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Sutton,Wimbledon,Battersea, Clapham, Vauxhall,Stockwell,South East London,Greenwhich,Bromley, Caterham,
As you should be aware, you're legally required to have all gas appliances in the properties you let checked every 12 months and to also hold a Gas safety record. We can make the whole process so much simpler for you with our standalone Gas safety check (CP12) at just £40 for your boiler.
If you are looking for information on Gas Safety Reports, look no further than Croydon Gas Ltd. Our team of London Gas Safe Registered (previously Corgi) gas engineers can issue Gas Safety reports, service your boiler, and provide general maintenance on your gas and central heating system. Call Croydon Gas Ltd now on 07956 575737 and we will take care of it. We are a reputable and trust worthy company that is highly accredited, including Gas Safe and we cover domestic gas and central heating.
In 1996 the government passed a law that requires all landlords who rent part, or all of a property, to have all gas appliances and pipe work checked and certified, to prove that the gas appliances meet gas safety standards, every 12 months. This applies to all gas appliances used to cook heat and refrigerate on the property.
Croydon Gas Ltd carries out London Gas Safety certificate insoections and is able to provide the corresponding certificates for landlords, once appliances have been checked and passed.
What does a Landlord Gas Safety Inspection Include?
A Croydon Gas Ltd gas engineer operating under the Gas Safe Register (previously Corgi) will check the following during a Landlord gas safety inspection:
An appliance cannot be deemed as having been checked, until the above has been completed.
Once your property has passed the gas saafety certification, we will schedule a return to your property every 12 months to keep your gas safety certificate up to date.
Gas Safe Register is the only official list of engineers who are legally allowed to work on your gas cooker, boiler and fire and is there to help protect you from from unsafe gas work. You mightremember it used to be known as CORGI.
It's important to make sure all of your gas appliances are working safely and correctly and to have them checked every year by a Gas Safe registered engineer.
All Gas Safe registered engineers carry an ID card so they can show you the are Gas Safe registered when they turn up at your front door - if they don't show you then don't be afraid to ask to see it. Call the Gas Safe Register helpline on 0800 408 5500 and they can help you find a local Gas Safe registered engineer and tell you if they're qualified for the type of work you need them to do.
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Amal Clooney to headline Women World Changers Summit in Australia
Amal Clooney, acclaimed human rights lawyer and wife of Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney is joining us in sunny Down Under to headline the Women World Changers Summit 2016. The 38-year-old will be in Sydney and Melbourne in October to speak on the important issue of greater workplace diversity and equality.
The Daily Mail has reported that Amal's speech will also draw from her own life experiences and detail "what it takes to choose the more challenging path, the path with the most question marks and uncertainties, and the determination to stay the course". Her aim of course being to "encourage women to push themselves and put themselves forward to take on difficult and challenging jobs in non-traditional careers."
However, if you're hoping to meet the inspirational woman you mayl need to start saving now. Tickets start at $1,100 for a seat in the audience and skyrocket to $22,000 for a table of 10. The VIP includes a chance to meet Amal herself at a networking lunch before the presentation.

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You just know true talent when you hear it and Madison Gold has it in abundance.
The Redondo Beach, CA native visited our SoKnox Studios yesterday (5/13) and laid down two brand new tracks for a yet-to-be-determined new release. Her upcoming self-titled debut album is due to drop on June 28.
With her angelic voice (no need for Auto-tune here!), carefree spirit, and undeniable beauty, Madison is in possession of that elusive "it factor" so sought after in the music industry. We are thrilled to play even just a tiny part in the young career of this up-and-coming star.
We here at Karaoke Cloud wish you the greatest success, Madison! We have no doubt that you have what it takes to take the music world by storm!
You can follow Madison on her Facebook page to keep abreast of all her appearances, performances, and new releases.


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Starz Encore, Diva Reach SVOD Deal
Starz Encore Media Group LLC has announced a strategic alliance with Diva Systems Corp. for the programmer's subscription-video-on-demand service, and it has taken a $5 million equity stake in Diva.
According to the agreement, Diva will enhance its SVOD functionality for the commercial deployment of Starz Encore's SVOD service on the Diva platform. Diva's SVOD platform allows customers to view a group or a package of programs for one monthly subscription fee with anytime start and pause, rewind and fast-forward functionality.
"We are very pleased to enter into a strategic relationship with Starz Encore," Diva president and CEO David Zucker said in a prepared statement.
"Starz Encore's established and innovative position in the cable industry-together with that of its parent company, Liberty Media [Group], and their relationships with the major MSOs-should assist us in positioning Diva's video-on-demand solution as a leading two-way digital platform for cable television," he added.
"In addition, the intuitive appeal of Starz Encore's SVOD service will assist both companies' efforts in accelerating acceptance of VOD technology and its benefits of value and convenience for the consumer," Zucker said.
The Starz Encore equity purchase comes on the heels of a $10 million investment in Diva from Liberate Technologies and British media company NTL Inc. Middleware vendor Liberate made a $4 million equity investment in the company, and NTL made a $6 million equity investment.
On May 9, Diva filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a $75 million initial public offering.
Diva has already landed deals with five MSOs for its service, including MediaOne Group Inc., Chambers Communications Corp. and NTL. Most recently Diva reached an agreement to provide service to Charter Communications Inc.'s Los Angeles system.
Insight Communications Co. Inc. already launched the Diva product in its Rockford, Ill.; Columbus, Ohio; and Evansville, Ind., systems, and it said the service is extremely popular with customers.
Earlier this month, Time Warner Cable signed an agreement with Diva regarding the design, development, testing and integration of VOD hardware and software for the "Pegasus" platform, the MSO's interactive-services architecture.
Although Diva claims to be the only company currently deploying a VOD service, most large MSOs are believed to be working on their own VOD solutions. However, Diva plans to counteract that by offering more flexibility and control to MSOs that opt for its products.
Instead of owning, installing and operating its VOD equipment at the customer headend, Diva sells the equipment and licenses its VOD software to the operator, providing content-acquisition and management services at the discretion of the MSO.
The new model anticipates that the operator's VOD service will be part of an entry-level digital tier. And as operators scramble to upgrade their systems to digital capability, VOD will be one of the more lucrative new services allowed by the new technology.
According to Paul Kagan Associates Inc., services enabled by digital set-top boxes and two-way upgraded cable plant will generate $10.8 billion of revenue in 2004 over the next 10 years, with VOD services generating 39 percent of that revenue.


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*Son of Rambow (PG-13)
Kimball's Twin Peak
When a grade-school thug gets the good kid in trouble at the beginning of Son of Rambow, the former tries to make small talk with the latter.
"What's your name?" Lee asks. When his accomplice won't answer, Lee grabs the boy's notebook full of flip-cartoons and monster drawings reads, "Will Proudfoot," and then smacks his new pal over the head with it.
It's one of many small, funny moments that, in a flash, convey more charm and insight into the characters than the entirety of Speed Racer, that other allegedly kid-friendly flick currently in theaters.
Son of Rambow comes from writer-director Garth Jennings, who previously helmed The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but here is adapting his first sweet-but-not-saccharine screenplay about friendship, broken homes and most importantly love of movies.
Before the two protagonists meet in 1980s England, Will (Bill Milner) spends his time praying outside movie theaters while Lee (Will Poulter) is inside, smoking and bootlegging Rambo: First Blood. Lee tricks Will into coming to his house, convincing the innocent that the principal is going to "torture" them for breaking the school's fish tank, and offering to take the blame if Will gives him his watch and bikes him home.
While hiding from Lee's older brother, Lawrence (Ed Westwick), and his tough friends, Will catches a taste of Rambo on Lee's VCR. Because Will's family is part of a religious sect known as the Brethren, he's never seen a movie or TV show before. Soon he's imagining himself in a torn headband and sleeveless camouflage, ready to blow up the bad guys. And he's really psyched when Lee further demands help with his pet project, a home movie Lee plans to enter in an amateur filmmaking competition.
Will later lies to his mother (Jessica Stevenson) and the next day returns to Lee's house with sketches and a "Rambow" story in mind. Only he doesn't want to play the muscular hero he wants to be the hero's son, on the hunt for his missing father. It's a subject the boys are both familiar with, Will's having died unexpectedly and both of Lee's parents generally absent.
Though their film is initially a quiet collaboration, Will is thrilled when word gets out and other kids, most impressively a super-cool exchange student named Didier (Jules Sitruk), want to take part, too. Will embraces his newfound popularity, pogo-ing at dances and praising everyone's acting; Lee has the opposite reaction, feeling like an outcast among the kids he's ordinarily bullying because he doesn't know how else to behave.
There are three marvels here. Poulter has a perfect face for a playground thug, and Milner recalls the saucer-eyed sweetness of Freddie Highmore. Both are incredibly natural in roles that ask them to be alternately goofy, angry and melancholy, qualities that are further emphasized in the film's third gem: the boys' movie itself.
Though fantastical CGI elements occasionally burst on-screen throughout the story, the highly amusing movie-within-a-movie employs old-fashioned effects and ingenuity to capture battle scenes, wounds, even a flying dog. And Poulter's and Milner's "bad" acting in the amateur film only proves that these kids like Jennings himself are talents to watch.


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No, everything is not against you. Life is NOT meant to be a struggle.
It's actually the exact opposite. Life wants you to win. There are enough losers out there already. Learn why and how in today's show.
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I tend to spend Sundays meal planning and while I am not on any great weight loss plan or anything, I am very strict about anything I cook at home being fairly healthy* and leaving my unhealthy habits to when I eat out**. Thinking about starting a weekly*** thread so we can share recipes.
This morning, I am noticing all the ideas appealing to me include bacon. I probably should use some bacon and get it out of my system, huh? I love bacon.****
I started subscribing to Buzzfeed Food's twice-weekly email list and it's actually great! I mean, it just aggregates lists of things that fit into certain categories, but for some reason that is really helpful to me. Plus I get exposed to different websites.
Here are some things I made last week*****:
- Summer squash vegetables n stuff: I cut summer squash into sticks (like, maybe 1/2" thick), zucchini into about 1/2" thick half-rounds, and red onion into reasonably thin slices. Sauteed red onion and garlic in some olive oil for a few minutes, threw in the squashes and cooked until al dente******. Toss with lemon juice, a dickload of dill, and good nice wet feta cheese.
- "Salad" with bulgur wheat, the rest of that feta cheese, and all the things in my fridge lightly sauteed (zucchini, carrot, onion, calamata olives, broccoli, different bell peppers), plus not-sauteed parsley. Dressing: balsamic vinegar, honey, touch of olive oil.
- This. Roasted veggies, basically (red onion, carrots, fennel, mint). I found the mint didn't add much - the rest of the flavors kind of overtook it.
- Sorry I don't use a ton of actual recipes, haha.
* For me, personally, healthy means light on the cheese and reasonably lean meat choices, light on the butter/etc, and carbs are whole grains and root vegetables. With some flexibility, of course, haha.
**I eat out too much. This is pretty much my sole challenge to eating consistently healthy.
***Don't trust me to do this on a weekly basis.
****I'm annoyed that it's supposedly trendy to like bacon. Not because I'm trying not to be trendy - because people are throwing all this shade at bacon like it's a hipster thing. I see how it can seem hipster-y to add bacon to a drink or a dessert or something but this is not actually new. CULTURES ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE BEEN USING PORK BELLY TO FLAVOR THINGS FOR A LONG TIME!
*****I made more things but like, is it important I post "grilled a pork chop?" Probably not.
******I literally gag at squishy squash. My mom used to think I was faking it when she would cook a squash for like 12 hours or whatever they did in the day.


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Mother accused of fatally stabbing 4-year-old daughter had also threatened son
Houston woman accused of slaying daughter, 4, previously threatened son
When Laquita Lewis waved a knife at her 16-year-old son and threatened to murder him, she got off with a slap on the wrist: 15 months of probation.
But now - less than a year later - the Houston mother of four stands accused of brutally stabbing her 4-year-old daughter to death inside a northwest Harris County apartment, leaving the toddler in a pool of blood.
This time she might not get off as easily. On Monday, the Harris County District Attorney's Office announced its intent to pursue a capital murder charge in the grisly case.
The sordid tale unfolded Sunday night after Lewis called the child's father and admitted to the killing, according to prosecutors.
"She's in heaven," Lewis reportedly said.
The worried father called police, who arrived at Lewis' apartment in the 5600 block of Timber Creek only to find the girl's lifeless body. She appeared to have been stabbed repeatedly in the chest.
"Our heart goes out to a 4-year-old girl named Fredricka Allen, her father, siblings and other family members," Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said Monday.
"The unnatural act of a mother killing her own child is among the toughest for society to comprehend."
Before her knife-brandishing 2016 arrest, Lewis had no prior criminal record, though she'd landed in court repeatedly with a string of family court cases. The first was filed in 2011 by the Texas Attorney General's Office against the longtime husband who fathered three of Lewis' children - including the son she threatened to kill. After divorcing in 2012, the couple shared joint custody of their three sons, now ages 5, 15 and 16.
In 2014 and again in 2015, the attorney general filed suits against Fredricka's father, Frederick Allen. As with the earlier suit, a judge tossed the cases when Lewis failed to appear.
But Lewis didn't end up in a Harris County criminal court until the 2016 case that landed her on probation.
The details of the case aren't immediately clear, but court records show a Thanksgiving Day outburst ended in a misdemeanor charge for making terroristic threats.
Days after her initial arrest, Lewis was released on bond.
In February, she was awarded deferred adjudication, a form of probation in which she would not have had a conviction on her record if she completed the terms of probation.
Ogg's office said Lewis scored the lowest possible risk for recidivism when she was evaluated with the Texas Risk Assessment System as part of her probation requirements.
Fatal outburst
Now, she's being held in the Harris County Jail without bail. If convicted, she could face life in prison or the death penalty.
It's still not clear what sparked the slaying, authorities said.
Earlier in the day, it appears Lewis and her boyfriend got into a dispute, according to a sheriff's office spokesman. Authorities did not clarify what the fight was about, and it was not clear whether Lewis' boyfriend was the stabbed girl's father.
But the dispute may have contributed to Lewis' fatal outburst, Gilliland said.
After the slaying, Lewis abandoned the toddler and drove away, prosecutors said. Then around 6 p.m., she got into a minor car crash at Interstate 10 and Loop 610, to which the Houston Police Department responded.
Lewis wound up in Memorial Hermann Hospital that evening.
Prosecutors said in court Monday that Lewis told the child's father and aunt via text messages and phone calls that she had killed her daughter.
Eerie echoes
Lewis did not appear in court Monday because she was still being processed into the Harris County jail. She is expected to go before state District Judge Maria Jackson on Tuesday, when she will be formally arraigned and an attorney will likely be appointed.
The case rings eerie echoes of another Houston-area crime that narrowly avoided a similar ending.
In 2015, Jenea Mungia stabbed her 4-year-old son on the front lawn of the family's home. The boy survived, but Mungia was hit with the felony charge of serious bodily injury to a child.
Afterward, an attorney for the distraught mother said she was having "very delusional thoughts and hallucinations" at the time of the assault.
And, like other troubled Texas mothers before her - including Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in 2001, and Dena Schlosser. who killed her 10-month-old daughter with a butcher knife in 2004 - Mungia was ultimately found not guilty by reason of insanity.
On Monday, with Lewis still sitting behind bars, her apartment sat shrouded in silence, with tricycles and toys littered across the sleepy patio.
One neighbor said she had no idea there had been a murder next door.
"It's usually really quiet around here," Jessica Rivera said from the doorway of her second-floor apartment.
Blake Paterson contributed to this report.


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A business-development expert with a biomedical background has been named the Long Island Bioscience Hub's latest bioentrepreneur-in-residence.
Derek Brand, who most recently served as vice president of business development at New York City-based biotech firm Enumeral Biomedical Corp., will be the eighth bioentrepreneur-in-residence since the program launched in 2013, according to the LIBH. He's also the third to join the mission in less than a month, following the November appointments of Brian McCarthy and Lian Luca Araldi.
The hub is a National Institutes of Health-supported partnership between Stony Brook University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory designed to help commercialize technologies created at the member institutions.
Diane Fabel, director of operations for SBU's Center for Biotechnology and de facto head of hub operations, called Brand "an excellent addition to the team of entrepreneurs" supporting the hub.
"We're excited to see the positive impact these entrepreneurs will have as new companies are launched within the hub," Fabel said.
Brand has plenty of experience impacting startups. Before Enumeral Biomedical Corp., which is leveraging a single-cell immunology platform developed at MIT, he held executive and research-based positions at several early-stage, venture-backed biomedical companies.
He also served nearly four years as director of business development for the New York Academy of Sciences, following a multiyear stint as a global product manager for GE.
Brand, who earned an MBA from Babson College in Massachusetts and a bachelor's of science in biology from Hamilton College in upstate Clinton, said he was "looking forward to bringing a diverse array of startup experience to the LIBH community.
"The opportunity to dig in at the earliest stages of innovation with the exceptional scientists at Long Island institutions is a terrific opportunity," Brand said in a statement. "It's an honor to have been selected."
In addition to McCarthy – a biotech strategist with operational, startup, developmental and financial expertise – and Araldi, founder of East Setauket biotech consulting firm U.S. Pharma Services, Brand joins an impressive roster of resident bioentrepreneurs looking to position companies for grant opportunities, help startups secure angel and VC investment and otherwise shepherd technological advances toward commercial stages.
Brand's appointment tops off a progressive 2015 for the LIBH, including the launch of a "boot camp" training program for would-be entrepreneurs focused on elevator speeches, intellectual property law and other business-world concepts. The hub also announced plans to award $8.1 million in grants – funded by a $3 million NIH award and over $5 million in contributions from the member institutions, the SUNY Research Foundation and Empire State Development – to local startups looking to bring biomed breakthroughs to market. The first funding announcements are expected soon.


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GrayRobinson Announces Four Attorneys to Hillsborough County Bar Association Leadership
TAMPA, FL – June 4, 2019 – GrayRobinson, P.A. is pleased to announce that alcohol beverage attorney and Shareholder Grace H. Yang will be sworn in as president of the Hillsborough County Bar Association (HCBA) for the 2019 term. In addition to Yang, Hannah Becker, Sarah Parrow and Josef Rosen will also assume leadership positions with the HCBA.
Becker has been elected to the board of HCBA's Young Lawyer Division (YLD), Parrow has been appointed as programs chair for the 2019-2020 bar year and Rosen has been appointed as co-chair of the association's Securities Section.
"This achievement is a direct reflection of Grace's hard work and dedication to the legal profession, and her recognition as a leader in our legal community," said Fred Schrils, managing director of the firm's Tampa office. "We are extremely proud to count Grace, Hannah, Sarah, and Josef among our team of dedicated attorneys and have no doubt that their collective efforts in the coming year will greatly enhance our county's legal community."
In her practice, Yang focuses on multistate compliance issues for alcohol beverage and food vendors, as well as multistate alcohol, hotel, restaurant and occupational licensing work. She represents alcohol and hospitality industry members before local, state and federal administrative agencies while advising clients on various land use matters, including alcohol-related conditional or special use permitting and variance issues, drafting and negotiating various types of agreements, and other matters affecting hospitality industry members.
Yang has been a member of the HCBA for more than 20 years, seven of which she has served on the board.
The HCBA is one of the largest voluntary bar associations in Florida with a membership close to 4,000 attorneys, judges and legal professionals. It has earned a national reputation for its outstanding programs and events. Its mission is to inspire and promote respect for the law and the justice system through service to the legal profession and the community. The HCBA has one of the largest and strongest Young Lawyers Divisions in the state. The mission of the YLD is to support the initiatives and goals of the HCBA, promote professionalism and ethical conduct, provide guidance and support to new lawyers, provide educational opportunities for its members, organize programs and events of interest to young lawyers, and encourage community involvement.
Becker and Yang will be sworn in at the association's Installation of HCBA Officers & Directors on Thursday, June 6 at 5 p.m. Eastern.
Read press coverage below:
"GrayRobinson Announces Four Attorneys to Hillsborough County Bar Association Leadership," Tampa Bay Newswire
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Backseat Mafia say some words about Lay Llamas new single 'Altair'
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Sicilian Lay Llamas have today revealed a new video for track 'Altair', the third to be released from forthcoming album 'Thuban'.
'Thuban' is scheduled to be released on 15th June and the album features contributions from Goat as well as The Pop Group's Mark Stewart and Clinic. The 8-track album is the brainchild of Nicola Giunta, and involved as many of twelve different musicians yet with Nicola writing lyrics, singing, producing, mixing and recording at his home, whilst utilising new instruments from marimba to sax to kalimba to pilot this craft to dimensions unknown.
'Altair' is a psych-tropicalia excursion featuring lead vocals by Goatshee, one of the enigmatic singers from label mates Goat. The track centres around an addictive percussive groove and heavily fuzzed guitars that create a psychedelic pop mantra in the vein of the Brazilian band Os Mutantes.
Read the full piece here: Backseat Mafia
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|Paul Tyler and his trophy 10-point; his first ever deer harvest!
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|Recent signs of timber thinning for wildlife habitat
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The next chapter in the Edmund Andrews saga...
Yesterday, Megan McArdle of The Atlantic revealed key details that Andrews had left out of his subprime-mortgage-default story (as chronicled in the book "Busted" and in the Times Magazine)--namely that Andrews' wife Patty had previously declared personal bankruptcy twice.
These details, in McArdle's opinion (and ours), changed the tenor of the story considerably. Instead of a got-carried-away could-happen-to-anyone story of financial stress, denial, and default, the real story suddenly seemed to be about serial bankruptcy and a relationship that warped Andrews' judgment.
Upon learning these details, many of those who read Andrews original story felt misled--ourselves among them.
Andrews has now responded to McArdle. An excerpt of his response is below. The full letter is here:
Megan McArdle, a blogger for the Atlantic, accuses me of omitting crucial information: namely, that my wife, Patty, was involved in two bankruptcies, one in 1998 with her former husband; and one in 2007, while she was married to me. McArdle says this is "material information that changes the tenor of the story," and then accuses Patty of "serial bankruptcy."
These bankruptcies did occur, but they had nothing to do with our mortgage woes. They were both tied to old debts from before we were married or bought a house. They had nothing to do with my ability to get a mortgage; nor did they have anything to do with our subsequent financial problems.
Since Patty had been so brave in letting me tell our own story so candidly, I wanted to spare her the public exposure on these older woes. But that is now impossible, so here is the story:
The first bankruptcy in 1998, five years before Patty and I got together. It occurred because Patty's former husband, a producer of TV commercials in Los Angeles, didn't file income tax returns for five years. Patty, who was a stay-at-home mom and wasn't earning money, was blindsided. She had been signing returns, but he hadn't actually been filing them. Because her husband's business income was reported on their personal tax returns, she had to join him in the bankruptcy filing.
All that happened in 1998, and it obviously had nothing to do with the story in Busted. It never even occurred to me to mention it.
Patty's second bankruptcy stemmed from a loan she received from her sister, while Patty was still living in Los Angeles. At the time, she was caring for four children, working for very modest pay, and receiving almost no child support from her ex-husband. (Despite multiple court orders, he remains chronically delinquent on untold thousands of dollars.)
When Patty couldn't repay, her sister followed her east and sued her. I offered to pay off the loan by withdrawing money out of my 401k, but I wasn't allowed to because the purpose didn't qualify as a "hardship." Without an alternative, Patty had no choice but to seek bankruptcy protection.
That's the explanation. After Andrews' omission, unfortunately, it doesn't quite wash. (No choice? Why? Wouldn't the sister have preferred some sort of installment payback plan? Couldn't the couple have gone without some of the things they later bought to save to pay back the sister?)
And here's Andrews' interpretation:
None of this has any connection to our story. It had nothing to do with Patty being a spendthrift. It had no bearing on my ability to take out a mortgage, and it had nothing to do with our financial problems.
We have to disagree there. On the contrary, it seems an integral part of the financial problems. After enduring two bankruptcies, Patty wasn't the least bit gun-shy? She hadn't developed a deep-seated fear of owing people money? Based on Andrews' original story, apparently not. On the contrary: She seemed annoyed that he was concerned about it.
The prospect of going bust again , in other words, was no longer scary. It was just what you did when you owed people money you couldn't pay back. And given that she had done that twice and it had worked out, what was the harm in charging right down that same path again?


text: Seven senior political figures have been expelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo's ruling coalition for signing a letter urging President Joseph Kabila not to cling to power after his term expires next year, government officials have said. Can Joseph Kabila cling to power? The planning minister was also sacked from his post later on Wednesday on an order from the president, as was another longtime ally of Kabila whose party signed the letter. In Monday's letter to Kabila, the leaders of the G7, a group of parties within the coalition, demanded immediate steps to ensure a presidential election scheduled for November 2016 was held on time. A successful vote would mark the first peaceful transition of power in the vast Central African nation. But Kabila's critics fear he intends to exploit a packed and expensive slate of local, provincial and national polls over the next 14 months to force delays to the presidential vote. Kabila, who has refused to say he will step down in 2016, is one of several long-ruling African leaders approaching the end of constitutional term limits. Moves by other leaders to extend their rule have triggered mass protests in Burundi, Burkina Faso and other countries. "The authors of the memorandum are excluding themselves from the presidential majority," government spokesman Lambert Mende, himself a member of the coalition's leadership, said on state-run television. "End of his line" He rejected the letter's suggestion that Kabila intended to violate the constitution, saying it had unjustly exposed the president to public vilification. Fighting breaks out at DRC opposition rally A presidential order issued later in the day said that one of the signatories, Planning Minister Olivier Kamitatu, had been relieved of his post. The order said that he had failed to show the discretion expected of members of government. "By firing a minister who asked him to respect the constitution, Kabila has shown that he is at the end of his line," Kamitatu told the Reuters news agency after the decision. Meanwhile, Pierre Lumbi, the president of the Social Movement for Renewal (MSR), the second-largest party in Kabila's coalition and a representative of whom also signed the letter, was stripped of his post as special counsellor to the chief of state in matters of security. In a statement, the G7 leaders said that they had walked out of an emergency meeting called on Wednesday in response to the letter when the majority refused to consider the issues they had raised. Kabila, in power since the assassination of his father President Laurent Kabila in 2001, is required by the constitution to leave office next year. The G7 warned in its letter that violating the constitution's two-term limit risked destabilising the vast country where regional wars between 1996 and 2003 killed millions, most from hunger and disease. The G7 parties control more than 80 of 500 seats in Congo's lower house of parliament and their members occupy 13 of 47 ministerial or vice-ministerial posts in Kabila's cabinet. The coalition would still have a majority if they all left. SOURCE: Reuters Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Politics


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Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868-10 December 1928) was
a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. He was a designer in the Post-Impressionist movement and also the main representative of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had considerable influence on European design. He was born in Glasgow…
Mackintosh was apprenticed to a local architect John Hutchison, but in 1889 he transferred to the larger, more established city practice of Honeyman and Keppie.
To complement his architectural apprenticeship, Mackintosh enrolled for evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art where he pursued various drawing programmes.
In the 1890s he was part of 'The Four' – an informal grouping with the English sisters Margaret and Frances Macdonald and James Herbert McNair – that produced some of the most inventive decorative art and graphic design of the period. His major achievements include his masterpiece The Glasgow School of Art, the villas Windyhill and The Hill House, Scotland Street School, and a series of city-centre tea room interiors. In common with many of his contemporaries he believed that the architect was responsible not just for the fabric of a building, but for every detail of its interior design. http://www.glasgowmackintosh.com/mackintosh
Despite this success and with his undoubted influence abroad, Mackintosh's work met with considerable indifference at home and his career in Glasgow declined. Few private clients were sufficiently sympathetic to want his 'total design' of house and interior and he was incapable of compromise.
In 1923 the Mackintoshes left London for the South of France where Mackintosh gave up all thoughts of architecture and design and devoted himself entirely to painting landscapes. He died in London, of cancer, on 10 December 1928.
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The Society's volunteer Planning Adviser and Architect are consulted by the Scottish Borders Council on a rising number of planning applications each year, in excess of 130 in 2011. Members can seek advice from them on design, conservation and development matters.
We run the Keep Berwickshire Tidy Awards, which together with a number of other small campaigns, make a valuable contribution to Berwickshire life. The year 2011 saw the official launch of an exciting new discounted entry scheme for members into the principle Historic Houses of Berwickshire together with an ongoing programme of expansion.
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The Jaguars released Kassim Osgood on Tuesday.
Osgood a back-up wide receiver was primarily a special teams player with the Jaguars. The Jaguars saved $3 million in cap space by cutting Osgood.
Osgood told Tania Ganguli of the Florida-Union-Times that he understood the Jaguars decision. "I had a high price tag for next year for not being one of their starters, that played a factor into it I think," Osgood said. "It's business. When you get later in your years in the NFL, a lot of teams go younger. It's part of the game."


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Cook the Book: Artichokes alla Contadino
According to Urban Italian, contadino means "farmer" or "peasant." That doesn't mean this dish is limited to picnics and simple dinners. With plenty of fresh herbs, white wine, and tomatoes, there's definitely enough pizazz in this dish for the upper crust. Viva la rivoluzione!
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- Yield:4 to 6
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup pancetta, cut into large chunks
- 1 small onion, chopped (about 1/2 cup)
- 6 artichokes, cleaned, halved, and with chokes removed (directions below)
- 1/4 teaspoon each of salt and pepper
- 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed
- 2 whole tomatoes, chopped
- 1/4 cup white wine
- 1/4 cup pitted Taggiasca olives
- 1/4 cup basil, chopped
- 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme
- 1/4 cup parsley, chopped
- 1/4 cup panko breadcrumbs
To Clean the Artichokes
- Cut off the bottom of each stem, leaving about half the stem intact. Pull off the tough outer leaves, revealing the closely packed, tender leaves in the center; they will be tight around the bud, and should be a soft pale-green springtime color. Use a sma
Heat the olive oil in a large saucepot over medium-high heat. Add the pancetta and onion and cook together 2 minutes, until some of the pancetta fat is rendered and the onion starts to soften.
Add the artichokes and season the mixture with the salt and pepper. Cook for 2 minutes, until the artichokes are lightly sauteed.
Add the garlic, tomatoes, and wine and cook for 2 minutes, until the alcohol evaporates.
Add the olives, basil, rosemary, thyme, and parsley, and mix everything together well.
Remove the mixture to a serving dish and top with panko breadcrumbs. Serve immediately.
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Watch your thoughts. They become words. Watch your words. They become deeds. Watch your deeds. They become habits. Watch your habits. They become character. Character becomes your behaviour- that's my own twist to the chinese proverb.
Changing your behavior is a self challenge which is not nearly possible, but also nor impossible, but I'm talking about long-term, sustained change, not short-run charge that tires out before any real change happens.
The behaviour that needs change could involve diet, exercise, habits, dependencies or anything else, changing behavior is one of the hardest things any person can ever try to do.
This has become a well-researched area and quite a lot is known about why sustained change is very difficult to attain.
Here are eight of the reasons you miss:
1. You are motivated by negative emotions.
Now it's really understandable to think that only strongly felt negative emotions such as regret, shame, fear and guilt should be able to accelerate lasting behavior change as seen in movies, the opposite is true.
Negative emotion will only push you to think about everything you are not doing, or feel like you are doing wrong, but it's horrible fuel for changing behaviours, especially those that stick.
Behavior change studies found that the consistently least effective change strategies hinged on fear and regret.
As much as this sounds like a common expression, real change needs a positive platform to launch from; we need positive, self-improving reasons for taking on the challenge.
2. You get trapped by thinking negatives only
Feeling negative about trying to change a behavior—any behavior—tends to foster all-or-nothing thinking. I'm going to just do it and change, and if I fail that means I just can't do it or will never be able to.
All-or-nothing thinking is a big one, it straps us into a no-win situation, because your odds of attaining even the littlest of change for any behavior just aren't very good.
If we really want to change, one of the first things we have to do is take negative thoughts of the table and purge a few other thinking errors while we're at it.
3. You try to change all at once.
Change a behavior is a big thing, no matter how little you think of a behavior, and it's almost never possible to take all of it on all at once. We have to start somewhere with particular, workable actions.
Rather than saying "I'm going to start exercising," it's "I'm going to start walking tonight after work for 30 minutes down the road."
Behavior change research suggests this is essential to success because you need performance targets to measure yourselg against. And those, too, should be realistic and specific.
4. You neglect the right toolbox.
If you want to change a car's tyre, you need the right tools. Why should changing something about yourselves be any different?
Call them tools or devices or whatever, the point is you need certain reliable self tools to support sustained change.
Changing your diet requires, at minimum, that you find the knowledge about healthier ways to eat and a practical plan for making that happen.
Maybe part of the plan includes keeping a crib sheet menu in the notepad on your phone, or daily reminders built into your Outlook calendar.
Some of these tools will work for a particular person, while others work for the general public and available to anyone who needs them.
We all need a toolbox of those supports to rely on during the long run.
5. You try to Change More Behaviour than Necessary.
If you can commit yourself to changing one behavior long-term, and really make it stick, that's applaudable change.
But trying to take on multiple behaviors at once is a sure as hell way to send all of them into coming back bigger.
The resources we rely on to make change happen are limited: attention, self-control, motivation, etc. Trying to change too much places unrealistic demands on those resources and dooms the efforts you put in.
We forget that the other areas of our lives keep spinning and also require those resources, so even just one additional behavior-change commitment is a big deal.
6. You underestimate the whole process.
Change is never just one thing, it's a lot of connected things, and sustained change doesn't happen without a process that wraps in all of the pieces.
But the big picture is that long-term behavior change involves steps. It's easy to fool ourselves into believing it should be so much simpler, but nothing about behavior change is simple.
It's a tough, process-oriented challenge to move the behavior needle even a little.
7. You forget that failure is usually sure before a success story
If you try to change anything and fail, you've just proven one of the sturdiest truths of behavior change: failing at least once is part of the process, and it's probably going to be more than once.
Failing only tells you about what deserves your attention and energy in the next trial and the next.
The Behavioural Change Scientists all put in failure as part of the process, and encourage those who would change to see failing as a step, not the end or an excuse to stop trying.
8. You are not commited.
Finally, but even so most importantly, what the best of behavior change research tells us is that if we haven't made a commitment to accomplish whatever we want to accomplish, it won't happen.
We need a "commitment tool" that firmly establishes what we're going to do and how we're going to do it. Everything else starts there.
Now that you are aware of how you can change your behaviour, put it into action.
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8 Reasons Why It's So Hard To Change Your Behavior Reviewed by Aremu Segun on November 10, 2017 Rating:


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Borrowed as a follow-on from research while compiling the recent post on Science Fiction, at over 1200 pages this book was so compendious I was unable to finish all the stories within the borrowing limit of three weeks.
As it was a collection, I wasn't worried when it expired, I'm ready for something else after that long.
They started the Preface with a great quote from Stephen Hawking:
"'I gave a party for time-travellers, but I didn't send out the invitations until after the party.
I sat there a long time, but no one came."
(From an interview with Ars Technica)
At such a length, there is room to cover a great breadth of time, with stories going back to even before H G Wells. There is also variety of writing styles and approaches to the subect, such that I never found myself thinking "What, MORE time travel?"
Many reviewers describe a book as one you can "dip into", and although I have never done so, I guess this would qualify as one of those.
Read as an e-book borrowed from Auckland Libraries via Overdrive, on my Kobo Touch e-reader.