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1. Letter from Leicestershire police- 13.02.2009
On apprend qu'une question est assujettie au coût de la réponse, ce qui ne semble pas illégitime, s'agissant de fonds publics :
A request shouldn't exceed the cost limit of £600 specified in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004. Under section 12 of the Act, the Home Office is not obliged to comply with an information request where to do so would exceed the cost limit. We are therefore unable to comply with it.
2. Who was listening to Kate and Gerry McCann?
Daily Mirror (l'article n'est plus en ligne )- 18.02.2009
By Jon Clements
A few days ago I received an interesting letter from Leicestershire police about the Madeleine McCann investigation.
I had asked them, in July, if they had got any warrants (under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) to use surveillance powers - such as phone tapping and email interception on behalf of the Portuguese police.
The force initially stalled saying it needed to "consult other Agencies" before replying.
After a six month delay, Leicestershire has now claimed it is exempt from Freedom of Information laws in this case due to "national security".
I've put in dozens of FOI requests to police forces over the years, some you get and some you don't but "national security" is a new one on me.
To make matters even murkier, Leicestershire claimed a second exemption because the information I requested could relate to "the Security bodies".
A quick look at the FOI Act reveals "Security bodies" are MI5, MI6, GCHQ (pictured above), special forces (such as the SAS) and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
Despite claiming these exemptions, Leicestershire seem at pains to neither confirm nor deny they hold any information relevant to my request anyway.
Check out (slowly I suggest) the tortuous conclusion to the three page letter explaining their stance.
"It is our decision that the Leicestershire Constabulary must maintain a position of neither confirming nor denying that any relevant information is held and that this response, which neither confirms nor denies that information is held, should not be taken as conclusive evidence that the information you have requested exists or does not exist".
Thanks, but I think that is a rather long-winded way of saying Foxtrot Oscar.
However, it does beg the question just who was bugging the McCanns after they returned from Praia da Luz?
And what has the answer got to do with national security?
3. Kate and Gerry McCann, and national security - update
18.02.2009 - Daily Mirror
By Jon Clements
I've just spoken to the McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell who has declined to comment.
Quite sensible, really.
After all, you never know who's listening do you?
Quite sensible, really.
After all, you never know who's listening do you?
4. The McCann national security documents
20.02.2009 - Daily Mirror
By Jon Clements
Thanks for taking so much interest in my post about the McCanns and "national security".
I have to say I'm a bit surprised that some of you think this proves that much about what happened to Madeleine, though.
From my point of view, it suggests Kate and Gerry may, I stress may, have been subjected to an unusual - perhaps unprecedented - degree of surveillance after the returned to the UK.
I'm not sure it indicates that much about what has happened to her and where she may be now.
I've made some more inquiries and it it would appear that the most likely agency involved in any bugging would be the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).
They provide a lot of "technical assistance" to small police forces who don't have the skills or equipment to mount a major surveillance operation.
As some of you have pointed out, they work closely with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre (CEOP) who carry out some very complicated and delicate operations against paedophiles.
5. McCann update: the deliberate mistake..?
26.02.2009 - Daily Mirror
By Jon Clements
Forgot to post this earlier letter from Leicestershire police dated 04.08.2008, in which they acknowledged my request under the Freedom of Information Act.
See if you can spot the unfortunate mistake in the letter.
The individual concerned apologised for the error and I accepted their assurances it was a slip of the pen not anything else.

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Your vote can help victims of domestic abuse to rebuild their lives
We've recently taken part in a bid to win just over £33,000 to help deliver money advice services to male and female victims of domestic abuse, and we need your help to win.
For the competition, to be awarded funds from NatWest from their Skills and Opportunties Fund, ACT have bid to provide financial capability workshops and sessions to around 200 victims of domestic abuse, giving them confidence and knowledge to rebuild their lives and move forward.
Victims of domestic abuse, particulary those fleeing violence whilst having to protect their families, are in a very vulnerable situation: our experience shows that many victims are unaware of the financial situation that the perpetrator has left them in – we encounter mortgages and loans being taken out in the victim's name and debt transferred to the victim without their knowledge or with no understanding of the consequences. Working with victims of domestic abuse who may be male or female, ACT will help them to understand their finances and the financial situation the perpetrator has created – taking control, often for the first time, developing their money management skills, we will help them to rebuild their lives and their children's lives, free from abuse.
Currently we deliver our financial capability services on an outreach basis but the new funding will allow us to expand and work within domestic abuse refuges and other places of safety, and will allow us to incorporate it within other victim programmes. A broad menu of money advice options will be tailored to individuals, families and settings and the funds will allow us to:
- improve the prospects of more beneficiaries and their children
- explore new ways of working
- develop stronger partnerships between agencies/services and provide professionals, such as those working in refuges to improve their knowledge of financial capability and their understanding of the impact of financial abuse
- build our evidence and impact base
- highlight awareness of financial abuse
- provide robust evidence for the incorporation of financial capability support into public sector services
We are very aware that money advice and support is needed in our area; during 2016/7 we worked with around 1500 victims of abuse, and their dependents – 90% of these people required timely access to flexibile and responsive money advice services. Of the 35 agencies with whom we work closely in the area of domestic abuse, 100% have expressed support for financial capability services.
We were fortunate to be selected by the National Money Advice Service's What Works Fund to deliver an innovative evaluation of our money advice service. We commissioned the University of Suffolk to evaluate the effectiveness of our money advice service delivery model for survivors of domestic abuse in Suffolk and the emerging findings (finalised report to be publicised in April), show that our model elicited a statistically significant improvement in the financial confidence and knowledge of victims. Read more about the research here: http://blog.fincap.org.uk/2018/03/14/bridging-the-evidence-gap-financial-capability-and-domestic-abuse/
Each of the charities applying for funding are now dependent upon a public vote to decide where the money is awarded. To vote for ACT, visit: http://skillsandopportunitiesfund.natwest.com/vote and vote for us in the Midlands and East area.


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Hi honeys,
Today I thought I'd share my most recent organizing project. Do you adore pashmina scarves/shawls as much as I do? I don't have very many but I needed to find a way to store them carefully in order to take care of them.
Let's see what I did shall we?
So, being too terrified to take them out of the bag in case anything happened to them, but so wanting to be able to see them :) I wanted to figure out a safe way to store them and I think I have :)


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THE family of 18-year-old musician Michael Molloy who was killed in the Bestival coach crash hope to launch one of his songs as a single at a memorial night.
Michael, from Woolton, died along with Kerry Ogden, 23, from Maghull, and driver Colin Daulby, 63, from Warrington, when the coach they were in crashed on the A3 in Hindhead, Surrey, while travelling back from Bestival in the Isle of Wight in September.
His brother Joe, 22, said plans were underway to release the song Rise and Fall, recorded by Michael with friend Alex Evans.
The track, which was the last song recorded by guitarist Michael, was posted on Facebook and Twitter after his death.
Joe said: "As soon as it happened I just wanted to get Michael's music out there.
"We were approached by a few record labels who were interested in releasing it but we decided to go with the Bestival record label because it seemed most suitable and they seemed the most genuine.
"They've done so much for us since the crash they haven't needed to. They have been amazing."
Bestival organiser and Radio One DJ Rob da Bank announced earlier this week that a memorial night for the victims would be held at Liverpool club Nation on March 30.
Joe said: "There is nothing definite yet but we'd like to release the single at the same time. My aim is to get it to number one."
Joe said the family were planning to set up a foundation in Michael's name which proceeds from the single will go to.
He said: "We want to do something with music in Liverpool, to nurture musicians.
"Michael was of the opinion that music just isn't the same as it used to be and we want to make an impact on that.
"He gave guitar lessons and liked helping people with music.
"I think the best way to remember Michael is to do things the way he'd do them.
"We also want to raise money for Zach Washington-Young who was in the coach crash.
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Joe said that the reaction he had from people after hearing the single had been unbelievable.
He said: "People come out of nowhere and tell me they're amazed by Michael and they play his song all the time.
"The amount of compliments I've had from strangers has been unbelievable."
Joe said the family was still struggling to come to terms with Michael's death.
He added: "Things are still very hard. We haven't got a Christmas tree up. We're all still heartbroken.
"Releasing Joe's song as a single has given me some purpose.
"I just didn't know what to do with myself after he died but what he's left behind in memories and music has given me a lot to think about.
"I hope that with the song and with the foundation we can do something really great."


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I have followed the work of Katsunori Yamaguchi for about five years now, ever since discovering him on Flickr, where he is better known as Moonchild1111. His images are darkly obsessive and melancholic, and yet serenely beautiful all at once. I am consistently drawn into and mesmerized by his repetitive thematic sequences. Always keeps me guessing and asking for more. Katsunori shoots almost exclusively with film, and with one of the most amazing collections of cameras and lenses I have ever seen. One of the most interesting things about his Flickr stream is that he lists the camera, lens, and film used under every photograph he posts, and one visit through his images will quickly reveal an incredible collection of equipment.
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There are deals for appetites large and small. The off-season is ripe with specials and multicourse menus for foodies on a budget. But you'd better get a move on – like anything good, summer fades too soon.
COMING WEDNESDAY IN FOOD & DINING: Several pages of summer dining specials, online and in print.
Read about other local dining deals, offered at Meat Market, Eau Palm Beach, Rapoport Restaurants, La Ferme, PB Catch,Grimaldi's, Morton's, Zinburger, Jereve Culinary Studio, Evo Italian, and Vic & Angelo's PGA.


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By Michael Hiltzik
Aetna's announcement this week that it was pulling out of most of the states where it was serving the Obamacare individual exchanges was a head-scratcher; after all, just three months earlier, Chief Executive Mark Bertolini was calling its participation in the market "a good investment," despite near-term losses.
Bertolini also had tried to tamp down speculation that its withdrawal was anything like a payback for the government's move to block its $37-billion merger with Humana. That was "a separate conversation" from its evaluation of the exchange business, he said during an Aug. 2 conference call with Wall Street analysts.
Now evidence has emerged that Aetna was lying. The smoking gun is a July 5 letter from Bertolini to Ryan Kantor of the Justice Department, unearthed by Jonathan Cohn and Jeffrey Young of the Huffington Post via a Freedom of Information Act request. In the letter, sent before the DOJ formally announced it would sue to block the Humana deal, Bertolini explicitly ties the two issues together.
"Our analysis to date makes clear that if the deal were challenged and/or blocked we would need to take immediate actions to mitigate public exchange and ACA small group losses," Bertolini wrote. "Specifically, if the DOJ sues to enjoin the transaction, we will immediately take action to reduce our 2017 exchange footprint. We currently plan, as part of our strategy following the acquisition, to expand from 15 states in 2016 to 20 states in 2017. However, if we are in the midst of litigation over the Humana transaction, given the risks described above, we will not be able to expand to the five additional states."
All in all, Bertolini said, if the merger were blocked, "instead of expanding to 20 states next year, we would reduce our presence to no more than 10 states. ... [W]e believe it is very likely that we would need to leave the public exchange business entirely and plan for additional business efficiencies should our deal ultimately be blocked."
As it happens, Aetna is cutting its participation to only four states.
Aetna's withdrawal was widely interpreted as the latest in a series of blows to the Affordable Care Act exchanges. UnitedHealth Group had started the trend among major insurers last year, when it announced plans to bail out as of 2017. United, though the nation's biggest health insurer overall, was a minor participant in the exchanges, however. But Humana, Aetna's would-be merger partner, also announced a large-scale withdrawal from the exchange business. Other major insurers, including Cigna and Anthem--whose own plan to merge also has drawn opposition from the DOJ--have said they are still losing money on the exchanges but haven't announced plans to cut back.
The merger partners have said that their deals are necessary to position them for the post-Obamacare healthcare world by strengthening their internal finances. The DOJ, however, maintains that the deals would reduce competition, which is necessary to keep ACA plan prices down.
Aetna spokesman T.J. Crawford told us by email that there's no inconsistency between the Bertolini's letter and his disavowal of a specific connection, since the merger is aimed at improving Aetna's financial strength, a key to its participation in the Affordable Care Act exchanges. That impact "should not come as a surprise given a loss of deal synergies coupled with a potential break-up fee would raise further questions about sustaining a position in a business where we have yet to break even," he observed.
Crawford said the letter was a direct response to the DOJ's request for information on how the costs of a failed merger would affect "Aetna's participation on the public exchanges related to the Affordable Care Act" and any other changes in its business plan.
In any event, Crawford continued, Aetna's decision to pull back from the ACA exchanges was based on fundamental economic analysis. After the letter was sent, he said, "we gained full visibility into our second quarter individual public exchange results, which -- similar to other participants on the public exchanges -- showed a significant deterioration. That deterioration, and not the DOJ challenge to our Humana transaction, is ultimately what drove us to announce the narrowing of our public exchange presence for the 2017 plan year."
The problem with these arguments is that Aetna had previously treated its participation in the exchanges as a sound business decision, despite its failure to break even in the market's early years. Bertolini laid out a detailed case for continuing to serve the exchanges as recently as April, when he boasted of serving 1.2 million customers on ACA health plans. That was the foundation of a good business line, he told Wall Street analysts.
"If we were to go out and buy those members, it would cost us somewhere around $1.2 billion to acquire them," he said. "If we were to build out 15 markets, it would cost us somewhere between $600 million to $750 million to enter those markets and build out the capabilities necessary to grow that membership. So in the broad scheme of things, we are well, well below any of those numbers from the standpoint of losses we've incurred in the first two-and-a-half years of this program." He said he hoped that the administration would become more flexible in mandating specifications for ACA plans, but in any event "we see this as a good investment."
The company's claim that only after April did it realize how bad things were beggars credibility. Aetna has been selling health insurance since 1899 and has been in the Obamacare market since the exchanges opened for business in 2014. From the inception it took the long view, as Bertolini explained in April. As we observed earlier, if the economics of the exchanges really caught it by surprise between April and August, it should fire its entire financial analysis team. The only thing that really changed in that time frame was the DOJ's move against the merger.
Indeed, two of our most assiduous Obamacare-trackers, Richard Mayhew of Balloon-juice.com and Charles Gaba of ACASignups.net, put the lie to Aetna's poor mouthing as it applies to one state it's departing, Pennsylvania. In both 2014 and 2015, they show, Aetna turned a profit on its ACA exchange business in that state-- $6.4 million on $60 million in premiums in 2014, net of claims and administrative expenses, and $13.6 million profit on $71.4 million in premiums in 2015. The figures come from Aetna's rate filings with the state, in which the company also says it expects to record a profit of 3.9% there in 2017.
How does the profitability of its Pennsylvania business square with Aetna's assertion that it can't afford to continue serving customers in the state? It doesn't. Nor is there an obvious explanation for why, if it was picking and choosing which states to abandon, it would include one where it's in the black. As Mayhew says, "Something stinks worse than a wrestling team's locker room after two-a-days."
We've mentioned before that the government isn't entirely powerless to goad big insurers like Aetna into greater participation in the ACA exchanges. Among other things, the companies make money hand over fist by serving Medicaid expansions in many states and in Medicare managed-care plans. Why not tie their access to those lucrative markets to sticking with the exchanges until they're finally stabilized?
Bertolini implicitly tied Aetna's participation in Obamacare to a green light from the government on the Humana merger. But two can play that game.
(c)2016 the Los Angeles Times


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Happy Father's Day!Posted: June 17th, 2018 | Author: timp67 | Filed under: T Writes | Tags: Dads, Dogs, family, Holidays | No Comments »
Thanks, Dad, for all you've put up with. You're the best!
Yes, Dad can eat this tie. Image and step-by-step instructions on how to make this cake found here.
Dad can eat this tie, too. But he might get a brain freeze. Image (and ice-cream cake by): Carvel.


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The Best Festivals to Attend this September
Summer may be officially over, but there's still a party atmosphere in Ireland this month. The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness provides an ideal time to get in the festival mode. Here are some top picks for your perusal. Don't put those festival flowered wellies and rain ponchos away just yet.
Kicking off this Friday 8th September, West Cork's annual food festival gets into full swing till 17th September this month. This year's programme covers over 230 events in 36 towns and eight islands off the West Cork coast. Kicking off the event on Friday 8th from 11am is The Future of Fairs and Markets in Ireland with Darina Allen of Ballymaloe Cookery School among the speakers. Other members taking part include:
Kalbos of North Street in Skibbereen hosts foodwriter Joe McNamee as guest chef on Sunday 10th September.
Poachers Inn in Bandon welcomes guest chef Bryan McCarthy of Greene's Restaurant Cork Sunday 10th September.
Durrus Cheese hosts a cheesemaking workshop at the farm where Jeffa Gill first made her award winning cheese on the Sheep's Head Peninsula in West Cork. Monday 11th September (numbers limited).
Barry McLaughlin of Poachers Inn joins forces with Derry Clarke of L'Ecrivain to cook with a 'mystery box' of ingredients at Celtic Ross Hotel Rosscarbery West Cork, Monday 11th September.
Glenilen Farm hosts an open morning showcasing its award winning dairy production in Drimoleague, West Cork. Taking place Tuesday 12th September (numbers limited).
The Church Restaurant in Skibbereen welcomes Bryan McCarthy of Greene's as guest chef. Bryan will be using a host of local and seasonal ingredients to wow customers in this magnificent restaurant location on Thursday Sept 14th. Booking essential.
Kevin Aherne of Sage Restaurant in Midleton, is guest cheffing at the spectacular Inish Beg Boathouse on this beautiful estate just outside Baltimore, West Cork, on 14th September.
Ross Lewis of Chapter One takes centre stage at the festival grand finale, cooking at The Mews restaurant in Baltimore. Working with Mews Head Chef Ahmet Dede, a former protégé of Ross Lewis, the pair will collaborate to create a tasting menu with the wow factor!
Probably one of the most famous festivals Ireland has ever held. Year on year, this festival attracts singletons from all over the world, looking for lasting love and romance, or at least a little bit of craic in this little village in Co Clare! Matchmaking is one of Ireland's oldest traditions. Famous Matchmaker Willy Daly will be on hand to offer his services in the Matchmaker Bar. Legend has it if you touch his magic book with both hands, you will be married in six months! Better take it seriously now!
While you're in Lisdoonvarna, don't forget to call in to the Burren Smokehouse Visitor Centre, The Roadside Tavern and The Burren Storehouse, all owned by artisan smoked salmon and craft beer producers Birgitta and Peter Curtin. Who incidentally, met while Birgitta was visiting Ireland from her native Sweden for this very matchmaking festival quite some years ago now. She met Peter and the rest, as they say, is history. So this festival can not only bring forth a life partner, but the possiblity of meeting someone with whom you can create an award winning business while you're at it! Willy's magic book at work! The festival is running now till 8th October, so plenty of time to go west and look for love…
Running this weekend 9th & 10th September, this festival takes place on the majestic Airfield Estate in Dundrum Co. Dublin. This year's theme is Food Literacy: Unearthing the Knowledge Gap. During the weekend you'll get to meet the Airfield team, including farmer Eamon Younger, Airfield CEO Grainne Kelleher and the Airfield Gardeners and Growers. A full programme will be available on the Airfield Stand, with times for meeting these special people. You'll also learn about the history and heritage of Airfield Estate and browse stalls of over 40 artisan producers who will be present for the two day event.
Don't miss Silke Croppe from Corleggy Cheese, included in the list of guest speakers throughout the weekend. Free admission and lots for the kids to get involved in too. This is a proper family event.
This is Ireland's largest agricultural based event, with a massive 283,000 visitors in 2016 and an increase in that figure expected in 2017. This year, the championships return to Sceggan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly. All the usual sights to be seen, from big machinery for the farmers to admire, sheep shearing demos, livestock and farming product stands, to arts, crafts, food stalls and cookery demos. And the ploughing. Don't forget the ploughing. Running from 19th -21st September. We don't want to jinx things, but the National Ploughing Championships can turn into a mudbath when it rains. Almost 300 thousand pairs of feet will do that to a wet field! Spare clothes and wellies essential!
Oysters are the buzzword for September, as the month heralds the start of the wild native oyster season. The Galway Oyster and Seafood Festival began in 1954 and is still going strong, year on year. Oysters and the fresh seafood off the Galway coast are the stars of the show at this festival, running 22nd to 24th September.
Familiar events include the famous World Oyster Opening Championships. If you love oysters, Galway is THE place to be this month! Galway members include Heron's Rest Boutique B&B, Aniar and Loam michelin starred restaurants and Eat at Massimo for casual gastro pub food. All worth a visit during festival time.
Happening on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th September, this is the place for all vegetarians and vegans to gather. Griffith Conference Centre in Dublin 8 is the venue for what promises to be a bigger and better Vegfest than ever before. The Vegan Food Village is there to browse all day on both days. Guest speakers include Ails Brosnan Healthy Living Coach and Earthling Ed, Vegan Activist, among others.


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The Seattle Mariners don't sponsor a road race in the area, and I wonder how popular it would be if they did. I'm a die-hard Mariners (dying hard these days), and I would sign up for it. But would thousands of others? Also, how much would the Mariners spend on it, and how well organized would the event be?
I thought about this last Sunday, after running in my fifth Seahawks 12K/5K Run, and then watching the Mariners give up a 9-3 lead to the Angels in the 9th inning and lose 10-9, to finish the season's first week at 1-6. The Seahawks have given us a Super Bowl victory and have played in three Super Bowls since 2005. The Mariners have not been in the playoffs since 2003 and have never made it to the World Series.
In this post, I won't try to compare the two organizations. Everybody knows that one has a better track record than the other, and one has Seattle's attention much more than the other.
I just want to bring it up to point out the Seahawks do a great job with the annual Seahawks 12K/5K event. I enjoy running it each year. 2017 was no different, even if my times are not improving.
Reasons to like this road race
Why do I think the Seahawks do a good job with this run?
The Seahawk presence is huge: Several Seahawks' Sea Gal cheerleaders were prominent at the starting line, and so were members of Blue Thunder, the team's all-purpose marching band. And there was Blitz, the Seahawk mascot. Linebacker Kevin Pierre-Louis fired the starting gun. All in all, the Seahawks organization was well-represented.
- The shirts and medals are always classy: I liked this year's event shirt — a long-sleeved tech running shirt with a hoodie — as much as any of the five I have now. I liked it so much that I wore it on race day (usually I don't wear an event shirt until after I have completed the run).
- There are more than enough volunteers: Lots of course marshals and others are on hand to keep runners going the right way, staff the water stations and hand out medals. But it so nice to see other volunteers offering encouragement and high-fiving runners on Lake Washington Boulevard. Most runs don't have this volunteer support.
- The 12K course runs along Lake Washington and includes a loop around the Seahawks' training facility: For at least some people, getting a chance to see the Seahawks' headquarters building (the Virginia Mason Athletic Center) and the team's lush green practice field is one of the biggest attractions of this run.
The Seahawk costume contest afterwards gives you a reason to stick around: I'd say 95 percent of the runners and walkers are dressed in Seahawk blue (or green and blue). Some go overboard with their outfits — many of these folks do it to enter the costume contest, where the prizes include game tickets and gift certificates to local restaurants. My vote went to the guy who dressed like a Seahawk blue alien from outer space (but he didn't get first place).
Watch the video on the Seahawks 12K Run home page for a good look at the highlights of the 2017 event.
About my race
I came away satisfied with my steady pace and my ability to finish with a bit of a kick, passing a few people. But when I found out my time, 1:40:53 (a 13:11 per mile pace), I was disappointed. It was behind both the 1:38:46 time I recorded for this race a year ago and the 1:39:32 I clocked in 2015. Full results are here. (My 12K PR is 1:06:57, run in 2005.)
The course is mostly but not completely flat. It has these annoying rolling hills on Lake Washington Boulevard that expend some energy to climb. But they aren't that difficult, even if most of the run (about 4.5 miles) is an out-and-back on Lake Washington Boulevard.
Despite my slower time, it was an exhilarating run with a spirited group of mostly Seahawks fans (I also saw fans of the Packers, Chiefs and 49ers doing the run). The weather was very accommodating as well, as the rain took the day off, the sun came out, and temperatures were mild and in the 50s.
Bottom line: I can't see not doing this run again.
Turnout drops again — and what's next
Some 4,805 runners and walkers completed the two races — 2,524 in the 12K and 2,281 in the 5K — which is a surprising decline from last year's 6,113 total and the 9,448 of 2015. I attribute the drop to simply more competition from an increasing number of area races.
It was great to see runner friend Mark Nelson on the 12K course; he'd just come out of the loop around the Virginia Mason Athletic Center as I was headed in and we passed each other on Lake Washington Boulevard. His wife Tyra, my former Zones teammate, ran the 5K, so I did not see her. Both ran great races! Congrats, Mark and Tyra!
Shelley Way, a former Microsoft teammate, finished just ahead of me in the 12K. Nice job, Shelley! Sorry I missed you. Congrats to all of the finishers.
My next event is a bicycle ride on April 29 called the Major Taylor Project. Organized by the Cascade Bicycle Club, the ride is 24 miles long through West Seattle and neighboring communities, and benefits youth cycling programs in that region. It sounded interesting enough for me to spend a few hours supporting this cause.
I will run again in the Fiesta 5K Ole! Run at Seattle's Volunteer Park on May 6 (which will be my 210th road race). I had a blast doing this race last year with several runner friends I work with at Allytics. I am also considering running the Kirkland Mother's Day Half Marathon a week later on May 14.
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Reviewed Nov. 15, 2010 by Armin
Industry / Consumer products
Established in 1984 by Michael Dell in our hometown of Austin, TX, Dell is one of the largest technology companies in the world with 96,000 employees and it is currently number 38 of the Fortune 500. Well known for its hardware, shipping 110,000 "systems" (laptops, desktops, and netbooks) every day around the world, Dell also provides a number of IT solutions for businesses and other organizations. Around summertime of this year, Dell began implementing an evolution of its very well recognized logo. The brand group at Dell was kind and resilient enough to share with us a bit of the back story. This implementation is merely the visible result of a process that started in 2007 when Dell announced an initiative to consolidate its more than 800 creative agencies around the world — 800! — that worked with its brand resulting in a "highly fractured brand for Dell." As an example, at one point, "Dell was using more than 15 different typefaces — and that was only for English." In 2009 Dell decided it was time to revisit its brand positioning "while analyzing why the brand value had been declining (most notably) in the past five years."
Many discoveries served as teaching tools in the process of repositioning the brand, including lack of a stated mission or purpose, changes in the business model, and parity in the parts and supply chain, and poor brand management. In addressing each issue and rediscovering its purpose, Dell dug deep into its heritage and got back to the basics: giving customers the power to do more with its technology solutions.
The rediscovery of this bedrock purpose allowed Dell's Global Creative internal design team to develop a set of design principles to guide treatment of the brand going forward. These principles, created with support from Stone Yamashita Partners, helped the Dell Global Creative team to bridge strategy and execution.
In taking ownership of the Dell brand the team established a direction, and then partnered with Lippincott to customize its look and feel. The team worked with type designer Jos Buivenga to tailor a typeface (Museo) specifically for Dell and they introduced a brighter palette led by a custom Dell blue solid ink formula that cannot be found in any color systems book.
In this way, too, the Dell logo was finally refined. The iconic mark — redrawn to support smaller applications, and with its own blue ring surrounding and protecting the wordmark — has already been rolled out across the company's millions of brand touch points. With support from Lippincott and Y&R, the Dell logo stands strong and is what you see today at Dell.com.
The brand redesign was not intended to be a radical revolution, but rather a practical evolution based on our established equities and alignment to the repositioning of our brand.
— Tommy Lynn, Dell Creative Director, Brand
I'm going to make an experienced guess and presume that most of the reactions to this evolution will be "Meh." Or, "Three years for… that?". Even "Why change at all?". In a way I share some of these feelings, except that it's important to understand the desired outcome: It's not about a radical change and it's about establishing who is the boss. The former is achieved by taking a look at the formal qualities of the logo and the second can only be achieved by introducing a revised logo that can then be enforced — had Dell stayed with the same exact logo and try to enforce consistent use, I think they would have had a really hard time doing it. This way, there is a right and wrong logo. A line in the sand from which they can move forward in a positive direction.
Once you consider this, the redesign is quite successful. It obviously retains the quirky, tilted "E" which, whether you like it or not, is as recognizable as IBM's stripes or Apple's apple, but it's now better integrated and the "E" going slightly over the X-height and under the baseline makes a big impact on the balance of the wordmark. Putting the wordmark within a ring is a good way of adding a secondary visual element that will help cement the recognition of the logo. I'm not an advocate of the original logo, and there are probably a number of other ways to visually evolve it, but the result is fairly decent lemonade from this particular lemon.
The choice of a customized version of Museo, on the other hand, is disappointing. The original isn't that interesting to begin with and because it is distributed as a free font it is widely used and is impossible to build any sense of ownership around it. If Dell went through the trouble of customizing and licensing a proprietary font, something more unique to Dell would have been more interesting.
The overall effect of the logo, the type, and the colors creates a softer and more unified look for Dell. We'll see if it remains this way once other agencies inevitably get their hands on it.
The way we bring the Dell brand to life in the marketplace is essential to building and enhancing customer loyalty at every touch point. Whether that customer is a CIO who needs to reduce power consumption in the datacenter, a researcher using a supercomputer to develop life-changing vaccines, or a student using the Internet to communicate with classmates in other countries; people everywhere want to trust their technology provider to deliver solutions that empower them to do and achieve more. This is the essence of the Dell brand and it's the foundation for our visual identity.
— Karen Quintos, Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Dell Inc.


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The experience of the games is one for you guys to check out for yourselves as all of Australia and New Zealand's best come together to compete over the weekend of May 27th to 29th to find the top athletes to travel to the states to compete in the world games.
So if your keen let us know as we are pricing up everything now and should be able to get a pretty good group discount on airfares and accommodation.
Also, if you are keen on putting your hand up for the team events let me know as we are hoping to get a crew over to compete at the regionals. Three males and three females will be selected to represent REX in Sydney.
I know a lot of you want to compete as individuals at the Sectionals, which is what you need to do anyway in order to qualify for the regionals, individual or team.
Not long now guys. Only a couple of weeks till the first WOD and all that hard training over the last year or so will be put to the test. For you just wanting to experience it, get involved as it will be for everyone of all levels of fitness.
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I never bothered to watch this until this year, so I more or less binge-watched. I found the show to be quite entertaining and fun. There's lots of symbolism in this show and that sort of thing always intrigues me. 'Oh, but you're a literalist', you say? Not quite! Only in word meaning, which I think is the best way to interpret most dialogue.
Symbolism serves a dual purpose, that being: 1)what the storytellers intend and 2)how the audience applies their own interpretation of it, and whether or not the two jive. The last part isn't really all that important. How the audience applies their interpretation, as unconscious as it may be, is paramount and what peaks interest by it.
There's no question in my mind that this show is centered around a mythical story highlighting female strength and courage and wisdom and mysticism. Many shows today are. I am the father of four females and so this interests me. My daughters are about as smart and wise as anyone I've ever known. I'd have no problem at all leaving my fate in their hands.
There are many easily decipherable symbols in GoT such as Dragons, which symbolize great power and strength. These are ancient or historical cultural symbols that have acknowledged universal meaning. However, there are lots of other symbols and representations of contemporary significance there.
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Yup, it's about that good -- but, I'd rather EAT it! I've also seen any of the following added to variations of this salad: apples, mandarin oranges, walnuts, marshmallows. (I add mandarin oranges to my vegan version). -LuAnn
1 bag cranberries, ground up
1 cup sugar
1 can crushed pineapple, drained
1 1/2 cups grapes (preferably red seedless), cut in half
Cool Whip
Mix cranberries, sugar, pineapple, and grapes together.
Let sit for one day in the refrigerator.
Drain off any excess liquid.
Add cool whip when ready to serve.
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2015 Peugeot RCZ | new car review
Great looks, almost akin to that of an Audi TT
Rear space is almost non-existent.
Peugeot's all have the same bulbous look these days, which frankly makes them look overweight and sluggish. But it's amazing how different it looks when bolted to a 2+2 seater sports-coupe body. Anyone would think it was an Audi TT from the side…
All is well inside the 2015 Peugeot RCZ. While the interior is not awash with racing pedigree, it is comfortable enough to make you smile. Obviously space is not in abundance, and in fact almost non-existent in the back, but it has enough charm to remind you that you're in a coupe.
The first thing you notice in the RCZ is the lack of space for rear passengers. Those with heads and legs may prefer to get a taxi. But those who decide that they would like to own an RCZ will care little for other passengers. Firm suspension is sure to provide an exciting ride. It comes with plenty of features, including keyless entry, automatic rain and light sensors, and an active rear spoiler.
What's on offer?
Under the hood, resides a 1.6 litre VVT turbo charged straight-4 engine that emits 163 horsepower and 240 Nm of torque. Mated to a 6 speed automatic transmission, the French coupe directs its grunt to the front wheels to accelerate to 100 km/h in 8.5 seconds and onto its 213 km/h top speed.
Summing it…
We like the Peugeot RCZ; it is a nice-looking coupe. But there is one major problem; it is only a few thousand Dirhams cheaper than the market-leading Audi TT. Telling your friends that you have an Audi will impress them, tell them you drive a Peugeot and they will think something's wrong with you. Of course they'll be wrong to assume that, because it is a good car. But would you honestly buy one over a TT? I'm not so sure.
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We offer you several ways to enjoy the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. Whether it's an Individual Advance Ticket, a Day Pass, or a full Festival Pass – it's easy to get engaged with the work of talented emerging filmmakers from around the world. We look forward to seeing everyone August 22-25, 2019!
Opening Night Ticket: Film & Party
On Opening Night, Thursday, August 22, we will screen one of our top films at 7:00pm at Town Hall Theater. An After Party at the beautiful Swift House Inn will follow. Opening Night Tickets are $60 and include both the screening and the party. Please note that Opening Night Tickets apply only to the events that evening and cannot be used during the remainder of the Festival.
Festival Pass
MNFF Festival Passes will be in limited supply for MNFF5. Fest Passes can be purchased for $85. Beginning August 1, the Fest Pass price will be $95. See as many films as you want with a Festival Pass, at any venue on any day of the Festival: Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Festival Pass holders will be seated first at all screenings. No seats are reserved but your place will be held until 10 minutes before show time. Festival Pass holders will also be entitled to attend the multiple parties being held over the three main screening days of the event. IMPORTANT NOTE: The Festival Pass does not include admission to the Opening Night Film & Party. That event requires an Opening Night Ticket.
FYI: Festival Passes are also available for $85 with some of our lodging partners through July 31. Please check when making reservations.
Day Pass
For $35, buy a Day Pass and see as many films as you want at any venue on any single day of your choosing, either Friday or Saturday or Sunday of the Festival. Day Pass holders receive priority seating following the seating of all Festival Pass holders. No seats are reserved but your place will be held until 10 minutes before show time.
Individual Advance Tickets
MNFF attendees can buy Individual Advance Tickets to any feature film during the Festival. Thanks to our partners at FilmFreeway, you can purchase an individual ticket in advance of the Festival for $15. The Individual Advance Ticket sales window will be open August 5-25, 2019, with no restrictions on how many can be purchased. However, quantities of tickets available at each venue are limited so be sure to move quickly. Individual Advance Ticket holders will be seated along with Day Pass holders beginning 10 minutes prior to screening, following the seating of Festival Pass holders. Tickets can be printed out through the FilmFreeway website.
Walk Up Tickets – Day of Show
For $12, you can buy a Walk Up ticket and see any individual film of your choice. But please note that Walk Up tickets are not available in advance online. They can be purchased at each venue's box office the day of the screening. Walk Up ticket holders will be seated following all Pass holders and Advance Ticket holders on a first come basis beginning 5 minutes prior to showtime.
Student Discount
For $50, college and high school students can purchase Festival Passes and, for $20, Day Passes. Buy your passes in person at the Town Hall Theater Box Office. Please bring a student ID with you.
Closing Night & Awards – FREE
The Closing Night Film and VTeddy Awards Presentation will take place at Town Hall Theater on Sunday, August 25 at 6:30pm. Admission is FREE. All are welcome on a first come, first seated basis.
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As any restaurant operator knows, brunch has been a growing trend for several years now. But this trend isn't limited to the weekends; your guests want more from their morning meal, every day of the week. Maybe it's because more and more Americans are working from home – or maybe it's because they're more focused on health than ever. Whatever the reason, breakfast just became the most important meal of the day for restaurants, as well as consumers.
Putting the Fast Back in Breakfast
28% of consumers would order breakfast for delivery if they could. If your restaurant doesn't already offer this option, you can start planning around what foods travel best. WIll your fried eggs still taste good after 20 minutes in styrofoam – or should you invest in plastic containers? Do your delivery drivers have enough room to safely transport 10 cups of coffee, or is it time to upgrade their cupholders? Make sure you have the infrastructure you need to keep your customers happy, all day, from anywhere.
Breaking Old Habits
What does "breakfast" mean to you? Is it the first meal of the day – or is it traditional American breakfast fare, like bacon, eggs, and hash browns? 46% of your guests would like to eat traditional breakfast foods at other times of day. Equip your kitchen with the proper ingredients – and enough space – to serve pancakes, sausage links, omelettes, and other staples during every meal. You may need to redesign your menu so breakfast items are included in every copy, but this small change is well worth the extra profits you'll see when guests order a side of bacon morning, noon, and night.
Break in New Trends
Your guests will always love the old favorites, but many of them also want newer options. For example, 26% of all consumers (and 35% of consumers aged 18-34) would like to see more breakfast options that feature chicken. A whopping 56% would like more breakfast dishes that are high in protein. These health-conscious eaters might enjoy protein shakes, chicken omelettes, or even chicken sausage. Dishes with many ingredients all mixed together – such as skillets or hash – are a great way to use up any inventory you may have on hand, while still enticing diners with a taste for healthy food.
Breakfast isn't for everyone – or for every restaurant. If you run a wine bar, for instance, you might not see the most foot traffic early in the morning. But for most restaurants, opening early represents an opportunity to capture more business, from loyal fans and brand new guests alike. Start your year off right, and use these trends to break into the most important meal of the day.


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Hello together,
i did not played the game for about 5 years and it is very sad, that i won't get developed any further, because it was very fun some years ago.:/
I bought the game around 2012 and haven't get a steam key.
I read that there are some mod developers for Towns around here and i wanted to try them, but i haven't the game on steam.
Maybe one of the developers can contact me and send me a key for the game please?
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iConnect: Spaghetti to Pizza Model Through Organizational Transformation
**NOTE** The venue for this session is not wheelchair accessible. It's a well-known fact that technology has been the backbone of banks. Decades of adding technical solutions has created a spaghetti like architecture in most leading banks making it expensive and complex to deliver client's experience in a timely fashion. How would bank technology compete with ever changing customer expectations and behaviours, non-bank FinTechs, regulatory pressures and respond to technology disruptions without impacting the operational expenditure? Open APIs, As a service (XaaS) models, Data and Digital uplifts along with the New Ways of Working bringing along with Agility, Better Customer Experience, Value Driven Scalability, Sustainability and Cost Optimization are some of the ingredients of organizational transformation recipe that would make a pizza out of the spaghetti. Connect with ANZ and find out more.


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However, recent research has been done on the concept of 'ethnic war' and scholars are coming to the conclusion that it might not even exist. Ethnicity is a factor in conflicts, but not the main reason for the conflict/war itself. The classic question is "what came first, the chicken or the egg?". This can be applied to so called "ethnic wars". Does ethnicity cause conflicts within nations or does the conflict exacerbate ethnic relations. This clearly poses an endogeneity problem.
Many people use the excuse that ethnicity is the cause of internal conflicts and say that there is a long history of tension and animosity between group A and group B (we could use Hutu and Tutsi in this example). But ethnicity is socially constructed. One is not born with an ethnic identity, but rather into it. Ethnic identity is very plastic; it can change easily with marriage, birth, religious affiliation and so on. Since ethnic identity is not concrete, it cannot therefore be the reason for conflicts. Going along with the example of Rwanda, Hutus did not have to be born to kill Tutsis - it isn't intrinsically part of their being. Today they manage to live in harmony without ethnicity posing any sort of problem.
So did ethnic identity cause the Rwandan genocide or did the political issues and elite manipulation exacerbate the tensions amidst the two ethnic groups?
So the question remains, what causes these "ethnic wars"?
Since we have debunked the myth of ethnic war, they can now be more accurately referred to as civil war. Political scientists have came up with a long list of various causes of civil wars in developing country (which is what an entire class I am taking is solely focused on) and they range from rough terrain, to weak state capacity, to rural populations, to elite manipulation, to natural resources, and to the old "greed and grievance" argument. Civil wars don't only break out because of one of these reasons, but it could be a combination of some or even all of these factors. I'll go more in depth on the causes of conflicts in developing nations in later posts, but first I want to ask why the genocide occurred in Rwanda...
At the time of the genocide in 1994, Rwanda was a role-model in sub-Saharan Africa: there was a large number of women in parliament, it had a good education system, it wasn't completely racked in poverty, and the prevalence of diseases was under control when compared to its counterparts. So how did the country collapse into such destruction so fast?
|Rwandan Refugee Camp in DRC
The reason of 'ancient ethnic hatred' has been debunked since ethnicity is socially constructed (although it can be used to mobilize people). I think the cause was the uncertainty of the situation at that time. There was a short time horizon when the conflict began which forces people to do things they might not otherwise do which made the population vulnerable and easy to manipulate. Hutus had the choice of either obeying and surviving or defecting and risk being killed. Faced with this choice, they chose living. Self-preservation and fear can be strong motivators.
I think the Rwandan genocide was not founded on old ethnic hatreds between Hutus and Tutsis but rather manipulation from the ruling elite and the uncertainty and fear that the majority of the population faced amidst the beginning of the crisis. Once the wheels of genocide started spinning, they were difficult to stop - the momentum builds and people begin to comply without questions. The combination of fear and war is capable of doing some pretty horrible things.


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Over on the SkyDrive team blog there's news of some improvements they've made. In case you haven't heard about it Windows Live Skydrive is our "Storage in the cloud" solution.
- 1 GB of storage
- RSS feeds – You can subscribe to RSS feeds on public folders
- Add a contact from the SkyDrive website (You no longer have to go to Hotmail or Messenger to add contacts to share with)
and Share with non Live IDs Now if you share with a non Live ID e-mail address will receive an e-mail with instructions on how to access the shared folder
- See who uploaded a file – it appears on the page that tells you all the details about a file
We put out press release at the end of September titled "Microsoft Charts Its Software Services Strategy and Road Map for Businesses", we've split "Office live" into two parts, the old Office live has been renamed Microsoft Office Live Small Business and we have a new "Office skydrive extensions" product, named Microsoft Office Live Workspace on the way. And the release also covers Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live.
In addition the press release, explains Online offerings are now available to any enterprise with 5,000 or more seats and include the following new services:
- Microsoft Exchange Online
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Online
- Microsoft Office Communications Online
So Live… …On-line what's going on ? Fortunately I was sent a slide which explains the difference between "On-line" branding and "Live" branding.
This post originally appeared on my technet blog.


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Book Review: The Hollow Girl by Hillary Monahan (2017)October 13th, 2017 7:00 am by mad mags
A shrewd interrogation of rape culture – now with dark magic!
(Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for violence, including sexual harassment, stalking, and rape.)
"The single most important thing to know about magic is that there is always a price. Making the impossible possible is difficult, as it should be, so I must weigh results against what I am willing to pay. It is never a gratuitous thing. This makes some people—people like Silas—disbelievers. They see my unwillingness to perform on command as a sign that the magic is untrue. Let them drown in their ignorance. When it is time for them to know a witch's wrath, they will know it—and there will be no mistaking it."
Seventeen-year-old Bethan Jones is a diddicoy: born to a Romany mother and a gadjo father, she was left in the care of her caravan's wise woman, Drina, after the death of her mother Eira during childbirth. Her apprenticeship under the drabarni should have kept her safe – and might have, under other circumstances. But the chieftain's son, Silas, has set his sights on Bethan. Silas is spoiled, entitled, and cruel; a dangerous powderkeg of toxic masculinity and male privilege that his father Wen (himself a recovering teenage bully) lacks the fortitude to extinguish.
So it's no surprise when Silas's sexual harassment and stalking of Bethan escalates to rape. Silas and his four cronies ambush Bethan and her would-be beau, Martyn, on the way home from market. The assault leaves Bethan physically and psychologically scarred – and desperate to save Martyn, who's left for dead after the attack. With the help of Gran and her dark magic, Bethan just might be able to resurrect Martyn, while exacting revenge on her assailants too. She has three days to collect a finger, an eye, a nose, a tooth, and an ear from the five boys. What becomes of them after the harvest is entirely up to Bethan.
I was super-excited when I first heard of The Hollow Girl. Lately I'm really into rape revenge stories; as I said in my review of A Guide for Murdered Children, if done right, rape revenge stories can provide a satisfying outlet/alternative to real life, where rape is more likely to be excused and minimized than punished and condemned. Throw in the supernatural twist and diverse cast of characters, and I'm sold.
The Hollow Girl is a really solid story. It's like I Spit on Your Grave meets Drag Me to Hell – but not nearly as brutal as the former, and much more culturally sensitive (read: accurate) than the former. While I appreciate the compassion with which Monahan handles the subject matter (beginning but not ending with her awesome foreword), I was hoping for a little more graphic violence and gleeful vengeance (directed at the rapists, I should add) than we actually get.
In many rape revenge stories (or at least every one I've read to date), the hero grapples with the morality of revenge and justice; Bethan is no exception. I anticipated this, but was still disappointed by the conclusion Bethan reached by story's end (which I won't discuss here, because spoilers). I kept rooting for Bethan to embrace her inner vengeance demon, but ultimately she is more Lumen than Dexter. Not that there's anything wrong with that, necessarily. In the words of Gran, "Strength comes in many guises, Bethan. Knowing yourself, your limitations—knowing what you will and will not do, following your heart—that is strength. Enduring what you endured and still being merciful and hopeful? Also strength."
What also impressed me about The Hollow Girl is Monahan's deft portrayal of rape culture, as well as the aftermath of rape for survivors. While the Romany way of life may be different from many readers' experiences, rape culture is depressingly similar across time, space, and peoples. From Wen's "boys will be boys" excuses for his son's behavior, to blaming the victim and equating rape with sex (in one especially heartbreaking scene, Bethan realizes that she now has to cover her hair, since she's no longer a virgin – even though her maidenhood was taken from her, not given freely), readers will notice obvious parallels between Bethan's society and their own.
Likewise, Monahan's portrait of a rape survivor is brimming with compassion and insight. The book's title describes how Bethan feels after the assault – like a ghost, an imposter, a hollow girl. Bethan struggles with connection and kindness, unable to bear even Gran's touch (rare as it is). When Gran prophesies that Bethan will find love one day, she has to trust in the truth of the magic, for her battered psyche cannot possibly imagine trusting a man, any man, after all she's been through. Yet, despite the violence and trauma, The Hollow Girl ends on a hopeful note. Given that one in nine girls under the age of eighteen – i.e., this book's demographic – has been sexually assaulted by an adult, this is a Good Thing.
Pair with: The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis; Kady Cross's Vigilante; and season five of Dexter.
(This review is also available on Amazon, Library Thing, and Goodreads. Please click through and vote it helpful if you're so inclined!)
Filed under books, fantasy, fiction, Hillary Monahan, horror, rape, reviews, we need diverse books, witches


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East Cambs Business Boost is back for 2018! This year we are in an even bigger venue, with more exhibitors, more business attendees and speakers including Sally Gunnell OBE, Buffer, Westfield Health and Sandler Training.
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Exporting after Brexit
In simple terms
Exporting after Brexit: SMEs can remain in EU
Leaving the customs union (and possibly the single market) will make exporting substantially more expensive, time consuming and difficult. But you can effectively and legally stay within the EU – even after Brexit. And no worries; this solution is probably easier, faster to implement and more affordable than you think. In fact, it will most likely even save you money.
Post-Brexit scenario
Say, you export goods or services to the 27 EU countries and their 80 partner trading nations. Once Britain has left the EU the following will change:
Tariffs: You will most certainly have to pay tariffs, ranging from little taxes on only a few products/services to heavy taxes on everything.
Administration: The amount of paperwork involved to get goods out of the country will increase almost exponentially. Detailed forms need to be filled in and comprehensive documentation has to be provided (e.g. certificates of the origin of your goods and their component parts/ingredients).
Customs clearances: Another aspect to consider are backlogs at the customs. This will cause problems for freight traffic that depends on fast deliveries, e.g. for fresh produce or just-in-time goods.
The remedy: Bypassing trade barriers
The concept of bypassing trade barriers is more than 100 years old, albeit not really feasible for SMEs due to their limited resources – at least up until now. Today you can easily establish and run your own European legal entity from the UK (or anywhere on the planet), which means you can continue trading as a EU company.
Export via your EU company
Look for service providers who can establish and host a legal entity, i.e. a EU limited company, for you. With regards to location the Netherlands and Germany offer many advantages, especially for British businesses. English is widely spoken and they provide a high degree of legal security. You will find professional service partners, you will benefit from a good infrastructure, and it is comparatively economical and easy to get there.
When choosing a service partner make sure they can provide as much as possible out of one hand; founding your EU company, supplying a business base (e.g. virtual offices ), maybe logistics and fulfilment for goods distribution including customer services, lawyers, accountants, translators, web designers etc. Make sure everything is handled in English, from legal documents to day-to-day communication.
If you would like to know how remaining in the EU works in detail, simply read about 'How to establish a EU company '. For more information check www.tradewitheurope.com or give us a call for a free consultation.
Marcus Broix, Trade with Europe Ltd


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Just more than two years ago we launched the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE with a mission to empower the nearly 36-million low-literacy adults living in the US—and 780-million adult learners worldwide—to acquire the skills they need to advance their education, find better work, or simply read a bedtime story to their children.
We believe in the power of the Adult Literacy XPRIZE to galvanize the adult education community—both those who have had a life-long commitment to improving the lives of adult learners and those who have come to this work more recently—to think audaciously about solving one of the world's great learning challenges. We believe that focusing a community's efforts on a defined problem set—namely, developing mobile tools that learners could use anytime, anywhere—will push us all beyond our collective comfort zone and fundamentally change the way this country addresses a foundational education problem.
Already, we've had some important early wins. 109 Teams from 22 countries registered to compete. With 86 of those teams representing 27 states in the U.S., the Adult Literacy XPRIZE had the largest domestic competitor pool of any XPRIZE to-date. These teams collectively spent over a quarter of a million hours in 2016 alone developing tools for adult learners; 41 of these teams turned in a final submission—a fully functional app designed for adult learners reading at or below the equivalent of a third-grade level. That represented the largest number of physical submissions XPRIZE had ever received. And today, we are proud to announce the 8 semifinalist teams.
In many ways, however, defining the problem as a technical one (i.e., "build an app for that") understates the magnitude of such an undertaking. Teams competing for the Adult Literacy XPRIZE had to develop an app engaging enough that learners would continue using it, effective enough that using it translates to learning, and appropriate for a learner population that struggles with technical literacy and often uses older model phones with inconsistent internet connectivity. Each one of those problem sets is a business onto itself. All of them together? It's never been done before.
On top of the pedagogical and technical challenges competitors face, proving these solutions work requires large-scale testing across multiple sites over a period of fifteen months. This in itself is a novel, not to mention difficult, undertaking. Adult education has historically been place-based and time-specific, with many organizations serving a small number of learners. We proposed to disrupt that model by getting the semifinalist apps into the hands of 12,000 learners, both ones enrolled in adult education courses and ones that are not, in the greater metropolitan areas of Los Angeles, Dallas, and Philadelphia. This would represent the largest single pool of learners at this level of literacy—equivalent to third-grade or below—enrolled in any one program today.
To reach learners, we teamed up with the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Dallas County Community College District, and the Philadelphia Office of Adult Education, as well as dozens of Champions across the three cities. Together, we are activating hundreds of volunteers, more than 100 field operators, and dozens of staff members of these partner organizations. All told, more than 1,000 people will have a hand in recruiting, testing, and enrolling these 12,000 learners. We are calling on all these people because having a lasting impact on anything, and especially on the field of adult education, takes an army.
The biggest heroes, of course, are the adult learners. Their enthusiasm, patience, and sheer desire to learn never ceases to humble me. I joined XPRIZE two years ago because I believe in the importance of this mission and because I believe this project, and the work it requires, can make a significant and lasting contribution to adult education. I believe in the impact education can have on people's lives, its ability to uplift, and its fundamental importance in creating a more just and equitable society. This is work that matters—today more than ever—and I am grateful for the thousands of competitors, collaborators, and adult learners who are creating this impact.
I look forward to the road ahead of us, and am confident that together we will maximize the impact of the Adult Literacy XPRIZE.
Shlomy Kattan is Senior Director of the $7M Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE presented by Dollar General Literacy Foundation.


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Lola Ester Wong is a character on Fuller House, portrayed by Ashley Liao.
Lola is Ramona Gibbler's Chinese-American best friend. She is somewhat materialistic, in that Jackson is able – at least in part – to 'buy' her affection with gifts, specifically the signed Giants jersey in "A Giant Leap." The quality of her character takes a hit when she slips up in class and reveals that her mother built her science project for her. She comes across as even more spoiled when she complains to Jackson that ruining her volcano project means her mother will have to make another one for her. In "Fast Times at Bayview High", Lola announces that her dad got a new job and is moving to Fresno.
Ramona Gibbler
Thanks to Jackson's failed escape plan, Lola is the first friend Ramona makes as a new student at Van Atta Middle School. Lola thought that Ramona was "so cool!" for trying to ditch and then being marched to the principal's office; suggesting that she is intrigued by her carefree nature. The two quickly become best friends, and Ramona soon joins Lola's group of friends.
Jackson Fuller
Jackson has a crush on Lola (although he barely existed to her before she became friends with Ramona) but after his actions in "The Not-So-Great Escape", she now remembers him as the one who ruined her volcano project in science class. After a while, Lola warms up to Jackson who does things for her like he gets her a Giants jersey using Matt Harmon's credit card to pay for it in "A Giant Leap".
After witnessing Jackson stand up for Ramona, she admits that she might be having a change of heart about her feelings towards him. Throughout the series, he refers to her as his "boo" (much to her annoyance).
Lola and Ramona are on the school dance team together.
Lola loves dancing. Her dream is to have her own horse.
Season 1
- The Not-So-Great Escape
- The Legend of El Explosivo
- Ramona's Not-So-Epic Party
- War of the Roses
- A Giant Leap
- Love is in the Air
Season 2
- Welcome Back
- Mom Interference
- A Tangled Web
- Girl Talk
- DJ and Kimmy's High School Reunion
- Nutcrackers
- Happy New Year Baby
Season 3
- Along with Jackson and Ramona, Lola attends the same school that D.J. and Kimmy did at that age – Van Atta Middle School
- She likes M&M's, especially the red ones
- She has a brother, whose name is unknown


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Czechs: Free Countries Don't Disarm People
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 7/Jul/2018 07:00
From SOTT.net:
Czech president Miloš Zeman has put his name to a petition opposing an EU diktat which would clamp down on legal gun-owners and backed a constitutional amendment which would guarantee citizens' right to keep arms for self-defence and protection of the homeland.
Czech Republic Moves To Expand Gun Rights
From NRA-ILA:
Exactly two weeks after the Czech Republic announced that they would challenge restrictive changes to the European Union's European Firearms Directive in the European Court of Justice, the small nation has once again acted to defend themselves against transnational gun controllers. On June 28, the Czech Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of the Czech Parliament) approved a constitutional amendment to protect Czech citizens' right to possess firearms and ammunition, with a reported 139 of 200 deputies voting in favor.
Specifically, the proposed constitutional amendment ensures that Czech citizens have a right to keep and bear arms in order to participate in preserving national security.
Visegrad: A New European Military Force
Visegrad: A New European Military Force is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
By George Friedman
With the Palestinians demonstrating and the International Monetary Fund in turmoil, it would seem odd to focus this week on something called the Visegrad Group. But this is not a frivolous choice. What the Visegrad Group decided to do last week will, I think, resonate for years, long after the alleged attempted rape by Dominique Strauss-Kahn is forgotten and long before the Israeli-Palestinian issue is resolved. The obscurity of the decision to most people outside the region should not be allowed to obscure its importance.
The region is Europe — more precisely, the states that had been dominated by the Soviet Union. The Visegrad Group, or V4, consists of four countries — Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary — and is named after two 14th century meetings held in Visegrad Castle in present-day Hungary of leaders of the medieval kingdoms of Poland, Hungary and Bohemia. The group was reconstituted in 1991 in post-Cold War Europe as the Visegrad Three (at that time, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were one). The goal was to create a regional framework after the fall of Communism. This week the group took an interesting new turn.