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Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR)
NKHR Website Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Welcome to NKHR English Website. Before creating your account, you must read and agree to the Terms of Use below, including any future amendments, and our Privacy Policy. 1. Purpose. The following terms of use take into account the general service provided by the Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (henceforth NKHR) website at www.nkhumanrights.or.kr regarding its usage, procedures for creating an account, and others for the convenience of the users and visitors of this website. 2. Entry into Force. The terms of use and amendments enter into force, as it is made available on the website. NKHR may modify or revise these terms and conditions and policies when it decides that it is necessary to do so. All members who have joined before the modifications agree to be bound by such amendments. 3. Membership. Any individuals are eligible to join NKHR's website. Members are those who join according to our membership form provided on this website, thereby creating an account with a username (ID) and personal password. 4. Personal Use. Your use of the Service is subject to your acceptance of and compliance with NKHR Website Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy. You must provide current, accurate identification, contact and other information requested to create the account for registration and continued use of the Service. Your initial username cannot be changed and only one username per individual is usable. 5. Proper Use. NKHR will not accept membership application submitted with someone else's name, false name, inaccurate information requested in the form, and those who register with a purpose that is detrimental to public peace and order and good public morals. 6. Contents of the Service. If you join and become NKHR member, you will enjoy the following General Services: 1) Free usage of our Documents Center which holds documents, photo and video clips; 2) Online sponsor, My Page service; 3) Weekly Email Newsletter (FNN), our on-line webzine; 4) Monthly Korean domestic newsletter. Special Services include 1) Quarterly Magazine Life & Human Rights in North Korea (English/Korean) 2) Invitation to special occasions and events. As mentioned above in article 2, the contents of the service can be added or modified and will be notified on this website. 7. Service Charge Conditions. General service provided upon membership is free of charge. Special services are provided without any charge for those who are regular monthly donor members or corporate/organization members. Any changes or transfers made between general and special services will be announced before entering into force. 8. Termination/Limits to Use. You may cancel your use of the Services and/or terminate your account by providing notice for termination directly to this email: firstname.lastname@example.com or by checking termination on your My Page. The member him/herself must directly terminate the account with the required information. Your account will be terminated after it has been verified that it is the member him/herself. However, your personal information will be kept on NKHR database and after six months will automatically be deleted. The reason for this six months period is to protect your information on donations and if you decide to rejoin us within six months. If you would like your information to be deleted immediately, you may notify us of your wish for us to do so. Please contact through the email address above or call +82-2-723-1672, 2671. Upon your cancellation, your username and password will no longer be usable and will be unable to log in. 9. Restrictions to Service. Members will be restricted and/or suspended from using NKHR website services in the following cases: 1) if the contents provided by the user is detrimental to public order and morals; 2) illegal acts; 3) if the purpose for joining our membership is harmful to national and public interest; 4) appropriate a third party's username and password; 5) distain or cause harm to a third party; 6) if the same individual registers with more than one username; 7) in the case of using, uploading, transmitting, or otherwise distributing any content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, obscene, contains viruses, or is otherwise objectionable as reasonably determined by NKHR; and 8) in cases where the member copies, publishes, or emits in the media any documents or resources obtained from using our services without any authorization or mentioning of Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights. 10. Responsibilities of NKHR. The contents will be updated for continuous, stable usage of NKHR website members. Suggestions are welcomed by our members and will be reflected upon discussions and appropriate procedures and shall be notified to the member who has provided recommendations. 11. Privacy. Responsibilities of username (ID) and password fall on the member him/herself. You must notify NKHR webmaster if you find out that your account has been inappropriately used by a third party. NKHR regards your personal information valuable and shall not provide member's personal information to any other third party without consent. However, NKHR has the right to use voluntarily submitted information upon your agreement to the use of terms in the following cases: 1) in order to use your information as a basis for upgrading NKHR website services, for additional functions of the website to facilitate user-friendly website; 2) when providing general, statistical (not individual) information to advertisers; 3) to find out preferences of NKHR members in order to upgrade services. NKHR takes no responsibility for third party usage of information you provide (i.e. email address, username etc) on our BBS (Bulletin Board System) and information irrelevant to NKHR sent by the third party. NKHR does not have any obligation to monitor such third party acts. 12. Representation and Warranties. You represent and warrant that all information provided by you to NKHR website membership to participate in our Service is correct and current. You have all necessary right, power and authority to enter into this agreement and to perform the acts under conditions provided by this Terms of Use. NKHR takes no responsibility to following: the breakdown of the services liable to the user, false information provided by the user; unsatisfactory benefits which does not meet subjective expectations pertaining to the membership. 13. Jurisdiction. Problems pertaining to NKHR website which may arise aside from those mentioned in this Terms of Use shall be dealt with between the affected two parties. Any claims, legal proceedings or litigation arising in connection with the services will be brought solely in the jurisdiction of the competent court in the district where the Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights is situated (Jongno-gu, Seoul, ROK) 14. Donations. Monetary donations made through NKHR English Website from overseas will follow the terms of use of Pay Pal system. 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Another Alexander McQueen masterpiece I'd be ecstatic to own.
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3d printed dress by Michael Schmidt. Covered in 12,000 Swarovski crystals.
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Stunning! An amazing piece designed in 1958 by Sophie Gimbel. I would love to don this one night. Exhibit on Gimbel at Parsons.
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Amazing structure in this floral bolero. Part of the Dior runway show by Raf Simons
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Giant paper handbags in the Louis Vuitton Window displays on 5th Ave previously.
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Another Alexander McQueen masterpiece on display at the Meatpacking location. Spectacular layering
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A display of obi's on the corner of 22nd and Broadway. Beauties.
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Top 5 Trends in EB-5 Source of Funds Cases Filed on Behalf of Russian Investors
Kate Kalmykov
By: Kate Kalmykov and James Cormie
As a result of the Russian economy facing stiff headwinds, many affluent Russians are looking to immigrate to the United States. One increasingly attractive option is EB-5. Russia's unique geopolitical position, however, makes undertaking a trace on the source of the EB-5 funds a unique task for the investor and his or her lawyer. Here are the top five trends to aware of:
- Cash, cash, cash. By far the biggest challenge with Russian EB-5 investors is that most Russians deal in cash. A financial crisis could lead to deposit institutions drying up overnight, preventing account holders from withdrawing their money. To deal with this problem, many take their money out and put it into safe deposit accounts. More interesting, these safe deposit boxes full of cash operate, effectively, as escrow accounts in business deals. Of particular importance is housing transactions, where the seller of property meets with the buyer, sees the cash put into the safe deposit box, and cannot open it until the deal is done. Documenting the cash transactions is difficult, but not impossible for EB-5 petitions.
- Foreign currency. Although somewhat steadied from a large run up and decline in 2009, volatility in the exchange rate is on the rise in Russia while value is decreasing. This combination means that Russians interested in preserving the value of their money often shift their Rubles and put them into Euros and dollars. Keeping account numbers and records of these transfers is especially important.
- Inexperienced banks. Transferring funds can be slow and sometimes done incorrectly because Russian banks, entering a totally unrestricted foreign exchange community in 2007, are unprepared to handle these types of transactions.
- Corruption. Like many other countries, corruption in the Russian economy is extensive. If the investor's source of funds comes from his or her business in Russia, the investor must prove it is lawfully doing business and transferring money to the investor.
- Tax records. In Russia, individuals do not self-file. Instead, companies are supposed to automatically withhold and issue a tax form at the end of the year. If an individual does decide to file, however, they are given four months to file and seven months to pay after the taxable calendar year. Pointing this out to the USCIS inspector or waiting until receipt of payment can save a lot of trouble.
Any immigration lawyer representing a Russian client should be aware of these trends in Russian source of funds. With careful planning and the right notices to USCIS, the process should be smooth sailing.
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A few years ago I came down with a serious illness. A bacterial infection destroyed my mitral valve, which put me in the early stages of heart failure. Not only did I have to follow the medical path laid out before me, I also had to put my house in order in the event that I would not recover. Over the course of the following two years, I took notes on every phase of my journey—from diagnosis to open-heart surgery, to recovery, to rehabilitation, to re-entry.
Experiences like this introduce new sets of questions we never knew to ask. One thing I wrestled with during the months following my surgery centered on the anger I felt. Anger is a common experience in affliction. It's part wounded pride, part protest against the frailty we intuitively believe does not belong.
As I wrestled with my own anger, this is what I wrote:
One thing I know I must do is pay attention to what is going on not only in my body but also in my mind and heart, and right now my heart is fighting a war. I'm angry.
It's in keeping with the human condition to want to find some reason for affliction. We utter nonsense like, "Everything happens for a reason." A cause, yes. A reason? I'm not always so sure. We look for healing, and we look for something or someone to blame.
As we cycle through the stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—we face the almost impossible task of trying to pin down what is true and then hold it there. But if I'm going to steward the anger in my heart, I must try.
Heart Breaker
What if it was God who broke my heart?
I believe it was. Though I don't know all the reasons he brought this suffering on me, there are truths I know about God that lead me to believe my particular season of affliction comes from his hand and that it's for my good.
Historically, God deals with those he loves by breaking them. He leads people to the edge of themselves and then shoves them off into the unknown. He topples the towers to heaven we try to build. He confuses us to the point where we have to stop what we're doing and walk away because we can no longer carry on the work that once seemed so right and so clear.
This is my God, the divine thwarter. He's fiercely committed to opposing any attempts I might make to claim my independence from him. Because of his loving-kindness he moves me always deeper into a posture of dependence. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil because he's with me.
I don't like being thwarted, but shall I receive good from God and not also trouble? The voices that say, Recover so you can get back to normal, grossly underestimate the gift of this wrecked life.
Why is it a gift?
Because I'd have no compelling reason to step from my comfortable existence into the quest for what's next if my present security wasn't taken from me. It's rare for a man to plan his own journey toward growth and change. Usually these journeys are thrust on us unexpectedly. It seldom occurs to us to even consider them until the storm tears through and levels what we know.
Historically, God deals with those he loves by breaking them.
If my ego tried to plan this journey, it would be limited by the expectations of what I would already hope to find. There would be no element of surprise, wonder, or faith—just a forced march toward a future my present self assumes is what I need. That would not be a journey of faith but of control—and a fool's errand. Faith is the conviction to trust that there are good things out beyond what I can see and would never know to pursue—glorious things God himself will bring to pass. I need those glorious things.
I also needed what God has brought. I needed to lose control. I needed a broken heart. I needed to be dipped in the crucible of suffering. Why? I may never fully know. But the God who brings his children low doesn't do it for spite. He does it to awaken desire, like a pang of hunger in the newly risen phoenix that makes it unfurl its wings to fly. He does it to give us new eyes so that we might see the world in a new light. He does it to stop us from continuing down the path we're on and to set us on a new one. He grants us weakness so that we might not trust too much in our own strength. "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD" (Job 1:21).
Severe Mercy
God deals in a sort of divine wisdom that often leaves earthbound creatures clueless. We emerge after the storm and can't process the changes we see, but those changes send us down a road of renewal. We can be a good way down that road before we even know we're on it. What if the bacterium in my heart was a Father's wise and loving gift to his son? What if it was what C. S. Lewis called God's "severe mercy"—an act of love meant to return my heart to him by dealing a blow to my self-sufficiency?
If my affliction was a severe mercy to awaken in me my need of God, then it's a wise gift from a loving hand.
So then, what do I do with the anger that accompanies it? I wait for the fury to subside, and then I study what just came over me. When I do this, here is what I see: My initial flashes of rage are the way my heart rises to say I was not ready for this—like the surliness in a child just waking up.
The God who brings his children low doesn't do it for spite.
The initial anger I experience is a response to the feeling of being suddenly disconnected from the life I knew. It's an animalistic reflex; I'm a lion whose mane has been shaved, and I'm looking for ways to make myself appear bigger. Untamed anger has the capacity to be a great danger to myself and others. I must pay attention to it. I must interrogate it. I must apologize for it when I hurt others with it. It's an open wound in my heart, and I don't know how long it will take to heal.
But even though it's untamed, my anger is anchored in something true. My anger is a protest against suffering. It's a groan for a life free from pain. It's an ache for the end of affliction and death.
To this I say to my anger, "Amen and amen," even though I know I must keep one eye trained on it, lest it rise up and consume me.
Editors' note: This is an adapted excerpt from Russ Ramsey's new book, Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death (IVP, 2017).


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Wish me luck!
My husband has a high fever, the account was empty long before Christmas and I don't have anybody to look after the cat while we are in a house with 15 people who at other times of the year live as far apart as we can get (there's a reason for that). This mans that for the next couple of days all my energy will be directed towards survival, and blogging isn't a survival strategy in this context. I wish you all a Merry Christmas, mine will certainly be two things: eventful and spent with the family - good things I suppose - we tend to remember each Christmas distinctly.
Tuesday, December 24, 2002
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Welcome to our free Advanced Google Analytics tutorial. This tutorial is based on Webucator's Advanced Google Analytics course.
In this lesson, you will learn the basics of custom variables and how to develop your own for your website.
Lesson Goals
Domain name refers to a hostname -- for example, www.example.com and www.mysite.com are different domain names. Each domain name represents a numeric IP address on the Internet. DNS helps in mapping a domain name with its respective IP address on the Internet.
Sub-domain is a part of the parent domain for example, secure.mysite.com or blogs.mysite.com will be considered as sub-domains for mysite.com. Sub-domains have their individually qualified hostnames.
Google Analytics uses first party cookies and thus under the default configuration Google Analytics can't track across sub-domains or across distinct domains. You will need to configure Google Analytics such that the cookie information will be transferred from one domain to another.
Here is why you may want to use multiple domain tracking:
The _setDomainName method enables Google Analytics to pass cookie information across multiple sub-domains. Here is how you can use this method to track multiple sub-domains for a fictitious website called www.mysite.com which has two sub-domains (e.g. sales.mysite.com and partners.mysite.com).
This method should reference the primary domain (e.g. mysite.com).
You will first need to add the _setDomainName method within your GATC on all pages on all sub-domains of the site. You can either manually add this method into your existing GATC or you can grab the code for sub-domain tracking from your profile settings screen as shown in the following screen shot:
The above modification to your GATC will aggregate all the data from different sub-domains into a single profile. However, your reports may not distinguish between pages coming from mysite.com versus sales.mysite.com. For example, mysite.com/index.html and sales.mysite.com/index.html will be reported as /index.html.
Apply the following filter to resolve this challenge:
Once this filter is applied, Google Analytics will show the following outcome in the Top Content report in regards to the above example:
In addition to the _setDomainName method, you will need the _setAllowLinker method to enable cross-domain tracking within Google Analytics. This method allows different websites to share the cookie information via URL parameters. The syntax is as follows:
You will first need to add the _setDomainName and _setAllowLinker methods into your GATC on all pages for both websites.
For cross-domain tracking, use the following parameter to configure the_setDomainName method:
You can either manually enter these methods into your existing GATC or you can grab the GATC code for cross-domain tracking from your profile settings screen as shown in the following screen shot:
The _link() method enables Google Analytics to pass the cookie information across different domains (e.g. mysite.com and oursite.com) using URL parameters. Here is how you can use this method to modify your outbound links which are sending traffic from www.mysite.com to www.oursite.com.
In Google Analytics, reports will only include the requested URI from the respective domains and you will not see the host name associated with each URI. Apply the following filter to resolve this challenge:
Once this filter is applied, Google Analytics will show the following outcome in the Top Content report section:


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SHERWOOD — After dropping the first game of the 8-and-under State baseball tournament, the[more] Bryant 7-year-old All-Stars have battled back through the losers bracket, eliminating five teams going into today's game at 6 p.m., against the Benton 8's.
The 7-year-old team, managed by Jeremy Stovall, is Garrison Blacklaw, Brady Brower, Reid Catton, Clay Crawford, Gage Horn, Dillon Hunt, Grant Johnson, Carson Kemp, Gideon Motes, Carson Nagle, Hank Penfield, and Caden Stovall.
The opening setback was a 10-3 game against the Star City Bulldogs. After that, Bryant ousted Brinkley, 11-1; West Helena Twin City, 15-3; Marion, 10-0; Lakewood, 11-4; and Jacksonville, 8-1.
Bryant 8, Jacksonville 1
Three-run outbursts in each of the first two innings and defensive play that kept Jacksonville off the board until the fifth inning, put Bryant in position to win Sunday's third game. Johnson, Horn and Kemp led the way with three hits each.
In the first inning, Bryant got on the board quickly on a double by Kemp and a triple by Blacklaw. Hunt followed with an infield hit as Blacklaw held at third. Nagle singled in a run and, after Horn bounced into a force at second, Johnson doubled to make it 3-0.
There were two down when the second-inning uprising began. Crawford and Motes singled and Catton doubled in a run. Kemp's base hit drove in two to make it 6-0.
It stayed that way until the top of the fifth when Crawford and Catton singled ahead of an RBI double by Kemp.
After Jacksonville scored on a triple and an RBI groundout in the bottom of the fifth, Bryant put the game out of reach (with the six-run maximum per inning) in the top of the sixth on consecutive singles by Hunt, Nagle, Horn and Johnson.
Bryant 11, Lakewood 4
Catton and Hunt had three hits each as Bryant overcame an early 2-0 deficit to build a 7-2 lead. Lakewood cut the margin to three in the top of the third but could get no more after that while Bryant tacked on single runs in the third and fifth and a two-spot in the fourth.
Trailing 2-0, Bryant scored four times in the bottom of the first. Catton singled and scored on Blacklaw's triple. Hunt doubled in the tying run then scored to put his team ahead on a single by Nagle. After Horn grounded into a fielder's choice, he stole second and scored on Johnson's hit to make it 4-2.
Lakewood was retired in order in the top of the second and Bryant countered with three more, sparked by a one-out single by Brower. He stole second and, after Crawford singled and swiped a base, Motes drove in both to make it 6-2. Mote took second on an error and scored when Catton slapped a single to right.
It was 7-4 when Bryant came to bat in the third. Hunt singled, stole second, took third on Nagle's groundout and scored on a single by Horn to make it a four-run lead.
In the fourth, Penfield ignited a two-run frame with a double. Singles from Brwoer and Crawford brought him around. Mote bounced into a force at second but Catton singled in Brower to make it 10-4.
With the six-run limit in each inning, Lakewood still had a shot to rally but couldn't scratch in the top of the fifth. When Blacklaw singled, stole second and scored on Hunt's double to right in the bottom of the inning, it was out of reach, ending the game.
Bryant 10, Marion 0
The Bryant defense held Marion to just two hits and the offense produced a 4-0 lead in the first inning then put the game away with three in the third and three more in the fourth. Kemp knocked in three runs and Horn two.
The opening salvo, doubles by Kemp and Blacklaw broke the ice. Hunt singled in a run and, with one out, Hunt stole second and scored on a line-drive single by Horn.
In Bryant's third, Nagle singled and dashed home on a triple by Horn. With two down, Stovall knocked in Horn with a base hit. He followed on Penfield's two-bagger.
Singles by Crawford and Motes set the table in the bottom of the fourth. Catton doubled in a run and Kemp singled in two to end it.
Bryant 15, West Helena Twin City 3
Bryant's five-run third, highlighted by Kemp's grand slam, wiped out a 2-1 tie and, with three in the fourth and six in the fifth, the game was over.
Bryant scratched first when Catton and started the game with singles. Horn grounded into a force at second as Catton took third. He then scored on a groundout by Hunt.
Twin City took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the inning and that held until the third. Brower's bunt single turned into three bases at West Helena threw the ball around. Crawford singled him in and Motes kept the carousel going with a single. A bunt hi by Catton loaded the bases for Kemp who blasted his grand slam, giving Bryant a 6-2 lead.
West Helena trimmed a run off the margin in the bottom of the third but would not score again. In the top of the fourth, Blacklaw singled and, with one out, Stovall beat out a bunt hit. Penfield doubled in a run and, after Brower beat out a bunt as the other runners held, Stovall and Penfield wound up coming home when Crawford popped out but an errant throw followed as West Helena tried to get a doubleplay.
Bryant's game-ending uprising in the fifth started with a double by Catton, a triple from Kemp and a single by Horn. Hunt grounded into a force at second then base hits by Nagle, Blacklaw, Johnson, Stovall and Penfield ensued. Crawford's two-out double brought the inning and the contest to a conclusion.
Bryant 11, Brinkley 1
A six-run second put the Bryant 7's on the way to their first win of the tournament. They had a 1-0 lead going into the second because, in the first, Catton's bunt and subsequent throws allowed him to reach third. He scored from there on a hit by Hunt.
The second-inning outburst started with a double by Nagle. Stovall sacrificed him to third and Johnson doubled him home. Penfield cracked a single to left and Brower beat out a bunt single to load the bases for Crawford, who started a string of RBI singles, with Motes, Catton, Kemp and Blacklaw following up.
A four-run third began with Hunt blasting a homer to left. Horn singled and stole his way to third. With one out, Stovall singled him in. Hits by Johnson and Brower completed the rout.
Star City 10, Bryant 3
Bryant just couldn't overcome Star City's six-run second. The Bulldogs tacked on a run in the third and three in the fifth, winning it when Bryant came up empty in the bottom of the inning.
Bryant scored in its very first at-bat of the tourney. Catton beat out a bunt single and, after advancing on Horn's fly to left, scored when Kemp singled. Nagle grounded into a force at second but hits from Hunt and Johnson had the bases loaded when the final out was recorded.
Bryant trailed 7-1 going into the bottom of the fourth. Horn singled, Kemp grounded into a force then Nagle, Johnson, Blacklaw andStovall singled to drive in two runs and fill the sacks but Star City wriggled out of the jam to maintain an advantage.
After the Bulldogs added three in the top of the fifth, Bryant went down 1-2-3 in the home fifth.


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As my summer went on, I transitioned from working primarily with the animals themselves to primarily selling their products at the markets. One task that remained constant, however, was the butchery. In order to sell fresh chickens every week, we need to kill every week. And so every Tuesday I pulled on my grimiest pair of jeans and headed out to catch some chickens.
The QRS chickens are white Cornish cross breed, and usually are slaughtered at about six weeks of age. The goal is to have them dress at four pounds, so the exact number of chickens caught and processed every week depended on how effective the chickens were that week at eating and putting on weight. Usually, though, it was about 200 birds. Rick and Linda prefer the white chickens to the red chickens for meat production because the muscle doesn't bruise as easily. They also regularly do custom butchering, either for people with home flocks that can't bring themselves to butcher their own chickens, or for large orders from restaurants. Butchering 200 birds with only 4 people in a very small room is an all-day affair that ends with us exhausted and with questionable substances staining our clothing and crusted on our skin. And it all starts with catching. I'd never caught a chicken before coming to Quails-R-Us, unless you count picking up a friendly backyard chicken every now and then. To save my dignity and the time it would have taken me to chase chickens around trying to pick them up, someone somewhere invented a handy chicken hook that you can use to trip a chicken from the back and swiftly turn it upside down, which should, theoretically, calm it. I say theoretically because I had a lot of chickens that really didn't like being held upside down in my fist and flapped furiously when they should have been still and stoic.
The chickens are placed in plastic crates and wheeled over to the kill pit, which is the modified milking parlor from when the farm was a dairy. QRS uses the typical setup that I've used before when I've processed chickens: kill cones, a scalder, a plucking machine. Four or five birds are processed at a time, and cycled through the machines. Some weeks we also butcher quail and guineafowl for meat, which involve similar processes with some important differences. For instance, quail feathers require a different sized plucker than the larger birds, and it's easier usually to just pluck them by hand. Quail feathers are also prone to melting beneath the skin if they stay in the scalder too long. The bald, warm, dead birds are taken from the plucker and put on a stainless steel table to be gutted. QRS cuts the head, neck, and feet off, saving the latter two for sale. Gutting a chicken may seem simple but it takes a significant amount of force to pull all the entrails out at once without shredding the lungs or tearing the heart from the liver. I very quickly learned it was more efficient for me to be on salvage duty: taking the entrails and separating the wastes from the marketable organs: the heart, liver, and gizzard. I observed a lot of variability in the deposits of internal fat, cut my hands on the very sharp bones of quail, popped way too many gallbladders [releasing a dark green fluid which stains the meat] and learned a lot of recipes for these unconventional ingredients. Chicken liver was actually the product we ran out of most often at the markets – demand far outstripped our supply, and chicken liver is hard to find in your neighborhood grocery.
Dressed birds were put on ice for several hours to chill, giving the workers a chance to clean up from the killing and break for lunch. Slaughter and gutting usually took about six hours. From mid-afternoon to early evening we packaged the chickens. Most are sold whole, with giblets – the neck, heart, liver, and gizzard – included. We also sold bags of individual pieces, like wings or thighs, bags of organs, feet, and necks, and a variety bag of pieces that was basically a whole chicken cut up already. Cutting was done with an industrial meatpacking saw I chose to stay far away from. I did get a chance to break down a chicken with a knife that was very informative for how the muscles are structured around the bones. The products are dried off, trimmed if needed, bagged, weighed, labelled with the date and weight, bagged again, and sealed, then placed in the walk-in cooler for sale that week. Anything not sold in that week – a very rare occurrence – is frozen for sale in future weeks. Record keeping during the rush of packaging is a must, to keep track of inventory for the week.
Chicken processing is a tedious and messy business but with good conversation flowing, waterproof boots, and a sturdy apron, it's manageable. Helping put so many chickens on the table for our customers to enjoy definitely made me appreciate the effort that goes into my own food. I look forward to the next time I get to help process, and the next time I get to eat fresh chicken for dinner after a long day of work.


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Viewpoint: Chemophobia epidemic—Fanning fears about trace chemicals obscures real risks and 'damages public health'
by Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project, October 24, 2018
When is a chemical dangerous?
This is not a question we consciously ask ourselves much, but in fact, we interrogate the world and our safety unconsciously dozens of time each day about it. Is our child's plastic sippy cup made with dangerous chemicals? Does the cleaner we are using on our car give off dangerous fumes? What about the spray to kill dandelions?
It's also an issue constantly in the headlines. Earlier this week (October 24) an article appeared in the JAMA [Journal of America Medical Association] Internal Medicine journal claiming that people surveyed who primarily ate organic food were less likely to contract cancer—and it postulated that pesticide residues in conventional might be the causal factor. [more on that study below]
How do people assess hazard and risk? How safe is safe?
Media perceptions and government regulations are often shaped by a fervor fed by misconceptions about the widespread dangers of common chemicals. Consider the word "pesticide." Sounds scary. After all, synthetic and natural pesticides kill unwanted pests such as insects, weeds, fungi and rodents.
But advocacy groups, many hostile to conventional agriculture, mostly refer to pesticides pejoratively, assuming anything that can kill an insect or weed can also do a lot of damage to humans exposed to trace residues. This is almost never true. In fact, it is not even possible for some pesticides to harm humans. For example, it's biologically impossible for Bt bacterium proteins that are found in soil and plant leaves worldwide and which are sprayed widely by organic farmers to kill certain insects and are bioengineered into insect-resistant seeds to harm humans or animals because mammals do not have the same receptors or gut conditions as insects. But that doesn't stop the hysteria or misrepresentations from advocacy groups who claim food grown from Bt seeds are chemically harmful to humans (while irrationally exonerating Bt spraying by organic farmers).
Pesticides are regularly, and irrationally, blamed for all sorts of problems—from environmental pollution to hormonal disruption to cancer. One prime example? Glyphosate.
Just this week, an appellate judge upheld a jury verdict blaming the herbicide found in Monsanto's Roundup® and generic formulations for a California groundskeeper's cancer. As the judge noted, the ruling came despite hundreds of reviews and studies, most by government regulatory oversight agencies and independent scientists, that has found the popular weed killer to be safe as used. The judge cut the jury's punitive damage award by 84% to $39 million after hinting during a prior hearing that she was considering throwing out the verdict altogether because of a lack of independent research linking glyphosate to cancer.
The verdict turned on a June 2015 evaluation by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) that glyphosate was "probably carcinogenic to humans." It was not a finding of "risk" but of "hazard"—and did not take into account exposure. IARC put glyphosate in the same category as coffee and salted fish. It was deemed less possibly carcinogenic than alcohol, which is very hazardous and can lead to cancer—if you are exposed to (consume) extraordinary amounts of it. The IARC evaluation was also plagued by conflict of-interest charges and allegations uncovered during a Reuters investigation that data was manipulated or left out. Also, it emerged during the trial that Christopher Portier, the chief IARC investigator, had negotiated to be a well-paid consultant ($160,000 in disclosed fees) before the hazard decision was even announced.
Chemophobia may lead to real risks
The fact is that almost all chemicals we encounter on a regular basis have undergone reviews of one kind or another and are safe as used. Yet people still believe that somehow one government agency or another "missed something" or that it's in cahoots with "big business" and has fudged the safety data.
An illusion also has developed that chemicals can be divided into categories of "safe" versus "unsafe." But any substance, even food and vitamins, can be harmful if we consume too much of it. Safety is relative, depending on the frequency, duration and magnitude of exposure.
To put into context how askew this debate has gone, let's look at the supposed risk that pesticides cause pediatric cancer. No issue could be more emotionally charged.
A study published in August 2018 in The Lancet Oncology examined the incidence of pediatric cancer from 1991 to 2010. It was a gigantic study that included 1.3 billion person-years. (One "person-year" is an epidemiological term that refers to one person being studied for a period of one year.) The study found cancer rates have stabilized over the past decade after minimal increases of 1 percent in the two previous decades. As for the impact of pesticides, in an accompanying commentary, Belgian cancer epidemiologist Philippe Autier wrote:
In 2014, the quantities of pesticide sales per capita were about three times greater in Spain, Italy, and France than in Sweden or the UK. If increasing cancer incidence trends were due to pesticides, dissimilarities in incidence trends for leukemia and lymphoma would be expected between European regions, which was not the case.
In 2014, the quantities of pesticide sales per capita were about three times greater in Spain, Italy, and France than in Sweden or the UK. If increasing cancer incidence trends were due to pesticides, dissimilarities in incidence trends for leukemia and lymphoma would be expected between European regions, which was not the case.
Put another way, if pesticides were a serious driver of pediatric cancer, then countries that use more pesticides are likely to have more cases of pediatric cancer. But they don't. Therefore, pesticides probably do not cause pediatric cancer—which is what almost all scientists believe, rejecting hysteria anti-trace pesticide campaigns by activist organizations such as the Environmental Working Group and its infamous Dirty Dozen campaign.
Related article: Hawaii County council keeps anti-GMO bill alive
More fears, stirred by headlines in newspapers and media sites around the world, emerged this week with the publication of a French study suggesting that trace pesticides in conventional food might cause cancer —at least that's what the authors, who propose that people might consider switching to organic food, claim. They posed the question: "What is the association between an organic food–based diet (ie, a diet less likely to contain pesticide residues) and cancer risk?" Their conclusion: One possible explanation for the negative association between organic food consumption and cancer risk is that the prohibition of pesticide use in organic production methods results in lower contamination levels. The results suggest, they said, that that "attention should now turn to the potential chronic effects of low-dose pesticide residue exposure from diet as well as potential cocktail effects at the general population level."
While some scientists praised the study for raising a yellow flag about pesticide residues, many independent epidemiologists and statisticians eviscerated it. It was a muddle based on self-reporting and only of French residents who polls show are enraptured by organic food and hostile to many modern agricultural practices that include synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Only 2% of the respondents got cancer, which itself is an extraordinary small number.
Organic eaters in the study were more likely to be more affluent (36% likely to be less poor), have a college degree, eat more vegetables and less processed meat, have a healthier diet overall and they are less likely to be overweight and were more active––confounding facts. The authors claimed they adjusted for some factors but not all and their methodology for adjusting is not transparent.
Oddly, the authors made the claim that the link to cancer for those in poverty was not causal while it was for eating organic food, what seems like an arbitrary conclusion. In one startling paragraph, the authors note that the correlation to cancer did not hold for younger adults, never or current smokers, people who eat healthy food, and, remarkably, for all men.
What a hodgepodge of questionable science! Correlation studies are problematic at best with authors frequently cherry-picking associations that fit pre-conceived notions (it should be noted that the lead author in the study is a well known proponent of organic food) and rejecting or not even considering correlations that might confound the results. According to Tom Sanders, professor emeritus of Nutrition and Dietetics at King's College London:
This an observational study, not a controlled trial. The participants who reported eating organic food most frequently were more likely to be non-smokers, had a lower body mass index (less obesity) and drank less alcohol, all factors that would be expected to result in fewer cases of cancer in this group. Their conclusion, that promoting organic food in the general population could be a promising cancer preventive strategy, is overblown.
This an observational study, not a controlled trial. The participants who reported eating organic food most frequently were more likely to be non-smokers, had a lower body mass index (less obesity) and drank less alcohol, all factors that would be expected to result in fewer cases of cancer in this group. Their conclusion, that promoting organic food in the general population could be a promising cancer preventive strategy, is overblown.
[Editor's note: Read other scientists' analyses of this study at the UK Science Media Centre]
This is yet one more study that appears to have been designed to confirm a preconceived viewpoint.
The bottom line is that more research is necessary to uncover the causes of cancer but there remains no persuasive evidence that trace residues are a key driver. The public and advocacy group obsession with the alleged dangers of trace chemicals found in common usage is unhealthy. Serious health challenges need to be forcefully confronted, but the resources devoted to challenging and removing relatively innocuous chemicals in exchange for substitutes––usually substances that have often not been scrutinized as much as the chemicals they would replace and thus confer an illusion of safety––divert us from addressing known health risks. This chemophobia can result in the opposite of what was intended: a decrease rather than an increase in public health.
Jon Entine is a freelance journalist, author of "Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health" and other books, and founder and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project. Follow him on Twitter @JonEntine
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I'm selling my recently acquired RoadKing.
This bike got registered in 1994, 3rd ownership is stamped on the RC book. The bike got CDI ignition. Paper wise all clean and it got Life Tax, FC till Aug 2009. Insurance is pending and I leave it to the buyer to take care of it. The bike is Black in color, Running vehicle but few may wanted to consider working on cylinders as little bit of slapping noice is present. it is registered in Tamilnadu. I wish to entertain only people who are genuinly interested in the "For Ever Bike" hence only genuinly interested people please leave your contact number (must) and email id in this comment section.
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Jet-lagged and enveloped in a dense cold, my climbing partner, Rob Raker and I departed the frosty city of Almaty, Kazakhstan and headed up high in the Tien Chan Mountains for some rock climbing… Kazakh-style. As we ascended the narrow and wash-boarded road, winter was soon upon us and we had to stop to put chains on our truck tires. After a lot of spinning and grinding, we finally reached a spot where we started trudging uphill against a strong cold wind.
Our goal was a 250 meter tower called, the Bastion, and a classic rock route called Oktyabryonok, which we understand means, "child of the revolution," named after those lucky enough to be born in October, the month of the Russian Revolution.
Arriving at the base, it was a new experience for me sitting in a deep pile of snow bundled in a ghost whisper (I never leave home without it) and a compressor jacket, gloves and fleece hat squeezing on rock climbing shoes. I'd blown it by forgetting a pair of wool socks but luckily, our host, Dmitry, had an extra pair. Even despite the socks, my feet were already numb and would stay that way throughout most of the day. Needless to say, as a blind person, I'm a better rock climber when I can feel my hands and feet, so the cold dramatically notched up the difficulty level as we started up the first pitch.
Our Kazak guide, Dennis, led up on two ropes, allowing Rob to climb about ten feet above me calling out crucial holds like, "a foot above your right hand is a good edge," and "reach farther right for a side pull . . . try lay-backing it."
The slick icy hand-holds were trickier and more strenuous to grab with gloves, and the small ledges, all covered with snow, threatened to send my feet skittering off into space. Despite that, we made decent time, stopping at each belay station to energetically swing our leaden feet and hands to bring back the blood flow. One of the pitches involved a big traverse right, and I knew a fall would send me swinging a long way. Fortunately Rob gave me great directions when I really needed it, and a few times, I may have grabbed a hanging quick draw, but I made sure there's no photographic evidence of that.
We reached the forth pitch about 2:00 PM and we were still in the sharp cold of the shade. However, the sun was creeping towards us, and for a tantalizing few minutes, remained an arm's length out of reach. Then it washed over us, basking us in soft warmth and transforming moods; for the first time, our gloves came off and we climbed bare-handed. I even heard Dennis far above whoop with happiness. But the sun was fleeting and gone as fast as it had arrived. To speed things up and beat nightfall, I jumared a pitch . . . which I hadn't done for a while. On ascenders, I was finally as fast as Rob who was free climbing with his usual joy and enthusiasm.
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"That was one way to beat jetlag," I mentioned as we inched our way down the slippery trail.
Despite the frigid conditions and tingling in my toes that has only recently dissipated, this experience reignited my passion for climbing after a six-year hiatus to learn to kayak. I started my adventure career as a climber and will always love the problem solving involved in feeling my way up a face. But, nothing beats the sound of immensity and space, the feeling of sun on your face and the accomplishment of reaching the summit. Here's to more climbing adventures!
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Councillors Guildhall Car Park
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April 7, 2018 at 8:33 pm #147344
You haven't got to worry about shorter meetings for the Councillors to get to their car parking — look at the attendance figures – looks like some have only been to about 6 meetings since being elected last May.
They all should (although only about half do) complete an annual report of their Council activities at Ward and County level.
Everyone should ask their local Councilor for a copy of their report…April 9, 2018 at 1:19 am #147384
Going back to http://www.wrexham.com/news/which-councillor-claimed-1-35-mileage-to-attend-remembrance-day-service-99364.html etc it appears WCBC do allow travel expenses from home to guildhall for meetings.
I have often stated that Councillors should have access to Pool cars and that would sort both mileage claims and parking.
Often? Where did you state that they should have access to pool cars? And was this only in respect of councillors or also 'top management'?
Do 'top management' now have to pay for parking or is it only councillors and lesser beings that have to pay for it?
How would pool cars solve this? First, it seems to me a ruse to create an empty space in the car park – i.e. the councillor will park their own car in the space vacated by the pool car they are driving. Second, it would have no effect on mileage from home to Guildhall as the councillor would still need to travel to the Guildhall to collect the pool car. So, in addition to the council being expected to provide free parking, they would now have to provide pool cars, pay the fuel costs for them and the servicing and probably car washes or other sundries. Also, if the councillor needed to travel somewhere other than the Guildhall, they would first have to travel out of their way to the Guildhall in order to collect the pool car. I'm failing to see how pool cars would be a good idea.
Perhaps you don't actually mean a pool car – perhaps you mean the perk of having a car permanently provided by the council to serving councillors as a benefit in kind, like a 'company car'. I imagine you would expect Guildhall parking to be free for such vehicles, as it wouldn't be fair to 'make' councillors drive council cars AND pay the parking charges for those cars. So this would be more expense for the council and less personal expense for the councillors.
I think it's excellent that the councillors' pay rise won't cover more than a few months parking charges as I think it is important they get a better idea of what the costs and inconveniences are for many who work in Wrexham. I am impressed and more than a little surprised that councillors are foregoing car park charges for themselves. I wonder what the decision would have been had it been made by so-called 'top management'.April 9, 2018 at 7:47 am #147385
Council WatcherParticipant
I believe that Council workers doing a journey of 100 miles or more have to use a hire car as this is cheaper than them being paid 45p a mile or 50p if they have a passenger. The hire charge and fuel are cheaper than the mileage allowance. One example I know of was someone going to Colwyn Bay with a passenger – their hire car was a Ford Ka at £20 and fuel only £15- milage 86 x 50p = £43 saving £8. Might not seem much but it adds up and longer journeys clearly significant savings across all the staff doing out of county or even within county.April 9, 2018 at 9:27 am #147386
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Some people take exception to my logic, often implying that this is somehow flawed but after working for a number of Welsh Councils and still being in touch with many officers and Councillors, I do assure you that my opinions are valid and are well sourced.
Council Watcher, if you 'believe' the car hire saving is true, where do they park the cars and wouldn't the people (Top Managers?) still need to park their own cars at the Council Car Park? The £8 saving is lost because someone could have paid to park in those spots.
CarolThomas, taking away FREE car parking would make them want to attend less meetings.
The Solution? Keep things as they are.
Change for Change's Sake Doesn't Always Equal Progress.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.April 9, 2018 at 10:17 am #147387
Some people take exception to my logic, often implying that this is somehow flawed but after working for a number of Welsh Councils and still being in touch with many officers and Councillors, I do assure you that my opinions are valid and are well sourced.
Councillor X. You have answered all my questions to your logic. As an ex Welsh Council official to me says it all. They couldn't run a booze up in a brewery.April 9, 2018 at 6:09 pm #147425
What happened to the two electric cars the Council bought sometime ago ?April 10, 2018 at 10:53 am #147466
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What happened to the two electric cars the Council bought sometime ago ?
To be born Welsh is to be born privileged, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but with music in your blood, and poetry in your soul.April 10, 2018 at 12:04 pm #147469
What happened to the two electric cars the Council bought sometime ago ?April 11, 2018 at 8:22 am #147502
Meanwhile in the real world –
Cuts to school music services
Cuts to school budgets
Cuts to adult social care
Cuts to parks services
Cuts to jobs for learning disabled people
Cuts to PCSO numbers
etc, etc.
But hey! Car parking, right?April 13, 2018 at 1:04 pm #147647
They wont do it because it is like turkeys voting for christmas.
its all talk!
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Argentina sinking 'like Titanic', say Copa critics
Argentina's faltering Copa America campaign was compared to the doomed Titanic, with coach Sergio Batista struggling at the helm of the under-performing hosts.sports Updated: Jul 08, 2011 16:24 IST
Argentina's faltering Copa America campaign was compared to the doomed Titanic, with coach Sergio Batista struggling at the helm of the under-performing hosts.
Batista should have been on to a good thing when he replaced Diego Maradona after the World Cup.
After all, had not Maradona's men laboured to qualify for the finals in South Africa in the first place, losing 6-1 to makeweights Bolivia, before, once there, being flattened by Germany in the quarter-finals?
Maradona's trials and tribulations and personality clashes with powerful Argentine Football Association (AFA) president Julio Grondona, who finally forced him out, were well-documented.
But the star of Argentina's 1986 World Cup win did bring one thing to the table that Argentina sorely lack on the basis of their Copa America draws with Bolivia and Colombia: passion for the cause.
"They don't really seem to have a leader with a leader's personality," former international goalkeeper Carlos Bossio observed on Thursday as hungry media picked over the debris of the horror show against Colombia.
"He is leading the Titanic towards the iceberg," was the brutal assessment of Spanish sports daily AS.
On the plus side, there was a clean sheet, unlike in their 5-0 drubbing by Colombia in a 1993 World Cup qualifier that marked the start of an 18-year trophy drought at senior level.


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Boeing's new CEO in spotlight after a rough ride this year
[SINGAPORE] Boeing Co's celebration of its centenary year is off to a rocky start, with new Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg under pressure to address concerns about potential earnings and the strategy for its defense business when he meets with investors today.
Boeing shares dived last week after a report that the US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating how the company accounts for the costs of developing its airliners.
Neither Boeing nor the SEC have confirmed the probe.
Its stock is down about 22 per cent for the year to date, even after regaining some ground Tuesday.
Boeing has said that it has racked up more than US$30 billion in deferred costs for the 787 that it has not yet charged against its income statement. Some analysts have predicted Boeing ultimately will have to take a charge for the 787.
Muilenburg is scheduled to address investors at a conference in Florida at 9:55 am Eastern Time Wednesday.
On one hand, Boeing executives have told investors the civilian airline industry's boom will persist and on Tuesday the company said it expects to ramp 787 production up by 20 per cent to 12 planes a month by mid-summer.
However, uncertainty about global economic growth and cheap oil - which encourages airlines to keep older, less efficient planes flying - have persuaded some analysts that the cycle is turning.
Adding to Boeing's troubles, a key US agency on Tuesday rejected the company's effort to overturn an award to rival Northrop Grumman Corp of a US$21.4 billion contract to engineer a new bomber, plus options for the first 21 planes.
It was the latest setback for Boeing's military business, which was counting on winning the bomber contract to stay in the combat aircraft business as its F-15 and F/A-18 fighter jets near the end of production in coming years. Muilenburg ran the defense business before becoming CEO last year.
Boeing has struggled to find foreign buyers for its fighter jets after losing the F-35 fighter jet competition to Lockheed in 2001. US approvals for two such deals - to sell F-15s to Qatar and F/A-18s to Kuwait - have stalled, forcing Boeing to front its own money to keep the F/A-18 line running.
Boeing also had to take a total of US$1.3 billion in pre-tax charges on its KC-46A refueling plane program for the Air Force.
Loren Thompson, a Washington-based defense consultant, said Boeing needed a larger defense acquisition to help offset a slowdown in commercial sales. "It's not clear how revenues would grow in the near term absent an acquisition," he said.
Boeing had previously looked at buying the US unit of Britain's BAE Systems and even parts of Northrop Grumman Corp but those efforts never led to any formal bids, according to sources familiar with the matter.
In civil aviation, Boeing says it expects passenger traffic to rise 6 per cent this year, and the outlook for jetliner sales remains strong.
But it surprised investors last month by disclosing that it expects deliveries of its best-selling 737 planes to fall this year as it starts production of the successor 737 MAX. The drop will be made up in 2017, Boeing said.
Boeing also said last week it will make further job cuts in the airliner business.
The company has in the past cut plane production when output as a percentage of the worldwide fleet topped 7 per cent. Current output is about 6 percent and is due to hit 7.2 per cent in 2017, according to data compiled by Edmund Greenslet, an independent aviation analyst.
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I'm too fat, i'm too skinny, i'm too dark, i'm too pale
Am I worth it? Am I cool? Can I pass? Will I fail?
I see my own reflection and I just can't stand the sight
I know that life's a battle, but i'm giving up in this fight
These insecurities around me are like imaginary walls
That I put up myself, because I love the way I fall
With no regard to beauty, I just hate myself
This cage of insecurity is my private little hell
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I am he you wish you could be, I talk to those you can't even see
I am your wishing start at night, and I make your day bright.
I make the seeds grow, rain clouds, here and there I blow,
If you knew what I know, and saw the world move this slow.
Your fears would disappear, I am sure of that my dear.
I don't worry about dying, I never fail on what I'm trying
If I put my mind to it, you can see the benefit…
Everything I am and have, you lack. And now, there is not going back.


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The Fairfield Four and The Martins Headline Arkansas Delta Family Gospel Festival in Helena-West Helena
Music is a very important part of the culture of the Arkansas Delta, but no genre more so than gospel. Back in 2000, the Delta Cultural Center in Helena-West Helena hosted the first Arkansas Delta Family Gospel Festival in an effort to highlight the importance part gospel music has played in the region and its impact on other musical genres.
This year's gospel festival takes place on Saturday, May 18, on the Cherry Street Pavilion in historic downtown Helena. The Fairfield Four and The Martins are event headliners. The event is free and open to the public.
Organized in 1921 in Nashville, Tenn., the Fairfield Four are the most distinguished proponents of traditional African-American a cappella gospel singing working today. They were among pioneers of African-American gospel groups that used radio to reach broader audiences, influencing both sacred and secular vocalists across the country, among them blues singer B.B. King. Today this multiple Grammy winning group is best known for their appearance on the soundtrack and on screen in the Coen Brothers film, O Brother Where Art Thou.
Recognized as one of Christian music's most talented trios, The Martins (siblings Joyce, Jonathan, and Judy) grew up in rural Arkansas and began singing in their home church. During the 1990s, The Martins rose to national and international success, showcasing their stunning and distinctive harmonies before a vast array of audiences, from Bill Gaither's award winning Homecoming Video and Concert Series to the White House to Carnegie Hall. Over the years the trio garnered six Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association, a Grammy nomination and multiple hit songs. After a 10-year hiatus from touring together and recording individually, the siblings reunited with renewed energy and enthusiasm. Their most recent recording, "New Day," was a collaboration with producer and multi-platinum-selling Rascal Flatts member Jay DeMarcus.
Originated in the mid-1980s as a revival crusade team, Apostle J.L. Cash and Praise are also scheduled to appear. Their music has been described as "R&B gospel with a contemporary flair, but traditionally anchored." Based in Florida, they have traveled extensively around the country and abroad. The group was featured in Tyler Perry's first stage play, I Know I've Been Changed, and performs regularly at Disney World's House of Blues, entertaining patrons at the Sunday Gospel Brunch.
With ten #1 songs and numerous Top 20 songs, The Whisnants bring the popular Southern Gospel sound to the stage. Since 1970, this Morganton, North Carolina-based group has been singing and ministering through song across the United States and Canada.
Raised in West Helena, Ark., Joseph Wheeler is a contemporary gospel singer and songwriter whose early musical influences include Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, and The Commodores. He received a Master's Degree in Divinity from Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, and served as Minister of Music at Greater New Hope Christian Assembly in Stockbridge, Ga. A self-taught pianist, Wheeler is a talented and electrifying performer.
Other local and regional acts include the Gospel Wonders of Brinkley, the Eternal Light Singers from Marianna, the Delta Jubilaires of Forrest City, Young N Ready from West Helena, and Gospel Soul from Barton.
For more information, log on to www.DeltaCulturalCenter.com or call the Delta Cultural Center at (870) 338-4350 or toll free at (800) 358-0972.


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Board and receive your welcome cocktail and then set sails to Sorrento for dinner and the night.
We then set sail towards the Costiera Amalfitana. Highlights for the day include Capri, Punta Campanella, and Nerano. In Positano, enjoy a delicious dinner in Fronillo bay, tasting the characteristic flavours of south Italy: fresh fish and delicious wine.
Here see the panoramic view that's famous all around the world. Then go down the costal spendour, the Li Galli Islands and the majestic sea stacks.
We will have lunch in the renowned restaurant, Maria Grazia in Nerano, and enjoy home made spaghetti with fresh prawns and zucchini.
This itinerary is designed to discover the secret trekking of the Costiera Amalfitana, where the sea fell in love with the mountain. Costiera Amalfitana, the Amalfi Coast, is a 50-kilometer stretch of coastline along the southern edge of Italy's Sorrentine Peninsula, in the Campania region.
It's a popular holiday destination, with sheer cliffs and a rugged shoreline dotted with small beaches and pastel-colored fishing villages. The coastal road between the port city of Salerno and clifftop Sorrento winds past grand villas, terraced vineyards, and cliffside lemon groves.
In Bomerano, the 3-hour excursion is one of the most beautiful panoramas in the world! The coastline, the "Li Galli" Island, is an archipelago of little islands off the Amalfi coast of Italy between the Isle of Capri, famous for its "Faraglioni", and stacks, a coastal and oceanic rock formation eroded by waves. Finally, a stop to Amalfi on the way back leaves you with unforgettable memories.


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European stock markets dropped across the board Monday, with so-called risk assets rattled after North Korea conducted a nuclear bomb test and was said to be preparing for a possible launch of another intercontinental ballistic missile.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index
The decline in stocks came after North Korea on Sunday conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test. On Monday, media reports from South Korea said Pyongyang appeared to be making preparations for the possible launch of another long-range ballistic missile.
"Another week, another provocation, as North Korea re-emerges as the key driver of market sentiment," said IG market analyst Josh Mahony in a note. "Unfortunately, there is unlikely to be any end in sight for this current standoff with North Korea, with few options seemingly on the table to demilitarize the regime."
The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Monday. U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis on Sunday warned North Korea that any attack on the U.S. or its allies would be met with a massive military response.
"One thing is for sure, with North Korea testing increasingly threatening weapons, the growing threat of a nuclear war is going to continue bolstering gold prices, which today hit an almost one-year high," said Mahony.
Considered a haven at times of geopolitical stress, gold
leapt 0.8% to $1,340.50 an ounce and briefly hit $1,343.50, around its highest since early September 2016. That supported gains for gold miners on the Stoxx 600. Shares of Polymetal International PLC
South Korea's Kospi Index
The euro
Read:How North Korea's nuclear test is rattling markets — in 5 charts
While investors will watch for developments surrounding North Korea, the European Central Bank will be in focus as it's set to release its latest policy decision on Thursday. There's been speculation that the ECB may discuss when what will happen with its bond-buying program of €60 billion a month, which is currently scheduled to run through December.
Stock movers: Novartis AG
Indexes: Germany's DAX 30 index
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University of Southampton visit to Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 1-3 February 2016
Professors Rachel Mills and Damon Teagle have just returned from their first visit to the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) where they initiated a number of areas of collaboration as part of a new partnership between the University of Southampton and NMMU in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
This emerging centre of excellence is a new partner for the University of Southampton; underpinned by a successful bid to the Newton fund for 3-year PhD partnering programme in the area of Marine and Maritime and the appointment of Professor Mike Roberts as the first jointly funded Newton-National Research Foundation research chair in marine food security (based jointly between NMMU and NOCS).
NMMU is located on the coast in Summerstrand, overlooking one of the most diverse coastal ecosystems in the Indian Ocean. Zebra roam the University nature reserve and can be seen from Deputy Vice Chancellor Andrew Leitch's 17th floor office, dolphin and shark patrol the surf zone. This ambitious new university has some world-class facilities and locations for fieldwork and has hired some exceptional staff who are keen to build capacity in a range of areas. PhD partnering opportunities are available to students from both institutions and initial areas of joint research will include invasive species in coastal ecosystems, tracking fish migration using novel geochemical techniques, impact of noise pollution on marine mammals and other species, coastal sediment dynamics and interactions with the coastal built environment and novel algal culturing techniques. Mike Roberts' Indian Ocean food security programme will provide further collaborative opportunities for both partners.
NMMU hosts the Africa Earth Observatory Network led by Professor Maarten de Wit. He and his team have set up a new academic field of Earth Stewardship Science and have an ambitious vision for South Africa and wider African nations. The next steps for Southampton – NMMU collaboration will see development of closer links with AEON to deliver this vision through transdisciplinary research efforts in the Indian Ocean.
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Quincy Police Search for Missing Person
Quincy Police and Adams County Emergency Management team members are searching the Gardner Park area for a Quincy man reported missing at 4:30 Wednesday morning.
Police say the missing man is 53 year old David William Leonard. He's a white male… 5'7" 160 pounds with blond shoulder length graying hair and blue eyes. Clothing is unknown. Police list Leonard's address as 1329 North Sixth.


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Calls on Bush Administration to Address Growing Casualty Toll; Letter Requests State Department Review Arms Exports to Israel
WASHINGTON – The Arab American Institute today condemned Israel for its ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip and called on the Bush Administration to address the growing number of children killed as a result of indiscriminate Israeli bombardment of highly concentrated Palestinian population centers.
In the last several days, at least 14 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombing raids in the Gaza Strip. This comes after Israeli shelling of a Gaza beach decimated a family of Palestinians enjoying a picnic and left an 11-year-old Palestinian girl wailing over her dead father.
"The Israelis continually claim they deliberately target Palestinian militants and use precision strikes," said AAI President James Zogby. "The growing death toll of innocent Palestinians says otherwise. In the last several days the dead include 5-year-old Mohammed Roka, 6-year-old Nadia al-Sharif, 16-year-old Bilal al-Hassa and Fatima El-Barbarwi, who was 7 months pregnant. At this point in time, there is no way they can shoot into a crowd and not kill children. There is a pattern here which suggests criminal negligence, and it must stop."
"Being repeatedly sorry after the fact is not good enough," Zogby added. "We are calling on the State Department to investigate whether or not these attacks constitute a violation of Israel's obligations under provisions of the Arms Export Control Act, which prohibits the use of U.S. weapons in an offensive manner targeting a civilian population."
AAI is sending a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice requesting the State Department to review whether U.S. weapons were used and whether they were used in an offensive manner designed to inflict disproportionate damage and with reckless disregard for the surrounding civilian population.
"If there is evidence found that there has been a violation of the Arms Export Control Act, we request a determination by the Secretary of State as to whether or not a suspension of arms shipments to Israel is in order."


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Schools facing $150 million budget pinch, 2,000 job cuts
Clark County School District officials anticipate a budget shortfall of $150 million or more for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
"The upcoming budget is really ugly," Superintendent Walt Rulffes said Wednesday.
Without significant concessions from employee unions, the district may have to cut about 2,000 jobs to balance the budget for 2011-12, Rulffes said.
District officials stressed that the budget projections are preliminary. The assumptions are based on projected shortfalls in state funding, flat growth in property and other local tax collections, and the end of federal stimulus funding.
District officials said they would fight any new attempt by the state government to transfer money from the district's capital budget to the district's general operating budget. The Legislature did so this year to supplement the district's general operating budget by $25 million.
Rulffes said the state cannot use district funding, which the district raised from bond sales, to cover the state's obligations to fund public education.
Rulffes and other local district superintendents are expected to meet with Gov.-elect Brian Sandoval on Dec. 7 to discuss school funding.


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Your apartment offers you the freedom to eat whatever you want, whenever you want. No longer tied to the meal plan on campus, the kitchen in your apartment is a gateway to untold dining possibilities. Invite guests and enjoy the evening!
There is nothing like having your own private bedroom and bathroom at Rocktowne. You can retreat to your personal space, allowing you to enjoy your music, study or enjoy company on your terms. Your private room is a part of a larger apartment, giving you access to your roommates and friends in the community without losing your privacy.
Every fully furnished apartment includes a variety of features such as individual climate control, internet/cable service, ample closet space, full kitchen with island, electronic keyed access. Our clubhouse features a fitness center, big screen TV lounge, community events and more! There isn't anything like Rocktowne around!
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Our large tree house is suitable for older children. It has a kitchen inside and train table outside. The slide is quite fast, kids love it!
Our tree fort is suitable for younger children
Our foam pit is a crowd pleaser. Kids and parents alike have tons of fun in there. Look for hidden basketballs and shoot hoops with your little monkey!
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Monkey business is like a birthday party hall for young children. Our party package includes coloured table cloths, cups, plates, and napkins for up to 16 children. Additional children are only $5 each. Add any theme you like for an extra $50. This is a Finding Dory themed birthday setup
Here is a cat in the hat themed party set up. Our vendor did not have the required decorations so we crafted some ourselves. We will do anything for our valued guests! We love to be crafty!
Our Themed loot cups are $4 each. They include various treats that little monkeys love such as candies, chocolates, toys, bubbles, and stickers.
We sell all kinds of snacks, coffee, and tea for your convenience. Healthy and sometimes not so healthy...who are we to judge? You do you mamas and papas!
Feel free to bring your own food for your party or order pizza and have it delivered here. Please note we are a peanut aware facility, please do not bring foods containing nuts or nut products. Our party package includes unimited juice, coffee and tea
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