Basta is part of a European funded project called Triple R. Triple R stands for Rehabilitation for Recovery and Reinsertion, and is a 2-year project together with partners across Europe. A big part of the project is developing 3 handbooks on Rehabilitation, Social reintegration and Justice Intervention. The aim is for them to be done by January 2017 and the handbooks will be mainstreamed through this website, the partners and through dissemination events.
Project leader is San Patrignano that also was the inspiration for Basta when we started 22 years ago.


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1,2,3 Yearbook Journalism Curriculum. The 1,2,3 Student Yearbook Guide is a 104-page, colorful, hardbound textbook presented in a 1,2,3 format and supplemented by dozens of visuals from the nation's best yearbooks. The 1,2,3 Teacher's DVD provides all the tools an educator needs to teach a yearbook course.
• The most comprehensive scholastic journalism curriculum available in the U.S. • Ongoing support from JEA members via an online directory, email distribution list, JEA Advisers Institute and two national conventions a year.
This curriculum document is a culmination of an extended, broad-based effort to fulfill the charge issued by the Colorado Department of Education to design a curriculum that meets or exceeds the state standard expectations and to ensure that all students are college and career ready in English Language Arts when they graduate from BVSD.
Yearbook(Course(of(Study,(2012( Page(30(. 7-18 Curriculum – A Guide to Yearbook Journalism. Chapter 3 Goal: To assess student designs based on concepts taught thus far. This holistic design rubric highlights the criteria for a grid design with at least one mod.
Jul 24, 2014The product of high school media classes, in many cases a yearbook or newspaper, is no more the central purpose of a scholastic journalism program than winning a football game is to team sports. Instead, it's about the process, how students engage and work together, and the level of responsibility teachers encourage throughout.


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EXPOSED! EFCC Officials Caught on Tape Demanding N75m Bribe
Posted byPhilip chiemenam August 20, 2020 August 20, 2020 Posted inCrime
A businessman has played a tape recording before the Justice Ayo Salami-led Presidential Probe Panel on how some operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), popularly known as Magu's boys used a lawyer to demand bribery of N75m to be paid into different accounts.
According to PR Nigeria, The businessman, Mr. Donald Wokoma of Damijay Integrated Services Limited tendered an affidavit of fact in support of a petition he wrote against 'Magu Boys' for extortion before unfreezing his account.
The EFCC had in 2018 refused to obey the order of Justice O.C. Agbaza to lift the restrictions on the account of Damijay Services Limited, after the firm had filed a suit for fundamental rights enforcement at the FCT High Court.
An Abuja-based lawyer, Barrister Victor Giwa who was allegedly involved in the deal, the Economic confidential gathered did not deny his voice in the 27 minutes tape recording that was played before the panel where he mentioned names of suspended Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu among other operatives over the bribery allegation.
Barrister Giwa was the former lawyer to the company on the case with the EFCC.
Meanwhile, in the affidavit sighted by the Economic Confidential, the businessman alleged that on or around 20th of May, 2020 Barrister Victor Giwa asked him to sign three blank cheques (valued at 25 million Naira each), which he would hand over to the people in EFCC to enable them unfreeze the account.
The petitioner had revealed that the said "Magu boys", had sent three different bank accounts namely Cikin Gida Nigeria Limited with account number: 1771773211, at Polaris Bank; Black and Black Global Concept Limited with account number: 0259011841 with Gtbank and Amina Kigbu with account number: 2176716071 with Zenith Bank for the payment of the alleged bribe.
When the cheques were not honoured by the bank, the Magu boys requested that the businessman should execute an Irrevocable Standing Payment Order (on the company's official letterhead) in favour of the three bank accounts and later demanded for 40% of the money in the company's account (which aggregates to One Hundred Million Naira) which the businessman outrightly rejected.
After rejecting their last demand, the businessman said that: "On the 9th of July, 2020, Mr. Mohammed Goje of EFCC called me to come to their office the next day being 10th July, 2020 (Friday). I honoured the invitation and stayed for long hours only for me to be informed by him (around 5: 09pm after I had left) that I have been charged to Court by sms and that I was to appear before the F.C.T. High Cout sitting at Lugbe by 8:30 am on Monday, 13th July, 2020 to be with a copy of the charge and arraigned simultaneously.
"He warned me via the sms to 'endeavour to come to avoid unnecessarily embarrassment.' On the 13th of July, 2020 while at the Lugbe High Court, I was served with an Amended Charge dated and filed on the 19th day of June, 2020 (exactly 2 days after I outrightly rejected their fresh demand of 40% of the total sum of the money in the company's account).
"The said amended charge was signed by one ABBA MUHAMMED of Legal and Prosecution Department of the EFCC with Supreme Court No: (SCN046977). Upon going through the documents served on me in Court, I discovered to my chagrin that there is
an earlier charge dated the 3rd day of January, 2019 and filed on the 4th day of January, 2019 signed by one AISHA A. T. HABIB from the Legal & Prosecution Department of the EFCC with Supreme Court No: SCN014045. This particular charged of 4th January, 2019 (which is over a year and five months) was never served on me."
It went on to add that: "After presenting the petition to the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation and specifically on Monday, the 6th day of August, 2020, I called Barrister VICTOR GIWA and informed him that a copy of the correspondences he has been exchanging with the operatives of the EFCC would be needed at the office of the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation in support of the petition.
"In response to my request as per the preceding paragraph, Barrister VICTOR GIWA told me over the phone that he has been receiving calls from agents of the EFCC and that in particular one AISHA of the EFCC was crying and pleading with him not to expose them else her career would be ruined.
"He (Barrister VICTOR GIWA) further said that some other EFCC officials, which he has been corresponding with, called him to query him on why he allowed me to write the petition to the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation and demanded that the said petition (Exhibit Dami 1) be withdrawn else there would be consequences after the storm currently buffeting the Commission.
"Barrister VICTOR GIWA further told me that those EFCC officials reminded him that he is a young Lawyer and that he has a lot before him and that he should not forget that what is happening at the EFCC at the time was a tussle between the Honourable AGF and the suspended Acting Chairman of the EFCC and boasted that things would soon return to normal at the EFCC. They thereafter asked him to call me so we could have a meeting where the matter would be effectively resolved.
"On 7th August, 2020, I instructed Barrister Johnmary Jideobi to call Barrister Victor and remind him of the request I made on him the previous night. Barrister VICTOR GIWA told Barrister Johnmary Jideobi that he was not going to make the correspondences yet available to me because he had those discussions with the EFCC people in confidence and that we should not join the fray of what was/is happening because no one knows tomorrow. That he would not want to offend the people who gave him the information in confidence since he should be honourable enough not to do things that would offend them. Barrister VICTOR GIWA later told Barrister Johnmary Jideobi that he would call him back and hung up but never called back again that day."
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Oswego East High School, Oswego, Illinois
Oswego East High School is a 9-12 school in District 308, and is located at 1525 Harvey Road in Oswego, IL.
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Jan 21, 2020 2234 Daybreak Dr. 2 + 1* 2.1 1,396 ft2 2 1999 Ogden Pointe $180,750
Jan 17, 2020 2797 Yellowstone Dr. 4 2.1 1,950 ft2 2 2000 Lakewood Valley $230,000
Jan 17, 2020 12839 Blue Spruce Dr. 3 2.1 1,804 ft2 2 2015 Grande Park $255,000
Jan 16, 2020 1712 Melbourne Ln. 3 2.1 2,212 ft2 2 1999 Wheatlands $262,000
Jan 13, 2020 504 Lincoln Station Dr. 2 2.1 1,545 ft2 2 2006 Lincoln Station $173,000
Jan 13, 2020 12311 Kilkenny Lot#67 Dr. 4 2.1 2,738 ft2 3 2019 Kings Bridge $389,990
Jan 10, 2020 3180 Teal Bay Ct. 2 2.1 1,471 ft2 2 1998 Coves of Harbor Springs $162,900
Jan 10, 2020 795 Bonaventure Dr. 4 2.1 3,152 ft2 3 2006 Churchill Club $309,000
Jan 10, 2020 11711 Presley Cir. 3 2.1 1,850 ft2 2 2003 Auburn Lakes $272,000
Jan 9, 2020 25718 Galway Lot#77 Ave. 4 2.1 2,764 ft2 3 2019 Kings Bridge $384,990
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Oswego East High School home sales for the month of December rose in volume by 40% when compared to last year, while the median sale price rose by 22.2% from $200,500 to $245,000. The number of Single Family homes sales rose by 71.4%, while the median sale price rose by 3% from $274,250 to $282,500. Condo/townhome sales stayed the same, while the median sale price decreased by 2.5% from $178,000 to $173,500.
Homes Sold 25 35 +40% 12 18 +50%
(Single Family) 14 24 +71.4% 8 11 +37.5%
(Condos/Townhomes) 11 11 0% 4 7 +75%
Median Sale Price $200,500 $245,000 +22.2% $218,200 $238,505 +9.3%
(Single Family) $274,250 $282,500 +3% $283,950 $272,000 -4.2%
(Condos/Townhomes) $178,000 $173,500 -2.5% $171,000 $177,000 +3.5%
Days on Market 21 17 -19% 27 25 -7.5%
(Single Family) 27 17 -38.9% 55 17 -68.8%
(Condos/Townhomes) 21 27 +28.6% 20 45 +125%
Amber Fields
Amber Fields is a townhouse and single family home neighborhood built in the early 2000s by Ryland Homes. Amber Fields is located in Aurora, Illinois on Eola	south of Ogden. Read more $240,000
Amber Fields Estates
Amber Fields Estates is a single family home neighborhood built in the early 2000s. Amber Fields Estates is located in Aurora, Illinois north of Wolfs Road	and west of Eola Road. Read more $285,000
Ashcroft Place
Ashcroft Place is a single family home neighborhood built in the early 2000's by Wiseman-Hughes Enterprises. A newer section is being built starting in 2017 by	West Point Builders. Ashcroft Place features 209 homes with floor plans ranging from 2,370 to 4,046 square feet of living space. Ashcroft Place is located in Oswego, Illinois east of Plainfield Road and south of Wooley Road. Read more $212,000
Auburn Lakes
Auburn Lakes is a single family and town house community built in the early 2000's by Pulte Home. Auburn Lakes features 279 single family homes with	floor plans ranging from 1,349 to 2,470 square feet of living space. The town houses feature floor plans ranging from 1,150 to 1,574 square feet of living space. Auburn Lakes is located in Plainfield, Illinois on Route 119 west of Route 59. Read more $265,000
Barrington Ridge
Barrington Ridge is a single family home neighborhood built in the early 2000's by Wiseman-Huges. Barrington Ridge is located in Aurora, Illinois on Eola west of	Route 34. Read more $280,000
Blackberry Crossing
Blackberry Crossing is a townhouse and single family home neighborhood built in the early 2000's by Ryland Homes. Blackberry Crossing is located in Montgomery, Illinois on	Orchard south of I-88. Read more $225,000
Blackberry Crossing West
Blackberry Crossing West is a subdivision of single family homes and townhomes built in starting in 2005 by Ryland Homes. Blackberry Crossing West features homes with	floor plans ranging from 1,748 to 3,686 square feet of living space. The townhomes feature floor plans ranging from from 1,310 to 1,690 square feet of living space. Blackberry Crossing West is located in Montgomery, Illinois south of Route 30 and west of Orchard Road. Read more $177,000
Blackberry Knoll
Blackberry Knoll is a subdivision of townhomes and single family homes built in the mid 2010's. Blackberry Knoll is located in Oswego, Illinois west of Orchard	Road and south of Galena Road. Read more $186,400
Boulder Hill is a single family neighborhood located in Montgomery, Illinois. Boulder Hill is on Douglas south of Route 30. $162,500
Briarcourt Villas
Briarcourt Villas is a townhouse community built in the early 2000s by LP Properties. Briarcourt Villas features town homes with floor plans ranging from 1,370 to 1,840	square feet of living space. Briarcourt Villas are located in Aurora, Illinois on Farmsworth Road north of Ogden. Read more $186,500
Brighton Meadows
Brighton Meadows is a subdivision of single family homes built in the early 2010's. Brighton Meadows features home with floor plans ranging from 1,693 to 2,830	square feet of living space. Brighton Meadows is located in Oswego, Illinois west of Harvey Road and Route 30 and north of Wolfs Crossing Road. Read more $306,500
Century Trace
Century Trace is a single family home neighborhood built in 2002 by Pulte Homes. Century Trace features homes with floor plans ranging from 2,800 to	4,180 square feet of living space. Century Trace is located in Plainfield, Illinois on 248th south of 111th. Read more $290,000
Chatham Square
Chatham Square is a single family and town home community built starting in the mid 2000's by Gladstone Homes. Chatham Square is located in Plainfield, Illinois	north of 127th Street and west of Heggs Road. Read more $350,000
Churchill Club
Churchill Club is a townhouse and single family community built between 2004 and 2012 by K Hovnanian Homes. Churchill Club is located in Oswego, Illinois east	of Douglas Road and north of Wolfs Crossing Road. Churchill Club offers a clubhouse that features a fitness center, game room, business center, community rooms, and a junior Olympic-size swimming pool. Read more $270,000
Columbia Station is a single family home neighborhood built in the late 1990's by Concord Homes. Columbia Station features houses with floor plans ranging from 1,748	to 2,500 square feet of living space. Columbia Station is located in Aurora, Illinois on Eola south of Ogden. Read more $255,000
Country Walk is a single family home neighborhood built in the early 2000s. Country Walk is located in Aurora, Illinois west of Normantown Road and north	of Hafenrichter Road. Read more $159,000
Coves of Harbor Springs
Coves of Harbor Springs is a subdivision of townhomes built in the late 1990s by Pulte Homes. Coves of Harbor Springs featuresranging from 1,197 to 1,462 square	feet of living space. Coves of Harbor Springs is located in Aurora, Illinois west of Normantown Road and south of 87th Street. Read more $158,000
Deerbrook is a single family home neighborhood built from the early to mid 2010s. A newer section was built starting in 2016 by Pulte Homes. Deerbrook is located in Aurora, Illinois south of Ogden and East of Route 30. Read more $283,700
Deerbrook Place
Deerbrook Place is a townhouse community built by Keim Corporation in the mid 2010's. Deerbrook Place features townhomes with floor plans ranging from 1,695 to 2,337	square feet of living space. Deerbrook Place is located in Aurora, Illinois south of Hafenrichter Road west of Eola Road. Read more $235,000
Deerpath Trails
Deerpath Trails is a single family home neighborhood built starting in the mid 2010's. Deerpath Trails is located in Oswego, Illinois east of Grove Road and	north of Collins Road. Read more $401,000
Farmington Lakes
Farmington Lakes is a subdivision of single family homes and townhouses built by Town & Country Homes in the mid 2010's. Homes in Farmington Lakes range	from 1,671 to 2,690 square feet. Farmington Lakes is located in Oswego, Illinois east of Douglas Road and south of Route 30. Read more $271,300
Fernwood Gardens
Fernwood Gardens is a single family home subdivision built in the mid 1980's. Fernwood Gardens is located in Montgomery, Illinois west of Douglas Road and south	of Route 30. Read more $130,000
Fernwood Lakes
Fernwood Lakes is a townhouse community built in the 1980's. Fernwood Lakes located in Montgomery, Illinois west of Douglas Road and south of Route 30. $174,000
Four Pointes
Four Pointes is a single family home neighborhood built in the mid 1990s. Four Pointes is located in Aurora, Illinois on Ogden west of Montgomery. $218,000
Fox Chase of Oswego
Fox Chase of Oswego is a subdivision of single family homes built in the late 1990s. Fox Chase of Oswego is located in Oswego, Illinois east	of Orchard Road and north of Mill Road. Read more $245,000
Georgetown is a duplex and single family home community built in the late 1970's and 1980's. Georgetown is located in Aurora, Illinois south of Ogden Avenue	and west of Frontenac Street. Read more $180,000
Georgetown Commons
Georgetown Commons is a townhome community built in the early 2000s by Realen Homes. Georgetown Commons features homes with floor plans ranging from 1,426 to 1,782 square	feet of living space. Georgetown Commons is located in Aurora, Illinois north of Wolfs Road and east of Eola Road. Read more $168,500
Glenmoor Ridge
Glenmoor Ridge is a single family home subdivision built in the early 2000s. Glenmoor Ridge is located in Aurora, Illinois west of Eola Road and	south of 87th Street/Keating Drive. Read more $298,000
Grand Pointe Trails
Grand Pointe Trails is a single family home and townhouse community built between the mid to late 2010's by Grand Pointe Homes. Grand Pointe Trails is	located in Aurora, Illinois on east of Route 30 and south of Farnsworth Avenue. Read more $167,000
Grande Park is a single family home and townhome neighborhood built in the mid 2010's, a newer section Somerset at Grande Park was built starting in 2015	by K. Hovnanian Homes. Grande Park features 100 acre park with soccer fields, baseball fields, basketball courts, volleyball courts, and tennis courts. For resident enjoyment there is an aquatic center with a swimming pool and clubhouse. In winter residents can use two skating rinks and sledding hills. Grande Park is located in Plainfield, Illinois south of 127th Street and east of Ridge Road. Read more $367,745
Grande Park Fieldstone
Grande Park Fieldstone is a single family home community built by DJK Custom Homes between 2006 and 2012. Grande Park Fieldstone is located in Plainfield, Illinois	north of Plainfield Road and west of Ridge Road. Read more $405,000
Grande Park Huntercrest
Grande Park Huntercrest is a single family home subdivision built by MPI Development from the mid to late 2010's. Grande Park Huntercrest is located in Plainfield,	Illinois east of Ridge Road and south of 127th Street. Read more $331,500
Grande Park Sage Knoll
Grande Park Sage Knoll is a single family home neighborhood built in the 2010s by DJK Custom Homes. Grande Park Sage Knoll is located in Plainfield,	Illinois west of Ridge Road and south of 127th Street. Read more $455,000
Grande Park Tall Pines
Grande Park Tall Pines is a duplex subdivision built by Pasquinelli in 2007 and 2008. A newer section was built starting in 2015 by Ryan Homes.	Homes range in size from 1,661 to 2,133 square feet. Grande Park Tall Pines is located in Plainfield, Illinois south of Simons Road/127th Street and west of Ridge Road. Read more $220,000
Harbor Springs is a single family home and townhouse community built in the late 1980s by Pulte Homes. Harbor Springs features homes with floor plans ranging from	1,197 to 2,265 square feet of living space. Harbor Springs is located in Aurora, Illinois on Middlebury south of Montgomery. Read more $244,000
Heritage of Oswego
Heritage of Oswego is a townhouse and single family home community built in the mid-to-late 1990's. Heritage is located in Oswego, Illinois on Route 34 east	of Douglas. Read more $194,500
Highlands At Ogdenfalls
Highlands at Ogdenfalls is a subdivision of single family homes built by Lord & Essex Homes in the early 2010's. Highlands at Ogdenfalls is located in	Oswego, Illinois north of Wolfs Crossing Road and west of Harvey Road and Route 30. Read more $270,000
Homestead is a single family home neighborhood built in 2001 by Town & Country Homes. Homestead features houses with floor plans ranging from 1,243 to 2,503 square	feet of living space. Homestead is located in Aurora, Illinois on Eola Road south of 87th. Read more $260,000
Hometown is a subdivision of single family homes built by Sundance Builders in the early 2000's. Hometown is located in Oswego, Illinois west of Route 31	and north of Route 34. Read more $275,000
Huntington Chase
Huntington Chase is a single family home neighborhood built in 2006 by Kimball Hill Homes. A newer section was built starting in 2018 by Lennar. Huntington Chase features homes with floor plans ranging from 1,636 to 3,052 square feet of living space. Huntington Chase is located near the intersection of Route 30 and Dickson Road in Montgomery, Illinois. Read more $248,000
Kings Bridge
Kings Bridge is a single family home neighborhood built by Pinnacle Custom Home Builders starting in 2007. A new section is being built by M/I	Homes of Chicago starting in 2017. Kings Bridges is located in Plainfield, Illinois north of 127th Street, between Route 30 and Heggs Road. Read more $361,325
Kingsbrook Crossing
Kingsbrook Crossing is a townhome community built in the mid 1990s. Kingsbrook Crossing is located in Oswego, Illinois south of Route 30 and east of Douglas	Road. Read more $141,500
Lakeside of Seasons Ridge
Built in the late 90s, Lakeside of Seasons Ridge is located in Montgomery on Briarcliff west of Douglas. $160,000
Lakewood is a single family home subdivision built in the 1980s. Lakewood is located in Aurora, Illinois off of Ogden Avenue and Eola Road. $190,000
Lakewood Creek is a duplex and single family home community built in the early to mid 2000's by Lakewood Homes. Lakewood Creek is located in Montgomery,	Illinois west of Orchard Road and south of Route 30. Read more $174,950
Lakewood Creek West
Lakewood Creek West is a single family home subdivision built by Lakewood Homes and William Ryan Homes in the early to mid 2010s. Lakewood Creek West	is located in Montgomery, Illinois south of Route 30 and west of Orchard Road. Read more $182,500
Lakewood Valley
Lakewood Valley is a single family home and townhome community built in the early 2000s by Lakewood Homes. Lakewood Valley features town homes with floor plans ranging	from 1,105 to 1,376 square feet of living space. The single family homes feature floor plans ranging in size from 1,042 to 4,166 square feet of living space. Lakewood Valley is located in Aurora, Illinois on 95th west of 59. Read more $220,000
Leisure Lane
Leisure Lane is a subdivision of single family homes built in the 1970s. Leisure Lane is located in Oswego, Illinois south of Collins Road and west	of Douglas Road. Read more $228,000
Lincoln Station
Lincoln Station is a townhouse community built in 2006 by Cambridge Homes. Lincoln Station features town homes with floor plans ranging from 1,483 to 1,757 square	feet of living space. Lincoln Station is located in Oswego, Illinois on Route 30 just south of Route 34. Read more $164,000
Marquis Pointe
Marquis Pointe is a subdivision of single family homes built by Hartz Homes starting in the late 2010s. Marquis Pointe is located in Montgomery, Illinois north	of Montgomery Road and east of Mill St/Broadway Road. Read more $274,950
Mill Race Creek
Mill Race Creek is a single family home community built in the late 1990's. Homes feature floor plans ranging from 2,000 to 3,425 square feet of	living space. Mill Race Creek is located in Oswego, Illinois north of Route 34 and west of Douglas Road. Read more $311,500
Mill Street Station
Mill Street Station is a townhome community built in the mid 2000's. Mill Street Station is located in Oswego east of Orchard Road and north of Mill	Road. Read more $125,000
Misty Creek
Misty Creek is a single family and townhouse community built in the early 2000's by Grand Pointe Homes. Misty Creek features homes with floor plans ranging from	1,169 to 1,725 square feet of living space. Misty Creek is located in Aurora, Illinois on Eola south of Ogden. Read more $169,000
Montgomery Crossings
Montgomery Crossings is a single family home and duplex community built in the early 2000's by Concord Homes. Montgomery Crossings is located in Montgomery, Illinois south	of Route 83 and west of Orchard Road. Read more $209,975
Ogden Falls
Ogden Falls is a single family home and townhome neighborhood built in the late 1990's by Lord & Essex Homes. Ogden Falls features homes with floor	plans ranging from 1,380 to 1,750 square feet of living space. Ogden Falls is located in Oswego, Illinois on Route 30 or 34. Read more $162,250
Ogden Pointe
Ogden Pointe is a townhouse community built in the early-to-mid 1990s by Concord Homes. Ogden Pointe features 130 town homes with floor plans ranging from from 1,300	to 1,600 square feet of living space. Ogden Pointe is located in Aurora, Illinois on Route 34 west of Route 59. Read more $170,750
Ogden Pointe at the Wheatlands
Ogden Pointe at the Wheatlands is a townhome community built by Concord Homes from the late 1990s to early 2000s. Ogden Pointe at the Wheatland is	located in Aurora, Illinois west of Eola Road and south of Hafenrichter Road. Read more $160,101
Orchard Prairie North
Orchard Prairie North is a subdivision of single family homes built by D R Horton in the late 2010s, another section was built starting in 2014 by	Ryland Homes. Orchard Prairie North is located in Montgomery, Illinois south of Route 30 and west of Orchard Road. Read more $256,450
Park Place is a single family home neighborhood built starting in 2002 by Smykal Homes. Park Place is located in Oswego, Illinois north of Mill Road	and west of Route 31. Read more $225,000
Playa Vista is a community of townhouses and single family homes built by Hartz Homes beginning in 2009. Playa Vista is located in Plainfield, Illinois south	of 135th and east of Ridge Road. Read more $289,750
Ponds At Mill Race Creek
Ponds at Mill Race Creek is a subdivision of single family homes built in the late 1990s and early 2010s. Ponds at Mill Race Creek is	located in Oswego, Illinois north of Route 34 and west of Douglas Road. Read more $250,000
Prescott Mill
Prescott Mill is a community built by Pulte Homes between 2006 and 2010. Prescott Mill features 2 story townhomes with 2 car garages and single family	homes up to 3500 square feet of living space. Prescott Mill is located in Oswego, Illinois west of Lincoln Highway and north of Wolf's Crossing Road. Included are over 46 acres of wetlands, soccer fields and walking trails. Read more $204,000
Red Hawk Landing
Red Hawk Landing is a subdivision of single family homes built in the 1990s. Red Hawk Landing is located in Oswego, Illinois south of Collins Road	and east of Douglas Road. Read more $418,000
Remington Crossing
Remington Crossing is a single family home neighborhood built in the early 2000's by Remington Homes. Remington Crossing is located in Aurora, Illinois east of Eola	south of 87th St/Keating Drive. Read more $243,500
Rolling Acres
Rolling Acres is a single family home neighborhood built by DJK Custom homes starting in the mid 2010s. Rolling Acres is located in Plainfield, Illinois north	of 119th Street and east of Heggs Road. Read more $555,000
Saratoga Springs is a subdivision of single family homes built in the late 2010s by Saratoga Homes, a newer section was built starting in 2014 by Ryland	Homes. Saratoga Springs features homes with floor plans ranging from 1,771 to 3139 square feet of living space. Saratoga Springs is located in Montgomery, Illinois west of Orchard Road and south of Route 30. Read more $267,500
Seasons Ridge
Seasons Ridge is a town house and single family home community built by Primus Corp. between the late 1980's and mid 1990's. Seasons Ridge is located in	Montgomery, Illinois on Douglas north of Route 30. Read more $185,000
Southfield Estates
Southfield Estates is a subdivision of single family homes built in the late 1990s. Southfield Estates is located in Oswego, Illinois south of Plainfield Road off	of Cherry Road. Read more $662,500
Springbrook Townhomes
Springbrook Townhomes is a townhome community built in the mid 2010s by Centex Homes. Springbrook Townhomes is located in Oswego, Illinois on Farmington Lakes Drive south	of 5th Street. Read more $166,000
Springbrook Trails
Springbrook Trails is a townhome community built by Centex Homes in the mid 2010s. Springbrook Trails features homes from 1,200 to 1,672 square feet and feature	two or three bedrooms, 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 baths, lofts per plan and two-car garages. Springbrook Trails is located in Oswego, Illinois off of Farmington Lakes Drive south of 5th Street. Read more $162,000
Steeplechase is an active adult 55+ community built between 2006-2008. Steeplechase is located in Oswego, Illinois north of Wolfs Crossing Road and west of Harvey Road,	it offers both a clubhouse and pool. Steeplechase features single family homes with floor plans ranging from 1,766 to 2,183 square feet of living space. The duplexes have floor plans ranging from 1,313 to 1,536 square feet of living space. Read more $182,500
Stewart Ridge
Stewart Ridge is a subdivision of single family homes built starting in 2003 by DJK Custom Homes. A newer section is being built by 5th Avenue	Construction starting in 2017. Stewart Ridge is located in Plainfield, Illinois west of Heggs Road and north of 127th Street. Read more $567,750
Summerlin is a single family home neighborhood built in the early 2000's. Summerlin is located in Aurora, Illinois west of Farnsworth Avenue and Hafenrichter and south of	Ogden Avenue. Read more $248,500
Summit Fields
Summit Fields is a townhome community built in the 2000 by Summit Homes. Summit Fields features town homes with floor plans ranging from 1,238 to	1,624 square feet of living space. Summit Fields is located in Aurora, Illinois west of Eola Road and south of Hafenrichter Road. Read more $159,900
Sunny Farm Acres
Sunny Farm Acres is a custom built single family home neighborhood. Sunny Farm Acres is located in Plainfield, Illinois west of Route 30 and south of	111th Street. Read more $390,000
The Gardens is a townhouse community built in the 1970's. The Gardens is located in Montgomery, Illinois east of Route 25 and south of Route 30. $115,500
The Reserve is a single family home subdivision built in the 1990's. The Reserve located in Montgomery, Illinois north of Route 30 and east of River	Road/Route 25. Read more $268,000
The Townes of Blackberry
The Townes of Blackberry is a subdivision of townhomes built in the mid 2010's. The Townes of Blackberry Knoll is located in Oswego, Illinois. The	Townes of Blackberry Knoll features six ranch and story floorplans with 2-3 bedrooms, 2 - 2 1/2 baths and 2-car garages. Read more $129,900
Townes of Auburn Lakes
Townes of Auburn Lakes is a town house community built in the early 2000's by Pulte Homes. The town houses feature floor plans ranging from 1,150	to 1,574 square feet of living space. Townes of Auburn Lakes is located in Plainfield, Illinois on Route 119 west of Route 59. Read more $216,000
Victoria Meadows is a townhouse and single family home subdivision built by D.R. Horton and Terrestris Development from the early to mid 1990s. Victoria Meadows is	located in Oswego, Illinois north of Route 34 and west of Douglas Road. Read more $195,000
Washington Square is a townhouse and manor home community built in the early 2000's by Town and Country Homes. Washington Square features 204 row houses	and 72 manor homes with floor plans ranging from 1,192 to 1,533 square feet of living space. Washington Square is located in Aurora, Illinois on Eola south of 87th. Read more $158,000
Waterside Farmington Estates
Waterside Farmington Estates is a single family home community built in the mid 2010's. Waterside Farmington Estates is located in Oswego, Illinois east of Douglas Road	and south of Route 30. Read more $262,000
Wheatlands
Wheatlands is a subdivision of single family homes built in the late 1990's. Wheatlands is located in Aurora, Illinois west of Eola Drive south of 87th/Keating	Drive. Read more $285,000
Wheatlands- Columbia Station
Wheatlands- Columbia Stations is a single family subdivision built by Concord Homes in the early 2000s. Wheatlands- Columbia Station is located in Aurora, Illinois east of	Eola Road and south of Keating Drive/87th Street. Read more $260,000
Wheatlands-Ogden Pointe
Wheatlands-Ogden Pointe is a townhouse subdivision built by Concord Homes in the early 2000s. Wheatlands-Ogden Pointe is located in Aurora, Illinois west of Eola Road and	north of Hafenrichter Road. Read more $159,250
Wheatlands-Reserve
Wheatlands-Reserve is a single family home community built in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Wheatlands-Reserve is located in Aurora, Illinois west of Eola Road and	north of Hafenrichter Road. Read more $315,000
Wheatlands-Summit Chase
Wheatlands-Summit Chase is a single family homes subdivision built by Summit Homes in the early 2000s. Wheatlands-Summit Chase is located in Aurora, Illinois south of Montgomery	Road and west of Eola Road. Read more $340,000
Wheatlands-Summit Chase East
Wheatlands-Summit Chase East is a single family home subdivision built in the early 2000s. Wheatland-Summit Chase East is located in Aurora, Illinois east of Eola Road	and south of Montgomery Road. Read more $335,000
Wheatlands-Waterbury
Wheatlands-Waterbury is a single family home subdivision built in the late 1990's. Wheatlands-Waterbury is located in Aurora, Illinois west of Eola Road and north of	Hafenrichter Road. Read more $256,500
Windcrest
Windcrest is a duplex and single family home subdivision. The single family homes were built in the 1970s; the duplex homes were built in the 1990s.	Windcrest is located in Oswego, Illinois off of Route 34 west of Douglas Road. Read more $241,000
Winding Waters
Winding Waters is a townhouse community built in the 1990s. Winding Waters is located in north of Route 34 and west of Douglas Road. $150,000
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Though some in the first ages doubted whether this book was canonical, and who was the author of it, (see Euseb. l. 7, Histor. c. xxv.) yet it is certain much the greater part of the ancient fathers acknowledged both that it was a part of the canon, and that it was written by S. John, the apostle and evangelist. See Tillemont, in his ninth note upon S. John, where he cites S. Justin, S. Irenæus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertull. S. Cyp. S. Athan. Eusebius, S. Amb. S. Jerom, S. Aug. &c. It was written in Greek to the churches in Asia, under Domitian, about the year 96 or 97, long after the destruction of Jerusalem, when S. John was banished to the island of Patmos, in the Ægean Sea. It is by some called the prophecy of the New Testament, and the accomplishment of the predictions of all the other prophets, by the first coming of Christ at his incarnation, and by his second coming at the end of the world.


The Goldberg & Osborne East Tucson personal injury lawyer office opened in its new location on February 6th, 2017. It is conveniently located in Broadway Plaza on the northwest corner of East Broadway and North Pantano Road, in the retail building directly in front of the shopping center anchored by the Sprouts grocery store.
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The effects of the Lightning Network can be felt by the entire crypto community. This off-chain solution enables the use of private payment portals to reduce congestion on the blockchain. While the protocol is still only in its beta testing stages, the results are clear. Bitcoin transactions fees are at their lowest in three years. Heres why.
The average Bitcoin transaction fee today is only $0.029 according to a recent study conducted by Bitinfocharts. The last time transactions fees were this low was October 2015. These statistics are impressive when you consider that Bitcoin currently processes approximately 75% more transactions than in 2015.
These statistics also show the true impact of the Lightning Network on the Bitcoin community. Bitcoin suffered scalability issues throughout 2017 and through most of 2018. As adoption up ticked quickly, the added transactions began to jam the blockchain. While there were many reasons for the scalability issues, many people believed that the main problem was the size of Bitcoin's block size.
Bitcoin entered the market with a 1MB block size. At the time this was sufficient to process the amount of traffic on the network. As Bitcoin adoption increased, the 3 – 7 transactions per second handled by Bitcoin's blockchain became inadequate. This led to a split in the Bitcoin community with some groups requesting an increase in the Bitcoin blocksize to accommodate more transactions.
Opponents argued that increasing the block size would restrict access to miners. Also, they debated that the solution was only temporary and that more permanent fix should be used. This debate led to a hard fork and the creation of Bitcoin Cash on August 1, 2017.
The situation created some heated debates within the crypto community as each side attempted to put their reasoning forth. Eventually crypto heavyweights Roger Ver, aka Bitcoin Jesus, and Charlie Lee debating the issue in a series YouTube posts. Roger Ver was a strong proponent for the block increase and has since been a strong supporter of Bitcoin cash, whereas, Litecoin founder, Charlie Lee decided to push for alternative methods such as the Lightning Network.
The drop in fees can be attributed to a combination of factors including the SegWit protocol. The integration of the SegWit protocol became active on August 23, 2017. This coding helped to reduce the amount of data sent during a transaction. It's also an essential step in activating the Lighting Network.
SegWit or Segregated Witness removes the signature data from transactions and creates a new structure called a witness. The witness contains verification data and does not change the effects of the transaction. This strategy paved the way for the Lightning Network.
Thankfully, the creative minds behind the Lightning Networks development haven't skipped a beat. Today, this off-chain protocol is more active than ever. Developers continue to enter the space with new and exciting Lapps. Best of all, Bitcoin transaction fees are lower than they have been in years.
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Preparing Highly Skilled Educators to Bring Answers to the Education Crisis Regent University: "A" Rated and Best of Class
At the start of 2017, some 100,000+ classrooms were without fully qualified teachers. The teacher shortage is clear, and the need for high-quality educators is great.
If you're looking at a bachelor's degree in education, a master's in education, or a doctorate in education, where do you go for excellent, affordable instruction, and how do you decide what to study?
Regent University's College of Arts & Sciences equips aspiring teachers with the tools they need to succeed and excel at the front of the classroom. In fact, Regent's undergraduate teacher preparation program recently earned an "A" rating from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) in Program Performance for Early Reading Instruction. Regent stands among the nation's top 47 undergraduate teacher preparation programs. This distinction is especially important in a time when America is facing a reading crisis and one that that "disproportionately affects children of color" (NCTQ, 2020).
"We are training outstanding, highly skilled teachers who then go into classrooms throughout the region and the nation and effectively help lower rates of illiteracy," said Dr. Cheryl Gould, department chair and assistant professor of education at Regent University. "Reading ability is a key predictor of life success, and we are serious about our efforts to train and empower successful educators who then cultivate successful young students who can thrive in other areas of life."
In addition to accolades at the bachelor's level, Regent has also made positive marks at the master's and doctoral levels. Intelligent.com, a trusted resource for online degree rankings and higher education planning, recently announced Regent's Doctorate in Education program to be among the best in education degree programs and on par with universities such as Vanderbilt University, Baylor University and Johns Hopkins University.
Likewise, according to Best Online rankings released by U.S. News & World Report, Regent's School of Education (SOE) landed within the top 5 schools in Virginia for "Best Online Graduate Education Programs." More than 850 alumni have been recognized as Teachers of the Year in Hampton Roads alone since 2004.
"Our School of Education is continuing the trajectory as the state's game changer and leader in systematically improving education for all students," said Dr. Kurt Kreassig, dean of Regent's School of Education.
Whether you're seeking teacher licensure, a leadership role in administration or simply desire to increase your education skills and marketability, Regent's College of Arts & Sciences (bachelor's) and School of Education (master's and doctoral) will prepare you to advance your career in the critical world of education.
Explore how you can pursue a world-class teaching degree, from bachelor's to master's, as well as education endorsements and doctoral-level programs in education (both Ed.D. and Ph.D.) Regent is a leader in character education and renowned for its commitment to high-quality, faith-based education, delivered online and on campus in Virginia Beach. For information on degree options, financial aid, and admissions requirements, visit regent.edu or speak to a member of our admissions team at 800.373.5504
ABOUT REGENT UNIVERSITY & THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Founded in 1978, Regent University has nearly 11,000 students studying on its 70-acre campus in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and online around the world. The university offers associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from a Christian perspective in 135+ program areas including business, communication and the arts, cybersecurity and technology, divinity, education, government, law, leadership, nursing and healthcare, and psychology. Currently, Regent University is ranked among top national universities by U.S. News & World Report and is one of only 23 universities nationally to receive an "A" rating for its comprehensive liberal arts core curriculum. In its 2020 "Best Online Programs" rankings, Regent University's College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) again scored #1 for "Best Online Bachelor's Programs" among Virginia schools, the eighth year in a row that Regent has earned the top position. The university also earned its 10-year reaffirmation of accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, the highest level that a university can be awarded from that organization.
The School of Education is ranked among the Top 5 Best Online Graduate Education Programs in Virginia by U.S. News & World Report. The school also has earned an impressive reputation for its 850+ alumni Teachers of the Year. The school offers challenging, leading-edge online degrees including Master of Education; Educational Specialist, Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.), Ph.D. in Education, certificates, endorsements, and a Career Switcher program.
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Nov 21 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Nick Allen
Directed by: Francis Lawrence Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks Running Time: 2 hr 26 mins Rating: PG-13 Release Date: November 22, 2013
PLOT: The second installment in the Hunger Games franchise, where hero Katniss (Lawrence) and fake-lover Peeta (Hutcherson) assume celebrity status for killing people.
WHO'S IT FOR? Dissenters and fans of the original alike.
Defying any inclination to judge the intent of a franchise by its first film, sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire yearns to stir up some rebelliousness within its packaging as a mainstream franchise commodity. The characters within this story may not be too stoked that their story has become a million-dollar juggernaut, but they'd be pleased to see that the ideas are not going to deaf ears; the movie doesn't allot the type of comfort that mass entertainment has convinced itself it should be providing. Instead, ideas and relevancy abound in a first sequel that shows this franchise could make an impression larger than any comparisons that may have been originally made to Battle Royale.
Jennifer Lawrence, newly-anointed Oscar winner and important Hollywood person who tries to live outside the celebrity matrix, is in fine form here. Within a script that is so gloomy, and requires numerous emotional stunts, she gives the movie's expression of grief its complications. She maintains comfort in the role through the script's surprising events, adding some snap to the dialogue, and a darker presentation of a celebrity soldier's bravery as she steps into the third act's games. Lawrence's work turns essential with the film's final shot, which rhymes her previous expressions, but then certifies a distinct transformation that will carry this character and the franchise into its final chapters.
Like last month's Ender's Game, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire gains particular gusto from its strong performances, who coast the story through pages of dialogue with vibrant dramatic work. A striking addition to the Hunger Games world is Philip Seymour Hoffman, who pops into this movie unexpectedly and with a haircut directly reminiscent of his "I put a bomb in your head" theatrics in Mission Impossible III. Here, he takes the role of Wes Bentley's previous Seneca Crane, that of the "Hunger Games" game-master, but without any sense of flair. Whereas Bentley had a beard shaved to resemble flames on his face, Hoffman is the subdued opposite, delivering his lines with coldness, and a bit of irritation.
Under new direction from Francis Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire gives the franchise's mark a significant visual upgrade, particularly in its sense of owning a specific tone. Cast away are former cinematographer Tom Stern's shaking cameras from the first film, here to stay is a distinct visual palette which currently finds our characters inhabiting a world of icy colors and lights, fitting for the atmosphere created by the story itself. In contrast, it lets the 1% extravagant brightness of the film, like Stanley Tucci's perversely perfect teeth or the the flamboyance worn by Elizabeth Banks' Effie Trinket, linger with even more distinct contrast. With the loss of shakicam as well, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has action that is clear and clean-cut.
The thrills of watching this film unfold are found in its spirited mind games, where the script gets twisty with moral complications and misdirections. With this film the franchise reveals itself as tactful setups of direct expectations (all but one are going to die, right?) and then takes the more monumental route, sophisticated by snappy dialogue and drama. Coming after the success of the first film, the Hunger Games has certainly earned time to really let its striking themes play out with ease, providing a clear vision of its disturbing dystopia where forced fascination with celebrity intermingles with soldier culture.
Of its many ideas and characters, the film's center competition could certainly be chalked up as its least inspired attribute. It has a distinct placement and purpose within the story, but is more like a transitional device, to provide viewers what they may originally consider to the be the most important part of the film, and to slowly set up the bigger things from before. The physical trickery within the actual game is not as clever as the ideas to be found in dialogue in other parts of the movie; something involving CG monkeys brings back After Earth nightmares, and a revelation about the arena is shown with a gee-whiz goofy wide shot. Interestingly enough, these games are not presented with the full media spectrum as the first one, making the course of these events run more straightforward than previous.
The film's violence, still a bit jarring for such a demographic, is but one striking aspect, and one that shows now to have highly constructive use. Along with its presentation of a culture distracted from immediate issues by the falsity of celebrity, this movie arms its viewers with a vital sense of awareness. With the franchise now boasting significant momentum and promise, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a bit of a revolution in itself.
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The author as a young girl in California's Sequoia National Park.
A professor of environmental studies at Mount Holyoke, trustee of the National Parks Conservation Association, and author of Trace, a memoir about identity and the American landscape—Lauret Savoy grew up visiting the national parks with her family. On those trips, she realized how rarely people of color like herself were included in the official narratives of the parks. Here, she examines how far the National Park Service has come in acknowledging the more fraught aspects of its history.
One lesson I learned as a small child was this: the American land did not hate. People did. This was the late 1960s, when riots ignited cities across the nation. These were years when journeys with my parents introduced me to our national parklands. Yellowstone. Grand Teton. Badlands. Sequoia and Kings Canyon. Zion. Bryce Canyon.
Postcards collected by my seven-year-old self lie within reach as I write these words. Top right drawer of my desk. The edges are frayed after more than twoscore years. Most images show no people.
Western parks and monuments were my refuges from what seemed to be a hate-filled world that made little sense to me. By the age of 10 I wanted to be a ranger, to wear the uniform and hat, to tell stories about this land. But I began to wonder whose stories mattered and whose "public lands" these were. Rarely did I see brown-skinned people like me. Rarely were people of color lead actors in the park narratives I heard. Custer Battlefield National Monument presented a story of the United States losing a battle but winning the war against an "Indian" other. At times I felt betrayed by the parklands I loved.
In this centennial year, it is just as necessary to face the fraught history of the National Park Service as it is to celebrate its civic value. From iconic "wilderness" parks to monuments, memorials, battlefields, historical parks, and more, the making of the parks—and the elements preserved within them—are crucial pieces of this nation's still unfolding history, pieces tied to often unspoken and unexamined narratives about what and who we are.
Whose country was it? After visiting from Great Britain in 1874, the Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl declared Yellowstone "accessible to all who have leisure, money, and inclination to travel." Yet touring travelers of means also encountered African-Americans—not as privileged visitors but as servants, hotel waiters, and Buffalo Soldiers whom a segregated military preferred to restrict to remote posts. Black troops of the 25th Infantry Regiment even bicycled 800 miles round-trip between the park and Fort Missoula in 1896 as part of an army experiment to determine whether cycles could be used for military purposes over mountainous terrain.
25th Infantry Bicycle Corps at Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone National Park.
And indigenous peoples would be displaced again and again. The Ahwahneechee and related groups were pushed out of Yosemite Valley at various times, starting in 1851 by a California militia. In June of 1864, following three years of Civil War, President Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant Act, giving the valley and nearby Mariposa Grove to the state of California "upon the express conditions that the premises shall be held for public use, resort, and recreation." Bit by bit, from when Yosemite became a national park in 1890 to well within my lifetime, native residents would be forced out of the valley even as they tried to use the courts to acknowledge their land rights.
Portrait of Charles Young prior to his departure for Sequoia National Park in 1903.
Buffalo Soldiers were there, too, more than a century ago when the U.S. Army administered Sierra Nevada parklands. Approximately 500 African-American troops, mainly from the Ninth Cavalry and 24th Infantry regiments, patrolled Yosemite, Sequoia, and what would become Kings Canyon. One of them, Charles Young, was the third African-American to graduate with a commission from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He would briefly serve as acting superintendent of Sequoia. While posted in the Sierra parks, these troops policed illegal stock grazing, timber cutting, and poaching. They fought forest fires. They built the first trail to the top of Mount Whitney. They completed a wagon road to Sequoia's Giant Forest, giving visitors access for the first time. It is thanks to the efforts of people today like Shelton Johnson, an interpretive ranger, that these achievements have been recognized in recent years.
In the past few decades, the parks have made an effort to incorporate broader contexts and more voices. Renamed in 1991, the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument now presents more perspectives than Custer Battlefield did when I first visited as a child. The home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass became part of the park system in 1962. The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail was added in 1996 to trace the momentous 1965 civil rights march. César E. Chávez National Monument was designated in 2012 to honor the leader of the farmworker movement. There are many more.
Buffalo Soldiers, Yosemite National Park, 1903.
stories of internment and earlier relocations but to remind future generations of the fragility of American civil liberties.
No single narrative can ever claim authority as the American story. In this centennial year, I will acknowledge the origins of the park system. But it's also crucial to honor the agency's recent work and promise. More comprehensive approaches to presenting the American experience are leading visitors to think about the contexts and consequences of sometimes painful histories. And the park system as a whole offers a collective possibility to help us, the public, recognize legacies of the past that live in our present. With such lessons we might come to know each other and our place in this land a little better.


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Muhammad Ahsan Dar (; born 1952) is an Indian Islamist
militant
separatist leader from Jammu and Kashmir. He was the founder of an Islamist militant group called Ansarul Islam in mid-1980s, which later became the core of Hizbul Mujahideen. Formed in September 1989, Hizbul Mujahideen was an umbrella group of a dozen Islamist groups in the Kashmir Valley and was sponsored by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and Jamaat-e-Islami.
Ahsan Dar served as the head of the united group for a few years, but was marginalised the Jamaat-e-Islami patron Syed Salahuddin. He later founded a new group called Muslim Mujahideen in 1992, which operated for a few years. It was eventually neutralised by Hizbul Mujahideen and Indian security forces, and Ahsan Dar retired from militancy.

Early life
Ahsan Dar was born in Sariwarpora, Pattan tehsil, Baramulla district  in Jammu and Kashmir, India.

He worked as a school teacher in Jamaat-e-Islami school (run by Falah-e-Aam Trust).
He was given the nickname "Master" when he joined militancy.

Militancy
In 1984, when Dar was visiting Bombay for a family visit, he was queried by some one about Maqbool Bhat. To his embarrassment, he did not know who he was. He later learnt about him and decided to become a separatist. He sought out an acquaintance who knew the techniques of militancy, and obtained lessons, sharing them with his friends.

Ansarul Islam
According to the received version of events, Dar went to Pakistan in 1986 on a passport. Pakistani authorities told him that they were not yet prepared for him but would contact him when it was time. He was given a "letter", presumably certifying this. Returning to Kashmir, Dar formed the group Ansarul Islam ("helpers of Islam"). Other prominent members of the group were Hilal Ahmed Mir (aka Nasirul Islam, "friend of Islam"), Mohammed Ramzan Sofi (aka General Abdullah) and Ghulam Rasool Shah (aka Imran Rahi).

According to journalist Arif Jamal,
on the other hand, the group had long been existence before Ahsan Dar's involvement. It was founded by Hilal Ahmed Mir in 1984 under the name Shubbabul Islam and later changed its name to Ansarul Islam. The group trained its members in the use of local guns at first and later sent them to Afghanistan for training in automatic weapons, through the Kashmir Line of Control, in the middle of 1986. The group's aim was to establish the unity of ummah (the worldwide community of Muslims) and establish a caliphate.

Members of Ansarul Islam had links to the Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir, and were opposed to the secular mission of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). However, when the JKLF launched an armed insurgency in July 1988, Ansarul Islam also operated under its banner. It regarded itself as an "unofficial wing" of the JKLF. Indian security forces held Ansarul Islam responsible for the bombings on 31 July, and started a large-scale roundup of Muslim youth. Ahsan Dar and other senior leadership of Ansarul Islam were arrested.

Ahsan Dar escaped from a hospital when he was taken for a medical checkup after a few months, he found that most of his colleagues were either in prison or had gone to Pakistan. Dar went to Pakistan himself, and spent a month in a rented house with twenty other aspiring militants. He returned to the Valley in the summer of 1989 and met Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Geelani was glad to help but only in his individual capacity. Jamaat-e-Islami had not yet signed up to militancy.

Hizbul Mujahideen
According to the received version of the events, Ahsan Dar co-founded a new organisation called Hizbul Mujahideen ("party of holy warriors") along with Hilal Ahmed Mir. The version accepts that it was Mir's idea, who reportedly told Dar that he had to take more credit for his (the group's) work, instead of benefiting the JKLF. Since Ansarul Islam was known to the authorities, they needed to operate under a new name.

According to Arif Jamal, the majlis-i-shoura of Ansarul Islam met at Hadiderpura (Budgam district) on 11 June 1989 and decided to change the  name to Hizbul Mujahideen in order to broaden its appeal. The group elected Hilal Ahmed Mir as its amir. Ahsan Dar is not mentioned in this context.

Parallel to this development, the Jamaat-e-Islami of Azad Kashmir sent a clandestine militant called Masood Sarfraz to the Kashmir Valley with the mission of bringing all the Islamist militant groups under a single umbrella to form a serious organisation parallel to the JKLF. Hizbul Mujahideen also turned out to be the chosen name for Sarfraz. He brought together some of the smaller militant cells heretofore operating under the JKLF banner in September 1989 and formed a parallel "Hizbul Mujahideen". After three weeks of negotiations, the two groups merged in October 1989. At this meeting, Ahsan Dar was chosen as the chief commander and at a later meeting Hilal Ahmed Mir was chosen as the amir.

Jamaat-e-Islami control
Dar was also affiliated with Jamaat-e-Islami. Though Hizbul had no official support from Jamaat, several of its members and affiliates were among Hizbul's founders. The pro-independence JKLF's expansion and growth in power worried both the Jamaat and Pakistan. In an attempt to counter it, Jamaat started taking over Hizbul Mujahideen and in 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the "sword arm of Jamaat". Yusuf Shah aka Syed Salahuddin who was a staunch Jamaati, gradually started taking over the leadership of Hizbul. Dar, the chief commander, despite the Jamaat takeover had become increasingly independent and was opposed to Jamaat's plan to impose a "shura"-style council leadership. Dar was also disillusioned by the killings perpetrated by Hizbul Mujahideen on members of other militant organizations and pro-independence leaders and activists. He was expelled by Salahuddin loyalists in 1991 and formed his own group along with the loyalists in 1992, naming it as "Muslim Mujahideen". The group quickly fell apart after his arrest in 1993.

In spite of all this, Dar, however, remained close to Syed Salahuddin, who also heads the United Jihad Council.

Current life
He was arrested and released in 1999 after seven years in detention. He was last arrested on 14 January 2009 and released on 25 December 2012.

See also
 Syed Ali Shah Geelani
 Hurriyat and Problems before Plebiscite
 Kashmir conflict
 2014 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election

Notes

References

Bibliography

Further reading

External links
 The birth of the Hizbul Mujahideen
 Meet Master Ahsandar: Ex-school teacher, Freedom Fighter

1960 births
People from Baramulla district
Living people
Kashmiri people
20th-century Indian Muslims
Kashmiri Muslims
Kashmiri Islamists
Kashmiri militants
Leaders of Islamic terror groups


Maybe its just a good example of someone prepared to try to learn and to integrate.
Ah, now that's interesting, because while an 'oh, look - a black man is capable of learning Welsh too!' story would make me cringe, this one didn't. Probably because the doctor involved came to my attention via this item: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-37296678, which is specifically about whether immigrants to Wales have enough opportunity to learn Welsh (not whether they're willing or able to).
That's a very relevant and important issue, because it's become a bit of a national sport in the UK to have a go at 'all these immigrants who refuse to speak English' (and it always has been about English when I've heard it). Though in reality, in the experiences of the people I know who work with 'all these immigrants' (in England, I'm not sure what the situation is in Wales), there's a massive shortage of ESOL, or EAL courses (or whatever it is they're calling English courses for people who aren't first language speakers this week). People who migrate to Britain generally want to speak English - they'd be daft not to, and a large proportion of them already do (and often several other languages as well).
So when I saw this article about whether there's enough opportunity for migrants to Wales to learn Welsh, I thought it was a timely piece, positive and nicely presented.
Of course, you're right that there's a good chance that some people have seen this guy as a bit of a novelty, and he laughs a lot, which people find unthreatening (that's not a criticism of him, btw, I like a laugh, and he seems like a genuinely nice guy), so I expect clips of him have been banded about a fair bit. But people probably also see it as a welcome and much-needed positive story about migrants that they'd like to share.
It's never simple, is it? There are lots of things going on at the same time, and sometimes the original story gets lost or diluted and you're just left with clips of a man from Barbados speaking Welsh with no context at all.
Yes, that is a nice article. Maybe I was a bit oversensitised last night after this thread yesterday. I'm sure I've seen clips of that guy before though - tend to notice how he keeps popping up. I'm sure he's a lovely guy though, charwae teg iddo!
Exactly. I have huge misgivings about the structures, politics and economics of the apparatus of the EU. Yet I voted remain, simply because I have even less trust in the Westminster government to sort anything out properly, especially such a thing as leaving the EU particularly with no plan apart from reacting to events.
It's just so, well, odd isn't it. I grew up with this idea of Britishness (maybe this was merely our family) being about openness and freedom and not forcing anyone to do anything, if there was such a thing as 'British values' and forget about British history for the now. This sense of Britishness is about not conforming. This sense of Britishness would refuse to speak English for a "citizenship test" that forced people into the language. To me anyone who passes the UK citizenship test cannot by definition be British, which is so so stupid. why should migrants pass a test every native British person should fail? This new Brexiteer thing (meaning not the sensible people who voted for Brexit) just seems such a radical change in cultural values to me.
Hope you don't mind, but I'm nicking this for my coursework - giving a presentation on Privilege next week (eek!) and the blindness metaphor is perfect. Thank you.
I disagree that it's a non-story. Whilst we were on bootcamp everybody we met were so so impressed that, not only were we learning Welsh, but we were a group that included someone from Australia, Germany, Slovenia, and Holland. We also had a non-caucasian, and that was less of a talking point. It was not their race, it was their country of origin that amazed them. I have had people comment positively on the fact that I come from Plymouth and am learning Welsh. Being from Plymouth is very rarely remarkable! It becomes more so when you learn Welsh.
The story here is that someone from abroad has made the effort to become eitha rhugl in a language they do not need in the eyes of so many.
Back when I was in primary school in Cardiff (ooh, must be fifteen years back) I read an English-language book called 'The Last Welsh Summer'. It was about a black Welsh girl, and it was about how her identity as a Welsh girl was constantly being challenged by her peers because she was black. It's stayed with me because it was a vision of Welsh identity I hadn't come across in literature before (or since, for that matter).
Watching him on Ward Plant today is inspirational. He's using the language of his patients, mistakes and all. It's fantastic!
After watching him I will use my Welsh more and more at work.
watched it as well and what a role model and I wasn't thinking, welsh culture, welsh language or anything multicultural etc, just a role model in general.
Britain has been multicultural arguably since the ice ages…and Wales has been multicultural for a millenia at least…just look at all the dialects and different customs in parts of Cymru for example!
is easier for people to engage with than comments about 'people ignorant of history' or 'cultural snobs' which is a bit like an insult in advance for anyone who wants to query your points.
I fancied reading that, but sadly can't find it online. Shame!
Apologies Ive removed the opinion.
Ive never thought being ignorant is a necessarily bad thing…in my science work we regularly admit we are terribly terribly ignorant of the existence we live in.
I was writing a response about multiculturalism and Vikings and the like, but since you've removed your original post, I won't quote it. Probably just as well, it was far too long and I was going off on a tangent. But yes! I agree, Wales is and always has been multicultural. Everywhere has. That's the thing about culture, isn't it? Everyone has it, and cultures have been clashing and mixing and mingling and birthing new cultures for ever.
At the risk of getting all wordy and semantic, your comment highlights the important distinction between 'multicultural' and 'multiracial'. They're very different things, and 'equality' is something else again. It's complicated by the fact that 'race' isn't actually a real thing with scientific basis, so it's difficult to define exactly who we're talking about, and yet we've constructed a society which works to exclude and oppress certain groups along lines of colour, ethnicity and country of origin in very real (and complex) ways.
By the way, black people have been in Wales and the UK for a heck of a long time as well, and we were knocking about here since at least Roman times, and we're very much a part of Wales and Welshness, so the point goes beyond Vikings - multiculturalism and diversity are nothing very new (though the scale of it is a post WW2 phenomenon). My concern here is how we avoid narrow definitions of what Welsh culture and 'Welshness' is, and keep it alive without excluding people who could develop it and grow it and… well, keep it alive. And how the promotion and protection of the Welsh language buys into that and includes everyone in Wales.
I think you're absolutely right that one of the key problems with arguments against 'multiculturalism' is how hard it is to find any legitimate examples of monoculturalism at anything resembling the level of a nation state.
I watched an interesting programme on iPlayer (s4c) about religion in Wales. It touches on multiculturalism and 'Welshness'. The presenter found Welsh speakers in most of the religious communities he spoke to if I recall correctly. I remember the two Muslim girls he interviewed (they went to my other half's (Welsh language) school in Cardiff) talking about how they feel equally Muslim and Welsh.
It was called Cymru: Dal i gredu?, more information here (http://www.s4c.cymru/caban/?p=11952&lang=en) but I can't find it on iPlayer any more.


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Selena Gomez opens up about her mental-health struggles in 'My Mind & Me'
Review by Brian Lowry, CNNUpdated: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:20:09 GMTSource: CNNIn the most deeply personal aspect of "Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me," the singer-actor reads excerpts from her journal filled w
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In the most deeply personal aspect of "Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me," the singer-actor reads excerpts from her journal filled with self-doubt and anxiety, including lines like "I have to stop living like this" and "I want to know how to breathe again." Opening up about her bipolar disorder is surely a service, but the six-year span encompassed by this intimate Apple TV+ presentation labors to flesh out its revelations into a documentary.
Directed by Alek Keshishian, whose credits include "Madonna: Truth or Dare" as well as Gomez's 2015 video "Hands to Myself," the film clearly displays extensive access to its subject, beginning with preparation for her 2016 tour during rehearsals at Los Angeles' Sports Arena, before she cut the performance schedule short due to anxiety and panic attacks.
From there, "My Mind & Me" (also the title of a new song Gomez is releasing) careens pretty much all over the place, following her on a trip to Kenya, tagging along as she endures questions from paparazzi, accompanying her as she visits people from her old neighborhood, and reflecting her irritations dealing with press as part of a media tour.
"I feel like a product," she complains at one point, later confiding to friends that the kind of inane questions she regularly fields can seem like "such a waste of time."
The documentary is perhaps most notable in showcasing Gomez's work on behalf of the Rare Impact Fund, an effort to raise money to assist youths dealing with mental-health concerns and issues.
The main problem is that there's a scattered, almost arbitrary feel to what Gomez is shown doing and where, while skipping over some relevant recent additions to her resume, like the success of the Hulu series "Only Murders in the Building."
"As great as life was, underneath all of it I was struggling," Gomez says during a speech, which neatly sums up the underlying point of the documentary, and the fact that even someone who seemingly has it all can be plagued by challenges.
It's easy to downplay the courage it takes for celebrities to let down their guard and acknowledge their frailties or fallibility, revealing a side of herself the public doesn't always see. That alone makes the message significant -- a point underscored by the jetsetter parts of Gomez's life on display here -- and if it helps one person, more power to her.
Still, if Gomez chafes, understandably, at feeling like "a product," "My Mind & Me" doesn't escape the notion that it's leveraging that fame, and the product-like part of her existence, in order to sell it.
"Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me" premieres November 4 on Apple TV+. Disclosure: My wife works for a unit of Apple.


The EBITDA margin is a useful measure of a company's performance. It evaluates the financial health of a company before considering financial, accounting and tax treatment of different items. EBITDA margin calculates the company's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization as a percentage of the total revenue.
Formula to calculate EBITDA margin is (Earnings before interest and tax + depreciation + amortization) / Total revenue. A lower percentage suggests profitability and cash flow issues with a company. A high number would mean stable earnings for a company.
3 What Is a "Good" EBITDA Margin?
4 How it Helps Analysts?
6 How is it Different from Other Profit Margins?
Since EBITDA is the profit before adjusting for interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, the EBITDA margin tells the cash profit of a company in a year. It is a more effective measure as it minimizes the effect of non-operating and unique items (like depreciation, amortization recognition, and tax) on the profit.
It is also a useful metric to evaluate the effectiveness of a company's cost-cutting efforts. The rule is, higher the EBITDA margin, lower are the company's operating expenses in relation to the revenue.
Suppose Company A has a net profit before taxes and interest of $3 million. Total revenue is $5 million, while depreciation and amortization expenses are $1 million. In this case, the EBITDA margin will be 80%. This means that the remaining 38% of the revenue goes towards operating expenses (excluding amortization and depreciation).
Even though it is a good indicator of a company's health, it is not mandatory under GAAP. So, it is usually not shown by the companies when they report their financial statements under generally accepted accounting principles.
But, companies with high levels of debt or those investing heavily in equipment prefer the EBITDA margin. Because of high interest and depreciation expenses, their net income is comparatively lower. Therefore, such companies usually use this metric to inflate their financial performance.
It is always higher than the profit margin.
Higher the EBITDA margin, lower are a company's operating expenses.
What Is a "Good" EBITDA Margin?
A "good" margin will vary depending on the industry. But, a higher percentage is always good as it shows that the company is easily paying its operating expenses. To determine a "good" margin, one must calculate the metric for several years and then use the average of those.
It is used by analysts to compare companies of different sizes in different industries because it is shown as a percentage of revenue. So, it helps in analyzing how much operating cash a company is generating with each dollar of revenue earned.
For instance, if a small company has revenue of $100000 and an EBITDA margin of 10%. And, both numbers for a bigger company are $2000000 and 5%, respectively. In this case, it is clear that the smaller firm operates more efficiently, while the bigger firm focuses more on the volume.
Since EBITDA excludes debt, companies often use it to cover up their financial performance. So, a company with high debt must use a metric that includes debt in the calculation. Further, companies with low profitability also rely on the EBITDA margin to window-dress their profitability.
Also, since EBITDA excludes non-cash expenses, capital expenditures, interest on loan and taxes, it fails to give a clear picture of the cash flows. Moreover, a positive EBITDA does not always mean that a company is generating cash. A positive EBITDA could be because it ignores an important factor – changes in working capital.
Another drawback is that it does not come under GAAP. So, companies are free to use their discretion in calculating EBITDA, often resulting in biased numbers.
To overcome such drawbacks, an analyst must use other metrics as well to evaluate a company. Using it in conjunction with other leverage and profitability ratios and calculating Free Cash Flow (FCF) would give a better picture.
How is it Different from Other Profit Margins?
Under GAAP, a profit margin uses either of three – net profit margin, gross profit margin, or operating profit margin. The calculation of these profit margins is standardized, thus making comparisons with previous years and rivals easier. On the other hand, companies use their own rules to calculate EBITDA.
The net profit margin is the most used GAAP metric to evaluate the profitability of a company. It takes into account all operating and non-operating expense. Since it is regulated under GAAP; companies follow a defined method for its calculation. And, thus it is widely used.
However, on paper, the EBITDA margin is better than the net income margin (net income/revenue) because it minimizes the non-operating effects, which are unique to each company. This, in turn, allows investors to focus solely on the operating performance of a company.


Brenda Marianne Romano (nee Anderson) passed away peacefully on April 15, 2016 surrounded by her family. Brenda was born on July 28, 1961 in Hope and spent her youth here, graduating from Hope Secondary School in 1979. She married and raised her children in Hope and spent countless hours volunteering in the schools and with youth activities. She enjoyed traveling, cooking, crafting, gardening, spending time with her grandchildren and relaxing at the lake. Brenda is survived by her husband Tom, children; Jordan (Chelsey) and Danielle (Tyson), grandchildren; Darcy, Brooke, Ethan and baby girl Romano, her mother Yolande Anderson, sisters; Carla Barnes (Chuck), Judy Anderson, and Paula Fossum (Jeremy) and many nieces and nephews and good friends. She was predeceased by her father Carl Anderson, her mother-in-law and father-in-law Mary and Manny Romano. A celebration of Brenda's life will be held Saturday April 30, 2016 at 2 pm at the Hope Curling Rink. In lieu of flowers donations to the Fraser Valley Down Syndrome Society (www.fvdss.org) would be greatly appreciated.


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Tasty ostrich biltong will soon be launched countrywide under the KLEIN KAROO banner. Although KLEIN KAROO�s ostrich biltong has for decades been offered for sale at the Group�s own agri supermarkets and butchers and is also packaged by Woolworths, this popular snack has never been marketed under the Group�s own trademark in the retail sector.
BEES ARE INDISPENSABLE as pollinators of fruit trees, vegetable seed and sunflowers. This insect is the key to a successful crop. For vegetable seed growers in South Africa, the months of October and November are very important � this is pollination time. The outcome of months of hard work (two years in the case of onion seed) and high input costs depends on the work of the honey-bee during these two months.
(Eco-tourism and farming � a lucrative combination, provided that you identify and exploit the possibilities offered by your piece of earth in this beautiful part of the country).
The first major bridge (Victoria Bridge), completed in 1884, was over the Olifants River at Styldrift.


This quilt, depicting Bishop Heath Light of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia shaking hands with former Monacan chief Kenneth Branham, is the work of Pat McCauley, wife of Monacan tribal member Tommy McCauley. It was made to commemorate the return of seven-and-a-half acres of Monacan land to the tribe in 1995. The land that is now the site of the Monacan Museum and Tribal Center was once owned by the Episcopal Church, which ran the Bear Mountain Indian Mission School, founded in 1908.


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Q: Finding limiting distribution of $Y_n/\sqrt{n}$ Fix $n \in \mathbb{N}$ and let $\{X_i\}_{i=1}^\infty$ be independent and identically distributed discrete uniform random variables over the set $S_n := \{1, ..., n\}$.
We define $Y_n = \text{min} \{k:\exists l < k : X_l=X_k\}$
PROBLEM I WISH TO SOLVE:

Compute the limiting distribution of $Y_n/\sqrt{n}$ as $n \rightarrow \infty$.

My attempt so far is as follows:
For fixed $n$, $$P(Y_n > y) = P(X_1, ..., X_{\lfloor y \rfloor} \text{are distinct}) = \frac{n!}{n^{\lfloor y \rfloor}(n-\lfloor y \rfloor)!}$$
(for $y \in [2, n+1)$ - this probability is $1$ if $y < 2$ and 0 for $y \ge n+1$).  The first equality follows by definition and the second follows since we simply pick $\lfloor y \rfloor$ values from $S_n$, and assign to each of $X_1, ..., X_{\lfloor y \rfloor}$ with probability $1/n$.
My final problem is simply to compute
$$\text{lim}_{n \rightarrow \infty} P(Y_n > y\sqrt{n}) = \text{lim}_{n \rightarrow \infty}\frac{n!}{n^{\lfloor y\sqrt{n} \rfloor}(n-\lfloor y \sqrt{n}\rfloor)!}$$
I've tried using Stirling's formula to simplify but I really have no clue how to proceed since it isn't working for me.  Please help if you can!
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Answer is here for anyone curious: Computing $\text{lim}_{n \rightarrow \infty}\frac{n!}{n^{\lfloor y\sqrt{n} \rfloor}(n-\lfloor y \sqrt{n}\rfloor)!}$

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