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Bell Tower House is a most striking architectural designed Georgian style home built to an extremely high standard around 1996. With attractive red brick elevations and string course under pitched and parapet roof. The frontage is particularly impressive being symmetrical with central cupola housing arched window and bell tower above.
Internally the property has beautiful elegant and spacious rooms, complemented by large sash windows, high coved ceilings, dado and picture rails and multiple French doors, which open onto the lovely gardens.
Entrance hall, oak flooring, and impressive central Bifurcating staircase which leads to galleried landing. - Elegant drawing room, with central Adam style fireplace with cast iron insert, fitted glazed fronted cabinets for display, picture and dado rails, sash and French windows overlooking the gardens. - Family room, French and sash windows. - Dining room well proportioned room with dado rail, French doors leading to gardens. - Kitchen/breakfast room, comprehensive range of washed limed oak cabinets, some glassed fronted for display, integrated appliances complemented by attractive work surfaces and oak flooring. - Utility room, housing boiler. - WC's, (two) to the ground floor. - First floor, impressive gallery landing. - Master bedroom suite, with twin dressing rooms and en suite bathroom. - Guest bedroom, with en suite. - 3 further bedrooms having built in wardrobes. - Family bathroom. - Quadruple garaging, power and light. - Garden, of about an Acre.
OUTSIDE The gardens are hedged and bounded with mature trees to create areas of seclusion and privacy and a lovely environment to relax and enjoy the surroundings. At the rear, a large south west facing wraparound terrace provides the perfect spot for summer parties and entertaining. The property is approached via a gated entrance leading to a sweeping gravel drive and turning area and adjacent to a sympathetically designed garage block.
The property sits amid landscaped mature gardens and grounds which feature established shrubberies and well stocked herbaceous borders, a climber clad pergola, clipped shrubs and a pretty timber summer house. They are designed to provide colour and interest throughout the seasons and create a fitting setting for the property.
SITUATION The property is situated in a rural setting on the edge of a Conservation Area of Painters Forstal, one of Kent's most popular villages, surrounded by stunning countryside and offers lovely walks, including Lorenden Park, local public house, well regarded Lorenden preparatory school and the medieval market town of Faversham lies two miles away, offering a wider range of facilities to include High Street shopping, restaurants, public houses.
The Cathedral City of Canterbury lies approximately 11 miles with excellent shopping; good choice of schools, colleges, universities and grammar schools can be found at Faversham and Canterbury. Recreational facilities are also good in and around the area to include sports centres, swimming pools, good selection of golf courses and water sports can be found along the coast.
The property is also well placed for motorway and railway links with the A2/M2 easily accessible. Railway stations are to be found at Faversham and Canterbury, with services into London along with the high speed Javelin train to St. Pancras
DIRECTIONS Head out of Canterbury towards London, on the A2 towards the Brenley roundabout. Take the third exit signed for Faversham/A2. Continue straight for a little over a mile and take a left into Brogdale Road. Continue for approximately 1.5 miles where the road splits keeping to the right and head up the hill taking a right passing the public house on your left. Take a right and Bell Tower will be found on the right hand side, set behind gates.
PROPERTY INFORMATION - Services: Mains water, main electricity main drainage mains gas - Local Authority: Swale Borough Council 01795417850: - Council Tax band (2018/19): G - Fixtures and fittings are excluded from the sale but may be available by separate negotiation.
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ConocoPhillips AC drilling program in EF and WF.
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Bill Thomas replied to Joe Aldridge's discussion ConocoPhillips AC drilling program in EF and WF.
"Anyone have an update on this well? I"ve viewed Sonris but unfortunately don't understand a lot of the information it shows."
Robert Craft replied to Joe Aldridge's discussion ConocoPhillips AC drilling program in EF and WF.
Thomas Maglone replied to Joe Aldridge's discussion ConocoPhillips AC drilling program in EF and WF.
"WELLS SERIAL WELL NAME WELL NUM ORG ID FIELD PARISH PROD TYPE SEC TWN RGE EFFECTIVE DATE API NUM 251215 AUS C RA SUA;MCKOWEN 001 C298 3950 19 00 058 03S 01W 08/14/2018 17037201590000 PRMT DATE SPUD DATE STAT DATE ST…"
"McKowan #1 frac 40 stages. see bottom entry on link. Is 40 alot, a little or typical? http://sonlite.dnr.state.la.us/sundown/cart_prod/cart_con_wellinfo2?p_wsn=251215"
"Thanks so much Mr. Peel for your response and explanation. I now have a better idea for understanding this process. Not sure if you can elaborate on this but what do you think the chances are that they will be interested in this area? I'm…"
"My name is Shannon Johnson and live on Lindsey Lane in McManus. I recently joined this forum to keep up with updates on the gas/oil exploration in this area. My brother, myself, and two other neighbors own roughly 200 acres in the area.…"
"We have received a hearing notice with the attending interested parties listed. Also a Section map laying out a new 6 unit project."
"I sure hope you are correct that there is a "matrix play" here. Whatever that is."
"No, I'm saying the only producible oil/gas is in areas with natural fractures. I still don't understand this matrix thing. Is there an alt. reality as in the movie?"
"Jay, I don't understand COP paying the kind of money the paid in an area with no porosity or permeability and a lack of natural fractures. I don't understand this matrix stuff. How do you create a reservoir with no product?"
"Bob, Thanks for the reply. You see that's what I've been saying. You don't need to do any fracking. There is no porosity or permeability in AC. You need to drill with under weighted mud, find natural fractures, acidize to open the…"
"Hey Bob, A lot of it depends on how much water they pumped in to the formation. If they only pumped enough water to place the sand in the formation then it should clear most of the water pretty quickly. If they pumped 9.5 million gal like EOG did…"
"Hey Guys, I said this earlier this is NOT a frack. This is a sand pack. It looks to me like they have good natural fractures and they took advantage of that. Why would you drill on and mud up the formation if you find what you are looking…"
Thanks, Joe. Please keep an eye out for CINCO ENERGY LAND SERVICES, LLC. They have had major energy company clients in the past and recently registered in LA (7/15/17). I'm looking to figure out where they are leasing.
Okay, Joe. You've got my attention now. :-) I'm curious if you are aware of the name in which CP's leases are being taken? I don't expect that they are doing so in their name. And the Area of Interest seems to be quite large so they may have more than one land company working this prospect. I wish EOG and CP would not divvy up the play area and get in some real competition but I suspect that you are correct that EOG will not get in a bidding war with CP.
Happy New Year, Joe. FYI, Robert Johnson is an Internet promoter who gets paid for posting articles about a client, in this case "Oil Guru" Dr. Daniel Fine, in as many parts of the Web as possible. It helps make Fine look like an expert, whether he is or not, if someone googles his name. You will notice that Robert Johnson never makes a reply. He only posts discussions and then "favorites" his own discussions. Keith and I have discussed Robert Johnson and his use of GHS to promote Dr. Fine but don't see any reason to take any action as long as the rules are observed and members don't object.
Joe, I'm out of town visiting a friend with a new lake house. I'll get back to our discussion when I get home.
joe, fyi. The "detailed reports" posted by John Matherne are not compiled by him. They are regular reports from the database which he has downloaded. He does deserve credit for spending the time to find them but the more one uses the SONRIS databases, the easier they are to navigate.
Thx for your input Joe,, appreciate your response !
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Branded as a "video nasty" in the UK, director Luigi Cozzi's Contamination takes the premise of Ridley Scott's classic Alien and peppers it with exploding guts galore and a dangerously infectious soundtrack from celebrated Italian prog-rockers Goblin (Deep Red, Suspiria).
The Sound Quality sounds good but does feel thin for the Mono. The English dubbing is off like a lot of older low-budget films. The Movie was filmed in English but over dubbed.
The Picture Quality is pretty good but at first I Thought is was going to be bad due to the first scene that is filled with grain black dots and low quality black levels. But then the next scene came and it was surprisingly sharp, vibrant and white and black levels were great.
Contamination is an inside explosion of a good time. Welcome to 80's cheese with big mustaches and overly big helmets filled with comedy where it's not meant. like one guy smiling in the back after his insides exploded. It was a great chuckle moment, also the guy had a big mustache and looked like Cheech Marin.
The film is filled with green exploding eggs, lots of gore and not so great dubbing fitment. Its cheese ,but its good even though at parts it does run slow. Arrow's release of this film boasts good extras, great picture quality and good sound.
Overall the film was a fun run that any 80's low-budget horror film fans would enjoy. Slap in the Blu and experience great picture quality with blood, gore, fun and odd storyline. Who doesn't like people exploding due to a weird-looking green egg that exploding and releasing its insides onto its victims. Also want to point out when the scientists test this ooze like stuff on a mouse it explodes and it was pretty realistic and would not be surprised if it was real. It's not but it looks it besides the bending of the rubber needle.
With that said I give the film a 4 out of 5. Happy to have this on my shelf along with Arrow's first Blu-Ray slip cover here in the US.


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Continuing her training back in Newcastle Leeanne quickly found a teaching position and found her calling. The satisfaction she found in seeing her students become stronger, more confident versions of themselves with her guidance and support set the wheels in motion for a studio all her own, and as a happy result, mPole Pole Dancing Studios was born. Under Leeanne's passionate guidance mPole grew not only as a studio and brand but as a family of strong willed, passionate, creative women.
Along with the success of her studio, Leeanne has enjoyed success in a varied mix of pole dance competitions and performance opportunities, as a solo, doubles, and group performer.
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Are your kids approaching the age where you feel it's time to talk to them about the dangers of drug and alcohol use? Are you trying to figure out the best way to help them make good decisions about not using and drinking, but you feel like a hypocrite because you experimented with drugs and alcohol?
A new study has yielded results that explain why you should avoid talking to your kids about your own drug use. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign studied how 561 eighth-graders viewed drugs andalcohol, based on conversations with their parents.
There are many variables involved in the study: has the eighth grader discussed substance use with a parent before, has the eighth grader tried cigarettes, alcohol, or other drugs yet, and have the parents discussed any of their own past with their eighth-grade child?
It seems that if an eighth grader's parent, or parents, had mentioned regretting drug and alcohol abuse in the past, and shared negative consequences that came from substance use, the eighth grader had less anti-drug attitudes. The study's lead author, Jennifer Kam articulates it as a "Mom and Dad used, and they're still here" mentality that seems to give kids permission to experiment with drugs and alcohol as well.
So how can you approach the alcohol and drug conversation without telling your kids about your experience with substances?
Jennifer Kam does not recommend lying, but she does suggest that you do not volunteer information about your past. Instead, operate as a positive role model, especially when it comes to alcohol consumption.
Stanton Peele, the author of Addiction Proof Your Child, was also involved in the study and believes that a large part of the problem can stem from prescription drugs. If a parent is prescribed an opiate for pain, for example, and the kid knows this and sees the parent taking the prescription regularly, then the lines are blurred for which drugs are okay and which one are not.


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La diocesi di Bùi Chu (in latino: Dioecesis Buichuensis) è una sede della Chiesa cattolica in Vietnam suffraganea dell'arcidiocesi di Hanoi. Nel 2020 contava 417.185 battezzati su 1.274.467 abitanti. È retta dal vescovo Thomas Vu Dình Hiêu.

Territorio
La diocesi comprende la città di Bùi Chu, dove si trova la cattedrale della Regina del Rosario.

Il territorio si estende su 1.350 km² ed è suddiviso in 180 parrocchie.

Storia
Il vicariato apostolico del Tonchino centrale fu eretto il 5 settembre 1848 con il breve Apostolatus officium di papa Pio IX, ricavandone il territorio dal vicariato apostolico del Tonchino orientale (oggi diocesi di Hải Phòng).

Il 3 dicembre 1924 assunse il nome di vicariato apostolico di Bùi Chu in forza del decreto Ordinarii Indosinensis della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide.

Il 9 marzo 1936 cedette una porzione del suo territorio a vantaggio dell'erezione del vicariato apostolico di Thái Bình (oggi diocesi).

Il 24 novembre 1960 il vicariato apostolico è stato elevato a diocesi con la bolla Venerabilium Nostrorum di papa Giovanni XXIII.

Cronotassi dei vescovi
Si omettono i periodi di sede vacante non superiori ai 2 anni o non storicamente accertati.
 Domingo Martí, O.P. † (5 settembre 1848 - 26 agosto 1852 deceduto)
 San José María Díaz Sanjurjo, O.P. † (26 agosto 1852 succeduto - 20 luglio 1857 deceduto)
 San José Melchor García-Sampedro Suárez, O.P. † (20 luglio 1857 succeduto - 28 luglio 1858 deceduto)
 San Valentín Faustino de Berrio-Ochoa y Aristi, O.P. † (28 luglio 1858 succeduto - 1º novembre 1861 deceduto)
Sede vacante (1861-1864)
 Bernabé García Cezón, O.P. † (9 settembre 1864 - novembre 1879 dimesso)
 Manuel Ignacio Riaño, O.P. † (novembre 1879 succeduto - 26 novembre 1884 deceduto)
 Wenceslao Oñate, O.P. † (26 novembre 1884 succeduto - 23 giugno 1897 deceduto)
 Máximo Fernández, O.P. † (16 febbraio 1898 - 14 agosto 1907 dimesso)
 Pedro Muñagorri y Obineta, O.P. † (14 agosto 1907 - 17 giugno 1936 deceduto)
 Domingo Ho Ngoc Cân † (17 giugno 1936 succeduto - 28 novembre 1948 deceduto)
 Pierre Marie Pham-Ngoc-Chi † (3 febbraio 1950 - 5 marzo 1960 dimesso)
 Joseph Maria Phâm-Nang-Tinh † (5 marzo 1960 - 11 febbraio 1974 deceduto)
 Dominique Marie Lê-huu-Cung † (28 aprile 1975 - 12 marzo 1987 deceduto)
 Joseph Vû Duy Nhât † (12 marzo 1987 succeduto - 11 dicembre 1999 deceduto)
 Joseph Hoàng Van Tiem, S.D.B. † (4 luglio 2001 - 17 agosto 2013 deceduto)
 Thomas Vu Dình Hiêu, succeduto il 17 agosto 2013

Statistiche
La diocesi nel 2020 su una popolazione di 1.274.467 persone contava 417.185 battezzati, corrispondenti al 32,7% del totale.

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| 1950 || 190.329 || 697.009 || 27,3 || 182 || 173 || 9 || 1.045 || || 30 || 115 || 305
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| 1963 || 165.000 || 950.000 || 17,4 || 30 || 30 || || 5.500 || || 1 || 90 || 117
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| 1999 || 355.864 || 1.100.250 || 32,3 || 49 || 49 || || 7.262 || || || 327 || 130
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| 2000 || 349.000 || 1.120.000 || 31,2 || 47 || 47 || || 7.425 || || || 371 || 130
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| 2001 || 361.733 || 1.138.270 || 31,8 || 52 || 52 || || 6.956 || || || 432 || 129
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| 2003 || 371.500 || 1.350.000 || 27,5 || 74 || 74 || || 5.020 || || || 421 || 129
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| 2004 || 380.130 || 1.336.400 || 28,4 || 58 || 58 || || 6.553 || || || 475 || 129
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| 2006 || 386.148 || 1.428.658 || 27,0 || 84 || 83 || 1 || 4.597 || || 1 || 502 || 129
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| 2012 || 381.906 || 1.879.000 || 20,3 || 163 || 163 || || 2.342 || || || 735 || 173
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| 2015 || 398.084 || 1.218.100 || 32,7 || 185 || 80 || 105 || 2.151 || || || 105 || 842 || 175
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| 2018 || 409.550 || 1.250.186 || 32,8 || 211 || 104 || 107 || 1.940 || || || 110 || 913 || 176
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| 2020 || 417.185 || 1.274.467 || 32,7 || 210 || 113 || 97 || 1.986 || || || 97 || 1.021 || 180
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Note

Bibliografia
 Breve Apostolatus officium, in Raffaele De Martinis, Iuris pontificii de propaganda fide. Pars prima, vol. VI/1, Romae, 1894, p. 75
 Bolla Venerabilium Nostrorum, AAS 53 (1961), p. 346

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
Annuario pontificio del 2021 e precedenti, in
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Joel's Surgery Success! Back home!
Update January 4: Joel was released from the hospital and is healing well! This has been such an amazing journey and I'm so grateful! Praise the Lord for all He is doing in Joel's life! And thank you so much for joining us in prayer, rallying the forces of heaven on Joel's behalf.
The doctors performed a followup CT scan and everything looks great! He will have one more followup CT scan on the 23rd. The surgeons mentioned he will need one more surgery in about three months. We need to get the details on this when we meet with them next. In the meantime, please keep him in prayer!
Update December 27: Thank you for praying! This was such a major surgery on such a little guy, and by the grace of God, Joel continues to surpass the doctors' expectations. The doctors used the term exceedingly well for his progress! Joel was transferred out of the ICU the evening of the 23rd. His incision is healing well, there's no swelling or pus! They want him to stay for at least another eight days to keep the incision clean. Since Joel lives in a hut with dirt floors and no running water, it would be much harder to keep it clean and sanitized there. Please keep praying! We praise the Lord for all He is doing. Notice also, the smile Joel's mom has in the photo below. Thank you, Lord! And thank you all, for your prayers and the support that is changing these lives! I'm so grateful!
Update December 22: Joel is awake now and doing well! Praise the Lord! They are currently planning on moving him out of the ICU this evening. Thank you for interceding for Joel and his mom and the hospital staff. It's amazing how well he is recovering. Please keep praying!
Update December 21: I'm so grateful! The doctors were able to take Joel off the ventilator! He is fully breathing on his own now. Please continue praying! He will hopefully be able to leave the ICU tomorrow. Please keep Joel's mom in your prayers as well. Even though everything is going well, it's so hard for her to see her baby this way. Thank you so much!
December 19: Praise the Lord! Joel is now out of surgery and it was a success! He is still sedated and recovering in the ICU. This was a very major surgery. Please keep praying for his quick recovery.
The doctors removed a 740-gram (1 lb, 10 ounces) tumor from his brain (!). This was pressing against his eyes causing them to bulge. They were able to remove the entire tumor and have sent it for biopsy. The doctors are optimistic that it will be benign since the other tumor was also benign.
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Q: Python - Pick 250 random elements from a list of 500 and save it to a new list without making it change each time i run the code So I have an S&P500 list of tickers that contains 500 companies. I want to generate a new list with random 250 companies chosen from that list and then I want to save it to a new list. What I want to avoid is that each time I run the code, I don't want the program to give me a new set of 250 companies.
import pandas as pd
import yfinance as yf
import random

sp_wiki_url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies"
sp_wiki_df_list = pd.read_html(sp_wiki_url)
sp500_df = sp_wiki_df_list[0]
sp_tickers = list(sp500_df['Symbol'].values)

seq = [i for i in sp_tickers]
subset = random.seed().sample(seq, 250)

This code here will generate a list of 250 companies but it will change each time I run the code, any way to prevent this?
Thanks!

A: You should force the state of the generator, using random.seed, just before asking for your sample.
$ python3
Python 3.9.6 (default, Jun 29 2021, 00:00:00)
>>>
>>> import  random
>>>
>>> random.seed(42)
>>> random.sample(range(30), 10)
[20, 3, 0, 23, 8, 7, 24, 4, 28, 17]
>>>
>>> random.sample(range(30), 10)
[2, 18, 13, 1, 0, 29, 6, 7, 16, 19]
>>>
>>> random.seed(42)
>>> random.sample(range(30), 10)
[20, 3, 0, 23, 8, 7, 24, 4, 28, 17]
>>>

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Greece due to secure EC job it targeted
Greece is confident that its representative on the new European Commission, Dimitris Avramopoulos, will take over a newly created post that will include the immigration, human rights and interior portfolios.
The new president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, is due to announce the new lineup this week after naming the 27 commissioners, including the minimum of nine women that he wanted, on Friday. Avramopoulos met Juncker on Wednesday in Brussels and Kathimerini understands that it was agreed at the meeting that the outgoing Greek defense minister would take over the amalgamated portfolio.
Athens is very pleased by this development as it is keen to see the European Union revise the Dublin II Regulation, which requires asylum applications to be examined by the country where the applicants entered the EU. Greece feels this places an unfair burden on southern European countries. The government also wants Brussels to step up its efforts to deal with irregular immigration.
The only job announced so far, that of EU diplomatic chief, went to Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini. Former French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici and Finland's ex-Premier Jyrki Katainen are favorites for the post of economic affairs commissioner.
Juncker's team includes four former heads of government in addition to himself: Katainen, former Estonian Premier Andrus Ansip, ex-Lithuanian Premier Valdis Dombrovskis and one-time Slovenian PM Alenka Bratusek.
There are also 13 ministers or former ministers and six European commissioners from the outgoing setup. Juncker's appointments will also have to be approved by the European Parliament next month.
"Recognition of Kosovo not subject of talks"
Source: Beta, Tanjug
BELGRADE -- Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić has said that Belgrade and Priština are not conducting negotiations on a recognition of Kosovo and Metohija.
He pointed out that "such a possibility has not even been hinted at, in any way."
"We have made it clear that the dialogue is status-neutral, and we have not made it known with any act nor have we taken any formal action that would lead to a recognition of independence," Dačić said.
Noting that Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj both in Berlin and during a recent meeting of the UN Security Council in New York spoke about "signing of a peace agreement, recognition of Kosovo's independence and its membership in various international organizations," Dačić said that these statements were "an attempt to abuse the good will of Belgrade."
He expressed hope that Serbia will open chapters 32 and 35 in its negotiations on EU membership by the end of the year, while chapters 23 and 24 are planned for the spring.
Germany, according to him, wanted those opened first, "but there is hope that this position could be changed."
Dačić pointed out that Serbia "should not pay the price because of the instability in Priština," where a government has not been formed yet, which delayed the continuation of the dialogue, and recalled that the previous Serbian government took part in the talks even during its caretaker mandate.
Informal discussions are in progress in Brussels on chapter 35 today, and although the chapter marked as "miscellaneous" it generally refers to normalization of relations between Belgrade and Priština.
Previously, a regular meeting of delegations produced an agreement on administrative crossings between Kosovo and central Serbia.
Dačić also said on Friday said that a meeting of Balkan ministers of economy and foreign affairs with EU representatives should be held in October in Belgrade.
He said that representatives of Priština authorities would take part in accordance with the manner agreed previously - referring to the asymmetrical representation of Kosovo not as a state, "but with an asterisk and a footnote" next to its name.
Speaking about the report of American prosecutor Clint Williamson on the trafficking in human organs of kidnapped Serbs in Kosovo, Dačić said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia welcomed it.
"An objective report of the prosecutor gives us reason to believe that an investigation into the murders and organ trafficking will not be stopped. We hope that the report will contribute to serious crimes being transferred from political to the legal arena, and that there will be no delays in establishing of a tribunal, which will deal with the statements from the report and raise indictments based on those," said Dačić.
Ivica Dačić said on Friday that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received former president of the UN General Assembly and former Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić to discuss his candidacy for secretary-general of the organization.
Dačić said that Jeremić had expressed his willingness to accept the nomination, but that the government had still not discussed the issue.
This means that Serbia is still not officially participating in the bid for the position of UN secretary-general, Dačić said at a regular monthly press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He pointed out that many other countries had still not put forward their candidates, as the election for the successor to Ban Ki-moon was due to take place in a year and a half from now.
Tirana prepares for the visit of Pope Francis on September 21.
World Bulletin / News Desk
Albania is in hectic preparation for the visit of Pope Francis to its capital, Tirana, on September 21.
The Culture Ministry announced that work had begun for the restoration of the Mother Teresa Square where Pope Francis will hold a mass on the day of his visit.
The ministry listed the removal of the fountain on the square and the cleanup of the neighborhood among the first tasks to handle.
Earlier, Pope Francis said that his visit to Albania would be an opportunity to express his support to the country.
He said his brief visit to the country which had long suffered consequences of the problems of the past, would be an opportunity to encourage its people.
Fifteen percent of Albania's population are Catholic, while another 15 percent are Orthodox and more than 60 percent Muslim.
Albanian authorities arrest central bank governor
Arrest linked to alleged theft of 713m leks ($6.6 m) from a reserve storage building
Tirana, Albania: Prosecutors in Albania says that central bank governor Ardian Fullani has been arrested for alleged abuse of office in connection with a multimillion dollar theft from the bank's reserves.
Albi Serani, spokesman for the Prosecutor-General's office, says the Bank of Albania chief was taken into police custody following a court order late Friday. Serani said the arrest is linked to the alleged theft of 713 million leks (Dh24.29 million, 5 million euros, $6.6 million) from a reserve storage building which was discovered in July, but provided no further details.
The money was allegedly stolen over the past four years, and Albanian authorities have already arrested 16 central bank employees in the case.
Fullani, 59, was appointed governor in 2004, and is serving his second seven-year term.
Greek PM expresses his concerns to Rama about the "nationalist Tcham trumpeting"
By Albanian Correspondent / 05/09/2014 /
Tirana, September 5, 2014/ Independent Balkan News Agency
Prime Minister Edi Rama met in Wales with the Prime Minister of Greece, Antonis Samaras, upon the request of the latter. The meeting has been held in the framework of the NATO summit, which started on Thursday in Wales (Great Britain). Delegations of both countries are participating in the NATO summit.
Prime minister Samaras was accompanied in this meeting by the foreign Minister, Evangelos Venizelos and the Defense minister, Dimitris Avramopoulos. Meanwhile, Rama was accompanied by the Foreign minister, Ditmir Buashti and the Prime Minister's advisor, Endri Fuga.
The Prime Minister's office officially informs that the meeting discussed respective issues that relate to the relations between the two countries, underlining the readiness to further develop them.
The meetings has also discussed the administrative territorial reform, which was not accepted by the Greek minority and PBDNJ, which defends its rights, although his party is part of the governing coalition.
Samaras has demanded the personal intervention of Mr. Rama "to address issues that emerged in Himara following the administrative reform" and also address "the nationalist Tcham trumpeting". This request comes a few days after PDIU (Party for Justice, Integration and Unity), which defends the rights of the Tcham community, has approached the majority, as it's expected to leave the opposition front.
The Greek Prime Minister said in the meeting with Rama, that respect toward human rights is part of the process of EU accession.
The second issue relates to the abrogated pact for the sea border. Prime Minister Samaras has expressed the stand of the Greek side that this issue must be solved based on international law.
On his part, Mr. Rama has declared that he's aware of "the sensitivity of the Greek Prime Minister on the issue of the minority". Rama said that "he personally guarantees the respect of human rights". Mr. Rama also told to his Greek counterpart that "there has never existed any intention to harm the Greek minority".
Rama emphasized the will of the Albanian government to offer a new dynamic to the bilateral cooperation in the spirit of partnership and good neighboring relations and in the framework of regional incentives, in line with the new reality in the region.
In this meeting, the Albanian Prime Minister referred to the dangers coming from the outbreak of religious fundamentalism in the region. He also underlined the cooperation between the two police forces in tackling crime. /ibna/
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By Robert W. Yarbrough
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Publication date November 1, 2008
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About: Robert Yarbrough, coauthor of the bestselling Encountering the New Testament, offers a historical and theological commentary on the Johannine Epistles in this new addition to the BECNT series.


I have been hearing a frustrated weariness coming from many as we approach the Advent season this year. Globally, we have been frightened and grieving as violence, despair, and division threaten to settle in as the new norm. Turning toward a season luminous with joy and hope, I struggle to embrace its arrival, wondering what "new thing" there could possibly be to bring, wondering how an ancient story might still form and guide us in these challenging times.
How do we prepare our hearts to live again this story of Christ's birth into our lives and world? This Advent, we are invited into a practice of sacred opening to God, self, others, and creation. While the temptation is often to shut down and withdraw, Advent reminds us to "prepare the way of the Lord" by opening up with courageous presence to reality as it is, wherever we are. Something is happening, whispers the mystery of this season of hope. Can we gather the strength of heart to still trust that Spirit will become incarnate even where we least expect, for the healing of our world?
Each week during this season, we will contemplate widening the spaces in our lives and relationships. Perhaps the gift that Advent can bring this year is a sacred opening of those spaces within and around us which have become too crowded or closed. The more we open, the more we will be able to receive of the divine presence that is already here and always arriving.
Opening Space Within: Resist the distractions that are often used to fill the time. Pay attention to what emerges as you listen into your inner spaces. This can be as simple as choosing not to reach for your smart phone while standing in line or spending the first couple minutes of the morning present to what you are feeling as you start the new day.
Opening Space with Others: Pay attention to the ways you interact, and react, with others (family, friends, colleagues, strangers). Intentionally take a posture of listening in your relationships rather than filling the space with your own stories or opinions. Keep your heart open to people with whom you disagree. Become more open in relationship with others by risking vulnerability.
Opening Space Around: Open wider your own boundaries of belonging. Explore a new part of your neighborhood, form of prayer, or relationship. We often get caught in the routines that encircle our lives with unintended boundaries of comfort and familiarity. Embrace a wider belonging by being present in a new place or with a new person.
May we dare to open wider to incarnation possibility in every relationship, in every place!
Consider using the hymn text, "All Earth is Hopeful" (Community of Christ Sings #392) as a meditation for the Advent Season.
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I love the image at the heart of this Advent text. Mary and Elizabeth, both unexpected carriers of this new life gift, greet in joy as they recognize the divine life within each other. Elizabeth proclaims that the child in her womb moves, leaps, in recognition of the child in Mary's. The sacred life forming within us pulls us toward awareness of the sacred life forming in others.
This text describes our hope for relationship– that we might find ourselves expectant of the divine life present in every person we encounter. My own ministry has been shaped by Margaret Guenther's simple wisdom, "when in doubt, I always assume that God is at work." What if I adopted that attitude toward every person I greet? How might my relationships, expectations, and behaviors change if I assumed God's presence and activity in everyone?
In my culture, we find ourselves in a tense time of suspicion, division, and increasing fear. As I ponder the meaning of Advent into these realities, the story of Mary and Elizabeth offers hope for what can be. Two women offer a sacred yes, bear an impossible promise, and delight in the presence of the sacred in each other.
May it be also with us. May we have the courage to see the sacred coming to life in each one, even in unexpected people and places. May we nurture that life as together we bring to birth a world of justice and love.


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41 Erwin Schrodinger Quotes that are Influential
Erwin Schrodinger is known for his many contributions to the world of quantum theory and physical science. He still inspires many across the field of quantum theory. Here are some Erwin Schrodinger Quotes.
Short biography of Erwin Schrodinger
Erwin Schrodinger is known for receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics (1933) and much more. From Our Image of Matter, compiled by Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Erwin Schrodinger, Pierre Auger, On Modern Physics (1961), 50. Shortly after entering the faculty of the University of Oxford in England, Schrödinger learned that he had received an award. Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933, sharing the prize with another quantum theorist, Paul A. M. Dirac. Erwin Schrödinger was well known for his observational theories, but he was certainly overlooked when it came to his brilliant words about unity and consciousness.
This is one of his many contributions to the world of quantum theory and physical science. Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose groundbreaking wave equation changed the face of quantum theory. In 1933 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with British physicist P.A.M. Dirac, who later became director of the Irish Institute for Advanced Study. Schrödinger's Wave Equation Schrödinger's next six years as a professor at the University of Zurich proved to be one of the most important periods of his career as a physicist.
During this period, Schrödinger promoted the idea of the wave in quantum physics. "I think it's very interesting that you can see the [psi] functions of Schrödinger's wave mechanics using X-ray studies of crystals. The more I think about the physical part of Schrödinger's theory, the more repulsive it seems to me.
It makes sense; it takes an intelligent person to fully understand that everything in the universe is one gigantic being, and he certainly had no lack of intelligence. This quote is often (obviously) mistakenly attributed to Erwin Schrödinger, for example, in the book by Alan L. McKay (edited by Schrödinger, wave mechanics is not a physical theory, but a gimmick, and also a very good gimmick. Of the most important achievements of the twentieth century and revolutionized quantum mechanics and in all physics and chemistry.
I thought that the basic principles of quantum mechanics allowed us to combine these functions of the Schrödinger equation in a different way. The following quotes from Schrödinger are inspiring and are worth reading a couple of times (which I had to do) to fully appreciate the seriousness of their meaning. In a subsequent letter to Pauli, he called Dirac's theory scientific nonsense. As Schrödinger noted, it is a miracle that, despite the overwhelming complexity of the world, some patterns of events can be discovered
"Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind"
"Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe."
"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists."
"Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence."
"The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist."
"I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experiences in a magnificently consistent order, but is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, god and eternity."
"For eternally and always there is only one now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end."
"There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad."
"We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it."
"The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence."
"If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all."
"The present is the only things that has no end."
"The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model."
"Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology – we are quite unable to imagine the contrary…"
"I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'."
"The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty."
"In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period."
"Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors."
"The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday."
"Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural."
"Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning."
"No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory."
"The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it…"
"The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy… has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object…"
"The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then."
"In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of "whole numbers" no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number of nodes in a vibrating string. The new conception can be generalized, and I believe it touches the deepest meaning of the quantum rules."
"No self is of itself alone"
"The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the West."
"Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you."
"Inconceivable as it seems to ordinary reason – you and all other conscious beings as such – are all in all. Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole. Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you."
"The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one."
"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space."
"A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement."
"For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice."
"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it."
"An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish."
"The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena."
"Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears."
"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else."
"I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them."
"From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be reduced to the ordinary laws of physics. And that not on the ground that there is any "new force" or what not, directing the behavior of the single atoms within a living organism, but because the construction is different from anything we have yet tested in the physical laboratory."
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Google today announced that its official Google Voice [App Store] application for the iPhone is now available.
After Apple tweaked its review guidelines for the App Store back in September, it began accepting Google Voice-related applications, and the company reportedly approved the official Google application late that month, but it has not been available until today.
Google and Apple famously squared off over the Google Voice application, with Google claiming that Apple had rejected the application, citing duplication of the core functionality of the iPhone, while Apple claimed that it had merely not made a decision on the application, leaving it limbo for over a year.


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Trust hoping for another HIVE award
The event takes place tonight at King George's Hall
Blackburn Rovers Community Trust return to The HIVE Awards on Thursday evening with the hope of matching or even doubling last year's trophy haul from the event.
In June 2018, the club's official charity was handed the 'Commitment to Blackburn with Darwen' accolade and once again in 2019, they are nominated for the same award.
There could be a double success on the night, with the Community Trust also nominated for the Medium Business of the Year Award, open to institutions with 26 to 50 full-time employees.
The HIVE Blackburn and Darwen Business Awards celebrate and reward the outstanding work of businesses from different sectors and inspirational individuals from across Blackburn and Darwen.
The Community Trust successfully impressed their judging panel during a recent presentation at Ewood Park to secure their place among the nominees for the big event, which will be hosted at King George's Hall.
After enjoying around 50,000 engagements over the past year, the charity will be hoping to add to an impressive awards haul during a 15 month period. Since March 2018, the charity has landed the following awards:
* EFL Awards 2018: Checkatrade North West Community Club of the Year
* HIVE Awards 2018: Commitment to Blackburn with Darwen Award
* Northwest Football Awards 2018: Community Club of the Year (non-Premier League)
* British Muslim Awards 2019: Community Group of the Year
* FA Women's Football Awards 2019: Best Football Development Initiative in Women's and Girls' Football
Those special feats sit alongside other nominations and highly commended achievements at the same ceremonies and other awards nights, including The Fusion Awards, The Northern Housing Awards and The National Diversity Awards.
Two coaching roles on offer through the Community Trust
Blackburn Rovers Community Trust are expanding their coaching workforce once again, with two roles for community sports coaches now on offer.
Your junior team's chance to play at the STC!
Junior teams from all over the region have got a fantastic chance to set foot on the same quality pitches as their Rovers heroes when the Roverstars tournament hits the club's Senior Training Centre...
Community Trust Awards champions are crowned in style
The first ever Blackburn Rovers Community Trust Awards exceeded expectations as the first 11 winners of the official club charity's prized accolades were crowned.


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There was a time when old soldiers like Douglas MacArthur talked wistfully about fading away in retirement. Not so for today's senior military officers. Like so many politicians, they regularly go in search of the millionaires' club on leaving public service, even as they accept six-figure pensions and other retirement benefits from the government. In the post-military years, being John Q. Public isn't enough. One must be General Johannes Q. Publicus (ret.), a future financial wizard, powerful CEO, or educator supreme. Heck, maybe all three.
No one expects generals to take vows of poverty upon retirement. Indeed, those hefty government pensions and assorted other benefits would preclude such vows. But in the post-democratic military world, duty, honor, country has become duty, honor, cash.
For today's crop of retiree generals, no Cincinnatus need apply. Of course, there's long been a revolving door between Pentagon offices and corporate boardrooms, but that door seems to be spinning ever faster in the twenty-first century.
The peril of all this should be obvious: the prospect of cashing-in big time upon retirement can't help but affect the judgment of generals while they're still wearing the uniform. When you reach high rank, it's already one big boys' club where everyone knows everyone else's reputation. Get one for being an outspoken critic of a contractor's performance, or someone who refuses to play ball or think by the usual rules of Washington, and chances are you're not going to be hired to lucrative positions on various corporate boards in retirement.
Such an insular, even incestuous system of pay-offs naturally reinforces conventional thinking. Generals go along to get along, embracing prevailing thinking on interventionism, adventurism, and dominance. Especially troublesome is the continued push for foreign military sales (arms exports) to some of the world's most active war zones. In this way, weaponry and wars are increasingly the business of America, a "growth" industry that is only reinforced when retired generals are hired to lead companies, to advise financial institutes, or even to teach young adults in prestigious schools.
For Petraeus is not the only retired general to lecture at such places. General Stanley McChrystal, who infamously was fired by President Obama for allowing a command climate that was disrespectful to the nation's civilian chain of command, is now a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute at Yale University. Admiral William McRaven, former head of U.S. Special Operations Command during the era of black sites and deaths by torture, is now the chancellor of the entire University of Texas system. McRaven had no prior background in education, just as Odierno had no background in finance before being hired to a top-tier position of authority. Both of them were, however, the military version of "company men" who, on retirement, possessed a wealth of contacts, which helped make them highly marketable commodities.
If you're wearing three or four stars in the military, you've already been carefully vetted as a "company man," since the promotion process screens out mavericks. Independent thinkers tend to retire or separate from the military long before they reach eligibility for flag rank. The most persistent and often the most political officers rise to the top, not the brightest and the best.
As Nick Turse has documented at TomDispatch, post-9/11 America has seen the rapid growth of U.S. Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, a secretive military within the military that now numbers almost 70,000 operatives. The scholar and former CIA consultant Chalmers Johnson used to refer to that Agency as the president's private army. Now, the commander-in-chief quite literally has such an army (as, in a sense, he also now has a private robotic air force of drone assassins dispatchable more or less anywhere). The expansion of SOCOM from a modest number of elite military units (like the Green Berets or SEAL Team 6) into a force larger than significant numbers of national armies is an underreported and under-considered development of our post-democratic military moment. It has now become the regular go-to force in the war on terror from Iraq to Afghanistan, Syria to Cameroon, Libya to Somalia.
A military force effectively unaccountable to the people tears at the very fabric of the Constitution, which is at pains to mandate firm and complete control over the military by Congress, acting in the people's name. Combine such a military with a range of undeclared wars and other conflicts and a Congress for which cheerleading, not control, is the order of the day, and you have a recipe for a force unto itself.
It used to be said of Prussia that it was a military with a state attached to it. America's post-democratic military, combined with the proliferation of intelligence outfits and the growth of the country's second defense department, the Department of Homeland Security, could increasingly be considered something like an emerging proto-state. Call it America's 51st state, except that instead of having two senators and a few representatives based on its size, it has all the senators and all the representatives based on its power, budget, and grip on American culture.
It is, in other words, a post-democratic leviathan to be reckoned with. And not a single Democratic or Republican candidate for commander-in-chief has spent a day in uniform. Prediction for November: another overwhelming victory at the polls for America's 51st state.


No studio recording can compare to the experience of a Huun-Huur-Tu concert.
BEST LIVE – No studio recording can compare to the experience of a Huun-Huur-Tu concert – as countless visitors from all over the word would testify who have experienced one or more of their concerts. Therefore, the idea for a live recording has been in the air for quite a while. Various concerts were recorded but none met the artists' expectations until finally in April 2001 everything came together – a place where the musicians felt at home, where they played and sang with just the right inspiration, with one of Moscow's best recording engineers and… spring in the air. The right time for a band that is able to electrify the audience like no other.


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I believe I overlooked this press release with the America's Army news. In addition to AA, GlobalVR will be showing off EA NASCAR at the AAMA Gala that has been going on this week. I caught something interesting in the press release where it states that John Ray 'ex-Atari racing guru' spearheaded the games development. He was one person behind San Fransisco Rush, although I couldn't find any other racing games under his name (Rush is one of my favorite racing games however). Hit the break for the press release.
EA SPORTS NASCAR Racing will be available in deluxe, motion-deluxe, and a very affordable standard cabinet configuration. The game cabinets will be linkable and offer players the opportunity to race against 30 different NASCAR drivers in 30 different cars. Featured tracks will include six major, well known tracks.
For information about other GLOBAL VR products, please visit www.globalvr.com or contact your local GLOBAL VR distributor or sales representative.


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I'm scared – Zlatan Ibrahimovic speaks on retirement
AC Milan forward, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has insisted he does not plan to retire from football soon..
The former Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain star insisted that he is scared to stop playing football.
The 40-year-old stated this ahead of AC Milan's Champions League tie with Liverpool on Tuesday night.
"I want to play as long as possible. As long as I've that adrenaline, I will continue," Ibrahimovic told the Italian talk show Che Tempo Che Fa.
"Let's put pressure on Milan here to give me an extension and I hope to stay in Milan for life. I still have objectives that I can achieve and I want to win another Scudetto.
"I don't know what will happen after football, so I'm a little scared to stop. We will see, but I want to continue playing so that I don't have any regrets."
Ibrahimovic was on the bench as AC Milan defeated Salernitana 2-0 in a Serie A clash over the weekend.
The win moved Milan to one point clear at the top of the Serie A table with 38 points after 16 matches.
I act selfishly towards Mane – Salah finally admits
I am going to play for a big club – Mbappe drops bombshell on PSG future


Well defined eyebrows and eyelashes put a sparkle in your eyes defining their natural beauty.
Tinting enhances the look of the eyebrows and eyelashes which involves adding a natural looking tint to them making it ideal for those can't wear mascara or choose not to.
Tinting is also perfect for clients with light eyebrows as this allows you to define them to the colour you prefer.
Combining eyebrow and eyelash tinting will create the maximum effect to compliment your facial features.


If you already recognize the benefits of attending summer music camps and programs but don't think they're affordable, here are some suggestions.
Summer Music: Do It Now!
What happens when high school students attend summer music programs? They transform. There are no distractions to keep them from diving into their music as there are during the school year.


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Q: Find the first span element with attribute treeid in a DOM Find the first span element with attribute treeid in a DOM.
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A: As Praveen suggests, you should use the standard data- prefix on non-standard attributes, however code will still work with the HTML shown:
var id = $('#TreeView_tv_active [treeid]:first').attr('treeid');

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/raft56gg/

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The above code will fetch the first matched elements, which matches only the elements with treeid as an attribute.


Hey girlfriends, Kris here! As I am scrolling through my Pinterest, all I can see are pictures of the SASHIKO! It's the machine that is on the rave right now! Crazy enough, it only does one stitch! BUT it embellishes any item in such a unique way. Pay close attention to how it sews… you'll be surprised by what you see!
Did you see it?! It brings the bobbin thread up to the top to create that stitch! AMAZING! Here are some samples of what the Baby Lock Sashiko can do!
So what exactly is Sashiko stitching? Well, the word sashiko literally means "little stabs" or "little piercings". (Makes sense, right?) The sashiko stitch originated in Japan, and was initially done for garmet sewing in order to make the clothes more durable. However, it created that "embroidered look" that made us quilters, and embroiderers, obsess over!
So now when your husband asks about why you bought the Baby Lock Sashiko, you can say, "Honey, it's to help make your clothes more durable!" 😉(See what I did there?) Haha, jokes aside, I really DO love this machine and it has blown my mind at what you can accomplish with just a single stitch!
That's it for this week, girlfriends! Until next time!
Interested in learning more? Stop by any of our locations and we would be happy to let you take a "test drive" on YOUR next machine, the Baby Lock Sashiko.


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New Orleans' Andrew Wilson Charter School is onto something.
By Whitney Henderson
Improving struggling schools is really, really hard. Just last week, the U.S. Education Department released an analysis of the Obama administration's signature School Improvement Grants initiative, which provided states with $7 billion of federal funding to turn around their lowest performing schools. It found that the money had no measurable impact; schools that received it were no more likely than others to show improvement in student performance, graduation rates, or other indicators.
That doesn't mean school turnarounds are impossible, though. In August, when Louisiana released test results for the 2015-16 school year, Andrew Wilson Charter School stood out. Just a year after its performance was so poor that management was transferred from one charter operator to another, Wilson students showed sharply better performance across subjects and grade levels. It's great news – but how did Wilson do it? And what can other schools learn from it?
My fellow Navigator Karen Johnston and I recently visited Wilson to learn more and what we found was nothing short of astounding. It started at the front office. We arrived shortly after the day started, a time that is traditionally chaotic with late buses, tardy students, and a host of other distractions. Yet, to our surprise, the front desk check-in was calm and peaceful—a small sign of the school's stable footing.
Our tour with Wilson's principal, Lee Green, began during the school's "Innovation Hour," a time where students are taught in homogenous groups different from the ones they travel in by homeroom. While schools often begin the day with "easier" classes to allow students to warm up, these classes were robust and rigorous, with a clear objective for the period based on previous benchmark data. Nearly every class was focused and had great participation. By the end of the period, we'd looked over a few students' work, and their responses were thorough. A cursive note written on a dry-erase board caught our eye on the way out of our last class visit: "Ms. Broussard, you rock! Yesterday's lesson was inspiring."
Wilson is onto something. After reflecting on our experiences that morning and during the remainder of our visit, three things stand out as likely contributors to the school's recent short-term success: (1) A very sustained focus on a set of specific results; (2) consistent follow-through of academic and behavioral norms and expectations throughout the building; and (3) a constant presence and strong sense of teamwork among adults in the building. These are things you hear ambitious schools talk about all the time; the difference is that the quality of execution at Wilson is far above average.
A Focus on Specific Results
There's no doubt that transitions to turnaround status are traditionally plagued with obstacles, and those in leadership sometimes try to tackle a lot at once to make up for time. The latter did not seem to be the case for Wilson. The school identified its "low-hanging fruit" and evidence of their focus on results was clear in just about every corner of the school.
Wilson specifically has targeted English Language Arts (ELA) instruction and mastery as its number one growth area. It's evident in the language and behaviors around the school. Each classroom had an objective posted with the verbs highlighted, making it easy for visitors to hold them accountable for what they should see from students. The students, on the other hand, could easily be reminded of their class-wide and individual goals from multiple sources of performance data posted throughout many classes. Teachers have designated time and space each week to craft assessments, review data, and collaborate on lesson-planning. A bulletin board in the hallway tracked students' small but steady gains in ELA performance since August.
Consistent Follow-through on Academic and Behavioral Norms
While it was great to see how deliberate the adults in the school had been about shedding its past reputation, we were curious to see more of the students and how they had responded to all of this change. Faced with the urgency of setting a struggling school on a different path, many turnaround operators rely on a kind of lockdown approach to ensure an orderly environment. Would this be the case at Wilson?
We saw clear expectations and consistency creating a healthy—not heavy-handed—school culture. After our tour of the first floor, we witnessed the first middle school transition of the day, which was completely silent but not in an oppressive way. Students transitioned as if they were on an urgent mission. They seemed almost joyful, curiously waiting to see what journey they would embark on next. Anywhere we went in the building, any free student or adult would greet us and many asked if we had any questions. Students smiled as they saw us, but mostly because we were accompanied by Principal Green. One of them cracked a joke at him, and he responded, "You know you love me," as other nearby students burst into laughter.
As the start-of-class-bell sounded, nearly all classes began smoothly, with silent students in seats working on a Do-Now. Many of them had "green-cards" on their desks that were used as their weekly sheet for restroom/hall passes and signatures from teachers that showed how close they were to earning an incentive for positive behavior. Most important, the green card served as a constant reminder of the school's values ("Leadership, Excellence, Accountability, Determination") since they were posted very clearly at the top of the page.
But the values seemed to be more than a sheet of paper for the students; they were a way of life. There was hardly any evidence of major student misbehavior. One student called out in class, and the other students swiftly and silently scolded him with their expressions, causing him to fix his mistake. They were all accountable and held each other accountable to the classroom's objective.
Hypervisibility and a Strong Sense of Teamwork
This kind of school culture – and the results it encourages – doesn't happen by accident. It comes about only with consistent attention and energy from all the adults in the building. Rarely is the difference between an improving school and a struggling one any single instructional strategy or intervention. Instead, it's about execution and follow through. It's about how much falls through the cracks. At Wilson, we saw a school that was committed to seamlessness, and they seemed to accomplish it by ensuring that all the adults, from teachers and instructional coaches to principals and custodians, were constantly present for students and actively working together to promote the school's culture, values and goals.
No matter where we went in the school, adults were visible and nearby. Instructional coaches sat in the hallways rather than stuffy offices and actively helped any teacher on their planning period work through their previous lesson's challenges. In fact, no one was in an office. All of the assistant principals had desks in the hall, making them readily accessible. It didn't take long to see why the school was so unified around shared goals, why students and adults shared such strong relationships, or why its culture seemed to hit the sweet spot of feeling orderly but not rigid.
These are some of the things we believe Andrew Wilson Charter School has gotten right. No doubt there are others, and the school is poised to perform substantially better than in years past. We look forward to their end-of-year results and the impact these changes will have on their students, families and community, and to seeing whether other schools that have struggled in the past can adopt the same approach, with the same success.
A Surprising New Look at School Spending in New Orleans


The consumer watchdog revealed that AU$2.9 million was reported as lost to hacking in 2016, up from a mere AU$700,000 in 2015.
According to Targeting scams: Report of the ACCC on scams activity 2016, businesses bore the brunt of these scams, with over half -- AU$1.7 million -- being attributed to businesses.
"While the digital economy presents many opportunities and efficiencies for businesses, it also presents significant risks," ACCC deputy chair Delia Rickard says in the report's foreword.
"Scams targeting businesses are becoming increasingly sophisticated using modern technology to make fake emails, invoices and websites appear legitimate to even the astute business person."
Online scams -- those executed via the internet, email, social networks, and mobile apps -- outnumbered phone-based scams in 2016, with an increase of 130 percent over 2015.
Elsewhere in the report, losses to online scams accounted for 58 percent -- AU$48.4 million -- of total losses, while social media was a particularly busy platform used by scammers to lure victims, netting losses of AU$9.5 million in 2016 compared with AU$3.8 million in 2015.
"A combined estimate of losses to this unreported scam activity is approximately AU$11.5 million," the report says. "An aggregate of losses reported to Scamwatch and ACORN, together with unreported losses detected through scam disruption programs show approximate overall losses of almost AU$300 million."


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TWO YEAR OLDS (2018 Foals)
OWNERS INFO
MELANDER RACING
Here is a link that gives further information to owners from each state;
http://owners.ustrotting.com/
Other useful links are
SBOANJ
PAHHA
SOAofNY
USTA Forms
Racing Day
Here are some of the questions frequently asked by potential or existing owners.
I am interested in getting involved as an owner, how do I get a horse?
As a prospective owner you have three main ways to access the sport, 1. you can buy a racehorse privately or at one of the major auctions 2. you can claim a racehorse out of a race at any of the major racetracks 3. you can buy a yearling (1 year old) and develop it into a racehorse.
Where will my horse be trained & raced?
Melander Racing is based in Wind Gap, Pennsylvania. I utilise the four major racetracks on the east coast, Yonkers Raceway, The Meadowlands, Harrah's Philadelphia & Pocono Downs, all four tracks are within 100 miles of the barn. I also have racetracks at Freehold, Tioga Downs & Monticello in close proximity to allow racing opportunities for certain horses.
Can I talk to Jenny about my horse?
Yes, call or text Jenny on 561-376-6242, if I am unable to answer I am either on the training track or at the races so leave a message and I will call you back as soon as possible. Alternatively you can email me at
melanderjenny@yahoo.com
How much does it cost to claim a horse?
The claim price is dependant upon which track you claim at, Harrah's Philadelphia the minimum claim tag is $10,000 and the higher levels are at $25,000. At Pocono Downs the minimum claim tag is $5,000 with the ceiling at $30,000. Both tracks race there $10,000 claimer class for approximately $8,500 in purses whilst their $20,000 claimer class race for around $16,000. At Yonkers the minimum claim tag is $12,500 and during the summer months this class race for $11,500 in purses and Yonkers maximum claim tag is $30,000 to $40,000. At the smaller tracks such as Monticello, Freehold & Tioga Downs the minimum claim tag is $4,000 whilst the maximum claim tag is around $12,500 to $15,000. These three tracks don't race for the same high purses. Most tracks enforce that any horses that are claimed at that track must continue to race there for at least 30 days and within the state for 60 days. This varies from track to track. A $35-40 USTA transfer fee is payable on every successful claim.
Do I receive regular invoices?
You will receive a fully itemised monthly statement, you can request statement via e-mail or regular mail. Monthly invoices are usually disperesed within 10 days after the end of the month. Generally veterinary fees and blacksmith charges are billed directly by the supplier.
Do I need a licence to race a horse?
Yes each state requires you to be licenced before your horse may be raced. There are links at the top of the page to various state commisions & also to Racing Licence who are very helpful for new owners.
Here is the link to the PA licence application:
http://www.agriculture.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_24476_10297_0_43/AgWebsite/FormDetail.aspx?name=Harness---New-Application-&navid=32&parentnavid=0&formid=227&
If I can't get to the racetrack to watch my horse live, can I watch the race online?
Yes, most tracks have live streaming on their websites and also offer race replays on their website as well. There is also a subscription service at www.racingday.com that offers live streaming & race replays for most tracks.