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My name is Zee a straight male escort so please ladies only.
I'm quite a calm and composed individual who enjoys good company. My happiness comes from the happiness of others as I love that feeling you get knowing that someone left my company with a good smile when they came in with a long face. I'm quite a positive person that doesn't believe in negativity because key to success is a positive outlook on life and a good smile. I love road trips, exploring new places and a room with a great view that mesmerizes me. I'm quiet the planner but I also love being spontaneous if there's a good vibe.
Me as an individual I enjoy many things from cooking a good meal in many different styles of cooking which I find quiet meditative to Gym for a healthy body and mind. I'm currently trying yoga out to further my fitness goals. I love cinema especially Imax as I love a good psychological movie or even a good mystery brain teaser that I usually solve before the movie ends. I like bowling and pool, that trigonometry stayed in my head from school (just the angle's not the math 😛
I'm positive I can put a smile on that face, Feel free to book me today or for future occasions and we can share a good time.
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(Memphis) First responders can have their dogs and cats vaccinated for $5 on Saturday, June 22, between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. at 935 Farm Road.
The Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County is offering the discount for military personnel, police officers, firefighters, EMTs and paramedics.
"We want to thank members of the armed forces, police officers, firefighters, EMTs and paramedics for their life-saving work with this small gesture of appreciation," Kerry Sneed, community outreach and humane education manager at HSMSC, said.
Microchips will be available for $25 per pet. Rabies licenses will also be offered at $6 for spayed/neutered dogs and $16 for dogs that are not spayed/neutered.
Dogs need to be on a leash and cats need to be in a carrier. Pet owners must show identification from their first-responder occupation.
The vaccination event is part of the humane society's Project STOP (Solving the Overpopulation Problem). Last year, 728 pets were vaccinated, 577 pets were spayed or neutered, and 123 pets received microchips through the program.
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The Saint Lucia Tourist Board joins ABTA
Tourism partners across a wide spectrum of the industry in Saint Lucia recently benefited from health and safety training in key frontline areas.
The training, which took the form of workshop seminars, came as a direct result of the Saint Lucia Tourist Board joining forces with ABTA – The Travel Association.
As part of the overall programme, destination stakeholders, tourism accommodation, and industry partners participated in training workshops across Saint Lucia to promote best practices in health and safety.
Topics included accommodation, health & safety management and security, food and water safety management practices, safe guarding children and incident management.
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ABTA's Destination Services Manager, Angie Hills commented: "Hosting seminars such as these promotes good practice in health & safety management and refreshes and reinforces the commitment of destinations and suppliers - ensuring that holidaymakers can enjoy great holidays in Saint Lucia."
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"The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction." D.H. Lawrence
In a language there isn't just words to communicate with, there is also a whole psychological structure specific to it. It gives us a model with which to view the world and to communicate about the world we sense, both the world within and the world without. But it also gives us our identity, since each language has its own history and also its own character. That character transmits itself into us a "national personality," a sort of personality that deeply structures the human psyche from birth. In other words, stereotypes.
On one hand this can be useful; as we can see that languages and the qualities they carry are the accumulation of experience from history. Through language we are being transmitted the "wisdom of the ancestors". On the other hand it can also carry the rubbish, the karma, of the past which is undeserved by future generations. Language isn't just an encoding of ancestral wisdom, it has also acted as a waste bin to conveniently give the load of one generations responsibilities on to the next.
Time to sort the wheat from the chaff. Time to make a review of the type of language we use and how we use it. Say no to what is useless and harmful and encourage the growth of what is useful and healthy. Languages contain patterns, and we have to ask ourselves do we really want to repeat the past blindly? In a synchronicity a friend made a comment on Facebook about not letting an anger he had inherited from his ancestors carry on further. His affirmation that since it was not his it would stop with him and within him.
Like this we can all reject the "mob- reaction" within us, the stereotypes that have been transmitted to us through the generations, and so, as the Great Invocation says, "seal the door where evil dwells."
For me it has been an important experience to move to another country and see my own country from "outside", to see it from a different perspective and see its virtues in comparison to other cultures and also its vices . And so also see myself from an other perspective. Learning a new culture, and a new language, makes me rely less on the "safety blanket" of my native culture and seek to communicate with the world in a new way, and so I can only grow, retaining the benefits of my culture and discarding the disadvantages of it too, and adopting a broader view of the world that is not so limited.
La humanidad no sirve la nacionalidad, la nacionalidad sirve la humanidad. Hay mas que una lengua en el mundo y por eso el aprender otras lenguas, sólo es sentido común, el sentido de la humanidad (Thanks Mika for correcting this).


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Some people believe that WhatsApp is secure service but with recent new we can see the opposite.
53 years old woman from United Arab Emirate was fined Dhs 500,000 for cursing her uncle and a historic Muslim scholar in Whatsapp.
According to Judge Fahad Al Shamsi she used hateful language in messages to the 60-year old man during a Whatsapp conversation .
The woman called her uncle "tyrannous, wicked and a forger" and insulted scholar Yazid bin Muawiya, a historic figure who lived 1,400 years ago and was the second Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate.
The sentence is believed to be the first handed down since the new hate crime laws were issued.
Such breach of the laws can be sentenced to up to five years in prison and be issued a fine of up to Dhs 1m.
The messages exchange began in November 2015 and lasted until January 10 2016 when the uncle went to the police. "She cursed me and Yazid in a message," he said.
The woman admitted the charges, according to the publication. She claimed in an earlier hearing that she had financially supported her uncle for 29 years but he abandoned her after she developed cancer.
"He didn't see or look after me. And now he is fighting me over a will. He deserved what I said to him. A person who sends his niece to court is not a man."
All these family quarreling are quite usual and UAE is really strange country if people are fined for these.
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Every year in the Fall the Wedding MBA comes to Las Vegas for their annual convention. Wedding professionals come from all over the world to learn, teach, network and most importantly PARTY lol! Because let's face it, it is Las Vegas. The Knot hosted an amazing event at Hyde Nightclub inside the Bellagio! It was planned and designed by the one and only premiere wedding coordinator Andrea Eppolito of Andrea Eppolito Events. From the champagne to the slow-motion photo booth by Shutter Booth, it was an unforgettable night. It was so much fun capturing the night and doing a little partying myself, that's not on film 😉
#TheKnotRocksWMBA from Lighten Films – 702.266.6226 on Vimeo.
Las Vegas Wedding Videographer: Lighten Films
Event Venue: Hyde Nightclub
Event Planner: Andrea Eppolito Events
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Like I've mentioned in my previous tagine recipe article (my Vegetable Tagine Recipe), cooking with a tagine is my hidden secret to succulent and easy meals.
Why not cook your next meat dish in a tagine and taste the imaginable – tagine cooking truly is one of a kind.
New to tagine cooking. Well don't be intimadited. It's one of the easiest ways to cook and once you start, you won't be able to stop.
Tagine cooking is similar to a 'stew' as your meals, like this Moroccan Lamb Tagine Recipe, is simmered in a tagine pot. This allows the lamb to cook beautifully to retain all flavor and moisture.
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Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 85 minutes
Servings: 3-4 people
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This morning, Bryan gave us a lesson in raising silkworms and the silkworm industry in Japan. His enthusiasm for silkworms is contagious, even while he emphasizes how much work they are to raise and raise well. This is the first year in 15 years he hasn't had silkworms munching and growing throughout the house.
Traditionally (at least in the sense of back in the 1920s and before), every house in this area would grow some silkworms and process the cocoons and silk for home use. Bryan gained a lot of his knowledge by talking to locals who had grown up raising silkworms and through learning by doing. When he talks about raising silkworms, it isn't theoretical knowledge ("In theory, this is how x is done"), it is practical knowledge ("When I was doing x, I did it this way"). Sometimes I feel like I am in the Japan of a century ago.
And then I blog about it.
Bryan showed us how to start with a dry cocoon, process it, and reel it.


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ABS Featured in 2017 Princeton Regional Chamber Campaign
The Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce (PRCC) launched a 2017 multimedia advertising campaign, featuring ABS Principal Paula Harrington.
2016 Women in Innovation ReceptionOn September 22, Paula Harrington and Karla Pollack attended the NJ State Chamber of Commerce's Women in Innovation Reception at The National Conference Center in East Windsor. The Chamber presented Bonnie Bassler with their second annual Alice H. Parker Women Leaders in Innovation Award. Dr. Bassler was honored for her work at Princeton University in [...]
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Take Your Child to Work Day – A Student's Experience
ABS hosted Karla Pollack's niece Olivia Martin for the Take Your Child to Work Day. This was the 21st annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day across the country.
ABS, American Heart Association, The Food Trust and NJ YMCA State Alliance Sponsor 2015 Healthy Holiday Food Drive
With the holiday season upon us, Association Business Solutions (ABS) in partnership with the American Heart Association, The Food Trust and NJ YMCA State Alliance is proudly holding a Healthy Food Drive for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) from Monday, November 30 through Tuesday, December 15.


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When I was a kid, carving pumpkins was one of the yearly rituals that marked the family calendar.
About a week before Halloween, Dad would come home with a pumpkin at least as big as a basketball, and on the night when we did the carving, Mom made us all snacks and made sure the kitchen table was covered with newspaper.
As with the Thanksgiving turkey, Dad did the carving. First, he'd cut a hole in the top big enough for my sister and I to reach in and pull out the slimy seeds and stringy pumpkin guts. We took our time at this task, playing with the innards and shaking them in each others' face until Dad would tell us to knock it off so he could finish his job and relax.
With the pumpkin more or less hollowed out, Dad would take over and cut as gruesome a face as he could muster. He had a talent for this sort of thing that would resurface years later in the form of beautiful wood carvings.
There were never any happy or friendly jack-o'-lanterns at our house. Slucher jack-o'-lanterns were like the gargoyles on a medieval cathedral, meant to scare away evil spirits, but as hideous as they were, they failed to make an impression on the marauding teenagers who roamed the neighborhood late at night, looking for pumpkins to smash.
Every year, the morning of November first meant waking to find the streets covered with the viscera and busted chunks of every single pumpkin in the neighborhood that had been left out. It was pumpkin genocide.
And now, I'm the Dad.
Last weekend, I rounded up the kids for the ritual carving of the jack-o'-lanterns. My wife was working, so I also handled the newspaper and the snacks. Each of my three daughters had their own pumpkin, which ranged from small to large according to age.
We held to my parents' script, except that I let the girls draw the faces they wanted me to carve. Ferocity is absent from my front porch, and in its place are three happy-go-lucky jack-o'-lanterns that are more Santa's helpers than Satan's henchmen.
Just as seasonal rituals like pumpkin carving at Halloween were important to me and my sister when we were kids, so too are they important to my own children. My girls have embraced and taken ownership of the rituals in our house, which provide a sense of rhythm and continuity to a household that can often seem chaotic and improvised.
As my family celebrates the special dates on our calendar – birthdays, holidays, and other special times – my hope is that the repeated observance of these milestones will accumulate and build a backlog of happy memories, shared in the form of stories frequently told.


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Hi, I've noticed that a couple of movies that have Ukrainian language as the original audio of the dialogue are listed incorrectly in IMDb. I've submitted request to those titles a couple of months ago and recently learned that couple of my submissions were unfortunately declined citing "Unable to verify.". Please help me with the following submissions:
Submission #19: Pravilo boya (2017)
* imdb link: https://contribute.imdb.com/title/tt1334009
* original ID: # 190223-182141-932000
* re-submitted ID: # 190414-082340-34800
proof that film was in Russian (original audio): See Ukrainian Wikipedia artcle where it clearly says that this movie was originally shot in Russian and only later dubbed into Ukrainian: http://bit.ly/2v5sa2C Also you if you watch the movie on Youtube, you can hear that all dialogues are spoken in Russian: all charecters move their lips pronouncing Russian words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-iEk7m4SE8; Also you can see that for Ukrainian theatrical release, there was a version created with Ukrainian dubbing (in addition to Russian original), since it was mentioned repeatedly in Ukrainian press, e.g., http://web.archive.org/web/20170128030533/http://moviegram.com.ua/oleksij-shaparev-te-scho-robyv-usy...
Submission #20: Moya rusalka, moya Lorelyay (2013)
* imdb link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4079976/
* original ID: #190223-053638-777000
* re-submitted ID: # 190414-092957-829000
* proof that film was in Russian (original audio): See Ukrainian Wikipedia artcle where it clearly says that this movie was originally shot in Russian: http://bit.ly/2Dep9l3 ; see film: http://kinoflux.org/19506-loreley-2013.html , it's 100% in Russian; Also, see DVD set for this film says it's in Russian: https://www.russiandvd.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=60469
Submission #21-
21) #190223-191227-132000 (original), #190414-093448-446000 (pending)
Order should be: Russian, Ukrainian (currently, it's Ukrainain, Russian). Out of short-films in this movie, only ONE is in Ukrainian, while others are in Russian. See this movie on Megogo https://megogo.net/ua/view/14513-zakohani-zakohani-u-ki-v.html
== Section 3: Various rejected submissions on IMDb over the years that are questinalbe ==
Also, looked at the history of my submissions, and some of the non-language rejections seem unreasonable. Can you just re-review my original submission or do I have to re-submit these too?
Rejection 1: countries of co-production corrected
imdb link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5618752/
Rejected submission ID: #180205-040351-022000 (rejected 1st time)
Rejected sbumission ID: #180205-040351-022000 (rejected 2nd time)
re-submitted ID: 190414-062457-314000 (pending)
* The order of countries of production is clearly labled for film Krotkaya (2017) , it should be: FRANCE, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, LITHUANIA . This is confirmed by:
* Cannes film festival submission for this film: http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/krotkaya
* Official website for the production company: http://web.archive.org/web/20190414023535/https://www.prod.slotmachine.fr/a-gentle-creature
* Film credits themselves clearly show only 4 above mentioned countries as co-producing countries, see snippet here: https://img.hurtom.com/image/kVE or get a moview on iTunes and watch for yourself ( https://itunes.apple.com/be/movie/une-femme-douce/id1322008973 )
* Lastly, this issue is documented in detail on Ukrainian Wikipedia aritcle for the moview (where it provides references that prove that Ukraine was NOT one of the co-producing countries: http://bit.ly/2UXMIJ0
Rejection 2: actors names were corrected
Rejected submission ID:
#180117-014414-830000 (1st rejection)
#180202-151843-499000 (2nd rejection)
This film (Storozhova zastava (2017)) was shot in Ukrainian and ALL credits at the end of the film were in Ukrainian. Therefore, in order to create English credits you need to provide correct transliteration of Ukrainian names into English (which I did). So then why was this correction rejected twice?
Rejection 3: 2nd cinematographer added
#181231-053549-900000 (1st rejection)
I added 2nd cinematographer (Yaroslav Pilunskiy / Ярослав Пилунский). He's clearly visible as 2nd cinematographer in movie credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GILhrdNXXgg (see 2:06:34, where it lists him as: Операторьі-постановщики: Владимир Смутньі, Ярослав Пилунский
Rejection 4: Incorectly written actor's name
# 190414-043002-611000 (pending, previously tried correcting this numerous times in the past => somehow it keeps reverting back to incorrect spelling)
Actor's profile: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0838921/
Correct transliteration of her name from Ukrainian to English: Olha Sumska
See usage of it in:
* English-language media: https://www.kyivpost.com/tag/olha-sumska
* Engilsh Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olha_Sumska
Rejection 4: Incorectly written title for https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6024596/
#190414-043823-157000 (pending)
Correct transliteration of this title from Ukrainian to English: Stolitta Yakova
See this series on tv-channel's official website: https://1plus1.ua/stolitta-yakova
=== Section 5: Various pending submissions, where I corrected language, etc. ==
* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055635/
This film was shot originally shot in Ukrainian in 1961. The original version was thought as lost for many years and was only rediscovered in 2013. This is a well-documented fact:
* see news coverage for when the original UKrainian audio was found: https://gazeta.ua/articles/sogodennya/_vidnajshli-ukrayinomovnij-original-filmu-za-dvoma-zajcyami-po... https://zik.ua/news/2013/07/19/v_internet_vyklaly_ukrainomovnu_versiyu_filmu_za_dvoma_zaytsyamy_4202...
* see original Ukrainian version on Yotube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fikW83jU5kA
* ID: 190414-044522-177000 (pending)
Rejection 4: Incorectly written title for https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059655/
ID: #180116-040428-631000 (declined)
resubmitted: #190414-050833-383000 (pending)
imdb url: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059655/
The main title is wrong (original was in Ukrainian, so transliteration should also be from Ukrainian, e.g., title should be "Krynyzia dlia sprahlyh" instead of current "Rodnik dlya zhazhdushchikh" (1987)
Rejection 4: Wrong order of languages https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3747600/
There are more Russian-language dialogues, than Ukrainian ones. Therfore Russian should be listed as #1 language
original ID: #180116-051350-302000 (rejected)
re-submited ID: #190414-054608-352000 (pending)
Rejection 5: Wrong order of languages https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2204313/
There are more Russian-language dialogues, than Ukrainian ones. Therfore Russian should be listed as #1 language
original ID: #180116-050727-650000 (rejected)
re-submited ID: 190414-053951-132000 (pending)
Rejection 6: I clarified that the audio was for Ukrainian version https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5378092/
This cartoon was originally voiced into English. I clarified that voice actors on imdb are for Ukrainian version, but for some reason this clarfication got rejected
original ID: #180117-013930-769000 (rejected)
I didn't re-submit this (cause it's too much wokr). Can you just accept the original submission.
Rejection 7: I corrected the countries of production for this title https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2217971/
There's only 1 country of prodution listed on the cartoon's credits: Russia. On the dvd for this cartoon, the only country credited is Russia (see https://www.golddisk.ru/goods/49385.html or https://www.golddisk.ru/goods/47559.html)
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An Exhaust system is usually piping used to guide reaction exhaust gases away from a controlled combustion inside an engine or stove. The entire system conveys burnt gases from the engine and includes one or more exhaust pipes. An exhaust pipe must be carefully designed to carry toxic and / or noxious gases away from the users of the machine. Indoor generators and furnaces can quickly fill an enclosed space with poisonous exhaust gases such as hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides, if they are not properly vented to the outdoors. Also, the gases from most types of machines are very hot; the pipe must be heat-resistant, and it must not pass through or near anything that can burn or can be damaged by heat. A chimney serves as an exhaust pipe in a stationary structure. This should meet the regulation norms maintained in each country


text: I was going to take a break from blogging for a bit but I need to ask all of you to please pray for my brother in law, Terry, he has 4 blocked arteries in his heart, one is 90% blocked, one is 80% blocked, the other two are 60% and 50% blocked. He had no symptoms other than he had been tired. He needs surgery with in the next 2-3 weeks. A year ago he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and has been dealing with the life style change. My sister is very strong and believes strongly, as do I, in the power of prayer. So we are asking all of you that pray, please add Anne and Terry to your list.


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This was years ago back in my native country when I worked as a make up artist for Botswana Televison.I loved it!
I will be doing a series here on make up tutorials and reposts links where we will learn together.
Well,make up is not my current profession but I presume most girls like a little bit of make up right?


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New dementia model of care to launch at HarbisonCare
There's nothing better than relaxing in the comfort of your own home.
Home provides an environment that makes us feel safe, welcome and comfortable.
Many aged care homes for people with dementia don't feel like home, and this can have a truly negative impact on their quality of life.
HarbisonCare is taking steps to drastically change and improve its model of care for dementia patients.
Developed, pioneered and operated by UK-based Dementia Care Matters, The Butterfly Household Model of Care shifts from the traditional clinical approach, to a person-centred model, empowering residents to live life their way.
Daily routines give way to relaxed, unscheduled days allowing residents to openly express their feelings and desires and participate in activities they are interested in, at a time convenient for them.
At present, only four Australian facilities have launched this model of care and HarbisonCare is the first rural Butterfly Household on the east coast of Australia.
All facilities have seen the health, quality of life and wellbeing for residents living with dementia significantly improve.
The program will first launch in the Moss Vale centre and will then move to the Burradoo premises.
Under the program, institutional features like rigid routines and medicine trolleys will be ditched for brightly coloured artworks on the walls and "stuff" for people to play with.
A small-household style of living for people with dementia will also be created in a family-like environment.
HarbisonCare CEO David Cochran said the new model was a welcome change.
"We are very excited to introduce the Butterfly model into Harbison and we hope it is a very heartening experience," he said.
"There's no instruction book but there are principles which we will make work for HarbisonCare."
Mr Cochran said HarbisonCare would rely on the support of the community and volunteers to roll-out the program.
"This will be a community effort and we want as much help driving the implementation as possible," he said.
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You can find valuable information at the following places:
We provide an overview of the most important C++ concepts used in olympaid tasks. The document can be found here [german] soi_cpp_tutorial.pdf
The code snippets can be downloaded separately soi_cpp_tutorial_code.tar.gz.
A list of often-used algorithms in SOI-competitions can be found here soi_algorithms.pdf
In order to get familiar with the algorithms and datastructures involved, we recommend these sites:
Real training is always the most important aspect - you can find tons of tasks on the Sphere Online Judge. Make sure you sign up for Switzerland, to get us back in the top 20 where we belong!
There is a new long-term contest for high school students running at SPOJ: the High School Programming League 2008/2009. You are encouraged to participate!
There are plenty of books on algorithms in general, some of which are:


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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Daisy and Archie
We were lounging in the backyard of our cottage last night when we spotted eight little legs through the hedgerow. Two of the cutest Jack Russell terriers had come to visit.
We checked out their ID tags and that's how we learned their names, Daisy and Archie. It wasn't until later that Dad noticed that Daisy had a penis. "Daisy has a dick," he exclaimed. That's when the kids started calling her Daisy with a D.
Anyhow, we got the number from their tag. 804 Area Code. Richmond, Virginia. Summer dogs like us. No answer when we called, so Sophie and Grace leashed Daisy and Archie so they couldn't continue on their way. Fresh water and Milk Bones were served.
Eventually, we got ahold of the owners who were staying in a cottage just two blocks away. Turns out that Daisy is actually Toby. Daisy is their third dog, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Toby was just wearing Daisy's collar. They all escaped when the kids left the door open. Apparently it wasn't the first time. And Alex, their 12-year-old owner, confided that Archie has been peeing in the cottage. Their neighbor in the cottage across the street popped out to say they are very bad dogs. We liked them very much.
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Around every corner of the exhibit lurks a new discovery. Stumble upon a classic battle between two behemoths of that time period, the mighty T-Rex and the powerful Triceratops. See how they lived, how they died and how they shaped the earth as we now know it.
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Yesterday was 1st world war day at my children's school. My daughter dressed as an Edwardian lady and I cut up an old dress to make her a floor-length skirt and fashioned a blouse with leg o' mutton sleeves from her elder brother's school shirt.
- All Crafts Challenge – Anything but a Card
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A ganglion cyst is a lump that forms underneath the skin on the joints of the hands or feet. They can get as large as the size of a grape and often cause pain and discomfort as well as interfere with movement of that joint. Ganglion cysts can appear suddenly and sometimes get larger or more painful with increased movement of the joint. Anyone can develop a cyst, but they are most common in adults 15 to 40 years old.
The exact cause for ganglion cysts is unknown, but physicians believe them to be related to overuse or repetitive motions, arthritis, inflammation or irritation of the tendon or the joint, or from an injury to the affected area. They usually go away without requiring treatment. However, if you have a ganglion foot cyst that is painful or interfering with your movements, call us at 561-793-6170 today to schedule a consultation with one of our experienced podiatrists in Jensen Beach or at another South Florida location. You can also click here to request an appointment online.
What are Ganglion Cysts?
Ganglion cysts are large, visible bumps that form under the skin. They grow out of the tissues that surround the joints in your hands or feet. They can appear quickly and then sometimes disappear just as fast. Ganglion cysts in the foot do not always require treatment because they are usually harmless. The only time that treatment is necessary is if it is causing foot pain or prohibiting movement. Doctors do not yet understand the exact cause of ganglion cysts. Most of the time ganglion cysts appear in patients like gymnasts, who constantly put a lot of pressure on their wrists and ankles with repetitive movements. It is also common in arthritis patients.
Symptoms of Ganglion Cysts
The most obvious symptom of a ganglion cyst is the visible lump that it causes. In some cases, the cyst will cause pain and tenderness in the area where it has developed. Since the cysts form out of joints, they can often cause mobility problems in that area of the foot. Increased movement or continuing the repetitive movements that might have caused the cyst to form in the first place can increase pain and also cause the cyst to press against a nerve, which causes numbness and tingling.
Treatment for Ganglion Cysts
In some cases, treatment is not necessary for ganglion cysts. They are usually harmless and sometimes disappear just as quickly as they appeared. If the cyst is not causing you any discomfort, we can also decide to just monitor the site or constrain it. In many cases, resting and not moving the affected area helps the cyst go away. If the cyst is causing pain or limiting movements, a doctor can drain it. This can also be done if the sight of the large cyst is troubling enough that you want to have it removed rather than waiting for it to go away. We perform this treatment in our office.
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What should you expect when visiting South Florida Foot & Ankle Centers for treatment of a ganglion cyst on your foot? There is no need to worry about your visit to the podiatrist. Our goal is to relieve your pain and get you back on your feet in good health. Diagnosing a ganglion cyst requires a physical examination of the affected area. The doctor will also take a look at your medical history and ask you a series of questions about your physical activity. You should be prepared with information including when the cyst appeared, what you were doing immediately before or at the time it appeared, and describe your level of pain. Our doctors have clinical experience and expertise in dealing with different types of conditions that affect the feet. Rest assured that you can trust their knowledge and experience as they work with you toward treatment goals involving better health of your feet, and ankles.
The podiatrists at South Florida Foot & Ankle Centers have extensive training and clinical experience when it comes to evaluating and diagnosing patients and providing treatment to relieve the pain associated with ganglion cysts. Our doctors will concentrate on relieving pain and discomfort and helping you prevent joint pain and related issues in the future.
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Ivanka Trump shuts down jewelry line
Last night, Abigail Klem, president of the first daughter's brand of companies, confirmed to The New York Times that Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry is being discontinued. Instead, the company will focus its efforts on costume jewelry, with a more accessible price point.
The fine jewelry line, whose website featured black and white portraits of Trump modeling her pieces, encompassed rings, bracelets, pendants, earrings and necklaces.
On the high-end is a woven diamond necklace for $19,500, and the lower side, a simple rose gold ring with a price tag of $940.
The demise of the fine jewelry line shouldn't necessarily be viewed as a failure -- in retail, it's much more difficult to sustain a select number of expensive "special occasion" pieces than it is to mass market more affordable fake gems.
Klem told The New York Times that the brand is now committed to "offering solution-oriented products at accessible price points."


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Taylor's first boarding school experience came at The George School, and then Millbrook School, where his father worked in the admissions office. His family eventually made their way to Williamstown, Mass., where he grew up and attended the public high school in the area. In high school he played four years of varsity soccer, captaining the team during his senior year and earning league MVP honors. He also was captain of the tennis team during his junior year. Outside of school, he had been learning the game of squash since sixth grade and continued to play the sport throughout high school, having a successful career on the junior circuit.
Taylor attended Williams College where he majored in political science and played on the varsity squash team. He spent his junior year as a Junior Advisor, a prestigious role at Williams in which a pair of juniors live with freshmen and play an important role in their first year. During his senior year, he captained the squash team and was selected Second Team All-NESCAC.
At St. Andrew's, Taylor works in Admission and coaches soccer, squash, and tennis.


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At Collaborate, and on the Web, come on and join us and F2F with the tech-saavy! COLLABORATE Social Media Hour Tues, 4/24, 1–2 pm Exhibit Hall-IOUG Booth There's no 140 character limit for this meet up! Stop by the IOUG … Continue reading →
A buddy of mine, Doug Marks, recently opened my eyes to some sites that are putting out misleading product reviews fueled by Google Ad Words. I wrote about this on my InfoWorld blog with a story entitled "FTC and Google need to crack down on scam review sites" which provides a counterpoint to the concerns on the US FTC's blogger disclosure rules that become effective …
It seems almost churlish to wonder whether Google could be even more successful than it already is with a different strategy, but the company's approach to open source and open development has come into focus in recent weeks.
On last week's podcast we discussed whether the company should see the AGPL as more of an opportunity than a threat following Jay's post about the company releasing more code under open source licenses.
Nik Cubrilovic over at TechCrunch, meanwhile, has written an interesting …[Read more]


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This type of market differs from the regular public market inasmuch as it is usually owned by individuals or a corporation, who put up a building and then sub-lease or rent space or stalls in the market. This type of market is popular in lower California, and also in certain southwestern states. Los Angeles has a very large semi-public market, which may be considered a model as it is conducted by a corporation that regulates the conduct of the stall renters in such a way that fair competition exists and that the trade gets the maximum service and good products.
While the operation and conduct of a public market maybe influenced by someone in political power, the semi-public market is usually managed by business men whose main object is to get maximum returns on their investment by fair business methods.
The Typical Straight Meat Market
This is usually known as a regular meat market and is the one most common over the entire United States. "MEAT RETAILING" deals chiefly with the various practices of this particular type.
The Combination Meat and Grocery Market
This may be considered also typical of the average neighborhood store, handling meats and groceries. Although there are no positive definite figures available, it is estimated that over 50% of the meat markets in the United States also handle groceries ; some a complete line and others a limited line. Types of such stores whether they handle meats or not, are usually influenced by local conditions. There are cities in the United States where over 98% of meat markets also handle groceries, while in New York City, as an illustration, more straight meat markets exist than the combination type of market.
The Department Store Market
On account of the perishable nature of meats, the majority of department stores do not handle this product. The city of Chicago leads in the number of department store meat markets. With the exception of a few, practically all the largest department stores in Chicago have large meat departments. It is estimated that two of these department stores do the largest volume of retail meat business in the city: Outside of Chicago, meat markets in department stores are rarely found.
The Commissary Market or Company Store
Industrial corporations operating steel plants, coal mines, lumber mill camps, or other large plants, have also found it advisable to operate meat markets in conjunction with the general stores usually conducted by the company. Markets of this type are usually con-ducted in a very business-like manner. They also furnish an ad-vantage to the employes, inasmuch as they are able to receive credit against their pay checks. Owners of this type of store also sell their employes coupon books for their meat purchases at the store. In industrial centers, the company stores form a very important part in the retail distribution of meats.
The Mototeria
From the standpoint of service to the buying public, it is, of course, highly desirable to buy meats right at the front door. In that case, there would be no need to go shopping or to send the children for meat. While the methods employed by the meat peddler have certain objectionable features, another method of food distribution has sprung up in the so-called "Mototeria System" which operates in Cleveland, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich. The mototeria system operates a fleet of motor trucks which are really grocery and meat stores on wheels.
In the front of the mototeria is a double section refrigerator. The top of this refrigerator serves as a counter. In the refrigerator are contained the eggs, meats, butter, cheese, etc. All meats are cut to order at the central plant. The customer gives her order to the operator of the mototeria the day before, It is dropped in an order basket located on the entrance to the mototeria. On the next day, the customer receives the package of meat, which has been cut during the night and placed in the refrigerator of the mototeria, ready for delivery the next morning.
There is no question but that this system effects a saving in over-head expense as there is only one central meat cutting establishment and one electric meat cutter can cut up meat in sufficient quantities to supply an entire fleet of mototerias. The operators claim that this operation alone saves the cost of the equipment for eleven meat markets, and the wages for that many clerks is also saved.
According to the statement of an official of the Mototeria Company, the average weekly business of the chain store is from $600 to $770, while the mototeria brings in an average of $1,000 per week. In addition there is no rent to pay, clerk hire is reduced to one man and turn-over is naturally increased. Another great advantage is the fact that unlike the average meat market, the mototeria does not have peak hours. Another advantage claimed by the mototeria is the fact that it is able to go into restricted areas in every community which are closed against stores of every kind.
The Meat Peddler's Wagon
This usually very insanitary method of retail meat distribution is still in existence in some localities, not alone in rural, but also in industrial districts. While the meat peddler has as equal a right to do business as the typical meat owner, the exposing of meats in an open wagon for a long period is objectionable. The usual insanitary and unclean wagon or automobile adds to this objection.
Until such a time as local authorities will provide sanitation laws for conducting a meat business in wagons, this form of retail meat distribution will have these objectionable features. The meat peddler, however, claims that inasmuch as he has to serve customers, who on account of location are unable to come to the store, he has to deliver and cut meats to order.
There is, however, a probability that if the meat peddler did not come around the people would buy meats at the regular meat market. This is proved by the fact that there are not hundreds, but thousands of localities in the United States where farmers and other rural dwellers drive many miles once or twice a week to buy their meat at a meat market in the nearest town.


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Here's the guest post I wrote for the Resource Generation Blog last week. Jonathan Franzen, The Soup Dragons, freedom, Freedom, Freedom!, responsibility and afflicting ourselves with a sort of happiness …
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." – Jean-Paul Sartre
There's a new book about freedom. It's called Freedom. It's not a political book. It's a novel, written by Jonathan Franzen, who last month's Time magazine cover proclaimed to be the "Great American Novelist." (Who knew that there were still novels? Let alone novelists? Let alone great ones? But that's another entry for another forum for another day…) I have not read the book – novel, sorry. Nor do I plan to. My literary ADD requires that my reading diet consist almost exclusively of nonfiction (a societal problem Franzen speaks of in the Time piece). But I did enjoy the cover article very much, finding the portion of its discussion of freedom, Freedom the idea, Freedom the ideal, Freedom the bumper-sticker phrase, to be particularly poignant for the Resource Generation community. For who has more freedom than the financially privileged? The freedom to choose what to do and what not to do, how to do it, and when. The freedom to cultivate a life of one's own choosing.


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Scott McKenzie very recently passed away. He was ill. At least he didn't die from a drug overdose. He had such a lovely clear voice. It awakened some of us living during "the summer of love."
This was the anthem song of the 60's. It made us all want to leave our safe lives and venture out to San Francisco to become "hippies".
The dream eventually turned into a nightmare. We were to discover that drugs didn't really bring peace, love and happiness. When I was recently in San Francisco, there were a few pathetic people hanging around Haight/ Ashbury . Some people got caught up in the drug scene and never left.
One of the writers of the song, John Phillips, of "The Mama and Papa's got caught up in the drug lifestyle. His autobiography, Papa John, talked about the endless drugs, and his decadent lifestyle. He wrote the book while he was still using drugs.
Mckenzie traveled around in one of the later "Mama and Papa tours." That tour included MacKenzie Philips who accused Papa John of some unspeakable acts in her autobiography, High on Arrival. It also included Elaine McFarlane from Spanky and Our Gang.
But, for some of us hearing this song, brings back that idealistic hopeful feeling. It seemed like life was really going to change for the better. Sometimes, I think we unleashed a Pandora's Box of drug use.
But maybe you caught up in the 60's and escaped without wounds. I'd love to hear your story. If you got caught up in the drug scene, I'd love to hear about that too.
Related articles
- Scott McKenzie, singer of 'San Francisco,' dies (sacbee.com)
- Scott McKenzie, singer of 'San Francisco,' dies (miamiherald.com)
- Singer Scott McKenzie dies aged 73 (independent.co.uk)
- Scott McKenzie, '60s pop singer, dies (sfgate.com)


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Daisuke AIHARA
–OutPut #2
Although we have different type of view as an artist,we are trying to catch this mysterious word "hime no tabide" on our own.
Dan IKEGAMI
1988 Born in Shizuoka, Japan
2009-present Major in Oil Painting Tokyo University of the Arts
2009 ART PATH -Tokyo University of the Arts
2010 kume keiichiro
2011 hime no tabide -SPACE/ANNEX
2011 ART STUDENTS in TOKYO -MARUYA GARDENS
Ryunosuke GOJI
1988 Born in Aichi, Japan
2009-present Major in Oil Painting Tokyo University of the Arts
2009 ART PATH -Tokyo University of the Arts
2010 HELLO HAISHAKKEI -Haishakkei
2010 HAISHAKKEI TEKI UTAGE -Haishakkei
2011 hime no tabide -SPACE/ANNEX
2011 ART STUDENTS in TOKYO -MARUYA GARDENS
2011 ART STYLING with NOS.AOYAMA -NOS . AOYAMA
Masanori TOMITA
1988 Born in kumamoto, Japan
2009-present Major in Oil Painting Tokyo University of the Arts
Hanae YABE
-Tokyo University of Arts Faculty of Music Department of Musicology
She started to work as an fashion model since 10 years old. She wrote the essay, "Shougakusei nikki" published in 2003. Changed her name in work from "hanae*" to "華恵" in 2006 and published "Hon wo yomu watashi"(chikuma shobou), "hitori no jikan"in 2007 (chikumashobou), "kimochi no kakera" in 2008 and so on. This will be her first tim,e to make up a work of art.
Ryunosuke ISHIKAWA
–world purge
Countless insects fly about between thunder.
It is waiting for someone to die, in order to lay an egg.
A machine is applied to an ear on the wasteland in which anything does not have a girl, and it communicates with the universe.
It is a ceremony for being born again.
Between raw and death.
Soul repeats apoptosis and, in the world, flesh is born again.
1988 Born in Ibaraki, Japan
Quited on Faculty of technology Course, Science University of Tokyo.
Now, it is under enrollment in the movie speciality of Tokyo Zokei University.
2012 International Dance Film Festival — Entry "Adult — Becoming — "
Akiko SHIOYAMA
"Compete" is trying to win power and to surpass the others.
In this work, players compete each other to see who is the fastest at achieving on the objective.
1990 Born Kumamoto,Japan
Joshibi University of Art and Design oil painting course
Editor: free paper " Story of library"
2011 " A public reading of spines of books" Joshibi Art Center, Kanagawa, Japan
2010 "AGE kitchen" Takamatsu-city, Kagawa, Japan
2009 "Bunka Kindergarten in the summer" Bunka kindergarten, Kumamoto, Japan
Mai Takayama
The state where the contradictory phenomenon has occurred by synchronization.
1, Growing up and Degenerating at the same time.
2, A kind of bulbs.
TAKAYAMA was born in Nagano in 1988. She graduated from Joshibi Art University of fine Arts,majoring in Japanese painting. And now she is a student of Joshibi graduate school of Japanese painting.
Exhibitions,and Performane
2011 "Young Artist`s marathon" in YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE
"JOSHIBI Degree show 2010" at Bank ART studio NYK, Yokohama.
2010 "STUDENT NIGHT No,3" at Blan class, Yokohama.
"STUDENT NIGHT No,1" at Blan class, Yokohama.
Naohiro NAKAMURA
–Merely hide.
Always merely repeat the future and the world the every day which is not different from usual in the society systematized and the spiral past. I also repeat something and go to somewhere.
Born in 1991 Tokyo The 2010 "thing produced from room" Momozono art gallery, Nakano 2012 Goto [ Motohiro ] class exhibition "merely hide" Roonee, Shinjuku
MASUKO Michi
–Instant misfortune
When I wake up in the morning, it is cooking things, and while I am taking a shower, it is taking a walk.
While I was being caught in rain, it was waiting for the signal, and when I took off shoes, it turned at the way.
Possibly it passed. Possibly the sleeve had come into contact with. But, coming into contact with is continuing, each way is a place where an understanding of the others etc. do not reach, and, naturally it is following it for a moment.
1990.3 Born in Kanagawa
2011.3 Asagaya fine-arts vocational school Department of pictures expression Graduated
2011.4 Tokyo University of Art and Design Pictures speciality domain Entrance into a school
2010.6 [A bird eats cheese](Ningyocho vision's)
2010.7 [Masuko Michi×Watanabe Naoto](Bunpo-do B-shop)
2011.2 [Asagaya fine-arts vocational school Graduation exhibition](BankART Studio NYK)
2011.3 [Asagaya fine-arts vocational school Graduation selection exhibition](Ningyocho vision's)
2011.10 [Nezumi iro](Gallery Corso)
2012 / Archives / Installation / Media Art / Music / Performance / Photography / Poem / Student Night


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Date: 30th January 2014
Venue: Narmada College of Management
Guest Speakers:
1. Mr. Reningston Sales , Regional Head, India First LIC Limited
2. Mr. Satendra Kumar, Marketing Manager, Bank of Baroda
3. Mr. Saurabh Ninama, Marketing Officer, Bank of Baroda
4. Mr. Pankaj Puri, Officer (IT), Bank of Baroda
Faculty Organiser and Incharge : Dr. Nilam Panchal
Objective of Workshop –
1. To get student acquatise with the latest trends in the financial services sector.
2. To update knowledge about the recent happenings in the banking, Insurance and Mutual Fund s and other services.
3. To have an idea about latest openings in the Service sector for MBA students.
The workshop started at 10:30 a.m. with welcoming and introduction of speakers by Dr. Nilam Panchal. The speakers covered following points during their speech.
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c. Online Banking
d. Technology Banking
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c. Job opportunities in Insurance sector and Benefits
d. Human Asset Value and its understanding
e. Future growth of insurance in Gujarat
4. Mutual Funds
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c) Others
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b. Various Models like Arms and Length Model, Brick Morter Model in services
c. Latest scenario in financial services sector
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"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."
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"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."
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"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
― Mark Twain
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
― Albert Einstein
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
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― Gloria Steinem
"Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
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"Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head." – Mignon McLaughlin
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I have a Seagate drive that I have been using to backup my photos and music. I've used it for years in Windows XP, Windows Vista and now Windows 7. Up until this week it worked fine. Once a week I'd plug it in and back everything up.
Now it isn't being seen as a drive by Windows, it just turns up as a USB device, has no assigned drive letter and cannot be accessed via Windows Explorer. I suppose the drive itself might be kaput, but it seems odd that the system recognises it being plugged in and unplugged if this is the case. Any thoughts?


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Well, our season is going from worse to oblivion. It seems a distant memory when we were in four competitions and now it is more than certain that we will end this season without a trophy. Has the Carling Cup final defeat really caused more damage than it seems? It has all gone wrong since then. Every performance since then can be summed up by one word, pathetic! Only one win and that too against lower league outfit. Unbelievable!
Anyhow what's done is done. Where we stand now is all up to our own mistakes and negligence of the basics of football. You can never win a football match by not scoring goals, by not showing urgency or desire and by not fighting for the win. And with the amount of talent we have, I am still at a loss as to how we couldn't find one goal against a team that is just two points from relegation zone.
Realistically it is over for us because I don't see Man United dropping points even if we win all our games. And even if they do, I cannot honestly say that we will win rest of our games. If we can't get a result against 10 men Blackburn, when Man United got a result by being down to 10 men themselves, says it all where the title is going this season. And here I will add that I will be glad to rue my own words if somehow we do win the title. Results matter in football, good play and off the pitch talk doesn't. We can all come up with words that we have grown up and moved on but as long as we don't perform, we will always be chasing shadows.
Yesterday's game was the best example of what our season has been. We started positively, the opening 10 to 15 minutes, but then we all went into our nutshells. After which we never really tested the keeper, never showed any desire, or any urgency. Movement and passing was not incisive and it seemed we were waiting for Blackburn to score an own goal. Almunia tried his best to give all the three points to Blackburn but thankfully we escaped another embarrassment. The final 10 minutes were somewhat better but you cannot win a match by playing for only 20 minutes. You have to give your best for the whole 90 minutes. Whatever happened, we are ourselves to blame and no one else.
Coming to the player ratings:
Almunia (3): What can I say about him? Tried his best to do what he does best. Enough said
Sagna (5): One of his worst games. His positioning was not good and didn't defend well at all. Upfront his crosses were either too long or too short and never once it went to our player in the danger area.
Squillaci and Koscielny (6): Had a better than normal game as there were no noteworthy mistakes. Koscielny made his usual interceptions and clearance and did get a header on target.
Clichy (6.5): He was better than Sagna in defense as well as attack on the left. Looked lively and tried to create things. It wasn't enough in the end.
Wilshere (5.5): Was really disappointed when he missed a sitter and on another occasion went for a pass when he should have buried the ball into the back of the net. Was decent in middle of the park but needs to improve his game in front of goal.
Song (5.5): Showed good work rate but not yet back to his best as he failed to make his presence felt in the middle of the park.
Nasri (6.5): Made a couple of very good runs and showed great creativity. Went missing on a few occasions as well. I don't know how much the knock to his head had played a part in it.
Walcott (6.5): Looked dangerous whenever he had the ball and in the first half was one of our better players. Also went anonymous in the second half before he was substituted.
RVP (5.5): Didn't get the support required as he had to come back to get the ball. Had a couple of shots on goal, one near the end when his header went over the bar, but never really threatened the Blackburn goal.
Arshavin (7): He was our best player out there. Created most of the chances and looked dangerous whenever he had the ball. Even backtracked and helped in defense. Was astonished to see him get substituted but I think it was more down to him getting tired.
Fabregas (5.5) failed to make much impact as he looked rusty. Bendtner (5.5) and Chamakh (5.5) did their part and both of them went close to scoring but not close enough.


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Janeth has always been a bit ahead of her time but then that's just Janeth. She was talking about social media marketing back before it was called social media marketing. But I could go on all day about how great Janeth is and I'd like to talk about some other things.
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First of all, let me say that I have to take back at least part of the snarky post I made about Anne McLellan earlier this week. While I still think it's incredibly arrogant for her to think that she represents everyone in Alberta who doesn't vote Conservative, there may actually have been an intentional--albeit subtle--proportional representation message behind her rather odd comments at the Alberta Liberal strategies press conference.
Why do I say that? Well, she showed up on the doorstep of a friend of mine the other day, a friend who happens to be one of my Fair Vote Canada colleagues. When McLellan asked for his support in the upcoming federal election, he asked about her views on electoral reform and proportional representation...and believe it or not, she actually came out in favour of it. She stopped short of embracing the citizens' assembly plan so dear to Fair Vote Canadians--she thinks government should play a key role in any electoral reform--but the fact that she wasn't just agreeing with everything my friend said actually gives me hope that this was more than just an election promise. So here I am with egg on my face. Sorry, Anne.
And speaking of Liberals for proportional representation, the Globe and Mail's Roy MacGregor brought us this terrific column yesterday in which Lester Pearson's former EA comes out in favour of what sounds like Mixed-Member Proportional representation. It's a day old, but I was busy yesterday, and I wouldn't be me if I didn't provide the few stragglers still reading political blogs at this time of year with all their electoral-reform-Globe-and-Mail-column needs.
He is, many will say, The Grand Old Man of the Ruling Party -- and he, too, thinks the system is broken.A nice little present for electoral reformers everywhere.
Tom Kent is 83 years old. The former principal assistant to prime minister Lester Pearson -- as well as former deputy minister, former Crown corporation head, former chair of a royal commission and lifelong intellectual spark of the Liberal Party of Canada -- believes that Canadian democracy is currently in such a bad state that the future of the country itself is endangered by elections such as the one we are now well into.
He even says that the current Prime Minister, Paul Martin, rose to power "in the most undemocratic way possible." He won the party leadership through money; he won the last election, barely, through a system that no longer reflects the country or the reality of 21st-century politics.
Then, to compound matters, the Prime Minister failed to follow through on his promise to fix what virtually everyone concedes no longer works as it should.
"He talked about democratic reform," says Kent from his home in Ottawa, "but he failed to do anything about it."
Earlier this week, Kent was one of 60 prominent Canadians offering his name to a Fair Vote Canada petition aimed at persuading broadcasters to commit debate time to this topic.
Democratic reform is, as all politicians and media are finding out as they travel about this grumpy country, a simmering issue that is thought to be tied directly to voter disenchantment and declining turnout.
Rethinking Canada's anachronistic first-past-the-post electoral system is nothing new to Kent. He began to worry about the "winner-take-all" riding system as far back as the 1960s, only then it wasn't nearly the destructive force he sees it as today.
"It didn't work as badly then as it does now," he says. "Back then, there were the two major parties and some smaller parties. And while it could be exhausting for the ministers to be in minority governments, it actually worked out pretty well.
"At that time, first-past-the-post had not produced what is now the fatal thing in Canadian democracy: the fracturing of the country through regionalism."
In Kent's opinion, the system "really broke" in 1993, when the long-standing Progressive Conservative Party fell to only two seats in the House of Commons and a new reality fell into place where Reform would stand for the West and the Bloc Québécois for Quebec, and Ontario would essentially decide who held the prime minister's chair.
Kent sees nothing in the immediate future but further fracturing of the notion of Confederation, an entangled and broken cat's cradle that includes Quebec separation, western alienation and confusion throughout the rest of the country.
Change, he says, is absolutely necessary, but change will come "only when people have reconciled themselves to the fact that without reform we're going to have continued fracturing." No one knows what the exact solution is to the first-past-the-post system -- that, presumably, would evolve over time -- but Kent himself favours a "mixed proportional" system much like that first suggested a generation ago in the Pepin-Robarts commission on Canadian unity.
Kent believes in a system that would combine some proportional representation with the current system of single-member constituencies.
As there are currently 308 seats in the House of Commons, each one held by the candidate who gets the highest number of votes in each riding, Kent suggests 300 such seats continue on that basis, and another 100 be added to more fairly represent general voting patterns. This would ensure everything from seats for the Green Party to extra seats to compensate for areas where the established parties showed well but not well enough to claim victory.
"The real question," Kent says, "would be if you went for such a system would you build a new chamber to accommodate the 400 seats, or would you just tear out the desks?" Kent believes tearing out the desks in the Commons would vastly improve decorum, making Parliament Hill more like Westminster.
"I think it would improve the level of debate," he contends.
But he would hardly stop there. He'd return power to constituencies so that policy bubbles up rather than filters down. He'd have the election financing money go to the constituencies rather than to party headquarters. Much of the current dysfunction has been caused by "the collapse of the party process" and the increasing consolidation of power at the top.
He'd set fixed election dates. He'd work to restore a proud, workable system of government to replace the current reality where "the policy people have all drifted away, the mechanics have taken over and the only policy discussion we have comes from an imported rock star."
But is it possible?
"Yes," he believes, though he's hardly optimistic.
His one hope, he says, is another minority system where the New Democratic Party clearly holds the balance of power.
And where the price of their support is not about taxes and programs. But rather the NDP "insisting" on real electoral reform.
Resisting the pull of cynicism since 1969.
Friday, December 23, 2005
Liberals for proportional representation
First of all, let me say that I have to take back at least part of the snarky post I made about Anne McLellan earlier this week. While I still think it's incredibly arrogant for her to think that she represents everyone in Alberta who doesn't vote Conservative, there may actually have been an intentional--albeit subtle--proportional representation message behind her rather odd comments at the Alberta Liberal strategies press conference.
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Labels: electoral reform, liberals
5 comments:
- Blogger said...
Here is what I do not like about proportional representation. A party with 3% of the vote in the last election would have had nine seats. That would have given 3% of the population a HUGELY disproportionate influence on policy and politics. With our current system, minority blocs are accommodated with the party system. No political party can form power if they represent only one segment of society. Political parties in Canada have been accommodations of various groups. In that system, accommodating 3% has a low priority. Accommodating 10% has some priority. And accommodating any group with 15% or more becomes a higher priority. I think that is a better way, though there is always room for improvement.
- Idealistic Pragmatist said...
Not true, at least not in most PR systems (and any that would be realistically considered for Canada). Under Mixed Member Proportional, each party is required to surpass a threshold of 5% in order to assume seats. Single Transferable Vote also has a built-in threshold that functions similarly.
For more information, you might want to read my FAQ, especially the bits about coalitions toward the end.
- Blogger said...
Actually, I like the STV system. Reform like that, and I mentioned I'm open to improvement, is something I'd be in favour of considering.
- Idealistic Pragmatist said...
I do prefer MMP, but I fully admit that that's just about familiarity. I've lived in a country that has it and I can more clearly envision what Canada would be like with it. I've been reading a lot about STV this year, though, and I've come around to the point of view that the specific system matters much less than making Canadian representative democracy both more representative and more democratic.
My earlier point to you, though, was that PR doesn't really work the way you imagine it to work. Not only will a party with 3% of the vote not get into parliament at all under any system with a threshhold, but even a party with 10% of the vote doesn't actually end up wielding a hugely disproportionate amount of power most of the time. That's the bogeyman people hold up to talk people out of PR, but looking at how things work in practice doesn't tend to bear that out.
I disagree with you, by the way, that political parties in Canada are accommodating of various groups--the Canadian political culture is a very antagonistic one as a result of the polarizing effect of our electoral system. When a majority government has a hold on power, they don't tend to want to give any of it up, and nor do they have to.
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Action with Sam-Keule… – Berlin
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Democratic News
Aug 20 2014
Landrieu calls on BOEM to Open More Acres to Offshore Energy Production in Next Five Year Plan
Landrieu's GOMESA opened 8.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to energy production for the first time.
WASHINGTON –U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., Chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources renewed her call for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to open more areas to energy production in its new Five Year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2017-2022. Today BOEM held an offshore lease sale that yielded over $110 million dollars from high bids in over 400,000 acres in the Western Gulf Planning Area. Last month, Sen. Landrieu sent a joint letter with pro-Energy Democrats calling on BOEM to expand offshore energy production in its next Five-Year Plan.
"More offshore energy exploration and production means more high-paying jobs for hard working Americans that pay the kind of wages that allow middle class families to buy homes, save for college and build wealth. And it means achieving energy security for the United States—something that has bedeviled Congress and Republican and Democratic presidents for decades," Sen. Landrieu said. "Having these potential resources beneath our waters and not using them is shortsighted and makes us more dependent on countries that are unstable or do not share our values. I will continue to push BOEM to open up more areas for energy production off our coasts in its next five year plan."
Senator Landrieu also called for Congress to expand the revenue sharing she established through the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) by passing the FAIR Act, a bill she co-sponsored with Senator Lisa Murkowski (R, Alaska).
"GOMESA has already provided over $30 million dollars to Gulf Coast states since 2006 and will generate hundreds of millions more in the years to come. We can build on GOMESA's success by passing the FAIR Act, which would allow all coastal states to be able to receive their fair share of the over $8 billion in revenue generated through offshore energy production every year."
Last month, Sen. Landrieu pushed for more offshore energy production during the first-ever Committee field hearing in Lafayette, La. – the epicenter of the offshore energy revolution.
In 2006, Senator Landrieu passed the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA), which opened up 8.3 million offshore acres in the Gulf for drilling that will generate nearly two million additional barrels of oil per day – more than the total output of Wyoming and Colorado combined. This effort was the first time in nearly 25 years that domestic energy production was expanded so substantially, and was more than nearly any other senator has ever done to expand drilling.
In 2010, Sen. Landrieu blocked the nomination of Jack Lew to lead the Office of Management and Budget until the Obama administration lifted its deep-water moratorium. It did. She has also successfully defeated Republican and Democratic attempts to raise taxes on the oil and gas industry, including a recent attempt to do so in the 2013 Senate budget. In December 2007, Sen. Landrieu cast the pivotal vote that killed a $21 billion tax hike on energy companies supported by members of both parties. Earlier that year, she also killed another attempt to raise nearly $30 billion in taxes on oil and gas companies that specifically targeted production in the Gulf of Mexico. [Times-Picayune, Dec. 14, 2007; New York Times, June 23, 2007]


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Central Arkansas city sued over hot check court fines
Sherwood is effectively operating a debtors' prison that imposes hefty fines and jail time for thousands of poor people whose checks bounce, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The lawsuit accuses the city of Sherwood and Pulaski County of violating the constitutional rights of thousands of residents through the prosecution of hot check cases. The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed the lawsuit on behalf of four people who were jailed because they couldn't pay fines related to bounced checks and a Sherwood resident who is challenging the practice as a misuse of taxpayer funds.
"Through a labyrinthine - and lucrative - system, a single check for $15 returned for insufficient funds can be leveraged into many thousands of dollars in court costs, fines and fees owed to Sherwood and Pulaski County," the groups said in the lawsuit.
Pulaski County and Sherwood officials did not immediately return messages Tuesday morning. Sherwood District Court Judge Milas Hale III, who's also named as a defendant in the suit, said he had not seen the lawsuit yet and did not have an immediate comment.
The plaintiffs in the case include a 40-year-old Arkansas woman who is in jail because she was unable to pay more than $2,600 in court costs, fines and fees related to a bounced check she wrote in 2011 for $28.93.
The lawsuit accuses Sherwood and Pulaski County officials of requiring defendants to waive their right to counsel before entering the courtroom and closing court proceedings to the public and the media. The groups also claim that the hot check court issues an arrest warrant each time a person fails to make a payment, regardless of their ability to pay, and uses each warrant as an opportunity to assess more fines and fees against the individual.
Pulaski County has sent misdemeanor hot check cases to the Sherwood District Court since the 1970s, according to the lawsuit. The groups in the lawsuit also suggest that the practice is more widespread than just one county.
"Faced with opposition to increased taxes, municipalities have turned to creating a system of debtors' prisons to fuel the demand for increased public revenue from the pockets of their poorest and most vulnerable citizens," the lawsuit said.