barack Obama and many of his most ardent supporters are foes of free speech. His evidence ranged from weak to strong.
Barone's weak evidence?
"Obama fans jammed WGN's phone lines and sent in hundreds of protest emails. The message was clear to anyone who would follow Rosenberg's example. We will make trouble for you if you let anyone make the case against The One."
It's true that that was the message, but it wasn't an attack on free speech. Indeed, it was the exercise of free speech.
Barone's strong evidence?
"In September, St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who made statements against Obama that were "false." I had been under the impression that the Alien and Sedition Acts had gone out of existence in 1801-02. Not so, apparently, in metropolitan St. Louis. Similarly, the Obama campaign called for a criminal investigation of the American Issues Project when it ran ads highlighting Obama's ties to Ayers."
Based on his reasoning, Barone made a prediction, writing:
"To their credit, some liberal old-timers -- like House Appropriations Chairman David Obey -- voted against the "fairness doctrine," in line with their longstanding support of free speech. But you can expect the "fairness doctrine" to get another vote if Barack Obama wins and Democrats increase their congressional majorities."
That was a legitimate fear. I remember fearing it at the time myself and talking to a friend who makes his living in libertarian/conservative talk radio and who was also concerned.
And the Democrats did increase their congressional majorities.
So what happened? It didn't get another vote. [The following two passages are from Wikipedia. Why? Maybe this had something to do with it:
"In February 2009, a White House spokesperson said that President Obama continues to oppose the revival of the [Fairness] Doctrine."
Moreover, Obama moved in the other direction:
"In June 2011, the Chairman and a subcommittee chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, both Republicans, said that the FCC, in response to their requests, had set a target date of August 2011 for removing the Fairness Doctrine and other "outdated" regulations from the FCC's rulebook.
On August 22, 2011, the FCC formally voted to repeal the language that implemented the Fairness Doctrine, along with removal of more than eighty other rules and regulations, from the Federal Register following a White House executive order directing a "government-wide review of regulations already on the books", to eliminate unnecessary regulations."
Americans speak every language, but only English unites us
GABRIEL GOMEZ, one of three Republicans vying for the US Senate seat vacated by John Kerry, speaks Spanish like a native and seems intent on making sure every voter knows it.
Gabriel Gomez introduces himself first en español, and only afterward acknowledges "those of you who don't speak Spanish."
The Cohasset businessman, a former Navy SEAL commander, announced his candidacy last month in an online video that opened in Spanish: "Me llamo Gabriel Gomez, y yo estoy anunciando que voy a correr para ser senador de los Estados Unidos." Then he switched to English: "For those of you who don't speak Spanish, today I'm announcing my run for US Senate." He did the same thing as he hit the campaign trail for the first time last week. At an American Legion post in Quincy, he began by introducing himself en español, only afterward acknowledging "those of you who don't speak Spanish."
Bilingual fluency is a great asset, and Gomez acquired his effortlessly: He was born in Los Angeles to parents who had recently emigrated from Colombia, and as a child was speaking Spanish before he learned English. In a Republican Party anxious to appeal to Hispanics – especially after an election in which the Hispanic vote broke heavily for Democratic candidates – Gomez clearly believes his Latino roots and flawless Spanish give him a political edge. In Massachusetts last November, more than 4 of every 5 Hispanic voters backed Elizabeth Warren in her challenge to Senator Scott Brown. So it's hardly surprising to hear Gomez calling himself a "new kind of Republican" as he goes out of his way to address voters in Spanish.
He's not alone. In February, Florida Senator Marco Rubio gave the official Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union speech, the first time a leading member of the opposition party did so in two languages. Rubio's address was delivered live in English on the major TV networks, while a version he had prerecorded in Spanish aired simultaneously on the Spanish-language networks.
Outreach to ethnic minorities is a timeless political practice in this country, as American as a sampling bratwurst during Oktoberfest or marching in a Columbus Day parade. To hear some strategists tell it, the eagerness with which candidates like Gomez or Rubio are seeking ways to campaign in Spanish is part of that same melting-pot tradition – as innocuous as George W. Bush welcoming guests to the White House Cinco de Mayo party with mariachi music and a jovial "mi Casa Blanca es su Casa Blanca!" As Republican media adviser Alex Castellanos recently told National Journal, "When you speak to people in their native language, you are telling them we're part of the same community."
But if that's the case, why didn't Republicans arrange for a full-blown response to the State of the Union address in Chinese or French or Vietnamese? Why hasn't Gomez made a point of introducing himself in Portugese or Italian or Russian? Spanish may be the second-most common language spoken in the United States, but there are dozens of other languages used daily by millions of American voters. Don't those voters also need to be reassured that we're all "part of the same community"?
English has always been integral to the American identity. Without a common language, the miracle of E Pluribus Unum would never have been possible. Americans come from every corner of the globe; they represent a vast array of cultural, ethnic, and linguistic traditions. Yet they have been able, by and large, to form a single nation – to mold an American mainstream, despite such a hodgepodge of incompatible origins. They couldn't have done it without a commitment to English as the national tongue.
Rubio and Gomez could learn a lesson from the city councilors of Doral, Fla., a Miami suburb whose mayor recently proposed making Spanish the official second language. Few places in America are more Spanish-friendly than Doral: Nearly 80 percent of the population speaks Spanish at home. It is where Univision, the leading Spanish TV network, is headquartered. Every member of the city council is Latino. Yet every one voted against the mayor's resolution.
"We came here," Councilwoman Ana Maria Rodriguez explained, "knowing we had to adapt to the language of this country." Generations of immigrants have known the same thing, and their embrace of English has been essential to the great American success story.
Spanish is a rich and beautiful language. But privileging Spanish in public life is a reckless strategy for partisan success. Latinos don't come to America to be patronized or pandered to, but to share in the blessings of American unity. One nation, indivisible. One language, indispensable
Political correctness is most pervasive in universities and colleges but I rarely report the incidents concerned here as I have a separate blog for educational matters.
American "liberals" often deny being Leftists and say that they are very different from the Communist rulers of other countries. The only real difference, however, is how much power they have. In America, their power is limited by democracy. To see what they WOULD be like with more power, look at where they ARE already very powerful: in America's educational system -- particularly in the universities and colleges. They show there the same respect for free-speech and political diversity that Stalin did: None. So look to the colleges to see what the whole country would be like if "liberals" had their way. It would be a dictatorship.
For more postings from me, see TONGUE-TIED, GREENIE WATCH, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS, DISSECTING LEFTISM, IMMIGRATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL and EYE ON BRITAIN (Note that EYE ON BRITAIN has regular posts on the reality of socialized medicine). My Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here.
1 comment:
White flight, see Detroit. That's how it ends.
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Wikileaks has threatened Stephen Conroy with legal action and possible extradition to Sweden if he follows up on his threat to pursue legal action against the brave freedom fighter who leaked the ACMA blacklist.
"Under the Swedish Constitution's Press Freedom Act, the right of a confidential press source to anonymity is protected, and criminal penalties apply to anyone acting to breach that right.
Wikileaks source documents are received in Sweden and published from Sweden so as to derive maximum benefit from this legal protection. Should the Senator or anyone else attempt to discover our source we will refer the matter to the Constitutional Police for prosecution, and, if necessary, ask that the Senator and anyone else involved be extradited to face justice for breaching fundamental rights."
Senator Conroy may wish to consider the position of the South African Competition Commission, which decided to cancel its own high profile leak investigation in January after being advised of the legal ramifications of interfering with Sunshine Press sources.
Game on.
(Via the brilliantly named "Stephen Conroy Is A Cunt")