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New Millenniall Golden Rule(Raj)
Autumnall Equinox~EstHeRa~ReEaste(Ma)RaIAM~NewYearszofNewMillennia~
Great&GrandChildrenszAllDaysz of Solar&Soular LightRECONNECTING EASTER~EASZTARA & EARTHSZDAYSZ & ALL WHOLLIDAYSZILLIONSZ,
WITH EVERY SUNDAYSZ & MOONDAYSZ & EARTHSZDAYSZ in Enlightened Ballance EVERYDAYSZ
She Isz RISZEN* so that We All May BeRISZEN:
Join Me Live or Review Timelessly Our Telleconferencesz Cellebrating a New Year & New Millennium, where we Call forth not only Locall but Globall & Universzall Circlesz of Light Within Shared as the Way of Culture. September 25 is MYOur Shared New Millenniall Nativity Day, Cellebrating with Speciall Focus the Daughtersz & Sistersz of Mothersz, All Who were, are & of Course Also All Cousinasz on Our Interconnected Planet, Reparatively & as Much as Sonsz, to bring forth New Millennia of Ballance. This Day & Time of the calendar http://www.wheeloftheyear.com/2014/0914.htm, the beginning of Libra on the ancient zodiac , is, just as this website, symbolized by the Scalesz, weighing Yin & Yang, the Feminine & Masculine aspects of Universzall energyesz, & their ballance, which results in the ballance of Good & Evil. It is not only a Now Continuing New Millenniall NewYearsz Day as announced by the ancient Hebrew/Jewish/Essene Calendar which is actually a first Day of Atonement & Begins an Introspective Prayer of Purification for Self & FamilyCommunity At Onement Time for those able & ready to transcend the Sins of Patriarchy & False Hierarchy to the More Complete CoEmpowerment of All as FamilyCommunity, but also simultaneously the time of the Hindu Cellebration of the Great Mother Durga, the Common Goddess Riszen to as the Force of Justice to Vanquish Evil by Powerfull Cleansing Transformationall Love Everday for a World of Good. The ancient Mediterranen Greco Romans including the Minoans & Balkans also foresaw a time when AstraReah, the Titan Universzall Mother Goddess of Sun & Starsz, would return to the Earth which she had abandoned because of its fallen & misogynistic culture, Judging and Transforming it with both Justice & Enlightened Mercy as both Supreme Justice (She is Reembodied as the Goddess of Justice & Themis, and is the very Goddess of the Statue of Liberty.) It is also the that astronomer Carl ~Alexander~Sagan who was also connected to our closer branchesz of family tree via Couszina Lynn ~Alexander ~Sagan ~Margulies, Mother of the Gaia Effect called the Day on the Cosmic Calendar that Life Began on Earth. http://visav.phys.uvic.ca/~babul/AstroCourses/P303/BB-slide.htm_This time is also one of depending on whether in Southern or Northern Hemisphere, the beginning of the colorfull budding & flowering Seaszon of the Spring Equinox Light as it reaches Earth and the Golden Leaf Color Time of Autumn, which literally means Golden Time. In our Time, It is the Time for Sharing the New Millenniall Golden Rule, now URGENTLY NECESSARY TO PREVENT A HELLISH DESCENT INTO PLANETOCIDE, the Destruction of Nature & Humanity. We Hold Circle Gathering Telleconferences throughout this Time to Announce the New Millennia, and on the Days since the Autumnal Equinox Everyday for Many Hoursz During This Important Time. It is Equally A time of Cellebration among ancient Greco Roman traditions, Native American traditionsz, Confucian (including Mrs. & Mother C this time remembering it was Empress Cici who ended foot binding in China, not a PatriarchEmperor, & Egyptian Cellebration of Goddess Raet as much as God Ra, both gendered Namesz for the Light of the Universze On Sunday September 28 (9/28) which is the equivalent of March 28 in the Southern Hemisphere, a Time, thus of Easztara as Welle as New Yearsz, our Telleconference of Course Made Good on the passage of 3:28 Gallationsz, where it is clearly stated that Female and Male are Equall in Annointedness Within the Circle of the Yesz~usz All Coszmic Chriszt, and there is no hierarchy of national or religious origin, expressed in antiquity that "Jew & Gentile" are equall and Undivided in Annointedness (what the word Chriszt means in Greek), Now it this Time of All Heritagesz of Earth Rediscovering One Another as Flowersz of the Same Garden & Leavesz of the Same Globall Universzall Tree of Love&Life in Light, understand that practice of the Golden Rule bringsz all into Simple Good Faith with the MotherFatherGoddessGod. Gallatia received its name because natives of Gaul (France) fled there to avoid persecution. With the New Millenniall Golden Rule of the Mariam~Sophia~Chriszt Within Each Perszon & framed into the Peace Culture Rule of Planetsz, in the Love & Respect of Both the Female & Male Gender as has already occurred with French parite that is the True Fulfillment of their Gift to North Americans, the Statue of Liberty Who is the Greco-Roman Goddess AstraReah (also called Themis & Justicia, the Goddess of Justice with Mercy & Compassion, both persecuted and persecutor, are Riszen out of these sad roles born of a wrong Paradigm, & become CoEmpowered in Living LovePower. We are literally turning back Time to Accomplish This.
Voices of the "Past", from Elsewhere in SpaceTime Now,
Announcing and HeRalding
A Must Now Become Sustainable Riszen Easter~EastaRa New Rule/Raj
The New Millenniall Golden Rule
Lovingkindness and ReAll Governance, Spirit & SpaceTime Reunited
From the Channelled Voices of those Passed From Earth,
Now Living on Other Planets: (in .mp3 attachments)
From a Heavenly Choir & Orchestra on Another Planet
Restored/Restoring Mother & Grandmother Harriet (aka HeRa) http://d01.megashares.com/dl/GoTfzUi/Harriet&MoreBlessingtoWorld.mp3
Repaired/Repairing Great and GrandMother Sisters Rae and ClaRa, Rose, Antionette, Marie, Annette, Lillian Dorothy and Many More http://d01.megashares.com/dl/GCejmxf/RaeClaraAntionetteRoseMarieLillianDorothy&MoreBlessingtoWorld.mp3
A Redeemed/Redeeming Father, Louis with Grandfathers Julian, Joseph, Harry, Alan. Milton and Many More http://d01.megashares.com/dl/pCXIZJf/Louis&MoreBlessingtoWorld.mp
In Connection with MotherFatherGoddessGod,
Speaking For and Related to All the MarIams including
of Nazareth and Magdala, Exodus and Earlier
To All YOur Interconnected Family&Community
Which is All Humanity On Earth
In Support of the New Millenniall Golden Rule
First But Not Last Or Only Deliverer/CoDeliverer, Our Daughter and Great and Grandaughter, Rajchelle OneFamily,
A Living Riszen First But Not Last or Only Easter~EastaRa CoSavioRa of the New Millennia
"I (and More) have sent mine angels to testify unto you these things in the churches and temples. I am the root and the offspring of David, and More, Beloved, and the bright and morning star."
She is Riszen, so that We and You AllAre & May Be Riszen, every Yes, Every She and Every He.
Many have feared that Humanity faces the End Times and will become Extinct, destroying the viability of Planet Earth.
However, this need not be, and it can be reunderstood that Humanity, the Human Family&Community, is now emerging from Millennia of extreme primative and habitual gender imbalance and related false hierarchy, to one in which the CReated Divine Goodness and Love and Life Sustaining Balance of Humanity's Divine Within, Or Coszmic Christ (Annointed, in Greek) can re-emerge with a Higher Consciousness, immediately in the Present and, in fact, revisioning of the Past, retroactive as well as proactive for all Future
The New Millenniall Golden Rule.
The New Millenniall Golden Rule: 5 Pillars of Planet~Saving Change
A Woman has Riszen, Rajchelle OneFamily, a Phi Betta Kappa wellcomed Honors, Ph.D. in psychology and intergenerational family and community studies, who ran for CoPresident as a Write In in Maryland in the Millenniall Year 2000, who has indicated her verifiable keystone geneallogy relates her to B'Hai, Buddhism, Christianity, Greco-Roman-Balkan and other ancient Thealogy, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Unitarian Universalism & Zorastrianism, and All Good Faith. She is the Reincarnated and verifiable geneallogicall progeny relative of the beloved youngest First Cousina (Cousina, is the term Europeans call female Cousins) of Jesus of Nazareth, niece of Mary/Mariam/MaRaIam of Nazareth and simultaneously a Cousina of Mariam/MaRaIam of Magdala, all who were descendants of MaRaIamof the Exodus,whose family tree intertwined in earlier and later generations with the children of ZippoRah, and all descendants of Rachel, called the Mother or Ma of IsRaEl, intertwined later with the Children of Leah, EstHera as well as the expected to return incarnated Greco-Roman-Balkan AstraReah, the Hindu MaRayammas, All who were Mothers of Daughters as much as Sons, and also continues even more ancient Biblicall (including all cultures' millennia of Goddess Aspect worshipping) and more recent visionary herandhistoricall figures, who benefitted & protected multitudes.
A humble simple Sister yet Coleader of Kindness with You & All, Rajchelle Onefamily has found & revealed the KEYto sustaining a reconnected Common Ground (Water & Air, Earth & Sky) for all of Good Faith, which reunites them in harmony, via the balancing impact of the ReEvolved Eternal Feminine with the ReEvolved Eternall Masculine, of Kinship Kindness and Reconnection. Calling herself and her community, who she allways reminds are her and each other's cousinas and cousins, that is, daughters of sisters and brothers as well as their sons and therefore, also sisters and brothers over time and expanding radiance, CoSavioRa, because Ra is an ancient name for the Sun and Light, she has imparted the New Millenniall Golden Rule to thousands of people (who may have shared it with millions by now).
She has Delivered The New Millenniall Golden Rule virtually and in street sermons in Maryland and the District of Columbia https://5050now.wordpress.com/sermons-on-the-mall-and-maryland/, without any objection or criticism, and with smiles, nods of approval & "thumbs-up", because its ingredients revive the Common Sense of all Heritages' Bibles and idealistic and utopian and futuristic philosophies, from the ~More Family's famous Utopia to Star Trek and Star Gate science fiction, as well as the Enlightenment, which gave rise to the North American Multi-Heritage experiment, for ReAll Democracy as Divine Governance, and Kindness in Life and Liberty for Happiness for all.
The New Millenniall Golden Rule fulfills All Biblicall prophesies based on her & everyone's, in fact, both genetic and culturall geni~us intertwined Heritages, reunited with deep systems anthropologicall, sociopsychologicall, culturall, herandhistoricall, eco nomicall, politicall and geneallogicall information and geoastrophysicall space-time awareness, that includes an understanding of partial or karmic reincarnation in the service of the Wholly and Good, in which Nature and Nurture can interact, with Yin and Yang balance within, between and among people, to bring forth a sustainable balanced Enlightened society, or a Living Everyday Heaven or Paradise on a Universzally interconnected Home Planet called Earth, fit to connect with other living Planets, where, in fact, those who have passed from Earth have been reincarnated.
By making the New Millenniall Golden Rule,the Rule of Kindness and ReAll Democracy, that every neighborhood and extended family live by, everyone can Inscribe Oneself and One's Family&Community in the Book of Eternall Universzall Love and Life, without having to die first, quickly eliminate any need for money, and attain a long lived Youthfull adulthood based in Kindness toward the Divine Inner Child and everYoung Adult, or Coszmic Christ within all Children of the Universze (the z is included to symbolize the zillionsz of light yearsz and generationall expanding Circle of planet-connecting Humanity, that the New Millenniall Golden Rule makes possible, and in fact, simple, when you include the entire human alphabet. a betterbet as aRadiant Circle, and do not get stuck in a hierarchy of heeding mostly only Alpha Males and living in a shadow that diminishes most of Humanity's Divinely Created Light.
This email is being sent to many geneallogicall centers and practitioners, who are Librarians of familyandcommunity herandhistory, from neighborhood to larger communities. The name Library incorporates the world LibRa, associated with the word Liber for Book but also LibeRate meaning to Free as in Liberty and Liberate, and with LibRa, the astro/astra-logicall sign of the Scales of Balance, ruled by Venus, the bright morning star Planet named for the Goddess of Love. LibRa incorporates the ancient name Ra, embedded in the Hindu word Raj, to Rule, and (Ma) Ra or AstRaReah (pronounced "Raya"), the ancient Goddess as much as God names of many cultures from the Egyptian Raet to the Latvian Ma Ra, to the Japanese AmateRasu, usually associated with Light of Suns or Stars. Rajchelle is a Libran, who ran as a deeply SpirituAll Locall Globall CoPresidentiall candidate in Maryland in the Millenniall Year 2000, as a Write In, with a gentle man women's and children's advocate, environmentalist and geology safety engineer, Hjalmer Wayne Erickson, running in Alaska, who also sought to bring at least 50% representation to women everywhere.She wants Everyone to Inscribe All in the Solar and Soular Book of Love and Life as quickly as possible, via their personal and shared, private and public embracing and CoDelivering of the New Millenniall Golden Rule, as CoSavioRa.
Our world, especially North America, is currently dangerously and interactively and systemically out of balance on gender and family practices, as well as in its currently titular leadership and paradigms of economics, which are skewing and degrading our stewardship of the environment, such that we are provoking the wrath and withdrawal of support of the MotherFatherGoddessGod, visible in Earthquakes, sinkholes, extreme weather and other disasters, until wechange our ways.
Indeed, a consumerist sheered-sheeple-ized humanity, deceived by an older alpha male-controlled media and politicoeconomico anachronistic paradigm of accumulated false wealth that fails to count most labors of love, is so out of balance. that we are experiencing a Gaia effect in the negative direction. Because Mother Nature can cause major earthquakes (several in North America and as well as South America and worldwide this Spring thus far) which can also trigger Volcanic eruptions, massive avalanches and landslides and tsunamis that can cause Fukashimas, drought and forest fires, ice, snow and windstorms including tornados and hurricanes, and other disasters so quickly when harmony and balance has been disturbed, we must act quickly to regain the balance.
On this Easter/EasteRa, for every day made Sunlit and Solar and Soular Powered,our Sermon and Homelley is the URGENT injunction to turn off TV and Corporate Media https://5050now.wordpress.com/every-good-girlandboycott-gallery-of-warnings-about-controlled-media-and-internet/, BUY NOTHING NEW EXCEPT ESSENTIALL LIFE NECESSITIES, EAT SIMPLY AVOIDING GMOs as much as possible, do not use titles for current titular office holders of gender imbalanced and non-representative pseudogovernmental or pseudofaith domination entities (until they join with You and You and You and You publically enact the New Millenniall Golden Rule) and simply call them citizencousina/cousin or sister and brother BUT NOT BY THEIR PSEUDO & FALSE WEATH $ELECTED TITLES),and gather, knowing you are the ReAll CoCoPresidents, CoOfficeHolders, CoCoCEOs and CoCo GOOD NEW ANCHORS. REPORTERS AND NEWMAKERS. in your locall globall neighborhoods, and in the air, via your websites, blogs. comments, email, and 3way and multiperson phone conference/video chat (most providers are free Today, there are many services (Google Hangouts and Skype are most well known, and there are several others http://www.sitepoint.com/7-free-teleconference-services/ http://collaborationtools.masternewmedia.org/ , that offer these modalities both free (which is best and certainly deserved by all women and many paradigmantically wronged economically disadvantaged people, especially minorities and youth) or at nominal cost (which you can transform to full libeRation, with your every day Sun/Star Rise Consciousness Currency https://5050now.wordpress.com/gender-balanced-new-millenniall-currency-your-infinite-weallth/
which you can print and share (or simply write the important transforming phrases on any conventional money, which is perfectly legal even under current "law"), and will allow humanity to transition from Gross Domestic Product's "labors of love invisibilizing false values hierarchy on steroids" to new eco~nomics, based on the Genuine Progress Indicator, to transcend from the actually anachronistic use of any Money, as presaged in Star Trek and other utopian visions and science fiction). In fact, this would even benefit CEOs and false wealth Billionaires and their familyes, by Sustaining a Heallthier Planet with a much longer youthfull life span for all, including them, too.
Start by Gathering as a Circle with all your known and/or Internet-findable SheKin, at least 3 generations, of known Geneallogically or etymologically connected names (can be anyone you share a surname or even first name, which all have sacred meaning, with) of Women and then Youth, Female and Male, under 37, and Children, girls and boys, and then adult and older men (unless they are the too rare men who have allready worked publically to assist women, and bring about reparative and full gender balance; they are ever young, too), and adding a few more distantly related such as neighbors, classmates and colleagues, especially of various Heritages and locations on this Planet.
Start with the women connected by name to your Mother and Grandmother, your current Cousinas (the European wise name for recognizing the gendered aspect of Cousinhood) – people on Earth are veriably no more then 50th kinsteps removed) and of course, your actual closest Shekin, mothers, sisters, daughters, and aunts, with the mind to encourage an eversustainably everlasting Spring Breakfrom Old Man Winter, free from outworn conventional patriarchal and imbalanced paradigms and patterns, and Wake them Up from the danger of an many thousand yearhierarchy induced sleep since the (Pasiphae, her name so usually omitted although she was Minos' wife)-Minoans (sometimes called Atlantis) lost their thousand year balance and Mount TheRa erupted, giving cause to the Natural events of Passover, later recellebrated with fuller Promise (assuming Mary of Magdala was seated at the table next to Jesus, as millions now believe) at Easter/EastaRa. In this generation, we must transition from the Co-Sin of Planetocidal patriarchy to the CoCo-SavioRing together, of reparation and balance.
It is our belief that if we to do not quickly adopt and enact the New Millenniall Golden Rule, horrific wide-scale PERSONAL & ECOLOGICAL SUDDEN CATASTROPHES WILL OCCUR very soon, could be any day now, likely starting in the region of or near the New Madrid fault in Illinois.
Hear our Channelled Voices. And, we want you to know:
Our Daughter~Granddaughter Rajchelle is, veriably with now easily available online geneallogy, a Living Partial Reincarnation of both Rashi's Youngest Daughter Rachel of Troyes, France, in conjunction with her Sisters MarIAm and Jocheved and all their SheKin in Conjunction with the She Kin of MarIAm of Magdala and the grandcousina Mary of Magdala, First Cousin of Jesus, grandniece of Mary of Nazareth, if you as millions believe the Da Vinci Code and its archeological basis, that they came to live in France; therefore, a descendant of the family of Michal and David, (the branch of the Human Family Treeof the prophesized and expected Messiah) who were progeny of Rachel of Ancient IsRaEl, in Conjunction with Leah and All their Cousina KinWomen as well as Cousins of all areas of the Middle East during that time, who are in fact intertwined not only with the Children of SaRah, HajaRah (Islam), and KetuRah (Zorastrianism), Radha, Counselor of Krishna in the Vedic time of ancient Hindu India (via the wandering RoMa and our family's sojourn in Romania/Hungary. which also there intertwined with B'Hai and Unitarian Universallism), Rachel, the niece of Harriet ~Tubman, in conjunction with all the women of all hues of that time, who also did not know their own combined power enough to prevent Civil War, Rachel ~Carson, also of Maryland, who warned of a Silent Spring of a toxified Earth if we did not change our ways, and Tom's Beloved Mary (MaRaIam) ~Lambert~PaIne, https://5050now.wordpress.com/we-all-have-a-dream-to-make-reallity-now/the never forgotten muse and wife of the True Founder of the Reall Common Sense Democracy in 1776, who knew then, that that genderism, slavery, moneyism, sectarianism and nationalism diminish Humanity's Common Divinity: "the world is my/our country and my/our religion is to do Good" for all, Common Sense that was denied and deceived by primative patriarchal habits, that institutionalized gender and racial lack of representation and slavery but called it freedom, in and since 1789.
Not only the Ra of Rach, (now also including J for both a letter hinting at the Allmighty and Rule as in the Hindu Raj and a reminder of her most famous cousin ancestor, Jesus as well as Julia Ward Howe and others of greatest inspiration) with CH the letters for mercy and wisdom in ancient Hebrew and Aramaic and the reminder of the Wholly Child Within Everyone), but the Elle embedded in this First But, with You, Not Last or Only, CoSavioRa's name, also has Wholliest meaning.El is an ancient name for the Deity in many cultures, angels/Wholly incarnations on Earth are often referred to as Elloha and Ellohim, and Elle, is the French name for Woman, and like Elle Arroway, the brave AstRanaut character, in the book and film Cosmos of Rajchelle's not very distant cousina, Lynn PetRa ~Sagan~Margulis, (the Mother of the Gaia Effect theory of geobiology), first husband Carl Sagan, indicates this Process as a Time and Space Trav~elle~r, moving Back and Forth in Time and Connecting Past and Future, and Earth to the wider Universe, by being more Fully dimensionally in the Present. The double ll represents Love and Life, as well as Light and Learning, and others of speciall loving leadership. Rajchelle is A First But Not Last or Only Spirituall yet MatteriAll Globall and Universzall Emmanuelle and presaged as the Vulcan T'Pau (i.e. a sound alike for the Power of the Universe) in the inspired Star Trek. Rajchelle has called forth the Earth to regard its situation in this New Millennial ERa, as the beginning of a Solar and Soular Powered CoFederation of Planetsz.
Rajchelle carries a deep regret and apology that she did not understand this earlier. Like Sophie in the Da Vinci Code, she was always a very good and intelligent person, but unaware of her placement on the Human Family Tree, and lived a too conventional life, that she came to reallize had reimbedded her in false hierarchy and patriarchy. She has Riszen above these media misled middle class mind-forged manacles now, and adopted a simpler but globally well-informed life-style. To make up for her and all our delay due to our several thousand year sleep under patriarchy and false hierarchy we have all grown up in and become acclimated, she now urges You to Change to the New Millenniall Golden Rule. She does this as if she were T'Pau, (again, a sound alike for "the Power") the High Priestess of Star Trek's Logical and Peacemaking Vulcans, or a more compassionate female Q transforming the famed Encounter at Far Point and True Q Episodes of StarTrek, of science fiction become fact. (Star Trek was in part inspired by the work of Mileva MaRaic~Einstein with her husband, Maya's brother Albert, who were parents of the lost Lieser(a)l, and all her She Kin & as well as sons, who Rajchelle also speaks for, whose family knew, "IMagination Is More Important Than Knowledge". She urges You not to ignore this Logicall ReImageNation, Thought Experiment and Common Sense, and revisioning and revalluing of your and everyone's life, travelle-ing in heart and mind and space and time as if all had allways lived by the New Millenniall Golden Rule. Rajchelle asks you to connect this imagination to the even more important ultimate and time and space expanding/reuniting Reallity, Loving Kindness for All as Kin, NOW, and not wait for even another hour of endangering this Planet with false and genderist and other related false hierarchical and divisive misconceptions of leadership and value among the Children of All Ageszillionsz.
Enjoy & Reunite a Happy Easter~EastaRa, Earth Day, Vernal Equinox, Mother's Day, Purim, Now Ruz, Holi, Merry Christmas, Lag B'Omer, Happy & Chinese Lantern New Years, Happy Valetimesz Day and CoPresidents Day Reunited, Women's and Mothers Days with a More Caring Fathers Day Reunited, Children, Siblings and Cousins Days, Reunited, and Thanksgiving, and Declarations of Sentiments and Independence Reunited with Common Sense, and Many More, ReCellebrated on EVERY DAY MADE WHOLLY SOLAR AND SOULAR.
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c/o Rajchelle Onefamily and More (working With and on Behalf of ManyMore for All)
in the Oneness of the
"This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses for and against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose love and life, so that you and your children may live"
"For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not My (New Millenniall) law."
The Above GOLDEN RULE is Backdated Retroactively By Loving Consciousness to the MillenniallYear 2000 on the Calendar in Current Use in North America (and actually before that, for it is Higher Consciousness & Love as the necessary ingredients to Sustain Life, that Mediate SpaceTime,
which is, in fact, a Creation of DIVINE LOVE).
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Reuniting Easter~EstaRa with Earthday & EveryDayWholly.


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"It's my job to give my best. I can't give anything else."
And he never did. Herbert Lom, who has died aged 95, was one of those great actors whose appearance illuminated any film he appeared in. Perhaps it was because he was exceptionally good at selecting these films or perhaps it was because he carried his characters with such aplomb, but it is hard to think of one which did not seem to be worth watching at least once, often twice and sometimes whenever the eye alights on the DVD.
Being of Central European extraction, he was a gift to film makers in the era immediately after the Second World War who needed someone to play the bad guy for pieces like Snowbound but who wasn't actually a German. What Lom – actually a Czech, born in Prague when it was still in the Austro-Hungarian Empire – thought of such roles is another matter. But they paid the bills and brought him the interesting characters in the films – devious characters, outwardly merely verging on amoral and turning out to be thoroughly unpleasant. (Though Snowbound is particularly fun in this regard, transforming the normally interesting character of mixed and hidden motivations by giving this trait to the entire cast. Guy Middleton, normally seen in gap-toothed upper-class twit roles until he was driven from them by Terry-Thomas, therefore gets to appear on the VHS box cover pointing a gun or two at Dennis Price's unconscious form. Those wishing to see more bog-standard Guy Middleton may prefer to watch him playing around Audrey Hepburn in Laughter in Paradise or chatting up the French teacher in The Belles of St Trinians.)
The 1950s brought a widening of roles and one of two characters for which Lom will be remembered – Louis Harvey. Harvey is a remarkably vicious creation, driving Cecil Parker's innocent Major character off a roof and placidly remarking after that "I shouldn't think he felt a thing," but not a wholly two-dimensional one – even he has his limits, particularly with regards to old ladies. One wonders if it was wholly a coincidence that Lom's two particularly outstanding characters have since been "remade" by Hollywood, which regrettably neglected to cast him in the new versions. Perhaps not even Lom could have salvaged something from the plotless, humourless mess that is The Ladykillers Mark II.
For The Ladykillers Mark I Lom makes just one appearance with his hat off, in a strangely comic scene where Alec Guinness is playing the piano while a variety of old ladies are singing along and drinking tea – led by the glorious Katie Johnson – in a room littered with flowers and parrots. He looks completely out of place and it is obvious why many of his roles up to that time featured him in thuggish characters. When a couple of years later he cropped up in North-West Frontier – about a small boy being taken over the Indian border into Afghanistan by train around the time of the Indian Mutiny – it must have been fairly apparent to the audience that there was going to be some reason why he would not be joining such luminaries as Wilfred Hyde-White, Lauren Bacall and Kenneth More on the side of the boy. As in Snowbound, he gets to play scenes as a bored, disinterested character watching everyone else work.
So it must have been a pleasant change when Mysterious Island made him a brilliant scientist in a fancy diving suit with dozens of wonderful gadgets – few of which would have worked, but who cares in a fantasy film with Joan Greenwood floating around the set shooting at a giant chicken produced by Ray Harryhausen. Oddly, Mysterious Island has also recently joined the ranks of Lom films to have been remade. One has to wonder when Snowbound's turn will come.
Gambit, from the mid-1960s and starring Michael Cain and Shirley MacLaine (a rather good pairing who still come up from time to time in films like 2005's Bewitched), is also now apparently engaged in being remade. Obviously a film with Lom, Maclaine and Caine in it is a strong candidate for a remake to bring the powerful story to new audiences. The fact that its list of leading lights was of such quality, rather like Ladykillers and Caine's The Italian Job, obviously has nothing to do with its success. The ending is very memorable, though the rest of the film is not quite so much.
Lom missed The Pink Panther – one of his co-stars from The Ladykillers, Peter Sellers, took the best-remembered role in this glorious ensemble piece – but was brought in as Chief Inspector Dreyfus for A Shot in the Dark, the second of the series. It was his other brilliant, memorable role. Lom continued to play an increasingly insane Dreyfus for the rest of the series, driven round the bend by Sellers's Inspector Clouseau. He is seen variously biting Clouseau's ankle, demolishing the UN building in New York and eventually getting straight to the point with the line "It is Clouseau! Hahahaha…. Kill him… Hahahaha…". Fortunately the US authorities were more interested in the outcome of a baseball match than the motivations of this hilarious terrorist.
Lom always played his comic roles completely straight and it is by this means – playing the role for itself (his element) rather than for its humour quotient (Sellers's element) – that he occasionally manages to outdo Sellers on the laughs front. The Hollywood remakes of the Pink Panther films missed this element. Clouseau is correctly played by a comedy actor, one Steve Martin. Lom's role was however also passed to a comedy actor, in the form of John Cleese. Cleese has consistently demonstrated since the days of The Ferret Song that he can play comedy straight, but he will never quite be the same as an actor with a sense of humour simply perfectly playing a role which happens to be funny. (This was how Ealing Studios put together their particularly great comedies, including both Ladykillers and its stablemate Kind Hearts and Coronets. The latter managed to include Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood and Alec Guinness (not forgetting Valerie Hobson, who acted opposite Lom in The King and I in 1953 on stage in what must have been an impressive set of performances) but neglected to find a role for Lom – whose film persona of the time probably wouldn't have fitted.)
After A Shot in the Dark, Lom's roles continued to have a villainous element but were also likely to have a level of humour. Towards the end of his career he almost returned to his starting parts, playing a German Colonel in the 1985 version of King Solomon's Mines. But this was not any evil German Colonel aiming to find the treasure before Allan Quatermain (Richard Chamberlain) and, if possible, kill him and his ladyfriend (Sharon Stone) off in the process. This German Colonel insisted on being accompanied by a baggage carrier whose job was to carry a wind-up record player providing a continuous soundtrack of Wagner to proceedings. Lom sweeps impressively through the film, although the loss of his record player is closely contested for "most memorable moment" by a scene starring a lion observing Quatermain and ladyfriend sat in an escaped cooking pot.
Between whiles he also cropped up in a string of Hammer Horror films, annoying directors by refusing to bash his head against stone walls (stone walls are cheaper than rubber ones). He finished his career with Son of the Pink Panther in 1993, which was not successful enough to lead to a new generation of Pink Panther and so left him to retire at the age of 76. His private life, if his other obituaries and Wikipedia article are anything to go by, was strictly private and varied in success.
Count Herbert Karel Angelo Kuchacevič ze Schluderpacheru (Herbert Lom) was born 11 September 1917 in Pragu and died 27 September 2012 (aged 95).

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Most people who retain steady careers throughout their lives spend a fair amount of time thinking about, and planing for, their eventual retirement. Hailed as a momentous and positive occasion, retirement is often considered in terms of its potential to allow for some much-needed relaxation and personal time following a lengthy dedication to one's work. But a number of people may find that once they've retired, the sense of purpose with which they worked is absent, and this sudden absence may lead to feelings of depression and other negative emotions. To stay active and socially involved, some pensioners may choose to participate in local clubs or groups, but a study recently conducted at the University of Maryland suggests that going back to work may be just the thing for preserving mental health.
The study is unique in that while other academic efforts have linked working after retirement to the enjoyment of improved mental health, controls have not been in place to determine whether pre-existing health benefits were enjoyed by those who scored higher ostensibly as a result of the continued work. This study made the effort to incorporate precisely such controls, enabling the researchers to conclude that working after retirement does in fact improve mental health.
Among those who received a positive boost from their work, those employed in fields similar to those in which they spent their lifelong careers enjoyed the greatest mental health benefits. Though it may be difficult for some retirees to summon the energy to return to work after retirement, full workweeks and the comprehensive rigors of labor may not be necessary in order to reap rewards from staying employed. Further research on the parameters of prescription work for mental health may be necessary to determine what methodologies are most effective.
© Copyright 2009 by By John Smith, therapist in Bellingham, Washington. All Rights Reserved. Permission to publish granted to GoodTherapy.org.
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Last week, I organised for a small group of designers from a variety of different studios to spend the evening in the print workshop at the St Bride Foundation.
There were about twenty of us in all and after a briefing by the technicians, Mick, Bob and Peter, the group were encouraged to have a go at setting type, inking up and printing.For those not familiar with the St Bride Foundation, it was established in 1891 to fulfil social needs in the Fleet Street printing area. Facilities included a library, baths and a swimming pool (as hygiene was poor) and a printing school which was the forerunner of the LCP. Nowadays, this historic building houses a world renowned printing library with a large letterpress collection, a community theatre space, a bar, print workshop and meeting & conference rooms.
As well as printing, wood engraver, Peter Smith demonstrated lino-cutting and many people had a go. Peter had selected an engraving which was divided into 12 pieces which were individually cut by different people over the course of the evening.
At the end of the evening the pieces were re-assembled into the image and then placed on the Vandercook proofing press, below:
The superb printed result was printed on Shiro Alga Carta, Ivory 250gsm and it's just beautiful!In the Layton Room there was an exhibition on display by Designer Bookbinders. The exhibition shows 58 bindings, spanning the career of Trevor Jones (1931-2012), a founder member of Designer Bookbinders. Jeanette Koch from the society was on hand to talk about the exhibition and his work.
It was a really fun evening, where everyone got a chance to have a go and join in. We had some food and a few drinks laid on and most of us made it to the Bridewell Bar downstairs afterwards!
My thanks to all the staff and friends at the St Bride Foundation with special thanks to Mick Clayton, Peter Smith and Bob Richardson who made the evening really good fun.
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Facebook is stepping up its efforts to acquire streaming rights to top sports events for its Watch platform by appointing Eurosport's Peter Hutton.
The news comes at a time when non-traditional players are increasingly competing with incumbent broadcasters in acquiring rights to original movie and series productions, and now live sports rights as well.
Last year, Facebook failed to acquire the Indian Premier League cricket coverage, and now the company raises the stakes by hiring a heavyweight, who knows the sports rights business inside and out. Hutton has been at the helm of Discovery Communications' Eurosport and before that he (co-)headed the sports rights group MP & Silva, and worked at ESPN and Fox.
At the moment, Facebook has some sports rights, including Major League Soccer, Mexico's top football league and, with Fox Sports, selected Champions League matches.
Meanwhile, Amazon is also mopping up selected live sports rights. Last November it added four years of live ATP Tour tennis, an d the platform also has the rights to live stream Thursday night NFL games. Next month, Amazon is also expected to bid for the UK Premier League rights at next month's auction.
Meanwhile, reports in the UK press suggest that Hutton would join Facebook after the close of the Winter Olympics, to which Eurosport has most of the European rights, and also after the February 9 deadline for bids for the TV and digital rights for Premier League matches from 2019-22. Interestingly, the Premier League has created two packages of games rights offering two rounds of games for streaming simulcast.


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In 2016, I got asked to present Best Practices on ALM/DevOps with Azure to a Ukrainian university.
This year, from Poland/Warsaw I gave another talk via Skype to 18 students for over an 90 minutes.
Because the Ukrainian students are also studying French, I had to give the talk entirely in French, which was easy as it is my native tong !
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Let us start with the question that every curious internet user asks. What is internet marketing? As the term suggests, it is performing a marketing action on the internet. Simply put http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2016/05/05/eight-important-metrics-to-gauge-the-success-of-your-companys-digital-marketing-efforts/#734f0df1214f, it is selling on the internet a product or service. The next question is usually, what do people sell on the internet? The most common answer would be: anything! Think about eBay, what do people sell there? Anything. A Flower shop sells flowers and a grocery store sells groceries. So practically, one can sell anything on the internet.
First let me explain the difference between SEO and SEM. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it is basically the process of making your website more visible by putting out links to it in high traffic areas where people will see them. SEO professionals will also register you with the search engine indexing services and directories that may be beneficial to you and they will re-write your website so that your content is more relevant. SEM stands for Search Engine marketing and it means buying traffic using Pay per Click, E-Mail marketing, and other methods which produce immediate results. Both of these strategies cost money so don't listen to anyone who tells you SEO is free.
Interactivity – Put out a question to your listeners over the course of your podcast. Offer a call-in line that'll send you calls as attachments via email, then use a free conversion tool like Audacity to convert those wav files to mp3. Those files can then be strung together and uploaded to your podcast so that callers can make suggestions on things they'd like you to cover and internet marketing the issues they want to hear about.
YouTube is the number one video sharing site today. It has been the main tool to discover many of today's talents. It has constantly provided us with great entertainment of various genres.
It was December of 2009; a client told me that I will be developing a website that needs to earn 20% of the actual revenue every month. So, I thought of different Internet Marketing Strategies on how I will do that before I start developing it. With the help of my Search Engine digital marketing (SEM) Consultant, PHP Web Programmer, and my Copywriter I did build a website that I used to do this report.
Ben: A 28 year-old Entrepreneur (a.k.a. unemployed) man from Texas. He has a shoe size of 11.5 in case you were wondering. ABC has obviously increased the number of meaningful questions on the application. He writes that his three worst attributes are "short attention span, sometimes a bad listener,… wait what was the question? Oh! Something shiny!" He also wishes that if he could live in any other time period, it would be "Jesus' timespan." I can't tell if he is religious, wishes he could walk on water, or is in need of a carpenter.
Our small business owners don't have these resources and quite frankly, they don't have the time to develop their marketing. They have an hour here and there and try whatever seems accessible at the time. The result, fragmented marketing and inconsistent marketing and great sense of disappointment and disenchantment for the business owner.
For example, if your video is on the topic of using video to market your business… don't go too far off on a tangent and start talking about blogging or SEO. If there's a link (see tip 9), make the point and move on. Those links will provide you ideas for other topics and you can mention in your video that you have another video specifically on that related topic. So in my video about making videos, I would mention about putting your video or a link to it on your blog, and then tell them about my other video on using blogs to market your business.
If you're considering using the services of an internet marketing agency to control your online marketing, you must do a little bit of homework first. You have to select the best company to preserve and grow your brand online. The wrong agency may harm your track record. Request proof of previous results, recent case studies and if possible, some references as well. All of this will help you decide if you intend to opt for the business in question.
Remember, even if are accurately targeting your best customer, your campaign will only be a success if you get them to act on your offer and opt-in to your database. Be sure to spend enough time tailoring your message and offer to the people who will receive your campaign.


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June 6, 2006
Jupiter Agrees: Consumer Taste Sharing Can Drive Online Music Business
About 6 months ago, Gartner's Mike McGuire and I published a paper called "Consumer Taste Sharing is Driving The Online Music Business and Democratizing Culture." The paper argued, based on various data, that new taste sharing tools (e.g., playlist sharing, mp3 blogging, private group streaming) can help support the online music distribution business and create important promotional opportunities. It recommended that rights holders and intermediaries embrace novel sharing tools and predicted that they will play an important role in new services.
Now JupiterResearch has chimed in and apparently reached much the same conclusion:
Cost, Authentic Promotion,' 48 percent of music discoverers find out
about music from friends.
Music discoverers continue to
use a broad variety of means to find out about music, 53 percent
discover music through videos and 87 percent through radio, but word of
mouth is a powerful way to expose and influence musical tastes. Sites
that incorporate virtual friends are influential music marketing
"Music marketers should leverage community sites,
such as MySpace, to recreate the feel of personal recommendations of
friends," said David Card, Vice President and Senior Analyst at
JupiterResearch and author of the report. "Not only are these sites
free, but they can be effective music discovery tools."
This also aubstantiates a key trend seen elsewhere, including Gartner's data — consumers are increasingly "content foragers" (as Mike calls them). They take a variety of routes to find music and music-related information, often the shortest path at a particular moment. Sometimes it's iTunes, sometimes P2P, sometimes it's a blog, or MySpace, and so on.
This has important implications not just for recommendation tools, but also for access to and delivery of the music itself. As Mike and I wrote, "What has become critical in the market is being able to create initial demand and then finding as many paths to spread it as quickly as possible. What we are describing is an environment in which the 'velocity' with which a new song — or songs from a back catalog —can quickly get from initial distribution (or reintroduction) to the maximum number of paying customers."
The music industry needs to embrace a fluid music distribution model, allowing individuals to use the acquisition method they want and listen to the music using whatever tools they want. Cabining them within one particular service won't cut it. Whether that takes the form of a VCL model or something else, there would be significant business benefits to trying to accomodate these trends.
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The first reason for choosing the current job is the satisfactory salary. But the other reason is the short distance between my home and workplace.
Though the job is quite ideal, but it is difficult to choose a proper vehicle to cover the short distance. It is not within walking distance, and instead it still takes me about dozens of minutes to get to the workplace. During rush hours, buses are crowded with office workers. Driving a car will consume much fuel and this way is not eco-friendly. After weighing the gains and losses, I decided to buy myself a bicycle or an electromobile. But one of my colleague's bicycle got stolen after being left in the company. This has raised my concern and I'm even more puzzled about choosing which vehicle to get going. Finally, I was advised to buy an Airwheel intelligent unicycle.
I have bought the smart device for some time. Now it is quite an assistant in my daily job and life. I ride my intelligent self-balancing unicycle to and off work in the daytime. Sometimes, if I get to work too early, I would ride it in a park near the company and take a glimpse of the beautiful scenery. Even ten minutes riding would make me feel refreshed and relieved. At night after dinner, I would ride it to supermarkets or squares.
My one-wheeled self-balancing scooter is powered by electricity. It is convenient to scoot you around without wasting too much physical labor. Another outstanding feature of my Airwheel unicycle is its low-carbon consumption. I am not an environmental fighter but like other people, I hate the heavy haze and advocate a healthy lifestyle. On account of this, intelligent self-balancing scooter has the best performance in low-carbon commuting. But it is not so widely spread in our life. I deeply wish that some day, there would be more people riding green vehicles like bikes and electric scooters.
As for my riding experience, I'm mostly impressed by the portability of my intelligent scooter as I can easily take it into an elevator. It takes up very little space. At office, I store it under my office desk, convenient and safe. My Airwheel self-balancing scooter weighs little and even girls can carry it around.
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Daily Tip: Renting a standard transmission car in most countries will save you significant dollars over an automatic transmission. Exceptions are the USA and Canada where automatic transmission cars are mainstream. Automatic transmission cars can cost as much as 50% more in countries where standards are the norm.
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Applications for this job are closed.
Dutton Recruitment (Sheffield Engineering) are recruiting for:
A Mechanical Site Supervisor for a permanent position for a client based in the Huddersfield area for an immediate start.
This will be working within the M&E Division of our clients business.
The duties are as follows:
To look after day to day running of a number of mechanical disciplines i.e. Pipework, Ductwork, AC, Natural Vent, Insulation etc.
The ideal candidate will have experience dealing with the main contractor on a daily basis and attending site progress and H&S meetings with our clients electrical site manager.
Previous commercial experience is essential and either SSSTS or SMSTS is required.
This role will suit a Site Supervisor with a Pipefitting/Plumbing background (NVQ Level 3 in Pipefitting/Plumbing would be expected).
Gas qualifications would be advantageous.
Salary is dependent on experience.
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Explaining Drosophila development just after the cellularisation process to a student can be tough. I tried to and ended up searching youtube for animations. It's mentally difficult to picture the invagination of the mesoderm and then the migration of blastoderm cells to initiate germ band formation from worded descriptions. I am quoting this segment from the wikipedia on germ band extension "During this process the ventral germ-band extends around the posterior end of the embryo, effectively folding over onto the dorsal side of the egg. Multiple individual cells intercalating mediolateral to the anterior-posterior axis drive the resulting global elongation of the embryo." How does one get a handle on that?
Developmental Biology was one of my favorite subjects in NUS, taught by the enthusiastic and nurturing Prof Lim Tit Meng (now director of the Singapore Science Centre). Those days we had plasticine models to play with to help us figure out gastrulation. If you didn't have good spatial cognitive skills, good luck to you. So I am highlighting this video from the Garland Science channel that immediately solves the problem. Two thumbs up. It gets five popcorns from me.


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Sabastiao Salgado
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
(through September 30th)
article by Cathy Breslaw
|Sebastiao Salgado South Sandwich Islands 2009 Chinstrap Penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica)
on an iceberg located between Zavodovski and Visokoi islands
Brazilian photographer Sabastiao Salgado's work sits in a space between art, documentary and photo-journalism. His first career and study for a PhD in Economics was followed by the light evoked from childhood memories of riding horses across land on his parent's farm in the rainforests of Brazil. It is there that the inspiration for his photography practice was generated. His 200 plus collection of black and white medium to large format photographs exhibited at the Museum of Photographic Arts focus on nature and the environment . His images were shot over several years and on many locations around the globe. From the Brazilian rainforests to the Siberian arctic northern regions on earth, Salgado tracks nomadic tribes, sea and land animals as they live and migrate, to sea and landscapes in their pristine beauty. His aim for Genesis was to investigate air, water and fire – the elements of earth's beginnings and to bring to our awareness it's stark and unblemished mark on our humanity. Sometimes shot from hot air balloons so as to not disturb wildlife, Salgado captured hundreds of penguins and reindeer as they migrated, communities of seals quietly lying on rocks, whales poking out of the sea, endangered families of birds flying overhead, and gorillas, elephants and hippos as they performed their daily routines. Salgado traveled to over 100 countries to photograph raw, real events. In doing so, his images are poetic and beautifully composed, leaving the viewer to feel as if we are in on a secret, capturing people, places and animals in private and revealing moments in time. In the northern arctic regions of Russia, we catch a glimpse of the nomadic Nenets tribe as they appear frozen in snow in their hand-hewn fur jackets and hats traveling across ice with reindeer to the Zo'e tribe in the Brazilian rainforest. Salgado's images are a direct documentation of indigenous communities that remain untouched, and serve as examples of our earliest forms of human settlements. Salgado's classic and realistic photographs sometimes encompass big views of landscapes and seascapes to more intimate images of animals and people. The result is a rediscovery of our planet and the awareness of its' preciousness - and the responsibility that we as humans have as guardians of our earth.
|Sebastiao Salgado Teureum, Sikeirei and leader of the Mentawai Clan
This shaman is preparing a filter for sago, with the leaves of this sago tree.
Siberut Island, West Sumatra, Indonesia 2008
|Sebastiao Salgado Women in the Zo'e village of Towari Ypy
use the "urucum"(Bixa Orellana) red fruit to color their bodies.
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A valuation is important if you are looking to take out a home loan. Lenders use it to determine what value they will place on it for lending and to make sure that the property is a suitable security for the loan.
So if you are looking to refinance or sell your property, or use your equity to build your investment portfolio, there are ways to help improve the odds of getting the best valuation. Take a look at the tips below for ideas:
Well-presented property
A well maintained property can make all the difference when your property is being valued. You should prepare for a valuation like you would an open house. The valuer's opinion could affect the property's price tag. So, it is important to tidy the lawn and gardens as well as clean up any clutter around the house.
If your property is unkempt and there is personal items and rubbish lying around, the valuer may not see the quality of the flooring and other fixtures they are obscuring.
Building plans
If you have building plans available, give them to the valuer. Building plans will not only help improve accuracy with measurements, but it can also save time for the valuer.
Capitalise on natural aspects of property
There may be several great aspects of your property that you are not taking advantage of and this can hurt your property's price tag. For example, does your backyard have a great view, but it's obscured by overgrown trees? If yes, you may want to consider clearing any unwanted obstructions.
Write a list of features
Even though the valuer will walk throughout your property, they may accidentally miss certain features that are not immediately obvious (e.g. underfloor heating or solar panels). Make a list of these are give it to the valuer. By doing this, it could help ensure that they are not overlooked.
Renovate or extend
Renovating or adding on an extra room could improve the value of the property. Ensure that you tell the valuer what improvements you have made to the property since you purchased it. They will be looking carefully at the original purchase price and any increase in market value, so improvements may be missed.
Care should be taken to manage the renovation costs in order to avoid overcapitalising. Many home owners overspend on their renovating project and this expenditure is not reflected in increased value of the property. You should also be wary when renovating only one room. You may assume that renovating one area of the property will improve its value; however, if it doesn't match the rest of the house, it could look out of place and not add any value.
If you are going to start a project, it is important to finish it before the valuer comes. If you are half way through a bathroom renovation, it could negatively impact the property's value and have poor comments added around saleability. The lender may then insist on it being completed before they will allow you to increase your loan. A valuer assesses the property based on how it looks that day, not on what it might look like when the renovations are done.
Evidence of recent sales
The valuer will use recent sales of similar properties in your area to help determine the value of your property. Some ways to get evidence of recent sales include:
- Visit local auctions
- Purchase recent sales reports from the internet
- Find recent sales on real estate websites
- Ask a real estate agent for a report for your suburb
Quick tip
If you are able to get 2 or 3 recent sales of similar properties, give these to the valuer as a guide for what you consider on par with your home.
Make sure it is easy for the valuer to get around the property. They are there to do a job and really want to get all the information they need quickly so that they can get back to the office and start writing the report. Waiting for you to find keys to downstairs rooms or gates outside, or cannot go into the back yard until you have locked up the dog, can all be sources of frustration.
After the valuer leaves the property, they will do lots of work researching values in the area. The visit to the property is usually the start of what they need to do. Typically it takes 24 to 48 hours for the valuation report to be returned to the lender after the inspection. If what you are looking to do is hinging on a particular value, then contact your lender after this time to see if the report is completed.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Prize-winning poets, journalist Naomi Klein, and a University of Illinois physicist will be among the speakers this fall on a diverse schedule of lectures and discussions at the U. of I.
Five of the 14 events will focus on immigration. Among other topics on the schedule are children's books, comic books, Arab attitudes, human rights, superconductors, Cambodia, Cuba, capitalism in Latin America, and Dante's "The Divine Comedy."
The lectures and discussions are sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois. Several are part of the CAS MillerComm series, begun in 1973 and supported with funds from the George A. Miller Endowment and several co-sponsoring campus units. The MillerComm lectures provide a forum for discourse on topics spanning the university's many disciplines.
All CAS talks are free and open to the public.
The first event on the fall schedule, on Sept. 9, will be the CAS Annual Lecture, this year given by Dale J. Van Harlingen, a CAS Professor of physics at Illinois, on "Searching for Unconventional Superconductors: A Quantum Map-Quest." Van Harlingen will discuss the quest to explain the extraordinary and puzzling properties of superconductors, especially those discovered in recent decades, and their potential for technological impact. His talk begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium of the Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana.
Subsequent lectures:
• Sept. 11, "Migration and National Development: Reconciling Opposite Views," by Alejandro Portes, a professor of sociology at Princeton University. Portes will discuss the factors involved, and schools of thought, regarding human migration and its effects on the development and policies of both sending and receiving countries.
His lecture, part of a CAS campuswide initiative on immigration, begins at 4 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium.
• Sept. 18, "A New Deal for the Nursery: Golden Books and the Democratization of American Children's Book Publishing," by Leonard S. Marcus, author, critic and children's book historian. Marcus will discuss the forces, technologies and marketing innovations that came together in the creation in 1942 of the children's book publisher Little Golden Books, and how it revolutionized the way families viewed books for young people. His MillerComm talk begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium.
• Sept. 24, "Enchiladas, Dim Sum and Apple Pie: Immigration and Food," a presentation by U. of I. Chancellor Richard Herman and professors Jorge Chapa, sociology; Amy Gajda, journalism; and Martin Manalansan, anthropology. Herman will discuss the significance of immigration, and the professors will discuss the relationship between various migrations and notions of ethnic and American food. The presentation, part of the CAS immigration initiative, begins at 4 p.m. on the third floor of the Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana, and will end with a spread of ethnic foods.
• Oct. 2, "The View From the Street: Attitudes Toward Politics and Religion Among Ordinary Citizens in the Arab World," by Mark Tessler, the Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Tessler will discuss findings from opinion research in the Muslim world and how those findings challenge popular U.S. and European notions of a clash of civilizations between Islam and the West. His lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium.
• Oct. 7, "What's New About the New Immigrants?" by Nancy Foner, professor of sociology at the City University of New York. Foner will discuss the parallels and contrasts between the current large influx of immigration and that of a century ago, as well as how the earlier influx helped shape the immigrant experience of today. Her talk, part of the CAS immigration initiative, begins at 4 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium.
• Oct. 8, "The Old New Media of Comics Art: Comics and Graphic Novels in the 21st Century," by Damian Duffy, a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and John Jennings, a professor of graphic design, both at Illinois. Duffy and Jennings, curators of a fall exhibition on comics at the Krannert Art Museum, will discuss the art found in comic books, comic strips, graphic novels and manga, as well as the history and future of these forms. Their talk begins at 4 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium.
• Oct. 22, "Forum on Comparative Immigration Policy Issues," featuring as panelists Illinois professors Doug Kibbee, French; Alejandro Lugo, anthropology; and Dorothee Schneider, history. The forum, part of the CAS immigration initative, begins at 4 p.m. on the third floor of the Levis Faculty Center.
• Oct. 23, "The Flute Player: Moving Beyond the Madness of War," by Arn Chorn-Pond, a human-rights activist and founder of Cambodian Living Arts. Chorn-Pond will discuss his life before and after the Khmer Rouge killing fields, and his work to revitalize his Cambodian homeland, its people, and their cultural heritage. His MillerComm talk begins at 7 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium.
• Oct. 28, "Merwin, Pinsky and Powers," a discussion of Dante's "The Divine Comedy" featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin, former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky, and author Richard Powers, a CAS Professor and the Swanlund Chair in English, serving as moderator. The discussion, a CAS and Krannert Center for the Performing Arts CultureTalk event, is being held in conjunction with the Program in Medieval Studies conference "Translating the Middle Ages." The event begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Colwell Playhouse Theatre at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana.
• Oct. 29, "Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism in Latin America," by Naomi Klein, author of a similarly titled 2007 book, as well as of the book "No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies."
Klein, who is also a columnist for The Nation and The Guardian, will lay out her view of how Latin America became a laboratory for neoliberal economic ideas such as those championed by Milton Friedman and his "Chicago Boys." Her MillerComm talk begins at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Smith Memorial Hall, 805 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana.
• Nov. 3, "In the Trails of the Historic Diaspora: Africa's New Global Migrations and Diasporas," by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Zeleza's talk, part of the CAS immigration initiative, begins at 4 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium.
• Nov. 5, "Human Rights and the Struggle for Global Justice," by Geoffrey Robertson, author of the book "Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice," and one of three jurists on the United Nation's new Internal Justice Council. Robertson will examine the hopes and challenges in the current struggle for global justice. His MillerComm talk begins at 4 p.m. on the third floor of the Levis Faculty Center.
• Nov. 13, "The Cultural Politics of Identity and the Cuban Revolution," by Louis Perez, the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. Perez will discuss the "special relations" between Cubans and North Americans from the late 1800s forward and how they established the climate that greeted the Cuban revolution in 1959. His MillerComm talk begins at 4 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium.
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It was the year of Bitcoin, to put it bluntly. Even after the first major correction after a long period of time, the mother of all cryptocurrencies has gained a good 1,500 percent in value over the past twelve months – from 816 dollars to a peak of 19,881 dollars. The rise of the cyber currency against the US dollar and other internationally recognized currencies is therefore impressive. This has also attracted the attention of the media and the public.
Bitcoin futures have also been traded on the major US futures exchanges for a good two weeks now. According to CNBC news agency CNBC, Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange based in the United States, has gained a good 100,000 new customers following the launch of its first futures contract at the Chicago CBOE. A further indication that Bitcoin is on its way to becoming a recognised global currency, even if some central bankers and politicians do not want to let this stand still and do not miss an opportunity to deprive us of the idea of a currency that is not controlled by institutions.
In addition to bitcoin, there are also numerous other cryptocurrencies, known as altcoins (alternative currencies), which represent an interesting investment opportunity in the coming year, but are not yet as much in focus as bitcoin or ethereum, for example. That's why I've listed some of the cryptocurrencies that are on my watchlist in the coming year and where I think there's upside potential:
1. Substrate – Decentralizing the Web
Substrate aims to decentralize the Internet and thus enable free access to content. The developers want to use it primarily to combat censorship of the Internet, as in China, for example. The Internet offers many interesting possibilities for everyone and everyone should be able to use it. However, withholding information is often not possible.
The Substrate Network is designed to provide users with access to hosting capacity from other users. The active participants in the network provide computing power and physical servers. In exchange, they are to receive substrate (SUB). This is also another interesting option if someone wants to earn passive income from the cryptocurrency market. In the future, there will no longer be a need for VPNs, as content is to be securely provided at every point in the world through this worldwide collection of peer-to-peer nodes. Substrate's complex algorithm, based on artificial intelligence, computes the fastest way to deliver content to users, making the access process as fast and efficient as possible.
At the beginning of December, a substrate Coin was still available for 30 cents. In the meantime, the price of this Altcoin has surpassed the 1 dollar mark and most recently stood at 1.03 dollars. The market capitalization is approximately 231 million dollars. The novel cyber currency thus catapulted itself directly into the top 100 most valuable cryptocurrencies in the world.
In my opinion, there is a great deal of potential for the share price thanks to the new idea of decentralising the Internet. The team behind Substrateum also argues for rising prices. For example, the US-based start-up has been developing software solutions for top 100 companies such as Apple, Facebook, Disney, HP and many more for over a decade.
More information about substrate here…
2. OmiseGo – Unbank the Banked
Omise is currently one of the most promising projects in the universe for cryptocurrencies. The company, which is based in Asia, has a very special aura. Especially the development team around the founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin makes the project so exciting. In addition, a number of partnerships have already been concluded with major Asian companies.
Their promise is to solve the fundamental problems of finance. According to Coin-Hero, OmiseGO enables decentralized exchange of all types of assets via a block chain with fast speed and low fees, making the system the next generation value transmission service. It goes on to say:"OmiseGO is based on ethereum and is a decentralised system that enables trading in both cryptocurrencies and Fiat currencies. As if that wasn't enough, the OmiseGO-Wallet is supposed to make payments all over the world.
Most recently, an OmiseGO coin cost about 15 dollars. At the beginning of the month the Coins changed owners for only 8 dollars. Market capitalization is over $1.5 billion. This puts OmiseGO in 25th place in the table of the world's most valuable cryptocurrencies.
More information about OmiseGO here…
3. Golem – The world's first supercomputer
Golem is said to be the world's first decentralized supercomputer. The main task is to bundle all unused computing power to accelerate rendering. At the same time, everyone should be able to earn money by renting out their computing power and selling software, as long as they participate in the Golem network.
If the development team succeeds in making the latest promises come true, then Golem is certainly one of the best applications for blockchain technology.
Recently Golem cost 78 cents. Here too, the course has literally exploded in recent weeks. At the beginning of December the price for a golem was 30 cents. A total of just over 650 million dollars are currently circulating in this project.
More information about Golem can be found here…
4. Cardano
Cardano was created in 2015 by Charles Hoskinson and Jeremy Wood. The developers rely on a peer-to-peer network. Three billion people worldwide are to have access to accounts and other financial services. Like many other cryptocurrencies, Cardano is based on the blockchain technology. The aim is to create a new decentralised economy and democratise the financial markets in emerging countries.
According to Coin-Hero, the Cardano project is supposed to stand out from many other industries. It is openly addressing the need for regulatory oversight, which is currently a hot topic in the crypto universe, while preserving privacy and consumer protection through an innovative software architecture.
The development team, which consists of well-known figures from the blockchain industry, is also exciting here. The prerequisite for further price increases at Cardano (ADA) is now the implementation of the promises made by the developers.
The price for Cardano at the beginning of the month was just 12 cents. Meanwhile, the share price has almost tripled and most recently cost 41 cents. Market capitalization is more than $10 billion, making Cardano the seventh most valuable cryptocurrency in the world.
More information about Cardano here…
5. IOTA – The backbone of IoE
IOT/USD was developed in 2014 by David Sonstebo, Serguei Popov and Dominik Schiener and was first launched in June. In October, the price of the rising star was only around USD 0.30. Meanwhile, the value of IOTA has increased more than fifteenfold and at its peak cost almost 5.60 dollars.
The visionaries around Dominik Schiener want to ensure that machines communicate with each other and thus, for example, buy goods and pay for them with IOTAs. For example, if the butter is empty in the refrigerator, he automatically orders new butter and pays for it with IOTAs.
IOTA does not use the blockchain technology like almost any other cryptocurrency, but is based on the specially developed Tangle. There, each network participant must confirm transactions. So he himself becomes a miner. So there is no difference between miners and participants in the tangle. Moreover, the elimination of miners means that no transaction costs are incurred as is the case with Bitcoin. Above all, the high scalability makes the new cyber motto something special.
Here, too, if Dominik Schiener's team should keep its promises and successfully complete the beta phase of the so-called marketplace, then the cyber currency will be facing golden times.
Market capitalization is now over $11 billion, making IOTA the sixth largest cryptocurrency in the world.
More information about IOTA can be found here…
More about cryptocurrencies at https://finanzmarktwelt.de/kryptowaehrungen/


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We offer two options for classes wanting to raise their own chicks through our classroom incubator project. Both kits have the same equipment, however the second option (Incubator Project Package) includes the opportunity for children to be more interactive with their project. Your class will have talks from our livestock and education staff and even have the opportunity to visit Surrey Docks Farm after their chicks have rejoined our flock.
Incubation Kit – Equipment hire for a month and guidance £160.00
- Fertilised eggs.
- Incubator with automatic turner (For approx 21 days)
- Brooder for chicks after hatching (for approx 7 days)
- Feeder and drinker for chicks, and chick food
Kits will need to be collected and returned to the Farm.
Incubation Project Package – Equipment hire for a month £280.00
This is a more interactive package, tailored to be both fun and educational.
- Fertilised eggs.
- Incubator with automatic turner (For approx 21 days)
- A candling light to observe developing chicks.
- Brooder for chicks after hatching (for approx 7 days)
- Feeder and drinker for chicks, and chick food
- A talk from our livestock co-ordinator and education co-ordinator on eggs, incubators and chicken lifecycle.
- A demonstration of candling to allow you to see the chicks developing in the eggs.
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text: Deluxe re-release of the famous neoclassical's bands long deleted debut (Equilibrium 2007). Coming in 8 Panel Deluxe-Digipak with + 4 bonus tracks + Remixed tracks & Remastered 2016. Hexperos are delighted to be celebrating their musical adventure, which began around 12 years ago, with the reissue of their first album, originally released in 2007. On this reissue Hexperos included several bonus tracks: a few singles and a couple of lullabies that were originally released as part of various prestigious compilations over the years. Hexperos have bestowed a new light upon "The Garden of the Hesperides" by improving the sound of the album through remixing and remastering. This will allow you to hear and feel the fresh and current energy in these old compositions. Hexperos are the soprano and flute player Alessandra Santovito and the poli instrumentalist Francesco Forgione. The exotic Mediterranean fragrance of sensual percussion patterns, together with the low rumble of Francesco's double bass and the soft keyboard pads enriched by the work of violinists Domenico Mancini and Alessandro Pensa, set the appropriate nocturnal atmosphere for Alessandra's soaring voice to cast its spell. Instrumentation and arrangements are often minimal throughout the songs, but skillfully mastered to balance grandiose dramatic moments against delicate passages, sparsely colored with a discreet Celtic tone that finds its way into some of tracks much through the contribution of harpist Francesca Romana Di Nicola. This seemingly ethereal touch is nevertheless ineffective in dispelling the predominantly somber quality of the album. In fact, much of the mood that The Garden of the Hesperides evokes can be compared to what one may find in Classical chamber music, yet it has been quite a few years since such ambiance has been so impressively comprised into a Gothic Neo-Classical album, and so perfectly used to display such mysterious sensuality and romance. A remarkable debut, which easily deserves a place alongside the best works from acts such as Arcana, Ophelia's Dream or Dead Can Dance. Presented in a rich Digipak in completely new lay-out.


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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived on Wednesday, 2 April, in Bucharest, Romania, where he met shortly upon arrival with the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. They discussed Afghanistan, Kosovo and cooperation between the United Nations and NATO. On Afghanistan, they discussed whether additional troops would be offered at the high-level meeting taking place the following day, on the margins of the NATO summit taking place in Bucharest.
After that, the Secretary-General met with Romanian Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, and they discussed, among other things, the Thursday meeting on Afghanistan, recent developments in Kosovo, an expanded United Nations role in Iraq and the Millennium Development Goals.
The Secretary-General told reporters afterwards that he appreciated Romania's contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations -- from Kosovo to the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- as well as its voluntary funding to 15 United Nations agencies, funds and programmes.
On Thursday, 3 April, the Secretary-General had a working breakfast meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and they discussed the importance of the Bucharest conference as a means of reaffirming the international community's long-term support for Afghanistan. The President said that his Government would fully support the new Special Representative, Kai Eide. The Secretary-General and the President also discussed the latest audio message from Al-Qaida, and both noted, contrary to that message, the contributions that the United Nations has made to the Muslim world.
The Secretary-General then visited United Nations staff in Romania and voiced his appreciation for their work and for Romania's support of the United Nations work. He again referred to the message from Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, saying that he was alarmed by the "totally false and unacceptable accusation" that the United Nations did not help the Muslim world.
The Secretary-General went on to hold several bilateral meetings with the leaders attending the NATO summit, focusing in particular on Afghanistan, but also bringing up other items of mutual concern.
First, he met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and they discussed international support for Afghanistan and the need to win over public opinion there; they also brought up Kosovo, Darfur, Chad and Lebanon. They also had a brief tête-à-tête meeting.
After that, he met with United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who brought up the possibility of run-off elections in Zimbabwe. Beyond discussing the security situation in Afghanistan, they touched on Darfur, Myanmar, Kosovo, the cooperation between NATO and the United Nations, and Cyprus.
The Secretary-General and Javier Solana, the European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, held a meeting that focused on Kosovo, including forthcoming municipal elections and European Union efforts to deal with the situation there.
The Secretary-General afterwards met with New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, who welcomed the strengthening of the United Nations presence in Afghanistan and also discussed Myanmar, Fiji and Timor-Leste.
He then held a tête-à-tête meeting with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, after which their full delegations joined them for a discussion of Afghanistan, Kosovo, the presidential vacuum in Lebanon and the Israeli-Palestinian situation.
The Secretary-General then met with Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Barnier, with whom he discussed developments in Afghanistan and Darfur.
Prior to attending a luncheon hosted by Romania, the Secretary-General met with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whom he thanked for offering to host the 29 May meeting of the International Compact with Iraq. They also both agreed on the importance of high-level attendance at the meeting the Secretary-General will chair in New York this September on the Millennium Development Goals.
The September meeting on the Millennium Development Goals was also discussed afterwards in a meeting between the Secretary-General and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. They also discussed Kosovo.
The Secretary-General later met with Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, prior to the high-level meeting on Afghanistan.
After that, the Secretary-General met with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Jan-Peter Balkenende, and they discussed the anti-Islamic film Fitna, as well as Kosovo, Cyprus, Afghanistan, the situation in Gaza and the name dispute between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
He followed that with a meeting with the President of Romania, Traian Basescu, and they talked about the cooperation the United Nations has enjoyed with the Government of Romania.
Following those meetings, the Secretary-General addressed the high-level meeting on Afghanistan in Bucharest, and he pledged the United Nations commitment to that country, vowing: "We shall not leave Afghanistan as long as we are needed by the Afghan people." (See Press Release SG/SM/11492)
He noted the signs of progress in the country, as well as the obstacles that are still present, foremost among them the threat posed by the continuing violence and militancy in various parts of the country. Another obstacle, he added, is the constantly growing drug economy.
The Secretary-General acknowledged that the United Nations has not been as effective as it needs to be in coordinating the international community, adding that the new Security Council mandate will allow the United Nations to take a more assertive role in coordination.
He told reporters, in a press conference that took place afterwards, that the Bucharest gathering shows how seriously we all take our commitments to Afghanistan.
He added: "It is absolutely necessary that the international community continue to engage until the Afghan Government will be able to stand on their own. It was very encouraging, Mr. President, that you stated that the security of Kabul will be the responsibility under the leadership of yourself and the Afghan National Army."
The Secretary-General left Bucharest for New York on Friday, 4 April.


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Struck off financial adviser Andrew Robinson, who is separately accused of stealing investor funds, has been ordered to pay $2.56 million in damages plus costs to an investor over a series of negligent and misleading deals.
In the Auckland High Court, Justice John Fogarty made the order against Robinson, a former Sunday Star-Times columnist and adviser to Neville Mace and his family trust, over "six disastrous investments" which were "all made on the recommendation of Mr Robinson, as an investment advisor," according to a July 1 judgment, now published on the Justice Ministry's website.
Between 2008 and 2012, the Mace family trust made investments in NZX-listed electricity retailer Pulse Utilities, start-up investments Digi-Clik International, Zeroshift, bio-tech start-up Enviro Energy, and a loan to Pulse director James Martin on the advice of Robinson.
The judge said Robinson didn't provide any significant warnings around the risks involved in the start-up companies, and that when he said he was investing at a similar level, didn't disclose he was doing so by being paid in scrip for finding investors.
Of the four claims made under the Fair Trading Act, "the plaintiffs were induced to enter extremely high risk investments by reason of Mr Robinson, in trade, engaging in conduct that was misleading and deceptive and was likely to, and did, mislead or deceive Mr Mace in having a wholly inappropriate confidence in the merit of the investment," the judge said.
Robinson took advantage of the relationship he'd built with Mace and "relied on the personal confidence that Mr Mace had in him when making these recommendations to invest in these very high risk investments," the judge said.
Justice Fogarty also ruled Robinson was liable in the negligence for the advice he gave on all of the investments, which he said "falls well short of the quality of advice required in the circumstances by an investment advisor.
"But it is an incomplete description of Mr Robinson's conduct to describe it as a lack of proper care and attention or carelessness. It was deliberately misleading," the judge said. "To be sure, the deceptive and misleading conduct carried with it the consequence that Mr Robinson did not take reasonable care to avoid advice which would like cause financial harm to the Mace Trust."
Robinson represented himself and tried to characterise all equity investments as being aggressive, irrespective of the quality of the company, given their unsecured status.
"This absence of risk advice explains the importance of the distinction Mr Robinson endeavoured to maintain from the outset that any investment in equities is aggressive without distinguishing between investment in a proven performing 'blue chip' company and a listed start-up," the judgment said.
Justice Fogarty ordered Robinson to pay damages including interest of $400,000 for the Pulse dealings, $230,000 for the Digi-Clik investment, $30,000 for the loan to Martin via a trust, $1.1 million for the investment in Enviro Energy and $800,000 for the investment in Zeroshift.
If the Mace family trust is able to find a buyer for any of the securities it still holds, any value is to be credited against the judgment.
Separately, Robinson faces charges from the Serious Fraud Office accusing him of stealing $3 million of investor funds. He and fellow SPG Investments director Mark Turnock also face criminal proceedings brought by the Financial Markets Authority under the Financial Reporting Act. They're due to stand trial in the High Court in April next year.
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Beginning June 1, 2018, Stage 2 Fire Restrictions will be in effect on all National Forest System lands within the San Juan National Forest, including Wilderness. Fire restrictions are designed to protect people, property and the area's natural resources, and are in response to the exceptional drought rating in Southwest Colorado, increased fire activity throughout the area, and continuing hot dry weather forecasts.
Stage 2 Fire Restrictions on the San Juan National Forest means that the following are PROHIBITED:
- 1) Building, maintaining, attending or using an OPEN FLAME, including fire, campfire, stove fire, charcoal grills and barbecues, coal and wood burning stoves, and devices (stoves, grills or lanterns) using liquid fuel such as white gas or kerosene. This prohibition applies to the entire San Juan National Forest, including Wilderness and developed camping and picnic grounds.
Except: Devices (stoves, grills or lanterns) using pressurized gas canisters (isobutene or propane) that include shut-off valves, or within an enclosed vehicle, trailer, or building.
Except: Within an enclosed vehicle, trailer or building.
- 3) WELDING or operating acetylene or other torch with open flame.
- 4) Operating or using any INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE (e.g. chainsaw, generator, ATV) without a spark arresting device properly installed, maintained and in effective working order meeting USDA Forest Service or SAE approval.
- 5) Operating a CHAINSAW without an approved spark arresting device, a chemical pressurized fire extinguisher (8 oz. capacity by weight or larger and kept with the operator) and a round point shovel with an overall length of at least 35 inches readily available for use, or outside of the "Hoot Owl" restricted hours of 5am – 1pm.
- 6) Using an EXPLOSIVE. This includes but is not limited to fuses or blasting caps, fireworks, rockets, exploding targets, and tracers or incendiary ammunition.
- 7) Discharging a FIREARM, air rifle, or gas gun.
8) Possessing or using a MOTOR VEHICLE OFF ESTABLISHED ROADS, motorized trails or established parking areas, except when parking in an area devoid of vegetationwithin 10 feet of the vehicle.
NEWS RELEASE_Stage 2 Fire Restrictions on SJNF effective June 1, 2018


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Russian hackers who penetrated sensitive parts of the White House computer system last year read President Barack Obama's unclassified emails, according to reports.
The White House confirmed the breach earlier this month, saying it took place last year and that it did not affect classified information, but it has emerged that the breach had been "far more intrusive and worrisome than has been publicly acknowledged."
It said that although no classified networks had been compromised, officials conceded that the unclassified system still contains highly sensitive information such as email exchanges with diplomats, exchanges about personnel moves and legislation, presidential schedules and discussion about policy. – sursa
Dacă oficialii au recunoscut asta, e de gândit că lucrurile stau mult mai rău. Totuşi, cum anume citeşte mesajele E-mail preşedintele SUA? Pe gmail.com, are client de Exchange pe telefon, merge la Internet Cafe? Probabil că nu vom afla prea curând, dar e de presupus că va apărea public cât de curând şi conţinutul unor asemenea mesaje.


text: The young directors Josh and Benny Safdie told a story of their chaotic childhood in the freewheeling, harsh, yet whimsical comedy "Daddy Longlegs" (coming to DVD December 13th). They brought in the director Ronald Bronstein ("Frownland") to incarnate an impulsive, bohemian, disorderly father who barely stays a step ahead of calamity and steers his sons (Sage and Frey Ranaldo) to the edge of real danger but also exposes them to a wild and impassioned range of experience. Richard Brody wrote that Bronstein's "relationship with the children seems utterly real and daringly intense, and his credit as co-writer makes clear how much the film owes to his inventiveness," and added that "this nightmarish childhood, the Safdie brothers tell us, didn't kill them; instead, it left them with a compassionate, good-humored wisdom that's rare in filmmakers of any age."


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Beautiful skirt! If I could sew I'd make one just like it! I just love it! All your wrapping paper is so cute too!ReplyDelete
Thanks Lisa! You could make one without a sewing machine if you wanted to give it a try! All you need is a needle and thread to make your ruffles. You would just sew a long basting stitch by hand. And then you could easily hot glue the ruffles to your skirt! I LOVE a good hot glue craft project!ReplyDelete
divine my lovely friend...if i hadn't had to pack up my sewing machine this week- i'd be whipping one of these up...ReplyDelete
next year- i'm going to save this!
it is perfectly perfect! love the red of course CF gal....
Melissa xx
Very nice idea about using an inexpensive round tablecloth as the starter to a tree skirt! I'll have to swipe that idea ;-)ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing with us!
Visiting from Homestories A to Z linky party,
Smiles, Suzanne in NW Illinois
Happy Holidays!
your tree skirt is adorable! i love it!ReplyDelete
I love this! So cute and at a great price! I'm featuring it this Friday on my site. I hope you'll stop by and take a look!ReplyDelete
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