In September 2015, a group of women decided to trek for four days through the Presidential Traverse of New Hampshire's White Mountains (USA). I won't lie – it was pretty tough going. We sweated, we cursed, we wondered why we were doing this. But we also laughed, reveled in the beauty of Mother Nature, and above all, bonded together as a team. Here is the daily journal about, as one of the ladies put it, "mounting multiple presidents".


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Upper Normandy Travel Guide
The white cliffs of Etretat, Upper Normandy.
Upper Normandy (Haute-Normandie in French) was created in 1984 from the split of Normandy into two administrative regions, a political decision that is still contested to this day. With an area of merely 12,317 km2 (4,756 sq mi), hardly more than Qatar, it is the smallest region on continental France after Alsace and Île-de-France.
Normandy was invaded and settled by Danish Vikings in the late 9th century. Sailing up the Seine, raiding the countryside, then besieging Paris in 911, the Vikings were eventually granted the land of Normandy by the King of France, with Rollo as first Count of Rouen. His descendants were the Dukes of Normandy (from 996), who would conquer England in 1066. The title is still officially carried by the British monarch today.
Rouen, the largest city in Normandy, has retained a lot of its medieval charm, with its sumptuous cathedral and timber-framed houses. It is here that Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431.
The 130 km Côte d'Albâtre (Alabaster Coast), running between the ports of Le Havre and Dieppe, is famous for its spectacular white limestone cliffs, mirroring those of southern England across the Channel. The most popular are the three natural arches and the and the pointed "needle" at Étretat.
Fans of Claude Monet come by bus-loads to the tiny village of Giverny, halfway between Rouen and Paris, where the painter lived from 1883 until his death in 1926. The main attraction is the water-lily pond, with its Japanese bridge, that feature in many of his works.
Famous people from Upper Normandy include (chronologically): the dramatist Pierre Corneille, the North American explorer Robert-René de La Salle, the writers Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant, the Nobel-prize-winning physicist Louis de Broglie, the actor Bourvil, President François Hollande, the TV presenter Laurent Ruquier, the judoka David Douillet, the actress Valérie Lemercier, and the model and actress Lætitia Casta.
Département de l'Eure
A pleasant little town with half-timbered houses, Vernon was also an aristocratic surname at the time of the Norman conquest that gave its name to a dozen places in the USA.
Château de Beaumesnil
Beaumesnil is an admirable Renaissance castle from the Louis XIII era set in an 80 ha park. The interior has maintained most of the original furnishings from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Giverny was the home of impressionist painter Claude Monet for 43 years. His house, left in its original state, and the adjoining water-lily garden are extremely popular.
Château d'Acquigny
Château de Bizy
Château de Brécourt
Château du Champ de Bataille, in Le Neubourg
Conches-en-Ouche Castle (ruins)
Château de Fleury-la-Forêt
Gaillon Castle
Gisors Castle
Harcourt Castle
Ivry-la-Bataille Castle (ruins)
Fontaine-Guérard Abbey
Mortemer Abbey
Vascoeuil Castle
Département de la Seine-Maritime
Rouen is the historic capital city of Normandy. Once one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, it is famous for its Gothic cathedral and its timber-framed houses.
Manoir d'Ango
Arques-la-Bataille Castle (ruins)
Boscherville Abbey
Château de Bosmelet in Auffay
Château de Cany
Manoir du Catel
Caudebec-en-Caux
Dieppe Castle
Château d'Ételan
Étretat & Côte d'Albâtre
Château d'Eu
Gardens of the Château de Filières
Château de Galleville
Jumièges Abbey (ruins)
La Bouille
Le Havre ※
Château de Martainville (Museum of Norman Arts & Traditions)
Château de la Rivière-Bourdet
Robert the Devil's Castle (ruins), in Moulineaux
Saint-Wandrille Abbey
Château du Taillis
Tancarville Castle (ruins)
Château d'Yville
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Strict compliance with labor discipline required in England even cats. For repeated failure to perform its obligations, laziness and sleep during working hours cat Larry lost his seat in the British government.
In February last year, the Prime Minister took it out of the shelter for homeless animals and glorious past - an active struggle for the purity of the London streets - appointed to lead the fight against rodents in the country. The same time became increasingly prefer dangerous sorties cozy atmosphere at number 10 Downing Street. But the shape is still kept.
Only in August he was discharged Prize for catch a mouse, and here again - dismissal. However, David Cameron was not really quite unfair to his "employees." Cat several times caught red-handed when he is indifferent looked at a passing rodent. In addition, stretched out on the windowsill, and Larry often do dozing. In recent years, the most that he was able - with distant gaze gnaw training dummy mouse.
Despite the fact that he would have to leave his post and leave the heated spot, Larry will not stay on the street. Doors prime minister's residence will remain open for him.


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Autodesk announced FormIt 4.0 at AIA Denver this year. Prior to the show Architosh got a private look at what the company was up to and where it is going.
At AIA National Denver this year Autodesk had two exciting announcements, both of which I was privy to experience a bit just prior to the show. The company was clearly excited to show us the newest version of FormIt, a conceptual modeling product for Apple's iOS platform specifically designed for the Apple iPad. We had noted this product's qualities in our Ultimate iPad Guide: Apps for Architects series reports published in late May.
As we noted in that report "this app from Autodesk lets you use real-world site information to help support early 3D design decisions." Angi Izzi, Sr. Manager of Industry Strategy & Marketing, Autodesk, told us, Autodesk sees a growing interest in the industry in bringing conceptual modeling into the BIM workflow and at an early stage. From this perspective, FormIt couldn't be better placed.
01 – This palladian villa was modeled during our demo in just a few minutes using the new features of FormIt 4.0 for iPad. This modeling app on the iPad brings the power of SketchUp modeling into the field.
During our private demo Matt Jezyk, Sr. Product Line Manager, AEC Conceptual Design Products, Autodesk, told us that FormIt was just shy of 100,000 downloads on the App Store and has proven to be off to a very strong start. What Autodesk took to AIA was version 4.0 of FormIt.
New in this version is the ability to create your own texture-mapped materials, using the Photo Library of your iPad or your iPad's camera. Materials can now have transparency support and can allow for the modification of color and transparency with the Color Picker in iOS.
Other new features include an updated sun and shadows portion of the app with new improved UI, the ability to send an image to the Photo Library or email (that is an image of the model) and smaller but key items like deleting edges to a flat surface, resizing and applying materials to arrows, et cetera. Last but not least, you can import geometry from other applications using SAT or OBJ file formats.
FormIt is its own file format but is compatible with working downstream with Autodesk's other BIM tools Revit and Vasari. At this time it is uni-direction but Matt said that they can envision workflows that would support bi-directional support…meaning one can start in FormIt, say on the building site, then push the model to the cloud, then take it into another Autodesk application and then one day push it back down to FormIt for more manipulation.
02 – The highlight in this news is likely the fact that FormIt is coming to a standardized web browser near you! Take a look at the screen show above. That's Chrome on OS X Mountain Lion. Autodesk continues to push SaaS (software as a service combined with mobile and cloud storage) and it is benefiting Apple tremendously and giving users choice with OS and hardware options for their devices and desktops.
Right now the application does support the ability to take in other file formats via OBJ and SAT.
The big story now though with FormIt is its Web support. Basically any modern standards compliant web browser (Safari, Chrome, FireFox) can run FormIt without any plugins or installation. You simply navigate to a URL and start working.
FormIt for the Web is free and will be a public beta. You also need an Autodesk 360 account which is also free and comes with 5 GB of storage space for your models. If you have another Autodesk product with subscription, you will get 25 GB of storage space for FormIt.


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1# which layer acts as a communication interface between service layer and presentation layer? a;...
1# which layer acts as a communication interface between service layer and presentation layer?
a; Consumer layer
b; Integration layer
c: Business process layer
d: Data and Application layer
2# Which of the following is/are TRUE about Business process layer? can be more one answer
[] it acts also as a communication interface between service layer and presentation layer
[] it receive requests from service consumers and communicate to underlaying IT components for processing.
[] it makes the application easily scalable
[] it provides BPEL.
What is the set of rules for forming sentences in a language called? a Semantics b Pragmatics c...
What is the set of rules for forming sentences in a language called? a Semantics b Pragmatics c Syntax d Logic
(C++) Convert the OrderedPair class, which is provided below, into a templated class. Note that...
(C++) Convert the OrderedPair class, which is provided below, into a templated class. Note that it will only work with types that have the operators + and < and << overloaded. But you should be able to try your templated class out with types string, myString, double, feetInches, and fraction. Also, create a programmer-defined exception class named "DuplicateMemberError" and add an if...
Describe an instruction that is not well defined and thus could not be included as a step in an...
Describe an instruction that is not well defined and thus could not be included as a step in an algorithm. Give an example of such an instruction. In what sense is a desktop computer a general-purpose problem-solving machine?
Modify the network application for therapy discussed in this chapter so that it handles multiple...
Modify the network application for therapy discussed in this chapter so that it handles multiple clients. Each client has its own doctor object. The program saves the doctor object for a client when it disconnects. Each doctor object should be associated with a patient user name. When a new patient logs in, a new doctor is created. But when an existing patient logs in, its doctor object is read...
The Guessing Game Project. In this project, you will write a Python program to act as the holder....
The Guessing Game Project. In this project, you will write a Python program to act as the holder. The program will ask the user to provide the maximum number in the range of guesses (called nMax, above). The program uses nMax to determine: (1) the number of allowable guesses (called nGuesses, above) and (2) the secret number. To calculate nGuesses, import the math module. To determine the secret...


Baby Matias is 10 weeks old. And in 21 more days he is turning 3 months old. I love to keep track of his weeks and months because it helps me realize how long he has been with us and that he is growing every day a little more.
He is smiling and wanting to "communicate" with us a lot. His noises are the cutest and I adore how he moves his arms to express his feelings.
On Saturday, Gavin and I will get married at the church and I couldn't be more excited. We finally set a place for the reception and chose flowers for the chapel and for my bouquet.
I love when Gavin gets home from work. I try to spend some time with him but I also like for him to spend some one-on-one time with Matias. This week they had the cutest time together which of course I had to snap some pictures of both of them.
PS: Which of my readers are using snapchat?
Such precious pictures of daddy and baby! :) Congrats in advance on getting married!


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Browsing the archives for the Mythology category
The Symphony with my daughter
family, Mythology, Spiritual Journey
This past year I became a subscriber for the Houston Symphony, and it has been a wonderful investment for time with my daughter. We usually get their early, eat brunch nearby, and then get back to Jones Hall in time for the lecture before the music. We like to try to get to sit near this Houston Theatre District landmark when we get a chance. My daughter is a bassist, and so it is a special bit of art for her, she even says it is "sexy". May she continue to find only the unreal men sexy at least until she becomes an adult.)
Today's performance was Yo Yo Ma, and he was incredible. I had gotten some field glasses to use while watching the show, and when it was my turn I couldn't help watching his face while he plays. He was his own audience, swaying to the music he heard and grinning at the concertmistress and the other cellists in the symphony.
Anyway, a wonderful day with my beautiful daughter.
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Orion, My Longtime Friend
Astronomy, Mythology, Science Fiction
Technical forward: All the links to pics below are from Stellarium referencing the sky tonight from my home near Houston, TX around 8pm tonight. well, except when Sirius shows up – his tail isn't wagging and visible until about 10pm tonight. But while oriented around tonight and my home, Orion and Sirius are visible through the Fall and Winter in most of North America.
I "discovered" Orion long before I knew who he was. I still remember it, because I was so sick as a child driving home from Thanksgiving in Houston to New Orleans and remembered pressing my face against the glass in the car to cool off. In time, I realized that the stars seemed to be keeping pace with the car. And I was comforted that as sick as i was, the stars were traveling with me. Three starts in particular I noticed, in a straight line, up-and-down, and I didn't see anything else like them in the sky. I called them "family" and watched them racing over the ground to keep up with the car. In time. I noticed a pair of stars – one on each side – of my new star-fiends, Family. I think I named them Peace and Hope. Click on the pic/links below to see if you can spot them here:
Eventually, I learned about constellations and stars and fell in love with Astronomy. I found star charts that showed that Orion was the name of those stars together, and that what I called Family, was actually Orion's Belt. Orion has been a friend ever since, because I see him so easily in the Fall. About 9pm in November, he is at the end of my driveway as I am getting out of the car, welcoming me home. Seeing him from the line drawings is a bit difficult, but here they are. That is not a bow in his hand, like I always thought, but rather his latest kill. His club is in his hand above his head. And his sword is on his belt (and there is a special jewel there).
It turns out that Orion has quite a past, even before I discovered him and his belt. The great hunter to the greeks was said by some to be the son of Poseidon, and came to desire Merope. Her father gave him a task of removing every dangerous animal from the island, and though he completed the task, her father would create rumors of wolves still out there to keep him from Merope. One night, Orion and Merope got together, and in retaliation for not waiting for his blessing, her father blinded Orion while asleep.
Now Merope was one of the seven Pleiades, the Sailing Sisters, and they together lead Orion to help. Eventually Dawn (Eos) and her light returned him to sight. But they say that Merope in the meantime had married a mortal her father approved of, and this is why only six of Pleides can ever be seen in the sky when dawn first shows her light. Eos was smitten with Orion, and they spent a long time together. But you know those gods…
But all was not well with the Gods and Orion. The great hunter eventually started going off on hunting trips with Artemis, the red-headed goddess of the hunt and the moon – she apparently so enjoyed his company that she started to skip her nights of lighting the world. And after boasting he could hunt every species to exinction, Mother Earth took matters in her own hands and sent a giant scorpion (Scorpius) to kill him. But Apollo, Artemis's brother got him first, tricking Artemis to shoot a far off target bobbing in the ocean (who he knew was Orion, but told her he was someone that attacked her priestesses), and Artemis grabbed her bow and put three arrows in Orion before realizing who he was. When she saw what she had done, she rushed to Orion and made him immortal, now placing him in the stars to continue the hunting he loved – she even sent him his dog, Sirius for company.
One last bit of Orion coolness for now…. Those two bright stars opposite one another across the belt of Orion? They are Betelgeuse, the home of a certain hoopy frood, and Rigel the star where Harry Mudd and his women were, and on a different planet in the system, the one where McCoy hooked up with a couple of chorus girls. And if we look, Betelgeuse is Orion's shoulder, which answers that question of where exactly Roy Batty, Rutger Hauer's Character from Blade Runner, was speaking of when he said he had, "seen things you people wouldn't believe, attacked ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion."
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A jockey brings a racehorse back to the stables after a morning workout at Fairplex's racetrack.
By Andrew Edwards | aedwards@scng.com and Monica Rodriguez | morodriguez@scng.com | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
April 23, 2014 at 12:14 a.m.
POMONA >> Representatives of Fairplex and Los Alamitos Racing Course are expected to be in Northern California Friday to brief state racing officials on plans to move race dates to the Orange County facility.
An item was added to the California Horse Racing Board's agenda involving the matter, Racing Board spokesman Mike Marten said Tuesday.
"The board is requesting information from Fairplex and Los Alamitos," Marten said.
Board members are expecting the report at Friday's meeting scheduled to take place at Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley.
Representatives of Fairplex and Los Alamitos announced Monday they have plans to move Fairplex Park's racing dates — which fall within the run of the L.A. County Fair — to the Cypress-based racing facility.
The race dates cannot be moved without the approval of the state's Racing Board, Marten said.
As of Tuesday an application requesting to shift the dates had not been submitted, Marten said.
It may be possible for the racing facilities' proposal to go before the Racing Board in late May, when the board is scheduled to meet at Santa Anita Park, or during the board's mid-June meeting at Los Alamitos, said Brad McKinzie, Los Alamitos track vice president.
McKinzie said he does not anticipate any significant objections to the plan.
Los Alamitos has primarily been known for its quarterhorse races, but recently received permission to expand its thoroughbred offerings. The races scheduled to take place at Los Alamitos in July and December are expected to fill a void in Southern California racing left by last year's closure of Hollywood Park's track in Inglewood.
If officials approve the Pomona-to-Los Alamitos proposal, the Orange County track would get a third slate of new thoroughbred races for this year.
"This is an additional race date that we didn't know was a possibility until three weeks ago," McKinzie said.
Los Alamitos Race Course expanded its track to accommodate new races this year. Combined with renovations to the grandstand, the Los Alamitos improvements are expected to cost more than $4 million, McKinzie said.
For some time, Fairplex Park has been in need of upgrades at the grandstands and stables, said Michael Chee, Fairplex director of marketing and public relations.
"This has been an ongoing issue for years," Chee said.
Los Alamitos Racing Course was recently renovated and has a new one-mile track.
"It's actually a better quality facility," Chee said. "We will be able to attract a higher level of thoroughbred horses."
That will result in a better meet, with better breeders and better horses, he said. In turn that is expected to attract new and existing race audiences.
At this point there are no immediate plans for Fairplex's racing facilities, Chee said.
"We do want to put the property to use," he said.
The grandstands are home to the L.A. County Fair's End of Summer Concert series and "could easily be adapted or expanded" to accommodate additional concerts or other events that draw large audiences, such as the recent Easter Sunday services, he said.
During the 2014 fair the track's infield will be promoted for use for activities such as family picnics, Chee said. In addition, some fair attractions could move closer to the grandstands.
Thoroughbred horse sales will continue on Fairplex property, he said.
Thoroughbred sales will continue at the Finish Line Sports Grill facilities and, as has occurred in previous sales, horses that are part of the sales will be run on the Fairplex Park track prior to the sale days.
There are not immediate plans for the stables at this time either. Some stables have been removed to accommodate the expansion of The Farm at Fairplex located near the Fairview Farms section of Fairplex.
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ABINGTON – Dianne Panarelli Miller's portfolio is filled with paintings of waterfalls and country fields, scenes of Newbury Street in Boston and granite quarries in Quincy, with names like "Frozen River" and "Sunday Ski." As of Saturday, add to the collection, "Trucchi's Supermarket."
"It's what I do every day," Miller said, speaking of her oil painting on location Saturday at the Abington grocery store. "Today I just happen to be at a supermarket." Store manager Kenneth Coyle suggested that Miller, a frequent customer and Abington resident, set up an easel and paint the deli, giving customers a way to pass the time while they waited for their meat and cheese to be cut.
"It's a lot cheaper than giving them beer and wine," Coyle joked. For Miller, the three-hour session was an opportunity to educate people about local art. "People don't know about artists in this area," she said. "It's an excellent educational effort."
Miller is an award-winning fine artist, a "Copley Master" at the Copley Society in Boston, who is well known as a South Shore painter and who has worked in Bermuda, Italy and France. She is also a signature member of the New England Plein Air Painters, a group focusing on outdoor settings and live work, rather than art created from photographs. Miller utilized a technique Saturday known as alla prima, in which wet paint is layered on wet paint, requiring the artist to work quickly and finish a painting in a single sitting.
To create a single deli scene over the course of three hours, Miller said she starts with a basic template for the people in the painting and then takes "a little bit of this, and a little bit of that." "I'm trying to be exact, but impressionistic," she said. "You don't want it to be perfect. You want the viewer to do some work." The unofficial partnership with Trucchi's may grow into more paintings of different parts of the store, or even paintings of other Abington businesses, Miller said. As for the original oil of the supermarket deli? As for the original oil of the supermarket deli?
Brockton, MA - Brockton, MA "Everything's for sale," Miller said.
Abington artist paints local supermarket scene - News - The Enterprise,
By Staff Reporter Posted May 24, 2014 at 9:18 PM Updated May 24, 2014 at 9:28 PM


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The Art of Advocacy: A Conversation with Gates Foundation President Mark Suzman
True change requires persuasion from the ground up.
Illustration by Luke Waller
When Beth Fredrick sat down with Mark Suzman, chief strategy officer and president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she had one topic to discuss: advocacy. Reflecting on his experiences at the Foundation and advising the UN Secretary-General, Suzman said he finds advocacy "absolutely central." Fredrick is executive director for the Advance Family Planning partnership at the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health and co-director of the Center for Public Health Advocacy. She shared surprises from her work expanding access to contraceptive information, services, and supplies across Africa and Asia. They discussed the intricacies of advocacy—what works and how to make a difference and sustain it.
BF: You wrote recently that for the Gates Foundation to be on the front lines of change, you rely on technical partners to deliver interventions that change lives. How would you prioritize advocacy?
MS: Broadly speaking, advocacy is absolutely central. If you want to reach real people, you have to do the math around persuading some coalition of partners, players, and resources. Whether it's around family planning or financial inclusion and bank accounts for women, that has to be built in at the start.
BF: What are some of the big global public health challenges that could benefit more from advocacy?
MS: Family planning is an area where we think we've actually made enormous progress over the last seven years since the London Family Planning Conference. But we also know we are very likely to miss our 2020 target for the number of women [provided with an] appropriate choice of contraceptives.
One of the challenges is how you build the network of credible, local actors and partners working down deep at the community level. That's a question I'll actually ask of you. How do you build local coalitions so that they will last and will outlast us?
BF: From the outset with AFP, we worked with NGO partners and service providers as the advocates for family planning and contraceptive information, services and supplies. But early on it became clear that unmet need for advocacy training equally applied to policymakers.
Policymakers in local governments were desperate to figure out how to prioritize and move issues in their government. They didn't have the skills to surface the problems or promising interventions up through the ministry of health, the ministry of finance, or parliament. That really changed our view of how to influence policy decisions and sustain advocacy. We saw quickly that if we didn't work at the county, state or district level, we were missing a big part of sustainability.
MS: What you're talking about is really at the community and grassroots level, which is absolutely where we want the final outcomes to happen. What we see as the other end is, how do you put in place a political or policy framework which actually mandates this as a priority?
If you don't have the grassroots, it doesn't become sustainable. If you just set the targets, but you don't have anything pulling or pushing it down to the grassroots community level, then it withers on the vine. We found we need both.
BF: One of the other things that we learned from our partners at the country level is that governments had no problem developing national plans, plans on family planning, on youth development, on health overall. Yet there wasn't a lot of recognition that the broader community, or coalitions, could play a role in shaping those plans. That's been a real shift that I've seen over AFP's 10 years. We've built coalitions that have strong enough partnerships with the government that they're now brought in as technical resources.
MS: I remember having a conversation with the Minister of Finance in Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, when she was still in office. In a polite way, when I was sitting in her office in Abuja, she said, "You're really causing trouble for me because I am getting these constituencies coming in and they are asking me to meet my FP 2020 commitments, and I have to meet my Global Fund co-financing commitments and my Power of Nutrition commitments, and commitments for polio eradication. They're all coming out of the same budget. I am a champion of health within this government, and I need you to help me think about, and have your partners think about, how these things integrate."
The general view among people working on long-term family planning is that when you wrap family planning into a wider set of health interventions, it tends to be a loser. That historically was the case, if you look at finance in the 1980s and '90s.
One of the encouraging things now is if you look at new mechanisms and the Global Financing Facility. Every Woman Every Child, for example, which is a mechanism we're a significant component part of, is really designed to try to help the country come up with its broad plan that looks right across the reproductive, maternal child health plus nutrition agenda and say, we have a great plan that is going to cover all of these and that allows partner money from donors to help support that.
BF: Let's shift a little bit. What's the future for public health students who aspire not just to be public health researchers or program people but to go out front as advocates. What's their future look like?
MS: We hope that it's enormously promising. You've got a lot of policymakers and places trying to figure out: okay, we wish to prioritize this, but we're not quite sure what the right interventions are. It needs that active, engaged, driven, informed-by-facts health advocacy from the next generation of your students.
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health magazine.


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Shota Apkhaidze
Shota Apkhaidze joined the Eurasian Institute, headed by Gulbaat Rtskhiladze, after he was released from custody as a political prisoner following the change of the government in 2012. He was convicted for bursting into the studio of Kavkasia TV in 2010, together with the representatives of Orthodox Parents' Union and People's Orthodox Movement, and committing a hate crime.
Prior to his detention, Apkhaidze served as a publicist for Malkhaz Gulashvili's media holding Georgian Times. Malkhaz Gulashvili was also the chairman of the People's Orthodox Movement which was formed in 2010. At that time, Apkhaidze was named as one of the members of this movement and stated as the chairman of the youth movement "Forward".
In 2013, Apkhaidze took part in the event organized by Caucasian Cooperation, involving a tour to North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Dagestan. It was at this meeting that Shota Apkhaidze stated that "Saakashvili committed genocide of the Ossetian people in 2008."
In 2015, Apkhaidze founded the Caucasus Center for Islamic Studies.
Apkhaidze frequently appears in various media outlets, among them Sputnik, Tsargrad TV, Новостной Фронт, etc. Shota Apkhaidze was positioned in Russian propagandistic media as one of the organizers of xenophobic and anti-migration march held in July 2017 upon the initiative of the then ultranationalist movement (now party), Georgian March.
Shota Apkhaidze has stood out with openly pro-Russian and anti-Western messages in various interviews. You can find some of the related articles here.
In November 2019, Shota Apkhaidze appeared on air at TV Zvezda, a Russian Defense Ministry-owned TV channel, as a journalist. The TV program "On air" ("Открытый эфир") was devoted to a TV report prepared by Apkhaidze that reiterated Kremlin's propagandist conspiracies on organ sale in Eastern Ukraine during the hostilities.
In the Georgian version of the pro-Kremlin outlet "NewsFront," Shota Apkhaidze was indicated as the editor, nonetheless, he has later denied the fact with "Myth Detector."
Shota Apkhaidze and Gulbaat Rtskhiladze have a 50%-50% of LTD Agro-Geo. In the company's extract from the Register of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneur (Non-commercial) Legal Entities, the email address of the company states [email protected] which is the address of the Eurasian Institute, headed by Gulbaat Rtskhiladze.
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Business News of Saturday, 11 August 2018
Source: Graphic.com.gh
We won't interfere with issue of folded banks — AGI
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has said it will not interfere in the work of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) or shield any of its members found to have engaged in any irregularities regarding the collapse of seven local banks.
It also urged the public not to lose confidence in local banks or generalise the development, but rather continue to do business with the remaining local banks.
"Even though this development may undermine the integrity of local banks, AGI believes there are similar local banks that measure up to expectation and must be encouraged to keep to standard," the President of AGI, Dr Yaw Adu Gyamfi, said at a news conference in Accra last Thursday.
The association presented the second quarter Business Barometer Report for 2018 and discussed issues confronting businesses in the country at the conference.
On Wednesday, August 1 this year, the BoG revoked the licences of five banks and subsequently merged them into a new bank — the Consolidated Bank Ghana Limited — to be headed by Mr Nii Amanor Dodoo of KPMG.
The entities — the uniBank, the Royal Bank, the Sovereign Bank, the Construction Bank and the BEIGE Bank — were found to have committed various regulatory and financial breaches that made them insolvent and unfit to continue operations.
In August last year, the UT and Capital banks suffered similar fates after they were found to have been insolvent.
Saddened
Throwing more light on the position of the association on the collapse of the banks, Dr Gyamfi said the association was saddened by the collapse of the seven local banks because the issues that caused the collapse could have been avoided.
"Weak corporate governance structures and the lack of adherence to the BoG's regulations as reported to be root causes for the collapse were avoidable," he said.
However, Dr Gyamfi commended the BoG for the ongoing reforms in the banking sector to streamline operations to forestall any future insolvency of other local banks and expressed the hope that the reforms would ultimately lead to a fall in lending rates.
Presenting the second quarter report, the Chief Executive Officer of AGI, Mr Seth Twum Akwaboah, said the association's business barometer conducted for the period of April to June this year indicated that there was a surge in business confidence.
He attributed the improvement to the reduction of electricity tariff which impacted positively on many businesses.
Mr Akwaboah also mentioned that the depreciation of the country's currency against the world's major trading currencies was affecting businesses.
"AGI is urging the government to quickly institute corrective measures to prevent further erosion of the gains made in quarter one," he stated.
Mr Akwaboah added that businesses came under intense pressure as a result of the depreciation of the cedi and the speculations about new taxes emerging from the mid-year budget review negatively impacted business confidence.
He also bemoaned the influx of imports, saying that issue continued to pose huge challenges to the growth of industries in the country.
Raising issues with the new straight levy regime, Mr Akwaboah said the current regime as introduced in the mid-year budget review, where manufacturers could only claim 12.5 per cent of Value Added Tax (VAT), leaving five per cent as cost burden passed on to consumers was a serious concern to businesses.
"This makes manufacturers less competitive. The three per cent VAT Flat Rate Scheme (VFRS) operators (retailers/traders) will not suffer such unclaimed VAT ( five per cent) under this new straight VAT regime," he indicated.
In addition, Mr Akwaboah said AGI would request for a month's grace period to allow businesses to align their system or books to the new straight levy regime.
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by: Harrison Gereau
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As part of a plea deal, Miller agreed to a split prison sentence, a $500 fine, and a year of probation.
Vermont State Police announced in August that Miller, who has a home in Stamford, had been cited to appear in court for arraignment on a charge of felony burglary into an unoccupied dwelling.
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According to a police affidavit, Miller had been friends with the homeowner for about 18 years before the incident. The "Justice League" actor was charged after police pulled surveillance footage and interviewed witnesses.
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Meet Johanna
The name Johanna means "God is Gracious." The ancient Hebrew form of that name is "Yohannanen." I used the modern form for most of the names in this story because they are easier to say and remember.
Nine year old Johanna loves to run and play with her friends using her imagination for hours playing outdoors amidst rocks, trees, and the ruins of a great house.
She also likes to compete with board games such as senet, chess, and mancala. She has a crush on a certain boy but keeps it a secret. Justice and fairness are important to her. She knows the sting of being picked on and readily sticks up for others.
It angers her that her dear father has to spend his days making bricks because the pharaoh made her people his slaves. She hates slavery!
Her best friend is a servant girl two years older, but the age difference doesn't matter. The girls grow to be close friends as they each share their worlds with each other. For three years they make wonderful memories and have true adventures. Then, at age twelve, Johanna's world changes when her people are set free!
Meet Kenyeh
"Kenyeh" is a shortened form of the Ethiopian name "Enkenyelesh."I chose it to honor a young girl I supported through Compassion International. In this story, Kenyeh is the daughter of an Ethiopian (African) mother and a Midianite (Arabic) father. She grows up on the estate of a great Egyptian nobleman where she lives amidst beauty and abundance.
A fast runner and fierce competitor, Kenyeh loves visiting Goshen where Johanna and her Israelite people live. She loves playing with all the children and her laughter and dramatics are a joy to all. Johanna becomes like a sister to this only child. Kenyeh's family grows in interest and faith in the God of the Israelites—the LORD. In fact, their lives make great changes from the lifestyle of the people around them because of their new faith.
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Egypt in 1440 B.C.
Egypt was the greatest nation in the world at this time. It was called the "navel of the world." The navel is located right in the center of the body between the upper and lower halves. People viewed Egypt as being the center of the world in those days because all the power and wealth were there. Other countries had to send caravans of tribute to the pharaoh.
Everyone must have wanted to visit Egypt to see all the magnificent buildings with their splendor. The noble class women wore fine jewels and headpieces. The pharaoh wore a collar of gold. Artisans made fine glass and carved intricate designs. There were many things to dazzle the eyes.
It was said that even the poorest people in Egypt enjoyed a lifestyle similar to what the wealthiest people in other nations had, and that they probably ate better than most of the rest of the world. There was an abundance of fruit, vegetables, bread, and fish for all. People paid taxes with produce from their farms or gardens. Even families in slavery ate well and had gardens of their own and access to fish and meat.
The Egyptians worshipped hundreds of gods and goddesses. They had gods for protection, for childbirth, for rain, wisdom, war, battle, and on and on. The gods changed over the years as different pharaohs were in power. Some pharaohs even claimed to be part god themselves.
Worship of these gods and goddesses led to making idols to represent them and also temples where worship took place. All too often, wrong, debased things occurred in that worship.
But there was one group of people who were different from the Egyptians—the Israelites. They had been shepherds, a vocation the Egyptians looked down upon. Eventually, the Israelite men were forced to labor for the pharaoh making clay bricks and helping build his treasure houses. However, this was not the chief thing that brought disdain from the Egyptians towards the Hebrews, or Israelites. The chief objection was that the Hebrews worshipped only one God—the LORD. They were viewed as strange. They weren't really a part of that culture. They were Johanna's people.
Join others in reading about Johanna's journey. You may find that it is much like your own.
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The Purpose of this Series
This first book, Johanna's Journey: Call to Freedom, is based on the events of Exodus 1-19. For the girl already knowledgeable about the Exodus account, this series will put her in the setting of ancient Israel and how life might have been for girls her age. She will learn about cooking, tent-life, what girls did for fun, what similar challenges they faced, and much more. Hopefully, she will come away with a new appreciation for the exodus and the stories around it, the Passover, and also for the nation of Israel and Jews today.
For the new Christian, this series will introduce her to the Israelites and why they are significant to Christians today. She will learn basic details taught in Genesis—the fall, the flood, and how God first revealed Himself to Abraham and chose his people to be a light to the world (this is detailed in book two—Johanna's Journey: In the Shadow of the Mountain). The reader will be shown how the sacrifices and feasts pointed to Christ.
For both groups of girls, this series will help them to ponder what kind of mate they want one day, what kind of home they would like to have, and how they must prepare to think differently from the world system and avoid succumbing to its allure and pressures. Most importantly, the goal of this series will be for each girl to know that she personally is seen and loved by the most high God, and that He has a hope and a plan for her future.
Fact Versus Fiction
Only the Bible is the inspired Word of God and is alive and powerful to those who know Jesus Christ. (I Corinthians 2:14 "But people who aren't Christians can't understand these truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them because only those who have the Spirit can understand what the Spirit means. We who have the Spirit understand these things, but others can't understand us at all. How could they? For, 'Who can know what the Lord is thinking? Who can give him counsel?' But we can understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ."
Every effort was made to tell this Exodus story in accordance with the Scripture. In addition, careful research from many websites and books provided hours of enjoyment and inspiration to me, the author. One resource I especially enjoyed is the writings of Josephus, a Roman era Jew who recorded the oral tradition handed down through the generations among his people. Considered to be a credible source by historians, his writing added colorful insights such as in chapter eleven when Grandfather discusses Moses and the ways God prepared him for his role as deliverer. Josephus tells of the oral tradition that Moses once led a war against Ethiopia and was the victor. (This could explain his having married an Ethiopian woman about whom Miriam and Aaron later complained as recorded in Numbers, chapter twelve.) But note that I said, "SOME SAY he was called the "Conqueror of Ethiopia."
At this time in history, "Ethiopia" actually referred to the region known today as Sudan. Modern day Ethiopia is below and to the right of it. The knowledge of the LORD clearly traveled down through Sudan into this area of Africa for there has, for centuries, been a large population of Ethiopians Jews. In fact, in one region they once claimed to house the Ark of the Covenant in a guarded building. Sadly, most of them today have fled the country for refuge in Israel due to persecution.
My letter to the readers in the beginning of the book tells about Johanna and Kenyeh being fictional characters who represent girls who lived during the time of the Exodus.
My prayer is that readers will come away with an appreciation for the many lessons the Exodus story teaches, and that they will see the LORD's love and his willingness to give second chances. That should encourage our hearts today as we travel our journeys through life
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