text:
Opposition calls for Hungary to join EPPO
The opposition Jobbik and Socialist parties on Wednesday called for Hungary to join the European Prosecutor's Office, saying that dropping the investigation against Elios Innovativ on suspicion of fraud showed that some people in Hungary enjoyed preferential treatment.
The police said on Tuesday that the procedure against Elios, on suspicion of fraud in public procurement procedures, was terminated on Tuesday as the authorities concluded that no crime had been committed.
The deputy group leader of the Socialist party, Tamas Harangozo, noted that Elios is a company formerly connected to Istvan Tiborcz, the prime minister's son-in-law. The EU's anti-fraud office (OLAF) raised suspicion that Elios operated fraudulently in public procurement processes for public lighting projects. OLAF reported about 35 cases of fraud and 17 cases of organised crime, he noted.
The irregularities may still result in the European Commission demanding the payback of 13 billion forints (EUR 40.4m) from Hungary, he said. The EC scrutiny is independent of the Hungarian procedure, he said. Harangozo insisted that the case "makes it clear why Orban and his Fidesz party refuses to join the European Public Prosecutor's Office", and called on Hungarians to sign the opposition's initiative to join the EPPO "to stop this outrageous injustice and the ransacking of the country".
Gyorgy Szilagyi, the spokesman of conservative party Jobbik, said that by keeping Hungary out of the EPPO, which is tasked with examining the use of EU funds, "Fidesz is trying to avoid scrutiny … rather than protecting the country's independence". He said OLAF's report concerned a network engaged in fraudulent activities and not isolated case. "The case is very severe," he said. "It should have been investigated."
thehungaryjournal November 7, 2018 corruption, Elios, EPPO, EU funds, featured, Jobbik, OLAF
Previous Previous post: Orban attends the Shanghai expo
Next Next post: Szijjarto meets Strache in Vienna


One woman has been charged with driving under the influence in Colorado. Her DUI/DUID/DWAI charges come after she was reportedly involved in a vehicle accident. The motor vehicle accident caused serious injuries to two people.
The wreck took place at a little past 8:30 p.m. According to police, the 25-year-old woman was driving south on a street. All of a sudden, she ran off the road and struck a light post.
Two people were seriously injured in the collision and were taken to the hospital. The woman who allegedly caused the crash also went to a medical center after suffering minor injuries in the crash. She was then arrested after the hospital released her. She has been charged not only with DUI involving drugs but also careless driving and vehicular assault.
When people have been accused of DUI/DUID/DWAI in Colorado, it is within their rights to proceed to trial in order to defend themselves against the charges. At trial, prosecutors need to prove a person's criminal charges by appropriate evidence in order for a conviction to be secured. A defendant also has the option of trying to negotiate a plea deal with the prosecution, if available, which might result in a more lenient sentence than what would be imposed following a guilty finding. Defense counsel will pursue an outcome that is ultimately in the client's best interests while simultaneously striving to make sure that all of his or her rights are protected at all stages of the criminal justice proceeding.


text:
Premium IPTV, DTH packages drive Telefonica's pay-TV in Brazil
Juan Fernandez Gonzalez
In the year following its acquisition of GVT, Telefónica has seen growth during Q1 2016 in its pay-TV business, driven by premium accesses in IPTV and interactive direct-to-home (DTH).
According to the telco's quarterly report, the growing fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks across Brazil, to which GVT has contributed significantly, is resulting in growth for both its broadband and pay-TV operations
As of March 2016, broadband accesses had reached 7.2 million, with fibre connections accounting for 54.2% of the subscriber base, an annual growth of 12.6%. Pay-TV accesses totalled 1.8 million in 1Q16, up 4.9% compared to the same period in 2015.
Although only up by 0.6%, the telco's net operating revenues in Q1 neared $3 billion, $1.2 billion of which were generated by fixed operations.
In a Brazilian market entering a period of stagnation, and even seeing falling pay-TV figures, Telefónica is counting on its new Vivo commercial operation (in which GVT is now completely integrated) to drive revenues.
Indeed, the telco is claiming the successful execution of key projects for Vivo, including the launch of the national 3P portfolio and 4P pilot.
Most recent in Pay-TV
Now TV extends exclusive Premier League broadcast rights for three seasons
Sky rebrands entertainment portfolio with Sky Showcase, Sky Max
LIVENow to offer PPV option for English Premier League
SPI International's FightBox launches with Canal+ in Ethiopia
European Super League unveiled but broadcast plans unclear

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Capcom's Monster Hunter: World is finally coming to the PC on August 9th, 2018.
The game will release via Valve's online marketplace, Steam, which is currently going through a sale. Monster Hunter: World has previously released for the Xbox One and Playstation 4, receiving great reviews from other media outlets upon its release. At the time of this writing, Monster Hunter: World holds a score of 90 on Metacritic.
Along with the announcement, Capcom released Minimum and Recommended system specifications, to make sure your PC is good enough to run their game.
Monster Hunter: World is available for the Xbox One, Playstation 4, and soon, Windows PC via Steam.


What Happened to Your Time?
Courtesy of Kara Whittaker who has skills in infographics, some techniques and apps to get things done. Nice see how apps are coming around.
Are You Killing Your Motivation?
If a single motivation technique is all you need to become successful, then you must have a very easy job. Of course, most likely your job isn't that simple and that single technique isn't enough. So when you hear about big hairy audacious goals, Everest goals or just plain stretch goals, let me reassure you that your job is going to require a lot more than a single motivation technique.
Goals are indeed the core of motivation. If you don't have a goal, then your actions are essentially random. Goals give purpose and direction. If used in moderation, they point you towards the finish line and propel you on the way. And as in medicine, the dosage makes the poison, so too much goal setting can kill you, at least metaphorically.
If you are like most of us, you have heard about S.M.A.R.T. goals way too many times. It wasn't a bad way of organizing goals based on what we knew at the time – up to 1981 when George Doran summarized the work of Locke and Drucker in an issue of Management Review. I will skip over the S.M.A.R.T. acronym, which was again great for the time before home computers, and give us something a little more today.
Here's how goals work. Ask yourself – when do you have the most motivation? If it is just before the deadline, welcome to the human race. Even more than that, this reservoir of motivation seems to be tapped into just before something is due, and is a characteristic shared by almost everything alive, from pigeons to chimpanzees. So we know we have motivation when under the gun or in the eleventh hour. Goal setting techniques mostly reverse-engineer that moment and create artificial conditions that mimic the deadline. Goals work best when they are something we have to do, otherwise you don't get the benefit of the short-term pressure..
Problems happen when your goal setting hammer makes everything become a nail. Your job is complex, meaning there are a whole lot of things you need to do and a bunch of unexpected tasks on top of that. When you overemphasize your goals, you've directed your attention to just those goals, often to the exclusion of everything else. If your company is communicating an all important goal, maybe it is also communicating that it is alright to ignore everything else and that you should take horrendous risks to accomplish it.
In the Academy of Management Perspectives paper, "Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting," Wharton professor Maurice Schweitzer, Lisa D. Ordóñez from the Eller College of Management, Adam D. Galinsky of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and Max H. Bazerman from the Harvard Business School, review the problem and provide a selection of goal setting induced disasters. These include GM's stretch goal of capturing 29 per cent of market, which they pursued even after cutting margins to the point they were losing money on a per-unit basis. Or the late Roberto Goizueta, former CEO of Coca Cola made a commitment to the board and shareholders to increase earnings by 18 per cent and volume by 7 per cent annually. Eventually, he had to resort to balance sheet maneuvers to hit these targets.
So, when our goal is to maximize sales, salespeople sell for the short term and damage long-term client relationships. When our goal is to maximize the amount of work completed, quality is sacrificed for quantity. And in your complex jobs, where it is almost impossible to specify everything in terms of goals, you can probably think of a few examples right top of your head almost immediately.
While goals are handy to create motivation specific tasks, it is not a panacea. It does not replace a broad understanding and truly caring for the organization.
So I recommend that you make that your goal, if anything, care for your organization! How do I get people to really care about this place and to want it to do well? If you can accomplish that big hairy audacious goal, you might not ever need to set another one.
The most common excuse I hear from people who procrastinate at work is that they are more creative under pressure. I can see how it might appear this way. If all your work occurs just before a deadline, that is when all your insights will happen. Unfortunately, these insights will be relatively feeble and few compared to the insights of those who got an earlier start, since under tight timelines and high pressure people's creativity universally crumbles. The bleary-eyed 3:00 a.m. crowd scrambling to finish a project will usually come up with routine, unremarkable solutions. Innovative ideas are typically built on the bedrock of preparation, which includes a laborious mastery of your topic area followed by a lengthy incubation period.
Baer, M., & Oldham, G. R. (2006). The curvilinear relation between experienced creative time pressure and creativity: Moderating effects of support, support for creativity and openness to experience. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 963–970.
Amabile, T. M., Hadley, C. N., & Kramer, S. J. (2002). Creativity under the gun. Harvard Business Review, 80(8), 52–61.
Thank you for your email. The research with Professor Grant is in preparation, so we are not able to share it at this stage, but we will gladly circle back when it's ready.
Piecing together pieces from newspaper articles, magazine spots and other flotsam, this was I could glean. Jihae did a survey showing those who procrastinate are reported as more creative by their supervisors. Though I would really like to know the exact measures she used, especially as there are dozens of good and bad ones for both creativity and procrastination, let's assume good. And add her results to the pile. When I said this was an old idea, I was being factual. There have been a few scores of systematic reviews and meta-analyses such as Feist's (1998) on the topic of individual differences and creativity, with a more recent one by Ma (2009) comprised of 111 other studies.
If those who have a desire to produce works that leave a mark on the world are to succeed, they also need to be driven, focused and ambitious. They are not the kind of person who gives up easily in the face of hindrances and roadblocks. And that is generally what the research on drive and creativity continues to show: Creative artists, businesspeople, and scientists are driven, ambitious and persistent.
Not quite the description of a procrastinator. But still, we haven't seen Jihae's manuscript. Let's further give this mystery paper the benefit of the doubt and assume this one unpublished study undid or updates that which was done before. This can happen and maybe this is one of those times. Jihae and Grant offer another follow-up study to help cement their case.
As Adam describes it in the NYT magazine article, Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinate, Jihae asked people to come up with new business ideas. Some had to start right away while others had to delay five minutes by playing Minesweeper or Solitaire. The punchline: "The procrastinators' ideas were 28 percent more creative." Timothy Pychyl does an excellent job dismantling the piece in his post "Procrastination As A Virtue For Creativity, Why It's False: All procrastination is delay, but not all delay is procrastination." Aside from "What is this creativity scale that allows anyone to determine something is 28% more creative?", essentially Jihae found that those who were forced to delay had more good ideas. This is a classic incubation study, among hundreds previously, but as Timothy Pychyl stresses, it isn't a procrastination study. Procrastination requires delay, but this delay has to be voluntary and knowingly dysfunctional to be procrastination, and that five minute Solitaire break is neither. Again, for incubation to work, you start early, get really familiar with the project and then take a break. That isn't procrastination, which starts with the break and then does the work only towards the end. Furthermore, if you want to generalize waiting five minutes playing a game to people putting off projects for months, it is much like concluding that taking a five-minute rest improves subsequent physical performance so it follows we shouldn't exercise much at all.
Even if we let all of this go, we run in one further problem. Let's assume, against the bulk of the body of science, that procrastination is causally related to creativity; remember, procrastination is still putting off despite expecting to be worse off. Expectations are usually borne out so procrastinators are often less happy, less healthy, less wealthy and usually just plain less. So if you are recommending procrastination, you are also recommending all that pain and productivity loss associated with it. It is a bit like suggesting another way of increasing creativity: cultivating certain types of mental illness. Consider this nugget by Ma (2010), "The results showed that a person with a higher score on psychopathological traits had higher scores on divergent creativity than a person with a lower score on psychopathological traits." In many ways, counseling someone to procrastinate to be more creative is like counseling someone to be have more psychopathologies so they can be more creative too.
It is no doubt true that scientists sometimes seek popular audiences prematurely — before their claims have been adequately tested by peers. I, myself, may have been guilty of this when I wrote "The Paradox of Choice" a decade ago. I believe that in most cases, the reason for this is that the scientist believes she has found something out that, while hardly certain, will improve the lives of at least some people.
I expect this is the case, that this is simply benevolent oversight. Adam Grant is a remarkably productive researcher, with the same organization that I am a Fellow, the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, giving him a well deserved early career award. Furthermore, he seems like a fantastic guy, almost obsessively good, as best as I can judge from NYT Sunday Magazine article featuring him. Presently, he has far exceeded the popularity of anyone else in my profession and achieved this by popularizing the science from my field. He writes with style and a great sense of narrative, with collaborators like Sheryl Sandberg (i.e., CEO of Facebook). With his way with words, his scholarly reputation, and the media connections he now commands, he has a vast and trusting audience that will listen to him. All this doesn't precludes he occasionally gets it wrong though, as I argue he did here, but it does mean when he messes up that it will still be widely accepted as the final word of science.
As civilization advances and prosperity becomes widespread, we remove most of the external maladies that were once major contributors to our misery (e.g., predation, starvation, lack of shelter). By default, the source of our failures increasingly becomes ourselves. Ainslie (2005) argues, "We smoke, eat and drink to excess, and become addicted to drugs, gambling, credit card abuse, destructive emotional relationships, and simple procrastination, usually while attempting not to do so" (p. 635). Stanovich (1999) believes it is even worse; we exist in an increasingly artificial or built environment that has sporadic overlap with the environment of evolutionary adaption. Since, our motivational impulses are fine-tuned to the latter, rather than the former, we increasingly find ourselves motivationally adrift, knowing what to do but not being motivated to do it. Steel (2010) stresses that this built environment is not necessarily motivationally neutral; free market capitalism ensures it is constructed with considerable design, including features that can coax maladaptive behaviors, particularly overconsumption. Putting candy and lottery tickets by the checkout counter is an example of an insidious but common motivational praxis. Building on this line of reasoning, Heath (2014) makes an extended case that this will likely get worse, that "absent conscious guidance, cultural evolution will produce an environment that is more hostile to human rationality." We need conscious, rational guidance, which must be based on a firm understanding of our motivational foundation.
The world we live in is motivationally toxic and this explains why procrastination and other self-control problems have been reaching stratospheric and pandemic proportions. Almost everyone, everywhere, puts off almost everything every day and, for good measure, ever more every year. And often we are blamed for these failings or blame ourselves. We didn't exercise, eat right, get that home project or our taxes finished. Though taking responsibility starts with ourselves, it also extends to taking responsibility for the way we are building our world. The built world, the one we live in the way that fishes live in water, has a praxis or purpose to it. In the same way as hackers tame a computer's operating system to do what they want, we are being trained, guided, shaped for consumption, regardless of whether it gibes with our own long-term best interests. All of us are trying to diet inside a candy store and being blamed for giving in and getting fat. On the other hand, consider the possibility there is really nothing wrong with us, including being the product of a 100 million years of evolution that favored those who knew a good energy source when it came around. What's wrong is the candy store.
Think of the candy store as itself an evolving, living machine constructed to elicit buying behavior from us. It constantly refines itself until it develops into the perfect combination of product, promotion, placement and price to get us to chow down. For the rational consumer, it is a great system, ensuring we get what we want. Spock, and other creatures of pure reason, would experience a perfect symbiosis between desires and choices. However, for those with an emotionally driven limbic system (e.g., you), with at best quasi-rational components, the system starts to design itself to exploit seemingly minor flaws and hiccups in our decision making. As it learns more about us, as per Heath noted above, it hacks and the world gets worse, not better. It coaxes addiction, distraction and overconsumption, all to our detriment.
This dystopic observation has progressed through three stages. First came the warnings, such as Aldous Huxley (1958) in Brave New World Revisited. Second came the social commentaries that this is happening, such as Neil Postman (1985) in Amusing Ourselves to Death. Third came the critiques that this has happened and with a vengeance, such as Daniel Askt (2011) in We Have Met the Enemy. Grim but now we are starting to enter a fourth and possibly better stage. It isn't quite the Age of Aquarius but we do respond effectively and systematically.
I'm not talking about self-help books, though that can be part of the solution too. There are lots of good techniques and, if you are lucky, you will find the sources that will convey effective principles, absorb them and practice them. Still, for all your efforts at self-improvement, you remain in the candy store. A momentary lapse of willpower and there you are stuffing your mouth with truffles and triple berry fudge. What really would be effective is if we could change the candy store itself.
In the same way that your software is frequently patched and you have a good antivirus programming running in the background, we need the same for our world. And as per a recent New York Times Sunday Review article, these patches are finally becoming available for your smart phone. Like an antivirus program, they filter out the temptation ahead of time, allowing you to be here now and focus on the present. For example, "Ringly does this by connecting its rings to a smartphone filter so that users can silence Gmail or Facebook notifications while preserving crucial alerts, like text messages from a babysitter, which cause the ring to light up or vibrate." Priced at $195, it shows how eager people are to acquire breathing room from the bombardment of notifications.
Stop distractions: The Saent app locks users into apps and websites that are productive for their work (based on a predefined list), while blocking out distractions (like social networking sites or app notifications). Over time, Saent will learn users' work patterns automatically and associate productive apps with specific tasks.
Optimize work rhythm: Studies show that frequent breaks keep the brain agile and creative, so Saent enables users to work in 30, 50 or 90 minute blocks with breaks in between.
Rewards for good work: Just as activity trackers reward users for taking steps to stay healthy, Saent awards you points for each ten-minute block of focused work you've completed. The Saent score provides a window into productivity over time and enables competition with colleagues and friends.
Having looked into it, I am agreeing with Nyal and particularly enamored with these technological assists. With students from my University, we will be testing how well Saent works over the next year and, being science based, the question isn't whether it is effective but how much. Really, what we want is for good decisions to feel like natural decisions. As this and other platforms expand and refine, rationality is going to be an optional feature you can install into your life. We can all finally move out of the candy store and visit it just when we want to, as a treat.


text:
#owningfuturechange
Georgie HarmanCEO beyondblue
Georgie has significant and broad-ranging leadership, policy and service delivery experience in the community, public and private sectors.
Georgie was appointed as the CEO of beyondblue in May 2014 where she has led a significant expansion of effort and results in service innovation, suicide prevention and digital solutions.
Previously, she was the Deputy CEO of the National Mental Health Commission, providing independent advice to government on mental health reform.
From 2006-2012, Georgie had national responsibility for mental health, suicide prevention, substance misuse, cancer and chronic disease policy and programs as a senior executive at the Commonwealth Department of Health. She led the development of the largest ever mental health Budget package. At the same time, she was responsible for the strategy and development of legislation to introduce plain packaging of tobacco products in Australia – a world first.
Georgie has also led national reforms to lift Australia's organ and tissue donation rates and worked in the HIV/AIDS sector in Australia and the UK.
Back to Keynote Speakers
About AAAH
AAAH aims to improve the health of young people across Australia and to advocate for the health needs of this group. By becoming a member of AAAH, individuals have the opportunity to be part of this process and to develop links and networks with a group of people committed to ensuring that the specific health issues affecting young people are acknowledged and addressed.
AAAH 2021 Conference Organiser
E: aaah2021@theassociationspecialists.com.au.
Copyright 2019 AAAH | Website design by Apple Tree Design. Website by Blue Platypus Digital
Deborah Bateson


text:
Tarzan the Mighty é um seriado estadunidense de 1928, gênero aventura, dirigido por Jack Nelson e Ray Taylor, em 15 capítulos, estrelado por Frank Merrill como Tarzan, Natalie Kingston e Al Ferguson. Baseado no livro Jungle Tales of Tarzan, de Edgar Rice Burroughs, foi adaptado por Ian McClosky Heath e Jack Nelson. Produzido e distribuído pela Universal Pictures, veiculou nos cinemas estadunidenses entre 29 de outubro de 1928 e 5 de fevereiro de 1929.

Tarzan the Mighty teve uma seqüência em 1929, o seriado Tarzan the Tiger, também da Universal Pictures e também interpretado por Frank Merrill.

Este seriado é considerado perdido.

Sinopse
Maria e Bobby Trevor são amigos. Quando Lord Greystoke chega, procurando o herdeiro da família, John Black tenta preencher esse papel e se casar com Mary, na Inglaterra, porém Tarzan aparece e se casa com ela.

Elenco
 Frank Merrill … Tarzan. Joe Bonomo estava no elenco para interpretar Tarzan mas, enquanto filmava Perils of the Wild, fraturou sua perna esquerda e ficou bastante ferido em uma cena. O diretor Jack Nelson lembrou de Frank Merill, que trabalhara com ele em uma produção anterior, Perils of the Jungle (1927) e The Adventures of Tarzan, de 1921, em que Merrill dublara Elmo Lincoln. Ele considerou que Merrill seria um substituto natural e o ator começou a filmar na manhã seguinte.
 Al Ferguson … Black John
 Natalie Kingston … Mary Trevor. Não há Jane nessa produção. Kingston fazia a personagem Mary Trevor, interesse amoroso de Tarzan. No seriado seguinte, Tarzan the Tiger, Natalie Kingston novamente foi escalada como o interesse amoroso de Tarzan, Kingston interpreta a tradicional personagem Lady Jane, ao invés de Mary Trevor.
 Bobby Nelson … Bobby Trevor, irmão de Mary
 Lorimer Johnston … Lord Greystoke, tio de Tarzan

Capítulos
 The Terror of Tarzan
 The Love Cry
 The Call of the Jungle
 The Lion's Leap
 Flames of Hate
 The Fiery Pit
 The Leopard's Lair
 The Jungle Traitor
 Lost in the Jungle
 Jaws of Death
 A Thief in the Night
 The Enemy of Tarzan
 Perilous Paths
 Facing Death
 The Reckoning

Produção
Após o fracasso de Tarzan and the Golden Lion, estrelado por James Pierce, a distribuidora Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) não fez nenhuma sequência. A Universal Pictures pagou a Burroughs um montante não revelado para fazer um novo seriado de Tarzan baseado em Jungle Tales of Tarzan. O seriado foi renomeado Tarzan the Mighty.

Merrill, que fora o campeão nacional de ginástica de 1916 a 1918, conseguia se balançar em uma corda com Kingston em seu braço. A filmagem foi mais tarde estudada pela MGM para fazer Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) e nas séries subseqüentes, com Johnny Weissmuller.

A produção começou em 12 de abril e terminou em 28 de outubro de 1928. Originalmente, o seriado foi organizado para ter 12 capítulos, mas ao longo da produção, foi aumentado para 15. Tarzan the Mighty teve uma sequência, Tarzan the Tiger, com muitos do elenco retornando (em funções ligeiramente diferentes, em alguns casos). Na verdade, foi planejada uma trilogia para o seriado de Tarzan com Frank Merrill. O terceiro episódio se chamaria Tarzan the Terrible. No entanto, a voz de Merrill foi considerada inadequada para filmes sonoros, e a sequência foi cancelada.

Romance

Originalmente publicado como em 1928 como uma série de 15 partes publicadas em jornais e publicado como um livro (ISBN 9781435749719) pela ERBville Press em 2005.

Capítulos

 Jungle King
 Queen of His Kind
 Black John Plots
 A Pawn of Passion
 Tantor Trumpets
 Giant Emotions
 Flaming Hate
 Mock Marriage
 Black John's Revenge
 The Imposter
 The Stolen Heritage
 Treachery Higher Up
 A Thief in the Night
 Momentary Triumph
 The Day of Reckoning

Ver também
 Lista de seriados de 1920 - 1929

Ligações externas
 MATTOS, A. C. Gomes de.  Histórias de Cinema, Seriados mudos americanos
 MATTOS, A. C. Gomes de.  Histórias de Cinema, Heróis dos Quadrinhos nos Seriados Americanos

Filmes dos Estados Unidos de 1928
Filmes dirigidos por Ray Taylor
Filmes mudos dos Estados Unidos
Cinesseriados
Filmes da Universal Pictures
Filmes de aventura dos Estados Unidos
Filmes em preto e branco
Mighty

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
RSC may refer to:

Arts
 Royal Shakespeare Company, a British theatre company
 Reduced Shakespeare Company, a touring American acting troupe
 Richmondshire Subscription Concerts, a music society in Richmond, North Yorkshire, England
 Rock Steady Crew, a breakdancing crew and hip hop group from The Bronx, New York City

Science and technology
 Chromatin structure remodeling (RSC) complex, a 17-subunit complex with the capacity to remodel the structure of chromatin
 Reconfigurable Supercomputing, a method of supercomputing that takes advantage of reconfigurable computing architectures (such as FPGAs)
 Recursive Systematic Convolutional code, a type of convolutional code
 Reed–Solomon code, a non-binary cyclic error-correcting code
 Regular Slotted Container, a common form of corrugated fiberboard box
 Reverse Standards Conversion, a video standards conversion process
 RISC Single Chip, the single chip version of the POWER1 processor
 Ribeyrolles, Sutter and Chauchat, joint designers of an early semi-automatic rifle often referred to as the RSC M1917 or simply RSC
 Regional Security Coordinator, concerning electricity network stability

Places and institutions
 Railway Safety Commission, a government agency of the Republic of Ireland
 Religious Sisters of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious order for women
 Religious Studies Center, the research arm of Religious Education at Brigham Young University
 Republican Study Committee, a conservative caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives
 Richard Stockton College, former name of Stockton University, 1993–2015
 Robinsons Summit Center, Skyscraper in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
 Roosevelt Study Center, a research institute, conference center, and library on twentieth-century American history located in Middelburg, the Netherlands
 Royal Society of Canada, the senior national, bilingual body of distinguished Canadian scholars, humanists, scientists and artists
 Royal Society of Chemistry, a learned society in the United Kingdom
 Ryde Secondary College, a selective government high school in Sydney, Australia

Sports
 Red Sun Cycling Team, a Dutch women's elite cycling team
 Referee Stopped Contest, a result in amateur boxing if an opponent is outclassed, outscored or injured
 Regional Sports Centre, Waterford, Ireland
 Rideau Sports Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
 River States Conference, an athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics; formerly known as the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC)
 Roque Santa Cruz (born 1981), Paraguayan footballer

Law
 Rules of the Supreme Court, rules which governed civil procedure in England and Wales between 1883 and 1999
 Revised Statutes of Canada, the published and updated laws and ordinances of Canada

Other
 RSC Brands, automotive products company
 RailSimulator.com, a British video game developer and publisher, since renamed to Dovetail Games
 Reader service card, a reply card inserted in a magazine
 Recessed Single Contact bulb; see Lightbulb socket
 Regional Security Complex, a theory concerning international relations
 RuneScape Classic, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed and published by Jagex Games Studio
 Toyota RSC, a 2-door SUV concept car


without the words cracking in my throat.
the sound of a dial tone.
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is the author of five books of poetry as well as the nonfiction book, Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, which Billy Collins wrote "leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful place on the map of contemporary literature." Her poetry has appeared in PANK, Gulf Coast, Rattle, Conduit, La Petite Zine, decomP, kill author, Thrush and Muzzle, among others. Her recent awards include the ArtsEdge Writer-In-Residency at the University of Pennsylvania (2010-2011), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (2011) and the Amy Clampitt Residency (2013). Her sixth book of poetry, The Year of No Mistakes, will be released by Write Bloody Publishing this Fall. For more information, please visit her website at www.aptowicz.com.


Your safety should always be your top concern, which is why you should do everything to protect yourself. Getting your own insurance is one way of protecting yourself. There are two different ways that will give you the opportunity of starting your insurance. It is either you approach an insurance agent of an insurance broker. Here you will know which of the two will give you the best results.
Truly, the jobs of the insurance agent and an insurance broker are misunderstood to be the same. Actually, these two have similarities but are not the same. The job of an insurance agent is to connect you to their insurance company. An insurance broker is known to be a knowledgeable person who is professional in giving you the best pieces of advice regarding your insurance. Brokers have more jobs and functions, too. The top concern of this professional is your safety and rights, which is why it is going to be best for you to choose the right one. You just have to make sure that the broker that you will be choosing has all the characteristics of an expert one.
The best insurance broker should have finished a degree connected to financing. This is one way of proving that insurance is indeed a word that one can explain deeply. Aside from looking at the educational background of your insurance broker, one must also have a license in doing such a challenging job. Money is involved in this deal, so it is your responsibility to choose a broker that you can trust a hundred percent. Making use of your internet will be of help to your research, especially if you are curious about the records of a possible insurance broker. There are seasoned insurance brokers near you, which you can check out by clicking this link.
Another thing that you have to protect is your privacy. Insurance brokers are following their code of ethics, ensuring that they will respect you and your decisions. Click this to learn about their code of ethics.
Even though your insurance broker helps you more than a hundred percent in your insurance, this person still needs to earn. It is important that you choose an insurance broker who is honest with regard to one's commission rate. If you want to make sure that you are dealing with an honest broker, just click here. With their years of experience in this business, you can have enough information that they will not let you down. You will be astonished on how many great reviews the best insurance brokers have received.
If you want to start your journey is securing your future and safety, choose the best insurance brokers now. Check out this page to set for an appointment as soon as possible.


I just completed a purchase using PayPal (where I logged in to use my available funds) and upon successful completion of the transaction, PayPal showed that I would be redirected back to my website within 10 seconds. It started the process to redirect me back but then got hung up and never resolved to my site. It's just showing a circle in the middle of the page spinning.
Please explain how to resolve this so that customers can be successfully redirected back to our website after completing their purchases….?
The topic 'PayPal Redirect Back To Site Not Working' is closed to new replies.


text:
Study Finds Less Intensive Treatments May Not Maintain HIV Suppression
Triple-drug treatment regimens appear to be superior to less intensive "maintenance" therapies at maintaining HIV suppression, a study supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) suggests. Among individuals participating in the study, known as AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) 343, those who switched from three-drug to two- or one-drug treatment regimens were more likely to experience a resurgence in their HIV levels. A report of the study appears in the Oct. 29, 1998 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Similar findings from a French research study are reported in the same issue.
"These findings suggest that patients who have responded well to intensive antiretroviral therapy, as evidenced by prolonged suppression of HIV viral load, should continue with their current treatment regimen," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "Recent research describing persistent HIV reservoirs in individuals receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) - even after their viral loads have been driven below the level of detection by current assays - points to the same conclusion." He adds, however, that these data do not eliminate the possibility that this may be a successful strategy for some patients.
Begun in early 1997, ACTG 343 is the first large-scale clinical trial to investigate whether one- or two-drug therapies can hold virus production at bay after HIV levels are driven down by intensive therapy. The multicenter study enrolled more than 500 individuals, each of whom had HIV viral loads greater than 1,000 copies of RNA per milliliter (ml) of blood and at least 200 CD4+ T cells per cubic millimeter (mm3) of blood. During the induction, or initial, phase of the study, all individuals received the protease inhibitor indinavir (IDV) in combination with zidovudine (AZT) and lamivudine (3TC).
After six months, more than 300 individuals whose viral loads had been reduced to 200 or fewer copies of HIV RNA/ml of blood were randomized to receive either the same triple-drug therapy as before, a two-drug combination of AZT and 3TC, or monotherapy with IDV. Researchers led by Diane Havlir, M.D., and Douglas Richman, M.D., of the University of California San Diego AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, measured study participants' viral loads at regular intervals. The primary endpoint of the study was viral load rebound - defined as two consecutive viral load measurements of at least 200 copies/ml.
The investigators found that viral load rebound occurred in a total of 51 study participants: four in the triple-therapy group, 24 in the double-therapy group and 23 in the monotherapy group. The difference between the triple-therapy group and each of the other groups was statistically significant. However, among patients who had not taken AZT before entering the study, the difference between the triple- and double-therapies was not statistically significant.
High viral load at entry to the study and slower rates of viral clearance during the induction phase of the study were identified as risk factors for viral load rebound. The presence of AZT-resistance mutations in HIV RNA was strongly predictive of viral load rebound in individuals in the double-therapy group.
"Interestingly, the magnitude of the increase in CD4+ T-cell count during the triple-drug therapy phase of the study also correlated highly with subsequent viral load rebound. For each increase of 100 in the CD4+ T-cell count, there was a 30 percent increase in the risk of rebound." Dr. Havlir explains that an increase in the number of CD4+ T cells increases the number of target cells available for new HIV infection, which could occur when less intensive therapies are instituted.
The researchers conclude that maintaining HIV suppression with antiretroviral therapy leaves little margin for error. Poor adherence to even one component of a regimen may result in viral load rebound.
"Although the results of this trial are somewhat disappointing," notes Dr. Havlir, "they should not discourage future attempts to simplify therapies for HIV. Data from this trial and from other recently completed trials argue that induction therapy, maintenance therapy, or both must have greater virologic potency than the regimens used in these trials if they are to sustain viral suppression. It is also possible that longer periods of intense induction therapy or different maintenance regimens may still be found to be effective."
NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIAID conducts and supports research to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as HIV disease and other sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, malaria, asthma and allergies. NIH is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Press releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID Web site at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Related HIV Articles from Brightsurf:
BEAT-HIV Delaney collaboratory issues recommendations measuring persistent HIV reservoirs
Spearheaded by Wistar scientists, top worldwide HIV researchers from the BEAT-HIV Martin Delaney Collaboratory to Cure HIV-1 Infection by Combination Immunotherapy (BEAT-HIV Collaboratory) compiled the first comprehensive set of recommendations on how to best measure the size of persistent HIV reservoirs during cure-directed clinical studies.
The Lancet HIV: Study suggests a second patient has been cured of HIV
A study of the second HIV patient to undergo successful stem cell transplantation from donors with a HIV-resistant gene, finds that there was no active viral infection in the patient's blood 30 months after they stopped anti-retroviral therapy, according to a case report published in The Lancet HIV journal and presented at CROI (Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections).
Children with HIV score below HIV-negative peers in cognitive, motor function tests
Children who acquired HIV in utero or during birth or breastfeeding did not perform as well as their peers who do not have HIV on tests measuring cognitive ability, motor function and attention, according to a report published online today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Efforts to end the HIV epidemic must not ignore people already living with HIV
Efforts to prevent new HIV transmissions in the US must be accompanied by addressing HIV-associated comorbidities to improve the health of people already living with HIV, NIH experts assert in the third of a series of JAMA commentaries.
The Lancet HIV: Severe anti-LGBT legislations associated with lower testing and awareness of HIV in African countries
This first systematic review to investigate HIV testing, treatment and viral suppression in men who have sex with men in Africa finds that among the most recent studies (conducted after 2011) only half of men have been tested for HIV in the past 12 months.
The Lancet HIV: Tenfold increase in number of adolescents on HIV treatment in South Africa since 2010, but many still untreated
A new study of more than 700,000 one to 19-year olds being treated for HIV infection suggests a ten-fold increase in the number of adolescents aged 15 to 19 receiving HIV treatment in South Africa, according to results published in The Lancet HIV journal.
Starting HIV treatment in ERs may be key to ending HIV spread worldwide
In a follow-up study conducted in South Africa, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have evidence that hospital emergency departments (EDs) worldwide may be key strategic settings for curbing the spread of HIV infections in hard-to-reach populations if the EDs jump-start treatment and case management as well as diagnosis of the disease.
NIH HIV experts prioritize research to achieve sustained ART-free HIV remission
Achieving sustained remission of HIV without life-long antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a top HIV research priority, according to a new commentary in JAMA by experts at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
The Lancet HIV: PrEP implementation is associated with a rapid decline in new HIV infections
Study from Australia is the first to evaluate a population-level roll-out of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in men who have sex with men.
Researchers date 'hibernating' HIV strains, advancing BC's leadership in HIV cure research
Researchers have developed a novel way for dating 'hibernating' HIV strains, in an advancement for HIV cure research.
Read More: HIV News and HIV Current Events


text:
The Surly Subgroup
tax blogging on a consolidated basis
NonBelief Relief and Form 990
By Sam Brunson
Speaking of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, last Thursday it filed suit challenging the constitutionality of section 6033(a)(3)(A) of the Code.
What does that first sentence mean? Broken down roughly: the tax law requires most entities exempt under section 501 to file an annual information return. That information return—currently Form 990—is filed with the IRS, but must also be made available to the public. It allows both the IRS and the general public a window into the financial workings of tax-exempt organizations, and provides a basis for administrative and public oversight of tax-exempt organizations. (For purposes of this lawsuit, it's also worth noting that if a tax-exempt organization that is required to file a Form 990 doesn't for three consecutive years, it automatically loses its exemption.)
Section 6033(a)(3)(A) provides a mandatory exception to the filing requirement, though. Under the Code, churches, their integrated auxiliaries, and conventions of churches don't have to file a Form 990. While the IRS can still get access to them through an audit (though note that the steps the IRS must take to audit a church are really stringent), the general public has no way to see financial information about a U.S. church unless the church voluntarily discloses that information (which some do).
In 2015, the Freedom From Religion Foundation incorporated NonBelief Relief, a charitable organization, and followed all of the rules applicable to 501(c)(3) organizations except one: it never filed a Form 990. As a result, after three years and nearly $600,000 of charitable giving, NonBelief Relief lost its exemption.[fn2] It's using that loss of exemption as a hook for standing, to challenge the different treatment of churches and other tax-exempt organizations as a violation of the Establishment Clause.
So with that introduction, some preliminary thoughts on the case. (And note that these are truly preliminary: the parties haven't briefed the case yet, and I've only done enough research to justify a blog post. With more thought and research, it's clearly possible that I'll change my mind.)
I think this is a much harder case for Freedom From Religion Foundation. The parsonage allowance strikes me as a relatively easy constitutional question: it almost certainly violates the Establishment Clause.[fn3] But the exemption from Form 990 at least implicates the question of entanglement, in a way that, frankly, the parsonage allowance doesn't.
I do think there is a case here. After all, it's at least possible (and, I suspect, likely) that if Congress did require churches to file a Form 990,[fn4] they wouldn't be able to argue that that requirement violated the Establishment Clause. In Jimmy Swaggart Ministries v. California Board of Equalization, the Supreme Court held that California could require Jimmy Swaggart Ministries to collect sales tax. The Court explained that "The fact that appellant must bear the cost of collecting and remitting a generally applicable sales and use tax … does not enmesh government in religious affairs." To unconstitutionally enmesh government, an administrative requirement could require "neither the involvement of state employees in, nor on-site continuing inspection of, appellant's day-to-day operations." The requirement that a church file an annual information return might not rise to the level of "official and continuing surveillance," and would thus likely not violate the Establishment Clause.
On the other hand, it might. In Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization v. City of Clearwater, the Eleventh Circuit looked at an ordinance which required organizations that solicited money in the city to provide a wide array of public disclosures about both itself and the solicitation in question. The court held that this disclosure requirement excessively entangled the government with religion. The Eleventh Circuit read the Jimmy Swaggart decision to prohibit both the involvement of state employees and the on-site continuing inspection of a church's day-to-day operations. And it acknowledged that Clearwater's disclosure requirement did not technically involve state employees in the on-site continuing inspection of Scientology's day-to-day operations. But, it held, the disclosure requirement "subjects religious organizations to the continuous surveillance of their own members by requiring disclosure of all records underlying the statements upon request." Because the government can't delegate to citizens things it cannot constitutionally do, the disclosure requirement unconstitutionally enmeshed the government in church affairs. Moreover, the court held, the disclosure shifted the balance of power between church hierarchy and laity, in a manner that was impermissible.
It strikes me that this analysis at least potentially applies to the Form 990 disclosures. And even if it doesn't clearly apply, it seems like Congress could enact an exemption like this to avoid the risk of impermissible entanglement. See, as I discuss in my book, the tax law doesn't have any mandatory religious accommodations, since the government has a compelling interest in raising revenue.[fn5] But the government can still, in at least some circumstances, accommodate religion. And this seems like at least a viable candidate for that accommodation.[fn6]
[fn1] Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Werfel, 2013 WL 4830749 (W.D. Wisc. 2013).
[fn2] Why, btw, did the Freedom From Religion Foundation go through the whole rigamarole of forming a new tax-exempt organization? Well, it tried to challenge the exemption in 2012, but its suit was dismissed for lack of standing. And I'm sure it didn't want to risk losing the main organization's tax exemption.
[fn3] That's not to say that FFRF is definitely going to win next week; I'm still a little skeptical of its standing argument, even though it did exactly what the Seventh Circuit said, in dicta, that it should do. But if the court arrives at the merits, it's hard for me to think of a way that the parsonage allowance survives the Establishment Clause.
[fn4] If you want a really, really abbreviated history of the information return exception for churches, look at pages 4–7 of this article I wrote.
[fn5] Though query whether that precedent holds in the case of tax-exempt organizations. While the government does have an interest in oversight, it may not be as compelling as its interest in revenue is, so maybe, in the case of churches, there could be mandatory accommodations.
[fn6] h/t to Robert Baty and Peter Reilly for initially bringing this suit to my attention.
Posted on October 15, 2018 October 15, 2018 by Sam BrunsonPosted in Charitable OrganizationsTagged churches, ffrf, form 990, freedom from religion foundation, nonbelief relief, section 6033, tax-exempt.
Previous Previous post: Seventh Circuit Preview: Gaylor v. Mnuchin
Next Next post: Increased Transparency in the U.S. Tax Court: Has the Moment Arrived?
Superman, Tax Evader?
PPP Deductibility: Will anyone think of the States?
Project Veritas and Illegality
Why Tax Losses Matter (for Pres. Trump's Taxes and Everyone Else's)
#TrumpTaxLimericks
#TrumpTaxReturns
Wrap-Up of the 2020 Indiana/Leeds Summer Tax Workshop Series
How the Espinoza Tax Credits Work
More on Altera v. Commissioner
Announcing the 2020 Indiana/Leeds Summer Tax Workshop Series!
Taxation of PPP loan forgiveness – redux – SALT Speak – Joel Michael's Blog on PPP Deductibility: Will anyone think of the States?
Vivian Moore on Project Veritas and Illegality
Sam Brunson on Project Veritas and Illegality
Wrap-Up of the 2020 Indiana/Leeds Summer Tax Workshop Series – The Surly Subgroup on Announcing the 2020 Indiana/Leeds Summer Tax Workshop Series!
The Subgroup
Adam Thimmesch
Benjamin Leff
Leandra Lederman
Francine Lipman
Philip Hackney
David Herzig
Stephanie Hoffer
Diane Ring
Sam Brunson
Shu-Yi Oei
Victor Thuronyi
2017 Mini-Symposium on Tax Enforcement and Administration
2017 Tax Reform
Consumption Taxes
Partnership Tax
State and Local Taxes
Tax Crimes
Tax in Popular Culture
Tax Privacy
Tax Procedure
Taxes and Politics
Teaching Tax
#LEAKS #PanamaPapers #trumptaxreturns 501(c)(3) 721 aals ACA Affordable Care Act Altera APA Call for Papers churches congress disclosure Donald Trump EITC energy transfer equity estate tax executive order ffrf freedom from religion foundation gig economy gross income hillary clinton house of representatives icij income tax independent contractors IRS jazz jobs johnson amendment law and economics lien marijuana music national parks new york times Obamacare panama papers parsonage allowance Private Foundation property tax Public Finance puerto rico regulations sales tax SALT scholarships supreme court tax tax-exempt tax administration Tax Compliance taxes tax evasion tax exemption tax exempt organizations Tax fraud tax history tax opinions Tax Policy Tax Policy Colloquium tax reform tax returns tax shelters TCJA Tea Party transfer pricing trump twitter VAT VITA williams companies worker classification
Readers should feel free to share excerpts from and link to blog posts on this site. Please give full credit to the post's author, with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without written permission of the relevant author is strictly prohibited.
This material on this site is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for, tax, legal or accounting advice. We do not provide tax or legal advice, so please consult your own professional advisors if you need help. Each post reflects the individual author's own opinion only and not the views of the other authors.


RightNow Technologies has just wrapped up the first of three highly anticipated weeks of global Summits, and there's a lot to report.
The RightNow PGX app, powered by DoubleDutch technology, is in full swing and is one of most engaging event apps to date. The app is being used to power the three events and to showcase their own new technology.
We also developed a "people matching" function which allows users to tag themselves with their interests, then connect with others that share those interests. This allows people to network and and engage on a whole new level, within the closed network of the RightNow community.
Create and view a personal schedule as well as times, rooms, and speaker information.
View a complete Summit schedule, explore all of the sessions offered, and learn about evening events.
Follow and participate in discussions around the Summit on Twitter.
Access important information like the shuttle schedule, maps of the venue, and other helpful information.
"Check In" to sessions, meeting areas, keynotes, and partner booths.
Earn points, badges, and prizes while participating in Summit and RightNow partner activities.
Expand professional networks and learn from each other.
Attendees can check-in to all of the sessions and activities during Summit, add photos, rate sessions, post comments, and earn points and badges for participation. The top users will be entered into a drawing to win a prize to encourage attendee engagement.
The PGX App also showcased RightNow CX, which allows attendees access to service agents via live mobile chat, email and phone.
Almost 800 photos in 3 days!? That's awesome. These stats are truly fantastic.
Really, who can speak to the app better than our customers? They created a fantastic video highlighting their experience with the app. Take a look!
Lastly, the icing on the cake... RightNow PGX has made it on the list of Top Social Networking Free iPad Apps in the iTunes store!
There are still two more events to go on RightNow PGX, and we look forward to seeing continued excitement around the app. Stay tuned!
RightNow is helping rid the world of bad experiences one consumer interaction at a time, eight million times a day. RightNow CX, the customer experience suite, helps organizations deliver exceptional customer experiences across the web, social networks and contact centers, all delivered via the cloud. With more than ten billion customer interactions delivered, RightNow is the customer experience fabric for nearly 2,000 organizations around the globe. To learn more about RightNow, go to www.rightnow.com.
DoubleDutch is the industry's only provider of cloud-based geo-social applications for today's mobile enterprise. DoubleDutch HYVE, a cloud-based suite of horizontal geo-social productivity applications, enables enterprise mobile employees to collaborate and communicate within a social framework of ongoing tasks and projects. HYVE end-users can highlight location, projects, and line-of-business specific tasks, as well as share and post social updates relevant to the workflow process. In use by some of the world's most innovative companies and organizations, including HP, Cisco Systems, Adobe, Amdocs and TED, HYVE helps companies tap the productivity power of both the mobile channel and the collaborative nature of social networks to improve efficiency, boost employee productivity and illuminate productivity analytics across every line of business. Learn more about DoubleDutch at www.doubledutch.me.


text:
Chorley man Aaron Willis to star in new series of BBC's The Apprentice
A Chorley man is among the latest hopefuls to take on the ultimate business challenge in The Apprentice, which will return to our screens later this week.
By Sean Gleaves
Aaron Willis, from Chorley, will be competing against 16 ambitious new entrepreneurs to win a life-changing £250,000 investment in their business.
The 38-year-old previously worked as a milkman, horseman and butcher before serving in the RAF for 12 years as a Flight Operations Instructor.
Aaron, described as an outgoing salesman who is "hungry for success", is now looking for Lord Sugar's help to start his own security business.
"My strongest point is that I can sell to anybody, and I think that's the reason why my business will be a success - because people will buy from me," he said.
Other candidates include dessert parlour owner Harpreet Kaur from West Yorkshire and Finance Manager Nick Showering from London.
Preston potter wows judges on Channel 4's new Great Pottery Throw Down series
The contestants - who were all double vaccinated before taking part in the series - are set to face the toughest challenges ever due to many businesses across the UK having been negatively affected by the pandemic.
A Chorley man is taking part in series 16 of The Apprentice (Photo: BBC)
A Meet the Candidates episode of The Apprentice is available now on BBC iplayer, ahead of the series starting on Thursday (January 6) at 9pm.
The hit BBC show is now in its 16th season, starting in 2005 as a ground-breaking show which featured some of the country's best young business minds.
The series was cancelled for two years due to the Covid pandemic, with the reigning champion 2019's Carina Lepore, who used the investment for her baking business.
It is thanks to our loyal readers that we can continue to provide the trusted news, analysis and insight that matters to you.
For unlimited access to our unrivalled local reporting, you can take out a subscription HERE and help support the work of our dedicated team of reporters.
BBCRAFLondonWest Yorkshire
How one of Britain's best loved pub chains was made in Preston
Preston actor lands starring role in Channel 4's Hollyoaks as part of new family
The Apprentice: Lord Sugar's warning to Chorley's Aaron Willis as he scrapes through to the third week
Strangled and dumped in a Lancashire lover's lane
Michelle Keegan: when did the actress star in Coronation Street, what is she doing in 2020 - and why does she look so different?


text:
Бои сверчков — состязания специально обученных самцов сверчков (), которых стравливают друг с другом. Азартный вид спорта, где наблюдатели часто (а в новейшей истории практически всегда нелегально) делают ставки на победу одного из насекомых. Распространены главным образом в Китае. Важной отличительной особенностью поединка является неспособность сверчков нанести друг другу опасные травмы (их жвалы не могут прокусить противника). Однако они повреждают друг другу усики, лапки и крылья, а утрата даже одного крыла делает самца неинтересным для самок и непригодным для размножения, так как он не может издавать привлекающие звуки.

История
Неизвестно, почему это насекомое так популярно в Китае, но ему посвящаются стихи, романы и научные исследования. Традиционной китайской забаве около 1000 лет. Согласно сохранившимся письменным источникам наложницы императоров из династии Тан (618—907 годы) помещали сверчков в небольшие золотые клетки и брали в постель, чтобы слушать их пение ночью. Чуть позже, уже во времена династии Сун (960—1279 годы), в среде китайской знати стали набирать популярность схватки между этими насекомыми, а вскоре подобная забава стала распространяться и среди обычных людей. Во второй половине XIII века премьер-канцлер империи Сун Цзя Шидо разработал подробные правила проведения поединков, многие из которых используются по настоящее время. Более того, как утверждает ряд историков, именно его одержимость боями сверчков привела к краху империи.

Расцвет боёв приходится на времена династии Цин (1644—1912 годы), когда практически вся императорская семья, знать и простолюдины, горожане и жители деревни каждое лето были увлечены сбором и выращиванием сверчков. Во время Культурной революции в Китае (1966—1976 годы) схватки насекомых были запрещены, как чуждое пролетариату развлечение. Сейчас же наблюдается новый рост интереса к этому элементу древних китайских традиций.

Отлов и подготовка сверчков
Сверчков отлавливают в их естественной среде обитания с конца весны до начала осени. Считается, что пойманное за день одно подходящее насекомое — уже удача. Лучшие представители породы боевых сверчков обитают в уезде Нинъя́н провинции Шаньдун на востоке Китая, некоторые из них имеют даже собственную родословную. Летом в этом промысле там заняты до 80 процентов крестьян. Кроме того, ещё тысячи местных жителей обеспечивают работу 3000 отелей, обслуживающих этот бизнес. Вообще в настоящее время отловом и выращиванием сверчков в Китае заняты не менее 10 миллионов человек. Стоимость одного экземпляра колеблется от 2 до 50 долларов США, однако цена чемпиона может составлять и 5000 долларов. При этом он может окупиться достаточно быстро. Нередко специалисты покупают сразу двух сверчков и заставляют их бороться, оставляя себе только победителя этой схватки.

Ранее сверчков держали в глиняных горшках или плетёных из бамбука клетках с выделенными местами для сна и питания. Сейчас — в специальном контейнере, под дном которого есть отсек для льда, они любят прохладу. Насекомых кормят кукурузной и пшеничной мукой, яблоками, креветками, фасолью, опарышами. Иногда для укрепления хитинового покрова дают таблетки кальция или женьшень. Сверчков купают, тренируют, сводят с самками. Содержание и уход за одной особью обходится до двадцати долларов в месяц. Сверчков, умерших от старости, хоронят по особому ритуалу во дворах жилых домов.

Проведение соревнований
Ранее бои традиционно проводились зимой, с наступлением метелей. Сейчас, особенно для привлечения туристов, круглый год и повсеместно. Эталонным для насекомого считается большое тело, большие челюсти и чёрная голова. Однако в схватках принимают участие только те сверчки, которые «женились», обрели пару. По высказыванию одного из участников боёв «сверчок понимает, что ему теперь есть что терять, и он должен защищаться». Соперников взвешивают — соревнования проводятся по весовым категориям. Поединок обычно состоит из трёх раундов по минуте каждый. Организаторы боя помещают насекомых в ёмкость для боя, разделённую съёмной перегородкой на две части, некоторое время водят по их усам и голове специальной кисточкой или тросточкой и убирают преграду. Под действием раздражителя соперники кидаются друг на друга. Побеждает то насекомое, которое сумеет покусать или оттеснить противника. Как упоминалось, сверчки не могут нанести друг другу серьёзных травм. Считается, что проигравший однажды уже не сможет больше никогда победить. Такого сверчка, по выражению корреспондента Первого канала России, «отпускают на волю», хотя точнее, его просто выбрасывают на мостовую, где насекомое чаще всего гибнет под подошвами прохожих, в клювах птиц или просто замерзает (все основные соревнования проходят в октябре — ноябре).

Соревнования практически всегда сопровождаются денежными пари, что в современном Китае является нарушением действующего законодательства. Ставки на один бой могут значительно превышать 1 миллион юаней (на конец 2016 года — около 10 миллионов российских рублей). В 2010 году по неофициальным оценкам суммарный оборот ставок превысил 63 миллиона долларов США или 400 миллионов юаней. Кроме подпольных боёв проводится открытое национальное первенство, организованное профессиональной лигой содержателей боевых сверчков. В 25 самых крупных городах КНР с августа по октябрь идут отборочные чемпионаты, победители которых потом собираются в Пекине.

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

 Бои сверчков в Китае. 20 фотографий
 Чемпионат Китая по боям сверчков

Развлечения
Соревнования в Китае
Азартные игры
Сверчковые
Животные в спорте


engines in the new engine bouse.
reference book and readable story in one.
style of the article being equally good.
by an explosion of powder.
came out just as tbe blast took place.
while the others were discharged.
lished in the Copper Country Evening News.
M int One Voter Says.
ment and are worthy of good patronage.
who tent the beautiful floral offerings.
Mb. and Muh. Thomas Ronkwauxk.
Calumet, Mich., July 28, 18'JG.
John Michaelson, the original "shioer,"
wishes Johnnie success in his new field.
cause such is the rase.
All members of Rod Jacket Lodge. No.
M. Rhkhn ah as, M. W.
all communications to the News office.
feat them on this occasion.
- ' Treasurer at Laarlum.
attend the I'pper Peninsula reunion.
they will take with them on the trip.
at W. E. Steckbauer's studio.
noweth visited the Lake Linden A. O.
ARMSTRONfl-l HIKLMAN I.l'MIIKH I O.
Children's and babies' day, remember.
paper during tbe present campaign. M.
J. P. Petermann, of the Allouec.
Misses Hattie Haas and Anna Hennrs.
for half of it. Cablton Hardware Co.
those from outside who At remind t.h in.
cial party in tbe School Hall last evening.
ing a good deal of attention.
standard and guaranteed to please.
All bills strabst the Hi!
sent to John R. Ryan.
Rickard's new art studio, Laurium.
peming on a visit with friends.
C. E. Rriggs left At noon for poston.
The Best Is Always Cheapest.
try, are particularly adapted to its use.
Gents' Road Wagons, Speeders, Etc.
lutely rename venu le, tney must buy one manufactured by the above firm.
Red Jacket Acrent for the County of Houghton.
In fact everything in tbe lumber line, and of the very best and latest pattern.
Yard at Foot of Portland Street.
Mill and Yard at South Lake Linden.
Branch Yard and Office at Red Jacket.
Hancock for a short time.
L. C. Oborn.of Xeenaa.Wla., is in town.
promptly attended to. Blht c"
LKCI.A!K-nn the 27th In.i v..
And cost no mor than chearr mAkes. In Vblte, DrAb and UlAck. -25c.
60c, 70c, 75c, f I and $l.2..
serviceable quality has never been presented.
prices wit o in reach of all.
STEP IN AND BE CONVINCED.
a few things you'll surely need.
Fresh, Salted and Smoked Meats.
-A-t mo Loweot PrioGo in tho Oity.
uhuin2i of Sausage. Fresh. Dally.
White Rose Kettlo-Uendered LPure, Sweet and Clean.
.' juuc.n Dsrsnsma cooked oaths hortest notloe.


Ultimate Rhoads • View topic - Filthy Phil animal Taylor RIP.
Post subject: Filthy Phil animal Taylor RIP.
I was saddened to hear that Phil had died and twice in one week we lose a link to randy. For those who don't know he was motorheads drummer on their biggest hits and toured with randy across the USA and, one of randys best shows was supporting them in Portvale uk in 1981.
He was part of what made me love rock music and was a real influence on types of playing that came later, a link between punk and metal, and then to thrash metal.
Post subject: Re: Filthy Phil animal Taylor RIP.
I was saddened to read the news about the Philthy Animal as well. I was also disappointed that Lemmy used the news to be political and take a shot at George Bush.
"My dear friend and brother passed away last night.
What did Lemmy say? I am no lover of GWB but what was the link?
Lemmy said: "It really pisses me off that they take somebody like him and leave George Bush alive."
I was watching one of Lemmy's last interviews and i was surprised to hear him mention that Phil Taylor was in the wrong company and using the wrong drugs as Lemmy put it and it was probably the down fall of his demise. I know Lemmy was an habitual user of amphetamine and was totally anti-heroin. But these are the side of a rock star that are kept under lock and key and its not 'til somone over doses you get to here they are dependent on their vices to carry on etc.
I never knew Phil had an anuerysm back in 2012 and he came back to the UK to be looked after by his sisters. That was something that never made the news and i was very surprised to hear this as some people don't bounce back from this, sadly it wasn't long after that he died. He was a character and an inspiration to many lets hope he's with Lemmy and catching up on old times and having a laugh.


text:
Shell shaker
Howe, l.
A dangerous enemy has arrived on our shores with weapons of fire . . . He's a very different kind of Wasano, bloodsucker, he always hungers for more.-from Shell Shaker The action in this debut novel alternates between 1738, as a Choctaw family prepares for war against the English, and the 1990s, as their Oklahoma descendants, the Billys, fight a Mafia takeover of the tribe's casino. In trouble with the law and in the fight of their lives, the Billy women must find a way, as their ancestors did, to join forces against a devious foe. Humor, toughness, and resourcefulness are the Billys' only weapons. Until the Shell Shaker shows up. LeAnne Howe, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is a fiction writer, playwright, scholar and poet whose writings on Choctaw women are drawn from both personal experience and scholarly research. Her short fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including Through the Eye of the Deer, Returning the Gift, Spider Woman's Granddaughters, and Earth Song, Sky Spirit, as well as in journals such as Callaloo and Fiction International. Howe has read her fiction and lectured throughout the United States, Japan and the Middle East, and her plays have been produced in Los Angeles and New York City. She has also presented programs on recruitment and retention of American Indians at universities and colleges. Currently, she teaches in the English Department at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1991, Howe received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to conduct research for Shell Shaker.
Auteur Howe, l.


text:
Rhabdomastix tatrica är en tvåvingeart som beskrevs av Jaroslav Stary 2003. Rhabdomastix tatrica ingår i släktet Rhabdomastix och familjen småharkrankar.

Artens utbredningsområde är Slovakien. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Småharkrankar
tatrica


text:
Instruments Division's Fotonic Sensor used for Space Shuttle
In 1990, a version of the Fotonic Sensor was developed for use on the Space Shuttle. Customer Rockwell International said the sensor achieved flawless performance on the engine test stand.
The Instruments Division also eventually included the Accumeasure line, which uses capacitance to measure extremely small amounts of displacement. This continues to be one of the key product family offerings at our MTI Instruments subsidiary today with application in industries ranging from tires to computer disk-drives.
MTI teams with Detroit Edison to develop Hydrogen Fuel Cells
With the metallurgical and energy conversion technologies developed for Stirling Cycle machinery in hand, the company pursued advanced research in the field of hydrogen fuel cells. It later teamed with Detroit Edison Electric Company to establish a joint venture called Plug Power to develop advanced fuel cell systems for residential and distributed energy applications.
Plug Power spun off with IPO
In 1999, MTI spun off its Plug Power subsidiary in a successful IPO underwritten by Goldman Sachs and with investments by Southern California Gas Co. and GE Power Systems. Plug Power continues to operate today with significant sales of highly efficient hydrogen fuel cells for warehouse vehicle mobile applications.
MTI allies with SatCon Technology Corp on Alternative Energy
MTI forms strategic alliance with SatCon Technology Corp, a manufacturer of power and energy management products for the telecommunications, semiconductor and aircraft industries
© 2020 Mechanical Technology Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.


When I did my first tests and calculations about the use of solar power to drive a PC I was quite amazed at the inefficiency of the process and today's 'laboratory conditions' test proves just how much room for improvement there is. It's thanks to devices like UMPCs that this is project is at all possible because I really doubt it would have worked with even a 'power saving' notebook PC.
Today I stayed at the campsite and put the Solar panel and Li-Ion battery through a 3 hours test. Its was a cloudless day with a very thin haze, 22 degrees centigrade and for reference I'm located at about 50 degrees north and 7 degrees east. The date is the 30th of August which is heading towards Autumn here in Germany. The test was done from 11:00 – 14:00 and I took the empty Li-Ion battery and charged it with the solar panel for 3 hours.
I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to work out how this process could be improved and I've come up with a list of ideas that could help. I'll talk though them in the next post but right now I need to put some more cream on the back of my legs because through all the concentration I forgot about the sun and I've burned the bit right behind the knee. That's going to be really enjoyable tomorrow when I make the 70km dash to Bonn.
Here's a diagram I created quickly on the Q1b. Hopefuly it makes things a bit clearer. How would you improve the architechture?


text:
Q: Reset the Camera Transform with MRTK and Hololens I am currently developing an application for hololens 1 with Unity and MRTK and i would like to perform a very simple task.
Reseting the camera transform to the origin.
I try some actions but all with no sucess :

*

*Get the camera and play space and set their position and rotation at 0.

*Get the "MixedRealityCameraSystem" via the MRTK and use the Reset() function.

Indeed, the camera position is controlled by the user head and once the app is started i don't know how to recenter this position.
Does anyone know if there is a way to simply reset the camera transform ?
Thank you very much in advance for your time and help.

A: As mentioned above, you cannot modify the camera position at runtime.
But If what you are interested in is only the position data. As a workaround, we recommend that you offset the position data of the camera before outputting it. Specifically, you first calculate the correction value between the camera and origin of the coordinate system before load your next scene. Then, after loading the new scene, subtract the correction value when outputting the head position log information.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
package org.apache.doris.analysis;

import org.apache.doris.catalog.Catalog;
import org.apache.doris.cluster.ClusterNamespace;
import org.apache.doris.common.AnalysisException;
import org.apache.doris.common.ErrorCode;
import org.apache.doris.common.ErrorReport;
import org.apache.doris.common.FeMetaVersion;
import org.apache.doris.common.FeNameFormat;
import org.apache.doris.common.io.Text;
import org.apache.doris.common.io.Writable;
import org.apache.doris.system.SystemInfoService;

import com.google.common.base.Strings;

import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.HashCodeBuilder;

import java.io.DataInput;
import java.io.DataOutput;
import java.io.IOException;

// label name used to identify a load job
public class LabelName implements Writable {
    private String dbName;
    private String labelName;

    public LabelName() {

    }

    public LabelName(String dbName, String labelName) {
        this.dbName = dbName;
        this.labelName = labelName;
    }

    public String getDbName() {
        return dbName;
    }

    public String getLabelName() {
        return labelName;
    }

    public void analyze(Analyzer analyzer) throws AnalysisException {
        if (Strings.isNullOrEmpty(dbName)) {
            if (Strings.isNullOrEmpty(analyzer.getDefaultDb())) {
                ErrorReport.reportAnalysisException(ErrorCode.ERR_NO_DB_ERROR);
            }
            dbName = analyzer.getDefaultDb();
        }
        dbName = ClusterNamespace.getFullName(analyzer.getClusterName(), dbName);
        FeNameFormat.checkLabel(labelName);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object rhs) {
        if (this == rhs) {
            return true;
        }
        if (rhs instanceof LabelName) {
            LabelName rhsLabel = (LabelName) rhs;
            return this.dbName.equals(rhsLabel.dbName) && this.labelName.equals(rhsLabel.labelName);
        }
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return new HashCodeBuilder().append(dbName).append(labelName).toHashCode();
    }

    public String toSql() {
        StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        stringBuilder.append("`").append(dbName).append("`.`").append(labelName).append("`");
        return stringBuilder.toString();
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return toSql();
    }

    @Override
    public void write(DataOutput out) throws IOException {
        Text.writeString(out, dbName);
        Text.writeString(out, labelName);
    }

    @Override
    public void readFields(DataInput in) throws IOException {
        if (Catalog.getCurrentCatalogJournalVersion() < FeMetaVersion.VERSION_30) {
            dbName = ClusterNamespace.getFullName(SystemInfoService.DEFAULT_CLUSTER, Text.readString(in));
        } else {
            dbName = Text.readString(in);
        }
        labelName = Text.readString(in);
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


We know, we know, we already wrote about the Twitter quarrel that Kail and Jenelle had this salutation but this stuff is just too red-hot to hold back on. So let's go back approximately of the gems that Kail has been spewing about Jenelle in the subterminal match of hours. Bri is all across social media and the tabloids today, talking just about why she and Javi have not chipped up. First, she and Javi have to motion-picture photography these really fake-o dates everywhere, photographing themselves in coordinated outfits, actuation their children into double dates and disbursal moment at places same walt disney together.
WARNING: This Website contains hard-core adult material. You may only enter this website if you are at slightest 18 years of age, or at lowest the age of majority in the jurisdiction wherever you domiciliate or from which you operation this Website. If you do not meet these requirements, then you do not person authorization to use the Website.
Follow Farrah, Maci, Amber, and Catelynn as they human face the challenges of motherhood. to each one subdivision interweaves their individual journeys, revelatory the in breadth accumulation of challenges childlike mothers experience as they raise their kids.


'Epson Compatible 24-pin' and 'Epson Compatible 9-pin' printer drivers should be available in your systems printer driver collection. Since this generic driver doesn't work for newer operating systems, Windows Vista, 7 and 8 users might need to search for a different generic driver or a compatible printer driver that does not have a minimum page height that is greater than 3.00 inches.
If you don't know how to change your printer driver, please get with your local computer support person to find out how that's done for your operating system.
If you have this problem on printers other than an Epson model, make sure your paper source in your printer driver is set to 'continuous', 'fan-fold' or 'pin-feed', and that the driver's minimum page height is 3.00 inches or less.


We embedded with the iconic thrash metal band as their last tour swung through Texas.
Slayer is not the kind of band to go gently into that good night. Not after nearly 40 years of unrepentantly provocative and aggressive music-making, a span in which the thrashers introduced the world to death metal and spawned an army of pentagram-worshipping fans that have left an indelible dark mark on popular culture. Slayer may be officially retiring after their current tour, but they are bringing the fire and rage one last time before hanging up their flying-V guitars and patched-covered black denim vests. We couldn't miss it. So when Slayer rolled in to Houston, Dallas and Austin with enough pyrotechnics to raze a small city, we had photographer Ben Sklar embed with the band and its so-called "Slaytanic Wehrmacht" for their final Texas shows to see just how crazy the end of the road would be.
"I set out to photograph Slayer's final tour to catch a tiny glimpse of the influence they've had and legendary status they've created in the last several decades. Since Slayer's inception in the '80s, Tom Araya, Kerry King, Paul Bostaph and Gary Holt have pushed the limits of music and culture while building a huge community of fans that are bonded like family and who appear in the regimented attire of a militia—black being the color of choice, of course.
The fans I met were proud to have their portrait made at each show, though they were consistently confused why GQ Style was interested in Slayer. But the fact is whether you're a banker, a ballerina or even a faithful church-goer, you've heard some Slayer—and you've definitely seen their iconic logo emblazoned on a local metalhead's tattered tour tee. Across the three shows I saw fathers, sons, brothers, mothers, sisters, daughters, cousins and friends come together every night to bang their heads and thrash in a mosh pit together.
Dallas, TX 6/19/18: Slayer started in the mid '80s in Southern California, and the uncut speed and intensity of their guitar and drums instantly set them apart from the pop music that was in vogue at the time.
Dallas, TX 6/19/18: Though fans were smashed in the front during anthems like "Repentless" and "Jihad," the most dedicated kept begging for more—and only kept getting louder as the set went on.
Houston, TX 6/17/18: Though many attendees were about as old as the band, plenty of fathers brought their kids along.
Houston, TX 6/17/18: The scene in the pit. Slayer mosh pits have long been proving grounds for metal fans.
Dallas, TX 6/19/18: Fans hang out near Slayer's tour bus.
Dallas, TX 6/19/18: A full Slayer back tattoo. Slayer's music has long been controversial, whether planned or not. Other bands like Twisted Sister, Pantera, Metallica and Megadeth also reached mainstream status as Slayer came up in the music world, but none were as fast, angry, anti-consumerist and in as direct opposition to popular culture as Slayer.
Kerry King gets ready to power shred.
Dallas, TX 6/19/18: A fan in an Anthrax tour tee and incredible punk kilt.
The Slayer fan uniform is heavy on the camo cargo shorts.
Houston, TX 6/17/18: Kerry King warms up backstage.
Dallas, TX 6/19/18. Tipper Gore, who founded the Parents Music Resource Center, attacked the band in testimony to the Senate—doing them a favor by cementing them in public discourse as the most controversial band of their time.
Houston, TX 6/17/18: Fans show off their gear before the show.
Austin, TX 6/20/18: Spooky dressing room decor.
Austin, TX 6/20/18. Former members Jeff Hanneman and Dave Lombardo were key in elevating the band to its current status, but Slayers has maintained its heart: Tom Araya's signature vocal style and Kerry King's meticulous shredding.
Houston, TX 6/17/18: Kerry King backstage.
Austin, TX 6/20/18: Tom Araya hangs out backstage.
Houston, TX 6/17/18: Kerry King exits stage right after taking a bow.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney might be reviving the mysterious project.


text:
_Third Force
_Election
_Voices
HomeNational
Oyo State Politics: Insecurity will become worse in Oyo if Gov Makinde is re-elected, says APC
byJoe Adams - 8/08/2022 09:49:00 PM
Oyo State Governor, Mr Seyi Makinde
The All Progressives Congress in Oyo State has said security in the state will be in a total mess if Governor Seyi Makinde is re-elected for a second term in office in 2023.
The party said this in a statement issued by the State Secretary, Alhaji Tajudeen Olanite, and made available to journalists in Ibadan on Monday.
The opposition party accused the governor of using the instrumentalities of the state to empower thugs that have been fingered in the killing of some people in the state.
The APC spoke against a threat to kill the party's 2023 governorship candidate in the state, Senator Teslim Kolawole Folarin, also the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Local Content.
He added that Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi, fondly called 'Auxiliary', who was appointed in February 2020 by Makinde as the chairman of the disciplinary committee for the Park Management System of the Oyo State Government, issued the threat to Folarin's life in a viral video and the governor was silent on it.
According to the party, the threat to Folarin's life by Auxiliary has become a matter of public knowledge via video clips that have gone viral on the social media space within the past few days.
The statement read in part, "Governor Seyi Makinde does not deserve a second term in office. During this outgoing first term of his, he has made our dear state retrogress in terms of thuggery and hooliganism, which the immediate past governor, the late Senator Abiola Ajimobi, tamed effectively for eight years.
"Apart from the threat to the life of the Distinguished Senator Folarin, the same Mukaila Auxiliary and scores of his thugs have clamped down on the billboards and posters of the opposition parties, especially the leading opposition party in the state.
"Auxiliary has been leading heavily armed thugs to destroy APC billboards and posters in different parts of Ibadan and the state.
"The billboard destruction by Auxiliary and his thugs, engaged by the PDP government in Oyo State is tagged: 'Operation Destroy APC Billboard and Posters'. They have also started the destruction of shops at Dugbe Alawo and Ogunpa, being operated by people they believed are not favorably disposed to the second-term bid of Governor Makinde.
"It is an attempt to silence opposition and turn Oyo into a one-party state. The PDP-led administration is very intolerant of opposition in the state because they know that they have failed woefully, and they don't have any good thing to offer the good people of the state.
"But we have a mandate to rescue the state from the hands of these clueless, distracted, promise-breaking rookies in governance and promoters of thuggery fellows. We shall not be deterred by their antics. We shall ensure the liberation of the good people of this state from the claws of these political hawks that have been reported to be in government to steal, kill and destroy."
The APC State Secretary, Alhaji Tajudeen Olanite, stated further that within nine months of becoming governor in the state, Governor Makinde rubbished the foundation for peace and tranquility laid by a former governor of this state on the APC platform for eight years.
"So, if Auxiliary and his men can be going around to make people cry during the first term of Governor Makinde, who wants a second term in office, the situation will definitely be worse if he wins the second term. The reign of impunity will go to the next level, which will definitely be a monumental setback for Oyo State. We should not allow this to happen.
"We, therefore, call on the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State and the Inspector-General of Police on the threat to the life of a three-term senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a former Senate Leader in the National Assembly to do the needful."
Tinubu attack Buhari of not being serious about his presidential ambition
byJoe Adams- 1/30/2023 10:52:00 AM
2023: Tinubu plotted my removal in 2019 for not paying him N50b, $5m monthly, says Ambode, asks Nigerians to vote wisely
BLUNDER: Tinubu is afraid of his own shadow — Atiku taunts
OSUN: Confusion in Osun as Gov Adeleke's protesters ground business activities in the state
JUST IN: Obi is a surprising insurgent third party candidate heading to Presidential Villa victoriously, says UN chief Goldberg
Copyright © National Pivot by Venato Media


I have already written to Michael Gove, who did to his credit reply and pass my story to IDS. The outcome of this intervention was the cessation, after many years, of my pursuit for repayment of benefits I was actually entitled to. After countless calls and letters, one sensible administrator took the executive decision, and cancelled the demand for repayment.
Setting aside the stress, mental torment and anguish I was already going through as my child was slipping away through a series of corrupt manoeuvres on the part of her father and his enamoured and deluded new partner. Girls…take it with a pinch (or a sack) of salt eh?
If your new partner makes a lot of noise about how 'mental' their ex was…just think.
It is natural for some insecure individuals to foster security by assuring their new love interest there is no love lost between them and the predecessor.
Please ask questions and talk among yourselves. I have accepted we are unlikely to achieve anything in terms of recompense, or even apology.
This is merely catharsis, and a form of legal protection because, as you know, I 'ain't got no lawyer. I just have stubborn old me.
My response to Surrey council Carers survey..couldn't resist!
I am a parent carer, Action for carers recently provided an excellent signposting service but in fact I found our family was ineligible for the majority of services, and my enquiries often met with pure confusion.
I was unable to register for the emergency scheme.
I registered as a carer with my GP but it has not been noted and I still have to fight to have my own health fully monitored despite having a chronic fatigue problem after caring and working full time for so long.
Social care, when asked to do a carer assessment decided to opt for putting my daughter on a child protection plan instead and has publicly defamed me in the process. I have thereby lost substantial earnings, become unwell with stress and exhaustion, and as a result missed the opportunity to progress to the next stage of my career. I would love to talk to someone about the extent of the tax-payer funded problems Surrey has caused us, and the appalling lack of genuine support for tax paying single parents. I have worked in Camberley for five years as an orthodontic nurse in a busy NHS subcontracted practice. The education system had failed my daughter, she has ADHD and has been largely excluded from formal education since Summer 2012. The statutory assessment process was completed in October and yet she is still stuck at home and getting into more trouble while losing all her academic confidence. She was measured and found to be gifted in literacy and numeracy. I must insist you pass this information on as I have had no adequate response to my formal complaint raised in December 2013 and resupplied 2 weeks ago via the family feedback email. I have given adequate opportunity for redress and explanation. I think it may be time to see what the wider world thinks about our fate at the hands of the state?


text:
Red Maryland to Sponsor 6th District Congressional Debate
Brian Griffiths
Red Maryland is proud to be a sponsor of the Maryland 6th District Republican Primary Congressional Debate being organized by the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee.
The debate will be on Thursday, January 7th at the Holiday Inn Gaithersburg, Things kick off a 6:30 with a pre-debate social featuring the candidates, and the debate itself will begin at 7:30.
The debate will also be broadcast online, giving those who cannot attend in Gaithersburg the opportunity to watch and ask questions online via Twitter @GOPMontgomery or using #CD6Debate.
The debate will be moderated by Casey Aiken, the host of "21 This Week." The panelists will be Kat O'Connor of the Montgomery County Republican Party, Matthew Foldi, and me.
I, for one, can't tell you how happy that I am to participate. This is an important primary for all Republicans in Maryland and our best shot to win a Congressional seat in 2016. I will be interested to see how the candidates respond to the questions from us panelists and from the audience as they help the voters of the Maryland 6th District determine who is best qualified to represent our party. I'm also appreciative that the Montgomery County GOP asked me to participate; we're recognized as Maryland's Most Trusted Conservative Voice for a reason, and we're happy that the Montgomery County GOP recognizes this and included us in their plans.
Brian Griffiths is the Editor-in-Chief of RedMaryland.com, Maryland's leading news conservative news source. He is also a host of Red Maryland Radio and The Air Raid on The Red Maryland Network, Maryland's only podcast network of political content. In 2004, Brian became Maryland's first political blogger, earning him the nickname "The Dean of Maryland Bloggers." Brian has been involved in Maryland conservative politics since 1998 when he became involved in his College Republicans chapter. Since then he has been involved in numerous local, state, and federal-level campaigns. He was twice elected Chairman of the Maryland Young Republicans, the only person to be twice elected to that position unanimously. He also served as the Assistant Secretary and the Northeast Regional Vice-Chairman of the Young Republican National Federation. Additionally, he served four years as a member of the Maryland Republican Party Executive Committee from 2011-2015. In addition to his duties with Red Maryland, Brian is also a columnist for The Capital in Annapolis, where he writes about state and local issues. His writing has also been featured in the Baltimore Sun, Maryland Reporter, the Pasadena Voice, and Camden Chat. Brian is also a frequent commentator on local politics for WBAL Radio in Baltimore and WMAL Radio in Washington. Follow Brian on Twitter @BrianGriffiths or on Facebook at facebook.com/briangriffithsMD
Conservative Refuge Radio 12-7-2015
So About Byrd Stadium


If you are going to become a student of Harvard, and need to prepare an admission Harvard essay it is very important to know all the necessary requirements. First of all, you need to remember that your admission essay must have a concise structure. That means you should have the ability to keep to the type of school requirements. As a rule, the instructions for admission essay are given in a question form. So, when you start to answer some specific question, make certain that you already know what you will include in the paper. In your admission writing paper all you have to do is to give the answers and proofs in the main part of work. One more important thing you need to remember is that you should proofread your essay thoroughly before submitting it. This is the last thing before you submit your work to get enrolled as a student of Harvard University. Some of useful tips you may use while preparing your admission essay are given below.
An application essay is not actually designed to give you the freedom to express your views. You will just be given quite a small space to answer definite questions.
While working on your Harvard essay try to focus on giving a clear portrait of yourself, your achievements, and your individuality.
Make sure you tell such story that clearly gives a picture of your personality and how you usually act in some challenging situations.
Constantly keep in mind that you should not be shy. Instead, tell about your mature personality in a straightforward manner.
Never exaggerate your skills, abilities or knowledge. Simply present the facts about your life and your accomplishments.
In Harvard essays you need to share your triumphs, experiences and challenges, giving the reader a clear idea of who you are and your abilities.
If you want to tell about some negative experiences of your life, do it only in case they led to positive outcomes.
Keep in mind that you don't have to give the details of the situations when you failed, since such kind of story won't do you good.
Tell about your recent successes. Don't mention some of your childhood achievements unless they led to further achievements of your high school career.
When your essay is done, don't forget to read it thoroughly several times and check for probable mistakes.
Completing the Harvard essays is a very responsible process. You need to do your best and demonstrate all the skills you have. If you think you are not ready to complete it yourself, don't be upset. Simply apply for professional help. Visit custom research writing vendor Samedayessay.com and our experienced writers will be glad to prepare a high quality and absolutely plagiarism free writing papers of any type. Don't spare your time looking for fresh ideas. Visit our site right now and stop worrying about the final results!