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A neurosurgeon can't operate after a car-crash injury, and instead becomes a medical examiner.
ABC Canceled the Show That Could Save Its Tuesday Night Death Slot in 2015
If Kevin (Probably) Saves the World can't save it, what could?
Wed, Oct 11, 2017
NCIS Scoop: Who's Playing Gibbs' Fourth Ex-Wife?
NCIS is finally filling in a major missing puzzle piece about Gibbs' background.
Wed, Nov 5, 2014
Battlestar Galactica's Jamie Bamber Lands Multi-Episode Arc on Rizzoli & Isles
Jamie Bamber has landed a multi-episode arc on Rizzoli & Isles, TVGuide.com has confirmed. As first reported by TVLine.com, the Battlestar Galactica alum will play...
Tue, Jul 1, 2014
Exclusive: Luke Perry Heads to Hot in Cleveland
Luke Perry is moving east. The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum has landed a guest-starring role on Hot in Cleveland, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Every year on the show, the women fix each other up on dates, which is Perry where comes in...
Exclusive: Watch the Covert Affairs Season 5 Promo
Annie's back!Season 5 of Covert Affairs doesn't premiere until June, but we've got a sneak peek at what's ahead now that Annie (Piper Perabo) is back at the DPD ...
Breaking Bad's Betsy Brandt Joins ABC's The Club
Breaking Bad alum Betsy Brandt has joined the cast of ABC's The Club, TVGuide.com has learned. The drama pilot from Oscar-nominated screenwriter Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) is an upstairs-downstairs soap centered on a private country club. Get the latest pilot season news Brandt...
Breaking Bad's Betsy Brandt Joins Masters of Sex
Betsy Brandt has landed a recurring role on Masters of Sex, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Breaking Bad alum will appear in the Showtime drama's upcoming second season as...
Exclusive: Party of Five Alum Michael A. Goorjian Heads to Covert Affairs
Party of Five alum Michael A. Goorjian will guest-star on Covert Affairs next season, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.Goorjian will play Borz Altan, a former U.S. ...
Body of Proof's Nic Bishop Joins Covert Affairs
Nic Bishop has joined Covert Affairs as a series regular, USA announced Wednesday. The Body of Proof alum will play Ryan McQuaid, a charming former Navy SEAL-turned-private contractor billionaire. McQuaid and Annie (Piper Perabo) become uneasy allies after meeting in the field, but as the pair grows closer, Annie fears he might have a secret agenda.
Lifetime Orders Dark Comedy Un-Real From Buffy Writer Marti Noxon
Lifetime has given a 10-episode order to Marti Noxon's dark comedy Un-Real, the network announced Thursday. Un-Real offers a behind-the-scene look at the chaos surrounding...
John Carroll Lynch and Tammy Blanchard Join FX Pilot Hoke
John Carroll Lynch and Tammy Blanchard will star opposite Paul Giamatti in the FX pilot Hoke, the network announced Friday. The dramedy, based on Charles Willeford's novel series, follows the unbalanced homicide detective Hoke Moseley (Giamatti) during a murder investigation and his midlife crisis in early '80s Miami. Last year's Golden Globes hits and misses
Dana Delany Tweets That Body of Proof Won't Be Resurrected
ABC isn't bringing back Body of Proof after all, according to star Dana Delany. The actress tweeted Tuesday, "Sorry to disappoint some, but #bodyofproof will not be resurrected. May she rest in peace. Time for new adventures!"
Is Body of Proof Coming Back from the Dead?
Body of Proof might still have a pulse! ABC is mulling bringing the Dana Delany-starring drama back to life for midseason, Deadline.com reports. The drama was axed...
Exclusive: Us & Them Casts Body of Proof's John Carroll Lynch
John Carroll Lynch will guest-star on Fox's upcoming comedy Us & Them, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
Mon, Sep 30, 2013
Exclusive: Castle Books Justified Star for Guest Spot
We're not sure Boyd Crowder's going to be happy about this casting news.Justified star Joelle Carter has booked a guest role on ABC's Castle, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.Fall TV: Get scoop on your favorite returning showsOn Castle, Carter — who plays Ava, the wife and co-conspirator of Walton Goggins' criminal kingpin Boyd Crowder on the critically loved FX drama — will portray Maggie Ingram, the long-time girlfriend of a death row inmate who is on the verge of being executed...
Nick Stahl Arrested for Suspected Crystal Meth Possession
Terminator 3 actor Nick Stahl is in trouble again with the law. Stahl was arrested early Friday morning after police found him and...
Fri, Jun 28, 2013
Happy Endings Not Moving to USA
The future is not looking good for Happy Endings. Though initial reports indicated the comedy may move to a new home at USA after it was canceled by ABC last month, talks have ended and USA will not be picking up the show, Deadline reports.
Sun, Jun 2, 2013
Blue Bloods Promotes Marisa Ramirez to Series Regular
Marisa Ramirez has been promoted to a series regular on Blue Bloods, replacing Jennifer Esposito, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Check Out an Exclusive Clip from the Body of Proof Series Finale
Despite initial reports to the contrary, ABC's canceled series Body of Proof will not find a new home on cable, creator Matt Gross said last week. But fans can rest assured that Tuesday's finale provides a "satisfying ending" to the story, according to star Dana Delany.
Dana Delany Revisits China Beach Ahead of 25th Anniversary Box Set
It's been more than 20 years since China Beach went off the air, and star Dana Delany says she hasn't revisited the series aside from catching a snippet of an episode while flipping channels a couple of years ago.
Ratings: So You Think You Can Dance Premiere Drops
So You Think You Can Dance returned down from last year on Tuesday.The Season 10 premiere drew 5 million viewers and a 1.9 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, down half a point from last year. The season finales ...
Will Body of Proof Move to Cable?
After being canceled last week, ABC's Body of Proof might find new life on cable. According to Deadline, TNT, USA and WGN America have all shown interest in picking up the Dana Delany procedural.
Exclusive Body of Proof Sneak Peek: A Plane Crash Interrupts Megan and Charlie's Date
So much for a nice, quiet date for Megan (Dana Delany) and Charlie (guest star Luke Perry) on Tuesday's episode of Body of Proof.What starts as a romantic evening for the pair is derailed when a plane crashes into Philadelphia's main power ...
Mon, May 6, 2013
Ratings: The Voice, Dancing Rise; Ready for Love Falls
The Voice rose to hit a Tuesday season high.The second night of Battle Rounds drew 13.8 million viewers and a 4.5 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, up a tenth from last week. Lead-out Ready for Love (3.4 million, 1.3) barely retained ...
The Tuesday Playlist: Justified, New Normal Finales; Another Look at Phil Spector
Too soon. We always feel that way when a season of FX's marvelously entertaining Justified comes to a close. It can't be easy sustaining that high-wire act of violent tension and wry bourbon-smooth humor, while staying true to the voice and tone of Elmore Leonard's creation of the laconic yet steely U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, but they sure make it go down easy. The fourth-season finale (Tuesday, 10/9c) is titled "Ghosts," and it's a haunted hour, all right — haunted by what-ifs, by dreams deferred and hopes crushed by the weight of bad acts and Harlan County's history of bad people — but it's also a truly badass episode when it needs to be, with fateful confrontations and crazy twists, some satisfying and others troubling.
Tue, Apr 2, 2013
Body of Proof Exclusive Sneak Peek: Are Zombies on the Loose?!
The Walking Dead may be over for the season, but television viewers can still get their zombie fix with Tuesday's episode of Body of Proof. On Tuesday's episode, titled "Skin and Bones," Megan (Dana Delany) and Tommy (Mark Valley) may be dealing with a killing spree at the hands of the undead. WhenTommy is bitten while investigating a murder, and the staff at the medical examiner's office find more than one rabies case on their hands, some members of the team believe that it's the work of zombies.
Mon, Apr 1, 2013
Ratings: The Voice Boosts Go On, New Normal
NBC enjoyed its best Tuesday in months thanks to The Voice.The singing competition series drew 12 million viewers and a 3.9 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, making it the top-rated show of the night. That's down 19 percent from Monday's premiere, but up 22 percent from last spring's ...
Jeri Ryan and Ivan Sergei Develop Killer Chemistry on Body of Proof
Where's Olivia Pope when you need her? Body of Proof's ambitious chief medical examiner and congressional candidate Kate Murphy (Jeri Ryan) hasn't even been elected yet and she's already facing her first potential scandal on this week's episode (Tuesday, 10/9c, ABC). While making an appearance at a ritzy Russian political gala, Kate strikes up a conversation with a tall, dark, secretive Ukrainian attaché named Sergei Damanov (Ivan Sergei). "Sergei and Kate have this very steamy, very passionate thing," Ryan says. "And then it gets complicated."
Ask Matt: Southland, TV Prequels, Hannibal, Grey's, Splash and More
Send questions and comments to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter! Question: This is more a commentary than a question, but what are your thoughts on Southland? Ben McKenzie and Shawn Hatosy have recently landed new pilots, so it would appear that this will be the last season of the very fine cop show Southland. Yes, the show is an ensemble and could certainly go on without the two characters they portray, but it would be a different Southland without them, even with a cast as strong as one that includes Regina King and C. Thomas Howell.
Ratings: ABC Makes a Splash; Smash Dips
Splash made a huge, uh, splash Tuesday.ABC's diving competition series premiered to 8.8 million viewers and a 2.6 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, making it the network's biggest unscripted series debut in more than two years and the highest-rated reality premiere since The X Factor in 2011. Splash was also up 13 percent from Celebrity Wife Swap's premiere in the timeslot. Lead-outs Dancing with the Stars recap show (9.6 million, 2.1) was up from last spring's ...
Ratings: Golden Boy Premieres OK, Celebrity Wife Swap Hits Highs
Golden Boy's premiere wasn't exactly golden, but the CBS drama easily topped its hour.Debuting on Tuesday before moving to its regular Friday slot, Golden Boy drew 10.5 million viewers and a 1.8 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic. That's up three-tenths from Vegas' performance last week, but below the 14.9 million and 2.5 Vegas pulled for ...
Body of Proof: How Will Kate's Run for Office Affect the Team?
Murphy in '13? Tuesday's conclusion of Body of Proof's two-part Season 3 premiere cemented a plotline that had been hinted at last week: that Chief Medical Examiner Kate Murphy (Jeri Ryan) is running for office, and her colleagues in the medical examiner's office — especially Dr. Megan Hunt (Dana Delany) — are less than thrilled about it.
Ratings: Smash Drops Again; Body of Proof and Cult Premiere Low
Smash hit another low note Tuesday.Two weeks after its feeble premiere, the musical drama drew 3.3 million viewers and a 0.9 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, plummeting 25 percent to a series low. Lead-ins Go On (3.3 million, 1.1) and The New Normal (3.5 million, 1.0) also ...
Keck's Exclusives: Body of Proof's New Top Cop Brings The Heat
Body of Proof's tough incoming police chief, Angela Martin (Lorraine Toussaint), is much more than just a new nemesis for medical examiner Megan Hunt (Dana Delany). "My introduction is timed to...
Exclusive: ABC Takes On Smash Premiere With Special Bachelor Episode
ABC isn't giving its regards to Broadway. The network has quietly slotted in an original two-hour episode of The Bachelor on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 9/8c — directly opposite the Season 2 premiere of NBC's musical drama Smash. Such a move puts...
ABC Bumps Back Body of Proof Return
Body of Proof has already been off the air for nine months, but now fans will have to wait two more weeks for the show's return. Body of Proof producers on Season 3 revamp: "We wanted to inject more octane in the show" Season 3, which was originally set to premiere on...
24 Alum Annie Wersching Heading to Dallas
Annie Wersching is Dallas-bound! The 24 alum has landed a recurring role on the TNT series, TVLine.com reports. Wersching will play...
Tue, Oct 23, 2012
Lost Alum Henry Ian Cusick to Play Mind Games on Body of Proof
Body of Proof's Megan Hunt (Dana Delany) is always trying to get into the heads of her victims, and now she's will have some help getting in the mind of her suspects. The ABC procedural has tapped Lost grad...
Thu, Oct 18, 2012
White Collar's Tim DeKay Heads to Body of Proof
White Collar star Tim DeKay is putting down his badge (temporarily) and heading to Body of Proof for a guest-starring role, TVLine reports. DeKay, 49, will appear in an...
Thu, Sep 20, 2012
Exclusive: CSI: NY Books West Wing, Sons of Anarchy Alums for November Sweeps
CSI: NY is getting in deep for November sweeps.Fall Preview: Get scoop on all your favorite returning showsThe West Wing's Kathleen York and Sons of Anarchy's Niko Nicotera are set to guest-star on a sweeps episode that features a drowning in Central Park's famed Turtle Pond, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.When a young woman named Ashley (Alex Ashbaugh) is found drowned in a ball gown in the pond outside Belvedere Castle, Mac (Gary Sinise) and his team drain the pond to search for clues....
Keck's Exclusives First Look: Mark Valley Joins Body of Proof
He's played hotshot lawyers (Boston Legal, Harry's Law) and action heroes (Fringe, Human Target). Now Mark Valley has found a comfy home somewhere in between as Dana Delany's crime-fighting foil on Body of Proof. When ABC's retooled procedural returns in early 2013, Valley will be front and center as a...
Keck's Exclusives: It's a China Beach Reunion at Stand Up 2 Cancer Benefit
Besides raising more than $80 million for cancer research and treatments, the Stand Up 2 Cancer benefit on September 7 reunited the stars of ABC's acclaimed 1988-1991 drama, China Beach.  Body of Proof star Dana Delany, who bravely ....
Ray Wise, Michael Nouri, Derek Webster Head to Body of Proof
Some new faces are heading to ABC's Body of Proof. Ray Wise, Michael Nouri and Derek Webster are all set to guest-star on the upcoming season, TVLine.com reports. 24 alum heading to Body of Proof In the fourth episode of the new season...
Tue, Sep 11, 2012
24 Alum Heading to Body of Proof
24 alum Annie Wersching will join Body of Proof third season for a multi-episode arc, TVLine reports. Wersching will play a nurse in the new season's two-part premiere. Mark Valley nearing Body of Proof Deal
Wed, Aug 29, 2012
Keck's Exclusives: Mark Valley Nearing Body of Proof Deal
When Body of Proof returns to ABC this fall, it's going to look a lot more like Castle and Bones, and the proof is in the casting. Sources are telling me that Human Target, Fringe and Boston Legal hottie Mark Valley, fresh off his gig on NBC's cancelled Harry's Law, is in discussions to play Detective Tommy Sullivan, a new will-they-or-won't they sparing partner for series star Dana Delany's Dr. Megan Hunt.Delany tells me Tommy "is this guy who broke my heart 20 years ago. He turns up on the police force in Philadelphia working with me."
ABC's Fall Schedule: Revenge to Sundays; TGIF Comedy Block Returns
ABC is moving Revenge to Sunday's coveted 9/8c timeslot, previously occupied by Desperate Housewives. It will serve as a lead-in to new drama 666 Park Avenue.
ABC Renews Private Practice, Apartment 23, Body of Proof, Last Man Standing
ABC has renewed dramas Private Practice and Body of Proof, along with freshman comedies Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 and Last Man Standing, TVGuide.com has confirmed...
Ratings: Glee Returns to New Low; New Girl Rises
After a two-month break, Glee returned to a series low Tuesday, but it helped Fox tie NBC for first in the demo.The comedy drew 6.7 million viewers and a 2.7 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, dropping 10 percent to hit a new series low. Glee did boost New Girl's numbers, which rose 17 percent to 5.3 million viewers ...
Dana Delany Returning to Desperate Housewives for Series Finale
Katherine Mayfair is finally coming back to Wisteria Lane. Former cast member Dana Delany, whose return was announced earlier this season, will appear in Desperate Housewives' series finale, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Watch full episodes of Desperate Housewives Katherine left the series at the end of Season 6 to run off to Paris with...
Report: ABC Close to Renewing Grey's, Revenge, Once, Castle and More
ABC is close to renewing nine shows for next season, TVLine reports.Fall TV scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren't?According to the site, the shortlist includes ...


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New 450-seat luxury club open in Ralph Wilson Stadium
Time Warner Cable, the nation's second-largest cable television operator and provider of telecommunications services, and the Buffalo Bills today unveiled the new Time Warner Cable Business Class Club, a 450-seat luxury club at Ralph Wilson Stadium. The newly revamped club has been outfitted to provide fans the opportunity to utilize and sample all Time Warner Cable Business Class services including wireless Internet, Digital Phone and High-Definition Video. A local consortium of businesses combined to convert the club into this state-of-the-art technological emporium including The Allen Group, Stereo Advantage, Printing Prep, Frey Electric and Don Moeller, Jr.
"Fans can expect the ultimate gameday experience in the new Time Warner Cable Business Class luxury club. Our club provides a unique interactive and high-tech game day option that showcases the best in class technological options that Time Warner Cable provides its business customers every day," said Terence Rafferty, President, Western New York Division, Time Warner Cable.
"As one of the strongest brands in the market, Time Warner Cable is the perfect partner," said Pete Guelli, Buffalo Bills Sr. Vice President of Business Ventures. "They also have the resources and technology to take the club experience for our fans to the next level."
The Time Warner Cable Business Class Club was redesigned and reconstructed in less than ten weeks. Naming rights to the club are a part of a larger multi-million dollar partnership between the Buffalo Bills and Time Warner Cable. Per the agreement, Time Warner Cable Business Class is the official business to business communications provider of the Buffalo Bills, including exclusivity for cable, phone and data products in both Ralph Wilson Stadium and to the Bills' administrative offices. The sponsorship extension runs through the 2011 season.
"Reconstructing the Time Warner Cable Business Class Club has been a great team effort, one that we feel especially proud to be a part of," said Jaime Allen, Owner of The Allen Group who managed the reconstruction project.
About Time Warner Cable Business Class Time Warner Cable Business Class, a division of Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), offers a full complement of business communications tools to small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprise-sized companies. Its data, voice, video and security solutions are enhanced by award-winning customer service and local support teams. Time Warner Cable Business Class was founded in 1998, offering high-speed Internet service as Road Runner Business Class. Today, it serves more than 280,000 business customers in Time Warner Cable's 23 divisions. For more information, please visit www.twcbc.com/buffalo or call 1-800-504-3497.

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Home / News / Bluewater / Demand strong to finance Jones Act assets
Demand strong to finance Jones Act assets
By	Barry Parker on	 April 17, 2019
Crowley Maritime's Jones Act tanker Ohio. Crowley Maritime photo.
Strong demand for the financing of Jones Act assets was among the subjects discussed at last month's American Society of Appraisers (ASA) New York chapter meeting.
The guest speaker, Basil Karatzas of Karatzas Marine Advisors & Co. (KMA), gave a presentation on valuing maritime assets. His company's location in downtown Manhattan, a stone's throw from Wall Street and the Financial District, overlooks the anchorages and fleeting areas for the working harbor and provides good insights into value appraisals for vessels.
Though his talk dealt mainly in generalities (with only a handful of the attendees familiar with maritime assets) with a focus on bluewater vessels, he did touch on U.S.-flag Jones Act assets, which offer unique characteristics.
Karatzas told WorkBoat that "it's amazing how strong the demand is by U.S. financial institutions to finance Jones Act assets of all sizes and kinds, from tug boats and barges to oceangoing tonnage. The fact that the owners and the assets are based in the U.S. and are U.S. citizens for all legal matters, it allows many U.S. banks and lessors to consider them, especially when these financiers are specifically excluded from financing international flag vessels."
Much of Kratzas's presentation dealt with the vagaries and vicissitudes of international bluewater equipment. But U.S.-flag assets are different, he said. "In general, Jones Act assets hold their value much better over time compared to the international flag vessels. In strictly valuation terms, they seem to 'age very gracefully,' so to speak. And as a rule of thumb, it's more likely to see Jones Act assets exceed their economic life in real life, while in the international market, there have been cases when bulkers and containerships got scrapped as young as seven years old when design life and economic life are at 25 years."
When asked about offshore service vessels and equipment serving the offshore sectors, he said that "in the last year or so, it seems that the market for offshore assets has found a bottom and it has shown a marginal improvement, which has been more pronounced for high specification assets that have better employment prospects in an improving market."
Barry Parker
Barry Parker is a maritime consultant and writer. He covers shipping, energy and commodities, drawing on three decades of transactional and brokerage experience. His writing covers financing aspects of shipping and offshore, plus occasional technical or regulatory articles. His client work for ship owners, cargo interests and others includes project and market analysis, as well as commercial and operational guidance. He divides his time between midtown Manhattan and his home on Long Island Sound. He can be reached at bdp1@conconnect.com.
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40 Days in The Desert Screenprint - Limited Edition Print (Signed)
1999. Print. New. Moebius (Jean Giraud). Screenprint by Moebius (Jean Giraud) on Cartridge Paper. SIGNED NUMBERED PRINT. Size: 20" x 13" (515mm x 330mm). An extremely beautiful large screenprint which featured as page 42 of Moebius's classic work '40 Days in The Desert'. From a limited edition of just 750 copies. Showcasing a cross between the artist's ethereal imagination and precision skills as a pioneer of the modern science fiction genre, Giraud creates a future balancing the spheres of nature and mankind coexisting in harmony and magic. Moebius helped form the way modern science fiction ideas have been established, and not only worked in the field of comics and graphic novels, but also worked on classic films such as Alien, Tron, The Abyss, The 5th Element and an unfortunately never completed version of Dune which was even to star Salvador Dali� His influence can not be overstated. Several iconic exhibitions have been dedicated to the artist's work over the last 40 years including 'Trans Form' at the Fondation Cartier in Paris and a retrospective at the Max Ernst institute in Germany, which also showcased works by the artist created for books such as Paolo Coelho's The Alchemist, La Faune de Mars, and original paintings created for the Sony Metreon Centre in California, where artists including Maurice Sendak and Jean Giraud were invited to create interiors for entire floors. The catalogues for each of these exhibitions have now understandably become collectors items.
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I am proud to welcome you to St Mary Magdalene Catholic Primary School. We are a very special community where family, parish and school come together for the benefit of all our children. Our school community values each and everyone. We are committed to bringing out the best in all and helping all to fulfil their potential. Our school mission statement "Growing Together in Faith and Love" is experienced, believed and lived out by all. We are committed to handing on the Catholic faith and Catholic traditions in a rich warm environment, to enable our pupils to become responsible citizens.
We offer our pupils a broad balanced rich and inspiring curriculum. Our pupils have many opportunities to live out their beliefs through active work in the wider community and further afield internationally, through charity work.
Our wonderful school comprises of a beautiful building, extensive grounds which include a school pond and nature area, fun activities and a range of opportunities for learning outside the classroom. Our school provides an inspiring and well resourced environment in which children can develop whether in lessons, outside or at extra curricular activities. We have very high expectations and are confident that the children will rise to academic challenge and make progress during their time here.
We are a thriving community of enthusiastic children, dedicated and passionate staff supported by a highly committed governing body. We all strive to provide the best possible education in a stimulating and happy environment, where the children enjoy their learning.
We feel privileged that parents have chosen our school for their child. We work closely in partnership with parents providing workshops, curriculum newsletters, stay and learn sessions and opportunities to observe teaching.
The partnership between home, school and parish is a vital one and mutual support is imperative. At St Mary Magdalene School we value and encourage your participation and support therefore we strive to nurture this partnership and look forward to working with you - to grow together in faith and love.
As a Christian community, school like is based on the Gospel and the teachings of the Catholic Church. Every child is encouraged towards high ideals and equal opportunity is given to all pupils to develop their talents to the full.
St Mary Magdalene Catholic Primary School belongs to the Diocese of Northampton and serves the parishes of St Mary Magdalene, Stony Stratford, St Francis de Sales, Wolverton and St Edward the Confessor, Shenley Church End.
I hope you find our website useful in giving you an overview of St Mary Magdalene School, as well as providing you with practical information. We actively encourage you to visit our school to see for yourself our outstanding learning environment.
Please do not hesitate to contact the school should you require further information or wish to book a school tour.
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Friends of Pump House
Visiting the Pump House
The Pump House is located at 1708 Pump House Drive, not far from the Carillon in Byrd Park, Boulevard Bridge, North Bank Trail, and the James River.
The interior of the Pump House is generally not open to the public, however we do host tours periodically.
You can also take a peek inside with our photographic tour here. There is still much to see at Pump House Park. Walk along the James River and Kanawha Canal and examine the remains of the locks that once served as a highway for goods moving up and down the James River. Continue along the path to the Lower Arch where George Washington met with local officials on April 12th, 1791 to examine the canal. Three informative displays throughout the park that provide little glimpses into the site's past.
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Town invites Interior secretary to visit
In a seven-page disquisition on the Cape Wind energy project and its effects on Barnstable, Town Council President Fred Chirigotis included an invitation to U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. "I also invite you to consider taking the time to visit our community and view the project site before any final decisions are rendered," Chirigotis wrote. "We would welcome your visit. For a project of this importance, putting it in real life context would, we think, be invaluable." The letter endorses calls to extend the comment period on the Minerals Management Service's Final Environmental Impact Statement, which found that the 130-turbine project proposed for Nantucket Sound was needed and would not have major deleterious effects. Chirigotis underscores the town's role as the nearest "emergency responder" to an incident in the Sound, noting that the town "is contemplating as many as 140 layoffs on July 1, 2009 and more in 2010… Letting a private developer dump hundreds of thousands of dollars in project-related costs on the Town is unconscionable." If the project cannot prove its financial viability, Chirigotis wrote, "MMS should not be empowered to convert twenty-five square miles of priceless, beautiful, publicly-owned land into a concrete and steel power plant. Cape Wind should be required to open its books, address the issues of capital expenditures, financing, and output pricing, as a condition of being allowed to proceed with construction."


The Amazon rainforest, so vital to the world's climate welfare, is said by environmental groups and scientists to be under severe attack from the Brazilian government, which is removing many safeguards to prevent deforestation.
The first shock was the cuts announced by President Michel Temer to the already limited budget of the environment ministry.
These will "profoundly prejudice the monitoring of deforestation, and consequently, Brazil's climate targets", says Alfredo Sirkis, executive secretary of the FBMC, the National Climate Change Forum, a hybrid body set up in 2000 to bring together government planners and representatives of civil society to inform environmental legislation and raise public awareness.
Government cuts have been imposed on many ministries in order to reduce a growing deficit. Some will lose up to 30 per cent of their budgets, but the environment ministry has been targeted for the biggest cut of all, losing a total of 53 per cent from treasury funding and parliamentary allocations.
This is at a time when the need for environmental monitoring is more urgent than ever, according to green groups. Preliminary data from Brazil's National Space Research Institute, INPE, shows that the Amazon region saw a 29 per cent increase in forest clearance last year.
The environment ministry's enforcement agency, IBAMA (the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources), relies on teams of inspectors on the ground to monitor not only the vast Amazon region, but all the other biomes that make up Brazil.
These drastic spending cuts will weaken its capacity to carry out inspections, warns the Climate Observatory, an environment group.
While the ministry is being starved of the cash it needs to carry out its constitutional duties, the powerful landowners' lobby in congress is pushing for a total relaxation of the environmental laws.
Claiming the need to speed up the present lengthy process, they want the licensing process devolved to local authorities or even to the construction companies themselves.
Critics warn that this could lead to local authorities competing to attract mining and other environmentally damaging projects by offering licensing-free deals.
If the rural producers' lobby get their way, it would mean that road-building – known to be the main driver of deforestation – could go ahead with no regard for the environmental consequences.
This could include the paving of controversial roadways such as the BR-319 (connecting the Amazon capital Manaus with the town of Porto Velho) and the BR-163 (connecting the Mato Grosso capital of Cuiabá with the Amazon river port of Santarém), both of which run through some of the most preserved areas of the Amazon rainforest. At the moment these roads are virtually impassable during the rainy season.
Once paved, thousands of lorries will use them to carry the soy harvest north to river ports for shipping to Europe and the US.
The report concludes that Brazil risks rolling back its achievements of the last two decades in fighting deforestation, recognising indigenous lands and creating conservation units, and returning to the 1980s when it was viewed as "an international pariah" because of the accelerating clearing of the Amazon rainforest.


Long Beach Parks, Recreation and Marine Fitness Zones are free, easy-to-use outdoor gyms, as well as walking paths and exercise instruction stations in several Long Beach parks.
Paved path for circuit training.
Enjoy this equipment funded by a Kaiser Permanente HEAL Zone grant administered by Long Beach Health and Human Services and the Coalition for a Healthy North Long Beach.
The Zone is close proximity to playground for child supervision.
Also enjoy the refurbished basketball court and children's playground funded by the Los Angeles Clippers FIT Campus Playground & Court Refurbishment Program and The California Endowment.
One of the parks most popular features is the sets of exercise equipment that are positioned along a walking path. One area focuses on balance, chest and back; another has equipment for cardio and plyometrics (jumping); another is for lower body and ADA accessible pull ups; and there is a set of equipment for upper body and abdominal muscles.
This Loop is a project of the North Long Beach HEAL Zone Initiative through a partnership between the Long Beach Health & Human Services and Long Beach Parks, Recreation and Marine to increase physical activity in the community.
The half-mile Fitness Loop has bi-lingual signs with fitness activity instructions and a QR code linking to an fitness instructional video from the California Department of Public Health's Network for a Healthy California that can be scanned from mobile devices.
California State University Long Beach's Kinesiology Department, free fitness classes at on Wednesdays and Fridays from 9-10 a.m. Zumba, Yoga, and Circuit Training and more.
With the idea that "play has no age," paved paths runs throughout the park with several stops where exercisers can do posted fitness activities or use stationary exercise equipment. These activities are appropriate for all fitness levels.


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Discover Founder Real Talk Israel Series Part 1: Roy Mann, Co-founder and CEO of Monday.com, on Building a Product People Love Globally
Israel Series Part 1: Roy Mann, Co-founder and CEO of Monday.com, on Building a Product People Love Globally
This episode kicks off our Israeli Entrepreneur Series, four episodes dedicated to getting to know Israeli founders and their companies. Known as Startup Nation, Israel creates more companies per capita than any other country, with one startup for every 1,400 people. Read more about GGV's commitment to funding and supporting the next generation of Israeli entrepreneurs. This series is co-hosted by GGV Capital Investor, Oren Yunger.
Roy Mann is the CEO and Co-Founder of monday.com – one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the world, connecting people to processes while creating an environment of transparency in business. Before monday.com, he was part of Wix's senior management team. Prior to that, he founded the online social game Save an Alien. Roy obtained a Bachelor of Science focused in Computer Science from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC).
In this episode, we learn how Roy and his Co-founder, Eran Zinman are scaling the fastest growing company in Israel. With over 100K customers, users in over 160 countries, Monday.com is helping shape the future of work globally. Learn why the company's name changed to Monday.com, what it's like to maintain the same company culture in Israel and NYC offices, and why transparency is fundamental to Monday.com's success.
Oren Kaniel, Co-founder & CEO of AppsFlyer, on Investing in Customer-Obsession and Yourself
Susan St. Ledger, President of Worldwide Field Operations at Splunk, on Leading With A Growth Mindset
Avi Shua, Co-founder & CEO of Orca Security, on SideScanning Complex Problems for Simple Solutions
Karthik Rau, VP of Observability at Splunk, on Scaling SignalFx and Getting Acquired
Barr Moses, Co-founder & CEO of Monte Carlo, on Creating Possibilities and Reliable Data
Adrien Treuille, Amanda Kelly and Thiago Teixeira, Co-founders of Streamlit, on Empowering the Open Source Community
Mike Fitzsimmons, Co-founder and CEO of Crosschq, on Harnessing Data to Make Hiring Better
Kris Beevers, Co-founder & CEO of NS1, on Building Software and a Deeply Technical Team
Mitchell Hashimoto, Co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp, on Growing a Company With a Fully-Remote Workforce
Armon Dadgar, Co-founder & CTO of HashiCorp, on Evolving from Open Source to the Enterprise
Israel Series Part 4: Nati Davidi and Uri Alter, Co-founders of VDOO, on Securing Connected Devices and Trust
Israel Series Part 3: Shlomi Ben Haim, Co-founder & CEO of JFrog, on Growing an Israeli Startup into a Billion-Dollar Global Business
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Sarah Nahm, Founder and CEO of Lever, on Managing Relationships with a Designer's Mind
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Short-Term Pell Evaluation Report Leaves Policymakers and Observers Shrugging
Clare McCann
In mid-December, the Education Department finally released a long-awaited evaluation report of one of its experiments, testing the efficacy of providing Pell Grants for very-short-term programs. But the report did little but disappoint onlookers who had hoped for substantive new findings.
The short-term Pell pilot was launched in 2011 under the Experimental Sites Initiative, which grants the Education Department authority to waive certain types of statutory or regulatory requirements for an institution in order to test out a new policy idea. In this case, the Department waived the minimum required length of a program (currently set at 15 weeks and 600 clock hours), to instead allow job-training programs to receive Pell Grants if they were as short as 8 weeks and 150 clock hours. (A separate experiment, launched at the same time and involving many of the same institutions, tested the efficacy of providing Pell Grants to students who had already earned a bachelor's degree, currently only allowed for certain types of teaching credential programs.)
The short-term Pell experiment grew out of the popular—if entirely unproven—notion that very-short-term programs could quickly get workers employed in well-paying jobs, an old idea whose popularity was renewed by the Great Recession. And unlike the vast majority of the Department's Experimental Sites Initiative projects, the short-term training one was actually designed to produce real research, with random assignment of student eligibility and an independent contract awarded for evaluation of the effectiveness. Department officials promised that, through the experiment, it would answer the question of whether providing Pell Grants for very-short-term programs "increases employment rates or wages."
Nearly a decade after that promise, and three years after the experiment ended, policymakers are still asking the same question.
In December 2020, the Institute of Education Sciences released an evaluation for the experiment that didn't ask whether the programs led to increased employment or wages. Instead, the report found that offering students Pell Grants for very-short-term programs increased enrollment in and completion of those programs notably (by 15 and 9 percentage points, respectively). That's no surprise — given free money to enroll in programs, students did, in fact, enroll. On the matter of employment outcomes, IES noted that "employment and wage data could shed light on the economic value of the occupational training programs students completed." But while the data exist in other federal agencies to measure those kinds of labor market outcomes, the evaluators didn't invest in doing so, and thus couldn't report either way on whether the programs paid off.
One thing we can say is that many of the credentials that were completed through the experiment do not lead to well-paying, safe, or secure employment. For instance, about 40 percent of graduates in the experiment completed a "high-demand" program (those expected to have a large share of job openings and/or rapid growth in jobs), more than the 29 percent of students who did not receive a Pell Grant to enroll. But nearly two-thirds of those (65 percent) were in transportation programs—like truck-driving. According to the American Trucking Association, annual turnover rates for truckers are as high as 95 percent for large truckload fleets. Another one in four graduates of the experimental very-short-term programs (24 percent) were in health professions. But common very-short-term healthcare credentials like certified nursing assistant (CNA) programs often lead to low wages, and also have high annual turnover rates — more than 80 percent among home health aides, for instance, and as high as 100 percent for nursing homes.
Concerningly, this was one of the few Experimental Sites Initiative pilots run by the Department actually designed to produce actionable, rigorous results — and it still failed to answer the key questions its designers were asking. That's why, last week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers re-introduced the Innovation Zone Act. The IZA would reshape the Initiative to establish experiments that can actually answer key policy questions, require the Department to produce evaluation results that hew to rigorous standards, and allow experiments to continue only as long as they are producing relevant information.
In the meantime, lawmakers are left without answers. The policy idea—extending Pell Grants to very-, very-short-term programs—is a tempting one for policymakers facing down unemployment of more than 10 million workers. But a substantial body of research suggests that, enticing as the idea may be, very few job training programs can be completed in just 8 weeks and still result in the skills needed to obtain a job paying family-sustaining wages.
The latest evaluation adds little to that body of research. After spending taxpayer dollars to send thousands of students through very-short-term programs, policymakers are no closer to knowing whether the juice was worth the squeeze — or what will happen if lawmakers spend billions more in taxpayer dollars on programs that may leave students with poverty-level wages or unemployed altogether.
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This weekend's edition of Signs of the Times carries several important pieces that I would like to bring to everyone's attention and then I am going to present a fable that I read as a child that will shed some light on our present situation.
The first article is by Paul Craig Roberts: Is Another 9/11 in the Works? Paul points out that what is happening in global politics – i.e. Bush planning another war in the midst of losing the first one – is totally insane. Yet, as anyone can see, the rhetoric leading up to bombing Iraq was identical to the mad propagandistic ravings that pass for political discourse concerning Iran today. "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." The immediate past tells us that Bush and the Neocons very definitely intend to make war on Iran. And yet, that is so insane that most of us can't grok it. The US Army is stretched to the breaking point, the economy is floating on illusion, the American people are a heartbeat away from unimaginable financial disaster, and yet Bush and the Warmongers are planning another hideously expensive war… or so it seems. Roberts states the case succinctly:
First of all, Bush lacks the troops to do the job. If the US military cannot successfully occupy Iraq, there is no way that the US can occupy Iran, a country approximately three times the size in area and population. Second, Iran can respond to a conventional air attack with missiles targeted on American ships and bases, and on oil facilities located throughout the Middle East. Third, Iran has human assets, including the Shia majority population in Iraq, that it can activate to cause chaos throughout the Middle East. Fourth, polls of US troops in Iraq indicate that a vast majority do not believe in their mission and wish to be withdrawn. Unlike the yellow ribbon folks at home, the troops are unlikely to be enthusiastic about being trapped in an Iranian quagmire in addition to the Iraqi quagmire. Fifth, Bush's polls are down to 34 percent, with a majority of Americans believing that Bush's invasion of Iraq was a mistake. If you were being whipped in one fight, would you start a second fight with a bigger and stronger person? That's what Bush is doing.
So, since Bush doesn't have the manpower or the moneypower (or even the cojones) to wage a proper war (I'm being sarcastic here since no war is ever "proper"), what's he gonna do?
The obvious answer is: Nukem!
Yup. It seems pretty clear that this is the answer that will suit. And Bush and gang have plenty of resources already on hand to do the job without making another blip in the current economic crisis; and just maybe, as a sideline, they can end up nuking Iraq too and "kill two birds with one stone". I mean, if you are going to start nuking, no reason to hold back, right? Solve all your problems with the same solution!
But there is a problem here: nuking Iran without provocation will absolutely enrage the whole rest of the world that is already feeling a lot of hostility toward the U.S. because there were no WMDs in Iraq not to mention the growing belief all over the planet that Bush and Co were complicit in the 911 attacks.
So, what to do? How to get justification to nuke Iran?
The answer is simple: "Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." The history indicates that Bush and Co are certainly quite capable of engaging in False Flag operations against their own country in order to justify their actions (things they wanted to do and planned to do in advance). As noted above, 911 is most likely just such a scenario even if I think that the Bush Gang were only complicit and did not carry out the entire conspiracy on their own. In that sense, I think that a lot of commentators are correct: the U.S. couldn't have pulled that off alone. But I digress.
Justifying the nuking of another country is going to take a bit more than a 911 type attack; you know, "like attracts like." That means that what we (at Signs of the Times) have been saying for some time is becoming more and more likely to transpire: a nuclear attack on the US devised and carried out as a False Flag operation designed to lay blame on Iran. Roberts presents this idea in the following way:
Readers, whose thinking runs ahead of that of most of us, tell me that another 9/11 event will prepare the ground for a nuclear attack on Iran. Some readers say that Bush, or Israel as in Israel's highly provocative attack on the Jericho jail and kidnapping of prisoners with American complicity, will provoke a second attack on the US. Others say that Bush or the neoconservatives working with some "black ops" group will orchestrate the attack. One of the more extraordinary suggestions is that a low yield, perhaps tactical, nuclear weapon will be exploded some distance out from a US port. Death and destruction will be minimized, but fear and hysteria will be maximized. Americans will be told that the ship bearing the weapon was discovered and intercepted just in time, thanks to Bush's illegal spying program, and that Iran is to blame. A more powerful wave of fear and outrage will again bind the American people to Bush, and the US media will not report the rest of the world's doubts of the explanation. Reads like a Michael Crichton plot, doesn't it? Fantasy? Let's hope so.
I'm afraid that I don't exactly agree with this version. I don't think that minimizing American deaths will be an objective. On the contrary, I think that maximizing American deaths will be deliberately sought so as to maximize the fear and hysteria. That means a nuke attack on American soil – not on a ship – and probably highly populated soil at that.
Moving on to the next item that caught my eye from the weekend edition of Signs: Robert C. Koehler writes a piece entitled Trust Us. In this article he tells the story of Ion Sancho, the election supervisor of Leon County, Fla., my home state. Koehler writes:
The problem is, there's an anti-democratic force rampaging across the country that wants … privately conducted, secrecy-shrouded elections. The state of Florida even has a bizarre law outlawing manual recounts of election results. This removes all chance of public scrutiny from the process. I humbly submit that this is nuts, and that if we don't scream out at the top of our lungs we're going to lose our democracy. What we're witnessing, I fear – and what isolated watchdogs like Sancho are warning us about, but cannot prevent all by themselves – is democracy's transition to expensive charade.
I've been talking about this since the last election. When I saw what happened then, when the Signs Team had collected certain data, it was clear that fraudulent elections were already a fact of life in the U.S. Certainly, the 2000 election was the last fair election that was ever held in this country and that one was "given" to George Bush by trickery, bribery, coercion, blackmail, and having certain elements in place at the right place and time according to a devious plan. Once Bush had been declared president, he and his minions were then able to suppress any process that might have undone the "appointment." What's more, there were then able to set into motion the plan that ensured that whoever they want gets into office whereever and whenever they choose: manipulatable electronic voting.
So folks, its already a done deal. It's all over but the crying. There is NO chance whatsoever of anyone getting rid of the "Powers That Be" in the U.S. by way of the exercise of the vote. Anybody who suggests anything different to you is just living in denial or deliberately blowing smoke.
The third item on the Weekend Signs Page that I want to talk about is J. Crofts The Two Americas. He writes:
There are two Americas. There's the America most of you reading this actually believed in-or still believe in. That America is the fabled "land of the free, home of the brave". That America was founded on the principles of Freedom, limited authority, a free hand to make your own destiny in this life with what talent and smarts you were able or willing to bring forth from yourself, on a legal, social and economic level playing field. That America was the place where your individual beliefs were respected, was where anyone from anywhere could come and start over with the same opportunities as a person born here from a family going back ten generations.
That America was a land and people who had a limited, representative government that guarded them and their Freedom, and more importantly, was held in check by a document known as the Constitution, that enshrined an article called the Bill of Rights-which didn't deliniate individual rights so much as made boudaries beyond which the government could not trespass. Now reading that, think; do you live in this America? No. You, me-we all live in a different America. This America, in reality a kind of federal empire, drapes itself in the trappings of the America we were all taught was the way this nation was as a form of ideological disguise. We were lied to. This America, the fabled "land of the free, home of the brave", uses that quote as a slogan, a sugar coating on the many poison pills of lawyer-made laws, regulations, taxes, fines, agencies, and the corrupt ruling class that wields all that power for its own good. In this America, Freedom is a sugar coated lie to get us to accept the many political and social controls imposed upon us. …
Promoted by criminals in three piece suits, known as career politicians. These criminals in three piece suits unfortunately operate not a Constitutionally limited government, but a hydra-headed monster of a government that masquerades itself as many federal, state and local institutions. This monster's tentacles never stop reaching for more power, more authority, more of YOUR MONEY AND LIFE'S WORK, seizing it and stealing it from YOU! In fact, this monstrous federal government's reach into our lives is so pervasive, so overwhelming, only the largest of corporations can operate in the country with any degree of latitude. At the pinnacles of power there is a small group of inbred elitists who regularly go back and forth from private life as CEO's and Directors in the corporate boardrooms to positions of power in government. They are greedy and corrupt beyond description, and have perpretrated literally every act of treason against us-and gotten away with it. …
So, two Americas; one's a illusory piece of propaganda genius, and we're stuck in the one with no level playing field, no limited representative government, no guarantee of Rights. It's a insider's game and conditions have been ratcheted to squeeze out as much initiative, drive, intelligence and resources out of the American People as possible.
It's sad, but all too true. This leads us to John Kaminski's piece Who made this plan? where he writes:
Americans aren't the good guys anymore. Hollow TV pitchmen still insist our boys are dying for their country, but more and more people know that those lives are being wasted on corporate profits, deliberately squandered for somebody's twisted big score scheme.
And you know who's making the money. The very pervs who are orchestrating all these wars. Repeat after me: Carlyle Group.
Maybe the most frightening thing is that so many Americans are going along with the scam. And the more I find out about American history – from George Washington butchering French traders in their sleep on Christmas Eve – maybe they always have.
How many thousands of supposedly responsible Americans are keeping their mouths shut about what really happened on 9/11, or how they knew always the reason for the Iraq war was one big lie? …
People want to talk about politics, candidates? I see a one-party system in the United States dominated by nongentile bankers aligned with the forces of Europe's old money, which likely in and of itself is nongentile as well, since the major controlling mechanism of human society – the Rothschild controlled banks, whose emblem is the prototype of the flag of Israel – have dominated the world financial scene since long before they pilfered from American citizens the right to control their own money way back in 1913.
But today's news is worse.
Scheduled start of World War Three was due March 20, when they tried to start up the Iranian bourse (European term for "stock exchange") trading oil in euros in Tehran.
Doesn't it give you a warm feeling when you know the sclerotic, twitching finger of Dick Cheney is fiddling with the nuclear button? Here's a man who has never been stopped, and he can produce the spilled blood to prove it.
Who knows what the latest twist will be in this stranger-then-coincidence confrontation with Iran over another pack of lies? The U.S. picks wars with whomever it wants, and because its citizenry is so drugged-out by bad schools, medicine and food, they roar their drunken approval of these atrocities. …
How many Americans have gone down the rabbithole morally in recent years? Yes, America has always been a cesspool of rape and plunder largely covered over by those who write the history books. There may never have been a time in history when the populace got the straight scoop from the powers that be.
It seemed, though, in the last half of the 20th century in which I spent the better part of my life, that I grew up with a degree of confidence in a system that could produce people like Edward R. Murrow and Joe McCarthy, a world that could conduct a civilized debate and arrive at a logical solution.
Perhaps I was naive. Once upon a time, I loved my country. Now I am very afraid of it.
This brings us to the last news item that catches my attention: Nazis of the Nineties. (Notice that this article was written in 1998!) This is the piece that puts it all together when it tells us:
In his book "The Road to Serfdom," Friedrich Hayek warned Americans in 1944 that despite their military war against Nazis, they were travelling the philosophical and economic road to that the Nazis were travelling. The Americans ignored that warning. Now along the Americans we are left with the consequences that are coming home to roost in the nineties: a government of omnipotent size and power using its power to kill innocent, peaceful citizens at home and abroad. Today, the number of its victims is in the millions. But at the end of this road lie the deadly bombing and concentration camps for the multitudes. …
The name of the new game to be played in the last year of the twentieth century is "catastrophic terrorism" and it has been made frightening, not because it conceivably could really happen but because of what people who choose to dwell on the possibility, however remote, want to do about it. The anti-biological and anti-weapons of mass destruction American propaganda and actions are already duplicating Hitler's prior to World War-II tactics.
Any further terrorism from now onwards would be justified in the name of combating "catastrophic terrorism," which is defined as going far beyond what the US Secretary of Defence William Cohen calls "the conventional type of terrorism." That is the work of "cowards," he says, who "rejoice in the agony of their victims." They then "retreat to villages where they hide behind the skirts of women and the laughter of children and dare you to strike back – and strike back we will."
"We have to depend upon intervention" he declared on December 8, 1998 and the same views have been expressed by Ashton Carter, John Deusch and Philip Zelikow, two former high-level Defence Department Officials, and a former staff member of National Security Council, in the Foreign Affairs magazine. This propaganda would justify the US armed attack in any part of the world as "prevention" of the sensed danger. Afghanistan and Sudan were probably the first victims of an undeclared Nazi agenda for dominating the world.
The word "Nazi" might offend some Americans but a thorough research can pale Nazi atrocities by comparison with what the US has done and is doing in the name of national interest. CIA, with the help of CNN, BBC and ABC etc., is waging a major propaganda war against the Muslim world in particular, with the help of capitalist media elite and some powerful politicians. Their lies were once totally disregarded by most people, but today, the majority of the people seem to believe the anti "rogue states" propaganda.
We still have too many people, who do not believe that the present American attempts are leading to a US world order and total domination of those nations, which are considered anti-American. They, like the unbelievers in 1939, will not take the time to research the American intentions and wrong doings. If they did, they would see that these warnings are indeed accurate and timely. What the world fails or refuses to recognise is that the concentration camps were simply the logical extension of the Nazi agenda and mind-set. It doesn't matter if there were six million killed – or six hundred – or six – or even one.
The evil is the belief that the US government should have the power to sacrifice even one individual for the good of the American "nation" and "interest." Once this basic philosophical premise and political power are conceded, innocent people, beginning with few and inevitable ending in multitudes, will be killed, because "the good of the nation" always ends up requiring it. The UN and rest of the world seem to have conceded this authority to the US so that it freely exercise its Nazi practices. …
And like the German people of the 1930s, Americans either refuse to see it happening, or they rationalise what is happening so that they do not have to deal with it. …
On international level, we observe that Hitler's words have been put to practice in the form of CNN and BBC. According to Hitler, "the task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses towards certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision." We can see this at CNN and BBC, as they also stick to a few main points and repeat them over and over. …
Hitler believed that propaganda had to be very simple, so the average person, with very short attention span, could understand it. The thesis is: "If any terrorism conceivably could happen, we must assume that it will, and do something about it now, before it is too late." This is itself the very essence of psychological terrorism that the world community is constantly ignoring. …
Policy of the Nazis of the nineties is now being established in such a manner that any nation capable of posing a threat to US interests at any time in the future is a legitimate target for American attacks. It is the intention of the Nazis in Washington to so bring the nations into such despair that they will gladly give themselves over to the new despotism. They are prepared to give up their hopes and dreams, their religions and economies for the brief promise of rest from the turmoils placed before them. …
The Nazi regime of the thirties set out to gain control by focusing on three main areas: regulatory, persuasive and intimidatory. Regulation is being done through different UN resolution and their selective enforcement; persuasion is being done through electronic and print media and intimidation through missile strikes from the pirate ships. Resolutions passed by the Security Council in the early nineties have been the catalyst to the transformation of US to a nazified, and the world as a whole to be its centralised state.
In late thirties, the history was transformed to emphasise the superiority of German civilisation, with German heroes coming to the forefront. German failures were either left out of the unit or blamed on the Jews. The same is happening in the late nineties with the American heroes giving details of their ruthless bombings on the CNN with pride in militarism. Like Nazis, the US administration wants to create a static world society whereby nations act unquestionably, and do little thinking for themselves. …
CNN has become the most effective brainwashing tool, showing no victims of the 400 cruise missiles they way they show Israeli victims of a single Hizbollah rocket. None of us try to wait and reach to the root causes of the issue before making a pro-American mind after seeing these images.
They say "might is right" but this saying cannot be proven in actual history. "Might" just falls harder when it is "not right." The US actions may not have surpassed the Nazi atrocities. But that's today.
Again, let me mention that the above article was written in 1998 and already some of its predictions have been validated. This is the article that made me think of the folk tale of my childhood. When I read the following:
Put together with this:
"We have to depend upon intervention" he declared on December 8, 1998 and the same views have been expressed by Ashton Carter, John Deutsch and Philip Zelikow, two former high-level Defence Department Officials, and a former staff member of National Security Council, in the Foreign Affairs magazine. This propaganda would justify the US armed attack in any part of the world as "prevention" of the sensed danger. Afghanistan and Sudan were probably the first victims of an undeclared Nazi agenda for dominating the world.
If any terrorism conceivably could happen, we must assume that it will, and do something about it now, before it is too late. This propaganda would justify the US armed attack in any part of the world as "prevention" of the sensed danger.
This leads us to the story of the Three Sillies by Joseph Jacobs:
Once upon a time there was a farmer and his wife who had one daughter, and she was courted by a gentleman. Every evening he used to come and see her, and stop to supper at the farmhouse, and the daughter used to be sent down into the cellar to draw the beer for supper. So one evening she had gone down to draw the beer, and she happened to look up at the ceiling while she was drawing, and she saw a mallet stuck in one of the beams. It must have been there a long, long time, but somehow or other she had never noticed it before, and she began a- thinking. And she thought it was very dangerous to have that mallet there, for she said to herself: "Suppose him and me was to be married, and we was to have a son, and he was to grow up to be a man, and come down into the cellar to draw the beer, like as I'm doing now, and the mallet was to fall on his head and kill him, what a dreadful thing it would be!" And she put down the candle and the jug, and sat herself down and began a-crying.
Well, they began to wonder upstairs how it was that she was so long drawing the beer, and her mother went down to see after her, and she found her sitting on the settle crying, and the beer running over the floor. "Why, whatever is the matter?" said her mother. "Oh, mother!" says she, "look at that horrid mallet! Suppose we was to be married, and was to have a son, and he was to grow up, and was to come down to the cellar to draw the beer, and the mallet was to fall on his head and kill him, what a dreadful thing it would be!" "Dear, dear! what a dreadful thing it would be!" said the mother, and she sat her down aside of the daughter and started a-crying too. Then after a bit the father began to wonder that they didn't come back, and he went down into the cellar to look after them himself, and there they two sat a- crying, and the beer running all over the floor. "Whatever is the matter?" says he. "Why," says the mother, "look at that horrid mallet. Just suppose, if our daughter and her sweetheart was to be married, and was to have a son, and he was to grow up, and was to come down into the cellar to draw the beer, and the mallet was to fall on his head and kill him, what a dreadful thing it would be!" "Dear, dear, dear! so it would!" said the father, and he sat himself down aside of the other two, and started a-crying.
Now the gentleman got tired of stopping up in the kitchen by himself, and at last he went down into the cellar too, to see what they were after; and there they three sat a-crying side by side, and the beer running all over the floor. And he ran straight and turned the tap. Then he said: "Whatever are you three doing, sitting there crying, and letting the beer run all over the floor?"
"Oh!" says the father, "look at that horrid mallet! Suppose you and our daughter was to be married, and was to have a son, and he was to grow up, and was to come down into the cellar to draw the beer, and the mallet was to fall on his head and kill him!" And then they all started a-crying worse than before. But the gentleman burst out a- laughing, and reached up and pulled out the mallet, and then he said: "I've travelled many miles, and I never met three such big sillies as you three before; and now I shall start out on my travels again, and when I can find three bigger sillies than you three, then I'll come back and marry your daughter." So he wished them good-bye, and started off on his travels, and left them all crying because the girl had lost her sweetheart.
Well, he set out, and he travelled a long way, and at last he came to a woman's cottage that had some grass growing on the roof. And the woman was trying to get her cow to go up a ladder to the grass, and the poor thing durst not go. So the gentleman asked the woman what she was doing. "Why, lookye," she said, "look at all that beautiful grass. I'm going to get the cow on to the roof to eat it. She'll be quite safe, for I shall tie a string round her neck, and pass it down the chimney, and tie it to my wrist as I go about the house, so she can't fall off without my knowing it." "Oh, you poor silly!" said the gentleman, "you should cut the grass and throw it down to the cow!" But the woman thought it was easier to get the cow up the ladder than to get the grass down, so she pushed her and coaxed her and got her up, and tied a string round her neck, and passed it down the chimney, and fastened it to her own wrist. And the gentleman went on his way, but he hadn't gone far when the cow tumbled off the roof, and hung by the string tied round her neck, and it strangled her. And the weight of the cow tied to her wrist pulled the woman up the chimney, and she stuck fast half-way and was smothered in the soot.
Well, that was one big silly.
And the gentleman went on and on, and he went to an inn to stop the night, and they were so full at the inn that they had to put him in a double-bedded room, and another traveller was to sleep in the other bed. The other man was a very pleasant fellow, and they got very friendly together; but in the morning, when they were both getting up, the gentleman was surprised to see the other hang his trousers on the knobs of the chest of drawers and run across the room and try to jump into them, and he tried over and over again, and couldn't manage it; and the gentleman wondered whatever he was doing it for. At last he stopped and wiped his face with his handkerchief. "Oh dear," he says, "I do think trousers are the most awkwardest kind of clothes that ever were. I can't think who could have invented such things. It takes me the best part of an hour to get into mine every morning, and I get so hot! How do you manage yours?" So the gentleman burst out a-laughing, and showed him how to put them on; and he was very much obliged to him, and said he never should have thought of doing it that way.
So that was another big silly.
Then the gentleman went on his travels again; and he came to a village, and outside the village there was a pond, and round the pond was a crowd of people. And they had got rakes, and brooms, and pitchforks, reaching into the pond; and the gentleman asked what was the matter. "Why," they say, "matter enough! Moon's tumbled into the pond, and we can't rake her out anyhow!" So the gentleman burst out a- laughing, and told them to look up into the sky, and that it was only the shadow in the water. But they wouldn't listen to him, and abused him shamefully, and he got away as quick as he could.
So there was a whole lot of sillies bigger than them three sillies at home. So the gentleman turned back home again and married the farmer's daughter, and if they didn't live happy for ever after, that's nothing to do with you or me.
It's a pretty funny story, yes? Most of the silliness of human beings is as generally innocuous as the examples in this story. Of course, the dingbat trying to get the cow on the roof killed her cow and died herself in the exercise of her silliness, so that warns us that our ignorance and simple-mindedness can be fatal. But in general, silliness isn't fatal. It is only fatal when this tendency of human beings is used by those who do not have the best interests of the masses at heart.
Can you imagine what the farmer and his family would have done if the gentleman caller, instead of pointing out that their imaginations were the cause of their distress and that the answer was simple: remove the object that was triggering their imaginations to run wild, had rather decided to play on their fears for his own agenda? What if he wanted to take the land of an enemy? He could have told the farmer and family that this neighbor had planted the mallet in the ceiling to cause exactly the tragedy that the farmer's daughter feared. They would have then taken up their pitchforks and firebrands and gone at once to the home of the declared evildoer, killed him and taken his possessions.
That is exactly how the American people are being controlled. They have been "hystericized" and this process has been ongoing for the past 50 years or more – since the Nazi scientists were brought back to America from Germany and put to work to help the US achieve global dominance, to become the Seat of the New World Order. As Abid Ullah Jan wrote on 5 Jan 1998:
It's here, it's now. The only thing that will save us now is a global cataclysm from the "outside." And that will exact its own heavy toll. But maybe that is what is really meant by the "Second Coming?"
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This chapter demonstrates that G.W. Leibniz and Michal Polanyi's creative work in multiple fields of attention may serve a twenty first century in need of scholars willing to put daring and speculative imaginative inter–disciplinary risks in play. Such a cultural development would activate a general and cross–cultural sensibility that may salvage knowledge work, which is often predicated on property and power, for instead intellectual work that would serve the production of multiple truths that may enliven the world and inspire it.


There seems to be a hierarchy around financial security. First is to get out of debt. Then it's to build up a retirement fund. And finally at the very top, financial independence claims to be the holy grail for many people. The idea that we don't have to actively work to live our lives the way we want forever certainly sounds like the bees knees. 🙂 But rather than dropping everything else and trying to make FI/RE a reality, maybe it's better to use the horizontal approach and broaden our financial foundation so we're building sideways instead of upwards. For example, I am a big fan of dividend growth investing. But I also use other strategies to make potential profits. 🙂 A few years ago I purchased shares of Amazon.com (AMZN) which has a P/E ratio of nearly 300 times and doesn't pay any dividends. Since I can't live off an investment that yields 0% this doesn't really help me reach financial freedom directly. However, maybe, and just maybe, by the time I'm ready to retire, AMZN will be worth a lot more money and I can sell it to buy another investment that actually produces regular income, such as AT&T or BCE.
Nobody wants their careers to end in ruins, except maybe archaeologists. The idea of adding value across, rather than in a vertical rank, to grow one's job skills is an interesting concept that I think will catch on as more people realize its potential benefits.
In 2013 the fertility rate was 1.61 in Canada, and 1.87 in the United States.
So basically diversification/Jack-of-all-trade mindset. But to add real lasting value you still have to make vertical moves. Think Michael J Fox in 'The Secret of My Success'.
Your list reminds me of the suggestion to focus not on the goal but instead the process etc required to get there. I love to borrow from the unrelated to increase value in unique ways.
For example, being a competative cyclist I learned how to take corners by watching downhill ski legend/beast Alberto Tomba, but I don't ski.
I also play guitar. I listen to drummers to learn new rhythms, but I don't play the drums.
Guess what I'm saying is, if you want to improve or implement a "value", learn from who/what does it the best and apply it to your own specific situation (e.g. 'The Art of War' utilized in the corporate world).
Obviously the baby is adopted. Horizontal value-added, remember?
You clearly understand the value of horizontal skills building, which is probably why you are knowledgeable about many things. I haven't seen that movie yet but I'll add it to my watch list. 🙂 I usually like the movies Michael J Fox is in. I actually attended the high school where they named a theater after him.
Not really. Your "horizontal approach" is nothing more than what Charlie Munger has been doing for the last 70 years — thinking broadly and developing different mental models from multiple disciplines.
There's nothing new under the sun, it's just that every generation likes to repackage and rebrand.
This makes a lot of sense, and most people will hate it. For the most part people want to "move up" they don't want to feel equal to others they want to be able to "be above" others. There are many of us that wouldn't care either way and I think this would work well for that type of people.
It makes sense to me too. I feel sorry for the people who want to feel like they're "above" others, because a win-lose approach is not as productive or fun as a win-win state of thinking.


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This commentary outlines how my published works have contributed to knowledge on violence against black and minority ethnic (BME) or minority women in the UK, particularly in relation to domestic violence, forced marriage and so called 'honour' based violence (HBV). They help to define and enhance our understanding of these issues. In addition, they have critiqued multiculturalism and influenced, advocated and developed the former Home Office Minister, Mike O'Brien's concept of 'mature multiculturalism' (Parliamentary Debates, 1999; also cited in Home Office, 2000:10), and utilised the theoretical framework of intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1989 and 1991) to address these problems. I have also located my works within the framework of violence against women and girls (VAWG), secularism, equalities and human rights. My publications have reflected upon and influenced policy, practice and research, and as such, contributed to documenting the history and achievements of black feminism.


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Pat To YAN
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City Hall, Hong Kong, Nov 2016
New Vision Festival 2016 NOV 2016 Hong Kong
Playwright & Director: Pat To YAN
Curator : FELIXISM CREATION & Reframe Theatre
The first ethnic Chinese play selected by
Berliner Festspoele Theatertreffen Stückemarkt 2016
A thought of millions of people, reverses South and North Connected fates are the journeys swallowed by you and me…
A country on the brink of civil war. Two generations, two cities, two opposite journeys. Time levels divide and intermingle.
It's now. A man who witnesses pain loves watching musicals, but he doesn't know how to dance, sing and act. One night, he saw a chorus girl -- the sinister girl -- who's not exceptionally beautiful in a show at the national theatre in the capital in the north; nevertheless, he couldn't take his eyes off her. Hence, he kept going back to the same show next night. The third night, the fourth, and numerous nights. On the last night, he told her his feeling. The sinister girl promised to be with him, nonetheless, he had to sacrifice his ability to see. This deal was set because of her family history. Then they had to flee from north to the south ......
It's future. The outsider held a box and destined to travel to the north from the south though he didn't know the content of the box, though everyone was fleeing from the north to the south. In the journey, he came across with various incompleted subjects: The white bone lady, The man without heart beat, The cat with a hole, The chairman ......
The two time lines are seemingly parallel, but is the 'reality' real?
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1 Soak the cashew nuts in water for at least 4 hours and then drain, or boil for 15 minutes.
3 To make the base, place the coconut and sesame seeds on a baking tray and toast for 10 minutes, tossing once after 5 minutes.
4 Place the dates, toasted sesame seeds and coconut and salt in a food processor and blend until the dates are finely chopped and you can press the mixture together with your fingertips. Press into the bottom of your cake tin.
5 For the filling, clean the food processor and then place all the ingredients for the filling into it, not forgetting the cashew nuts, and blitz until smooth. Taste. Add more maple syrup if you prefer it to be sweeter.
6 Pour the filling into the tin on top of the base, and then place it in the freezer. Allow to set for a few hours or overnight. If setting overnight, remove from the freezer 30 minutes before serving.
7 Decorate with the toppings of your choice and cut with a hot knife, cleaning the knife between slices.
8 After defrosting, the cheesecake will hold its flavour and form in the fridge for up to 4–5 days.


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Asian countries move towards CITES e-permitting systems to strengthen the protection of CITES species
Geneva/Guangzhou, 14 May 2012 – The development and use of CITES e-permitting systems, and their role in ensuring legal, sustainable and traceable international trade in CITES-listed species, was discussed by countries in Asia at a meeting in Guangzhou, China on 9 to 11 May 2012.
The rapid advances by some countries in the Asian Region on use of new electronic trade standards, including the establishment of 'Single Windows'1, assisted participants in discussing joint projects on the establishment of secure-permitting systems to: reduce fraud; improve on meeting reporting obligations; enhance permit issuance and administration; and provide up-to-the-minute data to assist with CITES scientific assessments (non-detriment findings and significant trade reviews).
A group photo of the participants to the e-permitting meeting. Click to see
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The meeting was jointly organized by the CITES Secretariat and the Government of China and made possible through the generous financial support of China and the European Commission.
The Asian Region also benefits from the framework provided by the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) whose member countries have agreed to implement an ASEAN Single Window, which will create a simplified, standardized and integrated environment for cargo clearance in line with international best practices and norms2.
Participation in the meeting by representatives from: Brazil and Namibia; the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre; the World Customs Organization (WCO), and the Chair of the CITES e-permitting working group, offered participants the opportunity to plan innovative projects. This included making use of South-South collaboration, as well as the unique expertise available in the participating countries and international organizations. Brazil, for example, has offered to make its know-how freely available to countries in the Latin American Region and in other regions that are planning to implement CITES e-permitting systems.
Ms Yin Hong, Vice Administrator of State Forestry Administration and Director General of the Endangered Species Import and Export Management Office of China stated, "China is pleased to work together with Parties to CITES, international organizations and the CITES Secretariat to push forward the development of technologies to strengthen the protection of CITES species and to better regulate trade, enhance law enforcement and make greater contributions to sustainable social and economic development. "
In his opening remarks, Secretary-General, Mr. John E. Scanlon, noted that, "A sustainable future is being discussed in the context of the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June of this year, often known as Rio+20. Sustainability is not achieved through one action but through the accumulation of multiple actions. Actions such as those being taken today - namely to put into place e-permitting systems for legal, sustainable and traceable trade in CITES listed species - help build the essential foundations for environmental sustainability and sustainable development. E-permitting systems offer us one of the tools we need to reach the future we want."
During the meeting, a representative of the WCO announced the successful conclusion of an initiative to include standards of the CITES e-permitting toolkit with the new version of the WCO Data Model, scheduled for release in October 2012. In his announcement, Mr Sybrand Bootsma, WCO Technical Officer, declared, "The joint achievement by the CITES Secretariat and the WCO will make it easier for CITES Parties to develop e-permitting systems that are fully harmonized with international standards and to Single Windows. It also paves the way for other multilateral environmental agreements to make use of the framework provided by the WCO data model."
Participants in the meeting also focused on the positive impacts of CITES e-permitting systems on the provision of up-to-the-minute data for scientific findings and reviewing levels of trade. During these discussions, Mr Mathias Löertscher, Chair of the Working Group on CITES E-permitting and Head of the CITES Management Authority of Switzerland, stated, "CITES e-permitting systems will strengthen the science base of the Convention by providing the scientific community with data that can be used to better monitor CITES-listed species in the wild and can be combined with other datasets for the development of more relevant biodiversity indicators."
The meeting concluded by recommending a number of bilateral and regional projects, which will assist Parties to plan and develop e-permitting systems, benefiting from lessons learned. Recommendations were also made to begin discussions on a project between Brazil, Namibia and China on using new e-permitting technologies to ensure legal, sustainable and traceable trade.
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1. A Single Window is defined as a facility that allows parties involved in trade and transport to lodge standardized information and documents with a single entry point to fulfil all import, export, and transit-related regulatory requirements. If information is electronic, then individual data elements should only be submitted once (Recommendation and Guidelines on establishing a Single Window to enhance the efficient exchange of information between trade and government (United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitationand Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT), Recommendation No. 33).
2. Agreement to Establish and Implement the ASEAN Single Window, Kuala Lumpur, 9 December 2005 (http://www.aseansec.org/18005.htm)


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I always find these fragrances a bit almost nothing i guess, but many customers love them.
So i tried this and was very impressed it smells like the yankee candle even though i think its not meant to so great oil lovely clean fresh fragrance.


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Mosman residents are being encouraged to again share the gift of giving this holiday season by donating toys and books for the Mosman Christmas Gift Appeal.
While gifts for children aged from 0 to 12 years are welcome, donors are being encouraged to focus on providing gifts for older children aged from 9 to 12 years, including children's novels, educational games, art and craft sets, sports balls, science kits and beach sporting goods, due to a significant shortage of gifts for the age range.
Gifts can be placed under the Christmas tree in the Council foyer from Monday 23 November – Tuesday 15 December 2015 for donation to The Smith Family's Toy & Book Appeal and distribution to disadvantaged children in Sydney metro and regional NSW areas.
More than 140 toys and books were donated to the Toy & Book Appeal by Mosman residents last Christmas and The Smith Family's CEO Dr Lisa O'Brien said the charity was "extremely grateful to the members of the community – including Mosman residents" for their generous contribution.