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Gospel Singer, Choir Director & Producer
Audrey is a musician whose dominating gift is her ability to bring the absolute best out of any singer she shares her talents with. Her work covers being a choir director, event producer, jazz-gospel performer and she is known throughout the UK especially for her work with gospel choir productions and as a director of massed choirs.
She studied at Birmingham Conservatoire, is a qualified teacher and is currently a Music Lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK.
Her professional choir "AMC Gospel Choir" performs all over the UK and internationally.
Her vocal coaching work has been delivered in Italy since 2009 with Joy Singers Choir. Other UK choirs she has directed are : RNCM Gospel Choir, Harmonix Youth Choir and NTCG Mass Choir of 150 plus singers including countless workshops with community choirs across the UK.
Other organisations she has worked with include:
Youth Music, Llangollen International Eisteddfod, British Gospel Arts, Manchester Camerata, SING UP, Greater Manchester Youth Services and Education Departments, and a multitude of schools, colleges and universities throughout the UK.
Audrey has featured as a Musical Director for BBC "Songs Of Praise" outside broadcast for the past few years.
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HBS Launches New Ventures Competition
Harvard Business School recently launched its fourth annual alumni new ventures competition. I'm a huge fan of this competition having been a finalists judge the past two years and co-chair of the Boston chapter of the competition. What sets this competition apart from the plethora of others is its global reach, the scale of the enterprises that compete and the vast resources made available to all the competitors. The competition has two tracks: one for social ventures and another for for-profit businesses.
Social Entrepreneurship at Harvard
Come join the launch of the second President's Challenge at Harvard! Professor David Edwards of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will be speaking on the promise of social entrepreneurship. There will be food served, and students from across the University will be here to share ideas, find teams, and generally mix it up.
Strategy Moves Toward Excess Capacity
15 years ago I took a management strategy class at Harvard Business School being taught by Professor Clayton Christensen who was mostly talking about disruptive innovation. At the time Christensen was wildly famous, at least as far as business thinkers can be. He had recently published Innovators Dilemma and was on the cover of popular business magazines. Now I had been cold-called three times in as many days so I was really paying attention. What Christensen then proffered was this gem of management advice:
Don't Just Count Every Hour, Make Every Hour Count
Each day at ExtensionEngine we track about 1,000 hours of our employees' labor of love across about 40 billable client projects and another dozen or so non-billable projects that are for either sales, training, development, philanthropy, etc.. That works out to more than a quarter million hours …
New Web Standards Resource Launches
Hoping to create the definitive resource for all open Web technologies, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera have joined the W3C to launch a new website called Web Platform. The new website, which just launched into alpha, will serve a a single source of relevant, up-to-date and quality information on the latest HTML5, CSS3, and other Web standards, offering tips on web development and best practises for the technologies. According to the W3C, the website will also display the status of a particular technology's standardisation and cross-browser implementation. The site is also a wiki that allows users to ask, answer and rate questions similar to Stack Overflow, which seems the closes competitor. Originally, the site was open to just employees of the sponsor, but it seems to have opened to all registered users now. All documents posted to the Web Platform website are licensed under creative commons. While the initial content was provided by the member companies, website visitors are encouraged to share code examples, tips and tricks or any other relevant information using the Wiki. Building and maintaining interoperable systems on the web is a community effort and one that we at ExtensionEngine participate in on a daily basis. We look forward to engaging on Webplatform.org and contributing to ensure a bright, interoperable future!
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Dispute over Fishing Permits for Foreign Fleets Hots up
DEVELOPMENT & SOCIETY : Food Security, Africa, Oceans
2011•04•20 Souleymane Faye Inter Press Service
Photo: ambabheg.
Senegal's small-scale fishers are challenging the government over licences granting foreign trawlers permission to fish in Senegalese waters. The artisanal fishers condemn the "selling off" of the country's fishery resources at a time when stocks off Senegal's coast are severely depleted.
The protests have been led by GAIPES, the Senegalese Association of Fishing Companies and Ship Owners, which is demanding the Minister of Maritime Economy withdraw 22 licences they association says were granted in the first quarter of 2010. According to GAIPES, the foreign beneficiaries are Russian, Belizean, Mauritian, Ukrainian and Comorian trawlers.
"These boats are fishing under illegal protocols that have been signed by the minister of maritime economy without being recorded by the relevant technical government agencies," Dougoutigui Coulibaly, secretary-general of GAIPES told IPS.
But the authorities accuse the group of conflating separate issues.
"In 2010, we signed fishing agreements with six foreign fishing boats that were to catch pelagic, or migratory, fish that swim along the coast of Senegal, originating from Morocco and Mauritania. Once the contracts had expired, the boats left," explains Captain Matar Sambou, head of monitoring and control of fishing.
[quote quote="Fishing is one of Senegal's main economic activities, and is the livelihood of some 600,000 people — eight times more than the 75,000 in the civil service." author="" type="image" image="3299″ ]
Sambou says an advisory committee at the ministry suspended several licences in December 2010 following GAIPES's complaints. But, since the members of this committee showed that signing the agreements would earn money for the country, the ministry was authorised to go ahead.
"At the beginning of March 2011, we signed fishing agreements with 11 or 12 fishing boats for a two-month period," he says.
Senegal's fisheries
Fishing is one of Senegal's main economic activities, and is the livelihood of some 600,000 people — eight times more than the 75,000 in the civil service. In 2009, fishing constituted 13 percent of Senegalese exports and 1.7 percent of GDP, according to the ministry of maritime economy.
Small-scale fishing in Senegal has become a mere subsistence fishery because the stocks are so depleted.
"There aren't any more of the larger fish species, like carp and hake. Now, Senegalese people eat only small fish: sardines, jack mackerel, mackerel…" says Raoul Monsembula, from the environmental organisation Greenpeace Africa.
"The licences granted to these industrial fishing boats are going to lead to the disappearance of the country's fishing resource and, as a result, the loss of income of 600,000 people," warns Amadou Chérif Diagne, a sociologist living in Gueth-Ndar, a fishermen's quarter in Saint-Louis, in the north of the country.
The Greenpeace regional office in Dakar has lodged an appeal with the Senegalese government to revoke its decision to grant industrial licences, in order to put an end to what it describes as "the pillage" of the country's fish stocks.
[quote quote="Senegal has taken the sovereign decision to make use of a portion of its fishing resources so that the Treasury can benefit from it in the same way that neighbouring countries have." author="Minister of Maritime Economy Khouraïchi Thiam" type="text" ]
But the authorities defend the permits. "Senegal has taken the sovereign decision to make use of a portion of its fishing resources so that the Treasury can benefit from it in the same way that neighbouring countries have," says the minister of maritime economy Khouraïchi Thiam.
"The Treasury can tax 35 dollars on each tonne fished by these foreign trawlers," he says, pointing out that Senegalese fisheries officials board the trawlers to monitor the amounts that are caught.
"1.45 million tonnes of pelagic fish cross from Mauritania, Cape Verde, Guinea Buisseau and Gambia towards Senegal. If this stock isn't fished, it dies and that will be an enormous loss to the country," the minister told a private radio station on Mar. 29.
Fishers not satisfied
Sada Fall, secretary-general of the 15,000-strong National Collective of Small-scale Fishers (CNPA) threatens direct action if government won't listen.
"If the government doesn't suspend these licences, we will go and find the trawlers and fight it out with them. We are going to chase them out of our waters at whatever price," he warns. The CNPA is based in Saint-Louis, where a government census counted 2,800 fishing dugouts.
Coulibaly, from GAIPES, adds: "We have a whole range of actions to roll out so the government withdraws these fishing licences. We are not ruling out the removal of the industrial and small-scale fleet from the waters and thus closing down the factories."
According to the Senegalese maritime code, "the maritime resources are part of the national patrimony. The state can authorise physical and moral persons of Senegalese or foreign nationality to fish in waters under Senegalese jurisdiction," professor of law at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Alassane Ndiaye, tells IPS.
According to Ndiaye, the maritime code stipulates that those seeking fishing licences must contact the minister of maritime economy, who must take the advice of the advisory committee that grants the fishing licences. If this procedure has been respected, the fishing licences in question are legal, he says.
This story was published by Inter Press Service (IPS), a specialised news service with the backing of the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme and the World Bank.
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Souleymane Faye
Souleymane Faye writes for Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa, a leading and credible source of information about Africa, with a network of more than 100 writers reporting from almost 50 countries. Focusing on Africa's untold stories, IPS strives to produce regular features focusing on development issues such as poverty, women's empowerment, governance, access to water, research and trade.
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Japan to spend $4.2 bn over 30 years on missile defence system radar
Japan said Monday it would spend some $4.2 billion over the next 30 years on installing and operating US radar systems to protect itself against North Korean missile threats.
Read more: US-Japan alliance 'cornerstone' of regional stability: Mattis
The move, announced by Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera, is the latest step by Tokyo to upgrade its military. Japan says the North's nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles pose a direct threat.
US firm Lockheed Martin has offered to build the radars needed for a new ground-based Aegis Ashore missile defence system at a cost of roughly 134 billion yen ($1.21 billion) for one unit, Onodera told reporters.
The combined expenditure for two units as well as maintenance and operational costs for the next 30 years was estimated at 466 billion yen ($4.2 billion), the defence ministry said.
That does not include expected additional costs involved with the system that have yet to be outlined.
"Our country's ballistic missile defence capacity will significantly improve," Onodera said. "The cost is not fixed yet. We will examine the prices at every level possible," he added.
Read more: Disaster-hit Japan braces for powerful typhoon
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has passionately argued for the upgrading of the nation's military in light of threats from North Korea, which has several times fired missiles over Japan and into waters near the country.
Abe has maintained a hardline position against the North while the leaders of South Korea, China and the United States have shifted in recent months towards diplomacy with Pyongyang.
The Aegis radar purchase comes as trade tensions between the US and Japan cast a shadow over the friendship between the country's leaders that Abe has pursued.
President Donald Trump has pushed Tokyo to buy more US products, including military equipment, but has angered allies including Japan recently with trade tariffs. Japan's military has long been restricted to self-defence and the country relies heavily on the US under a bilateral security alliance.
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Free Speech in HOAs: protected in NJ but not in FL?
Howard Finkelstein is Public Defender for Broward County in Florida, but he moonlights as a legal analyst for the local Fox News affiliate. According to Finkelstein's analysis, an HOA can deny a resident's right to display a political sign as long as their documents are "written correctly," and if the homeowner took this to court, she would "probably lose." However, an HOA cannot allow some types of political signs (such as the one we see in the video about gun ownership rights) and not others ( a sign supporting Hillary Clinton).
But, is that absolutely true or is it subject to interpretation?
This entry was posted in Constitutional and Civil Rights and your HOA, First Amendment, HOA Community Association Disputes & Legal Matters, Regulatory Agencies and tagged deed restrictions, US Constitution by deborahgoonan. Bookmark the permalink.


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There are five different pricing tiers to choose from: the most affordable bundle"Starter" is priced at $16 a month. If you need more than only four topics and a complete chat history, you ought to have a look at the"Team" ($33) program. The"Business" ($50) grade is designed for larger teams and provides a staffing prediction in Addition to a work scheduler module" Enterprise" gives you a dedicated account manager in a cost of $149 per month.
We realize that when you make a decision to Purchase Live Chat Software it is important not just to observe how pros assess it in their reviews, but also to find out whether the actual people and businesses that buy it are actually satisfied with the item. That's why we've created our behavior-based Customer Satisfaction Algorithm"¢ that gathers customer testimonials, opinions and LiveChat reviews across a wide range of social networking websites. The data is then presented in an easy to digest form showing how many individuals had negative and positive experience with LiveChat. With that information at hand you ought to be armed to make an educated buying decision that you won't repent.
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There are three Major components of LiveChat — a Online chat window, online control panel, and operator application. The operator program has cross platform capabilities that enable logging in and chatting with visitors via mobile and desktop devices.
LiveChat Delivers a Wide Selection of attributes and Abilities, and probably the greatest tools among the live chat options that we have reviewed. You get value for your money with functions and tools that include not only chat but also ticketing, client engagement, third party integration, file sharing, work scheduling, advanced reporting, multiple branding, information security, geo-tagging, co-browsing, chat polls, and much more.
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While other comparable systems provide only basic live Chat with a couple extras, Live Chat provides complete help desk performance with its ticketing system built into the platform. With this , you gain a significant advantage over the competition, letting you quickly resolve customer problems. It's the heavy lifting, which email and telephone can't manage, and allows you to remove long queues while engaging clients with your quick replies. Its ticket management capacity allows to supply tickets from chat and mails, tag tickets, and accept automatic follow-ups.
LiveChat offers a Wide Selection of chat and ticket Reports that can be used to spot areas that can be improved and optimized. It is possible to quantify chat length, first reaction times, and traffic traffic. These reports, together with staffing prediction, can help you correct the number of agents to cover all chats. Customers may also see the amount of chats, attained goals, and client satisfaction levels. With complete visibility over your chat history and performance metrics allow you to fine tune your workflows and performance to be even more responsive to your client's needs.
With LiveChat, you get a Complete suite of Customization options including two chat window kinds (embedded or pop-up ), six different themes for minimized or maximized chat window, custom chat window emblem, and customizable chat buttons. Additionally, it has its own custom CSS editor that provides you greater flexibility and management such as easily changing any part of the chat window, both regarding looks as well as behaviour. You could even add your personal social media buttons so that your clients can reach your fan page directly from chat, and even personalize agent profiles not only with names and titles but also with real photographs to find the best results. Further, you have to use engagement graphics — eye-catching visuals and custom greetings and buttons — to allow an even more compelling experience for clients.
Dave chats with Samantha And Kevin when he receives a chat from Jane. He sees in the background that she had been requesting a return policy. As he anticipates — she would like to reunite her sneakers. As it is Simon who copes with yields, Dave transports Jane into Simon. Dave also tags the conversation because"yield".
Because of LiveChat Software, customer service representative, Dave, checks customers' action on the site. He finds John Parker spends some time on a particular product page also decides to approach him to offer some help. It turns out that John was unsure whether shoes were watertight or not. Dave informs John that these sneakers are indeed waterproof, so John decides to make a purchase. John leaves a positive feedback about company's customer service.
Jane wants to purchase New sneakers but she want to know what is shop's return policy. She needs an reply to her question when possible but she doesn't enjoy making calls. Fortunately, she can begin a conversation with a live conversation agent. Jane types in her question oblivious that Dave can see what she's writing. As her query is quite a common one, Dave enters a previously saved material, so that he does not have to write it on. Jane sends her message and within a second she gets a URL to the return coverage and a complete explanation of steps she needs to take. She finishes the chat and rates it as great.
LiveChat provides the following SMB and enterprise pricing bundles for users to pick from. A 30-day free trial is also available. Give the specifics that a look, and choose the best strategy for your company.
LiveChat is one of the goods we thoroughly enjoyed reviewing. It just works really well and is enjoyable to use. We're also surprised that in comparison to ClickDesk, which we had on our website earlier, the number of discussion requests skyrocketed. Though we used the exact same setup (automatic trigger after 3 minutes).


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package com.google.maps.model;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;

/**
 * A component of a Directions API result.
 *
 *
See the Legs
 * documentation for more detail.
 */
public class DirectionsLeg implements Serializable {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

  /**
   * Contains an array of steps denoting information about each separate step of this leg of the
   * journey.
   */
  public DirectionsStep[] steps;

  /** The total distance covered by this leg. */
  public Distance distance;

  /** The total duration of this leg. */
  public Duration duration;

  /**
   * The total duration of this leg, taking into account current traffic conditions. The duration in
   * traffic will only be returned if all of the following are true:
   *
   *

   *
The directions request includes a departureTime parameter set to a value within a few
   *       minutes of the current time.
   *
The request includes a valid Maps for Work client and signature parameter.
   *
Traffic conditions are available for the requested route.
   *
The directions request does not include stopover waypoints.
   *

   */
  public Duration durationInTraffic;

  /**
   * The estimated time of arrival for this leg. This property is only returned for transit
   * directions.
   */
  public ZonedDateTime arrivalTime;

  /**
   * The estimated time of departure for this leg. The departureTime is only available for transit
   * directions.
   */
  public ZonedDateTime departureTime;

  /**
   * The latitude/longitude coordinates of the origin of this leg. Because the Directions API
   * calculates directions between locations by using the nearest transportation option (usually a
   * road) at the start and end points, startLocation may be different from the provided origin of
   * this leg if, for example, a road is not near the origin.
   */
  public LatLng startLocation;

  /**
   * The latitude/longitude coordinates of the given destination of this leg. Because the Directions
   * API calculates directions between locations by using the nearest transportation option (usually
   * a road) at the start and end points, endLocation may be different than the provided destination
   * of this leg if, for example, a road is not near the destination.
   */
  public LatLng endLocation;

  /**
   * The human-readable address (typically a street address) reflecting the start location of this
   * leg.
   */
  public String startAddress;

  /**
   * The human-readable address (typically a street address) reflecting the end location of this
   * leg.
   */
  public String endAddress;

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    StringBuilder sb =
        new StringBuilder(
            String.format(
                "[DirectionsLeg: \"%s\" -> \"%s\" (%s -> %s)",
                startAddress, endAddress, startLocation, endLocation));
    if (departureTime != null) {
      sb.append(", departureTime=").append(departureTime);
    }
    if (arrivalTime != null) {
      sb.append(", arrivalTime=").append(arrivalTime);
    }
    if (durationInTraffic != null) {
      sb.append(", durationInTraffic=").append(durationInTraffic);
    }
    sb.append(", duration=").append(duration);
    sb.append(", distance=").append(distance);
    sb.append(": ").append(steps.length).append(" steps]");
    return sb.toString();
  }
}

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Michael Bierer's term as president of MASAM runs from May 20, 2017 until the new slate takes office in 2019. He served as Secretary and as President-Elect. He is on staff at Massachusetts General Hospital, and has an addictions practice nested in primary care there. He has been teaching SUDS topics to residents and colleagues since the 1990s. Since its inception, he has been an active member of the Addictions Consult Team at MGH. Prior to his primary care and addictions work, he led the MGH effort for Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (1989-2002). He has been certified by ASAM since 1995 and boarded by ABAM since 2009. His MD is from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY (1985) and his MPH in Health Policy and Management is from Harvard School of Public Health. He trained in Medicine at MGH and participated in the addictions fellowship at BU/Boston VA under Dr John Renner in 2001.
Barbara Herbert MD, DFASAM, is an addiction medicine physician who just completed two years as president and has been a member of the MASAM Board for the past 4 years. She currently works in several outpatient settings including an MAT practice, a methadone clinic and a federal demonstration grant for poor and disabled patients. She previously served at the chief of Addiction Medicine at Steward Health Care where she was medical director for an inpatient detoxification unit, and co-created a program, MCHAT, for pregnant women with opioid use disorder, as well as providing outpatient care. She is an Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. She attended medical school at the State University of New York Stony Brook, did an internship in general surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, did a residency in emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a post-doctoral fellowship in medicine and social policy at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Harvard University. She married Jean McGuire, her long term partner in May 2004 and together they have 3 grown children. She has been a fellow of ASAM since 2010. She has special interests in patients with chronic pain, elderly patients with substance and alcohol use disorders, LGBT patients with addiction problems and pregnant and parenting people.
Peter D. Friedmann, MD, MPH, DFASAM, FACP is Professor of Medicine and the inaugural Associate Dean for Research at the new regional campus of University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate, and Chief Research Officer and Endowed Chair for Clinical Research at Baystate Health. Before coming to Baystate in 2015, he was Professor of Medicine and Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he was director of the Research Section in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital, founding director of the Center of Innovation in Long-Term Services and Supports at the Providence VA Medical Center, and the founding director of the David C. Lewis, MD Fellowship in Addiction Medicine. Dr. Friedmann is a primary care internist, addiction medicine clinician and established addiction researcher. He has had continuous NIH funding since 1996 and has published over 145 peer-reviewed articles. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), Fellow of the American College of Physician (ACP), past president of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA), former director on the American Board of Addiction Medicine, and Deputy Editor for the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. Dr. Friedmann is honored to serve as MASAM President-Elect at a time when policy momentum and the rising profile of addiction medicine as a medical discipline offer an opportunity for the Chapter and its membership to make significant strides in improving care, education, research and policy for persons and families in our Commonwealth suffering from substance use disorders.
Ken Freedman, MD, MS, MBA, FACP, DFASAM, AGAF has MASAM Treasurer & Finance Committee Chair (2011–Present), Secretary (2007–2011), and Regional Director for New England for the ASAM (2013–Present). He also serves as the Chief Medical Officer of the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital since August 2009. Ken is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of Massachusetts School of Medicine. He is board-certified in addiction medicine, internal medicine and gastroenterology, and a member of the AMA, ACP, and AGA. Ken has been a member of ASAM since 1997, earned certification in 1998, and was elected an ASAM Fellow in 2003. ABAM certified in 2009.
Over the past 20 years, Ken has used his wide range of clinical and managerial skills to serve the needs of behavioral health and substance abuse patients. Ken teaches clinicians on the medically appropriate and humane treatment of pain disorders. Ken's professional commitment is to help move health care delivery towards the integration of medical care and substance abuse treatment in respectful and innovative ways.
MASAM- Massachusetts Society of Addiction Medicine.


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Category Archives: Rapper
Award winning rapper Lecrae: I am here to hold up the banner of TRUTH.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IpDGu87dm0
Grammy-Award winning rapper Lecrae recently appeared on the New York City radio station "Hot 97 The Morning Show" where he discussed being censored due to his lyrical content being informed by his Christian faith.
"I'm more censored than the most drugged out violent rapper," Lecrae told host Ebro who asked if he runs into barriers due to being a Christian rapper. "They censor me more than anybody. I'm marginalized, put in a box, so it's kind of weird. I'm sitting here trying to put substance in music and people are like, 'nah nah.'"
Lecrae also enjoyed other mainstream exposure performing on the "Late Show with Jimmy Fallon" last month and knocking Nicki Minaj's sex driven "Anaconda" out of the No. 1 slot on iTunes back in August with his single "All I Need is You." He shared an exclusive quote with The Christian Post to celebrate that feat.
"I don't look at it that way," the rapper told Christian Post. "I think it's phenomenal to make music that challenges people to think on morality, spirituality and the betterment of society. Many people do that. Some sing country or jazz — I rap.
At the end of the day I'm not here to hold up the banner of a genre. I am here to hold up the banner of Truth. It's way bigger than genres and charts. I'm fighting to be a voice in culture. A voice in a dark world."


Yorktown Police report the arrest of a 26-year-old man from Mattapan, Massachusetts, on a Felony drug charge and several misdemeanor charges.
According to police on July 10, 2018 at about 4:23 PM, a call was received reporting a person in the roadway of Route 132 asking passing motorists to call 911. Officers were dispatched and met with the defendant, and a resident of Old Yorktown Road. An investigation at the scene led to the arrest of the defendant for an alleged domestic assault. Additional investigation and a K9 search of the defendant's car led to the discovery of what is alleged to be: Cocaine, Oxycodone and Marihuana-all allegedly possessed by the defendant.
Following processing at police headquarters, the defendant was arraigned in the Yorktown Town Court by the Honorable Judge Lagonia, who issued a temporary order of protection for the victim. The defendant was remanded to the Westchester County Jail, in lieu of $7,500.00 cash bail.


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Talk had the pets factor
Dermot O'Leary | Phyllis Court Club | Sunday, November 24
IT could have been chaos as Phyllis Court's Finlay Suite filled with children and their parents. But in the event it was far from chaotic.
Sunday's Henley Literary Festival event was fun — dare I say even relaxing — for adults and children alike, and especially for cat lovers.
Dermot O'Leary, interviewed by Beverley Turner, was there to talk about his series of children's books based on his own, much-loved, pet, Toto the Cat.
Perhaps best known for his work on television and radio, O'Leary has been an author for four years, an addition to his career inspired by his cats.
He regaled Sunday's audience as he described how he acquired Toto and his other cat, Silver, from Italy. His wife even helped to deliver them.
It was only when they brought the kittens back to their London home that they realised Toto was almost totally blind. Owing to his blindness, O'Leary explained that he had extreme reflexes and as a result they nicknamed him "Little Ninja". Silver, his sister, was affectionately named his "guide cat".
As O'Leary talked about his pets and how they influenced the stories he went on to write, photographs appeared on a screen behind him.
A huge "ahhh" resounded from the audience as a fluffy Toto perched two paws on the step of a chair, or lounged on the stairs, big eyes shining. It was easy to see how O'Leary was so smitten and why he was so inspired.
Talking about his childhood and the Irish tradition of telling stories, it seemed he was destined to become a writer — his cats just gave him a push in the right direction.
He described with affection his Saturday morning library visits and encouragingly a show of hands from all the children in the audience showed that libraries — in Henley at least — are still treasured, despite the constant challenge to keep children away from screens in today's technology-obsessed society.
O'Leary, whose books are aimed at boys or girls, evidenced by the demographic of the audience, said as a child he was influenced by Roald Dahl, in particular Fantastic Mr Fox, and the picture books of Raymond Briggs, The Snowman and Father Christmas.
He talked with excitement about the illustrations created by Nick East for his book, describing them as "vistas". Smiling, he said that East really captured the essence of his characters and indeed the setting. In writing not only to entertain, he said he hoped to write a love letter to London, his home.
The first book, Toto the Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape, is set in London with a plot involving snakes escaping from London Zoo. It is full of creatively named characters and places, including Larry the Downing Street Cat, a rat called Catface who wants to live life as a cat, and a milk bar called The Sour Saucer under Blackfriars Bridge.
His new book, the third one in the series, Toto the Ninja Cat and the Superstar Catastrophe, is similarly imaginative, as Toto and his feline friends go to their very own music festival, Catstonbury, headlined by Jonny and the Shorthairs.
O'Leary admitted that writing allows him a change from live TV and radio, it lets him be creative and also allows for time alone. And while it is more insular than the other jobs he has, he enjoys them all in their own way.
The event was fun and halfway through there was a tutorial video from Nick East describing how to draw Toto. The children, who were all handed paper and pencils, enthusiastically drew along.
There were some impressive outcomes and definitely some budding illustrators. O'Leary, shaking his head, said he was not one of them and that his skills for art "matured when I was five".
The children in the audience were excited to ask questions and O'Leary answered each with interest and humour; he had a great rapport with the young audience.
He gave out lots of tips along the way for aspiring writers and the children nodded along, lapping up the information.
O'Leary seemed reluctant to finish the event and when time was up, there were still lots of enthusiastic hands raised in the air.
What a delight it was to see so many children so excited by books. What a triumph for O'Leary. It truly was a "purrfectly pawsome" event for everyone and a great tribute to all our feline friends.
Laura Healy


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The Recording Academy has announced the appointment of Kelley Purcell as Vice President of Membership & Industry Relations, effective immediately. According to the announcement, the appointment follows the Recording Academy's recent restructure, which aims to streamline the organization and sharpen focus on its service to music. Reporting to Chief Industry Officer Ruby Marchand, Purcell will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of membership outreach, peer review, member account services, and the Academy's Chapter systems, including regional and local teams, Chapter events and programming, and all facets of Chapter service.
"We are pleased to have Kelley as our Vice President of Membership & Industry Relations," said Marchand. "Her expertise and history of being a driving force within the Membership & Industry Relations department make her a great asset to this organization. This is yet another step towards the Academy's transformational commitment as we strive for greater inclusivity and work to ensure our membership reflects the diverse individuals who make up our music community."
Purcell joined the Recording Academy as the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Chapter in 2013. She later transitioned to Senior Director of Member Outreach, leading industry outreach efforts across the Membership & Industry Relations department. During her tenure, she project-managed a cross-department team of IT, Digital Media and Communications colleagues over a two-year period and successfully implemented historic changes to the Academy's membership systems. She also led the recruitment efforts to diversify Academy membership and was the liaison to the Academy's first-ever Peer Review Panel, responsible for training this body and serving as its point person.
"I'm extremely passionate about the work I've done at the Academy over the past seven years and I'm thrilled to continue focusing my efforts on building a diverse membership body that feels heard, supported and represented," said Purcell. "It's important that our members understand that they have the power to influence and shape the future of the music industry, whether that's through advocacy efforts, voting in the Grammy Awards process, or beyond. I'm excited to take on this elevated role and build upon the work the Recording Academy has already done to ensure our members and our industry thrive."
Prior to her time at the Recording Academy, Purcell served as the executive director of Harvardwood, a global nonprofit organization for members of the Harvard University community who believe in the purpose and power of the arts. She also held past roles at Island Def Jam Music Group, Monitor Deloitte and Goldstar and received a cum laude bachelor's degree in economics at Harvard University.


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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Scientific advancements in imaging technology, genetics and nano research have allowed museums to make new and surprising discoveries about the tightly wrapped mysteries of ancient mummies.
The Vatican Museums also have been employing the latest state-of-the-art laboratory tools and tests to find out more about the ancient mummies in its collections.
Fabio Morresi, an assistant at the museums' diagnostic laboratory, said his job is "like being the CSI of the Vatican Museums," referring to the hit TV show of crime scene investigators who scour every trace of evidence to solve mysteries.
While historical studies are important, museum research today "can't be done without laboratory analysis," said Alessia Amenta, Egyptologist and curator of the museums' Department for the Antiquities of Egypt and the Near East. She and the museums' laboratory experts spoke at a news conference Jan. 22, unveiling their latest discoveries.
Amenta spearheaded the museums' Mummy Project in 2007, using the latest scientific techniques to study and restore the nine mummies in their collection.
Their first two-year round of sophisticated testing revealed the "she" mummy identified on the sarcophagus as "daughter of Sema-Tawi" is really a "he," who suffered from what looks like a benign tumor on the scalp — making it what could be the first case of this kind of tumor for a mummy.
Amenta focused the latest investigation on two small mummies that are one- to two-feet-long, have a painted plaster face covering the head and three-dimensional painted coverings made of plaster and linen bandages called cartonnage.
Amenta said the small specimens could have been an embalmed child, a small animal or falcon or a so-called "pseudo-mummy" — a bundle of wrappings and other materials — sometimes a few bones — that were used in ancient times to substitute a missing or incomplete body of a dead loved-one.
The transfiguration and "divinization" of the deceased was so important for the ancient Egyptians that some kind of physical form had to be designated to send "into another dimension" after death, she said.
They used: X-ray florescence and electron microscopes to tabulate what chemical elements were contained in all the materials; carbon dating to determine the different materials' age; infrared and ultraviolet analyses to reveal colors and images hidden to the naked eye; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to identify the presence of organic compounds; and CT-scans to create 3D images of the contents inside.
Morresi said they discovered that each tiny package was "like a box full of Legos" containing a random assortment of adult bones, like the long tibia and fibula of the lower leg, vertebrae from the spine and foot bones.
"Every time we got close to an answer" another test result would reveal "something that set us back. The results were schizophrenic, with things saying the mummy could be real and then that it was not," he said because "some materials, techniques and contents were pertinent to the era" and others were not.
For example, the wrappings were from 3,000 B.C., but the bones were from a man and a woman from the Middle Ages.
Other red flags revealing something fishy were the presence of zinc and tin in the paints and a metal laminate often used to darken colors — all elements not found in pigments used at the time. These created an aging effect.
Perhaps the last nail in the coffin of any theory they could be authentic came from the "multiplanar reconstruction" of hundreds of CT-scan images pieced together of 0.6 millimeter-thin sections of the whole object.
A technique called "volume rendering," which is commonly used in medicine to display complex cardiovascular anatomy, let experts recreate and isolate particular layers of the whole mummy.
By filtering images according to each object's density, "we can 'erase' the thick cartonnage mask and just look at the bandages" or peel off the image of the thin wrappings to just see the dense bones underneath, said Sveva Longo from the museums' lab.
This process revealed something the X-rays did not, she said: a "modern nail" was stuffed inside with the jumble of bones.
All the data taken together proved the mummies were fakes, they said.
While their sophisticated tools helped unlock the mystery, Ulderico Santamaria, director of the diagnostic laboratory, said it helped immensely that whoever made the forgeries was not very good at crafting a convincing con.
"Thanks to the fact he didn't know the techniques very well, we found out" the forgeries quite easily, he said.
Amenta said a fake mummy "is a well-defined category" so it "is not a scandal" to uncover them in their collections.
The industry of churning out fake mummies was widespread even back in the age of the pharaohs 5,000 years ago, she said, making them a legitimate and interesting offshoot field of study.
Creating fakes reached a high point in the 1800s when Europe began experiencing a real "mummy mania" after Napoleon's expeditions to Egypt spread word of the wonders found there and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799, which helped decipher hieroglyphics and led to the emergence of Egyptology as a new and real science, Amenta said.
Elite Europeans needed proof of their exploits in Egypt and show off to their friends back home, she said.
Amenta said mummies were in high demand from the Middle Ages up to the Renaissance because they were burned and used as a powder in apothecary potions for various ailments.
"The market was so huge," she said, that adjusted for inflation, two pounds of mummy dust would be equivalent to $17,000 today.
Their bodies were also used to create the brown for oil paints aptly named "Mummy Brown," she said, showing how forgeries had been a huge business for hundreds of years.
So, Amenta said, the real news isn't that they've discovered two fakes.
"What we showed was how this approach" of using modern medical and scientific advancements "was necessary to discover this common phenomenon" in the Vatican's collection.


WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., March 13, 2014 – The USTA today announced that Chaifetz Arena on the campus of Saint Louis University has been selected as the site for the 2014 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Playoff between the United States and France, April 19-20. Fed Cup is the world's largest annual international women's team competition (96 countries entered in 2014).
The best-of-five match series begins on Saturday, April 19, with two singles matches and is followed by two reverse singles matches and the doubles match on Sunday, April 20. Matches will be played on an indoor hard court.
The U.S.-France winner will advance to the 2015 World Group and have a chance to compete for the Fed Cup title next year. The loser will be relegated to World Group II. The U.S. has competed in the World Group in 41 of 42 Fed Cup competitions (all but 2012) and is 3-1 in World Group Playoff matches.


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It's so crazy that Chanukah falls around Thanksgiving this year(Thanksgivukkah)! This hasn't happened since 1888 and won't happen again for another 79,000 years! Friday kicks off the holiday shopping craziness so of I wanted to share with you guys my tips on how to shop Black Friday and Cyber Monday like a pro!
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1. Make a list of who you need to buy for!
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3. Plan out what sales you want to take advantage off and where you want to go!
Now that you know who you need to buy for and what kind of sales are out there, it's time to decide what to get them! Choose places that you can buy more than one gift from! Whether its going into the store or shopping online, you'll save time and money and shipping!
4. Set your budget and stay focused!
I think it's best to set a budget for how much you're willing to spend on everyone and to try and stick to it as much as possible! For these crazy holiday sales, retailers like to throw out surprises that can detour your shopping plan, but remain strong! You got this!


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Players will be able to build their own motorsport team and decide who to hire as drivers. The next step would be to develop the team's car and make your way to the top of the leaderboards.
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Another interesting aspect of the game is the expanded sponsorship system, which allows you to make some strategic decisions at the start of the season.
Speaking of strategies, even if you own the best car in the race, there's no guarantee that you'll win if you don't apply the best strategy for that race.
Motorsport Manager Mobile 2 doesn't come for free, so if you want to test your sports management skills, then you'll have to come up with $4.99.


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Do you think the president has done a good job choosing people to serve in his administration?
Likewise, if Trump replaces McMaster with the likes of John Bolton, what a strong message that will send to our adversaries!
On domestic policy, he has gotten the best out of Gary Cohn. His aide's skill and wisdom were essential in crafting the tax reform bill that is saving his presidency.
Now, he can pursue a more explicitly conservative, free market economic agenda with Larry Kudlow.
A change like this is not reshuffling, but but updating his administration to meet the needs he now has.
When he fired Steve Bannon or Reince Priebus, it was an indication of early chaos in the White House.
But the replacement of Tillerson, Cohn and, hopefully, McMaster is the outcome of a deliberate and wise policy initiative.


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Fiyaz Mughal speaking at the No2H8 Crime Awards (Jewish News)
At this time of Christmas and reflection, I remember how much certain people have touched my very soul and how at times like this, we must always honour those moments that have touched our very souls.
I was once told that I would not amount to anything; that I was forever to be disabled and unable to live a life of value. There have also been moments where I have stood against authority and had to fight to have my voice heard, so that anti-Muslim prejudice targeted against me for simply being a British Muslim would stop. I have had to put up with public smears, co-religionists stating that I was too liberal and therefore open to abuse, and rejection at various points in my life. My life has been a series of obstacles and will continue to be, though I have realised one thing; that central to my soul and to my being, is that I have found myself when I have heard one man, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg.
For those who are not aware of Rabbi Wittenberg, he is the Rabbi of New North London synagogue, someone whom I met when over 17 years ago when I was trying to set up a project to take Jews and Muslims to Auschwitz and then to Srebrenica, as a way of understanding joint histories and in bringing together both communities. Having structured the overland route and carried out the research work for the project, it was Rabbi Wittenberg who invited me into his home in 2002. It was the first time that I had spent any time with a Rabbi, but the spiritual strength of Jonathan and his desire for the dead of Srebrenica to be remembered, started an ongoing dialogue and relationship which opened up a deep love within me for Judaic values and traditions.
He introduced me to the fact that many U.S. based Jews during the siege of Sarajevo were actively calling for military action against Republika Srpska and that they were advocating for the protection of Bosnian Muslims by lobbying U.S. and U.K. politicians. He talked to me about the love for life within Judaism and how much the sanctity of every person mattered; how philosophical discussions within Judaism always raised questions so that human knowledge was expanded in the search for God. That journey has been an eye opener and a realisation that the Jewish spirit of caring and speaking up for the persecuted is fundamental to Jewish communities.
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg of Masorti Judaism
Through the last decade, Jonathan's voice on social justice, his journey from Germany to London – retracing his family's history – his actions to reach out to Arab media channels to explain and build empathy with Jewish life, have further shown me what a special man we have in our midst. In every generation, there come a few special people to lead congregations and to guide them through unsurmountable challenges. These beacons of light are treasures who, more than ever, give us surety in a world where things seem very unsure and where everything is up for challenge. Jonathan is not only a light for his congregation, he is a light for us all.
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State of Premium Domain Names in 2019
Premium domain names are a thing, and they are here to stay. The main reason why so many domains are now considered premium and have a price with five figures or more is that the total number of high-quality domain names that are not owned by their target end-users is very small.
Domain broker companies and corporations have bought-out and are now holding the most valuable domains, of which the largest part are .COM domains. This means that not only are domain name not available for registration, but they are now in the hands of companies which can endure holding a domain for a long time with domain renewal period cost not being an issue.
Even if these companies do not have an applied use for these high-quality domains that will add meaning and value to a company's comprehensive branding strategy, they will hold on to them just so that competing business will not have the opportunity to get these domains.
How a domain name becomes a Premium Domain Name?
Basically, there are two ways a domain name becomes premium:
A domain trader with insight into a certain business or industry will register a domain name and hold on to it until he gets a suitable offer while listing it with domain marketplace websites as an after-market, premium domain name.
Domain registrar recognizes a domain name as potentially valuable and puts that specific domain for auction as an after-market domain, hence it is deemed as a premium domain.
Notably, the .COM domains are still the most valuable premium domains on the market. The main issue is that one or two words .COM domains may be considered "premium" and as such, they will be sold at auctions or held by domain brokers who wish to profit a five or six figure number in dollars.
Premium Domains impact on small and medium business
It is important to note this trend within the domain name world, and confirm that it will only be harder to get the perfectly matching domain name for your business or company, especially if you are a small or medium company and your budget is limited.
Admittedly, new technologies will proliferate into new branches of industry, but again, the domain broker companies stand their vigil and these domain names will not stay available for long.
One of the strongest modern industry propellers is Artificial Intelligence, as it enables big data analysis and innovative approaches to traditional problem-solving. Instead of having an expert team of professionals iterating hundreds of solutions to a problem in a period of months, the AI enables testing millions of possible solutions in a matter of days.
Companies that have the resources to utilize an applied artificial intelligence will profit greatly and will hold a leap over their competition. The AI trend has influenced .AI domain extension popularity surge, growing the said domain more than 1000%.
Premium Domain alternatives?
Luckily for the average website owner, new TLD has started to build momentum, with great examples of alternative domains all over the Internet, on buses in London, billboards in New York City and brave startups who want to own an original online presence with innovative names.
I am sure that domain registrars will be offering .COM and other original gTLD for domain registration, but for a short, original and recognizable domain name you will have turn to new generic top-level domains or country-code domains.
Yes, total domain name registrations are growing year-to-year with a bit more than 5% growth, with the .COM as the largest single domain extension, but ccTLD domain registration as a whole are aiming to dwarf gTLD with China as the leading country domain extension.
We are a witness that the domain world is changing, under the influence of the global economy, business and the way the domain traders buy, sell and trade domain names. This means that you should not waste time if you have a domain name on your mind and it is available for registration, do get it before a domain trader or broker company makes a premium domain out of it.
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Israel to send plane to bring back 13 Israelis on the Diamond Princess
February 17, 2020 by TPS
A plane is ready to be dispatched to Japan to retrieve the 13 Israelis who are on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship anchored in Yokohama and who have been quarantined for the past two weeks after the virus was discovered on board.
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The PassportCard overseas travel insurance company stated Sunday that the plane was ready in Turkey for takeoff, and after receiving clearance from Israel's Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Health, it will leave for Japan.
The plane is expected to leave as soon as Tuesday. Upon their return from Japan, the Israelis will go into isolation and medical surveillance.
Three other Israelis have contracted Coronavirus on the boat quarantined off Japan's coast, Israel's Ministry of Health said Sunday.
They are the first Israelis to contract the virus.
They were transferred to a hospital in Japan, and Israel has sent a specialist doctor who will be in direct contact with the relevant parties in Japan and accompany them in the medical procedure.
Dozens of passengers have already been removed from the ship and hospitalized after testing positive for the virus.
Despite several scares, Israel itself has yet to contend with a patient suffering from Corona, with several people tested for the virus all proving negative.
Israeli authorities have issued several directives aimed at blocking the entry of individuals suffering from Coronavirus into the country and its spread among the Israeli population.
Israel understands that it is only a question of time before the virus appears in the country but is taking several measures to minimize this occurrence.
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Built to Serve: Find Your Purpose and Become the Leader You Were Born to Be
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What is my purpose? How do I find my passion?
Most people wake up and drive to a job that they hate.
Think about your five closest friends. Are they happy? Do they live their lives with purpose? Do you? We put on a fake front for what we want people to see and think about us, but the reality is most people aren't happy. We're lost. We settle. We aren't happy with where we are. You can't be happy if you don't know your purpose. It's not possible. You want more but you don't even know where to start. You know there is more out there. You see others having success and you want it, too; there is nothing wrong with that. You just need help finding your purpose so you can find the success you see all around you. You can be productive, crush your goals, pretend that all the things that you've acquired actually mean something…but at the end of the day, if you don't know your purpose, you'll always feel like there's something missing. You'll know that you're capable of more and that you're not living the life you should be. You might be fooling the world, but you're not fooling the person looking back at you in the mirror. You need to find your actual power source.
Your purpose is your source of power.
Once you find your purpose it'll fuel you for life. You'll do things that you never thought you were capable of. Achieving your purpose will force you to morph into a stronger version of yourself. You'll have to push through fears, insecurities, and doubts that held you back. But somehow it'll all feel possible and necessary because you're purpose-driven now…and that's the only thing you'll ever need.
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