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Gordon Long: Gold swaps signal the road map ahead
11:27a ET Friday, July 23, 2010
Gordon T. Long, editor of the Tipping Points letter, examines the mysterious gold swaps recently undertaken by the Bank for International Settlements and speculates that they are steps toward a new international reserve currency partially backed by gold. Whether Long is right or wrong, his commentary is a reminder that central banking continues to seek to run the world by stealth and with contempt for democracy, the major central banks all having seats on the BIS board and all failing to provide an explanation of what's going on. In this the central bankers can rely on the absolute lack of curiosity of respectable gold market analysts and financial journalists, who either fail to put critical (or any) questions to central bankers or settle for refusals to answer.
Long's commentary is headlined "Sultans of Swap: Gold Swaps Signal the Road Map Ahead" and you can find it at the Tipping Points Internet site here:
http://home.comcast.net/~lcmgroupe/2010/Article-Sultans_of_Swap-Gold_Swa...
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Sona Resources Expects Positive Cash Flow from Blackdome,
Plans Aggressive Exploration of Elizabeth Gold Property
On May 18, 2010, Sona Resources Corp. (TSXV: SYS, Frankfurt: QS7) announced the release of a preliminary economic assessment for gold production at its flagship Blackdome and Elizabeth properties in British Columbia.
Sona Executive Chairman Nick Ferris says: "We view this as a baseline scenario for gold production. The project is highly sensitive to the price of gold. A conservative valuation of gold at $1,093 per ounce would result in a pre-tax cash flow of $54 million. The assessment indicates that underground mining at the two sites would recover 183,600 ounces of gold and 62,500 ounces of silver. Permitting and infrastructure are already in place for processing ore at the Blackdome mill, with a 200-tonne per day throughput over an eight-year mine life. Our near-term goal is to continue aggressive exploration at Elizabeth and develop a million-plus-ounce gold resource, commencing production in 2013."
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Prophecy to Become Coal Producer This Year
with 1.5 Billion Tonnes of Resource
Prophecy Resource Corp. (TSX.V: PCY) announced on May 11 that it has entered into a mine services agreement with Leighton Asia Ltd. to begin coal production this year. Production will begin with a 250,000-tonne starter pit as planned in August, with production advancing to 2 million tonnes per year in 2011. Prophecy is fully funded to production and its management team includes John Morganti, Arnold Armstrong, and Rob McEwen.
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After 13 years of being away Francisco Reyes returns to the public school Jimmy Carter, this time not as a student but as a teacher. There he "clashes" with the youngsters of 2017. Young teens that only follow the rules they feel like following where "bullying", "flaming" and "stalking", the powerful drug DMA, the addiction to cellphones and an endless thread of new issues brought by Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram prevail.
On top of all this, Francisco must figure out why the best student of the entire school, Luna Garcia tried to commit suicide.
Mr. Ezequiel, who continues to be the principal of the school thinks it is a joke they have sent as a teacher the student he so many times in the past had problems with; meanwhile for Gabriela Chavez, whom was also a student at the Jimmy and now a Physics teacher at the institution the arrival of Francisco is a great support to try and help these young kids get ahead in life: Mariana Trujillo or "Anabel", the most aggressive one, Camilo Aza whom spends more time at the Bronx than at school; Rubi Moreno or "Moby Dick" the fattest girl at the Paraiso neighborhood; Maria Monica Sanchez or "the Barby's" who considers that thanks to the internet her looks can be acknowledged; Brayan Largo "the Paisita" a pretty boy that says "it is better to hit the ball than to hit the books" and "Gigio" who makes a funny video that goes viral making him "the star" of school and of Bogota giving him the opportunity to even rub shoulders with Sebastian Villalobos and Daneidi Barrera better known as "Eh, eh, Epa Colombia".
Francisco will feel attracted to Gabriela, just like Mariana will set eyes on K, Rubi on Ricardo and even Daniel on Brayan because romance at school is always present and that is something that doesn't change even 13 years late.
TECHNICAL FILE
DIRECTOR: HERNEY LUNA - CONSUELO GONZÁLEZ
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: CÉSAR IBAGÓN - DANIEL SALGADO - MARITZA CASTRO
SCRIPTS: ANGÉLICA CADAVID - ÁNGELA GONZÁLEZ
SCRIPT WRITTERS: FERNÁN RIVERA - JUAN CARLOS TRONCOSO - JORGE ELKIM OSPINA
SCRIPT ASSISTANT: CINDY CORONADO
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: JORGE GIRALDO
MANAGER OF PRODUCTION: CAROLINA VERA
ART DIRECTOR: GONZALO MARTÍNEZ BUSTOS
DIRECTOR/PHOTOGRAPHY DESI: ALFONSO PARRA
VICTORIA ORTÍZ IS RUBY
Thanks to Rubi, to her physical appearance and her behavior, we can explore different types of bullying, she is the "chubby", smart and shy girl in the classroom. Despite being a really good human being, which the viewer has to discover very soon, her classmates don't appreciate her. On the contrary, they make fun of her and make her feel ugly. Especially Mariana and Barby's.
She is one of the smartest in her class, she worries about her grades and not getting in trouble. She is a good friend, helpful, understanding and very sweet.
The arrival of her rich "cousin", Sebas, helps her get the girls of her class, especially Barby's, to approach her… but the truth is that they just want to use her.
Rubi feels a lot lonelier when Luna's accident occurs, they are good friends, they used to do everything together and they support each other. The only company Rubi has now, is Fabian.
Fabian is her classmate, he is the only one who listens to her, understands her, supports her and even makes her feel pretty and special. Together, they begin a project as YouTubers.
Her mother, Lucia, and her father, Enrique, are very special with her, they love her and give her everything she needs to make her comfortable, her father agrees with her on everything, while Lucia reminds her with love that she must lose weight to look prettier and find a boyfriend.
KATHERINE ESCOBAR IS MARIANA
Mariana Trujillo, is the leader of 9A, they call her Anabel, because she is a doll but also diabolic at the same time, her classmates are not capable of telling her that and they think she doesn't know it, but she does, and she loves her evil nickname. She is a 15 year old girl who has imposed her will for a few years now in her class and in school. She is aggressive, dirty mouthed, a passionate fan of Millonarios (football team), the only rules she follows are the ones she creates, since most of her classmates suffer from nomophobia, she is stuck to her cellphone 24 hours a day.
Mariana started drinking alcohol when she was 13, tried marihuana when she was 14 and had sex with a man for the first time a couple of months ago. She doesn't think about her future because her past was a disaster and her present is terrible. She is an expert bully, her favorite technique is harassment with which she was able to take out their last class director and made three students change schools. She is also an expert in Flaming and Stalking.
Everything in her family is a real problem, her mother, Ana, doesn't pay enough attention to her taking care of her husband Carlos, a macho man, useless, alcoholic and who also beats his wife. Mariana suffers because her mother always leaves her in the background and this has made her hate her father more. Mariana always complains to her mother for being so submissive and asks her to leave the man who hurts her so much. On the other hand, Mariana has no filter when it comes the time to face her own dad.
Her weak spot is Juan K, her classmate, who she secretly loves and isn't capable of admitting to herself that she loves him.
ANDRÉS ROJAS IS JUANKA
He arrived at the school two years ago. Ever since he walked in the "Jimmy" he marked his territory, he got into a fight with some Seniors and earned the respect of the young crowd from that moment on. Juan Camilo is an average student, he doesn't talk too much, he doesn't have friends or enemies in school, he skips classes regularly and they all think it's because of some kind of vice. Many of his classmates say they have seen him around the "Bronx" area and he surely loses himself in all drugs they sell there.
More than a pretty boy, Juan Camilo is attractive, masculine, in one word, dirty-hot, more than one girl has approached him to earn his love but he doesn't seem to care for any girl at the Jimmy. In a couple of attempts, Mariana has ended up hurt by Juan K so she decided to say that she hates him, but she truly has the secret illusion of making the hot guy from school fall for her.
LAURA VILLA IS LUNA
She's a 15 year old girl, the best student at the Jimmy Carter School and the best behaved too. This is why she doesn't have a lot of friends because at the Jimmy, only the pretty girls and the strong boys are popular. She is adored by Ezequiel, because she is the one who makes his school look good.
Her best friend is Rubi, they love each other and do everything together. Luna is honest, helpful, respectful and an excellent friend and daughter.
She lives in a humble house with her mother and with her stepfather, Wilson, who she can't stand and doesn't feel comfortable with him, because she always feels like he is looking at her with dirty eyes and she doesn't think he loves her mom. Her relationship with Gloria, her mother, is wonderful, they love each other, they respect each other and trust each other, but the relationship starts to deteriorate when Luna talks to her mother about Wilson and tells her how he makes her feel. Gloria thinks her daughter is jealous because she isn't receiving 100 per cent of her attention and doesn't believe her.
MARÍA JOSÉ VARGAS IS JULIANA
Juliana is 12 years old, she is Brayan's younger sister. She is in the seventh grade and is going through what we call "the first times": the first kiss, cutting class, first love, first heartbreak, etc.
She is an educated, honest, respectful girl, a good student, good daughter and good sister. She spends her free time in front of her humble tablet watching videos on YouTube about how to win a man's heart and about fashion and beauty tips.
She feels that she fell in love with Daniel, her older brother's friend, a few months ago. She only lives for Daniel these days, everything she does, she doest it for him. This is the first time she falls in love and is excited about the idea of having a boyfriend and being loved back. She has no idea that he is gay.
Juliana will do everything in her power to be by Daniel's side and win his heart. All this, without even knowing that the person Daniel truly loves, is her own brother.
MARGARITA REYES IS GLORIA
Gloria is Luna's mother, she is her only daughter and therefore, her reason for living, she does everything to ensure her daughter's wellbeing.
Like everyone else at the Paraiso neighborhood, Gloria is a very humble woman, she lives in a small house with the necessary things to live, a house she shares with her daughter and with Wilson, her husband who isn't Luna's father. She is a kind woman and many, including Wilson, take advantage of her good heart.
She is a victim of her own beauty, because being so beautiful has brought her a lot of problems, in several occasions she has lost her job because her bosses have tried to sleep with her. But Gloria is the kind of woman who makes them respect her and has never yielded to her bosses' demands, so she decides to quit or wait until she is fired before losing her dignity.
Currently, she works at a factory in the industrial zone of the city, she earns enough to maintain her home, her daughter and even Wilson, who never has money. When Luna tries to kill herself, they give her a license to solve her personal issues.
Her main goal in life revolves around Luna, without a doubt, when Gloria was younger she couldn't go to college, so she works hard every day to help her daughter achieve what she couldn't: going to college and become a great lawyer some day. Luna inherited her mother's intelligence, beauty, dedication and modesty.
Blinded by the love she feels for Wilson, Gloria didn't listen to her daughter the many times she told her that Wilson was a bad man, that he looked at her with a dirty mind or that she heard him talking to other women in the bathroom. This is why, when Luna arrives at the hospital, almost dead, Gloria starts suspecting of the man who was, to her, the love of her life; she sees him now with other eyes, she doesn't want him around her or making love to him. All the love, fidelity and submission she used to live with, starts fading away.
Gloria finds, in Francisco, her guardian angel, a man who supports her from the moment her world starts crumbling down, he listens to her and worries about her. Gloria trusts him, he is her shoulder to cry on and the first person she looks for to talk, ask for advice or simply vent. Getting so close, it is inevitable for both of them to feel an attraction for each other.
EDINSON GIL IS FABIÁN
He is Gigio's younger brother. He is a very well behaved boy, his studies are important and he always works hard in school, he is a believer that in order to be great in life, you must be well prepared.
He spends so much time studying that Fabian doesn't have as many friends as Gigio does, Gigio is basically known all over the school. Fabian spends his time mostly alone.
His closest friend is Rubi, the chubby girl in class who he loves in secret. When Luna's event happens, they get closer and become inseparable. Fabian makes sure she is always ok and happy.
Fabian values the efforts his father makes, Alexander works all day and night in a taxi, that's why he dreams of being a great professional and make him proud of him. Fabian is greatly bothered when his brother acts rebelliously, he doesn't pass his grades or starts expanding his ear lobes to look "trendy", he feels like he only disappoints his father who is a righteous man. When Fabian thinks he needs it, he scolds his brother, because sometimes he behaves like a child.
He is a cute kid, but his good looks are hidden behind a bad hair do and his glasses. He is a wonderful, smart, passionate and determined human being
CRISTIAN DUQUE IS GIGIO
He is Fabian's older brother, he is 17 years old and is one of the oldest in the 9A class, this is the third time he goes to the ninth grade, because he isn't dedicated to his studies, his priorities are partying, spending time with his friends and getting girls.
He is a great friend, joyful, fun and helpful.
Gigio has a physical condition, he has "Dwarfism" but is never treated differently because of that, he plays football, he hangs out with the kids in school and the neighborhood and gets girls just like the other boys do.
Most of his time, he doesn't get along with his younger brother, Fabian, they are always arguing because of their personalities, they are so different and contradicting. Gigio is the rebel in his small family, which is made up by his brother and his father, Alexander. But if things aren't going well with his brother, they are worse with his father, because Gigio's rebellious ways, like getting expansions in his ear lobes, get him in trouble with Alexander, who spends the night in his taxi, working to support his children.
DYLAN FUENTES IS CRISTIAN
He is Brayan's and Gigio's good friend. He is a student at the Jimmy Carter School, he is a Senior and is 17 years old.
He is passionate about women and partying. He loves playing football and being with his friends. He is a natural womanizer, he doesn't hesitate to get the woman he wants and even having sex in school, if necessary, as he does with Lesly.
He is an excellent friend, a little bit rebellious, a flirt and a fun guy. He likes singing and is good at it, especially when it comes to reggaeton.
GUILLERMO BLANCO IS SEBASTIÁN
Sebastian Samper is a rich boy, his parents have gotten him used to having everything he wants. When he turned 16 he was already the owner of an apartment on the North of the city and a BMW, he gets all the girls he wants. The most Southern thing he knows in the city is the Salitre Plaza Mall.
His life is more than determined, he will finish school in the best and most expensive institution of the country ,he will study English in England, French in France, German in Germany and then he will start a career in Business in some university in the United States. But everything will crumble when his parents are taken to prison for a major scam.
With his parents in prison, and finding out that all of his friends turned their backs on him, Sebas has to move in with his aunt Lucia, Moby Dick's mother. She is his father's half sister and the only relative who wanted to lend him a hand so he wouldn't end up in Child Services Protection.
Obviously, living with his aunt Lucia, starts going to the Jimmy Carter School, a school full of tacky people who he hates and kids who hate rich kids. The change of schools and house is brutal for Sebas.
As soon as Maria Monica sees him, she thanks God for sending her the man she is going to marry and starts her hunt, more than love is pure interest. But he is very clear on never being with a tacky girl, and knows he will never make friends with the kind of people in that school.
JUAN FELIPE ARCILA IS DANIEL
He is Brayan Largo's best friend, he is loyal, friendly, a good partner, simple and he is also gay. He is deeply in love with Brayan and his mother is the only one who knows it. He trusts her completely and talks to her about everything that happens in his life as a student and his sex life too.
He can't confess his feelings towards Brayan because he knows he will lose him forever.
Like everyone else in the neighborhood, he is a humble kid, and unlike Brayan, he is calm, doesn't resort to violence and is a very good student.
KEVIN BURITICÁ IS BRAYAN
He is the cute boy at the Jimmy, he is 15 years old and has a nice body, which he likes to show off every chance he gets, he is wanted by all the girls in the school and he knows it, he uses his physical appearance to make them do his homework, lend him money, take him out, in other words, for everything. He works out every day and his muscles are his saviors when one of his friends gets in trouble. His family has been displaced by the violence in the country, they were forced out of their land three years ago and they ended up in Bogota.
Despite the fact that he has always been after Maria Monica, she hasn't even looked at him, one, because he is as poor as she is and two, because he is black, yes, he is a spectacular black kid, but Barby's thinks that the only men who will be successful in life are white, with green eyes and blonde. Maria Monica knows that she will not even give him a kiss, and the more she rejects him, the more love Brayan feels for her.
Brayan, despite being analytical and intellectually curious, doesn't like to study, he doesn't think he needs it, just like his great idols didn't need it: Lionel Messi didn't graduate high school and neither did Cristiano Ronaldo, and each one of them makes more than one million Euro a month, they own mansions all over the world and large car collections. "It's better to kick the ball".
DANIELLE ARCINIEGAS IS BARBY'S
She is the pretty girl at the Jimmy, with a pretty face and a perfect body, a little bit "tacky" because she doesn't have enough money to dress well. In fact, her parents are some of the poorest in the neighborhood, which really bothers her and complains to them about it every day.
Barby's hates poverty and loves money, jewelry, men with cars, luxuries and traveling. She knows she is pretty and doesn't hesitate to use her beauty to achieve what she wants.
She is in love with Brayan, but she thinks she will never have a future with him because he is as poor as she is and doesn't have anything to offer her. When Sebas arrives at school, Barby's doesn't hesitate to approach the rich kid and make him fall for her to use his money, however, Sebas isn't interested in her at all. Barby's will not give up so easily until she gets something from him, even if it means putting her love for Brayan to the side.
Her accomplice, friend and advisor is her cousin Melissa, she tells her everything and completely trusts her. Barby's isn't interested in studying, she doesn't care about making good grades, she is worried about looking good, staying in shape and going out with men with money.
She is calculating, interested and superficial, but also a little bit naïve. Her biggest dream is for a man with money to support her and give her everything she feels she deserves.
CARLOS TORRES IS FRANCISCO
Francisco Quintana is the new Francisco. He is between 34 and 38 years old.
He is an educator born in a middle to rich class, but has always been a warrior, leader of ideological proposals, but not lazy at all, a teacher who is very committed to teaching like the Juan Francisco from the story's previous versions.
He studied at the Universidad Distrital, a bachelor's degree in Mathematics, and immediately started working as a Provisional Professor at the Castilla District Institute; this was thirteen years ago, when youth conflicts were different and in a school where boys from a middle-class neighborhood attended it.
He moved overseas, in Spain he earned a Master's degree in Educational Informatics (which is why he believes this is a very valid resource) and in Chile he earned the Master's degree in mathematics education. He returned to Colombia and went to the District Secretary and was appointed by a merit contest, with a high score, at that time he was ranked as 3A by score and titles acquired.
Due to his way of thinking, he accepted the appointment to the District Prison, where he worked for three years, which allowed him to submit to a new promotion contest and is currently ranked as 3B, earning about 4 million pesos and ensuring some economic stability (They cannot fire him that easily). At that time he wanted to teach in a school to approach the youth, he considered that his stage with inmates in re-socialization processes was over and he wanted to go back to the classrooms. He never imagined all the complications he would run into with the model youth of 2017.
He believes blindly in constructivist education, where the teacher is not the "almighty" who only transmits knowledge, but a person who guides the student to deduce, experiment and refine that knowledge.
His physical appearance is very nice, without the need to drive the students crazy, because the girls prefer to call him the "cool teacher" and with his success he begins to earn the respect of the entire student community and the envy of some teachers.
He is confused by a strong attraction for both, Gloria and Gabriela.

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Andrew Hudson sees a good future for the Southdown breed.
Breed is the starting point - using the finest breeds creates a unique depth of flavour that gives his butchery business an important point of difference from other retailers and is a reason why he has such a loyal customer base.
Andrew had been finishing rare breed pigs for a local butcher when he added four in-lamb Southdown ewes to his livestock enterprise in the village of Smallburgh, near Norwich.
"I wanted some sheep to keep the grass down in an orchard and bought four ewes from Hugh Clark's Moulton flock at a sale in Newmarket.
When those ewes lambed, Andrew kept the progeny and expanded the flock.
Fast forward 20 years and the pedigree Gragunn flock of Southdowns now numbers 95 in addition to 30 Southdown x Charollais ewes.
Andrew started growing numbers in the early 2000s, at a point when he became a partner in Tavern Tasty Meats, a butcher's shop in Swafield, North Walsham, which specialises in traditional and rare breeds.
"My partner primarily ran the shop but as time went on I became more involved and I bought my partner out in 2015,'' explains Andrew, whose wife, Claire, is a joint director. They have since opened a second butcher's shop, at Horning.
Andrew's dual roles of farmer and butcher are a good combination. "Being a butcher helps you to fine tune what you are doing as a farmer, you don't always get it right but you know what you are aiming for.
He runs the farm at The Grange in partnership with his mother, Mary. The 220-acre farm with its Grade 1 loam soil is mostly down to arable with grazing fields rented in for the sheep, 60 acres of mostly Broadland marsh ground.
"The grazing is not the best quality land but the Southdowns do well on it,'' says Andrew.
Tupping takes place in the second or third week of October. Southdown tups have been sourced from Michael and Gail Sprake's All Saints flock, and last September two were acquired from a sale in Melton Mowbray.
"We don't show so what we aim for is something that is going to throw a good carcass,'' explains Andrew, who keeps the tups with the ewes and shearlings for 35 days.
The Southdown produces the ideal carcass for butchers like Jack Martin, who works for Andrew and Claire at Tavern Tasty Meats.
The flock scans at an average of 145% but it has achieved a scanning percentage as high as 170%.
Ewe nuts and home-produced haylage is fed to the sheep pre-lambing. There is no supplementation at other times but Andrew admits he has come close to it during particularly dry summers.
The flock returns to the farm to lamb indoors, with lambing getting underway on March 17th.
Some of Andrew's grazing agreements preclude him from turning sheep onto the land until April 1st so the earlier-lambing ewes and lambs remain indoors with access to sheltered open yards.
Lambs are weaned at the end of July and he aims for a carcass grade of R3L or better. "As long as I get R3L I am happy,'' says Andrew, who has the lambs slaughtered at an abattoir in Norwich.
A family affair – Andrew and Claire's children get involved in running the flock.
Andrew targets a deadweight of 20kg. "The Southdowns are not a big sheep and suit this job well. With a bigger carcass, the lamb gets expensive because the joints of meat are bigger.
Andrew admits he once had a sentimental approach to culling the poorer performers out of the flock but economics swayed that attitude.
"I used to be too sentimental. I might have a good ewe but she would have a difficult lambing. I would think to myself that I should give her a chance at another lambing so I would keep her but at the next lambing she would get mastitis or something else would go wrong.
Foot problems are few and far between so treatment is on a case by case basis. "Every now and then we footbath because we get the odd case of foot rot but we don't do it as routine,'' says Andrew.
He sees a good future for the Southdown thanks to a movement back to more traditional carcasses but he acknowledges that is against a backdrop of good demand for very lean meat produced by Continental breeds.
"The Southdown Sheep Society has done a lot to promote the breed as a way forward and there is definitely a place for it,'' he says.


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Chris Smith: People Want the Advertising Standards Authority to Act on Political Claims
This is another fascinating little video from RT's Going Underground. Host Afshin Rattansi talks to the former cabinet minister under Blair, Chris Smith, above his decision to oppose the Invasion of Iraq, his work in the Advertising Standards Authority, and Brexit.
Smith was Blair's Culture Secretary, and the author of a book, Creative Britain. The cover showed him wielding a professional movie/TV camera. He states he opposed the Iraq invasion because it was 'obviously the wrong the policy'. He also states that during his time with the Advertising Standards Authority, people wrote in asking them if they could possibly act against the misleading political advertising in elections. Smith states that this is sadly impossible. Their constitution limits them to commercial advertising only, and they have no power to prosecute or punishment politicians that lie.
On the subject of Brexit, he and Rattansi clearly hold different views. Smith appears to be a Remainer, while Rattansi believes that the EU is unreformable. Smith states that it was ludicrous to leave such a powerful grouping of countries. As for reform, this very much on the agenda now, with Macron advocating a series of them. After leaving office, Smith was elevated to the Upper House, and Rattansi asks him how the Lords will handle the government's Brexit legislation. Smith states that they won't challenge democracy, but they will scrutinize it very thoroughly to make sure that Britain gets the very best deal. And he states clearly that they will also examine very carefully the government's Repeal Bill, which gives the government massive powers in all areas of life.
This interview is worth watching for Smith's statement how people have written to him and the other members of the ASA because of the lies disseminated by the political parties. He didn't mention them, but the most flagrant falsehoods have been made by the Tories and UKIP. Mike, Johnny Void, Tom Pride, and the Angry Yorkshireman, as well as DPAC, Stilloaks and others too many to mention here have spent years debunking and critiquing the lies spouted by David Cameron, Theresa May, and their Lib Dem enablers before the coalition broke up. The worst and most pernicious of these lies has arguably been against the disabled, defending a brutal and malign assessment system, which has seen millions of genuinely disabled people thrown off the benefits they need, simply because Blairite, and then Tory dogma, dictated that they had to be malingerers. This has left thousands in desperate poverty, and in hundreds of cases it result in that person's death from starvation and misery. And despite the fact that some of these poor souls actually wrote down before they ended their lives with their own hands that they were driven to do so by the assessment system, Iain Duncan Smith, Damian Green, Esther McVie and the rest of the vile crew infesting the DWP have denied that there is any link between their deaths and the work capability assessment.
And the lies the Tories are spreading against the disabled are whipping up hatred against them. Thanks to the rags like the Heil, Scum and Depress informing their readers that the benefits system is awash with fraud when it really isn't, disabled people have been subjected to increasing abuse and physical assault. Many of Mike's disabled readers have posted comments describing their own experiences, or those of the people they care for. And I've heard the same thing from disabled friends of mine.
And then there's the lies told by the DWP to defend the indefensible sanctions system, which has seen millions thrown off much-needed welfare support and onto food banks to keep body and soul together. These are imposed for the most trivial reasons, such as being a few minutes late. In very many cases there were extremely good reasons why the person could not make their interview: they were in hospital, or there was an emergency with a sick child. It makes no difference. They're still sanctioned. Whistleblowers have said that there is a quota in place, so that Jobcentres must get a set number of people off their books. Those clerks, who have stopped the most people from receiving benefit get rewarded with Easter eggs and marshal's stars. But the Tories go on lying about this as well.
Last week, the head of a jobcentre in Scotland claimed that Jobscentre staff weren't cruel and heartless, but carried out their duties, including the imposition of sanctions, in 'a supportive way'. You what? Too many people have made it clear that the treatment they receive by these wretched petty bureaucrats is deliberately demeaning and humiliating for this to be remotely credible. I've experienced it myself. And Thatcher even said that she wanted the welfare system to go back to the old attitude that the poor were to be discouraged from relying on the state aid to become more self-reliant and look for work. This is less eligibility, the ideology on which the workhouses were run.
As for the official unemployment figures, this have been subjected to political interference ever since Thatcher came to power nearly four decades ago. They are so unreliable that I give absolutely zero credence to the Tory claims that our unemployment rate under them is somehow miraculously low. Mike has himself put up the arguments from other economists and political activists showing that the real figure is much higher.
And the Tory Brexiteers are lying again now. Remember how BoJo the Clown told us that we gave £350 million a year to the EU – which was itself a lie – and then said on the Leave Campaign's battle bus that if we voted to Leave, it would all be spent on the NHS? That was a lie. We left, and it hasn't been. And Boris the Menace then went on air and the press to huff and puff in his Eton-cultured voice to say that he hadn't made that promise at all. They just meant that it could be spent on the NHS, and things like it.
And now he's back, repeating the same lie. He really has absolutely no shame. I'd say it was amazing, but it really isn't. He's a liar from an entire party of liars. These are people so crooked, that to borrow a phrase from Hunter S. Thompson, they have to get their aides to screw them into their pants in the morning.
It's time to stop the lies, and end the culture of lying. It's time to vote for Corbyn and a revived Labour party and get them into government.
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I agree with most of this post, however, in my 60 odd years of life on this earth I have found that there are not many politicians in who you can believe in, be they red, blue, green, purple, orange, yellow and others. However, there are some in which there is some form of belief and others practicably none. They all promise the earth and unfound riches in their manifestos and only when they assume power can the truths be revealed.
You cast your vote and hope for the best.
Regarding Brexit nothing has come forth as we have not Brexited and will not be doing so until March 2019 or may be not, depending on whether there will be a transition deal or not.
Everything is so up in the air and no one on either side in the UK or Europe can be sure of the final outcome. We can all speculate on what the outcome or outcomes will or can be and who will be in power if and when we do or not do Brexit.
That length of string is getting longer or is it shorter, day by day


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The Palms Golf Club is the oldest golf course in Mesquite, Nevada, and is one of the most well-maintained you will find and has continued to flourish and mature in its years. Opened in 1989, the course has been very well-maintained with large forgiving fairways, over 200 fully mature palm trees, large undulations especially on the back nine, and beautiful water features and landscapes.
The Palms Golf Club is technically in Arizona, but is located in the Mesquite, Nevada area and has a good blend of both a traditional layout and a desert style course also. The front nine has a more traditional layout, with all grass and large, generous fairways that reward longer hitters. Twenty-eight acres of water come into play on several holes. However, the back nine will put a good test to all skill levels, being mostly mountainous, with large undulations throughout and unforgiving canyons weaving through the course. Shot placement and accuracy are the keys on the back nine.
One of the signature holes at the Palms Golf Club is the par-5, 507 yard 15th hole. The hole is particularly stunning with amazing views and over 100 foot drop to the fairway below.
Many golf packages are available that include the Palms Golf Club through the hotels and casinos in Mesquite, specifically the Oasis Resort and Casino.
Following your round, you can enjoy the spacious clubhouse with terrific views of the golf course with a tasty beverage or food from the bar area.
Mesquite is a resort town growing to a population of close to 20,000 in the picturesque Virgin River Valley. The town combines a small town atmosphere with several big city-type attractions, including hotels and 24-hour gaming casinos, fine dining, celebrity entertainment, and gorgeous golf courses, to accompany a very scenic drive to the Mesquite area.
Take a trip to Mesquite to enjoy a great round at the Palms Golf Club for beautiful scenery and fun, enjoyable golf on your next visit.
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Just over 80 miles. A very scenic, easy drive from Las Vegas.


Sara Croymans began her career in Extension 26 years ago as a Youth Development educator and for the past 20 years has been with the Center for Family Development. Sara has been a co-author of journal manuscripts and a book chapter and presented at national conferences. Sara engages with communities and participants to provide programming on military family transitions, disaster financial recovery, and financial capability with a variety of participants.She has served as ESP Pi Chapter newsletter editor, secretary and currently as Treasurer.
International Service Recognition recipient is Nathan Winter. Nathan has developed relationships & connections in Kisii, Kenya where he traveled and educated women about business plans for the village owned corn milling machine, sewing center, phone charging stations and a potential well construction. Nathan used his Extension skills to build vibrant businesses in the village of Kisii. Congratulations Nathan and thank you for broadening the Extension reach around the world!
The Retiree Service Award recipient has been an asset to Extension both during his career and in his retirement. While in Extension he wore many hats from county agent to District Director to Director of Field Operations to Chief Financial Officer and he was a champion for Extension work. In his retirement, David Werner accepted the position of Scholarship Chair for the MN Pi Chapter. He has used his financial expertise with the MN Extension Workers Scholarship Fund which provides over $5,000 in scholarships annually to ESP annual and life members for professional development. David and the committee have created a new annual member incentive program encouraging new members and clarified the frequency of application for scholarship funds. David is proof that you can continue to serve and give back to Extension after retirement!
The Visionary Leadership Award is presented to Jane Johnson, University of Minnesota Extension and Minnesota 4-H Chief Development Officer. Jane directs and oversees all of Extension development efforts and through her leadership, she has devised new fundraising strategies and initiatives leading Extension forward in new directions including fund campaigns to support Extension strategic initiatives and emerging priorities. Jane works closely with donors who want to invest and support priority initiatives and annual 4-H scholarships. Thank you Jane for working across the state to develop donors to continue Extension's mission long into the future.
The Diversity Multicultural Team Award is given to the "Teaching American Indian youth Financial Education using Traditional Storytelling as the Framework" team. This team is using an innovative approach in the development and delivery of non-conventional financial education where lessons were created using culture as the framework, resulting in meaningful culturally appropriate education. The youth indicated in evaluations they could relate to the traditional stories and could connect the topics to their everyday lives. The team has presented their work on this project in Minnesota and nationally. Congratulations to Jennifer Garbow and Becky Hagen Jokela.
Distinguished Team Award - When it comes to teamwork and the commitment needed to make a difference, this team has done it well. The team working on the effort: "Keeping Youth Safe: Risk Management for Volunteers" has had a significant reach. The 4-H Youth Development "Risk Management for Volunteers" Team developed, implemented and evaluated a plan to prepare Minnesota 4-H's volunteer corp to manage risk when working with young people. The key to volunteer readiness was preparing staff to train and support volunteers as they created and carried out risk management plans. This team used the work of an earlier team who reviewed and made changes to the MN 4-H YD risk management practices and updated resources and trained YD staff across the state. The Risk Management for Volunteers team then took those resources and created a suite of tools and training for volunteers and to ready staff to train volunteers. What a great example of teamwork that prepares and equips volunteers to keep youth safe in 4-H programming.
Stephanie O'Donnell is the recipient of the Pi Chapter Meritorious Support Service Recognition award. Stephanie is a customer data management and integration professional in Extension Technology and works with the registration process. She consults and works with educators to develop and streamline registration systems for their programs. She provides clarity and finds solutions to registration issues and provides superb customer service by responding quickly and professionally. Stephanie is committed to supporting Extension professionals so they can carry out educational programming efforts seamlessly through online technologies. Thank you Stephanie for making online registrations work so well!
Apply for awards online here. Hover your mouse on the award category headers (above the title Recognition Forms Submission Website) for a drop down list of awards.
Select and complete the appropriate award. The form requires the email of the Chapter Recognition Chair in order for the recognition chair to receive a copy of your completed application form. My email address is: kharries@umn.edu.
The Distinguished Team Award is designed to recognize outstanding efforts of Extension staff teams for responding to and incorporating into a specific educational program one or more critical issues. Parenting in the Age of Overindulgence Online Course was developed by a multidisciplinary team from the Family Development Center. The course was developed for parents, childcare providers, teachers, caregivers, and professionals with an overarching goal to increase self-awareness and self-efficacy needed to reduce parental/caregiver overindulgence and provide educational information, strategies and tools in an easily accessible and effective online format.
Results from the first year of this coarse revealed that the course post survey had 72 respondents. Ninety-five percent of the survey participants were proficient in correctly identifying examples of overindulgence. Ninety-four percent of the survey participants indicated the "Test of Four," a tool to recognize overindulgence in a given situation, would be useful in assessing overindulgence when applied to their life circumstances. Congratulations to members of the Parenting in the Age of Overindulgence Online Course team: Becky Hagen-Jokela, Kelly Kunkel, Ellie McCann, Jean Illsley Clarke, and Lisa Krause.
This award is designed to recognize continuing contributions and outstanding service by retired Extension professionals. This year we recognize Diane Damerow. Diane helps to coordinate the SE MN Retiree groups with Marian Anderson. They keep track of the names and emails of all the retirees in the region and schedule twice a year gathering of the group. In addition Diane is very active with her local hospital auxiliary and serves on the Statewide Hospital Auxiliary Board. Congratulations, Diane!


When the cold months of winter are approaching, it is time to take a serious look at your furnace. Depending on when your home was built, it might be time for a new unit all together. Remember that an old furnace can increase your utility bills by quite a bit, as many were not built to be energy efficient. At the same time, furnaces that are beyond their expiration date may cost you dearly in the form of repair expenses. This is not even mentioning the discomfort that you will feel if the furnace decides to stop working in the middle of a snowstorm. If you are considering a new furnace installation, there are a few things that you should know.
A new furnace requires a professional installation. You will want to make sure that this is done right, so hiring a trained technician is the route that you will need to take. This is critical on so many levels, as the heating of your home is at stake. You will want to check reviews out online and ask your friends and neighbors for any recommendations. While price is important, you are also looking for expertise. If you get a good furnace, and it is properly installed, you can count on many years of warm and cozy evenings in your house.
No matter how good your furnace is working today, you will want to remember to conduct proper maintenance on it. This goes for a new furnace as well. You will want to have a technician that you trust come out and make sure that everything is in good working order. Most companies will have a service package that you can use to have a technician come out at the beginning of each season. This will go a long way towards preserving the integrity of your furnace.
Remember to get your furnace properly installed. This is how you can rest easy at night knowing that everyone in the family is nice and warm. This will protect your health as well.


Back in New York… or shall I say the freezer? I had thought that below a certain level of cold – say minus 10 – it is all the same, which is too cold. But no, no, no… there are 50 shades of cold below freezing! And the bone chilling, face freezing cold of this winter of 2015 is the worst I have ever known. One look outside, and I was ready to get back on that plane and go back for another two months! That too, after a flight of 14 hours… Yeah, exactly like Punxsutawney Phil who saw his shadow on Feb 2nd and went back into his burrow for another 6 weeks of slumber!
Spent about two months in the beautiful tropics. Of all the things I managed to see and do this time around – blue oceans with sandy beaches, hikes on green mountains, visits to tea estates and factories, houseboat rides on backwaters – what has made a lasting impression on me is a street play I saw in Calicut, Kerala… yes, that sliver of a state in the south western corner of India.
The aim of the play was to focus attention on the rise of superstitions and their exploitative tendencies in the Kerala society.
It was organized by Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP: Kerala People's Science Movement – not a literal translation).
KSSP is a unique social scientific movement in Kerala that came into being with the dual aims of bringing science and scientific thinking to the common people and influencing the direction of scientific research into channels that will benefit the people. It is unique in the sense that among all the socially relevant popular movements anywhere in the world, there is no other such organisation that has an exclusive focus on science and scientific mindedness. And if Kerala has topped the United Nations Human Development Index despite its high population density and low per capita income, making it stand apart from the rest of India, KSSP and the scientific temper it has managed to popularise, have a major role in that achievement for sure.
The brainchild of a group of scientists and science writers, KSSP was formally established in 1962. KSSP's concentration on active communications and education has paid off big time, making it an integral part of the Kerala social fabric. KSSP is the largest publisher of science and technology themed books in the state of Kerala. It also publishes four periodicals, two of them meant for children. Science quizzes and talent tests are conducted at primary and secondary school levels and science clubs are organised throughout the state. KSSP has carried out successful campaigns against industrial pollution, deforestation, unwise water management policies, etc.
In addition to traditional outreach mechanisms like lectures and symposiums, and articles published in newspapers, KSSP uses 'kala jatha', an art form encompassing elements of street theater and folk story telling traditions to increase awareness and nurture a scientific outlooks among the population. Teams travel throughout the towns and villages of the state performing in front of audiences large and small. The kala jathas spread socially relevant messages based on scientific facts and generally promote scientific thinking and reasoning among the populace.
The performance that I was fortunate enough to see was part of 'Nattu Pacha'. Google Translate gave me 'indigenous green' as the English synonym, which even I know is nowhere near the intended meaning… would 'the goodness of the countryside' work? Roughly, I would say.
As part of Nattu Pacha kala jatha, ten groups of performers travelled throughout the state and performed the play at over 400 venues. The main factor behind the success of the effort is nothing other than the dedication of all those involved.
I do not remember the names of the actors; this was not a performance that hinges around a few stars… this was a joint venture in the true sense of the word. With the minimum of props and costumes, the actors brought out the story of what happens to a hitherto peaceful village when religious powers, supported by exploitative commercial interests, move in and take control of people's minds.
It was like, in a manner of minutes, a barren playground turned into an elaborate stage, riveting the audience's attention.
The ease with which the actors slipped in and out of character is amazing, especially when you consider that none of the participants are professionally trained actors. And I loved the background singers who equaled if not surpassed the actors.
The next time I'm in Kerala, the first thing on my to-do list will be to check for any interesting activities organised by KSSP!
P.S. I'm sorry that in a small blog post, it is not possible to even touch upon all of KSSP's activities; so, read about it all at the KSSP's own website.
Grab samples from the work space of a unique People's Science Movement.
The theme science for social revolution is luminously obvious in the fusion of the two cultures.
Great to be a small atom of the macroKSSPmolecule.
An excellent summary of activities of KSSP and on life in Kerala. Thanks.
I like the theme of the street play.
I love reading your posts! Welcome back!


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Dry eyes result when tears do not adequately lubricate the eye. Dry eye may also be caused by the drying out of the tear film.
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What are dry eyes?
The eye depends on the presence of a tear film to provide constant moisture and lubrication to maintain vision and comfort. Tears are a combination of:
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However, these tears are mostly water and do not have the lubricating qualities or the rich makeup of normal tears. They will wash dirt away from the eye, but they will not coat the eye surface properly. In addition, because these emergency tears tend to arrive too late, the eye needs to regenerate and restore itself, and treatment is necessary.
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The majority of patients with dry eye have chronic inflammation (swelling) in the tear glands (lacrimal glands) that line the eyelid and in the conjunctiva (the thin lining on the inside of the eyelids and the front part of the eye). Just like inflammation in a knee, the lungs, or liver, this chronic inflammation can permanently damage the tear gland tissue to the point that treatment becomes ineffective.
In addition to an imbalance in the tear-flow system of the eye, dry eye can be caused by the drying out of the tear film. This can be made worse by dry air created by air conditioning, heat, or other environmental conditions. Many patients also have ocular rosacea (meibomian gland dysfunction), an abnormality of the glands on the edge of the eyelid (meibomian glands) that are supposed to produce the oil to prevent evaporation of the tears. When a patient has both dry eye and ocular rosacea, not only does he or she produce too few tears, but the tears he or she does make evaporate too quickly.
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A home grown Fig Tree produces possibly the most indulgent fruit you can get. You will not normally find fresh Figs in the supermarket because once picked they don't keep very well, so growing your own fruit is a highly desirable option for fig lovers.
Our Fig Trees can grow up to 10ft tall unrestricted in the garden, or by growing in a container you can keep them smaller and ultimately get more fruit from them.


Older people "don't go out much", they "chew funny", are "all wrinkled and short", or even "have heart attacks and die". These were the frank and blunt answers that Jantz et al (1976) got in their classic study, when they asked preschool children to describe aged people (in Dellmann-Jenkins & Yang, 2011: 422).
The media are not much better, in the way they portray people over 65 years of age. Older adults form a significant and ever-growing segment of the population in most western societies but this ever increasing group is barely visible in the media. Older people are seldom featured, and if they are it is often in a stereotyped and negative way. This absence of nuanced media representations can hinder the construction of a balanced public opinion about older persons. How media portray older people is crucial, because it affects how the different age groups think about each other today -and how they will interact tomorrow.
The media's selection and representation of topics is not simply a reflection of reality (Fealy & McNamara, 2009: 21). Rather is it the result of a 'framing' process, in which some chosen aspects are made more salient, to make the story understandable to the reader, viewer or listener. By framing topics in a specific manner, media thus propose a particular perspective. They also suggest which aspects are considered important and newsworthy –and which are not (Durrant et al, 2003). Apparently, older people are seldom deemed newsworthy. There is a consistent underrepresentation and stereotyping of older people in media, as numerous studies have shown (e.g. Lauzen & Dozier 2005; Robinson et al 2007; Fealy & McNamara, 2009). Some stereotypes are positive, e.g. the perfect grandparent or the 'golden ager', but most are considered negative, e.g. the victim, the impaired or the depressed older person (Martin, 2009; Fealy & McNamara, 2009). Is this problematic? It may be. When younger people have a positive, benevolent image of older people, they are more inclined to interact with them (McCann et al, 2005). Positive representations of older people therefore stimulate the dialogue between the generations.
"I went through my forties and into my fifties. (…) I forgot about growing older. (…) I didn't really want to look at or listen to those finished old people. Even "vital" ones. I didn't want to be contaminated by them. (…) But why did we all seem to feel the need to distance ourselves from age, the closer we got to it?" (Friedan, 1993: 13-20).
The German demographic expert Elisabeth Niejahr noticed a similar 'avoiding attitude' towards ageing. Niejahr describes how studies among retirees invariably show that they 'feel younger than they are'. This, Niejahr states, could be considered as a sign of vitality and lust for life -or as a collective delusion. "Old are always only the others. Everybody wants to get old, but nobody wants to be old." (Niejahr, 2004: 16).
The truth is, we are all getting older. And although the ageing of the European society has long been recognized, we do not fully seem to realize what social changes it will bring about, or which "challenges for the welfare systems and public finances" will emerge (Eurobarometer, 2012: 5). Currently, many baby-boomers are entering their sixties and starting to retire (Eurobarometer 2012). At the same time, birth rates are falling. These changes will cause a decline in the work force over the next decades. At some point, the senior forty percent of the population will no longer be working or paying into the social security system, but will still hope to receive its pensions and social security benefits; financed by ever fewer younger, working people (Niejahr, 2004). Different generations will have to sustain an intelligent conversation with one another to make sure these issues are addressed. The way the older sections of the population are portrayed is therefore important.
What is thought, spoken, and read about older people now, will influence the response to the challenges in society that lay ahead. The media can assume an important role in this process by presenting older adults more often, and reporting about them in a diversified way.
• Friedan, B. (1993). The fountain of age. New York: Simon & Schuster.


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Elite schools' turmoil: Staff exodus, principal investigated
Two elite colleges are in turmoil, with board resignations, sudden staff departures and the principal under investigation amid concerns about a 'sex scandal'.
by Kylie Lang, Greg Stolz
TWO elite colleges are in turmoil, with board resignations, sudden staff departures and the executive principal under investigation amid his concerns about an alleged school sex scandal.
James Sloman, executive principal of Moreton Bay College and Moreton Bay Boys' College, has been on personal leave for seven weeks and under investigation since August over allegations including "inappropriate, intimidating and belittling behaviour".
An independent investigation was launched by the schools' joint board after complaints were received from angry parents and current and former staff.
Mr Sloman has hit back, calling in his own lawyers and lodging formal bullying and whistleblower complaints against the Uniting Church-associated school over allegations he is being victimised.
James Sloman, executive principal of Moreton Bay College and Moreton Bay Boys' College, has been on personal leave for weeks. Photo: AAP Image/Richard Gosling
Mr Sloman denies the allegations against him and believes he is being targeted by a group of parents upset at a major overhaul of the school swimming program after he raised concerns including an alleged relationship between a swim coach and a married parent, college sources said.
An investigation into the swimming program last year raised concerns about "dubious practices, underperformance and a poor culture".
Mr Sloman this week lodged a "stop bullying" complaint against the colleges with the Fair Work Commission.
The bitter and protracted battle has resulted in a mass staff exodus as well as senior board members, including chairman John Eisenmenger, resigning in January.
Sources said up to 50 staff, including two swim coaches, had left or been sacked since Mr Sloman's appointment in 2015. Sources also said Mr Eisenmenger and another board member, Sylvia Grigg, resigned in protest at Mr Sloman's alleged treatment.
New board chairwoman Samantha O'Brien said it was not appropriate for the board to discuss the matter.
The issue has divided the joint school community of PrePrep to Year 12 colleges, with some parents and staff bitterly opposing Mr Sloman and others strongly supporting him. Picture: AAP Image/Attila Csaszar
The Uniting Church in Australia, Queensland Synod, declined to comment.
The issue has divided the joint school community of PrePrep to Year 12 colleges, with some parents and staff bitterly opposing Mr Sloman and others strongly supporting him.
Anxious parents and staff told The Courier-Mail that popular, long-term staff had been "shafted".
"More alarming, though, are the quick exits," one parent said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
"The high turnover is unacceptable and the kids don't get to say goodbye. It's having a huge effect on learning - many would be much-loved, and here one day, gone the next.
"Little kids are very distressed, and for older students heading into Year 12 it can't help but have an impact on their mental health and academic output."
Another parent said: "Girls in the senior school had seven different maths teachers in one year."
But another parent said Mr Sloman had been targeted by "activist parents" upset at an overhaul of the swim program, including the departure of two coaches, and an investigation into a board member over conflict-of-interest issues.
"These activist parents got the ear of the board, made a lot of noise and the board sided with the parents," he said.
The Courier-Mail understands several current and former staff are receiving treatment for mental health issues after the alleged bullying by the executive principal. Picture: AAP Image/Attila Csaszar
"It's nothing more than vindictive retribution against James for trying to clean up a long-running problem."
In September, the colleges, through their solicitors Clayton Utz, engaged Q Workplace Solutions to "conduct a private, confidential and legally privileged investigation".
The colleges' business operations director, Nicole Hawkins, left at the end of 2019.
Parents were not notified of Mr Eisenmenger's resignation and were only told of Mr Sloman's extended "personal leave" on February 27, four weeks after Term 1 began.
A former senior member of staff said parents and staff were "beyond frustrated".
"The lack of transparency and communication from the board are not in line with Christian values and have created a culture of fear and mistrust in the community."
Moreton Bay College Principal James Sloman has hit back, calling in his own lawyers and lodging formal bullying and whistleblower complaints against the Uniting Church-associated school over allegations he is being victimised. Picture: AAP Image/Richard Gosling
The Courier-Mail understands several current and former staff are receiving treatment for mental health issues after the alleged bullying by the executive principal.
Since 2015 when Mr Sloman was appointed, enrolments at Moreton Bay College have dropped from 1198 to 1118 (in 2019) - or almost 7 per cent.
At Moreton Bay Boys' College, 2015 student numbers were 513 and have fallen to 487, down 5 per cent.
There are allegations of scholarships being freely handed out to counteract falling enrolment numbers.
In last year's OP results, 31.3 per cent of eligible girls at MBC achieved an OP 1-5, down from 34.8 per cent in 2018.
At MBBC, 18.8 per cent of eligible boys received an OP1-5, plummeting from 41.4 per cent in 2018.
MBC fees top out at $16,492 for Years 8-12, and $13,670 for Years 7-12 at MBBC.
Mr Sloman, who lives on campus with wife Angeline and their two sons, previously was headmaster at Mansfield State High in Brisbane, Pimlico State High in Townsville and Moranbah State High in Central Queensland.
His personal leave is due to finish on March 20.
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Midfield Plantation, also known as Ellerbe House and Boineau House, was a historic plantation house located near  Boykin, Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was built about 1821, and was a two-story, hip roofed, frame dwelling on a high masonry basement. It had rear additions added about 1900. The original kitchen and smokehouse are still on the property as remains.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It has since been demolished.

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package org.wildfly.swarm.tools;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.function.Consumer;

import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.Archive;
import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.ShrinkWrap;
import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.asset.EmptyAsset;
import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.exporter.ZipExporter;
import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.spec.JavaArchive;

/**
 * @author Bob McWhirter
 */
public class MockArtifactResolver implements ArtifactResolver, ArtifactResolvingHelper {

    private Map<ArtifactSpec, Entry> entries = new HashMap<>();

    private Map<ArtifactSpec, Archive> artifacts = new HashMap<>();
    private Map<ArtifactSpec, File> resolvedArtifacts = new HashMap<>();

    public void add(ArtifactSpec spec) {
        Archive archive = ShrinkWrap.create(JavaArchive.class);
        archive.add(EmptyAsset.INSTANCE, "nothing" );

        Entry entry = new Entry( spec );

        this.entries.put(spec, entry);
        this.artifacts.put( spec, archive );
    }

    public void add(ArtifactSpec spec, Consumer<Entry> config) {
        Archive archive = ShrinkWrap.create(JavaArchive.class);
        archive.add(EmptyAsset.INSTANCE, "nothing" );

        Entry entry = new Entry( spec );
        config.accept( entry );

        this.entries.put(spec, entry);
        this.artifacts.put( spec, archive );
    }

    public void add(ArtifactSpec spec, Archive archive, Consumer<Entry> config) {
        Entry entry = new Entry( spec );
        config.accept( entry );

        this.entries.put(spec, entry);
        this.artifacts.put( spec, archive );
    }

    @Override
    public ArtifactSpec resolveArtifact(ArtifactSpec spec) throws Exception {
        return resolve(spec);
    }

    @Override
    public Set<ArtifactSpec> resolveAllArtifactsTransitively(Set<ArtifactSpec> specs, boolean excludes) throws Exception {
        return resolveAll(specs, true, excludes);
    }

    @Override
    public Set<ArtifactSpec> resolveAllArtifactsNonTransitively(Set<ArtifactSpec> specs) throws Exception {
        return resolveAll(specs, false, false);
    }

    @Override
    public ArtifactSpec resolve(ArtifactSpec spec) throws Exception {
        File resolved = resolvedArtifacts.get(spec);

        if (resolved == null) {
            Archive archive = artifacts.get(spec);
            if (archive != null) {
                resolved = File.createTempFile(spec.artifactId(), ".jar");
                resolved.delete();
                resolved.deleteOnExit();
                archive.as(ZipExporter.class).exportTo(resolved);
                this.resolvedArtifacts.put(spec, resolved);
            }
        }
        spec.file = resolved;
        return spec;

    }

    @Override
    public Set<ArtifactSpec> resolveAll(Set<ArtifactSpec> specs, boolean transitive, boolean defaultExcludes) throws Exception {
        Set<ArtifactSpec> resolved = new HashSet<>();
        for (ArtifactSpec spec : specs) {
            resolved.add(resolve(spec));
            if ( transitive ) {
                resolved.addAll(resolveAll(this.entries.get(spec).getDependencies()));
            }
        }
        return resolved;
    }

    public static class Entry {
        private final ArtifactSpec root;
        private final Set<ArtifactSpec> dependencies = new HashSet<>();

        public Entry(ArtifactSpec root) {
            this.root = root;
        }

        public void addDependency(ArtifactSpec dep) {
            this.dependencies.add( dep );
        }

        public Set<ArtifactSpec> getDependencies() {
            return this.dependencies;
        }

    }
}

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Learn how to grow one of the easiest garden vegetables organically.
Lettuce is a cool season crop that even the novice gardener can successfully grow. Tricia takes you from planting to harvesting fresh lettuce. Grow greens this way as well!
wanted to see what would happen if I moved a couple of hydroponic boxes outside. These are the ones that I built for doing the Kratky method of no aeration. I made a few changes to the first design to resolve the wind issues. Aside from having the boxes fill up with rain water, things went very well.
In this Video our horticulturist Dr. Natalie Bumgarner explains the different techniques for harvesting lettuce out of a CropKing NFT channel.
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Are you familiar with the fact that the color, shape, and texture of your nails are considered as a window into your entire body?
Even though some nail symptoms are usually unnoticeable, others can indicate a chronic disease, even cancer. Also, the growth of the nails can be a sign of some health problem.
Healthy nails grow up to 3.5 millimeters on a monthly basis. However, there are some factors that can have a huge effect on their growth and among the most common ones are trauma, medications, nutritional status, and aging process.
So, if you notice some changes in your nails, such as discoloration, swelling, changes in shape and thickness, you should immediately consult a dermatologist.
There are many factors which can contribute to the yellow color of your nails. The most common are smoking, aging, and use of nail polish and acrylic nails.
The underlying cause can also be a fungal infection. Even though rarely, conditions like psoriasis, respiratory disease, diabetes, and thyroid disease can also be the cause.
In this case, there are many factors that play an important role: the exposure to chemicals, living in an area with low humidity, using nail polish remover very often, having your hands in water regularly.
Other causes of cracking and splitting are fungal infection and thyroid disease, especially hypothyroidism. Deficiency in biotin or vitamins C and A can lead to brittle nails.
Clubbing is an enlargement of the fingertips. Also, the nails become curved downward. It can be associated with low oxygen in the blood, inflammatory bowel disease, AIDS, kidney disease, heart disease and lung disease.
White spots on the nails indicate nail trauma. In most cases, they do not represent some serious problem, and tend to fade away. However, there are some cases where they can be a sign of fungal infection.
Horizontal ridges can be a result of uncontrolled diabetes, psoriasis, circulatory disease, and zinc deficiency. Mees is another type of horizontal line that can occur as a result of leprosy, arsenic poisoning, Hodgkin's disease, malaria, and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Vertical ridges most often are sign of aging and they occur at older people. However, they can also indicate nutrient deficiency like deficiency in vitamin B12 and magnesium.
If your nails curve upward at the edges, resembling a spoon, this can indicate iron deficiency, hypothyroidism or heart disease.
Multiple pits on the nails indicate psoriasis. It can be also caused by connective tissue disorders, or alopecia areata, a disease that causes hair loss.
If you have black streaks and painful growth of your nails, you should immediately visit your doctor because this can indicate melanoma.
The nails that are white with a strip of pink can be a sign of kidney failure, liver disease, diabetes, and congestive heart failure.


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ZETOR Tractor with Trailer Kovap model - Operating instructions Mechanical tintoy, with clockwork. Three forward gears, reverse gear, handbrake, steering. Pull the handbrake (to be located left hand besides the drivers seat), insert the provided windup key into the center of the right hub, turn the key clockwise (right hand about), until you feel resistance. Now the spring is strained. Set the model on a drivable ground, shift in one of the gears (gear shift lever is located right hand besides the seat), direct the steering into the wanted direction and open the handbrake. Caution! Never turn the windup key against the clock (left), by turning left, the clockwork will be damaged. Never store the model with winded up spring, so that it will not weaken. If you´re running your model often, it´s recommended, to oil the gearbox, with approx. 3 drops of sewing machine oil, 2 times a year. Therefore on the groundplate in front of the drivers seat is, left besides the gear control, a little hole, where you can drop in the oil. When you will attend to this advices, you will have fun with your tractor model, for a long time.


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China's new currency regime benefits global real estate markets
It's been a year since China surprised the world by allowing greater flexibility in the renminbi exchange rate, resulting in its drop in value by a record 1.9 percent against the US dollar.
Despite widespread concerns over the country's economy, and its effects for any future investment opportunities, the move has proved beneficial to the global real estate industry, intensifying the appetite among mainland investors to acquire overseas properties, as well as stoking interest among Chinese insurance and other financial companies in holding real estate assets instead of cash.
Since the renminbi shake-up last year, mainland investors have accelerated their acquisitions of property assets in both Hong Kong and further afield in the United States, where the value of real estate is tied to an appreciating U.S. dollar. Over the past nine months, Hong Kong developer Wheelock and Co successfully sold both towers of its One Harbourgate complex in Kowloon to mainland investors, with insurance giant China Life acquiring the west tower for HK$5.86 billion in November, while Shenzhen billionaire Chen Hongtian's Cheung Kei Holdings picked up the eastern tower for HK$4.5 billion.
"In the last year, Chinese companies have invested more than RMB 28 billion into Hong Kong properties," noted Oscar Chan, from JLL's China Capital Markets team. "This hunger for Hong Kong real estate shows not only the growing international footprint of many mainland companies, but also the growing recognition of the value of holding properties valued in different currencies."
New York has also been a major target for Chinese investors, with sovereign wealth fund CIC investing US$700 million into New York Plaza in Manhattan in May, and China Life partnering with U.S. developer RXR to buy a New York office tower for US$1.65 billion that same month.
"As Chinese investors become more experienced in cross-border deals, Chinese institutions have played a part in some of this year's largest transactions in the world's biggest real estate market," said Darren Xia, Head of JLL's International Capital Group for China. "Buying foreign currency-denominated assets helps China's biggest investors to diversify their portfolios," he added.
"Besides acquiring overseas assets, China's institutional investors have also been shopping for more real estate domestically, as property values continue to climb in the mainland's key commercial hubs," said Johnny Shao, Head of Capital Markets in East China for JLL.
Developer SOHO China last month sold SOHO Century Plaza in Shanghai's Pudong district to Guohua Life Insurance for RMB 3.2 billion, just five years after acquiring the project in the Zhuyuan area for RMB 1.89 billion.
Premium revenue for China's insurance industry nearly doubled over the last five years, according to JLL data, rising to RMB 2.4 trillion in 2015, from just RMB 1.3 trillion in 2010.
With some analysts anticipating that the People's Bank of China may allow the renminbi to depreciate as much as a further three percent this year, insurers and other institutional investors have been turning to real estate as a steady source of investment return and source of capital flows for their burgeoning war chests.
For developers such as SOHO, this growing stack of funds looking for an investment return is an encouraging sign, as the Beijing-based developer announced this week that it hopes to sell three more of its properties in Shanghai, as the city's climbing leasing rates and growing service sector continue to attract investors.
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Representation of senior secured lenders in Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Central Appalachian coal producer; negotiated reorganization plan incorporating purchase of assets by lender and eventual re-sale of assets; handled administrative and priority claim objections for bankruptcy estate.
Representation of major creditors in numerous equine bankruptcies, including: New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation, Centaur, Inc., Magna Entertainment, ClassicStar, LLC, Suffolk Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation, etc.
Prosecuted all preference and other avoidance actions on behalf of Creditors Trust of Miller Bros. Coal, LLC.
Representation of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in bank holding company bankruptcy in Southern District of Indiana and other related matters.
Representation of defendants in potential preference actions in numerous national bankruptcies, including: Polaroid, Interstate Bakeries, Quebecor, Chrysler, Appalachian Fuels, LLC, etc.
Filed and represented assignee in statutory assignment for the benefit of creditors of multi-state tool and die manufacturer.
Preparation of stallion syndicate agreements, equine purchase and sale documents, and simulcast agreements.
Preparation of report for Kentucky Attorney General regarding scope of search and seizure powers afforded to Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Advised numerous clients on issues related to Internet gaming, sweepstakes and promotional law, and charitable gaming.


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Our venue of choice for special meals in Bath. The menu and wine list are varied and always interesting, the kitchen knows how to serve beautiful, flavoursome and well balanced food with elements of delight in every dish and the Front of House team are exemplary in providing effective and engaging service. Always allow an hour before your meal for the cocktail bar so you can properly focus from the comfort of an armchair or sofa.
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Repaints at Milehouse have clearly stepped up a notch or two recently.
207 is the latest Optare to be painted out of green. As many have noted it still looks odd with the green LED display but this is due to be sorted once the software has arrived to change them orange!
Focus Transport: First Great Western have introduced a Pullman Dining menu on some of their services.
the plymouth citybus volvo b7rles that has not been repainted into blue flash liberty might be a part of the yellow flash or they will swoop them to! i would rather have them swooped than them being yellow flash buses!
the 12 plate volvos will not be yellow.
Go Cornwall red swoop liveried Solo 206 was working on Citybus route 25 today (Wednesday 25th February). Route number was on a piece of paper stuck inside the windscreen. Darts 10 and 14 are parked with most of the other withdrawn Darts in the Lower Yard. Dart 16 is now the oldest one in service.
Green Go Cornwall Solo 209 used on Citybus route 49 today (Saturday 28th February). Again the bus had a paper route number stuck on the windscreen.