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Turkey Arrests 20 Allegedly Linked to Malatya Murders
Posted on March 29, 2011 by particularkev
Suspects in Ergenekon network long sought in homicide case to be questioned.
ISTANBUL, March 18 (CDN) — In simultaneous operations in nine different provinces of Turkey, authorities yesterday arrested 20 people suspected of playing a role in the murder of three Christians in Malatya in 2007, according to local news reports.
Zekeriya Oz, chief prosecutor overseeing the investigation into a clandestine network known as Ergenekon allegedly aimed at destabilizing the government, ordered the arrests based on information that linked the suspects to both the network and to the Malatya murders, Turkish press reported after Istanbul Chief of Police Chief Huseyin Capkin announced the sweep at a press conference yesterday.
"This was an operation related to the Malatya Zirve publishing house murders," Capkin said, according to online news agency Malatya Guncel. "They were just arrested. This is connected to the Zirve publishing house. That's the framework."
Those apprehended include Ruhi Abat, a Muslim theology professor from Malatya Inonu University, Mehmet Ulger, a retired commander of the Malatya Gendarmerie in service at the time of the murders, and other members of the military. Oz will question the suspects in Istanbul, according to reports.
Police also raided the guesthouse of the Izmir Gendarmerie, seizing computers and documents. News sources listed Malatya, Siirt, Mugla, Mersin and Izmir as some of the cities in which authorities conducted raids and arrests.
A plaintiff attorney in the Malatya murder case, Orhan Kemal Cengiz, told Compass that the names on the list of those arrested were suspects he and his colleagues have been trying to convince the Malatya prosecutor to pursue since the court received a tip in May 2008.
"They are all the usual suspects," Cengiz said. "All their names were mentioned in the first informant letter. Unfortunately, despite all our efforts, we couldn't find anyone to investigate these allegations."
The letter was the first of many informant letters the Malatya court has received since it started hearing the case on Nov. 22, 2007. Penned by someone who identified himself by the pseudonym "Ali Arslan" but unsigned, the letter claimed that Ulger incited Emre Gunaydin, one of the suspects, to carry out the murders and that he communicated with Gunaydin through Abat and two gendarmerie officers, reported Turkish English daily Today's Zaman.
Cengiz said that, though it was the duty of the Malatya prosecutor to pursue leads in the informant letter, the prosecutor deferred the investigation to the military court, which in turn refused to investigate, claiming that the name on the letter was fake and the letter was not signed.
"It was like a joke," Cengiz said.
On April 18, 2007, two Turkish Christians, Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel, and German Christian Tilmann Geske, were bound, tortured and then murdered at the office of Zirve Publishing Co., a Christian publishing house in Malatya. The suspects, Salih Guler, Cuma Ozdemir, Hamit Ceker, and Abuzer Yildirim, were arrested while trying to escape the scene of the crime, as was alleged ringleader Gunaydin.
From the beginning of the court hearings, plaintiff lawyers have brought evidence to the court showing the five young suspects were connected to a wider plot to kill the three Christians as well as other key Christian leaders across Turkey. Known as the Cage Plan, the plot is believed to be part of the alleged Ergenekon "deep state" operation to destabilize the government.
The Cage Plan centers on a compact disc found in 2009 in the house of a retired naval officer. The plan, to be carried out by 41 naval officers, termed as "operations" the Malatya killings, the 2006 assassination of Catholic priest Andrea Santoro and the 2007 slaying of Hrant Dink, Armenian editor-in-chief of the weekly Agos.
Cengiz told Compass that new evidence in the Ergenekon case might have convinced Oz to pursue those detained yesterday, and he called the move "a very big step" in shedding light on the Malatya case. He and colleague Erdal Dogan said their efforts – especially a request they sent to Oz on Jan. 18, 2010 asking him to investigate the allegations that Ergenekon members were behind the Malatya murders – surely helped to move the process along.
"I believe our efforts had a very big influence on this," Cengiz said. "We submitted a petition and requested this from Oz last year. He is acting with the Malatya prosecutor on this."
At the request of the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office, the Istanbul Police Department prepared a report last year revealing links between the Malatya murders and Ergenekon, according to Today's Zaman. According to the report, Sevgi Erenerol, spokesperson for a bogus ultranationalist association known as the Turkish Orthodox Church, described foreign missionary activity as "spying" and "provoking."
"A piece of evidence in the report was a conference on missionary activity given by Sevgi Erenerol … at the General Staff's Strategic Research and Study Center," reported Today's Zaman.
Erenerol was arrested in connection with Ergenekon in 2008. Her suspected links with those thought to have masterminded the Zirve murders may have influenced yesterday's arrests, Today's Zaman reported.
She is also believed to be one of the key people behind false accusations against two members of Turkey's Protestant Church, Hakan Tastan and Turan Topal, who were arrested in October 2006 for insulting Turkishness and Islam because they openly shared their faith.
After four years of legal battle, a judge finally acquitted the two Christians of insulting Turkey and its people by spreading Christianity, but not without slapping them with a hefty fine for a spurious charge. The two men are in the process of appealing the fine.
The Turkish Constitution grants all citizens the right to speak about their faith.
Plaintiff attorneys in the Malatya murders case said they believe yesterday's arrests bring them closer to their requests that the Malatya murders case file be joined to that of the Ergenekon trial.
"From now on, we can predict it is very possible that our case will be sent to Istanbul soon and that these two cases will be merged," said Cengiz.
The next Malatya hearing is scheduled for April 29.
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Christians in Turkey Face Harassment; Murder Trial Stalls
Departure of presiding judge in Malatya case could further delay justice, attorneys fear.
ISTANBUL, March 15 (CDN) — Though the horrific scale of the 2007 Malatya murders has not been repeated in Turkey's Protestant church, a recent report shows harassment continues to be a daily problem for the country's Christians and churches.
Discrimination, slander and attacks against churches were among the examples of ongoing harassment that the Turkish Association of Protestant Churches (TEK) recorded in 2010.
In an eight-page report published earlier this year, TEK's Committee for Religious Freedom and Legal Affairs outlined problems Protestants face. Turkish laws and "negative attitudes of civil servants" continue to make it nearly impossible for non-Muslims to establish places of worship, the committee reported. Three churches faced legal problems last year regarding their buildings, according to the report.
Missionary activities are still considered a national threat despite the existence of Turkish laws guaranteeing citizens the freedom to propagate and teach their faith, and children are victims of discrimination at school, according to the report. Though the Religious Education General Directorate for Higher Education and Training Committee allows non-Muslim students to stay out of religious classes, parents have reported cases in which they were not able to take their children out of such
courses.
"After four years [since the Malatya murders], Turkey's religious freedoms have not improved as desired," said attorney Erdal Dogan. "Christians, Alevis [a Shiite sub-community] and people of other beliefs are still not protected by law. And people of other faiths apart from Muslims have no legal status. Since racism is still prevalent in the context of freedom, discrimination in its turn has become a fact of life."
About a third of Turks are estimated to be Alevis.
Turkey rose to 30th place in Open Doors' 2011 World Watch List of nations in which persecution against Christians takes place, up from 35th place the previous year. The Christian support organization cited deteriorating conditions as the secular country applied some laws in discriminatory ways against Christians.
TEK estimates that there are up to 3,500 Protestant Christians in Turkey.
Malatya Trial Stalled
In the trial of the five primary suspects in the murder of three Christians in Malatya, plaintiff attorneys fear the departure of one of the three judges to a Supreme Court of Appeals post in Ankara could further stall the nearly four-year-old case.
The loss of Judge Eray Gurtekin, who had presided over the case since it began on Nov. 22, 2007, could threaten to set back the progress of the court that has been examining links between the killers and alleged masterminds, according to Dogan, a plaintiff attorney in the case. Gurtekin was appointed as a judge in the Supreme Court of Appeals in Turkey's capital Ankara last month.
"In a three-member panel [of judges], the change of one is not really helpful," said Dogan, "because just as the previous presiding judge had started to understand and pay close attention to the case file, a new judge came in his place. I hope he will catch on quickly."
The new judge joined the Malatya hearings panel this month, and Dogan said there could be more changes in the panel.
The 12th Istanbul High Criminal Court is expected to hear the testimony of another witness on March 29, and the court is trying to locate two more witnesses in order to shed light on the Malatya murders.
On April 18, 2007, two Turkish Christians, Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel, and German Christian Tilmann Geske, were bound, tortured and then murdered at the office of Zirve Publishing Co., a Christian publishing house in Malatya. The suspects, Salih Guler, Cuma Ozdemir, Hamit Ceker, and Abuzer Yildirim, were arrested while trying to escape the scene of the crime, as was alleged ringleader Emre Gunaydin.
From the beginning of the court hearings, prosecuting lawyers have brought evidence to the court showing the five young suspects were connected to a wider plot to kill the three Christians as well as other key Christian leaders across Turkey. Known as the Cage Plan, the plot is believed to be part of the alleged Ergenekon "deep state" operation to destabilize the government.
Questioned by the judges, Varol Bulent Aral – suspected of being one of the people who planned the murders and linked the killers to the masterminds – said he wanted the court to find out who was supporting the Zirve Publishing Co. He added a cryptic remark to Tilmann Geske's widow, Suzanne Geske, who continues to live in Malatya with her three children and regularly attends the murder hearings.
"I want to ask Suzanne, what business does a German have here?"
The judges finally threw Aral out of the courtroom for contempt of court when he told the judges: "You are in the clouds!"
Prosecuting lawyers still hope judges will join the Malatya case files to the Cage Plan case, which is being tried at an Istanbul court.
The threat of violence against Christians continues. Last week Turkish news sources reported that Istanbul police arrested two suspects, ages 17 and 18, accused of plotting to assassinate a priest on the European side of the city. The Istanbul Public Prosecutor's Office is examining their case.
Church under Attack in Indonesia Agrees to Change Venue
Congregation accepts offer under condition that government build them permanent building.
JAKARTA, Indonesia, September 29 (CDN) — A West Java church has agreed to move temporarily to a government-selected site following Islamist harassment that included a Sept. 12 attack on two of its leaders.
The Batak Christian Protestant Church (Huria Kristen Batak Protestan, or HKBP) in Ciketing village, Bekasi, decided in a congregational meeting on Sunday (Sept. 26) to accept a government offer to move worship services to the former Organization and Political Party (OPP) building on the condition that local officials will keep a promise to build a new house of worship for them within two years in the Mustika Sari district.
The Rev. Luspida Simanjuntak, who received hospital treatment after she was struck with a wooden plank by suspected Islamic extremists in the Sept. 12 attack, said that the church was ready to stop struggling.
"We are tired of being intimidated and terrorized," Pastor Simanjuntak said. "We will be able to worship quietly and peacefully."
Church lawyer Saor Siagian said that the church had accepted the temporary move with the understanding that the Bekasi municipal government must fulfill its pledge. The government will build a new church building to replace the structure the church is leaving on a 2,500-square meter lot belonging to PT Timah, the Government Tin Mining Co. in the Mustika Sari area of Bekasi. The lot is zoned for general and social facilities.
The government had suggested two alternative locations: the PT Timah lot and a 1,900-square meter parcel in the Strada Housing area. The congregation and leaders of HKBP Ciketing chose the PT Timah property.
The first HKBP Ciketing worship service in the former OPP Building took place without incident on Sunday, with the Bekasi government providing buses to transport the congregation to the new site. Pastor Simanjuntak said the congregation is thankful for the new temporary site, but it does not accommodate the entire congregation. The 10-meter by 14-meter building accommodates 250 people, but normally 300 attend services, and some had to stand outside, she said.
Dozens of police guarded the location.
Zaki Oetomo, a Bekasi city official, told Compass that the building could be used rent-free for two years, with an extension possible if the church desired. The government has offered to provide the buses to transport the congregation to and from the site every week.
20-Year Wait
The Ciketing church originally met in the Pondok Timur Indah housing development with 10 families in 1990, and therefore has generally been called the HKBP Pondok Timur Indah.
"By 1995 it had grown to 30 families," Manorangi Siahaan, a church member, told Compass.
In those days the worship services were held in different members' homes. Manorangi acknowledged that the house church worship did spark some small protests.
Between 1990 and 2010, the church leaders requested building permits three separate times, in 1995, 2000 and 2010. Not once did the local government respond, church leaders said.
By 2005 the congregation had grown to 150, and church leaders bought a 2,170-square meter lot in Ciketing village, near Bekasi City, to construct a church building. They built a semi-permanent structure, which was later torn down because they lacked a building permit under pressure from an Islamic group claiming to speak for the local citizens. As a result, the congregation went back to worshipping in homes on a rotating basis.
In 2007 the congregation had grown to 300 people. They bought a house in Pondok Timur Indah, in the Mustika Jaya area of Bekasi City, to use for worship. The Bekasi government sealed the house on March 1 under pressure from Islamic groups. On July 2, the government sealed the house a second time because the congregation was continuing to worship there. Then on July 11, the church was forced to move their worship service to a vacant property in Ciketing, which had been readied for a church building. This site was about 3 kilometers from their property in Pondok Timur Indah.
Protests by Islamic groups mounted each Sunday at the Ciketing site, culminating in the attack on Pastor Simanjuntak and elder Hasian Sihombing, who was stabbed in the stomach and heart.
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Threat of Return to Hindu State in Nepal Looms
Posted on April 5, 2010 by particularkev
With deadline for new constitution approaching, Christians fear end of secular government.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, March 30 (CDN) — Four years after Nepal became officially secular, fear is growing that the country could revert to the Hindu state it was till 2006, when proclaiming Christ was a punishable offense and many churches functioned clandestinely to avoid being shut down.
Concerns were heightened after Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra Shah, once regarded as a Hindu god, broke the silence he has observed since Nepal abolished monarchy in 2008. During his visit to a Hindu festival this month, the former king said that monarchy was not dead and could make a comeback if people so desired.
Soon after that, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, a former prime minister and respected leader of the largest ruling party, said that instead of getting a new constitution, Nepal should revive an earlier one. The 1990 constitution declared Nepal a Hindu kingdom with a constitutional monarch.
There is now growing doubt that the ruling parties will not be able to fashion the new constitution they promised by May.
"We feel betrayed," said Dr. K.B. Rokaya, general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Nepal. "The Constituent Assembly we elected to give us a new constitution that would strengthen democracy and secularism has frittered away the time and opportunity given to it."
The clamor for a Hindu state has been growing as the May 28 deadline for the new constitution draws near. When a Hindu preacher, Kalidas Dahal, held a nine-day prayer ritual in Kathmandu this month seeking reinstatement of Hinduism as the state religion, thousands of people flocked to him. The throng included three former prime ministers and top leaders of the ruling parties.
"The large turnout signals that Hinduism is enshrined in the hearts of the people and can't be abolished by the government," said Hridayesh Tripathi, a former minister and Constituent Assembly member whose Terai Madhes Loktantrik Party is the fifth-largest in the ruling alliance. "It was a mistake to abolish Hinduism in a hurry."
Another blow for a Hindu state was struck by the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal (RPP-N), the only party that fought the 2008 election in support of monarchy and a Hindu state. It is now calling for a referendum. As a pressure tactic, it paralyzed the capital and its two neighboring cities in February by calling a general strike.
"The election gave the Constituent Assembly the mandate of writing a new constitution, not deciding issues of national importance," said Kamal Thapa, the RPP-N chief who also was home minister during the brief government headed by Gyanendra. "Most people in Nepal want a Hindu state and a constitutional king. If their demand is not heeded, they will feel excluded and refuse to follow the new constitution. We are asking the government to hold a referendum on the two issues before May 28."
With only two months left, it is clear the demand can't be met if the constitution is to come into effect within the stipulated time. Now the specter of anarchy and violence hangs over Nepal.
Nepal's Maoists, who fought a 10-year war to make Nepal a secular republic and who remain the former king's most bitter enemy, say attempts have begun to whip up riots in the name of a Hindu state. The former guerrillas also allege that the campaign for the restoration of Hinduism as the state religion is backed by ministers, politicians from the ruling parties and militant religious groups from India.
Effectively Hindu
Even if a new, secular constitution is approved by the deadline, there is still no guarantee that the rights of religious minorities would be protected.
Nilambar Acharya, who heads the committee that is drafting the new constitution, said it would be merely a broad guideline for the government; compatible laws would have to be drafted to protect rights.
"The previous constitution abolished 'untouchability' [a practice among Hindus of treating those at the bottom of the social ladder as outcasts]," Acharya told Compass. "But untouchability still exists in Nepal. To achieve all that the constitution promises, the mindset of society has to be changed first. For that, you need political will."
Though Nepal became secular in 2006, Hinduism still gets preferential treatment. The state allocates funds for institutions like the Kumari, the tradition of choosing prepubescent girls as protective deities of the state and worshipping them as "living goddesses." The state also gave money to organizers of a controversial, five-yearly religious festival, the Gadhimai Fair, where tens of thousands of birds are slaughtered as offerings to Hindu gods despite international condemnation.
There is no support, predictably, for Christian festivals. When the Constituent Assembly was formed – partly though election and partly by nomination – no Christian name was proposed even though the prime minister was authorized to nominate members from unrepresented communities.
Christian leaders want such religious bias abolished. Rokaya of the National Council of Churches of Nepal said Christians have recommended full freedom of religion in the new constitution: allowing one to follow the religion of one's choice, to change one's religion if desired or have the right not to be associated with any religion.
The churches have also asked the state not to interfere in religious matters.
"We are asking the government not to fund any religious activity, not to be part of any religious appointments and not to allow public land for any religious event," Rokaya said.
The recommendations, however, may not be heeded. During their brief stint in power, the Maoists tried to stop state assistance for the Kumari. It led to violence and a general strike in the capital, forcing the party to withdraw the decision.
In its 2009 report on religious freedom in Nepal, the U.S. Department of State notes that while the interim constitution officially declared the country secular, "the president, in his capacity as head of state, attended major Hindu religious ceremonies over which the king previously presided."
It also notes that there were reports of societal abuses and discrimination based on religious affiliation, belief, or practice.
"Those who converted to a different religious group occasionally faced violence and were ostracized socially," it states. "Those who chose to convert to other religious groups, in particular Hindu citizens who converted to Islam or Christianity, were sometimes ostracized. They occasionally faced isolated incidents of hostility or discrimination from Hindu extremist groups. Some reportedly were forced to leave their villages."
Dr. Ramesh Khatri, executive director of Association for Theological Education in Nepal, has experienced such persecution first-hand. When he became a Christian in 1972, his father disowned him. Then in 1984 he was arrested for holding a Bible camp. Though the case against him was dropped in 1990 after a pro-democracy movement, Khatri said hatred of Christians still persists.
"Christians can never sleep peacefully at night," he said wryly. "The new constitution will make Nepal another India, where Christians are persecuted in Orissa, Gujarat and Karnataka." The Oxford University-educated Khatri, who writes a column in a Nepali daily, said violent responses to his articles show how Nepal still regards its Christians.
"I am attacked as a 'Rice Christian,'" he said. "It is a derogatory term implying I converted for material benefits. The antagonistic feeling society has towards Christians will not subside with the new constitution, and we can't expect an easy life. The Bible says that, and the Bible is true."
Christians continue to face persecution and harassment. In March, missions resource organization Timeless Impact International (TII) noted that a church in northern Nepal, near the foothills of Mt. Everest, was attacked by a local mob.
The newly established church in Dolakha district was attacked during a fellowship meeting in January. An ethnic mob headed by religious leaders destroyed the church meeting place, assaulted participants and warned them not to speak about Christianity in the village, TII said.
The situation, even now, remained unchanged.
"None of the church members have been able to return to their homes," TII stated. "They feel completely unsafe and at risk."
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Muslim Extremists Attack Worship Service in Uganda
Posted on November 12, 2009 by particularkev
Church member taking photos beaten, building damaged.
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 11 (CDN) — About 40 Muslim extremists with machetes and clubs tried to break into a Sunday worship service outside Uganda's capital city of Kampala on Nov. 1, leaving a member of the congregation with several injuries and damaging the church building.
Eyewitnesses said the extremist mob tried to storm into World Possessor's Church International in Namasuba at 11 a.m. as the church worshipped.
"The church members were taken by a big surprise, as this happened during worship time," said Pastor Henry Zaake. "It began with an unusual noise coming from outside, and soon I saw the bricks falling away one by one. Immediately I knew that it was an attack from the Muslims who had earlier sent signals of an imminent attack."
The pastor said the disturbance brought the worship service to a standstill.
"There was a tug-of-war at the entrance to the church as members tried to thwart the Muslim aggression from making headway inside the church," he told Compass.
A member of the congregation who was taking photos of the worship service – and then the attack – was beaten, sustaining several injuries, church leaders said. He was later taken to a nearby clinic for treatment. During the pandemonium, some church members were able to escape through a rear door.
Pastor Umar Mulinde added that nearby residents helped repel the attack.
"At the scene of the incident were rowdy Muslims with machetes and clubs ready to destroy the church," Pastor Mulinde said. "The good neighbors of the church also came in, and we were able to overpower [the assailants]."
Police arrived and put a stop to the assault, but officers did not arrest anyone, church leaders said.
"We have reported the matter to the central police station, and we are surprised that no action has been taken," Pastor Zaake said. "So far no person has been arrested as a result of this mayhem. It is as if the police are not concerned about our security and lives."
Many in the church are now living in fear, he said, noting that last Sunday (Nov. 8), attendance decreased from 250 to 100 people.
"Since the attack we have been receiving a lot of threats from the Muslims," Pastor Zaake said. "There is a conspiracy that we can't understand. This trend really gives me sleepless nights."
Area Muslims have long opposed the existence of the church in Namasuba, complaining that church members try to convert area Muslims. Christian sources said the initial pretext for damaging the church building was that its outdoor stairway encroached on the alley; the estimated US$535 (1 million Uganda shillings) in damages were limited to the stairway. The sources said that when the complaint of the stairway encroaching on the alley fell on deaf ears, local Muslim and community leaders criticized the church for making too much noise.
Namasuba is predominantly Islamic, with some estimates of Muslim adherents going as high as 80 percent of the population.
Pastor Zaake said area Muslims have been holding meetings at night, which he suspects concern plans to paralyze Christian activities.
"It looks like they are planning for another attack, especially in light of the threatening messages I have been receiving on my mobile phone from anonymous senders," a worried Pastor Zaake told Compass by phone.
The church has been meeting in Namasuba since March. It is located four kilometers from Kampala on a quarter-acre parcel.
Although the Ugandan constitution guarantees religious freedom, authorities hardly prosecute Muslim attacks against Christians, church leaders said.
"The police silence on the whole issue is worrying and leaves a lot to be desired," Pastor Zaake said.
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Queen Latifah Show
Fran Drescher inteview
Drescher discusses her organization the Cancer Schmancer Movement and her battle with uterine cancer on The Queen Latifah Show.
I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it
Fran Drescher Discusses "Cancer Schmancer" | The Queen Latifah Show
What's Best For You performance
trey songzMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Trey Songz performs What's Best For You on The Queen Latifah Show from his sixth album Trigga.
Trey Songz Performs "What's Best For You"
Rewind That performance
CommonMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Common performs Rewind That on The Queen Latifah Show from his album Nobody's Smiling.
Common Performs "Rewind That" Live! | The Queen Latifah Show
Common Interview
CommonQueen LatifahInterview
Common and Queen Latifah discuss the movie Just Wright, his album Nobody's Smiling and his organization Common Ground on The Queen Latifah Show.
I wanted the teens to know that us older people had the same struggles. And the struggle continues
Common Chats About New Album & "Just Wright" | The Queen Latifah Show
Sherri Shepherd interview
Queen LatifahSherri ShepherdInterview
Shepherd discusses her life after The View, and her divorce, on The Queen Latifah Show.
As long as you can get up and stand up, it's another chance to get things right. And I'm doing really well,Now if he (Lamar Sally) would stop talking about it in public I would be doing better. But I'm doing great. I'm moving. I'm grooving. Everything is good.
Sherri Shepherd Talks About Being A Divorcee | The Queen Latifah Show
Remember(Part 2) performance
Keyshia ColeMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Cole performs Remember(Part 2) on The Queen Latifah Show to promote her album Point Of No Return.
Keyshia Cole Performs! | The Queen Latifah Show
A Little Bit Of Me performance
Melissa EtheridgeMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Etheridge performs A Little Bit Of Me on The Queen Latifah Show from her album This is M.E
Melissa Etheridge Performs "A Little Bit Of Me" | The Queen Latifah Show
Look At You performance
Big and RichMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
The duo Big and Rich perform Look At You on The Queen Latifah Show to promote their album Gravity.
Country Stars Big & Rich Perform! | The Queen Latifah Show
Please Come Home performance
Gary Clark JrMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Clark Jr. performs Please Come Home during The Queen Latifah Show to promote his album Gary Clark Jr. Live which is scheduled to be released September 23, 2014.
Gary Clark Jr. Performs on The Queen Latifah Show
All Of Me performance
John LegendMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Legend performs All Of Me during The Queen Latifah Show to promote his album Love In The Future.
John Legend Performs "All Of Me"
Scare Away The Dark performance
PassengerMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Passenger performs Scare Away The Dark during The Queen Latifah Show to promote their album Whispers.
Passenger Performs "Scare Away the Dark" on The Queen Latifah Show
Just Another Night performance
Icona PopMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Icona Pop perform Just Another Night during The Queen Latifah Show to promote their album This Is… Icona Pop.
Icona Pop Performs "Just Another Night" for Queen Latifah
Alison Sweeney interview
Alison SweeneyInterview
Sweeney discusses leaving Days of Our Lives after twenty one years on The Queen Latifah Show.
I cried at work. It's not necessarily about things you'd think either. I had a line that reminded me of a line I said as a kid. And it was truly a 'This is your life' moment.
Alison Sweeney Talks About Leaving "Days Of Our Lives"
Eternal Flame performance
The BanglesMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
The Bangles perform Eternal Flame during The Queen Latifah Show to promote their album Everything.
The Bangles Perform "Eternal Flame" on The Queen Latifah Show
I Don't Want To Live On Mars performance
Ziggy MarleyMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Marley performs the single I Don't Want To Live On Mars during an appearance on The Queen Latifah Show, from his album Fly Rasta.
Ziggy Marley Performs "I Don't Want To Live On Mars" on The Queen Latifah Show
Virtuoso performance
Black ViolinMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
The duo Black Violin perform Virtuoso on The Queen Latifah Show, from their album Classically Trained.
Black Violin Performs "Virtuoso"
Passenger performs the single Scare Away The Dark on The Queen Latifah Show, from his album Whispers.
Candy Rain performance
Anthony LewisBilly BangMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Lewis makes his television debut performing the single Candy Rain featuring Billy Bang on The Queen Latifah Show.
Anthony Lewis Performs "Candy Rain" Featuring Billy Bang on The Queen Latifah Show
Colorblind performance
Amber RileyMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Riley performs Colorblind live for the first time during The Queen Latifah Show. The single written by Emeli Sandé, Claude Kelly and Steve Mac is also performed on the April 8th episode of Glee.
Glee's Amber Riley Premieres "Colorblind"
I Do performance
Matt GossMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Goss performs his single I Do on The Queen Latifah Show from his album Life You Imagine.
Matt Goss Performs "I Do"
Dontcha performance
The InternetMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
The Internet performs Dontcha during The Queen Latifah Show to promote their album Feel Good.
The Internet Performs "Dontcha" on The Queen Latifah Show
The Queen Latifah Show appearance
Phylicia RashadQueen Latifah
Rashad plays a game of Forbidden with Latifah on The Queen Latifah Show.
Phylicia Rashad Plays "Forbidden"
Carolina performance
ParmaleeMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Parmalee performs Carolina during The Queen Latifah Show to promote their album Feels Like Carolina.
Parmalee Performs "Carolina" on The Queen Latifah Show
Silent Night performance
Tamar BraxtonMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Braxton performs Silent Night during The Queen Latifah show to promote her album Winter Loversland.
Tamar Braxton Performs 'Silent Night' on The Queen Latifah Show
John Doe performance
B.O.BPriscillaMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
B.O.B and Priscilla performs John Doe during The Queen Latifah Show to promote her album Underground Luxury.
B.O.B. Performs 'John Doe' on The Queen Latifah Show
Falling performance
Gavin DeGrawMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
DeGraw performs Make A Move during The Queen Latifah Show to promote his album Lets Make A Move.
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Alyssa Milano interview
Alyssa MilanoQueen LatifahInterview
Milano gives Latifah a Giant's sweater gift, on The Queen Latifah Show.
Why do you see men in their game gear outside of the stadium, but you never see a woman like food shopping with her game gear.
Alyssa Milano's Present for Queen Latifah
It Takes Two performance
Rob BaseMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Rob Base performs It Takes Two during The Queen Latifah Show to promote his album It Takes Two.
Rob Base Performs "It Takes Two" on The Queen Latifah Show
Waiting For Superman performance
DaughtryMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Daughtry performs Waiting For Superman during The Queen Latifah Show to promote their album Baptized.
Daughtry Performs 'Waiting for Superman' on The Queen Latifah Show
Still Into You performance
ParamoreMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Paramore performs Still Into You during The Queen Latifah Show to promote their self titled album.
Paramore Performs 'Still Into You' on The Queen Latifah Show
Burn performance
Ellie GouldingMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Goulding performs Burn during The Queen Latifah Show to promote her album Halcyon.
Ellie Goulding Performs 'Burn' The Queen Latifah Show
Mars performance
Jay SeanMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Sean performs Mars during The Queen Latifah Show to promote his album Neon.
Jay Sean Performs 'Mars' on The Queen Latifah Show
It Goes Like This performance
Thomas RhettMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Rhett performs It Goes Like This during The Queen Latifah Show to promote his album It Goes Like This.
Thomas Rhett Performs 'It Goes Like This' on The Queen Latifah Show
Miss Jackson performance
Panic! At The DiscoMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Panic! At The Disco perform Miss Jackson during The Queen Latifah Show to promote their album Too Weird To Live To Rare To Die.
Panic! At the Disco Performs 'Miss Jackson' on The Queen Latifah Show
The Luckiest performance
Ben FoldsMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Folds performs The Luckiest during The Queen Latifah Show to promote his album Rockin' The Suburbs.
Ben Folds Performs 'The Luckiest' on The Queen Latifah Show
The Queen Latifah Show performance
Dolly PartonMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Parton performs an original rap during The Queen Latifah Show in which she mentions Miley Cyrus, Queen Latifah and Honey Boo Boo.
Dolly Parton Raps for Queen Latifah
Feels Like The First Time performance
ForeignerMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Foreigner performs Feels Like The First Time during The Queen Latifah Show to promote their self titled album.
Foreigner Performs "Feels Like the First Time" on The Queen Latifah Show
My Kind Of Love performance
Emeli SandeMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Sande performs My Kind Of Love during The Queen Latifah Show to promote her album Our Version Of Events.
Emeli Sandé Performs "My Kind of Love" on The Queen Latifah Show
I'm Gonna Live Till I Die performance
Queen LatifahMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Queen Latifah performs I'm Gonna Live Till I Die during The Queen Latifah Show as a tribute to her mother.
I want to do something special today to thank the person who is my right hand girl, my best friend, my mom. Do we have any moms out there? My mom has a zest for life that you wouldn't believe. I want to dedicate this song to my mom, and all the moms who have daughters like me who they encouraged to conquer the world and live.
Queen Latifah Singing "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die" on The Queen Latifah Show
Lonely Road performance
Billy Ray CyrusMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Master P performs Lonely Road during The Queen Latifah Show to promote his album The Gift.
Master P Performs "Lonely Road" on The Queen Latifah Show

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A time for tales of survival
Not long ago, a friend told me she was having problems with foxes in her garden. Having taken over a rotted tree trunk as a 'breeding earth', or den, they were making a nuisance of themselves.
My friend lives in Kilburn, in north-west London, but her experience is common to neighbourhoods across the city, the well-kept and the grubby. Foxes find easier pickings in cities than they do in the countryside: they are endlessly adaptable, and the more that we, as humans, opt to live in cities, the more foxes do too.
Visiting my friend, I had seen those foxes cavorting in the sun, snapping at fresh green blades of grass, charming but pesky. The fox situation came at a difficult time for her, when she had other things to be worrying about, and something about this unsought dilemma of what to do about those foxes captured my imagination.
It was the spark for the title story of my collection of short stories, In the Time of Foxes. It seemed fitting, because even before then foxes had been popping up, unbidden, in the stories I was writing.
One appeared in a story set on a sheep station in the Australian high country. I had also written a fox reference into a story about a young woman fleeing a cult — this story drew on Japanese folk tales about kitsune, shapeshifting fox spirits.
So the fox became a sort of spirit animal for the book. All the stories take an interest in the arts of survival. This is, of course, a very fox-like quality. Foxes are an extraordinarily successful species. Aside from humans, they are the land mammal with the greatest geographical spread of habitats. They are furry conquistadors, taking up residence wherever people build towns and cities.
I think this is why we have so many myths, folk tales and fables about foxes — because human and fox worlds have for so long overlapped.
There is the old adage that, 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing' — a quotation from the Greek poet Archilochus. In my book, this idea is tested in the story 'Animal Behaviour', about two animal rights activists with a dangerous secret.
The fact that foxes live where we live — that they live among us — is part of the fascination. This is something that the London author Jon Day touched on in Homing, his book about raising and racing pigeons. Pigeons are feral rather than wild birds, and not especially romantic. This makes them, writes Day, 'what biologists call 'synanthropes': creatures that live alongside rather than apart from us, thriving in the environments human beings have created for themselves.'
Foxes fall into this category, especially in Australia, where they are an introduced species (and therefore doubly feral).
And perhaps the arts of survival — of reinvention, shapeshifting, adaptation — all have something a bit feral about them. They're scrappy skills, backed-into-a-corner skills.
The stories in the book unfold in far-flung settings — from Wollongong to Moscow, the Atlantic coast of Spain to a future colony on Mars — but they're all concerned in some way with attempts at survival, large or small. This makes them very human stories, from the film director in Hackney with a fox problem in her garden, to the English tutor who gets too close to an oligarch, to the freelance journalist on Mars coming face-to-face with his fate.
My hope for the book is that it makes for a compelling read while saying something about the times in which we live — that it speaks to our potential for adaptation and reinvention, capacities which, as it turns out, we need more than ever.
Because right now we could do worse than have the fox as our spirit animal.


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L'Homme sauvage (The Stalking Moon) est un film américain réalisé en 1968 par Robert Mulligan, avec Gregory Peck et Eva Marie Saint.

Synopsis
Après avoir passé 15 ans dans la cavalerie comme éclaireur, Sam Varner accomplit sa dernière mission avant de quitter l'armée. Il participe à la poursuite d'un groupe d'Apaches qui viennent de quitter leur réserve. Parmi les indiens capturés, les soldats découvrent une femme blanche, Sarah Carver, serrant précieusement contre elle son fils métis de huit ans. Elle est trop effrayée pour dire plus que son nom, mais les militaires se souviennent que neuf ans plus tôt, la famille Carver était tombée dans une embuscade et avait été massacrée... Sarah Carver exprime le désir de quitter au plus vite la petite troupe de soldats sans attendre une escorte; Sam Varner finit par accepter de l'emmener avec son fils jusqu'au relais de diligence. L'enfant s'enfuit pendant la nuit. Sam et Sarah partent à sa recherche, quand ils le ramènent au relais, ils trouvent les occupants massacrés. Sarah révèle alors que l'enfant est le fils de Salvaje, le chef indien rebelle ,  qui cherchera à le récupérer  à tout prix. Sam emmènera la femme (avec son accord) et l'enfant dans son ranch du Nouveau-Mexique, une vie de famille commence à se construire, mais Sam devra affronter Salvage. La force du film tient entre autres à la présence menaçante et quasi invisible, invincible de Salvage.

Fiche technique
 Titre original : The Stalking Moon
 Réalisation : Robert Mulligan
 Scénario : Alvin Sargent et Wendell Mayes, d'après le roman de Thoedore V. Olsen
 Production : National General Pictures - Alan J. Pakula/Mulligan production
 Directeur de la photographie : Charles Lang
 Direction artistique : Roland Anderson et Jack Poplin
 Décors de plateau : Frank Tuttle
 Musique : Fred Karlin
 Montage : Aaron Stell
 Genre : western
 Durée : 104 minutes
 Sortie aux  le
 Source : VHS

Distribution
 Gregory Peck (VF : Jacques Berthier) : Sam Varner
 Eva Marie Saint : Sarah Carver
 Robert Forster (VF : Marc de Georgi) : Nick Tana
 Noland Clay : le garçon
 Nathaniel Narcisco : Salvaje
 Russell Thorson : Ned
 Frank Silvera (VF : Yves Brainville) : major
 Charles Tyner : Dace
 Lonny Chapman : Purdue
 Joaquín Martínez : Julio
 Lou Frizzell (VF : Claude Joseph) : le chef de gare

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Film sur l'enfance
Film américain sorti en 1968
Film réalisé par Robert Mulligan
Western américain
Adaptation d'un roman américain au cinéma

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The goal of my DGI Portfolio is to grow money and build passive income by investing in companies that pay a stable and increasing dividend. One company that satisfies the criteria and is also a holding in the portfolio is International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM).
The stock currently pays a dividend of $1.3/quarter, or $5.2/year for a current yield of 3.50% as of April 22, 2016. IBM has a long history of paying dividends and consistently raising the amount every year. Below is a table of the past 5 years of dividend payments.
Based on the previous pattern, IBM should be raising their dividend again in May of this year. The last dividend was increased by 20 cents. If they can keep the same amount increase for this May, that would bring the dividend to $1.50/quarter, or $6/year. Using the stock price of 148.50 on April 22, the new yield will be 4%.


We are firmly in the second camp. Western governments have grown huge, they intervene, interfere and even manipulate markets, and in doing so distort capitalism. In fact, we no longer have capitalism. We have a weird morphing of state and business enterprise – with failed banks and business being propped up by central banks with low interest rates and waves of printed money – so called stimulus or quantitative easing. Markets are becoming very volatile in part because markets cannot work out the direction things are heading - there is so much hidden and so much propped up.
Inflation Illusion: Just to give one example, as we have described in depth before, inflation numbers are manipulated downwards by a combination of substitution, accounting for technology benefits, ignoring smaller quantities in packages and changing the inflation basket. We all know inflation is running at more like 5-8% rather than the official 2.5% per annum in both the UK and the USA. When one looks at essentials like rent, fuel, transport, education, food and tax – most think its a joke to claim these are increasing at anything like 2.5%. Most are running at 6-12% a year. Living standards for the poor working class and lower middle classes are declining sharply.
GDP Illusion: Of course, in the UK the current GDP growth is claimed to be about 0.5% on an annualized basis – broadly flat. But this assumes inflation is 2.5%. If inflation is actually 5%, then the GDP growth is minus -2% or a pretty severe recession. The UK has been in recession for years now. It's only London and the SE that have shown any real growth – and even then – it's been marginal off the back of the super-rich foreigners moving in - in part from collapsing economies (Egypt, Spain, Tunisia, Libya, France, Syria) and super rich developed nations (Russia, China, Middle East oil exporter) viewing London property as a bargain after Sterling has declined. When you look at the GDP numbers, it's a realistic assumption just to subtract at least 2% from this because government inflation numbers are not accurate. Most new jobs are part time low paid service related jobs - and many of these in London are being filled by motivated migrants.
Depression – It's Just An Illusion: GDP already includes of course the spending of these employees or self-employed people – but the USA government will now add all these activities into the GDP pot even though they are expensed and written off in the same year – films, poetry, books and R&D. This should boost US GDP by about 1% per annum moving forwards. That should help the government convince foreign investors to keep buying bonds of course – probably the purpose. It will create an apples and pears t ype of playing field – since they will be the only ones in the world accounting like this for a while. This will distort things to the US advantage on the face of it. It will really confuse the numbers – for example – when economists print global GDP numbers, how will they reconcile these? But not to be outdone, it looks like the UK will join in and do exactly the same as the USA in the next 12 months. This should also boost the UK GDP by 1% - and help create an impression or illusion of growth. So when the UK gets 0.8% GDP growth, it will actually be in a recession. So even if the UK gets a GDP growth of 3.5% - because inflation is 2.5% understated and the new GDP will be 1% too high – it will actually be 0% or pretty much a recession as well. Added to this the fact that at least 1% of GDP is debt (or deficit) based spending, and you really are in a steep recession if people were not allowed to borrow or "deficit spend".
Debt Mountain: The point of explaining all of this is to just highlight how distorted things have become. Let's look at some of the debt numbers now.
Print to Oblivion: The US claims it has $16 Trillion of debt, but this is only the direct debt. It has unfunded liabilities totalling about $65 Trillion when Medicaid, Medicare, Pensions, Education, social projects and promises made to citizen are accounted for. That's $200,000 per person, or $800,000 for a family of four. There is absolutely no way a family can ever pay back this debt or liability. Even at $16 Trillion direct debt, its $53,000 per person or $212,000 for a family of four. Then there is the private debt. The average US home owning household owes about $150,000 to add to that amount. Then there are the new student loans and university costs to add. In our opinion the country is to all intense and purposes bankrupt. But how come bonds are so low? Because the US government buys most of them – and they use printed money to do so. They drive down the interest rates on their bonds by creating demand by printing money and buying them – that's what we call gross manipulation or distortion. The bond debt market is a huge bubble that will eventually go pop – but no-one really knows when. Until then, the show continues on the road. The US oil and gas shale boom has given a bit of confidence to markets – at least the USA has these assets to fall back on and it looks like oil and gas production will continue to climb – all thanks to fraccing. Texas is booming - Texas looks set to get onto the high road after the bad years of 1986 to 2003. But the discipline in Washington is so lacking, these future funds will no doubt be spent today and the whole thing looks like a huge bubble waiting to pop. When the bond market bubble pops or before that, the only way the Fed will be able to pay back its debts will be in printed or inflated dollars. The dollar will surely decline or even crash, once international investors finally lose confidence in the US dollar as the global reserve currency. The US will probably not default though, they will just print more money to pay creditors back in reduced value dollars. The inflation and GDP manipulation is all part of this game to create an impression the US economy is heading in the right direction to appease concerned bond holders around the world.
Asset Rich: To balance things a bit – the US is rich in oil, gas, huma n capital, buildings, technology, infrastructure and agriculture – plus it has a strong military machine. But so much of the growth is debt based spending – 70% is consumer activity – we doubt the economy is sustainable in its present guise. Furthermore the USA has far too many military bases and excursions around the world – they just cannot afford this and it's also wrong. Crime is a concern – 300,000,000 guns. Erosion of freedom is a concern. Inflation is a concern. Unemployment is claimed to be coming down, but really – many people have given up trying to get jobs, are living on food stamps, and many people have 2-3 part time jobs to make ends meet – because inflation has eaten away their spending power. The number of people on food stamps has doubled in five years.
UK Mini-Me USA: The UK seems to have a very similar monetary strategy to the USA – it's just the economy is about 8 times smaller. Print money. Deficit spend. Inflation numbers are far higher than claimed. GDP if deficit spending is subtracted is a lot lower. It's like a Mini-Me of the USA, but with declining oil and gas production and a proportionally bigger banking sector and weaker manufacturing. The UK is really in a depression. Interest rates are manipulated as are the UK bond markets – because the Bank of England buys its own debt – forcing down interest rates. Eventually the inflation gene will come out of the bottle. You can see this already in West London where all prices are sky-rocketing. A standard 3 bedroomed terraced house in Fulham costs £1 million ($1.5 million) – the same house cost £200,000 in 1995. But frankly, its difficult to see what else the UK can do except continue on their perilous course - because the problems and debt are already too big after 13 years of Labour spending, and declining North Sea oil revenues - partly caused by North Sea tax hikes. If Labour returned today, it would be a disaster, they would just tax and spend more. The Coalition are at least trying - albeit not very successfully - to reduce spending. If anyone has any doubts about what would happen if a socialist government was in power, just look at the depression France is heading for as the rich move out in droves - many to London - to escape 75% taxes.
A Short Deflation Then Inflation All The Way: So get ready for firstly a deflationary shock – some sort of crash – could be the stock market, oil prices and/or commodities – in the UK/USA (the trigger could also be more Euro problems). Then the Fed and Bank of England working in concert will make sure they print even more money to prop the stock markets up – keep creating an illusion of growth – then inflation will really take off, may be by end 2014.
Everyone Printing – How Can There Be Deflation: We just don't buy the deflationary premise – the western central banks will simply not allow deflation because the debts are too high. They can add zeros to their books at any time on the computer. The only way to pay back the gigantic debts is with inflated currency – printed "money" or paper. Now the Japanese have joined in – yes, the Nikkei is skyrocketing – why? Because of the cheap printed money goes into speculation in Japan as the prospect of a higher stock market and company profits is realised – just like it did in New York when QE1, QE2 and QE3 started. But this is not real growth – it's just printed money. In inflation adjusted terms the FTSE100 and Dow Jones are 50% of their value of March 2000 – they are in a bear market when inflation is accounted for. The Europeans will start printing more currency soon, the US will accelerate and so will the UK to keep up – as currency wars intensify.
Tidal Wave of Money: Also consider that this printed money is being hoarded. On companies balance sheets. Its hidden. It's not being spent. One day, when the bond market pops and inflation takes off, everyone will start spending this money as panic starts – off-loading the currency - and inflation will skyrocket out of control – caused by a tidal wave of money. The US increased its balance sheet five fold since 2008 – but nothing happened. One day the flood gates will open and all this money will appear when inflation starts. Everyone will bid up physical assets. That's gold, silver, artwork and properties – plus M&A activity and farmland.
Currency Crashing in Concert: Eventually, currencies in the USA, UK, Japan and mainland Europe will drop sharply in value. The safe currency havens will be Canada, Sweden, Australia and Norway – the real winners. Small populations, disciplined finances, conservative finance ministers, commodities and land rich, they don't print money, are well-educated and governments have high integrity with honest citizens.
Property – a store of wealth: Only buy good quality properties close to where the richest 10% of people live in cities – with good rental demand, in areas of property shortage. With high inflation, the poor will get poorer unfortunately. The rich will definitely get richer. Art prices will rise. Wine prices. Jewellery. West London and central London property prices will continue to rise as other countries struggle and the richest foreigners seek safe haven in the UK. The trend of the French, Spanish, Greek, Syrian, Egyptian, Cypriotes, Chinese, Russian and other super-rich buying London property as a hedge against implosion will continue. If a country collapses, the rich shift their money out quickly – and this ends up in West London property it seems. The recent UK law that makes it illegal to squat has also helped ease the risk for rich foreigners – since empty properties in London have solid legal title and now intruders who break in can be and have been put in prison.
Spanish Housing Crisis: Compare this with Spain – where even missing one month's rental pay ment can lead to rapid forced repossession. Furthermore, if a squatter gets into a property – is not spotted - within 3 days, they can stay at the property – and it takes about 3 years and massive legal bills to try and get them out. No wander the Spanish property market has crashed – developers have left their properties behind and the banks don't have the organisation to deal with waves of unemployed squatters that are taking over empty developments. It sounds like it's not even illegal to squat in Spain – there are no consequences for squatters – if anything, they are encouraged. Compare this with London in 2013 and you can see why so many rich Spanish people are selling up and moving their portfolios to London.
French Tax Crisis: Then take the French. 75% tax on the rich – that's gigantic. They are flooding into London – and Belgium. The French like quality property only – their favourite area is South Kensington – its most like Paris and has a French School (though it's full, they are building another one out at Wembley). Take a look at South Kensington property prices in the last year – they have sky-rocketed ever since the socialist (anti-business and anti-rich) Hollande got into power. As anticipated, France has slipped into recession and foreign investment has dropped dramatically – after new regulations and higher taxes were introduced. Their socialist Budget Minister being caught and then denying they had a tax free Swiss Bank account has not helped.
Don't Sell Your Gold: In the next 5-10 years, we expect London prices to continue to rise as inflation rages, and with it gold and silver prices should rise sharply.
Gold and Property Hedge: Just one final thought. If gold prices drop, it's likely property prices will rise. If gold prices sky-rocket, expect property prices to drop in inflation adjusted terms. So gold is a hedge against property and vice versa. But it's quite possible both will rise sharply as currencies decline and inflation takes off, then any debt you have on property will be inflated away - example, someone borrowing £150,000 on a £200,000 Fulham property in 1995 – now has 15% debt to asset value – since the property is worth £1000,000. In 2030, don't be surprized if a Fulham house costs £3,000,000 – but these will be far less valuable pounds. With all the waves of printed money – it's difficult to see how property and gold could both go down against currencies, so if you have significant wealth and want to come out with something after a collapse, then gold and property seem about the best thing. We've probably got another 3-4 years to go before the gold bull market ends. If you look at Weimer Germany in the 1930s, it was people that owned gold, property and stocks that survived the hyper-inflation. If we get a mild bout - say 25% inflation - then gold and property should be winners.
Prudent Portfolio: So as the government continues to print money, keep interest rates low, rents are high, savings rates are negative and inflation looks highly likely – to borrow this cheap money and buy property in quality London areas seems prudent at this time. But best hedge with gold, just in case the final financial collapse kicks in any time soon.
We hope this special report has been insightful and make sense – for your investment and portfolio decisions. If you have any comments or queries, please contact us on enquiries@propertyinvesting.net.


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Much ado about … Scientific Research
If there is one thing most, if not all, business school deans can agree on it is that research is an expensive activity. Several years ago, Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in the US estimated the cost of creating an A-Journal article at approximately $400,000 (about €350,000) The logic is simple: assume the average faculty member spends 50% of his or her time on research and, in doing so, publishes three articles every four years (or 0.75 articles per year). If an article has on average two co-authors then the cost per article can be determined by multiplying the annual salary cost per faculty (including benefits and overheads) by 0.50 x 2.0 / 0.75 = 1.33.
With annual salary costs of $300,000 the result is a total cost of $400,000 per article. This value can easily be customised to any business school by applying the assumptions relevant to that institution. These significant investments are usually justified, at least in part, by the importance of research for national and international rankings. Yet, when looking at the relationship between research and ranking position this assumption becomes questionable. For example, the Financial Times Business School Rankings, which represent an important yardstick for many institutions in Europe, does not consider the FT research rank (which measures the number of publications in A-journals weighted for faculty size) in its Masters in Management ranking. And even in the full-time and executive MBA rankings, where research plays a role, its impact is only small.
(A simple linear regression model using the 2018 FT Executive MBA ranking results in an adjusted R2 value of 93.6% including research and 90.3% excluding research. For the 2019 FT Global MBA ranking the corresponding values are 92.2% and 91.1%.)
While this may be different in some national rankings, which can play a pivotal role for business schools in their local markets, it still raises the question whether rankings alone are sufficient to justify the focus many institutions place on research these days.
Confronted with all this most deans would argue that research has benefits that go beyond a mere improvement in rankings. Three points are frequently named in this context:
First, research on important issues can help gain press coverage and hence improve their brand awareness and brand equity, which in turn positively influences applicant numbers.
Second, having expertise in cutting-edge fields can help to position a business school in the lucrative and increasingly vital executive education market by offering knowledge that cannot easily be found elsewhere.
Finally, being research focused is often seen as a necessary condition to attract new, top-notch faculty members, especially those with strong logical reasoning, communication and teaching skills.
Yet, again though, these arguments are in many cases less obvious than they may appear at first glance. A big proportion of research published in leading peer-reviewed journals suffers from the weakness of being on topics managers generally care little about. This issue has become more pronounced in recent years. More and more researchers are either not aware of the issues that have true importance for managers and/or do not have the ability to study those issues or the motivation to do so. This limits the way in which such research can be leveraged in public relations or marketing activities.
In addition, more and more business schools have started to separate, in one way or another, research and teaching faculty, in part due to the large cost of research-active faculty. This leads to the fact that research-active faculty teach substantially less and in turn, that the majority of classroom teaching is done by teaching or adjunct faculty who frequently are less research active. This challenges the notion that research can be translated into an improved classroom offering.
How can business school deans deal with this struggle, especially in times where resources are increasingly scarce and where many fundamental aspects of the business school model are under question? How can they define a research and development strategy that makes "an impact on the constituencies that are important to and part of the school's strategy" as required by the EQUIS accreditation framework? And most importantly, how can they facilitate the transition from a traditional European research model, which places strong emphasis on outputs such as books (monographies and textbooks) and case studies as well as qualitative and interdisciplinary research in general to an anglo-saxon one where the key benchmark for evaluation is peer-reviewed journal articles?
I am frequently confronted with questions like these at my own institution as well as at universities and business schools where I serve as a research advisor. And my answer is usually that measuring the quality or success of a research strategy by simply counting the number of publications in peer-reviewed or impact-factor journals is often a slippery slope.
In most cases it is not necessary that every individual faculty member starts to engage in research that can be published in such journals and neither is it advisable to completely discount alternative outlets such as academic journals in local languages, monographies, managerial articles, or even textbooks and case studies.
Instead, it is important to define a research strategy that allows schools to achieve their main mission of educating a new generation of managers and entrepreneurs. This can be achieved either by engaging in research that allows schools to attract better talent (for example, through improved ranking positions or improved marketing/ PR activities) or in research that translates into an improved teaching experience for both degree programmes and executive education.
Research for research sake or for the mere sake of publications is something that fewer and fewer schools should and will be able to afford in future.
Based on this logic there are four actions that deans should focus on:
First, ensure your research-active faculty has the awareness, ability and motivation to study important topics
Research conducted at business schools is usually managerially relevant in the sense that it pertains to a problem of concern for some managers. Yet some problems are clearly more important than others because they affect more managers, managers at a higher hierarchical level or lead to stronger belief shifts among those managers. These are the problems that research should focus on. This requires that faculty are aware of such problems, have the conceptual and methodological abilities to study them, and that business schools implement incentive systems that provide a motivation for doing so.
Second, incentivise the transmission of research outcomes instead of mere publication
A research project on an important topic does not stop once an article has been accepted in an academic journal. Instead, at this stage researchers should help to diffuse the knowledge created to as large an audience as possible. This includes crafting managerial versions of their work that can be leveraged in marketing and PR activities, generating teaching materials such as slides or case studies around the project that can be leveraged in the classroom, giving interviews on their area of expertise or engaging in social media activities.
Third, accept that research is a skill that changes dynamically and needs to be developed
Standards for publication in leading journals evolve constantly over time and what used to be acceptable a decade ago may no longer be so today. This implies that faculty members who have not been active in research for a certain period may need to be trained in the "rules of the game". Otherwise they risk applying the principles they learned in the past, which will be a source of ongoing frustration.
Finally, understand that each faculty member should contribute to research output, even if it is in different ways
Let's be realistic – it is not likely that an entire faculty team that used to be focused on publishing one type of research can be transformed into one that publishes another type of research. In addition, the interest and focus of faculty may change after the tenure process compared to before.
Focusing exclusively on articles in peer-reviewed journals while neglecting all other forms of output is therefore unlikely to be efficient. It will force some part of the faculty to run behind a train which they will never be able to catch, which again leads to frustration and inefficiencies.
Deans should realise that many forms of research output matter and leverage each faculty member in the best possible way to achieve this goal. Multiple strategies exist for this and it is important to choose the one that is most adapted to the context of an individual institution. I want to finish this article on a personal note by saying that I love research. I have spent my entire career working on questions that I am passionate about. I have published in the leading journals of my field and am involved in most of them, either as former editor-in-chief, associate editor or as a member of the editorial review board of an advisory panel.
But doing research is more than simply publishing manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals that few practitioners care about. It is about working on topics of true importance and ensuring the knowledge created is translated into the classroom and beyond.
This article has originally been published at Global Focus – The EFMD Business Magazine:
https://globalfocusmagazine.com/much-ado-about-scientific-research/
https://efmdglobal.org/
Copyright © 2019 Michael Haenlein. Theme: Zakra By ThemeGrill.


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LEdifici al carrer Sant Sebastià, 8 és una obra neoclàssica de Valls (Alt Camp) protegida com a Bé Cultural d'Interès Local.

Descripció
Edifici entre mitgeres de planta baixa i dos pisos. El primer pis està format per un balcó corregut amb barana de forja, en el qual hi ha dues obertures rectangular de grans dimensions, resseguides per una motllura i coronades amb una cornisa rica en elements decoratius. En el segon pis hi ha dues obertures rectangulars amb barana de ferro. L'edifici es corona amb una gran cornisa formada per motllures i carteles amb fulles d'acant, que sosté una barana de balustres. Destaca com a element decoratiu dues pilastres que emmarquen l'edifici i que acaben en dos capitells compostos molt ben treballats.

Història
La casa presenta unes característiques constructives i decoratives comunes a un bon nombre d'edificis vallencs de mitjans . Les mostres més representatives es troben al Raval de Sant Antoni.

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Patrimoni monumental de Valls
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Mothers who are obese while pregnant have children with heart problems, study in mice says
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Pregnant women who eat a diet high in fat and sugar could have children with heart problems, a new study finds.
Researchers say that, in a study conducted on mice, mouse mothers who ate an unhealthy diet before and during pregnancy had offspring with weak hearts.
Surprisingly, these health issues lasted for at least three generations, even if the younger mice were not obese and ate a diet of standard mouse chow.
The team, from the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, says its findings show how important it is for women to maintain a healthy weight both before becoming pregnant and while pregnant.
A new study from the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis found that obese mice mothers who eat high-fat, high-sugar diet have children with heart problems (file image)
Researchers found that most of the children of obese mouse mothers had an increase in weight of the left ventricle, which pumps blood out of the heart.
In humans, excess left ventricle weight is often a sign of a weak heart muscle, which can lead to heart failure.
Additionally, the team found that the heart problems were less evident in the female offspring of the younger generation of mice.
'The cardiac abnormalities seem to dissipate somewhat over the generations, which is intriguing,' said co-senior author Dr Abhinav Diwan, an associate professor of medicine at Washington University.
'There were also differences in male and female hearts that we can't explain yet. In many ways, this study presents more questions than it answers, and we plan to continue studying these mice to help answer them.'
To see if the problem was with the obese mother herself or her reproductive system, the team implanted fertilized eggs from obese mice into normal-weight mice.
However, these offspring had the same heart problems, which shows the health issues were from the egg and not from environmental factors.
The team also found that these heart problems were not just passed down to offspring from their mothers.
Researchers saw that the obese mothers' male children, who mated with females fed a standard chow diet, had children with the same heart problems.
Changes were specifically seen in mitochondria, tiny 'power stations' that fuel cells.
This was surprising because, at least in humans, all diseases inherited from mothers are mitochondrial disorders, according to the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation.
This is because mitochondrial DNA is only passed down from the mother.
'We know that obesity in pregnant mothers raises the risk of future heart problems for her children,' said co-senior author Dr Kelle Moley, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University.
'Now that we've shown that mouse fathers pass this down as well, we have to start studying changes in the DNA of the nucleus in both the egg and the sperm to make sure we understand all the contributing factors.'
The team believes that the problems with heart mitochondria are due to epigenetic changes in the DNA of the eggs of obese mothers.
Epigenetics is the study of inheritable traits that are carried outside the genome.
They believe that these changes are then carried into the cell of all offspring, male or female.
The researchers plan to begin new studies soon, but stress that women must follow a healthy lifestyle before and during pregnancy.
'A big question that people may have is: "What can I do if my grandmother or great-grandmother was obese?"' said first author Dr Jeremie Ferey, a postdoctoral research scholar at Washington University.
'We need more studies to learn if it's possible to reverse these mitochondrial defects, but in general, exercise and a healthy diet are always important for heart health.'


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There is a crypto-currency tag for discussing the cryptography that crypto-currency uses. Questions about wallets, crypto-currency software, prices, etc. are not appropriate for this site.
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We could also have this information in the section on What topics can I ask about here?, specifically in the subsection "I'm confused as to where my question belongs; there are so many sites!".
I have implemented this preliminarily, it now redirects people to the specialized sites for BTC, ETH, Iota and Monero and for more general non-mechanism related questions to BTC.
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As for the more advanced request on changing the box, this is nothing mods can change and I have requested guidance on this which I'll forward here as soon as I have it.
The guidance we got is "whenever you feel it is bad enough", so I'm arbitrarily defining the threshold of at least one such cryptocurrency question per day averaged over a two-week period at which point please ping one of the mods in chat or make a post here on meta and the mods will have a CM look at it and potentially implement more "counter-measures".


Samsung Galaxy S4 vs S4 Mini vs S4 Active vs S4 Zoom | What Hi-Fi?
The Samsung Galaxy range of smartphones is now even bigger, after Samsung made the new Galaxy S4 Mini, S4 Active (video, above) and S4 Zoom official at the company's Premiere 2013 event.
Three new phones offer something different to the original Samsung Galaxy S4, whether it's a portable size, a more robust design or a 10x optical zoom lens camera.
But it's not quite that simple: the flagship, feature-packed specs of the Galaxy S4 is not replicated across all these phones. Read on to see the differences and take a look at our hands-on videos.
Clearly, the S4 Mini (below) is the baby in the pack – though it's worth pointing out that it's still bigger than the Apple iPhone 5, which shows how much bigger the Android phones are compared to Apple's iPhone. The S4 Mini is available in the same white or black finishes as the S4.
The S4 Active (below) meanwhile is all about the rugged, robust build, and sure enough feels more substantial – but in a good way in our minds. Dare we even say how the Galaxy S4 should have felt?
That 10x optical zoom sticks out like, well, a camera lens, but the S4 Zoom doesn't feel as heavy as you might think. The dimensions have been shrunk – it's shorter and narrower than the S4 Mini – so doesn't feel too heavy or cumbersome. A decent design job considering what's crammed in here.
The display on the Galaxy S4 was one of the highlights: bright, vivid and instantly impressive, if at times a little over-saturated.
None of the new S4 phones have the same screen. That's worth noting. The S4 Active (below, top) has the same size screen but it's a TFT display rather than AMOLED – and you could tell from the quick hands-on we had.
The S4 Mini (above) and S4 Zoom meanwhile have smaller, lower resolution screens. They looked pretty sharp, but, much like the Galaxy S3 Mini, we're primed for them being less impressive with video than Samsung's top dog Galaxy S4.
The good news is that the S4 Active seems to have the same power and speed at its disposal at the S4. Our brief hands-on certainly found a phone that seemed fast and responsive. That said, our S4 lag issues mean we weren't convinced by the original S4's CPU.
Sure enough, the S4 Mini (above) and S4 Zoom once more get less power. They're driving smaller handsets but nevertheless we'd expect a less rapid experience when really pushed by gaming or multi-tasking with video. Again, don't expect the full-fat S4 experience.
All four have SD card slots, which is a bonus – Samsung gave away 64 GB SD cards on the night as if to make a point – while internal memory on the new devices is on the small side.
The smaller batteries on the S4 Mini and S4 Zoom may not be too crucial due to the smaller screens, though it remains to be seen how the serious Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom camera functionality impacts on battery life.
Release date and price information for the new S4 Active and Zoom are hard to come by, though the S4 Mini price has already been leaked online and it's set for a July release. The S4 Active is tipped for July, too, though it looks like the S4 Zoom could be more like Q3 2013.
We will be getting the new Galaxy S4 phones in for review to see how they stack-up compared to the original S4 just as soon as review samples are available.


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Malin Appelgren, född 15 april 1969 i Stockholm, är en tidigare svensk kristdemokratisk politiker.

Appelgren var kommunalråd i Solna stad mellan 2008 och 2014 med ansvar för äldreomsorg och omsorg om personer med funktionsnedsättning. Hon efterträddes av Samuel Klippfalk.

Appelgren var även ledamot i Solna kommunstyrelse och kommunfullmäktige. Hon var förste vice ordförande i Kristdemokraterna i Stockholms län 2006–2008 samt ordförande 2011–2012.

Sedan 2014 har Appelgren varit verksam i företag inom omsorgsbranschen. 2014-2016 var hon vice verkställande direktör för Silver Life AB och sedan 2016 som tillväxtchef på Ambea.

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