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Crime Fiction Books with a Historical Twist
By Laura Hennigan
Whether visiting war-torn London or delving into secrets from the Revolutionary War, historical mysteries provide the perfect reading blend of fiction with a healthy dash of intrigue and suspense. There's something deliciously different when a mystery book is set in times gone by, transporting us to an era we can only experience through the written word. We've rounded up the best crime fiction books with a historical twist.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible.
But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.
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Beat the Devils
by Josh Weiss
LAPD detective Morris Baker—a Holocaust survivor who drowns his fractured memories of the unspeakable in schnapps and work—is called to the scene of a horrific double-homicide. The victims are John Huston, a once-promising but now forgotten film director, and an up-and-coming young journalist named Walter Cronkite. Clutched in the hand of one of the dead men is a cryptic note containing the phrase "beat the devils" followed by a single name: Baker. Did the two men die in an attack fueled by better-dead-than-red sentiment, as the Hueys are quick to conclude, or were they murdered in a cover-up designed to protect—or even set in motion—a secret plot connected to Baker's past?
In a country where terror grows stronger by the day, and paranoia rises unchecked, Baker is determined to find justice for two men who raised their voices in a time when free speech comes at the ultimate cost. In the course of his investigation, Baker stumbles into a conspiracy that reaches deep into the halls of power and uncovers a secret that could destroy the City of Angels—and the American ideal itself.
The Book of the Most Precious Substance
Sara Gran
When former novelist Lily Albrecht suffers an unimaginable tragedy, she fully retreats into her dull new life as a celibate rare book dealer. While boring and sexless, down-on-her-luck Lily accepts this new status quo. That is until a lead appears that is too good to be true - one that may not be real at all. The 17th-century manual, The Book of the Most Precious Substance, is said to be the most powerful book about the occult ever written, full of mystery that promises unlimited power and unrivaled sexual pleasure. And wealthy people, desperate to get their hands on its magic, are willing to pay Lily a fortune to track it down. As she crosses the globe, from New York to Paris, Lily searches for the book and discovers her own desires along the way.
A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons
Kate Khavari
Research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to escape the shadow of her late father's esteemed reputation and forge her own path at the University College London botany department. Despite feeling stymied by a male-dominated field and her colleagues' assumptions about women's academic capabilities, she attends a dinner party for the school hoping to prove her worth. But when Mrs. Henry, one of the professors' wives, drops dead, Saffron may be the only one who can determine what poisoned her. With evidence against her mentor, Saffron must rely on her botanical knowledge to help clear his name and keep her own off of the murderer's list.
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The Midnight Ride
by Ben Mezrich
Hailey Gordon is looking to make some fast cash to help pay her tuition when she's caught counting cards at the Encore casino in Boston. She grabs her winnings and makes her escape. With guards closing in, she dives into an unlocked room to hide . . . only to find a dead body.
Recently released from prison, Nick Patterson hasn't felt hope in a long time, but the job he "inherited" in prison promises to change that. He enters hotel room 633 to find that the person he was supposed to meet has been murdered. Next to the corpse stands a terrified young woman—Hailey Gordon.
American history professor Adrian Jensen learns of the death of his professional nemesis, Charles Walker, the night after he received Walker's latest research. Skeptical at first, Adrian nearly deletes the file. But when one small, new detail catches his eye, he makes it his mission to uncover what could be one of the biggest secrets of the Revolutionary War.
All three strangers find themselves on the cusp of an incredible discovery—one that someone is willing to kill to keep buried.
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A Gambling Man
The second book in the Archer series takes the World War II vet on a bus and out to Bay Town, California for a fresh start. A pit stop in Reno lands him several unexpected additions, including a blood-red Delahaye convertible, a hefty wad of cash, and an aspiring actress headed for the bright lights of Hollywood.
Ready for fame and fortune, Archer is thrilled when he lands a job with Willie Dash, a legendary P.I. and former FBI agent. The new gig comes at him fast, and soon Archer is smack in the middle of a blackmail case involving a wealthy politician who is running for mayor. Working together, Archer and Dash find themselves having to infiltrate the underbelly of gambling dens, drug operations, and brothels that make up a seedy town full of secrets. How far does the town's corruption go? And how long can Archer manage to keep his head above water?
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by Sandra Brown
It's 1920 when war-weary soldier Thatcher Hutton accidentally lands in Foley, Texas and steps into unexpected trouble right away.
Young Laurel Plummer arrived in Foley hoping for a fresh start, but her dreams quickly turned to tragedy. Gritty and determined to avoid a life of destitution, she forges her own path
When Thatcher unexpectedly arrives at Laurel's ranch, the two find an instant connection.
With a backdrop of Prohibition, this novel explores the risky business of moonshine wars and love in the lawless old West. Layers of suspense and romance mark Brown's mystery thriller, taking readers through the backdoors of a speakeasy and into a cutthroat time in history.
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The Apollo Murders
by Chris Hadfield
NASA is getting ready to launch Apollo 18, a scientific mission that will send three astronauts a quarter-million miles into space. Flight controller Kazimieras "Kaz" Zemeckis is on the ground and knows that this flight is more complicated than the government is letting on. Intelligence has discovered there is a secret Soviet space station, and that Russia has been spying on America.
As Apollo 18 orbits through the vast loneliness of space, Kaz is racing to help the crew stay ahead of their rival astronauts, but a deadly accident changes everything. With the White House and the Kremlin watching from below, dangerous political stakes come into play, and the claustrophobia of a tiny spaceship tests the crew's mental and physical limits in ways they never could have imagined.
The Omega Factor
by Steve Berry
The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold?
Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts—anything and everything from countless lesser-known objects to national treasures.
When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with a woman from his past, he unwittingly stumbles on the trail of a legendary panel from the Ghent Altarpiece, stolen in 1934 under cover of night and never seen since. Soon Nick is plunged into a bitter conflict, one that has been simmering for nearly two thousand years. On one side is the Maidens of Saint-Michael, les Vautours—the Vultures—a secret order of nuns and the guardians of a great truth. Pitted against them is the Vatican, which has wanted for centuries to both find and possess what the nuns guard. Because of Nick the maidens have finally been exposed, their secret placed in dire jeopardy—a vulnerability that the Vatican swiftly moves to exploit utilizing an ambitious cardinal and a corrupt archbishop, both with agendas of their own.
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Today in European history: the Taksim Square massacre (1977)
The Cold War's "Operation Gladio" comes (allegedly) to Istanbul.
You probably don't need me to tell you that today is May Day, since I'm betting your ability to keep track of which day it is exceeds mine. May Day's origins go back to pre-Christian European cultures, but nowadays for much of the world it's also International Workers' Day and, in some countries, Labor Day. Ironically, for a date chosen to commemorate the 1886 Haymarket Affair in Chicago, May 1 is not the official labor holiday in the United States. The US government commemorates Labor Day, albeit very reluctantly, on the first Monday in September, a date that probably predates Haymarket in its origins but was selected for the federal holiday in part because May 1 is too workery and internationalist and socialist for American politicians to countenance. Anyway, I digress.
Even in countries that don't formally set aside May 1 as a day for recognizing organized labor and workers' rights, the day still carries that connotation for many people. And that can mean demonstrations, rallies, and celebrations. These sorts of things can sometimes turn violent, particularly when governments, backed by super-national military institutions and the spy agencies of global superpowers, deliberately turn them violent. Speaking of which, let's consider the 1977 May Day rally in Istanbul's Taksim Square.
Taksim Square on a considerably more peaceful day in 2012 (Wikimedia Commons)
The Republic of Turkey hadn't had an organized May Day/Labor celebration for almost half a century, going back to the 1920s. But then, in 1976, Turkey's Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (Turkish acronym DİSK) held a celebration in Taksim Square. That apparently went off well enough that DİSK planned another celebration for the following year. But in the lead up to May Day 1977, rumors began to circulate that the Taksim Square rally would turn violent. DİSK had blocked a Maoist faction from participating, and it was believed they might show up looking to cause trouble.
Sure enough there was trouble, but that's where things get complicated. The aforementioned Maoists, who were expected to cause trouble, had not yet shown up when shots rang out across the square from several surrounding buildings. Turkish police intervened, but only once the shooting had stopped, and instead of trying to protect the crowd they instead employed riot-control tactics to violently disperse it. Between the shooting, the panic caused by the shooting, and the police, somewhere around 40 people were killed.
Nobody has ever satisfactorily explained what happened to cause this massacre, and all the people who were charged in the case either had their charges later dropped or were eventually acquitted. But there are theories.
The Maoists, who again had not yet entered the square when the shooting started, could in theory have put snipers in the surrounding buildings for some reason. But it defies belief that they could've pulled off such a thing and gotten away scot-free, particularly when the prosecutor investigating the affair, Çetin Yetkin, said that Turkish police arrested several shooters. Turkish police, on the other hand, claim they have no record of arresting any shooters. On top of that, they also seem to have "lost" some extremely germane material, like a bag of explosives supposedly found at the scene and at least one person's home movie of the incident. Peculiar. Maybe Yetkin lied, or maybe the Turkish police let those snipers go, in which case it's exceedingly unlikely, to say the least, that they were Maoists. I mean, other than maybe in China, I don't know of many police forces who are keen to look the other way when it comes to Maoists committing violent crimes.
A lot of suspicion since 1977 has fallen on a Turkish paramilitary group called Kontrgerilla (Counter-Guerrilla), which was the Turkish branch of a much larger network of paramilitary organizations established all across Europe under a NATO program known as "Operation Gladio." You probably already see where this is going.
Operation Gladio grew out of a British World War II institution called the "Auxiliary Units." These were groups that were trained and given access to arms caches all over Britain, so that in the event of a German invasion of the British Isles they could function as an instant "stay behind" paramilitary resistance force. After the war, Britain and the US (enter the CIA) decided to take this program and expand it to European states at risk of potential Communist takeover and/or Soviet (later Warsaw Pact) invasion. In essence it was a "break glass in case of Reds" plan.
This program spread all over the place, but for example "stay behind" cells were formed, and weapons stashed, in Finland, Greece, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, and, yes, Turkey. Even Spain was involved despite facing no immediate threat of Soviet invasion, because even a legitimate communist electoral victory was apparently scary enough to justify starting an insurgency. The cells were generally made up of a collection of organized crime figures, ex-fascists (I'm using the prefix "ex" loosely here), elements within the Catholic Church—basically anyone who was predisposed to hate communists. The term for these units was different in every country, but the overall program has come to assume the name of the Italian branch, "gladio" (after the Roman "gladius" sword) because it was the Italian government that revealed the existence of the operation in 1990.
Had Operation Gladio stuck to its limited mission, it might have been fine. But sadly it seems that at least some of these would-be resistance armies did not stick to the mission. There are theories, some more conspiratorial than others, that link these paramilitary units to instances of right-wing terrorism and anti-socialist violence throughout Cold War Europe. At the very least, there are a few cases where it's known that the arms caches set up for these groups to use in case of invasion were found and looted by criminals, so that's nice.
In Turkey, former prime minister Bülent Ecevit (d. 2006) was the most prominent proponent of the theory that Kontrgerilla was involved in the Taksim massacre—maybe with direct CIA assistance—because the May Day demonstration was too communist for comfort. Ecevit said he learned of Operation Gladio's existence in 1974 and told people he believed that Kontrgerilla was involved in the 1977 massacre, but then quickly (and suspiciously) clammed up about the whole thing after apparently being warned/threatened by then-prime minister Süleyman Demirel (d. 2015).
There's some circumstantial evidence to back up the theory that Kontrgerilla was responsible, with institutional Turkish and American support. For one thing, there were reports of Turkish police hanging out with unknown Americans at the Sheraton Hotel in Istanbul (which was closed to the public) on May 1. The deputy head of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, Hiram Abas, was supposedly seen around the square that day.
Then there are the actions of the police themselves, who seem to have known exactly when the shooting would stop because that's when they finally entered the square and turned their riot control hoses on the demonstrators. And the investigation seems to have been botched so badly that it's easier to believe it was deliberately mishandled than that any national police force could be that incompetent. Obviously there's nothing conclusive here, nor is there much conclusive evidence about any of Operation Gladio's suspected involvement in this kind of violence elsewhere. Nobody is ever going to do time for the murder of those 40 or so people in Taksim on May 1, 1977. But there's still no likelier suspect in this case than Kontrgerilla, maybe with a CIA helping hand.

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Traditionally, May 1 is 'Workers' Day'. As such, perhaps it is time to consider why – in this age of quasi unprecedented economic growth, a national surplus, record unemployment and a decrease in the national debt – wages have not risen adequately to proportionately reflect our economic success as a nation.
At a business breakfast organised by the Nationalist Party last weekend, economists noted that, while wages have increased, the corresponding increase in profit margins across the board was 'disproportionate'. Economic growth is creating jobs and generating wealth; but it also fuels a construction boom that has led to higher property and (especially) rental prices. This inflationary pressure has crippling effects on purchasing power; and it stands to reason that the most adversely affected will be the poor and materially deprived.
It is encouraging to note that poverty statistics have fallen in recent years: but we must also question our national definitions of poverty. Malta is simultaneously experiencing the rise of a new economic bracket: people who are not necessarily 'materially deprived', but who struggle to cope with rising basic expenditure: rent, food, leisure, etc.
If prevailing economic trends continue, and the same disproportion between economic prosperity and wage-increases persist – we may very well experience a return to the more traditional definitions of poverty: i.e., homeless people eking out a living on the streets.
To avoid this scenario, we should start looking into how wages can fairly and proportionally reflect the economic successes registered. That is the only way to ensure that all workers and families will actually and realistically share in the prosperity currently being generated.
However, recent wage increases already fell short of expectations in 2017: let alone this year and in future. An agreement last year between government and the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development (MCESD) resulted in an increase in the minimum wage. An estimated 5,000 persons on minimum wage are now entitled to a mandatory €3 increase per week upon completion of the first year of employment with the same employer; and a further €3 weekly upon completion of the second year.
The agreement also stipulates that this year and next, persons on the minimum wage will earn an extra €1 per week in addition to this year's COLA. By 2019, therefore, the minimum wage will have been increased by a maximum of €8 per week – or €416 – in addition to the normal cost of living adjustment (COLA).
This is a far cry from what the Campaign for a Decent Minimum Wage (KPMD) was calling for: an increase of 11% over three years – €80 monthly over and above COLA increases. The increase announced in April 2017 works out at around 4.4%.
Similarly, research carried out by Caritas suggests that the wage rise will not be enough to cover the corresponding increased cost of living. What neither KPMD nor Caritas could foresee at the time, however, was that Malta's economic performance would also exceed expectation. Given that the country performed better than previous indications, it remains questionable whether that deal – even if concluded just last year – has already been superseded.
One must also ask whether part of this success may be attributed to a low wage structure that permits such high profits in the first place. If so, that would make Malta's economy reliant on cheap (mostly imported) labour... a perception government strongly rejects.
Moreover, it would only lay the foundations for a very different Malta in future. In a sense, the changing demographics make that future all but inevitable; but there are measures that can be taken to avoid the worst case scenario. The same economists noted that Malta must take steps to prepare for the impending social changes.
This adds another dimension to the issue: the prevailing trend also leads to precarious jobs, especially among foreign workers who are not unionised. Foreign workers are proving indispensable in industries where Maltese no longer want to work. But this necessity cannot be used to justify or ignore a wholesale disregard for their basic rights and conditions of work.
It is imperative that the rights of these workers are safeguarded, as are Maltese workers' rights. If necessary, they should be granted right and access to join a union.
This would minimise the risk of an underclass of workers that could potentially put whole industries at risk. It would also ensure that a decent level of wages is guaranteed across sectors, as employers would not be able to resort to off-the-books employees to the detriment of regularised tax-paying workers.
Above all, it would ward off the uncomfortable impression that Malta is carving out its own prosperity – which manifestly does not 'trickle down' to everyone – directly from the exploitation of vulnerable workers, with dangerous possible social ramifications.
This would hardly be an achievement to boast about. If we are to grow into a prosperous nation, let's also make it a fair one, too.


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It's been about eight months since the bloodbath that ended the last season of Boardwalk Empire, and judging by this trailer, things are no less violent in Atlantic City, but they are a little less… loud. Nucky Thompson spent most of last year learning he couldn't be half a gangster, which also taught him that he couldn't put his whole trust into anyone. So when he encounters Jeffrey Wright's Dr. Narcisse, the "philanthropist" who runs Harlem, it's as a king who rules from the shadows, with Nucky no longer feeling the need to let even the showgirls know who's in charge. After all, as of season four, Warren G. Harding is dead. This is the era of the stoically reserved Calvin Coolidge, of America's chief business being business—specifically minding your own, be it isolationism in foreign policy, or bootlegging and murder.
If that sounds dull, consider that this season will find Al Capone doing the complete opposite as he Tommy guns his way to power in Chicago, and that, judging by this preview, Margaret will be quietly grappling with her conflicted morality far, far off screen for a change. (Hopefully the same can't be said for the only barely glimpsed Van Alden.) Also, Gillian is getting romanced by Ron Livingston, who's neither her son nor anyone who resembles him—so that's sort of different. But best of all, Richard Harrow is still sticking his gun in people's faces, the kind of quietly confident industriousness of which Calvin Coolidge would approve.


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Would the terminally ill Star Wars fan who was granted an early viewing of 'The Force Awakens' have been legally bound to keep the plot a secret?
Since reading the news story about Disney and Lucasfilm granting a terminally ill Star Wars fan's wish to see the New Star Wars movie before he was taken by cancer (Good guys Disney and Lucasfilm!); I have been curious as to what the legal situation would have been surrounding watching such a closely guarded and long-awaited storyline before general release. Would he be contractually (or otherwise) obliged to keep all plotpoints to himself? Would the fact that he was terminally ill and not a film critic mean that this legal situation would differ from that which binds critics who see films before general release (assuming that critics are bound in any way)?
I must clarify I do not have a great knowledge of law so I'm not looking for fine detail specifics, but a layman explanation would be very interesting.
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Daniel Fleetwood, and his wife who watched the movie with him, were bound by a confidentiality agreement:
She can't say much more because she had to sign a confidentiality agreement.
Basically, both he and his wife signed a contract, if they had said anything they would have been in breach of that contract and could have been sued.
Such agreements are standard, even for actors, so presumably, the lawyers at Disney know what they are doing when they write such a contract. NDAs such as this often specify hefty fines.
I am doubtful that his illness would have meant they would have lost a case against him in that situation - it would have meant a whole lot of negative publicity, but if the contract was legally binding, the health condition does not matter.
Daniel himself died five days after watching the movie.
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Could a Heroin Vaccine Really Work?
Author: Justin Mckibben
Heroin and other opiate abuse and addiction have been described as a plague across the country. Deaths from overdose have been deemed an outbreak, and the issue with trying to put an end to the suffering has been labeled a public health crisis. So with any illness, there are ways to try and provide treatment. But now some say we could be taking a different approach in prevention… the same way healthcare providers have worked to treat other illnesses… with a heroin vaccine.
So could a heroin vaccine really work? What big change could be brought about if people could be vaccinated for heroin addiction? What if drug addiction could be treated like the flu? What if it could be obstructed by a medicine before it ever even has the chance to take a hold of the person's life?
Is a heroin vaccine actually possible?
Heroin Vaccine: Addiction is Illness
Kim Janda is a professor at the Scripps Research Institute. He developed this new compound believing that the same nature of the vaccine as intended to treat other sickness can and should be applied to addiction. When discussing the possibility of a heroin vaccine Janda stated:
"One thing people don't realize is one thing that has probably changed (the) world health outlook of all the things you could imagine is vaccines,"
"We've tried this road where we treat drugs with other drugs and that didn't work for me … Instead of like these wind-up toys that keep walking into the wall, I thought we should turn the toy around so it could start off in another direction. I wanted to come at (addiction) from a different angle."
Janda also claims to have the data to prove that a heroin vaccine is a very real possibility. Commonly vaccines are designed to use our own immune system to combat an illness, such as:
Janda's idea is to use the same strategy to combat substance abuse, strengthening the immune system to attack the drugs before they affect the body. He and his research team have developed a heroin vaccine that works by causing the body's immune system to attack heroin much like it would any other disease. So far it has shown encouraging results in rodent testing.
Janda explained in the study rodents were previously addicted to heroin and went "cold turkey" off the drug. Then some were given the heroin vaccine while others were not. In the end Janda claims that the rodents who did not get the heroin vaccine re-assumed and even escalated their drug intake, while those that were treated did not- suggesting:
"It extinguished their drug-seeking behavior."
Janda said the vaccine could potentially save lives by preventing overdoses as well as help recovering addicts remain clean.
Heroin Vaccine: Overdose Antidote
According to Janda another astonishing discovery in this process of testing was that the rodents that received the heroin vaccine were actually able to survive fatal doses of heroin – sometimes 20 times the normal dose! This is an exceptionally exciting prospect for such a medicine. Janda went on to say,
"It's not something that's been seen in these vaccines in the past. Mostly the vaccines in the past have tried to extinguish the drug-seeking behavior and provide a means for abstinence, but not for overdose cases … Potentially if people take too much and overdose, this could combat that also."
As of now the heroin vaccine requires several shots over about a month period, currently the effects last for several months. Recovering addicts would need a booster shot when the effectiveness of the heroin vaccine begins to dwindle, but a practical application could be for individuals leaving incarceration to help them overcome temptations that lead to relapse.
Heroin Vaccine: Transforming Treatment
While this is a very thrilling and optimistic concept, Janda is adamant that this heroin vaccine is not meant at all to replace behavioral therapies. So this new heroin vaccine could be eventually developed into a highly advanced and more effective form of medication assisted recovery, but even the scientist behind it believes in behavioral therapy for addicts.
Right now heroin is the only drug they have worked on, but Janda said if it shows to be effective, the method could theoretically be applied to a wide range of dangerous and addictive substances.
This heroin vaccine may be coming to fruition sooner than you think. Janda's research team recently received a two-year $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Health's National Institute of Drug Abuse to conduct non-human primate tests and apply for clinical trials through the FDA.
With all the talk in the media about people so against flu shots and other vaccinations this story might even find its way into that discussion. But it surely is interesting to imagine where this powerful tool might take us… if it actually works.
Around the nation the epidemic rages on. Policy makers, law enforcement and community activists and advocates have been striving to save lives by raising awareness to the issue and inspiring innovation in both treatment and drug policy.
This new heroin vaccine may be a huge leap in the right direction for treating heroin addiction. Even with the vaccine, holistic drug rehab will always be a huge part of lasting recovery. If you or someone you love is struggling with substance abuse or addiction, please call toll-free 1-800-951-6135


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Sheriff Signals Policy Changes, Watchdogs Worry
By ELIZABETH MARCELLINO, City News Service
Sheriff Alex Villanueva today accused his predecessor of underreporting jail violence while tying deputies' hands and leaving them vulnerable to inmate assaults, saying he will let jail guards know they have a right to defend themselves.
"The conditions (in the jails) are destabilizing … this is a social experiment that people were not paying attention to," the sheriff told reporters at the Hall of Justice, warning that deaths and even a large-scale riot could be the ultimate result.
His remarks — which followed a dressing down from the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday about his reinstatement of a deputy accused of domestic violence — raised concerns that he might be signaling a plan to roll back reforms.
Former Sheriff Jim McDonnell, who said he had previously refrained from comment to give the new administration time to settle in, weighed in on Facebook.
"We are seeing evidence that the department is losing hard-earned progress on many fronts," McDonnell wrote. "Unless decisions are based on truth and transparency, the department will move backward."
Villanueva, who was sworn in on Dec. 3, said that while McDonnell was given credit for reforms, including reducing violence in county lock-ups, the numbers showed "the exact opposite of what is so dutifully reported."
His charts showed a 99 percent increase in use of force incidents from 2013-18 and a nearly threefold increase in assaults on deputies during the same time period.
The data around the use of force is complicated because new reporting policies were instituted in 2013, which county officials have long said created a spike in reporting that wasn't reflective of a jump in actual force incidents. On top of that, mismatched systems for reporting different kinds of force and violence have created inconsistencies and unreliability in the numbers over time.
Both the Office of Inspector General and a court-appointed monitor said they believe that reforms have paid off and abuses have been curbed.
"The use of significant force by law enforcement personnel is down, particularly the most serious use of force is way down over the last five years," said Richard Drooyan, who led the Citizens' Commission on Jail Violence that recommended reforms in 2012 and continues to monitor the jails.
Drooyan also pushed back on the idea policies instituted by McDonnell leave jail guards defenseless.
"Deputies, custody assistants, have always had the right to defend themselves," Drooyan told City New Service. "They do use force to defend themselves."
Peter Eliasberg of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California said he hoped Villanueva was not suggesting that the way to run a jail system was by using threats of force, rather than conflict avoidance skills.
"I'm really concerned about phrases like `be assertive,"' Eliasberg said about Villanueva's remarks. "Comments like this are really disturbing if what's being signaled here is … we're going to run the jails with an iron fist."
Villanueva and watchdog agencies do agree that the dramatic increase in inmates with mental health issues creates more problems in managing the jail population.
However, Assistant Inspector General Cathleen Beltz said the solution is to stay the course.
"The sheriff committed to identifying the factors that contribute to jail violence," Beltz told CNS. "We recommend that the department stay the reform course and continue to meet the needs of the individuals in custody, continue to increase their access to meaningful treatment and programming, and continue to identify opportunities to reduce the jail population. These are factors that have proven to reduce jail violence."
McDonnell and former custody chief Terri McDonald both urged independent fact-checking of the data, with the former sheriff taking a harder stance and noting that multiple outside agencies had closely monitored his department.
"Sheriff Villanueva is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts," McDonnell said.
Villanueva beat McDonnell in a longshot bid for sheriff at least in part due to an endorsement from the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs. On the campaign trail, he talked about bringing back metal flashlights in the jails despite their potential use as weapons and styled himself as a champion of the rank-and-file. But he also said he was a reformer who wasn't afraid to speak out, leading some criminal justice advocates to lean his way.
On the job, the new sheriff doesn't seem to shy away from a fight. He spent Tuesday going toe-to-toe with the Board of Supervisors about his reinstatement of Caren Carl Mandoyan, who played a key role in persuading deputies to rally behind Villanueva's bid.
The Los Angeles Times reported this month that Mandoyan was fired in 2016 by McDonnell after a fellow deputy alleged Mandoyan grabbed her by the neck, tried to break into her home twice, sent her harassing text messages and admitted to listening to her conversations. A county appeals board heard evidence in the case and upheld Mandoyan's dismissal on a 5-0 vote.
Prosecutors investigated the woman's claims and looked at video evidence in the case but declined to charge Mandoyan with intimate partner violence.
Comments Villanueva made to the Civilian Oversight Commission about the reinstatement led Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Sheila Kuehl to call for a board letter expressing "grave concerns" about his attitude toward victims of domestic violence and asking the sheriff to reconsider.
But Villanueva doubled down, alleging that the Civil Service Commission had ignored a "mountain of (exculpatory) evidence" in the case and telling the board he was certain they would change their mind once they knew all the facts.
He said he had another half-dozen cases in which he expected to overturn the hearing board's decisions and is planning to set up a "truth and reconciliation" group to rehear wrongful terminations dating back as far as 2013, potentially bringing back deputies with back pay.
The five-member Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has little direct control over the county's top cop, but Kuehl issued a warning.
"None of us is so independent that we can do anything we damn well please," she told the sheriff.
The board voted to send the letter urging reconsideration and asked county lawyers to assess what recourse they have in settling a conflict between the board and the sheriff.
A day after assuring the board that Mandoyan would waive his rights and release his personnel file to set the record straight, Villanueva said the deputy had changed his mind.
Barger said she had hoped that the file would be made public and wondered why Mandoyan would withhold the file if he truly feels he was treated unfairly.
"I am disappointed," Barger said. "But I recognize Sheriff Villanueva has the sole right and ability to hire from within his department. I'm not questioning that, what I'm questioning his decision in hiring someone that was terminated by the county for issues related to his conduct as a deputy."
But she sided with the sheriff on another point.
"I think that the deputies over there (in the jails) have been hamstrung" in some ways, Barger said. "We need to let them do their jobs."
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Blood and Henna es una película nigeriana de 2012 dirigida por Kenneth Gyang. Está protagonizada por Ali Nuhu, Sadiq Sani Sadiq y Nafisat Abdullahi. La película intenta narrar la terrible experiencia de la prueba clínica Pfizer de 1996 en Kano, Nigeria. Recibió seis nominaciones en la novena edición de los Premios de la Academia del Cine Africano, aunque solo resultó ganadora en la categoría Mejor Diseño de Vestuario. Un avance fue lanzado el 25 de noviembre de 2011.

Sinopsis
Ambientada en 1996, el dueño de una tienda de Lagos, Musa, regresa a su ciudad natal en el norte de Nigeria después de que su local fue incendiado durante los disturbios políticos en el estado. Musa es bienvenido en su pueblo por todos, especialmente por dos de sus amigos más cercanos. Uno de ellos, Shehu, un periodista muy crítico del actual gobierno militar, tuvo que dejar su trabajo para enseñar en una escuela comunitaria. El reciente matrimonio de Musa era perfecto hasta que su esposa comenzó a sufrir una serie de abortos espontáneos. Además, una infección mortal se propaga por todo el pueblo y amenaza la existencia misma de la comunidad.

Elenco

 Sadiq Sani Sadiq
 Nafisat Abdullahi
 Ali Nuhu
 Ibrahim Daddy
 Beauty Sankey
 Salihu Bappa
 Yachat Sankey

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Narrated 'Aisha: A man came to the Prophet in the mosque and said, "I am burnt (ruined)!" The Prophet asked him, "With what (what have you done)?" He said, "I have had sexual relation with my wife in the month of Ramadan (while fasting)." The Prophet said to him, "Give in charity." He said, "I have nothing." The man sat down, and in the meantime there came a person driving a donkey carrying food to the Prophet ..... (The sub-narrator, 'Abdur Rahman added: I do not know what kind of food it was). On that the Prophet said, "Where is the burnt person?" The man said, "Here I am." The Prophet said to him, "Take this (food) and give it in charity (to someone)." The man said, "To a poorer person than l? My family has nothing to eat." Then the Prophet said to him, "Then eat it yourselves."
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Character Education is a learning process for the students and adults in our school community that complements our approach to preschool learning by addressing service learning, social-emotional learning and to be part of a community. Today the vast majority of Americans share a respect for fundamental traits of character: respect, caring, trustworthiness, fairness, citizenship, responsibility, compassion, empathy, honesty, and loyalty. Yet, in today's world, all children face great uncertainties in a complex and sometimes troubled society. These traits are not always readily apparent and easy to grasp or learn; therefore, our challenge is to educate, inspire, and empower our students to be ethical and engaged citizens.
Students at Pemberton Township Schools are recognized daily for demonstrating qualities that represent our K-5 Core Values of Character (Respect, Responsibility, Integrity, Perseverance, and Service). At the preschool level, we have also identified these same Core Values of Character, however, we are using preschool-friendly terms that can be understood by our student population.


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Affordable housing remains a huge issue in Tallahassee | Opinion
Matthew Latch
Tallahassee is getting expensive. It is increasingly difficult to find quality housing at a desirable price.
Three years ago, if you had looked at properties listed in the city, you would have found a wide variety of home prices. Naturally, some of them were expensive. But there were always neighborhoods with a reliable stock of starter homes in the center of the city.
This isn't as true as it was then. If you can't invest more than a hundred thousand dollars, you're locked out of most neighborhoods in the city.
The answer seems obvious: We need to build more housing. But the reality is much more complex than that. Private developers respond to market forces and, consequently, build housing which the majority of people are priced out of.
The city has done a few things to combat this. We have an inclusionary housing policy to require affordable units in large developments. We support Big Bend Habitat for Humanity in constructing several homes a year. Most recently, we've approved the implementation of a nonprofit-run Community Land Trust to permanently own and maintain affordable housing.
These actions alone will not fully address the crisis at hand. There is a dire need for additional policy changes in how we address our community's housing shortage.
At the last Blueprint meeting, Commissioner Jeremy Matlow proposed studying a policy to require that the agency replace any homes demolished as a result of penny sales tax projects, and the board passed that motion. If accepted, that policy would preserve our existing affordable housing. The policy should be considered by the city of Tallahassee as well; the list of houses demolished for public infrastructure and code violations is a long one.
We also need to consider reforming the entities responsible for affordable housing. The Tallahassee Housing Authority is intended to participate in the acquisition and rehabilitation of properties as well as the construction of new units. No units have been acquired or constructed in years. The city has a large Affordable Housing Trust Fund, but it is scarcely used. Our Community Redevelopment Agency budgets money for affordable housing each year, but that too goes unused. These issues deserve close scrutiny.
We need to think creatively and consider new tactics, like a land bank authority, a quasi-governmental entity which acquires and holds property. Property is acquired through voluntary title transfers, tax deeds and code enforcement foreclosures.
Land banks exist to triage buildings and put them back into productive use. Structures can be boarded or demolished, given to a nonprofit or sold outright. Some land banks even rehabilitate homes and sell them to families. There is no tool more effective at preserving a city's housing stock.
These are the sort of bold policies needed to address a housing shortage. We need to look at what we are doing wrong, and what we can do right.
Matthew Latch is a recovering native of South Florida and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in southwest Tallahassee and spends most of his time trying to keep old buildings from falling apart. He also serves on the city's Municipal Code Enforcement Board.


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Gabrielle Beaumont, Pioneering TV Director, Dies at 80
Alejandro Motsinger
Gabrielle Beaumont, a British director who set the standard for women in Hollywood through her leadership of episodes of series. M*A*S*H, The Waltons, Hill Street Blues And Dynasty During her five-decade career, she died. She was 80.
Beaumont, the actor-producer Christopher Toyne announced Wednesday that Beaumont passed away peacefully at her home in Fornalutx on Mallorca, Spain.
Beaumont, Emmy-nominated Beaumont, was one of the most prolific female directors of primetime television history. She also directed installments of Knots Landing, The Dukes of Hazzard, Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey, Doogie Howser, M.D., L.A. Law, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Law & Order Three Star Trek series, among other shows.
After her British horror film The Godsend (1980) was opened in the U.S. Beaumont arrived in Hollywood to seek work. She brought two cans of films she had previously worked on and met Aaron Spelling. (At the time, women were considered a "minority" under California law. The famed TV producer was pressured to hire women behind the camera.
Spelling didn't bother to look at her films and asked her, "Can Goddamn Direct?" She replied, "Goddamn yes!" and was on board a plane that night to perform a 1980 ABC episode. Vega$.
Spelling hired her several more times, including on Dynasty She lobbied for her friend to be cast. Joan CollinsAs Alexis — Hart to Hart, Hotel, The Colbys, Beverly Hills, 90210, 7th Heaven And Melrose Place.
Beaumont was born in London, April 7, 1942. Her mother, Diana Beaumont was a leading lady of British films and plays. Her father, Gabriel Toyne was a stuntman, actor, and teacher to Laurence Olivier. Alec Guinness Sword fighting is an art form.
Beaumont studied at the BBC and was then an editor. He then went into the film industry as an assistant director and production manager, before producing horror films. The Johnstown Monster And The CorpseBoth were released in 1971. She also directed and produced dramas and documentaries for the BBC.
Later, Beaumont would direct telefilms, including 1981's Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story 1993's Riders, 1995's The Other Woman She was awarded the 1998 Humanitas Prize and the Humanitas Prize. Diana: A Tribute To the People's Princess.
She was the first woman to direct an episode on The CW. Star Trek 1989: The Next Generation episode "Booby Trap." This episode was her seventh. She also worked on the show's seven episodes. Deep Space Nine And Voyager.
Beaumont spent the last ten years of her life in Spain where she wrote and shot commercials. She recently adaptiert The King's GeneralHer brother said that her cousin Daphne du Maurier wrote the 1946 book titled "The Book of Love", as a miniseries.
She was married to Olaf Pooley, a British actor, screenwriter, artist and cinematographer. Surviving her are her brother and sister-in-law Esther Ewert, a former Disney executive.
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Platinum producers said on Wednesday that Amcu's refusal to revise its wage demands reflect little regard for potential job losses.
Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) chairperson Chris Griffith said negotiations required give and take from all parties.
"The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union refuse to accept the economic circumstances facing this industry," he said in Johannesburg.
"[Amcu] clearly have no, or little, interest in preserving jobs."
Members of Amcu at Lonmin, Amplats and Impala Platinum (Implats) went on a protected strike on January 23, demanding a basic salary of R12 500 per month, for miners.
The three platinum companies reduced their workforce from a combined 145 000 in December 2011 to less than 134 000 in December last year.
The platinum producers proposed a three-year agreement last month, offering a 9% increase for A-level, the lowest paid workers, 8.5% for B-level and 7.5% for C-level workers in the first year.
For the second year, an 8% increase was proposed for A-level workers, 7.5% for B-level workers and 7% for C-level workers.
In the third year of the proposed agreement, both A and B-level workers would get 7.5% and C-level 7%.
Lonmin chairperson Ben Magara said: "These increases are significantly higher than the inflation rate of 5.4%. This is as [far] as we can go without being irresponsible." He said entry-level mining salaries were higher than those of any other labour-intensive industry.
Implats chairperson Terence Goodlace said costs of platinum production had grown significantly over the last five years, while productivity continued to slide.
The producers said workers who met their production targets had the capacity to earn more than Amcu's demand of R12 500 per month, before tax.
Magara said there was a possibility the current offer would need to be reduced.
"What could happen tomorrow, we don't know. There may come a time when this is not affordable."
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration has been brokering talks between the union and the platinum companies since January 24.
Amplats on Saturday said it would sue Amcu for compensation for damages and losses suffered during the work stoppage.
"The provisional quantum of the damages claim is about R591-million, although as Amcu's wrongful conduct is continuing the damages will continue to accrue," spokesperson Mpumi Sithole said at the time.
On Monday morning, Amplats said it was losing about R100-million a day because of the strike, which was in its fourth week.
"The company is losing 4 000 ounces amounting to R100-million in revenue daily," Sithole said in an email.
Griffith was asked whether the mineral resources department had encouraged the company to approach the courts, but he did not give a definitive answer.
He said he did not believe the strike had irrevocably damaged the sector.
"We cannot afford the strike to continue much longer. It is undermining confidence in South Africa and undermining confidence in narrow reef mining in South Africa."
On miners' living conditions, Griffith said the platinum producers were going "over and above the requirements of the Mining Charter".
Magara said the strikes were not helping these efforts.


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There are some astute adage which accumulate campanology in my aerial every day. One of them is… 'everything apocryphal will accordingly collapse someday'. Addition is … 'A astute man does not attempt for a bathe in a vexious sea spewing tsunamis', yet addition says … 'everything charge become new'. I saw glimpses of them all in the arrow acumen of a Lagos Aerial Cloister three weeks ago. The aboriginal consequence which hit me from a arbitrary of the judge's accommodation was that Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite were preserved with actinic substances which were alarming to health, and NAFDAC, the Civic Bureau for Aliment and Drug Administration and Control, was behindhand on not admonishing the accessible about this. I didn't accept the account beam at first. It wasn't that I didn't apperceive that the alleged "soft drink", like all candy foods and drinks, were alarming to health. The catechism was: Who would acquaint this baron that his mother was a witch?
In Alternative anesthetic chats, it was consistently articular that whoever aerial a feel adjoin these articles in accessible would be "eliminated" by all-embracing capital.
Even in the United States the Aliment and Drugs Administration (FDA), agnate of Nigeria's NAFDAC, is in the pockets of Big Pharma and the behemothic aliment and agronomics concerns. And until recently, they adjourned medical convenance in all sorts of bureau to get medical assessment on their side. Dr. Robert Atkins, who would not accede to be pocketed, was ostracised. No radio or television base would admission him exposure. Newspapers and magazines distanced themselves from him in adjustment not to accident their accordance with the aliment and drugs industry which brings them millions of dollars every year in advertisement income.
In the end, Dr. Atkins became a administrator and appear his own books because no administrator would accede to broadcast them for him.
I abstruse from a airy assignment in the 1970s that- "whatever is apocryphal will accordingly collapse someday". Canard bureau annihilation that is not in accordance with the Laws of Nature. This may be a anatomy of government, an bread-and-er system, alterity in relationships or akin the blazon of aliment or alcohol we absorb to advance our health. We bodies did not actualize ourselves. We did not actualize our apple either. Thus, we are creatures and accountable to the Will of the Creator in His Creation. In my view, our Creator provided us with a ample acreage from which we are meant to access our commons beginning and abounding with life-force. Because we urbanised and bare to abundance aliment for the future, a aliment industry arose which now developed not alone poisonous chemicals to abound aliment and abundance them, but akin added poisonous chemicals to canteen them for abounding days, weeks and akin years. Our organs of aishment (detoxification) were not fabricated to aish from our bodies the abhorrent chemicals we now eat and alcohol with aliment today. Over time, these organs (the lungs, kidneys, the alarmist and the skin) are clumsy to cope, become ill or damaged and, therefore, acquiesce accumulations of poisons in our bodies which account blight and abounding of the degenerative diseases now burglary the Nigerian citizenry in ample quantum. Someday, the accessible will become acquainted of this and, alone every actuality will aish himself or herself from the rot, as I did about 30 years ago.
The breach from canard may appear through a revolution, an befalling for which the Lagos Aerial Cloister Acumen provided. But the Nigerian accessible is a dormant, educated-illiterate population. Up till now, abounding bodies accept not heard of the Lagos Aerial Cloister Judgment. Some who accept heard are allurement if it is true. Back they apprentice it is, they abandon themselves to fate, adage … "Afterall, article will annihilate a man". Those who do not ambition to die ask about the options the Lagos Aerial Cloister or the Government has provided if they are to stop demography these drinks, as if the adjudicator and the government brought them to this apple or buck primary albatross for their activity and actuality on earth. I apprehend the government and the cloister not to columnist this bulk too far, because of the achievability that it may alarm society. Unemployment will abound today if Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite accept to go. Think not alone of those accumulated offices and factories, but, also, of those hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of women who advertise these "soft drinks" nationwide. If all of them accept to go, their avenue will be a tip of the iceberg.
For the aforementioned chemicals we accuse about in these "soft drinks" are present in commercially able white abrade candy which go by altered names, angled foods, bake-apple juices, jams, pickles, bloom dressings (these in accurate accommodate ample amounts of sodium benzoate), medicines and cosmetics, vinegars, absolute margarine, still beverages, olives, pastry and pie fillings, benumbed vegetables… about everywhere in the aliment industry. So, an advance on Coco-Cola, Fanta and Sprite is an advance on the aliment industry. Your assumption should, therefore, be as acceptable as abundance in account of how the on-going bouncing of the aliment industry will end if, because of the Nigerian complacency, the time is not accomplished for "falsehood" to abandon the stage.
Dr. Fijabi Adebo may not accept realised he could account agitation for Nigeria's aliment industry when, about eight years ago, his company, FIJABI ADEBO HOLDINGS LTD, approached Nigerian Bottling Aggregation (NBC) for business. In March 2007, The aggregation purchased ample quantities of Coca-Cola, Fanta Orange, Sprite, Fanta Lemon, Fanta Pineapple and Soda Lemon baptize for consign to the United Kingdom. The articles were to be retailed to the company's barter in the U.K. But the Fanta and Sprite articles bootless to amuse bloom assurance requirements of the Stock Port Metropolitan Borough Council's Trading Accepted Department of Environment and Economy Directorate. The bloom ascendancy begin that Benzoic acerbic and dusk chicken levels in the articles were too aerial for animal burning and could account cancer. The articles were bedeviled and destroyed.
The U.K funding's were corroborated by the Coca-Cola Union. Adebo Holdings Aggregation anticipation that, actuality a affiliate of the Nigerians Consign Promotion Council, it could accurately consign Nigerian articles abroad. In any case, NBC was acquainted the articles were to be exported and should accept fabricated them accede with the standards of the U.K. The aggregation said NBC was behindhand and "breached the assignment of care" owed to its admired customers. As for NAFDAC, it said the bureau bootless to ensure that NBC offered safe articles for sale. As a result, asked the adjudicator to bulldoze NAFDAC to force NBC to accommodate a accounting admonishing on the labels of these products. The admonishing is to apprehend that the articles cannot be taken with Vitamin C.
This is the affection or anatomy of the matter. Sodium benzoate and vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) are said to anatomy Benzene, a accurate carcinogen (cancer-causing agent). Aliment processors use sodium benzoate in acerb foods to ascendancy bacteria, yeast, fungi and mild, altered breed of the aforementioned microbial family. On its own, sodium benzoate is accustomed to account no abuse in the animal anatomy if it is not taken with vitamin c. The trouble, however, is that, today, abounding bendable alcohol manufacturers try to accomplish their articles comestible by abacus Vitamin C to them, irrespective of the actuality that these drinks are already preserved with Sodium benzoate. In the United States recently, the FDA activated 84 bendable alcohol articles and begin that 54 of them independent Benzene. Others had levels of up to 79.2 ppb, admitting civic rules blame of annihilation aloft 5 ppb in bubbler water.
Producers of the drinks get away because present banned are alone on bubbler baptize and not on bendable drinks. Abounding critics of this bifold accepted accept the producers of bendable drinks accept gotten away because they were able to over adeptness the law-making machinery. At conferences, they sponsor advisers to authority bottomward the arrangement and re-assure the accessible that all is well. In the accompaniment of California, the government asked bendable drinks manufacturers in 2001 to accumulate sodium Benzene beneath 0.15ppb. But the bendable drinks industry has done annihilation about that. Akin the alleged able American media was irresponsive for a continued while. The ground-breaking analysis on sodium Benzoate, Ascorbic acerbic and Benzene took abode in 1993 and was appear in that year in the JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD CHEMISTRY by advisers lalita K Gardner and Glen D Lawrence. But it wasn't until 2005, by which time abounding bodies had died of blight and added degenerative diseases that the American media began to allocution about it.
I benevolence the NBL. It is angry an industry-wide battle. The authentic baptize and canteen baptize sub-sector is befitting quit. So are those in white abrade bite business. The sodium benzoate is in "pickles, peppers, bloom dressings, jams, best condiments cheese, baiter up, or diet or approved soda… aperture wash, toothpaste, ahem syrup, chrism balm and hundreds of cosmetics products". They are all befitting mute. The NBL admits that it awash its articles to Fijabi Adebo Holdings Ltd. But it said this chump did not acquaint it that the articles were to be exported. The inference on which the NBL predicated its defense, therefore, was that, if it had this advice it may accept brash adjoin the consign of these products. This was because Coco-Cola Nigeria was a altered authorization from Coca-Cola U.K. Both acquired their actuality from Coca-Cola All-embracing and produced the articles beneath altered blueprint of civic or borough laws. The acclimate in Nigeria, actuality hotter than that of the U.K, would artlessly crave a altered brand of antimicrobials. In any case, says NBL, sodium benzoate agreeable of Nigerian articles were still aural the all-embracing range, although they were college than U.K specifications. It, therefore, did not see itself as blah for the bloom and wellbeing of its barter as the cloister acumen tended to portray it. NAFDAC itself has served a apprehension of address adjoin the acumen which corrective it in like agreement and accountable it to bulldoze NBL to admit a admonishing on its characterization that it was alarming to absorb these articles with Vitamin C.
There is no agnosticism that the acclimate is asperous for the aliment industry. But it is ambiguous if it would lose the action in the end. Nutritionists apperceive that arresting sodium benzoate and vitamin c calm may account blight and added degenerative diseases. But so is arresting Sodium Benzoate with Vitamin E. Akin if Vitamin C and Vitamin E are not absorb calm with sodium benzoate, are there no chargeless forms of Vitamin C and Vitamin E in the claret which can acknowledge with sodium benzoate taken apart to anatomy Benzene? We shouldn't balloon that sodium benzoate is in hundreds of candy foods, cosmetics and apparently beer.
This suggests that little drops of sodium benzoate from assorted sources can anatomy boss oceans of sodium benzoate in the anatomy which can afresh amalgamate with vitamin c and vitamin E taken at abstracted times. Who can say that he or she does not booty vitamin C and vitamin E aliment supplements with candy foods which, until now, he or she did not doubtable to habour sodium benzoate? If NBL says it has not acted adjoin any law by not including admonishing on the labels would it not be appropriate to say so? Mr. Fijabi Adebo is not crusading for accessible health. He is angry in cloister to compensate absent investment. It is the Civic Assembly and the Presidency, which can conduct accessible audition and brings up a law. NAFDAC care to accept spearheaded this drive, afterward the trends abroad. Every day, doctors and lay bodies akin complaining that added and added bodies are dying from all forms of blight and added degenerative diseases, including eye problems.
The sun has not amorphous to acceleration in the West and set in the East for us to articulation this trend to such a phenomenon. We must, therefore, attending into the air we breathe, the aliment we eat and the baptize and drinks we consume. As we acquisition sodium benzoate in best of them, we should be abashed at the accessible circadian assimilation of it from assorted sources and set new regulations. That is what they are accomplishing in Europe and the U.S to consistently move on and leave us behind.
When I was appetite in the 1970s to become a new man and came aloft this admonition in a airy teaching, I about gave up the chase for the acceptation of existence.
But aggregate charge become new, the columnist referred to the actuality that our apple did not appear into actuality after a purpose for being, that it is a assignment which is absolute by assertive laws, that bodies are in this allotment of that apple for a purpose and absolute by these laws, that they acquisition accord and beatitude back they accommodate with these laws, that acquiescence is at the levels of thoughts, the announced or accounting word, and the concrete deed, that alteration from acquiescence brings affliction and ruin because it is alfresco the Will of the Almighty Creator. Accordingly such works of man as marriage, education, animal relationships, the government, jurisprudence, and nutrition, for example, will accompany affliction and ruin if they are conducted alfresco the accustomed laws. Aggregate charge become new calls for a new animal adjustment in which the laws of Nature accommodate the anatomy assignment for animal conduct.
Everything charge become new in diet as well. It is bottomless altercation to say preservatives are assured in the aliment industry of today's apple area urbanisation demands that aliment be transported beyond continents and stored for advantage knows how long. Accept we asked ourselves how the Egyptians beneath the administration of aloft bondservant boy Joseph preserved aliment in seven years of affluence for seven years of dearth and more, during which the farms became advantageous again? Those were 14 continued years or more. Man was aing to Nature and accustomed beings in those days. Architect Lekan Adams, of Lagos, is abundantly accustomed with advice and ability of the pyramid, as a accumulator powerhouse, much, abundant added able than the silos of today because its architecture admits into it assertive aerial armament which can canteen annihilation for hundreds of years, if not more.
Please accumulate the three concepts discussed aloft aing to your affection in annihilation you beam or do … "Whatever is apocryphal will conspicuously collapse someday"; "A astute actuality does not attempt into a disorderly sea for a swim", and "everything charge become new".


Before thinking about any kind of promotions, the first step is to analyse your sell-through rate.
A sell-through rate is obtained by dividing the number of sold units over the total opening units within a data set.
For example, if Jeans A has an opening stock of 50 units and sold 25 units, then Jeans A would have a sell-through rate of 50%.
The example above shows the performance of multiple colour options for blouse A from retailer X's Spring collection. From the sell-through rates, we can observe that blue and purple for Blouse A fell under the average sell-through rate of 42%, while pink and yellow performed significantly better. This could stem from the consumers' shift in colour preference by the season. Therefore, we can concur that the yellow and pink options for blouse A were the bestsellers, while blue and purple were the slow-movers.
The sell-through rates of your assortment should be then measured and documented to determine the slow-movers.
Once you have determined the sell-through rates for your products, benchmark it against the average sell-through rates of its respective categories. While certain percentages may not necessarily meet the intended sell-through rates, prior actions can be taken immediately to avoid an accumulation of dead stock.


"Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich", or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich". The most dangerous man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the "Butcher of Prague." He was feared by all and loathed by most. With his cold Aryan features and implacable cruelty, Heydrich seemed indestructible—until two men, a Slovak and a Czech recruited by the British secret service, killed him in broad daylight on a bustling street in Prague, and thus changed the course of History. Who were these men, arguably two of the most discreet heroes of the twentieth century? In Laurent Binet's captivating debut novel, we follow Jozef Gabćik and Jan Kubiš from their dramatic escape of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to England; from their recruitment to their harrowing parachute drop into a war zone, from their stealth attack on Heydrich's car to their own brutal death in the basement of a Prague church.


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This Smoked Mackerel and Egg Salad makes for a great light supper if you can't manage a big meal at the moment.
Put salad leaves in a large serving bowl.
Add the tomato, cucumber, avocado and the hard-boiled eggs and use your hands to mix thoroughly.
Flake the mackerel using a fork or your hands, and add to the salad with the olives.
Dress with the lemon juice, some olive oil and season with salt and pepper.


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The Department's approach to safety is an interdepartmental effort spanning workgroups, street type, and neighborhoods. Guiding everything we do is our commitment to Vision Zero: reduce traffic deaths and serious injury collisions on city streets to zero by the year 2030.


Could This Be The Start Of The Mile-high Club Dating Site?
Now, the Dutch are forward thinkers, and innovative, and have recently pushed a new scheme onboard based on your facebook or linkedin accounts. You are now able to sit next to like minded individuals as selected by certain parameters on your likes and information stored on your profile. Obviously this sounds like a great idea, especially if you are a talkative soul and prefer to talk to someone rather than watching that 6 month old film you've seen countless times on DVD again.
Now whilst the video that KLM like to spin is about a professional network of people, surely this is going to turn into some kind of dating / matchmaking system, where you are more likely to sit next to someone slim and attractive that you might like. Compare this scenario to that of perhaps someone a little larger, takes up your side of the arm rest, snores and has a weak bladder, but you can live happy in the fact you both like Golf.
Obviously this side of the system isn't talked about, and if you've already checked in, the chances are, you won't get the opportunity to say no to the person who selects to sit next to you. There is one good side to this new technology though, and that is the concept of being able to share a taxi with someone at the end of the flight. Makes for good economic value, especially at Schiphol, where taxis require a small mortgage to get you into the heart of Amsterdam.
You may be surprised to here this idea isn't actually that new. I had the pleasure of meeting Sergio Mello, founder of Satisfly back in 2008, where he spoke to me about his forthcoming launch of his version of this product back in 2009 on Hawaiian Airlines. Whilst the concept may appear at first as a little alien, it's actually a very logical step. It can be further used to put passengers that don't want to be disturbed together too. Giving you better safe knowledge you don't have to strike up a conversation with the person next to you so as to be able to climb over them to get to the toilet.
Whilst I don't think I'll be using this as a passenger, I can see it's merits and think an evolution of this product will probably become commonplace across all airlines, and soon at check in, we'll be hearing "would you like to converse, or would you like privacy on this flight?" replacing the old phrase "smoking/non-smoking?". Still confused? watch the video here!


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