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At $600 per pound, kopi luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world (according to Wikipedia). By comparison, pure Jamaica Blue Mountain, widely considered one of the priciest coffees, is typically $30 to $50 per pound. You would pay that much for an ounce of kopi luwak beans.
Kopi luwak is a truly unique product. It begins when the bright red coffee berries that contain the seed (or bean) from which all coffee is made, are eaten by a wild civet, a small mammal that lives in tropical Asia and Africa. Luckily for coffee connoisseurs, civets are able to digest the red fleshy pulp that surrounds the seed but they can't digest the seeds themselves. So after the seeds pass through the civet's digestive tract, tribesmen gather the scat, clean it, roast the beans, and create this very unusual "civet coffee," or kopi luwak. The civet's stomach enzymes apparently reduce acidity and bitterness while contributing a distinctive taste and aroma to the coffee beans. Aficionados claim that the result is a smoother, more complex flavor in the brewed coffee.
I originally learned about kopi luwak in the Wine Spectator, of all places. In addition to covering wine, WS also publishes stories about other beverages, including coffee. Mark Pendergrast is their go-to guy on this topic, a logical choice considering the fact that Pendergrast literally wrote the book on coffee: Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. For the November 30 issue of Wine Spectator, Pendergrast wrote an article about Doi Chaang Coffee, a small but growing coffee cooperative in northern Thailand. Their coffee beans, writes Pendergrast, "are comparable to the best Kona beans." One of the products that Doi Chaang sells is civet coffee.
If you haven't heard of Doi Chaang, or even tried coffee from Thailand, that's understandable. The company itself is not very old, and Thailand hasn't yet gained the reputation of major coffee-exporting countries like Ethiopia or Columbia. According to Pendergrast, coffee farming in the region where Doi Chaang has its plantation was only introduced in the 1980s. Prior to that time, the area was dominated by opium producers – thugs and criminals who forced the local tribes to work for them in the production of opium. This began to change in 1983, when the king of Thailand ordered the introduction of coffee to the hill tribes in an effort to stem the opium trade and replace the poppy crop with a viable alternative.
Overall, the switch from poppy to coffee was positive for the hill tribes in this region of Thailand. However, it wasn't until they began working together in cooperatives like Doi Chaang that the tribes gained a measure of control over the marketing and sales of their coffee. Initially, as individual farmers they were at the mercy of coffee brokers, who paid much less than the coffee was worth and then blended the high-quality mountain-grown coffee with inferior beans.
The Doi Chaang coffee cooperative itself began in 2001 when a charismatic Thai man named Wicha Promyong suggested the idea to the Akha tribe, one of the groups of people who had been growing coffee in northern Thailand.
In the beginning, the cooperative farmed 200 acres and sold its coffee to dealers for roughly 25 cents per pound. Today, Doi Chaang farms 8,000 acres and sells coffee beans for as much as $4 or $5 per pound. That's made a remarkable difference for the Akha tribe. Pendergrast tells the story of their transformation:
From their profits, Akha have created a Coffee Academy to teach farmers proper cultivation and processes, along with financial and environmental essentials … The village now has running water, a sewage system, electricity, a medical clinic and improved roads. Adults who had to leave as children to earn a living are returning. The Doi Chaang Coffee Foundation is building a school for 400 children and wants to help other hill tribes, whose estimated 1.2 million people each earn less than $1 a day. (Wine Spectator, November 30, 2012)
In addition to Promyong, there is one other person who has played an important role in helping to establish the Doi Chaang brand. John Darch is a Canadian business man who invested in Doi Chaang after meeting Promyong several years ago. Darch's involvement has been instrumental in helping the cooperative grow beyond the domestic Thai market and reach consumers in North America and Europe. And the international sales have in turn helped the Akha tribe achieve some of the improvements Pendergrast describes. Prior to Doi Chaang, the Akha "maintained only a marginal existence," according to Pendergrast. He calls them "a proud people" who for many years were looked down upon "as ignorant, superstitious peasants."
And that's what appeals most to me about Doi Chaang. I'm sure their coffee is quite good; it's certainly received high marks from coffee reviewers and experts, including Pendergrast. No, what I like most is the story of the people and their transformation – their hard work and eventual success.
In this video, Darch, Promyong, and others talk about how the importance of Doi Chaang to the community of Akha. You can't help but to be impressed by the resourcefulness, determination, and creativity of these people, especially Promyong. He saw how the hard-working Akha tribe could use a business opportunity to dramatically improve their condition and bring dignity to this deserving group of people. It's really a wonderful story.
Kopi Luwak and Doi Chaang Wild Civet Coffee
One of the more remarkable aspects of Doi Chaang is how even as the company has built its coffee business, it has refused to rest on its success. The cooperative has expanded into secondary products like honey, soap, and tea that are built around the core business while using the resources available to the coffee farmers.
But the most interesting item Doi Chaang sells is undoubtedly its Wild Civet Coffee which goes for nearly $500 per pound. Is it good? Opinions vary on the subject of kopi luwak. In his Wine Spectator article, Pendergrast described Doi Chaang's Wild Civet Coffee as "even smoother than regular Doi Chaang, with dark chocolate notes, a tart acidity, and lingering sweetness."
Others have been less generous about kopi luwak. According to Wikipedia, "Some critics claim...that kopi luwak is simply bad coffee, purchased for novelty rather than taste." Needless to say, I've never tried it. But if you're curious, you can decide for yourself whether it's worth the money. $55 plus shipping will get you 50 grams, enough to make about 3 cups.
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Coronavirus Future of cities Levelling up
Is Covid ending London's growth miracle?
London finds itself in the unfamiliar position of being amongst the UK's worst performing cities. Are we seeing a levelling down?
Blog post published on 29 October 2020 by Paul Swinney
Recent data for the claimant count and use of the Job Retention Scheme (JRS) both show that Covid appears to be hitting London particularly hard. But looking below the headline data suggests that its economy is polarising, rather than suffering across the board.
The read outs of the data show a jobs market in turmoil:
The number of residents claiming unemployment related benefits has risen sharply since March – it has seen the 4th largest rise in claimants of any UK city, and this puts it 15th in terms of overall shares of people claiming (up from 39th in March). And it now accounts for 20 per cent of all UK claimants, up from 16 per cent.
It has seen the 6th sharpest fall in the number of vacancies listed with Indeed, which are down 52 per cent compared to last year.
And it has the second highest share of working residents claiming furlough. Data for August shows that at 13 per cent of all eligible jobs were on the JRS – only Crawley had a higher share of residents on the scheme.
While JRS claims by sector is not available at the city level (although HMRC does frustratingly hold this data), looking at the sectoral breakdown at the national level hints at the impact of covid having a polarising impact on the capital. Excluding the public sector, the sectors least reliant on furlough since its introduction are Finance and Insurance, Information and Communication, and Professional and Technical. As a group, these sectors never had more than 18 per cent of workers on furlough, compared to 62 per cent in Arts and Entertainment and 74 per cent in Food and Accommodation.
And London specialises in these low-furloughing sectors. The capital is home to 33 per cent of all Britain's jobs in these sectors, relative to 19 per cent of jobs overall.
What we also know is that retail, arts and hospitality have been hit particularly hard, and Centre for Cities High Street Recovery Tracker suggests this has been especially the case in London. The Tracker shows that there are just 35 per cent of people in the centre of London compared to February (the lowest of any city centre), meaning 65 per cent fewer potential customers for the cafés, bars and restaurants there. These sectors employ a lot of people – the central boroughs of Camden, Hackney, Islington, Tower Hamlets, Westminster and the City of London, these sectors account for 480,000 jobs. To give a sense of scale, this is more jobs than all the jobs in the entirety of Leeds, and double the number of jobs that are in Cardiff. Given this, it seems likely that the overall deterioration in the data above is linked to these sectors.
While these figures show that London is struggling currently, the differing impact on its sectors suggests that these struggles will last only as long as covid restricts people's movements. This is because of the different roles that sectors play in an economy. The low-furloughing sectors above are the prosperity generators in the capital. The JRS data suggests these industries have continued to trade since March, bringing money into the economy. This is currently cold comfort for the many local services businesses in the centre of London, who have not felt the benefit of this, and won't see an improvement to their fortunes until office workers return to their desks or tourists start visiting again. And its difficult for those who have been furloughed or have lost their job, which has especially affected those aged under 25.
But both of these things will happen again. It seems likely that offices will be hubs of activity once more, while the allure of Big Ben should continue to pull people in for leisure purposes. London is suffering from Covid. But we should expect to see a strong bounce back if and when Covid is brought back under control.
Levelling up The Future of Work Unemployment
Cities Outlook 2023
Report 31 Jan 2023
Solving the UK's inactivity crisis
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Unemployment three times higher than figures suggest as economic inactivity deepens regional divides
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Feds Investigate Controversial Alternative Medicine Trial Used In Heart Attacks
By Nikki Weingartner Sep 28, 2008 in Health
The largest alternative medicine study trial suspends enrollment while it undergoes investigation by the government. The feds claim that the study isn't looking at participant safety, which is just one of many errors being taken seriously by officials.
US NIMH drops controversial study of chelation therapy for children with autism
The use of chelation therapy is no stranger to controversy and had recently been dropped as a potential beneficial study in children with Autism, showing no benefits. However, an ongoing study in the alternative medicine community using the same metal-flushing therapy that dates back to the World Word I era is now under investigation.
According to an AP news article:
Federal officials confirmed their probe of the $30 million study on Thursday. Those directing the research, conducted at 100 sites around the United States and Canada, voluntarily stopped enrolling patients earlier this month, after the investigation was launched.
The study, which opened in 2002, was supposed to serve as an alternative therapy option to patients who suffer from heart attacks and heart disease as opposed to tradition heart medications, surgery and angioplasty. The claims now say that it was based on false representations, including possible full informed consent of those enrolling in the study as well as financial kickbacks for using the therapy.
A group of chelation supporters and practitioners made the following statement in response to the suspension of the trial:
"to answer the unfounded allegations of impropriety" and said federal officials "will find that the allegations are of a political nature."
"We call for a swift end to the moratorium and resumption of the trial," says the statement by the group's president, Dr. Jeanne Drisko.
The study's lead physician dismissed claims of potential study related deaths and said in the article that "any study involving older heart attack survivors was bound to have deaths." Given the nature of the enrolling trial patients age 50 or older and having a history of heart attacks, it will be interesting to see if the investigation finds that any of the deaths are considered study related.
Some of the physicians participating in the study have also had to drop out due to disciplinary actions or criminal records.
The leaders in the drug and medical field, including the FDA and AMA, have called chelation experimental and stated that its value to heart patients isn't known. Still others who side with the beliefs of these groups in conventional medicine also believe that the therapy is worth studying.
It is the largest alternative therapy trial to have ever been approved.
To see that the study has not been completely suspended and that those currently enrolled are being allowed to continue therapy while investigators look into the claims says a lot about the level of danger associated with the actual trial. The outcome of this investigation may have great implications for the future of alternative therapies and trials associated.
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New trend shows teens 16 to 19 now most at risk as pedestrians.
In 2010, more child pedestrians were injured in September than any other month.
Kids are twice as likely to be injured from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. than any other time of day.
501 children were killed by cars while walking in 2010.
In the past five years, injuries among teens from 16 to19 years old increased 25 percent over the previous five years.
75 percent of children from 12 to 17 years old owned cell phones in 2009, up from 25 percent in 2004.
Safe Kids recently released a report on child pedestrian safety, "Walking Safely: A Report to the Nation." The good news finding of the report is that there's a 53% decline in the youth pedestrian death rate since 1995, but 61 kids are hit by cars every day in the United States. Clearly, we still have a lot of work to do to make our streets and highways safe for our kids walking on them. A significant finding in the report is that over the past 15 years, the risk has shifted from younger kids to teens. There has been a 25% increase in injuries among teens 16 to 19 in the past five years alone. Safe Kids hypothesizes that the shift—and uptick in the risk—is because of mobile technology and "distracted walking" coupled with distracted driving. "Walking Safely," the third in a series, was made possible by grants from FedEx.
The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) law moved the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program to the side of the road in terms of its status and funding. Over the next two years, Safe Kids will fight to return SRTS to its former, more vigorous status with its own dedicated source of funding. Safe Kids will run a grassroots campaign with partners to encourage states and their transportation departments to devote commitment, funding and staff to continue the SRTS momentum.
Safe Kids supports the federal, multi-agency approach to dealing with implications of distraction. Congress embraced the federal commitment to coping with the emergent problem in the 2012 MAP-21 law.
Safe Kids supports legislation that would encourage states to enforce tough laws about passing stopped school buses, H.R. 4236, Kaydn's Act. Kadyn Halverson was killed crossing a street in Worth County, Iowa, to get to her bus when struck by a driver who passed the school bus and fled the scene.


Being one of the world's natural wonders and heritage recognized by UNESCO, Ha Long Bay is a truly attractive destination with 1,969 islands jetting out from the sea and with red sail junks dotting the horizon.
8:00 - 8:30 Meet our tour guide and bus then take a 3.5-hour bus drive through fertile rice fields to Ha Long Bay. Have a break en-route in Hai Duong City to free your legs.
12:30 Our Cruise and start cruising among limestone islands and photograph of stunning landscapes of Ha Long.
15:00 Visit Thien Cung "Heavenly Palace" cave, the most beautiful in Ha Long Bay. Get back and cruise more around emerald water. 16:35 Stop at the harbor again to catch the bus to Hanoi.
20:30 – 21:00 Arrival back in Hanoi. Tour ends.
The experienced driver and an English speaking guide.
Vietnamese lunch and entrance fees.
Safe, clean and beautiful cruise.


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Frans Pieter Lodewijk van Kuyck (9 June 1852, Antwerp - 31 May 1915, Antwerp) was a Belgian painter and graphic artist. He is also known for helping to establish Mother's Day in Belgium.

Life and career
He came from a family of artists. His father was the painter, Louis Van Kuyck. His grandfather was also a painter, and his son was the architect, Walter Van Kuyck (1876-1934). He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and his first well-known work was the official poster for the Exposition Universelle d'Anvers (1885).

Later, as a teacher at the Academy, he became involved in the cultural and political life of Antwerp. In 1888, he became a provincieraadslid (county councilor) and, from 1891, served as an Alderman of Fine Arts on the Antwerp City Council. He also sat on the boards of several museums, including what is now the Plantin-Moretus Museum, and was chairman of the "Koninklijk Kunstverbond Antwerpen" (Cercle Royal Artistique).

During his time in office, the Vlaamse Opera Company was officially established and monuments were erected for Peter Benoit, Hendrik Conscience and Jan Van Rijswijck. On his initiative, the city acquired Schoonselhof cemetery and created the Nachtegalen Park. He was also the driving force behind the purchase and restoration of the "Vleeshuis" (a Medieval Guild Hall). In addition, he oversaw the beautification and expansion of the Leysstraat in 1898.

In the Summer of 1913, he wrote a pamphlet, De Dag der moeders (Mother's Day) and formed the first committee to promote its establishment as an official holiday.

Illustrations & writings
 Georges Eekhoud, Kermesses. Illustré de dix compositions de Frans Van Kuyck, H. Kistemaeckers (1884)
 Rosalie and Virginie Loveling, Gedichten (stories, with illustrations by Van Kuyck), Ghent (1889)
 Max Rooses, Oud-Antwerpen, Watercolor paintings and drawings by F. Van Kuyck. Exhibition catalog,  La Librairie Neerlandaise (1903).
 Frans Van Kuyck and F. Jos Van den Branden, Hendrik Conscience 1812-1912, J.-E. Buschmann (1912)

Selected works

References

Further reading
 Huldebetoon aan Frans van Kuyck, 20 October 1912, (A Tribute to Frans Van Kuyck), J.-E. Buschmann (1913)

External links

 Arcadja Auctions: More works by Van Kuyck
 Antwerp Heritage Volunteer Group:  Drawings by Frans Van Kuyck

1852 births
1915 deaths
Artists from Antwerp
19th-century Belgian painters
19th-century Belgian male artists
20th-century Belgian painters
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Henry IV, Part 1: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
Love's Labor's Lost: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
King Lear: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
Nick Newlin has broad experience marketing the Nicolo Whimsey Show to high school and library systems, and will incorporate The Thirty Minute Shakespeare into the Nicolo Whimsey website, mailings, school fairs, etc. We have purchased and successfully used theater mailing lists from MDR in the past, and will purchase new MDR lists aimed at the target users of The Thirty Minute Shakespeare for the initial launch, and annually or biannually thereafter. We expect that the abridgements will also be prominently cited by the Folger Shakespeare Library's very active Folger Education program, recognized and used extensively by thousands of high school and college educators and including blogs, webinars, lesson plans, and conferences.
There are other "cuttings" of Shakespeare plays, but the only series with any trade visibility is "Sixty Minute Shakespeare" by Cass Foster, with six plays published by Five Star Publications. Nick Newlin's "Thirty Minute Shakespeare" series is publishing 12 plays in 2010, all "road tested" at the Folger's annual Student Shakespeare Festival, and superior to the competition on many levels: better stage directions and performance notes, more professional page design, a competitive pricing structure, and better visibility in Bowker, Amazon, key wholesalers, etc.
This cutting of Shakespeare's utterly charming and popular comedy MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING features five key scenes, including Beatrice and Benedick's classic initial word-battle, and the uproarious hide-and-seek deception of the two "lovers." The next scenes are the brutal rejection of Hero at the altar by a deceived Claudio and the timeless manhandling of the English language by the bumbling constable Dogberry. In the fifth and final scene, Shakespeare resolves the play's conflicts and confusions, and love reigns again. This cutting really tells the story, and includes some sidesplitting stage business, particularly the back-and-forth physical and verbal parrying between Benedick and Beatrice.
As You Like It: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents seven captivating scenes from this merry play. Rosalind, disguised as a man ("Ganymede"), "teaches" the art of romantic wooing to Orlando.
The cutting includes Jaques' timeless "Seven Ages of Man" speech; Touchstone the Fool's courtship of Audrey; and the hilarious love triangle between Silvius, Phebe, and Rosalind (as Ganymede). The entire cast joins in the delightful song "A Lover and His Lass" to bring a rousing end to this charming comedy.
The edition includes helpful advice by Nick Newlin on how to put on a Shakespeare production in a high school class with novice actors, as well as tips for performing the specific play and recommendations for further resources.
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Tricky business: There ain't no such thing as free money.
Grant funding is great! Free money! You don't have to give away equity and you don't accrue debt. Lovely people want to give you money to do all kinds of good things.
Maybe. Kind of. Not exactly.
Remember, It's not free money.
People, even grant funders, want something for their money. A traditional investor wants something tangible – usually more money. Grant funders, on the other hand, don't necessarily want their money back but it's important to remember what it is that they're getting out of the deal: they want impact for their money. They want to know that it's going out and changing things for the better. Proving that impact is going to cost you.
With venture capital, there's an old adage that you should choose your investor with a little bit more care than you choose your spouse, and for good reason: it's easier, usually, to separate from a loved one than to get rid of a difficult investor.
Grant funders are different: their support usually only lasts for the lifecycle of the project that's funded, but it's still important to choose the right one. Make sure you ask yourself what kind of support or networks do they can bring alongside the money.
Finally, don't try to make your grant fit just because there's money on offer: If you're teaching young people about (say) exercise and diet, don't apply to education funders thinking "well, they've got some money". You're wasting everyone's time; time which is better spent finding the right funder, and building the right relationships with them.
Found your perfect funder? Brilliant. Read their funding requirements? You fit? Excellent. Downloaded the application and started filling it in?
Seriously, give them a call. Find them at a networking event. Make a point to talk to them about what you're doing. They might note that someone's doing something similar, or give you some pointers to resources you didn't know about. They'll probably give you some tips as to when or whether this is the right funding call for your project.
Talking to them will help you understand what it is that they're looking for and how you fit in with them. Then you can craft your application to fit their needs.
If there's not something that's appropriate to your project, they'll be able to tell you that too, and when a more appropriate funding call is coming.
There are more people who want "free money" than there is money to give them. OK, keep this in mind, but it's not just this.
There's a £50,000 grant going, and you really need £75,000 to do your project. You decide that if you pay yourself half your wages and get people to tighten all their belts you can squeeze it in at £49,957, so you put that in your budget.
You're not going to get that grant. People who read grant applications for a living have a really good idea of what it takes to make things happen. They don't want you to kill yourself. They know they're more likely to lose all their money if they give it to you on these terms.
Plan for things to go wrong. Plan for contingencies. Give yourself some room for learnings. Explain what you're doing, clearly and reasonably, and give them every confidence that you can go forth and deliver the change you say you can.
There's a new set of jargon in town called impact measurement. When someone gives money to a foundation that gives out grants, they want to know not just how much money they gave away, but what happened because of it.
You might not know how you're going to measure the outcomes of what you do, but you should have an idea of what outcomes you expect. If you think that X action is going to lead to Y outcome, write it down, and talk about how you're going to monitor whether those outcomes are happening.
This shows the people reading your grants that you've really thought through the chain of events in what you're proposing to do – they call this your Theory of Change. Even if it doesn't come out the way you planned, it shows that you have a realistic idea of how to measure your impact, and that you're thinking about how to make their lives easier from the get-go.


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"The history of life on Earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.
To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the Earth's vegetation and it's animal life have been molded by the environment.
Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies it's surroundings, has been relatively slight.
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species - mankind - acquired significant power to alter nature on the Earth.
It took hundreds of millions of years to produce the life that now inhabits the Earth - eons of time in which that developing and evolving and diversifying life reached a state of adjustment and balance with its surroundings.
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of the air, earth and water with dangerous and lethally toxic materials.
Given time - time not in years but in millennia - life adjusts and a balance has been reached.
For time is the essential ingredient, but on this modern Earth there is no time." - Rachel Carson
Ecological Toxicity Information
Swimming In A Sea Of Neurotoxins
Toxins that Causes Neuropathy - Causes of Nerve Damage
"There is an unbreakable link between human well-being and the health of the Earth"- Walter Reid
"Quite simply, our planet is hospitable to us because, like every other denizen of this planet, we evolved here and have thus become adapted by Natural Selection to Earth's conditions. Humans are extremely versatile, and although we seem to think that we can exist outside the laws of nature, we cannot." - Eric R. Pianka
Poison Spring - The Secret History of the EPA
an ancient survival program
polybrominated diphenyl ethers
polytetrafluoroethylene
pyrethroids
1,2-dichloroethane
OSHA seeks to reduce exposure to beryllium
EPA Toxics Nominee Provided Koch-Funded
Study in Chicago Petcoke Battle
"In the ideal market economy the price of a product as reflected by the demands of buyers and sellers in a free market would represent the best possible allocation of resources.
In reality, many economic exchanges create "spillover effects" or "externalities" which impose costs on people who are not parties to the transaction.
The number and seriousness of these "externalities" rose remarkably in the second part of the 20th century.
Localized externalities - toxic substances from industrial manufacturing that leech into public water supplies - also pervasive externalities such as acid rain, ozone depletion, dead zones, desertification, CO2 buildup and nuclear waste." - Don Mayer
"European countries have taken a proactive stance in an attempt to cleanse their societies of the toxicological deluge of the last 50 years.
The US, unfortunately, has chosen to do the opposite by protecting chemical companies rather than humans from the thousands of untested compounds we encounter on a daily basis.
The average American (fetus, child and adult) has over 87 known man-made toxins in his or her tissues, interacting in unknown ways in a myriad of combinations.
Despite this fact, the US government rejects the precautionary stance as expensive and unnecessary 'myth'.
Like the other examples of federal government assault on sound science over the last six years, this risk based assessment is pure bunk." - Arthur Strauss MD"
2005 Cord blood provided by the American Red Cross of ten random newborns is tested.
Fetuses have been exposed to hundreds of toxic industrial oils in utero.
Blood samples from the cords contained at least 287 industrial oils.
Each sample contained between 159 and 243 industrial oils including 180 that can cause cancer in humans and animals, 217 that are known to damage the nervous system and brain, and 208 that can cause birth defects.
The industrial oils found in the chord blood included mercury compounds, brominated flame retardants, pesticides and perfluoronated oils used in products such as Scotchguard® and Teflon®.
The study was peer reviewed by eight physicians and a toxicologist.
What's on my food?
"When DuPont tells you that they bring "Better Living through Chemistry," they don't tell you that it's only for 100 years, then the entire planet dies."- Jack Herer
What Are Endocrine Disruptors ?
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - Adam Law, MD
Endocrinology researcher in South Korea scores four retractions in a year
"Businesses that are required to adjust standards to sell abroad are finding it difficult to make two different products - one for the American market, which permits the poisoning of citizens, and one for the rest of the Earth, where citizens are protected by governments that are mindful of their safety." - Joan Morrison
Effects on Humans
Toxic Breast Milk?
The Disappearing Male
Are Toxic Chemicals Turning Boys Into Girls?
Early Puberty in Girls Is Becoming Epidemic
Feminization of Male Species from Recycled Water
'Quats' in your bathroom cleaners may harm fertility
"We contaminated the environment sufficiently that there are measureable amounts of potentially toxic substances in humans - both children and adults. We have fouled our own nest."- Dr. Jerome A. Paulson, Pediatrics George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Sperm counts of males in countries that have engaged in the extensive use of hormone disrupting chemicals has dropped drastically in the last few years.
A dramatic increase in hermaphrodites, increasing exponentially when DDT and other chlorinated compounds went into widespread use, has occurred within the last 150 years.
Frogs with both male and female reproductive organs were rare in the 19th and early 20th centuries but became common during the 1950s, when large volumes of the chlorinated compound oils are used.
Pesticides and industrial oils can alter the sex hormones of mammals, fish and amphibians.
Effect of Agricultural Chemicals on Reptiles
The ability of certain oils, endocrine disruptors, to mimic or block estrogen and testosterone, which are key in sexual organ development and reproduction, is considered one of the most disturbing descoveries of environmental science.
"I found it alarming to read a story premised on the idea that cultural shifts were the only cause of population change.
Since 1960, we have introduced thousands of new oils into our environment and done many other things that are inimical to life and reproduction.
It is disingenuous to look at just a few sociological causes and to ignore what we have done to the Earth." - Joe Shea, commented on the sperm count reduction of men in developed countries.
It is hard to believe but there are products that are banned in China that the US government allows to be sold in America.
This website defines a new perspective with which to engage reality to which its author adheres. The author feels that the falsification of reality outside personal experience has forged a populace unable to discern propaganda from reality and that this has been done purposefully by an international corporate cartel through their agents who wish to foist a corrupt version of reality on the human race. Religious intolerance occurs when any group refuses to tolerate religious practices, religious beliefs or persons due to their religious ideology. This web site marks the founding of a system of philosophy named The Truth of the Way of the Lumière Infinie - a rational gnostic mystery religion based on reason which requires no leap of faith, accepts no tithes, has no supreme leader, no church buildings and in which each and every individual is encouraged to develop a personal relation with the Creator and Sustainer through the pursuit of the knowledge of reality in the hope of curing the spiritual corruption that has enveloped the human spirit. The tenets of The Truth of the Way of the Lumière Infinie are spelled out in detail on this web site by the author. Violent acts against individuals due to their religious beliefs in America is considered a "hate crime."
This web site in no way condones violence. To the contrary the intent here is to reduce the violence that is already occurring due to the international corporate cartels desire to control the human race. The international corporate cartel already controls the world economic system, corporate media worldwide, the global industrial military entertainment complex and is responsible for the collapse of morals, the elevation of self-centered behavior and the destruction of global ecosystems. Civilization is based on coöperation. Coöperation does not occur at the point of a gun.
American social mores and values have declined precipitously over the last century as the corrupt international cartel has garnered more and more power. This power rests in the ability to deceive the populace in general through corporate media by pressing emotional buttons which have been preprogrammed into the population through prior corporate media psychological operations. The results have been the destruction of the family and the destruction of social structures that do not adhere to the corrupt international elites vision of a perfect world. Through distraction and coercion the direction of thought of the bulk of the population has been directed toward solutions proposed by the corrupt international elite that further consolidates their power and which further their purposes.


NASA has announced that the space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to lift off on August 27, 2006. If all goes well, the shuttle will blast off from Cape Canaveral at 2230 GMT (4:30 pm EDT) and return to the International Space Station, finally continuing its construction. Over the course of three spacewalks, the shuttle crew will install the P3/P4 truss onto the station, which contains a set of giant solar arrays, batteries, and electronics.


According to recent market research report, Global Customer Experience Management Market size is expected to grow tremendously in future. Customer experience management is generally known as procedure during which a business keeps track of the interaction between consumers and the organizations. This procedure is being made everywhere in a certain consumer life cycle. The organization is equipped with a customer experience management technique to fulfill consumer requirements and loyalty. Customer experience management demands a substantial option to manage customer experiences. Customer Experience Management (CEM) gets a lot of attention in the technology market. CEM is a treatment wherein an organization may possibly communicate with their buyers and analyze customer behavior, purchasing patterns, satisfaction, complaints, insights and their as a whole practical experience.
Corporations have to connect with customers and which means are utilizing this customer centric approach. The external factors improving the growth of the customer experience management market are the ever-growing have to get together consumer satisfaction, increasing e-commerce, competitive environment and intensifying target up towards consumer oriented market. Nevertheless, choosing the ultimate technology and consistency across few verticals is discouraging the growth of the customer experience management market. This particular technique improves organizations to analyze client's insights and also improves the growth of the organization by improving the customer experience and customer loyalty.
All organizations be based upon very pleased customers for their extension because of the fact that unhappy customers spread negativity in regard to the organization therefor demolishing the brand name. With CEM, any organization collects the voice of customers which comprises the customer experience data that may be very important for those organization to analyze customer insights. The customer experience management and voice of customer market could very well be segmented into the following choices: by analytic types, by customer touch purpose usage and by applications. Market trends and customer touch points are elaborated this market.The factors contributing toward Global Customer Experience Management Market size are the growing need to meet consumer satisfaction, increasing e-commerce, competitive environment and growing focus towards consumer oriented market.


once struggled to find direction.
It's those difficult teenage years that spurred Nita on to becoming a volunteer mentor two years ago. "I saw a poster up in the psych department at uni," she recalls. "Mentoring seemed like such a fit for me because, I can honestly say, if it weren't for a single mentor-figure who helped me through my adolescence, I wouldn't be here doing what I'm doing today." 'Doing what I'm doing' is a double degree in Law and Psychology at the University of Canterbury – a long way from the Los Angeles of her adolescence but a homecoming of sorts as Nita spent her early years in the garden city.
While her youth may have been the catalyst to explore mentoring, Nita has many reasons for remaining in Presbyterian Support's volunteer mentors' programme. "I wanted to integrate what I was learning in class with real life," says Nita. "Mentoring really brought me face to face with some of the ugly truths of this world, but it has also enriched my life beyond measure." Nita currently mentors a pre-teen female whose situation puts her at greater risk of losing her way in life and who may benefit from a strong female role model. Nita also helps to run a girls' 'Journey of Hope' programme alongside a Presbyterian Support social worker.
Being a mentor has made Nita very aware of her place in other people's lives, an awareness that she now carries with her into all of her relationships. "As a mentor you really have to think about what you say and do because it will have an effect on these young people and their experience of life." Sometimes, that means holding your tongue or being in situations that make you uncomfortable. You know you are dealing with a young kid, sometimes you will find yourself in awkward situations, and as a young person myself, I don't really always know what I'm supposed to do, or how I am supposed to act, but I guess it is about just dissociating how you feel and focusing on what the person you are mentoring needs in that moment," she says.
Presbyterian Support provides ongoing training and support to all volunteers in its mentoring programmes.


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Scott Cleek
Lowel Mapes
Emzar Khabuliani
Marek Langowski
Many are passionate but few are noble
Lowell Mapes
Just as Picasso did in the early 20th century, Hopkins has created his own art form. And like Picasso, Anthony Hopkins is the most recognizable living artist in the world today. Incredibly, you can own a painting from this world-renown actor, composer, artist, and humanitarian.
If only we could get inside this complicated man's creative mind. He left hints; Paintings that had meaning. More than paint on canvas, More than sculptures – Visions.
Not as much a "Bad Boy" as he'd like you to think, Rascal had the bona fides to do street art 25 years before it became the most powerful trend in the art world. With roots in the streets of New York and despite never learning to drive, he's come a long way. From tagging buildings on the street to international recognition, he now resides in Maui.
Joyful memories – That's a Cleek. A romanticist, a father, a man; Scott Cleek sees inside the best moments of our past and puts them on canvas.
A "local" legend, Lowell Mapes is loved and adored by all who meet him and he truly tries to preserve old Maui, one painting at a time.
Classically trained in Tbilisi, Georgia in the former Soviet Union, Emzar graduated from the most difficult art culture in the world, taught in the distinctly Russian style of perfect realism. Free at last from the constraints of university, his mastery of the color pallet allows him to paint whimsical depictions that recreate history, poetry, mythology, and love.
World travelled and uniquely skilled with the use of color to define his imagery, we present the dynamic vision of a master painter.


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Q: Python SQL ValueError I am getting the following error:
query=query%db.literal(args)
ValueError: Unsupported Format character 'P' (0x50)

Here is my query being executed from python (note that phraseList is a list)
for elem in phraseList:
    cursor.execute("""SELECT PHRASE,COUNT(CASEID) FROM TEST.NER WHERE LABEL LIKE '%PART%' \
    AND CASEID IN (SELECT DISTINCT CASEID FROM TEST.NER WHERE LABEL LIKE '%CONDITION%'\
    AND PHRASE LIKEPHRASE LIKE %s""",(elem,))

A: MySQLdb overloads the Python string formatting syntax, and the %P part of %PART% is seen as a string formatting expression.
To prevent this you need to double the character to %%:
for elem in phraseList:
    cursor.execute("""SELECT PHRASE,COUNT(CASEID) FROM TEST.NER WHERE LABEL LIKE '%%PART%%' \
    AND CASEID IN (SELECT DISTINCT CASEID FROM TEST.NER WHERE LABEL LIKE '%%CONDITION%%'\
    AND PHRASE LIKEPHRASE LIKE %s""",(elem,))

A: Here is what made the error disappear:
for elem in phraseList:
    part='%part%'
    condition='%condition%'
    query="SELECT PHRASE,COUNT(CASEID) FROM TEST.NER WHERE LABEL LIKE %s \
    AND CASEID IN (SELECT DISTINCT CASEID FROM TEST.NER WHERE LABEL LIKE %s \
    AND PHRASE LIKE %s)"
    params=(part,condition,elem)
    cursor.execute(query,params)

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The Eclipse environment with Xtext provides an astoundingly powerful toolset. The EMF/TMF folks are doing a great job providing good capabilities with straightforward means of tailoring and extension. That said, there's a lot to the environment that can make some tasks appear more daunting than need be.
After reading Sven Efftinge's post on an experimental Xtext feature that automates linking among models in a project, I was definitely inclined to make use of it. On the other hand, it's a solution much bigger than the problem that I currently face: linking to references within the same model (program, actually) while assuming that references without a local definition are external.
My grammar allows references to imported constructs in a manner similar to Java's implied import of all class names that reside in the same package. The approach in Sven's article on integrating with the EMF index will ultimately be implemented if time allows in this project. Presently, I don't want the parser to actually load all the models partly because the main goal is to analyze individual models and the actual content of imported models is extraneous.
* definitions are stubbed out by this class until the Indexer is implemented.
* Keep stubs so that new ones aren't created for each linking pass.
// Is this a reference to be stubbed?
// Get the stub's name from the text of the parse tree node.
The 'temporary' resource lifetime isn't managed, so the local cache of EObject references can be out of sync. Intuitively, one would expect the resource to exist longer than the LinkingService, so it will be surprising to find the LinkingService using a reference to an EObject that's not stored in the resource.
Since the code doesn't try to find EObject instances that are already in the resource, there can be a memory leak if the LinkingService is created multiple times during a session. It may make sense to use the delete method on the Resource, but it looks a bit dangerous and I don't have the wherewithal to test that at the moment.
I searched a bit for examples of code managing ECore resources; my search terms weren't very fruitful. Pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thx for sharing,...acutally had exactlly the same problem.


Some Ghanaian parents have vastly condemned a plan by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to introduce new uniforms for Junior High School (JHS) pupils, starting next academic year.
Of what appears to be a fierce opposition to government's initiative of introducing new uniforms for Junior High Schools, some parents have described the enterprise as a sham.
GES announced in a press conference on Thursday that the new uniforms would be used in addition to the existing ones starting September this year to enable the pupils to appreciate their passage from primary level to secondary school.
But these parents have strongly opposed what they consider to be a misplaced enterprise against the pressing needs facing the education sector which requires urgent attention.
They quipped that government should focus on crucial areas by introducing ideas that seek to advance socio-economic development of the education sector.
Matters such as overcrowding in classrooms of public schools resulting from inadequate infrastructure seemed to be of immediate concern to the parents.
The parents emphasized that many schools have witnessed an increase in student population ranging from 70 to 100 pupils for each classroom, per single teacher.
Noting that a deterioration of the best pupil-teacher ratio of 35 to 45 pupils per class would affect quality education.
They also expressed worry about the fact that they would be laden with an extra cost of having to pay for these uniforms for their wards.


Sports channels have grown to be a consistent source of info about the happenings that take place in the sports world. It is because these sports channels that catching any game that holds your interest becomes a possibility. These channels operate through a variety of networks in order to provide all that its viewers want; live sports broadcasts, sportsmens interviews, game reports, game analysis and statistical data that fulfill all the needs of the sports enthusiasts.
Some of the extremely popular and prosperous sports channels have been ESPN, Fox Sports, BBC Sports and Sky News and Sky Sports. Every one of these sports channels have already been competent to carve a niche by themselves as sports news providers. Fox Sports is without a doubt the most famous sports news channel in the Usa. It covers the two cult favorite sports of racing and baseball.
Fox Sports provides the exclusive coverage on the NASCAR series along with the Daytona 500. This channel has the exclusive broadcasting rights of the World Series of Mlb. Along with this they also cover events and stories from the world of action sports and provide sporting action in the world of football to its fans inside their network.
ESPN is also a very well liked news channel and can be considered as one of the pioneers in the area of action sports. Amongst other sports, they have been pivotal in the popularization of the X Games which are the most prestigious group of competitions in the world of action sports. Sky Sports and BBC Sports have also been consistent for their performance as sports news providers.
All of these channels have also understood the need of their online presence such that no segment is passed by in their drive for a higher reach and coverage. Every one of these news providers have a steady stream of information which they pass on their viewers through online news articles + sports news. These websites have news reports and special sections that deal with various nuances of a variety of sports. The web based newsletters showcase the stories and pictures that are in the news making sports information much more engaging. These web sites in addition have online articles that happen to be written by established and noted columnists, commentators and sportspeople as well. In addition to this one also gets immediate information regarding breaking news from the sports world, together with audio and video footage a number of events.
Apart from these media network sites there also are a number of web sites that is a consistent source of info about a certain sport. These websites are generally sports specific and have a host of articles that happen to be written and published by established notaries in the field or are collated from pieces that are published. These sites provide a one-stop solution for online news articles + sports news information. Reports, analysis, statistical data information, player information and details can all be sought from all of these specific sites.


Each year Merced County Employees' Retirement Association (MCERA) provides you with a 1099R form that contains information on the benefits paid to you by MCERA in the prior calendar year. Box 1 of the 1099R, labeled "Gross Distribution," contains the total amount of the retirement benefits paid in the prior year. MCERA mails 1099Rs to benefit recipients in late January. If you need a replacement 1099R please contact MCERA, and allow 3-4 days for delivery.
MCERA will only reissue a revised 1099R form if MCERA made an error and the error must be corrected. 1099Rs that are issued in a year in which the service connected disability retirement is granted will reflect non-taxable benefits prospectively from the date such service connected disability is granted and no retroactive adjustments will be made to 1099Rs for prior tax years.


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William d'Aubigny (c. 110912 October 1176), also known as William d'Albini, William de Albini and William de Albini II, was an English nobleman. He was son of William d'Aubigny and Maud Bigod, daughter of Roger Bigod of Norfolk.

William fought loyally for King Stephen of England, who created him first Earl of Arundel (more precisely, Earl of Sussex) (c. 1138) and then Earl of Lincoln. In 1153 he helped arrange the truce between Stephen and Henry Plantagenet, known as the Treaty of Wallingford, which brought an end to The Anarchy. His first known appearance as "earl" was at Christmas 1141. When Henry Plantagenet ascended the throne as Henry II, he confirmed William's earldom and gave him direct possession of Arundel Castle (instead of the possession in right of his wife (died 1151) he had previously had). He remained loyal to the king during the 1173 revolt of Henry the Young King, and helped defeat the rebellion.

In 1143, as Earl of Lincoln, he made two charters confirming a donation of land around Arundel in Sussex to the abbey of Affligem in Brabant, with William's brother, Olivier, present.

He was the builder of Castle Rising Castle at Castle Rising, Norfolk.

William is the first proven English supporter of the crusader Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem and before 1146 had granted them land at Wymondham and built a Leper Hospital near his castle in Norfolk. His wife, Adeliza, was also a major benefactor to leper hospitals at Wilton, Wiltshire and Arundel and his cousin, Roger de Mowbray and his family, were to become the most significant patrons of the Order's headquarters at Burton Lazars Hospital.

Marriage

William was an important member of Henry I of England's household, and after the king's death he married Henry's widow, Queen Adeliza of Louvain, in 1138. William and Adeliza were parents to the following children:
William d'Aubigny, 2nd Earl of Arundel
Reynor
Henry
Geoffrey
Alice
Olivia
Agatha

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1100s births
1176 deaths
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Q: DialogFragment shows onBack button press even if I remove it I have used the following codes for showing and canceling dialogfragment :
public static void showDialogFragment(FragmentManager fm,String type){

    FragmentTransaction ft = fm.beginTransaction();
    MyDialogFragment prev = (MyDialogFragment)fm.findFragmentByTag(type);
    if (prev != null) {
        prev.dismissAllowingStateLoss();
        ft.remove(prev);
    }
    ft.addToBackStack(null);
    MyDialogFragment newFragment = MyDialogFragment.newInstance();
    try{
        newFragment.show(ft,type);
    }catch(IllegalStateException e){
         return;
    }
}

public static void cancelDialogFragment(FragmentManager fm,String tag){
    FragmentTransaction ft = fm.beginTransaction();
    MyDialogFragment prev = (MyDialogFragment )fm.findFragmentByTag(tag);
    if (prev != null) {
        prev.dismiss();
        ft.remove(prev);

    }
    ft.addToBackStack(null);
    ft.commit();

}

when I open the activity I show a dialogFragment and after receiving the data from internet I cancel it and show the recieved data, But if I press back button again it shows the dialogFragment and I have to press back button again to dismiss it and one more time to finish the activity. I know I can override onBackPressed but I want to know why this happens? why dose it again show the dialogfragment?
What is wrong with my code?

A: What you do is in showDialogFragment() you add this fragment to FragmentManager to backstack. Then in cancelDialogFragment() method you remove it from backstack with ft.remove(prev);
So now, your backstack is as it was before showing DialogFragment.
But what you do next is, that you add this DialogFragment again to backstack. It is not shown, but it is on the top of backstack. That means, if you press backButton,  the top item in backstack, your DialogFragment, will be shown. On the next BackPress, your DialogFragment will be dismissed.
So dont add the fragment to backstack in your cancelDialogFragment() method.
Remove this line:
ft.addToBackStack(null);

A: Replace your entire cancelDialogFragment with this:
public static void cancelDialogFragment(FragmentManager fm,String tag){
    fm.popBackStack();
}

A: Finally I have found the reason and the correct answer. the problem is with:
ft.addToBackStack(null);

From document:

Add this transaction to the back stack. This means that the
  transaction will be remembered after it is committed, and will reverse
  its operation when later popped off the stack.
Parameters name An optional name for this back stack state, or null.

that menas:
hey android I have removed dialogfragment from backstack (so there is nothing on the top of the backStack and the answer of @Vojtaaa9 is wrong because as I added the comment when you run MyDialogFragment prev = (MyDialogFragment )fm.findFragmentByTag(tag); after calling cancel you will get null, this means the backStack dose not have any dialogfragment) but remmber my action, remember that there was a dialogfragment but now it has removed. When user presses the back button the transaction reverses, it means that now there is nothing on the top of the backStack but then android pushes a dialogFragment to the backStack to do the transaction in a reverse order.


Well football is in full swing and hockey is now well into their season, WOW.
Here's a great treat for those game days….Soft Beer Pretzels with Beer and Cheese dip. I used the Paddock Wood Cream Ale, but any red or amber beer would do in a pinch.
1. In a small saucepan, heat beer to 110-115F, remove from heat. Stir in yeast until dissolved. In a large bowl, combine butter, sugar, salt, yeast mixture and 3 cups of flour: beat on medium speed until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough (dough will be sticky).
2. Turn dough onto a floured surface: knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
3. Preheat oven to 425F. Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface: divide and shape dough into eight balls: roll each ball into a 24inch rope. Curve ends of rope to form a circle: twist ends once and lay over opposite side of circle, pinch ends to seal.
4. In a dutch oven, bring water and baking soda to a boil. Drop pretzels, two at a time, into boiling water. Cook 30 seconds. Remove with a slotted spoon: drain well on paper towels.
5. Place pretzels 2 inches apart on greased baking sheets. In a small bowl, whisk egg yolk and water: brush over pretzels. Sprinkle with coarse salt. Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.
Divide and shape dough into 8 balls. Roll each ball into a 12 inch rope.
Cut each rope into 1 inch pieces. Boil and top as directed above; bake at 400F for 6-8 minutes or until golden brown. Makes about 8 dozen.
Melt cream cheese in microwave for about 30 seconds until soft, stir in cheddar cheese, until melted. Stir in ranch dressing, gradually add beer, stirring until smooth, add splash of milk. Microwave for 30 seconds and stir again until smooth. Enjoy!!
Don't forget to enjoy your favorite beer with this yummy treat. Have a great game day.
Remember to treat yourself… you deserve it.


Located in the second largest municipality in Onslow County, The Preserve at Tidewater is situated in upbeat Sneads Ferry, a rapidly growing city attributed to close proximity to the Marine Corp base, Camp Lejeune, as well as New River Air Station and Cherry Point. The Preserve at Tidewater features a variety of Sydes Community homes, including your favorite spacious floorplans! Both gorgeous and full of character, The Preserve at Tidewater homes illustrates a variety of new construction homes perfect for the growing family.


When his martinet father learns he's been fighting with school bullies, Kid (Christopher Reid) gets put under house arrest. There's just one problem: His best friend, Play (Christopher Martin), is hosting the bash of the year, and Kid's gotta get his groove on. Naturally, he sneaks out and ends up in the thick of the hoo-hah -- and in the arms of his dream girl. Martin Lawrence makes an early film appearance as one of Kid 'n Play's best buds.


Village England aspires to take more time and live life more mindfully. Here, we share carefully curated stories.
Ideas to do, see, taste, experience and savour. The kind of thing you'd like to read curled up with a cup of tea. So, grab that mug. Welcome to the Village Journal.
Entrepreneurship. It's just a game.


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Home :: WMD :: Library :: News :: Iraq :: 2015 :: March ::
Takfiris execute 20 would-be anti-ISIL fighters in Kirkuk
Mon Mar 9, 2015 1:59PM
The ISIL Takfiri terrorist group has executed 20 people in the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk for their alleged attempt to join the volunteer forces in anti-ISIL operations.
According to Iraqi sources on Monday, the terrorist group released on social media the photos of the heinous crime, which took place in the town of Hawija.
The captions of the photos referred to the victims as Shia people who wanted to join the ranks of volunteer forces, also known as Popular Mobilization Units, in the fight against Takfiri terrorists, the reports added.
The photos showed the individuals hanging by their feet from poles after their execution.
On March 2, the terrorist group released a video showing the purported execution of four Sunni tribesmen in the Tikrit region for allegedly collaborating with the Iraqi government.
Last week, 30,000 Iraqi forces started a large-scale operations to recapture the embattled city of Tikrit in the northern province of Salahuddin from Takfiri elements.
The volunteer forces, which include both Shia and Sunni members, have also joined the operation.
According to reports, a number of villages and oilfields near Tikrit, which is the birthplace of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, have been retaken.
Located some 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, Tikrit was overrun by the ISIL terrorists in the summer of 2014 along with Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, and other areas in the Arab country's Sunni heartland.
Tikrit has a strategic position as it sits on the road to the ISIL stronghold Mosul.
The ISIL terrorists, many of whom were initially trained by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria. They have been engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control.
FNR/HMV/SS


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Detained Zimbabwean Opposition Leader Makes Court Appearance
November 01, 2009 5:28 AM update November 01, 2009 5:29 AM
The second-ranking figure in Zimbabwe's main opposition party who was arrested three days ago and charged with treason, made his first court appearance Saturday in the capital.
Tendai Biti was brought to a courtroom in Harare in response to a judicial order. Police have said the secretary-general of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change will be charged with treason, an offense punishable by death.
He is also accused of prematurely announcing the results of the March presidential election, which showed victory for MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. For doing so, police plan to charge Biti with spreading false information that is harmful to the state.
Police took Biti back into custody following his court appearance. He was first detained Thursday when he returned from South Africa.
The MDC has accused President Robert Mugabe's supporters of repeated attacks of violence and intimidation ahead of the presidential runoff vote due in less than two weeks. The coalition of opposition groups says more than 60 of its workers have been killed since the first round of the presidential election.
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and 11 other party officials today were detained again, this time for several hours. They were stopped at a roadblock hours after Mr. Mugabe delivered a speech in which he vowed that his opponents will never gain power.
At a youth rally in Harare Friday, Mr. Mugabe said veterans of Zimbabwe's "liberation war" in the 1970s - the campaign that led to the end of British colonial status in 1980 - have promised to launch a new fight if Mr. Tsvangirai wins the run-off election.
The 85-year-old president labeled his opponent a British puppet, and claimed a Tsvangirai victory would return Zimbabwe to domination by Britain.
In an open letter Friday, 40 African civil society leaders, including former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, called for Zimbabwe's run-off vote to go forward in a peaceful and transparent manner. Several hundred observers from the African Union and southern African countries are expected to monitor the election.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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MAINSTREAM SPORTS MEDIA FIXED NBA'S OFFICIATING PROBLEM
You don't have to be a Golden State Warriors fan to know who Draymond Green is.
Did You Know That NBA Player Draymond Green Compared NBA Referee Marat Kogut To Disgraced Game Fixer Tim Donaghy?
A three-time NBA all-star playing his seventh season in the league, Green is almost impossible to miss considering the demonstrative nature of an on- and off-court personality that not coincidentally landed him in the middle of the most reported – and overanalyzed – story of the 2018-19 season: the verbal altercation between him and teammate Kevin Durant during a November 12 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers.
The mainstream sports media's overblown coverage of what was a brief, verbal spat between teammates was made all the more astonishing considering the fact that the NBA's league office was in no way immediately involved in the controversy.
Such was not the case last Tuesday, when the NBA announced it had fined Green, Durant and Stephen Curry for their involvement in incidents related to Golden State's March 29 overtime loss to Minnesota while releasing the following statement:
"Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green has been fined $35,000 for making statements on social media which impugned the integrity of NBA officiating; Warriors guard Stephen Curry has been fined $25,000 for his actions and public statements impugning the integrity of NBA officiating; and Warriors forward Kevin Durant has been fined $15,000 for public criticism of the officiating, it was announced Tuesday by Kiki VanDeWeghe, Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations.
"The NBA's investigation into this matter included the review of player conduct that took place through Sunday, March 31, and the ultimate findings were determined after verifying all available information.
"The actions of all three players occurred at various points during and following the Warriors' 131-130 overtime loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on March 29 at Target Center."
This last sequence in OT 😶 pic.twitter.com/IoZdmpFUkd
— Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) March 30, 2019
For Durant, who was fined $25,000 and Curry, who was docked $15,000, those incidents involved varying forms of criticism of NBA referee Marat Kogut – from Curry openly mocking Kogut during the game, to both voicing their displeasure after the game, to subsequent, somewhat subtle digs from both on social media.
LOL pic.twitter.com/S7LRohDx0b
— warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) March 30, 2019
Unlike Durant and Curry, Green didn't breathe a word to the media about Kogut nor lodge any overt, on-court protests of the referee before, during or after the game.
The NBA has fined three Golden State Warriors: Draymond Green, $35,000 for social media comments on officiating; Stephen Curry, $25,000 for statements on officiating; and Kevin Durant, $15,000 for criticism of officiating.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 2, 2019
Yet Green was fined $35,000 – more than Durant and Curry each – solely because of something he did on social media.
Something that not only reflected on Kogut but also the league itself.
After the game in question, Green sent out from his official, verified Twitter account two Tweets.
The first Tweet read, "TD," and remains live on Twitter:
— Draymond Green (@Money23Green) March 30, 2019
The second Tweet, sent out one minute later, read, "MK, " and remains live on Twitter:
The first, "TD," Tweet was a reference to notorious former NBA referee Tim Donaghy, who has admitted to betting on games while working as a league official.
Tim Donaghy
— Ruben Ibarra (@chicitybulls09) March 30, 2019
The second, "MK," Tweet was a reference to Kogut and designed to link Kogut's officiating to that of the disgraced Donaghy.
Marat Kogut
— Steph Blurry (@all_gravity) March 30, 2019
The same mainstream sports media that spent weeks covering a single, seconds-long disagreement between Green and Durant that went completely undetected by most, if not all fans sitting a few feet away clearly chose to willfully ignore Green when it came to him doing something much more serious.
That is, publicly accusing an NBA official of fixing a game in a Tweet that remains live on Green's official Twitter account as we speak.
By its refusal to even entertain the possibility that NBA games are being fixed, even when the league itself acknowledges the accusation by an active player about a specific game, the mainstream sports media is creating a bubble which, when it inevitably bursts, will damage the credibility of the nascent, legalized sports gambling industry so severely as to be unfixable.
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09:20 Rit Capital Partners Daily Update: Rit Capital Partners Plc is listed in the Equity Investment Instruments sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker RCP. The last closing price for Rit Capital Partners was 2,090p.
Rit Capital Partners Plc has a 4 week average price of 2,060p and a 12 week average price of 1,990p.
The 1 year high share price is 2,130p while the 1 year low share price is currently 1,890p.
There are currently 155,351,431 shares in issue and the average daily traded volume is 110,304 shares. The market capitalisation of Rit Capital Partners Plc is £3,246,844,907.90.
09:54 jimbo55: A 0.74% reduction in NAV in the space of one month, given this included the 'great tapering talk' sell-off, is not to be sneezed at. Personally, I think it's a good performance. The share price is still hovering at around a 10% discount - historically high for this trust.
08:59 a1samu: Oh Jacob reducing NAVs is not going to set the share price on fire. Where did you leave your magic?
15:24 jimbo55: That's what he did last time (record NAV announced at the time of a falling share price) and I see no reason why he can't repeat it. Will be interesting to see how their Japan trade has fared. I exited my own personal Japanese Investment Trust trades in April as even I could see it was getting way too frothy. I suspect they'll have also either exited or reduced such positions at the same sort of time; thus capturing most of the up move since last November. Obviously, the proof will be in the pudding...
15:49 a1samu: iii an analyst called the share price to £1740, on the 7 May 2013!
08:30 a1samu: Is the share price heading for £11.50?
10:19 jimbo55: a1samu, RIT has traditionally been a little mysterious when it comes to Investment Trusts. It was only last year what monthly updates (along with NAV) were posted regularly. With a change of one of the principle investment directors, it has resumed its air of former mystery, with nobody really knowing what is going on. Personally, I prefer this as it creates opportunites (such as now) when newsflow goes stale and the share price drifts. It's all down to what you think of their long term track record whether or not you buy now (at potentially a discount to NAV) or wait for the next announcement of NAV (at which point any discount will close in short order). Event with the relatively recent spike up, this trust was still valued at a reasonable discount to NAV. Based on the performance of most global markets since then, do you think the NAV is more likely to have decreased or increased further?
07:37 1nf3rn0: NAV of 1309p is an all time high. Dividend is at an all time high. Lord R more bullish than he's been in years. It would seem likely that the share price will soon be at an all time high, so it's a good time to be holding this.
08:40 damanko: RIT CAPITAL PARTNERS PLC Interim Management Statement - 1 April 2012 to date RIT Capital Partners ("RIT") is a self-managed investment trust whose corporate objective is "to deliver long-term capital growth, while preserving shareholders' capital; to invest without the constraints of a formal benchmark, but to deliver for shareholders increases in capital value in excess of the relevant indices over time." Its investment policy is "to invest in a widely diversified, international portfolio across a range of asset classes, both quoted and unquoted; to allocate part of the portfolio to exceptional managers in order to ensure access to the best external talent available." This statement is released to comply with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 4.3 of the Financial Services Authority, and covers the period from the beginning of the first half of the Company's current financial year on 1 April 2012, to the date of this announcement. Review of the period · RIT's investment strategy continues to reflect a policy of caution favouring large, quality companies and growth sectors in the developed world. · RIT's most recent unaudited diluted net asset value (NAV) per share was 1,183.5 pence as at 31 July 2012. · In April RIT announced the sale of Agora Oil and Gas to Cairn Energy PLC generating a total profit of £73m in just over two years. · RIT has reviewed its dividend policy, following changes in tax legislation. A dividend of 28 pence per share will be paid on 24 August 2012 to shareholders on the register at 15 June. Consistent with this change in policy, RIT will also be stating its NAV performance on a total return basis. · RIT announced the acquisition of a 37% equity interest in Rockefeller Financial Services, Inc., from Société Générale Private Banking and a long-term investment in Corsair, a leading private equity fund manager. · Mr Breuer-Weil announced that he will be stepping down as Investment Director. Mr Tabbouche has been hired to assume the role. · Mr Sopher and Mr Winters will be joining the board of J Rothschild Capital Management Limited and as such have not sought re-election to the RIT plc Board. · RIT will move to a December year-end. An interim report will be prepared to 30 September 2012, followed by a report for the nine months to 31 December 2012. The diluted net asset value by asset category comprised: 31 July 2012 % of Net Assets 31 March 2012 % of Net Assets Quoted Equity - Internally Managed 16.8% 18.7% Quoted Equity - Externally Managed 42.8% 45.0% Unquoted Direct 10.1% 15.5% Unquoted Funds 15.0% 13.7% Real Assets 5.9% 5.8% Absolute Return & Credit, Government Bonds and Currency 6.0% 7.2% Net Liquidity/Borrowing /other 3.4% -5.9% Total 100.0% 100.0% The principal currency exposures comprised: 31 July 2012 % of Net Assets 31 March 2012 % of Net Assets US dollar 53% 53% Sterling 16% 15% Singapore dollar 13% 13% Canadian dollar 8% 11% Norwegian krone 7% 3% Mexican peso 4% 6% Euro -7% -5% Other 6% 4% Total 100% 100% Financial performance since 31 March 2012: Capital only: As at 31 July 2012 Change since 31 March 2012 Change since 31 December 2011 NAV per share 1,183.5p -5.3% 2.2% Share price 1,195.0p -2.0% -2.4% MSCI World Index (in £) 798.1 -2.7% 4.7% FTSE All-Share Index 2,927.3 -2.5% 2.4% Total Return: As at 31 July 2012 Change since 31 March 2012 Change since 31 December 2011 NAV per share 1,183.5p -3.0% 4.7% Share price 1,195.0p 0.3% 0.0% MSCI World Index (in £) 798.1 -1.6% 6.6% FTSE All-Share Index 2,927.3 -1.1% 5.0%
11:43 1nf3rn0: NAV now 1086p, a 40p rise in 1 month. Pretty good going and should help push the share price above that tricky 1050p level.
08:47 baht: RNS Number : 6874G RIT Capital Partners PLC 04 February 2010 The unaudited net asset value (NAV) of RIT Capital Partners plc as at 29 January 2010 was 1045.3p per GBP1 ordinary share. Interim Management Statement TIDMRCP RNS Number : 7400F RIT Capital Partners PLC 18 January 2010 RIT CAPITAL PARTNERS PLC - Interim Management Statement - 1 October 2009 to date RIT Capital Partners is a self-managed investment trust whose corporate objective is "to deliver long-term capital growth, while preserving shareholders' capital; to invest without the constraints of a formal benchmark, but to deliver for shareholders increases in capital value in excess of the relevant indices over time." Its investment policy is "to invest in a widely diversified, international portfolio across a range of asset classes, both quoted and unquoted; to allocate part of the portfolio to exceptional managers in order to ensure access to the best external talent available." This statement is released to comply with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 4.3 of the Financial Services Authority, and covers the period from the beginning of the second half of the Company's current financial year on 1 October 2009, to the date of this announcement. It is divided into two sections, the first covering material events and new investments during this period. The second section is a general description of the financial performance of the Company in the quarter to 31 December 2009. 1.Material events and transactions during the period * We completed the sale of our interest in Arrow Group to Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. Proceeds included $81m of cash and $50m of Watson shares. Other developments included commitments to two new unquoted ventures: Helios Towers Africa, an operator of telecommunications towers in sub-Saharan Africa, and Agora, a North Sea Oil & Gas exploration and production company. * Investments were made in two new public equity funds: $27m in Althea, an emerging market equity hedge fund and $40m in Penta, an Asia (inc Japan) hedge fund. * Management of currency exposure: at 31 December the principal exposures comprised: +--+------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+ | | | 31 December 2009 | 30 September 2009 | +--+------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+ | | US$: | 34.3% | 23.1% | +--+------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+ | | Renminbi: | 14.8% | 4.3% | +--+------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+ | | Euro: | 9.4% | 16.9% | +--+------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+ | | Swiss Franc: | 9.2% | 7.1% | +--+------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+ | | Sterling: | 8.2% | 15.9% | +--+------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+ | | Yen: | -9.0% | 2.3% | +--+------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+ 2.Financial performance during the quarter ended 31 December 2009 +--+---------------------------------------+---------------+--------------+--------+ | | | 30 September | 31 December | Change | | | | 2009 | 2009 | | +--+---------------------------------------+---------------+--------------+--------+ | | Net Asset Value (NAV) per share | 1,064.1p | 1,074.4p | +1.0% | +--+---------------------------------------+---------------+--------------+--------+ | | Share price | 965.0p | 1,045.0p | +8.3% | +--+---------------------------------------+---------------+--------------+--------+ | | Share price premium / (discount) | (9.3)% | (2.7)% | n/a | | | to NAV | | | | +--+---------------------------------------+---------------+--------------+--------+ | | Morgan Stanley Capital | | | | +--+---------------------------------------+---------------+--------------+--------+ | | International World Index (in GBP)| | | +2.8% | +--+---------------------------------------+---------------+--------------+--------+ | | FTSE All-Share Index | | | +4.8% | +--+---------------------------------------+---------------+--------------+--------+
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The EU-China-Safe* project is a jointly funded EU/Chinese project that aims to deliver a shared vision for food safety and authenticity based on "mutual recognition" in food standards, testing and certification. Partners in China and Europe identified that validating GC-MS/MS methods for dioxins analysis is an economic option to build value for money testing capacity. As part of the EU-China-Safe project, Fera Science Limited performed analysis of PCDDs, PCDFs, and dl-PCBs in food using a preconfigured Thermo Scientific TSQ 9000 triple quadrupole GC-MS/MS system equipped with the new Advanced Electron Ionization (AEI) source. Findings from a conducted study demonstrate that the limit of quantification (LOQ) complied to one-fifth maximum levels, and that the analytical method demonstrated the sensitivity, selectivity, and robustness required to satisfy current EU regulations 644/2017 and 771/2017.
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