14/Systemic Investigation is the process of examining a maladministration concerning structure of executive organ, or a maladministration, which will affect a group of people.
Provisions of this Proclamation set out in the masculine gender shall also apply to the feminine gender.
This Proclamation shall apply to maladministration committed by the executive organs, and officials thereof, of a Government.
1/The Ethiopian Institution of the Ombudsman (hereinafter referred to as "the Institution") is hereby re-established in accordance with the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Constitution Article 55 (1) and (15)as an autonomous organ having its own juridical personality.
2/ The Institution shall have its Head Office in Addis Ababa, and it may have branch offices in other places to be determined by the council.
The objective of the Institution shall be bringing about good governance that is of high quality, efficient and transparent based on the rule of law, by way of ensuring that people's rights and benefits, provided for by a law are respected by organs of the executive.
4/ decision given by police Forces or Defense Forces, in respect of matters of national security or defense.
1/ Council of Ombudsmen (hereinafter referred to as "the Council") is hereby re-established.
3/ The Council may elect its secretary from members of the council.
4/ The Council may draw-up its own rules of procedure.
1/ The Chief Ombudsman shall be accountable to the house and the superior head of the Institution and, as such, shall exercise the powers and duties of the Institution provided for under this Proclamation.
a) Employ and administer the staff, in accordance with the directive to be adopted by the Council.
i) Undertake such other activities as are assigned to him by the House.
3/ If it is believed that the complaintwill bring unreplaceable damage on the compliant, the Chief Ombudsman shall give order to injunction.
4/The chief ombudsman may, to the extent necessary for the efficient performance of the Institution, delegate part of his powers and duties, other than those specified under sub-Article (2) (b), (e) and (f) of this Article and under Article 42, to Ombudsmen or to other staff members of the Institution.
3/ Carry out such other activities as may be assigned to him by the Chief Ombudsman.
1/Assist the chief ombudsman in planning, organizing, directing and coordinating the activities of Women, Children and persons with disabilities.
2/Carry out such other activities as may be assigned by the chief ombudsman.
8/ to perform such other functions as are assigned to him by the Chief Ombudsman.
1/ The Appointees of the Institution shall be appointed by the House.
d) The nominees shall be appointed upon receipt of a two-thirds vote of the House.
8/ is above thirty-five years of age.
1/The term of office of appointees shall be six years.
2/uponexpiry of the term of the office specified under sub-Article (1) of this Article, the appointees may be re-appointedonly forone additional term.
1/the salary and other benefits of the appointees shall be determined in accordance with the law issued to provide for the benefits of government Appointees.
2/ An appointee discharged from responsibility or removed from office, as under Article 21 (1) hereunder, shall not unless re-appointed, assume a post in legislative, executive and judicial organs for about six months thereafter.However, the appointee will get the previous salary and benefits for six months.
e) upon termination of his term of office.
2/ Within three months of the removal or discharge of an appointee, as under sub-Article (1) of this Article, there shall be replaced another appointee shall be made to replace him.
1/ An Appointee shall be removed from appointment, upon the grounds specified under Article 21 (1) (b – d) herein, subsequent to investigation of the matter by a Special Inquiry Tribunal to be formed under Article 23 hereof.
2/ An Appointee shall be removed from appointment, where the House finds that the recommendation submitted to it, as supported by the majority vote of the Special Inquiry Tribunal, is correct and where it upholds same by a two-thirds majority vote.
1/ An appointee shall not be allowed to engage in other gainful, public or private employment during his term of office.
2/ Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-Article (1) of this Article, the House may allow otherwise in consideration of the particular profession in which the appointee is required to make contribution.
1/ A complaint may be lodged by a person, claiming to have suffered from maladministration or by a third party.
2/ The Institution may, in consideration of the gravity of the maladministration committed, receive anonymous complaints.
3/ Prior to lodging a complaint to the Institution, in respect of an act of maladministration from which he suffered, any person shall bring the complaint before the relevant organs.
4/without prejudice to the provisions of Article 8 hereof, the right to lodge complaints, as under this Proclamation, shall be no bar to the institution of criminal or civil proceedings over the same case.
5/ The Institution shall receive and investigate complaints, free of any charge.
1/ A Complaint may be lodged with the Institution orally, in writing or in any other manner.
2/ Complaint shall, to the extent possible, be submitted together with supporting evidence.
3/ Complaint may be made in Federal or Regional working language.
3/ any person in possession of evidence, relevant to the case, produce same, at a specific time and place.
1/ The Institution shall make all the effort it can summon to settle, amicably, a complaint brought before it.
2/ It shall notify, in writing, the findings of its investigation, and its remedies thereon, to the superior head of the concerned organ.
3/ The remedy proposed by the Institution, pursuant to sub-Article (2) of this Article, shall expressly state that the act or practice having caused the maladministration be discontinued or that the directive having caused same be rendered inapplicable and that the maladministration committed be rectified or that any other appropriate measure be taken.
4/ the institutions shall inform complainant on the results of the investigation in writing.
5/ Complaints submitted to the Institution shall be accorded due response, within a short period of time.
1/Any individual, employees or officials up on request by investigator or appointee or any official of the Institution shall, forth with make relevant and necessary documents or response which the investigator,appointee or any official of Institution deemed it useful and necessary for investigation.
2/ The respondent are obliged to take corrective measures, within 30 days from the date of delivery, on findings and remedies sent to them by the Institution; if they are unable to take such measures, shall inform the same and the good reasons thereof to the Institution with in the period specified herein.
1/ Any complainant or executive organ shall have the right to object to the appointee or director or investigator, next in hierarchy, where he is aggrieved by finding of investigation and remedy proposed by a subordinate appointee or director of the Institution, within 30 days from the time he is notified, in writing, of such proposed remedy.
2/ A director or an appointee who receives an objection, pursuant to sub-Article (1) of this Article, may modify, stay the execution of, reverse or confirm thefinding of investigation and remedy or decision having been proposed.
3/ The chief ombudsman shall give decision within 30 days and be final.
e/fails to take measures, on the findings of investigation or supervision of recommendationswithout good reasons , within 30 days from received findings of investigation or supervision and recommendations of the institution, shall be punishable with imprisonment from five to seven years or with a fine birr 10,000 ( ten thousand birr) or with both.
2/ any person who has committed the offences mentioned pursuant to this Article sub-Article 1 (a) to (e), shall be made accountable by law, the institution shall report the case with supportive evidences to the concerned attorney office. The attorney office, upon, receiving order from the institution, shall open criminal suite relying on legal procedures.
Where the Institution, in the process of conducting investigations, believes that a crime or an administrative fault is committed, it shall have the duty to, forthwith, notify same to the concerned organ or official.
1/ Where cases falling both under the jurisdiction of the Institution and of the Ethiopian Human Right Commission materialize, the question of which of them would investigate same shall be determined upon their mutual consultation.
2/ Failing determination of the matter, as under sub-Article (1) of this Article, the organ having pendency shall undertake the investigation.
Any person shall provide the necessary assistance and duty to cooperate with a view to helping the Institution exercise its powers and duties.
1/ The Institution shall issue an official report on investigation, supervision and research findings through mass media as may be necessary.
2/ The Institution shall exercise transparency in respect of its mode of operation, including issuance of regular reports.
3/ If the executive organ fails or refuses to implement the findings of investigation and recommendation of the institution with in the specified time, the institution may prepare and submit to the House a special report detailing the failure or refusal to implement its recommendations and the House shall take appropriate action.
4/Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-Article (1) ,(2) and (3) of this Article, the Institution shall have the duty to exercise caution in respect of matters to be kept secret, with a view to not endangering national security and well-being or to protecting individual lives.
1/ No complaint lodged pursuant to this Proclamation shall entail liability for defamation.
2/ No report of the Institution submitted to the House, on the findings of an investigation undertaken, nor any other correspondence of the Institution, relating to its activities, shall entail liability for defamation.
2/ investigator , any expertise of the institution appointed to examine maladministration investigation or director of investigation office of the Institution may not be arrested , accused or detained without the permission of the House or the Chief Ombudsman, respectively, except when caught in flagrante delicto, for a serious offence.
b) Assistance, grant and any other source.
2/ A proportionate quarterly appropriations of the operational budget of approved budget of the Institution shall be deposited in advance in the bank account opened in the name of the Institution.
1/ The Institution shall keep complete and accurate books of accounts.
2/ The accounts of the Institution shall be audited, annually, by an organ to be designated by the House.
1/ Any director of the Institution aggrieved by administrative decisions rendered by the Council as per Article 11 (5) may appeal to the Speaker of the House within 30 days from the date such decision has been made.
2/ Decisions rendered by the Speaker of the House pursuant sub-Article (1) of this Article shall be final.
The Institution may utilize, for a specific task and for a definite duration, outside professionals necessary for its functions, subject to making appropriate remunerations.
Unless ordered by a court or otherwise permitted by the Chief Ombudsman, any appointee or Professional employed pursuant to Article 41 of this Proclamation or staff or any other person shall have the obligation not to disclose, at all times, any secret known to him in connection with his duty.
1/ The House may issue necessary Regulations for the implementation of this proclamation.
2/ The council may issue Directives for the implementation of this proclamation and regulation.
Complaints on maladministration that are under investigation by the Institution, prior to the enactment of this Proclamation, shall be investigated by the previous law of the Institution.
1/ The proclamation to established Ethiopian Institution of the Ombudsman proclamation No, 211/2000 is here by repealed.
2/No law or practice, inconsistent with this Proclamation, shall be applicable in respect of matters provided for in this Proclamation.


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Yes and No: Allies in Comedy Assembly
Hosted by Mettlesome
Sunday August 6, 2017
4:00-6:30 p.m. (Doors open about 3:30)
at Manbites Dog Theater
703 Foster Street in Durham
Facebook Event Page
Women and allies in the comedy and theater community, join a consortium of NC comedy theaters, teachers, producers and performers in a safe space for this special gathering.
We are honored to feature, "The Canary in the Coal Mine: What Rape Jokes Signal About Our Culture" Created and Presented by Gail Stern, PhD Catharsis Productions, as well as a panel mixed with comedians, theater leaders and Sexual Harassment/Assault experts including Jill Bernard and Ashley Popio + more to be announced soon.
If we want to create safer, more equitable spaces for all, we have to start the conversation and move forward together. Join us.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
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PARTICIPANT BIOS:
– Dr. Gail Stern is the co-founder of Catharsis Productions and co-author of the non-stranger rape prevention program Sex Signals, which is presented over a thousand times each year to civilian college and military audiences around the world. She has developed Bystander Intervention curricula for the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Naval Academy, and has been a subject matter expert for the White House and each branch of the Armed Forces on issues related to sexual violence prevention. She has also served as a member of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Hate/Bias Crime Training Cadre (U.S. Department of the Treasury); the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program; and, the U.S. Department of Justice Hate Crime Training Cadres. She also has a background in both improvisational and stand-up comedy, which she uses liberally when teaching tough subjects. And just for the hell of it.
– Jill Bernard has been performing with ComedySportz-Twin Cities since 1993, and is also a founding member of HUGE Theater. Her one-woman improv piece, Drum Machine, has been featured at the Chicago Improv Festival, the Toronto Improv Jamboree, the Miami Improv Festival, Philadelphia Improv Festival, and the ComedySportz National Tournament, among others. She has taught and performed improv in Norway, Canada, and over thirty of these United States, in cities that include Juneau, AK; Spokane and Seattle, WA; Washington DC; Bowling Green, KY; Phoenix, AZ; and also on an episode of MTV "Made." She is one-half of the duo SCRAM with Joe Bill of the Annoyance Theater. An Artistic Associate of the Chicago Improv Festival, she has studied at the Annoyance Theater, Improv Olympic, the Brave New Workshop and other organizations; and is the recipient of the 2005 Chicago Improv Festival Avery Schreiber Ambassador of Improv Award, and the 2007 Miami Improv Festival award for Best Solo Show.
– Ashley Popio founded the North Carolina Women's Theatre Festival in 2016 to create, produce, and promote extraordinary theatre by women. In addition to acting as Artistic Director of the festival and overseeing operations, she works full-time as a Writing Instructor at Shaw University, and is a board member of Arts Access, and an Innovation and Grants Support Panelist for The City of Raleigh Arts Grant Program. She got her Bachelor of Arts degree from Iowa State University with a double major in Theatre and English, and holds a Masters degree in Elementary Education and Teaching from North Carolina State University.
– Gubby Kubik has been an improviser for the past ten years beginning with SIKOS, a short-form improv troupe at Smith College, to now regularly performing and teaching long-form improv at Huge Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This spring, she taught a mixed-level improv class at Huge Theater specifically for women-trans-femme-nonbinary folks. For the past year, she has served on the leadership team of FairPlay MN, a collective of women-trans-femme improvisers in the Twin Cities who have come together to claim equitable space for all improvisers in the community regardless of gender identity. More information about FairPlay MN, including the Boundary Conversation Guidelines document, can be found at: https://fairplaymn.wordpress.com/documents/. In addition to improv, Gubby is a full-time teacher of deaf/hard of hearing learners, and she is working on her master's degree in special education at the University of Minnesota.
– Monét Noelle Marshall is a Durham, North Carolina-based artist, director, producer and creative consultant. She serves as the Founding Artistic Director of MOJOAA Performing Arts Company, producing new works by and new opportunities for Black playwrights. Marshall is also the Lead Con(sulting) Artist at BaD Arts Consulting which creates business solutions for creatives and creative solutions for businesses. Monét Noelle Marshall uses the arts to engage communities in collective visioning, change making and joy as social action. Marshall holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Professional Theatre from North Carolina A & T University. For more information go to: monetnoellemarshall.com.

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Just a quick update on my road going classic Honda CB550 race rep. First time out was at the Thundersprint, a brilliant day.
We worked on getting the bike running right up to Saturday evening, so didnt know if we would make the race, the bike only turned a wheel Saturday evening!
Luckily all the gear linkages worked and the motor ran strong, but with only 20 miles to bed in the new brakes and scrub in the tyres on Saturday night we were not really ready for Sunday's Thundersprint.
We loaded up the van about 8.00 and set off at 3.00 in the morning to get to the paddock by 5.00, scrutineering was a worry but she sailed through and I quickly signed on and walked the course.
The paddock was amazing - with ex-world Champion Phil Redman & Sammy Millar also racing. I couldnt believe it when I was in the rides briffing with these guys and Steve Parrish!
Practice arrived at 7.30 and the runs went really well with a best time of 31.9 and the bike launching and cornering very well.
Thanks to Robbo & Pricey who turned up to give support.
When the final runs were called I decided to try to chip my times down and if possible get below 30.
All 3 runs went very well - finishing with a 29.24 - I was made up.


Now that DUI season has arrived in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California, it is important for those who have been arrested to understand the DUI process. After the police pull someone over for a Southern California DUI, then the entire process will begin to unfold quickly and people need to know what their right's are and what is likely to happen.
These events are the same whether you are stopped for a DUI in Pasadena, or stopped for a DUI in Beverly Hills. Many people think that the officers do things differently depending on where they are stopped. This is most likely not true. A DUI in Glendale is treated the same as a Long Beach DUI.
The first thing that will occur is that police officer will pull you over for some reason. However, the reason must be based upon objective criteria and must comply with the law. In many cases that is either speeding or weaving back in forth or out of the lane of travel. That is called the probable cause for the stop. At that time the officer, if the person has been drinking, will smell alcohol on their breath and may ask a few questions. This is called the DUI detention.
The next event is that the officer will ask you to exit the vehicle and will ask a few more questions. These may concern whether you are taking any medicine, what and when you last ate, where were you drinking before you were pulled over.
After you answer those questions the officer most likely will instruct you to perform field sobriety tests. These are legal tests that assist the officer in making a determination whether you are driving under the influence of alcohol and whether the officer wants you to submit to a chemical test.
If the officer still is not sure if you are driving under the influence, then you may be asked to take a Preliminary Alcohol Screening Test (PAS Test). The test is offered by the officer. it is very important to know, that you are not obligated to take the PAS Test. The officer may attempt to trick you into thinking that you must, however, that is not the law and you have no duty to take that test.
If you take the PAS Test, and the read out is anywhere close to or over .08%, then you will automatically be arrested and taken to the station. As most people know, there are two components to the Los Angeles DUI arrest. First, is the person driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs in violation of 23152(a) of the California Vehicle Code, and secondly, is the person driving with a blood alcohol level of .08% or higher in violation of 23152(b) of the California Vehicle Code.
If you have been arrested for a DUI in Los Angeles or if you have been detained for a DUI in Pasadena or a Beverly Hills DUI, then you should do the same as if you are stopped for a West Hollywood DUI or if you are under investigation for driving under the influence in Southern California, please contact Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael Kraut for 24/7 assistance by phone at (323) 464-6453 or toll free at (888) 334-6344 or online.


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'I Was Ready to Get Help'
'I Was Ready to Get Help'
One kid used drugs for 13 years before his family finally intervened
By Jennifer Fallon
Ryan Rhodes began experimenting with drugs when he was in middle school. After having witnessed his father's death when he was only 10 years old, the Orange County, California, native says he was left without a proper male role model.
"After the first time I smoked weed, I continued to do that every single day," Rhodes told LifeZette. "By the time I was 15, I had tried mostly anything I could get my hands on."
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Rhodes used constantly for about 13 years, without his mother ever suspecting. He attended and graduated from a prestigious university. He had a successful career in real estate. But secretly, said Rhodes, "My life had become unmanageable." His family eventually found out and staged an intervention at his uncle's house. They parked their cars around the block and met him as he walked in. Gina Rhodes, Ryan's mother, knew the game was up as soon as he walked in the door.
"I was ready to get help," Rhodes said.
But coming clean and admitting addiction is only the first hurdle in a long race to recovery for many families. They then have to sift through piles of information about different treatment facilities and weigh different questions. How long should an addict stay in treatment? How much will treatment cost, and how will the family pay for it? Should they choose an out-of-state program or stay in state? What licensing do the clinicians at the facility have?
"You need to send them out-of-state or out-of-town from where they use because there are just too many triggers," said one parent.
Finances present the first — and biggest — hurdle. "Addiction treatment is very expensive and insurance may not cover all or even some of the treatment," said Ruchi Dhami, director of research at Recovery Brands, in San Diego, California. "This really dictates which facilities might be an option."
Dhami suggested that examining the behavioral health section of your insurance plan before choosing a plan — to be sure it covers at least some of the cost of rehabilitation. The Rhodes family paid out more than a quarter of a million dollars to put their son through rehabilitation, Gina Rhodes said — a tab they were lucky enough to be able to cover. Many families have to cover treatment costs multiple times if the center fails to help their patients get clean. For families without resources, scholarship programs through organizations like 10,000 Beds Inc., in Salt Lake City, Utah, prove a vital lifeline.
The cost of Ryan Rhodes' treatment added up because it was an out-of-state program. "He was in central Florida, in the middle of nowhere," Gina Rhodes said. "You need to send them out-of-state or out-of-town from where they use because there are just too many triggers. And your child may never be able to return to where they grew up."
Related: High-Potency Pot Doubles Risk of Dependency
But since treatment centers lack a uniform standard of success, it's difficult to know which centers provide high-quality treatment. "We need to start having outcomes that can be replicated in any facility," said Dhami. For now, individual "ratings and reviews are incredibly important for how people select treatment." These ratings come from people who have actually been through the treatment and can speak to its effectiveness. Third-party platforms, such as the rehabs.com website, vet these ratings without bias.
After resolving the financial conundrum, families need information on the medical personnel at the facility. "Find out what licensed medical teams are on site, how often they're there, how long the place has been in business, whether they have an alumni treatment program that will help people after they leave the program. Don't be afraid to ask questions," said Jean Krisle, founder of 10,000 Beds. Krisle was a concerned mother of a drug addict and began networking with treatment centers to donate one bed in their center for those without resources. For families who cannot pay the exorbitant cost of rehabilitation, her nonprofit fills the gap.
With the support of his family, Ryan Rhodes got clean after a year of treatment. He then started his own business, Manifest Recovery Centers, in Los Angeles. "I try as I might every day to … evolve spiritually. If I can do that and align my life around light energy, everything else falls into place," he said.


I had the pleasure of joining the strategy and roadmap portions of Episerver's partner day prior to the start of the conference, as well as James Norwood's welcoming keynote, and in both presentations one fact stood out as immediately obvious: Episerver has grown.
By this time, it feels like old news that last year Episerver acquired companies Peerius and Optivo. The former a vendor of omnichannel personalization and intelligence and the latter providing email and omnichannel marketing services. What was a bit less clear until the conference were the specifics in how these would be packaged and integrated for Episerver customers.
Looking at the roadmap this week, and comparing it to what I remembered from half a year ago, Episerver's offering has seemingly exploded with new and exciting potential.
Most Episerver customers do some form of email marketing and most partners who implement Epi also have some working experience with at least one or two email marketing systems of various sizes. Episerver as a CMS really shines in this area compared to many of its competitors because it's far more of a best-of-breed, extensible platform. This means that Episerver is really great at allowing you to plug into the systems you're already using.
But for those who are looking for an even tighter integration with their CMS, or just for one vendor to supply a bit more of your marketing needs, Episerver is now ready to go that mile with you. As a result, they're also better able to compete in the enterprise market, addressing a more complete set of marketing tasks in a cloud-based platform. A fact that we've seen evidenced in their jump within the most recent Forrester Wave™ for Web Content Management Systems.
From the sound of it, users can apply highly refined personalization to their email engine. Why is this great? Because I'd love to stop getting emails from Disney about princesses (for my truck-loving 6-year-old son) or from Best Buy about football (sports harder!). Make it personal, make it relevant, and people unsubscribe less and listen more. The more we know our constituents and can act on that knowledge to give them a better experience, the more they'll do business with us.
Episerver also introduced their audience to automated, omni-channel personalization. As highlighted by CMS-Connected, personalization as a feature or a strategy is a key driver for Episerver Ascend attendees. Though CMS vendors have been touting these features for years (Ektron started in the 2009-2010 timeframe), they've seldom seen widespread adoption for any vendor. Not because the features don't perform as claimed, but because personalized marketing is more challenging from a business and process perspective.
Enter Episerver Advance and Perform. These tools make use of machine learning around your content and product data, respectively, to push relevant items to each visitor. The result is more than just rule-based personalization that targets large groups or segments of visitors. It's an individualized experience that can tailor the content of the page, email, or other channel messaging to the unique qualities of the user.
In short, it makes the most of the content you already have by automatically applying personalized recommendations. This helps cover cross, or up, selling in commerce and near-miss rewards in marketing sites. If you can abstract that process out and automate it (with human moderation), then you stand to give yourself a solid boost to your conversions.
With all of these new capabilities--especially those that tackle channels other than web--one would think it a good idea to have some way to persist the experience that's being delivered to the same visitor across all of them. Naturally, Episerver's already thought of that. And because of their best-of-breed platform approach, there are new ways to add value using other solutions in your digital ecosystem.
Episerver is now offering "visitor intelligence," which features a profile store, with enrichment via 3rd-party data stores (CRM, ERP, or marketing systems), that tracks each of the various touch-points you have with your customers throughout their journey.
Whether you love or hate the term big data (I'm not a fan), we can all agree that collecting data--the right data--is critical to the ongoing success of any organization. The problem with "big data" is that it encouraged companies to start collecting data (good) but never really gave them a way to make any of that data meaningful (bad). So while databases were being filled at a record pace, no one was using that information to drive decisions. With Episerver's new intelligence features, we hope to see better understanding for the meaning of data trends and therefore more action that leads to better business for your consumers.
If you'd like to know more about what Episerver is up to and what you can do with these technologies to increase engagement with your visitors or members, drop me a message at jstout@brightfind.com.


>>      PPA release of -rt for testing as upstream support happens.
>>      Release in Intrepid with .27 later.
> box: I don't *have* to compile a kernel to get proper realtime support.
> people have different needs, let's hear what others have to say.
release we're not proud of.


The Bujinkan Kocho Dojo teaches Ninpo, which is the philosophy of the ninja. It is not a religion, but it does focus on developing one's spirit. It is not a philosophy that is written down in books and memorized, but rather is a method of strengthening the spirit through the physical training in ninjutsu. The hardships and difficulties encountered in warrior training helps to strengthen the spirit, giving the practitioner the ability to see through the illusions that create limiting fears in the heart and mind. The result is that as confidence in combat increases, all other aspects of life are put into a new focus, and do not seem so daunting.
Using this method to strengthen the spirit, a student of ninpo can attain the strength to act in a just and moral manner. Weak people can too easily give in to fear and anger and do the wrong things in life. A ninja, using the power of his spirit to see through the fears and illusions that would coerce lesser people into doing unjust and immoral things, can realize the harmonious playing out of the forces of the universe and act accordingly.
This seems at odds with the reputation of the ninja as cold-blooded assassins. The ninja actually helped to spread that fearsome reputation as a method of physiological warfare. By telling exaggerated stories to unsuspecting people, the ninja were able to keep people afraid of the ninja so that if the ninja were stumbled upon in the dark of night, usually the ninja did not have to fight. Most people and even many lower level samurai would probably run for help. In this way the ninja could defeat their opponents before conflict could arise, thereby keeping safe and sparing lives.
However the reputation survives in modern fiction, and many people do not understand that the real nature of ninpo is more light-hearted. In fact, ninpo needed to be light-hearted in order to counter-balance the trauma of the dark activities that the ninja had to perform. The heart could be corrupted by the negative feelings that arise out of killing and assassination, so the ninja sought to develop a heart like wild flowers, that was content to merely exist, free of hatred.
Bad 'B' quality ninja movies usually portray the ninja as humorless killing machines. This is far from the truth. The ninja were family clans, and it would be analogous to modern groups like the CIA and special forces being 'family owned businesses'. The ninja clans, like any family, want what is best for their families. So they developed ninpo to a very high level, to the point that it would not be incorrect to think of the ninja as warrior-philosophers. And this philosophy of ninpo was the treasure of the ninja families. It has a natural light-hearted aspect that is often encountered amongst people who use humor to help deal with hardship.
There is a story that shows this light-hearted nature. Two ninja were spying on an estate when they were seen. The guard yelled for help and the ninja started to run off. One of the ninja stopped and decided to climb a tree, hoping that the guards would rush off into the darkness looking for them, and when it was safe they would make their escape. His companion felt is was better to run while they could and urged the ninja to come down from the tree. The ninja refused, so the one on the ground yelled out to the guards, "Hey, there's a ninja in the tree!" The ninja in the tree was forced to come down and the two fled into the night, chuckling about the situation.
The following writings are examples of some of the insights attained by previous masters of our arts, but the goal is to gain the ability to have such insight oneself, and for such gems of wisdom to come naturally from the sub-conscious.
1. Know the wisdom of being patient during times of inactivity.
2. Choose the course of justice as the path for your life.
3. Do not allow your heart to be controlled by the demands of desire, pleasure, or dependence.
4. Sorrow, pain, and resentment are natural qualities to be found in life. Therefore, work to cultivate an immovable spirit.
5. Hold in your heart the importance of family loyalty, and pursue the literary and martial arts with balanced determination.
Remove anger to preserve personality. Much effort is required to be patient instead of angry. So one must foster one's personality and humility.
Remove too much thinking to preserve the nerves. Don't spend too much time thinking about trivia because you will become irresolute. So think less and develop strong nerves.
Remove too much speech to preserve the spirit. Refrain from chattering too much and instead store up the power of your spirit.
Remove desire to preserve the heart. The problems of the mind are like this: I want this or I want that, or I want to be rich and in high society, etc. So every effort must be taken to remove these desires and in turn cultivate a good mind and heart.
There have been many books about the samurai, and most of them refer to the philosophy of the samurai as 'bushido'. 'Bushi' means warrior and 'do' means way, resulting in the word "way of the warrior." However, Bushido is actually an Edo era creation, influenced heavily by Zen and Confucianism, and is not accurately the philosophy of the active samurai warriors.
The ideals of the samurai evolved over time, and it is not possible to put the 'way of the warrior' down on paper with some absolute finality. It really is a complex subject that is intertwined with a complex history. The samurai of the Heian era are much different in many ways than the samurai of the Sengoku era, and many people consider the codification of Bushido in the Edo era to be the product of idle samurai who changed the spirit of their forefathers to fit their own times.
There are some points in common with the samurai ethics of all eras. Loyalty to the lord they served is one of the most important ideals. The common goals of warriors can not be achieved if they cannot weld their intention together for the greater good of all. The feudal lord needed absolute loyalty from his warriors. The height of expressing a samurai's utmost loyalty was the willingness of the samurai to lay down his life in the service of his lord. This selfless loyalty was very admirable in a warrior society, and samurai strove to live up to such a high standard.
Honor is another very important ideal and it was a strong influence upon samurai society. Every act of a warrior reflected upon his family, clan, and the lord your family served, and it was extremely shameful to bring dishonor upon any of these. If a family's reputation is damaged it could adversely affect the family for generations. So a samurai sought to avoid anything that would bring disgrace, and if he seemed to be imminently facing disgrace, a samurai would commit seppuku, ritual suicide, to allow his family to escape the dishonor and redeem his honor as a warrior. This 'honor system' was one of the driving forces that urged all members of society to make the choices that would be for the better good of all.
High ideals such as these commanded that bravery and control over one's fears be expected at all times. The stoic samurai is typically calm in the face of certain death upon the battlefield. In fact, samurai were admonished to come to peace every morning with the imminent possibility of their own death. Such a mentality seems extremely harsh by modern standards, but in actuality it taught the samurai valuable lessons on the value of life. Thinking each day their last, the samurai would live to their fullest ability, taking nothing for granted, and developing a heightened appreciation of even the smallest details.
It is a different world today, but the ideals of the samurai offer many valuable insights that can help us all achieve higher principles in our own lives. Keeping such aims as loyalty to one's nation and family, acting bravely and without fear, and avoiding those things that would bring dishonor while appreciating every moment in life will surely bring many rewards.
The Bujinkan Kocho Dojo does not teach religion. We do have a rich philosophy and training methods for strengthening the spirit, but these are different than what we think of as religion in the West. Religions are generally considered to be focused on worshipping a deity and the correct manner of living to gain a better existence in the after life, usually gaining admittance into heaven. While the Bujinkan's martial arts do have spiritual aspects that are very similar to Eastern 'philosophies' such as Buddhism, we are focused on developing ourselves spiritually, and not in worshipping a deity or getting into heaven. Those activities are left up to the individual to pursue.
The philosophy of ninpo helps to develop the mind and spirit of warriors, so that they can become what the Soke refers to as "a complete human being." A person who does not act out of petty fear and anger, but who has a controlled calm nature and can see through the illusions of life that blinds lesser people. The constant pursuit of enlightening insight is what prevents ninpo from ever becoming a cult as well. We do not blindly follow a 'religious leader', but strive to strengthen ourselves to gain the power to see through those that would mislead us.
Ninpo was created in Japan, and it shares a thousand years of history with other spiritual systems including Buddhism, Zen, Shintoism, and Confuciusism, and even Christianity. Ninpo has been influenced to a small degree by the wisdom of these systems, but ninpo is not part of any of these systems. And despite the witings of a well known western author, Mikkyo Buddhism is not a part of ninpo. It is a separate method. If you are still unsure, then try to find a religion that claims ninpo is part of that religion. You won't find it.
Even amongst the samurai, religion was left up to the individual. Many practiced Shintoism and various branches of Buddhism, but some also became Christians after the European missionaries came to Japan. Today, the Bujinkan has the same approach. Religion is left up to each individual to pursue on his own. Since the Bujinkan organization has spread around the world, there are students in the Bujinkan from every major religion.
Do not mistake the spiritual aspects of training in the Bujinkan with religion. Religion is something separate, although often times there may be some common goals and seemingly similar methods. Like most the stated goals of most religions, the Bujinkan is trying to develop high quality people who walk a just path in life. But religious choices will be left entirely up to the student to pursue outside of the dojo.
If you have specific questions about the relationship between ninpo and religion, please contact us.
The Kocho Dojo derives it's name from the characters of Tiger and Butterfly. There is an old story behind this name, which embodies concepts we try to promote in this dojo.
They debated for hours in a seemingly endless cycle of possibilities. One advisor, the oldest amongst them, sat aside and did not participate in the discussion.
The other advisors laughed, but the Emperor was willing to test the old man's wisdom. He had his men capture a tiger and a butterfly and they constructed an iron cage to hold the tiger, which was covered in netting so fine that the butterfly could not escape. Both the tiger and the butterfly were placed into the cage.
At first nothing happened. The tiger did not like to be trapped in a cage and paced for a while, but it could do nothing to escape and so lay down. The butterfly flew idly about the cage, oblivious to his opponent, and it seemed for a long time that the matter would not be resolved. Before too long however, the butterfly flew close to the tiger and attracted its attention.
The tiger made a half-hearted playful attempt to swipe at the butterfly but missed, and so tried again. The butterfly flitted away once more, and continued to fly erratically about the cage as the tiger tried again and again to catch the elusive butterfly. The movements of the butterfly were difficult to anticipate, but every time the tiger missed it tried harder to catch the butterfly, until it was lunging uncontrollably about the cage with its mighty speed and strength. The intense struggle left the tiger exhausted and it collapsed to the floor of the cage in defeat. The butterfly floated softly past the tiger, but the tiger paid no more attention to it.


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Russian authorities put the Ukrainian citizen in a single-celling jail after he demanded medical care
Дата: 02 December 2016
An illegally taken to Russia Ukrainian Valeriy Makarov was refused medical assistance in the penal colony №1 in the Republic of Adygea.
The human rights defender Serhiy Mokrenyuk informed the Human Rights Information Center.
According to him, the so-called "Armyansky Town Court of the Republic of Crimea" condemned Makarov for a crime in 2015. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Subsequently, Valery Makarov was sent to serve his sentence in Russia.
"His health is impaired. He has a head injury, received in 2009, and he also damaged three vertebrae. He is getting worse and worse," Mokrenyuk explained.
"In this colony, there are no medical examinations, the colony refuses to provide medical help and also prohibits prisoners to have medical documents together with them," – he added.
Due to the lack of medical care, a man initiated a hunger strike.
"Instead of providing him with a medical help, he was punished by incarcerating him in a single jail for false reasons," – the human rights activist said. He noted that he does not know the official wording of the reason.
According to him, in June 2016 Valery Makarov appealed to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He informed Ukrainian authorities that he wishes to return to mainland Ukraine. Nevertheless, the issue remains unresolved. Mokrenyuk blames Ukrainian authorities for the standstill.
On September 8, 2016, Ukrainian citizen from Kherson oblast Valeriy Kerimov died in this prison. He was refused medical care too.
According to human rights activist Roman Martynovskiy, Kerimov was convicted by the Sevastopol court in December 2014 for 6 years. Then, he was taken to Russia to serve his sentence. At the time of arrest, he suffered from hepatitis B, C, and tuberculosis.
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Turkey has been undergoing profound social and political change. During the rule of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP), the country has moved quite a distance away from a secular liberal democracy toward an Islamist model, with key powers vested in the presidency. The fact that a coup attempted by a part of Turkey's military in defense of democratic values received scant support shows how deep this political change as been.


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'I Don't Consider Myself an Oaf'
by Voice of San Diego September 6, 2007 March 15, 2022
Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007 | When Jerry Sanders ran for mayor, he trumpeted a new, appealing vision for the post. He asked San Diegans to imagine a senior statesman jetting to Sacramento and D.C. and coming home with rewards and agreements.
He was invoking that feeling many of us may have perceived — that there was something peculiarly provincial about San Diego's leadership. Few City Hall types exuded the kind of gravitas and charisma that inspire big change.
He claimed he would do that. That would be his full-time job, in fact. Behind him, running the day-to-day operations of the city, his longtime friend Ronne Froman and other managers with experience in the business world would lend their particular expertise to the unenviable task of reforming city government department by department.
But Ronne Froman left months ago, claiming her job there was done. Jim Waring — tasked with streamlining the city's construction permitting process that, as a candidate, Sanders had declared was an "obstacle" to solving the affordable housing crisis — is also gone.
Sanders admits Waring did not succeed in that task and that he underestimated how difficult an undertaking it was. An intense search to replace Froman has not produced anyone in the three months since she resigned. Much of the managing of the city's day-to-day operations has fallen on the shoulders of Jay Goldstone, who as acting chief operating officer also is the city's chief financial officer and auditor.
In my latest conversation with the mayor, I asked him what had happened to the idea of the senior statesman. I mean, it looks like it just dissolved.
"I think what you said is a valid criticism," Sanders said.
And then he said something very interesting: This idea he had, that government could be run by people who gained their experience in the private sector or in other pursuits was just not working, Sanders said.
"I think that what we learned is that government, especially city government, is very different than business, and it's very different than the military," Sanders said.
The answer for his administration — the antidote that would allow him to become the senior statesman he dreams about — is to recruit to government executives from other agencies and cities. Businesspeople can apply elsewhere.
"I think if you brought in, perhaps, people who have been in municipal government or county government before, they understand the pacing a little more. They understand the processes a little more. I think I underestimated them. And so, as we're retrenching, we're looking for a lot of those things," he said.
Even the name of the post — COO — might have been a mistake. And this explains his overture to Maureen Stapleton, the general manager of the San Diego County Water Authority for the "day-to-day manager" post at City Hall.
Sanders said he's hoping to have a new team in place by the end of the year. Until then, he said, he's found himself involved in the city's operations and he'd like to get away from that.
"I would like to go back to providing the leadership of the senior statesman," Sanders said.
But how involved has he been? Sanders has endured some stinging criticism recently. His handling of the Sunroad controversy has come under intense scrutiny and he's anxious to put it behind him. But one particular question about the mess has endured. At one point, during the height of the tension, Sanders and his staff denied that they had borrowed an official from the airport authority to help them negotiate something with the Federal Aviation Administration that would preserve Sunroad Enterprises' tower in Kearny Mesa that had been declared a hazard.
Yet it wasn't long before a letter surfaced showing that, in fact, Sanders had personally asked for the airport authority official to do just that. It was an amazing contradiction. Either Sanders had lied or he didn't know he signed the letter. Either way he looked terrible. He was blasted on the radio, on the Internet, and in the paper.
I grabbed a copy of a recent column by Gerry Braun in the Union-Tribune and read it to the mayor. (Sanders said he doesn't read Braun's columns "very often.")
Braun implied that if you accept the mayor at his word, you'd conclude he was an "oaf who signs things he doesn't understand and is clueless about what's going on in his own office."
I asked the mayor if he was an oaf.
Sanders said it's perfectly plausible that someone (he hinted that it was Waring) put the letter in front of him to sign and he didn't know what it was about, yet he signed it.
"I think you can sign things, and I sign a lot of things. That doesn't necessarily mean you're an oaf," he said.
"When whoever put that letter in front of me — and I'm not positive it was Jim or whoever — I literally wasn't paying that much attention to it," he said. "I obviously was not as careful as I should have been. I don't know, but I don't consider myself an oaf."
He said if he were lying about it, he'd make up a better story.
Someone with more experience in city governments might just have been able to give him one.
Please contact Scott Lewis directly with your thoughts, ideas, personal stories or tips. Or send a letter to the editor.


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It was very clean, spacious. Great facilities and swimming pool and connection to Hilton lazy river and slides was great for my daughter.
Upscale property. Liked the fact that guests could use the driving range.
Great staff. Good value for money. Great in room dining available 24/7. Big clean rooms.
The service is gracious and outstanding! The food is delicious- Highley recommend Bull and Bear for steak.
We loved everything about The Waldorf. The rooms were awesome, the amenities were great the restaurant Bull and Bear was by far the best experience at the Waldorf. The staff was very very helpful in anything we needed I would recommend The Waldorf to anybody.
The staff was wonderful and very helpful. Location was great within minutes to the parks.
An all round very classy comfortable hotel. Lovely pool area. Great state of the art gym. Reasonably priced compared to its direct competitors eg. Ritz, Four Seasons. Recommended.
Best place to stay to visit Disney and Universal Studios!!
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One of our top picks in Orlando.This Orlando hotel is located on a 482-acre nature preserve, adjacent to Walt Disney World Resort. The hotel offers free transportation to and from Disney parks, an 18-hole golf course, and full-service spa. The resort participates in the Disney Extra Magic Hours and 60 day Fast Pass+ benefits, which allows guests extended admission to select Walt Disney World theme parks.
Universal Studios and SeaWorld theme parks are within 20 minutes' drive of the Waldorf Astoria in Orlando. Orlando Premium Outlets are 7.4 mi away, and the Orange County Convention Center is 11 mi away.
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This room features a high-definition 42-inch flat-screen TV, Blu-ray player, and an alarm clock with 2 USB outlets. Extras include a desk, coffee machine, and an Italian marble bathroom as well as a refrigerator.
This corner suite has a balcony with a view of the golf course or nature preserve. Extras include a living room, sofa bed, and kitchenette. An Italian marble bathroom and a 42-inch flat-screen TV are also included.
This suite has a balcony with a view of the golf course or nature preserve. Extras include a living room, 4-person dining area, and wet bar. An Italian marble bathroom and a 42-inch flat-screen TV are also included.
This suite has a balcony with a view of Disney. Extras include a living room with a sofa bed, 4-person dining area, and wet bar. An Italian marble bathroom and a 42-inch flat-screen TV are also included.
This suite has a living room with a sofa bed, 4-person dining area, and wet bar with a wine refrigerator. Extras include an Italian marble bathroom, 42-inch flat-screen TV, and Blue-ray player. A coffee machine is also included.
This suite has a balcony with a Disney view. A living room with a sofa bed, 3-person dining area, and wet bar with a wine refrigerator are also included. An Italian marble bathroom and a 42-inch flat-screen TV are also included.
This suite has a 42-inch flat-screen TV with a Blu-Ray player, alarm clock with 2 USB outlets and Bluetooth speaker, and a mini-refrigerator. Extras include a desk, coffee machine, and Italian marble bathroom.
This balcony suite features a golf course view, living room, and large double-sized sofa bed. Extras include a 4-person dining area, wet bar has a wine refrigerator, and an Italian marble bathroom with a glass shower.
This golf view room features a 42-inch flat-screen TV, Blu-Ray player with DVD CD MP3 capability, and an alarm clock with 2 USB outlets and Bluetooth speaker. Extras include an Italian marble bath, coffee machine, and mini-refrigerator.
This room features a 42-inch flat-screen TV, Blu-ray player with DVD CD MP3, and alarm clock with 2 USB outlets and Bluetooth speaker. Extras include a desk, in-room coffee machine, and an Italian marble bathroom with a bathtub.
This room features a 42-inch flat-screen TV, Blu-ray player with DVD CD MP3, and alarm clock with 2 USB outlets. Extras include a desk, in-room coffee machine, and an Italian marble bathroom. A mini-refrigerator is also included.
This room features a 42-inch flat-screen TV with a Blu-ray player, and an alarm clock with 2 USB outlets and Bluetooth speakers. An in-room coffee machine and mini refrigerator are also included. A laptop safe and work desk are offered, as well. An Italian marble bathroom with a glass shower and accessible bathtub are also featured in this room.
Waldorf Astoria Orlando is an elegant oasis of contemporary luxury offering guests an ambiance of stylish sophistication replete with celebrated amenities and impeccable service. We look forward to welcoming you!
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They keep the rooms for 3 days without cleaning even if i call them and they apologize they don't clean, i have three rooms and two of them are always not cleaned. The food is not good. The service is bad if i have bought something they take two hours to bring my shopping bags !! When i go there I already payed for the rooms through booking and I told them that but during my stay every day they try to deduct the amount from my credit card again!! Everyday of my stay i recive SMS from the bank that they are trying to take the money and if i told them they say we are sorry we didnt know that you payed already!! When I checked out they say there is nothing to pay! But when i went back home they deducted the whole amount from my credit card again !!!!!
First 2 rooms were dirty, had to repack and move, pool was full of debris and dead ants!!!! The Hotel was NOT worth the money. Everything was way over priced.
Parking. If you didnt want valet self parking was a bit inconvenient.
Great staff courteous and attentive.
Breakfast buffet was a bit expensive, and we did have an issue with an item from our room going missing. Management however, did resolve the issue and item was returned.
Great hotel. Great service level. Very well trained staff.
Too much air condition i restaurants and lobby. Hidden fees and generally very expensive.
Nice venue, large and beautiful rooms. Beautifull sourroundings and pool. Very good breaksfast.
Having a coffee shop at the hotel would be nice without having to walk over to Hilton's. The place for kids was so irregular. They should have some regular hours activities or programs. Every time we called none was there.


Tire pressure constantly fluctuates, so you need to check it frequently. A pressure change is mostly as a result of ambient temperature, but sometimes it's just due to a minor leak. Improperly inflated tires often compromise braking, cornering, and stability. Also, improperly inflated tires increases tear wear—before you know, you might soon be buying a new tire. But it doesn't really need to get to this; always check your tire pressure. If you are an expereinced driver, you can easily tell that a tire does not have enough pressure even if you are driving.
Most of the engine damages have been linked to failure to change oil and oil filters. Whether oil drop is as a result of leaking or burning oil, if not attended to, engine damage is almost certain. Given that checking oil is something that will not take more than five minutes, you have absolutely no excuse for not checking your car's oil. It is highly advisable that you check your oil every time you add fuel, especially if your car is high mileage. You need to maintain a clean supply of oil, always. Most of the today's cars will display a message when it is time to change the oil. If your car does not display this important message, consult your car's manual on when you should change the oil.
Driving in rough terrains can make your brake pads wear off much faster. Sometimes, however, you can't avoid driving in this terrains. The point is, minimize the time you drive in rough terrains if you can. And when you hear a squeal, don't ignore it. Take action—it's an indication that you need to replace your brake pads. If you don't replace your brake pads in time, the rotors will be damaged, and this means more money on repairs. But why wait until it gets this far? A routine brake job is inexpensive and won't take much of your time.
If you hardly drive during the night, you may not notice that you have faulty lights. Listen, you don't have to drive at night to notice that your lights are not working; check your lights! It's a simple process that you can easily do on your own. Turn on the headlights. Check park lights. Check license plate lights. Check indicators. Check brake lights. You are set if all working. But if you notice that there's a lighting problem, it high time you do the repairs. This way you won't have trouble with law enforcement officers over faulty lights. Besides, repairing time is easy and inexpensive.
If your wiper blades are worn out, don't hesitate to replace them. Wiper blades are made of rubber, so expect deterioration over time. They get worn-out due to ozone, sunlight, cold weather, and many other factors. A deteriorated wiper blade loses its ability to flip and flex. In worst case scenarios, they crack. Since you cannot avoid driving in misty or rainy conditions, always ensure that your wiper blades are in good condition. You don't definitely anticipate a situation where you realize that your wiper blades are not working when it's already raining. Imagine having to wait for the rain to reduce so that you can go on with your journey. It's disappointing and shameful at the same time. At all times, wiper blades need to be in contact with the windshield. When you discover that they are no longer in contact, the chances are that the sharp edges are gone. You need to replace them as soon as possible lest you find yourself in a fix.
So you are wondering whether people, in this age, can dare drive with windshield cracks. Well, some are bold enough. You are inviting trouble if you drive with a cracked windscreen. You may have to replace the whole windshield if you don't act swiftly, and the worst part? You may get yourself arrested—driving with a cracked windshield is not allowed in several states. No matter how small the crack is, fix it. Even it's just a stone chip. Fix it before it becomes a crack. You can have resins injected to take care of the chips and bruises. The good thing is that when this process is complete, you can't see even a single bruise. Opt for it; it's an efficient way of fixing bruises and chips before they become cracks. With time cracks will get bigger, so it's better if you take action before it's too late.
Most drivers overdo it when it comes to using octane. The truth of the matter is, too much octane doesn't better the mileage, and neither does it produce more power. You'll just spend a lot of money for nothing. Vehicles that need high octane gas need quality fuel, nothing less. If you were already contemplating on using poor quality fuel on these vehicles, it is high time you change your mind. Poor quality fuel will decrease ignition timing, decreasing your fuel economy (dramatically in most cases). If the timing cannot be enough, there are high chances of engine detonation, and the result? A major engine carnage!
Your car is an investment, and if you don't take good care of it, it will depreciate. Even if you don't plan to sell it anytime soon, you still need to ensure that it is pristine. With that being said, if you notice even a small problem, fix it before it's late. This way, you'll save a lot of money. If you want the best for your car, follow the above care servicing tips. A lot is in store for you, the car owner.


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Law & Agency ESRC Project
Corporate Networks UK
Say-on-Pay
Gerhard Schnyder
Reader in International Management -
Loughborough University London
I am a Reader in International Management at Loughborough University London. I joined LU LND in August 2017 from King's College London where I worked from 2009 as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and then Reader in Comparative Management. Before that I was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge (2007 – 2009) and the Centre for International Studies, and Diplomacy (CISD), SOAS, University of London (January – August 2009).
I hold a PhD in political science from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2008), an MA ("DEA") in political science from the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva (2003) and a BA ("licence") in political science from the University of Lausanne (2001).
My research is situated at the intersection of Comparative Management, Comparative Political Economy, and Comparative Politics. I am interested in the ways in which formal and informal institutions shape economic behaviour and economic structures in different countries. My approach is hence an institutionalist approach drawing notably on Historical Institutionalism, New Institutionalism in Organisation Theory, and on New Institutional Economics.
As part of my research I am particularly looking at the role that the law plays in shaping economic activities and outcomes. I therefore also venture into the area of socio-legal studies, legal theory and Law and Economics. My current research focuses indeed on the question whether law matters for change of firms' corporate governance practices, or whether the latter evolve quite independently.
The type of institutions I have looked at include not just law, however, but also 'soft' and informal institutions, such as interlocking directorate and ownership networks among companies. The research questions I am interested in revolve around the drivers and consequences of institutional change and the interaction between institutions and actors' behaviours.
Studying institutional change in the advanced and emerging capitalist economies in the 20th and 21st centuries is hardly possible without thinking about the process of liberalisation and the spread of market mechanisms to areas of human society where they were previously absent. As a result, I have increasingly become interested in theories of economic and political liberalism and the role that liberal ideas play in economic and societal change.


Dive, dive, dive!!! On the sub pages you will find short descriptions from dive trips I have made. To look at the photos, please go to the PHOTO page.
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A huge part of any scheme or project, the commercial modelling is the foundation on which investment and decisions are made.Each of the team at Ener-Vate has been developing Commercial Models for Energy Projects for over 10 years.
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The way in which the commercial modelling is carried out takes into account all aspects of the scheme. It is imperative to understand how each of the commercial inputs, the client information, the project information and timelines and masterplan assumptions can impact on the outputs and viability of a scheme. Ener-Vate is very experienced in this aspect of project development and we know which are the most important items to balance correctly to achieve the best result for developers and customers of the scheme.


"The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification."
"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."
"The difference between a tolerable programmer and a great programmer is not how many programming languages they know, and it's not whether they prefer Python or Java. It's whether they can communicate their ideas. By persuading other people, they get leverage. By writing clear comments and technical specs, they let other programmers understand their code, which means other programmers can use and work with their code instead of rewriting it. Absent this, their code is worthless. By writing clear technical documentation for end users, they allow people to figure out what their code is supposed to do, which is the only way those users can see the value in their code. There's a lot of wonderful, useful code buried on sourceforge somewhere that nobody uses because it was created by programmers who don't write very well (or don't write at all), and so nobody knows what they've done and their brilliant code languishes.
I won't hire a programmer unless they can write, and write well, in English. If you can write, wherever you get hired, you'll soon find that you're getting asked to write the specifications and that means you're already leveraging your influence and getting noticed by management."


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Q: Reversion in Geometric Algebra- how is it computed? In all of the sources that I have encountered, the GA reversion for $A=nm$ is defined as $\widetilde{A}= \widetilde{m}\widetilde{n}$, with $\widetilde{v}=v$ for a vector $v$. I have two issues with this:

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*Is it necessary to decompose a multivector into a multiplication of two other multivectors? If I wish to compute a reverse, can I write $A$ using basis vectors and reverse them?

*If there is more than one way to decompose $A$, we need to prove that the outcome is the same. All the sources I've seen seem to let this point slide for some reason. For example: This article about GA in physics

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*"Is it necessary to decompose a multivector into a multiplication of two other multivectors?"

No, and as you suggest, decomposition of a multivector in terms of basis vectors, is a straightforward way to compute the reverse.
Take for example
$$   A = a + b \mathbf{e}_1 + c \mathbf{e}_2 \mathbf{e}_3 \mathbf{e}_4,$$
where $ a, b, c$ are scalars, and $\mathbf{e}_k$ are all mutually orthogonal.  Reversion can be performed term by term, resulting in a sign flip for the trivector term.
$$   \tilde{A} = a + b \mathbf{e}_1 - c \mathbf{e}_2 \mathbf{e}_3 \mathbf{e}_4.$$

*For your bivector example $ A = \mathbf{n} \mathbf{m} $,
first note that such a factorization may not
generally be possible.  For example,
an $\mathbb{R}^{4}$ bivector such as $ A = \mathbf{e}_{12} + \mathbf{e}_{34} $ cannot be decomposed into a product of two vectors (this is an example of a bivector that
is not a 2-blade.)

If the bivector has such a factorization, that decomposition amounts to a choice of basis.
For example:
$$A = \mathbf{e}_{12} + \mathbf{e}_{23} + \mathbf{e}_{31},$$
may be factored as
$$A = \left( { \mathbf{e}_1 + \mathbf{e}_2 - 2 \mathbf{e}_3 } \right) \frac{ \mathbf{e}_2 - \mathbf{e}_1 }{2},$$
or
$$A = \frac{ \mathbf{e}_3 - \mathbf{e}_2 }{2} \left( { 2 \mathbf{e}_1 - \mathbf{e}_2 - \mathbf{e}_3 } \right).$$
We may compute the reverse from the original representation
$$   \tilde{A} = \mathbf{e}_{21} + \mathbf{e}_{32} + \mathbf{e}_{13},$$
or using the first factorization
$$\begin{aligned}\tilde{A} &= \frac{ \mathbf{e}_2 - \mathbf{e}_1 }{2}\left( { \mathbf{e}_1 + \mathbf{e}_2 - 2 \mathbf{e}_3 } \right)  \\ &=\frac{1}{{2}} \left( { \mathbf{e}_{21} - \mathbf{e}_{11} + \mathbf{e}_{22} - \mathbf{e}_{12} - 2 \mathbf{e}_{23} + 2 \mathbf{e}_{13} } \right) \\ &= \mathbf{e}_{21} + \mathbf{e}_{32} + \mathbf{e}_{13},\end{aligned}$$
or using the second factorization
$$\begin{aligned}   \tilde{A}    &= \left( { 2 \mathbf{e}_1 - \mathbf{e}_2 - \mathbf{e}_3 } \right)\frac{ \mathbf{e}_3 - \mathbf{e}_2 }{2}  \\    &= \frac{1}{{2}} \left( {   2 \mathbf{e}_{13} - 2 \mathbf{e}_{12}   - \mathbf{e}_{23} + \mathbf{e}_{22}    - \mathbf{e}_{33} + \mathbf{e}_{32}} \right) \\ &= \mathbf{e}_{21} + \mathbf{e}_{32} + \mathbf{e}_{13}.\end{aligned}$$
One should get the same answer regardless (and we do.)
Also observe that such a 2-blade factorization depends on the orthogonality of the factors.  If that were not the case, then there would be a scalar term in the product, and the result would not be a 2-blade.  To see that, consider the following product of vectors
$$A = \left( { \mathbf{e}_1 e^{i \theta} } \right) \mathbf{e}_1 = \cos\theta - i \sin\theta$$
where $\{\mathbf{e}_{1}, \mathbf{e}_{2}\} $ is assumed to be an orthonormal Euclidean basis, and $ i = \mathbf{e}_{1} \mathbf{e}_{2} $ is the pseudoscalar for the plane that $ A $ lies in (i.e. $ A \wedge i = 0 $).  For this to be a bivector, we require $ \theta \in \pi/2 + n \pi $.  That is, the two factors must be orthogonal.
If one wanted to prove that the reverse of any bivector $ A = \mathbf{n} \mathbf{m} $ is independent of the factorization (if such a factorization is possible), the task is essentially to show that the reverse is independent of any change of basis.

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Since China and UAE established a formal partnership in 1984, both countries have become the leading trade partners and the mutual relationship is all set to grow further in the near future.
Over the past few years, the two countries have been working harder to find the right development path. Especially, China has been pressing ahead with transformation and opening up, with a focus on people through scientific development. The China-UAE trade has grown from $63 million in 1984 to $60 billion in 2016 and is predicted to swell in the coming years.
The UAE is responsible for one-fifth of Sino-Arab trade and one-third of China-GCC trade. China exports mainly electronic appliances, mechanical tools and devices, while the UAE exports mainly copper, iron, plastic and more.
In 2016, Ahmad Mohammed Bin Ghannam, Executive Director of the International Economic Relations Sector, said that thanks to the UAE government, Chinese visitors to the emirates will now get visas upon arrival at the country's international airports. He appreciated the step taken by Chinese government to start direct Yuan currency trading with the UAE. He is convinced that the bilateral trade between the two countries reaching $100-billion mark in the near future is not far-fetched one.
Keeping the promising potential of the UAE in mind, many Chinese banks have decided to make their way into the emirates. The largest lender of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has established its branch in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) in 2008. There are branch offices of Bank of China Middle East, the Agricultural Bank of China and China Construction Bank in DIFC as well.
In October 2016, China Construction Bank which is world's second-largest bank by Tier 1, listed a $600 million bond on Nasdaq Dubai last year, the only international exchange in the Middle East in relation to regulatory standards. The four largest Chinese banks have branches in the region's biggest financial free zone, Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) of which Nasdaq Dubai is a licensed market.
When it comes to investing in China's banking sector, the UAE has been very active and has established many branches and offices on the Chinese homeland. Union National Bank was the very first Emirati lender to the whole China in 2007 that has an office setup in Shanghai, followed in 2012 by National Bank of Abu Dhabi and Emirates NBD.
Dubai Week was held in Beijing by DIFC to promote Dubai economy and make it an ideal place for investors worldwide. The UAE has also started making footholds in China and it is reported that the UAE's investments in China is reaching to new heights. Emirati enterprises and businesses have around 650 projects in China. Many projects such as UAE Stock Exchange and Dubai Pearl Project strive hard to increase their position in China and to attract investors.
There are many Chinese businesses apart from the banking sector who have also started to see many opportunities in the UAE. The Emiratis' customs services, free zone facility, state-of-the-art port and logistics park have made the UAE an ideal place for the Chinese to conduct business throughout the Middle East.
More than 2,400 Chinese companies have now become of members of Dubai Chamber. Most of these companies deal with electronics, building material, garments, novelty items and more. More than 1400 Chinese enterprises are planning to launch their branches in other countries and they see UAE as an important hub to grow their business.
Such massive economic growth has facilitated China's access to untapped consumer market and avail many profitable opportunities. The UAE's "Look East" policy has been interested in enticing Asian investment. Attracting Chinese stakeholders to promote the UAE economy to China has now become a priority for Abu Dhabi.
The UAE have made energy cooperation, obviously not to such extent as the Qatar and Saudi Arab have done so far, it's still an increasing important aspect of UAE-China relationship. China imports around 15% of the Emirates' petroleum compared to 12% by South Korea. Over the past few years, this energy partnership has further strengthened after a $330 million agreement between Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) and China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Cooperation (CPEEC). This deal is expected to increase ADCO's daily supply at a more satisfactory rate. China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has been involved in different other projects in the UAE, including the development of the country's crude pipeline and Asab Oil Field.
When it comes to infrastructure sector, China and UAE have signed many agreements for construction projects worth billions of dollars. Dubai has invested in many Chinese ports and logistics centers in Tianjin, Hong Kong, Yantai and Qingdao. Chinese Ministry of Commerce and Beijing firms have also completed billion dollars' worth construction projects in the emirates. This has led many Chinese infrastructure enterprises to invest in UAE projects.
Chinese companies such as Cherry, Foton, Dongfeng, and GAC Motors have also played their major role in the UAE's automobile sector. As Emiratis seek more affordable car options, Chinese manufacturers entered the Emirati market with low rates. Chinese car sales are projected to increase 100% every year in the country and their market share is expected to reach double-digits by 2020.
The trend of travelling between the two lands is increasing. Currently, there are 21 daily flights from Dubai to China, operated by Emirates. Chinese nationals reportedly constitute around 4% of passengers at Dubai International Airport, accountable for 12% of sales at Dubai Duty Free outlets. In order to improve the experience for Chinese nationals, the retailer has hired Chinese employers at Dubai Airport outlets.
The strongest area of China-UAE relationship is education. The first Chinese international School in Dubai has opened many doors to foster the relationship between both countries. Breaking down linguistic and cultural barriers will contribute to even deeper political and economic relations in the future. The annual Chinese Spring Festival held in Dubai attracted an extraordinary number of Chinese tourists and locals.
The ties between China and the UAE are predicted to grow stronger in the years to come. Both are all set to expand the China-UAE partnership. Beijing sees great potential in the UAE. With all its natural resources and strategic position, the UAE is considered as a gateway to untapped consumer markets &lucrative investment opportunities. The growing interest of China in the UAE and other GCC countries must also be analyzed within a geopolitical context.
As China is gaining leverage on the international stage, especially after the Silk Road project and the Asian investment Infrastructure Bank, Beijing is now considering resource-rich Persian Gulf nations to use for mutual benefit.
It is important to note that China is the world's most populous nation with the second largest economy in the world. With such a huge potential, China has a lot to offer to the UAE. Regardless of the world's financial disability, the Chinese economy is still expanding at an impressive rate and is expected to surpass the US economy which is the world's largest economy. Given China's rise as an economic and political power, the ties between the UAE and China are expected to strengthen and flourish in the years to come.


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County Clerk's Note to Meek Mill Sparks Investigation
Trent Fitzgerald Published: January 29, 2018
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Last week, it was discovered that a court clerk passed a note to Meek Mill asking for money during his probation hearing. The incident has now sparked an investigation from judges and court personnel.
As we previously reported, court clerk Wanda Chavarria gave Mill the letter where she wrote that she had bad credit and desperately needed money to pay her son's tuition at Virginia Commonwealth University.
"It is every parent's hope to provide the best for their children," she wrote. "This will probably be my son's last semester at VCU if the tuition isn't paid for this year and unfortunately with my bad credit, I am unable to secure a loan or cosign a loan for my son. Anything you can do is very much appreciated."
Chavarria reportedly admitted to TMZ of slipping him the note without the judge's knowledge. There's no word if she has been disciplined for it or not.
Meanwhile, insiders have told the outer that judges and court personnel are investigating the circumstances surrounding the note.
This incident adds to the controversy related to Mill's judge, Genece Brinkley, who has been accused of misconduct in regards to the Philly rapper's case.
In other news, Meek Mill donated $10,000 to Colin Kaepernick's #10for10 campaign.
"Despite my brother @meekmill's current circumstances, he continues to stay connected in the community of Philly," Kaep tweeted on his Twitter page. "He pledged to go #10for10 on my #MillionDollarPledge. We're both donating $10k for a combined $20k to Youth Service Inc. Keep staying strong Meek, we love you brother!"
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Cohort profile: the Brain and Mind Centre Optymise cohort: tracking multidimensional outcomes in young people presenting for mental healthcare
Cohort profile
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Shane Cross Brain & Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, AustraliaSchool of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Alissa Nichles Brain & Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Natalia Zmicerevska Brain & Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Jacob J Crouse Brain & Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Jake R Palmer Brain & Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, AustraliaDepartment of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Alexis E Whitton Brain & Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
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ELMHURST – Hundreds of local parents inexplicably living in something called a "two-income household" and unable to afford a nanny or to rely on a single breadwinner for their family braved the frigid temperature, the constant rumbling of nearby freight trains, and the company of fellow Elmhurst residents by standing in line for hours outside the First Street YMCA Saturday morning for the opportunity to register their kids for a prized after-school program offered by the local community center that transports children from their school to the "Y" every day and allows parents to pick them up as late as 6:00 p.m.
With space for the 2017-2018 school year program limited by the maximum occupancy of one bus per District 205 school and further reduced by a grandfather clause that allows early registration for current program members, parents began lining up outside the First Street YMCA around midnight for the 6:00 a.m. registration start and were challenged to stay awake, to keep warm, and to interact on friendly terms with other Elmhurst residents competing for same program spots and whose demeanor ranged from "slaphappy" to "irritated".
While the stress weighed heavily on the minds of many parents waiting to find out if their children would get into the swanky after-school program noted for turning meagerly-athletic children into adequate swimmers, skaters, and mixed-martial arts competitors, others clearly embraced the comradery of waiting outside in the cold with their fellow residents.
YMCA front desk clerk Brian Smoltz – scheduled to open the doors for registration at precisely 6:00 a.m. and instructed to "get the hell out of the way" after he does so – was concerned that some parents would display unhappiness or frustration if their kids weren't able to get into the Y's after-school program.
Excellent writing Dave (and humor). Loved your hoop-house story as well, and from time to time, I still smile about those clowns on the prairie path.


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Absolutely agree with you, Matthew! Thank you for this post. I wonder, if anyone has asked the museum to return the medicine pouch to the descendents of those from whom it was taken?
I have the feeling they might be willing, but I wonder who the rightful owners now would be, even which FN the pouch was taken from?
I think the original tribal owners could be determined by the bag's provenance and/or by its design features. It would be so wonderful if it made its way back home!
Perhaps I will send a photo of this to the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. They will have a better idea, and could perhaps trace its original owners!
Fantastic! Let me know how it goes!
Well-said, Matthew—and huge felicitations on your new post!