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IN RE: the MARRIAGE of Marion and Robert John SMETHURST.
IN RE: the MARRIAGE of Marion and Robert John SMETHURST. Marion SMETHURST, Appellant, v. Robert John SMETHURST, Respondent.
Daubney & Banche and William Henry Daubney, Oceanside, for appellant. Ramon D. Asedo, Oceanside, for respondent.
The muddy legal waters of missed pension plans in marital dissolution cases is clearing. We now know that res judicata and collateral estoppel do not apply where the omitted pension rights were vested and matured at the time of dissolution of the marriage. (Henn v. Henn (1980) 26 Cal.3d 323, 329-331, 161 Cal.Rptr. 502, 605 P.2d 10.) Presumably, the same rule would apply where the pension rights were vested only but not matured.1 We also know where the pension rights were non-vested at dissolution (see fn. 1 below) the limited retroactivity of In re Marriage of Brown (1976) 15 Cal.3d 838, 850-851, 126 Cal.Rptr. 633, 544 P.2d 561, still applies. (Henn v. Henn, supra, 26 Cal.3d at pp. 328-329, 161 Cal.Rptr. 502, 605 P.2d 10.)
Marion Smethurst filed an independent action in 1976 seeking her share of military retirement benefits paid to her former husband. Their interlocutory judgment, obtained in October 1974, made no mention of the benefits.
To the extent the court sustained defendant's demurrer without leave to amend on the basis of res judicata relying on Kelley v. Kelley (1977) 73 Cal.App.3d 672, 141 Cal.Rptr. 33, it prejudicially erred. Kelley, on this issue, has been disapproved. (Henn v. Henn, supra, 26 Cal.3d at pp. 331, fn. 6, 161 Cal.Rptr. 502, 605 P.2d 10.) If the court relied on the limited retroactivity of Brown because defendant's military pension rights were non-vested within the meaning of Brown, this finding is not supported by the record. The complaint neither mentions the branch of service from which defendant retired nor his length of service. Even if defendant were in the service less than 20 years and ineligible for longevity retirement, it is unknown at this stage of the proceedings whether his benefits were transferable to other employment. Although matters judicially noticed may be considered in construing the pleadings (Code Civ.Proc., s 430.30, subd. (a)), this record is inadequate to determine the status of defendant's pension rights at the time of the dissolution hearing.2
In ruling on a demurrer, the allegations must be liberally construed with a view to substantial justice. (King v. Central Bank (1977) 18 Cal.3d 840, 843, 135 Cal.Rptr. 771, 558 P.2d 857.) Generally, it is an abuse of discretion to sustain a demurrer without leave to amend if there is a reasonable possibility that the defect can be cured by amendment. (Temescal Water Co. v. Dept. Public Works (1955) 44 Cal.2d 90, 102, 280 P.2d 1.)
The interlocutory judgment, in addition to the usual provisions covering support and property, provided:
"Each party represents to the other party that there is no property of any nature known to the party, other than that listed herein, having a value in excess of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00)."
This paragraph is similar to the boilerplate warranty provision in Bodle v. Bodle, supra, 76 Cal.App.3d 758, 761-762, 143 Cal.Rptr. 115 (see II Cal. Family Lawyer (1963) C.E.B. s 26.31, pp. 1192-1193), except here the paragraph does not limit the rights of the aggrieved spouse to only one-half the omitted property. This provision guarantees to each spouse the right to seek redress from the other where there is additional property. As a catch-all paragraph it is frequently used as an expeditious, but preventive technique by attorneys stipulating to the various provisions of an interlocutory judgment to assure continuing access to the court in those cases where the division of property is either intentionally or inadvertently incomplete. The parties, through their counsel, selected the term "property." They elected not to define or clarify it further. Thus any property, including defendant's non-vested or vested pension rights if greater in value than $500, were subject to further litigation.
Plaintiff concedes there are matters of form which should properly be corrected in an amended pleading.
The judgment of dismissal is reversed. Upon remand, the court shall overrule defendant's demurrer and grant plaintiff leave to amend her complaint.
1. In dissolution cases, "vested" means "a pension right which survives the discharge or voluntary termination of the employee." "Matured" means an "unconditional right to immediate payment." (In re Marriage of Brown (1976) 15 Cal.3d 838, 842, 126 Cal.Rptr. 633, 635, 544 P.2d 561, 563.)
2. Because the disposition of this case rests on other grounds, we do not wish to belabor what may well be apparent to both court and counsel. We note, however, there is a tendency to apply the limited retroactivity of Brown to cases in which the retirement benefits have vested. (See, e. g., comments in Cal. Family Law Report (Sept. 10, 1979) Vol. III, No. 19, pp. 1185-1186.) The comments in Brown relating to limited retroactivity (pp. 350-351) apply solely to non-vested pension rights. All the cases discussing the application of res judicata or collateral estoppel involve vested pension rights. (See Bensing v. Bensing (1972) 25 Cal.App.3d 889, 891-892, 102 Cal.Rptr. 255 (vested); In re Marriage of Cobb (1977) 68 Cal.App.3d 855, 859, 137 Cal.Rptr. 670 (vested and matured); Irwin v. Irwin (1977) 69 Cal.App.3d 317, 319, 138 Cal.Rptr. 9 (vested); Kelley v. Kelley, supra, 73 Cal.App.3d 675, 141 Cal.Rptr. 33 (vested and matured); Bodle v. Bodle (1978) 76 Cal.App.3d 758, 761, 143 Cal.Rptr. 115 (vested and matured); Bridges v. Bridges (1978) 82 Cal.App.3d 976, 978, 147 Cal.Rptr. 471 (vested and matured); In re Marriage of Borges (1978) 83 Cal.App.3d 771, 774, 148 Cal.Rptr. 118 (vested); Sangiolo v. Sangiolo (1978) 87 Cal.App.3d 511, 513, 151 Cal.Rptr. 27 (vested and matured); Gorman v. Gorman (1979) 90 Cal.App.3d 454, 457, 153 Cal.Rptr. 479 (vested and matured); Fenn v. Harris (1979) 91 Cal.App.3d 772, 774, 154 Cal.Rptr. 21 (vested and matured); In re Marriage of Snyder (1979) 95 Cal.App.3d 636, 638, 157 Cal.Rptr. 196 (vested and matured).)
WIENER, Associate Justice.
COLOGNE, Acting P. J., and HENDERSON,* J., Assigned, concur.


The goal of this paper is to study the reduction of health risks from indoor radioactive pollutants, as thoron emissions from common building materials, and radon emission from both building materials and the ground. In particular, when dealing with the indoor environment, one of the most important hazard is represented by radon gas, considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the second largest cause of lung cancer, cigarette smoke being the first. Such a radioactive gas belongs to the natural radioactive background of radiation, and its presence all over the world is unavoidable.
Radon gas density varies due to microclimatic factors such as temperature, air pressure, humidity and changes in ground layers. Radon gas emerges from the ground and penetrates building basements, accumulating itself into the indoor air, and being breathed in by people. Taking care of the airtightness of windows allows the radon concentration to build up, in some cases beyond reference levels, together with other chemical pollutants, i.e. combustion residues and solvents. The EU Basic Safety Standards, stated in the Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom, based on the last recommendations from the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and from WHO, are focusing on risks related to radon gas concentration inside dwellings and working places. On considering that Council Directive 2013/59 Euratom has to be transposed into law by each EU Member State by February 2018, it is recommended that radon issues have to be considered during the design phase of the building construction. For NZEB applications a special attention is requested when energy consumption is reduced lower and lower by taking care of airtightness. In such a case, indoor pollutants (chemical, radioactive, particulate, etc.) can significantly accumulate beyond safe levels.
This paper describes measurements and remedial actions of study cases, focusing on public and domestic environments.


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Your Blackhawk pipes are supposed to quietly do their job removing sewage away from our homes and businesses. Occasionally life does not go as planned and problems happen. Fortunately, high pressure cleaning can minimize events and mitigate potential plumbing problems. At General Plumbing and Rooter, we want you to have the comfort of knowing we are here to serve all the Blackhawk communities. We can maintain your sewer and drain pipes with skill, discernment and respect.
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Most of us trust that the large demand on sewers from homes and businesses will be handled quietly and discreetly. For this to happen, certain interventions need to take place. Regular inspection and cleaning of sewer and drain pipes identifies potential problems and keeps pipes in outstanding condition.
Blackhawk communities pride themselves on luxury and elegance. Plumbing events are unpleasant and can create havoc for even the most esteemed events. Our company responds quickly and efficiently to resolve even the most complicated of concerns. High pressure cleaning can address severe blockages while allowing daily routines to continue uninterrupted.
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Ethnic Media Share Survival Stories One Year after Katrina
By Donal Brown, New America Media
The men in the office slept on the floor, had to forego bathing and ate rations provided by the National Guard, but they were able to broadcast nonstop after the devastating hurricane. The men were five dee jays for 1540 Radio Tropical Caliente, some of the workers for the ethnic media of New Orleans that survived Katrina to provide first response services and eventually overcome financial blows and play a role in the rebirth of the city.
Upon the one year anniversary of hurricane Katrina ethnic media shared their survival stories.
After a two-day evacuation, the dee jays returned to their offices in New Orleans to provide critical survival information in Spanish and help Latino residents connect with loved ones.
As business owners canceled ads, severely cutting the station's revenue, radio host Azucena Viaz said people from the community came to their rescue. They donated gasoline for their generator, some even bringing it from Houston. Viaz said the station played a crucial role for the Spanish-language community.
"We established a beachhead of good will," she said.
One day, Viaz and her editor, Ernesto Schweikert, received a call that 300 people, including children, were living in a warehouse with two bathrooms and no kitchen.
When they reached the site that housed laborers, security guards were angry with them. Schweikert and Viaz argued that the laborers were promised $10 and were paid $7 and were living in these filthy conditions.
Rather than risk further exposure, the security guards then told the people in the warehouse that immigration was coming, a de facto firing of all 300 workers.
As the workers rushed out of the warehouse, Viaz was in tears. "What can you do now," she asked some of them. But her station helped call attention to the situation of unequal pay. One of the workers told her, "Don't worry. We are just happy you came and demonstrated that Spanish people are not alone."
Viaz said the station is now doing great financially. She said the Hispanic community had grown substantially with new restaurants, discos, and stores opening.
After fleeing to Atlanta, Terry Jones, publisher of the 40-year-old New Orleans Data News Weekly rounded up writers who lived in Atlanta, sent reporters down to New Orleans and found a printer in Atlanta to replace the one in New Orleans that was wiped out. With the help of associate Cheryl Mainor, he was able to go beyond CNN coverage to give information on the location of displaced people, salvaging property and dealing with FEMA.
They called friends in Houston; Jackson, Mississippi; Baton Rouge, Lake Charles and Alexandra and arranged to ship the newspapers to New Orleans for distribution in shelters. They effectively became the "voice of the black diaspora" in the year following Katrina.
Their crowning achievement came with the election season. With editors, photographers, sales people and reporters in a temporary office in New Orleans, they reported on the New Orleans election and facilitated the participation of displaced residents.
The election was good for business but even better for people threatened by disenfranchisement while mired in temporary housing in distant cities. As one of the major conduits to the displaced, the Data News Weekly ran six and seven pages of ads with voting information paid for by the state of Louisiana. Jones put the entire newspaper online so that people could download it and stay informed about how to vote.
"Everything was at stake," said Mainor, "how the city was to be rebuilt and whether people were to be able to return."
With the information from the Data News Weekly, thousands displaced by natural catastrophe were able to vote. They came by bus to New Orleans to vote or faxed or mailed their ballots.
Mainor said the future looks bright for the Data News Weekly. They are rebuilding in New Orleans and slowly regaining their ad base.
The Vietnamese Americans displaced by the hurricane received essential information and support from the Vietnamese media. Thuy Vu, CEO of Vietnamese-language Radio Saigon Houston, said the day after Katrina hit, the station directed Vietnamese to a shopping mall in Houston where they could find food and shelter and other information in Vietnamese.
The radio also went on the air to search for residents in Houston who could take in these displaced as well as provided a bulletin board to unite children with parents.
Other ethnic media did not fare so well after the hurricane. The 21-year-old Vocero News of Kenner, Louisiana serving the Hispanic population of the Gulf Coast, New Orleans and Mississippi has ceased publication. The vibrant weekly had a circulation of 60,000. Their telephone service was disconnected and the last posting on their website was for their weekly of May 20-27, 2005. So too, the telephone service for the editors of Little Saigon News of New Orleans is disconnected.
The Louisiana Weekly, a proud family-run newspaper since 1925, also had a difficult time. Executive Editor Renette Dejoie Hall, whose grandfather founded the operation, said the two days after the Katrina hit they returned to take down the server and computers and move everything to Houston.
By Oct. 24 the Louisiana Weekly was publishing on-line and print editions. Unable to hire back her staff, Hall said people worked as volunteers.
"They donated their time and effort while they had other jobs and were trying to deal with the quagmire," she said.
It took until this past Aug. 18 for Hall to make her first payroll in 11 months, down from 21 to four employees.
Before Katrina, the weekly had a press run of 25,000. Hall said they were down from this but that the exodus of blacks from New Orleans was exaggerated by the mainstream press. She was hopeful for a regeneration of the black businesses and their ad revenue even though businesses have found it difficult to obtain loans.
"Banking has not been forgiving. To get an FDA loan, they want the business owners to provide tax records back to 1993, but the records were under 10 feet of water and no longer exist," said Hall.

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Looking for something to do? Why not pop along to one of the fantastic events raising funds for us?
This section is headed 'Our Service' but in fact it's not, it's 'Your Service'!
Devon has two Air Ambulances because of the support and hard work of the community, businesses and friends of Devon. They are here for you and thanks to you.
We need your help to fly longer into the night. Our helicopter is night flight ready but we need an extra £1 million a year to achieve our goal.
We don't run many events ourselves. The majority are put on by our fantastic supporters. There's bound to be something in your area to go along to. If not, why not consider putting on one yourself? It's great fun and we are here to support you.
Here are just a few events you may be interested in – but there are many more in our events diary – simply click on the month of interest.
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We had to cancel our Saturday workday, when an all-day rain and sodden earth combined to keep us out of Willow Springs Woods.
We nearly lost this day to rain as well - the rain diminished as nine o'clock approached, and stopped by ten. Nervous looks at weather apps gave us enough confidence to go ahead and cut, burn, and herbicide.
This was the last of five consecutive weeks at Swallow Cliff. Now we move to a once-a-month schedule for the near future. We've finished clearing brush along the yellow trail between the parking lot and the trail junction; can't wait to move farther down the slope.
Super turnout this morning! Newly licensed herbicider Sheri Moore had her first turn at stump-painting and chased targets across a hillside at the south end of the preserve. Thanks, Sheri, for your diligence!
Thanks also to first-time volunteers Diane, Edith, Fran, Lauren, and Mike. We got a mass of brush cut, hauled, and burned.


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Fat fighters: Docs declare war on obesity epidemic 'bigger than HIV'
Almost a quarter of adults in Britain are thought to be obese and half of children may be overweight by 2020
Adrian Shaw
Obesity crisis: Medics launch campaign to look at the growing problem (Image: PA)
MEDICS have joined forces in a nationwide battle against obesity.
A campaign by the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges was launched yesterday with a broadside against an unlikely target – the London 2012 Olympics.
The body, which represents 200,000 doctors, says sponsorship of the Games by fast food and soft drink firms including McDonald's and Coca-Cola sends out the wrong health message. Spokesman Professor Terence Stephenson said: "They clearly wouldn't be spending the money if they didn't benefit from being associated with successful athletes."
Almost a quarter of adults in Britain are thought to be obese and half of children may be overweight by 2020.
Prof Stephenson added: "It's a much bigger problem for the UK than HIV was, and much bigger than swine flu."
The campaign will start by reviewing diets, exercise, minimum pricing, changing advertising and food labelling.
Prof Stephenson said it was likely the solution lay in changing the way people were exposed to advertising. "Another aspect is the taxation of cigarettes to deter people from buying them – that seems something to look at in relation to food."
He added that exercise was not the answer. "I would have to run on a treadmill at top speed for an hour to counter-effect the calories from one or two Mars bars."
The Department of Health said it welcomed the initiative.
Let's tackle real causes - Dr Ian Campbell. GP and founder of Obesity Forum
OUR obesity crisis has developed over the past 50 years. The society we have created discourages physical activity with our dependence on the car and encourages eating too much thanks to our liking for high-fat, high-sugar foods and alcohol.
It leads to high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, raised cholesterol, and a higher risk of heart disease, strokes and some cancers. On average, obese adults die nine years prematurely.
Changing the environment we live in is vital. I can help my patients lose weight, but we will only see real progress if we limit the promotion of unhealthy foods, make our streets safe for children to play outside, ensure schools and workplaces offer healthy options, and make public transport cheaper and more attractive.
We need government action.
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SharksHammerhead shark seen on edge of British waters for first time everThe Hammerhead shark was spotted by scientists in the Celtic Sea - about 100 miles south west of Ireland
EarthquakePanic after 'strong' earthquake strikes near tourist hotspots in Greece


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Fort Lauderdale Federal Crime Attorney > Blog > Fraud > Brazil's former top judge hid price he paid for Miami condo
Brazil's former top judge hid price he paid for Miami condo
When Brazilian news outlets found out then-Supreme Court chief justice Joaquim Barbosa had bought a Brickell condo in 2012, they asked the well-respected jurist how much he paid.
Barbosa refused to say. The problem? In Florida, real-estate sales are public. But not Barbosa's.
Miami-Dade County property records seemed to suggest the 61-year-old paid a big, fat zero for his one-bedroom condo at Icon Brickell, one of the trendy neighborhood's best-known condo towers.
Documentary stamp taxes must be paid on property sales. In Miami-Dade, the tax amounts to 60 cents for every $100 paid for the property. Sales prices aren't listed on deeds — but they can be calculated from the tax. The deed for Barbosa's unit lists no tax. (Even when someone gives their property away to a family member, they pay a nominal tax.)
As it turns out, Barbosa didn't get the apartment for free. The unit's seller sent the Miami Herald a contract showing Barbosa paid $335,000 in cash. The tax on that sale would have amounted to about $2,000. Three real-estate attorneys consulted by the Miami Herald could see no reason why Barbosa wouldn't be subject to the tax. "This is a very unusual deed," said one of the attorneys, Joe Hernandez of South Florida law firm Weiss Serota. It's not clear why the Florida Department of Revenue didn't flag the nonpayment and impose a fine. A spokeswoman said the department could not comment on individual cases.
Details of Barbosa's purchase came to light after a massive leak of documents from inside Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. The leak has been dubbed the "Panama Papers." MF sets up offshore companies for the world's wealthiest people. Four of its employees have been charged as part of a massive corruption scandal over graft at Brazil's state oil company. Prosecutors allege that the firm set up offshore shell companies to help politicians launder bribes. MF has denied any wrongdoing and calls its Brazil office an independent franchise. Barbosa has never been accused of corruption. The first black judge to sit on Brazil's Supreme Court after his appointment in 2003, he was mentioned as a possible candidate for president when he retired two years ago. During his tenure on the court, he gained widespread respect for overseeing a case that saw more than 20 people convicted of corruption, including senior politicians from the governing Workers' Party, the BBC reported.
Offshore angle
The Mossack Fonseca files show Barbosa set up an offshore company called Assas JB1 to buy Florida real estate in mid-2012, according to leaked emails between his Miami attorney, Diane Nobile, and firm employees. The company was registered in the British Virgin Islands, a Caribbean tax haven that doesn't identify corporate owners in public records. Days later, Barbosa bought the Icon Brickell unit using a Florida company called Assas JB. Even though the price he paid was secret, Barbosa did not hide his role in the transaction. He is listed in Florida public records as the president of Assas JB.
Foreign nationals who own properties in the United States through offshore companies pay significantly lower estate-tax rates in the United States than if they owned them personally.In an emailed statement, Barbosa denied any wrongdoing. He said the title company that handled the transaction should have paid the stamp tax. The company, Casalina Title, of Fort Lauderdale, did not respond to requests for comment. And Barbosa said he didn't hide the unit's sales price, which was recorded on the Multiple Listing Service, a private property database for real-estate agents. "Any real-estate broker with access to the MLS system can check the amount paid for my property in 2012 and its current market value," he wrote. A person at the office of Barbosa's Miami attorney, Diane Nobile, hung up the phone three times when the Miami Herald called to ask about the sale.
Earlier this year, real-estate website Zillow listed the 790-square-foot condo as available to rent for $2,700 per month.
By Nicholas Nehamas and André Shalders
nnehamas@miamiherald.com
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article69248772.htmlRead more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article69248772.html#storylink=cpy
By Bruce L. Udolf, P.A. | Posted on April 7, 2016
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Rising Through Resilience: Dr. Taryn Marie of Resilience Leadership Institute On The Five Things You Can Do To Become More Resilient During Turbulent Times
An Interview With Savio P. Clemente
Possibility — This practice is about navigating the paradox of risk and opportunity. Any time we have a new possibility, there's always some risk associated with it. For example, taking a new job requires that we risk leaving the comforts of what we have known with our current employer and also ensure that the opportunity for taking a new job provides an opportunity that is worth taking on the risk of trying something new.
Resilience has been described as the ability to withstand adversity and bounce back from difficult life events. Times are not easy now. How do we develop greater resilience to withstand the challenges that keep being thrown at us? In this interview series, we are talking to mental health experts, authors, resilience experts, coaches, and business leaders who can talk about how we can develop greater resilience to improve our lives.
As a part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal.
Dr. Taryn Marie is the #1 international expert on resilience, in both leadership and life, whose mission is to positively impact the lives of 1 Billion people, through the concepts of resilience, by 2030. She is recognized as a leading global authority on resilience, wellbeing, and mental health, and she is the Founder and Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) of Resilience Leadership Institute (RLI) and believes that resilience is the key to individual and organizational actualization and acceleration across the globe. By leveraging over a decade and a half of original research on resilience, she developed the empirically-based framework, The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People.
Thank you so much for joining us! Our readers would love to get to know you a bit better. Can you tell us a bit about your backstory?
I'd be glad to. I just married the love of my life, and together, we have five beautiful children ranging in ages from 13 to 7. Aside from learning a lot through our blended family and practicing a lot of patience and resilience as a parent, I first became interested in resilience at about the age of our oldest son when I realized the definition of resilience was circular and difficult to understand. As I progressed in my career, it was when I was completing pre- and post-doctoral fellowships in neuropsychology, focused on brain and spinal cord injury that I first got to see the impact of resilience.
We found that patients that had the best outcomes after injury were the ones that had access to reliable transportation so that they could attend their rehabilitation and doctor's appointments. As I moved into a corporate career, heading up leadership and executive development as well as talent strategy for Fortune 100 companies like Cigna and Nike, I got to learn more about what makes leaders resilient in leadership and in life.
Can you share with us the most interesting story from your career? Can you tell us what lessons or 'take aways' you learned from that?
The most interesting story of my career is the story that I least want to tell. I like to say that everyone has at least one resilience story and that we carry around an imaginary strip of paper that reads, "People would think I was crazy if they knew _______________."
According to the Vulnerability Bias, a term I researched and coined, vulnerability is so difficult because while we think more of others for sharing their resilience stories, we have a cognitive bias that tells us that people will think less of us if we are truly known and seen when we share our own resilience stories. I am no different.
One of my resilience stories is that beginning at age 14, a man came to my ground-floor bedroom window and watched me get dressed in the morning before school when I was unaware of his presence. This man became a stalker whose presence and aggression escalated as he continued to come to my family home for the next four years of my high school schooling. About a year after I graduated and moved away to university, he brutally attacked and raped a woman in my neighborhood, which got him a sentence of 20 years in prison.
I received my own prison sentence, because as a result of those early experiences, I developed two decades of PTSD. The faulty nature of the Vulnerability Bias told me that if people knew this story, they would think less of me, so it was the story I least wanted to tell, because I was afraid that this experience, coupled with my mental health diagnosis, would diminish my credibility as a rising executive. Yet, when I had the courage to tell my resilience story publicly, this story became one of the most powerful and interesting stories of my career because it taught me how the Vulnerability Bias misleads us to believe that being vulnerable enough to share our resilience stories actually enhances others views of us, rather than diminishing us.
I also learned that the aspects of our experience that we believe are our greatest weaknesses, like my experience with the stalker and having PTSD, actually often turn out to be our greatest assets.
What do you think makes your company stand out? Can you share a story?
Resilience Leadership Institute (RLI) stands out because we are the only company that has an empirically-based framework focused on how individuals, teams, and organizations can holistically cultivate greater resilience. Over the last decade and a half, I've interviewed hundreds of people and collected thousands of pieces of data that have led to our research-based framework, The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People.
We have set an audacious goal for ourselves, which is to positively impact the lives of 1 billion people across the globe through the work of resilience. Our deep scientific research base as well as our broad scope and desire to improve and enhance the lives of so many people across the world sets us apart, I believe.
None of us are able to achieve success without some help along the way. Is there a particular person who you are grateful towards who helped get you to where you are? Can you share a story?
I couldn't agree more. The person that has had the greatest impact on my life is my husband. From the very beginning, he saw an even greater vision for me, Resilience Leadership Institute (RLI), and how we can expand our service offerings to reach more people, and he's encouraged me to both believe in myself and to dream bigger. Before we were engaged, he sat down with me and my team at the time and held a zoom meeting to go over his ideas for the company after reviewing our website and services. I'd say he's been my greatest champion and has taught me to believe in myself and the work the company is doing. He inspired me to believe in myself and this body of work to an even greater degree.
Ok thank you for all that. Now let's shift to the main focus of this interview. We would like to explore and flesh out the trait of resilience. How would you define resilience? What do you believe are the characteristics or traits of resilient people?
At RLI, we define resilience as "The ability to effectively address challenge, change, and complexity, and in doing so, to be enhanced, not diminished by these experiences." This definition is powerful, not only in its simplicity for what is written here and also for what is not written.
There are commonly held myths of resilience that you do not see here, which I believe we'll discuss subsequently. The traits of resilient people are exemplified by our empirical framework that I've researched for over a decade and a half entitled The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People — these are the five behaviors, available to any human, that when demonstrated are the difference between creating a more productive and positive outcome anytime we face challenge, change, and complexity. These Five Practices are: Vulnerability, Productive Perseverance, Connection, Grati-osity, and Possibility.
Courage is often likened to resilience. In your opinion how is courage both similar and different to resilience?
It's true that courage and bravery are often linked to resilience, yet fear is not associated with resilience, and I believe it should be. You see, fear gets a bad rap as something we should avoid or deny. Yet, it is fear that is the prerequisite to courage and bravery.
If you think about it, you can't be brave or even courageous unless fear is present. I like to say, "What Scares Us is Sacred", which means that the things that scare us are often our greatest, most sacred opportunity for development and growth.
When you think of resilience, which person comes to mind? Can you explain why you chose that person?
There are, of course, so many examples that come to mind, but there is a story of a little boy who grew up in a polygamous tribe in a rural area, with very little economic support, in a family that was largely illiterate, that always speaks to me. This little boy was very close to his mother, and he lost her at a young age, which was traumatic to him. When he excelled in school, he was accepted to university, but was expelled when he joined a political action group the university didn't approve of. Rather than going home, where he was to be married against his will, to avoid matrimony, this young man went to a neighboring city, and took odd jobs and was homeless for a period of time.
Most people don't know this, but this is the lesser well-known story of the well-known Nelson Mandela. I really love learning the backstory, the lesser well-known stories of well-known people, like Nelson Mandela, because knowing the degree of challenge that well-known people have faced encourages me, and all of us, to continue to pursue our dreams and to see challenge, change, and complexity as an inevitable part of the journey of being human. Also, Nelson Mandela sites these experiences of hardship and adversity in his early life as being formative, preparing him for his mission to end racial injustice later on in his life. Of all of the resilience stories and public figures, Nelson Mandela has always been my favorite.
Has there ever been a time that someone told you something was impossible, but you did it anyway? Can you share the story with us?
Has there ever not been a time when I was told something was impossible? I feel like this is one of the themes of my resilient life story.
Early on, in elementary school, I was in the lowest reading group. My parents were told that likely I would not progress with reading at grade level. However, I believed I could excel to the top reading group in my class. After school, I taught myself strategies to read better, and a year later, I was in the highest reading group in fourth grade. A year later, in fifth grade, I was reading at a 12th-grade level.
Many years later, I learned the reason for my difficulty with reading. I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Yet, when I received the diagnosis at age 37, I had already completed all of my schooling, including being awarded my doctorate without accommodations for having a learning disability.
Did you have a time in your life where you had one of your greatest setbacks, but you bounced back from it stronger than ever? Can you share that story with us?
One of the greatest myths of resilience is that we bounce back. We don't go back to the way we were before we experienced challenge, change, or complexity, yet we are fundamentally changed by every experience we have. So instead of going back to the way we were, we go forward, and we bounce forward.
Aside from having an undiagnosed learning disability and developing two decades for PTSD from a stalker in high school, another instance where I bounced forward, was enhanced by the challenge, I experienced when I was diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome my senior year of high school, which caused my hands and arms to go numb in swim practice. Once I was diagnosed, I was told I would not be able to swim my senior year. Yet, I trained differently, was able to complete the season, and in fact, swam the fastest I'd ever swum before I hung up my goggles after than final swim season.
How have you cultivated resilience throughout your life? Did you have any experiences growing up that have contributed to building your resiliency? Can you share a story?
At the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March of 2020, I had just begun leading RLI full-time. As a single mother and head of my own household, I'd booked clients to replace my income through June of 2020, but when the pandemic arrived all of that business that I'd booked evaporated overnight. I no longer had a way to support my family.
It was the first time in my life that I didn't know how I was going to make it because the landscape of the pandemic was so unlike anything any of us had ever experienced. On top of revamping my business model and prospecting for new clients, I was tasked with also navigating homeschooling my sons full-time, who were in kindergarten and second grade at the time.
When I met my fiancée, I was barely sleeping between caring for my sons and trying to save my business while sewing socks to save money. Since then, RLI has been blessed, and I have been grateful to expand the company 10x. So, not only did I have the opportunity to share resilience with individuals, teams, and organizations at a critical time, I also got to practice what I preach, The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People, simultaneously.
Resilience is like a muscle that can be strengthened. In your opinion, what are 5 steps that someone can take to become more resilient? Please share a story or an example for each.
Indeed, resilience through practice, is like a muscle that can be strengthened — similar to how we increase our cardiovascular ability when we train for running a race or marathon.
The 5 steps that someone can take to become more resilience are best exemplified by The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People which are:
Vulnerability — This is the practice of allowing our inside self, our thoughts, feelings and emotions to match the outside self we show to the world. Vulnerability is a foundation of resilience because if you think about it, we can't be authentic or empathetic without first connecting with our own vulnerability. Three practical ways to enhance our resilience through the practice of vulnerability are to:
- Admit when we don't know the answer or feel unsettled by an experience, rather than pretending we are okay,
- Rely on others in our network for support — I like to say the only insane thing is to attempt to be sane all the time, and
- Share our challenges and failures as much as we share our achievements and successes.
Productive Perseverance — The intelligent pursuit of a goal, knowing when to maintain the mission, despite challenge, and when to pivot in the face of diminishing returns. One of my favorite stories of Productive Perseverance is the story of Sylvester Stallone making the first Rocky film. He knew he wanted to both sell the screenplay and star in the film, so despite having very little money, he still intelligently pursued his goal and held out until he was offered the opportunity to make the screenplay and be cast in the starring role.
Connection — This practice is focused on navigating the interplay between the connection we have internally with ourselves, our feelings, desires, and knowing our value, alongside the connections we have externally with others, and their feelings and desires. This is probably the most intuitive resilience practice as well as the most difficult. It's very easy for many people to prioritize the needs of others, to the detriment of ourselves. On the other hand, when we largely ignore the needs of others, in favor of our own, this leads to things like being insular and narcissistic.
Grati-osity — This practice combines the notion of both gratitude and generosity as a practice of resilience. First, it's about practicing gratitude, often in retrospect, after facing a challenge, when we're able to see the good in what happened, even if we wouldn't have chosen the circumstances. Secondly, it's about drawing on the first practice, Vulnerability, to share our resilience stories generously, so that others can learn from our resilience stories vicariously. In business, practicing grati-osity is the difference between giving advice and coaching. Outside the office, in parenting, it's the difference between telling our children what to do and engaging them in a story of our own experience to impart a lesson.
You are a person of great influence. If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good to the most amount of people, what would that be? You never know what your idea can trigger. :-)
Ah yes! I love this question. First of all, I don't think of resilience as being my movement, but instead, all of our movement. So, now that you know about The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People, I like to ask, "So, how will you create your resilience movement?"
I would like to inspire 1 Billion people to create and share their own resilience movements to more positively and productively address challenge, change, and complexity. One movement I would like to create is a movement on social media that inspires more vulnerability and authenticity to reduce social comparison, especially for girls ages 9–14, whom we know are likely to have their self-esteem decrease as a result of social media. One idea I have is to have a social media campaign called "Give Vulnerability a Dance," where everyone does a funny dance move in their most authentic and vulnerable state to the song "Give Peace a Chance." My hope is that this allows us to truly be ourselves and to take off the mask of perfection that drives social comparison on social media. I'd love to collaborate with others to bring this idea alive!
We are blessed that some very prominent leaders read this column. Is there a person in the world, or in the US with whom you would love to have a private breakfast or lunch with, and why? He or she might just see this, especially if we tag them :-)
Thank you for this incredible offer, wow! There are so many people whom I admire and whose stories I'd love to know more about. For this reason, I created the podcast Flourish or Fold: Stories of Resilience, in which well-known people join me in intimate conversations sharing their lesser well-known stories of resilience.
Of course, first and foremost, I would be honored to have the private meeting with Arianna Huffington for tea. I would also be so delighted and honored to connect with Oprah as I love so many of her resilience stories and that she believes resilience is a key element of character she evaluates in applicants to her girls' school in Africa. Finally, I'm a huge admirer of Trevor Noah and absolutely devoured his book "Born a Crime" with his resilience stories, so I would be absolutely over the moon to meet him and get to have a private conversation, not to mention I know he'd have me in stitches with all of his funny jokes and witty perspectives.
How can our readers further follow your work online?
Website: www.resilience-leadership.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/drtarynmarie
Instagram: www.instagram.com/drtarynmarie
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/taryn-marie-stejskal/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCWy-FDrXXQnEC7poGI-C1_g
This was very inspiring. Thank you so much for joining us!
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Rahul Gandhi targets opposition over failure to implement MNREGA in UP
Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh), Tue, 21 Feb 2012 ANI
Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh), Feb.21 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday criticised the party's political rivals for making false promises to garner votes from people in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.
Gandhi told a rally here that the central government has provided national scheme for providing employment to people in need, but the Mayawati regime was not implementing those schemes and taking away job cards.
"The federal provides the guarantee scheme of giving 100-days employment for 120 rupees per day, which is 12,000 rupees for every family. Anybody who is willing to work, needless of any caste or religion. But Mayawatiji says that nobody will benefit from MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Act). When Mulayam Singh Yadavji's government was in power, MNREGA was not implemented, job cards were taken away, ministers stole the money and then three-four months before the election, he assures the public of giving an allowance for the unemployed," said Gandhi.
Gandhi said the failure of implementing MNREGA, had forced people to migrate to other states to earn their living.
"The strength that lies in Uttar Pradesh is not in any other state. The youth of the state are migrating to Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh in search of jobs. And if you want employment, you have to migrate to other states, because employment is not available for the youth in Uttar Pradesh. Do you think this is right?" said Gandhi.
Gandhi's campaign speeches and tactics have kept him in the spotlight for a large part of the election in the state, most notably his act of tearing a list representing the promises made by the rival Samajwadi Party.
Gandhi slammed regional Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav for failing to address the problem of electricity in the state since 22 years.
"Now, Mulayam Singh Yadav ji is saying that elect me for the fourth time and I will provide you free electricity. He was not able to provide free electricity during his three terms but now he promises to provide in his fourth term. He visited Bundelkhand and addressed a public rally and said that Bundelkhand would be made at power to Israel. When he was the chief minister, he was unable to provide water, people were crying but you did not visit them, migration was taking place that time he did not felt that he is the chief minister, he should meet the public and talk to them that what could be done," said Gandhi.
Hitting out at Chief Minister Mayawati, Gandhi said she has petted a magical elephant, which gulps money belonging to the poor.
"You must have seen elephants' walking on the roads and eating grass and leaves but Mayawati ji has created a magical elephant, a pet elephant, which gulps poor people's money. Bundelkhand faced drought but she did not notice, gathered votes but did not notice the problems, and as the centre granted 8000 crore rupees and the elephant swallowed the money meant for people of Bundelkhand," said Gandhi.
Gandhi's campaign efforts have seen him try to convince potential voters of a stronger mandate than the one in 2007, where the Congress secured just 22 seats in a 403-strong assembly.
The son, grandson and great-grandson of former prime ministers, Gandhi is considered likely to take over as prime minister from Singh, but the timing is not clear, as he had said earlier that becoming prime minister did not interest him for now.
The fourth phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh took place on February 19, where more than 57 per cent of the electorate exercised its franchise.
The last phase of polls is scheduled to take place on March 3 and the results will be declared on March 6. (ANI)
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Second Half ends, RB Leipzig 0, 1. Marcel Sabitzer RB Leipzig wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Daniel Halfar 1.
FC Kaiserslautern is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Marcel Halstenberg RB Leipzig wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Nils Quaschner RB Leipzig header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marcel Halstenberg with a cross following a corner.
Conceded by Stipe Vucur. Emil Forsberg RB Leipzig left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Assisted by Yussuf Poulsen with a headed pass. FC Kaiserslautern is shown the yellow card. FC Kaiserslautern wins a free kick in the defensive half.
They are ready to continue. Nils Quaschner RB Leipzig wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Maurice Deville 1. Emil Forsberg RB Leipzig right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Dominik Kaiser RB Leipzig right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Dominik Kaiser RB Leipzig right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Assisted by Emil Forsberg. Conceded by Ruben Jenssen. Conceded by Ken Gipson. Ken Gipson tries a through ball, but Davie Selke is caught offside.
Yussuf Poulsen replaces Tim Sebastian. Emil Forsberg RB Leipzig is shown the yellow card. Dominik Kaiser RB Leipzig right footed shot from long range on the right is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Foul by Stipe Vucur 1. Emil Forsberg RB Leipzig right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
RB Leipzig 0, 1. FC Kaiserslautern right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left to the bottom right corner.
Davie Selke RB Leipzig left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom right corner. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Conceded by Tim Sebastian. Conceded by Michael Schulze. FC Kaiserslautern because of an injury. FC Kaiserslautern right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
Davie Selke RB Leipzig header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Dominik Kaiser with a cross following a corner. Emil Forsberg RB Leipzig right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Assisted by Marcel Halstenberg. Dominik Kaiser RB Leipzig wins a free kick in the defensive half. Diego Demme RB Leipzig wins a free kick on the left wing.
Michael Schulze tries a through ball, but Kacper Przybylko is caught offside. Conceded by Marvin Compper. FC Kaiserslautern left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
RBL - Yussuf Poulsen. FCK - Simon Zoller. FCK - Karim Matmour. RBL - Yordy Reyna. RBL - Emil Forsberg. FC Kaiserslautern left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Second Half ends, 1. Ante Rebic RB Leipzig left footed shot from more than 35 yards is blocked. FC Kaiserslautern left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Assisted by Kerem Demirbay. Foul by Kerem Demirbay 1. Tim Sebastian RB Leipzig wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Anthony Jung RB Leipzig header from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner. FC Kaiserslautern wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Conceded by Tim Heubach. FC Kaiserslautern left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Dominik Kaiser RB Leipzig wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Markus Karl 1. Diego Demme replaces Joshua Kimmich. FC Kaiserslautern right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Conceded by Anthony Jung. FC Kaiserslautern header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kerem Demirbay with a cross.
FC Kaiserslautern left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jean Zimmer. Ante Rebic replaces Yordy Reyna.
FC Kaiserslautern header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Kerem Demirbay with a cross following a set piece situation.
FC Kaiserslautern wins a free kick on the right wing. Joshua Kimmich RB Leipzig wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Emil Forsberg RB Leipzig right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Dominik Kaiser. Lukas Klostermann RB Leipzig wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sebastian Jacob 1. Kerem Demirbay replaces Karim Matmour. Fabio Coltorti RB Leipzig wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Anthony Jung RB Leipzig left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich. Foul by Alexander Ring 1. Tim Sebastian RB Leipzig wins a free kick on the right wing.


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Memories from the 1920's
MY RECOLLECTIONS OF THE 2nd (Freemantle) SCOUT GROUP IN THE 1920s
by John Guilmant
One of the oldest Groups in the town of Southampton (1909) started in a church hall in London Road, soon thereafter moving to an old bakery at the end of Stratton Road, Shirley, before finally being allowed to use a barn next to the old Brown as Harrison dairies in Vaudrey Street.
This old wooden building had previously been a builder's workshop and even when I Joined, the stairs to the loft used as the meeting room were rickety and all the floorboards squeaked. We were warned NOT to jump about too much! Except at DRILL time of course, when everything seemed to shake! The four patrols occupied corners of the room, with all the Patrol flags and equipment separated. My patrol was "Lion" – patrol leader Rodney Hewett. Elsewhere in Scout History books references have been made to his sterling work for the Group and for West District, during and after. the Second World War. Rod was truly one of the heroes of the 2nd.
I well remember the night I Joined in 1922. My mother and father came with me, a boy of 8 years; we were interviewed by Mr Dawkins. He modelled himself upon Baden Powell. Short in stature and speech, stiffly erect, a bit stubby in build, and always wore formal Scout uniform, basically a khaki Army Officer's Jacket with large pockets and breeches. The brim of his hat was absolutely perfect – honed every time out! I don't think I ever saw him OUT of uniform! Certainly there was a remarkable resemblance to our famous leader Baden Powell. Having asked my age, he looked at my father 6ft 5ins tall and said sharply "He's too tall for the cubs; he'll have to be in the scouts". Of course at this time I did not know that strict rules governed the ages of Cubs and Scouts.
Anyway, Arthur Dawkins was a law unto himself as I found out 40 years later when as District Commissioner I made my first inspection of his Group. His work and character had not changed during all those years. He still wore the same kind of uniform, except the breeches. These had been replaced by khaki corduroy shorts! His office was still in the ground floor of the Barn and he was STILL revered and feared by one and all. Good discipline was everywhere – not only within his Troop but also in his own life.
Incidentally, as far as I recall, there was no electricity, gas or water in Vaudrey Street, and only a bucket in the outside shed for a loo. Lighting was by hurricane lamps and I think he had an oil heater in his office. The walls were of single boarding full of splits and knot-holes, and one summer we spent weeks and weeks cutting up old tea chests into 3ply-wood panels to make the Meeting Room a bit more comfortable and less draughty!
Uniform was strictly Dawkins-like – regulation hat, navy blue shorts and stockings, black boots (soles heavily impregnated with what used to be called "cleggs") and a heavy grey machine-made woollen jersey with wide button up collar, worn (without tail) outside the trousers.
Symbol of the 2nd was the proud Royal Blue neckerchief, white haversack and leather Scout belt with a fold-up knife, (complete with a hook "to get stones out of horse's hoofs!") And, yes, EVERY Scout had his own stave!
All the traffic stopped for us, including trams! We were proud of our Bugle and Drums Band, which was well known locally, as we attended many events to play to the public. Straight down Shirley Road we marched turning right into Paynes Road halting outside the Church and were then marshalled in.
The same procedures operated on the way back. Brass instruments were always polished brightly and everyone looked smart and of course, we all marched proudly and in step or we got an earful!
Scouting in Southampton owes a massive debt to Arthur Dawkins, and thousands of boys and their parents are grateful to him for the privilege of sharing his lifetime's enthusiasm within the good old "Second".
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2nd Southampton arriving on camp in Winchester. 1923.


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Philippines Top 20 Songs March 2017 #PT20chart
Radio Boracay TRAVEL presents Philippines Top 20 Songs March 2017 PT20 chart. It's our monthly roundup of today's biggest hits. This month's hot debuts are from big names like Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, and Rihanna. PLUS, we have a new #1 song.
Last month, "man of the hour" Ed Sheeran debuted with not one but two new songs on the PT20 February report. "Shape Of You" entered at #4, while "Castle On The Hill" debuted at #8. Both songs are from his third album "÷" (Divide) which will be released on March 3, 2017.
thanks for making How Would You Feel #2 in the UK charts and giving Shape of You its 7th week at #1. woof
— Ed Sheeran (@edsheeran) February 24, 2017
The Official UK Chart this week features back to back hits from Ed Sheeran at the top two positions. And according to US Billboard chart, Ed is also the first artist to have two songs to debut in the top ten at the same time.
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Furthermore (believe it or not), it's his first time to be on top of Billboard Hot 100 chart. "Thinking Out Loud" peaked at #2 back in January 2015. From the UK, US, now the Philippines, climbing three notches to the summit – "Shape Of You" by Ed Sheeran is PT20 Global #1 song.
At #2 for another month is "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" by Zayn featuring Taylor Swift. While our Global artist for 2016 The Chainsmokers climb seven steps to #3 with "Paris".
The Highest Debut of the month belongs to Katy Perry. She is back with "Chained To The Rhythm" entering at #4. This month's Highest Climber is "I Feel It Coming" by The Weeknd ft Daft Punk. The song is up nine notches to #5 for March.
Bruno Mars returns with "That's What I Like", debuting at #6. Rising four to #7 is Clean Bandit with "Rockabye" featuring Sean Paul and Anne Marie. "Bad Things" by Machine Gun Kelly featuring Camila Cabello drops five to #8."
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What an amazing ride it has been for The Chainsmokers in 2016. PT20 Song Of The Year "Closer" still got its global appeal (UK=30+ weeks and counting; US=29+). And on its 8th month (32+ weeks) on #PT20chart and still in the top ten, the song drops two to #9. Watch out for "Something Just Like This", their new collaboration with Coldplay. It's going to be massive.
Closing the TOP TEN list is a new entry by Martin Garrix. "Scared To Be Lonely" enters at #10.
Don't predict the future, DICTATE it!
Vote for your favorite songs below.
Philippines Top 20 Songs March 2017 #PT20chart continues…
Maroon 5 takes five steps down to #11 with "Don't Wanna Know" featuring Kendrick Lamar. Up a notch to #12 from last month's debut is "Call On Me" by Starley. Dropping four to #13 is "24K Magic" by Bruno Mars.
"Castle On The Hill" by Ed Sheeran is obviously overshadowed by the success of "Shape Of You". It falls six notches to #14. But we believe the song "How Would You Feel" (already #2 in the UK) which Ed released on his birthday last February 17 is going to surpass "Shape". It's going to be another powerful "wedding" theme song, much like the huge success of "Thinking Out Loud".
Finally, Rihanna's "Love On The Brain" is getting the attention it deserves and it enters at #15. Released last September 2016, Riri performed the song live during Global Citizen Festival in New York. The song barely took off, perhaps due to lack of promotion. But it got lots of love from fans and celebrities alike.
American Idol Winner Kelly Clarkson's cover already has more than a million views:
Actress Kate Hudson's take also has more than a million views. Boy, can she sing…
We got love on the brain and sending you all ❤'s! Happy Valentine's Day from our fam to yours ?
A post shared by Kate Hudson (@katehudson) on Feb 14, 2017 at 7:20pm PST
More importantly, "Love On The Brain" is Rihanna's 30th US Top 10 single. She joins Madonna(38) and the Beatles(34) as artists with the most Top Ten hits.
Selena Gomez returns to the PT20 chart with Kygo for "It Ain't Me" which debuts at #16. "Say You Won't Let Go" by James Arthur drops twelve notches to #17 this month.
"Bad And Boujee" by Migos is down one to #18, while Alessia Cara debuts at #19 wth "Scars To Your Beautiful".
Lastly, the most disappointing song for March is last months #1. Dropping nineteen BIG steps to #20 is The Weeknd's "Starboy". Ouch!
Philippines Top 20 Songs March 2017
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Please see the latest PT20 Chart to cast your votes.
Davao Caticlan Boracay Direct Flights – FINALLY!
For the very first time, Davaoeños can now fly direct to Caticlan Boracay. Living on the island for almost ten years now, Davao Caticlan Boracay direct flights – definitely a long time coming. Not to mention summer is just around the corner.
Davao Caticlan Boracay Direct Flights
AirAsia – first airline to offer Davao – Caticlan Boracay direct flights.
Thanks to AirAsia for being the first airline to offer this route. Albeit, Cebu Pacific did have Kalibo-Davao flights back in 2012, they only offered the route for about a year. With the newly updated Caticlan Boracay airport, Cebu Pacific and other domestic airlines would probably follow suit.
For more tips and options, see our Boracay Travel Fast Facts page.
Book Your Summer Vacation Now
Now is the best time to book your flights to your summer destination. In light of these new routes, AirAsia is also offering promo airfares and direct flights from Davao to Puerto Princesa Palawan and vice versa 'til 26th February 2017. See promo airfares and flights from AirAsia.
(Note: We are not an affiliate of AirAsia or any other airline. Hence, this is not a paid report.)


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Q: How to unit test a c# method that has dependency on a locally declared object's behavior? I have a c# method that is dependent on the return value of a service call that it makes with an object that is locally instantiated. How can I test it without making change to the code. I am aware that dependency injection would have made it testable or passing dependency to out of this method would make it testable, but that is not the case here.
My method looks something like this:
public class Animal
{
    int Weight;
    public int CalculateActualWeight()
    {
       var weightFactory = new WeightFactory();
       var weight = Weight + weightFactory.GetEatenAmount();
       return weight;
    }
}

The method to be tested is CalculateActualWeight().

A: You can fake the returned result of a function using something like Moq. You can set it up (it your test) so that your dependency returns whatever you tell it to return. Then you can test the dependent method knowing what the result of the other method will be.
var mock = new Mock<IYourClass>();
mock.Setup(m => m.Method()).Returns(true);

That will make your Method() always return true so that you can test the other. More info on Moq here.

A: If you cannot change the production code, the only way to test it would be to write a test that surrounds how the locally instantiated object functions as well.
You could also use self stubbing, but that isn't a recommended practice, and will only work if the object under test has functions that can be mocked to replace what you need.
example:
[Test]
public void Test()
{
    //do stuff so that a "real" new WeightFactory() will return what you want
    //(this will require you to go figure out how the WeightFactory works),
    //4 is just an example of your desired result
    SetUpSystemSoThatWeightFactoryProduces(4);

    var testAnimal = new Animal();
    testAnimal.Weight = 14;

    Assert.That(testAnimal.CalculateWeight(), Is.EqualTo(18));
}

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Essex Heritage Announces New Leadership and Presents Partnership Awards
Big welcome from The Cabot! Photo by Anne Wilson
Regional leaders elected to serve on the Commission and Pioneer in Partnership Awards presented at Annual Fall Meeting on October 15
Essex National Heritage Commission (Essex Heritage), a non-profit that manages and provides numerous programs preserving and enhancing Essex County's historic, natural and cultural places, welcomed business and community leaders from around Essex County to its Annual Fall Meeting on Thursday, October 15 at The Cabot in Beverly. The business portion of the session focused on the importance of sustaining the region through youth engagement, partnership projects and regional awareness. The Commission also announced its newly elected officers, trustees, and commissioners, and presented its 2015 Essex Heritage Pioneer in Partnership Awards.
New Officers, Trustees, and Commissioners Elected
Essex Heritage is governed by a 25-member Board of Trustees and supported by 150 Commissioners who live and/or work within Essex County and who serve as representatives of the communities, businesses, community organizations, educational institutions and historic, cultural and natural resources of the region. "Our Trustees and Commissioners serve an important role as ambassadors and advocates for this region," said CEO Annie C. Harris. "Essex Heritage is pleased to welcome the new Trustees and Commissioners, and we're grateful for their leadership and support in promoting regional cooperation in Essex County."
The following individuals were elected to serve the Essex National Heritage Commission:
Executive Officers, 2015-2016:
President: John P. Farmer, Eastern Bank, Lynn
Vice President: Kevin T. Rourke, Salem Five Bank, Salem
Treasurer: Timothy Felter, Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank, Newburyport
Clerk: Gary M. Coon, Finer Wealth Management, Inc., Salem
Trustee at Large: Rosario Ubiera-Minaya, North Shore Community Development Coalition, Salem
Immediate Past President: Jack Good, People's United Bank, Danvers
National Park Service Liaison: Paul DePrey, Salem Maritime and Saugus Iron Works National Historic Sites
President Emeritus: Thomas Leonard, founding president of Essex Heritage
New Trustees, 2015-2017
Paula L. Brown, General Israel Putnam Chapter, D.A.R., Danvers
Tatiana Burgos-Espinal, North Shore Community College, Danvers
Susan Goganian, Beverly Historical Society, Beverly
Lisa Lyons, Small Planet Communications, Lawrence
Thomas MacDonald, Hawthorne Hotel, Salem
Mark Pitzi, Coldwell Banker, Concord
New Commissioners, 2015-2017
Jennifer Close, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
Chris Lovasco, YMCA of the North Shore, Beverly
Kara McLaughlin, The House of the Seven Gables, Salem
Ken Riehl, Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, Gloucester
Drew Russo, Lynn Museum/Lynn Arts, Lynn
Laura DeToma Swanson, Enterprise Center at Salem State University, Salem
Paul St. Germain, Thacher Island Association, Rockport
Susan Washeba Plutsky, Photographer, Beverly
Anne Wilson, Retired Teacher, Wakefield
In addition, the following individuals were thanked for their service to the board, organization and region:
New Trustee Emeriti
Jane Baugh, General Israel Putnam Chapter, D.A.R., Danvers
Charles Cullen, formerly of The Provident Bank, Amesbury
Paul J. McGinley, McGinley Kalsow & Associates, Ipswich
Frederic Winthrop, formerly of The Trustees of Reservations, Ipswich
Richard A. Yagjian, W. B. Hunt Company, Inc., Melrose
Pioneer in Partnership Awards
Each year, Essex Heritage and the National Park Service present the Pioneer in Partnership Awards to individuals and organizations who exemplify the commission's spirit of collaboration. The award recognizes those who build partnerships and celebrate the nationally significant places that form the Essex National Heritage Area.
2015 Pioneer in Partnership Award Recipients:
David Read: in recognition of his leadership in developing regional trails. As a health care executive at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, David Read knows the health benefits brought about by active living. For more than a decade, Dave has served as chairman of the Border to Boston Trail Coalition, a confederation of communities seeking to develop a nearly 40-mile rail trail from the New Hampshire border in Salisbury to Boston. For nearly the same period, Dave has also served as chairman of the East Coast Greenway Alliance, a national organization focused on creating a traffic-separated bicycle route along the entire 2,900 mile-long Atlantic seaboard.
Nelson Dionne: in recognition of his leadership in preserving and promoting local and regional history. Nelson Dionne's life has always been about service. First as a Boy Scout, then as a member of the U. S. Army Intelligence Corps, and finally as a Salem police officer. One constant throughout the years has been Nelson's collecting and sharing of Salem history. What started as an interest in collecting Salem postcards became a focused determination to collect Salem history from the Civil War era to the present day. As knowledge of Nelson's collections spread, reporters, researchers, authors, museum professionals, and archivists turned to him for information, images, and objects. Perhaps no act more clearly demonstrates his passion for sharing history than the donation of his extensive Salem collection to the Salem State University Archives & Special Collections.
Swampscott Public Schools and Lynn Museum/Lynn Arts: in recognition of their leadership and promotion of Heritage Education. In a twist on an old adage, Swampscott Middle School teachers Lindsay Hodgson and Karen Reback worked with the Lynn Museum/Lynn Arts to implement a project entitled "Take a Walk in Someone Else's Shoes" - A Study of the Greater Lynn Shoe Industry from the 17th - 20th Century. Through its design and execution, this innovative project exemplifies the power of partnership in place-based education. In all, over 100 Swampscott fifth grade students learned about the region's shoe manufacturing history from pre-colonial to present day - a seminal trade deeply engrained in the cultural DNA of the heritage area.
Russ Cohen: in recognition of his leadership and stewardship of the region's Natural Heritage. This past spring, following 27 years of service, Russ Cohen retired from state government as a leading voice for the health and well-being of the state's critically important rivers and streams. Widely respected as an effective advocate, he was instrumental in the passage of the Massachusetts Rivers Protection Act of 1996, arguably the strongest and most effective river protection law in the country. Through his work Russ recognized the value and importance of understanding rivers and other natural resources on a large scale or systems basis. It is a perspective that led him to become an "early adopter" of the national heritage area movement in Massachusetts. Yet for all the accolades, Russ is best known to many as an expert on wild plants. The author of "Wild Plants I Have Known…and Eaten," Russ true passion is leading groups on wild edible foraging trips, such as those he has conducted for Essex Heritage Trails & Sails Weekends.
Bike to the Sea, Inc.: in recognition of its leadership in developing Regional Trails. For more than two decades this all-volunteer organization has overcome all manner of hurdles in its pursuit of a 10-mile trail linking the urban communities of Everett, Malden, Saugus, Revere, and Lynn. With this past summer's dedication of the Revere section, the Northern Strand Trail is now open from Everett to the Lynn line, providing residents with a car-free pathway to businesses, schools, parks, rivers, and the magnificent Rumney Marsh. Under the leadership of founding president Steve Winslow, Bike to the Sea has been instrumental in overcoming some of the most significant hurdles faced by advocates seeking to convert abandoned rail corridors to trails in Massachusetts.
2015 Essex Heritage Special Recognition Award Recipient:
Richard Scott: for his many years of preserving, promoting, and enhancing this region. During a public career spanning 32 years, Richard Scott has worked for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation in a number of capacities and locations: Lawrence Heritage State Park, Lowell Heritage State Park, Lynn Heritage State Park, Harold Parker State Forest, Charles River Esplanade, and Bradley Palmer State Park in Hamilton and Topsfield. Throughout, Richard has remained a strong advocate for each park's historic, natural and cultural resources. But most importantly, he has always shared his passion for history with public. A poet and storyteller at heart, Richard loves to educate and engage people through living history.


The art of falconry dates back almost four thousand years, and locals in Dubai are extremely proud of their heritage, in which this plays a big part. Once known as "the sport of kings", falconry traditionally involves using a hawk, falcon or eagle to hunt and return live prey. A master falconer will have dedicated up to ten years of their life training their bird to respond to commands. A falconer will typically use equipment such as a hood, to keep the bird calm and alert, a tracker, in case the bird flies off and a glove to protect their hands and wrists from the razor-sharp talons. To become a professional, falconers need to be dedicated to their craft. After all, the birds need constant looking after and can't be forgotten about at 6pm on a Thursday.
Don't fancy working in the Dubai heat? No problem, Ski Dubai is covered in snow all year round so you won't have to worry about slapping on the sun cream. While machines are used to monitor the temperature, snow patrollers are always on hand to oversee everything that's going on in Ski Dubai and with over 22,500 square metres, including five ski runs, that's a lot to keep on top of. If you don't fancy spending all day on the slopes, there are also jobs looking after the penguins.
If you like driving but don't fancy working for Uber, there's an alternative in Dubai – bashing sand dunes. Unlike other countries we're spoilt with wide-open spaces and miles of golden sand to have fun with – and that's exactly what dune bashers do. Driving on sand requires a lot of skill and concentration, especially as tracks are covered in seconds by the wind so knowing what's over the dunes is a bit of a lottery. Drivers tend to own their 4x4 and appear to have as much fun as those in the back.
One of Dubai's biggest tourist attractions is the aquarium in Dubai Mall, which sees thousands of people enjoy the various aquatic experiences including the live shark feeding. PADI-certified divers head down in a cage (with paying customers) to feed the 140 species of marine life, including the world's largest collection of sand tiger sharks. Dinnertime is quite the spectacle in the aquarium with all the fish coming to eat at the same time.
Many things in Dubai need to be seen to be believed and so it should come as no surprise to see camels strolling along JBR. A camel walker will either guide the creature by foot or ride in front on another camel, especially over longer treks in the desert, to ensure the safety of the passengers. Camel walkers can also be found out in the desert as part of safari packages.
Believe it or not, pigeon champions are bred right here in Dubai and take part in competitions around the world. Breeding homing pigeons is no easy task. Typically, a breeder will begin training a pigeon when they're six weeks old, teaching them how to fly in and out of the loft, usually via a trapdoor. Then the risky business begins.
A trainer will set their bird free, a fair distance from their loft, and hope that it returns – usually with an incentive such as a good dinner and comfortable loft to entice the bird back home. As the pigeon gets used to this it's taken further and further away and should always return – although it's not uncommon for breeders to lose their birds.
You wouldn't want to forget that look on your face when you jumped out of a plane and with Skydive Dubai's camera flyer on hand, you'll have the video to watch over and over again. The job of a skydiving videographer is to capture your experience from start to finish, which includes an interview before boarding the aircraft, footage onboard and, of course, the jump and free fall. Getting the right shot when 6,000ft in the air isn't easy, especially when you're also free-falling towards the ground, but the staff here are of course fully trained and do numerous jumps through the day. If you fancy swapping your desk job for something more exciting, you can enrol in a course to become an instructor, which includes classroom, ground and in-air evaluations.
Yes, you read that correctly, someone is getting paid to go to sleep. A hotel in Finland hired someone to test each of their beds out to ensure customer satisfaction. Sign us up!
can develop different scents, which are used for toiletries.
Perhaps the coolest job in the world, these guys not only get to go on the rides first but they're also getting paid for it. Their job, although it sounds trivial, is to ensure the rides are safe to be opened to the public.


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Austin fire deploying squad to Beaumont to help during Tropical Storm Barry
Kelsey Bradshaw @kbrad5
Jul 12, 2019 at 9:58 AM Jul 12, 2019 at 6:42 PM
When members of an Austin Fire Department water rescue squad think back to Hurricane Harvey, they remember the water.
"It just kept coming," said Austin fire specialist Ty Baker.
Baker was one of an eight-person team that headed to Beaumont on Friday morning as water is again expected to threaten East Texas as Tropical Storm Barry inches closer to becoming a hurricane. Forecasters expected Barry to make landfall along the Louisiana Gulf Coast as a hurricane early Saturday, The Associated Press reported. Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that state agencies were preparing aircraft, vehicles and rescue boats ahead of the storm.
Austin fire Lt. Chris Layton said his team, in support of the Texas State Operations Center, will be stationed in Beaumont in the coming days to assist with rescues, flood evacuations and damage assessment.
The team is bringing along two inflatable swift-water rescue boats — which are made of rubber and have a 40-horsepower motor — and other supplies. They plan to stay in the area for up to two weeks, Layton said. The team is also prepared to go to Louisiana if officials there request help from Texas, Layton said.
"We will go until the mission's complete," he said.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency and President Donald Trump has declared a federal state of emergency for Louisiana as flooding has ravaged parts of the state. Several inches of rain already swamped in New Orleans earlier this week, but Barry could bring more than 18 inches of additional rainfall to parts of Louisiana as the storm moves inland, forecasters told The Associated Press.
During Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Layton said an Austin Fire Department team was performing rescues for 12 days. Baker described the experience as being like living in the Stone Age, because they were without power, cellphones and other modern basics, like bedding, for long periods.
"It was just a lot of water. A lot of people needed evacuations, a lot of people needed help, and we just worked and worked and worked," Layton said.
But Layton said his team is prepared for Tropical Storm Barry, even though there's no way to tell just how much water it could bring to Texas.
"This is what we train for," he said. "Every time we go out, we learn things that we can do better or we take those experiences and apply them to the next operation that's going on."