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Apple Confirms: iPad 2 in 25 More Countries This Friday, Launching at 5 PM
By Federico Viticci
Apple just posted a press release confirming that the iPad 2 will launch in 25 more countries this Friday, thus denying the rumors of a delay we heard in these past days. The iPad 2 will be available at Apple retail stores and authorized resellers at 5 PM, with online orders starting at 1 AM. The device will be released in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and "other countries" in April.
Apple® today announced that iPad® 2, the second-generation of its third post-PC device, will go on sale in 25 additional countries this Friday, March 25. iPad 2 will be available at Apple retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers at 5 p.m. local time, and online through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com) beginning at 1 a.m. Apple today also announced that all models of iPad 2 will be available in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and additional countries in April.
This is the Italian pricing (and hopefully the same of other countries with Euro currency): €479,00 for the WiFi 16 GB model, €579,00 for the WiFi 32 GB model and €679,00 for WiFi 64 GB. The WiFi + 3G models will be available for €599,00, €699,00 and €799,00.
UK pricing: £399.00 for the 16GB model, £479.00 for the 32GB model, £559.00 for the 64GB model. Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available for £499.00, £579.00 and £659.00.
Australian pricing: iPad 2 WiFi: 16GB - $579; 32GB - $689; 64GB - $799; iPad 2 WiFi + 3G: 16GB - $729; 32GB - $839; 64GB - $949.
Overall, it seems like the iPad 2 is cheaper than the iPad 1 across Europe and Australia, a clever move considering Apple priced the iPad 2 just as the iPad 1 in the United States. Press release below.
Available in Hong Kong, Korea & Singapore in April
CUPERTINO, California—March 22, 2011—Apple® today announced that iPad® 2, the second-generation of its third post-PC device, will go on sale in 25 additional countries this Friday, March 25. iPad 2 will be available at Apple retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers at 5 p.m. local time, and online through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com) beginning at 1 a.m. Apple today also announced that all models of iPad 2 will be available in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and additional countries in April.
"While competitors are still struggling to catch up with our first iPad, we've changed the game again with iPad 2," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We're experiencing amazing demand for iPad 2 in the US, and customers around the world have told us they can't wait to get their hands on it. We appreciate everyone's patience and we are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone."
iPad 2 features an entirely new design that is 33 percent thinner and up to 15 percent lighter than the original iPad, while maintaining the same stunning 9.7-inch LED-backlit LCD screen. iPad 2 features Apple's new dual-core A5 processor for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics and now includes two cameras, a front-facing VGA camera for FaceTime® and Photo Booth®, and a rear-facing camera that captures 720p HD video, bringing the innovative FaceTime feature to iPad users for the first time. Though it is thinner, lighter, faster and packed with new features, iPad 2 still delivers up to 10 hours of battery life* that users have come to expect.
iPad 2 with Wi-Fi will be available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK on March 25 for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for the 16GB model, $599 (US) for the 32GB model, $699 (US) the 64GB model. iPad 2 with Wi-Fi + 3G will be available for a suggested retail price of $629 (US) for the 16GB model, $729 (US) for the 32GB model and $829 (US) for the 64GB model. iPad 2 will be available in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and additional countries in April, and in many more countries around the world in the coming months. Further international availability and pricing will be announced at a later date.
iMovie® and GarageBand® for iPad apps are available for $4.99 (US) each from the App Store℠ on iPad or www.itunes.com/appstore. The Smart Cover is available in a range of colors in vibrant polyurethane for $39 (US) or rich leather for $69 (US).
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Reaper's Harvest Horror meets the Sisters of Horror.
The Sisters of Horror. They don't sound familiar. Well, give me a few minutes and you will have a couple of good reasons to check out Independent Horror"s new diabolical duo. Readers say hello to the Sisters of Horror, Michelle Garza and Michelle Lason.
Reaper's Harvest Horror - Here is a question to get you both started. What made you decide to write cooperatively?
Michelle/ Melissa - The answer is we have been writing together since we were eight years old, so writing separately seems foreign to us. Like a lot of twins, we just love doing things together. I (Michelle) was published on my own in The Horror Writers Association's poetry showcase volume one, but about 99% of the time we write together. It's fun, it feels like when we were little girls playing pretend, creating worlds and characters. We feel lucky to get to share that with other people.
RHH - I know Michelle has an affection for werewolves. How about you, Melissa? Do you have a favorite monster?
M/M - Melissa's favorite monster is the werewolf as well. Since we were little we were drawn to them. We would pretend our cats were werewolves and play like they were attacking our dolls. We could recognize the whole "even a man that is pure in heart..." thing since we were six or seven. Our mom is really into old horror movies and we watched the original wolfman and we just loved him from the beginning. Nowadays it's much more acceptable for teen girls to like werewolves, but when we were in school people really thought we were strange for being into stuff like that... screw them lol!
RHH - How many stories do you have published? Where can they be found?
M/M - Together we have been published/waiting for acceptances to be published five times and I (Michelle) had a poem in the HWA poetry showcase volume one. We will list them here.
WISHFUL THINKING- Amazon.com, Fireside Press.
ISOLATION- Eternal press an imprint of Damnation Books. Release date soon to come.
An untitled benefit anthology in the UK supports cancer research. Release date to be announced.
RHH - Any authors/books you are reading right now?
M/M - We have both been reading WISHFUL THINKING, it is packed with good stories, including one of Kevin Strange that was really amazing. Adam Cesare is really saying it right now too.
RHH - In your story, The Gift, a gift is passed that grants one wish? If you could have one wish, what would it be?
Melissa: That something that I write can inspire others to never give up on their dreams of publication.
Michelle: That my kids grow up to be horror nerds and listen to heavy metal so when they get mad at me and lock their bedroom door, I can stand outside of it and heading to the music they crank up in teenage angst.
RHH - When are you releasing something new?
M/M - We are awaiting release dates for ISOLATION and the UK anthology. When those dates are available, we will announce them. We also have some submissions out and if they get picked up we will be sure to let everyone know.
RHH - Any advice you have for new authors looking to be published?
M/M - Our advice to new authors is to never give up, rejection will happen, but it won't be the end. It took us over a year to even get one acceptance. Learn from your rejections, get feedback on stories and keep honing your skills... it will happen.
RHH - And finally a question from my 10 year old step-daughter (who I bounced this off of this morning). Do you have any plans of writing "kid books"?
M/M - About kids' books- HELL YEAH! We are totally kicking around ideas for books for children. They would involve monsters, of course, because we know there are kids out there that love creepy stuff just like we did when we were young.
RHH - Is there anything either of you want to add?
So, go check out the Sisters of Horror. You may find yourselves pleasantly surprised at the writing prowess of Michelle & Melissa.


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Inspired by Humans of New York, this online commercial for Telstra was designed to recruit young Australians to the Telstra Imaginarium, a bold innovation program in which young Australians collaborate with Telstra to generate ideas for the future. We also partnered with Heckler to visually show the generation of the Imaginarium logo. The suite of Imaginarium content produced for Telstra by Engine Room was viewed almost 20 million times including over 1 million video views, generating half a million interactions and an engagement rate eight times higher than industry average.


Multiculturalism is a smorgasbord of things.
Multiculturalism is a thing that usually makes its presence felt in the smallest of ways.
Multiculturalism is the undisturbed presence of cultural festivals and ethnic restaurants in our community.
Rain or shine, respecting one another regardless or race and letting them go about doing their own thing is the true essence of multiculturalism. Photo by Mabel Kwong.
Multiculturalism is attending cultural festivals and ethnic restaurants that serve up pungent-smelling yet mouth-watering ethnic cuisine.


Miami, FL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 08/17/2011 --Looking to add another handbag to your collection, but can't afford to spend a fortune?
LuxeDH, the biggest online store for gently used Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci, Prada, Marc Jacobs and more handbags now offers its customers 'Deals of the Week'.
Every Monday, the site posts deals for authentic, pre-owned bags that give women a chance to get their dream handbag at a price that is not a nightmare.
"We really want to make it easy and affordable for women to get the handbag they want," said Kim, the company's Director of Customer Relations. "We are bag lovers and just want to share that love!"
In addition, LuxeDH offers payment plans, free shipping and a great money back guarantee, if a customer is not satisfied. Every customer has five days from the date of delivery to return a handbag for whatever reason - no questions asked.
LuxeDH (Luxe Designer Handbags) will also give you cash for your handbags, so that you can get rid of the old from your closet and buy a pre-owned bag in great condition to replace it. And, with retail prices steadily rising, at a cost that is affordable.
FOX News (Deco Drive, WSVN), CBS Channel 4 (WFOR) and The Sun-Sentinel recently ran features on LuxeDH. The site also has an endorsement from MyPoupette.com, the Internet's oldest and most recognizable designer handbag authenticator, as an approved seller of authentic merchandise.
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Entertainer Sidow Sobrino Celebrates his 47th Birthday on December 1st
He is recognized as the first artist from Merida, Yucatan, MX. in Hollywood history to record music and act in films and TV shows in English, conquering the American, European, Asian, and Latin Markets.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. & LONDON & CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, Mexico & TOKYO, Japan - WisconsinEagle -- Born in 1975, songwriter, recording artist, actor, and producer Sidow Sobrino - The World's No.1 Superstar turns 47. The icon who recently released the song and video "Celebrating Christ at Christmas." shares his birthday month with his husband, Richard Sidow-Sobrino, and other renowned names such as Director Steven Spielberg, Actor Brad Pitt, and singer Taylor Swift.
Sidow Sobrino, now a critically acclaimed name in the entertainment industry, is a member of the Screen Actor's Guild SAG-AFTRA and The American society of composers ASCAP. He is a man who was born in deep poverty, and after migrating to the United States, he became a naturalized American citizen. Successful through his efforts, he has worked with prominent directors, producers, and top-name celebrities. On Television, Sidow Sobrino appeared on The Carlos Mencia Show (2006). He was one of the celebrity judges on the Spin the Bottle game show (2008). He portrayed himself in the Emmy award-winning show Rupaul's Drag Race (2011) and guest-starred in Shameless (2013) next to Emmy Award-winning actor William H Macy. Sidow Sobrino has released ten studio albums and currently working on "My Amir." his eleventh.
Sidow Sobrino spends most of his time training in his private home gym. He loves to read and grow daily, as he believes men should do every day to contribute to society instead of taking. He battles with Bipolar disorder type II, which he keeps in check without medication, eating healthy and doing what he loves most, honoring God with his music. He and his husband Richard are now dedicated to traveling worldwide, producing songs and videos. Among his charming charisma, some of the things that stand out most are the artist's inspiration for creating music, focusing on life's positive side, and motivating the listener to dance. He has been quoted as wanting to be known as the man who put a smile on the world and transformed everyone's life into a never-ending dance party.
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Cafe Lemon Tree brings authentic Korean food to Winnipeg and blends it with Canadian flavours. Their popular dishes are Dak-Galbi, Okonomiyaki, and waffles. Experience a delicious Korean/Canadian fusion, and enjoy their brunch too! Order online today in Winnipeg for pick up or delivery with SkipTheDishes.com!
Good Korean food. If you like Korean food you should check this place out. I enjoyed my first experience at Cafe Lemon Tree and look forward to going back to try more.
I had the Dak Galbi which is chicken & rice cake with vegtables fried in a chili paste. It was spicy goodness! I have never tried it before but loved it & now writing about it I want it again.


I hope you set big goals, the kind that scare you, that make you breathe a bit faster, and I hope that every single time you think of them you get that butterfly feeling in your stomach. That you work for them with all the energy you have and you remember why it's worth it, through the good and bad.
I hope you get to see new places, to taste and listen and smell things you haven't before, and I hope it opens your eyes to all the amazing things this world has to offer, to the joy of searching, of discovering, of being truly alive.
I hope you remember that, after all, this life is nothing without the people in it. That you realize there are many things worth investing in, but nothing as worth as the ones you love, and out of all the things it hurts to lose, nothing hurts as bad as losing people.
I hope you manage to let go of all the things that didn't go as planned. That you forgive yourself for everything you didn't do, for everything you couldn't be. I hope you make peace with yourself, that you put down all the weight and realize not everything is worth holding on to.
I hope you learn to give back to the world. That you realize we're not entitled to anything we have, that many things are not anything we've earned. I hope you think of this planet, of its people and its wonders and learn to care for them, to leave them better than when you found them.
I hope you make mistakes, lots of them, and I hope that they teach you that it's okay to fail, to take the wrong turn, as long as you keep looking for the right one. I wish that you learn from them, that they teach you millions of things about yourself and the world, and that in the end, you allow them to make you a better person.
I hope you remember to find the joy in the small things, and learn that in the end, they're the only ones that matter. I hope that in this great chase we all call life, you see that it's all about the journey. And man, it's quite an amazing one.
I hope you manage to let go of fear – of the unknown, of looking silly, of not being enough. I wish that you leave it behind, bury it, and find the power to do all the things you've always wanted to do, see all the places you've wanted to see and say all those things you've always wanted to say. I hope you'll leave no I love you unsaid.
I hope you do things that make your heart pump faster, that bring you the kind of joy books are written about, that make you forget to look at your screen. I hope you find out what those things are and that when you do, you search for every way to make them happen.
Through it all, I hope you're still able to pause, every now and then, to enjoy the view from where you stand, cause you're never going to be in the exact same place again. I hope you realize this life moves pretty fast, and if you're not able to stop and look around every one in a while, you might just miss it.


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Volleys in political trench warfare after Naidenov says Tsvetanov bugged everyone
Written by The Sofia Globe staff on April 25, 2013 in Bulgaria, News - No comments
Within a few hours of former cabinet minister Miroslav Naidenov alleging that Tsvetan Tsvetanov had been behind illegal eavesdropping on the entire Borissov cabinet, Naidenov had been granted bodyguards and was being interviewed by prosecutors, while on the election battlefield, volleys were being exchanged.
Former prime minister Boiko Borissov defended Tsvetanov, saying that he would not heed calls for Tsvetanov's resignation as GERB campaign chief, while Tsvetanov continued to deny all wrongdoing and insisted that the eavesdropping controversy had been cooked up as an election stunt.
The Bulgarian Socialist Party, along with GERB's lesser rivals, already had been calling for Tsvetanov to leave politics, saying that the former interior minister should fulfil his promise to do so if it emerged that there had been illegal eavesdropping while he was in office.
After Naidenov appeared on breakfast television on April 25 to say that Tsvetanov had been behind illegal surveillance of his cabinet colleagues, that even during meetings with President Plevneliev telephones had been left outside rooms to avoid eavesdropping, and that Naidenov had sent his family outside Bulgaria to protect them, the socialists stepped up their calls to saying that both Tsvetanov and Borissov should quit politics and should face prosecution.
Borissov, reacting to the Naidenov allegations, said that Tsvetanov was the "engine of the party", highly important to everyone and he would not ask for his resignation.
"I would like to ask everyone so insistent on Tsvetanov's dismissal to pull themselves together," Borissov said, saying that he supported the continuing investigation by Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov and was sure "everything will be cleared up".
Naidenov was the last person who should complain about Tsvetanov, who always had backed him, according to Borissov.
Naidenov withdrew from the list of GERB candidates for parliament in the May 12 2013 after an investigation was opened into alleged wrongdoing by him when in office as agriculture minister.
Tsvetanov, said Borissov, had "sworn on his children" that there had been no illegal eavesdropping.
Tsvetanov said that he would not comment on Naidenov's allgations. "While I was Interior Minister, I was always led by the supremacy of the law".
The eavesdropping controversy was part of the election campaign of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, Tsvetanov said.
He said that the anonymous claim about the illegal surveillance had come right at the start of the election campaign. Naidenov's statements, he said, were in the spirit of the campaign being conducted by some parties.
In power, according to Tsvetanov, GERB had regained trust in Bulgaria among the country's Euro-Atlantic partners.
Now, our opponents are getting nervous and irritated, because they have nothing to oppose. That is why they started plotting signals like the one with the so-called 'Buddha case', which was launched at a moment that was not selected by accident either," Tsvetanov said.
Everything regarding surveillance had been done in line with the law, for use against organised crime, he said.
A former cabinet minister, Ivailo Moskovski, rejected his former colleague Naidenov's claims, calling them a "rearguard action".
Moskovski, among the minority of Borissov's cabinet ministers who were granted an electable place on parliamentary candidate lists, said that it was unacceptable that while security services around the world had praised Tsvetanov's fight against organised crime, in Bulgaria the former interior minister was being presented as public enemy number one.
Socialist party leader Sergei Stanishev, whose handing to Prosecutor-General Tsatsarov of documentation claiming that there had been illegal wiretapping of state and political leaders as well as business people prompted the initial investigation, reiterated his call for Tsvetanov to quit politics.
At an impromptu news conference, MEP and parliamentary candidate Iliyana Yotova said that Borissov and Tsvetanov should both immediately quit the election and renounce their immunity from prosecution.
Unless this was done, there would be a question mark over whether the elections would be fair and the future of Bulgaria would be in jeopardy, Yotova said.
Another BSP candidate, Petar Kurumbashev, said that the Naidenov – Tsvetanov episode was a battle between mafia clans in GERB.
Kurumbashev said that it was ultimately Borissov who was behind the illegal wiretapping. At the same time, Kurumbashev said that it appeared that cabinet ministers in Borissov's GERB government had known that they were subjected to unlawful surveillance but yet had failed to alert prosecutors.
The BSP's Maya Manolova said that Rossen Plevneliev, formerly a minister in the Borissov government and since January 2012 the President of Bulgaria, should say whether he had been wiretapped in office.
Plevneliev told journalists that it was up to the Prosecutor-General's office to say whether there was evidence of illegal electronic surveillance.
Asked whether he thought Tsvetanov should resign from all posts he occupied, Plevneliev said that journalists should not expect the head of state to comment on such an issue. "You should not expect a President to give his evaluation of one or another political leader," Plevneliev said.
Responding to Naidenov's statements about the meetings held ahead of the formation of the current caretaker cabinet, Plevneliev said that he had held the meetings with various outgoing ministers to be briefed on what had been going on with their portfolios as he prepared to appoint a caretaker administration.
Asked whether telephones had been left outside the rooms where meetings were held, Plevneliev said that he had many meetings every day and customarily did not take his phone into them, as a matter of courtesy.
Lyutvi Mestan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, said that Tsvetanov was the "ugly face" of GERB.
Mestan, whose party is said by pollsters to be set for the third-largest number of seats after the election of Bulgaria's 42nd National Assembly, said that Tsvetanov represented the "moral erosion" of GERB.
"There would be nothing more natural than his immediate dismissal as chairperson of the GERB campaign office and even being excluded from the election ticket," Mestan said.
"However, if it turns out that Borissov is unable to get rid of his deputy, this will confirm suspicions that the Boss is so heavily dependent on his deputy that the two are even about to swop their jobs," Mestan said.
"The fact that Tsvetan Tsvetanov has been spying, mostly illegally, is a fact. In this sense, Naidenov did not break news today. The news is that a person from inside the party, from the closest circle around the former prime minister, started talking. This shows the nature of the relations inside GERB. These are relations that are characteristic for another type of organisation from the underground, not for the political parties. It is very likely that President and the Prime Minister are wiretapped, too," the MRF leader said.
When he spoke on television on the morning of April 25, Naidenov said that he hoped that his statements would give other former ministers the "courage" to come forward.
Within a few hours, two former ministers had spoken critically, of whom both had been fired from their posts by Borissov long before the GERB government left office.
Former economy minister Traicho Traikov and former health minister Stefan Konstantinov said that Naidenov's claims were credible.
Traikov, among those alleged to have been subject to eavesdropping even after his axing from the cabinet in March 2012, said that when he held meetings, he had left his phone outside the room.
According to Traikov, members of the cabinet had joked with each other about the wiretapping, which Traikov described as an "open secret".
Konstantinov said that after he became minister, Interior Ministry officials had swept his office for bugs. "They told me, no authorised ones. But unauthorised. They laughed," he said.
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"""
    werkzeug.testsuite.compat
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Ensure that old stuff does not break on update.

    :copyright: (c) 2011 by Armin Ronacher.
    :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
"""
import unittest
import warnings
from werkzeug.testsuite import WerkzeugTestCase

from werkzeug.wrappers import Response
from werkzeug.test import create_environ

class CompatTestCase(WerkzeugTestCase):

    def test_old_imports(self):
        from werkzeug.utils import Headers, MultiDict, CombinedMultiDict, \
             Headers, EnvironHeaders
        from werkzeug.http import Accept, MIMEAccept, CharsetAccept, \
             LanguageAccept, ETags, HeaderSet, WWWAuthenticate, \
             Authorization

    def test_exposed_werkzeug_mod(self):
        import werkzeug
        for key in werkzeug.__all__:
            # deprecated, skip it
            if key in ('templates', 'Template'):
                continue
            getattr(werkzeug, key)

    def test_fix_headers_in_response(self):
        # ignore some warnings werkzeug emits for backwards compat
        for msg in ['called into deprecated fix_headers',
                    'fix_headers changed behavior']:
            warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', message=msg,
                                    category=DeprecationWarning)

        class MyResponse(Response):
            def fix_headers(self, environ):
                Response.fix_headers(self, environ)
                self.headers['x-foo'] = "meh"
        myresp = MyResponse('Foo')
        resp = Response.from_app(myresp, create_environ(method='GET'))
        assert resp.headers['x-foo'] == 'meh'
        assert resp.data == 'Foo'

        warnings.resetwarnings()

def suite():
    suite = unittest.TestSuite()
    suite.addTest(unittest.makeSuite(CompatTestCase))
    return suite

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A Canadian missionary organization based in Hamilton is facing allegations that nearly $94 million in charitable donations purportedly sent to India in the past eight years can't be properly accounted for by either the Indian or Canadian governments.
Gospel for Asia Canada's filings with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) show $93.5 million was transferred to India between 2007 and 2014, but Indian government documents show that no money from Canada was received by the charity's Indian affiliates during the same period.
Pat Emerick, the head of Gospel for Asia Canada, is now named as one of the defendants in a U.S. class-action lawsuit launched last month in Arkansas alleging the multinational Gospel for Asia charity, which is based in Texas, has engaged in racketeering and fraud.
Gospel for Asia was created and is controlled by K.P. Yohannan, who was born in the southern Indian state of Kerala and is now based in Wills Point, Texas, about 30 kilometres east of Dallas. Yohannan is also listed as the founder and president of the board of Gospel for Asia Canada.
Much of Gospel for Asia's international work is focused on Kerala and a significant part of the charity's stated mission is to help the Dalits, members of India's lowest caste.
In written responses to a lengthy list of questions submitted by the Spectator, Emerick strongly denied Gospel for Asia Canada is involved in any financial impropriety.
Bruce Morrison, a Nova Scotia pastor whose church has raised money for Gospel for Asia for more than 20 years, has filed formal complaints about the charity with the CRA and the RCMP.
Morrison conducted a meticulous review of Indian financial documents filed by Gospel for Asia with the help of an American auditor. He alleges that for some of the charitable categories cited by the organization, less than 1 per cent of money donated from developed countries was used for the stated intentions.
In a detailed 21-page financial analysis of Gospel for Asia prepared in November, Morrison alleges that as much as $128 million (U.S.) in worldwide donations over an eight-year period went "missing" in India.
Morrison also alleges that Gospel for Asia's Indian branch and three related charitable affiliates in India showed $56 million (U.S.) sitting in one Indian account as of March 2014, and another $152 million (U.S.) reported as cash-at-hand in other Indian bank accounts.
Garry Cluley, a recently ousted board member of Gospel for Asia Canada has also filed a complaint with the CRA. Cluley alleges he was dumped from Gospel for Asia's board in December when he asked to see copies of documents that would show how the charity's donations were being governed and spent.
Morrison and Cluley, as well as the U.S. lawsuit, allege that Gospel for Asia, either directly or through Indian affiliates, has used its charitable donations to build an extensive for-profit corporate empire in India that includes a private hospital, private schools, a college, a rubber plantation that cost $19 million (U.S.) to purchase, and even a professional soccer team based in Burma.
In addition, the lawsuit alleges Gospel for Asia spent $45 million (U.S.) to build its new state-of-the-art headquarters in Texas, with nearly half of the money coming from donations that had originally gone to India and were then sent back to the U.S.
In one example, the lawsuit alleges that between 2010 and 2013, Gospel for Asia collected $4.2 million (U.S.) to support widows and abandoned children.
During that time, the lawsuit alleges, Indian government documents show Gospel for Asia spent $31,265 for the welfare of widows and $0 on orphans, less than 1 per cent of the intended donations.
Morrison said he has provided full disclosure to police about his findings.
"I'm hopeful there will be a CRA investigation or a police investigation into Gospel for Asia," Morrison said in an interview with the Spectator.
The RCMP declined to comment on Gospel for Asia Canada, which has its headquarters in Stoney Creek.
"Generally, only in the event that an investigation results in the laying of criminal charges would the RCMP confirm its investigation, the nature of any charges laid and the identity of the individuals involved," said RCMP spokesperson Annie Delisle.
Canada Revenue Agency also declined to comment on Gospel for Asia, citing confidentiality provisions in the Income Tax Act.
A spokesperson for the federal government's Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, based in North Bay, would only confirm it received a complaint from Morrison. The centre — jointly managed by the RCMP, the Competition Bureau and the OPP — is the national repository for data and intelligence related to fraud.
Emerick stated that he is not aware of any investigations by police or CRA into Gospel for Asia Canada.
According to CRA rules, Canadian charities that conduct activities in foreign countries must account for all related expenditures and must maintain control and direction over the Canadian donations.
Indian law, meanwhile, requires charities to detail precisely where foreign contributions come from and precisely how the money is being used, in part because the Indian government is worried foreign charitable contributions could be used as a cover to fund political activities.
For the eight years between 2007 and 2014, documents filed with the Indian government and available online for Gospel for Asia India and its three affiliates show no money received from Canada.
Morrison claims he was told by Gospel for Asia officials that the charity's Canadian donation amounts had been lumped in with the U.S. donations sent to India, which is why they don't show up in the Indian government filings.
Taken together, it suggests Canadian donations were lumped in with the American donations sent to India but the American charity didn't exercise any control over the Indian affiliates receiving the money.
This would appear to be in violation of CRA's rules which state that the Canadian charity must maintain control and direction of its donations and be able to account for how they have been spent, even when done through an intermediary.
Emerick stated that all donations have been properly accounted for by all the various international components of Gospel for Asia.
He also denied that Canadian donations have been lumped in with American donations.
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U.S President Donald Trump said that he believes China's handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing "will do anything they can" to make him lose re-election bid.
In an interview, Trump talked tough on China and said he was looking at different options in terms of consequences for Beijing over the virus. "I can do a lot," he said.
Trump has been heaping blame on China for a global pandemic that has killed at least 60,000 people in the United States, and thrown the U.S. economy into a deep recession, putting in jeopardy his hopes for another four-year term.
The Republican president, often accused of not acting early enough to prepare the United States for the spread of the virus, said he believed China should have been more active in letting the world know about the coronavirus much sooner.
Asked whether he was considering the use of tariffs or even debt write-offs for China, Trump would not offer specifics. "There are many things I can do," he said. "We're looking for what happened."
"China will do anything they can to have me lose this race," said Trump. He said he believes Beijing wants his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, to win the race to ease the pressure Trump has placed on China over trade and other issues.
"They're constantly using public relations to try to make it like they're innocent parties," he said of Chinese officials.
He said the trade deal that he concluded with Chinese President Xi Jinping aimed at reducing chronic U.S. trade deficits with China had been "upset very badly" by the economic fallout from the virus.
A senior Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Wednesday that an informal "truce" in the war of words that Trump and Xi essentially agreed to in a phone call in late March now appeared to be over.
The two leaders had promised that their governments would do everything possible to cooperate to contain the coronavirus. In recent days, Washington and Beijing have traded increasingly bitter recriminations over the origin of the virus and the response to it.
However, Trump and his top aides, while stepping up their anti-China rhetoric, have stopped short of directly criticizing Xi, who the U.S. president has repeatedly called his "friend."
Trump also said South Korea has agreed to pay the United States more money for a defense cooperation agreement but would not be drawn out on how much.
"We can make a deal. They want to make a deal," Trump said. "They've agreed to pay a lot of money. They're paying a lot more money than they did when I got here" in January 2017.
The United States stations roughly 28,500 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War that ended in an armistice, rather than a peace treaty.
Trump is leading a triage effort to try to keep the U.S. economy afloat through stimulus payments to individuals and companies while nudging state governors to carefully reopen their states as new infections decline.
Trump sounded wistful about the strong economy that he had enjoyed compared with now, when millions of people have lost their jobs and GDP is faltering.
"We were rocking before this happened. We had the greatest economy in history," he said.
He said he is happy with the way many governors are operating under the strain of the virus but said some need to improve. He would not name names.
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Rules Matter...but Luck Does Too
The Providence Journal's, Froma Harrop, ran a column of Clinton talking points this morning. In all the talk (both from her and separately from the Clinton campaign) of all the different metrics of nomination success, Florida and Michigan voter disenfranchisement and the undemocratic nature of caucuses, one thing continues to be underdiscussed in this Democratic nomination battle.
The bottom line is that RULES MATTER. We see the effects of those rules in a close race, but also see how adaptable each candidate's campaign is to those rules. Obama's campaign was better at foreseeing how the race would progress. PERIOD. Was that by design? Yes, but to a large degree there is some luck involved there. He had to have all the chips fall in just the right place for that plan to work. So while there may have been discussions within an Obama campaign still in its infancy then about a caucus strategy as early as last summer, they still needed Iowa or New Hampshire or Nevada or South Carolina to help even get his campaign to that point (the caucus phase between Super Tuesday and Wyoming a month later on March 8). Those Obama successes in Iowa, Nevada and South Carolina were anything but given even at the outset of the 2008 calendar year.
Foresight and luck are the marks of a long shot winning the nomination. Arguably Obama is not, in 2008, the long shot that Jimmy Carter was in 1976. Both, however, were effective at navigating through the rules of the game. And things worked out the way both campaigns expected; both by design and through some luck. Carter needed early success in Iowa and New Hampshire to set him up for an elimination contest against George Wallace in Florida. He needed that elimination to claim the mantle as the southern (albeit more moderate) candidate in the race for the Democratic nomination.
In 2008, Obama needed a win, any win, among the early states to be seen as viable in the overall contest and heading into Super Tuesday on February 5. That he got a win in mostly white Iowa was certainly better than having broken through in South Carolina, where African Americans made up over half of the primary electorate. But his win in Iowa signaled to African Americans that he was viable to an audience broader than simply African Americans. Without that signal, the race may not have played out the way it did in South Carolina. The polls in the state prior to Obama's Iowa win showed a tight race between Clinton and Obama. And even then the endorsement of the influential, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), was still sought after by Clinton, Edwards and Obama to put any one of them over the top. But it was just before It wasn't until after South Carolina that the strained relations between the Clintons and the black community began to appear. Obama's campaign emerged from both state victorious and proved their knowledge of the rules by gaining one more delegate than Clinton in Nevada, despite losing the popular vote (That knowledge of the rules extended to subsequent steps in the Nevada process as well.). Obama's path, then, was not necessarily a clear one.
On the other hand, at the outset of the contests, Clinton's path to the nomination was the clearer one. But luck runs both ways and Clinton had some bad luck. Her campaign leaned way too heavily on the approaches to the presidential primary process of the past. But we all did. Why wouldn't both parties' nominations be settled by Super Tuesday? That's the way it had been in most nomination contests since 1988. [Of course, the Clinton campaign didn't fall back on those approaches enough to take her name off the ballot in Michigan for that state's non-sanctioned primary. That decision was curious at the time given her status as front-runner.] The Super Tuesday or bust strategy was fine, in and of itself, but they never had a Plan B in place if the states that held contests on February 5 didn't hand her enough delegates for the nomination. And they certainly didn't foresee Obama building a firewall in caucus states.
The message, as always, is that rules matter. And if your knowledge of them is anything less than full, then you are vulnerable to defeat. The discussion, then, is not one of whether caucuses are democratic, or popular votes should be the metric by which a nominee is determined, or of Florida or Michigan. That's a discussion that can be had by both parties when and if they seek to reform the process between now and 2012. The discussion is about a campaign that thought primary season would go one way and later discovered (the hard way) that they had guessed wrong.
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Excellent analysis as usual! The only point I would make is that the tensions emerged before the SC primary. Hillary made the remark about MLK before the primary and Clyburn indicated that Bill should chill five days before the primary.
http://youtube.com/watch?v
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There don't seem to be many damaging quotes out there by Bill during this time other than the "hit job" comment, but I understand that he was shaking down many of the African-American churches. Something had Clyburn very upset. I truly believe that her MLK statement followed by Bill's attempts to paint Barack as the black candidate was a major turning point in the process and may have cost her the nomination. He had her on the ropes in NH and she got away. She had him in SC and he got away.
Here's that YouTube link.
Good catch Rob. The origin of the break between the Clintons and the black community did precede the contest in SC.
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A Fatherhood Champion in San Bernardino County
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Ryan Berryman was tired of waiting. He had worked with children and families for over 20 years in San Bernardino County and imagined a community where dads were just as involved with their children as were moms, and, were encouraged to do so through programs and resources offered by family and social services. He didn't want dads to be the "invisible" parent.
Fast forward to 2018: The Press-Enterprise recently published a local news article about the San Bernardino County Fatherhood Initiative. In it they share how Ryan Berryman decided to tackle what he felt was one of the largest deficits in social services – providing services for fathers.
The article shared, "Historically, fathers have been the invisible parent and not seen as someone that needs help," Berryman said. "Fathers need help as well. If we provide adequate resources it makes families stronger and the community safer." The public support system has been set up to discourage men from being part of the family, Berryman said. He noted that research shows that, when fathers are involved, children do better academically and emotionally. There is also less pressure and stress on a family's mother.
But the story doesn't end here. Let's take a closer look at what is behind the success you see today.
Becoming a Champion
Counties can really do great things for fathers, but we often see the wheels turn slowly. Ryan was constantly reminded of the father absence issue and the lack of a focus on fathers through resources and services, especially during home visits where he worked mainly with moms. This didn't sit well with him.
In one home in particular he remembers meeting with the mom all the time. Dad wasn't on the case plans for 6 months. Then one day this guy shows up: it's dad. Ryan was eventually able to connect with him around his role as a dad.
For years, Ryan championed encouraging his agency to hire men as "Parent Partners" for the families they served. They were able to get one or two men, but it wasn't making the change he hoped to see.
Frustrated with the lack of support for fathers in the county, Ryan thought about retiring. But something urged him on to champion fatherhood. When he looked in his county for resources and services for dads, he discovered that in general, there just weren't a lot of services. He decided to change that.
A Champion Moves Forward, Even if Alone
Over the last 10 years of his career, Ryan started talking to coworkers about the importance of fathers and the importance of including them in social service and programs. He and his colleagues began a father's breakfast that was held every Father's Day for the dads they served in the child welfare services. It was nice to have that "token of recognition" as Ryan called it, but nothing more father-specific was added to the list of offerings.
So, Ryan started The San Bernardino Fatherhood Initiative in 2016, a nonprofit organization with no paid employees. The people who "work" with him on the fatherhood initiatives are usually friends or relatives – people who see and understand his vision. On his "staff" he has an uncle, a close pastor, a few friends, and others he maintains connections with. Ryan started using a fatherhood curriculum in May of last year, and his goal is to be able to have alumnus of the program volunteer to help lead and teach other fathers through the initiative.
A Champion Finds the Right Tools for the Job
Ryan selected NFI's 24/7 Dad® program because he wanted to offer an evidence-based program that gave men the skills to be a better father for the sake of their children, families and the community. He currently offers the program to dads for free at the Highland YMCA, and in the past has held classes at a local church, a residential treatment center, and he even through the school system. He never gives up trying to reach dads.
As the primary facilitator of 24/7 Dad®, Ryan appreciates how the program addresses the father's history and works with dads to make them aware of how their fathering history affects the type of father they are today. Ryan also reinforces that to be a great dad, you need to be a great man. Ryan finds that some parenting programs are missing this key point; they focus on parenting and assume (or maybe even take for granted) that the dad is a "good man". There are many reasons for this challenge of being a good man, but most often Ryan says he sees that a lot of the men he works with didn't have good role models. The 24/7 Dad® program also helps to address some of the trauma the men have gone through, causing them to search for manhood in all the wrong ways, namely - violence, crime, alcoholism, gangs, drugs.
One of the other important things Ryan focuses on in his sessions is educating fathers on the 5 protective factors. While he facilitates the24/7 Dad®, he ties in the concept of how a 24/7 Dad® enforces the 5 protective factors to become better dads, men, and husbands.
A Champion Welcomes Others Along for the Ride
In true champion fashion, Ryan knows that his passion for fathers shouldn't end with him — he envisions that his children and/or grandchildren will pick up on his fatherhood work. He also welcomes others along for the ride. In fact, Ryan wants to see a fatherhood program in every region in San Bernardino County. After all, it is the largest county in CA — maybe even the country.
The good news is that the Initiative recently received a grant from the Youth Grantmakers program through The Community Foundation. Ultimately, Ryan hopes that more of the community will not only support his work, but also create more fatherhood programs throughout San Bernardino County.


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The price hike comes in response to a recent government decision to raise a subsidy for empty beer and soju bottles. Consumers receive now 130 won (10.8 US cent), which is 80 won (6.6 US cent) more than before, when they return an empty bottle of beer. For an empty bottle of soju, they receive now 100 won (8.3 US cent), which is 60 won (5.0 US cent) more than before.
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