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Jozo Mašić (Tomislavgrad, 13. studenog 1956. - Livno, 9. siječnja 2017.), bio je hrvatski i bosanskohercegovački književnik, novinar, amaterski slikar i kipar.

Životopis
U rodnom je Tomislavgradu završio osnovnu školu i gimnaziju, a zvanje profesora hrvatskoga jezika i književnosti stekao na Filozofskom fakultetu u Sarajevu. Kao novinar i pisac surađivao je sa sarajevskim Oslobođenjem, Svjetlom riječi, te Našim ognjištima, a u vrijeme Domovinskog rata bio je glavni i odgovorni urednik Tomislavgradskih ratnih novina. Bio je jednim od utemeljitelja i urednika Hercegbosanske novinske agencije (HABENA) u Mostaru, te zatim glavni urednik tjednika "Horizont". Bio je istaknuti kulturni djelatnik, tajnik tomislavgradskog ogranka Matice hrvatske, stručni savjetnik za kulturno-umjetničke programe Doma kulture Tomislavgrad, te pomoćnik ministra za kulturu, prosvjetu i šport općine Tomislavgrad.

Književni opus čini mu više od dvije stotine književno-kritičkih tekstova, eseja, ogleda, studija, prikaza, recenzija i političkih kolumni. Pripovijetkama je zastupljen u nekoliko izbora i antologija u Hrvatskoj i Bosni i Hercegovini, a "Roman o Ljiljani" uvršten je u ediciju "Hrvatska književnost u BiH u 100 knjiga". Bio je članom Društva hrvatskih književnika iz Zagreba i Društva hrvatskih književnika Herceg Bosne iz Mostara, čiji je jedan od utemeljitelja.

Osim bavljenjem slikarstvom i kiparstvom, zajedno s glumcima amaterima iz Tomislavgrada i Čapljine na scenu je postavio nekoliko dramskih tekstova. Bio je uposlenik Srednje strukovne škole, a jedno vrijeme i ravnatelj Gimnazije Marka Marulića u Tomislavgradu.

Popis djela (nepotpun)
Roman o Ljiljani (1986.)
Ljudi i tice (2017.)

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Vanjske poveznice
 Književnik Jozo Mašić iz Sarajlija kleše kipove zaštitnika duvanjskih crkava: Strah me jedino narudžbe iz župe Svi Svetih Slobodna Dalmacija (objavljeno 6. lipnja 2003., pristupljeno 11. siječnja 2017.)

Hrvatski romanopisci iz Bosne i Hercegovine
Hrvatski novinari iz Bosne i Hercegovine
Hrvatski slikari iz Bosne i Hercegovine
Hrvatski kipari iz Bosne i Hercegovine
Životopisi, Tomislavgrad


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TRCC and EPIC Affiliates Recognized by 2019 20 Under 40
By Amanda DePerro
On Oct. 29, 20 Under 40 celebrated its 2019 award winners at the Valentine Theatre. The Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce and EPIC Toledo are proud of our affiliation with four of the 20 recipients this year.
Annually since 1996, 20 Under 40 has recognized a group of local young professionals and community leaders in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan who show outstanding dedication and commitment to the region. The organization's mission aligns perfectly with the goals of both the TRCC and EPIC, which aim to uplift business leaders and young professionals, supporting the growth and success of the Toledo Region.
Click here for more information about 20 Under 40.
About the Recipients
Ambrea Mikolajczyk
Board of Trustees, Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce; Owner, ARK Restoration & Construction
More than a decade ago, Ambrea Mikolajczyk founded ARK Restoration & Construction with her husband, Kevin, after renovating two properties. Mikolajczyk oversees major projects, both residential and commercial, such as the Continental Baking Company Building, which received both federal and state historic tax credits. Mikolajczyk set out with a goal: to restore "undesirable" properties to their former glory, or even better than what they once were. She has helped make the Toledo Region more beautiful and bright through her work with ARK and beyond.
From left: 2014 Toledo 20 Under 40 recipient Matt Yarder, Ambrea Mikolajczyk, Katie Moline
Katie Moline
Chair, EPIC Toledo; Board of Trustees, Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce; Senior Audit Accountant, Weber Clark Ltd.
Katie Moline has a wide array of experience under her belt. From her position as congressional aide to U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur and finance director for Joe McNamara's campaign for judge of Lucas County, in addition to her work as a member of United Way Emerging Leaders and Women's Initiative and Females in Action, among others, Moline has proven her devotion to the region. Click here to read more about EPIC Chair Katie Moline.
Josh Cooper
Toledo Area Small Business Association; Advisory Council, EPIC Toledo; co-founder, Whitelabel
Josh Cooper had a winding yet deliberate road. From law school to now-defunct startup Givt, Cooper's path led him to where he is today, as founder of design, development and strategy agency Whitelabel. From designing beautiful websites and building out the back end of a website, to a full suite of marketing and deployment techniques, Whitelabel is building brands not just here in Toledo, but across the country, too. Click here to read about Josh Cooper and Whitelabel's redesign of the EPIC Toledo website.
Erin Curley
Advisory Council, EPIC Toledo; owner, Engage Studio Architects, LLC
Erin Curley is a distinguished architect, professional and volunteer. Between being the only architect in northwest Ohio to receive a national certification as a Safety Assessment Volunteer and recipient of a multitude of awards, including the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) Toledo Emerging Professional of the Year, AIA Ohio Presidential Citation and Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholarship, Curley has gone above and beyond in both her personal and professional lives to improve quality of life here in northwest Ohio. She has donated her time as lead volunteer architect on multiple projects as well, including the Miracle League of Northwest Ohio Concession Facility. Since 2007, she has given over 4,000 hours of community service.
For questions or more information, please contact Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce communications manager Amanda DePerro at amanda.deperro@toledochamber.com.

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No matter whether you want to charter a motor or sailing yacht, a speed boat or a luxury/ mega yacht – contact us for an individual offer for your yacht charter holiday. Explore the Balearic Islands from the waterside, organize a regatta for a team-building event, or celebrate an event in an exclusive atmosphere. We will do everything to meet your requirements.
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Definition - A clause that gives information about a noun or noun phrase that is essential for identifying the subject.
Note: This is in contract to a non-defining relative clause, which gives information that is not essential for identifying the subject.
(1) The brother who is a 911Truther is quite a nice guy.
(2) His brother, who is a 911Truther, is quite a nice guy.


National deworming programmes rely almost exclusively on the mass drug administration (MDA) to children to control morbidity caused by these parasitic infections. The provision of water, hygiene and sanitation (WaSH) as well as behaviour change communication (BCC) interventions should allow disease reductions achieved through drug distribution to be sustained once transmission has been broken.
Mathematically modelling by LCNTDR researchers indicates that the transmission of some parasitic worms can be broken in some settings through provision of multiple interventions. This has not been attempted at scale in a developing country through the existing health system.
The research initiative known as the Geshiaro project, aims to break transmission of worms at scale in Wolaita zone in Ethiopia through the implementation of expanded drug treatment, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) activities, Behaviour change communication (BCC campaigns), and the implementation of a biometric fingerprint tool.
This project is innovative because it is the first large-scale deworming initiative that also will evaluate the impact of different treatment strategies and WaSH, using biometric finger print technology to improve coverage and compliance of treatment.
Biometric finger print enables accurate identification & tracking of individual inhabitants who are recorded in the population census and subsequently receive deworming tablets in the MDA campaigns. Furthermore, latrines & clean water sources are not widely available in the region and the culture of good sanitation practice needs to be supported. Fingerprint technology will be used to track households who have poor sanitation facilities and will be used follow the progress of the WaSH intervention coverage.
In preparation of implementing this project, field testing (technical feasibility and community acceptability testing) of both the fingerprint technology, the census and MDA questionnaires are required to understand specific contextual requirements for optimal functioning of the tools. Findings from the field testing will subsequently be used by EPHI and the Ethiopian Ministry of Health (FMOH) to finalise the Gashiyaro field tools.
LCNTDR primary role within the research project is to provide technical support and capacity building to the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) in the evaluation of the Geshiaro project. The implementation of the project will be carried out by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) for treatment and World Vision Ethiopia (WVE) for the implementation of WaSH infrastructure and BCC activities. The finger print technology will be provided by Simprints.


Under Chester County Ordinance No. 2017-1, every business labeled as a "hotel" must apply a 5% tax to every rental of a room with a bed. This tax is sometimes referred to as a bed tax, lodging tax, occupancy tax or transiency tax. Depending on the size or class of the county and the intended use of the collected revenue, some counties may apply a higher tax rate. In Chester County, 96% of collected hotel tax dollars is passed over to the Chester County Convention and Visitor's Bureau with the intended purpose of providing funding to assist in effectively marketing Chester County in a highly competitive tourism market.


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BC premier downplays Petronas threat to pull out of LNG project
Experts say the Malaysian firm's message should be cause for worry.
September 26, 2014	by The Canadian Press
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CALGARY — BC Premier Christy Clark says a threat by Petronas to quit a proposed liquefied natural gas project is just part of negotiations over the province's tax take, but experts say the Malaysian firm's message should be cause for worry.
The Financial Times quotes Petronas chief executive Shamsul Abbas as saying he's ready to call off the $10-billion project to be built near Prince Rupert, BC amid a delayed regulatory approval process, plans by the provincial government to impose an LNG tax and a "lack of appropriate incentives."
"Rather than ensuring the development of the LNG industry through appropriate incentives and assurance of legal and fiscal stability, the Canadian landscape of LNG development is now one of uncertainty, delay and short vision," Abbas told the newspaper.
Clark told reporters she's optimistic a deal will be worked out and that British Columbians will one day benefit from LNG investment.
"What Petronas is doing is standing up to try and get the absolute best deal that they can get for their shareholders. That's what they should do. What we're doing at the negotiating table is trying to get the absolute best deal for British Columbians and for Canadians. And that's the process," she said.
"And so I'm still very, very hopeful that we'll get there and a lot of the discussion that you've seen publicly is part of what you'll always see in the course of any kind of difficult negotiation. But I know they see the assets in BC as incredibly valuable and a really important part of the company's future."
BC shouldn't assume that Abbas's comments are just about posturing, said Barry Munro, who leads global consulting firm EY's Canadian oil and gas practice.
"There would be some people speculating that this is a negotiation tactic or that there's just a push and pull of companies trying to get to the best economic terms. You could make light of the commentary or the challenge that's been put forth," he said. "I just think from a BC perspective, that would be a dangerous assumption to make. It may well be the right one. It's just a dangerous one."
There are a litany of challenges facing LNG players: pricing pressure, cost escalation and global competition among them, said Munro. So all of the right conditions must be in place for a company like Petronas to be convinced it's worthwhile to shell out billions of dollars on a project.
"I think people should heed the intended message very carefully to make sure that if they're serious about advancing the LNG business, they do whatever they can to try to address the concerns," he said.
Cameron Gingrich, director of gas services at consultancy Ziff Energy, said BC has to strike the right balance, lest it scare off LNG investment.
"These guys are looking at making a profitable run at it and if the BC government is looking to get royalties, a carbon tax and then on top of that an income tax on LNG facilities, it certainly make the economics of building a (multi) billion-dollar facility a hard pill to swallow," he said.
Abbas is expected to visit Canada later this week.
State-owned Petronas is leading the Pacific Northwest LNG project with a 62% stake. It bought Progress Energy Corp. in 2012 in a $6-billion deal that was closely scrutinized by Ottawa.
"We're still working hard towards a final investment decision by the end of the year," said Spencer Sproule, a spokesman for the project, which also includes partners from China, India, Japan and Brunei.
But Maxim Sytchev, head of research at Dundee Capital Markets, said an official decision on whether or not to move ahead with the project is likely to slip into early 2015.
The BC government is expected to unveil its fiscal regime for LNG next month, a development eagerly anticipated by LNG players trying to work out the economics of their projects.
"Posturing before the announcement is spilling into public domain," Sytchev wrote in a note to clients.
"With the tax regime timeline getting closer to the wire, there will be a lot of posturing (on both sides) in order to secure the right terms."
There are about 15 different LNG projects proposed for the West Coast, but it's unlikely more than a handful will be built. Pacific Northwest LNG has been perceived as one of the frontrunners in the race to export natural gas, chilled into a liquid state, to Asia on tankers via the West Coast. So too is a proposal led by Royal Dutch Shell, which aims to build its LNG Canada terminal to the southeast, in Kitimat, BC.
The fate of another major project, called Kitimat LNG, was called into question this summer when one of its partners, US firm Apache Corp., announced it's getting out of the LNG business. Apache's partner, fellow US energy giant Chevron Corp., has expressed no interest in moving forward with the plan on its own, so it must now find a new partner.
But Chevron's CEO said earlier this month that finding a new partner for Kitimat LNG is just one hurdle it has to clear before the project can move ahead. John Watson said it needs sales contracts with customers, clarity concerning BC's fiscal regime, more knowledge of its resource potential in northeastern BC and support from First Nations.
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Petronas LNG still has hurdles to overcome: Clark
Petronas applies for LNG export licence for proposed BC project
Petronas delays BC LNG decision as oil slump squeezes economics
Visa obstacle looms as CETA talks end
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SC1: Immunology Basics: Focusing on Autoimmunity and Cancer - Detailed Agenda
This short course provides an introduction to immunology and immuno-oncology for discovery pharmacologists, biologists and chemists working in the biopharmaceutical industry. It will review how the immune system is organized and gives rise to both normal and pathogenic immune responses. Topics will include pathogen recognition by innate immune cells, antigen generation and presentation to lymphocytes, effector mechanisms of T cells and therapeutic modulation of the immune responses to control inflammation or promote anti-tumor immunity.
Instructor: Thomas Sundberg, PhD, Senior Research Scientist I, Center for Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
SC2: Targeting of Ion Channels with Monoclonal Antibodies - Detailed Agenda
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Ion channels are important therapeutic targets and currently represent the second largest target class addressed by therapeutic drugs. Significant opportunities exist for targeting ion channels with antibodies, but to date it has been challenging to discover therapeutic antibodies against them. This course will examine emerging technologies and strategies for enabling the isolation of functional anti-ion channel antibodies and highlight progress via case studies.
Instructor: Trevor Wilkinson, PhD, Associate Director, Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca BioPharmaceuticals Unit, United Kingdom
SC3: Selection, Screening and Engineering for Affinity Reagents - Detailed Agenda
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A comprehensive overview of different display technologies as well as screening approaches for the selection of specific binders. In addition, it will discuss engineering strategies including affinity maturation and how to implement these strategies. Classical antibodies and antibody fragments as well as alternative binding scaffolds will also be covered.
Instructors: Jonas V. Schaefer, PhD, Laboratory Head, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), Switzerland
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SC4: How to Best Utilize 3D Cells, Spheroids and PDX Models in Oncology - Detailed Agenda
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The course will provide an overview of 3D cell culture and spheroid models currently available and where and how these models are being used, specifically for oncology research. The instructors will share their experiences on how they tested and evaluated various cell culture reagents and growth matrices, what worked, what didn't and what you need to consider when setting up low- and high-throughput screening experiments using 3D cell cultures in your lab. The challenges working with 3D cell cultures, from experimental design to data analysis, will be discussed.
Instructors: Madhu Lal-Nag, PhD, Program Lead, Research Governance Council, Office of Translational Sciences, Center for Drug Evaluation & Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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This course aims to educate a diverse group of scientists-chemists, biologists, toxicologists, and those involved in translational and clinical research, about the growing use and applications of AI & ML. Talks start with explaining the basic terminology used and what it means, followed by discussions separating the hope from the hype. It goes into the caveats and limitations in AI and ML, while exploring ways in which it can be successfully applied in the drug discovery and development pipeline. There will be experts from various areas presenting case studies on how they have used AI/ML tools for lead optimization, target discovery, visualizing and classifying large datasets, patient stratification and more.
Instructors: Arvind Rao, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
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This course is intended for the audience interested in drug discovery programs aimed to develop proteolysis-targeting chimeric molecules (PROTACs) or molecular degraders, and/or small molecule inhibitors targeting components of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS). The first part of the course will cover basic mechanistic biochemistry/cell biology of the ubiquitin-proteasome system, which includes E1, E2, E3, and deubiquitinating enzymes, and their macromolecular architecture. Subsequently, we will discuss assays and technologies currently available for the UPS system and known enzyme inhibitors. The second part of the course will cover PROTACs and molecular glue molecules, compounds that induce proteasomal degradation of their drug targets.
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The high-resolution structures of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) determined by X-ray crystallography and recently by cryo-EM are rapidly impacting the pharmaceutical industry. This course will review the structural biology concepts and tools developed to date that enabled successful GPCR structural determination. We will also examine how the elucidated structures have informed our current understanding of GPCR function. Examples will be provided of how GPCR structural information is guiding rational design of subtype selectivity and functional selectivity for small molecules. Perspectives on current gaps in GPCR structure-based drug design will be provided at the end to stimulate deep thinking and discussion on how to overcome these hurdles.
Instructor: Huixian Wu, PhD, Principal Scientist, Structural and Molecular Sciences, Discovery Sciences, Pfizer, Inc.
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Targeted protein degradation using molecular glues and bifunctional small molecules known as proteolysis-targeting chimeric molecules (PROTACs) are emerging as a useful tool for drug discovery, and as a new therapeutic modality for chasing previously "undruggable" targets. This course will cover the basic understanding of what these entities are, how they work and how they can be applied to target and degrade specific proteins of interest. Case studies drawn from the work that the instructors have done in their labs will also be presented.
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PA State Rep. Mike Puskaric Serving PA's 39th Legislative District
Puskaric Votes in Favor of Balanced, No-Tax-Increase State Budget Plan
HARRISBURG – State Rep. Mike Puskaric (R-Allegheny/Washington) today voted for the balanced, timely state budget approved by the state House that would increase funding for the core functions of government without raising taxes.
The nearly $34 billion spending plan represents an increase of 1.8% compared to the current state budget.
"We have experienced economic growth in Pennsylvania, which resulted in increased revenues and enabled us to balance the budget without further burdening taxpayers," said Puskaric. "This budget takes a historic step by committing 100% of the General Fund balance at the end of June 2019, which is estimated to be at least $250 million, to be transferred into the state's Rainy Day Fund. By saving money, this budget protects taxpayers from future tax increases."
PreK-12 education funding is increased by $432 million, to the highest levels in state history. Special education funding would be increased by $50 million, while career and technical education would increase by $10 million, with separate increases for some of our highest-performing technical schools, to help their pathways to success be utilized across the Commonwealth. Also, the budget provides an additional $25 million for the expansion of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program. EITC provides tax credits to eligible businesses contributing to a scholarship organization, an educational improvement organization, and/or a PreK scholarship organization.
"Our school districts wanted more money for education, and we gave it to them," said Puskaric. "The Bentworth, Bethel Park, Elizabeth Forward, Ringgold, South Park and West Jefferson Hills school districts will see their state funding amounts increase."
Puskaric noted that we want to make sure our students feel safe and are able to learn. With that in mind, $60 million will be allocated for school safety in the form of a block grant for which schools need merely apply. Doing it in this manner allows them to make choices in how they want to address their individual safety needs as opposed to mandating a statewide blueprint.
"Emergency medical service providers that are struggling to make ends meet would receive additional money to compensate for reimbursement shortfalls," said Puskaric. "As part of our budget, there is an additional $26.3 million for mental health services, which includes funds to provide home and community-based services for individuals currently residing in state hospitals."
The lawmaker added, "Throughout this year's budget process, my colleagues and I have been focused on bigger-picture thinking – growing Pennsylvania's economy and plotting a new course forward for our state, along with initiatives that go far beyond just this fiscal year. While taking part in the state budget process for the first time as a state representative, my priorities are to protect the citizens and job creators of the 39th District from unnecessary government growth and ensure our schools and core government services received sufficient support. I am pleased this budget matches those priorities."
The bill now goes to the Senate for consideration.
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The area of professional services spend continues to be a potential source of incredible value generation for most companies. Yet, most companies approach this spend segment with a very traditional sourcing approach and end up either leaving significant value on the table or in some cases, actually losing value. As we often tell our clients, getting lower hourly/daily rates is the easiest thing to do. It's tackling the rest of the "system" or puzzle that is the challenging part and the one that yields the highest value.
You may have seen this model before from us but it merits another look.
Which of these segments do you think yields the highest value? If your answer is anything but the sourcing segment, you are correct and should move to the head of the class. The Definition, Review and Approval is the front end of this spend category where the demand is being identified and budget approvals are being sought through business cases etc. Category/Provider management is the back end where we are managing the engagements, the providers and the overall category.
Here is the biggest challenge in addressing this category as a "system". It is easy to focus on Sourcing to try and deliver lower rates. To optimize the other two segments, you need to identify the Value Drivers for all the stakeholders involved and relentlessly try to optimize those and that is no easy task. Here is a list from a recent client engagement of all the Value Drivers that were identified.
Imagine the value that you would deliver and the high level of satisfaction you would enjoy from your stakeholders if they were convinced that these Value Drivers are the ones that you as a sourcing organization will focus on. If you attended our webinar series on Category Management (recordings available ), you will recognize that this is the fundamental difference between sourcing and Category Management. Applying a systems approach to this category will let you extract maximum value but is also not easy and requires far more of the strategic competencies that we keep dismissing as not as important.
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Chipotle is one of the biggest fast-food franchises in North America and has experienced rapid growth since being established in 1993. The business has grown to 1700 locations in North America and Europe employing an estimated 45000 people. The Chipotle brand is based on the principle of purchasing local, free range and organic ingredients that differentiates the company from the more mainstream franchises.
In 2015 there were 6 foodborne outbreaks incidences linked to the Chipotle outlets involving E. coli O157:H7, E. coli O26, Salmonella and norovirus. Over 600 patrons were affected although the vast majority was linked to norovirus compared to the more deadly Shiga Toxin producing E. coli. In relative terms, the outbreak was dwarfed by incidence that impacted Salmonella contaminated cucumbers although the Chipotle linked foodborne illness outbreaks have attracted significant more attention. Indeed, it is unique with respect to having more media attention especially regarding the stock price of the company.
In the following webinar with expert speaker Keith Warriner, you will get an overview of the outbreaks linked to Chipotle, updates and analysis on the incident. Although details of the specific source of the STEC outbreaks remain unknown there have been notable lessons that have been learnt. This session will provide you an understanding on the importance of food safety culture and supplier verification programs in food processing and food service in the background of the the Chipotle foodborne illness outbreaks.
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Are you prepared in case of a emergency? Most of us are not, and we don't know where to get the information to help us.? Let's get involved in knowing what to do in case of an emergency and be prepared so we can have peace of mind that if anything does happen we'll have an idea what to do and where to go for help. Here are some links that will help you be better prepared in case of a Emergency.
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Former regulator blames S&L; crisis on Congress
Dan FespermanTHE BALTIMORE SUN
WASHINGTON -- Former banking regulator Edwin Gray turned the witness stand at the Senate Ethics Committee into a soapbox yesterday, saying Congress allowed the $500 billion savings and loan crisis to happen by succumbing to the pressures of the thrift industry's politically generous lobbyists.
Mr. Gray, former chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, came to the committee to answer questions about his April 1987 meeting with four of the so-called "Keating Five" senators, who are accused of pressuring him and other federal officials in hopes of easing investment rules for Arizona businessman Charles Keating. Mr. Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan eventually failed at a cost to taxpayers of $2.3 billion.
But Mr. Gray asked to deliver his speech first, saying he wanted to provide a context for events that led to the meeting. He described the meeting as symbolic of the way Congress catered to the narrow interests of "high flier" thrifts that led the industry to its downfall.
But, he added, "this was not merely a problem of the personal ethics of five senators; there were hundreds of players."
Mr. Gray said that he and other regulators sounded warnings and attempted to toughen regulations for several years, only to be thwarted each time by "the powerful, politically generous thrift lobby."
The Ethics Committee, which allowed Mr. Gray's written statement to become part of the record of the proceedings, at first attempted to keep him from reading it for the public. The committee vice chairman, Sen. Warren B. Rudman, R-N.H., cited the shortage of time and said the statement had little bearing on the evidence. But Mr. Gray pressed for a reading anyway, and Mr. Rudman reluctantly agreed.
Although the speech brought no new evidence to the case, it was an embarrassing public relations stroke against the five senators -- Alan B. Cranston, D-Calif., Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz., Donald W. Riegle Jr., D-Mich., John Glenn, D-Ohio, and John McCain, R-Ariz. They had taken pains during the first five days of the committee's hearing to point out that their meeting with Mr. Gray did not help lead to the savings and loan crisis.
They said they were only engaging in "constituent service" for Mr. Keating because his company had so many employees and investments in their states.
But Mr. Gray chided them, saying that senators "should know when narrow constituent demands must take a back seat to the concerns of citizens as a whole."
The savings and loan industry, he said, began heading down its road to ruin in 1982 when Congress attempted to give it new life by loosening restraints on the sort of investments thrifts could make instead of limiting those investments to mostly home loans. That was when people such as Mr. Keating jumped in, Mr. Gray said, exploiting liberal regulations to gamble on risky investments with the federally insured holdings of depositors.
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NYC Public School Parents: Why our lawsuit against 36 co-locations continues; please sign onto our letter of support!
Why our lawsuit against 36 co-locations continues; please sign onto our letter of support!
I will be on the EdShow on MSNBC at 5:30 PM tonight, Monday March 10, talking about these issues; please watch!
Obscured in the furious rhetoric of the charter propaganda machine, bewailing how three Success charter co-locations were reversed, is how 36 out of the 45 co-locations approved during the last few months of the Bloomberg administration have been allowed to go forward. Here is a list.
While fourteen of these co-locations are for charters, twenty two are for non-charter schools. Five are for Success Academy charters. All of these co-locations, charter or not, will negatively impact the existing public schools, whose students will be squeezed out of the space they need for a quality education.
In fifteen of the co-locations, the building will be pushed to 100% utilization or higher, while all of these buildings would likely register above 100% if the DOE's enrollment projections were accurate and if the school utilization formula was properly aligned with the real needs of children, including smaller classes, a full complement of art, music and science rooms, and access to the cafeteria at a reasonable time of day.
Indeed, every one of these co-locations will push class sizes upwards and/or prevent future efforts to reduce class size. Class size is now at a 15-year-high in many grades, despite the fact that the state's highest court held that smaller classes are necessary for NYC students to receive their constitutional right to an adequate education.
These co-locations will also hamper efforts to expand preK, prevent students with disabilities from receiving their mandated services in dedicated spaces rather than hallways or closets, and cause schools to lose their art, music and science rooms and/or be able to schedule lunch at a reasonable time.
These co-locations will also waste millions of dollars in precious funds, by replicating bureaucracy and out of classroom positions, as the numbers of classroom teachers continue to decline. In none of the approved co-locations were Community Education Councils, the elected representatives of public school parents, properly consulted before the proposals were made -- and in no case, did Chancellor Farina consult these bodies before deciding the 36 co-locations should go forward.
These were the main points made in the lawsuit filed in December by Advocates for Justice, on behalf of Class Size Matters, the NYC Parents Union, Public Advocate Letitia James, Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito. These issues have been ignored by the mainstream media, which instead has focused ad nauseum on the alleged grievances of the deep-pocketed charter lobby, with all the wealth and the power of the hedge-funders and privatizers behind them.
On Saturday, Public Advocate Tish James held a Town Hall meeting for CEC members and parents at the affected schools to ask them whether the lawsuit should continue, and the vote was unanimous that it should.
It was the best meeting I can remember in over 15 years of education advocacy, with parent after parent explaining with passion and in detail why these co-locations should never have been approved, describing the negative impact on their children's schools and the way in which their input had been ignored and the public engagement process deeply flawed. Throughout, Tish James listened carefully, was responsive and took notes.
Many of the parents at the affected schools as well as the majority of CECs participated, who represented hundreds of schools with hundreds of thousands of students. In every case, they explained how the educrats at DOE's Portfolio office had informed them at the "early engagement sessions" that new schools would be inserted in their buildings, whether they liked it or not.
But the entire process carried out by Portfolio has been corrupt and illegitimate from the start, as Tory Frye of CEC 6 pointed out, including the fundamentally inadequate community engagement, incomplete and deceptive Educational Impact Statements, and erroneous and manipulated enrollment projections. In some cases, DOE claimed there is excess space where children are still being educated in trailers; in at least one case, Richmond Hill HS, they are moving students into trailers to make room for a new school.
Indeed, these decisions were engineered by Marc Sternberg who headed DOE's Office of Portfolio until he moved over to the Walton Foundation shortly thereafter-- an organization whose primary goal is to privatize our public education system.
Unfortunately, the officials appointed by Sternberg at Portfolio are still there, justifying their wrong-headed policies with the same arrogant indifference to community input, as well as to the overwhelmingly negative impact their decisions will have on NYC children. In fact there are twenty five more co-locations now posted for a vote in May that were never proposed by the previous administration, but presumably were in Portfolio's pipeline when Bloomberg and Sternberg departed -- including a charter school co-location that will create an official utilization figure of 141%.
What's particularly disappointing is that Chancellor Fariña has admitted publicly that the DOE's official "Blue Book" figures on utilization understate the actual level of overcrowding in schools, and has appointed a task-force to revamp the formula.
Two of the members of this DOE taskforce were at Saturday's meeting, Shino Tanikawa, President of the Community Education Council of D2 in Manhattan, and Tesa Wilson President of the CEC in District 14 in Brooklyn, and both voted to support the lawsuit.
What Fariña should have done is suspended all future co-locations until the work of that task force could be completed.
Check out @leoniehaimson's tweets from Tish James's mtg on charter school co-location. Real stories, not rhetoric.
Unfortunately, the NY Times did not send a reporter and as usual is MIA. The only paper to report on the event, ironically enough, was the NY Post, which predictably focused solely on the charter co-locations and how the lawsuit might interfere with their lotteries.
Please sign our letter below in support of lawsuit going forward, as well as in support of the Public Advocate and the Speaker, who are standing up for our kids and putting themselves in the line of fire of the tabloids, the charter lobby and the privateers behind them.
Just send your name, school/district, and position if any, to info@classsizematters.org if you want to sign onto the letter below; if you believe that public school kids deserve the right to a quality education, with small classes, a well-rounded education, and to be educated in real classrooms rather than trailers and eat lunch at a reasonable time, rather than 9:45 AM in the morning.
Let us begin by thanking you for your longstanding support of all public school students and all public school parents. You have been outspoken supporters of parents and teachers having key input into shaping the schools our children attend. You have been outspoken supporters of reducing class size, alleviating school overcrowding, and working to implement our children's right to a sound basic education. Unfortunately, despite the change in administration, we continue to need your assistance in achieving these goals.
Under the administration of Mayor Bloomberg, the Department of Education pursued a reckless program of closing schools and starting new small schools and charters, and inserting them into existing buildings were schools were already located, oblivious to their impact on students and the existing schools and programs.
The DOE under Bloomberg ignored the nearly unanimous complaints of parents and the objections of administrators and teachers, and approved hundreds of co-locations that caused more overcrowding, the loss of critical classroom space, as well as art, music and science rooms, caused children with disabilities and learning issues to be pushed out of the rooms required for their mandated services. The creation of hundreds of new schools also caused a sharp increase in administrative spending and bureaucracy, concurrent with a sharp decline in the number of classroom and a sharp increase in class size.
In October and November 2013, the administration pushed through 45 co-locations in two meetings of the PEP, ignoring the input of communities and the harmful impact of these proposals on students and school communities.
We were thrilled when you, along with others, sued to void this massive round of co-locations, and waited patiently, as you did, with the hope that Mayor de Blasio would reverse most if not all of these plans.
He has not done that, and instead chose to go ahead with 36 of these proposals, which will have devastating effects on existing schools. At least 12 of these proposals would push the building at or above 100% utilization, according to the DOE's own figures. If the Blue Book formula was accurate and pegged to reasonable class sizes, as well as sufficient space for special education services, art rooms, music and science, as well as adequate access to lunchrooms, libraries, and gyms, every one of these co-locations would be seen as pushing the existing schools into unacceptably overcrowded conditions.
This is why all of these co-locations must be reversed.
In every case, they will either result in an increase in class size, or make it impossible to reduce class size in the future, despite the fact that class sizes in many grades are now the largest in 15 years and the mayor has pledged to reduce them significantly by the end of his term. Moreover, the state's highest court has concluded that the class sizes of NYC students must be lowered for them to receive their constitutional right to an adequate education.
They will hinder the ability of schools to address the needs of students requiring special education services by providing adequate space, as well as the ability of schools to address the learning needs of English language learners.
They will also restrict the amount of space available to expand preK, an important program and one of this administration's top priorities.
Because the DOE has in recent years redefined a full-size classroom as only 500 square feet, down from 750 square feet, and the building code requires 35 sq. ft per Kindergarten student and 20 sq. ft. per student in other grades, many of the classrooms in these schools will trigger violations in the building code, risking children's safety.
In all cases, the addition of new schools requires the creation of new, unnecessary bureaucracy with excessive numbers of administrative positions when resources could be better used on instruction.
None of these damaging impacts on safety, learning conditions and/or spending are reflected in the Educational Impact Statements.
In cases involving co-location of charter schools, the allowance of rent-free space results in their receiving more funds per capita than non-charter schools, creating inequities within school buildings, with two classes of students, one with smaller classes, more resources and programs, and the other with larger classes, and fewer resources and programs.
In all cases, the DOE has ignored the input of parents, community members, and Community Education Councils, who have opposed these co-locations for the reasons cited above and more.
To be sure, these proposals were approved only because the public hearing process was a sham, the public input process was a sham, and because the Panel for Educational Policy rubber-stamped them without serious review. In all cases, the voices of parents were not heard, and this was unlawful.
We urge you to proceed with your lawsuit and to see that the process going forward adheres to the law. We pledge to join you in that effort.


Hello, sunshine! After months of dark weather, clothes and makeup, it's time to lighten up that head of hair. But before you make your way to the salon, read these five tips from Bumble + Bumble's color specialist, Zoe Wiepert. No one knows hair color better.
1. Determine How Much of a Hair Diva You Are: Wiepert says the most important thing to consider if you're trying to decide between getting highlights and going all out and dying your hair is how high maintenance you are. Dying your hair can be a lot of upkeep and expensive since you have to get touch-ups every four to six weeks. If you get highlights, you can get away with going six to 12 weeks between hair appointments.
2. Know What Works for Your Skin Tone: You may want that Gwen Stefani platinum blonde, but if your skin is more golden than milky, it isn't your best shade. "If your skin has yellow or pink undertones, you don't want to go too golden blonde because it will bring out more golden tones in your skin," Wiepert advises. If you have dark skin, Wiepert recommends staying a shade darker near the roots than the color you are highlighting or dying your hair to so it looks more natural. If you're unsure what undertones your skin has, look for pictures of celebrities whose skin tone is close to yours. "Bring in photos of what you like and don't like so make it easier," she says.
3. Frame Your Face: Using highlights to frame your face will make it look more natural. "The hair around your face is naturally lighter because it's finer, so you want to make sure your highlights are lighter around your face and at the ends," Wiepert says.
4. Don't Go '80s: Remember what you used to get those brassy highlights back in the day? Well, forget it! "I would strongly suggest not using Sun-In," Wiepert says. "It's a metallic dye so once it's in your hair, you can't get it out." She warns that it will turn brunette hair orange and blonde hair yellow.
5. Condition, Condition, Condition: Winter may be brutal to your skin, but summer – with all the sun, chlorine and seawater – can really damage your hair. "Before you go swimming, wet your hair with natural water. This will keep your hair from turning green," Wiepert says. But don't freak out if your hair does turn green; she says you can get the green out with a mixture of dish soap and baking soda, followed by a conditioning treatment. Phew! She says conditioning is something you want to be doing at home, anyway. "There's a big craze right now of using raw coconut oil," she says. "You can apply it on wet or dry hair and it will condition your hair and add shine without changing the color." And after all that work, why would you want to? You know, until fall.
Do you lighten up when the summer sun hits? Let us know which tips you'll take to the salon in the comments below!


Equatorial Guinea gained independence in 1968 after 190 years of Spanish rule; it is one of the smallest countries in Africa consisting of a mainland territory and five inhabited islands. The capital of Malabo is located on the island of Bioko, approximately 25 km from the Cameroonian coastline in the Gulf of Guinea. Between 1968 and 1979, autocratic President Francisco MACIAS NGUEMA virtually destroyed all of the country's political, economic, and social institutions before being deposed by his nephew Teodoro OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO in a coup. President OBIANG has ruled since October 1979 and plans to stand for reelection in 2016. Although nominally a constitutional democracy since 1991, presidential and legislative elections between 1996 and 2009 were widely seen as flawed. The president exerts almost total control over the political system and has placed legal and bureaucratic barriers that prevent political opposition. Equatorial Guinea has experienced rapid economic growth due to the discovery of large offshore oil reserves, and in the last decade has become Sub-Saharan Africa's third largest oil exporter. Despite the country's economic windfall from oil production, resulting in a massive increase in government revenue in recent years, the drop in global oil prices has placed significant strain on the state budget. Equatorial Guinea continues to seek to diversify its economy and to increase foreign investment despite limited improvements in the population's living standards. Equatorial Guinea is the host of major regional and international conferences and continues to seek a greater role in regional affairs.
Exploitation of oil and gas deposits, beginning in the 1990's, has driven economic growth in Equatorial Guinea, allowing per capita GDP to rise to over $29,000 in 2014. Declining revenue from hydrocarbon production, high levels of infrastructure expenditures, lack of economic diversification, and corruption have led to limited improvements in the general population's living conditions. Equatorial Guinea hosted two economic diversification symposia in 2014 that focused on attracting investment in five sectors: agriculture and animal ranching, fishing, mining and petrochemicals, tourism, and financial services. Undeveloped mineral resources include gold, zinc, diamonds, columbite-tantalite, and other base metals. Forestry and farming are also minor components of GDP. Subsistence farming is the dominant form of livelihood. Although pre-independence Equatorial Guinea counted on cocoa production for hard currency earnings, the neglect of the rural economy since independence has diminished potential for agriculture-led growth. Foreign assistance programs by the World Bank and the IMF have been cut since 1993 because of corruption and mismanagement and high GDP figures now make Equatorial Guinea ineligible for most donor assistance. The government has been widely criticized for its lack of transparency and misuse of oil revenues and has attempted to address this issue by working towards compliance with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. US foreign assistance to Equatorial Guinea is limited in part because of US restrictions pursuant to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.


The CA-15 VKR rack has multiple uses. A variety of pull up stations allows the user to find the grip that best fits their hands. Works arms, shoulders in a pulling motion. Vertical Knee Raise (VKR) station wedges the user into the back pad allowing the elbows to be positioned securely next to the body while raising the knees. Works abs, hips and legs.
Attached to the VKR are two dip handles raised high enough off the floor for foot clearance. Works triceps and shoulders in a pushing motion. There are two long push up bars along the bottom allowing the user to find their desired angle for push-ups. Works the arms and chest in a pushing motion. User can turn around and perform seated dips taking some of the body weight load off their arms. Works triceps. Sit up station allows the user to securely lock their feet in position and perform sit ups. Works abs.


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Q: Decode and identically re-encode QR code It happens to me regularly that I get a low quality raster image of a QR code and I need it in better quality.
This works in principle:
 zbarimg --quiet --raw qr-bad.png | qrencode -t SVG -o qr-good.svg

But sometimes it's important to keep the QR code exactly the same. Is there a way to detect the parameters of the original and keep them the same? I'd like the result to have exactly the same pattern of white and black blocks.

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Nashik is known for its religious, cultural, and historical heritage and holds an unrivalled significance among the pilgrims as well as the tourists The 'Godaghat' of Nashik is known for its peculiar picturesque appeal.
Here is an opportunity to capture the magnificent allure of this "Godaghat" in your cameras and bring the mysterious aspects of the Godaghat to life! Or perhaps you can portray its charisma through the strokes of your brush Ruchir Art Gallery, Just nashik and Maharashtra Times have collaborated to bring out the artist in you! The first ever Heritage Art Walk of Nashik organized by us welcomes the photographers and artists from all corners of Nashik.
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Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) has entered a formal partnership with the March for Science, to be held April 22, 2017 in Washington, DC.
Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, a senior SACNISTA, and founding member of Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, succumbed to liver cancer on December 2, 2016.
On April 13, 2016 the SACNAS community lost, as one colleague described her, "the blazing comet that was" Dr. Maria Teresa Velez.


Noch Fir Trees with Planting Pin Base feature a wire armature with flocked metal branches. The trees are easily planted on your layout by simply pushing them into your foam scenery base or by inserting them into a pre-drilled hole. Trees in this package measure 1-3/8 - 3-9/16" 3.5 - 9cm Tall with the tallest tree being about 26' in HO Scale and about 47' in N Scale.


Gazelle Champion Mondials are measured center-to-top or c-t as it is commonly abbreviated. Center-to-top means that the frame is measured from the center of the bottom bracket, along the seat tube, to the very end of the seat tube. The pictures to the left show a size 58.
It stands to reason that the measurements are taken in centimeters, not inches, as cycling is a metric sport.
Later Champion Mondial road frames had this Cinelli-type rear brake bridge. The frame size is generally stamped on the underside of the bridge, only visible from below. Here a size 59.
Contrary to most Italian frames, Gazelle's are not built 'square' (i.e. seat tube and top tube having the same c/c dimensions). Instead, up to four sizes use the same top tube length.
The 1991 brochure has more information on frame dimensions. As far as I know sizing changed little over the entire period that the Champion Mondials were produced.


We very much enjoy following your progress! Our daughter, Erin, is one of your students "diggers" there, and it is great to be able to read about what she is doing, and see the pictures you post. We'll keep watching!


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Silver Edition Club Expands to Chicago; Develops Sister Site for LGBTQ Community
Nov 27, 2017 | Arts & Entertainment
Chicago, IL, November 27, 2017 –(PR.com)– Silver Edition Club is bringing its superior matchmaking ability to the Chicago market with the goal of attracting the most successful gentlemen and ladies in the Windy City together.
The agency is offering a business-like approach to a slew of accomplished individuals seeking to meet other high-caliber professionals with the hopes of finding a long-lasting romantic connection.
"We want to give you more than just a pretty face the way other services do," Samantha Joy, Silver Edition Club CEO and founder, said in a written statement. "We want to give you the full package of looks and intelligence."
The Silver Edition Club experience is poised for success in the largest city of the Midwest as its sophisticated screening process distinguishes itself from the Los Angeles-style of marketing that other matchmaking agencies have brought to Chicago.
The upscale matching service's talent pool consists of the cream of the crop in numerous industries and the modeling world in various ways. Silver Edition Club examines a robust database of female members through casting events and social media outreach, primarily Instagram.
Instead of accepting every applicant to the matchmaking site, the agency is very selective in determining who enters its exclusive club. "We are focused on the value of the quality of the prospective match," Joy continued.
More dates are offered on Silver Edition Club than other matchmaking services; roughly one to three per month, depending on a client's schedule. The executives behind this concept offer flexible payment options as the entire fee is not due upfront.
"At Silver Edition Club, we offer flexible payment arrangements including a month-to-month membership, a three-month plan, a six-month one and a 12-month offering," Joy added. "We will never bombard you with potential introductions, and you will never have a last-minute date. We also offer you a guarantee that we will find the perfect match for you."
Over the coming one to three years, the agency's founders are opening up a sister site to Silver Edition Club, available only to the LGBTQ community. Such a move would offer additional booking opportunities for female members in the modeling and entertainment space.
About Silver Edition Club
Samantha Joy, founder, CEO and managing partner, and Mike Patrick, founder, special assistant and managing partner, launched Silver Edition Club with the idea of offering a focused dating pool to successful gentlemen who were indifferent and "above" online dating. Both Joy and Patrick are accomplished and well-connected members of the entertainment industry, working for a Fortune 500 recruiting agency and building several successful online businesses respectively. The two came together to bring forth a revolutionary social club with a strict screening process and the guarantee that each member's privacy would be protected. The agency often directs castings for models and invests greatly in social media marketing. The two founders also took the time to listen to what their male clients were seeking in a female partner and accepted female affiliates accordingly. Silver Edition Club's male clientele can expect to garner one to three matches per month. For more information, visit SilverEdition.Club.
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ISRAEL HIT IRANIAN SPY VESSEL IN RED SEA
Israel 365 News -On Tuesday, Israel attacked an Iranian vessel that was operating in the Red Sea as a covert base for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Citing a US official, the New York Times reported that Israel notified the US that it was responsible for an attack on an Iranian cargo vessel off the coast of Djibouti in the southern Red Sea at about 6 a.m. on Tuesday. A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that the vessel Saviz was lightly damaged due to an explosion but did not specify the cause of the explosion. No casualties were reported.
The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news reported Tuesday that the ship was damaged in an explosion caused by limpet mines on the hull of the ship.
Saudi media later speculated that the blast was caused by "Israeli commandos".
The incident comes after two strikes on Israeli vessels in the region and several reported counterattacks by Israel ....READ MORE
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How the Co. Wicklow crag got its name.
Apparently the crag at Hollywood has a bit of a history of Gung Ho. A native of Hollywood told me the locals know the crag as "Mad Woman's leap". When St. Paddy was happily living in the cave close to where the statue stands today a local woman tried repeatedly to seduce him and divert him from the path of the righteous and true. This kind of thing still happens in Tully's from time to time. (Actually they shot Michael Collins, the actor at least, in the head, from the same general area for the movie).
So heartbroken was the woman that she threw herself and the baby off the top of the crag. No rope, no harness, nothing. To their maker they went, and hence the name on the crag.
This was in a time before our society became so perverted that we claim for everything and anything, and so neither Paddy nor the landowner were challenged.


I just updated my Amazon.com wish list and asked my family to do the same. I use my own list for myself, all year, to keep track of what I want. It includes things I don't need just yet, or might need to budget for, or would be fun (but not absolutely necessary) to have. I don't expect to receive any of the items as gifts (Christmas, birthday, or just because) but it does happen sometimes. What fun to receive an unexpected package in the mail!
I might not order directly from your list if it triggers a new idea, or one that better suits my budget. As a professional organizer, I favor clutter-free and experience gifts (movie, theater, or airline tickets; gift certificates to restaurants, etc.) because they don't add to the clutter in one's home. (Where am I going to put that?) But if I can get a loved one a thing that they actually want, that works too! I'm also a fan of gift certificates of all types…as long as they are wanted, kept track of, and used.
Create your list – Why not? Start by going to Amazon.com, locate an item you'd like to have, and click the Add to List button. Of course, you don't have to use Amazon's wish list feature, but it's handy and everyone has access to it for free. You don't even have to purchase the item from Amazon. Did you know you can add stuff from other websites to your Amazon wish list? Get the Universal Wish List Button here.
Update the list a few times per year, otherwise you risk getting something you no longer want, or already have. If you receive something on your list that was not ordered directly from the list, don't forget to go in to your account and delete it. When looking at someone else's list, note the dates of the most recent, and oldest, items to get an idea of whether it is sufficiently up to date to order from.
Add an identifier such as your birthday, or middle initial, so that loved ones can be sure they have the right list. Your name may be more common than you think!
Include a variety of things in different price ranges so that others can find something within their gift-giving budgets. You probably already know that Amazon sells items from a plethora of sources. It's not just about books anymore!
Ask your friends and family to start their own wish lists. Search for their lists (see Find a List or Registry, under Lists) and save them for future reference. Keep in mind that Amazon likes to suggest gift ideas too; ignore those and look for the person's actual wish list.
Include gift certificates on your wish list, in varying denominations. Of course, anyone can send you a gift certificate anytime they want to. But if it's on your wish list they will know you would actually appreciate one.
And, finally….don't forget to follow wish list etiquette!
Like I told my family, I can't promise I'll get you something on your wish list, but your chances are much greater (now and in the future) if you have an updated list. And If I don't get you something from your list, perhaps someone else will!
What do you think about wish lists? Do you have one? Do your family members? Are they in paper or electronic form?
No More Holiday Card Guilt!
I created a wish list on Pinterest – thanks for the heads up about keeping it updated!
What a great idea, a Pinterest wish list!
Hit the nail on the head! Excellent!
I'm very excited about the wish list button;-) never heard of it before; Thanks!!
I just checked….it's now called Add to List, and if you have established a Wish List it will pop up as a choice, along with Shopping List and other people's wish lists that you have saved.
Love that Amazon gives us this option! My grandkids use it and their parents love it!


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Comedy 'The Judge' Orders Release of Trailer and Poster
From Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures comes "The Judge" starring Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall and Vera Farmiga.
Directed by David Dobkin of "Wedding Crashers" fame, "The Judge" stars Downey as big city lawyer Hank Palmer, who returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge (Duvall), is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
Opening across the Philippines on Oct. 22, 2014, "The Judge" is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
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Real Estate Laws of Guarantees
Law No. 45-20, on Secured Transactions of the Dominican Republic, was promulgated on February 10, 2020 with the indication that it would enter into force ten months after its publication in the Official Gazette, at which time its implementation would be carried out through the Regulation to be issued by the Executive Power. To this date the Regulation has not yet been adopted.
With the aforementioned Law 45-20, the Dominican Republic achieves the standardization of the legal regime of movable guarantees by creating a unitary legal system for the constitution, effectiveness, publicity, registration, priority, execution and everything related to them.
These guarantees can be constituted on all types of personal property, tangible and intangible, present or future; in general, on any asset or right to which its pecuniary value is capable of guaranteeing the fulfillment of obligations. It includes patrimonial rights derived from intellectual property, assignment of accounts receivable and credit rights, letters of credit, right to pay money by virtue of deposits and lines of credit, shares, quotas and parts of interest or participations of the capital of civil or commercial companies.
The granting of a security interest will not require specific formalities. It can be documented in a public or private deed with or without legalized signatures, in an electronic document with or without a digital signature, while preserving its content in a reproducible way, or in any other way that allows proof of the will of the parties to constitute them, which includes electronic communications.
Pursuant to the law only the security interest without possession must be registered and published in the Electronic System of Movable Guarantees (ESMP). The registration in the ESMP confers a preferential right to the secured creditor that has publicized its right, acquiring preference to the possession, dispossession, execution and payment of the assets given as collateral in the event of non-compliance by debtor. The registration will be valid for five years and may be renewed for a period equal to that initially agreed upon by the parties or additional periods.
The ESMP is characterized by the following:
It is a unique system that will operate nationwide with a centralized electronic database, through remote access by means of the electronic platform specially designed for this purpose.
Registrations are carried out through standard electronic forms.
It will update the registration system in real time, allowing any interested person to access it and verify the status of the registered asset.
It is a computer system equipped with security measures that guarantee and safeguard the information contained in the database.
The ESMP is organized under a personal folio system based on the identification of the guarantor debtor, so that each guarantor debtor will have a folio.
The database that is formed by the notices incorporated through the ESMP is public and may be consulted in the manner established by this law and the regulations.
The ESMP will be the only place where security interests, security rights regarding movable property or rights over them are registered. The administration of the ESMP will be in charge of the person with whom the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and MiPymes signs the concession contract.
The rates that will be charged for the service that the managing entity provides will be established through the ESMP Regulation that will be issued by the Executive Power.
This law opens a range of possibilities for informal lenders to be able to equalize in terms of the preservation of guarantees, financial intermediation entities, as well as any company and / or business that ventures into the area of secured loans.
Any types of secured creditors may opt for the execution process of the security interests, including national or foreign financial intermediation entities, individuals or autonomous patrimonies through their trustees or anyone who has the quality of creditor.
Under this law the secured creditor and the guarantor debtor may at the time of constituting the security interest, or at any time, before or during the public auction, sale or adjudication procedures before the judicial bodies, as long as the assets have not been delivered to the creditor or an awardee, agree on an enforcement procedure without judicial intervention.
The contract in which the granting of a security interest is established, accompanied by the electronic certification generated by the ESMP, has executory force and is an enforceable title.
Any controversy that arises regarding the constitution, interpretation, priority, scope of the agreements, terms and conditions established in the guarantee contract may be submitted by the parties to alternative means of dispute resolution, in accordance with the law of the Dominican Republic.
With Law 45-20 former legal provisions ruling civil pledge and commercial pledge, with or without possession are revoked in any matter that contracts its provisions.
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South America meets East Africa in a wonderful complementary blend. Inhale the high altitude summer air and enjoy the wild sunset behind Cathedral Peak. It doesn't get any better than Yosemite Park and it doesn't get any better than Mt. Whitney's Cathedral Peak Blend. Sweet, nutty, lemon zest, melon, cane sugar, lively, silky body.


With the little break from my Woman Crush Wednesday episode last week due to our travels to Iceland I'm back with a bang! I LOVE this day! A chance to spread some love on a female foodie who is setting the culinary world on fire. This week's chef is the gorgeous gourmet gal Lilly Higgins. She is a Ballymaloe Cookery School trained chef like myself and she has written two amazing cookery books, Make, Bake, Love and Dream Deli. I am so excited to finally give her this special day so I can share all things Lilly with you reading this in different corners of the globe. And I will be doing my live Snapchat cooking tutorial (my username is blissbakery) of a recipe of Lilly's that I have never made before.
I have made several recipes of hers in the past and each one has turned out fab. Very easy to follow instructions and always an innovative spin on a traditional favorite. She knows the best ingredient combos and has the culinary skills to pull off magic! I am partial to sweet treats as you know, but decided I'd try something savory. I liked the sound of her Turkey and Sage Cakes. And not just because of the word CAKES, if that's what you were thinking! With Thanksgiving next week this will come in handy for my American friends. It is all about re-using the leftover turkey and mashed potato in a super creative way that will make you all want to give this recipe a try at home. Like I am going to do right now!
Melt the butter in a small pan and sauté the onion until soft and translucent. Set aside to cool.
Chop the turkey finely. Leave some texture and don't mince it.
Mix the cold mashed potato with the chopped turkey, minced sage leaves and plenty of salt and freshly ground black pepper. Add the cooled onions. Mix until evenly combined. Use a scone cutter and pack the mixture in, compacting it as much as you can with the back of a spoon. Repeat with the remaining mixture. Place the cakes in the fridge to firm up for an hour or overnight.
Heat the oil in a frying pan over a medium heat. Roll the cakes in flour then fry for 3-4 minutes on each side until golden. Keep in the oven until all the cakes are cooked and piping hot.
I really loved how these delectable discs turned out. Not too difficult to make yet they tasted moreish. I served it with some maple roasted parsnips and a little green veg concoction. I just cooked some bacon and after removing it to drain, sautéed sliced shallots and mushrooms in the pan. Then I tossed in some leftover cooked and sliced Brussels sprouts and green beans. But the best was when I added a bit of cranberry sauce to the Turkey and Sage Cakes. I really felt like it was officially the holiday season with all those flavors. The only bummer was I lost the sunlight by the time I served them so the pics turned out a bit dark.
Even though I didn't make one of Lilly's famous desserts for today's Woman Crush Wednesday tutorial, I'll just save it for another time. She is a very prolific recipe writer so it's hard to keep up. But one of my favorite segments of hers is the Irish Times "Give Me Five" where she takes five ingredients and pulls an eye popping dish out of a hat! She is such an inspiration to so many chefs, photographers, bloggers and also mommies out there! Yes she has three children with her husband. To top it off she was also featured on this season of the Great Irish Bake Off as a judge.
Lilly is the pride of County Cork Ireland and even with all her success her star continues to rise. Well done and best wishes for the future!


Building my Vocal Chain and would love some opinions.
Lunchbox Plunge Greatriver or A Design?
Is Yamaha DM1000 improvement for 02R?
The Avalon U5, good for bass??
Crane Song Avocet - A little "muddy" ?
Thermionic Phoenix and RMS 775 Setup?
Moving my setup cross-country...heat issues?
Which of these LDC's would you recommend?
Just curious if you compared these. I know both sounds great but I've never compared them at the same time.
Anyone using a M3PH MKII with their HD rig?
Best DI box for synths and bass?
Sampled piano VSL imperial or?
ROYER-GEFFELL combo on Dist. guitars WOW!!!!
Can anyone tell me where I might be able to listen to a pair of dynaudio air 15s in Sydney.
This may be a stupid question, but I am wondering...is there a sound difference in the ME-1NV and the MP-500NV?
IK ARC - safe for my monitors?
So if I want to get an HD2 and Prism can anyone describe the required connections and cards to make this possible? 16 channels.
Help me out with a channel strip and a microphone.


We have just come back from a dream wedding in St Sophia's in Rhodes and it was our wedding day! Our whole experience with Unforgettable Rhodes Wedding has been amazing; from all Tracy's help, advice and patience in the UK to Justine's perfect execution of the wedding day itself! The day was stress free and I can honestly say we had to worry about nothing, we just enjoyed our day. The only disappointing part was that the day had to end! The venue was picture perfect, the guests loved the champagne cruise and the food at Ladiko's Taverna was out of this world. The Wedding cake was delicious and enjoyed by all as were the Greek dancers. I can honestly say that we would not change a thing. Unforgettable Rhodes Weddings offer a personal service to you as bride and groom, you are not just a number, instead you are a couple expecting a perfect day and this is most defiantly what they deliver we can't recommend them enough. Thank you everyone for making our day everything we dreamed of.
I don't know where to start; Unforgettable Rhodes Weddings have been amazing from start to finish. We booked our wedding with them from reading other couples reviews and we have not been disappointed. Tracy has been absolutely amazing helping to plan our big day, she gave us ideas we had never thought about and also took our own ideas and dreams and put them into our planner. Her email communication was excellent and always prompts to reply. Before we flew to Rhodes I was completely confident that everything was organised and in place. On arrival in Rhodes we had our consultation with Justine, who is so lovely and down to earth, making us feel like our big day was just as important to her as it was us. We had 3 surprise guests arrive 2 days before the wedding, which was amazing but also had me worrying about the number change to our wedding plan. However a quick phone call to Justine and it was all sorted with no stress at all. Our big day was amazing; the whole team are just fab at their jobs, thank you to everyone who was involved.
We just wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone in the team! From the start or our preparations the communication has been absolutely fantastic! I couldn't fault it in any way. Every email has been replied to and any question we had was always answered with a lovely personalised tone. Our wedding was just amazing, we loved every bit of it. It was all so perfect and planned that it just seemed like a dream! Justine you and your team are a credit to the wedding industry in Rhodes! From the moment we landed in Rhodes everything was dealt with thoroughly and very organised manner. My Dad was a little nervous about it all and he was just so pleased and grateful for everything. We loved every bit of detail and it was all how we wanted it to be and MORE! All our guests commented how perfect it was and all of our guests had never been to a wedding abroad and I think it exceeded their expectations. Our wedding was just perfect and I can't explain in words how much it meant to us both. The palladium was a great location and an excellent suggestion by you Justine! Thank you. We just can't say thank you enough you really are brilliant lady and have great multitasking skills. I wish you all the luck and happiness in the world to you and your team and look forward to coming back to Rhodes in the future. I would recommend everyone to come to Rhodes and get married and do it with you. Thank you from bottom of our hearts!
We would like to thank everyone at Unforgettable Rhodes Weddings for helping make our wedding the most special time of our lives. From the moment we booked our package we felt comfortable that everything was being done to help take the pressure off of planning our big day, and no detail was overlooked. As soon as we arrived in Rhodes, Justine & her team made sure that we had nothing to worry about, and the day itself ran so smoothly that it was even more perfect than we could ever have imagined. Getting married on the beach at the Atrium Palace hotel was a truly unforgettable experience, and one that ourselves and our guests will always remember. We then took a glass bottom boat cruise to our reception venue, which was a truly special and unique experience! The reception at the Skala Taverna was amazing too, from the outstanding food and service to the fantastic Greek dancers. Also, a special mention to the DJ, Mark, who played all the songs we asked for, helping making it a party to remember. We would recommend Unforgettable Rhodes Weddings to anyone considering getting married abroad - fantastic service & value for money, and the knowledge that the pressure of planning your special day is in great hands!
We just wanted to thank you for making our wedding the smoothest and most carefree! Everything flowed exactly like we imagined and even better. Everybody told us to expect things to go not as planned but we felt everything went as planned. The service you supplied was exceptional and above all our expectations. We loved how your team made us feel like they cared more about the details of our wedding than we did. Our wedding day was a totally stress-free and amazingly beautiful day, and we owe much of this to the "Unforgettable Rhodes Wedding" team. We would highly recommend you for anyone wanting to plan their wedding. If you're shopping for a wedding planner, stop here and look no further. TRUST US, you will not regret it. It was beyond a memorable experience. The company name truly says it all "UNFORGETTABLE".


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Chris Packham scores himself out of 10 after every episode of Springwatch
Does he ever get full marks?
By Laura Silverman and Emma-Louise Pritchard
With Springwatch returning to our screens from Tuesday 25th May to Friday 11th June 2021, we are eagerly waiting to welcome Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan, Gillian Burke, Iolo Williams and Megan McCubbin back into our lives, Tuesday to Friday for three weeks. Broadcasting live from three different filming hubs, they'll talk us through all the natural wonders of spring.
During an interview with Chris Packham back in January 2019, we asked him about the nitty gritty of the Springwatch filming process, which he has been a part of since 2009. Chris spoke honestly about his own performance on the show, which tackles a subject he is most knowledgeable, passionate and animated about, but one he also takes a great load of personal responsibility for – wildlife.
"I still get really excited about [Springwatch]," he says with a shot of energy in his voice. "I would leave it immediately if I were bored. It's live, it's very responsive and reactive, and you can't fake being interested if you're not – not on TV, not with the sort of audience we've got."
Chris says Springwatch is "like a festival. It generates its own momentum, there's always a new challenge".
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The selling point for Chris is the camera set up. "You can't stand in a bramble bush wide awake for 24 hours, not disturbing an animal 20cm away, for three weeks non-stop – but our cameras can."
The cameras have caught "crazy things," he recalls, like adders up trees eating birds. He talks in a boyish tone, full of contagious wonder. "We've seen that on five or six occasions. These animals have been foraging in a way no one had ever seen."
For Springwatch 2021, Chris will be presenting live from Wild Ken Hill in Norfolk, alongside Michaela Strachan. Nowadays, thanks to a pandemic-induced format mix-up, the four main presenters are in separate locations but, in the not so distant past, they all presented together from the Cairngorms National Park and would often stay on site as a team.
Chris, who lived in Scotland for several years until the weather and the lack of light got to him, would always stay in a cottage away from the rest of the crew. After filming, the team sometimes went out for a drink – but not Chris. "I [would] go to my room, have a bath, read some more stuff, and start thinking about the next programme, which we are going to begin prepping for in about six hours' time."
He also scores himself out of 10 for that day's work. "If I've only got five out of 10, then I'm pretty mortified," he says. "If I've got seven out of 10, then I'm a bit pissed off. If I give myself eight out of 10, then I just about live with it. But I'm really aiming for 10 on every job that I do. When I feel that I haven't delivered to the best of my ability or people's expectations, that's when I get a little bit annoyed." Has he ever given himself 10? "No, of course not!" He laughs.
What would Chris have to do to get full marks – actually save the planet? He's certainly keen to do as much as he can. "Since I first got binoculars, we've lost 90 million birds from the UK countryside and 40 to 50% of all wildlife on earth," he laments. "I'm motivated enormously by a sense of guilt. I've been trying pretty hard, but collectively, we've not been trying hard enough." He is upset and cross – and then there's more self-awareness. "I've always struggled with [this] in my field. I've fallen out with loads of people because I don't feel they've been doing enough. [Organisations] have been complacent."
Recently, Chris has said that TV documentaries have "failed wholeheartedly" to change attitudes towards environmental crises, calling on programme-makers to "shout more loudly." But he takes the blame, too. "I feel very guilty about it, and I feel I've got to use what time I've got left to try harder than ever before to get some sort of personal redemption and reconciliation for all those losses."
It's this belief that motivates everything he does. Chris likens climate change and the nature crisis to the nuclear threat during the Cold War. "We are two minutes to midnight," he warns. "Extinction Rebellion has woken everyone up. Now we've got to empower them. I want to offer opportunities to make a difference."
How Chris got into TV
Chris worked initially as a camera assistant and "drifted into" TV presenting. It was his sister Jenny, now a fashion designer, who persuaded him to audition for a new BBC children's series, The Really Wild Show, which he presented from 1986 to 1995.
"Talking about wildlife came naturally because I'd been boring my family for years," he says. (Years of therapy after he was diagnosed with autism has made Chris acutely self-aware.) To learn how to do the job properly, however, he made videotapes of presenters he liked and copied them as closely as he could. He lists John Freeman's Face to Face interviews with Bertrand Russell and Martin Luther King. The ones he liked appear to be weighty, serious, substantial. "Presenting is about engaging an audience and communicating your point," he says. "It's a mission, it's task-focused, I can do that."
Talking to people off-screen, however, has always been another matter. "When I started, I really struggled to have a conversation with a group of people," Chris recalls, looking convincingly engaged, "but the camera was just a lens, so I could talk to that till the cows came home." Working with people was a challenge, he says, because he has "very fixed ideas" about things. "I've learnt to compromise, and that working in a team can also be about realising that other people's ideas are better than yours." He likes working with people who share his commitment. "I don't care how they dress, what they think, who they vote for. All I'm interested in is that they turn up on time, they put as much energy as I do into the project and their principal interest is the best possible project."
Chris likes to have projects that are his alone. "I have a need to make things that are entirely a result of my creativity," he says, stroking one of the dogs. "That's why I write, I take photos. I need to partition [my working life]. I make sure I have ticked that box, so I don't stress as much about having to compromise in a team."
Writing, he says, has been especially valuable, but, like presenting, he's worked hard at it. In the Nineties, he took "an enormous quantity" of novels to France, where he now has a house, stacking them up in two big piles against the wall. He threw himself into the books, analysing why they worked, and deciding which he liked best. Then he read all the work of his favourite authors – Scott Fitzgerald and Paul Bowles, among them. Just to see if he could, he wrote "loads of short stories", which are now upstairs.
Four-years-ago, Chris published his memoir, Fingers in the Sparkle Jar – an emotionally raw and often lyrical account of his love of nature and his life with autism. In it, he talks movingly of his depression and his recovery from a suicide attempt.
He seems happier today because he knows what he needs – both time alone and the sense that he is making a contribution as a naturalist, enthusing people about wildlife.
Springwatch starts on Tuesday 25th May to Friday 11th June 2021, at 8pm on BBC Two.
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