Position Designed to maxamise the land (2237sqm more or less) creating a large single level home taking advantage of the sun and the views.
The design is clever, but the surprise is when you walk in the front door where you are drawn to the incredible view from every room. Down the valley, right over the Heretaunga Plains to Napier and the ocean, then over to the ranges and Mt Ruapehu. It simply takes your breath away. The sun pours in the double-glazed windows and there are beautiful options to sit outdoors and watch the world go by as you entertain your friends.
This large 485sqm (more or less) home could be likened to a luxurious giant apartment with minimal garden. Featuring four-car garaging (plus plenty of guest parking), a choice or three or four bedrooms, multiple living spaces, a wine cellar, and the wide wrap around deck.
All of this in the prestigious Hill Country Estate, a gated community offering 57ha of landscaped grounds to walk through, along with the use of a nine-hole golf course, tennis court and pavilion.
This is a beautifully easy home to live in, or to lock up and leave for your holidays. The fit-out is superior quality and the single level spaciousness with the widescreen views make you feel you are permanently enjoying the luxury of a first-class lounge. It's hard to describe the experience, so it's important you visit and book your space.


If you are looking for a cheap Thermo Tank Water Bottle, then this is perfect for you. The bottle does what it says in the description. In our hand held experiment with a 25 ounces model, we have found that you can have your hot drinks for more than 8 hours and cold drinks for around 30 hours.
The quality of the bottle is superb as a China made product. There were no compromise for design and usability. The bottle cap can be harden due to the hot air pressure sometimes, but it happens with all the bottle.
A nice one in cheap price.
25 Ounce is the largest size they have.
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Bigger for bicycle bottle carrier.
Have you ever dreamed of an ice cool drink while you are on the trail or having a long ride? I bet, you did. We all did on a hot summer day. But, most of the time it becomes difficult if you can't find a store with fridge nearby.
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We have seen this is one of the most competitive bottle in the market in this price range.
The bottle size is 25oz. You can have a hot or cold drink of 25 ounces in this bottle.
The liquid will be safe for 36 long hours.
Available in 2 colors, we love the stainless steel color most.
The customer service is superb with money back guarantee. This should be mentioned as a specification for this product. The product gives 100% satisfaction to its users.
The last time we checked it is available in two color deep teal and mint+steel.
It's 11.5 inches tall and the diameter is 3 inches. The top is 3/8 inches.
How users are reacting to the bottle?
During we were researching, this particular bottle had more than fifty customer reviews and on a scale of 5.0, it scores 5.0. Incredible for any product!
One review I can call exceptionally – from Diana.
She has arthritic fingers and she didn't find it hard to open or close the lid of the container. She found that the lid is easy to open and air tight enough to be leak proof.
It is also very easy to drink directly from the bottle as the topper on the top is designed accordingly.
The design of the bottle is neat and attractive.
The thermostat capability for which this is advertised for works great. Hot or cold you can't feel it from touching the bottle. So, be careful while drinking from the bottle, it might be hotter or colder than it seems.
None of the customers are unhappy with the product.
You can read more of the customer reviews here.
The price is very much affordable.
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Well organized customer support with money back guarantee. What else you can want?
You can get a discount if you buy more than one. Check for the deal code on the amazon page.
You can't get a bigger size of the bottle. 25 ounces or 750mm in volume.
It's not good to fit in your by-cycle bottle cage. You have to keep it in your bag. This is a little bit larger for the bottle carrier.
We rated this bottle 4.63 out of 5. This rating depends on our exclusive research and comparing with other bottles in the same market. The design, usability, and price are the prime 3 points of our rating.
We have considered the customer reviews and after sales support for this too.
The price of the bottle may very after the deal ends. So, it might be the right time to grab this bottle. You can get an off by entering the deal code when ordering. Check for the deal on the amazon page.
When you are using this bottle you are actually going green. It's reusable and doesn't contain any harmful plastic material for your body or for the environment.
How to clean the bottle?
After using for drinks like water, tea & coffee the cleaning is just normal. Fill up the bottle with soapy liquid and use a soft Bristol brush. If you want to deep clean after using for other beverages or alcohol, soak it with warm water and vinegar. This applies also when you have used it for sticky liquids like milk, sugar or smoothies.
It's not recommended to wash it in a dishwasher for this bottle. It might damage the airtight seals.
This might be the problem with a faulty unit. You might try to get a replacement unit then. It's distributed by the Maki Brands Distribution. If they do not reply soon, you can get always a refund. Although Our tested unit were good enough to get a positive review.


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By Chad Goodmurphy 10 years ago
GameTrailers TV have released a lengthy gameplay demo for Bethesda's open-world RPG, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Shown earlier during the company's E3 coverage, the demo showcases unique environments, spell casting, wooly mammoths and dragon battles.
All of this plays while you hear Geoff Keighley interview Todd Howard, who dishes out a ton of great information about what could be the most anticipated video game at this current moment. Additionally, he also answers some fans' questions from Twitter. It looks exceptional running on a new engine and fans are sure to be amazed with what they'll see. Bethesda is NOT going to disappoint with this one.
Check it out for yourself and hone your dragon-slaying tactics for the game's November 11 release date. It'll ship out for the PC, 360 and PS3.
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Recaps: Noelle Quinn secures first win as WNBA head coach in Storm triumph
The Seattle Storm comfortably defeated the Indiana Fever in Noelle Quinn's debut as head coach. Plus, the Connecticut Sun impressed with another win over the Las Vegas Aces and the Dallas Wings snapped their skid by besting the Los Angeles Sparks.
By Zachary Ward Jun 2, 2021, 5:30pm EDT
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Breanna Stewart scored a game-high 28 points and the Seattle Storm (6-1) cruised to an 88-73 victory over the Indiana Fever (1-8) on Tuesday night at Angel of the Wings Arena in Everett, Wash, giving Noelle Quinn a 1-0 record as a WNBA head coach.
Quinn is the first Black head coach in the Storm's history.
When asked what she will remember 10 years from now about Tuesday night, Quinn offered the following:
"I will remember Tina Thompson was in the stands to watch me coach my first WNBA game and that's amazing. A legend in our game. One of my dearest, dearest friends. And for her to make this night even more special by just being here, that was important to me."
1-0 as Head Coach! ⚡@Noey_Quinn x #TakeCover pic.twitter.com/UgmdMyyYQU
— Seattle Storm (@seattlestorm) June 2, 2021
"Noey is as consistent as you're gonna get in a person and I think she was the same tonight as she has been," said Seattle point guard and revered vet Sue Bird. "I'm just so happy for (her). Just truly deserving. She puts in the work. She takes time out to better herself as a coach.
To be here for Noey's first win is something I'm proud to be a part of, especially given that she's a Black women and the first Black person to be a head coach of this franchise."
The Storm built a 25-16 lead after one and entered the fourth up nine as well. Jewell Loyd (five assists) added 18 points to the winning cause, while Bird notched 12 points and dished out eight assists. Mercedes Russell hauled in 11 rebounds to go along with her four points.
Teaira McCowan had 12 points and 14 boards in defeat.
Other action
Connecticut Sun (7-2) over Las Vegas Aces (5-3), 74-67
With 3:40 to play and her team up five, Sun forward DeWanna Bonner fired a pass to Brionna Jones who was deep in the post. B. Jones fought the ball away from A'ja Wilson as Liz Cambage was coming over to help. She then faked a shot, worked her way around Cambage to the left side of the hoop and made a lefty layup with 3:35 to go.
"I didn't really think about it," B. Jones said. "I was just playing within the play. I missed a couple before that so I was definitely focused on finishing."
"She came up with a big basket," Sun coach Curt Miller said. "We knew Bri Jones was gonna get some opportunities because they were rotating off of her. She's just been terrific now this year and last year for us. She's a huge piece. We had trouble getting her going against Minnesota, not coincidentally we came up a little bit short. She's so key to what we do and that was a big basket to give us a little bit of breathing room."
Bonner scored on Connecticut's next possession to push the lead to nine, which would stand as the largest lead for either side on the evening (matched by the Sun at 49.1 seconds remaining). Vegas went on a 4-0 run after Bonner's make, so the baskets from B. Jones and Bonner really made the difference.
Jonquel Jones was spectacular again with 23 points, seven rebounds and three blocks to guide the Sun. B. Jones added 14 points and eight boards, while Jasmine Thomas (six assists) and Briann January each recorded 11 points. Bonner finished with just six points but had eight rebounds, five assists and three steals.
Makin' statements in May.
Jonquel Jones has been named the Kia #WNBA Eastern Conference Player of the Month! #BornForThis pic.twitter.com/2L4BhH97Yw
— Connecticut Sun (@ConnecticutSun) June 2, 2021
The whole game was basically the Sun pulling ahead by a little bit only for the Aces to tie it time after time. It was close throughout, but Vegas was clearly playing catch-up all night.
It should be noted that the Aces did take a two-point lead with 8:38 to play and a one-point lead with 7:33 to play.
"We felt good in the fact that when we executed and were sharp, we got the shots that we wanted," January said. "Defensively we went through a little period where our activity and aggressiveness went down a little bit. All of that is in our control. We needed to get back to those things. It just took a couple timeouts for us to snap back into it. But the things that we needed to do were completely in our control so we felt confident in that."
For a stretch it seemed like if the Aces were going to win, it was going to be because of a Liz Cambage takeover. That takeover never fully came to fruition, but Cambage dominated for stretches, finishing with a game-high 28 points to go along with seven rebounds and three blocks.
Before the game, Cambage and Miller hugged and put their quarrel behind them. Miller had been suspended one game for a comment about Cambage's weight.
"We just apologized to each other," Miller said. "And she summed it up best: 'we're in this together.' We're a league that really supports each other, fights for each other. We're in this together and she summed it up best saying that, as we try to grow this league and grow the fan base. We all really care for each other. As much as we are competitive against each other and want to beat each other, there's a camaraderie with the players in this league, there's a mutual respect with the coaches in this league.
It was quick, but there's a lot of mutual respect between the two of us."
Dallas Wings (2-4) over Los Angeles Sparks (2-3), 79-69
The Wings snapped their streak of four close losses in a row by defeating the team they beat in their opener. Dallas came back from down five after one, winning the second 22-7. The two teams were even in the second half.
The Wings have been led this year by the phenomenal "Marike" duo (Marina Mabrey and Arike Ogunbowale, who were college roommates). However, they are 2-0 when both players score under 20 points and 0-4 when they both score over 20 points.
It was second-year point guard Tyasha Harris who led Dallas in scoring on Tuesday night with 18 points. Kayla Thornton added 15 and seven rebounds, while Ogunbowale was good for 14. Mabrey (seven boards) and Moriah Jefferson (six boards) each had 10 points and six assists.
Kristi Toliver was 4-of-5 from distance with 14 points in defeat. Te'a Cooper added 12 points and four helpers.
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The latest LGBT lunacy: 'Transgender' puppet to teach kids about 'gender issues'
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By Jonathon Van Maren September 7, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The ongoing attempts by trans activists to introduce the ideology of gender fluidity to children has been taking many forms recently. There has been the "Drag Queen Reading Hour," where drag queens read pro-LGBT storybooks to little children at libraries right across the country. There has…
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Madison Street merchant beaten and robbed
by August 15, 2006 February 9, 2021
The owner of a business in the 7500 block of Madison Street was robbed and beaten around noon on Saturday, Aug. 5. A man described as black in his 20's to 30s, 5 foot 9 to six feet tall and medium build, entered the business and demanded money.
"She resisted and tried to activate the ADT alarm trigger," said Forest Park Police Chief Jim Ryan. "He then dragged her in the back and tried to tie her up."
Unsuccessful in his attempts to control the woman, the man fled out the back after taking cash, a cell phone, and the alarm remote.
The woman declined medical assistance. The man had been seen by one witness just before the robbery appearntly casing the business prior to entering. Forest Park Police have issued composite photos and detailed descriptive information to area police departments, a copy of which is reproduced below. Anyone with information is asked to contact Forest park police at 708-366-2425.
Men harassing women
Thomas Derby, 42, of the 800 block of Beloit reportedly returned home "highly intoxicated" around 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 6, and began yelling at his girl friend. Derby allegedly grabbed her, shook her and threw her down to the floor, then proceeded to bounce her head on the floor several times. Derby, who police say has a prior conviction for domestic battery, reportedly took the phone from the woman when she attempted to call police. For the next two hours, Derby allegedly periodically punched her and head butted her. The woman refused treatment after police arrived, despite a swollen eye and nose and a knot on her head.
Shortly before 3 a.m.last Saturday police reportedly found William Hambach, 42, of Oak Park, in the middle of the street yelling at a Forest Park woman and two other women. Hambach, who police say appeared heavily intoxicated, allegedly started making derogatory and sexually explicit remarks to the women as they walked by a bar on Madison. When they walked away, Hambach reportedly followed them and began waving his arms while making more derogatory comments, and threatening them if they wouldn't talk with him.
Michael L. Edwards, 42, of Chicago, allegedly exposed his genitalia last week to a woman at the Forest Park pool. When asked by arresting police why someone would do what he did, Edwards reportedly replied, "People should mind their own business."
Cracked windshield leads to gun seizure
An alert patrol officer noticed a cracked window on a car parked near Randolph and Rockford the night of Aug. 10. Upon approaching the 1990 Nissan, the officer noticed Christopher Coleman, 22, of Maywood allegedly attempt to cover something on the console with a kitchen-type towel. After spotting what looked to be the barrel of a rifle protruding from between the seats, he placed Coleman under arrest and inspected the car. He discovered a partially disassembled but loaded sawed-off shotgun, along with six additional shotgun shells in the armrest of the car.
Coleman allegedly told police that he was "CVL," a Conservative Vice Lord street gang member, and that he needed the gun for protection.
Drug arrests
Nikola Stevlic, 28, of Elmhurst was pulled over after an alleged traffic violation in the 7200 block of 13th Street the evening of Aug. 10. The officer noticed rolled up currency in the driver's door pocket. Aware that rolled bills are often used to ingest drugs, the officer asked Stevlic if he had any drugs on his person, and Stevlic allegedly said he had some in his pocket. Police recovered a foil packet from his pocket, and a second foil packet from his shoe after his arrest.
A 1996 Oldsmobile driven by Steven D. Damian, 20, of River Forest, was pulled over for speeding in the 7600 block of Randolph the afternoon of Aug. 7. Damian reportedly had no license on him, due to prior traffic citations. During questioning, police noticed a knotted baggie in the car that contained a white substance, later determined to be a controlled substance.
Nikhs M. Prabha, 19, of Des Plaines was found by police in the driver's seat of a car that had collided with a parked car on the 300 block of Marengo around 2:30 a.m., Aug. 6. Prabha, who reportedly tested .020 on a breathalyzer test.
These items were taken from the records of the Forest Park Police Department between August 5 and August 11, 2006 and represent only a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in this report has only been charged with a crime. The cases have not been adjudicated.
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"Still serious loopholes in ECGD's anti-corruption procedures"
by The Corner House
first published 21 October 2005
PRESS RELEASE, 21 October 2005
On 21st October 2005, the ECGD announced its provisional response to the public consultation, held from March to June 2005, on its anti-corruption procedures.
The ECGD proposes to take some steps towards re-strengthening its procedures, but has still stopped short in some key areas.
The ECGD also announced today that it will hold a further round of consultation on its provisional response and issue a final response by the end of this year.
"We really regret this delay in coming to a final decision" said Nicholas Hildyard of The Corner House. "Every day that goes by with weakened anti-corruption procedures provides yet another opportunity for bribery."
"While we welcome the re-strengthening of some of the procedures", said Susan Hawley of The Corner House, "there will continue to be serious loopholes until ECGD fully re-introduces all the measures in its original anti-corruption programme."
In November 2004, following intense industry lobbying, the ECGD had weakened the robust new anti-corruption procedures it had introduced in May 2004. After a legal challenge by The Corner House to this action, the ECGD agreed in January 2005 to consult with all concerned parties on the weakened measures it had introduced.
The Corner House argued in its submission to the March-June 2005 consultation that, if the ECGD were serious about combating bribery, it should re-introduce in full the original May 2004 anti-corruption procedures. In particular, the ECGD should:
agents' commission
re-strengthen disclosure requirements on agents' commission, by requiring details of commission payments on all transactions regardless of the value of the contract, and by removing a let out clause for companies not wanting to give the name of their agent.
no-bribery warranties
re-introduce the requirement on customers to make no-bribery warranties in relation to their joint venture partners, parent and sister companies and subsidiaries (whether directly controlled or not).
'to the best of our knowledge and belief'
introduce a proper definition of the phrase 'to the best of our knowledge and belief' which qualifies the no-bribery warranties, so that it requires due diligence to be done by companies before they make such warranties.
audit procedures
re-strengthen its audit procedures, drastically weakened following industry lobbying, so that ECGD can conduct spot checks on company documents without having to have suspicions of wrong-doing and without having to write to companies to alert them of their suspicions.
Postscript Notes
For all the documents related to this consultation, see the "Anti-Bribery and Corruption Procedures 2005-06" heading under the Public Consultation documents listed in the "Public Information" section of ECGD's website.


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His presence before an audience is something startling and immediate, at times a funk rave-up, other times a sort of mass-absolution for the mortal weaknesses that make him and his audience human. When you see JJ Grey and his band Mofro live—and you truly, absolutely must—the man is fearless. Onstage, Grey delivers his songs with compassion and a relentless honesty, but perhaps not until Ol' Glory has a studio record captured the fierceness and intimacy that defines a Grey live performance. "I wanted that crucial lived-in feel," Grey says of Ol' Glory, and here he hits his mark. On the new album, Grey and his current Mofro lineup offer grace and groove in equal measure, with an easygoing quality to the production that makes those beautiful muscular drum-breaks sound as though the band has set up in your living room.


House hunters in Malvern are invited to see the stunning lifestyle on offer at CALA Homes' Malvern Rise development in Leigh Sinton, as it opens the doors to its four bedroom detached showhome, The Malvern.
The launch event, on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th September, will give visitors an exclusive opportunity to take a tour of the showhome to see for themselves how it provides the perfect solution families looking for spacious, flexible living within close proximity to excellent schools and leisure pursuits.
Situated just two miles from the picturesque town of Malvern, the exclusive development offers four and five bedroom homes which enjoy breath-taking views over the Malvern Hills. With half of the properties on the development now sold, there are a number of homes remaining, including The Malvern – a stunning four bedroom detached property.
Available from £474,950, The Malvern is a contemporary home offering spacious living across two floors. Ideal for growing families, The Malvern features ample flexible space, designed to provide each member of the family a place of their own – either through one of the four large bedrooms, the expansive kitchen/breakfast/garden room or even the study, which is tucked away on the ground floor.
The open plan kitchen/breakfast room provides a flexible space to cook, eat and unwind with friends and family, with French doors and a separate utility room accessing the rear garden. The adjoining garden room provides yet more space for this busy family, with a further set of French doors leading to the patio – making it light and airy.
The ground floor also features a convenient cloakroom with under stairs storage and downstairs toilet to ensure every box is ticked when considering the demands of modern, family living.
The impressive sitting room – designed for more formal family gatherings, or even a sanctuary for parents – is immersed with light from the large bay window, whilst across the hall there is a private study, providing the ideal office for working from home or for the children to complete homework. It could even be transformed into a cosy snug.
Upstairs, there are four generously sized bedrooms, providing an abundance of space for their occupiers. The Malvern offers a generous en suite master bedroom and second bedroom, both complete with fitted wardrobes. With two further bedrooms, which could be turned into a play room or a guest room, and a large family bathroom, The Malvern offers the ultimate flexible space for modern family life.
Mark Wright, Managing Director for CALA Midlands said: "Malvern Rise is an extremely popular development for house hunters looking for stylish, contemporary homes that offer all the space required to cater for family life.
Leigh Sinton offers excellent commuter links, with the city of Worcester just six miles away and with Junction 7 of the M5 providing quick and easy access to Birmingham and Cheltenham in less than one hour. Malvern Link train station also provides regular rail services to Worcester in less than 10 minutes and Gloucester in just under an hour.
For educational needs, Leigh & Bransford Primary School is located less than one mile away and is rated as 'Outstanding' by Ofsted. The site is also in the catchment area of two secondary schools, situated within five miles of Leigh Sinton.
For more information on Malvern Rise, visit the new showhome open daily from 10.30am to 5.00pm, call 01684 259 015 or visit www.cala.co.uk.


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What does it mean to be a Palauan youth in 2016?
Governance and public sector managementADB and civil society
2016 has been declared the Year of the Youth in Palau.
By Sally Shute-Trembath
Despite the challenge of limited employment opportunities, for both the Palau government and youth leaders the future of the country's youth looks bright.
ADB co-hosted last May a youth consultation and training workshop with the Pacific Community and Pacific Youth Council in Suva, Fiji, where the participants discussed key de development challenges faced by young people throughout the Pacific region, and how to overcome them.
A common concern was limited employment opportunities for youth.
"Young people go abroad to get better qualifications, but when they come back to their country and search for a job, it can be very difficult," said Andrew Parker, Principal Social Sector Economist with ADB's Pacific Regional Department. "This feeling seems to resonate Pacific-wide as young people look toward their future."
In Palau, the government is well aware of the problem and has decided to invest in today's youth to ensure a prosperous future tomorrow, according to President Tommy Remengesau, who in January declared 2016 the Year of the Youth in the country. The proclamation seeks to implement a cohesive youth policy that encourages and challenges all entities in the public and private spheres, from government agencies and NGOs to community organizations and individual families, to better recognize and serve the interest of the young people in Palau.
Baklai Temengil-Chilton, Minister of Community and Cultural Affairs, has been tasked with updating the national youth policy, and to do she has consulted youth leaders from around the country to figure out how to make the policy more relevant to young Palauans. I had the privilege of meeting some of Palau's dynamic youth leaders during a recent visit.
18-year-old Trinity Misech, a senior from Palau High School, dreams of becoming Palau's first-ever radiologist, and is studying hard toward that goal. Trinity is doing some work experience at Palau Hospital, and knows firsthand of the great need for a radiologist in the country. He says his motivation to pursue this career is a desire to help others. The issue that matters most to Trinity is Palauan culture – he is fiercely proud of it, and says it's different and contains a lot of history that he is keen to share outside of Palau. The environment and the rising crime rate—particularly drug trafficking and drug abuse—also concern him.
Keilan Kenny is only 15 years old, but already he knows he wants to study law and become a lawyer, the second in his family after several generations. He hopes to win a scholarship to study in Taiwan. "I wish I could be a youth everyday all my life because there are so many opportunities for youth right now."
17-year-old Sylvester Alonz is in his last year at Mindszenty Catholic High School. After leaving school he hopes to attend a Catholic university in the USA, and gain some work experience there to better apply his engineering skills in Palau. Ever since he can remember he has been obsessed with how buildings are made – the structure, the design, the number of doors and windows. Drug and alcohol abuse among Palauan youth also worry him. He is religious and says religion must be made attractive to young people so they will be encouraged to follow that path. "I love how my graduating year is the Palauan Year of Youth. We understand that we are the future of Palau."
Shirley Mesa, 16, is a junior from Palau High School. She loves mathematics and chemistry, probably, she says, because she is really good at problem solving. She hopes to go to college in the US and become an engineer. "I'm a proud Palauan and I'm trying to speak out against issues that concern today's youth such as teenage pregnancy, underage drinking and drug use. I want to help pave the way, make things easier for the next generation, so it is important to speak out," she says. "It's also important to respect the elderly. Palau is a tiny country and we need to help make it shine throughout the world."
Despite the challenge of limited employment opportunities, for Temengil-Chilton the future of the Palauan youth looks bright. The minister says it is phenomenal how young people these days can engage, and make good decisions and choices of their own volition. It is important they look very closely at what makes them Palauan, how it feels to be Palauan, and she is encouraged by their enthusiasm for their culture.
Updated: August 2016
Sally Shute-Trembath Senior External Relations Officer, Pacific Liaison and Coordination Office, ADB
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PRESS RELEASE: On Tuesday, January 25, unbeaten Staten Islander Gary Stark Jr. will conduct a boxing clinic for participants in the Police Athletic League at the Park Hill Boxing Club in Staten Island at 4:00 PM. It will be the first clinic of 2005 sponsored by DiBella Entertainment (DBE) and Turner Construction as a part of the community relations effort for the Broadway Boxing Presented by Mohegan Sun series. DBE President and Brooklyn native Lou DiBella launched the televised boxing series as a way to provide opportunities and exposure for New York City boxing talent.
Unbeaten heavyweight Roman Greenberg (17-0, 12 KO's) captures the Broadway spotlight on Friday night, January 28, when he headlines 2005's second installment of DiBella Entertainment's Broadway Boxing Presented by Mohegan Sun at the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center. DBE will host a press luncheon at Gallagher's Steak House on Tuesday, Janaury 18, at 12 noon with the New York fighters to make the announcement.
Greenberg, a native of Tel Aviv, Israel, will go toe-to-toe with Marcus McGee (12-5, 6 KO's), who hails from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in an eight-round heavyweight showdown in the evening's main event.
In the co-featured attraction knockout artist Jaidon Codrington (6-0, 6 KO's), fighting out of Queens, will square off against Glen Rayburn (13-3-1, 8 KO's), of Delaware, Ohio, in an eight-round super middleweight contest.
On the undercard, U.S. Olympian and Winter Haven, Florida native Andre Berto (1-0, 1 KO), fresh off a knockout victory in his pro debut, will appear in a four-round junior middleweight bout with Edgar Galvan (1-2-1, 1 KO), of Durango, Mexico.
In addition, a youthful pair of talented fighters will be representing the borough of Brooklyn on the card. Rising star Curtis Stevens (4-0, 4 KO's) will see action in a six-round light heavyweight bout, while cruiserweight Sam Elashry (4-3, 1 KO), who originally hails from Cairo, Egypt, looks to gain momentum in a four-round contest.
Queens product Washington Hago will be making his pro debut in a four-round junior lightweight tilt against Michael Mendez (0-1-1), of Orlando, Florida. Staten Island's unbeaten super bantamweight Gary Stark, Jr. (10-0, 5 KO's) takes on Luis Rivera (8-8, 2 KO's), of New Haven, Connecticut, in a six-round affair.
The cards will originate from venues in the five boroughs, the greater New York Metropolitan Tri-State area, and Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Mohegan Sun is the series site sponsor. Turner Construction, HBO Sports and Gallagher's Steak House are also sponsors.
The doors open at 6:00 PM, and the first fight is at 7:00 PM. Tickets are priced at $100, $75, $50, and $35 with a limited number of special VIP ringside tickets also available, call DiBella Entertainment at 212-947-2577 to order.


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VADER: Reissue Of Classic 1995 Album DE PROFUNDIS Out Now Available On Vinyl For The Very First Time! Watch The New Video For The Song 'Blood Of Kingu'
Polish death metal legends VADER released their much-acclaimed 15th full length, Solitude In Madness, in 2020 and proved to the world that even after almost 40 years of existence they were still one of the leading forces within their genre … and beyond. However, let's not forget that the year 2020 also marked the 25th anniversary of VADER's classic and much sought-after 2nd album De Profundis (first released in 1995 in Poland), which hasn't been properly available in physical form in about two decades, although it's regarded by many fans as one of the best albums in the band's catalogue.
But rejoice, VADER and NUCLEAR BLAST are re-releasing De Profundis fully remastered and on various formats, including its first ever appearance on vinyl!
Founding member Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek comments:
"'De Profundis' was never released on vinyl before. The Mid 90s were already dominated by CD albums. The original tape from Modern Sound Studio was lost with no chance to recover. So we made a new master using a Telefunken professional tape studio recorder to give the whole record a warmer sound, a more analogue feel and dynamics, but without altering the original version of course."
Buy or download De Profundis here: http://nblast.de/Vader-DeProfundis
Stream De Profundis: https://bfan.link/de-profundis.ema
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Formed in 1983 in North Eastern Poland, VADER is one of the longest running bands in the history of extreme metal. Since their 1992 debut album The Ultimate Incantation, they became a major force in the death metal scene, touring relentlessly, with over 2,000 shows around the world and playing all metal festivals from Wacken to Hellfest and beyond. Their latest album Solitude In Madness (2020) climbed up to #2 in the National Polish album charts but their first breakthrough success already happened with their second album De Profundis, which was first released in Poland in 1995, and in 1996 in Europe & the US.
VADER's De Profundis was described at the time as "a perfect mixture of Slayer and Morbid Angel". Today, the album is considered a classic in the death metal scene. The new remastered reissue presents the album on vinyl for the first time ever.
VADER – De Profundis / Tracklist:
1. Silent Empire (04:02)
2. An Act of Darkness (01:55)
3. Blood Of Kingu (04:38)
4. Incarnation (03:07)
5. Sothis (03:42)
6. Revolt (03:36
7. Of Moon, Blood, Dream And Me (03:51)
8. Vision And The Voice (03:28)
9. Reborn In Flames (05:42)
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(Latin adulterare, to pollute, to adulterate).
This act is defined as the addition of any non-condimental substance to a food, such substance not constituting a portion of the food. Even this carefully-worded definition is not perfect. Some kinds of salt provisions have so much salt added that some of it has to be removed by soaking, to render the food edible, yet this does not constitute adulteration. Adulteration of food has long been practiced. It is mentioned in the case of bread by Pliny, who also says that difficulty was experienced in Rome in procuring pure wines. Athens had its public inspector of wines. England and France early passed laws to guard against the adulteration of bread, and as far back as the days of Edward the Confessor public punishment was provided for the brewers of bad ale. The legal status of adulteration is largely a matter of statute, varying with each governmental body which attacks the subject. Food is declared adulterated if there is added to it a substance which depreciates or injuriously affects it; if cheaper or inferior substances are substituted wholly or in part for it; if any valuable or necessary constituent has been wholly or in part abstracted; if it is an imitation; if it is colored or otherwise treated, to improve its appearance; if it contains any added substance injurious to health. These are examples of statutory provisions. Political considerations, such as the desire to protect the food-producers of a country, may affect legislation. Thus adulteration may be so defined as to include foreign products, which otherwise might be treated as unobjectionable. Food-preservatives have a very extensive use, which often constitutes adulteration. Salt is the classic preservative, but is also a condiment, and is seldom classed as an adulterant. Salicylic, benzoic, and boric acids, and their sodium salts, formaldehyde, ammonium fluoride, sulphurous acid and its salts are among the principal preservatives. Many of these appear to be innocuous, but there is danger that the continued use of food preserved by their agency may be injurious. Extensive experiments on this subject have been performed by the United States Bureau of Chemistry and by the German Imperial Board of Health, among others. Some preservatives have been conclusively shown to be injurious when used for long periods, although their occasional use may be attended with no bad effect. Boric acid is pretty definitely condemned, after experiments on living subjects. Salicylic, sulphurous, and benzoic acids are indicated as injurious. The direct indictment against preservatives is not very strong. The principal point is that while the amount of preservative in a sample of food might be innocuous, the constant absorption of a preserving chemical by the system may have bad effects. Preservatives are often sold for household use, as for the preparation of "cold process" preserves. If really made without heat, the tendency is, on the housekeeper's part, to use a proportion of the chemical larger than that employed by the manufacturer, thus increasing any bad effect attributable to them. Coloring matters are much used. Coal-tar colors are employed a great deal, and have received legal recognition in Europe. In the United States the tendency is rather to favor vegetable colors. Pickles and canned vegetables are sometimes colored green with copper salts; butter is made more yellow by anatta; turmeric is used in mustard and some cereal preparations. Apples are the basis for many jellies, which are colored so as to simulate finer ones. This is an instance of the use of coloring matter fraudulently, to imitate a more expensive article. But in confectionery dangerous colors, such as chrome yellow, Prussian blue, copper and arsenic-compounds are employed. Yellow and orange-colored candy is to be suspected. Fruit syrups, and wines, and tomato catsup are often artificially colored. Canned peas are especially to be suspected; often the fact that they are colored is stated on the label. Artificial flavouring-compounds are employed in the concoction of fruit syrups, especially those used for soda water. The latter are often altogether artificial. Among this class are: pear essence (amylic and ethylic acetates); banana essence (a mixture of amyl acetate and ethyl butyrate), and others. Milk is adulterated with water, and indirectly by removing the cream. It is also a favorite subject for preservatives. The latter are condemned partly because they render extreme cleanliness less necessary, for milk ordinarily exacts a high degree of purity in its surroundings. The addition of water may introduce disease germs. Cream is adulterated with gelatin, and formaldehyde is employed as a preservative for it. Butter is adulterated to an enormous extent with oleomargarine, a product of beef fat. It is a lawful product, but it is required by many enactments that its presence in butter be medicated on the package. Lard is another adulterant of butter. Cheese is made from skim-milk some times, and cottonseed oil and other cheap fats are substituted for the cream. There are two principal sugar substitutes. One is glucose, with which sugar products are adulterated. It has less than two-thirds the sweetening power of sugar. The other is saccharine. This is the sweetest substance known; it is 230 times sweeter than sugar. It may be regarded as practically harmless. Sugar itself is generally pure. Meat is not much adulterated. It is generally only open to adulteration with preservatives, and cold storage causes these to be little used. It is sometimes dusted over with a preservative while in the piece, and sausages and similar products are often treated with preservatives and coloring matter. Boric acid and borax are typical preservatives, and sulphurous acid salts are used to restore a fresh appearance to stale meat. Starch is added to sausages. It is claimed that it prevents them from shrinking in cooking. Flour is adulterated by the addition of lower-grade meals, such as rye flour, corn meal, or potato starch; their use is not very common. Alum is employed to disguise the presence of damaged flour, and to prevent decomposition. Alum is a still more frequent adulterant of bread; it is considered injurious to the animal system. Coffee is much adulterated, when sold ground. The root of chicory is a common adulterant, and even this has been supplanted by ocher and cheaper substances such as peas, beans, wheat, ground up after roasting. Attempts have been made to produce a counterfeit of the berry, an imitation being moulded out of some paste, but this has made no inroads. If coffee is bought unground, it will generally be pure, although the country of its origin may not be truthfully stated. Tea is generally pure, except that it may be of much lower grade than stated. Spent leaves are sometimes used, and the appearance is sometimes improved by "facing". This is the agitation with soapstone, Prussian blue, etc.
For discussion of the morality of adulteration of food see INJUSTICE; DECEPTION.
HASSELL, Food: its Adulteration and the Methods for their Detection (London, 1876); BATTERSHALL, Food Adulteration and its Detection (New York, 1887); BLYTH, Foods, their Composition and Analysis (London, 1896); CHAPIN, Municipal Sanitation in the United States (Providence, R.I., 1901); LEACH, Food Inspection and Analysis (New York, 1904); SONBEIRAU, Nouveau dictionnaire des falsifications et des alterations (Paris, 1874); Canadian Reports on Adulteration of Food (Ottawa, 1876 et seq.); Report of the Municipal Laboratory (Paris, France); Report of the National Academy of Science and of the Normal Board of Health (Washington, D.C.); Ann. Reports of the Board of Health of Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, and New York; Reports and Bulletins of Bureau of Chemistry; U.S. Department of Agriculture on Food Adulteration, especially Bulletin No. 100.
MLA citation. Sloane, Thomas O'Conor. "Adulteration of Food." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01162b.htm>.


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John Piper (1903 - 1992)
John Piper, the son of a solicitor, was born in Epsom, Surrey. He studied at Epsom College and trained at the Richmond School of Art, Royal College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1925 to 1930. Earlier on in his career he pursued the lines of abstraction, influenced by artists such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. He became a member of the London Group and also the 7 & 5 Society. In the 1930s he illustrated several guide books to Britain and contributed to journals such as the Architectural Review as well as publishing books such as The Painter's Object. However, it was in 1937 that he stopped experimenting with Abstraction and returned to representational art, focusing on subjects such as landscapes and architecture in the style of the nineteenth century English Romantics.
At the outbreak of World War II, Piper became an official war artist and painted a series of street scenes that evocatively portray the obliteration that the German bombs caused on some of Britain's most iconic buildings. One of his most significant series of images was Interior of Coventry Cathedral, which was created after an air raid that destroyed Coventry Cathedral. Piper also was given a commission to paint twelve views of Windsor Castle for the Queen. Later in his life, his artistic approach broadened to fabric designs, mosaics, tapestries and stained glass windows.


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By Joseph Czikk Technology September 25, 2013
Halifax's STI Technologies Gets Huge $17 Million Private Equity Infusion
Halifax-based STI Technologies, a company that developed a card-based program connecting physicians, patients, pharmacy and pharma, has announced an arrangement that will result in Toronto-based private equity firm, Imperial Capital Group, investing over $17 million dollars in the company.
The massive infusion of cash comes during a time of substantial growth and will "accelerate its expansion".
"We're thrilled to have found a partner in Imperial Capital, they have a solid track record and are aligned with us on our vision. Their investment represents a win for shareholders, the company and its employees, our customers, as well as the millions of beneficiaries of our programs," said CEO Steve Nicolle. "Over the next few years, we plan on further expanding our services and reach into new areas of healthcare."
The transaction, which represents one of the largest investments recently made in the region, is still subject to court approval. but received overwhelming shareholder approval after a special shareholders meeting that took place onMonday, September 23 in Halifax. Many of the company's early investors, including GrowthWorks Atlantic Fund, are selling their shares and receiving an attractive return on their original investment.
"An investment of this caliber doesn't happen every day," said Milan Vrekic of Volta Labs, a startup space in Halifax. "STI is a home-grown success story and a testament to the spirit of innovation and perseverance in Atlantic Canada."
STI was founded in 2001 by three pharmaceutical marketers, the result of a scribbled napkin at a dinner table. Their technology works like this: a healthcare professional, a pharmacist, or even the manufacturer distributes a uniquely and securely coded smart card to a patient. The patient gives the easily recognizable card to the pharmacist along with their prescription. Once the pharmacist enters the card into the pharmacy system, reimbursement rules are applied and patients are provided a pre-determined benefit. Payment is immediate and accurate. STI calls their system "revolutionary", and that it changed the way pharmaceutical companies sample their medications by involving pharmacy.
Imperial Capital's Justin MacCormack said the firm is "very excited" about it partnership with STI. "STI is a profitable and highly scalable technology company playing an important role in the Canadian healthcare industry," he said. "As their partner, we look forward to assisting management in the execution of the company's strategic vision."
STI is the largest intelligent reimbursement card provider to the Canadian healthcare industry, implementing innovative programs on behalf of major pharmaceutical and patient assistance companies. The company's newest program, innoviCares, provides members with the choice to stay on brand name medication at the generic price and offers savings on many other healthcare products.
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What were you doing on July 20, 1969? On that day, Neil Armstrong became the first human to step on the moon. The world excitedly watched as he, along with Buzz Aldrin walked around for three hours. In addition to doing experiments, they placed a US flag on the moon.
What were you doing on on February 21, 2019? On that day at Cape Canaveral, Israel launched its historic journey to the moon. And on April 11, with God's help, and the help of people who are very intelligent, creative, and persistent, we will all watch with pride when Israel's Beresheet lands on the moon. Israel, tiny little Israel, will hopefully become the 4th nation, following in the footsteps of the three greatest superpowers of all time; US, Russia, and China, to land on the moon.
On April 11, we will watch with pride and we will remember where we were that afternoon. Picture an Israeli astronaut planting an Israeli flag, a Magen David, on the moon. (This particular spacecraft is unmanned, but the feeling would be the same).
Israel's SpaceIL, a start-up, will be the first private aircraft to reach the moon and it will do so at a fraction of the cost of any lunar mission before it.
The shuttle Beresheet is currently spending seven weeks making its way to the moon. It is swinging around Earth a few times and using our planet's gravity to build the momentum it needs to get to its destination. The spacecraft carries with it a time capsule packed with digital files that hold information about the spacecraft, a Tanakh, Hebrew songs, artwork created by Israeli children and a photo of Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, who lost his life as a member of the team of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine came to the annual AIPAC Policy Conference this week to share how proud he was that NASA has been supporting this historical mission. NASA supplied vital components to the lander, and they will partner with Israel to conduct lunar research after Beresheet successfully lands on the moon. This is but one example of a deep and multifaceted US-Israel Partnership.
SpaceIL Co-Chair and investor Morris Kahn also came to AIPAC to celebrate this historic achievement. For me, one of the highlights was when this short 89-year-old legend offered his prayer to Beresheet: Travel well, land peacefully and make us all proud.
Israeli co-founder of SpaceIL, Yonatan Winetraub, joined Morris and said that SpaceIL was founded to inspire a new generation of dreamers and explorers, to reach beyond our horizons and discover the unknown. He concluded by saying that when America and Israel dream, nothing is impossible. We hope that wherever we go next, we will go there together.
To me, that is why I leave my community and family behind each year for a few days in March and I attend the AIPAC Policy Conference. Stories like this inspire me. They remind me of my obsession with Israel and why Zionism is an integral part of my identity.
To be candid, I am not drawn by the politics. That said, I understand and appreciate the imperative to hear from politicians from the Left, Right, and Center, both from Israel and the US, at the AIPAC Policy Conference. AIPAC is a bipartisan organization. The single most important part of the conference is when we go en masse to Capitol Hill and lobby our members of Congress, even if lobbying my particular Congresswoman is more like a conversation and a reunion. Congresswoman Grace Meng is a true friend of Israel and a leader of the US-Israel relationship.
I attend the conference because it is an opportunity for me to learn and engage with Reform, Conservative and Orthodox rabbis who love Israel and care about the US-Israel relationship. I ate lunch on Monday in a room full of 700 rabbis and cantors. Some looked like me and others had long beards to match their long coats. But we sat together because our commitment to the relationship between the two countries is ironclad.
It is equally rare and inspiring to see a diverse tapestry of secular, Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Jews, Ashkenazim and Sefardim, and Americans of many faiths and backgrounds, including Christians, African Americans, Latinos, conservatives, and progressives unite under a conference theme of "connected for good." This conference proved to be an oasis in the desert of divisiveness and disunity that sadly is America in 2019.
I attend the AIPAC Policy Conference because I love what Israel can be. I love the people of Israel much more than the politics of Israel, just like I love the American people more than I love American politics.
The media portrays what it wants and naturally focuses on the big speeches from prominent figures. As a bipartisan organization, AIPAC invites voices from all sides of the political spectrum to speak about the US-Israel relationship. I am grateful that an organization exists where so many Israeli and American political leaders feel compelled to attend. The entire bipartisan and bicameral leadership of Congress spoke to us. Hundreds of speakers from across the globe came to Washington this week to share their expertise with 18,000 delegates. But the speeches of Prime Minister Netanyahu and Vice President Pence got the most media coverage.
Accusations that AIPAC has become a right-wing organization are simply not factual. On Sunday afternoon, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Democrat, shared his love of Israel and his commitment to continued support for the relationship between the two countries. My own New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio shared a similar message on Monday morning.
In this week's Torah portion, Shemini, we read about Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aaron, who decide to go rogue and offer a strange fire to God. They walk away from everyone else and do their own thing. Sadly their fate is that they are killed on the spot. Imagine if Nadav and Avihu were able to get over their own aspirations and dreams, and were able to work together with the others for the greater good, for serving God.
I thought of this as I read article after article this week about the conference I just attended. At AIPAC Policy Conference, Democrats and Republicans unite together because they love America and they love Israel. That transcends everything else.
Attendees could not help but see the more than 4,000 students from every corner of the US. Their blue lanyards and youth gave them away. I hope that by experiencing the bipartisanship atmosphere, this new generation will be encouraged to come to love those who think differently than they are, instead of spewing rhetoric at them. Maybe these students will become, in the words of Yonatan Winetraub, a new generation of dreamers and explorers. The opportunities for young Israeli and American minds to collaborate are endless.
Israel landing a rocket ship on the moon with the partnership of the United States is but one example of what the US-Israel alliance can accomplish. There are countless military and technology examples as well which protect Americans and enhance the lives of millions of people around the world. This is why for the past few years, despite my aversion to politics, I have served with pride on AIPAC's National Council. There is simply no better vehicle to save lives and make the world a better place.
As I return from the 2019 AIPAC Policy Conference, I am reminded that the US-Israel relationship is not only about our current political leaders, but it is about our 2000-year-old dream, our commitment, and our hope–hatikvah.
Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin is the spiritual leader of the Israel Center of Conservative Judaism in New York City, a member of the Rabbis Without Borders network, and the national Co Chair of Rabbis Against Gun Violence.


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Liverpool verdict - Jurgen Klopp knows what must happen against Manchester United after Aston Villa win
Thiago shone for Liverpool in the second half as the Reds avoided humiliation with a 4-1 victory over Aston Villa in the FA Cup
Ian DoyleChief Liverpool writer
For an hour, this underlined everything that has been going wrong lately for Liverpool.
And Jurgen Klopp's side appeared in danger of suffering an FA Cup humiliation that would have made their last visit to Villa Park seem a trifling inconvenience.
After all, it's one thing to be thwarted and subdued by obdurate Premier League opposition.
But to be similarly clueless creatively against a hastily thrown-together bunch of youngsters cut to the heart of why the Reds have gone backwards since thumping Crystal Palace by a record-breaking margin.
That was less than a fortnight ago. As the second half began here, it may as well have been a different century.
Liverpool were in trouble. Pegged back on level terms by an ex-Barcelona starlet in 17-year-old Louie Barry, the Reds, lackadaisical and bereft of ideas, were facing the threat of a setback as seismic as anything in the club's history.
Ultimately, they stepped back from the precipice with three goals in five second-half minutes.
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And key to that was the influence of another former Camp Nou player.
Okay, the opposition were not the most stellar. But the impact of Thiago Alcantara following his arrival midway through the second half, adding class and composure to an increasingly frenetic attacking effort, highlighted why he will be so important during the second half of the season for Liverpool.
With Liverpool having edged ahead through Gini Wijnaldum's strike, Thiago then fed Xherdan Shaqiri, another impressive substitute, to create further goals for Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah and seal a 4-1 triumph in this round round tie.
Phew. Circumstances meant Liverpool were always on a hiding to nothing here, but for large parts they contributed to their own malaise, made all the more alarming by Klopp fielding a surprisingly strong starting line-up.
That they enjoyed 84% possession was to be expected. But until Thiago and later Shaqiri emerged from the bench, the final ball was consistently poor. Rarely can Jordan Henderson, hooked at half-time, have had such a poor game.
Instead, the plaudits were primarily with the home team, whose endeavours and stoic resolve before understandably fading in the final quarter merited not being beaten by a greater margin.
What a night this was for Villa's youngsters, who barely 36 hours beforehand had no inkling they would all be given their senior debuts for the club. Some of them were dropped off at Villa Park for the match by their parents.
Indeed, the extent of the coronavirus outbreak at Villa's training ground meant that, as well as missing their entire first-team squad and coaching staff, they had to do without a number of leading Academy players, turning instead to the remainder of the under-23 squad – seven of whom started – and a smattering of U18s.
Villa midfielder Ben Chirsene isn't 17 until Tuesday while Lamare Bogarde, nephew of former Chelsea defender Winston, was only 17 three days before the match.
Of course, some 13 months earlier the roles were reversed when Liverpool were compelled to field a similarly youthful side in the League Cup and were smashed 5-0.
Mind you, the grown-up Reds didn't do any better when thumped 7-2 at Villa Park in the Premier League in October, highlighting the whiff of the farcical that has trailed this fixture during recent times.
A more routine night had been anticipated when Mane nodded home a Curtis Jones right-wing cross after four minutes and, shortly afterwards, Gini Wijnaldum lobbed an easy chance over.
But the longer Liverpool failed to find a swift second, the more Villa's kids realised they weren't facing supermen but mere human beings whose frailties have been laid bare over the festive period.
Gradually, the home side began to get in the faces of the Reds, although goalkeeper Akos Onodi, a Hungary U19 international, made a fine double save to deny Fabinho and then Mane.
And Villa levelled four minutes before the break when Barry, released by a pass from Callum Rowe, raced away from Rhys Williams and slotted confidently beyond Caoimhin Kelleher.
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Liverpool were dreadful, a point Klopp and his coaching staff no doubt made clear during the half-time break as the Reds, prompted by Thiago, stepped up the intensity in the second half.
Wijnaldum restored the lead on the hour, sidefooting home a lay-off from the otherwise disappointing Takumi Minamino after a burst into the area by Salah.
And with Thiago pulling the strings, on 63 minutes the Spaniard found Shaqiri in space, whose clipped ball into the area found the head of Mane for a looping effort over Onodi.
Two minutes later, Thiago fed Shaqiri again and this time Salah was the beneficiary with a shot on the turn. Game over.
If this was just about getting the job done, Klopp could have few grumbles given progress to the next round, no further injuries and valuable minutes for a number of players.
But the Reds boss knows there must be a significant improvement ahead of the visit of Manchester United on Sunday week, by which time Liverpool could well be trailing their bitter North West rivals in the Premier League table.
For Thiago, it will be an Anfield debut for the club. And, on this evidence, it could not be more timely.


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Tribute to Paul Ingrassia, former Reuters managing editor
(Reuters) - Former Reuters Managing Editor Paul Ingrassia has passed away after battling cancer. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of many articles and books on the auto industry.
FILE PHOTO: Paul Ingrassia speaks during a meeting with staff members at the Thomson Reuters Corp head office in New York, April 19, 2011. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn
Here is a tribute from Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen J. Adler:
Paul Ingrassia was the strongest person I've ever known.
Intensely joyful and bristling with enthusiasm for journalism, cars, fly-fishing, golf, people in general, and his adored family in particular, he was also cruelly afflicted. He survived lung cancer surgery 22 years ago, only to lose his beloved son Charlie to cancer earlier this year. He suffered through other cancer diagnoses in recent years, gamely tackling each treatment and, between relentless medical interventions, managing to sneak in a fishing trip, a golf game, or an appearance on CNBC. In accepting the Gerald R. Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016, he acknowledged his bouts with cancer by deadpanning: "I often think that my biggest lifetime achievement is simply having a lifetime." But Paul did so very much more than survive. He was a force of nature and a rare inspiration, sharing with everyone around him his exquisite generosity, his lifelong devotion to unbiased and illuminating journalism, and his fierce love of life.
At Reuters, where he was Managing Editor from 2011 until 2016, he combined a deep understanding of financial markets and clarity of news judgment with a keen eye for emerging talent. As recently as this month, in the midst of an especially toxic round of chemo, he wrote to compliment one of his "discoveries" for an extraordinary piece of reporting from Latin America. He also had a penchant for remembering everyone's name and face in an organization of thousands of journalists, and he managed to greet each person he encountered with a specific, thoughtful comment or question. It seemed like a magic act, and it awed all of us, but what it really reflected was how much he simply cared about people. Far from an act, it was his essence.
Paul's serious business-journalism chops were tempered by an eye for the personal and quirky. A classic example was the time he crafted a feature about dinner with Vladimir Putin shortly after Russia had annexed Crimea. The main course, it turns out, was Crimean flounder. Everyone at the dinner talked about it. Only Paul had the wit to write about it. When I met him in 1988 at a Wall Street Journal bureau chief meeting, he seemed earnest and strait-laced. But he turned out to be nerdily funny, with a super-dry and sometimes corny sense of humor that found its outlet in droll one-liners and some wonderful and ridiculous doggerel. This was how he said farewell to the Reuters London team at the end of 2015:
On England's shore I did arrive
In Reuters' buzzing London hive.
So many desks, so many chairs
Paul Ingrassia, Pulitzer winner and former Reuters managing editor, dies at 69
All filled with Nigels and Alistairs.
My culture shock was plain to see
No pickup truck, no SUV!
How could I find a way to bond
With colleagues from across the pond?
I tried country music, golf and cars,
And even hanging out in bars.
Till through the haze of British booze,
We found our bond, our love of news.
Paul spent three decades at Dow Jones, in senior leadership roles both at the newspaper and the newswire, before coming to Reuters. He was the best possible partner and managing editor here, eagerly moving to London in 2013 when it became clear we needed his senior presence there and traveling everywhere in the world to connect with and mentor our far-flung journalists. And bear in mind he did all this with just one lung in some of the most polluted cities in the world.
Lately, in addition to his public appearances, he had been serving as editor and writer at the Revs Institute, an automotive history and research center in Naples, Florida, where he and his wife Susie happily made their home in recent years. He also served on the Dow Jones Special Committee, created to monitor editorial integrity after News Corp acquired the company. In that role, he characteristically dove into WSJ newsrooms around the world so he personally could take the pulse of the staff on ethics issues.
Throughout his career, Paul wrote brilliantly and passionately about cars — in newspapers, magazines, and books. It was at The Wall Street Journal in 1993 that he won his Pulitzer Prize, along with colleague Joe White, for coverage of a boardroom revolt at General Motors. Among his astute, highly readable books were Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars, and Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster. The latter spawned a documentary, Live Another Day, a title that might easily have served for a memoir as well.
I'll remember so many lovely moments when I remember Paul, but I'll especially cherish the times we spent, and the joy we shared, in just covering the news. Paul Ingrassia was a devoted, charming, and utterly decent man who refused to let illness deflect him from his passions or deny us the immeasurable gift of his brilliance, humanity, and love.


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The statement below was issued by Peter Garrett in September 2007: (with comments from Captain Watson)
Peter Garrett MP
Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage
Media Statement - September 18, 2007
Government must stand up and stop Japanese whaling. (Yes they should)
A Rudd Labor Government would not stand in the way of Humane Society International's (HSI) legal challenge in the Federal Court to request an injunction to stop Japanese whaling company Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd from killing whales within the Australian Whale Sanctuary. (They have)
Labor has a clear policy position that we will enforce Australian law banning the slaughter of whales in the Australian Whale Sanctuary. Therefore, Labor would enforce any injunction the courts decide to grant against Japanese whalers. (They have not and the policy is decidedly not very clear)
I wish to send a powerful and clear message to the Australian public that Labor believes in enforcing Australian law. This is the right and obvious thing to do. (A message not acted upon)
The Howard Government has made a mockery of our laws by refusing to enforce the Whale Sanctuary protections, and it's just not good enough, frankly. (And now the Rudd government has made a mockery of Mr. Garrett's statement)
There is an ocean of clear water between the Howard Government and Labor on the issue of whaling. (Yes, the Liberals are tougher on this issue than Labor)
Labor has the guts to stand up to the Japanese whalers - the Howard Government will do no such thing. (No sign of guts so far and no guts on the horizon)
Mr. Turnbull is all talk and no action. All pretty pictures of whales in his election material and no results. (Mr. Garrett is now all talk and no action and will not release the graphic pictures of Japanese whalers paid for by the tax-payers, preferring pretty pictures himself now that he is in government.)
We expect the Government will not show support for this hearing. You wouldn't see such timidity from a Labor Government. (Oh, but we are seeing it now Mr. Garrett. We are seeing the craven timidity of appeasement and compromise.)
If elected, Rudd Labor will not stand in the way of enforcing Australian law banning the slaughter of whales in the Australian Whale Sanctuary. (This was of course a lie. The Rudd government is indeed standing in the way of enforcing the law.)
It's now hard to believe that Peter Garrett made this statement. I especially like his reference to Mr. Malcolm Turnbull being "all talk and no action. All pretty pictures of whales in his election material and no results."
When Senator Ian Campbell was Environment Minister he did much more than Mr. Garrett. The Howard government for all its faults (and there were many) at least had the guts to stand up taller for the whales than the Rudd government is doing today.
Even now the Liberals are talking stronger than the government on this issue.
An editorial in the West Australian stated that "opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt rightly says the negotiations are a gross betrayal of the Australian public and has suggested the Government has gone soft on Japan..."
Mr. Hunt says succinctly but convincingly: "Australia's position must be: No way. No whaling, whatever."
The Australian government's secret negotiation to find a compromise with Japan is now seeing the light of day. The Humane Society International has released a U.S. State Department memo written in November that reveals that Australia's Special Envoy on Whale Conservation, Sandy Holloway, was ready to "seriously consider" Japan's whaling priorities and their request for a "reduced" total take of Southern Ocean whales as part of negotiations with the International Whaling Commission. And the Australian media has also revealed that the Federal Government has been involved in talks to draw up a secret deal to break the whaling deadlock by letting Japan kill more whales in the North Pacific in return for killing fewer whales in the Southern Ocean.
'Mr. Holloway has traveled to Tokyo and Washington in recent weeks, explaining that Australia is ready to seriously consider Japan's priorities in the IWC (if not actually support them) and simultaneously reductions in the larger Antarctic whale quotas that Japan grants itself', the memo said.
"Holloway...stated (Kevin) Rudd's desire to find a way forward that (1) reduced the total take of whales in the Southern Ocean, and (2) helped prevent a "blow up" in the IWC negotiations. We believe Australia's proposal reflects a major move forward in Australian whaling policy and shows openings for negotiations that were unimaginable even a year earlier."
Under the plan, Japanese whalers could hunt a regulated number of Minke whales in its coastal waters and take many more whales in the North Pacific than they are already taking now. In exchange, Japan would agree to phase out "scientific" whaling in the Antarctic entirely, or lower their quota in the Southern Ocean.
This reduced take would be a mere 20% reduction. It would be unprofitable for the Japanese fleet to drop it any lower than that. And in return for this, the Japanese would get an increase in the number of whales they are killing in the North Pacific. It's a great deal for Japan and a lousy deal for the whales. And it appears the Rudd government is anxious for any deal that will just make this issue go away.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has enforced a 50% reduction in the Japanese quota for the last two years and is working on a third year. This "compromise" would actually see more whales killed rather than less because if legalized it will force us out of the Southern Ocean and would enable Australia to join Japan in preventing our interventions on the grounds that we would be acting unlawfully. In other words what they want to do is legalize Japanese illegal activities and criminalize our up to now legal interventions.
What the Rudd government has been doing is playing both sides of the fence. In an editorial in the Western Australian this was described as "flirting with such a proposal opens the government with charges of hypocrisy and opportunism and of being "heroes at home but cowards in Tokyo."
The Green Party of Australia is stressing that the negotiations have more to do with the politics of appeasement than the protection of whales.
I am not an Australian citizen and I could not vote in the last federal election, but I did speak to tens of thousands of Australians in public, on radio and on television prior to the election and I appealed to them to vote Labor to save the whales.
Therefore I feel personally betrayed by Peter Garrett and Kevin Rudd. By rallying people to their lies, I lied, and I don't appreciate them making a liar out of me.
The cowardice of the Rudd government on this issue forces us to risk our lives in the cold waters of the Southern Ocean year after year confronting vicious killers in hostile conditions.
What the Rudd government needs to do but most likely will not is to do exactly what Peter Garrett said he was going to do two months before he was elected.
Japan needs Australia's resources more than Australia needs Japan to buy them. There are plenty of other markets like China and Europe. Call their bluff. Stand up for Australia, Australians and Australia's whales, enforce the bloody laws mate and show the world that Australians have the guts and the integrity to do what Mr. Garrett said Australia should do in September 2007 when he said. "I wish to send a powerful and clear message to the Australian public that Labor believes in enforcing Australian law. This is the right and obvious thing to do."
Do it Mr. Garrett, make us proud of you again and be the man we once thought you were - a conservationist with the guts to do the right and obvious thing.
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The majority of the participating organizations are involved in legislative monitoring in some form or another. Many are members of the Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency. But the goal of the meeting was not to limit ourselves solely to discussions of the use of technology in legislative monitoring (which we have discussed here previously), but to zoom out and look more generally at the application of technology in various types of transparency projects; including budget monitoring, education, lobbying, freedom of information requests, and more.
Providing access to government data is the most important step to strengthen democracy in Latin America.
Any organization that works with open data, or that monitors legislative activity, should not take any political positions about proposed legislation, representatives, or political parties.
It is necessary to work with mainstream, traditional media in order to increase civic participation in political processes.
Responses to the three statements represented a wide range of differing opinions and priorities among the participants, but we arrived at some general points of agreement. For example, it is better for an organization to be transparent about their political bias than to try to hide it with the aim of appearing objective. Also, taking advantage of new media often attracts the attention of broadcast journalists; while collaborating with traditional media can bring a wider audience to an organization's website where they can engage in dialog that is not restricted to the one-to-many broadcast model.
A group of programmers, web developers, and designers then presented a generalizable workflow of four important steps in the process of using government information for transparency, accountability, and advocacy.
Scrapy allows users to take data from government websites in a format that can be analyzed and re-purposed.
First, Gonzalo Iglesias of Garage Lab provided an introduction to scraping tools such as ScraperWiki and Scrapy that allow organizations to take data from government websites so that they can be properly structured and analyzed. For example, in Argentina, Gasto Público Bahiense uses Scrapy to automatically pull in data from the Bahía Blanca municipal website and then uses Google Chart Tools to present that same data in ways that give it new meaning for citizens who want to know how their government spends their tax money and which service providers benefit most from government contracts.
Pedro Daire, chief of technology at Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente, then spoke about the importance of well organized databases in order to communicate information effectively and sustainably as more data is added over time. He presented Google Refine as a free, powerful tool to help clean up messy datasets and provided a few examples of how well organized data leads to better visualizations and websites that scale over time with fewer issues.
In addition to analyzing and visualizing government information, Jorge Soto of Citivox emphasized the importance of listening to citizens through the use of crowdsourcing. For example, an NGO in Mexico could use a freedom of information request to seek information about the number of metro users who enter and exit each station around the city at various times of the day. With that data they could build a timeline-based map that shows the flow of metro users throughout the city. But the organization could also use tools like Twitter and Crowdmap to solicit the opinions of residents about where there is a lack of public transit options. Both sources of information are valuable when planning an advocacy campaign to improve public transit.
Finally, information designers Rodrigo Ramírez and Montserrat Lobos presented a number of examples of how to best visually communicate large amounts of information. They stressed that while extensive graphs filled with hundreds of data points might look impressive, they rarely communicate the meaning or significance behind the information. Infographics – such as those regularly produced by the New York Times and Good Magazine – can help readers draw greater context from the types of statistics that are often rattled of in news reports and press releases, but some information is best communicated with text.
Acceso Inteligente is Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente's newest project. It aims to make FOI requests more accessible and user friendly.
Proetica and Citivox presented a platform to compare the promises that candidates make during campaign season with their actual accomplishments as elected officials.
ACIJ and Reflexión Democrática explored ideas to make more transparent the public education sector in Argentina and Peru. Websites that served as inspirations include Compara Tu Escuela in Mexico, Check My School from the Philippines, and Elige Colegio in Chile.
In Mexico, Impacto Legislativo, Fundar, and Citivox are planning a collaboration to build a directory of current legislators and legislative candidates for this year's federal election. The platform will include filters and graphics to provide more information about party affiliation, legislative topics, voting records, gender, age, birthplace, etc.
Kiko Mayorga from Escuelab in Perú and María Luisa Sotomayor of Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente put together a visually stunning presentation in a short amount of time to propose a strong collaboration between the two groups in order to foment the culture of "technology and transparency" in Peru. Already Escuelab has organized a meeting of transparency groups to discuss ideas for collaboration and there is much enthusiasm about implementing a version of Acceso Inteligente for Peru, a country which has a freedom of information law, but very little in terms of mechanisms for oversight and enforcement.
At this point everyone was drained after two intensive days of learning and participation. But we had one last special guest, Carlos de la Fuente of CTIC, a leader in the open data movement in Spain and Latin America. Carlos gave an excellent presentation about the current trends in open data, linked data, and the wider semantic web. According to CTIC's directory of public dataset catalogs, so far Chile and Uruguay are the only countries in Latin America with official public datasets of government information, but as the global open government movement expands we can expect to see much more government data portals in coming years.
Participants left both exhausted and full of new ideas. The purpose of the event wasn't necessarily to develop specific projects to begin working on immediately, but rather to present the executive directors of some of the region's most influential transparency groups with a greater understanding and perspective of some of the current technological possibilities so that when the right opportunity presents itself, they have a more versatile toolbox to develop the most impactful projects possible.