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However, excessive regulation has also been cited as a possible cause of financial crises. In particular, the Basel II Accord has been criticized for requiring banks to increase their capital when risks rise, which might cause them to decrease lending precisely when capital is scarce, potentially aggravating a financial crisis.
Today's economic and financial crisis originated in the rich world particularly in the USA. It has been called a financial meltdown, storm or credit crunch. Credit crunch is an economic condition in which investment capital is difficult to obtain. It meant that there was hardly any credit available for investors. Of course this condition is a chronic problem in poor countries and this is why when we speak about the current global financial crisis to a poor person, the question he or she will ask is "what crisis?" The poor, on the other hand, have been living in crisis for centuries. For the rich countries, it created panic and was seen as the worst in recent years and was compared to the 1930 great depression. In other words it was a big crash or a bust…
How did this happen? First and foremost, free market capitalism creates its own crisis. The fallacy that markets can regulate themselves has now been exposed as false. Mr. Allan Greenspan the former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank and a staunch believer of free market has also admitted that markets cannot regulate themselves. The system created a global casino system which rests on virtual wealth. Finance has been detached from real economy. The Indian economist C.T. Kurien uses a metaphorical definition of two planets namely, "Planet Finance" and "Planet Earth.". Secondly, new financial instruments and institutions were formed to manage this unjust and unfair system that punishes those who produce real assets and rewards those who do nothing except to speculate. Usury has been legitimized and institutionalized. This system has created financial bubbles that have bust. The AGAPE background document at the WCC's Assembly in Porto Alegre (2006) warned against dependence on deregulated financial markets. Economists such as Korten identify the failure of Wall Street institutions that have perfected the art of creating "wealth" without producing anything of real value. Korten sums this up as creating phantom wealth. His hope is not in Wall Street but on the Main Street.
What creates food crises?
There are many reasons why people cannot grow or buy enough food to feed their families. Most of the reasons causing a food crisis are a combination of the issues below. A hunger crisis develops when families experience these factors for a long time and run out of ways to cope.
In a survival situation, food shortages is important. How long has it been since you have been hungry? How long have you ever gone without eating? After the basic necessities of shelter and water, food is the next item of concern. If you don't have a good supply, and sometimes even if you do, hunger and even starvation is something that you must confront. When it strikes will you be prepared?
Panic is the first response of many individuals to hunger and the threat of starvation. It is helpful to know how the human body responds to hunger and starvation, how it affects one mentally and physically and how long one can go without food.
Hunger and starvation have been the subject of carefully controlled. The period during and following major wars has been characterized by hunger, starvation and often death by starvation. The second world war saw the destruction of the food production and distribution infrastructure through all of Europe and Asia and affected the rest of the world including the United States. Everywhere the allied armies went, they encountered populations with their infrastructure damaged and unable to sustain them. They also encountered prison camps with large numbers of critically starved prisoners. They also took prisoners who had to be fed. The war effort quickly turned from fighting to providing relief in the occupied areas.
Obviously, starvation will lead to mental fatigue, but it does more than that. You won't just feel tired, you'll likely experience depression, anxiety, impatience, and nervousness. Your brain will start to have trouble producing serotonin, which can wreak havoc on your emotional stability. Ultimately though, apathy will set in. Nothing will make you want to quit more than being hungry, which is when you should be fighting harder than ever to survive. Fortunately you may also experience…
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We Are Near The 'End Game' The Entire System Is About To Come Down
Central banker warns the world financial system is as dangerous today as at peak of 2008 bubble
The world financial system is as dangerously stretched today as it was at the peak of the last bubble but this time the authorities are caught in a 'policy trap' with few defences left, a veteran central banker has warned.
Nine years of emergency money has had a string of perverse effects and
lured emerging markets into debt dependency, without addressing the
structural causes of the global disorder.
"All the market indicators right now look very similar to what we saw
before the Lehman crisis, but the lesson has somehow been forgotten,"
said William White, the Swiss-based head of the OECD's review board and
ex-chief economist for the Bank for International Settlements.
Prof White said disturbing evidence of credit degradation
is emerging almost daily. The latest horror is the revelation that
distressed UK construction group Carilion quietly raised £112m through
German Schuldschein bonds. South African retailer Steinhoff also tapped
this obscure market, borrowing €730m.
Schuldschein loans were once a feature of rock-solid lending to family Mittelstand companies in Germany. The transformation of this corner of the market into a form of high-risk shadow banking,
apparently to evade scrutiny, shows how badly the lending system has
been distorted by quantitative easing (QE) and negative interest rates.
This time central banks are holding a particularly ferocious tiger by the tail. Global debt ratios have surged by a further 51 percentage points of GDP since the Lehman crisis, reaching a record 327pc (IIF data). Every part of the world economy is exhibiting some deformed pathology.
"Should regulators really be congratulating themselves that the system is now safer? Nobody knows what is going to happen when they unwind QE. The markets had better be very careful because there are a lot of fracture points out there," he said.
"Pharmaceutical companies are subject to laws forcing them to test for unintended consequences before they launch a drug, but central banks launched the huge social experiment of QE with carelessly little thought about the side-effects," he said.
The US Federal Reserve is already reversing bond purchases - ignoring warnings by former Fed chair Ben Bernanke - and will ratchet up the pace to $50bn a month this year. It will lead to a surge in supply of US Treasury bonds just as the Trump Administration's tax and spending blitz pushes the US budget deficit toward $1 trillion, and just as China and Japan trim Treasury holdings.
The edifice of inflated equity and asset markets is built on the premise that interest rates will remain pinned to the floor. The latest stability report by the US Treasury's Office of Financial Research (OFR) warned that a 100 basis point rate rise would slash $1.2 trillion of value from the Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index, with further losses once junk bonds, fixed-rate mortgages, and derivatives are included. It said losses could dwarf the "bond massacre" that bankrupted Orange County California in 1994 - and detonated Mexico's Tequila Crisis.
The global fall-out from such a shock could be violent. Credit in dollars beyond US jurisdiction has risen fivefold in 15 years to over $10 trillion. "This is a very big number. As soon as the world gets into trouble, a lot of people are going to have trouble servicing that dollar debt," said Prof White. The offshore dollar funding markets would dry up, triggering a liquidity squeeze. Borrowers would suffer the double shock of a rising dollar, and rising rates.
The OFR report makes unsettling reading. "The cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio of the S&P 500 is at its 97th percentile relative to the last 130 years," it said. Margin debt on Wall Street has risen to an all-time high, as has the share of risky bonds with minimal protection. So-called 'covenant-lite' contracts are now running at 51pc of all issuance. The top decile of macro hedge funds has raised leverage to 15 times, accounting for $800bn in gross assets.
One worry is what will happen to 'risk parity' funds when the inflation cycle turns. RBI Capital warned in its investor letter that these funds could lead to a "liquidity crash". Deutsche Bank has advised clients to take out June 2018 'put' options on the S&P 500 - a hedge against a market slide - arguing that the rally looks stretched and that risk parity funds will amplify any correction.
These funds manage risk by matching bonds and equities through dynamic weighting. The strategy worked marvelously during the 'Goldilocks' phase of low inflation and rising stock markets. Both wings of the trade did well. The danger is that both could go wrong at the same, setting off a vicious cycle in the opposite direction.
Funds have doubled-down on the trade with leveraged bets on Treasuries to boost returns. "A breakdown of this strategy poses the greatest threat to the overall market," says Peter Tchir from Brean Capital. In a sense, risk parity funds may be today's equivalent of the 'portfolio insurance' that accelerated the crash in October 1987.
Whether the inflation cycle is really turning, and how fast, is the elemental question of this bull market. What is clear is that the US has closed the output gap and is hitting capacity constraints. The New York Fed's underlying inflation gauge rose to a 12-year high near 3pc in December.
The great disinflation of the last three decades was essentially a global 'supply shock'. The opening-up of China and the fall of the Berlin Wall added 800 million workers to the traded economy and labour pool, depressing wages and unleashing a tsunami of cheap goods. The 'Amazon effect' of digital technology capped price rises. The demographics of the baby boom era played its part by boosting the global savings glut.
But there was another feature that is often neglected. Central banks intervened "asymmetrically" with each cycle, letting booms run but stepping in with stimulus to cushion busts. The BIS says one result was to keep insolvent 'zombie' companies alive and block the Schumpeterian process of creative destruction that leads to rising productivity. This artificially stopped supply returning to balance. It has been a cause of the deflationary malaise.
"Everything could now go into reverse: the baby boomers are gone; China's working age population is falling; and zombie companies are going to be forced out of business at last as borrowing costs rise," White said.
While higher inflation is needed in one sense to right the global ship - since it lifts nominal GDP faster, and whittles down the debt stock - the obvious danger is that the shock of higher rates will hit first. Debt dynamics could spin out of control. Japan and Italy are in the firing line. The US has more margin but is being cavalier with fiscal expansion a l'outrance and no reform of its entitlement programmes.
"This raises the danger of 'fiscal dominance'. The moment that markets start to fear this happening, it becomes totally self-fulfilling. They won't lend to governments and the whole thing basically implodes," he said.
Central banks are now caught in a 'debt trap'. They cannot keep holding rates near zero as global inflation pressures build because that will lead to an even more perilous financial bubble, but they cannot easily raise rates either because it risks blowing up the system. "It is franky scary," he said.
The BIS critique is that ever-lower rates and more radical stimulus at the bottom of each successive cycle has itself had the complex effect of lowering the 'Wicksellian' natural rate of interest. Prosperity has been drawn from the future and led to a corrosive 'intertemporal' imbalance. In the end this catches up with you.
The authorities may not yet have reached the end of the road but this strategy is clearly pregnant with danger. Global finance has become so sensitive to monetary policy that central banks risk triggering a downturn long before they have built up the safety buffer of 400 to 500 basis points in interest rate cuts needed to fight recessions. Fiscal buffers are not exhausted but they are ever thinner.
"We are running out of ammunition. I am afraid that at some point this is going to be resolved with a lot of debt defaults. And what did we do with the demographic dividend? We wasted it," he said.


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November 5, 2010 10:30 AM
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Tom is strategist in the field of corporate brand, design and communication. Finishing communications studies in 1983, he directly started to work for Van Luyken, the leading public relations and public affairs agency in the Netherlands. After managing the Brussels office and becoming deputy manager of the head office, he left the agency in 1992 to become communication manager of the Gak Group, the biggest social security organization facing to a intensive process of reorganization and modernization (aimed at working according to commercial standards). He selected Dumbar as the agency to execute a mayor corporate identity change in the organization. Between 1997 to 1999 Tom worked for the board of directors of FHV/BBDO which was the biggest advertising agency for years at that time. He developed and implemented a long term business, brand and communication policy for FHV/BBDO. After that Tom Dorresteijn worked as an independent strategist and strategy partner of Studio Dumbar. Tom was recently appointed as Chairman of the BNO (Dutch Association of Designers and Design Agencies).
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Canada has a longstanding commitment to family values. This commitment is reflected in the government's ongoing efforts to keep immigrant families together whenever possible. >>Read More…
I have canadian pr . I am living in canada from last three years only.if i get married in india how long will it take to sponser my spouse.is it true that if i am
Divorced before and its been three years i have been living in
canada , will it take two more years for me to sponser my spouse
please put some light on my doubt.
i really want to canada me my family
I really want to visit Canada with my Wife!!!
Item number 2, two years legitimate relationship can only target those who marry someone in Canada and leave him/her right away. It has may issues with it.
First, Those want to abus ethe system can sytay for two years and go. This will not stop any fraud
more importantly is the exeptions for the abusive relationship. In evey family court matter there is an allegation of abuse, sometime resulted with Police arrested the spouse with no proof. does it mean that abuse has happened? while the case is in family court the judges typical do not care abot sucha llegations as it is a criminal nature matter. In criminal court there should eb stronge proof of such an allegation. With broad definition of abuse in Canada, how Mr. Kenney is going to eforce this. How immigration will be involved and how they will make sure that the allegation is a fact of accusation? This is a simplistic view of the spouse sponsorship and proves that the ministry of immigration and government of Canada have no idea what they are doing and talking about. Going forward an sponsor will be able to abuse teh sponsored and deport her/him if desires and the abused should keep quiet. There will be a big issues involving teh violation of people's rights as the result of irresponsible and decisions being announced on weekly basis by Immigration minister. The frequency of this decisons tells us that there is no study or background work is done to make such decisions and Mr. Kenney has turned the immigration system to his personal domain running with his emotions, personal trends and political bias.
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Tests on the MICRO TRAXION with Dyneema cord of diameter less than 8 mm
The ropes compatible with the MICRO TRAXION have a diameter between 8 and 11 mm. Petzl has noted an increasing use of lightweight cords of less than 8 mm in diameter for hauling or rescue, and has conducted a series of tests to determine the limits of compatibility with the MICRO TRAXION.
- Read the technical notice before viewing the following techniques.
- It is important to fully understand the information provided in the technical notice before using this complementary information
- Mastering these techniques requires training.
- Consult a professional before attempting to perform these techniques on your own.
Warning: the strength of Dyneema cords varies greatly and can be quite low.In tests with the MICRO TRAXION, certain models of cord fail at less than 2 kN.
Cords behave less predictably than ropes, certain small diameter cords are stronger than others of larger diameter. There can be very significant differences between the test results on two cord models of the same diameter.
Remember: the ascender standards require a strength of 4 kN on compatible ropes.
Tear resistance test of small diameter cords with the MICRO TRAXION.
Hauling lightweight loads can be considered with most cords, provided that the user does a favorable risk analysis in the field.
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Nick Lewin 2017 Robert-Houdin Award
Congratulations to Nick Lewin, winner of the Robert-Houdin 2017 award. We can think of no higher designation of respect than Robert-Houdin, and as such candidates for consideration must have contributed greatly to the art of magic we hold so dear. At the same times, such performers must have tremendous respect for those who have come before us, and thus have absolute respect for magic history. No one car dispute Nick has all the above and more.
The Los Angeles Times Says, "Anyone who thinks you can't do two things well, should see Lewin seamlessly blend reality and fantasy, magic and comedy. Reality suddenly becomes one helluva concept!" Hailing from London, England – Lewin now makes his home in Austin, Texas. Nick has been featured on numerous television shows and also entertained British Royalty, American Presidents, Saudi Princes, Business Legends and Hollywood Icons. Lewin's award-winning show is very funny non-stop entertainment, with Nick's dry English sense of humor perfectly honed for American audiences. Lewin was recently awarded the prestigious "2016 Robert-Houdin Award" for his performing skills.
A unique and fresh performer who delights every kind of audience with his personalized comedy and magic show. Clients and audiences alike are delighted with Lewin's highly individual blend of stand-up comedy sleight of hand and mind magic. Nick has opened concerts for Tony Bennett, Reba McEntire, Charlie Daniels, Paul Anka and a host of other stars. His corporate client list is a who's who of Fortune 500 companies and he has performed at private functions for David Bowie, Steve Forbes, Jimmy Stewart, Lee Iacocca, Tony Curtis, Orson Welles, Steve Wozniak and many others. For five years Lewin starred in "Comedy Magic" his own award-winning one-man show in Las Vegas, where he also hosted his own nationally broadcast radio and television series, "The Entertainment Files." Now he is available to work his magic for you and help make your event the success you are working towards.
Nick is a sure fire-hit and perfect solution to any corporate or private entertainment situation. As a corporate performer Nick has functioned as an after dinner speaker, host, spokesman and keynote speaker; his ability to personalize and customize his show has made him a favorite in this highly specialized field. Working with each individual client Lewin skillfully constructs the perfect show for their specific needs. From a packed showroom to a small business gathering Nick blends his comedy and magic into a unique entertainment that will make your event a smash hit. His fast, funny and clever performance gets huge reaction from his audiences, receiving standing ovations on a consistent basis. Audiences gasp at his astounding magic, while laughing at comedy that is often as fresh as the morning's newspaper.


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21″ wide x 11″ tall (53 x 30cm) During the past couple of days I did a lot of beading. I completed more freeform peyote stitch on the shadow beneath my beaded military tank. And, I have only broken one beading needle so far! Can you see what I have done? Can you see what I have left to do? How do you think it looks? I plan to take the next few days off of blogging so that I can keep beading…
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Daniel Pollera's paintings are distinctly recognizable. Painted in a tightened realist style, his coastal landscapes, back porch views and bay houses are often cast in intense lighting—resulting in emotional undercurrents that give a certain vitality and human connection to the work. Pollera paints what he sees and soaks in while out on his boat in the bays between his homes in Baldwin Harbor and East Quogue. This time of year in particular, the Long Island sunlight is remarkable—almost like we're living in a Pollera painting. Here's what Pollera has to say about the artwork gracing this week's Dan's Papers cover:
Last we spoke, I think you were working on a painting of one of these historic bay houses—and now this looks like one of them. Is this part of that series?
You could say that, but I'm looking more into it, and what I'm seeing is history happening right before my eyes. The older you get, the more you can reflect and see what's happening. That house on the cover is called the Jankoski Bay House. It was on Ned's Creek in Merrick, very low to the marsh, and it was destroyed in Hurricane Sandy. There are really only a handful of these houses left. They were built around the turn of the century and, being where they are on the marshes, not connected to any roads, they weren't really ever changed. Now I'm starting to see places, like the town of Hempstead and I think also in Southampton, they're doing something to preserve them. They play a large part in the maritime history of Long Island.
It's almost hard to think of Sandy being just two years ago.
I stayed here during Hurricane Sandy, in my house, on the water in Baldwin. The winds were crazy. Right at the end of my street you look out onto the open bay. Splashing on the bulkheads, the water surrounded but was within 7 inches from the top. Couches were floating. A 40-footer ended up in my neighbor's backyard.
Have you ever been one of those historic bay houses?
Yeah, I've been inside some of them. They're old and rustic, and they have hatches on the floor. I was inside one of them and saw a cutout with a round hole, a 2-by-2-foot hatch with a round hole to lift it. At high tide, they blow up and the house fills with water—this way the house won't lift up and float away like a boat.
I'm looking at the bay houses as a reflection of the environment due to rising sea levels. One day we're going to get another storm and it might happen that they all get wiped out. I'm noticing, though, that some museums out here are starting to focus on the environmental changes of our bays.
Right, like some of the projects and nature walks being held at the Parrish Art Museum.
Yes, them and also a non-profit called Long Island Traditions. This summer I was invited to be on the Board of Directors for them. My first meeting with them will be this October. They just received a major grant to put together an exhibition called Changing Landscapes Exhibit—which will explore how landscapes change after natural disasters. For years, just being out on the boat all the time, you see the changes. You get to know it. You get to know what's happening.
Any new projects you're working on?
Right now, I'm just getting through the busy summer season, and things are beginning to settle. When things settle down, my creative juices start flowing. I never know what's going to come. Never know what you're going to get inspired by. Right now everything is settling.
Work by Daniel Pollera can be seen at Chrysalis Gallery, 2 Main Street, Southampton. 631-287-1883, chrysalisgallery.com; danielpollera.com.


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The "last" post that I will be tracking the Littlest development. Time just zoom past when you have young ones at home.
Mastered Skills
- Can name at least six body parts on a doll
I should think so. I have definitely heard eyes, ears, teeth and hands.
- Half of his speech is understandable
Yup. We could understand him most time.
- Can make short sentences
Yes. His favourite is "Pease MeeMee iPad" *sigh*.
Emerging Skills
- Starts talking about self
Not really. Apart from "TT 的" he doesn't really say much about himself. Though he will say "不要" for things he doesn't want.
- Can arrange things in categories
I guess so. In school, he has to sort the toys by categories and color. He somewhat was able to do it.
- Can walk down stairs
Advanced Skills
- Begins to understand abstract concepts like sooner and later
Don't think so. When we ask him to wait or we will give him later, he will just cry or throw a tantrum. So don't think he understands.
- Becomes attuned to gender differences
Don't think so.
- Learns to jump
Somewhat? He will attempt to leap, but his two feet is still on the floor. LOL.
Dear TT,
You turn 2 a few days ago! Unfortunately you fell ill the night before and couldn't celebrate your birthday in school. Fortunately, we manage to celebrate with GongGong and PoPo the weekend before and you still got to cut and eat your cake.
You are getting more assertive this month. You will always claim "mine" or "TT 的", and not allow others to touch or use your things. Well, Mummy and Daddy just have to teach you how to share over time.
You have adapted relatively well in school. Heard there is a new friend who will only hold your hand. Hope you can continue to be a support for your classmates as you are the GorGor in class. You seems to be playing well with the teachers too. Not only your own class teacher, but teachers from other classes. We heard you went around sharing your little packet of raisins albeit with your saliva quoted fingers. LOL. Well, some of your teachers really don't mind your kind gesture. Mummy hope you can stay this way.
You are still very active and can throw a tantrum very easily. Mummy hope the school will be a good training ground for you to learn self-control during this growing up phase of your life. And fortunately, Mummy was reminded by Dr Zhang to not give you sweet stuff. And that is where Mummy noticed that you get really active and throws a tantrum easily. So until you are much older, Mummy is going to cut down on the sweet things for you.
Your health hasn't really been the greatest the last two months. You fell ill and wasn't in school for an entire week last month. And this week you are sick again. Hopefully these are part and parcel of you improving immunity. Mummy hope you get well soon.
In the coming year, Mummy hope you will stay joyful, become healthier and can learn more self-control. Mummy and Daddy love you!


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INSIDE OUT – New Trailer Now Available
U.S. Release Date: June 19, 2015
Voice Cast: Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Phyllis Smith, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan, Kaitlyn Dias
Director: Pete Docter
Co-Director: Ronnie del Carmen
Producer: Jonas Rivera
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From an adventurous balloon ride above the clouds to a monster-filled metropolis, Academy Award®-winning director Pete Docter ("Monsters, Inc.," "Up") has taken audiences to unique and imaginative places. In Disney•Pixar's original movie " Inside Out," he will take us to the most extraordinary location of all—inside the mind.
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith). The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.


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This botanical jewel, set in one of Toronto's oldest parks, is comprised of six greenhouses covering 16,000 sq. ft. of beautiful plants from around the world. The permanent botanical collection of exotic plants is supplemented throughout the year with colourful, award-winning flower shows in Spring, Easter, Summer, Fall and at Christmas. The centrepiece of Allan Gardens is an historic, cast-iron and glass dome known as 'The Palm House'. Originally built in 1910, the conservatory is in the middle of Allan Gardens, the five-acre parcel of land donated in 1858 to the City of Toronto by George William Allan, a prominent local politician and cultural leader.
19 Horticultural Avenue, Toronto, M5A 2P2
Children Friendly Garden
No Admission Fee
Parking on Site
Accessible by Public Transit
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Author of "A Garden Lover's Guide to Canada"
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Summer's here and Canada's public gardens are at their best. You know you want to visit them yourself – who wouldn't want to stroll through a beautiful park filled with flowers – but maybe you feel you're so tied up with your children or grandchildren you just can't get away. Well, there's an easy solution to that: bring them along!


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?Thibaut Courtois has risked the wrath of Liverpool supporters after apparently suggesting that Chelsea sign one of their transfer targets to replace him as the number one at Stamford Bridge.
The Belgian is supposedly after a move to Real Madrid this summer, a team he has been linked with before, and El Gol Digital – via ?Liverpool Echo – has claimed the goalkeeper has urged the Blues to sign Roma goalkeeper Alisson to soften the blow.
Alisson is a highly rated Brazilian stopper ?who is being heavily linked with the Reds at the moment, with feelings of uncertainty still surrounding Loris Karius and Simon Mignolet.
The 25-year-old is valued at €70m by Roma which if paid by anyone would make him the most expensive goalkeeper of all-time and by some distance.
The star has been impressing over in Serie A with his consistency and reliability, replacing the departed Wojciech Szczesny who had a fine season last term. His performances have allowed him to keep Manchester City stopper Ederson from making his international bow.
There is an expectation that Liverpool will attempt to sign him this summer after announcing healthy profits in their latest accounts, but they could face competition from Chelsea is Courtois does move on.
The former Atletico loan star has been stalling over a new deal at Stamford Bridge, with some suggesting he's holding out for los Blancos to come calling.
The Spanish giants are expected to overhaul their squad this summer, with Keylor Navas being linked with a move away from the Bernabeu. The Costa Rican's potential departure would certainly open the door for Courtois.
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These free Halloween invitations can be printed from your home computer and mailed out on the same day. No reason to spend your money on store-bought Halloween invitations when you can customize these to make them uniquely yours - and for free none the less!
Your guests will love receiving the free Halloween invitations you sent out too. They won't even begin to guess that you didn't buy them at the store unless you let the (black) cat out of the bag.
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Bag O' Bones Free Halloween Invitation from Mr. Printables
This free Halloween invitation is sure to stand out from all the others and will be remembered for years to come.
Download this free PDF file and print it off and write down the name of the guest, when the party is, where the party is, and RSVP invitation. Then cut out the pieces and place it into the envelope. Quick, easy, and oh so spooky.
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Halloween Bash Invitations from Inspiration Made Simple
Your guests will love this coffin shaped Halloween invitation that has a smiling skeleton on the inside holding a sign with all your party details.
This free Halloween invitation is actually for a birthday party, but there is a printable that will let you turn it into a regular Halloween party invite if you'd like.
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Free, Printable Halloween Invitations from Yellow Bliss Road
There are 3 free Halloween invitations over at Yellow Bliss Road, featuring spider webs, spiders, bats, and haunted houses with the color schemes of black and white, black and yellow, and black and purple. You'll need to open these invites in a graphics program and then add your party details before printing.
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Free Halloween Invitation and More from Catch My Party
"Witches and Warlocks come out and play, it's time to celebrate this spooky day!", starts this wonderfully designed free Halloween invitation from Catch My Party.
There are also coordinating free Halloween printables here including party circles, a banner, goodie bag labels, party labels, and a "cootie catcher" fortune teller.Continue to 5 of 17 below.
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Witches Party Invitation from Giggles Galore
These Halloween invitations from Giggles Galore features a witch riding a broomstick and invites your guests to come to have a "wicked good time."
After you've printed the invite, fill in your details with the when, where, and RSVP info. Then you're ready to mail them out and get ready for the party.
There's another free printable Halloween invite here that invites guests over for a Halloween costume party.
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Free Halloween Party Invitation from Better Homes and Gardens
This orange, white, black, and gray printable Halloween invitation from Better Homes and Gardens is completely free for you to download.
This prints out as a 5x7 invitation and you can add your party details before or after printing.
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Owl Halloween Invitations from Martha Stewart
These free Halloween invitations somehow end up being a little cute and a little spooky all at the same time. Print the owl template and then use brads to make the owl wings moveable. Add your address, and you're finished!
Owl Halloween Invitations from Martha Stewart
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Vintage Witches Brew Free Halloween Invitations from Serendipity Soiree
This is quite the elegant yet spooky free Halloween invitation from Serendipity Soiree. Besides the free Halloween invitations, here are also free bottle labels and cupcake toppers you can print.Continue to 9 of 17 below.
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Skeleton Invitations from Martha Stewart
These free Halloween invitations from Martha Stewart may require a little assembly, but the results will be well worth the effort.
Download and print the skeleton template and then cut the parts out and assemble per the instructions to make your Halloween invitation complete.
Skeleton Invitations from Martha Stewart
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Pumpkin Top Halloween Invitations from Martha Stewart
Pull the top of these super cute pumpkin top Halloween invitations, and the invite will be revealed to your guests. This Halloween invitation looks very impressive but only takes scissors and glue to put together.
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Free Printable Halloween Invitations from Party Planning Center
This free Halloween invitation is on the tamer side and would be great for a kid's Halloween party with it's colorful and fun design. Included with the free Halloween invitations are printable Halloween banners, cupcake toppers, and treat bags.
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Mini Halloween Invites from Paper Crave
These mini Halloween invites from Paper Crave are adorable! They take only a few minutes to print out and then all you'll need to do is write on your party details. Print them on colored card stock, and they'll look even better. There are also free Halloween stickers you can download and print as well as tons of other Halloween goodies.Continue to 13 of 17 below.
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Free Halloween Invitation Postcards from Cottage Industrialist
Print off both the front and the back of these free Halloween invitations and you'll have a complete postcard all ready to be mailed out. The front of this free Halloween invitation is a spooky night scene, and the back will let your guests know all the details of your Halloween party.
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Skull Halloween Invitations from Do It Yourself Invitations
We adore this free Halloween invitation and we bet you and your guests will too. Who can resist these colorful skulls and candy that border your party invitation?
Download the PDF of this free Halloween invitation, add your party information, and then print out and mail.
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Pumpkin Halloween Invitations from Print Free Cards
These free Halloween invitations are a breeze to put together. All you need to do is print them and fill out the party details. If you're looking for a Halloween invitation that's simple to put together but still looks great, then you are going to love these.
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Printable Owl Halloween Invitation from Whisker Graphics
Just download these adorable owl Halloween invitations from Whisker Graphics and add your party information before printing. There's also a matching cupcake topper you can print and over at Whisker Graphics you'll find a ton of other owl Halloween party printables.Continue to 17 of 17 below.
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Candy Corn Halloween Invitations from PrintWithMyPic
If you're looking for a super easy free Halloween invitation then this one is just for you. This sweet Halloween invite features a yummy looking pile of candy corn. All you need to do is add the party details and upload your own custom photo.
There's also a spider Halloween invitation here if you're looking for a slightly different look.


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While the metro Denver market continues to hum along and there are a few "blockbuster" sales on the upper-end, anecdotally I am seeing signs of stress especially on the upper-end of the market. Some listings are coming on at inflated/fantasy prices and within 1-2 weeks a price reduction. Granted some reductions are more symbolic i.e. still priced above market and I never fault anyone for holding out hope of that blockbuster sale. However as an experienced broker I look for various signs showing that a seller is serious and motivated.
Yet first some signs advising the seller may not be so serious:
Will Not Close until Replacement Property Secured: In such a situation the seller is driving the transaction. You as buyer are in a holding pattern literally beholden to the seller and their timing and wish-list concerning finding a replacement property which in a hot market may not be so easy. In commercial transactions this can be a common occurrence and is a tactic used in 1031 Exchanges. Concerning traditional residential I would be more cautious. Not to dissimilar from a reverse contingency i.e. usually buyer will purchase contingent on the sale of their existing property. Instead here the seller will sell and close once their replacement residence is secured.
Holdover or Leaseback in Excess of 30 days: Holdover i.e. occupancy once the house is sold and closed is not so uncommon. I usually suggest 30 days or less; there is even a pre-printed Colorado Real Estate Commission Form known as the Post Closing Occupancy Agreement for such an event. For longer periods (and again if you are an investor the criteria may be different) I would be more cautious. Basically the seller is looking to cash out and lease their house back. I have been involved with situations concerning relocation when this is quite accepted. However barring a relocation situation my immediate concern is for the buyer. The seller is desiring to cash out and lease back. Again in commercial real-estate not uncommon, in residential may indicate seller may believe market is adjusting downward and desires to cash out at prevailing market conditions and assumes paying rent is safer than a mortgage associated with a downward trending asset. Yes the seller may need the cash out of the house; there are additional options from HELOC's to Reserve Mortgages, thus a sale is more drastic.
Again the above are basic guidelines, not the gospel and each situation is truly unique.
The signs seller is truly serious:
Buy Me: Even in a hot market a property may go through multiple price reductions. Granted this could be an indicator the listing was over-priced to begin with. However when coupled with other indicators i.e. priced well-below market value, being offered "as-is" or desiring a cash transaction can possibly construe the seller is very serious.
Of note, be forewarned as some brokers will purposely list a property at below-market to instill excitement of prospective buyers and more importantly bids and offers. In a hot market such a tactic can be a benefit to the seller. However in a market trending downward such a strategy may place the seller in a losing situation i.e. full price offer at the below-market price and by not accepting barring contingencies the broker may demand a commission if seller does not sell.
Curb Appeal or Lack Thereof: Anyone who has owned a home knows landscaping takes time and money (even DIY's i.e. materials, water, maintenance). While brokers usually advise an investment in curb appeal, a seller who may not have the time or capital to attend to the landscaping may be showing signs of motivation by their inaction and lack of investment. Such signs I look for include:
- Overgrown or dead lawn/shrubs/flower beds.
- Weeds and other decay i.e. trash, dead leaves, and overgrowth.
- Newspapers that have not been picked up and/or fliers in the door.
Such signs could also point to an absentee owner, landlord or similar situation. I have used such visual cues to procure listings by researching public records and other databases.
Interior is Half Lived In: Hey I am all for staging and a staged house usually suggests a motivated seller i.e. the investment in staging. However dig deeper especially if you believe the house continues to be owner/seller occupied. Are the closets ½ empty? Is the furniture mismatched or haphazardly placed? Are walls showing signs of art having been removed and not replaced? Such indicators may indicate divorce, destitution, already moved out or similar. Usually when a home is in such condition, the seller is motivated. Please note there is a difference between purging and having moved on.
Of note, in Japan in the 1980's some listings were not only staged but also included a live multi-generational family pursuing their daily routine during open-houses to show how the home functions and meets the needs of a multigenerational family as buyer. Trust me somewhat disturbing seeing children doing their homework during an open house yet also true early adopters of the precursor to virtual reality.
Family Dynamics have Changed: I see this quite often; the signs may include a child's crib in one of the social rooms i.e. living, dining, home office or similar. Or on other side of the spectrum oxygen tank or other medically oriented items. Such indicators may suggest a new addition(s) to the family from a child to an aging parent or illness. This may be a situation where the owners desire to move for more space to accommodate and thus at present a not optimum living situation.
Estate Sale: Usually estate sales are when the owner passes and/or the present sellers are by descent. Such sellers may be more motivated to unload the property for various motivations from estate tax liability to not desiring the upkeep and maintenance. In the Denver Multilist there is a check box for type of seller and one option is Estate. If your locale does not indicate such type of seller and it is a deed of trust state, investigate what type of deed is being offered. Is it a Personal Representative Deed or similar? May be an estate. Of course some experienced brokers review obituaries and similar to look for listings; an old pastime in New York City which is practiced to this day (not to mention treating estate lawyers to lunch).
Providing Too Much Unrequested Information: In Colorado we have what is known as the Seller Property Disclosure, a 7+ pages form executed by sellers to provide information to the best of their knowledge concerning the residences condition and state of repair. Of note I advise seller clients to be truthful and honest as its both a legal and ethical course of action not to mention most buyers will engage the services of a home inspector prior to closing.
However some clients can be more forthcoming and mention issues and potential remedies before being prompted. In general I usually caution sellers to be circumspect in what they mention i.e. "We were going to install an on-demand hot water heater but went with the conventional as it was cheaper and we did not want to invest any additional money into the house". This tells a buyer the seller while preparing for sale went for near-term economics versus cost-savings over the long-term. I am guilty of this myself. In the sale of my house I advised the sellers concerning a secondary bathroom; if they ever plan to renovate to consider changing the dual knobs to a single-lever. Was I disclosing too much? Maybe; however I advised since we did not use that particular bathroom we never did the upgrade; something to consider for their larger household and lifestyle.
The House Is Empty: Rarely do homes show better when vacant (that is why we have staging as an image is worth 1,000 words). In reality an empty property may indicate the seller has moved on. Yet continuing to retain ownership the empty home does incur carrying costs even if there is no mortgage i.e. real estate taxes, upkeep, insurance and so forth. Thus the seller may be willing to be more flexible knowing their for-sale asset is depleting capital while on the market.
Granted some homes are staged and again this may be a sign the seller is serious as staging is not inexpensive. In some markets we are now witnessing virtual staging i.e. computer generated staging to the benefit of on-line marketing, again a picture is worth 1,000 words. One company has brought the cost of staging down with inflatable furniture; just don't sit on the props. Of note, a broker trick to show the scale of a bedroom, set up four to six boxes for support, add a camping air mattress, cover with a bedspread and pillows. The result an instantly staged and scaled bedroom.
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.NET 3.0 Woes
We started using WCF in our project recently.
The vision (read architecture) was good when people (the likes of Don Box) were speaking about WCF.
However after using it and getting my hands dirty, I really doubt if the implementation really lives up the expectation set by the vision.
There has been a quite a few issues with WCF, but the one I ran into yesterday was proof that Microsoft has compromised on people aspects (atleast at the developer level). The vision still seems to be good. People like myself are getting into Microsoft development teams (Core teams, I believe WCF is one of the core elements of the Framework). This is what I saw yesterday.
I wanted to write my own ServiceHost so as to apply the WCF configuration myself. I was rather wild when I learned that configSource attribute is not supported on any of the WCF configuration sections. And if I really had to load the configuration from an external source I had to reinvent the whole WCF configuration approach myself. Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2006/12/04/overriding-the-default-configuration-file.aspx. Well that's not what I wanted to blog about.
The ServiceHost class contructor (or one of it's base class's) call ApplyConfiguration which happens to be a virtual method. Oops, constructors calling virtual methods, I thought that was not encouraged. I decided to google on this and found that I was right. The good folks from Microsoft have written about this here and here. In fact they found it reasonable to include it as a FxCop rule as said here. But only for folks outside of Microsoft may be. They went ahead and violated their own rule. The irony is that it slipped out of the design, design reviews, development, development reviews and testing. ServiceHost happens to be one of the core classes of WCF.
The bottomline is that Microsoft is compromising on the process (the fact that this one slipped thru all the reviews and testing) for getting stuff out early, as well as people. Not so good news.
Org-wide Process groups, What value do they add to the Organization
Recently, Prakash went in for the ISO 9001:2000 periodic surveillance audit.
The audit (as I understood from Prakash) has been just the opposite of the wisdom laid out here.
"Somehow the customer has been neglected in our eagerness to predict and control software development." Metrics have taken precedence over the customer.
You know The bottomline has been compromised when the auditor wants a metric in place and answers "So What!" to the point that "Customer is happy! (Even without the metric and you not heading anywhere towards The Goal with the metric)". Any metric which doesn't give a measure of The Goal is just a waste of your precious time. Any process which doesn't enable development and becomes a hindrance (You know this, when you have to do somethings for the heck of It – Mainly to shut the process folks) should be seriously thought about.
I feel that Organization wide process groups (call them SEPG, OPG or whatever and whichever organization you worked with must have had one) are beginning to miss a point, they must enable the teams to achieve 'The Goal' and not come in as a hindrance. The moment this happens they are more of a pain point than anything else.
I was reading a blog entry from Amit Rathore's blog, which prompted me post this entry.
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The Habits and Attitudes of Successful Business Owners
Focus – "If you chase two rabbits, both will escape." – Anonymous
Think! – "The happiest people are not the people without problems, but the people who know how to solve their problems." – Robert Seashore
See the opportunities – "Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble." – Frank Tyger
Develop good work habits and attitudes – "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." – Jim Ryun
Don't let criticism crush you – "Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." – Brendan Behan
Don't make the mistake of figuring out how to do something after you get a customer who wants the service – "Don't learn the tricks of the trade… learn the trade." – Anonymous
Never forget why you're doing this – "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." – Friedrich Nietzsche
Be willing to take calculated risks – "Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." – David Lloyd George
Start even when you don't have complete information – "If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all." – Dan Rather with Peter Wyden
Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses – "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." – John Wooden
Ask for business – "Ask and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you." – Bible, Matthew 7:7
Don't be afraid to make mistakes – "Good judgment comes from experience and…experience comes from bad judgment." – Anonymous
If you discover you've been wrong, stop the damage immediately – "No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back." – Turkish Proverb
Persist – "A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce." – Anonymous
Be open to changing the way you work – "If you do the things you've always done, you'll get the results you've always gotten." – Anonymous
Keep pushing, even in good items – "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." – Will Rogers
Compiled from http://www.dietsoftware.org/habits.shtml. Go ahead read the full article.
Excellent read.
Talking about Empty your Cup
We (I and Sendhil) conducted a 5 day Agile Software Development Session in our Organization last week. As part of the Agile design session, Sendhil had a slide "Empty your cup". Unless someone agrees to iterative design and development, Agile design is a very controversial topic and to make sure people are ready to listen, Sendhil talked about the Zen story.
Story: "You cannot learn anything if you already feel that you know."
There was an American professor who had made a lifetime's study of the Japanese tea ceremony. He was the western expert. He heard there was an old man living in Japan who was a master of the tea ceremony. So he made a special trip to Japan to see him. He found the master living in a small house on the outskirts of Tokyo and they sat down to have tea together. The professor immediately started talking about the tea ceremony, his study, all he knew about it and how he was looking forward to sharing his learning with the old man. The old man said nothing, but started to pour tea into the professor's cup.
While the professor talked, the old man continued to pour the tea, the cup filled and the old man kept pouring. The tea split down the sides of the cup in a stream onto the floor, yet the old man did not stop. "Stop!" said the professor. "You are crazy. You can't fit any more tea in that cup. It's full."
"I was just practicing," replied the old man, "for the task of attempting to pass learning to a mind that is already full."
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InsideTV Podcast: Norman Reedus talks about the 'disgusting' season 2 of 'The Walking Dead'
Are you ready for the most disgusting scene in the history of The Walking Dead? Norman Reedus was! The actor, who plays Daryl Dixon on the AMC drama, has the pleasure of giving us a guided tour through the inside of a zombie on Sunday night's season 2 premiere, and he stopped by the InsideTV Podcast to tell us all about the gory glory. Other topics up for discussion: the weapon Reedus is dying to use to kill off the undead (even more than his crossbow!), a possible Dixon family reunion with the missing Merle (played by Michael Rooker), and his take on the whole Frank Darabont situation. Reedus also explains the difference between Walking Dead fans and devotees of his other cult hit, The Boondock Saints. "They'll run across the street and just tackle you to the ground," he says of the latter. Also learn why the actor is practically impossible to beat at paintball!
To hear the entire interview, just click on the audio player icon below. Or, since we're on iTunes, you can subscribe for free and take the podcast with you on the go. No iTunes? No problem. You can also download the entire podcast right here. And to send a question to the InsideTV Podcast team, follow us on Twitter @InsideTVPodcast. But first let us know what you think: What weapon would you most want to combat zombies? And which do you prefer: The Walking Dead or The Boondock Saints? Hit the message boards and let us know!


text: We know the real reason why French air traffic controllers go on strike every summer. They already earn enough money and working conditions are as good as they are going to be, given the stressful nature of their job. No, they just want some time off to enjoy the many variations of cool little Gallic hot hatches. Like this one: the Renault Twingo Gordini 100. One hundred horsepower may not seem like much, but when it's in a car this size, with a tweaked suspension and steering under chic, sporty looks, the whole package is much more of a wicked temptation. There's a lot to be said for getting every ounce of performance out of a smaller car instead of never exploiting the full potential of a more powerful machine.


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"The Rhodes Scholarships, established by the terms of Cecil Rhodes's seventh will, are known to everyone. What is not so widely known is that Rhodes in five previous wills left his fortune to form a secret society, which was to devote itself to the preservation and expansion of the British Empire. And what does not seem to be known to anyone is that this secret society was created by Rhodes and his principal trustee, Lord Milner, and continues to exist to this day. To be sure, this secret society is not a childish thing like the Ku Klux Klan, and it does not have any secret robes, secret handclasps, or secret passwords. It does not need any of these, since its members know each other intimately. It probably has no oaths of secrecy nor any formal procedure of initiation. It does, however, exist and holds secret meetings, over which the senior member present presides.
At various times since 1891, these meetings have been presided over by Rhodes, Lord Milner, Lord Selborne, Sir Patrick Duncan, Field Marshal Jan Smuts, Lord Lothian, and Lord Brand. They have been held in all the British Dominions, starting in South Africa about 1903; in various places in London, chiefly 175 Piccadilly; at various colleges at Oxford, chiefly All Souls; and at many English country houses such as Tring Park, Blickling Hall, Cliveden, and others.
This society has been known at various times as Milner's Kindergarten, as the Round Table Group, as the Rhodes crowd, as The Times crowd, as the All Souls group, and as the Cliveden set. All of these terms are unsatisfactory, for one reason or another, and I have chosen to call it the Milner Group. Those persons who have used the other terms, or heard them used, have not generally been aware that all these various terms referred to the same Group.
It is not easy for an outsider to write the history of a secret group of this kind, but, since no insider is going to do it, an outsider must attempt it. It should be done, for this Group is, as I shall show, one of the most important historical facts of the twentieth century. Indeed, the Group is of such significance that evidence of its existence is not hard to find, if one knows where to look. This evidence I have sought to point out without
overly burdening this volume with footnotes and bibliographical references. While such evidences of scholarship are kept at a minimum, I believe I have given the source of every fact which I mention. Some of these facts came to me from sources which I am not permitted to name, and I have mentioned them only where I can produce documentary evidence available to everyone.
Nevertheless, it would have been very difficult to write this book if I had not received a certain amount of assistance of a personal nature from persons close to the Group. For obvious reasons, I cannot reveal the names of such persons, so I have not made reference to any information derived from them unless it was information readily available from other sources.
Naturally, it is not possible for an outsider to write about a secret group without falling into errors. There are undoubtedly errors in what follows. I have tried to keep these at a minimum by keeping the interpretation at a minimum and allowing the facts to speak for themselves. This will serve as an excuse for the somewhat excessive use of quotations. I feel that there is no doubt at all about my general interpretation. I also feel that there are few misstatements of fact, except in one most difficult matter. This difficulty arises from the problem of knowing just who is and who is not a member of the Group. Since membership may not be a formal matter but based rather on frequent social association, and since the frequency of such association varies from time to time and from person to person, it is not always easy to say who is in the Group and who is not. I have tried to solve this difficulty by dividing the Group into two concentric circles: an inner core of intimate associates, who unquestionably knew that they were members of a group devoted to a common purpose; and an outer circle of a larger number, on whom the inner circle acted by personal persuasion, patronage distribution, and social pressure. It is probable that most members of the outer circle were not conscious that they were being used by a secret society. More likely they knew it, but, English fashion, felt it discreet to ask no questions. The ability of Englishmen of this class and background to leave the obvious unstated, except perhaps in obituaries, is puzzling and sometimes irritating to an outsider. In general, I have undoubtedly made mistakes in my lists of members, but the mistakes, such as they are, are to be found rather in my attribution of any particular person to the outer circle instead of the inner core, rather than in my connecting him to the Group at all. In general, I have attributed no one to the inner core for whom I do not have evidence, convincing to me, that he attended the secret meetings of the Group. As a result, several persons whom I place in the outer circle, such as Lord Halifax, should probably be placed in the inner core.
I should say a few words about my general attitude toward this subject. I approached the subject as a historian. This attitude I have kept. I have tried to describe or to analyze, not to praise or to condemn. I hope that in the book itself this attitude is maintained. Of course I have an attitude, and it would be only fair to state it here. In general, I agree with the goals and aims of the Milner Group. I feel that the British way of life and the British Commonwealth of Nations are among the great achievements of all history. I feel that the destruction of either of them would be a terrible disaster to mankind. I feel that the withdrawal of Ireland, of Burma, of India, or of Palestine from the Commonwealth is regrettable and attributable to the fact that the persons in control of these areas failed to absorb the British way of life while they were parts of the Commonwealth. I suppose, in the long view, my attitude would not be far different from that of the members of the Milner Group. But, agreeing with the Group on goals, I cannot agree with them on methods. To be sure, I realize that some of their methods were based on nothing but good intentions and high ideals—higher ideals than mine, perhaps. But their lack of perspective in critical moments, their failure to use intelligence and common sense, their tendency to fall back on standardized social reactions and verbal cliches in a crisis, their tendency to place power and influence into hands chosen by friendship rather than merit, their oblivion to the consequences of their actions, their ignorance of the point of view of persons in other countries or of persons in other classes in their own country—these things, it seems to me, have brought many of the things which they and I hold dear close to disaster. In this Group were persons like Esher, Grey, Milner, Hankey, and Zimmern, who must command the admiration and affection of all who know of them. On the other hand, in this Group were persons whose lives have been a disaster to our way of life. Unfortunately, in the long run, both in the Group and in the world, the influence of the latter kind has been stronger than the influence of the former.
This has been my personal attitude. Little of it, I hope, has penetrated to the pages which follow. I have been told that the story I relate here would be better left untold, since it would provide ammunition for the enemies of what I admire. I do not share this view. The last thing I should wish is that anything I write could be used by the Anglophobes and isolationists of the Chicago Tribune. But I feel that the truth has a right to be told, and, once told, can be an injury to no men of good will. Only by a knowledge of the errors of the past is it possible to correct the tactics of the future.
Carroll Quigley


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Washington's Shotgun Wedding
The new year is likely to bring an event that Washington hasn't seen in a very long time. A president trying to get back on his feet after a sizeable mid-term electoral defeat, while trying to maneuver a legislative and political landscape made increasingly complex not only by the newly empowered Republicans, but also factions from within his own party. It's likely to play out much like an old-fashioned shotgun wedding with a future father in-law ready to call out any missteps by an anxious groom.
The nuptials began with a tenuous legislative dance last month when, on Dec. 15, the Senate, by a vote of 81 to 19, approved President Obama's compromise tax package. The following day, despite three months of rancorous positioning, the House of Representatives agreed to the Senate bill by a vote of 277 to 148. For the biofuels industry this was a long time coming. It has been more than two years of waiting that has resulted in job losses among our companies, so this was the best news of the holiday for those who might now be able to go back to work building better fuels.
The final bill, which the president quickly signed into law following the late night vote in the House, renewed the existing biofuels tax credits. Specifically for the ethanol industry, Congress renewed the current ethanol tax credit at 45 cents per gallon despite a highly contentious and political fight waged by a significant opposition. But the credit was simply extended until Dec. 31. The bill also extended the ethanol tariff for an additional year and left the current 54-cent tariff rate in place.
As for the biodiesel and renewable diesel industries, the bill retroactively extended the biodiesel and biomass-based diesel credits from Jan. 1, 2010, until Dec. 31, 2011. The same treatment was afforded the alternative fuels mixture credit. Additional effort to give algae producers parity with cellulosic producers, by adding them to the definitions of the cellulosic production tax credit, simply ran out of time and encountered resistance to any new provisions being placed in the package. The algae industry and others made a significant and worthy effort to position this issue as one of the priority amendments to be considered when the new Congress goes to work.
The tax package provides our industry much needed and long awaited economic encouragement, but there is much work to be done in the new year. At the end of the year-long push, the combination of biofuels associations and individual companies were unable to convince the Congress to add biofuels under coverage of the Investment Tax Credit, section 1603. In fact, the president's original compromise with the Republican leadership struck the provision from continuation. This was largely the result of the Republicans' focus on repealing new provisions which had been authorized under the American Recovery Act. Once the bill was released to Capitol Hill, lawmakers of both parties reviewed the effectiveness of the 1603 provision and were compelled to extend the refundable credit for an additional year. Our industry's efforts to add a new component fell short, however, due to concerns over additional added cost and simply time.
In somewhat of a surprise, the Senate Appropriations Committee attempted to cut back the Biomass Crop Assistance Program at USDA, a move that was withdrawn at the last hour. At press time, a continuing resolution was being considered that would fund the government at current levels, including the BCAP program at 2010 levels.
Our industry's enhanced efforts to work more closely together over the past six months must continue, with an even clearer focus on how to sustain current first-generation fuels while building the necessary public policy to expedite the deployment of the second generation advanced biofuels. We will return to a new Congress in 2011 with a quarter of the entire House being freshman members. This will require an extensive and compelling education effort on behalf of the biofuels industry. The political fights that we witnessed over the past six months on tax policy will not go away. They will be renewed afresh and a new policy discussion will begin.
The biofuels industry will need to be ready to engage as a collective force once again, as we will be faced with the last year of the tax provisions, again. Perhaps our New Year's Resolution as an industry should be to develop a comprehensive game plan that reflects a reasonable set of requests from all of us associated with the biofuels industry. A toast to the new year from the nation's capital.
Author: Michael McAdams
President, Advanced Biofuels Association
(202) 747-0518


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Oprah opens up about Gayle King
The easy headline is, "Oprah Denies Being Gay," but that's not what was so mesmerizing about Barbara Walters' video tease of tomorrow night's interview with Oprah Winfrey. It was Winfrey's sincere, heartfelt description of her relationship with close friend Gayle King. "She is … the mother I never had. She is … the sister everybody would want," said Winfrey. "She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person. I don't know a better person."
Yes, Winfrey goes on to dismiss the old rumor that she and King are lovers, but I'm still swooning over her eloquent PDA. Tears, verklempt pauses, the whole heart-to-heart caboodle. Jeez, Oprah even gives away compliments better than anyone else!
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Representative Lucy McBath, of Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, at the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C.
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For many years, maybe since the expiration of the assault-rifle ban, gun regulation in this country has been on the ropes. We've seen one mass shooting after another. You know the names: Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Orlando, Thousand Oaks, Las Vegas, Charleston, Parkland, Pittsburgh. And, through all of them, the N.R.A. has pushed to expand gun rights. It argues that the answer to so much violence is simply more guns. President Trump has even suggested that teachers should be packing in classrooms in order to prevent school shootings. And now the N.R.A. is looking to expand its horizons from the U.S.—to Brazil, to Australia, and to other countries.
Amid this controversy, though, for the first time in eight years, the House of Representatives has resumed hearings on gun violence. Are the political winds finally shifting toward reform? On The New Yorker Radio Hour, David Remnick asked Representative Lucy McBath, who ran for Congress as a gun reformer—and won—in the conservative Georgia district once represented by Newt Gingrich. In this interview, Remnick and McBath discuss universal background checks, the Second Amendment, and the potential to change gun culture in America.
This conversation has been edited and condensed.
David Remnick: Lucy McBath's connection to the issue of gun violence couldn't be more intimate or more tragic. Her teen-age son Jordan was shot and killed, in 2012. He was sitting in an S.U.V. at a gas station in Florida. What happened?
Lucy McBath: Well, it was the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, November 23, 2012, and the boys, Jordan and three of his friends, were simply going shopping. They stopped at a gas station, a convenience store, just for a matter of three and a half minutes. Jordan had said to the boys, "If you're going to go to the next mall, you know, we need chewing gum," you know, "We gotta have fresh breath for the girls." And so, in that three and a half minutes, they stopped at the Gate gas station, and Michael Dunn drives in and parks next to them on the passenger side. Then, that three and a half minutes, he started a verbal altercation with the boys over the volume of their music, considered them, called them gang bangers and thugs, because they wouldn't turn the music down. And then he started the verbal altercation, shot ten rounds into the car, and simply drove away.
I'm so sorry. It is beyond horrendous, and I, it's just very hard to ask a next question. One of your responses to the death of your son was to get deeply into politics. But the other, which is is quite incredible, I think, for some people to get their arms around—see, Michael Dunn was eventually convicted of first-degree murder, and you requested that prosecutors not push for the death penalty.
We never considered pushing for the death penalty because I firmly believe that I am not the one to choose who lives and who dies. Morally and ethically, I believe that decision is left to God. We suffered so much pain and so much anguish, and I actually did not want to be the one to inflict that upon his family, and I didn't want to be rooted in those kinds of decisions, because I truly believed that would be the noose around my neck and I would not be able to move forward to actively champion for safer gun laws and a safer gun culture, because that's what I believed that I was given to do, and I couldn't do that without forgiveness, and I couldn't do that without releasing myself.
Do you feel that justice has been served? Michael Dunn is serving a life sentence in prison.
Yes, I do believe that Michael Dunn is, you know, actually in prison for the rest of his life. However, you know, justice is never really completely served, because those young men that were in the car with [Jordan], they still suffer, they will still suffer from the implications of this trauma, so no there's no justice in that. And then there's so many people around the country that still continue to suffer violently by unnecessary gun violence, and so on. Until we can eradicate this extremist culture, still, justice is not served.
One of your first official acts as a newly elected member of Congress was to co-sponsor a bill that requires universal background checks for buying a gun. Now, why did you and your fellow-Democrats choose that particular issue related to gun control as your opening bid? Why universal background checks?
Well, because, you know—and in light of all the work that I've done around the country the last six years—what we've begun to understand is that universal background checks for all gun sales is probably the No. 1 most common-sense way to be able to change the extremist culture that we're living under. You've got over ninety per cent of Americans in the country—and this is including, you know, law-abiding gun owners and hunters and law enforcement—that believe universal background checks is probably the greatest way to save as many lives as possible.
But I'm confused. So, nationally, we've got polls that say that a lot of public support for more regulation of weapons is, well, that's growing. And in many states, including your own, legislatures are going in the opposite direction and loosening access to guns. So what's really going on politically?
Well, the difference there is that, you know, there is a lot of influence from the N.R.A. gun lobby, and the N.R.A. gun lobby has for years and years now pre-crafted a lot of legislation and passed it to specific legislators and said, "Look, you know, if you want to have our support, then you pass this legislation." And you know, also, too—it's just, you know, the fear-mongering that you need to be afraid of people that don't look, think, or act like you. Everyone's coming to get your gun. And that's just once they—once you pass background checks, then what's going to happen next? Well, you know, that's just simply not the truth. A lot of the work that I do is dispelling that false narrative, and I think specifically, with the last election, we saw numbers of people going to the polls, numbers of young people going to the polls, and the No. 1 issue that they were going on is guns. And so I think that you know more and more members of Congress are going to have to really pay heed and attention, they're going to have to take a very critical look at, you know, trying to find some solutions to the existing gun culture that no one is immune from.
I'm curious to know how you framed the issue—you won in a district that was held by Newt Gingrich. This is not a liberal district. It's not John Lewis's district, in the Atlanta area. It's quite different. How did you go about talking about guns during your campaign, and manage to win?
Well, you know, I did, I have to be very honest, there are people who kept saying to me, in the very beginning, "Don't run on guns, you can't win. You know, there's no sentiment for it." And I basically told my story. Because I am a mother, I'm still a mother. And, you know, this is one of the kinds of tragedies that no mother, no family ever wants to have to consider. And as we have continued to watch over and over again all of these tragedies around the country, and most recently, you know, what happened with Parkland, I think that that came too close to home for a lot of the families in my district. And so there were a lot of mothers that were appealing to me because they know they don't want to be in my club.
Now, I realize you're in a highly politicized atmosphere; you've got to hold on to your seat—even though you've just entered into it, it comes up every two years now. Do you think the Second Amendment is something worth preserving?
I am a strong supporter and proponent of the Second Amendment. Always have been. It's not about infringing upon the rights of people to own guns as gun enthusiasts or hunters, but what it is, is it is getting people to understand that we have to put in place common-sense measures. Just basic measures to keep guns out of the hands of individuals that should not have them.
This is what's hard for someone like me, who comes with all the obvious prejudice—sitting where I am, and I don't own a gun—but there are hunters in Europe who own guns legally. But the structure of gun laws is so much stricter, and the corresponding rate of murders and accidental deaths and all the rest is so much lower. Isn't that a more desirable way to live our lives, or is it just impossible because of the peculiar nature of American history and our relationship to guns?
I would most definitely say it's more desirable to live without the carnage of gun violence. But I think, you know, based upon our Second Amendment and, you know, our Founding Fathers, you know, people protecting themselves in their territories and things of that nature, I think that has just, guns has been a culture and a way of life for American society, almost, in a sense, guns are a religion here.
Guns are religion—is that something that's just going to go on in perpetuity? Do you think that will fade?
I think it's a matter of just trying to change a culture that has become very extremist. And that takes time, and that takes effort. A lot of people really enjoy guns. A lot of people really like having guns. I am not one, but I don't want to infringe upon anyone that, you know, is law-abiding and using their guns properly, so I understand the nature of change. It does not happen overnight. It's taken us twenty-five, thirty years to get to this point, and, if change is to be positive and effective, it is done slowly.
Since 2005, I think it is, the gun industry has enjoyed broad protection from liability litigation, like the types of lawsuits which, in the end, destroyed big tobacco in the nineties. Would you like to see those kind of laws repealed?
Well, you know, if you start talking about repealing laws immediately, then that's when everybody gets up in arms, and it makes it much harder to be able to change the laws. So sometimes it's just a matter of amending bit by bit to be able to get the law to the point where it is feasible and acceptable to gun owners and people that are not gun owners.
You know, it seems that people are not going to move on this issue unless it's deeply personalized, and they see it in front of their faces. As one instance of that, the other day, Senator Kamala Harris, who's running for President, told a CNN town hall that gun control would have been possible in 2012, after the massacre at Sandy Hook, if legislators had been locked in a room and shown the autopsy photographs of those children.
You know, I have to honestly say, the biggest movement and shift that we've seen in this culture is simply because of the victims. When victims and survivors are coming to the legislative bodies and they're telling their stories and they're appealing, we've seen movement. We've seen movement. And so it's a matter of changing one mind and one heart at a time. You change the culture, and the policy change comes right on the heels of that.
Sourse: newyorker.com


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It seems like every Fall season I have a million things I want to do but I always seem to loose track of time and can never complete them all (I think this is just adult life, right!?) Well I am going to start a experiment this month for my fun "to do's" and see if that helps me accomplish them. At the end of the month I will do another post and own up to the things I was not able to accomplish. See below for my handful of fun things to do in October…
I am curious to know if any of you use a productivity planner or how you keep your to do's in order – let me know in the comments
Have a great start to the week!


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TS POLYCET 2018 (Telangana State Polytechnic Common Entrance Test) is conducted by State Board of Technical Education and Training. It is a state level entrance exam conducted once in every year. It is conducted for the candidates seeking admission in polytechnic courses in various colleges of Telangana State.
- TS POLYCET 2018 is scheduled in 3rd week of April, 2018
- Online application form will be available from 2nd week of March, 2018.
- Candidates can fill the application form till 2nd week of March, 2018. Application Form submitted after the last date will not be considered for exam.
- Candidates must be a citizen of India and a resident of State of Telangana/ Andhra Pradesh. There is no age criteria for the candidates.
- Candidates can check their result online from the official website by entering the roll number and date of birth.
- Successful candidates will be called for counselling process. Counselling process will begin from 1st week of July, 2018.
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TS POLYCET 2018 Exam Dates
TS POLYCET 2018 is scheduled in 3rd week of April, 2018. Candidates can fill the application form from 2nd week of March, 2018. TS POLYCET 2018 Result will be declared in 1st week of May, 2018. Candidates will be called for counselling process from July, 2018. Given below are the important dates for TS POLYCET 2018. The dates given below are tentative and subject to change.
Here we are providing the tentative exam schedule of TS Polycet 2018:
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|Online application starts
|2nd week of March 2018
|Last date to fill online application form
|2nd week of April 2018
|TS POLYCET Exam date
|3rd week of April 2018
|Declaration of Result
|1st week of May 2018
|Counselling starts from
|1st week of July 2018
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- There is no age limit criteria for applying.
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- Candidates need to score 35% marks in order to get eligible for TS POLYCET
- Candidates must have studied mathematics as a compulsory subject
- Candidates appearing in qualifying examination are eligible to apply.
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|Mode of exam
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|2 hours
|Number of questions
|Number of sections
|Type of questions
|Objective Type
|English and Telugu
|Negative Marking
|No Negative Marking
TS POLYCET 2018 checks the candidate's knowledge in the subjects of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The three section comprises of three different subjects. The section of Mathematics carry the highest number of questions i.e. 60. Whereas the section of Physics and Chemistry carry 30 question each.
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Syllabus for Mathematics
- Number System.
- Sets.
- Real Numbers.
- Polynomials.
- Algebra.
- Quadratic Equations.
- Linear Equations.
- Trigonometry.
- Progressions.
- Geometry.
- Coordinate Geometry.
- Surface Areas & Volume.
- Mensuration.
- Probability.
- Statistics.
- Mathematical Modeling.
Syllabus for Physical Science
- Heat.
- Chemical Equations & Reactions.
- Reflection of Light.
- Acids, Bases & Salts.
- Refraction of Light at Plane Surface.
- Refraction of Light at Curved Surface.
- Human Eye & Colorful World.
- The Structure of Atom.
- Classification of Elements.
- Chemical Bonding.
- Electricity.
- Magnetic Effects of Electric Current.
- Metallurgy.
- Carbon & its Compounds.
TS Polycet Result 2018
The TS Polycet 2018 result is expected to be announced in the first week of May 2018. Candidate must score 36% marks out of 120 to qualify the examination. Rank card will be issued within one week from the date of declaration the result. The marks obtained by the candidate will be considered for making rank list. On the basis of rank, the admission will be offered in the diploma courses.
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