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Los Angeles Kings Logo – Los Angeles Kings is a professional team of ice hockey in the United States located in Los Angeles (California). The franchise was founded in 1967 as an expansion team, and settled in Inglewood until 1999, when they moved to Staples Center in downtown. The team plays in the National Hockey League framed in the Pacific Division.
The city of Los Angeles was interested in hosting a franchise in the NHL, as the state of California and had several hockey teams in various local leagues. When the National League decided to expand, the Canadian entrepreneur Jack Kent Cooke, owner of Los Angeles Lakers, paid two million dollars for having one of the six seats that were granted. Cooke decided to install its equipment in the city angelina, as the community of hockey fans had to add a significant number of citizens from northern states of the west coast in the United States and Canada. The new club was called the Los Angeles Kings, adopted the purple and gold as primary colors and would play in The Forum.
During his first season involved players like Bill Flett, Eddie Joyal, Eddie Shack and Real Lemieux and others. During its first few seasons the Kings got confirmed as a competitive team, but from the 1970's his game deteriorated significantly. There was a bad sport management, which the team would rather sign players in their late career, and did not recover until 1974 when, under the command of Bob Pulford, re-qualify for a playoff. Soon after, the signings of Marcel Dionne and Rogie Vachon helped the Kings to finish in second place in the Norris Division in 1975. Dionne formed in 1979 a triple line known as Triple Crown, along with rookie Dave Troyes and Charlie Simmer, who served for Los Angeles had one of the best attacks in the NHL.
In 1979 the former athlete Jerry Buss bought the Lakers Cooke, Kings and The Forum for a total of 67.5 million. The new owner kept the team intact block, so the Triple Crown dominated the 1980 championship with 146 goals and 182 assists in his three stars, getting into the All-Star team with his goalie Mario Lessard. But despite the success of individual players, the Kings never got beyond the first round of the playoffs until 1982.
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LinkedIn vice president of marketing, Nick Besbeas, to depart
By Nesh Pillay-16 April 2015 15:12pm
LinkedIn's vice president of marketing, Nick Besbeas will be leaving the company at the end of May.
According to ReCode, the news was announced via an internal company email, sent by chief executive, Jeff Weiner.
Besbeas had been at the networking company for four years and led multiple global marketing pertnerships, including Microsoft's 'Name tag analyzer,' Callaway Golf's 'Hit the links app,' and Van Heusen's 'Most fashionable professional'.
The reason for his departure and his next steps are still unclear.
"We will miss Nick and his commitment to our members, and we wish him all the best as he considers his next play," Weiner wrote in the email.
Besbeas will be replaced by current senior vice president of corporate communications, Shannon Stubo.
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HSAs and FSAs Aren't the Same: Here Are the Differences So You Can Finally Stop Mixing Them Up
Never say FSA when you mean HSA again.
Lauren is a former editor at Real Simple and currently serves as a senior digital editor for Better Homes & Gardens.
When it comes to healthcare in the U.S., there are plenty of bewildering terms to know: deductible, out-of-pocket, in-network…the list is a long one. Unfortunately, some terms are even dangerously similar—take health savings accounts (HSAs) and flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
Despite their similar acronyms, these two accounts are different—though both have to do with healthcare. (Not confusing at all, right?) Read on to learn the difference between an HSA and an FSA.
HSA vs. FSA
An HSA is a health savings account; an FSA is a flexible spending account. Both are accounts that allow people to contribute money for eligible medical expenses, saving money on taxes in the process. Both HSAs and FSAs have annual contribution limits.
"Both of them allow you to set aside money on a pre-tax basis," straight from your paycheck, says Katie Waters, CFP, founder of Stable Waters Financial, a Georgia-based financial planning firm. By lowering your gross income through HSA or FSA contributions, you ultimately save money on taxes.
HSAs and FSAs can be used for the same list of IRS-approved eligible medical expenses, ranging from office visits to transportation to and from appointments to healthcare supplies such as high-SPF sunscreen. (Your particular plan, provider, or employer may have different eligible expenses: Be sure to confirm that an expense is on the list before you buy.)
The differences between HSAs and FSAs
Beyond their general purposes, HSAs and FSAs are very different. HSA money can be rolled over from year to year, making it an effective saving tool—some HSA plans let you invest the money, so it grows tax-free, and HSA funds can be used for anything once the account holder hits 65. FSAs are use-it-or-lose-it, so if you don't spend all the money in your FSA in the year it was contributed, it goes away: no cumulative saving there.
HSAs are also only available to people with high deductible health plans (HDHPs): If your deductible is $1,400 or higher ($2,800 for families), you're eligible for an HSA. Meanwhile, "FSAs are typically paired with lower-deductible health insurance plans," Waters says.
Anyone with a high deductible health plan can sign up for an HSA—some smart insurance apps even make it easier than ever to get an HSA—but they are often offered by employers if you have employer-provided healthcare. FSAs are almost exclusively offered by employers.
Choosing between an HSA and an FSA
Trick question: It's unlikely that you'll be able to decide between an HSA and an FSA when making healthcare choices. "You don't really get to choose what you have access to," Waters says.
HSAs are strictly limited to people with HDHPs; FSAs are generally associated with low-deductible plans. If you have a few options for healthcare from your employer, there's likely to be at least one high-deductible plan, which may come with an HSA; there may be a low-deductible plan with an FSA. You won't be able to pick a plan and then decide if you want an HSA or an FSA with it—that will be decided for you, based on the healthcare plan you pick. (The exception is limited-purpose or post-deductible FSAs, which operate differently.)
Plus, "it's not that one is better than the other," Waters says. An HSA might sound like a great extra, tax-advantaged savings account, but it always comes with a high-deductible health plan. Waters says it's a common mistake to think HSAs are better—and an easy one, because rolling over money year after year sounds much better than a use-it-or-lose-it policy—but HSAs can actually cost you more money if you choose a high-deductible plan for the HSA and end up paying more out-of-pocket for medical costs. If your medical expenses are consistently high, for example, chasing an HSA can actively hurt your finances.
"Do not let the account you want pick the plan," Waters says. Instead, pick a health plan that works for you and covers your needs: If it comes with an HSA or FSA, consider that an added bonus.
IRS. Publication 969 (2021), health savings accounts and other tax-favored health plans. Date Accessed July 5, 2022.
Healthcare.gov. Using a flexible spending account (FSA). Date Accessed July 6, 2022.
H&R Block. Health savings account & flexible spending account. Date Accessed July 5, 2022.
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Buildin Blocks Daycare
2901 S. Crater Road
Current Inspector: Lynn Powers (804) 840-8260
Inspection Date: July 9, 2020 and July 14, 2020
22VAC40-80 THE LICENSING PROCESS.
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32.1 Report by person other than physician
63.2(17) License & Registration Procedures
This inspection was conducted by licensing staff using an alternate remote protocol, necessary due to a state of emergency health pandemic declared by the Governor of Virginia.
A focused inspection was initiated on 07/14/2020 and concluded on 07/14/2020. The provider was contacted by telephone to initiate the inspection. There were 2 children present and 4 staff. The inspector emailed the provider a list of items required to complete the inspection. The Inspector reviewed 2 children?s records and 2 staff records submitted by the facility to ensure documentation was complete.
Information gathered during the inspection determined non-compliance with an applicable standard or law and a violation was documented on the violation notice issued to the facility.
The Licensing Inspector has reviewed with the provider COVID-19 Essential Guidance for Child Care programs.
Description: Based on record review, the center did not ensure two of two children's records contained all of the required information.
1. The record of child #1 (start date: 6/15/2020) did not contain documentation of the parents employment, employment number, an address for two emergency contact persons.
2. The record of child #2 (start date: 7/8/2020) did not contain documentation of the parents employment, employment number, an address for two emergency contact persons.
: In the future we will be implementing the state approved child registration form. I will have parents correct form upon pickup.
Standard #: 22VAC40-185-90--A
Description: Based on record review, the center did not ensure two of two children's records contained documentation of a written agreement between the parent and the center authorizing and agreeing to the following: emergency medical care, a statement that the center will notify the parent when the child becomes ill and that the parent will arrange to have the child picked up as soon as possible, and a statement that the parent will inform the center within 24 hours or the next business day after his child or any member of the immediate household has developed any reportable communicable disease.
1. The record of child #1 (start date: 6/15/20) did not contain documentation of written agreements between the parent and the center as required by 22 VAC 40-185-90.
2. The record of child #2 (start date: 7/8/20) did not contain documentation of written agreements between the parent and the center as required by 22 VAC 40-185-90.
Standard #: 63.2(17)-1720.1-B-3
Description: Based on record review, the center did not ensure one of two staff records contained documentation of an Out of State Child Abuse and Neglect Search Request by the End of 30th Day of Employment.
The record of staff #1 (start date: 5/18/2020) did not have documentation of an Out of State Child Abuse and Neglect Search Request. The record of staff #1 indicated that the staff has lived out of the state of Virginia within the last 5 years.
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Home Politics National National War Memorial inaugurated by PM Modi in Memory of the brave...
National War Memorial inaugurated by PM Modi in Memory of the brave Jawans of the country.
National War Memorial is being inaugurated by The Prime Minister Narendra Modi at India Gate Complex in Delhi today. The memorial is to pay tribute to all the soldiers who were martyred for the country. On the speech PM discussed various issues related to the country had had a full fledged attack on the Gandhi family regarding various national issues.
At the opening of the National War Memorial, Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened an all-out attack on the Congress and pitched the Gandhi family as the opponents who always shortchanged the armed forces – from bullet-proof jackets to helicopters and now the Rafale fighter jets. "Is it the nation first or the family first," he questioned during his address. The soldiers, assembled at the memorial in the heart of Delhi, responded with slogans of "Bharat Mata ki Jai".
With weeks to go for the national elections, the occasion acquired a political turn. Speaking before PM Modi, Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, "What we need today is your trust, and trust in the Prime Minister. The welfare of ex-servicemen is always at the top of our priorities."
In his address, PM Modi launched a no-holds-barred attack. "Earlier, how soldiers were treated — you know better than I do… from Bofors to helicopter, all investigations end at the same family. This says a lot," PM Modi said. "Now, these guys are trying too hard to ensure the Rafale deal fails… But soon India will get its first Rafale and their conspiracies will fail," he added.
The Prime Minister also said the "previous governments" showed "criminal negligence" when it came to addressing the needs of security forces. "Soldiers were facing the enemies without these jackets.. Between 2009 to 2014… these demands were never met. In the last five years, we have purchased more than 2,30,000 bullet proof jackets," he added.
Built at the heart of Delhi near the India Gate — a British-built memorial to Indian soldiers who fell in the First World War — the National War Memorial comprises four concentric circles with a central obelisk.
The circles have been named the "Amar Chakra", the "Veerta Chakra", the "Tyag Chakra" and the "Rakshak Chakra" and the names of 25,942 soldiers have been inscribed in golden letters on granite tablets.
The Prime Minister dedicated the memorial — built at a cost of Rs 176 crore — to the martyrs by lighting the flame at the bottom of the obelisk. Helicopters of the Air Force showered rose petals and a fly-past in "Missing Man" formation was also part of the event.
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Both Tebow and Barkley lose competition for 3rd QB job
The Eagles released QB Tim Tebow, who was competing to be third on the depth chart.
Eagles coach Chip Kelly said he plans to bring in another quarterback.
Some surprise keeps were OL Josh Andrews, CB Denzel Rice, and S Jerome Couplin.
Outside LB Marcus Smith, who has a hamstring injury, won't be put on short-term injured reserve.
PHILADELPHIA In the end, the winner of the much-hyped competition for the Eagles' third quarterback job will be someone from another team.
Eagles coach Chip Kelly didn't keep Matt Barkley or Tim Tebow as he traded Barkley to Arizona on Friday and released Tebow on Saturday. Kelly said he plans to bring in another quarterback to serve behind starter Sam Bradford and backup Mark Sanchez.
Tebow, as beloved for his religious convictions as he was ostracized for his lack of accuracy as a quarterback, was hoping to make an NFL roster for the first time since the end of the 2012 season.
"We just felt like Tim's really progressed, but we didn't feel like he was good enough to be the [third quarterback] right now," Kelly said. "He really improved his throwing motion from when he was throwing a couple years ago. He worked extremely hard on it and deserves a lot of credit for that … I think he just needs to get more playing time."
That will have to come somewhere else, or in another league.
Neither Barkley nor Tebow did enough to stay. Barkley, who was the third quarterback the past two seasons, went 27 of 52 for 351 yards, with no TDs and two interceptions in the four preseason games. Tebow was 21 of 36 for 286 yards, with 2 TDs and an interception. Tebow also ran 14 times for 82 yards and a touchdown.
Were the Eagles right to cut Tim Tebow and go with two quarterbacks?
Kelly said the decision was not solely based on the last preseason game, when Tebow was 11 of 17 for 189 yards with the 2 TDs and the interception. Barkley was 4 of 9 for 45 yards with an interception.
"We took everything into account," Kelly said. "[Tebow] played well in that [last] game. But it's a compilation of the whole time. It wasn't just one game that was a make-or-break."
The quarterback decision overshadowed the fact that the Eagles ended up releasing 22 players to get down to the NFL's limit of 53 by the 4 p.m. deadline. The Eagles actually kept 52 players, leaving a spot open for a quarterback.
Some of those quarterbacks who might be available to the Eagles are Matt Flynn, who was cut by the New York Jets; Matt Cassel, released by the Buffalo Bills; and Christian Ponder, released by the Oakland Raiders. Kelly said he's not necessarily looking to sign a young quarterback for developmental purposes.
"If that player has to play because of injuries, we need him to be prepared to play right now," Kelly said. "It's not a [case]of in the ideal world of let's get a young guy in here and develop … We're going to take whoever we think is the best available guy."
Kelly said he did that at every position. That included the offensive line, where Josh Andrews made the roster after spending last season on the practice squad. He joined some other surprises like cornerback Denzel Rice, an undrafted free agent out of Coastal Carolina; and safety Jerome Couplin, whom the Eagles signed last November off the Detroit Lions' practice squad.
The Eagles kept Rice over Jaylen Watkins, the Eagles' fourth-round pick in 2014, and Randall Evans, the Eagles' sixth-round pick this year. In all, the Eagles have three of eight draft picks remaining from the 2013 draft, five of seven from 2014 and three of six from 2015 (cornerback JaCorey Shepherd is on injured reserve).
"I don't look at where they came in at, or what their draft selection was, or all those other things," Kelly said. "If you do, I think you're going to hurt your football team … I don't think it has anything to do with Jaylen. I think it has to do with the play of E.J. Biggers and the play of Denzel Rice."
The players cut over the past two days are: Newark High School's Malcolm Bunche, an offensive lineman; WR Rasheed Bailey; OL Brett Boyko; Evans; TE Andrew Gleichert; LB Najee Goode; WR Jeff Maehl; WR Freddie Martino; DL Brian Mihalik; OL John Moffitt; RB Raheem Mostert; WR Quron Pratt; S Chris Prosinski; DT Travis Raciti; S Ed Reynolds; LB Deontae Skinner; P Kip Smith; Tebow; TE Eric Tomlinson; OL Julian Vandervelde; LB Diaheem Watkins; and Jaylen Watkins.
Some of those players will be brought back to the 10-man practice squad, as long as they're not claimed by another team.
Tebow won't be one of them because he doesn't have practice squad eligibility remaining. Tebow knew the possibility existed that he might not make the roster. He was asked last week if he planned to keep trying to make a team if he didn't make the Eagles.
"I intend to live one day at a time," he said. "That's always something I've tried to live by. It's something that's extremely biblical. You're going to have enough things to worry about in the future, so don't worry about it [until it happens]."
Wing tips
>>Kelly said the fact that he only kept three tight ends doesn't necessarily mean that Zach Ertz will be ready for the season opener against Atlanta on Sept. 14. He did say that Ertz, out for the past month with a core muscle injury, is progressing.
>>Kelly said outside linebacker Marcus Smith, who has a hamstring injury, won't be put on short-term injured reserve. He's going to stay on the 53-man roster, even if he's not ready for the opener.
>>Kelly had this to say about Malcolm Bunche, the Newark High School offensive lineman: "Malcolm was a real tough decision, but I think we have some depth on the offensive line."
Contact Martin Frank atmfrank@delawareonline.com. Follow on Twitter @Mfranknfl.


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Interim District Attorney Suzy Loftus is one of two key candidates, along with Supervisor Vallie Brown, being backed by Mayor London Breed in Tuesday's election.(Chris Victorio/S.F. Examiner)
Heated election day contests to test political strength of Mayor Breed
Mayoral appointees seek to fend off progressive challengers for DA, supervisor
Michael Barba
Joshua Sabatini
Mayor London Breed is up for re-election Tuesday, but there isn't a more closely watched contest on the ballot than the race for district attorney.
San Francisco's race for top prosecutor began as the first contest of its kind in more than a century without an incumbent in the running. Then a number of unexpected moves made the race even more interesting.
A few weeks before the election, Breed appointed her preferred candidate Suzy Loftus as interim district attorney. And in a last-minute surge of spending, the police union has dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads attacking Loftus' strongest opponent and the farthest-left challenger in the race, Chesa Boudin.
While the mayor is all but certain to triumph over her own opponents Tuesday, the real test of her strength on election night is whether Loftus can prevail over Boudin as well as candidates Leif Dautch and Nancy Tung.
Breed also faces another battle in District 5, where her mayoral appointee Supervisor Vallie Brown seeks to fend off progressive challenger Dean Preston and keep the Board of Supervisors from shifting further left.
On Monday, Boudin supporters who are largely at odds with Breed rallied outside City Hall. They denounced television ads and mailers from the San Francisco Police Officers Association that depict Boudin as dangerous, and told voters not to fall for the "fear-mongering."
"The message to San Franciscans is do not let the special interests control the outcome of the election irrespective of who you support," said former Supervisor David Campos, chair of the local Democratic Party. "Make sure that you read the fine print and that you don't let this happen."
Law enforcement groups including the SFPOA have spent more than $650,000 to oppose Boudin in a race that has become the most expensive district attorney contest in San Francisco history, with outside interests shelling out cash to support all four candidates in the running.
Campos said the police union is spending so much against Boudin because he would hold officers accountable as district attorney. The spending has intensified the tensions between Boudin and police, with the candidate using the $650,000 figure to energize his campaign on social media.
At the same time, Loftus has played up her relationships with law enforcement by making several announcements during her brief tenure as interim district attorney. Last week, she joined Police Chief Bill Scott and Sheriff Vicki Hennessy for a press conference on car break-ins.
Over in the District 5 contest, Brown has been slugging it out with Preston over the seat that she was appointed to when Breed became mayor.
Should Brown lose, the election would cost Breed influence on an already progressive-leaning board and make it more challenging for the mayor to push her agenda in the coming four years.
Jason McDaniel, an associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University, said the election will determine whether Breed has allies who she can work with in the District Attorney's Office and in District 5.
"The election of Preston in District Five would move the board even further away from Mayor Breed's agenda than it currently is, and would empower those members of the board who have been most critical of the mayor and her agenda," McDaniel said.
Like the district attorney's race, the District 5 contest has drawn outside interests including the California Association of Realtors, which has spent $117,000 on mailers attacking Preston.
As recently as Monday evening, a tech and real estate-funded group called Progress San Francisco donated $10,000 to a commitee supporting Brown, as well as $25,000 to a committee backing Loftus.
A committee largely funded by the United Educators of San Francisco teachers union, meanwhile, has spent $97,500 to back Preston.
While the success of Breed's chosen candidates is the most obvious indicator of her political influence, observers will also be watching to see what percentage of the vote the mayor wins by.
That percentage could be used as a "rough gauge" to determine the level of support Breed will have for her political agenda and her chosen candidates in elections going forward, McDaniel said.
When the late Mayor Ed Lee similarly ran for reelection in 2015 against no credible challenger, he won just 55 percent of vote, which was considered low for an incumbent.
By comparison in 2007, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom ran against no serious contender and picked up nearly 74 percent of the vote.
If Breed picks up at least 60 percent of the vote, political consultant Maureen Erwin said it will show voters "think she is doing an OK job."
Political consultant Jim Stearns said, "London would definitely want to be where Gavin was."
"Anything lower than 70 percent is embarrassing," said Stearns, who is running the Boudin campaign and who ran Mark Leno's unsuccessful bid for mayor against Breed last year.
Stearns said Breed could claim an election night victory if Loftus and Brown won, but "losing either one is a real blemish."
On Tuesday night, Breed is holding her re-election party with the campaign for Proposition A, a $600 million affordable housing bond. The measure addresses one of the most important issues in San Francisco.
While Breed might claim it as a victory, observers say it would be wrong to construe the success of Prop. A as a demonstration of her political strength. Since 2007, all but one bond measure has passed in San Francisco.
mbarba@sfexaminer.com
jsabatini@sfexaminer.com
Supes declare 'emergency' as traffic-related deaths increase
Voter turnout 'consistent, but slow' at San Francisco polls


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Mixed reactions to 2015 budget
Sapaxxxx Staff Reporter
In her report on the Nkandla upgrades
Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene's 2015/16 budget contained mixed messages for individual taxpayers, PwC said on Wednesday.
PwC tax consultant Ian Wilson said in a statement that measures announced in the budget signalled relief for low- to middle-income earners and increased the income tax burden for middle- to high-income earners.
"The usual relief in the form of widened tax brackets and increased personal rebates has been neutralised for taxpayers with annual taxable incomes in excess of R450 000 by an increase in the tax rates by one percent for all brackets other than the lowest, which remains at 18%."
Senior tax manager Karen Botha said that a taxpayer earning around R100 000 per year would have an additional R44.25 extra in their pockets every month, barely covering ever-rising costs of fuel and consumables.
However, a taxpayer earning around R1-million a year could expect to have R379.22 less cash to take home each month.
"It is incredible to think that 11% of registered taxpayers bring in 61% of the total personal income tax payable in South Africa, yet the lower income earners get to take more home on a monthly basis," Botha said. "I am not sure for how much longer the 11% will tolerate this."
Medical scheme contribution tax credits were increased marginally to R270 per month for the first two beneficiaries and R181 per month for each additional beneficiary. Wilson said: "This is a form of tax relief but any benefit needs to be compared with potential increases in fringe benefit taxation on employer contributions to medical schemes."
Budget Speech 2015: Decoded. (Deloitte, YouTube)
Nene should have been bolder
Congress of the People (Cope) said Nene should have announced bolder steps to reduce government spending.
"Minister Nene should have taken the bull by the horns and demanded a decrease in the size of government and a substantial reduction in consumption side expenditure," Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota said in a statement. "He shied away from this," said Lekota.
Nene announced that consolidated government spending was expected to be R1.35-trillion, and revenue about R1.2-trillion. Lekota said national debt in 2018 would be at around R2.3-trillion, which was unsustainable.
He said Nene had raised concerns that substantial repayment of debt was coming due, but made no mention of where this money would come from. "How is this going to be paid?" Lekota asked.
"In the past few years short-term debts were being converted by the government to long-term debt. Is he going to persist with that practice and encumber our youth to settle these debts in the future?"
Cope supported Nene in implementing new requirements for the Auditor General to furnish compliance reports, and welcomed the move to give additional funding to the public protector's office. Cope believed the creation of a single supplier database interfaced with the South African Revenue Service and the payroll was another progressive step.
"If municipalities follow the Sars model for electronic payments, all sides will be well served," Lekota said.
Meanwhile, farmers' organisation TAU SA said agriculture had very little to be thankful for following the tabling of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene's 2015/16 budget.
"With the current severe drought, we would have liked that the minister [of finance] would have made an allocation for drought relief in advance," TAU SA said in a statement on Wednesday.
"The earlier farmers who are hit by the drought can be helped back on their feet, the less food needs to be imported. Imports of food will have an adverse impact on the country's payment balance."
The cutting of the overall agriculture budget to R6.38-billion showed it was not a priority, the organisation said. The fuel levy would not bode well for farmers. "This will have a negative effect on the economy, while it will lead to rising food prices.
"Whether it's a wise decision to allocate as much to emerging farmers while commercial farmers are struggling to keep their heads above water, is an open question."
Tisa welcomes tax hike
The Tobacco Institute of South Africa (Tisa) gave Nene a pat on the back for maintaining the 52% tax on tobacco products.
"While taxes on tobacco products remain an extremely valuable source of income for governments all over the world, as taxes rise and products become more expensive, illegal operators and organised crime syndicates are the immediate beneficiaries, as they do not pay taxes," Tisa chief executive Francois van der Merwe said in a statement.
"Illegal operators are thereby able to sell tobacco products at very low prices in comparison to legal products, which in turn stimulates consumption."
Nene announced in his 2015/16 budget that the excise duty on a pack of 20 cigarettes would increase by 82 cents.
Fuel levy hike
The Road Accident Fund (RAF) was given a temporary lifeline with Nene's announcement of a 50c hike in the fuel levy.
"This raises the compensation scheme's primary source of income from 104c to 154c per litre of fuel sold, a percentage increase of 48%, which roughly generates a total fuel levy of R2.66-billion per month for RAF's coffers from July 2015," the RAF said in a statement.
The RAF said motorists' additional contribution towards the fuel levy guaranteed that road users would still get cover under the current compensation scheme. RAF chief executive Eugene Watson said although the extra money would help, it would not solve all its "legacy problems".
"Initially, the extra fuel levy will not speed up claims payments. If we continue to maintain our high productivity levels, receive no further increases from the fuel levy, and delay the implementation of the Road Accident Benefit Scheme, our backlog will simply continue to grow," he said.
Madonsela pleased
The office of the public protector was saved from insolvency with a R60-million lifeline in the budget, Beeld reported on Thursday.
Nene announced in his budget presentation that the protector would receive that amount over three years. In 2013/14 the protector was allocated R199.3-million, in 2014/15 R217.6-million, and in the coming year it would rise to R246.1-million.
Public protector Thuli Madonsela said she was relieved and grateful, but it was a drop in the ocean. Last year she told Parliament her office was "technically insolvent" because of the growth of the organisation, and its workload over the past five years.
Her staff of 314 had to handle 40 000 cases last year.
Her spokesperson, Oupa Segalwe, said Madonsela was thankful that her pleas did not fall on deaf ears and though little, it would definitely bring relief. The protector's office would still have to make drastic cutbacks. – Sapa, Staff reporter
Sapaxxxx
Congress Of The People
Fuel Levy
Road Accident Fund
Thuli Madonsela
SAA to receive R10.5-billion government bailout after all
Covid-19 a 'catalyst for closing the pay gap'
Comrade Andrew Mlangeni was the embodiment of service
Law firms hit Road Accident Fund with court action
Sars expects to collect less revenue for the year
Strike-off case pulls in judge


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At least 12,000 years ago, there were people living in this breathtaking state, in Clovis, Folsom, and Eden Valley. Evidence continues and shows that there were people there until about 500 A.D., making up the predecessors to the more modern Indian tribes. Indeed, those tribes have their own mysteries and miracles. One of those is found at the top of Medicine Mountain, near Lovell. This ancient holy place has 28 spokes spanning 245 feet, built of stone so long ago that no tribe today knows of its origins. Amongst the nomadic tribes that have lived there are the Arapaho, Arikara, Bannock, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Nez Perce, Sheep Eater, Sioux, Shoshone, and Ute tribes.
After Lewis & Clark made expedition through the territory in the early 1800's, it would be fur trapping that initially drew settlers to the area, and that continued to be the case through 1840. Oddly enough, the French, Spanish, Russians, English, and Canadians have all tried to lay claim to the region at one time or another. U.S. control wasn't official until 1846. The homestead act of 1862 granted 160 acres to anyone who remained and lived on it for five years and the state's population was off to a quick start.
Wyoming has a history it can be proud of. It became known as the "Equality State," for that women have long enjoyed equal rights. Wyoming's women were the first to vote (1869) serve jury duty, and hold public office. In 1870, Ester H. Morris became the first female Justice of the Peace. The year 1924 saw Mrs. Nellie T. Ross sworn into the office of Governor, the first in the country. Elected the same day as "Ma" Ferguson from Texas, Mrs. Ross took office one slim day before Ms. Ferguson. Mrs. Ross would later become the first woman appointed to Director of the U.S. Mint. Even more recently, in 1991, women held three of the top five executive offices in the state, held three state senator seats and 20 state representative spots.
Though the Grand Tetons had already gained reputation, it was Yellowstone that brought the majority of the tourism. In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant declared Yellowstone the world's first National Park. The Tetons first received government protection in 1897 when Congress created the Teton Forest Reserve out of land not included in Yellowstone National Park. Congress attempted to expand Yellowstone in 1917, so that the entire range through to Jackson Hole would be protected, but locals defeated three attempts to federalize the land. In 1927, John D. Rockafeller, Jr. took matters into his own hands. To protect the lands from further development, he discretely purchased 35,000 acres and tried to give it to the government. Even then, both Congress and locals bucked at the idea. Finally, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created Jackson Hole National Monument, sealing a 221,000-acre parcel of valley around the Snake River. Roosevelt took advantage of his presidential powers to override the intentions of Congress and the locals, a move that was sorely resented and fought until 1950. Only then was the original park joined with Roosevelt's National Monument to become the Grand Teton National Park as we know it today.
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Urban and Rural areas in Nepal have been and will continue to be the problem of gender based and cast system discrimination .Nepal has been suffered political conflicts as well as social problems like difference between rich and poor people.
This Project seeks to respond to the needs of the communities' children, youth and their role for Peace building. It also aims to create conditions which will contribute to peace and stability.
* Organize peace building activities in local community.
* Celebrate International Peace day every year 21 September.
* Organize Compassion Games for kindness, unity, inclusion and Friendship.
* Lead the Legislate Peace Campaign at schools, colleges and communities.
* Promote and support schools as a peace zone.
* Preparing Community Action Plans and organize Play for peace events.


This course applies the principles of mediation and other forms of intervention to a particular context. Each year, the specific course context changes. Possibilities include intervention in environmental disputes, family disputes, organizational disputes, or international disputes.


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Samsung has announced the availability of a version of its SD Memory Cards from their popular Samsung EVO + series, the Samsung 128GB EVO Plus. This MicroSD card takes advantage of the advanced 48-cell V-NAND technology. In this way, we have more capacity and greater performance. The Samsung 128GB EVO Plus has a write speed of up to 90 MB per second. It also has a reading speed of up to 100MB per second. With 128GB at our disposal, we can record up to twelve hours of video at a resolution of UHD or 33 hours of video in 1080p. Up to over 30,000 photos can be stored without having to change or replace the memory card. The micro SD card of the Samsung EVO + is covered by a guarantee of 10 years by Samsung.
The Samsung 128GB EVO Plus is a synonym of comfort for every user of mobile devices such as digital cameras, smartphones and tablets. Today, memory is never too much, and photos of holidays or social gatherings are no longer stored in albums on the shelf.
Just the right card for all, the Samsung 128GB EVO Plus provides more space and higher speed. With it, you can unload your devices, and use the card with the largest capacity and read speed in its class to write data. Perfect for recording and playing Full HD video, stunning performance and durability … with this great microSD Card, you will not miss anything from the wealth of life.
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This microSD Card when connected to a USB 3.0 has the ability to read at more than 90 MB per second, as it should currently be one among the fastest SD card on the market. This makes this card significantly faster than its previous versions, the Evo Plus 32 GB and Evo Plus 64 GB. A similar speed is also suitable for extreme applications, such as real-time recording of 4K video, and it is clearly very good for the needs of smartphones and tablets. It is not only very fast, but it also has great ability to save data.
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The Samsung 128GB EVO Plus has a very successful industrial design and is very durable for all compatible devices. It can withstand up to 24 hours in sea water, and Samsung certifies it for water, temperature, magnetic waves and x-rays. In detail, it is built to survive temperatures from -25 ° C to 85 ° C and can protect users' photos and videos from potential damage caused by X-ray machines, for example in airports. In addition, it can withstand up to 13 times the power of the speakers of a normal domestic home theatre system.
The Samsung 128GB EVO Plus is a classic SD memory Card which is sold with the Sd Card adapter included in the package, and this makes it very practical to use as an external memory support for computers and other devices that do not support the Micro SD format.
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My wife, myself and several friends traveled to Port Hardy the last week of July for a week of salmon fishing.
This is the third year we have visited Port Hardy.
On our first trip we met an exceptional gentleman who lives there. Mr. Pierce Clegg welcomed us into the community like old lost friends. He could not do enough for us while we were there, helping us learn some of the fishing spots and highlights of the area.
Again this year two more Port Hardy businessmen joined Pierce in showing us just what kind of people live in this great little town at the top of Vancouver Island.
Jim Henschke of Jim's Hardy Sports went beyond his business obligation to explain the fishing areas and techniques for a successful salmon fishing trip. What he did for us at his store and at the marina was more than any traveling fisherman should expect.
Because of his caring about our well-being we had a very successful trip.
If Port Hardy has a business or businessman of the month (or year) it surely must go to Jim at Tri-Port Marine Services.
When we had major mechanical problems with our boat, Jim made himself immediately available to help out. He stayed way past working hours the first night we contacted him to diagnose the problem.
He then ordered parts from Nanaimo to be put on the bus knowing he would not receive them until 5 p.m. or later.
This meant he would have to work late into the evening to install them. Because of this gentlemen's big-heartedness we missed only one day of fishing.
To some that may not seem important, but when you travel two thousand miles and have only five days to fish, it is huge.
Because of the friendships we have built with these people, Port Hardy is our vacation destination of choice. And it will surely be the place we recommend to our fishing and vacationing friends.
Port Hardy can be proud to have such distinguished, caring citizens as the ones whom we have met in the short time we have been visiting this community.


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Inkigayo deliberately leaves out I.O.I out of its pre-voting list?
I.O.I is unarguably one of the most anticipated girl group debuts thus far this year, having resulted due to viewer voting through the show Produce 101 via Mnet.
However, as the girl group was created – albeit temporarily as they will only promote together for 10 months – under the cable channel Mnet, there were also expectations that I.O.I would have a tough time with discrimination other broadcasting channels such as SBS, MBC and KBS as they have yet to perform on their music programs.
With their first week of music show promotions officially past them, fans are gearing up and preparing to vote online for a possible #1 trophy for the girls this week.
In particular, Inkigayo is currently facing a controversy after I.O.I was inexplicably left out of the early voting list. For May 22nd, songs such as Sechs Kies "Couple" and Busker Busker's "Cherry Blossom Ending" were included in the list, but questionably, so was Crush's "woo ah," released a day following I.O.I's "Dream Girl" which is nowhere to be found.
This exclusion from the pre-voting may hurt I.O.I's ranking on Inkigayo as the music chart is comprised of 55% digital sales, 35% SNS, 5% album sales and 5% pre-voting from viewers.
A music official was quoted saying, "At least give them an opportunity, it doesn't make sense to exclude them altogether. Even if the group was born out of an Mnet program, the nation is the one who selected them. Even if they didn't come from an SBS broadcast, the viewers want to see them."
In response to the allegations, an Inkigayo official said to Sports Chosun on the 10th, "I think there has been a misunderstanding. This is a rule that has nothing to do with bias but a rule that applies to everyone."
"I know there has been controversy involving I.O.I and their pre-voting for "Inkigayo". The producers only found out about this today. We began to look into it right away. Apparently I.O.I was not included in the Melon list but SBS has never requested for this to happen. In order to collect data from Melon it takes time. Every Monday the voting screen is opened based on Gaon Charts the week before but today was Tuesday and I think this is where the misunderstanding happened. In all honesty, rankings onW 'Inkigayo' is more dependent on Gaon charts. Melon only accounts for 5%. "
"They weren't able to have a comeback stage not because they are from a cable channel. Every singer wants to have a comeback stage on one of the big 3 broadcasts. But there's limited number of spots so not everyone gets a chance."
Source: Ilgan Sports and Sports Chosun


The modern day car wrecker sources their cars from auctions specially designed by insurance companies to provide the public with good late model car parts. This provides the consumer "you" with quality car parts off cars that were previously comprehensively insured by caring owners who wanted to protect their investment , yet had to claim for damages , thus the insurance company acquires the car to sell to the auto dismantler.
When you choose to buy a secondhand car part you are buying a car part that has already been made , a car part that has already cost the environment its carbon price , yet buying a new part costs another new carbon price again . So when you buy a secondhand car part from a professional car wrecker you are cutting the carbon price in half . You are doing your part in helping slow down consumption of the earth by buying secondhand.
You tend to save 40 to 50 percent off new prices when buying secondhand and you can always judge the quality of the car part by the look and feel . If it looks near new you can bet it is good value and you can install it on your car with confidence. Remember your car was secondhand the moment you drove it out of the showroom if you bought it new . Why buy new when used will do.
Buy your next part over the phone , a professional car wrecker car parts salesperson can identify the part you need for your car all by asking the right questions about the make and model of the motor vehicle you drive and specifically identify what you need or even what they know you will need.
Always ask the car wrecker salesperson you are calling if they offer warranty and for how long their warranty is on a particular car part . Car part warranty is a good indicator of quality , if you are offered a confident warranty on a car part you can be assured the car part salesperson is sure they are selling you a good car part. Often No Warranty means No Quality.
So be sure to follow these points on your way to buying your next car part, also remember secondhand car parts are available for any year of manufacture, including this year.
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Man City do the Premier League's job for them against Tottenham
Manchester City beat Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 at Wembley on an embarrassing night for the Premier League
Simon Bajkowski
When the Premier League markets itself as the best in the world, Pep Guardiola's Manchester City and Mauricio Pochettino's are undoubtedly two of the main attractions.
Feast on the best teams and the best coaches in the world going up against each other in a thrilling league where anyone can beat anyone.
What a farce, then, to butcher one of their biggest selling points by allowing the teams to face one another on a grisly pitch neither calls home watched on by thousands of empty seats. Considerable chunks of the pitch had been churned up by three consecutive NFL games - the most recent just 24 hours before such a showpiece match - and the bits that weren't still clearly boasted the markings of another sport.
Thankfully for those that run the league, City remain worth tuning in for on any occasion.
David and Bernardo Silva give the impression they could pass their way out of a locked room and their exquisite close control has rarely looked better as Guardiola's side moved the ball with a silky smoothness that defied their surroundings.
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Even if the opening goal owed much to Ederson's thumping kick forward, more important was Raheem Sterling's guile to beat England teammate Kieran Trippier before providing the perfect cut-back for Riyad Mahrez - who is increasingly getting into the right moments for his new club.
Tottenham gave City more problems than most teams have this season, repeatedly exploiting space behind Benjamin Mendy on a night that brought the Frenchman's defensive deficiencies to the surface.
Fernandinho and the rest of the defence showed why this team have now gone six league games without conceding though, stretching every bit of strength and skill going to keep the ball away from their net.
The second half deteriorated into a game the pitch deserved. There were hoofs, hoiks, and miskicks from two sets of players capable of doing far more, but the rare moments of quality near the goal amid the dross came from the visitors.
Silva came agonisingly close to finishing off Bernardo's inviting ball into the box and Sergio Aguero forced Hugo Lloris into another excellent save while Erik Lamela blazed over from level with the penalty spot after Pochettino's men had pressed Mahrez into erring.
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Spurs finished the game strongly and contributed to an uncomfortable final 15 minutes for City, Guardiola animated on the touchline as his team struggled to keep the ball and their cool.
With Ederson unflappable at the back, though, and Tottenham restricted to just four shots in total and one on target (compared to 13 and 6) it was a deserved win for the champions and one that takes them back to the top of the table after ten games.
While the Premier League would do well to make sure such an evening never happens again, the other 19 teams could do with working out a way to stop this City juggernaut if they are not to see another repeat come the lifting of the title next spring.
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Aspiring to play field hockey at an upper echelon college or university is both exciting and challenging. We have designed this event to benefit the student-athletes who desire to pursue this goal. Top of the Class is our answer to the numerous requests from college coaches, student-athletes and their parents to offer an opportunity where we can expose current players to a variety of coaching styles, play among the competition, show off individual strengths and become an overall better player.
We've assembled a number of the top coaches and instructors from prominent colleges within our national field hockey network in order to mentor players in the process of recruiting, academic admissions criteria and what it takes to play field hockey at the collegiate level. You can expect to learn much more about the college recruiting process from the people who do it: the recruiting rules, who to talk to, what to expect on visits, how to communicate with coaches and a whole lot more. Whether or not our group of coaches represents the specific schools you might be looking to attend in particular, you will nonetheless gain a valuable perspective into the process as it pertains to scholar-athletes at any of the top academic institutions.
The Top of The Class Camp is open to players graduating high school in 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023. Enrollment will be limited in order to ensure each participant receives maximum exposure to our coaches and other speakers such as college guidance counselors. We also highly encourage parent participation in order to get the most out of this exclusive opportunity. This is a great chance to be seen by coaches and potentially open doors to college contacts and the world of field hockey beyond the high school level.
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To expand a single drive beyond 137GB you need to use a "LBA48" Linux kernel when you use mfstools. You probably have an older boot disk that does not support larger than 137GB drives. You'll have to find a LBA48 boot disk and then re-do the restore/expand.
I did the same thing, and Dan is right. Get the PTV LBA48 Boot CD. A link can be found in the first "Sticky" post on this forum. It will cost $5 to download, but it is worth it. Good luck.


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What it's like inside Rolls-Royce's $410,000 luxury SUV
Aj Caldwell and Matthew DeBord
The Cullinan is Rolls Royce's first attempt at an SUV
It's covered in luxurious materials from real metal accents to lambswool carpets.
It has a 6.73-liter, 563 horsepower, twin-turbocharged V12 engine with a top speed of 155 mph.
The following is a transcript of the video.
Rich Benoit: I don't think that's worth $6,800.
Matt DeBord: $6,800 for a clock?!
Rich: Yeah, I don't think so.
Matt: I'm Matt, senior correspondent at Business Insider.
Rich: I'm Rich from the YouTube channel Rich Rebuilds.
Matt: And today we've got a 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan, the pinnacle of luxury SUVs.
Rich: And today we're gonna find out, is this thing actually worth $410,000?
Matt: Whenever I get in a car like this, I always start to look around and say, OK, well, I'm in a Rolls-Royce now. It's supposed to be incredibly... amazing and opulent inside, yeah, yeah, yeah, so where did they cut corners? What did they not, like, what's not up to the level of what I would think of for Rolls-Royce?
Rich: What do you see so far?
Matt: Where is the plastic, you know? Well, I mean, you know, the visors look, you know, the visors are a little bit like, well, maybe this is from the BMW parts bin.
Rich: Right.
Matt: Right? And there's some little bits and pieces of plastic here and there. But for the most part, for the most part...
Rich: I think it looks, yeah, I think it looks good so far.
Matt: The whole thing is pretty beautifully executed. Rich: Right, no, absolutely. Matt: I'm a big fan of the interior here.
Rich: I like the interior a lot.
Matt: The interior has won me over. I think the interior is worth $410,000.
Rich: You know what I think is cool? The digital-analog gauges look kinda cool.
Matt: Yeah, and everybody loves the power reserve instead of the tachometer.
Rich: That is kinda cool too.
Matt: You know, I'm on the power now, so I'm depleting my power reserve.
Rich: Right, so you have 80% left, power. Matt: Right, so it's the reverse of a typical tachometer, you know, where instead of it showing me the engine speed, it's showing me how much...
Rich: How much power you have left. Right.
Matt: Exactly. So, we're supposed to have a 0 to 60 in 4 1/2 seconds here, so we're gonna see if we get more or less 0 to 60 in 4 1/2. One, 1,000,
Rich: Oh, yeah!
Matt: two, 1,000, three, 1,000, four, 1,000. I got four seconds.
Rich: It gets up and goes, for sure. 500 and, what, 60ish kinda horsepower?
Matt: 563 is the official number, with 630 pound-feet of torque? Something like that, yeah.
Rich: I wish it was, I wish it was more.
Matt: To be honest with you, I was thinking the same thing. Maybe you could complain a little bit about the horsepower, and I, like you, I might say this is not quite as much I'd like to get out of it, you know.
Rich: Right, right.
Matt: But I like having all that torque.
Rich: Right, no, the torque's great.
Matt: I'm not gonna complain about the torque because you do want to have that sense that the thing could just keep going and going and going and going and never strain and you've always got some torque that you could go grab and have it do its thing. Now, I'm enjoying my time behind the wheel, as I always do in a Rolls-Royce, because I like the thin steering wheel.
Rich: You do?
Matt: I do. I love the steering wheel.
Rich: I thought it would be, like, bolsters there. That doesn't seem right to me.
Matt: I totally dig the thin steering wheel, and I always feel like... although, yeah, you're right, you're very... it's not like, you know, you drove over here in a pretty snazzy Corvette, which did not isolate you from the driving experience.
Rich: No, I felt every bump. I felt every person yelling at me to tone it down. I just, everything. Every single, I felt everything. This car, I feel like, you're just... it's just doing all of the work. You're just sitting down.
Matt: No, exactly. It's extremely relaxing, it's a meditative experience, you know, it's just... I really, really like driving Rollses for just this reason. And you can only, this driving experience is completely singular.
Rich: Mm-hmm.
Matt: You know, I've driven probably half a dozen Rolls-Royces, and you always, this is the feeling you always have in them.
Rich: It's so quiet.
Matt: It's quiet.
Rich: You don't hear it. Like, I haven't heard anything on the outside. Anything. I barely hear cars driving by.
Matt: Yeah. [Matt laughing]
Rich: I've gotta, you know, I do want to figure out one thing. What packages do they have available? 'Cause, what's the retail on this thing? Was it $410,000, they said?
Matt: This is $410,000. This vehicle, the way we're testing it, is $410,000. So, it's $325,000 to start.
Rich: All right. So let's see what other options. So, the paint is an $11,500 option.
Matt: Yeah, and I was a little disappointed with the paint, actually.
Rich: I didn't, I didn't think that was great, so, like, me being the cheap person that I am, I could save money right there.
Matt: [laughing] There you go.
Rich: Like, instead of saying, "Paint: gunmetal," I would say "Paint, yes." [laughing]
Rich: You know? So, let's see. Oh, one of my favorite features of this car, by the way, it's the lamb's wool floor mats.
Matt: Yeah, nice.
Rich: Those were $1,500.
Matt: Yeah, yeah, worth every penny.
Rich: I think that's a must-have, so let's see. So, there's contoured... ooh, let's see, what, contrast seat piping? $4,000. So, I think if you want to get the orange stitching on the seats,
Matt: That's four grand? Rich: that's four grand. Are those, is that hand-stitched? Is this car handmade?
Matt: Yeah, probably is hand-stitched actually.
Rich: And then there's the technical bespoke clock, which is, that's, I don't think that's worth $6,800.
Matt: $6,800 for a clock?!
Rich: Yeah, I don't think so. I mean, I have a nice watch I could probably just use for that. I mean, you can buy a nice watch for less than that. You know?
Matt: That's right, that's right.
Rich: Cheap guy. Let's see, what else is there? The rear theater configuration? I think that's, like, the TVs in the back, for $8,000. I'm not sure I would do that. These are a lot of things I'd probably just...
Matt: What about the picnic benches back there? The fold-down picnic benches?
Rich: How much were those? The fold-down picnic benches, I think were, those were $4,000. So if you want, like, little benches at the back of your seat where your rear-seat occupants could kinda just have a picnic back there, that'll cost you up to $4,000.
Matt: Have a little prime rib.
Rich: Yeah, exactly. But then your car will smell like food. You don't want that.
[Matt laughs]
Rich: You don't want the car smelling like food, no way. I'll tell you one thing. Out of any Rolls-Royce I've seen so far, I think this would be the one I would probably purchase.
Matt: Really? Rich: Yeah, I'm not a Phantom guy.
Matt: Not a Phantom guy?
Rich: I can't drive a Phantom.
Matt: I would get a Phantom. I mean, I think the more time we spend in here, and we haven't been spending, you know, hours and hours or days and days in the car, we'd find some...
Rich: We'll start picking it apart.
Matt: We would. We would find some additional things to complain about. I'd find more things outside the car to complain about. Like, there's some chrome that's slapped on out there.
Rich: Right, yeah, I'd wanna see it without that.
Matt: Seems like it's a little plasticky and a little cheap. There's some plastic stuff on the front, on the fascia, that's, I think, a bad choice. Yeah, what do you think of the overall design?
Rich: Great design. I think it's a phenomenal design. I think the rear end is very simple. And there's no Cullinan badge on it, which I like.
Matt: That's nice, right.
Rich: It's like, you get it, it's a Rolls-Royce, you don't have to rub it in my face, it's a Cullinan. Like, I respect that. One thing I don't like about the front end is that I wish the grill, I wish the front end didn't remind me of a Ghost. Matt: Uh-huh. Rich: It's not as, you know, it's not as, like, you know, present as the Phantom, obviously. It's very Ghost-like. It's not a bad thing. But you can tell that it's, you know, they kinda copied some cues from there, which I guess is fine, but I wish it was a little bit different from the SUV, that's all.
Matt: Interesting, interesting. I'm a little, it has 22s on it, and I think it could go bigger.
Rich: I agree.
Matt: I think the wheel wells could be filled up with a bigger wheel, and if I were gonna order it, you know, above and beyond a $325,000, I would definitely want bigger wheels.
Rich: But, no, this is definitely something different. They've done a great job making a statement, but also it's very simple on the outside. The taillights, the rear end of the vehicle.
Matt: That's a good point.
Rich: It's very simple. It's very sedated, but still the presence is very big. I think this is one of the best-looking SUVs available right now, but there is a Range Rover that is pretty good-looking as well.
Matt: All right, Rich, $410,000 Rolls-Royce Cullinan, hyper-luxury SUV, what do you think? Is it worth it?
Rich: I'm gonna go ahead and say no, this is not worth the $410,000. I would say it's worth the base price of $325,000. $410,000, no way.
Matt: For me, it's not a $410,000 car on the outside. It is a $410,000 car on the inside. And when I'm in that car, I feel like I'm in the lap of luxury. It's uber-luxury, hyper-luxury. It's very much the Rolls-Royce experience in there. Got nothing to complain about. It's extremely quiet, and yet, this big V-12 motor, you know you've got that. Serves up the goods if you need it, but you're not hearing it roaring away or anything like that. That's really just very Rolls-Royce for me. But not $410,000 on the outside. Definitely $410,000 on the inside.
Rich: More like a $350,000 on the outside.
Matt: Yeah, $350,000 on the outside.
Rich: All right, I'd have to agree.


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Box is quite moldy. Apart from the box, the tiles are ok.
Quality is good and worth for money. But the size is quite big.
Received this item earlier than expected delivery date which is very good! But item came with such a bad quality of the mahjong cover. Quite disappointed thou.
Super fast delivery (within 2 days!). Tiles were nicely packaged. Looking really good. Freebie casino chips were lacking (x25 total) but its fine. The MJ casing feels very flimsy so I will probably have to buy a new casing to store the tiles. Overall quite satisfied with the value gotten at this price point.
The tiles are in good conditions but the box is in very poor condition that cannot keep the tiles.
FAST delivery. Box is dirty in and out but tiles in good condition.
yes receive the tiles. just that the tiles have no pocket for the tiles to keep. but overall good deal!
nice chips but no numbers nice box too. The Mahjong set is REALLY huge. Quality not so good there are cracks and 1 tiles is a different size and color.
Very nice tiles, big and heavy.
You may wish to consider the other designs which are still in stock.
when will the premium chips be available?
You may wish to consider the other designs which are currently in stock.
no more complimentary chips if i buy the hello kitty set?
Hi, My order number 290935296.
I bought on the 1st of March. It was scheduled to ship on the 4th of March.
Till date (10th), it has not been shipped.
Thanks. Today is 19th of March and I have not heard anything yet. Please advise.
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Harry Maguire out of England squad
Southgate and Maguire
Published By: PM NEWS Editor
Gareth Southgate and Harry Maguire
By Abankula
World's most expensive defender Harry Maguire has lost his place in the England squad for next month's matches.
Gareth Southgate, coach of the team announced the exclusion of the 27 year-old player, following Maguire's conviction and sentencing in Greece.
Southgate had initially included him in the team but warned he could be axed if the outcome of the case in Greece was not positive.
"In light of this evening's developments, I can confirm I have withdrawn Harry Maguire from the England squad for the matches against Iceland and Denmark", Southgate said in a statement.
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"As I said earlier today, I reserved the right to review the situation. Having spoken to Manchester United and the player, I have made this decision in the best interests of all parties and with consideration of the impact on our preparations for next week."
"The squad for next month's matches against Iceland and Denmark now consists of 23 players as follows:
Tammy Abraham (Chelsea), Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur), Phil Foden (Manchester City), Joe Gomez (Liverpool), Mason Greenwood (Manchester United), Dean Henderson (Manchester United), Danny Ings (Southampton), Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Michael Keane (Everton), Harry Maguire (Manchester United), Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa), Mason Mount (Chelsea), Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United), Jordan Pickford (Everton), Nick Pope (Burnley), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Declan Rice (West Ham United), Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Kieran Trippier (Atletico Madrid), Kyle Walker (Manchester City), James Ward-Prowse (Southampton), Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur)
Maguire was found guilty of assaulting a police officer, swearing, resisting arrest and bribery by a Greek court.
He was handed a 21-month suspended prison sentence.
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I have a pretty good sense of humour, I like to think I can make people laugh.
Dance, rapping and singing. An Arsenal fan.
I lived in England for most of my life so far for about 11 years give or take.
I'm not sure, but I would be quite willing.


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Issue: Spring 2015 » Reviews & Interviews
by Pablo Medina
City of Eternal Spring by Afaa Michael Weaver
City of Eternal Spring by Afaa Michael Weaver, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014, 96pp/, $15.95
City of Eternal Spring confirms what I felt when I first started reading Afaa Michael Weaver's poems about ten years ago. He is a master poet who is comfortable in his craft at the same time that he takes unusual risks to keep the reader at the edge of his/her emotions and the poem on the edge of the possible. There is, for example, the one-sentence poem, which replicates the way thought moves through the labyrinth of reason and emotion. I am thinking of poems like "What the Lotus Said," "On Hearing that Michael Jackson Died," and the truly exceptional "Archeology of Time: Convertibles."
That Weaver's poems range over a great variety of subjects should come as no surprise to devoted readers of his. City of Eternal Spring, which is divided into five parts, follows this trend. The first section, titled "Map of the Heart," deals with the pain and disconnection that have weighed down the poet. The book's title poem ends the section with a sense of liberation from that past:
…so I rise
from thought to be, being beyond thought
with energy as breath, a world with eyes
opening inside the light, inside knowing,
inside oneness that appears when the prison
frees me to know I am not it and it is not me.
("City of Eternal Spring," 10)
"Exile," the second section, focuses on the poet's experience in Taiwan, where he spent time on a Fulbright fellowship. This exile forces the poet to confront his identity as a black man and, more broadly, as a human being. The race issue predominates, as does the experience of confronting the Other, who has not devised the machinery of racism that weighs so heavily on the speaker:
The dark ones walk out of the sun into the broad arch,
tasting history, retracing the steps lost in time, steps that came
here from Tanzania when there was no Tanzania, when
color was not the central nervous system of wars…
("On Visiting Yu Jian," 26)
The third section, titled "Memories," is the most complex of the book. The poem titled "Oya at He Nan Temple" moves from Yoruba orishas to the concept of Qi to Chomsky's ideas on language (the "broad mess of what we were"). The poet is the magnet for experience and seer of it, in both the literal and metaphorical sense of the word. He brings the shards of his life together, finding where the edges meet to shape and be shaped by identity:
When the book is open, I have no regrets of family, no wish
to make the past disappear. I am here to choose the possible
here in my own tomorrow, twelve thousand miles from horrors,
from what I used to know to what I can choose to remember,
lives I might have lived with all of my necessary secrets. (33)
The fourth section, "Intimacies," begins, suitably enough, with a love poem, but the love encountered in the section is not just romantic love. It goes beyond that to an engagement with the physical world and the experience of that world, as the beloved is an integral part of it:
The things I know are not the things you wish to know,
or they are and I cannot give them to you until I see
what you think of contracts, of what binds the mornings
to unkind sunlight, what takes a hawk and lets it know
there are things less grand than flying, things that crave.
("Nice to Meet You," 56)
The poems of the last section, titled "Soul Space," are spare jewels that have absorbed the light of experience. Such is the case with the astonishing (and funny) "Daoist Festival of the Great Pig" and the equally astonishing "Unspoken." The poet has cleansed himself of all that is non-essential, and thus he has earned the right to speak with great wisdom:
It was as hot as what
stars must feel like
so far away, certainly
there inside me.
("Truth," 68)
I said in the opening paragraph of this review that Weaver is a master craftsman. He is also a master musician. It is impossible to ignore the great musicality of these poems, the way they sing, the way they remain silent when silence is called for. Read "Du Fu and Li Bai" and realize how language is first and foremost the fluency of sound, which replicates the fluency of thought. Read "The Workers in Beijing" and delight in how line is related to stanza, stanza to movement, movement to the unfettered song of the spirit. City of Eternal Spring is Afaa Michael Weaver's extraordinary gift to us, to poetry. I am thankful he lives and writes among us.


We began the Networked City exploration in December 2016, initially funded by the London Council for Voluntary Service. The context was proposals from London funders and partners, called The Way Ahead, which stressed the importance of a community-based approach, and co-production, in plans to support civil society. Our aim was to explore how network thinking and digital technology could help. Details below.
Over the past the 18 month our group has operated as Connecting Londoners and included at various times David Wilcox, Drew Mackie, Matt Scott, Barbara Brayshay, Nicolas Fonty, Pete Burden and others. It is currently self-funded, and what follows has been achieved with an initial investment of £5000 by LVSC.
We are mapping London communities and networks using a mix of geographic and collaboration map techniques.
We have developed this website as a knowledge base, linked to a blog, and an online forum that will be launched shortly. All blog posts and reports are listed here.
The new Hub for London has created a Networks Partner post where responsibilities reflect many of the proposals that we have canvassed during the Networked City exploration. That offers scope for future collaborative development.
We developed detailed proposals for a Community of Practice (CoP) that can contribute to achieving the Hub objectives, and then brought together potential founder members at an event on March 27 2018. The CoP will be based on the forum.
Drew Mackie and David Wilcox have worked with Nicolas Fonty and Barbara Brayshay to bring together - for the first time that we know of - ways in which we can integrate social network maps and geographic maps. There are background papers here, and Drew, David, Nicolas and Barbara are working a several practical projects to apply these methods, including a map of the potential CoP members.
The Networked City exploration was started by David Wilcox and Drew Mackie with Matt Scott, on behalf of the London Voluntary Service Council (LVSC), and is now being led by a group formed following a launch event on January 10 2017.
Background paper for our launch event, including a summary of The Way Ahead initiative, models for cooperation and collaboration in the networked age, the development process for our exploration.
Blog post on the launch.
The TWA initiative then set up working groups, and held a conference to develop ideas in more detail. However, they faced criticism about lack of communication and little community involvement, and community groups and networks unhappy with TWA formed Our Way Ahead to press for changes.
This group is now superceded by the proposed Community of Practice.
We want to build accessible digital community platforms, research and map grassroots community activity, to facilitate collaboration, strengthen local platforms and spaces for action and build the voice of those at the grassroots level.
Our Way Ahead and Connecting Londoners have run a series of events together, and Christine Goodall of the Human Rights and Equalities network represented OWA on the Hub for London advisory group until February 2018.
The main proposal in The Way Ahead report was for a new resource hub.
Connecting Londoners and Our Way Ahead have made the case to the Hub advisory group for extending the work of the Hub - with associated projects - to include development of local and pan-London networks. We based proposals for extending the Hub on Steve Wyler's report, and other working group reports, as well as our own work. In November 2017 we ran a "Hub game" simulation event at London Metropolitan University to play through the recommendations in the Wyler report. Following the event we proposed a Community of Practice to support extending the Hub.
Report of the Hub game November 2017.
The Hub has now advertised a Networks Partner post where responsibilities reflect many of the ideas developed and discussed during the Networked City exploration.
The GLA is developing its own civil society strategy. OWA and Connecting Londoners have reported on developments and contributed to events.
During our exploration we have run a series of events which are detailed here. The latest event in March 27 2018 helped developed ideas for a Community of Practice.
Proposals were developed with Connecting Londoners and Our Way Ahead, and presented to the advisory group for the Hub for London.
We discussed these ideas further at an event of March 27 2018, and created a map of potential CoP members. We will shortly invite them to join our forum and develop CoP plans further.


A Canadian medical marijuana producer is wagering on overseas markets, having received the green light from the nation's health department to export products to Croatia.
The Eastern European nation legalized MMJ last October.
Tilray, which is owned by the canna-centric private equity firm Privateer in Seattle, hopes the venture is the first of many export deals as it hopes to capture a nascent international market – especially at a time when the Canadian market is stagnating.
The company previously announced that it would export cannabis products to Australia, and reportedly plans to announce other European partnerships in the coming months.
Tilray will export two varieties of cannabis-infused liquid capsules to Croatia, the Canadian Press reported. One contains 5 mg of THC and 5 mg of CBD per capsule, while the second contains 2.5 mg of THC and 2 mg of CBD.
Because an increasing number of European nations are legalizing medical marijuana, the continent presents a sizable growth opportunity, Privateer CEO Brendan Kennedy said. Germany, the continent's biggest economy and the fifth biggest in the world, is expected to legalize MMJ in 2017.
In Canada, however, the market hasn't lived up to expectations.


Who are the 144,000 Virgin of Israel and where are they in the Prophets? These four videos attempt to answer the second question; and the link at the beginning of this paragraph will answer the first.
This is the last part of my Born Again Series. I have wanted to put these videos together for ages but it seems there is always so much to do. All of these videos are best understood in the light of the many hours of learning that came before them. It is my prayer that they will inspire you to go into deeper study concerning these matters of life and death; especially as the last days approach.
The first video can stand alone and is also used as an introduction to my series on the Last Days. I would have had the last three videos together as one if I had a place I could upload a video of around 250mb, but alas, I do not.
Most folks will have to watch these videos several times, especially if they do not have the background information of the previous seven classes.
May Yehovah bless you as you conform your life to only His ways.
8b – 144,000 in the Scriptures from Providence Ministries on Vimeo.
I am finally ready for the 144,000 teaching! The fog has lifted surrounded this topic and I'm getting it!! :)) Thank you for sharing your heart!!


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