The previous IBC Act was adopted in 1994 and initiated the registration of offshore companies in Seychelles. The new one provides modern international standards to improving transparency and to combat money laundering.
1. The list of prohibited activities for international business companies (hereinafter - IBC) has been extended. Now the list includes transactions with securities business, investment funds activities and gambling business. An exception will only conduct such activities which are licensed under the laws of the country in which the IBC carries on such business.
2. Each IBC will be required to keep a register of its beneficial owners and store it in its registered office in Seychelles (exception is only for listed companies and their subsidiaries). Each IBC (even companies incorporated before December 1, 2016) must comply with this obligation within 12 months from the effective date of the new IBC Act.
3. All IBC must submit a copy of their register of directors to the Registrar. It will be given 12 months for the initial submission of a copy of the register of directors to the Registrar from the effective date of the new IBC Act. All IBC (even companies incorporated before December 1, 2016) which is carried out new appointment or any change of directors after the date of entry into force the new IBC Act are obliged to submit the register of directors to the Registrar within 30 days from the date of appointment of the first director / of making any changes. Files will be publicly available within two years from the date of entry into force of the new IBC Act.
4. The clear provisions prohibiting for IBC the issuance of bearer shares.
5. The new provisions discouraged of using shelf companies. The first company directors must be appointed within 9 months from the date of its registration.
6. The process of the company cancellation from the Registrar ("strike-off") is reduced from 180 to 90 days.
7. IBC Companies are required annually to December 31, after the year in which it was incorporated to submit reports (Annual Return). It will include information about physical address of the place where its minutes and resolution are kept. IBC also will no longer be permitted to hold a lease of property for use as an office from which to communicate with members of IBC or where books and records of the company are prepared and maintained.
8. The penalty for violation of the rules and the making false statements is US$50 000. Penalty for failure to keep the register of members was increased to US$500 and US$50 for each day during which the contravention continues.


One feels this seemingly battered old two door sideboard must have a story to tell but there will be no skeletons in its cupboards. All the charm of the old with all the benefits of the new!
Please can you send me a photo of the interior. Is there a shelf in there?


Summarecon Serpong will launch Symphonia, a masterpiece of the newest 200-hectare residential area, with the tagline of "Embrace The Future With Nature's Lifestyle". This area will be a new icon of residential that offers a balance of urban and modern lifestyle combined with the freshness of nature. Through Symphonia presents a vision of cutting edge technology, but is enjoyed in a natural setting as it is equipped with parks and lakes on a city scale to support residents' activities. This area as well as a form of dedication and mission Summarecon in realizing a balanced life. Symphonia will launch two clusters at once - Cluster Verdi and Cluster Vivaldi on October 28, 2017 at Plaza Summarecon Serpong, Tangerang.


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Q: Position: sticky (firefox) on a  element The new value of position is very confusing to me.. a lot of search result give javascript/jQuery (JavaScript-framework) solutions.
In the example in bottom i have a table with a thead and tbody.
No matter what i cannot achieve the desire result.
Desire result is thead to be sticky to the table. sticky means when not in view the element is some kind of position:fixed fixed means it sticks to your screen.  What i did try:

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*display: inline/block/inline-block;

*th element position:sticky (th element is an element inside a tr witch is inside a thead element)

*mix of display:inline/block etc; (values of property display)

I just cannot find how to achieve this sticky in firefox (supported)
Any solutions ??
(as position:sticky still an experimental API and should not be used in production site http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/position )

table {
  background-color: rgba(241, 31, 0, 0.3);
  width: 100%;
}
thead {
  background-color: rgba(241, 0, 241, 0.3);
  position: -webkit-sticky;
  position: sticky;
}
th {} tbody td:nth-child(2) {
  height: 200px;
}

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A: Firefox seems not to allow yet 'sticky' on table childs elements.
a workaround would be to set table as block, then thead, tbody, tfoot to display:table; so one of them can be sticked.
unfortunately this breaks the table-layout and split table into few tables .. :(
you also need to set coordonates where sticky comes in action  http://codepen.io/gc-nomade/pen/reoExq . not the best :(
CSS base would be like:
table {
  display: block;
}

thead {
  position: sticky;
  top: 0px;  /* trigger sticky when reaches coordonates */
}

thead, tbody, tfoot {
  display: table;
  width: 100%;
}

table {
  background-color: rgba(241, 31, 0, 0.3);
  width: 100%;
  margin-top: 1em;
  position: static;
  display: block;
}
thead {
  display: table;
  width: 100%;
  background-color: rgba(241, 0, 241, 0.3);
  position: sticky;
  top: 0px;
  /* trigger sticky when reaches coordonates */
}
tbody {
  display: table;
  width: 100%;
}
th {} tbody td:nth-child(2) {
  height: 200px;
}

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A: Another method is to use css3 to translate the header cells. This method does require javascript and will work in all modern browsers, but because it translates the table cell, the border does not get included for some reason (demo)
Also, this css is necessary to include a background color on the translated cells
thead th,
caption {
  background: #fff;
}

jQuery
var $win = $(window),
  $table = $('table'),
  $thead = $table.children('thead'),
  $tfoot = $table.children('tfoot'),
  $caption = $table.children('caption'),
  $cells = $thead.children().children().add($caption);

$win.on('scroll', function() {
  var bottom = $table.position().top +
        $table.height() -
        $thead.height() -
        ($tfoot.height() || 0),
    delta = $win.scrollTop() -
        $thead.offset().top +
        $caption.outerHeight(),
    // include border thickness (minus 2)
    vertPos = (delta < 0 || delta > bottom ? 0 : delta - 2);
  $cells.css("transform", "translate(0px," + vertPos + "px)");
});

A: Update Q1 2018
position: sticky has now landed in stable Firefox 59. The fiddle linked below now works unchanged in Firefox as well.

I know you specifically asked for Firefox compatibility of position: sticky, but unfortunately its styling effect in Firefox is not defined on inner table elements:

Quoting from https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/position
The effect of position:relative on table-*-group, table-row, table-column, table-cell, and table-caption elements is undefined.
The effect of 'position: sticky' on table elements is the same as for 'position: relative'.

That being said, position: sticky is about to land in Chrome Stable channel (it is in Canary at the time of writing and there's a developer.google.com blog post about it). Their implementation does work fine on thead, solving my own long-standing problem of sticky theads as all other solutions fail when you need to resize the table/cell widths.
I've created a fiddle to test the sticky positioning. On all channels of Firefox, this has no effect.
My hope is that position: sticky now gains tractions due to the more complete implementation in Chrome, it will stir discussions again on the lacking inner table support of sticky.
There's also a bug report on Firefox' Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=975644

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Henrick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Katie Henrick (born 1980), English snooker and pool player
Richard P. Henrick (born 1951), American novelist and screenwriter
Ross Henrick (1954–2005), Australian rugby league player

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Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi də tuluz loˈtʁɛk]) (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec is known along with Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin as one of the greatest painters of the Post-Impressionist period. In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house a new record was set when "La blanchisseuse", an early painting of a young laundress, sold for $22.4 million U.S.
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How do we live as living sacrifices? What does that look like?
And that is where we pick up this week.
Paul writes about not living in the pattern of this world. He tells us we should think differently, our thoughts renewed and refreshed to God's way of thinking. He promises this will help us know what God wants for our lives which is always pleasing and perfect and good.
Most of us have been living for the things we think would make us happy (what the world says makes us happy). But I know, personally, that what I thought would make my life grand failed in the fulfilling department.
Come find out how to align your way of thinking and living with God. It's not as difficult and painful as you think.
Pour a cup of coffee. Kick off your shoes, and stay awhile. Jot down the Bite of Bread in your journal and write a prayer for the Lord to speak to you through these verses this week. Something happens when we take time to chew on Scripture one bite at a time.
And. . . . as promised. . .
the winners of The Pursuit of God giveaway!
Thank you to everybody who entered and to the new subscribers! Stay tuned for another giveaway in a few weeks.
The pictures are called "avatars" and you can get one when you register with WordPress or I think you can use your Google account. . . maybe? I'm not sure anymore. Have a great day!
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Today is Tues. wonder how often you post?
For now I go to get my coffee and bible.
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Berlinale jury president Jeremy Irons addresses past controversial remarks
By Orlando Parfitt2020-02-20T13:22:00+00:00
Source: Antonello&Montesi
Berlin International Film Festival jury president Jeremy Irons addressed his controversial past remarks about sexual harassment, abortion and gay marriage at the festival's opening jury press conference, saying he was hoping to "put my past comments to bed."
"I should like, not as the jury president, but on a personal level to address various comments that I have reportedly made in the past, and which have resurfaced in certain sections of the press over the past few weeks," he said today (February 20). I wish I didn't have to take up time with this, but I don't want it to continue as a distraction to the Berlinale."
"Let me make my views entirely clear on these particular subjects once and for all," he added. "Firstly, I support wholeheartedly the global movement to address the inequality of women's rights and to protect them from abusive, damaging and disrespectful harassment both at home and in the workplace."
"Secondly, I applaud the legislation of same-sex marriage, wherever it has been attained. I hope that such enlightened legislation will continue to spread into more and more societies. Thirdly, I support wholeheartedly the right of women to have an abortion should they so decide."
"These three human rights are essential steps towards a civilised and humane society for which we should all continue to strive. There are many parts of the world where these rights do not yet exist, where such ways of living lead to imprisonment and even to death. I hope that some of the films we will be watching will address these problems. I look forward to watching films in this year's Berlinale which will provoke us to question attitudes, prejudices and worldwide perceptions of life as we know it."
The Berlinale's new management came under fire from the Berlin media for its choice of Irons as the official competition's jury president last month, after various controversial remarks by the actor resurfaced.
This included an interview with the UK's Radio Times magazine in 2011 when he said: "If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It's communication. Can't we be friendly?"
Irons also argued to the Huffington Post in 2013 that legalising gay marriage might lead to fathers marrying their sons to avoid having to pay inheritance tax. However, he subsequently backtracked by telling the BBC he wished he had "buttoned my lip" before making the comments.
Finally, discussing abortion with The Guardian in 2016, he said: "I believe women should be allowed to make the decision, but I also think the Church is right to say it is a sin."
New festival director Carlo Chatrian responded to the criticism of Irons' selection at the time, saying: "Regarding the comments, we know that [Irons] already revised and announced his regret in the past and that these comments don't in any way correspond his actual position. His quotes at the time were also taken out of context. He has again reinforced that his comments back then do not represent his position and way of thinking."
This year's festival runs February 20-March 1. Irons' fellow jurors are Annemarie Jacir, Bérénice Bejo, Bettina Brokemper, Kenneth Lonergan, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Luca Marinelli.
Berlin 2020: Screen's guide to the Competition titles
Berlinale outlines EFM 2021 structure, reveals Co-Production Market line-up
EFM market screenings will be available in 120-minute windows.
European Shooting Stars 2021 revealed with 'Normal People', 'System Crasher' actors
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early and often May 24, 2016
Elizabeth Warren Is Playing the 'World's Smallest Violin' for Donald Trump
By Claire Landsbaum
She feels so sad for him — really, she does. Photo: Mark Wilson/2016 Getty Images
Elizabeth Warren is one of the Democrats' best weapons against Donald Trump. While Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have to hold back on outright attacking the presumptive GOP nominee, Warren has slammed him on Twitter for everything from his racism and sexism to his incoherent foreign-policy plan, and on Tuesday night she took her tweets to the next level. Speaking at a gala for the Center for Popular Democracy (a liberal nonprofit organization), Warren called Trump a "small, insecure money-grubber" who "will never be president of the United States."
She first brought up Trump's newly publicized statement from 2006, in which he said he "sort of hoped" the housing market would crash. "Donald Trump was drooling over the idea of a housing meltdown because it meant he could buy up a bunch more property on the cheap," she said. "What kind of a man does that? Root for people to get thrown out on the street? Root for two little girls in Clark County, Nevada, to end up living in a van?"
"I'll tell you exactly what kind," she continued. "A man who cares about no one but himself. A small, insecure money-grubber who doesn't care who gets hurt, so long as he makes some money off it. A man who will never be president of the United States."
Then she went in on Trump's grand plan to repeal the Dodd-Frank financial reforms — a move that would make him a hero on Wall Street. "Now that he's sewn up the Republican nomination, Donald Trump is dropping the pretense" of supporting working-class families, she said. She went on:
Now he's kissing the fannies of poor, misunderstood Wall Street bankers, but the American people are not looking for a bait and switch. Donald Trump is worried about helping poor little Wall Street? Let me find the world's smallest violin to play a sad, sad song.
Which seems like plenty of Trump-bashing for one speech, but Warren kept going:
I want to make just one last point about Donald Trump that won't fit into a Twitter war, one last point that sums up what Donald Trump is all about — his taxes. Trump likes being a billionaire and doesn't think the rules that apply to everyone else should apply to him. But let's be clear: Donald Trump didn't get rich on his own. He inherited a fortune from his father and kept it going by scamming people, declaring bankruptcy, and skipping out on what he owed.
"Donald Trump thinks supporting them is throwing money down the drain," she said, referring to people on taxpayer-funded welfare programs. "I say we just throw Donald Trump down the drain."
Warren has yet to formally endorse either Democratic candidate, although Clinton campaign insiders say there's a strong push to name her as Clinton's running mate — something Warren didn't say she won't consider. But she's also expected to play a key role in unifying the Democratic party before the convention in July, which would be kind of hard to do if she chooses sides.
Whether or not she plays a larger role in the election, her instinct for Trump-baiting is a true gift.
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Going very strong in the final furlong, Northern Afleet's Under Control (BRZ) forged to a 1 ¼-length victory in the $100,000 Lure S. Saturday at Saratoga.
Under Control is Northern Alfeet's eighth stakes horse of 2015 and a milestone 130th worldwide stakes winner. His progeny have earned in excess of $59.3 million.
The winner, who had been knocking on the door in several previous stakes starts, got a good stalking trip under Irad Ortiz, Jr., pouncing on pacesetters Reload and Charming Kitten at the head of the stretch and rolling past in the final sixteenth to get the 1 1/16-miles in an excellent 1:39.50 on the firm turf, just a shade more than a second off the track record.
Under Control, by Northern Afleet and bred in Brazil in by Stud TNT, is a half-brother to two-time Grade 2 winner Out of Control. Placed in both the River City H. (G3) and Oceanport S. (G3) last year, the Live Oak Plantation colorbearer is 5-6-4 in 19 starts and has earned $252,722.


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Pack looks to end NFL Draft drought
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Joe Santoro
Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . .
Next week's NFL draft will be further proof of how the Nevada Wolf Pack football program stagnated under coach Brian Polian. Polian has yet to send a player that he brought to Nevada to the NFL draft and likely won't again this year. This will likely be the third consecutive season that the NFL does not draft a Nevada Wolf Pack player. Chris Ault recruit Joel Bitonio, who was picked in the second round by Cleveland in 2014, remains the last Pack player drafted. The last time the Pack went at least three consecutive years without putting a player in the NFL draft was 1999 through 2002 in the Jeff Tisdel-Chris Tormey era. Ault, whose first player drafted was Doug Betters in 1978, never went more than two years in a row without getting a player drafted.
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The NFL drafted 16 Wolf Pack players from 2003-14 with 11 of them getting picked from 2009-14. That four-year Pack drought from 1999-02 is the longest without a pack draft pick since Betters was taken by the dolphins in 1978. Polian's best chance at putting one of his Nevada recruits into the NFL draft might be defensive backs Asauni Rufus and Dameon Baber, who are both juniors this year. Running back James Butler is a senior this year.
This year's draft, which starts on Thursday, is not without its Mountain West drama. It will be interesting to see where or if San Diego State running back Donnel Pumphrey will be picked. Pumphrey, who set the FBS career rushing record last year at 6,405 yards, will likely become nothing more than a third-down pass-catching back in the NFL since he weighs under 170 pounds and stands just 5-foot-8. He makes Darren Sproles look like Shaquille O'Neal. Wyoming running back Brian Hill, who is 6-1, 210 pounds, is a better NFL prospect and likely get picked before Pumphrey. Also entering the draft is Boise State back Jeremy McNichols (5-9, 215), leaving the Wolf Pack's Butler as the best returning back in the Mountain West.
What should we expect out of the Wolf Pack football team in 2017? Well, first of all, don't expect Butler to lead the league in rushing despite his status as the best back in the conference. He might only see a dozen or so carries a game this year in the Pack's pass-happy Air Raid attack under offensive coordinator Matt Mumme. Butler, though, might also catch 75 passes so he'll get his 1,500-plus yards one way or another. How many wins will it add up to? Expect the Pack to go 7-5 in the regular season, getting five wins out of six home games against Toledo, Idaho State, Hawaii, Air Force, San Jose State and UNLV with two more wins coming out of six road games at Northwestern, Fresno State, Washington State, Boise State, San Diego State and Colorado State.
Don't be stunned if the Pack goes to Chicago and beats Northwestern to open the season on Sept. 2. The Wildcats were just 7-6 a year ago and lost their first two games of the year, both at home, to Western Michigan and Illinois State. The Wolf Pack will have all of the intangibles on their side on Sept. 2. Northwestern won't know a thing about the Pack. The Pack will head to Chicago with a new offense and defense and will have the element of surprise on their side. The game will mean much more to the Pack than it will mean for Northwestern since it will be the first game of the Jay Norvell era. Also, beating a Big Ten opponent, especially on the road, is a huge motivator for a Mountain West team. Big Ten teams could not care less about beating a Mountain West team other than Boise State.
Relax, San Francisco Giants fans. The season is not over. Yes, the Giants are off to a 6-10 start. Madison Bumgarner has yet to win a game and Buster Posey still has fewer homers (1) than Bumgarner (2). Aaron Hill, Jarrett Parker, Conor Gillaspie, Chris Marrero, Gorkys Hernandez and Denard Span are a combined 24-for-162 (.148). But it means nothing. Eight of the 10 losses have been by two runs or less. Posey has just 30 at bats. Brandon Belt is hitting just .220 but he has three homers, has walked 10 times and scored nine runs. Bumgarner's three losses have been by scores of 2-1, 3-1 and 2-0. He should be 4-0 instead of 0-3. Matt Cain has pitched well. The Giants are the best 6-10 team in baseball.
Championship professional sports teams visiting the White House has now become a joke. The only story the media now reports at such affairs is which athletes do not show up. Tom Brady didn't go to the White House this week. Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and others did not go in the past. It's not an anti-Donald Trump thing. It's a spoiled, millionaire athlete thing. They simply do not want to take a single day out of their four or five-month off-season of playing golf, going hunting, sitting on a beach and going to clubs to put on a suit, smile, pose for pictures and shake hands with the president. It's time this tradition goes away.
Mike Tice 9th annual Charity Weekend For the Kids raises $200,000
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Gardnerville resident Susan Cowan wins gold at Senior Games
45th annual Ponderosa Ridge Run is Saturday


East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH) proudly opened the door to the charity's new shop in Cambridge today (Thursday 11th April) with a little help from a 14-year-old boy who receives care and support at EACH in Milton.
Ollie Duell, who lives in Kinross Road with mum Claire, dad Gavin and sister Georgina, cut the ribbon at the former Hughes premises in Cherry Hinton Road welcoming in a queue of eager customers.
Ollie described opening the shop as a "cool" experience and even picked up some bargains after the ribbon was cut.
Customers flocked through the doors, spending £570 in the first hour of trading.
Catharine Chester, EACH Shop Manager, said: "We're so happy that our new store in Cherry Hinton Road is open. Thank you to Ollie and Claire for joining us to cut the ribbon.
The charity's retail portfolio is growing at a fast pace, with nine shops having opened last year. This latest one in Cherry Hinton Road will be its second of 2019 and 38th overall including a successful eBay store. EACH already has shops in Histon Road and Cherry Hinton High Street.
It welcomes donations of the following clean and good-quality goods: clothing, bric-a-brac, modern paperbacks, toys, jewellery, DVDs/CDs, household linens, retro and vintage clothes, and small electrical items. These can be dropped off at the new shop.


This position is open until filled but applications received by March 15, 2019 will be given preference.
We are the Metropolitan Council, the regional government for the seven-county Twin Cities metropolitan area. We plan 30 years ahead for the future of the metropolitan area and provide regional transportation, wastewater, and housing services. More information about us on our website at www.metrocouncil.org.
The Budget Director directs development, oversight and presentation of the Council's operating budget and capital program. This position is the Council's Chief Budget Officer and has an indirect leadership tie to Finance Directors for Community Development / Metropolitan Transportation Services, Environmental Services, and Metro Transit divisions for establishing budget strategy and policy, and providing long-range planning and fiscal analysis.
Minimum Qualifications: • A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Management or related field AND eight years of finance and budget experience with five years supervising, managing or leading teams. OR A Master's degree AND six years of experience with five years leading teams. • Experience with development and monitoring of complex budgets for a large organization. • Experience with analysis and development of policies impacting multiple organizational entities (e.g. multi-division, inter-agency, etc.). • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including experience communicating professionally and effectively with a variety of audiences (e.g., leadership, stakeholders, partners and/or customers) about complex and sometimes technical topics.
Desired Qualifications: • Experience with operating and biennial budget processes in the public sector, especially those with multiple funding sources or federal funds. • Experience performing advanced budget management tasks (e.g. business recovery plans, service level agreement planning, preparation of fiscal estimates for proposed legislation, revenue projections, governmental accounting, or similar) in response to organizational needs. • Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).


The BFI 's annual report for 2017-18 details the organization's biggest film investments, strategic priorities and senior salaries.
Income for the year to March 2018 was £96.9M - an increase of £1.2M from that of 2016-17, with a net increase of funds of £13.1M. The uptick was put down to property revaluations and a reduction in net pension liability.


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Despite a high-tech water meter with real-time monitoring, one Abbotsford property owner didn't know his pipes were leaking until he racked up more than $5,000 in water fees — and sent over half a million litres of water down the drain.
Darshan Sharma, who rents out a commercial property owned by his wife Nirmla on Montrose Avenue, was surprised to get a water bill over $500 two weeks ago. His building, currently rented to an antique furniture seller, has two toilets and three sinks, and water usage for the property has seldom exceeded $20 per month. When he called the city, they told him his next water bill was already over $5,000.
He hired a contractor as soon as he could to replace the leaking water pipe, which cost close to $3,000.
The city has a program to forgive large water bills for one-time leaks, and Sharma said they've told him his bill will likely be adjusted.
The high bill was doubly surprising for him, because he thought his Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) water meter, which checks water usage every hour, would've caught the major leak before so much water was wasted.
"How come nobody even bothered to call, when I'm losing so much water?" Sharma said.
Abbotsford's smart water meters were introduced in 2010, with the goal of reducing water usage through early leak detection and real-time monitoring. They use a radio frequency transmitter at each meter, from a company called Itron, which regularly sends information about each customer's water usage to the city's utility department.
According to Paul Doucet, the Canadian account executive for Itron, their transmitters sent information directly from customers to a city's utility department. On a central computer, software analyzes this information to figure out if there are any leaks.
City spokesperson Katherine Treloar said Abbotsford's software shows a leak alert for residential customers if they have no periods of zero water usage over three days. For commercial customers, the system is more complicated — many businesses use water continuously — and staff compare recent and past usage to see if leaks are present.
Leak alerts are then used by the city to send leak notifications to customers. Some cities have online systems or automated postcards; Abbotsford uses letters.
But Sharma is unhappy with how long it took for him to know about the leak — because of how much water was wasted.
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Location: Leicester Gymnasium, Franklin, Mass.
Dean College shot 50 percent from the field and nearly 60 percent from behind the arc and the visiting Bulldogs raced past host Becker College, 78-61, in New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) men's basketball action on Saturday afternoon.
The backcourt combination on Jordan Booker (Waterbury, Conn.) and Dayvon Russell (Naugatuck, Conn.) combined for 48 points on an impressive 18-for-29 shooting from the floor.
In addition to that duo, Armani Baker (Pawtucket, R.I.) notched his third straight double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds and Sean Odum (Rowlette, Texas) contributed nine points, five rebounds, four assists and four steals.
Kareem Davis scored inside to give the Hawks a 22-17 lead with 6:38 remaining in the first half but Becker wouldn't make another basket the rest of the half, rather relying on five free throws as Dean closed the frame on a 15-5 spurt capped by an Oswaldo Terrazas (Odessa, Texas) basket as the period ended, making the game 32-27 at the half.
The early portion of the second half remained close and when Dewayne Thomas scored for the Hawks, they were within four at 45-41.
Dean responded by going on a 12-2 run over a three minute span that featured three-pointers from both Booker (28 points) and Russell (20 points).
Becker never got closer that 11 the rest of the way and when Odum knocked down a three-pointer and Josh Croskey (Union, N.J.) followed that up with a basket of his own moments later, the Bulldogs were in front 70-52 and the game was no longer in doubt.
Dean returns to action on Tuesday when they host Elms College at 7:00 PM.


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New York Public Library Sets Date For Harold Prince Exhibit
By BJ Ragone
On September 18, 2019 the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will hold a free exhibit that showcases the life and work of Broadway legend, Harold Prince.
The legendary producer and director passed at the age of 91 back in July, but his imprint on the world of Broadway is still felt through his work on so many influential shows. Those shows include, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Phantom of the Opera.
The exhibit, called In the Company of Harold Prince: Broadway Producer, Director, Collaborator, will explore Prince's impact on Broadway and his work with various stage managers, designers, composers, writers, and more. It will also include original costumes, set models, and video, according to Playbill.
To go along with the exhibit the Library is presenting a number of events that will honor Harold Prince. You can get a full run down of the scheduled events, that will run through January 2020 by clicking here.


Indeterminate, 70-80 days. Plants are loaded with fruits weighing a pound or more. Excellent full flavored tomato. Consistent and very early in my opinion. Easy to peel but has somewhat of a hollow core. Ideal for fresh eating as well as being superb for sauce and salsa. I rate this the best sauce tomato I have grown in our region of Northern Indiana.
This variety succumbs to early blight quicker than the other tomato varieties I offer, but, I always get a great harvest before the plants are finished.
Sow seeds indoors 6 weeks before transplanting into your garden. Space 3′ apart in rows at least 3′ apart. Tomatoes need good air movement to help control disease. I always mulch my tomatoes with straw. This helps to keep the soil evenly moist and keeps dirt from splashing up onto the leaves. Caging or trellising is crucial and I strongly recommend not using the round wire cages found in garden centers. These are perfectly suitable for peppers but not for heirloom tomatoes which can tend to sprawl or grow very vigorously. I suggest investing in a few steel t-posts and twine to create a moveable strong trellising system. The absolute best advice I can give for successfully growing tomatoes in Northern Indiana is to not plant too early. I NEVER plant field tomatoes until the last week of May. Tomatoes put in cold ground are not going to grow or develop roots until the soil warms.
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Laura Dave (born July 18, 1977) is an American novelist.

Early life
Dave was born in New York City and grew up in Scarsdale, New York. Her interest in writing began when she was in elementary school. Dave graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, where she received a B.A. in English. She has an MFA from the University of Virginia's creative writing program. She was a Henry Hoyns Fellow and a recipient of the Tennessee Williams Scholarship. She received several awards for her writing including the AWP Intro Award in Short Fiction.

Following graduate school, Dave worked as a freelance journalist for ESPN.

Writing career
Dave is the author of London Is The Best City In America (2006) and The Divorce Party (2008).  Her most recent novel, The Last Thing He Told Me, was released in 2021 and became an instant #1 New York Times Bestseller, remaining on the NYT hardcover bestsellers list for 65 weeks. Dave's fiction and essays have been published in The New York Times, The New York Observer, ESPN, Redbook, and The Huffington Post. She most often writes about relationships, family, infidelity, and marriage. She has appeared on CBS's The Early Show, Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends and NPR's All Things Considered. In 2008, Cosmopolitan named her a "Fun and Fearless Phenom of the Year."

Personal life
Dave is married to screenwriter Josh Singer. They reside in Los Angeles.

Works

Novels
London Is The Best City In America (2006)
The Divorce Party (2008)
The First Husband (2011)
Eight Hundred Grapes (2015)
Hello, Sunshine (2017)
The Last Thing He Told Me (2021)

Film options
In 2006, Universal Studios optioned the rights to London Is The Best City In America as a starring vehicle for Reese Witherspoon. In 2008, Universal Studios also optioned The Divorce Party in conjunction with Echo Films, Jennifer Aniston's production company. In 2020, Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine optioned 'The Last Thing He Told Me' to be produced as a limited series on Apple starring Jennifer Garner.

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
21st-century American novelists
University of Pennsylvania alumni
People from Scarsdale, New York
American women novelists
21st-century American women writers
University of Virginia alumni
Writers from New York City
Scarsdale High School alumni
Novelists from New York (state)


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Zoltán Kemény (21 March 1907 – 14 June 1965) was a sculptor.

Kemény was born in Bănița, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Romania). He was the only Hungarian to win a prize at the Venice Biennale. He died in Zurich, Switzerland, aged 58.

See also
List of sculptors

External links
Biography at Lorenzelliarte.com
Biography from Centre Pompidou
Page at the Tate Gallery (London)

1907 births
1965 deaths
People from Hunedoara County
Hungarian sculptors
Modern sculptors
20th-century sculptors


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Amplatzer atrial septal defect closure device used in adult patients
Bernard E F Hockings, James L Wilkinson, Cheryl Blanton
Cardiology Department, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Mount Hospital & University of Western , Perth and Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Bernard E F Hockings
Mount Cardiology, Suite 3, 140 Mounts Bay Road, Perth, Western Australia 6000
Percutaneous Amplatzer device closure of atrial septal defects has been gaining popularity in recent years, mainly in children. Its use in adults began in October 1996. In May 1997, the first Australian adult was treated with the device. As of July 1, 1999, 160 devices have been implanted in Australia, one-third of these in adults. Data was collected on 63 adult patients aged 16 – 78 years. Of the 63 patients, 52 underwent successful implantation. 5 patients were brought back for a second procedure because the first device implanted was smaller in size than the size of the defect. The device is now available in sizes ranging from 10 to 38mm. 23 patients have had the device implanted in Perth and 3 patients underwent a second procedure when a larger device became available. Not all patients were symptomatic before the procedure, but of those who were, 18 of 34 were symptomatically improved. 21 of 36 patients with right-sided dilatation showed reduction in size of the right atrium and right ventricle at 2 – 19 months of follow-up. Potential problems include difficulty in sizing the device correctly, embolization (1 patient), and transient ST segment elevation (2 patients). Our experience shows that the Amplatzer ASD closure device can be used successfully in adult patients.
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Wilkinson JL
Blanton C


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Decision details
Southfield House Semi-independent Accommodation and Support Services for Young People
Find out more about this issue
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
To seek Cabinet approval for the re-modelling of Southfield House, to support the implementation of the Sufficiency Strategy, by developing quality semi-independent accommodation and support services for vulnerable young people.
Cllr Stephen Davies sought Cabinet approval for the re-modelling of Southfield House, to support the implementation of the Sufficiency Strategy, by developing quality semi-independent accommodation and support services for vulnerable young people.
Having considered all of the information, Cabinet noted the report and
RESOLVED to:
1) Approve an allocation of £3.35million of capital funding to the proposed remodelling of Southfield Site (both Main and Old House buildings) for the purpose of delivering accommodation for care experienced young people who may also be in employment, training or apprenticeships.
2) Delegate authority to the Executive Director of Children's Services in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Economy, Education and Skills, and the Cabinet Member for Children's Safeguarding and Early Years to:
a) Conduct a competitive procurement process in respect of a contract for the delivery of day-to-day delivery of accommodation and support services, with 24/7 staffing to support the young people placed. The successful tenderer for such services will also finance all 'fit out' costs for the re-modelled accommodation. Such contract shall continue for an initial period of 5 years and include an option to extend its term for a further period of 2 years.
b) Award such contract to the preferred tenderer.
c) Determine whether to exercise the option to extend the term of such contract for a further period of 2 years on its fifth anniversary.
3) Delegates authority to the Assistant Director for AMPS in consultation with the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance and Change to:
a) Conduct a competitive procurement process under the Gloucestershire County Council's Major Project Framework (or its replacement) in respect of a call-off contract for the supply of remodelling works in respect of:
· Southfield Main House: for the purpose of providing the following accommodation for care leavers.
o 13 studio flats, 2 two-bedroom flats
o 2 well-being flats
o 1 single bedroom flat (used as an emergency/Police And Criminal Evidence bed)
· Southfield Old House: for the purpose of providing the following accommodation for young people who are in employment, training, or apprenticeships
o 7 one bed flats
o 1 two bed flat
o 1 crash pad
b) Award such call-off contract to the preferred tenderer.
Report author: Cllr Stephen Davies
Date of decision: 30/03/2022
Decided at meeting: 30/03/2022 - Cabinet
Effective from: 07/04/2022
Accompanying Documents:
Southfields report AW FINAL v1.6 020322 incorporating updated comments and capital PDF 314 KB
EIA - Southfield House final PDF 154 KB


LONDON, Ky. (WKYT) – An eighteen-year-old is being held in the Laurel County Detention Center on multiple charges, after Troopers say he led them on a two-county chase in a stolen vehicle.
Troopers say they attempted to stop a 2017 Mitsubishi passenger car on I-75 near the 33 mile marker. When they turned on their lights, however, police say the driver sped away, racing across Laurel and Whitley Counties.
Investigators say during the chase, they discovered the car had been reported stolen from Michigan. Meanwhile, officers further down the interstate were able to deploy spike strips and deflate the suspect's tires when he passed over them.
Despite the flat tires, police say the driver continued on to exit 11, and then turned westbound onto KY 92. Soon afterwards, officers say the driver lost control of the car, and crashed into a ditch.
After a short foot pursuit, police apprehended Harold Summers of Burton, Michigan and placed him under arrest.
Summers faces two charges of fleeing or evading police, reckless driving, possession of marijuana, and theft of a motor vehicle, among other charges.


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Man's Best Friends: 20 Pictures of Dogs with Beer
From: http://www.sloshspot.com/
Beer and Dogs. Dogs and Beer. It doesn't matter in which order you place them, they are man's best two friends. One gets us drunk, and the other licks peanut butter off...well, the important thing is that we love both of them. Here are twenty pictures of the two together. And they make us happy:
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Labels: Alcohol, Beer, man's best friend, Things That Are Awesome
The 15 Sexiest Funny Women in Hollywood
By Lilah Albaba
From: http://www.stylecaster.com/
These sexy Hollywood stars were blessed with both good looks and a killer sense of humor. Find out who made the cut.
Image: Zimbio.com
Are funny and sexy mutually exclusive traits for women? Nope-- the attractive, yet comical female is no longer a fantasy creature. These days, it seems like Hollywood is cranking out gorgeous women who have it all-- the ability to make a man laugh and look good while doing it. Check out our picks for the top 15 sexiest funny women in Hollywood.
1. Anna Faris (above)
When it comes to casting the role of a sexy, dumb blond, Anna's your girl. We first saw her in Scary Movie and have since enjoyed watching her in Just Friends and House Bunny. If anyone can make playing a ditz hot, it's Anna Faris.
2. Tina Fey
[Image: GQ]
When it comes to attractive female comedians, Tina Fey takes the cake. She has made our stomachs ache from laughter with her outrageous skits on SNL-- her seamless impersonation of Sarah Palin may or may not have affected the outcome of the 2008 presidential election. And did we mention she was the mastermind behind the pop culture phenomenon Mean Girls, and writes the award winning series 30 Rock? Need we say more?
3. Cameron Diaz
[Image: Zimbio.com]
Cameron Diaz has charmed us with her all-American good looks in the hilarious comedies There's Something About Mary, The Sweetest Thing, and What Happens in Vegas. The rom-com star originally began her career as a model-- making her a perfect candidate for this list.
4. Elizabeth Banks
[Image: Maxim]
Don't let her pretty face fool you-- Elizabeth Banks isn't afraid to get down and dirty to get a few laughs. You may have seen this blond bombshell in The 40 Year Old Virgin and Zach and Miri Make a Porno. With her alluring looks and that certain je ne c'est quoi, it's no wonder L'Oreal Paris chose her as a spokeswoman alongside Beyonce and Eva Longoria.
5. Isla Fisher
[Image: Allure]
When your fiancé is Sacha Baron Cohen, a sense of humor is almost required. Isla Fisher is able to pull off funny and look sexy while doing it. Who could forget her role in Wedding Crashers as the clingy and borderline psychotic girl who ends up marrying Vince Vaughn? We'd love to know how she makes crazy look so good!
6. Aisha Tyler
With her good looks, guest roles on shows like Reno 911 and Chelsea Lately, and her own book, Aisha Tyler just might have it all. She is proof that women can be sexy, funny, and smart-- breaking the stereotype of the "unattractive comedian."
7. Jenna Fischer
[Image: Shape Magazine]
Jenna Fischer's role on the hit TV show, The Office, has catapulted her onto the Hollywood scene. Her understated humor and subtle sarcasm have contributed to the show's popularity, fulfilling the cliché male fantasy of the sexy receptionist.
8. Chelsea Handler
Host of her own show, Chelsea Lately, and a two-time New York Times best selling author, Chelsea Handler is yet another hilarious woman who isn't bad on the eyes. She has filled our late nights with laughter and witty commentary on the latest celebrity news and pop culture, and she's notoriously open about her sexual escapades. It's no wonder men secretly set their DVRs to Handler's show each night.
9. Kristen Wiig
Deep down, underneath the outrageous hair and the unflattering SNL costumes, is a very hot lady. Kristen Wiig's looks are often camouflaged, but at the end of the day, you can't deny her sex appeal. After all, sometimes the sexiest thing about a person is their ability to laugh at themselves-- and makes others laugh too.
10. Christina Applegate
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The talented and beautiful Christina Applegate has made us die with laughter in several comedies including The Sweetest Thing, Anchor Man, and her ABC show, Samantha Who?. Not only is she an Emmy Award winning actress, but Applegate is a philanthropic one too-- she founded her own charity for Breast Cancer (after fighting the battle herself). The comedienne is an inspiration to many-- not to mention a knockout. This list would be incomplete without her.
11. Kaley Cuoco
[Image: beyondhollywood.com]
Most well-known for playing the airhead daughter on 8 Simple Rules, Kaley Cuoco has won audiences over with her good looks and amazing sense of humor. Cuoco's latest role in The Big Bang Theory earned her an Ewwy Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. With her sexy blond hair and hot bod-- this is one actress to watch out for.
12. Lauren Graham
We originally knew Lauren Graham from the TV series Gilmore Girls as a lovable, sarcastic and quirky-- we just have to say it-- MILF. The brunette beauty also played opposite Steve Carell in Evan Almighty and stars in NBC's brand new comedy, Parenthood. Plus, she looks as if she hasn't aged a bit in years--how does she do it?
13. Jane Krakowski
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Best known for her role in Ally McBeal, Jane Krakowski is another impossibly funny, yet stunning woman in Hollywood. She is also among the many talented actors on 30 Rock-- which earned her a SAG nomination for her performance as a self-centered actress/singer.
14. Sarah Silverman
Although Sarah Silverman's comedy borders on controversial, you can't deny its humor. We can't help but burst into laughter over her crude jokes that bring some humor to subjects of religion, sex, and racism. The funny girl started out her career writing for SNL, and has been entertaining us for the past few years on her own show, The Sarah Silverman Program. While she may not be conventionally beautiful, guys love her for her "one-of-the-guys" sex appeal.
15. Leslie Mann
[Image: Vanity Fair]
When you're a knockout and your husband is the writer/producer of films like The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Funny People-- there's a good chance your career will flourish. You may have seen Leslie Mann in the above films as well as Big Daddy and 17 Again. But, don't think that she relies solely on her hubby Judd Apatow for roles-- Mann had been making funny movies long before the couple met.
Read more: http://www.stylecaster.com/news/7829/countdown-the-15-sexiest-funny-women-in-hollywood#ixzz0j7lCtuVc
Labels: Celebrities, Funny People, Hollywood Woman, Hottest Woman, Things That Are Awesome
"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story"
funnyordie.com — Trailer for the upcoming Weird Al Yankovic biopic. This film is sure to sweep next year's Academy Awards.
"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" from Aaron Paul
Labels: Coming Soon, Funny or Die, Humour, Humour Video, Things That Are Awesome
Amazing Medley of TV Themes
TWO Fredriks (oh yeeeaah), performing a medley consisting of themes and openings from a collection of TV shows.
http://www.learnguitarez.net
0:01 Two and a Half Men
0:36 O.C
1:00 Naruto
1:41 Married with Children
1:57 Cheers
2:16 That 70's Show
2:41 Big Love
2:58 Freaks and Geeks
3:18 Malcolm in the Middle
3:35 X-Files
3:55 Firefly
4:09 The Office
4:24 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
4:44 Scrubs
4:54 True Blood
5:27 Charles in Charge
5:38 The Big Bang Theory
5:55 How I Met Your Mother
6:05 Mission Impossible
6:14 Friends
Labels: Cartoon Theme Songs, Television, Things That Are Awesome
VSS Enterprise's first 'captive carry' flight!
From: http://www.virgingalactic.com/
VSS Enterprise completes her first captive carry...
Virgin Galactic announced today that VSS Enterprise has completed her inaugural captive carry flight from Mojave Air and Spaceport.
This very first captive carry was a huge success and both the mothership and spaceship looked absolutely stunning against the blue back drop of the Mojave skies.
Commenting on the historic flight, Burt Rutan said: "This is a momentous day for the Scaled and Virgin Teams. The captive carry flight signifies the start of what we believe will be extremely exciting and successful spaceship flight test program."
Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Galactic added: "Seeing the finished spaceship in December was a major day for us but watching VSS Enterprise fly for the first time really brings home what beautiful, ground-breaking vehicles Burt and his team have developed for us. It comes as no surprise that the flight went so well; the Scaled team is uniquely qualified to bring this important and incredible dream to reality. Today was another major step along that road and a testament to US engineering and innovation."
The VSS Enterprise test flight programme will continue though 2010 and 2011, progressing from captive carry to independent glide and then powered flight, prior to the start of commercial operations.
Labels: Nasa, Space, Things That Are Awesome, Virgin, Virgin Galactic
The most incredible scars given to the earth
From: http://speedywap.com/
By: Mirny Mine
Image: Zhivun
With explosions and massive machines scraping into the earth's crust like a bad case of scabies, it's small wonder open cast mining has made what many see as an unpleasant impact on the planet's surface. The face of the earth is beleaguered with giant scars, scoured out in our ongoing bid to the plunder the planet of its natural resources. We've selected 10 of the holes most needing a bit of environmental ointment – where rehabilitation of the land could take some time.
10. Kalgoorlie Super Pit
Image: Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines via ABC
Kalgoorlie Super Pit is what it says on the tin. Irishman Paddy Hannan first saw the glimmer of gold here back in 1893, and this gigantic pockmark in Western Australia is now its continent's largest open cut gold mine at 3.5 km long, 1.5 km wide and 360 m deep. It's huge. And it's growing. At least, that is, until 2017 when it is expected to cease being productive.
Threatening to devour the town: The Super Pit, Kalgoorlie
Image: The Super Pit
While the Super Pit has the pull of a benign black hole for tourists into good hole-some fun, air pollution, water usage, noise and vibration issues and mining waste are all bones of contention for local residents. Still, as well as coughing up almost 30 tonnes of gold each year, the pit provides work and silver for around 550 employees.
9. The Big Hole, South Africa
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Another open pit whose name leaves little to the imagination, the Big Hole in Kimberly, South Africa, is said to be the largest hole excavated by hand – despite recent claims that the nearby Jagersfontein Mine holds the some might say dubious title. While it was closed in 1914, during its 43-year lifetime, the 50,000 workers who broke their backs using picks and shovels shifted 22.5 million tonnes of earth, yielding almost 3 tonnes of diamonds for their jolly bosses, the de Beer brothers.
Water-filled earth wound: The Big Hole, Kimberley
Image: Irene2005
The Big Hole is 463 metres wide and was dug to a depth of 240 m – though infilling and water-accumulation have left just 175 m of the hole visible. It's now a show mine complete with a restored old town. Quaint.
8. Diavik Diamond Mine
Diavik Diamond Mine is located in Canada's charmingly named North Slave Region – hopefully no reflection on the way the 700 workers here are treated. This is an open cast mine like no other. Gouged into a 20 square km island, 220 km from the Arctic Circle, there are particularly jaw-dropping views of this cold spot when the surrounding waters freeze over.
Snow hole: The Diavik Mine encircled by ice
Connected by a treacherous ice road, this remote mine takes some getting to and so even has its own airport big enough to accommodate Boeing 747s. With a lifespan of 16 to 22 years, the owners will be happy as long as this yawning hole continues to throw up 8 million carats (1600 kg) of diamonds a year.
7. Ekati Diamond Mine, Canada
Image: All About Rocks
Another giant crater in the grizzled face of Canada, the Ekati Diamond Mine is North America's first commercial diamond mine – having opened in 1998 – and those still dazzled by diamond rush fever no doubt hope it won't be the last. It's actually only a stone's throw from the Diavic Mine just 20 km closer to the Arctic Circle – ensuring things here stay colder than a penguin's pecker.
Iced up: The Ekati Mine in freezing winter temperatures
Image: whutch1 via Weather Underground
Like its brethren blemish in Diavic, the Ekati Mine is accessed by hair-raising ice roads and got its 15 minutes of fame on The History Channel's Ice Road Truckersprogramme. Darned crazy canucks? Driven mad perhaps by the 40 million plus carats (8,000 kg) of diamonds the steady scouring has so far produced.
6. Grasberg Mine, Indonesia
Image: Alfindra Primaldhi
Opened in 1973, Indonesia's Grasberg Mine is the world's biggest gold mine and third largest copper mine. This industrial eyesore in the mountains of Papua employs a staggering 19,500 workers but is majority owned by smiling US subsidiaries. Built with permission it was not really the Indonesian government's to give, the mine was attacked by the rebel Free Papua Movement in 1977.
Putting things in scale: Astronaut photo of the Grasberg Mine
These days, steep aerial tramways ferry equipment and people in and out. In 2006, the mine coughed up 610,800 tonnes of copper and 58 tonnes of gold, but it doesn't take much digging to find environmental controversy surrounding the site, with water contamination and landslides heading the list of concerns. Contentious.
5. Chuquicamata, Chile
Image: Luiswtc73
Chuquicamata in Chile is a colossus of a mine that has churned up a record total of 29 million tonnes of copper. Despite almost 100 years of intensive exploitation, it remains among the largest known copper resources, and its open pit is one of the biggest at a whopping great 4.3 km long, 3 km wide and over 850 m deep.
Strangely beautiful sight: Chuquicamata Mine from high in the air
Image: Owen Cliffe
Copper has been mined for centuries at Chuquicamata, as shown by the 1898 discovery of a mummy dated around 550 AD found trapped in an ancient mine shaft by a cave-in. A great influx of miners was sucked in by 'Red Gold Fever' after the War of the Pacific, when at one stage the area was covered with unruly mining camps where alcohol, gambling, prostitution and even murder were rife. Yee-haw.
4. Escondida, Chile
Image: Minera Escondida
The Minera Escondida Mining Co. runs twin open pit mines cut into the skin of the copper capital of the world that is Chile. Construction began in 1990, and this sucker recently overtook Chuquicamata as the world's largest annual copper producer, with its 2007 yield of 1.48 million tonnes worth US$ 10.12 billion – a whole lot of dollar.
Escondida from space: The mine is at the bottom of the picture
Image: PD-USGOV-NASA
Environmental impact aside, Escondida has become a key part of the Chilean economy and employs some 2,951 people directly. A strike in 2006 broke out because workers felt they were not sharing in the super high profits being made on the back of record copper prices. After wrangling for pay demands, the union briefly blockaded the road to the mine. Testy stuff.
3. Udachnaya Diamond Mine, Russia
Image: Alexander Stepanov
Like the Sarlacc Pit on Steroids, the Udachnaya Mine in Russia is a gigantic open-pit diamond mine that plunges more than 600 metres into the earth's crust. Yep, it's one heck of a hole. Located in Russia's vast but sparsely populated Sakha Republic, just outside the Arctic circle, it seems that mining for these precious stones demands a good set of thermal undies.
Into the depths: The Udachnanyay Mine from its southern side
Image: Russian Author
The nearby settlement of Udachny was named after the diamond deposit, which was discovered in 1955 just days after the Mir (below). The Udachnaya pipe is controlled by Alrosa, Russia's largest diamond company, which boasts that it plans to halt open-pit mining in favour of underground mining in 2010. Glad to hear it.
2. Mirny Diamond Mine, Russia
Image: USMRA
Siberia's Mir Diamond Mine comes close to taking the cake as numero holie. The largest open diamond mine in the world, this Russian monster has a surface diameter of 1.2 km and is 525 m deep. The size of the hole is such that wind currents inside cause a downdraft that has resulted in helicopters being sucked in and crashing. Good to know the area above it is now a no-fly zone.
Earth vortex: The Mir looks as if it might suck in houses as well as helicopters
After its discovery in 1955, workers at the Mir had to endure incredibly harsh temperatures that froze the ground and everything else in the winter, making car tires and steel shatter. The mine ceased operations in 2001, having produced 10 million carats (2 tonnes) of diamond per year at its peak. Our survey says: ka-bling.
1. Bingham Canyon Mine, USA
So here it is, the carbuncle supremo, Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah, the world's biggest manmade pit. This mammoth mine measures 4 km wide and drops a stomach-churning 1.2 km into the ground, the result of extraction begun in 1863. The ore-inspiring fruits of its labour include more than 17 million tonnes of copper and 715 tonnes of gold – a mental load of metal.
The biggest yet: Bingham Canyon Mine laid bare
Image: Elmhurst
In the early 1900s, mining camps lined the steep canyon walls, but several of these were swallowed up by the ever-expanding mine. Now it employs 1,400 people and 50,000 tonnes of material are removed from it each day. What's more, this giant earth scar and National Historic Landmark is growing – and will continue to until at least 2013.
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Steve McQueen – Sir Steven McQueen CBE – won the Turner Prize in 1999, a BAFTA for Hunger in 2008 and an Oscar in 2014 for 12 Years a Slave, which he directed. A retrospective at Tate Modern in 2020 had to be cut short because of lockdown. As the son of West Indian parents, growing up in West London in the early 1980s, he found school difficult and discouraging, but an interest and ability in art – though there were very few black artists as exemplars – took him to Chelsea School of Art and then to Goldsmiths College of Art. McQueen was feted initially for his video installations (filming from a rolling oil drum in New York City), and he brings to Small Axe, made for and recently shown on the BBC, an artist's eye for movement and colour, shape and structure, space and volume.
Small Axe has been referred to as an 'anthology' or an 'epic', and it is indeed both of those, and it is also storytelling at its best, as McQueen draws on the lives and true experiences of the West Indian community in London at a time when it was dangerous to be out walking and black. Yet, overall, these recent five films of differing lengths leave the viewer not with a feeling of despair but with a sense of admiration and respect, for a theme that threads through them all is the power of education and, with it, an intelligent and reasonable demand to be acknowledged, as the character Darcus Howe (Malachi Kirby) tells the courtroom in the defence of the Mangrove Nine in his closing remarks to the jury.
'Racism is just a terrible waste of everyone's time,' to quote Jackie Kay, the Scottish Makar (Poet Laureate), and Steve McQueen shows us how true this is. Set in Notting Hill in the late 1960s, the first film, Mangrove, tells the story of a restaurant, its owner, the community, police harassment and an 11-week trial of nine people charged with inciting a riot, at the end of which they were found not guilty. For the first time, a judge admitted that there was racial hatred on both sides, which included the police.
Shawn Parkes plays Frank Crichlow, owner of The Mangrove, a quietly forceful man whose restaurant becomes a hub for the community, a lively place of music (great soundtrack), food, and where one can see the seeds of the yet-to-be Notting Hill Carnival. Time is taken to develop the characters and the location, the relationships, including the push back that brings in the Black Panthers. McQueen's filming focuses on details too, a colander rocking for minutes on the floor where it has landed in yet another destructive police raid, which draws the viewer's thoughts away from the 'action' and into the mundane.
The trial itself, 1971, in which two of the nine choose to defend themselves, is a masterpiece of filming. The camera doesn't roam around the courtroom seeking drama, but concentrates on the accused. The black activist Altheia Jones-LeCointe (Letitia Wright) puts to shame the posturing of the prosecution and inspires with her natural rhetoric.
While the jury is out, and they wait, the screen becomes almost silent; the defendants sit in a room of light diffused by cigarette smoke, and the camera circles and repeats shots of face, profile, lips, eyes, as time passes. Unlike Hollywood movies, where it is assumed that tension equals action, here the scene is suspenseful and deeply affecting to the point where one feels almost in the room. Again, in the courtroom as the jury chairman speaks, the camera fixes only on the front row of the defendants' box, especially on Frank as he listens to the verdict. As Darcus Howe says to the courtroom, almost in the style of a Greek chorus, 'Wherever a community is born it creates institutions that it needs. It's closing time, it's closing time'.
Dedicated to all lovers and rockers, Lovers Rock is a shorter film and a fable, inspired by one of the institutions of the 1980s, the Blues party, or Lovers Rock – reggae and soul – a full-on musical experience when the West Indian community would create a private club in someone's house or flat – not being admitted themselves to nightclubs – where they could eat home-made food, meet friends and dance all night. To say it is gorgeous would be an understatement: saturated colour, clothes of the period selected to perfection (by Jacqueline Durran), mesmeric music (supervision by Ed Bailie) and two young people falling in love: Franklyn (Michael Ward) and Martha (Amaiah-Jae St Aubyn).
Another thread McQueen weaves in is the presence of religion, a crucifix on a wall, a reference, a reminder of how to conduct yourself. In Lovers Rock, Martha – dressed to the nines, including her 'church shoes' – silently climbs out of her bedroom window after dark, meets her girlfriend and away they go on a forbidden Saturday night out.
This is a kind of fairy tale, girl meets boy, a slow burn during the evening of dancing. It is the long lingering shots of a crowded dance floor, the camera capturing expressive hands, touching shoulders, bare skin, close bodies, sensations, that tell the tale of identity and belonging. A 10-minute sequence of the dancers singing a capella together to Janet Kay's Silly Games, the sound of feet, the circling and repetition remind one of McQueen's (also Bill Viola's, or John Akomfrah's) immersive videos. The delight of bicycling home in the early morning – again Shabier Kirchner's cinematography astonishes – shows only the heads and shoulders of Martha and Franklyn seemingly flying, just their motion, past a huge canvas of trees and sky, the bicycle out of the frame. Cinderella dashing home before church.
A change of pace, a true story, a cooler palette, Red, White and Blue is perhaps the darkest of the five films, especially because the issues of racism in the British police remain unresolved. John Boyega takes the role of Leroy Logan, who became the founder of the Met's Black Police Association, but that was later. First we see him as a forensic scientist, in Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s. After his father (Steve Toussaint) is beaten by the police, Leroy decides that the only way to change the force would be to join it, much against his father's wishes. He is supported in his decision by his long-term partner, Gretl (Antonia Thomas), and once again a theme of McQueen's appears, which is the influence of women, whether it is aunt, mother, lover or sister. Women are a moral compass, who see into the future and believe in themselves and their families, especially in terms of engagement and education.
It doesn't go well, being in uniform. His only back-up is from a young Indian, who cannot take the abuse and leaves. The viewer is sunk into the period, from the interiors – curtains and wallpaper – to the contemporary attitudes. Strength is in the family, playing scrabble, eating together, respecting the Lord and one's antecedents. Boyega is so believable as a conflicted man, which makes it all the more painful to watch as he struggles on the brink of giving it all up. Finally, in the last scene – with his father – there is resolution, support from his father. Leroy: 'It is a slow-turning wheel, the world; sometimes I think it needs to be scorched so something good will come of it'. And he remains with the Met.
Steve McQueen shows all of us the complexities of human nature, no matter to what race we belong. As the judge in Mangrove directs the jury, 'do not take account of the colour of anyone's skin, nor the uniform they wear'. However, the next two films deal with childhood and youth, the powerlessness of black children, and the prejudice and callousness of those who were deemed to be fit to care for them. With Alex Wheatle, a true story, and Education, which reflects some of his own youth, McQueen depicts with great sensitivity the failings of a system that was unprepared – if one wanted to be generous – for becoming diverse and multi-cultured, and at worst was vindictive and negligent.
Happily for the viewer, after being dropped into the unpromising, threatened lives of black children in the 1980s, one sees both of these films surge to an emotional and rewarding ending. Alex Wheatle, who was part of the writers' room for Small Axe (the writers for the series being Courttia Newland and Alastair Siddons) received an MBE for services to literature in 2008, not an outcome that could have been predicted from his early years: absent mother, a father who could not manage and then years in the demoralising circumstances of Shirley Oakes children's home, Croydon.
As a teenage Wheatle, Sheyi Cole, in his debut role, creates a character of humour and intelligence, an innocent (almost) searching for his own identity, but not knowing where to find it. While serving a short prison sentence (Brixton riots), his older cellmate puts into his hands C L R James's The Black Jacobins, and for the first time in his life Alex realises that black people can be heroic. To quote his dreadlocked cellmate, imprisoned for toppling a colonial era statue: 'If you don't know your past, you won't know your future'.
Sheyi Cole develops the character of Alex from a hesitant teen (scouring the markets for cool clothes) into a searching, dedicated young man who makes the decision that, indeed, he needs to know not just his own past but that in order to fully understand his role in society he must understand the lives of his ancestors. When his old mate Badger shows up with a typewriter, probably off the back of a lorry, Alex says out loud, 'I think I might write a book'. Wheatle's book for young adults, Crongton Knights, won The Guardian children's fiction prize in 2016, and the recent Cane Warriors takes on the historic slave uprising in Jamaica in 1760. Alex Wheatle has given young readers the opportunity to see themselves in contemporary literature and to realise that in Britain's diverse culture they have a voice.
Steve McQueen continues the theme of knowing your ancestry in order to know yourself in Education, the story of a young boy who probably has dyslexia or at least struggles at school, as did McQueen: Kingsley Smith, played with aplomb by Kenyan Sandy, in his screen debut. His mother Agnes (a strong performance by Sharlene Whyte) works double jobs and his father (Daniel Francis) has a blue collar job, both working to exhaustion to see their children get a good education.
With Education, McQueen shifts his forensic lens from those who were adults in the 1980s to the younger generation. Kingsley's kind, older sister Stephanie (Tamara Lawrence) has done well at school, and the same is expected of Kingsley, but he doesn't flourish. In the 1970s, black children were often treated as 'educationally subnormal' and bussed off to 'special schools', where the teaching was at best minimal and at worst, in a scene worthy of Monty Python, simply deadening: Mr Baines the teacher sits on his desk facIng the class, strumming his guitar and droning verse after verse of The House of the Rising Sun, until the viewer – like the children, who are sprawled half asleep on their desks – feels bludgeoned into submission. McQueen has the ability to make one laugh and cry simultaneously.
What saves Kingsley, and many other children like him, are the Saturday Classes, black supplementary schools, initiated by women in the black community, where black history discussion groups take place and the children are encouraged to learn the subjects that will see them succeed in the state school system. The 2019 Timpson Review states that exclusions from schools within the black community continue, and not enough has changed.
In Kingsley's story, he is introduced to the rich history of his African ancestors, the Kings and, importantly, the Queens. These strong women of the West Indian community – mothers and sisters – backed up, however doubtfully at first, by husbands and fathers show the children that they too can be the small axe: 'if you are the big tree, we are the small axe'. Bob Marley may have meant this to be about the stranglehold of the music industry, but it can apply equally to prejudices that must eventually fall.
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TRT capture a notorious gang member, Bloemfontein
The Bloemfontein Tactical Response Team (TRT), operating collectively with the Provincial Organised Crime Unit, captured a notorious gang member in Mangaung Bloemfontein.
On Thursday, the 8th of October, members followed a crime intelligence-led message on the location of a wanted BTK gang member identified as "Sarita" for two counts of murder.
The suspect was discovered hiding at his mother's house in Rocklands and captured.
The suspect and his gang members ambushed and killed two adolescents in Mafora Section, Mangaung, in 2016.
After the incident, the group was discovered and found hiding at a shack with clothes full of blood and dangerous weapons. All were captured, but the case against him was withdrawn, pending availability of DNA results.
Other gang members were connected to the crime and are now serving a sentence.
A warrant of arrest was assigned for "Sarita" after DNA results were obtained, and he has been wanted since until his capture today.
Masithembe Ngovela, 28, also known as Sarita, will appear at the Bloemfontein Magistrate court on Friday the 09th of October 2020. He will be joined by another accused, which is still on trial facing two counts of murder.
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The curriculum at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School reflects our philosophy and aims. It is broad and balanced, recognises national guidelines and fulfils the requirements of the National Curriculum and beyond.
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The curriculum at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School reflects our core values, promoting and developing ambitious, resilient students who are encouraged to take full advantage of opportunities but who also support one another, learning the crucial importance of trust and respect.
We provide a broad programme of experiences which enables students to appreciate their cultural inheritance and understand more about themselves and the world in which they live. It also promotes the view that learning should be experienced as something which is enjoyable, engaging, rewarding and confidence building.
Our curriculum aims to:
foster life-long learning
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develop responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society
At BRGS, we have chosen to maintain a three year KS3 as we believe all students should have full access to arts, humanities and two modern languages for as long as possible to give them a broad, balanced education with a wide range of study. Art, drama and music are a central part of our curriculum at KS3 and the GCSE uptake reflects this, as do the high number of pupils learning to play an instrument and the range of co-curricular art and music clubs.
Our knowledge-rich curriculum ensures our students' proficiency in a range of fields and develops students who are able to speak knowledgeably and with authority on a wide range of topics and not be bound by their circumstances or experience, gender or their socio-economic background. Our curriculum provides depth: deep knowledge and secure understanding as we believe every learner is entitled to a curriculum that is varied, challenging and inspiring, which enables every individual to fulfil her or his potential to the highest possible standard, developing enquiring minds capable of original thought and well-balanced critical argument.
We provide education that is suited to able students and there is great emphasis on academic excellence. At the heart of our curriculum is a strong academic core for all our students at KS3 and KS4: the English Baccalaureate (EBacc). At KS4, all students select a minimum of one humanity and one MFL (Germanic or Romance). The vast majority of our students also undertake three separate sciences at GCSE as we believe the widest possible participation in STEM education is crucial to a better prepared workforce for the future, enabling all our students, to take full advantage of future opportunities in this field if this is their choice. At post-16, we maintain a particular focus on academic A-Level subjects. We believe all our students are entitled to access an ambitious curriculum programme, securing the best achievable qualifications, providing them with the greatest opportunities in higher education, higher level apprenticeships and employment.
However, we firmly believe that the value of our curriculum goes beyond purely what is examinable. The changing nature of work means that life-long learning and the emotional resilience that goes with it, have become necessities rather than luxuries. The development of the correct attributes, habits of mind and thinking skills are central to our evolving curriculum. Our curriculum promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of students at the school and in society more widely. Religious studies is taught from year 7 right through to year 11 by members of the Religious Studies department and is also available as a distinct course for students in KS4 and KS5. PSHCE is a fully timetabled subject and is taught throughout KS3 and 4 by specialist teachers following a spiral curriculum and already incorporates Relationships and Sex Education. The course fully meets, and exceeds, that recommended by the PSHE association. Additionally, we ensure a strong focus on personal development through a structured tutorial programme at KS3, KS4 and our Sixth Form.
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