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Preparing a Fifth Anniversary Season and Speaking of A New Direction for Dance
BalaSole Dance Company Celebrates Their Fifth Anniversary Season this Summer of 2015
with "SALMAGUNDI"
on July 17 & 18, 2015 , Friday & Saturday at 8PM
at The Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street, New York, NY 10019
Ticket Prices on Fri. - $30 General/$25 Students & Seniors
Sat. - $35 General/$30 Students & Seniors (Saturday tickets include post-concert reception)
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When I chatted with Roberto Villanueva, the founder and executive, artistic director of BalaSole Dance Company on the phone last weekend, I expected to speak about his upcoming concert, SALMAGUNDI, his dancing, and his artistic vision and, of course, we did. What I didn't expect was to meet a leader who not only generously supports his dancers' artistry, but also buttresses their knowledge-base so each may succeed in a dancing career on their own.
Now tell me, what other dance company artistic directors have as their first goal to help their artists succeed in the profession without them? Who else uses ideas from corporate America to bolster creativity and awareness among dancers? Where is philanthropy part of a company mission? Maybe I don't get out too much anymore, but I think this is highly unusual.
Villanueva came to the dance at 19 years old while attending SUNY Buffalo as an accounting major. The class was "Introduction to Movement," a phys-ed requirement. After class, his teacher suggested that he look into the dance department. "What is a dance department?" he wondered out loud. Villanueva didn't grow up with an artistic background and he was naive to this path. "Dance? What kind of career can you have in dance?" It was difficult to fathom. Still, the next day he crossed the Buffalo campus to a completely different building to see what a dance department was all about. It intrigued him. He skipped an entire day of accounting classes to watch. "And the following semester, I didn't take any pre-requisites for accounting. I made up my mind that I wanted to try this."
SALMAGUNDI will feature solo wok by former principal dancer of Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alexandra Jacob; Photo by Brian Mengini
Villanueva ate up classical technique—training hard, studying seven days a week and begging to get into extra evening classes. Despite hurdles he persisted, never giving up. After only two and one-half years he won the Dance Masters of America Competition, competing with some of the best dancers across the nation to be recognized for his talent. Within three years he was dancing professionally. (Amazing!!!) The next step was moving to New York City to put his gifts to use. But despite great experiences dancing with Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company, Steeledance, Marie-Christine Giordano Dance, Pick of the Crop Dance, the Buffalo City Ballet, and Complexions, the young artist was unprepared for the hardship that dancers face. In his quest to achieve artistic excellence it wasn't spelled out that poverty and sacrifice are often part of the picture. "It was not something that I was ready or willing to accept. Why would I get my degree in dance knowing that I was going to starve and not be able to pay my bills? " He ended up finding work in a retail store as a manager. It helped him support his mother, himself, his dance career, and by the way, he liked it.
Roberto Villanueva; Photo by Eric Bandiero
"I love the business side of things. I supported myself so I could dance. I worked a lot with no breaks, but I wasn't unhappy…" Still, the constant pace took its toll and Villanueva was forced to shift gears. After getting a temp job in investment brokerage, he gave up dancing for a full scale career as a cash manager for the emerging markets group of Wasserstein & Perella, a boutique investment bank in New York. In this role, he managed funds in excess of $200 million for trade-related financial transactions and custodial accounts. He was good at it, but that business didn't sustain him. He sojourned to Europe to re-evaluate his life. Upon returning to the states he found a job with the non-profit American Bible Society, where he worked for 13 years dealing with operations management, financial management, process re-engineering, and restructuring. He also danced part-time and turned forty.
photo of Elijah Laurant, by Tracy Kumono
Reflecting on the ten years prior to his 40th birthday, Villanueva realized that it was dance that held him together. He couldn't turn his back on the depth of humanity that this form can share. He thought creating a dance company to marry his passion for dance and business organization would be the best next step: thus BalaSole Dance Company was born in 2010. The name of the group is derived from two words: balance and solo. There is a mission— to fill gaps that exist in the dance field (that is the balancing aspect)— with a five year plan that involves presenting as many talented dancers and their work as possible in prestigious houses across the city. The overarching dream of the company is to nurture the individual voice giving each of the company's talented artists the opportunity to discover or rediscover their unique aesthetic vision and share it on stage.
Every BalaSole concert for the past five years has begun and ended with a group dance created by all the artists in the show. This format is unique to BalaSole and Villanueva describes it as necessary exercise in team building. The artists in each production are new to one another, having met only in the context of the audition. "This is a way for them to get to know each other in a very short period of time." The dancers work on a project with a common goal and different skill sets, making adjustments as they go to keep in line with the big picture. "Just like corporate America," he reminds me, while also commenting that the exercise bonds the group as family.
BalaSole Dance Company- "IDIOMS" January 2014
What are the gaps in the dance world BalaSole is filling?
Villanueva identifies a void in mentorship. Remembering how lost he felt when leaving Buffalo to navigate life as a professional artist, he guides others to not only to be stronger performers but to realize the life skills they innately possess. Working with BalaSole involves taking part in lectures given by Villanueva that teach artists the language of business. "Dancers who hold three to four jobs to make ends meet should consider themselves successful financial planners," he says. They should not feel intimidated to speak with accountants, CEOs or CFO's. Artists who create their own websites, posters, flyers, and business cards should know that they working effectively on publicity and marketing.
Traditionally dancers are trained to be excellent artists but not to see themselves as part of the larger world of professions and Villanueva hopes to change this. "We are seen as a special field filled with free-spirits and not necessarily organized. Of course, this is not true, but we need to speak a different language to receive the monetary compensation we deserve. We need to learn to articulate our value.
Speaking of value, Villanueva doesn't believe in grants and crowd-funding schemes to support dance. He stresses that dancers shouldn't be begging for money to do "our professional dance work". There has to be a better way. "Most other fields can communicate why people should pay for their services. As a community we need to figure out how to gain the compensation that is deserved for our field." A new language will eventually change the way world at large values dance and artistry.
How do you support your dance company now," I ask?
Villanueva has taken the calculated risk of borrowing from his retirement fund to support the company. In the next five years, he hopes to offer workshops and classes using his expertise in combining business principles with arts principles to pay for BalaSole.
Other gaps in dance have to do with its diversity and availability. Villanueva remembers the humiliation of being constantly left out of roles because he is short and Filipino-American. It was frustrating to know he had ability and artistry but didn't fit neatly into the the "types" classical companies were looking for. After many rejections he stopped auditioning and instead took master classes and workshops. (One of the workshops landed him into Complexions Dance Company.) With BalaSole he feels it is important for the audience to see a variety of bodies on stage— bodies the audience can relate to. Differences, in color, stature and experience of movement are crucial. Mixture and combinations have been the theme of every single one of BalaSole's concerts for their five years of existence and SALMAGUNDI is no different—the word refers to a general mixture, a miscellaneous collection, a potpourri.
Miss Nadine of BalaSole Company Teaching; Photo Courtesy of Company
Another goal is to make the work available financially to all women, men, and children, including seniors. In only five years Villanueva has initiated education programs for underprivileged children, free concerts for seniors, and more: Dance4Schools, Access2Dance for disadvantaged youth, Dance4Adults, and Dance4Seniors are a few of his community action programs. Every human being is part of the vision of this company.
As we ended our call, Villanueva recounted an enlightening meeting with a non-dance friend. "Well, why should I come to see your dance?" asked the gentleman. Taken aback by the the bluntness of tone, at the same time, it dawned on Villanueva that this was a great question and one that all artists should be able to answer directly. "We are concert artists, but we need to understand our audience… we need to articulate what we are doing and to make sure audience engagement is part of our creative process and not an afterthought." Obviously this is another gap BalaSole is examining.
Villanueva shared his reply. "I think you should come because we offer perspectives that are not offered in other fields. My company is a diverse company that illustrates different viewpoints. You watch and perhaps can relate ideas to your life, and hopefully, when you leave you may recognize where you may need more reflection or where you need to shift your path. As opposed to other disciplines where things are performed in one way, we dancers push the envelope and share many avenues of exploring. I see the diversity of perspectives in our field and know they can inspire creativity, innovation, and even help relationships work. This is our value, and of course," he laughs, "there is entertainment."
FOR MORE ON SALMAGUNDI
BALASOLE DANCE COMPANY PRESENTS "SALMAGUNDI"
A New Program of Varying Artistic Expressions - 5th Anniversary Season
July 17 & 18 at Ailey Citigroup Theater
Guest Soloists:
Alexandra Jacob, formerly with Dance Theatre of Harlem
Fredrick Davis, formerly with Dance Theatre of Harlem
Friday & Saturday, July 17 & 18 at 8PM
Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55 Street, NYC
Tickets: Friday $30/$25, Saturday $35/$30 (Post-Concert Reception Follows)
Reservations: 212.868.4444 or www.smarttix.com
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Qatar Museums inaugurates Where Cultures Meet: A Photographic Encounter Between Qatar and India exhibition
Qatar Museums (QM) hosted the opening ceremony of "Where Cultures Meet: A Photographic Encounter Between Qatar and India" as part of its annual Year of Culture programme. The exhibition opened at Katara Cultural Village and will be on show until the 31st of December in Gallery 18.
As part of Qatar-India 2019, two Qatari photographers – Hamad Al Shamari and Aisha Al Sadah – travelled to the Himalayan Region of Ladakh, India for two weeks. The aim was to create an inspiring portfolio that will help foster mutual understanding and cultural relations between the two countries. Alongside it, two Qatar-based Indian photographers – Ajeesh Puthiyadath and Salim Abdulla – were selected as part of an open call to participate in the exhibition.
The exhibition presents common themes like architecture, landscape, portraits and street life both in Ladakh – a remote land tucked in the valleys among barren mountains and where communities known for their tolerant and generous manner live in peace – and in Doha, a bustling metropolis made up of century-old markets and futuristic buildings that line its waterfront. Commenting on the exhibition, Aisha Al Attiya, Head of Years of Culture at QM said: "The annual photography exhibition is an important milestone in the Years of Culture programme. It promotes an appreciation for our similarities with partner countries and celebrates the differences between our two cultures and perspectives. We hope that the trip to Ladakh will continue to inspire Hamad Al Shamari and Aisha Al Sadah for many years to come."
Under the leadership of its Chairperson Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, QM developed the "Year of Culture" initiative — an annual international cultural exchange programme designed to deepen understanding between nations and their people. Though the formal programming lasts only one year, the initiative often sparks long-lasting collaboration.
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ICYMI: Even in Election Law Cases, a Plaintiff is Necessary
Posted by Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) 0sc on September 08, 2016
Tuesday, the Sixth Circuit decided that a district judge erred in ordering the polls to be kept open an additional hour for the Ohio primary:
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that the federal district judge in Cincinnati erred in ordering Hamilton, Butler, Clermont, and Warren counties to keep the polls open an extra hour because of an anonymously reported accident on I-275.
Although today's ruling has no retroactive effect on the election, Secretary of State Jon Husted and the boards of election in Hamilton and Butler counties filed the appeal of U.S. District Court Judge Susan J. Dlott's order to prevent similar action in the future. . . . The anonymous call came in shortly before the polls closed at 7:30 p.m. The polls had indeed closed by and the affected polling places had to scramble to reopen by the time Deputy Secretary of State Matt Damschroder could respond to a 7:28 p.m. voicemail from the district court clerk.
Judge Jeffrey Sutton wrote the opinion, finding that because there was no plaintiff to make a proper complaint, and thus no case or controversy to give the court jurisdiction, the judge could not act (internal citations omitted):
One elemental precondition for acting is a "case[]" or "controvers[y]." And one elemental precondition for meeting the case-or-controversy requirement is a claimant with standing. There is no plaintiff with standing if there is no plaintiff. . . . To permit plaintiff-less complaints is to permit the federal courts to issue advisory opinions and non-advisory orders in all manner of circumstances prompted by all manner of anonymous phone callers. . . .
Nor is it enough just to have an identified individual claimant. A complaint must link the claimant to the entities or individuals being asked to do something. In this instance, that meant the district court at a minimum needed four plaintiffs, one registered to vote in each of the four covered counties but who had not yet voted. Otherwise, there was no concrete and redressable injury, no case or controversy, and no authority to order the relevant election board to do anything.
Plaintiff-less complaints are no less problematic when the court denies relief on the merits. How will the court inform an anonymous plaintiff of the order? How will the caller know whether or when to appeal? One question leads to another. And the answers to all of them counsel in favor of standing by the Article III requirements that establish when federal courts have power to act and when they don't. . . .
The district court judge, we realize, was in a difficult spot. She was out of the office. It was late. She had little time to act. All of this presumably led her to err on the side of protecting people's right to vote. But none of this explains why the clerk's office or the court couldn't answer the phone call with the most natural of questions: "Who is it?" And none of this allowed the court to sidestep the Article III limitations on our power.
A decision whether and when to extend polling hours in the event of some unexpected catastrophe is always difficult, but the Sixth Circuit wisely recognized that courts must act within the confines of their power and role, especially when deciding important issues of election administration that affect citizens' right to vote.
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By Don Lee
URUMQI, China - In this remote region along the old Silk Road, Carrefour is on the march.
The Paris-based retailer has already opened two stores in Urumqi, one in the northern end where many ethnic Chinese live and another next to a mosque in the Muslim section populated by Uighurs. This fall, Carrefour will open a third mega-store in the city of 2 million, selling groceries alongside its other goods.
What about Wal-Mart Stores?
``I can't imagine they will come here,'' Christian Roquigny, who manages Carrefour's Uighur store, said as he walked past a golden-domed mosque.
Roquigny boasted that his store sold no pork and was certified as halal, or permissible under Islamic dietary law. Wal-Mart managers, he said, aren't given the same flexibility to adapt.
As the world's leading retailers battle for new markets around the globe, they are increasingly setting up in places like Urumqi, where Carrefour's average checkout total is just over $5.
Wal-Mart and Carrefour, the world's No. 1 and No. 2 retailers, have stepped up their expansion in China in recent years, virtually matching each other, store for store, in many locales.
Carrefour's operation in this western city demonstrates why the French company has raced ahead of its multinational rivals in the world's most-populous nation. By joining with Chinese partners, adapting to local culture and employing a supply chain that includes 18-wheel trucks and three-wheel bicycles, Carrefour has become the biggest foreign retailer operating in China.
It operates 79 stores in 32 Chinese cities compared with 60 locations in 30 cities for Wal-Mart. Last year, Carrefour's sales in China totaled $2.2 billion, compared with $1.2 billion for Wal-Mart, according to the Commerce Ministry in Beijing.
Wal-Mart is accelerating its store openings in China -- it plans to open at least 18 this year, six more than Carrefour -- and analysts are reluctant to bet against the Bentonville, Ark.-based discount retailer given its enormous resources. Its global sales last year reached $285 billion, triple that of Carrefour's. Wal-Mart bought $18 billion in goods from Chinese manufacturers last year.
But as a retailer in China, Wal-Mart is a small fish. Its strategy of offering tian tian ping jia, or ``everyday low prices,'' hasn't had a big effect on Chinese mom-and-pop shops that are used to cutthroat pricing. Wal-Mart has been unable to replicate its super-efficient logistics system in China largely because it lacks scale.
Even Wal-Mart's staunch anti-union stance is being challenged, ironically, in a country where unions have little power. Government-backed trade union officials in China have been trying to organize workers at foreign enterprises and have been especially critical of Wal-Mart's resistance to the idea.
Carrefour has more international experience than Wal-Mart. The French company operates in 29 countries, about double the number for Wal-Mart. Both chains have struggled in Asia, however, pulling out of countries such as South Korea. And despite their push in China, Chinese retailers dominate.
The more stores it can open, the better chance Wal-Mart can leverage its mass scale to squeeze prices lower and drive efficiencies in purchasing, inventory management and distribution.


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East Hetton Colliery
Because East Hetton Colliery, the pit, was one mile from Kelloe, we were not really in touch with it. We saw the miners, and there were many, go to work with picks and their cans and bait tins with water and food to be eaten down the pit or at bank. Many men took bread and jam sandwiches. We heard the buzzers blow four times a day because there were four shifts. One started at 3.00 a.m. for coal workers and we heard the 'knocker' at the right doors. There was a slate with a time on these doors. The blacksmiths, mechanics, etc., who worked above the mine went work at 6.00 a.m. They were knocked up at 5.30 a.m.The man who did the knocking up was a caller'.
I know three kinds of col, nuts and roundies. Every miner with a house got free coal. We bought ours and good coal it was. 'I'he roundies were for the sitting room fireplace. Miners often sold their coal to folk like us. Isaac Pratt lead the coal as long as I could remember. The coal went from the pit to Coxhoe Bridge Station, about 2 miles. Many of the officials lived in rather nice houses near the pit and if I went there with my parents to visit friends we walked 'up the line'. I learned my 3 and 9 times table by adding up the numbers on each coal truck us they went past. We always had a Canon at Kelloe Church and he had a good salary because the coal went past Church land and so the Church was well paid for the privilege.
Bricks were made at the pit and many were used on the houses belonging to Sir Walter Scott who owned East Hetton and Trimdon Grange collieries. Lime seemed to be used to put the bricks together. There was always lime about somewhere. It was the plaster for everything. I)urham Big Meeting was a great event then. They marched past our street, Green Street, about 7.00 a.m. because they all had to go to Quarrirrgton Hill too and then walk to Durham for the meetings.
Between the wars when coal became nationalised down came the whole of the village and up went a council house village at the other side of the hill. Those in their own houses had to go to council houses too and in these they got bathrooms and toilets that we never had. We used big dishes and a miner washed at home every day. Looking back, it was the supply of water and electricity that were great events in our lives. My father was also clerk to the parish council and was much involved in all this modernisation'. Both parents died in the old pit village so I never got to a new council house.
It was indeed a pit village for there were few families who did not have men working there.
1) Tunstalls, father, policeman - 3 girls and 1 son and all became teachers.
2) The Public house families - 6.
3) The business families-- 4.
Aunt Emily Kirkpatrick's husband was John and he was headmaster of the school and their only child Billy became doctor. Of our family ,two trained at the pit, Jim who went to Newcastle to work at Armstrong's during the Great War and Stanley went off to play football while Tom and I became teachers. Another Kirkpatrick family, related, had teachers too. So my childhood was in a pit village that had no class distinction.
February 1986. I have lived through years of much change. Cars and aeroplanes are the mode of travel. The Americans have sent men to the moon. Secondary education is for all. Operations for new hearts and kidneys are common. Penicillin made all kinds of drugs possible. There have been two wars and in the second war "the bomb" was used and is here to stay. Radio and television almost rule our lives, re-entertainment. There many satallites and astronauts in the heavens. A great period.
Isabella Alice Embleton (nee Seymour).


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 Filips I van Castilië de Schone (Philippe le Beau) (1478-1506), zoon van Maximiliaan I van Oostenrijk en Maria van Bourgondië, en vader van Karel V.

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You've probably suspected it for at least the past several years, particularly if you have a preteen or teenage child, but now teens themselves have confirmed it: they're addicted to their mobile devices.
And teens aren't the only culprits when it comes to being addicted: According to the survey, "Technology Addiction: Concern, Controversy, and Finding Balance" 27 percent of parents say they're addicted to their mobile devices.
If there's any good news, it's that many teens and parents share a concern for doing something about their addictions: According to the survey, approximately one in two parents "very often" or "occasionally" try to spend less time consumed with their mobile devices, while approximately one in three teens do the same.
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import org.junit.Ignore;
import org.junit.Test;
import ru.parsentev.task_002.Point;
import ru.parsentev.task_003.Triangle;

import static org.hamcrest.core.Is.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;

/**
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 * @author parsentev
 * @since 28.07.2016
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@Ignore
public class IsoscelesTriangleTest {

    @Test
    public void checkExists() {
        Point first = new Point(0, 0);
        Point second = new Point(0, 2);
        Point third = new Point(2, 0);
        boolean result = new IsoscelesTriangle(first, second, third).exists();
        assertThat(result, is(true));
    }

    @Test
    public void inLine() {
        Point first = new Point(0, 0);
        Point second = new Point(0, 2);
        Point third = new Point(0, 4);
        boolean result = new IsoscelesTriangle(first, second, third).exists();
        assertThat(result, is(false));
    }

    @Test
    public void notIsosceles() {
        Point first = new Point(0, 0);
        Point second = new Point(2, 0);
        Point third = new Point(0, 5);
        boolean result = new IsoscelesTriangle(first, second, third).exists();
        assertThat(result, is(false));
    }
}

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New estimates show Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s payoff for fighting Manny Pacquiao could easily be $180 million.
LAS VEGAS – The first ticket has yet to be sold, but the richest fight in boxing history is getting richer by the day.
New estimates show Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s payoff for fighting Manny Pacquiao could easily be $180 million, up substantially from earlier predictions of $120 million. Pacquiao gets the short end of the purse, but even that is expected to be well over $100 million by the time everything is tallied up.
The money is staggering, though not exactly unexpected. Five years of waiting seem to have only piqued the public's demand for the one fight even casual fans of the sport want to see.
"For whatever it's worth, the buildup over these years has certainly enhanced the fight," promoter Bob Arum. "Everybody knows about it now, even people who don't follow boxing. Plus we have a good economy, unlike in 2009 when people were out of work and didn't have the money to spend."
Arum said Tuesday the gate at the MGM alone will be more than $72 million, obliterating the previous live gate record of $20 million in Nevada set by Mayweather's 2013 fight with Canelo Alvarez. Though the MGM will provide some tickets for its biggest gamblers, Arum said even the celebrities who can normally get free tickets to sit ringside will have to pay full fare for the fight — if they can get their hands on tickets at all.
Promoters announced a deal Tuesday with Sky Sports to televise the fight on pay-per-view in England and parts of Europe, part of another $35 million expected to come in from foreign rights. Add in another $10 million in sponsorships — Tecate beer will be the main sponsor — and the fight will gross more than $100 million before a single home in North America buys the pay-per-view.
Less certain is how many people will spend what is expected to be $100 or so for the pay-per-view in the U.S., but that could easily break records, too. Mayweather's 2007 fight with Oscar De La Hoya currently tops the charts with 2.44 million buys, but many think Mayweather-Pacquiao could do more than 3 million homes despite softness in the pay-per-view market in the last few years.
"That's the one element that's a mystery," Arum told The Associated Press. "It seems like it will break the record, but who really knows? Anyone who predicts the total pay-per-view is whistling in the dark."
With promoters holding the upper hand for this fight, though, that split could end up 65-35 in favor of the promotion. And if 3 million homes buy the fight at $100, that would mean about $200 million in revenue to Mayweather Promotions and Arum's Top Rank from pay-per-view alone.
Add in the other money and the two camps will have more than $300 million to divvy up. With Mayweather getting a 60-40 split, that would mean a purse of $180 million or more to Mayweather and $120 million or more to Pacquiao.
Both purses would dwarf the biggest ever in boxing, including the 2007 fight with Mayweather in which De La Hoya made a reported $52 million. Mayweather's biggest payday was against Alvarez, when he was guaranteed $41.5 million and may have made another $20 million off the pay-per-view sales.
"You get to this level where you're making nine figures in 36 minutes," Mayweather said at the fight press conference this month in Los Angeles, "and you have to be a winner."
Judging from the money on the table in this bout, it's hard to find a loser.


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Passengers evacuated at Prague airport after drawing of bomb found in plane
On Sunday night in Prague, Czech Republic, 183 people on a Jet2 flight arriving from Manchester, United Kingdom were evacuated after, reportedly, discovery in the aircraft's toilets of a picture of a bomb.
The Czech foreign ministry's spokesperson said a painting of a bomb had been found in the plane's toilet by a flight attendant. According to the spokesperson, a search of the plane turned up no bombs.
A passenger said they were informed of a "threatening note" in the aircraft's bathroom, and kept for roughly four hours at the airport.
From passenger accounts, every single passenger on the plane was interviewed, and the CCTV checked. One of the passengers said that, despite all of this, they saw no arrests in connection with this incident.
A spokeswoman for Jet2 said they were sorry about any inconvenience the evacuation caused, but consider people's safety on-board the most important thing.
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Flat screens mean dogs are watching more TV
He's got an eye for your new plasma set, dog researchers say. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Chew on this: man's best friend is tuning in.
A number of TV stations are now programming for dogs, the BBC reports, thanks to the prevalence of high resolution flat-screen TVs that can better engage a dog's eye.
Older CRT screens displayed 60 frames per second (fps) -- good enough for the human eye, which can see 55 fps or so, still too blurry for the average dog's sharper vision. Dogs can discern flickers at 75 fps, the BBC said, meaning older TVs were clearly not real to them and therefore not worth your dog's precious attention.
Modern, HD sets however? Those are good enough to get Rover to sit up and take notice.
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"Recently, changes in technology are beginning to increase the number of dogs that watch television," the BBC's Stanley Coren reported. "The increased availability of high-resolution digital screens that are refreshed at a much higher rate means that the images are less likely to appear to be flickering to the canine eye.
"We are getting more reports of dogs who are very interested in various nature shows that contain images of animals moving," he added.
Filling that void is DOGTV, a 24/7 channel for canines that launched last year. The channel features programming designed with the help of pet experts to "meet specific attributes of a dog's sense of vision and hearing and supports their natural behavior patterns," the channel's web site claims.
The subscription only channel doesn't feature "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," of course; shows carry titles like "Stimulation" and "Exposure" and are designed with the help of modern science, the site claims.
No word if the Kardashian pets plan a spin-off show.
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There Trump goes again
White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
Columnist focusing on politics and culture
If you want to look at the bright side of things, at least we've learned that the nation can survive for half a year without a sane, functioning presidency.
We've had nothing of the sort since Inauguration Day. The man who works in the Oval Office is a walking, talking, tweeting advertisement for Ritalin and perhaps some calming therapeutic activity such as yoga. We are fortunate, in a sense, that President Trump's lack of focus and his anger-management issues keep getting in the way of his policy agenda, given that the agenda is so wrongheaded. But that is an awfully thin silver lining in a very thick cloud.
As I've written before, I'm not qualified to assess Trump's mental health. But there are moments when it would be dishonest not to raise questions about his stability. If the commander in chief of the most powerful military force in history has a problem with impulse control, the whole world has a problem.
Thursday morning, Trump wrote the following tweets: "I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!"
The president was referring to Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" (a show on which I appear regularly). The viciousness and sexism of Trump's very personal attack are obvious. That the president of the United States would say such things publicly is beyond disturbing. It's downright scary.
(Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post)
To their credit, three Republican senators used Twitter to react quickly and appropriately. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) wrote: "Mr. President, your tweet was beneath the office and represents what is wrong with American politics, not the greatness of America." Susan Collins (Maine) tweeted: "This has to stop — we all have a job — 3 branches of gov't and media. We don't have to get along, but we must show respect and civility." Ben Sasse (Neb.) added: "Please just stop. This isn't normal and it's beneath the dignity of your office."
I take issue with one thing Sasse wrote: This sort of thing is normal for Trump. And the president demands that the whole White House follow suit.
Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked on Fox News about Trump's "Morning Joe" screed and actually defended it. "Look, I don't think that the president's ever been someone who gets attacked and doesn't push back," she said. "There have been an outrageous number of personal attacks, not just to him but to frankly everyone around him. People on that show have personally attacked me many times. This is a president who fights fire with fire and certainly will not be allowed to be bullied by liberal media and the liberal elites within the media or Hollywood or anywhere else."
There is some political intention behind those words; Trump believes that attacking the "liberal media" and "elites" and "Hollywood" helps him with his base. But since he demands that his aides back him all the way, Sanders couldn't even allow that perhaps this time the president had gone too far.
One doesn't need a degree in psychology to wonder if the president suffers from some deep-seated insecurity. I can't help but think about that Cabinet meeting this month in which the top officials of our government, one by one, obsequiously told Trump what a "privilege" and a "blessing" it was to serve him. According to widespread news reports, Trump spends hours each day watching cable news and railing against his critics. He sees the various investigations into Russian meddling in the election as attacks on his legitimacy as president — yet what really undermines his legitimacy is his propensity to go off the rails.
What's truly alarming is the self-defeating nature of Trump's spasms. At the moment, he is trying desperately to get GOP senators to agree on a health-care bill. Did a sexist attack against Brzezinski help him with Collins or Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) or Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), who happened to be on "Morning Joe" on Thursday? Not on your life.
The obvious question: What happens if there is an international crisis and Trump's delicate ego is threatened? Can those around him contain his worst instincts?
A look at President Trump's first year in office, so far
Scenes from the Republican's first months in the White House.
Scenes from the Republican's beginning months in the White House.
Jan. 25, 2017 Trump signs an executive order for border security and immigration enforcement improvements at the Department of Homeland Security in Washington. Chip Somodevilla/Pool photo via Bloomberg News
They'd better be able to. Not since Richard Nixon's final days in the White House have I been so worried about a president's grip on reality.
Read more from Eugene Robinson's archive, follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his updates on Facebook. You can also join him Tuesdays at 1 p.m. for a live Q&A.
Read more on this topic:
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Eugene Robinson: Trump is out of control
The Post's View: Trump clearly won't change. Here's what the rest of us can do.
Alyssa Rosenberg: Why I'm grateful every time President Trump insults a woman
Paul Waldman: How Trump's disgusting behavior will make Republican disunity more likely
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Q: How do i use 1  tag to bold multiple words? for example in the text below HTML
How do I use 1  tag to bold multiple words? for example in the text below Bold Mon-Fri but not the times when I put multiple  tags I get a duplicate id Day error, thank you for the help!
Im looking for something more of the line of, in my code i have Mon 8AM-8PM Tue 8AM-8PM Wed8AM-8PM Thu8AM-8PM Fri8AM-8PM, is there a way i could select only the abbreviations for the days of the week and bold them? when i try to use multiple  tags i get an ID Day Duplicate error!

A: Are you looking for something similar to that mentioned in below thread
how to bold words within a paragraph in HTML/CSS?
Or using span element, you may do something similar to below code

Showing how to  bold any word
in a given sentence...

...and see how multiple words are in bold.

or you can use below code sample:
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Mon 8AM-8PM Tue 8AM-8PM Wed8AM-8PM Thu8AM-8PM Fri8AM-8PM.

<button onclick="myFunction()">Try to see it </button>

A: Well do not use id for the spans. Use other attributes like class or data

.day {
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Mon 8AM-8PM Tue 8AM-8PM Wed 8AM-8PM Thu 8AM-8PM Fri 8AM-8PM

If this is not what you are looking for, please explain how you get these dates, maybe we can find another solution. For what you have explained, this would be a working solution

A: Instead of using span element you can try out it in another way

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Maternity Gift Trend: Mexican Bola Necklaces
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Christmas may be over, but it's always a good time to treat an expecting mother to a fun gift. The Mexican Bola is a charming chiming pendant of many talents. Traditionally worn by pregnant women, the pendant was worn low over the…
Gwen Stefani Takes a Snow Vacation With Her Boys
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Robert Downey Jr & Family Vacation in St. Barts
Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan spent the day on the beach with their son Exton and friends in St. Barts on Sunday (Dec. 29). The Iron Man actor was dressed in a bright orange shirt and hat that matched his swim trunks. Downey…
Holly Madison: We Definitely Want More Kids
Holly Madison wants more children! While attending the Palms Hotel & Casino's Moon Nightclub to celebrate her 34th birthday, the former reality star opened up about expanding her family. "We definitely want more kids sometime…
Hilary Duff & Family Visit Disneyland
Hilary Duff, her husband Mike Comrie and their 1-year-old son Luca visited Disneyland on Saturday (Dec. 29). "We braved Disneyland yesterday! Luca's 1st time..." the Flock of Dudes actress captioned a shot in which she wears Mickey…
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Sarah Michelle Gellar & Charlotte Stop By the Country Mart
Sarah Michelle Gellar and her daughter Charlotte were pictured leaving the Brentwood Country Mart after doing some shopping in Brentwood, California on Saturday (Dec. 28). The Crazy Ones actress wore a white blouse and jeans paired with…
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Jessica Alba & Family Touch Down in Cabo for Tropical Vacation
Jessica Alba, her husband Cash Warren and their daughters Haven and Honor touched down in Los Cabos, Mexico for a tropical vacation on Friday (Dec. 27). The Machete actress was dressed in a vintage top and floral designed pants while…
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Malin Akerman was spotted out for a walk with her son Sebastian and her stepmom in Los Feliz, CA on Friday (De. 27). The Trophy Wife actress was dressed casually in a vintage MTV top and athletic knee tights that she paired with aviator…
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Gwen Stefani Takes Kingston for a Checkup
Gwen Stefani took her son Kingston to see his doctor for a checkup in Beverly Hills, CA on Thursday (Dec. 26). The No Doubt singer showed off her growing bump in a fitted black maternity top with a blazer and stylish zip pants. She…
Celebrate Your Child's Birthday By Giving the Gift of Savings
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Puregold, one of the leading retailers here in the Philippines is set to deploy a Linux-based point-of-sale system (POS) to cut down operating costs. It has reportedly ordered more than 2,000 licenses of TPLinux software, which will be installed to Puregold's network of stores.
TPLinux is owned by Wincor Nixdorf, a German corporation that provides retail and retail banking hardware, software, and services. TPLinux has the capability to run on other vendors' hardware as well as Wincor Nixdorf's own systems. Puregold is the first Filipino company that will utilize the German firm's open source-based software.
Puregold is looking to cut overall licensing costs in terms of security while standardizing on an open-source platform, covering both current and future store openings.
Christian Charlton, Wincor Nixdorf's Asia Pacific head of retail solutions, added that Puregold also intends to use the open source-based software to boost its customer-related initiatives such as promos and discounts.
In these tough economic times, I hope more and more companies here will follow what Puregold has done and will somewhat realize the true value of open source software.


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Browse: Home / Architectural / Mansion of Sikh general, Mangal Singh Ramgarhia, razed to the ground
By News Editor on September 3, 2013
With the successive governments caring little about preserving heritage buildings, a historic mansion of Sikh general Mangal Singh Ramgarhia, who was in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army, has been reportedly demolished by its new owner at Kucha Mangal Singh Ramgarhia area of the city.
Located near the Golden Temple Complex, the mansion was with the descendants of Ramgarhia for a considerable period of time after which they sold it off. Consequently, the property has now changed hands and its new owner probably intends to utilise the space to construct a new building.
Though it is being said the structure was damaged by the recent rains, leading to its collapse, some residents claimed it had been demolished. Its remains, however, still reflect the rich heritage as rare artwork could be seen on its walls.
Talking to The Tribune, Onkar Singh Sandhu, who has penned a book on the 500-year history of the Ramgarhia community, said he had urged the Tourism Department to take the responsibility of its preservation, besides bringing the matter to the notice of the Shiromani Gurgwara Parbandhak Committee. However, nothing was done to preserve it.
The mansion was constructed with Nanakshahi bricks somewhere between 1850 and 1860 while its walls adorned beautiful frescoes. The elderly living in the area said the structure was part of Sikh heritage and various prominent personalities had visited it. It was also witness to drafting of various strategies during the Maharaja Ranjit Singh era. Even the street was named after the noted Sikh general and people know it as 'Kucha Mangal Singh Ramgarhia'.
Mangal Singh Ramgarhia was born in 1800 AD. He fought various wars under Maharaja Ranjit Singh, including the one with the Afghans in 1837. In 1839, he was entrusted the responsibility of looking after the forts in Peshawar and Kabul, which he discharged honestly. Maharaja Ranjit Singh even rewarded him with property. He passed away in 1879.
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The mansion was constructed with Nanakshahi bricks somewhere between 1850 and 1860
Its walls adorned beautiful frescoes
Area residents say the structure was part of Sikh heritage and various prominent personalities had visited it
It was witness to drafting of various strategies during the Maharaja Ranjit Singh era
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3 responses to "Mansion of Sikh general, Mangal Singh Ramgarhia, razed to the ground"
Taran Singh
September 3, 2013 at 09:40 | Permalink
This is a disgrace, yet another part of our rich heritage gone for ever in the vain name of modernisation!
Harjinder Kanwal
What a catastrophe. Sikhs are completely unaware of their heritage which is fast disappearing. It is with the effoerts of people like Amardeep that such atrocities come to light but still the Sikh sleeps on. I wonder what will waken them. Mangal Singh was the first custodian of the Golden Temple Complex and his service to Sikh panth is examplary. To do this to his memory is sacriligious. WAKE UP YOU SIKHS FROM YOUR SLUMBER AND DO SOMETHING CONCRETE -INSTEAD OF FIGHTING FOR POSTS IN GURDWARAS.
HARJAP SINGH AUJLA
September 29, 2013 at 22:20 | Permalink
It is sad that the Sikh community does not respect its heritage. A time will come, when we shall like to preserve our past, but there will be nothing to preserve the past.


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Key aspects of aging human cells were reversed by new compounds in a endothelial cell study designed to target mitochondria, numbers of senescent cells were reduced by up to 50%, breakthrough could new basis for new generations of anti-degeneration drugs, as published in the journal Aging.
Researchers from the University of Exeter studying endothelial cells have raised possibility of possible future treatments for aging blood vessels and other cells. In samples used in the study numbers of senescent cells was reduced by up to 50%, and two splicing factors were identified that play key roles in how and when endothelial cells become senescent.
Genes are capable of making more than one product, splicing factors are the genes to make the decisions about which products are made. The identified splicing factors SRSF2 or HNRNPD play key roles in determining why or how cells changes with age.
3 different compounds were tested: AP39, AP124, and RT01; each of the compounds were designed to selectively deliver small quantities of hydrogen sulfide to mitochondria in cells and help damaged and/or old cells to generate energy needed for survival and to reduce senescence, each compound was found to produce a 40-50% drop in the number of senescent blood vessel cells, with half of aged cells tested showing signs of rejuvenating into younger cell models.
Many disease states can be seen as accelerated aging, keeping mitochondria healthy can help to prevent and/or reverse this, according to the researchers, and this study shows splicing factors play important roles in determining how the compounds work.


The Hellenic Air Force deploys 34 F-4E PI-2000 AUP (Peace Icarus 2000 aircraft, AUP:Avionics Upgrade Program). Photo my Hellinic Air Force.
Technically the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II is not a Warbird just yet, because it's still operational within a handful of air arms across the globe. However, it's such an iconic aircraft that every news item featuring its current flying exploits these days is worthy of mention.
The Hellenic Air Force has confirmed its participation at the Malta International Airshow with an F-4E PI 2000 Phantom II from Andravida Air Force Base in Greece. This will be the second time Greece participates at the air show, having sent another Phantom II in 2005. The air show will take place over the weekend of September 27th/28th.
The Phantom II entered service with Greece in 1974 under an arms program called "Peace Icarus". Although it is just a second-generation jet combat aircraft, several dozen Phantom IIs still serve in Greece, having received upgrades from the German company DASA under the program "Peace Icarus 2000". The advanced electronics and other modifications have extended the Phantom's operational life. Thirty four of the upgraded Hellenic Air Force Phantom IIs are based in Andrabida air base with 117 Combat Wing, split between 338 "Aris" and 339 "Aias" Squadrons. Twelve RF-4E reconnaissance variants soldier on at Larissa air base with 110 Combat Wing's 348 "Eyes" Squadron. After the upgrade program, all the Hellenic F-4Es wear the "Aegean Ghost" camouflage while all RF-4Es remain in their Viet Nam War-era camouflage.
the above awesome pictures of greek Phantoms, are not picturing any of HAF F-4E PI-2000 AUP's (Peace Icarus 2000 Avionics upgrade) aircrafts, but original (ex-USANG , state of Indiana) F-4E "SRA" s" as called in Greece , 28 of them delivered to HAF after South Region Agreement deal in 1990. Included in the pictures is the rare 68-424 , the only of them delivered to HAF with the (new, back to 1985) experimental windshield without metal reinforcements.


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Below is a list of Zenith Bank Board of Directors
Zenith Bank About Us Board of Directors
The Board of Directors of Zenith Bank (Ghana) Limited is made up of seasoned individuals determined to deliver superior financial solutions to both businesses and individuals. Our success stems from the experience, leadership, and vision of our staff. Zenith Bank (Ghana) Limited leverages the talents of world-renowned legal and technology experts to advise on industry-leading solutions and services for its consumer and business customers.
Mrs. Freda Yahan Duplan
Mrs. Freda Yahan Duplan is the past Managing Director of Nestle Pakistan Limited. Prior to her stint in Pakistan, she was the MD of Nestle Ghana and briefly the Head of Nestle Business Services in Manila, Philippines. Freda is a trained Computer Scientist with over twenty seven years working experience with the Nestle Group having risen through the ranks to become the first African Female Market Head in the Nestle Group and the First Female and Ghanaian Managing Director of Nestle Ghana Limited.
With a rich skills set in Strategic planning & Management, Change Management, People Development & Management, Sales & Customer Management along with High Level Negotiations, she successfully led Nestle Ghana Limited, the first in the Central and West Africa Region (CWAR), to go live with SAP.
Freda has attended several leadership and executive management courses at the London School of Business as well as at other institutions in Switzerland, Sri Lanka and other countries.
Prior to joining the Nestle Group in 1992, Freda worked briefly with Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker in the USA as an IT Systems Analyst, as well as an IT Consultant with Quistron Ghana Limited in Ghana.
Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer
Akindele A. Ogunranti
Akindele Ogunranti is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Zenith Bank (Ghana) Limited. He has a broad based wealth of experience spanning over two decades across the following areas: Corporate Banking, Commercial and Retail Banking, Public Sector Banking, Structured/Project Finance and strong relationship with Multilateral and Export Credit Agencies.
Akin holds a BSc (Hons.) in International relations, from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, an MBA in Marketing, and an MSc (Hons.) Banking and Finance from the University of Ibadan. He has also attended the prestigious Moody's Credit Academy, UK, and various Executive Management Programs at the Wharton Business School and Harvard Business School, USA respectively. He is an Honorary Senior Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (HCIB), Nigeria and a Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered).
Prior to joining Zenith Bank Ghana, he had at various times served as General Manager in charge of Corporate Banking Division, Infrastructure & Power Sector, Apapa & Ikeja Zones, Multilaterals & Conglomerates Sector, and the Lagos Public Sector Division at Zenith Bank Plc. He was actively involved in Nigeria's recent Power Privatization exercise and has structured financing for various infrastructure projects in the Power, Maritime, Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Agricultural sectors of the economy.
Akin is an astute banker and a dynamic leader who leads his team to achieve exceptional performance.
Dr. Juliette Modupe Tuakli
Dr. Juliette Tuakli has been a leader in women's, children's and public health for over three decades. In this last decade, at the helm of CHILDAccra Medical Group, she has managed the organisation's expansion from a small paediatric clinic into a widely recognised regional medical conglomerate providing medical care, community health research and development, medical training for workers, students and researchers in Africa, England and the USA. Her work has ranged from comprehensive health of women, children and families to tackling neglected tropical diseases.
She has contributed her expertise to international agencies such as the World Bank, USAID and UNICEF and created an acclaimed CHILD HEALTH in AFRICA curriculum used in several public health programs in the USA and Africa. Dr. Tuakli has also authored seminal publications on gender, nutrition and HIV management in Africa. At Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital of Boston, her research led to the addition of a new department for Community Paediatric Health. She co-founded MOREMI Initiative in 2006 - a Pan-African female leadership program.
Dr. Tuakli leads the development of medical research and publications internationally, based on the work of the renowned Mercy Ships International. In addition, she has chaired various committees of United Way Worldwide (UWW), the world's largest private NGO and is now Chair of the Board of Trustees of UWW. Dr. Tuakli is an alumni of the University of Zambia Medical School and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Gabriel Ita Asuquo Ukpeh
Gabriel Ukpeh is an internationally acclaimed consultant in business strategy, risk management, process re-engineering and financial services, who was, until recently, a Senior Partner and Risk Quality Leader for Africa at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria with over thirty-five (35) years experience in Financial Audit and Reporting, as well as a member of the Institute of Taxation of Nigeria.
A graduate of accounting, Gabriel holds a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom. He obtained a Master of Science (MSc) Degree in Contemporary Accounting from the Leeds Metropolitan University, UK in 2009.
Gabriel worked with PwC, an International Business auditing and consulting firm for over thirty-five (35) years, and as Partner for over 20 years led, directed, planned and managed the audit, accounting, and consulting assignments for numerous financial institutions, multinationals and local companies, including most major banks in Nigeria.
Anthony (Tony) Oteng-Gyasi
Mr. Anthony Oteng-Gyasi is the Founder and Managing Director of Tropical Cable and Conductor Limited, a wholly Ghanaian owned cable manufacturing company. Prior to founding this company, Mr. Oteng-Gyasi worked for a period of nine (9) years with British Petroleum.Mr. Oteng-Gyasi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University of Ghana. He studied law in the same University and was called to the Ghana Bar in 1989. He also holds a diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the United Kingdom.
In the year 2000, Anthony won the Empretec Star Award for Entrepreneurial Achievement. He was adjudged the Most Outstanding Personality in the Electrical Field during the 2005 Industrial and Technology (Indutech) Fair. In the same year, he was selected as the Marketing Man of the Year by the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Mr. Oteng-Gyasi has served two terms on the Council of the Ghana Stock Exchange and has been a member of the Council of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He is the past Chairman of the Governing Council of the University of Ghana Legon. He served two terms as the elected President of the Association of Ghana Industries was also Chairman of the Oversight Committee of the Private Sector Development Strategy.
He currently serves on the Board of the African Centre for Economic Transformation and is the Executive Chairman of Tropical Cable and Conductor Limited
He has been conferred with the high National Honours as an Officer of the Order of the Volta by the Republic of Ghana. Mr. Oteng -Gyasi is an Honorary Fellow of the Ghana Institution of Engineers and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana.
Dennis Olisa
Mr. Olisa is an Executive Director at Zenith Bank Plc. He is a Chartered Accountant and holds an MBA. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts of Nigeria (FCA), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (FCIB) and an Associate, Chartered Institute of Taxation (ACIT).
He has attended several international courses including INSEAD Business School, Fontainebleau, France; Havard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, USA; London School of Economics (LSE) UK, and Oxford Princeton Programme, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Mr. Olisa has spent over twenty-seven (27) years in the Nigerian Banking Industry. He joined the services of the bank in 1998. His experience covers Treasury, Banking Operations, Credit Risk Management, Telecommunication, Oil and Gas, Internal Control as well as Branch Management and Zonal Management. Prior to his appointment as Executive Director, he was a General Manager and Chief Inspector of the bank, overseeing the Internal Audit and Inspection of the Zenith Bank Group.
Kwasi Agyeman Boatin
Mr. Kwasi Agyeman Boatin is a seasoned investment consultant and a Chartered Certified Accountant with almost four decades of experience in accounting and finance. Prior to branching out into consultancy, Mr. Boatin was the Director-General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) from 2008 – 2010.
Before assuming the position of Director-General, Mr. Boatin was General Manager (Finance) at SSNIT where he significantly improved the Trust's budgetary processing and control as well as spearheaded the adoption of IFRS and the reporting of SSNIT's financial statements under IFRS. He holds an MBA from the Henley Business School in the UK with concentration in Finance, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management.
Mr. Boatin is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and has served on several notable boards in Ghana and abroad including the Ghana International Bank and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), where he has held the positions of Non-Executive Director.
His achievements include his appointment by the International Social Security Association (ISSA), Switzerland, as Vice-Chairperson of the Technical Commission on Investment of Social Security Funds.
He also has to his credit, a publication on Social and Economic and Investment Policies and Practices in Social Security Organisation (International Social Security Association – September 2007).


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Kim's Death 'Won't Hurt' Ties
Kim Jong Il and Dmitry Medvedev meeting near Lake Baikal on Aug. 24.	Dmitry Astakhov
The sudden death of maverick North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il cast a cloud over the future of the world's last Stalinist state, but Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that it should not affect relations between the two countries.
Analysts agreed that Russia is likely to remain an important trading partner of North Korea, but only if the country is not plunged into chaos by feuding clans — which, they said, is a more likely consequence of Kim's death than a gradual democratization of the closed country.
As hundreds wailed in the streets of Pyongyang in a show of mourning for the "dear leader," Asian markets reeled and South Korea readied its army, fearing provocations from the tentative successor, Kim's youngest son, Kim Jong Un.
Kim Jong Il died in his armored train Saturday, the country's official news agency KCNA reported Monday. He was 69.
The cause of death was the "great mental and physical strain" that he had endured on the job, said a North Korean television anchor, who burst into tears as she wrapped up her remarks.
No details were provided, but some news reports said he had suffered a heart attack. His father and predecessor, Kim Il Sung, died after a sudden heart attack at age 82. News media have reported about Kim Jong Il's health problems since 2008, when he suffered a cardiac arrest. His penchant for cigars and fine cognac has done little to help his condition, the news reports said.
Kim will be succeeded by his third son, Kim Jong Un, believed to be in his late 20s. KCNA referred to him as "the great leader" for the first time in a Monday report, Itar-Tass said.
Photographs from North Korea showed crowds of people weeping in public over Kim's death, many of them kneeling before monuments of the leader.
President Dmitry Medvedev has offered his condolences, but neither he nor Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have been invited to the funeral on Dec. 28, which will be a strictly domestic affair with no foreign dignitaries attending.
Kim is expected to be buried in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, where the embalmed body of his father is on display and maintained by the same Russian experts who maintain the body of Vladimir Lenin in the Red Square mausoleum in Moscow. It is unclear whether Kim's body might be put on display as well.
"We hope that this loss of the Korean people will not affect the development of our friendly relationship," Lavrov said, RIA-Novosti reported.
Ties between Moscow and Kim's regime run deep. Kim was, in fact, born on Russian soil in 1941, while his father was fighting in the Soviet army against Japanese forces in World War II. A Soviet birth certificate identified him as Yury Irsenovich Kim born in a village near Khabarovsk.
Russia is one of the few countries that Kim has visited, last touring it in his armored train — his only mode of foreign transportation — in August. He and Medvedev discussed economic ties at a meeting near Lake Baikal.
Bilateral trade has plummeted since Soviet times and now stands at about $100 million a year, making Russia the third-biggest trade partner for North Korea after China and South Korea.
Russia has been trying to step up its involvement in politics on the divided Korean Peninsula through economic means, proposing, among others, to create a trans-Korean gas pipeline and restore a railroad link between the two Koreas.
The pipeline deal remains under negotiation, but Russian Railways in October commenced work on the 10,000-kilometer rail line, which starts in the North Korean port of Rajin.
Hundreds of North Korean workers are also employed in the timber industry in Russia's Far East. Some of them have seized their chance to flee their home country, voicing plans to never return to North Korea.
The Russian government has criticized the Kim dynasty, which has "preserved Stalinism in its worst forms," since the 1960s, but that has not prevented Moscow and Pyongyang from collaborating, said Yevgeny Kim, a senior researcher at the Institute of the Far East with the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"We will be ready to work with any regime," Kim said by telephone from Moscow.
Kim, who has visited North Korea several times, said the country, despite its near-isolation from the outside world, is undergoing slow change, allowing limited Internet access at universities and some forms of private entrepreneurship.
A South Korean businessman working in Moscow said he hoped Kim Jong Il's death would bring about change. "We want to see who will hold the real power in the country," said the businessman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the issue.
Many analysts said they also wondered who would really hold power and voiced doubts that it would be Kim Jong Un, given his lack of charisma and government experience. Kim Jong Il began grooming him for succession around 2009, after losing faith in his two other sons. But Kim Il Sung spent more than a decade preparing Kim Jong Il to take over when he died in 1994.
"Kim Jong Il has been working to put in place a group of people who should facilitate the succession process for his son … and to establish multiple power centers to provide support and guidance to the heir-apparent should he suddenly pass away," said analyst Sarah McDowall of the IHS Janes Dence weekly.
But "there is now a heightened risk of an upturn in factional tensions within the North Korean political elite as senior political figures, doubting the capabilities of Jong Un, could initiate a power struggle," she said in e-mailed comments.
North Korea held a missile test on Monday, reports said, though it remained unclear whether it was a pre-planned exercise or a show of force.
South Korea put its 500,000-strong army on high alert on Monday and held talks with Tokyo and Washington, two other opponents of Pyongyang.
Regional markets slid over concerns about possible destabilization in the region, with Korea's KOSPI losing 4.1 percent, Shangai's SSE Composite down 2.5 percent and the Australian S&P/ASX down 2.3 percent, Reuters reported.
"Much will depend on whether outside forces will exert pressure on the country," said researcher Yevgeny Kim, referring to the United States and South Korea. Neither country made any demands to Pyongyang on Monday.
Raising a parallel with the Soviet Union, Kim said the possible emergence of a figure similar to progressive Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev could lead to the "destruction" of the North Korean regime.
But Pavel Leshakov, a Korea expert at Moscow State University, said the Soviet example has taught the North Korean elite not to embrace outright reformism, Gazeta.ru reported.


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CFO Melony Williams Goodhand: UAMS Medical Center's Budget Leader
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For the past eight-plus years, Melony Williams Goodhand has served as vice chancellor for finance and CFO of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, one of the largest health systems in the state.
Ms. Goodhand oversees all financial direction of the academic medical center, which includes a 434-bed hospital and the Arkansas Children's Hospital. For fiscal year 2012, Ms. Goodhand projects UAMS will have total patient care revenue of $909.8 billion and roughly $203 million in charity care.
When Ms. Goodhand, a certified public accountant, was hired, she was viewed as an "effective leader and manager" for UAMS, according to I. Dodd Wilson, MD, former chancellor of UAMS. She said she joined the organization to take on the challenges associated with academic medical centers.
"I chose to come to UAMS because it is a challenge that breeds opportunity in a thriving and growing academic medical center," she said in 2004.
Before joining UAMS Medical Center, Ms. Goodhand served as vice president for finance and chief compliance officer at Genesys Health System, an integrated health system based in Grand Blanc, Mich.
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