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Here some pic's of my eagles. Regards Jaszczur.
Here some pic's of my eagles. Regards Jaszczur.
Regards, Richard
Jaszczur, VERY impressive! Anyone here who collects Polish exile air force items is certainly drooling at seeing these – especially the Johnson, Milano eagle on the lower right, and the Gaunt with backing on the upper right. Both of those are very sought after by collectors.
Thank you for sharing these rare badges with us! - and please feel free to add whatever descriptions you can about them, how you found them, etc. etc. – it's all of interest to us here!
Great collections!I love the history of the Polish army in exile but still do not have 1 item in my collection exept for a Battle Dress (unissued) which I put on original 1st armoured division collar patches and i had to do a little bit of tailoring my self.
Another addition to POLISH Nave Cap Eagles.
And 3 different types of POLISH Air Force Eagles.
Excellent Collection
One more Polish Exile Eagle . I don't know origin of this eagle.
More of Polish WW2 Exile Eagles.
One from Palestine 1940 .
The has been scratch by owner on the front shield.
First looks like the prongs has been cut and screw post has been introduces by owner.
Last Polish Eagle for today but unusual Made after the WWII probably in 80s or 90s in England for the Polish Air Force Combatants.
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It's difficult to read this title without thinking of Philip K. Dick's story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep which was (very loosely) translated in the movie Blade Runner. Actually it's difficult to read the title of this book at all because of strangely wordy cover. But what's inside is not a freak show, but rather an exploration of some of the more bizarre experiments that scientists have in all honest decided to take on.
This is a field that is already covered by the igNobels (annual awards for real scientific papers that make you laugh and then make you think) and the Darwin Awards for people who do such stupid things they end up removing themselves from the gene pool. But Alex Boese treads a middle line of real scientific experiments – often major pieces of research – that sound mind boggling or just surely would never happen. But did. (Apart from nuking the Moon which 'nearly happened'.)
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Although the experience of reading the book was good, with an excellent mix of narrative and science fact, there were a couple of points I wasn't so sure of. Each section started with a dramatisation of an event (Benjamin Franklin attempting to electrocute a turkey and instead shocking himself, for instance). These felt a little false, as if it were drama for the sake of it. And occasionally the author was perhaps a little loose with facts. He says, for example, that lightning is the biggest natural disaster killer worldwide – by most measures it comes in behind droughts and flooding/tsunamis at the very least.
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This portrait depicted a group of three Middle Eastern women loudly wailing. This portrait hung at Hogwarts Castle in the 1990s, on the seventh-floor landing of the Grand Staircase, between a portrait of a witch flying to the moon and a portrait of two lovers in a graveyard.[1]
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They say if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself. And in this day and age, with advanced technological support, it has become truer than ever. I'm sure Zack Snyder would be the first to agree, and eagerly trying to prove he can keep up with his peers such as Christopher Nolan, by making "Sucker Punch." I personally don't necessarily see Snyder as a filmmaker, but rather a hyper-action visual artist. His detail in composition, lighting, and movement is borderline impeccable, and usually always aims at one thing – a mind/eye devouring feast. And each of his films is a work of art.
Adding to his usual roles, Snyder directed, produced, and co-wrote "Sucker Punch." But whereas pieces like "300" or "Watchmen" had been visually and verbally outlined, and simply needed a loyal adaptation, SP manifested from the pit of Snyder's creative blender. And this is where it hit a speed bump.
The trouble with making ultra-stunning effects is they can easily become your crutch rather than a style. And the audience expects you to raise the bar each time, but that simply can't persist, because all of Snyder's bells and whistles jingled and jangled in his earlier pictures, which gave him notice in the first place.
With a blank canvas, Snyder painted a world of Baby Doll, a young woman (although she looked 14 in her Japanimation-fashioned outfit and makeup) desperately trying to survive and escape the insane asylum that she was committed in by her malicious stepfather. It seems, in this dark and dingy institution, only pretty young females are the patients. And even the head psychiatrist is a busty eastern European seductress played by the always sumptuous Carla Gugino. Through her guidance, Baby Doll finds herself able to bend the cruel reality into a spirited fantasy, fighting her way, along with her inmate patients, through Japanese feudal times and WWI Germany, and eventually to freedom. Sometimes there were dragons, other times futuristic robots. But at all times, girls were kicking bad guys' asses, while in killer heels, dangerously short skirts and deadly décolletages. And?
The entrance to the fantasy world was always accompanied by a song played out in the room and Baby Doll's irresistible dance that would set all the men in a trance, allowing the other girlie inmates to do their business – collecting items that would piece together the steps for all of them to escape. Till the end, we never saw what her dance actually was; it was always through the expressions of the men that we knew her moves were mesmerizing. And even though the color schemes and costumes contrasted between the two worlds, one element seemed to remain constant amongst the characters – really long eyelashes. Why?
If a film/story can be depicted by a genre of music, "Sucker Punch" would be a techno-trance maxed out on decibel levels. The action almost never seizes, and never quite allowed any downtime to peel back any layers of the characters. And yet, the actions almost always stayed at the same level, too – never really advanced the game from previous scenes. Sometimes, the fight sequences were caught too closely by the camera that was obviously placed on a lawn mower, giving way to vertigo and light reminder of last night's dinner. This repeated several times throughout the show. What for?
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That's a slight decrease from the previous year , when 239 millionaires in the House and Senate were recorded. But still reflects the fact that the average legislator is much richer than your typical constituent. While about one percent of Americans are millionaires , 44 percent of those serving in Congress they can say the same .
"The biggest takeaway from this is that even thought the collective wealth of members of Congress seem to have diminished , members of Congress are still much richer than the average American – and even richer than many rich Americans, " spokesman Dave Levinthal told Hotsheet CRP .
Richest member of Congress is Republican Darrell Issa of California congressman, whose net worth is estimated at more than $ 250 million. It is followed by four Democrats : Jane Harman of California ( approx. $ 245 million ) , Herb Kohl of Wisconsin ( approx. $ 215 million ), Mark Warner of Virginia ( approx. U $ S 210 million) and John Kerry of Massachusetts ( approx. $ 209 million).
Among the 25 richest lawmakers – including bold names Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein and Olympia Snowe – there are 14 Democrats and 11 Republicans , suggesting no clear divisions between wealth party.
The net value calculated for legislators is not exact, and CPR offers a wide range of possible net present values for each member. Levinthal, said lawmakers tend to report assets and liabilities, income, grants and loan transactions , as required by law, in very broad ranges , figure in the list , he said, represents an estimate between two possible extremes. (Primary residences and government salaries are not reported , and therefore not included.)
The less wealthy member of Congress , according to the report, Florida Democrat Alcee Hastings, whose net worth is estimated to be negative $ 4,732,002 . (!) Other legislators to the bottom 25 are Max Baucus of Montana and Dennis Kucinich of Ohio . Note, however, that these legislators are likely to have undeclared assets , including their homes .
In the Executive Branch , Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the second richest , with a net worth of approximately $ 21 million , which is just behind Exchange Commission Chairman Mary L. Schapiro. The figure is less rich administration Vice President Joe Biden, whose net worth is estimated at only $ 27,012 . ( President Obama comes in at $ 3,670,505 . )
The median reportable net worth of senators was reduced from $ 2,270,000 to $ 1,790,000 robust yet between 2007 and 2008. Kerry , Warner, Feinstein and Senator John McCain all experienced two -digit percentage declines in their average , estimated wealth between the two years .
The median reportable net worth for House members in 2008 was $ 622,254 .
Levinthal points out that " in some cases [ lawmakers '] wealth is derived from the same companies that in many cases benefit from the taxpayers. "
" The main companies in which members of Congress are investing , many of them are TARP recipients that have received billions and billions of dollars from you and me ," he said .
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|San Antonio city officials
The City of San Antonio is the public library's pimp.
The libraries do all of the work and get a token amount of attention, but not what they deserve. And when they make some money, the city takes it. Perhaps we should refer to the city as "Silky" or "Huggy Bear."
Silky funds the library system at a fraction of what other cities do for their systems, but he keeps all of the fines and fees the library charges. Sounds "pimp-like," doesn't it?
The library needs money, daddy
The system has a Central Library downtown with a great paint job and many of 24 branch libraries have had nice facades installed. But make no mistake — the system is being treated like a street walker.
The people working for the San Antonio Public Library, as well as the volunteers and donors behind them, are doing a great job with what they're given, but the fact is that it's an under-funded library system.
Library backers want a taxing district to help fund the needed improvements. Huggy Bear is concerned about creating a taxing entity, but if you're worried about extravagances, books would be a good thing with which to get extravagant. Having a bad library system is unforgivable.
The library is working hard for its money
If you walked into the Westfall Library, near I-10 and Vance Jackson, you wouldn't think things are that bad. It's got a really cool modern facade. Inside, the 11,450 square feet are decorated in the Spartan, 50s-era style that defines so many elementary schools. Nothing weird there.
There are people in line for computers. Kids are curled into odd positions on the floor of the children's book section, reading stuff they've grabbed off the shelves. Adults are streaming in and out with books.
While Westfall is packed to the gills with books and computers, they're old books and there's only a handful of Internet-ready computers. By "handful," I mean "a pathetically small number."
The entire SAPL system has 381 Internet computers, library officials say. To provide a comparison, there are 25 Internet computers in the New Braunfels public library. That means there are approximately 8 times as many PCs in San Antonio, but the Alamo City's population is approximately 33 times greater than that of New Braunfels.
The absence of Internet access accentuates the Digital Divide, says Kaye Lennox, president and CEO of the San Antonio Public Library Foundation. The lion's share of the library branches are in the city's neediest areas. Library Web access is the only way some neighborhood residents can file taxes electronically, communicate with loved ones serving in the military, or do research necessary for their homework assignments.
And in some parts of town, Lennox said, library terminals provide the only computer access for dozens of small business owners.
Elvis is dead, and print isn't doing much better
Books are hurting, too.
"I've been annoyed trying to get access to reference materials," said John Elsbree, as he left Westfall with an armful of books. "The fiction section is okay, but it's usually 6 months behind publication date."
A library in a city the size of San Antonio should offer 5 items, such as books or electronic media, per patron. The SA library only offers 1.2 items per patron. Put another way, Lennox said, that means if every one of the 700,000 card holders came in one day and checked out an item, the shelves would be picked clean.
It would take a one-time $46 million bankroll to get the city's collections up to a level considered "average" for a city this size, Lennox said.
That doesn't include the millions that are needed to fix the various libraries physical problems, says Rich Walker, the library's construction and repair guru. He could spend nearly $1 million on Westfall alone, for example, just fixing the plumbing, air conditioning, parking, roof, flooring, lights and furniture issues.
Silky could research the topic and find out how bad the library system has deteriorated. Of course, it would be hard to do that research in the San Antonio library system.
C'mon, Silky. Do the right thing.
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Michigan may not get the kind of killer — literally in many cases — weather events that many parts of the country often experience.
But we get more than our share of blistering winter storms and the occasional flood — ask the folks in the Copper Country about that.
That's why we think a program offered by the Michigan State Police is absolutely spot on.
The MSP initiative is called the Student Tools for Emergency Planning, or STEP for short. Its principal goal is to offer elementary schools across the state the opportunity to enroll fifth-graders in a national program that teaches students how to prepare for tornadoes, storms, flooding and other emergencies.
"The STEP program equips participating fifth-graders with important and potentially lifesaving knowledge about emergency preparedness," Capt. Emmitt McGowan, deputy state director of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and commander of the MSP/EMHSD, said in an MSP press release. "Educating students before disaster strikes means they will be better prepared in an emergency."
The basic lesson includes one hour of instruction, but instructors have the option to expand the lessons to include eight hours of material. STEP curriculum can be taught by teachers, school officials, first responders or volunteers, the release stated.
Last year, teachers from 135 schools and 8,600 students statewide participated. The lofty, although attainable goal in the coming year, is at least 10,000 fifth-graders.
Interested schools should fill out the Application and Acceptance form at www.michigan.gov/step and submit it via mail, email or fax by Friday. We hope more than a handful of Upper Peninsula schools choose to get involved.


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By now, high-end Android phones are largely as good as the iPhone.
But there are still some key reasons to choose the iPhone over Android if you're having trouble deciding.
Here's why you should pick the iPhone over Android phones:
Guaranteed software updates for years.
iOS is the only platform that guarantees you'll get software updates with new features throughout the life of your device. In fact, Apple supports old iPhones long after most people stop using them. For example, the latest iOS 10 even works on the iPhone 5, which launched four years ago.
Android phones rarely get that kind of support. Many manufacturers stop issuing Android updates after a year or so, if you're lucky. That means you're likely to miss the latest and greatest features that come to Android each year.
The best apps, first.
Both Apple and Android have a robust selection of apps, but the iPhone still tends to get the best apps first.
Developers tend to make more money from iPhone apps, which is why they often get preference over Android.
The latest example? Nintendo's first Mario game, "Super Mario Run," will be an iPhone exclusive when it launches later this year.
No 'crapware' from your wireless carrier.
Carriers have a lot of control over what appears on Android phones, and they use that leverage to stuff the devices full of apps and services you don't need. Even worse, those apps are often impossible to delete from your device.
The iPhone never comes with carrier crapware. The software is exactly the same no matter which carrier you buy your iPhone from.
The best support if you have a problem.
Apple has a vast network for customer support. Just walk into an Apple Store and someone will help you with your issues.
It gets messy with Android phones, though. In most cases, you have to deal with your wireless carrier, not the manufacturer, if you have a problem with your phone, which means you're working with people who aren't as well versed in how your device works.
But if you hate Apple, here's your best option.
Google's new Pixel phones, which launch in a few weeks, solve many of the Android problems listed here. For example, you get consistent software updates straight from Google, and there's no carrier crapware.
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Michael Rakowitz's 'Enemy Kitchen' breaks down cultural barriers
Connie Sheng was dicing an onion and thinking about the war in Iraq. "I feel a lot less proud to be an American," the Saratoga High School student said, resting her knife on the cutting board for a moment. "It seems like we've lost our purpose."
Sheng's classmate Niamh McGinley stood nearby, chopping tomatoes for a salad that would include peppers, onions, cucumbers and a pickled mango preparation called amba. "Most of us were too young to realize why we got into Iraq," she said. "The idea of spreading democracy is all well and nice, but ..." Her thought trailed off.
"It's not just President Bush," put in Arjun Shenoy. "People don't trust this government anymore. We need to find some way to re-establish that."
Across the worktable, Vivian Hsiao was hand-rolling rice-flour dumplings for kubba bamia, a traditional Iraqi dish the Saratoga students were preparing for their lunch at the Montalvo Arts Center Villa one day last week. "This war has made me wonder what it would be like to love my country," said Hsiao.
The cooking and conversation were occurring under the guidance of Michael Rakowitz, a 34-year-old artist who was in residence at Montalvo. In an ongoing project he calls "Enemy Kitchen," Rakowitz invites groups of students or adults to prepare and eat a meal using his Iraqi-Jewish mother's recipes.
The aim is to open new channels of ideas and feelings about the Iraq war and its underlying issues. Food, he believes, creates a leveling "social platform and circumstance" that can stimulate what he calls a "cultural puncture" among separate geographical, political and psychological realms.
Rakowitz, who was raised on New York's Long Island, has never visited Iraq and now teaches art theory and practice at Northwestern University, can sound pretty wooly when he gets going on the conceptual framework of his work. Cooking and eating with people, he said later, "is a public act that enlists an audience as vital collaborators in the production of meaning." Doing that in the United States with Iraqi recipes, he went on, invokes "the poetry inscribed in the notion of consuming the enemy."
But when he's working with a group of California teenagers, all of them dressed in "Enemy Kitchen" aprons bearing an image of the Iraqi flag, Rakowitz projects a receptive, curious and altogether accessible air. A dark beard, dark corkscrew curls and blue-gray eyes give him the look of a genial satyr. His Socratic dialogues are firmly grounded in the tactile, sensual nature of cooking.
Grabbing a handful of turmeric to season the kubba bamia's stew base, Rakowitz invited the students to come closer and get the full effect of the spice releasing its vapors in the hot oil. "You guys should eat more turmeric," he said. "It's the elixir of life. Also," he added, holding up his bright yellow palms, "they (Iraqis) use it as a dye."
Rakowitz spent 45 minutes each with two groups of about a dozen students, all of whom are enrolled in one of Judith Sutton's poetry writing classes. He asked questions, gently steered discussion and volunteered experiences of his own. He talked about his Iraqi grandparents' emigration in 1946 and told the students about the lines outside the door at Khyber Pass, an Afghan restaurant in New York, a few nights after Sept. 11, 2001. "People were there as a gesture of peace, as we were getting ready to attack Afghanistan," he said. "I thought that was really beautiful."
Rakowitz asked the students if they knew of any Iraqi restaurants in the Bay Area. When they couldn't name one, he asked if they knew any Vietnamese restaurants. They all nodded. Pointing out that we were once at war with Vietnam, he offered this wishful thought: "The thing I hope is that it will be very normal one day for people here to be eating Iraqi food."
Ingredients hold both literal and symbolic importance for Rakowitz. He held up the bag and told the students they were using California rice flour for the dumplings instead of an Iraqi product unavailable because of trade sanctions. "Which is pretty funny when you think about," he said, "since we're supposedly trying to rebuild the country."
Last year, in a project called "Return" that married art and a kind of Platonic commerce, Rakowitz reopened his grandfather's long-closed import-export shop in Brooklyn for the sole purpose of importing Iraqi dates. The fruit, in a convoluted series of events, became a "surrogate refugee," as the shipment was shuttled from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan, and on to Syria, where the dates spoiled in the heat. Rakowitz did eventually succeed in getting five small boxes of dates through the bureaucratic maze of U.S. Customs and Homeland Security.
An Iraqi refugee named Shamoon, who had been visiting the Brooklyn storefront and struck up a friendship with Rakowitz, was one of the first to get a taste of thikra, or homeland memory. Rakowitz got a faraway look when he described his friend's half-blissful, half-anguished reaction. " 'This,' " he said of the date he had just eaten, " 'was 46 years in the making.' "
Rakowitz's suggestive food-based art is part of "Iraq: Reframe," an ambitious series of events, performances and talks sponsored by Montalvo and other organizations to explore "the significance of the current circumstances of Iraq in a global and historical context." In addition to artist-in-residence projects at Montalvo, there have been exhibitions at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (through Jan. 19) and San Francisco's Triple Base Gallery (through Jan. 5); a hip-hop collaboration and a forthcoming performance of Heather Raffo's solo play, "9 Parts of Desire" (March 29); and various lectures and panels. Events on the "Iraq: Reframe" calendar continue through April.
An unavoidable, animating irony of the program is the use of art to address issues about a country that has been drained of its artistic and cultural lifeblood. That was apparent when the students took a break from cooking to visit "Al Dar Al Iraqi (Iraqi House)," a one-room, mud-brick shelter erected by refugee artist Wafaa Bilal down a grassy hill from the Italianate Montalvo villa.
Bilal, dressed in black, stood outside the flat-roofed one-room house and told his story. An aspiring artist in Iraq, his plans to attend art school in Baghdad were thwarted when a cousin was executed during Saddam Hussein's reign. "If a family member was in trouble," he explained, "you did not get good opportunity yourself." Bilal refused to fight in Iraq's 1991 invasion of Kuwait and fled to Saudi Arabia. It was there, in a refugee tent camp, that he and others began building mud-brick structures. One motivation was to protect the paintings he was doing from blowing sand. The 125-degree heat was another.
"Shelter is an issue," he said. "But hope is another issue." A number of the Saratoga high schoolers wrote that down. They were assigned to write both poems and submit journal entries based on this field trip.
Bilal spent two years in the camp, made it to New Mexico in 1992, learned English and earned a master's degree. Much of his work as an artist has been about "bridging the gap between here and there. War in Iraq," he said, "never ends." Bilal recently lived in a Chicago art gallery for 31 straight days, in an Internet-inflected conceptual piece that involved people logging on to shoot paint balls at him. Thousands of people, from 138 countries, took him up on it.
At 11:30, the students gathered at a long table in the villa's main hall to eat the kubba bamia and pickled-mango-dressed salad they had made together. Many of them liked the soft, meat-filled dumplings served over basmati rice. Some weren't so sure and left food on their plates. Rakowitz sat at one end of the table and smiled as the room filled with the sounds of forks on plates, fizzing soda cans and high school chatter. At one point, he got everyone's attention.
"My mother," he said, "would be very proud of all of you."
For more information on the "Iraq: Reframe" events, go to www.montalvoarts.org/iraq.


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Christopher R. Duncan is a an Associate Professor in the School for Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and in the School for Political and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Duncan is an anthropologist who has done several years of ethnographic research in the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku looking at a variety of topics, including forced migration. One aspect of his research projects explores communal violence and post-conflict reconciliation in Indonesia, with a focus on North Maluku. Part of this research project has explored the topic of internally displaced persons in Indonesia (North Sulawesi and North Maluku). His other research interests include indigenous rights, religious change, and rural-rural migration.
Dr. Kevin Fogg
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Dr Kevin W. Fogg is the Al-Bukhari Fellow in the History of Islam in Southeast Asia at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and the Islamic Centre Lecturer at the Faculty of History. His research focuses on twentieth century Indonesia and the changing relationship of Muslims and the state. He has spent several years living and researching in Indonesia, and he has lectured about his work on four continents.
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Vannessa Hearman is lecturer in Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney. She is a historian of modern Indonesia. Her research interests are activism, social movements and the Indonesian left. She is familiar with the human rights situation in Indonesia, given its intersection with her research area of post-authoritarian transition in Indonesia. She teaches Indonesian language at senior levels and area studies pertaining to Indonesia. Vannessa completed her doctoral thesis on the 1965-68 anti-communist repression in East Java, Indonesia in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she was awarded the University of Melbourne Human Rights Scholarship.
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John Sidel, Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science. His research on Indonesia has focused on the role of religion and politics in Indonesian society; among his publications, Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2006) and The Islamist Threat in Southeast Asia: A Reassessment (East-West Center, 2007). More recently, he has concentrated on Indonesia's Christian minority and the Ahmadiyah community, a minority sect within Islam. He has written reports on Indonesia for the Ford Foundation, Transparency International, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), and other international organizations. Professor Sidel has a broad understanding of Indonesian politics and society of obvious relevance to asylum cases. He reads and speaks Bahasa Indonesia, the national language, and is intimately familiar with many aspects of Indonesian society and with the distinctive features of different regions of the country.
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Jacqueline Knörr, Head of Research at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Extraordinary Professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle/Saale, Germany. Professor Knörr was brought up in Ghana and Germany and has for many years conducted extensive field research in Sierra Leone und the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa more generally, as well as in Indonesia. She has worked as a Lecturer, Senior Researcher, University Professor, Scientific Director, and Political Advisor. She has served as expert witness in about two hundred asylum cases, writing expert reports concerning FGC/M and other human rights issues.
Siddharth Kara
Email: siddharth_karahks [dot] harvard [dot] edu
Siddharth Kara is one of the world's foremost experts on human trafficking and contemporary slavery. He is the Director of the Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he is also an Adjunct Lecturer and teaches the only course on human trafficking at HKS. In addition, Kara is a Visiting Scientist on Forced Labor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Kara is the author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, co-winner of the prestigious 2010 Frederick Douglass Award at Yale University for the best non-fiction book on slavery. Sex Trafficking is the first book on modern forms of slavery to win the prize. Kara's second book, Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia was released in October, 2012. Just as Sex Trafficking provided the first comprehensive overview of the global sex trafficking industry, Bonded Labor provides the first comprehensive overview of the system of debt bondage endemic to South Asia. Kara currently advises the United Nations, International Labour Organisation, the U.S. Government, and several other governments on anti-trafficking policy and law. Kara has testified before the U.S. Congress and several foreign Parliaments on his research. Kara's has also appeared extensively in the media as an expert on modern slavery, including on CNN, the BBC, the Guardian, CNBC, National Geographic, and numerous documentary films.
Joshua Kurlantzick
Email: jkurlanthotmail [dot] com
Joshua Kurlantzick is Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he studies Asian politics, rights, and economics. He also has done extensive work on asylum cases for nationals from Vietnam, Myanmar, the Philippines, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, China, Indonesia, and other Northeast, Southeast and South Asian nations. His work has included analyses of the political environment, judiciary, and state of political and civil rights in many South, Southeast, and Northeast Asian countries, as well as assessments of criminal syndicates and trafficking in these states. He has worked with more than ten U.K. firms and multiple U.S. firms on nearly thirty asylum cases. He is the author of five books on Southeast Asian politics, institutions, rights, and economics. Kurlantzick also has been a Visiting Scholar in the China program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy, a Columnist for Time, a Special Correspondent for The New Republic, an Asian Correspondent for The Economist, and a Contributing Writer for Mother Jones, among other positions. He has twenty years of experience covering events in Asia, and writing about rights issues in Asia, for a range of periodicals including The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, the London Review of Books, The Washington Monthly, The Washington Quarterly, and Foreign Policy, among others.
More information is available at: https://www.cfr.org/experts/joshua-kurlantzick
Cate Buchanan
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Cate Buchanan is a peace process specialist with proven subject expertise on armed violence prevention and reduction, gun control, gender inclusion and participation, harm reduction and drug policy, and evidence-based policymaking. With an established interest in public policy, she has a strong skill-set in policy analysis, strategy development, training, and programme implementation. Cate has worked with peace process actors related to conflicts in Abkhazia, Georgia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, South Ossetia, Sudan, Thailand, Timor-Leste and elsewhere, as well as at the global policy level. Previous roles include Chief Editor of the book "Gun Violence, Disability and Recovery"(2014). Cate worked for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) from 2001 to 2013, firstly managing the Arms Programme, and from 2008 as a consultant and Senior Adviser implementing a portfolio of work incorporating gender into operations and policy and supporting HD's work in Asia. She has also worked as a consultant to the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery of the UN Development Programme, drafting a module for the UN International Small Arms Control Standards and programme guidance on strengthening national gun laws.


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IAAPA Announces Speaker Line-Up for IAAPA Expo Europe 2019 in Paris, France
PARIS, France — IAAPA, the global association for the attractions industry, has announced an extensive line-up of industry leaders and innovators as speakers at IAAPA Expo Europe 2019 (formerly Euro Attractions Show). IAAPA Expo Europe is set to be the largest show in event history, occupying 17,500+ net square meters of exhibition space at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in Paris, France, 16-19 Sept. 2019.
The Leadership Breakfast, held on 18 Sept., will feature Nicolas de Villiers, président of Puy du Fou, as he shares the successes of the unique Grand Parc and looks ahead to new international expansions. De Villiers directs the staging and oversees the strategy of unique Puy du Fou historical shows and performances. Puy du Fou, which welcomes more than two million visitors annually, is a popular theme park in France.
During Future Feature: The Future of Disneyland Paris on 19 Sept., Daniel Delcourt, chief operating officer for Disneyland Paris and David Wilson, Walt Disney Imagineering site leader for Disneyland Paris, will share a unique look into the future of the resort. As chief operating officer, Daniel Delcourt is the head of more than 13,000 Cast Members and develops and implements the operational strategy for the destination with one objective in mind — to develop excellent service and high-quality guest experience. As Walt Disney Imagineering site leader, David Wilson leads the design and delivery efforts for all major new attractions and resort projects at Disneyland Paris for Walt Disney Imagineering.
On 17 Sept., prominent leaders of European park groups will share their insights and perspectives on the French amusement park market while sharing news about the goals and strategies for their organizations. Speakers at the Lunch and Learn: What's Next for the French Attractions Industry include:
- François Fassier, director of Leisure Parks Operations at Compagnie des Alpes,
- Laurent Bruloy, président of Looping Group
- Benoit Chang, CEO of EuropaCity
On 18 Sept., the Lunch and Learn: Eye on the Middle East and Africa Attractions Industry will feature industry leaders discussing the latest developments in the Middle East and Africa regions. Speakers include:
- Sabine Lehmann, executive director, Attractions Africa
- Bill Ernest, CEO, Saudi Entertainment Ventures (SEVEN)
- Bianca Sammut, general manager, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi
Registration Now Open
To register and view the complete schedule of events and find the most up-to-date information about IAAPA Expo Europe 2019, visit www.IAAPA.org/IAAPAExpoEurope.
Editor's notes: Admission to the events listed above requires a separate ticket(s) in addition to IAAPA Expo Europe registration. To purchase tickets, and to register for IAAPA Expo Europe, visit http://www.IAAPA.org/IAAPAExpoEurope.
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Registration Now Open
To register and to view the complete schedule of events and education sessions and find the most up-to-date information about IAAPA Expo Europe 2019, visit www.IAAPA.org/IAAPAExpoEurope. The listed events are confirmed as of press time.
About IAAPA Expo Europe
IAAPA Expo Europe is owned and produced by IAAPA and is EMEA's largest conference and trade show dedicated to the attractions industry. IAAPA Expo Europe is managed by the IAAPA Europe, Middle East and Africa office, under the direction of the IAAPA EMEA Regional Advisory Committee, and the IAAPA EMEA Manufacturers and Suppliers Subcommittee. IAAPA Expo Europe is the premier trade show and conference in Europe for the leisure, attractions, and entertainment industries. @IAAPAHQ #IAAPAExpos
About IAAPA
IAAPA is a diverse and dynamic community of global attractions professionals. As the largest international trade association for permanently located attractions, IAAPA unifies the attractions community, connects people to learn and grow together, and strives to promote the highest professional standards for excellence and safety around the world.
Founded in 1918, IAAPA represents more than 6,000 attraction, supplier, and individual members from more than 100 countries. Members include professionals from amusement parks, theme parks, attractions, water parks, resorts, family entertainment centers, zoos, aquariums, science centers, museums, manufacturers, and suppliers.
The association's global headquarters and North America office are located in Orlando, Florida, US. IAAPA also maintains offices in Brussels, Belgium; Hong Kong, China; Shanghai, China; Mexico City, Mexico; and Alexandria, Virginia, US. To learn more, visit www.IAAPA.org or connect through social media channels: @IAAPAHQ #IAAPA.
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I chose McMillan Williams because I wanted to work in a firm that has a good working community and that allows for a high degree of client contact. I feel these points are particularly important to me as the best way not only to develop my legal skills but also to help the firm provide the best possible standard of service to its clients.
I became a Trainee Solicitor in September 2017 and work in the Residential Property department in Guildford, for Sarah Slade and Mike Brawley. Prior to commencing my training contract, I was a Paralegal in the team for just over 12 months. The firm has always made me feel very welcome, allowing me to build a strong rapport with colleagues and clients, and to develop my skills further.
In addition, I have competed in the firm's Advocacy Competition, a highly interesting event which allows paralegals and trainees to compete against each other in a courtroom scenario.
Before starting at MW, I was involved in pro bono work at a local sixth form college. I co-ran a mock trial for a group of students in order to introduce them to the court system.


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Keep Mind and Body Fit When Unemployed with these Tips
Joblessness Can Harm your Mental Health
Work supplies us with many good things, apart from money, to live on.
Sigmund Freud believed that the main essentials of a fulfilled life are work and love. If you had to choose between the two, it may not be such an obvious thing to go for love. For one thing, along with work you get something like love into the bargain. Work can supply us with the esteem and affection of our colleagues; and the satisfaction of our customers or clients is also emotionally satisfying for us as well.
Work provides daily casual contacts which in an ideal world might be available from friends, neighbors and family. In today's cities it is an effort to make those casual contacts without a job to throw us together.
So the economic downturn has been cruel indeed to those who have lost their work, perhaps particularly people who live alone.
Physical Health
Joblessness impacts on the body as well as the mind.
Every job has some physical elements, even if only in the need to get a good night's sleep and get up early, and in the daily commute.
In addition, the health of the mind and the body are intertwined, so that a general lowness of mood can lead to self harming behavior, which leads in its turn to physical ill-health, such as drinking and smoking too much, or eating more than you need while exercising little.
But you can combat the risks to your mental and physical well-being.
Break the Cycle, and Find Life is Still Worthwhile
To start with, before bad habits have a chance to set in, sit down and set yourself some achievable goals, timetables and daily routines, and write them down, so that you don't have to decide every day whether you really want or need to do something. To an extent, your day should be laid out for you ahead of time, as it was when you were working. Try writing down each night exactly what you will be doing the next day.
Each day you should be looking to do some exercise, to take steps towards volunteering your time, and also towards improving your skills through education or self-help. All these things will combat the effects of unemployment on your mental and physical health, and may actually get you opportunities and benefits that you wouldn't have had if you had kept working in your old job.
Exercise is vital, to combat inactivity leading to apathy, depression, and risks to cardiac health.
The amount of exercise you take is entirely in your own hands. If you cannot afford equipment or gym membership, you can take up jogging or just walking for exercise. Take it slowly, at first and for short distances – the effect on your state of mind is likely to be dramatic. You may find that you are entering half marathons before long, but if jogging is not for you, then set aside an hour a day for brisk walking.
Exercise gives a great mental lift and provides huge physical benefits.
Volunteer Work is Real Work
Find a volunteer role to fit your talents or interests. Volunteering will combat loneliness, and give you back your self-worth. There should be a local volunteer bureau, and you can find local charities on the Internet.
This may be the single most important step you can take. Volunteering your time and labor for a worthwhile cause provides a sense of purpose, and social contacts. If you are giving your time for free to a good cause you are at least as valuable to society as a person in paid work, sometimes more so.
You can get new skills, and you may acquire a whole new direction in life. When you apply for paid jobs you will be able to point to the excellent use you have made of your time whilst not in employment.
And most importantly for your mental health, you will have the frequent personal contacts that we all need.
Learn Something New
Look for ways to improve your skills and knowledge. You should be able to find free or low-cost courses on the Internet, or you might even find college scholarships for the unemployed.
Make use of your local library: there will be notices about courses and activities as well as books there.
Being unemployed is an opportunity for self-development. You should be able to find courses in your area in subjects that interest you. There is no need to stagnate, and you can treat your joblessness as an opportunity for further education and personal development.
An Achievement to be Proud of
You will not get all of this up and running in an instant.
Making a worthwhile life for yourself without paid work is almost certainly harder than any task you were assigned in your job, but you can do it, a bit at a time. You can keep your mind and body fit when you are unemployed.
It is never too late to start on this project, but the sooner the better. If you do all these things, you may wonder how on earth you found time for paid work. And when you do find paid work again, you will have a better perspective on life and work than you ever did before.
You will also have conquered the demons that defeat many, and you should be proud.
Based on Personal Experience
- Freud Museum Website https://www.freud.org.uk/
- Policy Studies Institute Paper on Youth Unemployment https://www.psi.org.uk/news/pressrelease.asp?news_item_id=20
- UK Department of Work and Pensions resources on health work and well-being https://www.dwp.gov.uk/health-work-and-well-being/resources/
- Sigmund Freud by David Web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sigmund_Freud_Anciano.jpg courtesy of www.all-about-psychology.com/
- Psychedelia by Aneek Bangabash https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psychedelia.JPG Public Domain
- Central Park Jogging by Patrick Gruban https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Park_jogging.jpg Creative Commons Share Alike 2.0 Generic license
- Progress by Joshua L Ray https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FPVS_progress.jpg Public Domain
- Adult EducationCentre By Jan Sund https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiedosto:Finnish_adult_education_centre.jpg Public Domain
- Sunrise Over the Sea https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunrise_over_the_sea.jpg Creative Commons Sahre Alike 3.0 Unported


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Rainwater harvesting has been practiced for thousands of years. The purpose has always been water security for humans and their crops. Slowly it migrated to decentralized systems where a small community or property will harvest rainwater for drinking and cooking purposes. The advent of municipal water systems removed the need for rainwater harvesting as water was collected from an area hundreds of kilometers away from point of use and supplied in purified form to the user.
Factors such as drought, old water infrastructure, population growth and concerns for municipal water supplies as well a trend in in green buildings, have contributed to a demand for commercial rainwater harvesting systems. Many projects have been put in place that would capture rainwater, greywater, and other on-site water sources for reuse. Captured water is purified sanitized and pressurized for safe reuse. Big industrial factories simply harvest water and use it in their production process as it does not require to be of potable water standard. A well designed commercial system can save thousands of kiloliters in municipal water every year for the life of the building.
Early adopters of rainwater harvesting systems have been small factories, schools and many government building. Unfortunately many projects have been implemented purely to satisfy a green building code rather than to critically look at ways to maximize rainwater harvesting and reducing water consumption.
Some of the first projects are always rainwater harvesting systems that will use the water for non potable use. This requires a dual plumbing system in buildings and can be costly to retrofit. It is therefore beneficial to incorporate it into the design of a new building. Companies are also gradually moving away from water intensive gardens and are planting indigenous plants that require less irrigation. Many old rainwater harvesting systems purely focused on replacing municipal water with harvested rainwater to be used in the irrigation systems when water was available.
The recent drought in Southern Africa has put the water security agenda back on the table. With municipalities losing between 25% and 40% of their water through ageing infrastructure and poor maintenance many companies are concerned about water security. Any interruption in water supply can have a major impact on productivity and production capability.
The biggest challenge and cost in any commercial rainwater harvesting systems is space and cost for storage. Generally above ground space is at a premium thus all the rainwater tanks need to be installed underground. To effectively harvest rainwater the sizing of the storage tanks are critical. It is always better to have more than less storage space as you want to maximize the rainwater recovery when it rains. Thus the tanks, the building and installation cost thereof can be as much as 50% - 60% of the total project cost.
In Southern Africa it is good practice to also use the rainwater tank as a backup water storage tanks and design the system in such a way that the tanks always maintain a certain level of water (municipal or rainwater). Should a water interruption take place the property will thus always have a backup water source for a period of time.
Water application and treatment is often overlooked. In a well designed system the quality of rainwater is so good that it can easily be converted into potable water without the use of chemicals. Converting harvested rainwater into potable water circumvents the need for a dual plumbing system and purified rainwater will simply replace municipal water when it is available and vice versa.
The need and implementation for commercial rainwater harvesting systems are growing. It is thus very important that companies with experience in the design and instillation of these system are involved at an early stage of a new project. Our experience has shown that these projects have a payback of less than ten years at current water prices. As water becomes more scarce, expensive and supply not reliable the benefits far outweigh the cost.


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CTV interviews Roy Thomas about the Halifax Real Estate Market.
Changes to mortgages affect home buyers.
New rules aimed at reining in a hot housing market and ensuring Canadians aren't taking on more debt than they can afford. The most important new change is that the maximum amortization period has been reduced to 25 years, down from 30. The longer a mortgage is spread out, the lower the monthly mortgage payments are — but the more the borrower ends up paying overall over time.
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Roy's Halifax listing sells for $43,600 above asking price.
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Former Saline County sheriff pleads guilty to stealing $79,000
JEFFERSON CITY - The Saline County sheriff forced to resign yesterday pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday for stealing close to $79,000 in public funds. He took state checks issued for prisoner expense for personal gain.
Wallace Newman George, Jr., 70, from Corder, waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty.
George opened a personal bank account and cashed state reimbursement checks totaling nearly $97,083 over a period of five years. The news release said George cashed, partially deposited or deposited close to 34 extradition reimbursement checks.
Acting Sheriff of Saline County Cindi Mullins said there will now be some structural changes within the Saline County Sheriff's Department, but she doesn't think anyone would notice the difference.
"This has been very difficult for our department. We're going to go ahead and move forward. We corrected the problem. We're going to go ahead like we have been," Mullins said.
The news release said George specifically pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of stealing $9,592 in taxpayer funds between July 1, 2013, and June 30, 2014.
Mullins said George was admired and respected in the department, and doesn't think anyone knew about what he was doing.
"Once we knew that there was a problem with the way those were being handled we changed, we took steps to immediately change those procedures," Mullins said.
George paid $51,162 in restitution to Saline County Friday, and he paid $27,749 in restitution to the state Tuesday. The news release said the government will recommend a sentence of no more than one year and one day. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled after the United States Probation Office completes a pre-sentence investigation.
George was elected to office in 1979, and held his position for 36 years. A news release said George was the longest-serving sheriff in the history of the state until he was required to resign from office on Monday. It was required as a condition of Tuesday's plea agreement.
Mullins said she will run for the sheriff's position in November.
[Editor's note: This story has been updated to include quotes from acting sheriff]