Investec is committed to protecting the information we hold about you. This notice applies to all of the companies making up Investec Asset Management. In this notice, we refer to ourselves collectively as "Investec", "we", "us" and "our".
The name of the specific Investec company which processes your personal information, will depend on which of our fund ranges you invest into. We'll let you know which company you have a relationship with when you invest into one of our funds.
This notice provides you with information about how, when, and why we use your personal information and how we keep it secure. It also sets out your rights under law, our responsibilities to you and how you can contact us.
Information we receive as a result of the products and services that we offer, including through our related support, mobile or cloud-based services. Should you have any questions about who we are, or what we do with your personal information, please contact us using the information provided in Part B.
A description of the types of personal information about you that we collect, use, process and share.
Details of information which you give to us, which we gather ourselves and which we seek from third parties.
A description of what we use your personal information for, why we use it and why we are allowed to use it.
An explanation of whether you have to provide personal information to us and what happens if you do not.
Information about third parties that we share your information with. If you provide us with personal information about other people – such as a joint applicant or your dependents – you must show this privacy notice to them, and you must ensure that you have their consent to provide their personal information to us.
A notification that your information is transmitted and processed outside the European Economic Area.
A summary of your general rights over personal information. Please note that these do not always apply.
Information about the Investec Website and the information we collect.
A notification that the privacy notice can change and that we will update you about changes.
The information you need to get in touch.
Information about your local Data Protection Regulator and how you can contact them.
As with other financial institutions, we collect personal information about you. Most of this information is necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations, to enter into a contract with you, or for legitimate business purpose.
When you apply to become a client or investor, and during the course of our dealings with you, we will collect some personal information about you. This includes what you tell us about yourself and what we learn by having you as a customer. Whether this collection is mandatory, or voluntary, will depend on the reason why we are collecting your personal information. For example, if you want to become a client or investor of ours, we require certain mandatory information from you to be able to add you to the relevant register of the product you subscribe to. If you refuse or fail to supply this information we will not be able to enter into a business relationship with you. However, if you voluntarily contact us about our funds and you are not a client or investor, you are in control of what information you volunteer and which is subsequently collected by us.We have set out below a description of the types of personal information about you which we will collect and process in different situations when you interact with us.
your home address, correspondence address (where different from your home address) and address history.
information relating to your use of our service any other Investec products and services you currently have, you have applied for or you have previously held.
technical information about the products and services that you use, and how you use them. For more information see "Investec Website and other websites" section.
to secure your online valuation facility, the answers to security verification questions, and/or your username.
We may have information about you that you did not provide to us yourself.
Information that you provide to us. We typically collect the personal information directly from you as part of our client /investor on-boarding process when you complete an application form and provide proof of your identity. Additionally, we collect personal information from you when you correspond with us (whether by telephone, e-mail, or through the Investec Website) or complete a request for a product or service. The nature of our relationship with you will determine the kind of personal information we might ask for.
a third party who you have appointed to deal with your investments on your behalf (such as an investment advisor or wealth manager).
We mainly use the personal information we hold about you where it is necessary for us to perform our contract with you and/or to enable us to comply with legal obligations. Your personal information will also be used when it is in our legitimate interest. A legitimate interest is when we (and sometimes third parties) have a business or commercial reason to use your information. But even then, our legitimate interest must not unfairly go against what is right and best for you.
Each of these categories is a 'legal basis' that allows us to process your information under data protection law. We have provided further information below about what this actually means, in terms of how we process, or the purposes for processing your personal information relevant to each legal basis.
to share your personal information with third parties (such as our service provider who assists us administer or process transactions on our behalf) if required for the management of your product or service.
We need to use some personal information to provide you with our service and to fulfil our contract with you.
courts and to other organisations where it is necessary for the administration of justice, to protect vital interests and to protect the security or integrity of our business operations.
We need to use some personal information to comply with legal obligations.
We are allowed to use your personal information to pursue our own interests as long as your fundamental interests do not override these.
If you have further questions about the third parties we share your personal information with, please contact us. The relevant details are set out in Part B.
Where we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you are entitled to withdraw your consent at any time.
However, as noted above, we are usually processing your personal information based on another reason, in which case withdrawing your consent will not change how we process your personal information.
when you volunteer information to us in correspondence, which information we need in order to respond to your enquiry, and only where lawful to do so.
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time – the contact information is given in Part B. Please note, if you do withdraw your consent, this will mean that we will stop similar future processing. However, the withdrawal of your consent will not invalidate any processing which we previously undertook before you withdrew your consent.
Please note that, where we rely on another lawful reason to process your personal information which does not require your consent, withdrawing your consent will not affect that processing. This is the case where the processing is necessary for our performing our contact with you, or where we must process your personal information to comply with law, as described above. We will continue to process your personal information for those lawful purposes notwithstanding the fact that you have withdrawn your consent for one of the above listed purposes that requires your consent.
If you want to use our services, there is some information which you will be required to provide to us either because of legal requirements, or because we need that information to provide our services to you.
We are required to collect some personal information by law and regulation. For example, we are required to verify your identify before we can accept any applications.
In other cases we need the information in order to provide our service to you. For example, we need your bank account information to send you the proceeds of your investments.
We will tell you when the personal information requested is mandatory, or if it is voluntary. If you do not provide that personal information that is mandatory, we will be unable to properly provide you with the services and/or perform all obligations under our agreement with you.
Where you choose not to provide us voluntary personal information this may reduce the quality of service we are able to provide (for example, if you only provide us your postal address and do not provide us with your e-mail address, we will only be able to contact you by postal mail).
Your personal information will be shared with other businesses, regulators and authorities.
Yes, there are times when we are either mandated by law to disclose your personal information to third parties (such as Tax authorities). In addition, where we or a fund contracts third parties to help us run our business or fulfil the operation of the fund, we will also disclose your personal information to those third parties, but always subject to appropriate contracts and safeguards.
We will never sell, rent or trade your personal information.
anyone we transfer our rights and duties to – e.g. if we restructure or sell our business.
If you have further questions about the third parties we share your personal information with, please contact us using the details in Part B.
We can also share your information with UK and overseas regulators and authorities in connection with their duties (such as crime prevention), and/or in connection with our compliance with legal and/or regulatory obligations.
In some markets where the funds invest, we are required to share information on substantial investors with the market / local exchanges / regulators] for market transparency. This information may become publicly available.
We cannot control all use of your information by third parties (especially where they are not our service providers and under contract with us, for example personal information shared with regulators). As such, where your personal information has been shared with another data controller entity, you will have rights over how that third party handles your personal information and you can and should contact those parties directly if you want to exercise your rights in relation to those third party's uses of your personal information.
In order to become a client or investor of ours, we will perform identity checks on you with one or more credit reference agencies ("CRAs"). To do this, we will supply your personal information to CRAs and they will give us information about you. CRAs will supply to us both public (including the electoral register) and shared credit, financial situation and financial history information and identity verification information.
Investec is an international business with processing units based in many different geographical locations. As a result, we, or our administrators or other service providers or agents of the funds, will process and transfer your personal information outside the European Economic Area (EEA) to group companies who have strict obligations to keep the information secure.
We transfer your data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) to countries such as the USA and South Africa.
We will also share your personal information, where necessary, with regulatory authorities in the home state of the Investec fund in which you have invested, and overseas. It is possible that those authorities will, in turn, also share your information with other regulators. However, when they do so, they do so in their own legal capacities. So, if you would like more information about how they handle your personal information, you will need to contact them directly.
Where we transfer your personal information outside of the EEA, the safeguards that we will use to protect your personal information include contractual obligations imposed on the recipients of your personal information. Those obligations require the recipient to protect your personal information to the standard required in the European Economic Area. Safeguards also include requiring the recipient to subscribe to 'international frameworks' intended to enable secure data sharing and where the framework is the means of protection for the personal information.
We will keep your personal information as long as you are a client of, or investor with, the Investec Asset Management Group.
Your information may be held for a considerable period after our relationship ends (or indefinitely if anonymised).
To maintain records in accordance with the rules that apply to us.
We may keep your data for longer than 10 years if we cannot delete it for legal, or regulatory reasons. We may also keep it for research or statistical purposes. If we do, we will make sure that your privacy is protected and only use the data for those purposes and, to the extent possible anonymised.
If you have further questions about our data retention practices, please contact us using the details in Part B.
If we anonymise your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you, it will no longer be considered personal information, and we can use it without further notice to you.
Under data protection law you have a number of rights (set out below). Please note that these rights are not without limitation, and in some instances may not be available.
You have a number of rights over your personal information including a right to object to the processing of your information. You will not be able to use these rights in all circumstances. You are also entitled to make a complaint to the regulator.
object to automated decision making, such as profiling.
To exercise your rights as set out above, please write to us using the details in Part B. There is no fee for making these requests. However, if your request is excessive or unfounded, we can charge a reasonable fee or refuse to comply with it.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection regulator if you think that we have infringed any of your rights. Information about your local data protection regulator is set out in Part B.
If you use the Investec Website and follow a link from it to another website different privacy policies may apply. Prior to submitting any personal information to a website, you should read the privacy notice applicable to that website.
The content of this notice is likely to change over time. We will tell you if it changes.
We will always have the latest version available on the Investec Website.
We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will notify you when we make any substantial updates.
We will also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information. For example, if you take out a new product with us.
You can contact Investec Fund Managers Limited if you have any questions about this privacy notice or information we hold about you in relation to a UK fund.
You can contact Investec Asset Management Guernsey Limited if you have any questions about this privacy notice or information we hold about you in relation to a Luxembourg fund.
You can contact Investec Asset Management Guernsey Limited if you have any questions about this privacy notice or information we hold about you in relation to a Guernsey fund.
We have set out below the local data protection regulators in the countries where our funds are established.


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§ 16.02. Inspection of Records by Shareholders
§ 16.03. Scope of Inspection Right
§ 16.04. Court-Ordered Inspection
§ 16.05. Inspection of Records by Directors
§ 16.06. Exception to Notice Requirement; Consequences of Inability to Deliver Notice
§ 16.20. Financial Statements for Shareholders
§ 16.21. By-Law Amendments
§ 16.22. Annual Report for Secretary of State
ARTICLE 17 TRANSITION PROVISIONS § 17.01. Application to Existing Domestic Corporations
§ 17.02. Application to Qualified Foreign Corporations
§ 17.03. Saving Provisions
(a) A corporation shall keep as permanent records minutes of all meetings of its shareholders and board of directors, a record of all actions taken by the shareholders or board of directors without a meeting, and a record of all actions taken by a committee of the board of directors in place of the board of directors on behalf of the corporation.
(b) A corporation shall maintain appropriate accounting records.
(c) A corporation or its agent shall maintain a record of its shareholders, in a form that permits preparation of a list of the names and addresses of all shareholders, in alphabetical order by class of shares showing the number and class of shares held by each.
(d) A corporation shall maintain its records in written form or in another form capable of conversion into written form within a reasonable time.
(e) A corporation shall keep within the commonwealth a copy of the following records at its principal office or an office of its transfer agent or of its secretary or assistant secretary or of its registered agent:
(1) its articles or restated articles of organization and all amendments to them currently in effect;
(2) its bylaws or restated bylaws and all amendments to them currently in effect;
(3) resolutions adopted by its board of directors creating one or more classes or series of shares, and fixing their relative rights, preferences, and limitations, if shares issued pursuant to those resolutions are outstanding;
(4) the minutes of all shareholders' meetings, and records of all action taken by shareholders without a meeting, for the past 3 years;
(5) all written communications to shareholders generally within the past 3 years, including the financial statements furnished under section 16.20 for the past 3 years;
(6) a list of the names and business addresses of its current directors and officers; and
(7) its most recent annual report delivered to the secretary of state under section 16.22.
(a) A shareholder of a corporation is entitled to inspect and copy, during regular business hours at the office where they are maintained pursuant to subsection (e) of section 16.01, copies of any of the records of the corporation described in said subsection (e) of said section 16.01 if he gives the corporation written notice of his demand at least five business days before the date on which he wishes to inspect and copy.
(b) A shareholder of a corporation is entitled to inspect and copy, during regular business hours at a reasonable location specified by the corporation, any of the following records of the corporation if the shareholder meets the requirements of subsection (c) and gives the corporation written notice of his demand at least 5 business days before the date on which he wishes to inspect and copy:
(1) excerpts from minutes reflecting action taken at any meeting of the board of directors, records of any action of a committee of the board of directors while acting in place of the board of directors on behalf of the corporation, minutes of any meeting of the shareholders, and records of action taken by the shareholders or board of directors without a meeting, to the extent not subject to inspection under subsection (a) of section 16.02;
(2) accounting records of the corporation, but if the financial statements of the corporation are audited by a certified public accountant, inspection shall be limited to the financial statements and the supporting schedules reasonably necessary to verify any line item on those statements; and
(3) the record of shareholders described in section 16.01(c).
(c) A shareholder may inspect and copy the records described in subsection (b) only if:
(1) his demand is made in good faith and for a proper purpose;
(2) he describes with reasonable particularity his purpose and the records he desires to inspect;
(3) the records are directly connected with his purpose; and
(4) the corporation shall not have determined in good faith that disclosure of the records sought would adversely affect the corporation in the conduct of its business or, in the case of a public corporation, constitute material non-public information at the time when the shareholder's notice of demand to inspect and copy is received by the corporation.
(d) The right of inspection granted by this section may not be abolished or limited by a corporation's articles of organization or bylaws.
(e) This section shall not affect:
(1) the right of a shareholder to inspect records under section 7.20 or, if the shareholder is in litigation with the corporation, to the same extent as any other litigant; or
(2) the power of a court, independently of this chapter, to compel the production of corporate records for examination, provided that, in the case of production of records described in subsection (b) at the request of a shareholder, the shareholder has met the requirements of subsection (c).
(f) For purposes of this section, "shareholder" includes a beneficial owner whose shares are held in a voting trust or by a nominee on his behalf.
(a) A shareholder's agent or attorney has the same inspection and copying rights as the shareholder represented.
(b) The corporation may, if reasonable, satisfy the right of a shareholder to copy records under section 16.02 by furnishing to the shareholder copies by photocopy or other means chosen by the corporation including copies furnished through an electronic transmission.
(c) The corporation may impose a reasonable charge, covering the costs of labor, material, transmission and delivery, for copies of any documents provided to the shareholder. The charge may not exceed the estimated cost of production, reproduction, transmission or delivery of the records.
(d) The corporation may comply at its expense, with a shareholder's demand to inspect the record of shareholders under clause (3) of subsection (b) of section 16.02 by providing the shareholder with a list of shareholders that was compiled no earlier than the date of the shareholder's demand.
(e) The corporation may impose reasonable restrictions on the use or distribution of records by the demanding shareholder.
(a) If a corporation does not allow a shareholder who complies with section 16.02(a) to inspect and copy any records required by that subsection to be available for inspection, the superior court of the county where the corporation's principal office or, if none in the commonwealth, its registered office is located may summarily order inspection and copying of the records demanded at the corporation's expense upon application of the shareholder.
(b) If a corporation does not within a reasonable time allow a shareholder to inspect and copy any other record, the shareholder who complies with subsections (b) and (c) of section 16.02 may apply to the superior court in the county where the corporation's principal office or, if none in the commonwealth, its registered office is located for an order to permit inspection and copying of the records demanded. The court shall dispose of an application under this subsection on an expedited basis.
(c) If the court orders inspection and copying of the records demanded under section 16.02, it shall also order the corporation to pay the shareholder's costs, including reasonable counsel fees, incurred to obtain the order unless the corporation proves that it refused inspection in good faith because it had a reasonable basis for doubt about the right of the shareholder to inspect the records demanded; and the court may order the corporation to pay the shareholder's costs if it orders inspection and copying of records other than under section 16.02.
(d) If the court orders inspection and copying of the records demanded, it may impose reasonable restrictions on the use or distribution of the records by the demanding shareholder.
(a) A director of a corporation is entitled to inspect and copy the books, records and documents of the corporation at any reasonable time to the extent reasonably related to the performance of the director's duties as a director, including duties as a member of a committee, but not for any other purpose or in any manner that would violate any duty to the corporation.
(b) If a corporation does not allow a director who purports to be entitled thereto pursuant to subsection (a) of section 16.05 to inspect and copy any books, records or documents required by that subsection to be available for inspection, the superior court of the county where the corporation's principal office or, if none in the commonwealth, its registered office is located may order inspection and copying of the books, records and documents demanded at the corporation's expense upon application of the director, unless the corporation establishes that the director is not entitled to such inspection rights. The court shall dispose of an application under this subsection on an expedited basis.
(c) If the court orders inspection and copying of the books, records and documents demanded, it may include provisions protecting the corporation from undue burden or expense, and prohibiting the director from using information obtained upon exercise of the inspection rights in a manner that would violate a duty to the corporation, and may also order the corporation to pay the director's costs, including reasonable counsel fees, incurred in connection with the application.
(a) Whenever notice is required to be given under any provision of this chapter to any shareholder, the notice shall not be required to be given if:
(1) notice of 2 consecutive annual meetings, and all notices of meetings during the period between the 2 consecutive annual meetings, have been sent to the shareholder at the shareholder's address as shown on the records of the corporation and have been returned undeliverable; or
(2) all, but not less than 2, payments of dividends on securities during a 12-month period, or 2 consecutive payments of dividends on securities during a period of more than 12 months, have been sent to the shareholder at the shareholder's address as shown on the records of the corporation and have been returned undeliverable.
(b) If the shareholder shall deliver to the corporation a written notice setting forth the shareholder's then-current address, the requirement that notice be given to the shareholder shall be reinstated.
(c) If the corporation is unable to deliver notice to any shareholder to an address furnished by the shareholder for the purpose and the inability becomes known to the secretary or an assistant secretary of the corporation, the transfer agent or other person responsible for the giving of notice, the corporation shall take such action as shall be reasonable in the circumstances to inform the shareholder of the inability and to request the shareholder to furnish a new address for the receipt of notices. Attempting to contact the shareholder at such other address, if any, as the corporation may have for the shareholder is deemed reasonable. The corporation may continue to rely on the address last furnished by the shareholder for notice until it is furnished in writing a new address for notice. The failure of the corporation to take the action required by this subsection shall not invalidate any meeting or other action.
PART B. REPORTS
(a) A corporation shall furnish to its shareholders upon request annual financial statements, which may be consolidated or combined statements of the corporation and 1 or more of its subsidiaries, as appropriate, that include a balance sheet as at the end of the fiscal year, an income statement for that year and, if available, a statement of changes in shareholder equity for that year unless that information appears elsewhere in, the financial statements. If prepared by the corporation, the corporation shall also furnish a statement of cash flows for that year. If financial statements are prepared by the corporation on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles, the annual financial statements must also be prepared on that basis. For purposes of this subsection, financial statements may consist of copies of federal tax returns or other comparable information which is reasonable under the circumstances in the case where the corporation does not prepare financial statements as described above.
(b) If the annual financial statements are reported upon by a public accountant, his report shall accompany those statements. If not, those statements shall be accompanied by a certificate of the president or the person responsible for the corporation's accounting records:
(1) stating his reasonable belief whether the statements were prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles or, if not, describing the basis of preparation; and
(2) describing any respects in which the statements were not prepared on a basis of accounting consistent with the statements prepared for the preceding year.
(c) A corporation shall deliver the annual financial statements, or a written notice of their availability, to each shareholder before the earlier to occur of the annual meeting of shareholders or 120 days after the close of the fiscal year. Thereafter, the corporation shall deliver its most recent financial statements upon the written request of any shareholder to whom the statements were not delivered.
(d) A corporation shall not be required to furnish its annual financial statements to a shareholder if it can demonstrate a proper corporate purpose for withholding information contained in those statements from that shareholder.
If the board of directors of a corporation makes, amends or repeals any bylaw, the corporation shall report in writing the substance of the change to the shareholders entitled to vote on amending the bylaws, with or before the notice of the next shareholders meeting. Any bylaw adopted by the board of directors may be amended or repealed by the shareholders.
(a) Each domestic corporation, and each foreign corporation authorized to transact business in the commonwealth, shall deliver to the secretary of state for filing an annual report that sets forth:
(1) the name of the corporation and the state or country under whose law it is incorporated;
(2) the address of its registered office and the name of its registered agent at that office in the commonwealth;
(3) the address of its principal office;
(4) the names and business addresses of its directors, officers required by section 8.40(a), and chief executive officer and chief financial officer, if different;
(5) A brief description of its activities in the commonwealth;
(6) the total number of authorized shares, itemized by class and series, if any, within each class;
(7) the total number of issued and outstanding shares, itemized by class and series, if any, within each class; and
(8) the fiscal year of the corporation.
(b) Information in the annual report shall be current as of the date the annual report is executed on behalf of the corporation.
(c) The annual report shall be delivered to the secretary of state within 2 1/2 months after the end of the fiscal year of the corporation.
(d) [Stricken]
TRANSITION PROVISIONS
§ 17.01. Application to Existing Domestic Corporations
Except so far as such application may be inconsistent with (i) provisions still in force of any special acts of incorporation, enacted before March 11, 1831, and not subject to amendment, alteration or repeal by the general court, or (ii) chapter 156A applicable to professional corporations incorporated thereunder, this chapter shall apply to:
(1) all domestic corporations having capital stock whether established before or after the effective date of this chapter, either by general or special law, for the purpose of carrying on business for profit except corporations organized for the purpose of carrying on the business of a bank, savings bank, co-operative bank, trust company, credit union, surety or indemnity company, or safe deposit company, or for the purpose of carrying on within the commonwealth the business of an insurance company, railroad, electric railroad, street railway or trolley motor company, telegraph or telephone company, gas or electric light, heat or power company, canal, aqueduct or water company, cemetery or crematory company, any other corporations which on October 1, 1965 have or may thereafter have the right to take land within the commonwealth by eminent domain or to exercise franchises in public ways granted by the commonwealth or by any county, city or town, and corporations subject to chapter 157 and corporations subject to chapter 157A; and
(2) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in clause (1), all other corporations to which this chapter is made applicable by the express provisions of any other general or special law to the extent provided thereby.
A foreign corporation authorized to transact business in the commonwealth on the effective date of this chapter is subject to this chapter but is not required to apply for new authority to transact business under this chapter.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the repeal of chapter 181 shall not affect:
(1) the operation of said chapter 181 or any action taken under it before its repeal;
(2) any ratification, right, remedy, privilege, obligation, or liability acquired, accrued, or incurred under said chapter 181 before its repeal;
(3) any violation of said chapter 181, or any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred because of the violation, before its repeal; or
(4) any proceeding commenced under said chapter 181 before its repeal, and the proceeding may be completed in accordance with said chapter 181 as if it had not been repealed.
(b) If a penalty or punishment imposed for a violation of said chapter 181 is reduced by chapter 156D, the penalty or punishment if not already imposed shall be imposed in accordance with this chapter.
§ 17.04. Severability
If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of the chapter are severable.
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In search for "a better life".
The mad race to find work is increasing to millions of people! Relief from the current crisis (Economic) is not in sight. Employment is being sought at an astronomical rate, by Europeans as it was by Latin Americans. These and others, (Brits, Frenchmen, Italians, etc.) leave their native-lands in hopes of "a better life"... But how long will that take to materialize... ?
In the flux of mingling the job scene people begin associations with a diverse number of people and nationalities. This is causing people to get to know one another, to join together, working and producing as one whole efficient unit.
Humanity was afforded this option... & as is... through pain and suffering!
What happens when all that production ends & a billion folks are still unemployed... ?
See how nature is guiding the races (nations). Intergration, communication, collaboration, etc. to improve oneself and address the huge blunders of humanity in nature... which cause the sufferings, crisis, pain, & catastrophe, etc.
Hence the "better life"we see is a job to correct oneself & adapt to integral living... Both a process.


Earlier today (Wednesday) a lifeguard at a Kiryat Yam beach near Haifa, spotted a cooler floating in the water. When he went to investigate, he saw what appeared to be a pipe bomb inside: an old cellphone connected with wires to a pipe he suspected had explosives inside. An Israel Police bomb squad called to the scene, arrived and eliminated the threat which is now under investigation.
Bar said that as soon as he realized that it was a bomb, he threw the cooler back into the water and evacuated the children who were swimming nearby. "I and the station manager, Eitan, cornered off the place until the bomb squad arrived." An Israel Police spokesman reported that the suspicious object had the characteristics of a bomb and has been taken for destruction. Local police continue to investigate the incident while the beach has been re-opened for swimming.


Thousands more fled their homes after wildfires surged near a small lake town in Northern California.
More than 4,500 buildings were under threat, officials said. The two fires had blackened 47 square miles (122 square kilometres), with minimal containment.
About 100 miles (160 kilometres) northeast, officials near Redding struck a hopeful tone for the first time in days as a massive fire slowed following days of explosive growth.
"We're feeling a lot more optimistic today as we're starting to gain some ground rather than being in a defensive mode on this fire all the time," said Bret Gouvea, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's incident commander on the blaze around Redding, a city about 230 miles (370 kilometres) north of San Francisco.
The so-called Carr Fire that affected Redding — a city of about 92,000 people — was ignited by a vehicle problem on Monday about 10 miles (16 kilometres) west of the city. On Thursday, it swept through the historic Gold Rush town of Shasta and nearby Keswick fueled by gusty winds and dry vegetation. It then jumped the Sacramento River and took out subdivisions on the western edge of Redding.
Moore was helping evacuate people from his River Ridge neighbourhood in western Redding when the flames became unbearable.
Keswick, a mountain town of about 450 people, was reduced to an ashy moonscape of blackened trees and smouldering rubble.


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The New York Times Book Review: "Sooner or later, a historical crime novel is bound to drag you down some dark alley and into the nastiest, most lawless precincts of the period. Jean Zimmerman followed this tradition in her first novel, The Orphanmaster, a descent into the hellish criminal haunts of 17th-century New Amsterdam. In Savage Girl, this canny author puts all that aside and turns to the Gilded Age for a sweeping narrative, set within the cloistered ranks of high society in 19th-century Manhattan, that raises touchy questions about what it means to be civilized."
Publisher's Weekly starred review: "…Zimmerman's superior historical thriller will suck most readers in instantly."
Booklist: "Suffused with a gothic aura of dark suspense, this is a finely wrought psychological work…, rich with historical detail. The mystery stretches from society's heights to its absolute depths and touches everything between, always increasing in dramatic tension. Zimmerman's settings spring off the page, from the stinging dust of the American desert to the dank despair of the Tombs prison in New York. Immensely readable, Savage Girl takes the reader by the throat and doesn't let go."
Library Journal: "A fanciful and occasionally surreal take on a Gilded Age New York that is reminiscent of Caleb Carr's The Alienist or even Edgar Allan Poe…For readers who like their historical novels tinged with darkness."
Kirkus Reviews: "A formal, measured tempo only heightens the tension in Zimmerman's second historical fiction–cum-thriller…[This] dark comedy of manners is an obvious homage to Edith Wharton, a rip-roaring murder mystery more Robert Louis Stevenson than Conan Doyle and a wonderfully detailed portrait of the political, economic and philosophical issues driving post–Civil War America."
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A riveting tale from the author of The Orphanmaster about a wild girl from Nevada who lands in Manhattan's Gilded Age society.
Jean Zimmerman's new novel tells of the dramatic events that transpire when an alluring, blazingly smart eighteen-year-old girl named Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple, and taken back East to be civilized and introduced into high society.
Bronwyn hits the highly mannered world of Edith Wharton–era Manhattan like a bomb. A series of suitors, both young and old, find her irresistible, but the willful girl's illicit lovers begin to turn up murdered.
Zimmerman's tale is narrated by the Delegate's son, a Harvard anatomy student. The tormented, self-dramatizing Hugo Delegate speaks from a prison cell where he is prepared to take the fall for his beloved Savage Girl. This narrative—a love story and a mystery with a powerful sense of fable—is his confession.
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One of the characters in Savage Girl describes the name Bronwyn as "magical… out of a fairy tale."
I grew up with a friend named Bronwyn. She was adopted, so I never knew her real parents. It's a lovely name.
That would be great. Maybe combine with Maud's spring break as we did before.
And definitely a trip to Scottsdale, AZ!
Would love to come back! Just beginning to think about where to go when Savage Girl comes out. Maybe a trip to the midwest?
am most anxious to read this. would love also to have you back to Hudson, Ohio!
Read House of Mirth. You won't regret it.
OK. I think I must finally read Edith Wharton, so I'll have a better chance of understanding the Manhattan of the Savage Girl. So far, though, I really like the names … Bronwyn and Hugo Delegate.


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Historic Court Hearings: The BBC in the Dock for Manipulating Evidence and Providing Biased Coverage of the September 11, 2001 Attacks
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, February 22, 2013
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Deafening silence of the mainstream media. A historic law suit is in making. The BBC will be in the Dock in a British court accused of manipulating the news.
What is at stake is the BBC's coverage of the 9/11 attacks.
On February 25, in the small town of Horsham in the United Kingdom, there will be a rare and potentially groundbreaking opportunity for the 9/11 truth movement. Three hours of detailed 9/11 evidence is to be presented and considered in a court of law where the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will be challenged over the inaccurate and biased manner in which it has portrayed the events and evidence of 9/11.
Over the last 16 months, BBC has been challenged strongly by individuals in the UK over two documentaries that they showed in September 2011 as part of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, namely '9/11: Conspiracy Road Trip' and 'The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 Ten Years On'.
Formal complaints were lodged with BBC over the inaccuracy and bias of these documentaries, which, according to 9/11 activists, was in breach of the operating requirements of BBC through their 'Royal Charter and Agreement' with the British public.
This document requires BBC to show information that is both accurate and impartial. These complaints were supported by the US-based educational charity Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth), which submitted detailed scientific evidence to BBC to buttress the complaints. The evidence focuses in particular on the confirmed free-fall of WTC 7 and NIST's 2008 admission of this fact. In addition, over 300 AE911Truth petition signers supported these complaints by sending letters to BBC, requesting that BBC show this evidence to the public.
Not a single mainstream media has acknowledged the court case. and it is highly unlikely that the proceeding will be the object of unbiased coverage.
Global Research will be covering this event alongside other alternative media.
We encourage people throughout the UK to attend these historic hearings.
9/11 Truth is fundamental in disarming "the war on terrorism" which is a fabrication.
And the BBC through its biased reporting, not to mention the manipulation of photographic evidence, has acted as an instrument of war propaganda. It is complicit in war crimes.
As a continuation of this process with the BBC, documentary film maker Tony Rooke has decided to take a personal stand on this issue.
People in the United Kingdom are required to pay an annual TV licence fee which is used to fund BBC's operations. Tony has refused to pay his TV licence fee on the basis of specific anti-terrorism legislation.
Section 15 of the UK Terrorism Act 2000, Article 3, states that it is offence to provide funds if there is a reasonable cause to suspect that those funds may be used for the purposes of terrorism. Tony's claim is that BBC has withheld scientific evidence which demonstrates that the official version of the events of 9/11 is not possible and that BBC has actively attempted to discredit those people attempting to bring this evidence to the public.
According to Rooke, by doing this, BBC is supporting a cover-up of the true events of 9/11 and is therefore potentially supporting those terrorist elements who were involved in certain aspects of 9/11 who have not yet been identified and held to account.
Rooke has been charged with a crime for not paying his TV Licence Fee. However, he has lodged a legal challenge to this charge and has now been successful in being granted an appearance in a Magistrate's court, where he has three hours available to present his evidence to defend himself against the charge.
Tony has put together a formidable team to support him in presenting the evidence, including the following two outstanding 9/11 researchers:
Tony Rooke has set the stage in the UK for not paying the TV Licence fee used to fund a media entity routinely involved in media disinformation and war propaganda.
The evidence about 9/11 that will be presented by the various individuals above has rarely, if ever, been seen in any court of law in the United Kingdom, so this court case represents a unique and valuable opportunity for the 9/11 Truth movement.
The BBC has been on the defensive.
It has not made any statements in anticipation of the court hearings.
One expects that there will be attempts to block the presentation of evidence on procedural grounds.
9/11 is the pretext to wage war and repeal civil liberties.
The BBC turn realties upside down. The Lie is portrayed as the Truth.
When the lie becomes the truth there is no turning backwards.
The Lie of the mainstream media including the BBC must be exposed for what it is and what it does.
September 11 has been used profusely by US and its allies as a justification for waging a preemptive war without borders.
The so-called "War on Terrorism" is a lie.
Acts of war are heralded by the main stream media as "humanitarian interventions" geared towards restoring democracy.
Military occupation and the killing of civilians are presented by the BBC as "peace-keeping operations."
This system relies on the manipulation of public opinion.
Millions of people have been misled regarding the causes and consequences of September 11.
Exposing the BBC is an important step in reversing the tide and dismantling war propaganda which sustains a criminal military agenda.
The date and location of the hearing are as follows:
February 25th at 10:00 am
Horsham Magistrates' Court [Court 3] The Law Courts Hurst Road
West Sussex England RH12 2ET
UPDATE – http://the-tap.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/dont-pay-money-to-supporters-of.html
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3 Responses to "BBC in dock – February 25th Horsham Magistrates Court (3)."
25 Feb 2013 5:48 am
No surprises here, in W W II
the BBC was known among the soldiers as bullshit time, the BBC was furious as most people would tune in to Lord Haw Haw as the BBC called him, for a more truthful balance on what was going on.
as the war ended the jews at the BBC pressed for Lord hawhaw to hang
and the law was broken for the BBC to have their revenge on this man
12 Mar 2013 7:39 am
Any Update on this?
Since it happened in late Feb…?
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We posted a report after the court hearing. He called it a moral victory but had to pay costs making it a pyrrhic victory. Search on the blog. Or elsehwere. You'll find it easily enough
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Hauppauge, NY – In response to recent incidents where NYC police officers were assailed with buckets and doused with water, Senator John E. Brooks (SD-8), Suffolk and Nassau County Executives Steve Bellone and Laura Curran, Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini, and Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart held a joint press conference today to announce their plans to work together in developing comprehensive statewide legislation to deter violent acts against public safety professionals and first responders of any sort.
"So we are all clear," said Senator Brooks, "we are not here about a bucket of water but rather the troubling environment we find ourselves in." Of major concern to the senator is the possibility of copycat incidents to these actions for the sake of social media hits and "going viral," as well as the preoccupying mental burden for first responders who already have enough procedural and safety concerns when responding to a call and do not need the added fear of an attack.
According to Brooks, who as a LI Firefighter for over 30 years and a former Fire Chief, understands the mental and emotional components necessary for being a first responder:
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When asked about the incident in relation to the legislation that will be forthcoming, Nassau County Executive, Laura Curran stated, "I'm proud to stand with Senator John Brooks and County Executive Steve Bellone to condemn violent acts against our police officers and other first responders. I will be working with Senator Brooks and other government partners on legislation that protects our brave men and women. These types of attacks are unacceptable and will not be tolerated."
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The following is an interview with Michael Upchurch, Commissioning Editor at Pastest, and Lead on our MRCS Part B OSCE upgrade project.
So what's different about the new resource?
The entire subscription's approach to preparing you for the exam has changed. Candidates now 'walk' through each station, following written content in the form of a question from the examiner, or a step, and supported by media where appropriate. We now have 200 stations, and there are more to come.
The resource now reflects the coverage of the 18 stations across the various content areas in the exam.
Step by step guidelines on any given procedure.
But can an online resource REALLY prepare me for a clinical exam?
Even the most hands-on clinical exam is going to test theoretical knowledge, which we've integrated seamlessly into the station experience, with the aim of making it as close as we possibly can to the real thing.
In practise, that means that we have structured the stations to contain an appropriate amount and level of information you'd be expected to encounter within a nine-minute station. They really put you in the shoes of the candidate, especially in the way that you receive questions from the examiner within each station.
Everything that you should need to revise for the exam is in one place. That includes the new written content, the supporting videos, the links through to TeachMeAnatomy, Spot Diagnoses, and of course, the station summaries.
Why did Pastest decide to update the MRCS Part B OSCE subscription?
We've had a successful MRCS Part A subscription for a good while and receive really positive feedback about it. It was becoming clear to us that we weren't getting the same level of praise for our Part B resource and wanted to ensure that we were providing the same quality to Part B candidates that they expect having used the Part A resource.
The thing that we hear time and again from customers is that they want to study as efficiently as possible, and this led us to question just how easy it was to access and retain the information from this resource. This then became a real opportunity to completely rebuild the resource from the ground up to more closely reflect the exam.
Why did the previous subscription need an update?
Feedback from customers was varied, though a common theme was that we were too video-focussed, and that it took time to work through the video content to access the learning points.
Others commented that we didn't provide quite enough guidance around the types of stations that you would encounter in the real exam, in terms of both content and length.
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How do we know it's covering the right topics?
We have aligned this resource closely with the MRCS Part B Syllabus and mark scheme (in particular the station breakdown on Page 37), with a particular emphasis on how each station is run.
We've also considered feedback from previous customers and exam takers, including themes that have come up in previous exams.
We're confident that we're providing plenty of topics to prepare for each station.
Once we settled on the key requirement of a written-based resource, we set about finding authors who were not only experts in the field, but also had recent first-hand experience of sitting the MRCS Part B OSCE.
Our writing team were very keen to be involved in creating a comprehensive Part B resource. Some have teaching experience and can even claim to have been taught by the great Harold Ellis himself! All are qualified surgeons, and most importantly, brought their recent experience of taking the Part B exam and applied it to how the stations were written.
I helped to re-write the anatomy stations for the MRCS Part B overhaul which are supplemented with the excellent diagrams of TeachMeAnatomy and the unique Professor Harold Ellis videos. I also worked on a lot of the other stations, and can confidently say that you will struggle to find another resource for the MRCS part B which is as focused to exactly what you need to pass first time.
Charlie passed both parts of the MRCS before the end of his foundation training, and then went on to be an anatomy demonstrator at the University of Cambridge. Following this he ranked in the top 5 for core surgical training and has recently obtained his first choice job as a general surgery registrar.
During my revision I struggled to find a suitable revision tool. I strongly believe that the key to success is practice, practice, practice and wanted to help create a platform to do just that. I helped to write and review a wide spread of content for Pastest's new MRCS B subscription. The Pastest MRCS Part B subscription includes 200 stations to practice each beginning with a scenario and going into a series of questions mirroring the exam format. The site enables you to rehearse your answers aloud preparing you appropriately for the exam day. At the end of the station you can review the key areas covered to enable you to focus on the core knowledge required for success.
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How did the partnership with TeachMeAnatomy come about?
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We approached TeachMeAnatomy, who have been incredibly supportive and shared our enthusiasm for creating a comprehensive, interactive resource – critical for exam-takers in 2018.
Go and get it! We're certain that we've produced an awesome resource that candidates will love.
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What strategy will U.S. EPA need to employ to meet President Obama's aggressive timeline for existing power plant emissions regulations? During today's OnPoint, Roger Martella, a partner at Sidley Austin and the former general counsel at U.S. EPA, discusses the specifics of this week's climate announcement and details the steps EPA will need to take to meet the key deadlines set by the president. Martella also weighs in on whether the rule may be broadened to include other industries beyond the utility sector.
Monica Trauzzi: Hello and welcome to OnPoint. I'm Monica Trauzzi. Joining me today is Roger Martella, a partner at Sidley Austin and he former general counsel at U.S. EPA. Roger, thank you for coming on the show again.
Roger Martella: Thanks, Monica. Great to be back.
Monica Trauzzi: Roger, let's jump right into the details of the president's announcement this week on power-plant emissions regulations. It's a big, bold, first-of-its-kind effort. The biggest part of the announcement really seems to be the schedule that the president laid out for NSPS. Just how aggressive is the timeline that he laid out, and how likely is it that EPA can actually meet all these markers before the president leaves office in 2017?
Roger Martella: I think you're absolutely right. Truly, the most important thing about the announcement yesterday was not his speech but an executive memo he signed when he got back to the White House, which laid out a schedule that has now revealed the timing for when EPA's going to be taking steps to regulate greenhouse gases from existing utilities. The most important date in there is June 30 of 2016. That is the date by which states have to submit their plans to EPA on how they're going to control greenhouse gases from existing utilities, and all the other dates work backwards from those. We can talk about them if you want, but the key of that June 30, '16, date, it's important for two reasons. One is it demonstrates the commitment they're not stepping back. This is the final thing you have to do to control greenhouse gases from existing utilities. The states have to submit these plans, but the second is there's virtually no margin of error. Truly that date was chosen because the president wants to have this done before he leaves office, but if these dates start to slip more than just a couple weeks or a couple months, you're going to run outta time, and so they're going to have to really stick to this aggressive schedule and not lose their footing along the way.
Monica Trauzzi: We don't know a whole lot about the substance of the proposal. That's going to be left up to EPA as time goes on, but what are EPA's options in terms of how they realize the reductions in emissions, and what route do you think they're going to take?
Roger Martella: Well, we're really in uncharted territory here when it comes to existing sources. They've never done this before. They've never tried this, and I think that was probably one of the disappointments from yesterday. We're still in a black box. There was no discussion regarding substance. The president only dropped one hint. He dropped a hint on the memo, and I'm going to just pull it out if I can, for he said, "EPA should develop approaches that allow the use of market-based instruments, performance standards and other regulatory flexibilities." That is basically the universe of all the options, and the first one there is kind of a code word for cap-and-trade. So, what he's basically saying is some states may want to propose a cap-and-trade. Some states may want to perform proposed technology standards. Some states may want to go after numeric standards. At this point, he's leaving all the options open, and what we're going to see, I think, during the summer, I think now's a critical time, various groups going to EPA and saying, "Here's what we want you to consider," and then EPA next June coming out with this menu of options for people to consider.
Monica Trauzzi: Let's talk about what he said on the new power plants, NSPS for new power plants. He's directed EPA to re-propose the standards by September of 2013, of this year. That's an aggressive timeline, is it not, and why is he asking for them to re-propose?
Roger Martella: You and I talked about this, and we predicted that the legal vulnerability for the proposal that came out, it looked like it was very rushed and one of the most legally vulnerable rules we've seen come from the agency, so it's not a surprise that they need to re-propose it to kind of shore up the legal deficiencies. I also predict they're going to make a substantive change. Where they treated coal and natural gas as the same before, my prediction is they're going to split them apart this time, and that may help them shore up the legal defensibility. So, it's an interesting nugget to know that the president is now acknowledging what we kind of thought was going to happen, that they're going to re-propose it, but he never gives them a time for the final rule, which was an interesting omission. My prediction there is that they will have to finalize it no later than June 1 of 2014, because that's the date by which they have to propose the standards for existing utilities and they have to finalize the new utility, NSPS, before they can propose a standard for existing utilities. So that seems to be the drop-dead date.
Monica Trauzzi: In the background of all this, Gina McCarthy is still awaiting confirmation to head up EPA. How could that holdup in her confirmation factor into this really aggressive timeline and how things play out?
Roger Martella: Well, my prediction to you last time she was going to have smooth sailing hasn't quite come true, so I might want to stick to the legal analysis, but I think the reality is that this does give her something of a window. I think she has the summer to go through the confirmation process, but when this proposal comes out in September, almost undoubtedly it's going to be very unpopular. It's going to kind of rankle some feathers again and I think it's goign to draw attention more to the regulation of greenhouse gases from utilities, so I think her job gets a lot harder after September if she's not confirmed by then.
Monica Trauzzi: Electric power generation accounts for about a third of the U.S.'s greenhouse-gas emissions. What the president has proposed is really sector-specific. Do you see any scenarios where they might try to broaden it beyond just the electric utilities, and what kind of legal challenges may result?
Roger Martella: I think one of the most important omissions yesterday was the president talked only about utilities. He didn't mention any of the other sectors, and we know both environmental groups and the courts are putting pressure on EPA to start addressing other sectors. I don't think that those sectors who weren't mentioned yesterday should feel necessarily they're not going to be addressed. The president may have just chosen to focus on utilities. I think what this tells us is it's not the priority. I wouldn't be surprised if the administration tries to get these rules final before it takes on other sectors, but I do think those other sectors are going to be addressed sometime after 2015, 2016.
Monica Trauzzi: How should industry be preparing for these regulations?
Roger Martella: I think this is a critical opportunity right now. They have an opportunity to both talk to EPA about the new proposal coming out for utilities, but, more importantly, because we are in uncharted territory on the existing source rule, every stakeholder, whether utility or another sector, should take this opportunity that the president has told EPA it has to do to kind of share the universe of options, almost treat this as an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking, the president's announcement, and make sure that they're not limiting the communication of options to EPA as it formulates what I think will end up being a menu of a proposal next June.
Monica Trauzzi: How crucial is inexpensive natural gas to the success of these regulations?
Roger Martella: I think EPA is not taking the markets into consideration. I think it's strictly looking at kind of the overall picture not tied to given market conditions. I think EPA's traditions take the long view. While the natural-gas markets look affordable now, they know that might not always be true in the future, so I doubt that their analysis is going to rely on what the conditions look like today but more make the case against coal for why they think longer term coal poses environmental risk, a climate-change risk, regardless of the situation for natural gas.
Monica Trauzzi: Was this a legacy move for the president, or do you think he believes that he can hit all these markers in the timeline and that this can actually happen?
Roger Martella: I think he was trying to tell us what he wants his legacy to be. This is his goal. We now know what he's going to be doing for the next three and a half years, and this is kind of the universe of options, although there were some omissions like NEPA and the Endangered Species Act, so this is his plan. As I said, there's no margin for error here. They cannot afford to miss these deadlines and still get this done, even a little bit, before the end of the administration.
Monica Trauzzi: All right, Roger. We'll end it right there. Thank you for coming on the show again.
Roger Martella: Thank you, Monica.
Monica Trauzzi: And thanks for watching. We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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Dead to Me Boss on That 'Wonderfully Ironic' Season 2 Casting Surprise
By Michael Ausiello / May 10 2020, 10:00 AM PDT
The ninth episode of Dead to Me's just-dropped second season contained a casting surprise so delightfully cheeky it was borderline Bundy-erful.
At the end of the episode's cold open, Linda Cardellini's Judy is seen entering the visitor section of a prison to meet with her incarcerated mother played by — wait for it — co-lead Christina Applegate's Married With Children mom Katey Sagal.
As series creator Liz Feldman explains to TVLine, the idea to introduce Judy's never-before-seen mom was hatched long before Sagal was tapped for the role. "We knew early in this season that we were going to introduce Judy's mom, but you have to wait until there's a script [and] a shoot date… before casting anyone," she says. "We were looking for somebody that you could really believe would be Judy's mom, so somebody who looks somewhat like her. But also somebody that could really balance out the comedy and her grit that we were looking for in this woman."
When Sagal's name came up, "I just started laughing," Feldman recalls with a chuckle. "I was like, 'Oh my God that's insane and… I love it.' It was just wonderfully ironic."
Feldman took the idea to a "thrilled" Applegate (who is also an EP on Dead to Me) who "immediately put in a call to Katey to encourage her to come on board," the EP recounts. "They're very close. She was absolutely thrilled. Christina adores Katey. She really is like a mother to her."
Although Applegate and Sagal do not share any scenes together in Season 2, Feldman is not ruling out the possibility of the actresses formerly known as Kelly and Peg Bundy coming face to face in a potential third season. Asked if fans can hold out hope for such a Married With Children reunion, she responds coyly, "At the very least I want to give you hope."
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