PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said that after three months of public debate it was that clear tax cuts must be speeded up to quell the widespread anger over high living costs that has fuelled anti-government protests.
In an act of political theatre on Monday, Philippe was presenting the findings from two million online contributions and 10,000 hours of town hall debates that President Emmanuel Macron must now digest and respond to with policy moves.
Four broad needs emerged, the prime minister said: renewing ties between Paris and the regions, making the political process more relevant for citizens, responding better to climate change, and easing the tax burden.
"The debate clearly shows us in which direction we need to go: we need to lower taxes and lower them faster," Philippe said in a speech in the Grand Palace in Paris.
Planned increases to a fuel tax prompted five months of "yellow vest" protests nationwide and the worst rioting Paris has witnessed since the 1968 student uprising, though the discontent swiftly turned into a broader backlash against inequality and an aloof political elite.
More violence in mid-March reminded Macron that putting his reform agenda back on track would not be easy and the unrest could damage his party's European election campaign.
The "yellow vests" remain an amorphous group with varied demands, including higher salaries, better public services, and more power for voters on policy decisions.
Tight public finances mean Macron has limited wriggle room.
"The French have understood ... that we cannot lower taxes if we don't lower public spending," Philippe said.
The debates reinvigorated Macron, who rolled up his sleeves and held forth for up to seven hours at a time with high-school students, mayors and working mothers, as well as intellectuals and philosophers.
Polls showed only a tentative recovery in Macron's weak popularity, so the stakes are high for him and his prime minister.
New policy measures are yet to be decided and could be put to a plebiscite. The option of a referendum - which has the advantage of responding to the yellow vests' demand for more people's votes - remains on the table.
Nonetheless, Ingrid Levavasseur, who pulled out of leading a "yellow vest" list for the European elections because of internal divisions within the movement, doubted the debates would produce meaningful reform.


Distribution & Dealer industry are at a critical cliff where on one-side the manufacturers are themselves selling online directly, whereas on the other-side they are coming up with their own brick & mortar stores as well. Contradicting to this, the rapidly growing e-commerce industry is requiring square feet & square feet of space for storage, logistics & distribution. So, the dealer & distributor industry needs to get organized to cope up with the increasing demands of the industry.
Inventory Management is the key for dealer & distributor industry as the margins are thin and volumes are high. Inventory Management involves record keeping of inventories in hand, product-wise, location-wise and price-wise. Dealers & Distributors still work in an unorganized way where most of the records are manually maintained. In some cases, they haven't counted and verified stock for years together. Since they do not have an organized way of maintaining stock, most dealers and distributors get stuck up with excess inventories, unwanted & damaged stocks & unaccounted inventory.
The distribution centre or warehouse layout is made & maintained in an unorganized way. There are no specific areas defined for new stock, damaged stock, defective stock, scrap or system inward. As the warehouse or distribution centre is ill-managed, the operating cost in terms of space and people go high. And since the products are not easily accessible, excess goods are ordered and that affects the investment as well. Well organized distribution centre by developing SOPs and efficient layout for flow of goods, is the only way to go forward in this industry.
The biggest challenge faced by most of these dealers or distributors is tracking the on-field team, giving them targets, monitoring their achievements, training them, building their capabilities and reviewing their performance. This process since not done accurately, the attrition rate is very high and the skill sets are extremely low. Though it looks difficult to get all of this in place, it is actually more methodical. At YRC, we develop SOPs to track your team's targets, achievements, training, performance and reviewing.
Have you ever felt that we are doing good business, but still our vendor payments are delayed??? Stop immediately… Sit back and analyse… What are your capital investments, your operating costs including rents, salaries, interests etc.?
Dealers and distributors do fall prey to this trap because of the thin margins and unorganized way of working.
At Your Retail Coach, we develop SOPs i.e. "Standard Operating Procedures" for ensuring the smooth functioning of distribution centre or warehouse in terms of logistics, supply chain, inventory management, HR , Accounts & Finance. YRC helps in developing "Cash Flow Management" strategies to ensure optimum use of your funds.


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These are the Google+ greetings from my backup pictures. I found it by chance, since I don't use any social network, but it's so cool, I even like the music, and the pictures on it. I hope you enjoyed!
I missed my last post last week, but I was so tired, in December I lose my job and I decided to leave Rome and I moved to Sardinia, where my family live. And next year...ops , tomorrow, there will be lots of changes in my life. I want to thank you for these past years and all the comments and support and everything, if this blog exists is mainly for you.
Thank you and I really hope 2014 brings all the things you wish, and if it's a big change, embrace it, I done it and I feel way better now, even if I don't know where will my life take me.
Spero vi piacciano i miei auguri di inizio anno, è un collage che ha fatto Google+ con le foto dal mio blog. Mi piace molto, anche la musica. Non ho pubblicato il post la settimana scorsa, ero troppo stanca, ho cambiato casa e vita, ho perso il lavoro e quindi ho deciso di tornare momentaneamente dove vive la mia famiglia.
Volevo ringraziarvi per tutti questi anni trascorsi insieme, per i vostri commenti e e per il vostro supporto, questo blog non esisterebbe senza i miei lettori.
Spero il 2014 vi porti quello che desiderate, anche se se fosse un cambiamento drastico, perchè io l'ho fatto e sto molto meglio adesso, anche se non ho la più pallida idea di dove mi porterà.
Auguri di Capodanno, la felicità e la creatività.
Awe Gio, bless you sweetie. I'm sure 2014 will be an amazing year for you, keep us posted?? There is nothing better than being close to family!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR GIO!!! Wishing you and yours all he best for 2014.
mi occupo di disoccupati ogni giorno e so che chi ha interessi, intelligenza e forza come te può usare il drammatico momento per fare cambiamenti in meglio.
Wishing you a happy, healthy and creative year 2014.
Chase the light Gio!! All the best to you in Sardinia....take care!
Happy New Year dear Gio with hopefully lots of creativity.
tantissimi auguri per il nuovo anno e per la tua nuova vita.
Ti auguro ogni bene e che tutto quello che desideri si possa avverare.
Gio, I have been busy with so many things I haven't had time to look at anyone's blogs for a while now and I came over to wish you a Happy New Year and find you have moved from Rome. Well Sardinia seems to be such a beautiful place and it will be good to be near your family. Well done for making the decision and doing it. I hope that 2014 brings you all you wish for and deserve.
Approfitto per augurarti anche io un meraviglioso 2014, Rosi!
With your beautiful inner Light always shining so bright I am sure wherever you are you will be brilliant!
What a lovely record of your year to discover by accident... and I'm sure that 2014 will bring new and wonderful adventures. I'm sorry to hear your job disappeared, but although change can be scary, it is a creative state, and I know that you will emerge with new wings and fly even higher!
Good luck with your move and new life... and I look forward to following your journey. Happy New Year!!
in bocca al lupo Giò!


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The History of Spiritualism
From time to time, I get questions that are interesting enough to share the answers with our online audience. I hope you enjoy- Charles
Question- "I am interested in learning more about Spiritualism. What is the history of Spiritualism?" Troy- Seminole, FL
Oxford Dictionary- Spiritualism, noun
A system of belief or religious practice based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead, especially through mediums.
Philosophy -the doctrine that the spirit exists as distinct from matter, or that spirit is the only reality.
Spiritualism is a religion with a simple premise: Spiritualists believe not just that the essence of any living being survives the death of their body, but that communication is possible with the discarnate soul of the dearly departed. Although communication with ethereal messengers appears in texts throughout history, modern Spiritualism finds its roots in upstate New York State in 1848.
Fox Sisters
Two sisters, Kate & Maggie Fox, had been startled by a repetitive knocking sound within the house. In March of 1848, the sisters worked out a system of communication with the mysterious knocking noise. They identified the source of the sounds as coming from the soul of a man they called Mr Splitfoot. He claimed to be a former resident of the home who had been murdered and buried in the cellar, a claim that was not proven for years when remains were discovered in the basement behind a wall. Once the story of the sisters' communication with the dead was made public, the modern era of Spiritualism was born.
Spiritualism in the White House
Within a decade, Spiritualism had captured the American imagination. There are well substantiated reports of Séances being held in the Lincoln White House. A Séance is where a Spirit Medium contacts the "other side" on behalf of his/her clients. Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln had lost a child, and Mary's grief was overwhelming. They sought out a Spiritualist Medium to help them connect to the child who had passed. In Mitch Horowitz' book Occult America, he provides accounts of seances held in the White House for President Lincoln and his wife Mary.
Spiritualism caught the imagination of a young country that was filled with many immigrants who had never experienced religious freedom of thought. It is thought that Spiritualism was so attractive because it offered a direct connection with a (perceived) higher power as opposed to a connection through a priest or other intermediary.
As the Spiritualist movement became more mainstream, Spiritualist Churches and Study Groups began to pop up across the nation. Early converts to emerging faith were immigrants in upstate New York. Their history had many of this population living in political and religious oppression prior to coming to America. Newly found religious freedoms encouraged people to explore and adopt new religious and philosophical beliefs.
Quakers were also early converts to the faith. They already lived and worshiped in communities that we far less structured than traditional Christian churches. The Quakers in their services called "meetings" allowed for all members to channel messages to those in attendance, and all were welcomed to do so. This tradition is strong in many modern Spiritualist Churches were fledgling mediums are encouraged to stand and practice 'speaking the word.'
Click Below for a more thorough History of Spiritualism.
History of Spiritualism
A New 'Age' of Psychic Interest
By Charles Cox| 2018-11-21T14:24:04-07:00	November 1st, 2014|Denver Psychic Article, Psychic FAQS|0 Comments

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The latest sovereign coin program from the Perth Mint in Australia has arrived, and it boasts the same high quality and guaranteed purity of all the other coins produced in the nation's finest minting facility. Like other coins series from the Perth Mint, these coins are available in various weights and will have different mintage levels set by the refinery. Right now, the 2016 ½ oz Gold Australian Kangaroo Coin is available courtesy of Silver.com.
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The Gold Australian Kangaroo series is unlike any other available from the Perth Mint, or any other global mint. The bullion coins are available in a total of five weights, ranging from 1 kilogram and 1 oz, to fractional weights of ½ oz, ¼ oz, and 1/10 oz. Interestingly, the Perth Mint will use the same design features on the four lowest weights, but a different design on the 1 kilogram coin.
Among the coins in the series, the 2016 ½ oz Gold Australian Kangaroo coin will have the lowest mintage available. While the 1 kilogram and 1 oz coins have unlimited mintage, the Perth Mint has capped production of the ½ oz coin at a program-low 100,000 coins for the worldwide market.
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My older sister wanted to share her thoughts about how Muslim women are not immune to unrealistic images of women in the media.
It could not have come at a better time since I have a bully in my life. She, like most bullies, think its okay to tell people unflattering and just mean things. It's not.
"We all have fellow women (and men) who try to impose unrealistic ideals on us. What can we as practicing Muslim women do to help this situation? First we must believe that this body temporarily houses a far more beautiful thing called the soul. How beautiful this soul is depends on our deeds and actions and not some arbitrary thing like genetics. We must believe our bodies are an amanat or trust from Allah and as such must put pure and halal food into it and make sure it's done in moderation.
So I still watch what I eat and exercise, but I would much rather be known for my beautiful soul. And let's all pray that this bully starts to change and focuses on having a beautiful soul herself.


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25%78°44°Rain today with a high of 78 °F (25.6 °C) and a low of 44 °F (6.7 °C). There is a 25% chance of precipitation.
10%80°60°Cloudy today with a high of 80 °F (26.7 °C) and a low of 60 °F (15.6 °C).
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Today - Showers with a high of 65 °F (18.3 °C) and a 100% chance of precipitation. Winds from W to WNW at 9 to 17 mph (14.5 to 27.4 kph).
Tonight - Clear with a 60% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 6 to 17 mph (9.7 to 27.4 kph). The overnight low will be 45 °F (7.2 °C).


Residents of Savannah's Starland district came together on February 13, 2018, to hear from developers, commissioners, and local businesses about rezoning issues and the impact of the upcoming Starland Village & Montgomery Street corridor developments.
The Public Health Division of Michigan State University's Flint Campus partnered with InkyBrittany in the fall of 2017 to illuminate citizens' voices and contributions with graphic recording. Brittany visually captured a public forum at the Genesee County Community Action Resource Department; documented a luncheon of Fellows of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, and instructed a graphic facilitation introductory course to junior interns at Community Outreach for Family & Youth (COFY).
InvestHealth is a national public health initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Reinvestment Fund, which provided grants to 50 mid-size US cities to engage and collaborate with fellow community organizations around local issues. Graphic recording was present for the convenings held in Savannah, Phoenix, and the final convening in New Orleans in December 2017.
After collecting and analyzing data to present to the funders and stakeholders of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, the information was visually converted onto charts which were displayed during an event in August 2017.
Members of the Twickenham Neighborhood Association gathered January 29 to do some community asset mapping of the neighborhood, as well as outline collective plans and goals for 2018.
The Power of Roles is an adaptation of Social Role Valorization theory where participants (mostly employed by behavioral and human health services) examine the ways people with disabilities are devalued by society, and are then challenged to think about how people can have real homes, real jobs, and real friends & relationships, through obtaining valued roles in their community.
Visit Savannah asked InkyBrittany to join them to visually record the annual staff retreat held at Daufuskie Island's Bloody Point Resort.


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Betting on John Daly
By golfdigest.com
An online bookmaker, Sky Bet, is offering bettors the opportunity to take a vested interest in John Daly's success on the European PGA Tour, with three propositions that it's calling "Wild Thing European Tour Specials."
Bettors are offered 10 to 1 odds that Daly will win once on the European PGA Tour, 150 to 1 that he'll win two or more times, and 5 to 1 that he'll finish second or better (including ties).
John Daly's six-month suspension from the PGA Tour apparently is sending him overseas in search of a playground. He has said he would play the European Tour, though he is not playing the Commercialbank Qatar Masters this week after committing. Daly also has a sponsor's exemption into the Dubai Desert Classic next week.
-- John Strege


I was last in the USA (and Texas) in November 2007, on the back of a business trip to Houston and had a highly memorable few days in the Rio Grande Valley. When a further business opportunity arose almost ten years later, naturally I was keen to make the most of it birdwise again! This time I was able to spend some time during the weekend prior to my work commitment and then just over a week afterwards.
On the last visit I had decided there was no time to take in the Whooping Cranes around Rockport, but this seemed the ideal opportunity to try for them! From some research beforehand, it seemed that there were also some worthwhile sites scattered around the Houston area. Galveston looked like a reasonable base for a few days, especially as my wife decided she would like to join me for the second week.
Having visited the USA about 6 times over the last 30+ years, my USA list is now higher than my UK one! Hence the number of possible lifers for me on this trip was limited, with Whooping Crane being the main one. I was also keen to find a large flock of Snow Geese, as the only ones I have seen in the UK have been odd stragglers often viewed at a great distance. Finding some smaller Ross' Geese in amongst them was also a key target. Having missed Red-cockaded Woodpecker on a visit to Florida several years ago, this one another target in my sights. Having seen the controversial but splendid Hooded Merganser at Radipole Lake a couple of years ago, finding a definitely tickable one would be good as well!
I flew BA direct from Heathrow to Houston and return. The flight takes 9+ hours but didn't seem excessively long. Both flights departed a little late but arrived on time or early. On arrival at Houston I had a long and tedious wait to get through immigration -mainly because I was unluckily assigned to an extraordinarily slow moving queue. My wife, arriving a week later, fared better and was out within about 40mins of touchdown, whereas it had taken me a good one and a half hours!
For my car hire, I had a slightly awkward arrangement in that the first week was a business hire through Avis, which I immediately followed with a private hire for the second week, again booked with Avis for convenience, I thought. When I first collected my car it was clear I needed to return it, for the booking to be swapped over or changed. Also the car I had for the first week was fine for me alone, but for the second week I decided something a little larger would be better to accommodate all our luggage!
I first had a considerable wait for a car that was supposed to be ready in "10 minutes" but never turned up. So they upgraded me FOC to a splendid, brand new luxury model which seemed great but as I drove off, the rear view mirror seemed a bit dicey. After doing a short bit of birding at the W G Jones State Forest (more of which below), I set out to return back to the airport to collect the wife, whereupon the rear view mirror promptly fell off, and was left dangling by two wires! So I had to return this brand new, luxury (but defective model) to Avis, and had some further issues over a replacement before eventually they found a suitable one for me. This left me just enough time to drive to the short stay car parking for terminal D and grab a bite eat before my wife appeared! So all was well in the end, but not something I'd like to repeat in a hurry!
By the way, Terminal D (the main international terminal at Houston airport) appears notable for its almost complete lack of anywhere to eat outside security. There was nothing at all in departures and only a small Costa Coffee or similar downstairs in the pokey arrivals hall. On our return journey we found that even through security its facilities were hardly extensive.
Beware 4-way junctions where nobody has priority. A kind of generally polite free for all seems to prevail, with those arriving first generally given priority.
Speed limits can be almost anything between about 30 and 75 mph, and often change frequently over a short distance (30, 40, 50, 60 etc).
Roads are generally wide and quieter than England, except of course in and around big cities such as Houston.
As in 2007, maps for Texas were a bit problematic. I had a 1:1,000,000 scales Texas State Map (Mapsco) from my previous trip but that was too small a scale to be much use. Stanfords didn't appear to offer any larger scale regional maps, so as with most previous recent trips, I relied almost entirely on my SatNav - using lat, long (GPS) coordinates I had stored in advance. In some cases these were supplemented by Google Map printouts of key areas. In 2007, before the SatNav era, I seem to remember navigation was a bit more of an issue.
Well in advance, I eventually ended up buying 3 site guides, all fortunately either second hand or at discounted rates. The first was "Birding Texas" by Wauer and Elwonger. This was quite a tome, and appeared very dated. I then found there were two books about the "Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail". The better of these was "finding birds on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail" by Eubanks et al. but this only covered areas near to Houston and Galveston and did not extend as far along the coast as Rockport. A thicker book by Foster called "Birding Trails Texas Gulf Coast" covered all sites, but was extraordinarily error strewn. In particular none of its GPS coordinates that I checked were accurate or useful!
Shortly before I departed I found that there is a great website that covers all the hundreds of sites on what are now termed the "Great Texas Wildlife Trials" - that extend all along the full length of the Texas coast and inland in places. The info on this site seemed better and more up to date than any of the above books!
However, the huge number of sites described in the above can be quite confusing as many are probably not particularly notable and so picking out the ones to target, in winter, in a short space of time can be difficult.
The weather was literally very mixed and highly variable. The first half of my trip, including the business part, was mostly favoured with blue skies and warm, sunny conditions (up to mid 20's C). But immediately I started birding after the business part, the weather changed and the middle weekend around Houston was dull, dreary and cool - very much like a typical mild English winter's day in fact! Thereafter it warmed up and the sun returned for at least some of the time. The highest temperature was well over 30C - near record highs for the time of year, apparently. On the coast, early morning fog which only cleared slowly was also a problem some days, even in these better conditions. By great good fortune, there was no sign of any fog on our early morning boat trip from Rockport for the Whooping Cranes - apparently this was the first morning in a few weeks that it had been clear!
All the pics shown below were taken with my DSLR equipment - Canon EOS 7D Mk II with either a new EF500mm/f4 II (with a x1.4TC) or a EF100-400f5.6 II. All pics were taken in RAW format, and I use NeatImage for noise suppression, with PhotoShop Elements 9.0 for subsequent processing. For further details see the equipment and image processing pages elsewhere on this website.
I targeted various sites in the Houston area immediately after I arrived in Houston (Saturday late afternoon & Sunday), and again before collecting my wife from the airport on the middle Saturday.
According to my information, this site was a good place to find the localised Red-cockaded Woodpecker (or RCW). There is a good map of this site on the Texas A & M Forest Website which shows numerous trails.
I visited this site three times and connected with this desirable woodpecker every time! My first visit was somewhat speculative and immediately after arriving in Houston and getting the first of my hire cars. It was less than half an hour's drive north from the airport, and the obvious place to start appeared to be the small car park on the north side of the FM1488 adjacent to the (closed) Park Headquarters. Arriving around 5pm local time (around 11 pm UK time!), from the car park I took the path north and followed signs for the Red-cockaded Woodpecker trail. This seemed to be aptly named as at the far point of this little loop, where the path turns north, I heard various bird calls and quickly saw up to 3 adults in an agitated state displaying to one another! They were quite high up in the conifers but reasonably easy to spot when they moved, called and flew between trees. Also as they fed, bits of bark would be dislodged and float downwards. Knowing their calls definitely helped locate them initially. There were also calls from Brown-headed Nuthatch here, but they appeared to be right up in the canopy and I couldn't spot one.
Hence RCW was literally the first species on my trip list and was bagged within about 30mins of arriving at this otherwise quiet site! On my return along the north boundary trail I also had rather distant views of a splendid Pileated Woodpecker. That made two good birds (one a lifer) in my first hour or so of US birding - an excellent start to this trip!
My final visit to this site was just before I collected the wife from the airport a week later when I was really just killing some time after collecting the (defective) hire car. Again it was late afternoon and I just walked round the same loop as before. Again I found an RCW almost without trying, by the tapping sound it was making as it fed. This time it was along the northern boundary trail. They appear to be quite common in this nicely accessible and compact corner of this forest. Other species seen at this site included a Northern Cardinal and Carolina Chickadee.
The forest map I downloaded shows many other trails throughout the forest, also with other RCW clusters, so they might well be worth trying, but the RCW trail proved pretty reliable for me.
The Sam Houston forest covers an immense area north of Conroe and was also said to contain various sites for Red-cockaded Woodpecker. Prior to my trip, one of them sounded like it might be a better bet than the W G Jones State Forest. So despite having seen them well at W G Jones, I made the mistake of thinking they might be even easier to find at this site, which was described as a lay-by with a display plaque, said to be "a very popular site and gets many visitors".
It was however about 45 miles from W G Jones so the drive there (in a north easterly direction across country on relatively small but quiet roads) took me the better part of an hour. Arriving at exactly the right spot, courtesy of the Sat Nav, the site did not appear as described. Any display plaque was long gone (but evidence of its mount remained), and the undergrowth was smouldering from a recent fire (possibly a controlled burn?). It also proved impenetrable, so I could only view from the road. In my short visit the only bird activity was distant Brown-headed Nuthatch calls from invisible birds high in the canopy. There was no evidence of any recent visitors nor any RCWs. So pretty much a fruitless journey! Clearly my info for this site was badly out of date, and I can't recommend a visit - any birders looking for Red-cockaded Woodpecker would be much better trying the W G Jones Forest, as described above, which is also convenient for the airport.
Needing to end up in Galveston that evening for my business commitment, my aim, after the fruitless diversion to the Sam Houston Forest, was to track down the eastern side of Houston, taking in a couple of sites en-route. The first of these was Sheldon Lake, which is mentioned as a birding site in some of the info I had studied in advance. This lake covers a large area and access wasn't obvious. Looking at Google Earth, there appeared to be a small area at the northern end that might afford some access just off the road, so that is where I started (GPS coords above). This turned out to be a fishermans hangout but there were a few birds present, although nothing very notable. These included a very confiding Great Egret. Also Anhinga, American Coot and Pied-billed Grebe. Overhead there were some hirundines that were probably Northern Rough winged Swallows, despite it being mid winter!
A possible further access point down the western shore, which looked from Google Earth to be a boardwalk out into the lake turned out to be a dead loss - clearly something wooden had been there once, but was now long gone!
This site is mentioned in several places as a winter site for Hooded Merganser which was another target species for me. So I visited here three times in a fruitless attempt to find one! The causeway (GPS coords above) seemed the obvious place to try for them (and was mentioned in one place). However, arriving at the causeway, I found on the eastern side the water level was very low with a lot of exposed mud. This was good for both Green-winged Teal & Shoveler, and also a few Blue-winged Teal but was clearly totally unsuitable for Hooded Merganser. Perhaps in the past the water levels have been much higher here? On the western side, there was deeper water but this held very little - only the odd Great Blue Heron, a small flock of Gadwall and several Black Vultures hanging around a pylon.
This was however a varied and quite interesting site overall. The mud had a few distant waders - mostly Least Sandpipers, as well as Roseate Spoonbills, Snowy Egret etc, while the open wooded areas had flocks of Cedar Waxwing, American Goldfinch and the first trip sighting of Yellow-rumped Warblers. Subsequently I saw and heard (they have a distinctive call) these practically everywhere - very soon I was hoping they were something different, but they seldom were!
On a later early evening visit, the Black Vultures descended onto the causeway and gave extraordinarily close views from the car - which was an excellent hide for photography as I had expected it to be on this trip. Also seen from the causeway was a nice Belted Kingfisher on a wire over the water, but again there was no sign of any Hooded Mergansers, as was the case on my final visit the following morning. Still I had a couple of other possible sites for these, so I hoped one or other of these would produce the goods. They didn't but I didn't know that at the time!
There were plenty of sparrows around as well, but I think all were just Savannah Sparrows - another incredibly numerous species seen and heard thereafter almost everywhere. Unfortunately, I failed to locate any of the rarer sparrows that I hoped to find on this trip, despite keeping my eye out for them.
Katy Prairie covers a large area to the west of Houston and contains some relict areas of old prairie habitat. There were several sites on the "Katy Prairie Loop" of the Texas Birding Trails that sounded worth a visit. After I had first visited San Jancinto (see above) first thing in a final unsuccessful attempt to find Hooded Merganser, I then headed over to the Katy Prairie, going straight across Houston in what I hoped was reasonably quiet mid morning traffic. I had no problems and was at my first Katy site about an hour later.
I visited this park a couple of times but it was definitely better on my first mid-morning Friday visit when it was much quieter than for than my second short visit on mid afternoon Saturday. A good map of the park can be downloaded from here.
Arriving first at the side entrance, I had a surprisingly productive walk around this park that contains a series of artificial lakes. The short grass between the car parking and the first lake had a reasonably tame Long-billed Curlew, and the first of many wary Killdeers. On the water was, to my surprise, a great lifer in the form of several Canvasback. This duck had led me a merry occasional dance over a period exceeding 30 years. It is always satisfying to finally catch up with something that has been missed previously! There were also several Wilsons Snipe around the muddy margins. Other birds on the more distant pools included American White Pelicans and American Wigeon. The short grass also had large flocks of various blackbird and grackle species, including Brewers Blackbird and Brown-headed Cowbird.
Having walked all round the pools without the lens, I returned to the car to retrieve it for the Long-billed Curlew. I then drove round to the main car park which is closer to most of the lakes, to carry the lens in for record shots of the Canvasback that were not obliging at all - the closest they came was the middle of the lake, when others walked round the far side.
After visiting the Paul Harding Park, I tried driving slowly along some of the local roads that are part of the Katy Loop Birding Trail. These sounded quite good with a fair potential for some of the rarer sparrows etc. However I wasn't particularly successful. Best birds were Crested Caracara, Red-tailed Hawk, Red-bellied Woodpecker and a few waders on the wetter areas, including plenty of Killdeer. But everything seemed very wary (is there a lot of shooting around here?) and there was little or no access away from the road, nor any sign of Sparrows other than the omnipresent Savannah. This coupled with the miserable grey, cold conditions that day (and the next) meant I won't be in a hurry to go back here any time soon!
The descriptions I read online and in the site guides of Warren Lake, with its flocks of Snow Goose (with a few Ross' Geese for good measure) coming into roost and wildfowl on the water, were the main reason for my visit to the Katy Prairie area, with some pre-booked accommodation not too far away. So towards dusk, I made my way to this quite isolated site with its small, deserted car park and impressive viewing ramp. A word of caution about this car park - it has an electrically operated remote controlled gate, with a notice which says no exit after 18:00. It means it! Having moved my car out of it just in case, on the dot of 18:00 the gate abruptly closed - not a good place to be stuck for the night on a very cool, windy evening!
When I had arrived about an hour earlier, I was somewhat dismayed to find an almost complete absence of any duck on the water, or anything else for that matter. But thinking the geese would arrive around dusk, I hung around by or in the car (for warmth!) until then. During this time there was little to see apart from a pair of displaying Red-tailed Hawks in the trees behind. At about 17:45, after moving the car out of the car park, I walked the short distance down to the viewing ramp which is quite close to the water's edge and waited. There was some reward in the form of a brief fly-past from a Bald Eagle. The photo below with the 500f4 is pretty impressive considering the birds distance, the strong wind and the absence of light (it was nearly dark)! But of the geese, there was no sign whatsoever. When it was almost completely dark, I gave up, distinctly unimpressed, and headed away from Houston for about 30mins to my secluded overnight stay - that was sufficiently far away from the city not to command "Superbowl" rates!
The following morning, I first tried another of the roads mentioned for the Katy Bird Trail loop with similar results to yesterday, so I thought I would head back to Rushing Park which had been reasonable the previous day. En route, I suddenly noticed a distant sea of white, which I thought could be only one thing - although it was cold, snow was not on the cards! Despite being apparently in the middle of Saturday morning cycling event, I managed to pull off the road to confirm that this was indeed a distant flock of Snow Geese! Excellent!
I then noticed another part of the flock much closer to the road, so I turned round and again managed to park off the road on a slightly raised bank, giving an excellent view over a most impressive flock of these delightful geese. I spent some time here taking large numbers of rather too distant photos of them on the ground, and in the flight. Looking carefully through the flock (only with bins) I found a few smaller geese that were definitely another of my key trip targets - Ross' Goose.
This time with these geese was definitely one of the main highlights of this trip, and made up for the disappointment at Warren Lake the day before.
Almost exactly a week later, I returned to this area with my wife on our way back to Houston airport, and again found the goose flock in much better conditions (warm and reasonably sunny!) in the same general area. We first spotted them from the original site but they were on the southern side of the 559 in a flooded field and could be approached quite closely by driving down a farm track. The flock then flew off to the east, but by heading along the 559 in that direction we relocated them down another side road at about GPS 29.9112331,-95.9853028. They were more distant here and rather into the sun, but there were some photo opportunities as small groups of birds kept dropping into the forward edge of the ever advancing edge of the flock.
We spent three nights in Galveston, and combined a bit of tourism with some birding.
The harbour was within easy walking distance of our hotel and was the place where huge cruise liners depart. However, immediately to the east is a tourist area with bay-side restaurants and behind is a small harbour for fishing boats. I visited here twice but only on the second time did I take a camera, having seen the potential on the first visit! The pelicans of both species were most confiding here, and were clearly used to free takeaways from the boats, as we saw the first morning. Returning in the late afternoon with a camera, there were no fishing boats just in, but the low sun produced some nice light when it was shining.
This site is only a few miles from central Galveston. We had a pleasant late afternoon visit here at the end of our first day in Galveston - these two roads were pretty good for birding and photography from the car. Generally birds seemed more approachable in the Galveston and Rockport areas than they had been at Katy Prairie for example. I have no idea why!
8 mile road heads across the island from the coast side to the bay area and passes various shallow ponds that had a few duck, including wary Blue-winged Teal, some distant Sandhill Cranes, and this closer singing Eastern Meadowlark. There was also a White-tailed (or Black-Shouldered in my aged book) Kite on wires along this stretch - which turned out to be an unexpected lifer for me, as it's not the same species as the European Black-shouldered Kite!
Sportsman Road, reached at the end of 8 mile Road, was better for photography with its marshy area pretty well all along its southern edge. First off was this stunning Osprey eating a fish on top of a post by the road. I can't imagine getting this close to one in the UK, even using the car as a hide!
Further on, there was some open water with Little Blue Heron, Yellow-crowned Night Heron and Tri-coloured Heron, as well as White Ibis. The Little Blue was particularly tame even when we were out of the car - I had to walk away to get the whole bird in the field of view! Over the marshes were some distant terns - one of which was a definite Caspian. Near the end of the road, behind some houses, we also came across a somewhat distant pier with a load of roosting waders (it was high tide) that included Ruddy Turnstone, Willets, American Oystercatcher and several Short-billed Dowitchers (thanks to Ian Lewington for the ID!). In the water was a Red-breasted Merganser and a Common Loon. So a pleasant spot in the late afternoon sun.
This site is a few miles further west than 8 mile Road, and we visited it on the second morning of our stay in Galveston which was again warm and sometimes sunny. En-route to the end of this road, we came across a strange place that seemed to be a mini nature reserve, with various display boards at 29.223689,-94.928529. Here, right by the road, was an extraordinarily obliging group of Sandhill Cranes, that even tolerated me getting out of the car on the opposite side to them - so I could take these pics. We then went for a short walk along a path that went through an area with small ponds (only birds were more Meadowlarks) and out onto the tidal bay foreshore. This appeared promising for the rarer sparrows but all we could find was yet more Savannahs. More interesting was a distant Northern Harrier.
Returning towards the car we came across the only photographable dragonfly of the trip - see the end of this page - before finding a pair of White-tailed Kites, one of which came quite close. Unfortunately the closest shot was directly into the sun, but thereafter it wheeled around to give better lighting.
At the end of this road, there was a row of large houses with a private road. It was for here that I'd seen a record of Harris' Sparrow in a web report, but of course there was no sign of anything like that when we were there. We could only find a Belted Kingfisher and some Pied-billed Grebes in the bay (there is a boardwalk here that gives good views).
This site is a few miles further west than Settegast Road and has a number of trails on the bay side. We went for a fair walk that went out towards the bay but didn't see a great deal new for our efforts. Offshore there was a flock of duck that turned out to be mostly Redhead, and there were a couple of Forster's Terns fishing. There was also a Northern Harrier that kept its distance. That was about it apart from a pool by the road that briefly had a large concentration of Roseate Spoonbills, Ibises, Herons and Egrets before they all flew off.
The next day we departed Galveston and headed south and west towards Rockport that was to be our base for the next 4 nights. As this was some 200 miles away, we aimed to take in a couple of sites en-route. The first was the levees immediately north of Surfside, which had produced a web report of a group of Hooded Mergansers ("where they normally are") from a few years back. But of these, there was no sign at all at the location we tried. Perhaps we were in the wrong place or they have since moved on - we will probably never know! However, immediately prior to reaching the bay, there was an amazing spot with herons, egrets etc close by on both sides of the road, with this Yellow-crowned Night Heron probably the pick of the bunch. There was also a very close Red-winged Blackbird, showing the value of the car as a hide again.
This National Wildlife Refuge was our next stop en-route to Rockport as the proprietor of the Hempstead Inn, where I had stayed for my Katy Prairie visit, had recommended it for Snow Geese and other species. On arrival, we drove down the straight road to the Cedar Lake Creek seeing little apart from a Solitary Vireo in the hedge, in addition to the ever present Yellow-rumped Warblers. The road east to the Moccasin Pond was more productive with quite close Snow Geese in the overgrown pond (with masses more in the distance to the right). There were also plenty of the usual water birds in the pond, but clear shots were difficult due to all the vegetation. Glossy Ibis were also present in good numbers. Overhead at some point were our only White-tailed Hawks of the trip.
We then went on a walk along the Cow Trap Trail that led into the marshes. This was notable for several quite large alligators in the pools right by the path, Forster's Terns, and very distant Snow Geese flocks.
We left this site via the Rail Pond which didn't produce any rails but did have plenty of the now familiar water birds, as well as Black-necked Stilts, Black-crowned Night Heron, White-fronted Geese and Sandhill Cranes.
We spent four nights in the Rockport area, with the main aim of finding Whooping Crane which presented no problems at all.
This site was only about 15mins from our hotel and we visited it several times. Big Tree is a well known site for Whooping Cranes, and attracts plenty of people driving around the area. On our first visit, we headed for the Big Tree itself (GPS coords above), which is an apt description of a tourist attraction just off the road. On the other side, is a large fenced field with a pool in the middle that generally had a family party of Whooping Cranes in it. We spotted them within about 30 seconds of our arrival! The field is however large, and getting good photos is unlikely - although waiting patiently in the north east corner might well pay dividends for flight shots as they come and go. It is possible to drive round three sides of this field but the birds generally appeared to prefer the centre - well away from any of the fences. Also in this field were Black-bellied Whistling Duck (on the pond) and Sandhill Cranes. A little further south at about 28.144117,-96.979019 we once came across a family party of Whooping Cranes somewhat closer to the road at a feeding station which also attracted Sandhill Cranes (dancing occasionally).
Whooping Cranes are unusual in that they are territorial in winter and hence do not gather in flocks. Family parties of small numbers of birds (typically 2-3) are the norm, with the odd single birds here and there.
Whooping Cranes for free at Big Tree (click top right & bottom left to enlarge)!
Offshore, there were close in Redhead and close to the crane feeding station was a roadside pool full of Black-crowned Night Herons.
Big Tree is an outlying part of this state park site for which an entry fee of $5 per person is payable. We visited here briefly a couple of times but longer visits could have turned up more. It was very crowded and full of RVs but nevertheless held some reasonable birds, including a good flock of Black Skimmers resting on the mud at the western end (28.128115, -96.989593). Having found them on our first visit, we also tried again en-route to Houston on our last day but this was spoilt by a family with small children that flushed them all! Other birds here were Lesser Yellowlegs and Willet. The other end of the park had a fisherman's causeway that headed out some distance into the shallow bay with Ruddy Turnstone and pelicans with good views of the sun setting. On our second visit, I also came across a 'real' American birder looking for the rarer sparrows. I didn't find any (and neither had he when I spoke to him) although this is known site for them.
A boat trip to the famous Aransas NWR was the main objective of this trip, and it turned out well. Several companies offer tours departing from Rockport to visit the Aransas NWR for the wintering Whooping Cranes, but it seems the morning "Skimmer" boat with Captain Tommy is one of the best. They offer a 3 hour tour that departs at 07:30 from Fulton that was very handy for our hotel. Very fortunately the morning of our tour dawned sunny and clear, whereas previously (even the day before) they had been plagued by early morning fog.
There were quite a few others on our trip, but most weren't serious photographers so the upper deck, which provides a good platform for tripods, wasn't too congested. The boat takes about 30min to reach the NWR, and Captain Tommy uses a sound system to point out any birds of interest en-route and after arrival in the shallow waters immediately off the NWR. There doesn't appear to be any exclusion zone around the shore or any cranes that happen to be present. Shortly after arriving off the NWR, we saw various species new for the trip list, including Royal Tern and Bufflehead. However to my disappointment there was no sign of any Hooded Merganser (that are frequently seen on this trip).
Initially we only had distant views of a few Whooping Cranes, but shortly we came to one feeding in a pool very close to the waters edge. It seemed unperturbed by our presence and the boat got remarkably close - so much so that at times the bird more than filled the field of view with the x1.4 on the 500f4! The light was superb with the sun behind us, and so I took loads of shots. Those showing the bird with a Blue Crab (its favourite food) were probably the pick of the bunch.
Whooping Crane from the boat (click to enlarge)!
After spending plenty of time here, the boat headed off to see what else could be found. Notables were American Avocet and a distant American Bittern (little did I know at the time) that we would come across a much, much closer one later that day!
So all in all this boat trip worked very well for Whooping Crane pics, although nothing else came within useful photo range. Definitely recommended and one of main trip highlights.
This NWR is famous for its wintering Whooping Cranes that we had already seen extremely well on the boat trip and at Big Tree. However the NWR itself sounded worth a (land) visit for other birds as well. However the entrance is some distance from Rockport and our visit on a very hot afternoon (over 90F!) wasn't very productive. After calling in at the visitor centre, we decided to walk along the Heron flats trail but saw very little apart from a few distant waders, a Belted Kingfisher and a Solitary Vireo in dense cover. When we had got around 2/3 way round we found that the warning signs at the start of the trail were accurate - it really was closed, so we had to retrace our steps!
Getting back in the car we drove further on and soon reached the shore where there were flocks of duck offshore. Scanning these produced a couple of additions to the trip list - Lesser Scaup and Eared Grebe but everything was far too distant for any photography. At the end of the road is the amazing structure that is the observation tower - no ladder, nor even steps are needed - just a ramp, presumably for disabled access. At the top there are good but very distant views south over the reserve. Well below and quite close were large number of the now familiar herons, egrets etc, but the light was awful - looking straight into the sun. From the higher platform we missed a family party of 3 Whooping Cranes, but then noticed them at the second, lower one. They were extremely distant (maybe a mile?) and considerably to the left of the birds in the foreground.
After this, we drove round the auto loop tour and saw practically nothing apart from the odd American Kestrel. Perhaps a longer visit, earlier or later in the day would have been more productive but this reserve didn't appear promising at all for photography, unlike so many other places.
I don't think this site features in any of the guides, but we came across it by chance and had a brief but pleasant visit in not brilliant weather. There were a couple of butterflies, including an impressive Swallowtail (see below) and a Marbled Godwit on the beach at one point. In the bay, seen from the coastal road was a flock of Redhead and one Canvasback (the only one I saw apart from at Rushing Park, near Houston).
We visited Port Aransas on the afternoon of the day we went on the early morning Whooping Crane boat trip, so it turned out to be quite a long but successful day. Surprisingly a ferry is needed to reach here. On the outward leg, we only had a brief 10-15min delay, but on the return in the rush hour there was quite a queue and a wait of around 45mins, despite the apparently efficient operation of multiple boats.
This was another possible Hooded Merganser site that didn't produce, but there were some other nice birds to be seen with good photo opportunities as well. The entrance to this compact site is rather hidden behind the San Juan restaurant but there is a convenient parking spot right by the entrance track. There is then a short walk to the pool with a boardwalk allowing close views of anything on the water. The water level was depressingly low due to the chronic drought conditions this area has apparently been experiencing recently, but nevertheless the pool held some remarkably tame Blue-winged Teal and Green-winged Teal, which are normally very wary.
This got me thinking about the Weymouth Hooded Merganser which is generally regarded as an escape due to its tameness and liking for bread etc! However the photo I had seen on the web from this site was of an extremely confiding female Hooded Merganser. It seems that all the species here are completely used to people on the boardwalk and don't bother at all about them - this was also the case for the next site below. I can't see the Weymouth Hooded Merganser was behaving any differently from these, clearly wild, birds. So maybe it is a wild bird after all and not an escapee?!
We visited this site twice, the first time was in the middle of the day and it was quite quiet (apart from the duck). Our second visit was at the end of the afternoon and was more productive with some RGV species appearing - Inca Dove (briefly), Great Kiskadee and Ladder-backed Woodpecker. There was also a Loggerhead Shrike around.
This site was very close to Paradise Pond and was extraordinarily popular with a constant stream of people coming and going. The main attraction appeared to be two alligators close to the boardwalk which was longer than that at Paradise Pond. The boardwalk gave very close views of a reedbed and a lake with healthy water levels. Again many birds were remarkably tame and paid no attention to the constant human traffic. The most amazing of these was this American Bittern that showed within a metre or two of the boardwalk. It was impossible to get anything more than the head and bill in the field of view of the 500f4, and the 100-400 could only accommodate the whole bird on the lowest zoom (i.e. 100mm)!! A pair of Pied-billed Grebes were also close, but not that close! Other birds here included Tri-coloured Heron and various other wildfowl.
Just after we arrived there was also an amazing close fly-by of a Northern Harrier, but it was very much into the sun. Thereafter it showed in the opposite direction but at more typical (i.e. distant) harrier ranges.
This was primarily a birding trip but if anything else presented itself, I was happy to take its photo! Even in mid-winter at these sub-tropical latitudes there were a few dragonflies around and the odd butterfly.
Alligator at San Bernard NWR!
La Quinta, Conroe Quite acceptable hotel at Conroe where I spent one night after arriving at Houston Airport - convenient for the W G Jones State Forest with its Red-cockaded Woodpeckers. Handy Mexican restaurant very close. Room spacious and comfortable. Breakfast unmemorable but included I think.
Best Western Deer Park Inn and Suites Chosen as it was convenient for San Jancinto Memorial Park and wasn't too expensive on the Thursday before the Superbowl in Houston. A motel with parking just outside the room. Room OK but inclusive breakfast no great shakes. Dinner in a family Italian restaurant recommended by the helpful receptionist about 3mins drive away (not memorable!).
Hempstead Country Inn & Suites Peaceful place in countryside well to the north-west of Houston which didn't charge a Superbowl premium on the Friday night. Reasonably handy for Katy Prairie. Enthusiastic owner was delighted to find I was a birder and was most helpful over places to eat (both breakfast and dinner). The rooms were all on ground level with outside access. Recommended.
The Tremont House, Galveston We spent three nights at this highly rated (on TripAdvisor) upmarket hotel in Galveston's historic (i.e. older) district. I didn't understand this hotel's high ratings. Parking was inconvenient - you either had to pay a considerable sum for valet parking or find a metered spot on the adjacent roads. This is what we did after the first night when we arrived late from the airport and roadside parking wasn't obvious. If you arrive late enough and depart in good time in the morning, roadside parking is free. We had an internal room overlooking the bar which was hardly ideal but at least the noise subsided after about 10pm, otherwise we would have complained and asked for a different room. The breakfast was very expensive - we only had it once! About its only plus point was its convenience for the harbour.
Lighthouse Inn, Rockport The best hotel we stayed in, but quite expensive. We had four nights here in a lovely spacious room with a balcony directly overlooking the bay with potential for scenic sun rises and the odd interesting bird offshore (Common Loon, early one morning). Breakfast was included and had a good choice - including make your own waffles, hot buffet etc. Dinner was less memorable, so we walked to various other places that were close by for the other nights. One negative was the paper thin walls - which were very noticeable one morning!


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FLORIDA- The Flagler County Sheriff's Office (FCSO) obtained an arrest warrant for Carlos Luis Cruise (DOB: 12/31/1981). The FCSO Major Case Unit (MCU) Detectives initiated an investigation in January 2021, after two victims from Bunnell reported multiple sex crimes starting when they were 10-years-old.
Detectives took a report from a 16-year-old and 20-year-old victim on January 12, 2021, who identified Cruise as the subject. The victims disclosed multiple incidents of violent sex offenses occurring between the ages of 10 and 16. The 12-month investigation was a collaborative effort with the FCSO Major Case Unit (MCU), the FCSO Real Time Crime Center (RTCC), the Daytona Beach Police Department, and the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. Utilizing multiple investigative techniques and after a lengthy investigation, which included assistance from FCSO's therapy dog "Goose," detectives obtained a warrant for Cruise's arrest.
Cruise was arrested on January 4, 2022, by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office Crime Suppression Team without incident. He was arrested for Lewd and Lascivious Molestation (Victim Under 12/Offender Over 18), Lewd and Lascivious Exhibition (Victim Under 16/Offender Over 18), and Lewd and Lascivious Molestation (Victim 12-16/Offender Over 18) and is being held on no bond.
"This is a sick and twisted individual who preyed on young children and took their innocence away," Sheriff Rick Staly said. "I want to thank Detective Gossett, our partners with the Volusia Sheriff's Office, and the Daytona Beach Police Department for their assistance in finally putting this disgusting dirtbag behind bars. I also want to make sure our therapy dog 'Goose' is recognized for his efforts. His presence helped give our brave victims the courage to come forward with these ongoing and horrible crimes. I pray the victims receive the help they need to recover from this abuse and this guy stays behind bars where he belongs."
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	Select			: 'Kiválaszt',
	SelectThumbnail : 'Bélyegkép kiválasztása',
	View			: 'Megtekintés',
	Download		: 'Letöltés',

	NewSubFolder	: 'Új almappa',
	Rename			: 'Átnevezés',
	Delete			: 'Törlés',

	CopyDragDrop	: 'Copy file here', // MISSING
	MoveDragDrop	: 'Move file here', // MISSING

	// Dialogs
	RenameDlgTitle		: 'Rename', // MISSING
	NewNameDlgTitle		: 'New name', // MISSING
	FileExistsDlgTitle	: 'File already exists', // MISSING
	SysErrorDlgTitle : 'System error', // MISSING

	FileOverwrite	: 'Overwrite', // MISSING
	FileAutorename	: 'Auto-rename', // MISSING

	// Generic
	OkBtn		: 'OK',
	CancelBtn	: 'Mégsem',
	CloseBtn	: 'Bezárás',

	// Upload Panel
	UploadTitle			: 'Új fájl feltöltése',
	UploadSelectLbl		: 'Válassza ki a feltölteni kívánt fájlt',
	UploadProgressLbl	: '(A feltöltés folyamatban, kérjük várjon...)',
	UploadBtn			: 'A kiválasztott fájl feltöltése',
	UploadBtnCancel		: 'Cancel', // MISSING

	UploadNoFileMsg		: 'Kérjük válassza ki a fájlt a számítógépéről',
	UploadNoFolder		: 'Please select folder before uploading.', // MISSING
	UploadNoPerms		: 'File upload not allowed.', // MISSING
	UploadUnknError		: 'Error sending the file.', // MISSING
	UploadExtIncorrect	: 'File extension not allowed in this folder.', // MISSING

	// Settings Panel
	SetTitle		: 'Beállítások',
	SetView			: 'Nézet:',
	SetViewThumb	: 'bélyegképes',
	SetViewList		: 'listás',
	SetDisplay		: 'Megjelenik:',
	SetDisplayName	: 'fájl neve',
	SetDisplayDate	: 'dátum',
	SetDisplaySize	: 'fájlméret',
	SetSort			: 'Rendezés:',
	SetSortName		: 'fájlnév',
	SetSortDate		: 'dátum',
	SetSortSize		: 'méret',

	// Status Bar
	FilesCountEmpty : '<üres mappa>',
	FilesCountOne	: '1 fájl',
	FilesCountMany	: '%1 fájl',

	// Size and Speed
	Kb				: '%1 kB',
	KbPerSecond		: '%1 kB/s',

	// Connector Error Messages.
	ErrorUnknown	: 'A parancsot nem sikerült végrehajtani. (Hiba: %1)',
	Errors :
	{
	 10 : 'Érvénytelen parancs.',
	 11 : 'A fájl típusa nem lett a kérés során beállítva.',
	 12 : 'A kívánt fájl típus érvénytelen.',
	102 : 'Érvénytelen fájl vagy könyvtárnév.',
	103 : 'Hitelesítési problémák miatt nem sikerült a kérést teljesíteni.',
	104 : 'Jogosultsági problémák miatt nem sikerült a kérést teljesíteni.',
	105 : 'Érvénytelen fájl kiterjesztés.',
	109 : 'Érvénytelen kérés.',
	110 : 'Ismeretlen hiba.',
	115 : 'A fálj vagy mappa már létezik ezen a néven.',
	116 : 'Mappa nem található. Kérjük frissítsen és próbálja újra.',
	117 : 'Fájl nem található. Kérjük frissítsen és próbálja újra.',
	118 : 'Source and target paths are equal.', // MISSING
	201 : 'Ilyen nevű fájl már létezett. A feltöltött fájl a következőre lett átnevezve: "%1"',
	202 : 'Érvénytelen fájl',
	203 : 'Érvénytelen fájl. A fájl mérete túl nagy.',
	204 : 'A feltöltött fájl hibás.',
	205 : 'A szerveren nem található a feltöltéshez ideiglenes mappa.',
	206 : 'A feltöltés biztonsági okok miatt meg lett szakítva. The file contains HTML like data.',
	207 : 'El fichero subido ha sido renombrado como "%1"',
	300 : 'Moving file(s) failed.', // MISSING
	301 : 'Copying file(s) failed.', // MISSING
	500 : 'A fájl-tallózó biztonsági okok miatt nincs engedélyezve. Kérjük vegye fel a kapcsolatot a rendszer üzemeltetőjével és ellenőrizze a CKFinder konfigurációs fájlt.',
	501 : 'A bélyegkép támogatás nincs engedélyezve.'
	},

	// Other Error Messages.
	ErrorMsg :
	{
		FileEmpty		: 'A fájl neve nem lehet üres',
		FileExists		: 'File %s already exists', // MISSING
		FolderEmpty		: 'A mappa neve nem lehet üres',

		FileInvChar		: 'A fájl neve nem tartalmazhatja a következő karaktereket: \n\\ / : * ? " < > |',
		FolderInvChar	: 'A mappa neve nem tartalmazhatja a következő karaktereket: \n\\ / : * ? " < > |',

		PopupBlockView	: 'A felugró ablak megnyitása nem sikerült. Kérjük ellenőrizze a böngészője beállításait és tiltsa le a felugró ablakokat blokkoló alkalmazásait erre a honlapra.'
	},

	// Imageresize plugin
	Imageresize :
	{
		dialogTitle		: 'Resize %s', // MISSING
		sizeTooBig		: 'Cannot set image height or width to a value bigger than the original size (%size).', // MISSING
		resizeSuccess	: 'Image resized successfully.', // MISSING
		thumbnailNew	: 'Create new thumbnail', // MISSING
		thumbnailSmall	: 'Small (%s)', // MISSING
		thumbnailMedium	: 'Medium (%s)', // MISSING
		thumbnailLarge	: 'Large (%s)', // MISSING
		newSize			: 'Set new size', // MISSING
		width			: 'Width', // MISSING
		height			: 'Height', // MISSING
		invalidHeight	: 'Invalid height.', // MISSING
		invalidWidth	: 'Invalid width.', // MISSING
		invalidName		: 'Invalid file name.', // MISSING
		newImage		: 'Create new image', // MISSING
		noExtensionChange : 'The file extension cannot be changed.', // MISSING
		imageSmall		: 'Source image is too small',  // MISSING
		contextMenuName	: 'Resize' // MISSING
	},

	// Fileeditor plugin
	Fileeditor :
	{
		save			: 'Save', // MISSING
		fileOpenError	: 'Unable to open file.', // MISSING
		fileSaveSuccess	: 'File saved successfully.', // MISSING
		contextMenuName	: 'Edit', // MISSING
		loadingFile		: 'Loading file, please wait...' // MISSING
	}
};


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Alexion Revises Upward 2014 Financial Guidance for Revenues and non-GA...
Alexion Revises Upward 2014 Financial Guidance for Revenues and non-GAAP EPS
Monday, March 10, 2014 6:30 am EDT
CHESHIRE, Conn.
CHESHIRE, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALXN) today announced that it is revising upward its previously provided 2014 financial guidance for net product sales and non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS).
The Company will record increased revenue in 2014 related to an agreement that brings to conclusion discussions with the French government and which positively impacts prospective reimbursement of Soliris. The agreement also provides reimbursement for shipments of Soliris made prior to January 1, 2014. The agreement follows the 2012 French Transparency Commission designation, with the ASMR 2 rating, of the important medical benefit of Soliris treatment for patients with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), and includes reimbursement of Soliris for treatment of patients with both paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) and aHUS.
In the first quarter of 2014, the Company will record approximately $88 million of additional net product sales related to reimbursement for product sales in prior years. As a result of this agreement, the Company has also revised upward its 2014 revenue and non-GAAP EPS guidance to reflect its current expectation for additional Soliris net product sales during the remainder of 2014.
The Company is now providing the following upwardly revised 2014 guidance, which includes net product sales related to years prior to 2014 to be recorded in Q1 2014, as well as expectations for subsequent increased revenue during the remainder of 2014:
2014 net product revenue guidance is being increased from the prior range of $2.000 to $2.020 billion to the higher range of $2.150 to $2.170 billion, which includes the $88 million in net product sales related to years prior to 2014 to be recorded in Q1 2014.
2014 non-GAAP EPS guidance is being increased from the prior range of $3.70 to $3.80 to the higher range of $4.37 to $4.47, which includes 37 cents attributable to net product sales related to years prior to 2014 to be recorded in Q1 2014.
Alexion is reiterating the other elements of its 2014 financial guidance announced in its press release of January 30, 2014.
About Soliris
Soliris is a first-in-class terminal complement inhibitor developed from the laboratory through regulatory approval and commercialization by Alexion. Soliris is approved in the U.S. (2007), European Union (2007), Japan (2010) and other countries as the first and only treatment for patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a debilitating, ultra-rare and life-threatening blood disorder, characterized by complement-mediated hemolysis (destruction of red blood cells). Soliris is indicated to reduce hemolysis. Soliris is also approved in the U.S. (2011), the European Union (2011), Japan (2013) and other countries as the first and only treatment for patients with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), a debilitating, ultra-rare and life-threatening genetic disorder characterized by complement-mediated thrombotic microangiopathy, or TMA (blood clots in small vessels). Soliris is indicated to inhibit complement-mediated TMA. The effectiveness of Soliris in aHUS is based on its effects on TMA and renal function. Prospective clinical trials in additional patients, the preliminary results of which were reported at international nephrology and hematology conferences in 2013, are ongoing to confirm the benefit of Soliris in patients with aHUS. Soliris is not indicated for the treatment of patients with Shiga-toxin E. coli-related hemolytic uremic syndrome (STEC-HUS). For the breakthrough innovation in complement inhibition, Alexion and Soliris have received the pharmaceutical industry's highest honors: the 2008 Prix Galien USA Award for Best Biotechnology Product with broad implications for future biomedical research and the 2009 Prix Galien France Award in the category of Drugs for Rare Diseases.
More information including the full U.S. prescribing information on Soliris is available at www.soliris.net.
The U.S. product label for Soliris includes a boxed warning: "Life-threatening and fatal meningococcal infections have occurred in patients treated with Soliris. Meningococcal infection may become rapidly life-threatening or fatal if not recognized and treated early. Comply with the most current Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendations for meningococcal vaccination in patients with complement deficiencies. Immunize patients with a meningococcal vaccine at least two weeks prior to administering the first dose of Soliris, unless the risks of delaying Soliris therapy outweigh the risk of developing a meningococcal infection. (See Serious Meningococcal Infections (5.1) for additional guidance on the management of meningococcal infection.) Monitor patients for early signs of meningococcal infections and evaluate immediately if infection is suspected. Soliris is available only through a restricted program under a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS). Under the Soliris REMS, prescribers must enroll in the program. Enrollment in the Soliris REMS program and additional information are available by telephone: 1-888-soliris (1-888-765-4747)."
In patients with PNH, the most frequently reported adverse events observed with Soliris treatment in clinical studies were headache, nasopharyngitis (runny nose), back pain and nausea. Soliris treatment of patients with PNH should not alter anticoagulant management because the effect of withdrawal of anticoagulant therapy during Soliris treatment has not been established. In patients with aHUS, the most frequently reported adverse events observed with Soliris treatment in clinical studies were hypertension, upper respiratory tract infection, diarrhea, headache, anemia, vomiting, nausea, urinary tract infection, and leukopenia. Please see full prescribing information for Soliris, including boxed WARNING regarding risk of serious meningococcal infection.
Alexion is a biopharmaceutical company focused on serving patients with severe and rare disorders through the innovation, development and commercialization of life-transforming therapeutic products. Alexion is the global leader in complement inhibition and has developed and markets Soliris® (eculizumab) as a treatment for patients with PNH and aHUS, two debilitating, ultra-rare and life-threatening disorders caused by chronic uncontrolled complement activation. Soliris is currently approved in nearly 50 countries for the treatment of PNH, and in the United States, European Union, Japan and other countries for the treatment of aHUS. Alexion is evaluating other potential indications for Soliris in additional severe and ultra-rare disorders beyond PNH and aHUS, and is developing other highly innovative biotechnology product candidates across multiple therapeutic areas. This press release and further information about Alexion can be found at: www.alexionpharma.com.
This news release contains forward-looking statements, including statements related to guidance regarding anticipated financial results for 2014 and anticipated revenues resulting from ongoing commercial operations in France and an agreement with the reimbursement authorities in that country. Forward-looking statements are subject to factors that may cause Alexion's results and plans to differ from those expected, including for example, decisions of regulatory authorities regarding marketing approval or material limitations on the marketing of Soliris for PNH and aHUS and other potential indications, delays, interruptions or failures in the manufacture and supply of Soliris and our product candidates, failure to address the issues raised by the FDA in the Warning Letter received by Alexion in March 2013, the possibility that current results of commercialization are not predictive of future rates of adoption of Soliris in PNH, aHUS or other diseases, the risk that estimates regarding the number of patients with PNH, aHUS or other diseases are inaccurate, the risk that third party payors (including governmental agencies) will not reimburse or continue to reimburse for the use of Soliris at acceptable rates or at all, and a variety of other risks set forth from time to time in Alexion's filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the risks discussed in Alexion's Quarterly Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2013 and in our other filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Alexion does not intend to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, except when a duty arises under law.
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Irving Adler, 203-271-8210
Exec. Director, Corporate Communications
Kim Diamond, 203-439-9600
Senior Director, Corporate Communications
Rx Communications
Rhonda Chiger, 917-322-2569


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As Controversial Ads Roll on Buses, Philly Transit Bans Public Issue Campaigns
After running controversial anti-Muslim ads, SEPTA will adapt a content neutral policy.
Marielle Mondon April 2, 2015
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
In the wake of an anti-Muslim ad campaign running on Philadelphia's SEPTA buses, the transit agency has decided to suspend all future political or public-issue advertising once this contract runs its course through the end of April.
Appearing on a total of 84 buses throughout the city, the ads depict a 1941 photo of Adolf Hitler and Palestinian Arab nationalist Haj Amin al-Husseini with the line, "Islamic Jew Hatred: It's in the Quran." The ad comes from New Hampshire-based American Freedom Defense Initiative.
Though SEPTA initially fought in federal court to ban the ads, a ruling favored the ads as freedom of speech, saying SEPTA can't pick and choose which ads to run after having run other controversial campaigns in the past.
"SEPTA does not — and I repeat — does not endorse or support the views expressed in these ads," says SEPTA Board Chair Pat Deon in a statement. To avoid the use of similarly offensive ads in the future, SEPTA will consistently decline all ads of that type so as not to raise concerns about selective ad discretion.
Seattle faced similar controversy in 2010 when an ad from the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign reading, "Israeli War Crimes: Your Tax Dollars at Work" was approved to run on King County Metro buses. As a result, the city was met with both anti-Palestinian ad campaign proposals and threats of vandalism, leading to a policy change to ban any ads referring to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Last month that decision was upheld for being "viewpoint neutral."
SEPTA's ban of any and all public issue ads answers much of the controversy Seattle's transit authority received for its decision to ban ads on only one singular issue, therefore failing to be truly "content neutral."
Muni buses in San Francisco ran the same anti-Muslim ads currently on SEPTA earlier this year. Some ads were defaced with an image of a superhero and a message to end hate speech. Despite the controversy, Muni ran the ads without asking for court intervention.
In Philadelphia, a counter billboard has been erected by the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia depicting five individuals with the caption, "Dare to Understand" overlooking the Schuylkill Expressway.
According to NBC Philadelphia, in 2011, SEPTA made about $11 million in ad revenue, and in 2013, looked to up that number by working with a seller to place more ads. At the time, a SEPTA spokesperson told the news outlet, "Whatever way we can get money, Titan's looking into that and as our CFO said he'll put a sticker on anything, put an ad on anything within reason."
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Top 5 Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: A weekend full of jazz… a stage crowded with singing nuns… a free art opening, plus the weekend plans of the Rebuild Foundation's Charlie Vinz
Published Nov. 7, 2012
JOYFUL NOISE Sister Act, the Tony Award-winning musical, opens in Chicago.
Don't-miss picks for Wed 11.07.12 through Tue 11.13.12:
theatre Sister Act
Singing nuns and a gangster's girlfriend on the run, Sister Act is one of theatre's truly ebullient musicals. The Tony Award-winning show comes to Chicago with the ridiculously talented Hollis Resnik in the role of mother superior.
GO: 11/13–12/2; $28–$103. Broadway in Chicago at the Auditorium Theatre, 50 E Congress. broadwayinchicago.com
jazz Umbrella Music Festival
From local stalwarts William Parker, Harrison Bankhead, and Mars Williams to the famous global jazzer Daniele D'Agaro, this cold weather fest is an improvisational buffet. And with Pitchfork's Mike Reed at the helm, expect nothing but the best.
GO: 11/7–11; Free–$20. Details: umbrellamusic.org
rock Matt & Kim
Dispel your notion that indie rock is emo—this Brookyln-based duo is anything but. Their catchy, hi-fi songs are a blur of drums, keyboards, and pure pop energy.
GO: 11/10 at 6:30; $24. Congress Theater, 2135 N Milwaukee. congresschicago.com
theatre James Joyce's The Dead
It's neither jolly nor showy, but this adaptation by the playwright Richard Nelson and the composer Shaun Davey is an enchanting telling of Joyce's elegiac Christmas tale.
GO: 11/8–12/9; $45–$65. Court Theatre, 5535 S Ellis. courttheatre.org
farrago Dose Market
It's certainly not a bargain bucket, but there's plenty of reason to indulge at the well-edited monthly artisan market. Items range from hand-rolled pasta to speaker systems built into vintage suitcases. It may sound a bit Zoe Deschanel twee, that's because it is.
GO: 11/11 at 10; $10. River East Art Center, 435 E Illinois. dosemarket.com
WHAT I'M DOING THIS WEEKEND
Charlie Vinz
Up next in our series of weekend plans from notable, in-the-know locals—a.k.a. people we like: Charlie Vinz, the architect, designer, and building operations director at Theaster Gates' non-profit, Rebuild Foundation.
"Friday I'll head to the Midway Art Fair Vernissage at Mana Arts in Pilsen. And of course, after the party, I'll go to Skylark for the Friday night fish fry. It's a very Catholic, and very Wisconsin, tradition to not eat meat on Friday nights. I've been going to Skylark since it opened, I like it because it feels inclusive even when it's overrun by hipsters. It never feels too cool for school.
"Saturday, I'll spend the morning leading workshops for Rebuild Foundation's Art of Placemaking conference. Later, I want to head to the open house at the High Concept Laboratories, where the artists Sara Black and Jillian Soto are showing work—some of which I worked on with them. Then I'll come back to the South Side to see the Low Tide Dance at the Southside Hub of Production. SHoP is this really amazing community arts space housed at the Fenn House in Hyde Park. The project is run primarily by Laura Shaeffer, but the space gets programmed almost on a daily basis by various people.
"Sunday morning I'd like to go to jazz brunch at the Parrot Cage. It's a training restaurant inside the South Shore Cultural Center, so it's a gorgeous spot with really nice Southern, soul-inspired food. Later, since the Packers aren't playing, I'll try to check out the tail end of the Umbrella Music Festival." —As told to Elly Fishman
FREEBIE OF THE WEEK
art Mark Porter
It's alive! In his latest show Autohaemorrhaging Actuator, the Chicago-based artist will install sculptures that double as drawing machines. The installations will spray soap and pigment onto the walls throughout the month-long installation.
GO: 11/9 at 6. Mission Gallery, 1431 W Chicago. themissionprojects.com
Photography: (Sister Act) Joan Marcus; (Vinz) courtesy of Charlie Vinz
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Immaculate Conception of Dardenne Catholic School
Welcome from Admissions Director
Events & Important Dates
National Junior Honor Society
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Continued Care
Documents, Information, and Forms
Parent & Student Handbook
2020 - 2021 School Supply Lists
Our School Theme for 2020 2021 - Praise the Lord
Map My Mass
Welcome from Preschool Director
Class Sessions & Tuition
Preschool Documents
Preschool Contact Us
Students/Community » Clubs & Activities
Given our current climate and precautions taken for the health and safety of our staff and students, the following clubs and activities have been suspended for the 2020-2021 academic year. Please visit this page for any updates!
BELLARMINE SPEECH LEAGUE
The Speech Team is available for students in grades 6-8. Members compete at several speech meets yearly.
An audition only open choir for students in grades 6-8. Auditions are held in August during school hours. Cantors fulfill the solo music ministry functions of the day school and prepare concert pieces for competition and concerts. Rehearsals are during school and also require a commitment either before or after school, pending scheduling needs.
All students are invited to participate in Chess Club. The club meets on Thursday mornings at 7:00 a.m. Students will have the opportunity to compete in several contests during the year.
Students in grades 6-8 are invited to join the Choir. There is a separate fee for the choir and practice time is one day weekly after school. Sign-up is per semester.
CIRCLE OF LECTORS
Students in grades 5-8 have the opportunity to be in the Circle of Lectors. This group of students is responsible for proclaiming the Word of God at the Liturgies.
Girls on the Run is a running program for girls in 3rd - 5th grade. It combines training for a 5k race with self-esteem building and life skills exercises.
MASS SERVERS
Students in grades 6-8 have the opportunity to serve Mass.
READ, RIGHT and RUN
In coordination with the St. Louis Marathon, our team comprised of K-8 students will meet weekly (24 weeks) to run one mile each week. These students read 24 books and do 24 good deeds.
Students in 7-8th grades are invited to be part of our parking lot safety patrol team.
REACH OUT CLUB
This club is for students in grades 5-8. The focus of the club is to bring awareness and understanding of the need for social justice in our community and beyond.
Students in grades 4-8 are elected to participate in the Student Council. Student Council is in charge of events and functions throughout the school year. Students meet after school the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month.
Students from the upper grades are invited to work on assembly of the school yearbook. This work generally entails staying after school one day each week for several weeks.
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At the law firm of Cooper Erving & Savage LLP, we offer matrimonial and family law services to clients in Albany, Clifton Park and the surrounding communities of Upstate New York. We focus our practice on family law issues and bring a wealth of experience and a sensitive approach to our clients.
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Q: Performance concerns when using (Bootstrap) Modals in AngularJS The way I have been dealing with modals in my AngularJS applications is to use ng-include in the index.html to include the modal HTML, and open it using the data-target="#modal" bootstrap attribute.
The problem is that if I have a controller on the modal, then that controller is loaded at startup and never destroyed, since the modal is always in the background. This results in performance issues, for instance if you have a $watch on a large array inside the modal, then it will always run and slow down your digest cycle.
Is there a better way of initializing modals and modal controllers in AngularJS? If not, how would I make sure that a $watch I have inside a modal only runs when the modal is open?

A: angular bootstrap (https://angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/) does not use bootstrap js itself (uses css only). It is lightweight and modal controllers never instatiate before you open modal. Use link provided, they have very nice documentation with examples.
And anyway if you use ng-if: <div class="modal" ng-if="shown" ng-controller=... >
there is no any perfomance penalties

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Kherson Regional Council chairman notified of suspicion in organizing murder of activist Kateryna Handziuk
Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Vladyslav Manher has been notified of suspicion in organizing the murder of activist Kateryna Handziuk.
"Citizen [of Ukraine] Manher has been notified of suspicion in organizing the murder of Kateryna Handziuk," Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko posted on Facebook.
A notice of suspicion, a scan copy of which Lutsenko published, in particular, reads that Manher was notified of suspicion in "organizing a murder, that is willful unlawful causing death of another person, based on mercenary motives, committed as a contracted murder, with special brutality, upon prior conspiracy by a group of persons, that is, in the commission of a crime provided for in Part 3, Article 27 (Types of accomplices); Clause 4, Clause 6, Clause 11, Clause 12, Clause 2, Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine ( Murder)."
Last week, the Kherson regional organization of the Batkivshchyna Party excluded Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Vladyslav Manher from the party members.
On January 31, Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Vladyslav Manher suspended his membership in the Batkivshchyna Party for a period of the investigation into the murder of activist Handziuk.
Earlier, the father of Kateryna Handziuk, speaking at a meeting of the interim investigative commission of the Verkhovna Rada to investigate into the murder of the activist, said that the suspect for organizing the murder, crime lord Oleksiy Levin (Moskal) cooperated with Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Vladyslav Manher and Chairman of the Kherson Regional State Administration Andriy Hordeyev and his deputy Yevhen Ryshchuk.
Hordeyev rejected the allegations of involvement in the murder of Handziuk and called on the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, chief of the Security service of Ukraine and the interior minister to verify the facts set forth in the appeal of Viktor Handziuk.
Member of the Kherson City Council, activist Kateryna Handziuk became the victim of an acid attack last summer. She suffered chemical burns and partially lost sight. Handziuk underwent over ten operations and died at hospital on November 4. The woman was 33 years old.
The same day, the investigators requalified the attack on Handziuk to "murder, that is willful unlawful causing death of another person, based on mercenary motives, committed as a contracted murder, with special brutality, upon prior conspiracy by a group of persons." Five people were detained on suspicion in an assassination attempt on Handziuk. On November 12, it became known about the arrest of Ihor Pavlovsky, the ex-assistant to MP Mykola Palamarchuk.
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Ole Mogens Espersen (20 December 1934 – 4 December 2020) was a Danish politician and minister, who represented the Social Democratic Party in Denmark.

Espersen was born in Nylars. He was Minister of Justice during two cabinets of Anker Jørgensen in the 1980s. He was Professor, dr.jur. In 1994–2000 he was the Commissioner on democratic institutions and human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities, of CBSS.

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External links
 Den Store Danske

1934 births
2020 deaths
Danish Justice Ministers
Danish jurists
Social Democrats (Denmark) politicians
Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen

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