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FBR REPORT: Kachin told to surrender control over their army and become a border police force under the Burma Army
Kachin State, Burma
The Kachin Independence Organization was told at a meeting with the Burma Army on April 28 that it has to transfer its military operations into the Burma Army as part of a border guard force. They were told at the meeting with the Burma Army's Northern commander Brigadier-General Soe Win on April 28, that this must be completed by 2010.
The KIO and its armed wing, the Kachin Independence Army, currently controls about 40 percent of Kachin state, mostly in rural areas, but these proposals would massively reduce the territory under their control. The KIO, along with other ceasefire groups, is consulting widely on the proposals before meeting again with Brig-Gen Soe Win on May 20.
Free Burma Rangers joined a representative from Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a religious freedom advocacy charity based in London, on the visit to Kachin State. Together the teams trained a group of Kachin on human rights documentation.
Widespread human rights abuses continue in Kachin State, despite a ceasefire being signed between the Kachin Independence Organization and the SPDC in 1994.
CSW interviewed a Kachin woman who said she had been raped, strangled and left for dead by a Burma Army soldier and despite being able to identify her assailant, was still waiting for justice five months after the event.
FBR spoke to an organization that reports that some 138 cases of mostly women being trafficked in 2006-2009 with 29 cases so far this year. Often young women are promised better jobs in China and are trafficked there, then getting sold on as sex workers. The organization also mentioned the case of an 11-year-old boy being trafficked and fortunately returned to Kachin State.
FBR interviewed a Kachin man who reported widespread land confiscation in the Hukawng Valley. He reported that the Yuzana Company, a Rangoon based business, widely confiscates land and does not offer farmers any compensation. This farmer was able to coordinate a petition in June 2007, signed by 1,300 villagers for the return of 36 acres of wet paddy rice farmland, which he sent directly to Snr General Than Shwe, the Burmese Head of State, and they managed to get their land back. He said some 373 acres of farmland was still confiscated in three townships adjoining the Ledo Road and no-one had received any compensation. He also alleged one Shan man was killed in May 2007 in a dispute with construction workers.
There is also widespread land confiscation around the gold mining industry, Kachin sources telling FBR that the Chinese Northern Star Company was heavily involved in the past. Mercury used to extract gold also has become a major human health and environmental hazard in Kachin State. Several dams are also planned or under construction on the Mali Hka and N'Mai Hka rivers, leading to many being forcibly moved from their homelands.
In Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, there is effectively a curfew in place because of random arrests by the police. People are not free to go out after about 9pm because the police often randomly arrest people and seek bribes before letting them free. This is apparently a part of a policy where the police have to show they are pursuing a certain number of cases every month.
Children in schools in areas controlled by the SPDC are not allowed to learn ethnic languages, but have to attend classes in Burmese. There is also an agenda to impose Buddhism on ethnic students, making them recite parts of the Pali Scriptures. The Kachin reported it was impossible to build new churches and very difficult to get permission to repair old churches.
The Kachin FBR spoke to said the election process for local officials was flawed as Kachin delegates did not have equal access to the media and did not have the right of assembly.
Civil society groups such as the Metta Foundation and the Shalom Center are able to operate in Kachin State, and development is able to take place because of the ceasefire. A limited number of International Non-Governmental Organizations are allowed to operate in Kachin State doing work such as on HIV/Aids, development and microfinance.


Edwardstown Primary School has an Outdoor and Environmental Education Program that provides sequential activities for all year levels and includes sleepover and camping experiences for students from Year 1 to Year 7.
Several Year 6/7 students are part of our Environment Group that manages environment projects within the school.
The Gardening Group looks after our vegetable garden and the native gardens around the school perimeter.
All classes are involved in composting food scraps and recycling.
Recycling includes newspapers, paper waste, drink containers, batteries and ink-toner cartridges.
The Student Representative Council (SRC) meets every fortnight. Each class has two students on the SRC.
All Year 6/7 students are involved in Action Teams that meet once a week. These teams are involved in community, environmental and decision making tasks.
•Community Teams who visit the Childcare Centre, do gardening and help around the school.
All Year 6/7's strive towards achieving the ECA through undertaking a variety of community-minded tasks including Road Traffic Monitoring, Sports Shed Monitoring, putting up and taking down netball poles and post protectors, gardening, weeding, helping in the library, working with younger students, tidying the yard, helping in the library and organising activities for other students.


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Q: Why is the github logo implemented with HTML as a font? Can anyone explain how the small octocat logo in the top left corner or on the bottom center of the page is implemented and why?
All I can see is this markup:

and this CSS:
.mega-icon-blacktocat:before {
    content: "";
}

.mega-icon {
font-family: 'Octicons Regular';
}

I see no picture there, so I guess they're using the font. But why is there that strange  character and why is it in the style and not in the HTML?

A: It's a technique called CSS Fonts, they are using the font to replace the  text with a full icon, which will be in the font file they created.
It allows for the logo to scale infinitely with the site depending on resolution and tends to reduce load time. They can also change the colour and apply other cool CSS rules to it, unlike an image.
Things such as Pictos and Picons are similar as they offer a font where you can use the letter H to show a pie chart for example.

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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- A middle school student has been arrested after confessing to deputies she made a written threat on a wall in the school bathroom.
According to Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers, the 12-year-old Cypress Lake Middle student was arrested Tuesday at the school after the confession.
The threat was found on November 14th when the words "shooting Nov 14" were seen inside one of the handicap stalls in a bathroom. The threat was deemed non-credible, but administrators sought to find out who was responsible.
Detectives spoke with several students Tuesday before getting the student to confess. She has been charged with one felony county of Written Threat to do Bodily Harm or Mass Shooting.
Fox 4 does not identify juveniles who are arrested unless they are being charged as an adult.


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Asia, Global Policy, Latin America
Trump's Twitter Coup Against Venezuela is His Way to Avenge Embarrassment at The Hands of Both Mueller And Putin
In Syria, the US attempts at regime change hit a brick wall for a number of reasons that were either ignored or difficult to foresee by the Obama administration when the decision was first made to foment chaos in a previously mostly placid Syria. The following such issues that were either overlooked or ignored at the time:
1. Unlike Libya which in early 2011 was abandoned by its long time Russian partner, Russia had a strategically located naval base in the Syrian city of Tartus. Whilst the base had been neglected for many decades, the fact is that Russia had it and as Russia has always had the strategic necessity of maintaining a warm water base outside of the Black Sea, it eventually dawned on policy makers in Moscow that in order to protect the naval base at Tartus, the Russian armed forces would have to secure stability in Syria.
2. The US clearly underestimated Iran's ability to simultaneously negotiate the JCPOA with the Obama administration and mobilise its armed constituents in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon against forces of regime change in Syria. Whilst the JCPOA was signed in 2015, throughout the negotiation process, Iran was giving top class combat training to both Syrian soldiers and mostly Shi'a Arab volunteers from Syria, Lebanon and Iraq who ended up proving their merit in battle more effectively than militants backed by Washington.
3. The US furthermore underestimated that whist Turkey is a member of NATO, under the leadership of President Erdoğan, Turkey's foreign policy has become incredibly independent of any bloc or partner nation. As such, the more time progressed, the more Turkey and the US reached in impasse over Syria. By passively facilitating the attempted FETO coup against Turkey in 2016 whilst simultaneously arming and funding the YPG/PKK in north-eastern Syria, Obama was relying on Erdoğan to fall or become weakened, instead Erdoğan became stronger and more determined than ever and as such stood up to Obama's antics before ultimately seeing Obama off.
4. The US under Obama discarded the fact that due to the extreme anti-Islamic sentiments among the US right that was quietly surging in America before Donald Trump gave the modern right-wing a front line voice, the optics of the war in Syria turned the American right anti-war as they began to see the battle in Syria as one of a European looking secular leader (Assad) against the forces of political Islam.
Donald Trump quite rightly identified some of these issues when he inherited Obama's war in Syria. This is one of the reasons why Trump has not instructed US troops to attack Iranian assets in Syria whilst Trump has also effectively refrained from challenging Russia in Syria in any significant way. Trump has also at long last compromised with Turkey on a win-win basis in respect of north-eastern Syria. At the same time, by telling his right wing supporters that in pulling out of Syria he has kept an election promise, his credibility among those who strangely linked Assad with the American anti-Islamic right feel validated by the US President that they continue to support.
And yet throughout Trump's passive facilitation of Turkey, Iran and Russia's growing role in Syria, he was accused by his domestic critics of being a "puppet" of the Russian government whilst Trump continues to be investigated by Robert Mueller in respect of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
For someone like Trump who is clearly a prideful person who wants himself and his nation to be top dog – this simply wouldn't do. Thus, rather than meddle in a Middle East that is increasingly looking to the non-Arab powers of western Eurasia for strategic leadership, Trump went back to good old fashioned meddling against classic leftist governments in Latin America.
Compared to occupying Iraq, occupying Afghanistan, managing post-Gaddafi Libya and trying to counter multiple powers in Syria – overthrowing a left wing Latin American government is a proverbial walk in the park for an American military-intelligence complex that has been overthrowing leftist Latin American governments for over a century.
But whilst Trump will be able to appeal to the still strong right-wing anti-communist base in the USA by proclaiming himself an enemy of socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, there is a far more important psychological and geopolitical aspect to Trump meddling in Venezuela.
In respect of Syria, many official and many semi-official voices in Russian politics have accurately taken credit for preserving the rule of Bashar al-Assad, even though on the record, Russian officials are careful to point out that their mandate in Syria was to fight terror groups rather than to prop up the son of the USSR's old friend Hafez al-Assad. But in reality, official and semi-official Russian media outlets are quick to point out that Russia more or less saved Assad from either being toppled or killed and for most in Russia, this is seen as an accomplishment of which to be proud.
But it is at this point where the folly of pride might effect Russia in respect of Venezuela as much as it effected Obama's USA in respect of Syria. Just today, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that it does not require an investigation by Robert Mueller to determine that the US is openly meddling in Venezuela's affairs by recognising a self-proclaimed "president" as Venezuela's head of state. Although this is both a witty and accurate statement, there is a subtext that exposes something that Russia would ostensibly want ignored.
While Lavrov is clearly a clever man, by linking Venezuela with Mueller, he has actually fallen into the trap that Trump has set for him. Donald Trump is keenly aware that no foreign power, including Russia or China can realistically save Maduro from the US military, CIA or other hybrid coup methods including a Syria style insurgency and this is why Trump wants to prove in Venezuela that he is both able to destroy a Russian partner in the way Obama could not do in Syria (hence Trump is the opposite of a Russian puppet), whilst also showing that under Trump, the US is optically more powerful than it was under Obama. This is a clear triple whammy for Trump. By doing to Venezuela what many of his predecessors had so easily done to other Latin American countries, the US President gets to 'show Putin who is top dog', 'show Mueller that whilst Obama could not defeat a Russian partner – Trump can' and lastly, Trump gets to prove to his base that unlike Obama, he can accomplish his goals.
While geography and a Russian naval base was on Assad's side in respect of luring Russia into the Syria conflict, for Maduro, everything is working against him whilst precedent shows that more often than not, whatever the US wants in Latin America – the US gets in Latin America.
Because of this, Russians proclaiming the end of the era of US regime change and those in the media who echoed these claims, spoke far too soon. Whilst the US can cause a lot of havoc in the geographically distant Middle East, even in the age of a Syria conflict that demonstrate the fact that US regime change operations have their limits in the Middle East, the same is not true of Russia or China in respect of Latin America. In Latin America, Russia and China cannot do much militarily without risking a nuclear world war that no one wants.
Thus, while the US has weakened a Syria that bent but did not break and while the US successfully fomented regime change in Ukraine – a country literally named for being on Russia's borderlands, no one and nothing can save the Venezuelan government unless unity among Venezuela's own armed forces can somehow convince the US to put on the brakes. In other words, the US can still meddle more easily in nations near to the borders of China and Russia, than Russia or China can realistically defend a partner in the Americas.
In this sense, Trump has been able to restore his pride by demonstrating that far from being "Putin's puppet", he has embarrassed those who claimed that he was, whilst simultaneously embarrassing those who claimed that because of Putin's relationship with Bashar al-Assad, the era of US led regime change is over. Such people did not count on Latin American leftests being too military and economically weak to defend against the United States and they also did not count on Trump being no one's puppet but that of his own ego.
Whilst Russian leaders are walking a fine-line between supporting their Venezuelan partner with strong rhetoric and setting themselves up for embarrassment, China has by contrast been far more rhetorically mild in its support for its Venezuelan partner.
Perhaps this is because China knows something that most in Russia are reticent to admit – Maduro has the odds stacked against him and China is very self-aware of its own limitations in respect of throwing him a lifeline. Russia by contrast has relied too much on the legacy of Syria to realise that there is nothing any military power can do to stop the USA in its vast western hemisphere. In this sense, Cuba was the exception which continues to prove the rule.
This is not to say that illegal regime change is ever good, it is clearly always wrong. But this does not negate the reality that in some cases, illegal regime change is unstoppable.

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I was only nine years old when my family relocated from Bulgaria to Seattle, WA and I always felt that I didn't have the opportunity to really experience our rich and unique folk culture or to spend much time with my grandparents and great-grandparents and to learn from them about our songs and our traditions. Joining the Bulgarian Voices of Seattle Women's Choir last year has been a truly amazing experience. I am one of the younger members of the choir, and I have learned so much more about our songs and traditions from all of these amazing women.
Because of my interest in Bulgarian folk music, my grandmother recently passed down to me her mother's shirt from her national costume. My great-grandmother was 25 years old in 1938 when she was embroidering the beautiful lace of her shirt in Kyustendil. These pictures are of the very delicate and intricate lace that my great-grandmother made using a sewing needle. This shirt was an important part of my great-grandmother's life. It was made for her wedding but she also wore it for special occasions and sometimes at festivals that would take place in Kyustendil.
Sadly, I don't remember my great-grandmother because I was very young when she passed away. However, when I wear her shirt in our performances with the choir I think of her and the stories my grandmother has shared with me about her life. I think of all the wonderful occasions where she wore this shirt and how filled with happiness she must have been. Now, 75 years later I am exactly the age my great-grandmother was when she made the delicate lace and it is so special to me that I am able to keep her memory alive and to make my own special memories when wearing her shirt for our performances.
The Songs of Our Families project is so important and special to me. It is such an amazing way to remember and to learn more about our families, their lives, and the songs that were meaningful to them. Even though we are half a world away from our loved ones in Bulgaria, we can still make sure those memories will be preserved for the next generations in our families. I am so excited and thankful to take part in this project!


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Ulrich: Keep Stop and Frisk
Councilman Eric Ulrich doesn't want the NYPD to go soft on stop and frisk and said the recent spike in shootings over the Fourth of July weekend is evidence why the controversial program is needed.
"Stop and Frisk works-it's as simple as that," said Councilman Ulrich in a statement released by his campaign for state senate. "We absolutely cannot afford to play politics when it comes to people's safety. The recent spike in shootings is further evidence that we must be diligent about getting illegal guns off our streets."
Nine people were killed in a spike in violence over the holiday weekend, and Ulrich joined Mayor Michael Bloomberg in saying this is no reason to question the success of stop and frisk.
Bloomberg called the weekend an "aberration in statistics" when asked about it at a press conference.
Ulrich called the shootings an "unconscionable travesty" but also said in the wake of the violence that it would be foolish to think of abolishing "a successful program that has saved lives and contributed to making New York City the safest big city in America."
He compared New York with Chicago, saying that city made a mistake when it pulled heavier police presences out of high-crime areas.
He continued, "All you need to do is look to Chicago to see what happens when you abolish successful crime-fighting tactics," he said. "We cannot allow New York to go the way of Chicago where innocent people are falling victim to gun and gang violence because our police don't have to tools they need to protect us."
By Jeremiah Dobruck
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If you've ever wanted to build your own fire pit to enjoy year-round, you're in luck! Here's a step-by-step guide to building your very own DIY fire pit!
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Get Results Fast! See With Your Own Eyes. These Are Some Great Skin Beauty Care Tips.
You've requested help again and again and again. So, let's get up close and personal. Every person wants to have the picture perfect flawless skin, but a lot of you go to great lengths thus spend a great deal of money when trying to achieve it.
A lot of the times you go out looking for these complicated solutions thinking it's going to be the fix to complicated problems. When in fact, the solutions tend to be quite simple. So let me share with you some Incredible, yet Amazing Tips on how you are going to keep your skin clear, healthy and glowing!
How you can do this Skin beauty care?
Let's get started. Above all learn to love your skin, take great care of it. If you have freckles, beauty marks, natural discolorations, a dark complexion, a light complexion it doesn't matter. Own it! It's you, and therefore it's beautiful! Focus on the things that you can change. Honor the things that you can.
Of course, I'm going to start you with nutrition. I truly going to prove to you, that, healthy and glowing skin care primarily comes from the inside and not from the outside.
We say don't believe that anyone compound or small group of food ingredients is what helps to achieve a clean clear skin complexion! We Know for a fact, that your nutrition in your diet as a whole is what determines the health and vitality of your skin! The more wholesome plant-based foods that you eat the clearer your skin will be. I mean no single supplement or single food ingredient can offer the complex matrix of nutrients and antioxidants those found in the plethora of plant-based foods you can enjoy. Does that mean you need to be extreme about it, no not at all? I mean, you can still enjoy some plant-based treats on occasion, and still, manage to have a good complexion.
We certainly noticed that when people overdo the processed foods the oily foods the foods with loads of added sugar their skin tends to break out a little bit more. So keep it all balanced and place an emphasis on enjoying an overall wholesome diet. Some people recommend detox teas. Other people will recommend vitamin-infused waters, but just like nutrition, don't let any of these quick-fix solutions fool you. Again, the focus is to look at the overall hydration. The question comes down to are you getting enough fluids? This can be in the form of water, soups, smoothies, teas, fruits.
Make sure that you do is certainly going to help in your journey towards achieving clear, beautiful skin.
Most skin beauty care manufacturers will try to convince you that your skin issues are as a result of isolated external problems that can be easily remedied, with some kind of lotion or product that they sell. and I'm sorry, just don't buy into it! because like I said before, I truly proved that healthy and glowing skin primarily comes from within! It's an integral part of skin beauty care.
Above all things, Health begins in the gut!
This means happy intestines and healthy poops! So make sure to eat foods that are high in fiber. Foods like fruits, veggies, whole grains, beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, flax and chia seeds in addition to making sure that you get a healthy dose of probiotics. Plants based yogurts and fermented foods are healthy not only for the gut but also for the skin's beauty. Of course!
Hydration and regular physical activity help to keep things moving too. It should come as no surprise, sweating and regular physical activity help with a complexion as well. When you exercise we increase blood flow to all areas of our body and skin is included in that too. With increased blood flow means increased oxygen and nutrients delivered to the cells. It's also an opportunity for the cells to get rid of any toxins or cellular debris that they might have been hanging on.
Some more physical Activity means helping your skin exercise & it helps not only with increased blood flow but also helps to decrease stress, and you all know how much more.
Your skin can break out when you're going through stressful times. The question to be asking yourself is, am I experiencing stress, and if so what might I be able to do to bring some Zen into my life? I've mentioned in the past, for me, it's usually time spent in nature or time spent with family and friends. Some kind of self-care ritual or a cup of warm tea. Whatever it takes, the time to identify what you can do to bring some calm into your life to decrease the stress.
Trust Us! Your mental health and your skin will thank you for it!
Now that we've discussed how to achieve beautiful skin from the inside we can segue into discussing how it can be achieved from the outside.
If you used creams, like night creams, cleansers, face washes, makeup, removers, and scrubbers that work for you then keep at it. I'm not trying to persuade you to do otherwise. Personally, it just an unnecessary expense. Extra clutter in the bathroom.
To be honest, you don't feel very comfortable putting a whole bunch of products with multiple ingredients on my face. Just keep things real simple. The only thing that should touch your face is coconut oil.
When I wake up wash your face with water, then apply coconut oil, It's essential to use as your moisturizer. If you wore makeup during the day, in the evening you should wash off as much of that makeup as you can with fresh clean water. Then apply coconut oil to a cotton pad and use this to remove the makeup of your eyes. Coconut oil serves both as a moisturizer and a makeup remover. All good things take time. Don't buy into quick-stick solutions or expect overnight results!
Remember that consistent practice is key.
When you transition from using your day & night cream to using coconut oil. It will take a while for your skin to adjust. At first, your skin is going to get too oily. Then you might notice little bumps on your skin. After that, it will finally found its equilibrium.
Remember you've gotten into a new routine.
If you're using a new product for your skin beauty care give it time. In a few weeks, you'll start to notice the unbelievable change. Your complexion, this is one you want. Make sure, not to overdo both in frequency as well as in pressure.
Like to exfoliate every two to three days or so with an exfoliating cloth that you purchased from a dollar store. It's really simple. Just add some soap of your choice to the cloth, and gently scrub to remove any dead skin or debris.
I am forever grateful to King Rastafari's natural knowledge of many elders who taught me, at a very young age the danger of most ingredients in manufactured makeups of Skin Care.
The threat they condole to women who wear them As makeup on their faces. Constantly they though Us to honor how your skin looked Naturally. Women wearing foundations and powders would only create a dependency of sorts, making them feel less beautiful on days when you are not wearing it.
If you didn't have that airbrushed look you would become so used. Don't get me wrong! If you do wear foundation sometimes, keep it only to special occasions, not as part of my your daily routine.
You want to let your skin and pores breathe.
You will find that when you do wear a foundation. It results, in at least a pimple or two, which then warrants wearing foundation again to cover it up. It becomes a vicious cycle! like I said in recommendation number one, You want to honor your blemishes and beauty marks.
Whereas John Legend would say, my perfect imperfections. You should not cover any of that up!
If you're going to shift your focus to the outside, the emphasis should be placed on minimizing the amounts of things that you bombard it with.
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A weakness with literacy is a common strand for disaffected teenagers not in education or training, prisoners or the homeless.
The percentage of this trio of groups handicapped by poor or non-existent literacy skills is typically in excess of 80 per cent.
This week the media have turned the spotlight on a shocking survey conducted by the Great School Libraries Campaign which has revealed that one in eight schools have no library at all.
The survey also revealed that schools in more deprived communities are more likely to not have a library; and that pressure on space and a lack of resources means more than half of schools with libraries reported they were actually being used as classrooms or meeting spaces rather than its intended purpose.
Interestingly, there is a requirement that all prisons must have a library, but nothing similarly linked to schools. This means successive governments will only provide this resource to those who have fallen through the trapdoor of society, but not to stop children failing in the first place.
This research details a scandalous inequality of access and opportunity that should be put right by the government.
Resourcing is very often at the root of the problem so to help schools with squeezed budgets, Streetspace can provide its ZONE glazed buildings to provide library or classroom space at a fraction of the cost of a traditional build.
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Complete with heating and air conditioning, the new build is the perfect space to support the school's mission to encourage reading for pleasure.
To find out more about ZONE glazed buildings visit streetspacegroup.co.uk and to see more details of the Great School Libraries Campaign survey click here.
Simon Dolby founded the educational charity Inspire Schools two decades ago which supports and encourages more than 30,000 primary school-age children in London and the south east to read at home for pleasure each week through inter-class and inter-school competitive reading challenges based on minutes of reading.
The initiative he created when at the charity was called Buster's Book Club and last academic year more pupils at the 100+ participating schools read more than 10 million minutes of reading. Over the life of the initiative more than 30 million minutes of reading have been achieved.
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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Nafisa Shah has reacted strongly to the Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaf (PTI) government's announcement that the PM House would be turned into a postgraduate educational institution.
"The PM House is not the personal property of Imran Khan. He should convert his own Bani Gala Mahal (mansion) into a university," the PPP leader tweeted.
Shah asserted that the PM House is a state asset and belongs to the people of Pakistan and would be the residence of all future prime ministers as well. "300 canal property of Bani Gala is a very good location. Let's start with Bani Gala Institute of Agroforestry there," she said in another tweet.


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The Agra Independent School District is a school district based in Agra, Oklahoma (United States). It contains an elementary school, a middle school, and a high school.

See also
List of school districts in Oklahoma.

References

External links
 Agra Independent School District homepage

School districts in Oklahoma
Education in Lincoln County, Oklahoma

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package com.deleidos.rtws.commons.dao.tmsdb;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

import org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtils;
import org.apache.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.unitils.UnitilsJUnit4TestClassRunner;
import org.unitils.database.annotations.TestDataSource;

import com.deleidos.rtws.commons.model.tmsdb.IaasAccountSystemUsageSummary;

@RunWith(UnitilsJUnit4TestClassRunner.class)
public class IaasAccountSystemUsageSummaryDaoTest {

	private Logger log = LogManager.getLogger(getClass());

	private IaasAccountSystemUsageSummaryDao dao;

	@TestDataSource
	private static DataSource ds;

	@Before
	public void setUp() {

		dao = new IaasAccountSystemUsageSummaryDao();
		dao.setDataSource(ds);
	}

	@Test
	public void checkSummary() throws Exception {
		// Results based on the inserts made in the setup sql
		dao.computeSummariesForPreviousDay();
		Collection<IaasAccountSystemUsageSummary> domainSummary = dao.getIaasAccountSystemUsageSummary(50);
		assertNotNull(domainSummary);
		assertEquals(6, domainSummary.size());

		for (IaasAccountSystemUsageSummary summary : domainSummary) {
			log.info(summary);

			Map description = PropertyUtils.describe(summary);
			Iterator iterator = description.keySet().iterator();
			while (iterator.hasNext()) {
				Object key = iterator.next();
				assertNotNull(String.format("%s should not be null", key), PropertyUtils.getProperty(summary, (String) key));
			}
		}
	}
}

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Makers Evening With Jim Keeling
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Jim Keeling set up the well-known Whichford Pottery and was instrumental in the Oxford Anagama Project. Keeling spoke to a sizeable audience of potters and other makers in Making Lewes member Studio Hardie's ad hoc evening venue on Friday 28th. Alongside exploring his thirty year Whichford Pottery journey, Keeling also told us about making and building a version of the ancient Japanese Anagama kiln, in the heart of Oxfordshire's Whytham Woods, and his hopes and fears for the future of craft in current times.
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Building With Water With Niklaus Graber
Architect Niklaus Graber, curator of Bengal Dreams, the major Swiss Architecture Museum exhibition currently touring Europe, provided an in-depth exploration of the relationship of architecture and water in the Bangladesh delta, where, with the majority of this populous nation's land sitting at below sea level, there is a need to work carefully with water at all levels of society, including the built fabric.
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Building With Water With Rahul Abdin
Niklaus was joined by Ruhul Abdin of the London-Dhaka Paraa, one of the studios featured in the Bengal Dreams exhibition, who discussed the social and participatory dimension of the studio's work, with children, communities and at the broader urban level.
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Building With Water With Maggie black
Ruhul was followed by Maggie Black, a water and sanitation expert, who has worked for many years at Oxfam and is the author of the Global Atlas of Water. Maggie provided a rounded, holistic overview of why sanitation and water issues are so entangled with each other, and how both needed to be seen through a single prism to begin to work to meet these seemingly insuperable challenges.
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Building With Water With Richard Coutts
After Maggie we moved from the developing world and its pollution issues, to the world-wide one of rising water levels, cities and other urban areas, and what floating buildings could contribute to this whole planet challenge. Richard Coutts, principal BACA Architects, leading UK specialist floating buildings studio, sped through a presentation of the many projects and research concepts he and BACA have been involved in, while illuminating for the audience how policy and Governmental change is opening up the possibilities for scaling floating building infrastructure in the soon to arrive future.
Building With Water With Claire Whistler, Charlotte Still & Jane Trowell
By way of complete contrast the water performance by Clare Whistler and Charlotte Still, co-founders of Pevensey Marshes Water Week Festival and Jane Trowell from PLATFORM was a moment of in-breathing stillness in the busy afternoon of speakers, stories and information. The trio had made the upstairs quarters, the octagonal walkway of Fitzroy House, the site of their performance, letting water fall from a medieval monastic water carrier. They quietly sang as the water fell, a grieving psalm of loss for what humankind has wrought on the water world, before descending to the ground auditorium to be interviewed by one of their number, Jane Trowell asking questions of Whistler and Still, about their wider Pevensey Water Week Festival work.
Building With Water With Andri Snær Magnason
Andri Snaer Magnasson began in on his super-entertaining, very funny and completely serious tale of what brought him to the southern reaches of Britain. Magnasson began with his attempts to get published – eventually through local supermarket magnates Bonus, before gradually building to his central involvement in large scale public protests and attempts to stop a massive dam project of central Highlands Iceland – the largest in Europe – which provided electrical energy for an Alcoa aluminium plant on the island's Eastern coast. Though ultimately unsuccessful, through his Dreamland book and film activism Snaer was influential in shifting public opinion against damming of Iceland's rivers and the destruction of its wildlife wetlands. By the end of his riveting story Magnasson had brought the house down, with his off-centre humour, had the MLF audience in the palm of his hand, and had imparted with radical lightness of touch, one instance of the water wars on the small mid-Atlantic island.
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Building With Water With Leon Radeljic & Leif Hinrichson
Our final speakers were from Berlin. But they were presenting at Building With Water because of the consequences of what is happening upriver from other massive highland river damming projects, this time on the Turkish and Kurdistani Iraq border. Leon Radeljic from ZRS Architects/Engineers and Leif Hinrichson from the Jiyan Foundation, shared their story of a remarkable project, theChamchamal Healing Garden for Victims of Torture and War Trauma, in the city of Chamchamal, Northern (Kurdistani) Iraq. The project includes buildings using traditional rammed earth techniques, once popular, now perceived to be old fashioned, amidst a well-cultivated garden and animal sanctuary. The garden, and other aspects of the project are only possible because of the integration of a decentralised water purification system, which ensures water for the garden's plants to grow and be cultivated. This in the context of Iraq facing water starvation, drought and worse because of the Turkish Government's control of the dam's in the upland border region of the two ancient rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. Once again the naked powerplay of politics was uncovered and visible, though with the Chamchamal Healing Garden an inspirational counter-example had been placed in front of the audience, graphically proposing the reach of the possible and a sign of hope in the future
As the symposium's closing speakers ended the afternoon we had travelled from the low lying delta of Bangladesh, through the pragmatic concerns of sanitation, the technological adaptation of floating architecture, and the symbolic loss of water world's embodied in performance art, to the highlands and uplands of Iceland and the Middle East, all connected to each other by the flow motion world of Planet Water.
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I wanted to wear a funky outfit today, something I would never wear to work. I knew I wanted to wear one of my fedoras too. My sister, over at Be Sassy Classy, suggested we both wear fedoras with a funky outfit we normally wouldn't wear and call today Funky Fedora Day. Turns out I really like my outfit. Never-ever would I have put a gingham shirt with a stripped sweater together before, but somehow it works. Who knew? This might be a look I will wear more often.
I love when people successfully combine patterns like that, adorable!
Love love love this combo!!! And now I want a fedora and can't shop...perhaps I'll bend the rules and have boyfriend buy me one!
super cute shoes! and awesome pattern mixing :) great job!!!
Love the fedora too, I'm a sucker for hats.
Loving the stripes and checkers together. And my new thing is fedoras too! I love how you created a day for it. Way to step outside of the box. It feels a little exciting to wear something that might make you feel a little uncomfortable, but the pay off is great!
Love this outfit. so cute and fun!
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Although I need a plaid shirt, I am so inspired to try this! You look gorgeous!


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Sarah Sellers pounds the pavement during a recent training run in Tucson, Arizona. Sellers, an Ogden native and Weber State graduate, took the running world by storm by placing second in the 2018 Boston Marathon. Next up on her race schedule will be the New York (all-women) Mini 10K in June followed by Salt Lake's Deseret News 10K in July.
SALT LAKE CITY — The last time we checked on Sarah Sellers, she was being deluged with worldwide media requests and coping with overnight fame in the wake of her stunning second-place finish in the Boston Marathon. More than a month later, the nurse who came out of nowhere to defeat world and Olympic medalists in the world's most famous road race is still riding the wave she created in Boston.
She now has her own Wikipedia page, an agent, a weekly podcast and a shoe deal. She has an invitation to ride the lead float in a Phoenix parade this fall. She has received calls from Oakley and Timex, among other companies, about endorsing their products. And the interviews continue. During the broadcast of the London Marathon, she got up in the middle of the night to do live interviews for BBC radio and TV (after performing jumping jacks to wake herself).
Sellers has been invited to run road races on the pro circuit, and this time she won't have to pay her entry fee or expenses, as she famously did at Boston. Her first post-Boston race will be the New York (all-women) Mini 10K in June; her second will be Salt Lake's Deseret News 10K in July. She hasn't chosen her next marathon, but she has an offer from the Gold Coast Marathon in Australia, among others.
Sellers is a hot commodity in running circles and her anonymity is long gone. Hey, aren't you that marathoner? According to her agent, Bob Wood, Sellers had 6.9 million Google searches for her name the first two days after the Boston race.
Sellers, an Ogden native, has returned to work as a nurse anesthetist at Banner-University Hospital in Tucson, while also training at an elite level for professional road races. She still does her training runs at 4 a.m. before she goes to work, and, if she is doubling that day, she'll run again in the evening after work. When she isn't running or working, she's trying to respond to the demands of fame.
She is trying to cut back her work hours to facilitate her growing schedule, which she finds ironic. She was able to attend grad school to train for her current nursing job only when she was forced to quit running for several years because of a slow-healing stress fracture. "It would have been impossible to do both (running and grad school)," she says. Now that she's healthy, she wants to devote more time to running and reduce her nursing schedule.
Sellers is the daughter of an orthopedic surgeon, Neil Callister, and the wife of an aspiring orthopedic surgeon. She met her husband Blake in an operating room (he was an orderly at the time). By then, Sellers, a nine-time Big Sky Conference champion at Weber State, was out of running — a slow-healing stress fracture during her senior year ended her collegiate career and derailed her post-collegiate career, as well. Before returning to the sport last fall, she had missed five years of competitive running because of the injury and grad school.
Her surprising performance at Boston has opened doors. She will have her expenses paid for by races and can earn money from a shoe deal and appearance fees. So far, Sellers has committed to only the two aforementioned races, and the Deseret News race will be her first in her home state since her breakthrough at Boston.


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In the case of Z v Y  HKCFI 2342, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance allowed an application resisting enforcement of an award made in China. A tribunal seated in China had made an award against the Respondent in respect of obligations under a guarantee. The award creditor applied to enforce the award in Hong Kong and obtained a grant of leave on 27 February 2017. The Respondent applied to set aside the grant of leave under s 95 of the Arbitration Ordinance. The Court allowed the Respondent's application on the basis that enforcement of the award would be contrary to public policy.
The dispute arose with respect to a written guarantee purported to have been signed by the Respondent. The guaranteed transactions were eight supply contracts whereby goods were sold to the Applicant by the Respondent's husband's company. An affiliated company of the buyer (also owned by the Respondent's husband) entered into back-to-back contracts to supply the same goods to the Applicant. In fact no goods changed hands. It transpired that these were sham arrangements to disguise what were in fact loans. Under PRC law these fraudulent contracts constitute a criminal offence.
After the award was made against the Respondent, she applied to resist enforcement in Hong Kong on the following grounds: (1) the sale contracts giving rise to the guarantee were illegal; (2) when the Respondent signed the guarantee she was under a mental incapacity; (3) there was no valid arbitration agreement; (4) the guarantee was void and invalid under both PRC and Hong Kong law; and (5) proper notice of the appointment of arbitrators was not given. The Respondent did not succeed in relation to grounds (2), (3) and (5). However, the Hong Kong did refuse enforcement under section 95(3)(b) of the Arbitration Ordinance on the basis of grounds (1) and (4), stating that it would be contrary to public policy to enforce an Award where there are valid grounds to claim that the guarantee was to secure obligations that were "tainted by illegality" and the tribunal had not addressed them.
The court accepted that as an enforcement court it should not review the merits of the Award, and that any mistake in law or fact is insufficient to found an application to set aside or refuse enforcement. However, the court considered that the question of illegality, although presented to the tribunal had not in fact been addressed in the Award with adequate reasons. The court referred to A v B  3 HKC 521 in which it was held that "… an award should be reasoned to the extent of being reasonably sufficient and understandable by the parties … it is a serious irregularity and the denial of due process which causes substantial injustice and unfairness to the parties, if an important issue … is not in fact addressed." The Court held that the tribunal failed to give any adequate reason as to why it had concluded that the Respondent's claim of illegality of the underlying Debt had not been established by the Respondent. The question of the validity of the guarantee under PRC law was also not addressed in the award and no reason was given to support the tribunal's finding that there was a valid guarantee under PRC law.
This decision reinforces the fact that enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Hong Kong is not merely a rubber stamping exercise. The court will take allegations of serious irregularity of the tribunal and public policy reasons seriously. A copy of the decision can be found here.


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El Salvador extends key renewable energy tax incentives
In addition to extending the exemption the 20 MW ceiling has been removed, allowing utility-scale projects to receive benefits.
October 20, 2015 Blanca Díaz López
Last Thursday El Salvador's legislature approved an extension to tax incentives for renewable energy projects which were set to expire at the end of 2015. Thanks to a reform of the bill, it is now possible for projects larger than 20 MW to access incentives.
The newly approved amendments to the Law of Tax Incentives for the Development of Renewable Energy and the Generation of Electricity maintains the principle in the previous law that smaller projects will receive a higher level of benefits.
Projects up to 10 MW will continue to be fully exempt from taxes on income for 10 years, while projects larger than 5 MW wil be exempt for five years. The new law also states that additional phases of a project can benefit from incentives, which until now was not part of the law.
GTM Research Senior Analyst Adam James notes that like most Central American nations, tax incentives are a key driver for renewable energy in El Salvador. "The tax incentives were one of the most attractive things about El Salvador's solar market," notes James. "Having them expire would have been a negative development for renewable energy deployment."
In El Salvador various auctions for renewable energy projects have been held, for both distributed generation and utility-scale projects. In the last two years more than 100 MW of solar projects have been approved, and it is estimated that the nation of only 6.3 million inhabitants will have 204 MW of solar PV online by 2018.
In August El Salvador announced that a new auction for 150 MW of solar and wind projects would be launched, with the assistance of USAID.
Translation and additional reporting by Christian Roselund.
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