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Vietnam Vets With PTSD File Lawsuit To Gain Benefits
By Peggy McCarthy | March 3, 2014
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Five Vietnam War veterans, including a New Haven resident, filed a federal lawsuit Monday, claiming that they have been denied benefits and suffered stigma because they received "other than honorable" discharges due to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
They asked the U.S. District Court in New Haven to designate the suit as a class action on behalf of tens of thousands of Vietnam veterans in the country in similar circumstances. PTSD wasn't designated a medical condition until 1980, five years after the Vietnam War ended. Many Vietnam veterans with undiagnosed PTSD contend they received other than honorable discharges due to behaviors connected with that illness.
Vietnam Veterans of America and its Connecticut State Council, and the New Haven-based National Veterans Council for Legal Redress are also plaintiffs in the suit. They are being represented by the Yale Law School Veterans Legal Services Clinic.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, said he will ask U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to take action now, without waiting for the outcome of the lawsuit, and give "recognition to post-traumatic stress as a wound of war" in evaluating Vietnam War veterans' requests to have their discharges upgraded. He said he will also ask Congressional colleagues to join the suit as friends of the court.
"These veterans were wounded in war and wounded again by their country that denied them medical benefits," Blumenthal said. "The height of outrage is to put our men and women in uniform at risk as we have done, then put them at risk again when they come home," he said, adding that untreated PTSD sufferers are susceptible to a range of problems, including homelessness, joblessness and drug addiction.
Conley Monk of New Haven.
Plaintiffs and their lawyers said that if they served today in Iraq and Afghanistan, they would have received medical discharges.
"My discharge status has been a lifetime scar," said Conley Monk, of New Haven, a plaintiff. "If I were discharged today, my PTSD would be recognized and treated, and I wouldn't be punished for having a service-connected medical condition."
Other than honorable (OTH) discharges are a gray area which often result in either denial of veterans' benefits because of their discharge status or veterans' incorrectly assuming that all veterans with that status are not entitled to benefits and don't apply for them, according to veterans' advocates. The five plaintiffs in the lawsuit all applied for discharge upgrades and have been denied.
Monk, 65, said he couldn't get VA medical benefits or GI education or housing loans because of his status. He said he unsuccessfully tried to have his status changed some 40 years ago. He said he applied again for VA medical benefits two weeks ago and has an appointment.
A Marine Corps veteran, Monk said he left Vietnam in 1970, but still has resultant nightmares and night sweats. In the war, he transported supplies and troops to the demilitarized zone (DMZ). "Every time I came back, my truck was full of holes." He received an OTH discharge in connection with morphine use, which he said he took to "escape the nightmares."
"I wake up every morning in a cold sweat. I have to bring two tee shirts to bed with me, I get so wet," said Monk who with his brother, Garry, formed the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress. After completing a drug rehabilitation program at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, Monk worked as a drug counselor at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and the Columbus House and ATP Foundation, both in New Haven. He said he paid for his own education at the University of New Haven.
The stigma associated with OTH discharges on top of the negative treatment Vietnam veterans received when they returned home prevented many veterans from seeking medical help, said Pattie Dumin, president of Vietnam Veterans of America Connecticut State Council. "Nobody liked us when we came home," she said in an interview, explaining other military veterans criticized them for losing the war, while opponents of the war chastised them for serving in it.
V Prentice, a law school student working on the case, said that the exact number of veterans nationwide and in Connecticut that could be affected by this lawsuit is not yet known. He said the law school clinic knows there are tens of thousands because of statistics related to veterans with PTSD and other than honorable discharges. He said that part of the purpose of the litigation is to "bring this issue to the fore" so that veterans will come forward and identify themselves.
Virginia McCalmont, a law student working on the case, said that the lawsuit seeks to require the Pentagon to use "medically appropriate standards in reviewing Vietnam veterans' requests to upgrade their discharges." She said the stigma associated with their discharges has "prevented them from receiving recognition and respect."
She said now, the Vietnam veterans with PTSD are elderly and often "in poor health and indigent" and haven't had the financial wherewithal to take legal action. The Yale clinic represents its clients for free.
Blumenthal said a reason this lawsuit is being initiated nearly 40 years after the war ended is that even though PTSD received recognition from the medical community in 1980, it took until the last decade for the military and Federal government to take aggressive steps to treat and help military people and veterans diagnosed with it.
Veterans Stuck In Seven-Month Backlog On Disability Claims
Gene Trotman, 59, of Waterbury, has been fighting for so long to get disability benefits from the Veterans Benefits Administration, he now wonders if "maybe they're waiting for me to die."
Trotman, an Air Force veteran who served in the early 1970s, initially sought benefits in 1991 for a psychiatric condition. After several denials, he was finally approved for disability compensation last July. But, he still hasn't received any money. He is waiting for the VBA Hartford Regional Office to complete the process which determines how much he will get. Connecticut veterans typically wait more than seven months, an average of 213 days, to have claims processed, according to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs figures compiled by the Center for Investigative Reporting.
2 thoughts on "Vietnam Vets With PTSD File Lawsuit To Gain Benefits"
Charlie Woolsey on November 30, 2015 at 7:53 pm said:
Is there any back pay for them if they get a. Upgrade to honorable
John McGuire on February 2, 2016 at 9:36 pm said:
The only thing that is ever retroactive for the Vietnam Vet is nightmares.


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Its futuristic self-driving car has been the talk of SXSW, and you could own one as soon as 2020.
These days, if you attend a tech convention or conference, chances are you'll see a presentation or launch of an electric vehicle (EV). The ongoing SXSW Conference happening in Austin, Texas this month is no exception. Just last Friday, a startup called Nio — formerly known as NextEV — announced its plans to release a self-driving electric car by 2020. The company also unveiled its EV concept called Nio Eve.
The Eve is Nio's vision of what the cars of the future should be.
Aside from being both electric and autonomous, the Nio Eve comes with an artificial intelligence (AI) virtual assistant bot called NOMI, which communicates with you using the car's heads-up display. This AI bot picks up your preferences as you use your Nio Eve to make your driving experience uniquely personal.
Speaking of experience, the Nio Eve's interior is designed for the car ride of the future — which is to say, one where you truly ride because you don't have to worry about driving. It has reclining seats and folding tables, so you can sit back as the car drives itself.
On the outside, the Nio Eve looks like many other EVs — largely recognized for their innovative designs. Nio Eve has sliding doors and a panoramic sunroof.
While the EV may be Nio's latest car concept, it isn't their first: back in November 2016, the company launched an EV supercar called Nio EP9. It was referred to as the fastest EV in the world after it beat the previous record by finishing the 13-mile long "Green Hell" track in Germany in just 7 minutes and 5.12 seconds.
As consumers become more aware of the benefits of EV — particularly their capacity to help improve the world's climate change situation — it's no surprise that the industry is growing. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) predicts that EVs could replace 90 percent of today's vehicles.
More and more vehicle manufacturers, including the world's most popular brands, are working on their own EVs. Despite it's ubiquity, Tesla isn't the only EV manufacturer out there: in fact, a database of EV producers lists more than 200 companies from all over the world. Plus, the cost of these electric cars is becoming increasingly more competitive vis-a-vis their gas-powered counterparts.
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Susan Strange
The New World of Debt
The debtors and how best to deal with them is surely one of the continuing but unresolved issues for the international financial system.footnote1 Here I will argue that the evolution of that system has changed the nature of the debt problem, but that neither governments nor markets are any nearer a final solution to the question of how to manage transnational debt than they were in the 1980s. Indeed, the evidence suggests that they may be even further away from a sustainable solution. If so, this is a conclusion that throws serious doubt on many optimistic incrementalist assumptions about the progressive improvement of 'global governance' through the increased role of international organizations—assumptions often cherished by some academics—and, of course, in bureau-cratic circles.
By transnational debt, I do not mean only the financial credits extended by governments to other governments. They are but a small part of the story. The term covers all the forms of debt across state frontiers: all the liabilities incurred, and claims established, between institutions or individuals under one political jurisdiction, and institutions or individuals under another political jurisdiction. It would thus include assets claimed by foreign shareholders in enterprises in another country, interbank loans across frontiers, bonds issued to non-nationals both by governments and other institutions and firms, as well as credits or guarantees extended by states or multilateral organisations like the imf or World Bank or the regional development banks in Asia, the western hemisphere or Africa.
The purpose here is not to give a comprehensive survey of all the recent developments in the international financial system. That would be a vast undertaking. Even to survey all the developments in the treatment of transnational debt would be a massive task. Rather, my aim is the more limited purpose of analyzing—and if possible explaining—how the system has changed in recent years, and with what consequences for social classes, for creditors and debtors, and for institutions, including firms as well as national governments. The main purpose is neither descriptive nor prescriptive, but analytical and interpretative. It can be boiled down to finding the answers to three rather straightforward questions.
The first, obviously, is what has changed since the 1980s, and what is the same—and why. The next is who, in the 1990s, has been involved in transnational lending and borrowing—which players, new and old, political and financial, have to be taken into account when it comes either to state or intergovernmental policy-making or, for that matter, corporate strategy. The third question is whether transnational debt is in any sense a threat or potential danger to the international financial system. It certainly was believed to be so in the early 1980s. By the late 1990s, it is not so clear whether and when it is, or is not, threatening the financial foundations of the world market economy.
One basic point in political economy has to be remembered. The phenomenon of borrowing—getting money today in exchange for money tomorrow—is economic. But how such transactions are managed is political. To political economists, it is clear that how national societies manage debt within the borders of state authority differs fundamentally from how the collectivity of national governments manage transnational debts. Within national market economies, it became clear even in the nineteenth century that the national economic interest was not well served by a legal system that relied on deterrence, by punishing debtors when they failed to meet their obligations to creditors. Prison was no solution. Some other arrangements had to be evolved: either ways had to be found to rehabilitate the indebted enterprise or individual, usually by agreement with the creditors to accept only part repayment; or else ways had to be devised that would allow others to take control in exchange for assuming the debtor's liabilities in whole or in part. Either arrangement had to have the legitimacy of an enforceable legal contract. Bankruptcy therefore, whether temporary or permanent, could be imposed on debtors—and their creditors—only with the authority of the state.
That is much more difficult when the debt is transnational, involving two or more state authorities and legal systems.footnote2 It has been particularly difficult when one of the parties to the borrowing was itself a supposedly sovereign state. The international political system had developed no general rules for the treatment of bankrupt states. Such states there had been, in the nineteenth century as in the twentieth century.footnote3 Each had been dealt with in an ad hoc manner. In rare cases, like Egypt in the 1880s, or Central American banana republics in the early 1900s, creditor states intervened and acted as receivers, temporarily taking over the country's financial management from the indebted government. A kind of delegated collective form of receivership was developed in an ad hoc way in the 1920s for the administration of countries getting loans from the League of Nations—although in fact the funds were subscribed by the British and French. More commonly, creditors' governments either ignored their nationals' losses as bad luck, or practised the exclusionary strategy of simply closing off their credit systems to the government and nationals of the defaulting state. This was the Western response to the Soviet Union's renunciation of Tsarist foreign debts in the 1920s.
The preference for uncertainty and ad hoc solutions goes back a long way. It was Lord Palmerston in 1848 who first devised the smart policy of leaving open and undecided whether, in any particular case of bad transnational debt, the British government would or would not intervene, possibly with naval force, to recover unsettled claims by British investors. This uncertainty addressed the problem of moral hazard at both ends. It discouraged rash investors—usually bondholders at the time—from thinking that their government would always be ready with military or naval force to come to their aid. At the same time, it left the debtors in some doubt as to whether their country might suffer the humiliation and disruption of military intervention if they failed to honour their foreign debts.
Gregor McLennan
Fin de Sociologie? The Dilemmas of Multidimensional Social Theory
The Economic Bondage of Debt - and the Birth of a New Movement


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AT SEA (MARINA MILITARE HANDOUT) – An EgyptAir plane crashed in the Mediterranean on May 19, killing all 66 people.
Flight MS804 had sent a series of warnings indicating that smoke had been detected on board, shortly before it disappeared off radar screens.
The recovered cockpit voice recorder indicated there was an attempt to put out a fire on board the jet before it plunged into the sea.
Egypt's search and rescue teams found human remains, wreckage and the personal belongings of passengers floating in the Mediterranean about 290 km (180 miles) north of Alexandria.
The recovered items included blue and white debris with EgyptAir markings, seat fabric with designs in the airline's colours, and yellow lifejackets.
The crash was the third blow since October 2015 to Egypt's travel industry.
The Italian Coastguard said more than 1,900 migrants were rescued from boats in the Mediterranean in 16 operations on May 27.
Video showing the latest migrant boat tragedy was released on May 26 by the European Union's naval force in the Mediterranean.
The footage filmed from an aircraft showed migrants on the deck of a partly-submerged boat at sea and life boats and jackets being dropped for them.
Rescuers could later been seen approaching the migrants on rescue dinghies.
Separately, Libya's coastguard said it had stopped six boats carrying more than 750 migrants off the country's western coast and had recovered four bodies.
Europe's worst immigration crisis since World War Two has led to more than 8,000 deaths in 2 1/2 years, the International Organization for Migration estimates.
The Italian navy vessel Vega arrived in southern Italy's Reggio Calabria port on May 29, carrying the bodies of 45 victims including three infants.
A surge in migrant traffic between Libya and Italy at the end of May saw more than 14,000 people being saved from overcrowded boats and three consecutive days of shipwrecks in which hundreds died.
Authorities began bulldozing tents in a makeshift camp on the Greek border on May 24 in an operation to evacuate the camp.
Bulldozers cleared away domestic camping tents left in haphazard rows after several buses full of migrants drove away from the camp, destined for organised government reception centres.
Greece's Public Order Ministry said 1,529 migrants had left the camp, estimated to have held 8,200 people at last tally.
At one point more than 12,000 lived there after several Balkan countries shut their borders in February, barring migrants and refugees from central and northern Europe.
Police and protesters clashed in Paris on May 26, during anti-labour reform rallies while the hardline CGT union sought to choke off fuel supplies in a showdown with a government.
Protesters threw rocks and glass bottles at police who responded with large amounts of tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Sixteen people were arrested in Paris where 18,000-19,000 marched according to police, far fewer than in the first protests against the labour law over the past three months.
As turnout at protests has dwindled, the CGT has turned to sectoral strikes, with workers stopping work at oil refineries, nuclear power plants and the railways, as well as erecting road blocks and burning wooden pallets and tyres at key ports like Le Havre and near distribution hubs.
On July 5 France's government invoked special constitutional powers to impose labour legislation that will make it easier to hire and fire staff, overriding street protesters staging their last rally of the summer.
At issue is a bill that is designed to trim a 10 percent jobless rate, giving companies more freedom to set tailor-made pay and work conditions at company level.
Barack Obama became the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima on May 27, the city that experienced the world's first atomic bombing, as he called for an end to nuclear arms.
In a solemn yet brief ceremony, Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe each laid a wreath at the Hiroshima memorial park.
Obama's visit to Hiroshima, where a U.S. atomic bomb killed thousands instantly on August 6, 1945, and some 140,000 by the year's end, underscores a new level of reconciliation and tighter ties between the former enemies.
The visit stirred debate, with critics accusing both sides of having selective memories, and pointing to paradoxes in policies relying on nuclear deterrence while calling for an end to atomic weapons.
In France, the river Seine burst its banks, completely submerging roads and footpaths.
The waters continued to rise on June 3, following days of torrential rains that killed two people in the country.
Floodwaters forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes and dozens of schools closed south of Paris. The army was called in to rescue stranded motorists on a major highway.
The river reached a record high of 8.6 metres in 1910, when thousands of Parisians had to flee flooded low-lying areas of the city.
The death of Muhammad Ali, the former heavyweight champion known as much for his political activism as his boxing brilliance, triggered a worldwide outpouring of affection and admiration for one of the best-known figures of the 20th century.
Ali had long suffered from Parkinson's syndrome which impaired his speech and made the once-graceful athlete almost a prisoner in his own body. He died on June 3 at age 74.
The cause of death was septic shock due to unspecified natural causes, a family spokesman said.
On June 10 world leaders, celebrities, boxing fans gathered in his Kentucky hometown for one last goodbye.
Mourners lined the streets of Louisville for a funeral procession that drove Ali's body to Cave Hill National Cemetery for a private burial.
In Turkey, a car bomb ripped through a police bus in central Istanbul during the morning rush hour on June 7, killing 11 people and wounding 36.
The explosion happened near the main tourist district, a major university and the mayor's office.
A man armed with an assault rifle killed 50 people at a packed gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 12 in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, which President Barack Obama described as an act of terror and hate.
Video shot by Steven Fernandez captured the immediate aftermath outside the club – wounded on the ground, others caked in blood being carried away as first responders rushed to the scene.
Police killed the shooter, who was identified as Omar Mateen, 29, a Florida resident and U.S. citizen who was the son of immigrants from Afghanistan.
Mateen called 911 on June 12 morning and declared he supported the Islamic State militant group, officials said.
Britain voted to leave the European Union on June 23 in a landmark referendum that dealt the biggest blow to the European project of greater unity since World War Two.
Global financial markets plunged as complete results showed a near 52-48 percent split for leaving, on fears that the decision will hit investment in the world's fifth largest economy, threaten London's role as a global financial capital and foment uncertainty in the world's biggest trading bloc.
The pound suffered its biggest one-day fall in history, falling more than 10 percent against the dollar to hit levels last seen in 1985, while the euro slumped more than 3 percent.
Quitting the EU could cost Britain access to the EU's trade barrier-free single market and mean it must seek new trade accords with countries around the world.
The vote initiated at least two years of divorce proceedings with the EU, the first exit by any member state and caused the resignation of British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Iraqi forces recaptured the last district held by Islamic State militants in the city of Falluja on June 26 and the general commanding the operation declared the battle over after nearly five weeks of fighting.
Iraqi forces reached the centre of Falluja mid-June but militants remained holed up in some parts of the city west of Baghdad, including in its Golan district, which Iraqi forces later retook.
The assault is part of a wider offensive by Iraqi forces against Islamic State militants who seized swathes of territory in 2014.
The success of the Falluja operation gave fresh momentum to Iraqi forces in the campaign to retake Mosul, the largest city anywhere in the militants' self-proclaimed caliphate spanning Iraq and Syria.
Fighting to recapture the Iraqi city forced more than 85,000 residents to flee to overwhelmed government-run camps. The United Nations said it had received allegations of abuse of civilians fleeing the city, including by members of Shi'ite armed groups supporting the offensive.
A triple suicide bombing and gun attack killed 45 people at Istanbul's main airport on June 26 in the deadliest of a series of suicide bombings this year in Turkey.
The attackers struck the busy airport, a symbol of Istanbul's role as the Muslim world's most open and cosmopolitan city, a crossroads between Europe and Asia.
Three bombers opened fire to create panic outside the airport before two of them got inside and blew themselves up. Two hundred and thirty-nine people were wounded, officials said.
Thirteen foreigners were killed, including five Saudis, two Iraqis and citizens from China, Jordan, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Iran and Ukraine.
One attacker opened fire in the departures hall with an automatic rifle, sending passengers diving for cover and trying to flee, witnesses said.
Two other explosions hit the arrivals floor below, one of them just outside the building.
Egypt's Civil Aviation Minister says authorities have yet to identify "equipment" from the hijacker of an EgyptAir flight that was diverted to Cyprus, but that the incident is being treated as "real threat" nonetheless.
A look back at the events that changed Egypt's political landscape since the popular uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
Egyptians gather at the Great Pyramids of Giza in the early hours of Monday to witness a rare supermoon eclipse.
(REUTERS AND HILTI FOUNDATION) – The statues of the pharaohs were discovered in the sunken ancient Egyptian city of Thonis-Heracleion in 2002, off the northern Egyptian coast.
Divers from around the world take the plunge in Hurghada setting a new Guinness World Record for the greatest number of divers taking part in an underwater clean-up.


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Boryspil Airport Announces Plan For Terminal D
News 12 December 2016, 17:42
The entire project will cost about UAH 800 million.
The Boryspil International Airport's Terminal D is to be transformed into a transit terminal during the period of 2017-2018. The Boryspil International Airport's acting General Director Yevhen Dykhne announced this in an interview with the CFTS portal.
"One of the tasks we have set ourselves for the period of 2017-2018 is transformation of the dead-end Terminal D into a transit terminal. Unfortunately, we are unable to make major changes to the structure of the terminal because we are currently forced to 'cut our coat according to our cloth.' However, we can add 1,400 meters of additional space on two levels for the convenience of transfer passengers. In addition, we plan to expand the Platform D," Dykhne said.
He also said that the airport's financial plan for 2017 allocates about UAH 200 million for financing this work. The entire project will cost about UAH 800 million.
Next year, the airport plans to add three boarding gates and reconstruct the baggage sorting system.
"We have already signed a contract for the project with the Dutch company Vanderlande," Dykhne said.
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Fidelity Bank Boosts Well-being of Host Communities with CSR Projects
Foremost financial institution, Fidelity Bank Plc, has inaugurated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects in three South-Western states of Oyo, Ondo and Ekiti; as well as Kwara State.
The projects which include the provision of maternal and healthcare materials for hospitals, renovation and furnishing of a juvenile correctional facility as well as provision of computers for secondary and tertiary institutions were officially inaugurated on Thursday, 30 and Friday, 31 December 2021.
Speaking on the rationale behind the projects, Managing Director/CEO, Fidelity Bank Plc, Mrs. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe said that the initiatives were executed in pursuit of the Bank's CSR objectives which are centered on the environment, education, health/social welfare, and youth empowerment.
According to Onyeali-Ikpe, "These projects, which are in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Nos. 3 – Good Health and Well-being and 4 – Quality Education; are in demonstration of our corporate belief that profits should not only be measured in naira but in terms of the wellbeing of our host communities. That is why we regularly look for opportunities to advance the fortunes of people in locations we do business".
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At the official handover of the renovated boys' hostel and administrative block facilities of the Oyo State Juvenile Correctional Institution/Child Care Unit, Ijokodo, Ibadan, the Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Inclusion, Mrs. Christiana Abioye, thanked Fidelity Bank for the intervention explaining that, "Oyo state government, in its drive to deliver a number of people oriented and social services to the teeming population of the state, has been able to reach out to many individuals, organisations and corporate groups to partner with it in the achievement of these mandates through the running of an open and sincere administration.
"I am glad that the management of this financial institution was able to avail itself of one of such opportunities offered by this administration to discharge its Corporate Social Responsibility in the state and in particular in this very special welfare institution", said Gov. Seyi Makinde.
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Fidelity Bank is fast developing a reputation of a people-friendly institution with its numerous CSR programmes. It would be recalled that earlier in 2021, the bank completed the renovation of a primary health care center and a block of classrooms in the Southeast and Southwest regions of Nigeria respectively.
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The Prive Group wins bid to run restaurant space at the Asian Civilisations Museum
A new restaurant and cafe will open at the Asian Civilisations Museum in the later part of next year, and it will be run by established restaurant operator The Prive Group. -- PHOTO: ASIAN CIVILISATIONS MUSEUM
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A new restaurant and cafe will open at the Asian Civilisations Museum in the later part of next year, and it will be run by established restaurant operator The Prive Group.
The group beat out five other food and beverage and nightlife operators to acquire the rights to run the museum's restaurant and cafe in Empress Place, which overlooks the Singapore River.
The other bidders for the space had included seasoned F&B and nightlife operators such as The Butter Factory; Tadcaster Pubs, part of Tadcaster Hospitality which manages bars such as Molly Malone's and BQ Bar in Boat Quay; and AR Restaurant Group, which owns modern European restaurant Bacchanalia.
Mr Yuan Oeij, 45, chairman of the Prive Group, says it is too early to reveal details of his plans for the museum, but says it will be a "flagship concept that will bring something new and exciting to Singapore, and will be a progression from what we are currently doing".
The Prive Group runs contemporary restaurants Prive at Marina at Keppel Bay and Chijmes; The Green Door bar and Roadhouse restaurant in Dempsey; and co-owns nightclub Bang Bang and restaurant Match at Pan Pacific Singapore.
The space, which covers about 1,490 sq m, was formerly occupied by restaurant IndoChine Waterfront. The alfresco eatery closed in June (2014) to make way for a revamp along the Singapore River.


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As I was worshipping the Lord in my room in the early hours, the Lord reminded me of a particularly intensive encounter I had had with him a year earlier while listening to Martin Smith's "Great is thy Faithfulness".
While listening to this song, in the middle of a Swiss traffic jam, I had a total emotional meltdown and the Lord said 'I am giving you an anointing of faithfulness that you will need and which you will also be able to release to others'. Since that day, I had experienced a new freedom and security and my wife and I were able to minister with authority to people's whose lives were affected by unfaithfulness.
Now in Ogembo at five in the morning the song came up again in my i-tunes playlist and I felt a similar stirring of my emotions, which I can only express as the npassion and the compassion of the Lord for the hurting and for those who think they are incapable of making different choices.
So that morning in the sessions, we came to a time of ministry where I told that story and said that I believed the Spirit of Faithfulness was going fall on any who wanted it for their marriage of their relationship to God. As I declared this, some people began to vibrate and to shake. One man began to strongly manifest in a crude, sexual manner. One person whose mother had been involved in disreputable activities, fell over in his chair. He remained in a deep healing encounter with the Lord for 30 minutes at least.
Another lady fell to the floor and began to get delivered. At some point I rebuked the Spirit of Condemnation and she later reported that this left her and led to her complete deliverance.
Condemnation vs grace
It is interesting how the enemy keeps people in bondage not just through their sin, but also through condemnation. When we accept condemnation, we accept the identity and no longer expect to overcome. But when the voice of condemnation is silenced, then we can receive the grace and the assurance of forgiveness, which enables us to live from our new identity and bear the fruit of the Spirit.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and faithfulness. (Galatians 5:22 ESV)
In the afternoon Joseph Tea preached on the life of Joseph with the title "Making Jesus King and not just Saviour". He brought to life the story of Potiphar's wife and Joseph's choices – an apt subject in this AIDs ridden community, where in the words of the youth leader "Everyone is having affairs".
I am convinced that lasting transformation is only possible when there is a foundation of grace, and the unconditional love of God, which is expressed in healing combined with the proclamation of clear and biblical ethics. It seems to me that with all the enthusiasm for the supernatural, some people downplay the importance of the simple dos and don'ts that Jesus took time to teach in the Sermon on the Mount or elsewhere and which occupied much of Paul's writings.
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Summerfield Mayor Accuses Town Councilmember of Closed Session Assault
Posted by Scott D. Yost | May 10, 2018 | Archives, Guilford, News
Summerfield Mayor Gail Dunham has filed an incident report with the Town of Summerfield stating that she was assaulted by Summerfield Town Councilmember Dena Barnes during a closed session of the council at a contentious Monday, April 23 meeting.
The report the mayor filed with the town states that, in that closed session, Dena Barnes gave Dunham a "hard slap on the right arm" and used her hands "aggressively" in other ways as well.
"It was assault," Dunham said, adding that it was painful when Dena Barnes slapped her arm.
Dunham said she was extremely disturbed by the incident.
"It was so horrible," the mayor said. "This should not be happening."
Dena Barnes said she did not wish to comment on what transpired but she did say she was aware that the incident report had been filed and she also indicated that her account differs from what is stated in the filing. She said that, though she would not comment at the present time, the truth will be known after statements by all parties had been collected and an investigation was complete.
"I think there will be an investigation for all the people, and they will know what happened," Dena Barnes said.
Dena Barnes is the wife of Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes and has served as mayor of Summerfield before.
When the Town Council came out of the closed session into open session at the April 23 meeting, members of the Town Council were visibly upset by what was, by all accounts, an extremely heated session in the back room of the community center.
Immediately before the closed session that night, Summerfield Town Attorney Bill Hill told the councilmembers that former Town Councilmember Todd Rotruck could not participate in the meeting. One week earlier, the Guilford County Board of Elections had ruled unanimously that Rotruck, who was elected to the council in November, was not a resident of Summerfield. State law requires that a town councilmember live in the town in which he or she serves.
Rotruck, who stated at the April 23 meeting that he was appealing the Board of Elections' decision in Superior Court, grabbed a folding chair, took a seat at the dais and attempted to participate in the Town Council meeting. At that time, Dunham argued that Rotruck should be allowed to take part since there was no written Elections Board decision and the town had not received any official notice of the decision. Barnes, along with other councilmembers, argued that Rotruck should not take part in the meeting since the town attorney was adamant that Rotruck couldn't legally do so.
Dunham said at that meeting – and said again this week – that the board had no right to go into the closed session because the state's open meetings laws do not allow the council to go behind closed doors to discuss how and when Rotruck's seat would be filled.
Hill said the closed session was held so the Town Council could preserve attorney-client privilege.
Eventually, Rotruck left the dais and the group went into the closed session where a heated argument ensued.
Dunham said that she was taking notes at the closed session and Dena Barnes took issue with that.
When Dunham refused to stop writing, Dena Barnes said something to the effect of, "Well, you can take the minutes then," Dunham said.
The argument accelerated and came to a head when a prepared statement was provided by town staff for the council's approval. The document stated that the seat formerly held by Rotruck was now vacant and the Town Council would fill the seat soon – however, the town councilmembers couldn't agree to that or any other common statement.
One source who was in the closed session said that when Dunham was talking, Dena Barnes shouted out, "Let's just shut up and listen to Bill [Hill]!"
At another point Dena Barnes reportedly shouted, "Open your ears! Open your ears!"
When the encounter between Dena Barnes and the mayor got very heated, one source in the meeting said, others in the room tried to calm them down but there were other arguments going on as well.
The Town Council came out of closed session and quickly adjourned and, as soon as they did, Summerfield Town Councilmember Teresa Pegram and Barnes were in each other faces having a very heated exchange, though it's not known what was said between the two. Other councilmembers looked rattled as well but would not comment on what went on in the closed session.
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Dave nicoletta	on May 10, 2018 at 10:58 am
This is quite the embarrassment. I say Summerfield's citizens just recall the whole lot of them.
Jay Copeland	on May 10, 2018 at 11:13 am
This is par for the course for Gail Dunham. She has accused people in the past of assaulting her. She even accused [someone] of pushing her down a set of steps. She is the worst representative for mayor I have ever seen. Most people who run for mayor like the town that they live in. This woman actually hates the town and a lot of its residents.
Why does Gail Dunham not file a report with the Sheriff's Department?
Whitney Lee	on May 10, 2018 at 3:18 pm
This is a pour out cry for attention. The three newly elected council members have been in office for 6 months and already Summerfield is wasting tax payers money on legal fees due to a nonresidence running for a county position and won by deceiving the citizens. And now the other two new bozos have filed assault papers which we as citizens don't know it the incidence actually happened. Dunham has pulled acts such as this in the past, nothing new here. This is how Dunham plays unfortunately she plays dirty.


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Megyn Kelly, in her upcoming memoir "Settle for More," claims President-elect Donald Trump received a question ahead of the first Republican presidential primary debate.
The Fox News anchor wrote that Trump was angry the day before the Aug. 6 debate because he knew she was going to ask "a very pointed question directed at him," according to a New York Times review of the book.
"Folks were starting to worry about Trump — his level of agitation did not match the circumstances," Kelly wrote, according to the Times. "Yes, it was his first debate. But this was bizarre behavior, especially for a man who wanted the nuclear codes."
Trump made similar accusations against Hillary Clinton after the Oct. 19 presidential debate, tweeting that she was "inappropriately given the debate questions."
Kelly did, in fact, ask the then-candidate about previous sexist comments, including calling women "fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals."
Trump responded that he'd directed those comments at "only Rosie O'Donnell," then said too many people are worried about being politically correct.
Late Thursday night, however, Kelly tweeted that she didn't imply Trump was leaked a question.
"For the record, my book 'Settle for More' does not suggest Trump had any debate Qs in advance, nor do I believe that he did," she wrote.
The day of the debate, Kelly wrote, a driver picked her up and got her coffee that made her sick enough that she kept a garbage can under her desk during the night, according to the Times.
Kelly blamed the incident on a stomach bug, but wrote that she told former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes just in case. She echoed that comment Thursday night, saying Rand Paul had the same stomach bug.
The news anchor also claims that Trump tried to appease her in the months leading up to his presidential announcement, including an invitation to Mar-a-Lago and offering to pay for a weekend at the Trump SoHo hotel.
"I was not the only journalist to whom Trump offered gifts clearly meant to shape coverage," Kelly wrote in "Settle for More," according to the Times. "Many reporters have told me that Trump worked hard to offer them something fabulous — from hotel rooms to rides on his 757."
Throughout coverage of the President-elect's campaign, Kelly wrote, Ailes would frequently call her to ask if she was being too hard on Trump.
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Svenska Superligan 2017/2018 var Sveriges högsta division i innebandy för damer säsongen 2017/2018. 14 lag deltog i grundserien om totalt 26 omgångar, där de åtta främsta gick vidare till slutspel och de två sista flyttades ner till Allsvenskan.

Iksu blev svenska mästare efter att ha besegrat KAIS Mora IF i finalen.

Grundserien

Tabell

Slutspel
Kvartsfinaler och semifinaler avgjordes i bäst av fem matcher. Finalen avgjordes i en match som spelades den 27 april 2019 i Globen, Stockholm.

Kvartsfinal
KAIS Mora IF – IK Sirius FBC 3–0 i matcher (7–3, 9–0, 5–4)
Iksu – Malmö FBC 3–0 i matcher (12–3, 10–0, 6–2)
Pixbo Wallenstam IBK – Rönnby IBK 3–1 i matcher (8–4, 7-4, 2–3, 3–2)
Täby FC – Endre IF 3–0 i matcher (7–4, 6–1, 9–1)

Semifinal
KAIS Mora IF – Täby FC 3–2 i matcher (7–4, 3–8, 4–5, 8–2, 7-3)
Iksu – Pixbo Wallenstam IBK 3–0 i matcher (4–3, 5–4, 5-4)

Final
Stockholm, Globen, 21 april 2018, kl. 12:15: KAIS Mora IF – Iksu 2–4

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 Svenska superligan

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Dr. Chakraborty is a globally recognized risk and behavioral scientist and expert on global risks ranging from climate change to COVID-19. She is a trusted authority on proactive preparedness to mitigate against the impacts of climate change, motivated by the need for clear, credible, evidence-based communication.
Sweta is the president of U.S. operations for We Don't Have Time, a partner at Pioneer Public Affairs, and serves on the steering committee of the Global Commons Alliance alongside Johan Rockstrom. She is also an independent director at Lightbridge Corp. (NASDAQ: LTBR), where she chairs their environmental, social and governance (ESG) committee.
She is the key behavioral scientist at Resilience Action Partners (an Ogilvy and Michael Baker joint enterprise) for a $250 million (CERC 2.0) FEMA contract to address US-wide adaptation to climate change impacts. She is also the founder and principal of Adapt to Thrive, a venture that seeks to better inform entities on the complex, interconnected challenges already existing and emerging from a warming planet. She has worked in the private sector as chief scientist for a risk management-consulting firm, has taught at Columbia University as an adjunct professor, and is the head of Top Tier Impact's Policy Action Unit.
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Hoobastank To Play 'The Reason' 15-Year Anniversary Tour
MusicTour DatesTours September 11, 2018 Olivia Perreault
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Hoobastank revealed a 15-year anniversary tour this fall in honor of their 2003 hit sophomore record, The Reason. This October, the band will head...
Hoobastank revealed a 15-year anniversary tour this fall in honor of their 2003 hit sophomore record, The Reason.
This October, the band will head out on a nationwide tour, kicking things off in Portland, Oregon. Throughout the trek, Hoobastank will make stops in cities like Denver, Detroit, Pittsburgh, New York, Boston, Orlando, and San Antonio before wrapping-up in Ventura, California on December 7. During each show, the group will perform The Reason in its entirety, along with fan favorite hits.
To make the show even more of a "throwback," the band Secondhand Serenade will support Hoobastank on a majority of the dates. Secondhand Serenade, best-known for 2008's "Fall For You," is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of his debut Awake.
The Reason, which was released on December 9, 2003 via Island Records, debuted at No. 45 on the Billboard Top 200 and peaked at No. 3 in 2004. The album features the title track, which is the band's most successful single to date, and stole the No. 2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It's sold over 2 million copies and received a Double Platinum certificate.
"The Reason tour signifies a lot," lead vocalist Doug Robb of Hoobastank told Broadway World. "First, we get to revisit a time in our career that was so exciting and groundbreaking for both us and our fans. You don't get that opportunity too often. Second, it reminds us how fortunate we have been to be able to do this for so long. It's humbling. Each show will be like a time machine for our fans and us."
In addition to playing The Reason, the rockers will debut some songs from their first album in six years, Push Pull. The new record was released this past May and features singles "More Beautiful" and "Push Pull." Robb described the inspiration behind the new LP as freedom, noting that the group wrote the album without feeling like they had to satisfy anyone but themselves or fit into a previous style from their past work.
Hoobastank's other top tracks include "Crawling in the Dark" and "Running Away" off of their 2001 self-titled debut, as well as "Out of Control" and "Same Direction" from The Reason.
Check out the band's full list of upcoming tour dates below.
Visit Ticket Club to find tickets to see Hoobastank on tour this year
Hoobastank The Reason 15th Anniversary Tour
10/25 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
10/27 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Grand
10/28 — Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
10/30 — Billings, MT @ Pub Station Ballroom
11/1 — Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Café
11/2 — Peoria, IL @ Monarch Music Hall
11/3 — E. Dubuque, IA @ Q Casino
11/4 — Joliet, IL @ The Forge
11/6 — Detroit, MI @ The Majestic
11/7 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theatre
11/8 — Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
11/9 — Watertown, NY @ Exhibition Hall
11/11 — New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom
11/12 — Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
11/13 — Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
11/14 — Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live
11/16 — Memphis, TN @ New Daisy Theatre
11/17 — Biloxi, MS @ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
11/18 — Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
11/19 — Clearwater, FL @ Capitol Theatre
11/21 — Greenville, SC @ The Firmament
11/23 — Houston, TX @ Scout Bar
11/24 — San Antonio, TX @ The Rock Box
11/25 — Dallas, TX @ Canton Hall
11/27 — Lubbock, TX @ Jakes
11/28 — Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey Theatre
11/30 — Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren
12/4 — San Diego, CA @ The Regency
12/7 — Ventura, CA @ Ventura Theatre


One of the major sources of the subtlety in African grooves is the use of the hands. This is also the major factor that sets our drums apart from the western drum kit. The kick drum of the drum kit is played with a drum pedal while drum sticks are used for the snare, toms, hihat and cymbals. On the other hand, direct hand contact with our traditional drums results in a richer groove altogether. There is so much more that direct hand contact can do than indirect contact using sticks. So many sounds and possibilities. Slap, scrape, thump, finger rolls etc. aside from sounds resulting from double hand techniques. Mutes, rings, closed and open sounds also mean a wide array of sounds. In just one bar of music from just one drum the possibilities are enormous. Now put several of these drums together, each playing a different rhythm. The resulting groove is a killer. The gangan and bata use the best of both worlds. A beater and a hand. But listen for the sounds between the main beats.


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Preface - António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations (2016-)
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations (2016-) Photo: Mark Garten | UNMIL | 19 Dec 16
The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) deployed in October 2003 to a country which, after 14 years of brutal civil wars, was a failed state being pulled apart by warring factions. The public sector was in total collapse, the country's infrastructure lay in ruins, the economy was destroyed and the national police and army had disintegrated. As a result of the conflict, more than a quarter of a million Liberians were killed, nearly a third of the population was displaced, and an estimated 80 per cent of women and girls experienced conflict-related sexual violence.
Over the course of UNMIL's deployment, the country has made significant progress. More than 100,000 former combatants participated in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes, and the armed forces and police have been rebuilt. In that time, Liberia has held three peaceful elections: the first two resulted in victories for President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman in Africa to be elected President. President Sirleaf was succeeded by George Weah following his victory in the 2017 election.
The last stretch of UNMIL's mandate has been no less complicated than its first. In a country where there had been no constitutional transfer of power since 1944, and where the political culture features a deeply embedded sense of entitlement by the ruling elite, peaceful transition of authority was a particular challenge.
The political good offices mandate entrusted by the Security Council on the Secretary-General's Representative, Farid Zarif, proved critical to facilitating a successful electoral process. Those good offices were usefully complemented by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) – through mediation by former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo.
As the mandate of UNMIL ends on 30 March 2018, Liberia enjoys peace and stability. The country no longer faces threats from war lords or marauding militias, and the Liberian Government has made commendable efforts to strengthen the rule of law and to revive the economy.
However, serious challenges remain. The overwhelming majority of the population has yet to see the anticipated dividends of peace, while many of the root causes of the conflict have not been addressed. The long-term sustainability of the gains achieved thus far will require continued and sustained international engagement and support, especially through joint efforts by the United Nations and international partners. Such involvement will be particularly important for Government programmes aimed at addressing key socio-economic issues such as poverty, youth unemployment, illiteracy and lack of basic infrastructure.
UNMIL leaves behind a country that has great potential to achieve lasting stability, democracy and prosperity. Over the past 14 years, the Mission has forged effective partnerships with the Government, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, regional organizations, including ECOWAS and the Mano River Union, the international donor community, and local and international humanitarian and civil society organizations, all of which have helped place Liberia firmly on the path to post-conflict recovery. The human rights situation has improved dramatically, and efforts to promote national reconciliation have achieved some, albeit slow, progress.
The end of the peacekeeping phase of the United Nations engagement marks another turning point for Liberia. It is my hope that Liberia's new leadership, bolstered by continued engagement in the country by ECOWAS and other regional and international partners, in coordination with the UN Country Team in Liberia and the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, will help address the remaining challenges to stability.
The Mission's experience offers a wealth of lessons for current and future peacekeeping operations. I commend all the troop- and police contributing countries who participated in UNMIL, and I pay tribute to the 201 personnel who lost their lives in the service of peace in Liberia. I also thank my Special Representatives through the years and all the UNMIL staff who have greatly contributed to the success of the Mission and to the cause of peace in Liberia.
 Excerpts from the new President's inaugural address on 22 January 2018 | His Excellency Mr. George Manneh Weah, President of the Republic of Liberia (2018-)
 The story of UNMIL
Preface - António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations (2016- )
His Excellency Mr. George Manneh Weah, President of the Republic of Liberia (2018- ) | Excerpts from the new President's inaugural address on 22 January 2018
EJS and UNMIL | Her Excellency Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia (2005-2018)
Earning respect at the Mission's outset | Jacques Paul Klein, Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (2003-2005)
Supporting Liberia's rebuilding and new President's priorities | Alan Doss, Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (2005-2007)
Keeping Liberia stable while building the peace | Ellen Margrethe Løj, Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (2008-2012)
Staying strong during Ebola | Karin Landgren, Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (2012-2015)
Mutual accountability must be fundamental to peacekeeping | Farid Zarif, Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (2015-2018)
The election of President George Weah
Leading the Mission to a close
Proposal for a Christian state risks hard-won calm
Obasanjo visit promotes acceptance of election results
Engagements with political parties in advance of 2017 elections
Leading the orchestra | Bibi-Masumeh Eng, Chief of Staff
UNMIL paves the way for ECOWAS Radio
Conduct and discipline team raises awareness, helps victims recover
UNMIL uses e-diplomacy for broader reach and longer legacy | Shpend Berbatovci
QIPS: projects for peace
Sowing the seeds of change | K. Leigh Robinson, Head of the Public Information Office
Eva Flomo, a passion for reporting on peace
UNMIL Radio: keeping Liberians informed
Rule of law involves creating people-focused institutions | Waldemar Vrey, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Political and Rule of Law
Widening ownership of the security sector reform process
Generating gender diversity and sensitivity within security sector institutions
Use of quick-impact project funding in the rule of law sector
2017 elections and the rule of law
A force for peace in Liberia | Major General Salihu Zaway Uba, Force Commander
Joint Analysis and Operations Centre, keeping the Mission informed
Bailey bridge - connecting Liberia
Capacity-building helps community to its feet
Inter-mission cooperation
Establishing policing to serve communities | Simon Blatchly, Police Commissioner
UN Police take on Ebola
UN Police safeguard elections
Liberian security counterparts on contribution of UN Police
Women's police contingent: role models for a decade
'The primacy of politics' | Olubukola Akin Arowobusoye, Chief of Political Affairs
UNMIL cooperates with regional organizations
UNMIL interacts with the Legislature on critical bills
UNMIL and the National Elections Commission
Melanne A. Civic, Principal Rule of Law Officer Rule of law in multi-dimensional peacekeeping – lessons for reform
Expanding the human rights space, building protection resilience | Marcel Akpovo, Chief of Human Rights Protection Service and Representative of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Liberia
Independent National Human Rights Commission gets recognition
Human rights due diligence policy enacted
Liberia's future depends on consolidating the gains of peace | Yacoub El Hillo, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Liberia
DDR lets ex-combatants find new lives
UNMIL field office helps resolve local dispute
UNMIL national staff help Liberia wrest control of its resources
Basic services arrive in the countryside
Extending and consolidating the peace process | Francis Kai-Kai, Chief of Peace Consolidation Services
Governance and Economic Management Assistance Programme (GEMAP)
County reconciliation dialogues
The Liberia Peacebuilding Plan
Supporting decentralization in Liberia
Advisor raises consciousness of Mission personnel on gender | Maria Nakabiito, Gender Advisor
Special Court takes on SGBV cases
Women's Situation Room prepares ground for calm elections
Mission Support: a key enabler | David Penklis, Director of Mission Support
Establishing field offices
Support to elections
Responsibility to protect - the environment
Stringent measures protect UN personnel from Ebola | Teferi Desta, Chief Medical Officer
Ebola in the counties
Ebola's impact on UN staff
UNVs do vital work for the Mission and the Community | Mar Brusola Valls, Programme Manager, UN Volunteers
Letters of Gratitude
Liberia Facts*
UNMIL Facts


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Car Collision Repair Management App for iOS. Background based in Parse.

Property of Sprout Designs.

## Installation

This project requires CocoaPods libraries.

1. Run the following in the console:

    sudo gem install cocoapods

2. From the console, navigate to the downloaded cocoapods folder and run

    pod install

3. Open project from xcworkspace file

## Requirements

iOS 8.0+ / Mac OS X 10.9+
Xcode 7

## Demo Videos

as of version 0.15

#### Intake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9asvdEIUfY

#### Assessment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4eypoqpPOU

#### Estimate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Ox6fgPN2o

#### Repair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tPJeUCJqvQ


Watching machines or craftsmen turn raw materials into finished products provides an adventure for the whole family. Many companies are proud to open their factory doors to the public. It's an opportunity to educate people about the company and what makes its products unique. For families, factory tours offer great entertainment. You get a behind-the-scenes look at the manufacturing process, pay little if anything for admission, and often leave the tour with free samples. See the stringing of guitars, the stuffing of teddy bears, or the mixing of ice cream. Watch colored wax become crayons, cucumbers become pickles, hunks of wood become baseball bats, or milk become cheese.
To find a comprehensive listing of tours around the country, refer to the guidebook "Watch It Made in the U.S.A." (Avon Travel; 2002) or try conducting a state-by-state search at www.howstuffworks.com/cp-archive.htm. There are hundreds of tours, and we've selected some of our favorites for you.
The best thing about the Basic Brown Bear Factory is that you help make your own teddy bear. In the cutting and sewing area, workers use bear patterns to cut pieces from twenty-four layers of fuzzy fabric and then sew them together. Pick out your favorite design, pop it on a polyester stuffing machine or bean-injecting machine, and watch it fill up like a balloon. Then take your bear to the factory's "beauty parlor," where it is fluffed up and dressed in an outfit of your choice.
Boeing's commercial jets are manufactured in the world's largest building (by volume) -- a ninety-eight-acre airplane hangar. From an observation deck high above the assembly floor, you have a great view of the process: Ninety-foot cranes unload dinosaur-size wings, doors, fuselages, jet engines, and other mammoth airplane components. As your tour guide outlines Boeing's history of producing aircraft, you watch workers testing and assembling parts, such as wing flaps and lavatories. You may even see new planes take off on test flights.
It takes more than a week to make a single jelly bean, yet this factory manages to turn out one hundred thousand pounds of beans daily. To see how it's done, take the guided tour along the Jelly Bean Candy Trail, an elevated walkway over the production floor. You get a peek into the kitchen, where fifty flavors are mixed from secret recipes before molding. Watch the colorful little candies go through a "bean spa," as machines shower them with sugar, rotating drums coat them with candy shells, and giant tumbling pans polish them with confectioners' glaze. Then fix your eyes on a glorious sight: a rainbow river of finished beans gliding down a conveyor belt toward the packing area.
If your chocolate is stamped "70 percent cacao," you've just unwrapped a serious candy bar, perhaps one made at Scharffen Berger. Here, age-old European methods and vintage equipment produce a first-rate American chocolate. The company roasts and crushes good-quality cocoa beans, combining different types for complex flavor combinations. In the melangeur, or mixer, spinning granite rollers grind the beans into a shiny molten liquid. This "liquor" goes into the conche machine, which refines and mixes it with sugar and cocoa butter. Finally, the tempering machine pumps dark liquid chocolate into bar molds.
The flavor of fine wine has as much to do with a high-quality oak barrel as with high-quality grapes. This division of France's most prestigious cooperage builds its casks from American oak. In the workroom, master coopers fit oak strips, called staves, along the insides of metal rings. Then they bend the staves using heat and water to coax them into shape. To bring out the wood's oaky-vanilla aromas, the coopers slowly toast the barrels over oak fires.
Located seven miles from the Las Vegas Strip, Ethel M Chocolates offers a refreshing break from the slot machines. There is always an assortment of sweets -- dark-chocolate coins, fudge bundles, strawberry truffles, peanut clusters -- cooking inside. You can catch the confectioners whipping up candy centers with butter, fresh eggs, and natural flavorings, or pouring out hot batches of pecan brittle onto cooling tables. In another room, naked bits of lemon satin and butter rum emerge onto an enrobing line, where a machine coats them with chocolate -- either milk or dark. At the end of the tour, you can select a free chocolate, and savor it in the shade of ocotillo and mesquite trees in the cactus garden.
In the 1970s, George and Marianne Schweers were among the first farmers to plant pistachios in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin, which has a climate similar to long-established pistachio-growing regions in the Middle East. Their farm is now the largest in the state. Visit during the September harvest season, when machines shake the pistachio trees, causing a shower of nuts to fall. In the processing plant, the pistachios are both machine and hand sorted. Before roasting, some are sprayed with a mist of salt water, others are dusted with red- or green-chili powder.
Cedar Grove is one of the few small cheese factories that remains in this part of Wisconsin's farm country. All of its products are made by hand with the same techniques used when the factory opened in 1947. As you nibble on free samples, a guide shows you how one hundred thousand pounds of milk per day are converted into ten thousand pounds of cheese: Cheesemakers start by mixing starter culture into ninety-degree vats of milk; the culture flavors and thickens the milk. As the mixture coagulates, wire knives are drawn back and forth through it. In about an hour, the vat is brimming with tiny cheese curds, but many steps still remain. You can watch as the whey is drained and the cheese is salted, compressed, and packaged.
Robinson Ransbottom produces ceramics from clay that is dug within a ten-mile radius of the factory. Step inside the century-old workshop and see tunnel kilns, where thousands of crocks and birdbaths are fired at 2,400 degrees. On the self-guided tour, you can watch workers stamping out bowls on die-presses, unloading the vessels from the kilns, and hand-decorating them with colorful glazes. Before visiting the Pot Shop, take a look at the three-acre warehouse filled with housewares and garden pottery.
In the early 1930s, Anne and Ralph Sechler cured and packed pickles in their farmhouse kitchen. The family-run business now operates in a sixty-thousand-square-foot plant. In the growing season, cucumbers arrive daily from independent farms, are sorted according to size, and then are immersed in vats of salty brine. They are cured for about three months before being processed into spears or slices (or left whole), and packed in jars. The jars are then filled with pickle juice and capped.
This eighty-nine-year-old creamery is located in Licking County, which makes sense because on a summer day it's packed with children licking ice-cream cones. The Dager family converted a nineteenth-century gristmill into a museum, where visitors learn about the labor-intensive process of hand-cranking that originally produced Velvet Ice Cream. In the modern factory next door, you see just how different ice-cream making has become. A network of steel pipes delivers gallons of ingredients to chilled mixing machines, where you can see workers add chocolate brownies, strawberries, and other treats before the ice cream is pumped into cartons.
It looks like a house that Babe Ruth might have built. You enter beneath a 120-foot-tall replica of the Babe's bat and find exhibits about him and other legendary baseball players. On the tour, you can pretend you're a major-league player. Walk through a locker room and emerge onto a playing field to the sound of a crowd cheering; stand beside life-size figures of noted home-run hitters. In the factory, you see automated blades carve rotating cylinders of maple and white ash into bats. Then watch a branding machine sear them with trademarks and players' autographs.
In addition to the pepper-sauce-making tour, you can visit the 250-acre garden, where a colony of twenty thousand snowy egrets sits amid oaks and crape myrtles.
This factory processes twenty-eight-million pounds of potatoes a year. You can peer through glass windows to view machines that wash, peel, and slice the spuds before they're fed into kettles of oil -- where they're slowly fried in small batches. During the next forty minutes, workers stir the potatoes to make sure they cook evenly and don't clump. Then the golden-brown chips are transferred to a centrifuge, which spins out any excess oil. After being salted and flavored, the chips are hand-packed into bags.
Before children colored with crayons, the Binney & Smith Company manufactured black ones only for industrial use. In 1903, they added color to wax and invented the first child-friendly kind. Your family can watch colored wax disappear into holes and reappear as crayons. Then visit the creative studio to make colorful projects. From here, it's a short trip to the Martin Guitars factory, and only a two-hour drive to Pennsylvania's York County, home to over a dozen factory tours, including Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Snyder's of Hanover pretzels.
C.F. Martin & Company is a leading maker of flat-top steel-string acoustic guitars; its history spans three centuries and six generations. Five hundred craftspeople employ venerable processes, using only a few machines, to cut, shape, and assemble the necks and bodies. It takes up to six months to make a Martin Guitar -- one that might end up in the hands of Eric Clapton, Joan Baez, or you.
Simon Pearce has expanded his operations to include pottery and other crafts, and he now has three other workshops you can visit in Maryland, Vermont, and Pennsylvania (check the website for locations). In Quechee, a restaurant overlooks a covered bridge; you can enjoy gourmet food on lovely pottery and sip beverages from beautiful glasses -- all Simon Pearce, of course.
You know you've arrived when the aroma of carved wood embraces you. Outside is a vast lumberyard, with piles of wood, ready to be sawed, shaped, chiseled, and sanded into rims, braces, legs, soundboards, and other pieces that make up a twelve-thousand-part piano.