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Part 36 and indemnity costs: Court of Appeal slams the door on attempts to avoid fixed costs regime
Judgment has been handed down in the appeals of Hislop v Perde and Kaur v Committee of Ramgarhia Board [2018] EWCA Civ 1726. The Court of Appeal has considered the costs consequences of accepting Part 36 offers in fixed costs cases subject to Part 45 which do not proceed to trial. It has been confirmed that indemnity costs do not apply and the only costs applicable are fixed costs, regardless of whether the defendant accepts a claimant's Part 36 offer late or the claimant accepts a defendant's Part 36 offer which is more than a claimant's Part 36 offer made previously.
This issue has caused significant delays on fixed costs cases with Part 36 offers accepted out of time. Both the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and the Forum of Insurance Lawyers submitted detailed written submissions. This is a significant win for paying parties and was precisely the argument pursued by BLM when successfully persuading a Regional Costs Judge to declare that his earlier widely publicised decision on the point was wrong. [For a link to the Whalley decision click this link.]
Both cases started out in the personal injury 'portal' (pre-action protocol for low value personal injury claims) and exited after proceedings were issued. In Hislop, the defendant accepted the claimant's Part 36 of £1,500 a week before trial, made some nineteen months previously. Kaur accepted the defendant's Part 36 offer in time of £3,000, but the claimant had previously made a Part 36 offer for £2,000. The defendant in Kaur was concerned with the potential costs consequences of accepting the claimant's lower Part 36 offer made some five months previously and therefore preferred to make a higher offer in a bid to avoid having to pay indemnity costs or in any way allow the claimant to avoid the application of fixed costs.
Does Part 36 trump fixed costs?
The principal issue for the court was the interaction between the relevant parts of the CPR, namely Part 36 and Part 45. It was common ground that there was not an express provision as to what happens where a defendant accepted a claimant's Part 36 offer out of time in a case subject to fixed costs.
The claimants relied heavily on the Broadhurst v Tan [2016] EWCA Civ 94 decision which considered the interaction between Parts 36 and 45 when a claimant beats a Part 36 offer on a case that proceeded to trial, concluding that the express provisions in Part 36 dealing with that occurrence overrode the fixed costs provisions in Part 45. The lack of similar consequence for a case settling without trial is an unjust lacuna.
By contrast, the defendants relied on the 'Solomon principle' (Solomon v Cromwell Group PLC [2012] 1 WLR 1048) that where there is any conflict between general and specific provisions, the general must yield to the specific. As there was not an express exception to fixed costs where a defendant accepted a Part 36 offer out of time, fixed costs must apply.
Indemnity costs and late acceptance
The claimants submitted that the court should reinforce the Jackson reforms by upholding a 'carrot and stick' approach to Part 36. By awarding indemnity costs, a claimant should be allowed to avoid fixed costs when a defendant accepts a Part 36 offer late.
The defendants argued that the law on both indemnity costs and late acceptance was settled and the application of fixed costs and the Jackson reforms should not alter the approach. Namely, an award of indemnity costs should be reserved to those cases with both unreasonable conduct and unusual circumstances and there was no automatic right to indemnity costs just because an offer was accepted late.
It was concluded that different rules apply where a case proceeds to trial in contrast to a case that settles before trial. There is a clear exception to the applicability of fixed costs where a case proceeds to trial and the claimant beats its own Part 36 but no such exception if a defendant accepts a Part 36 offer concluding a case before trial. As there is no exception then the only costs which the claimant is entitled to if a defendant accepts its Part 36 offer out of time are the fixed costs, subject to a claim for exceptional circumstances within a costs assessment. There is no lacuna and such an analysis leads to a sensible and coherent result. Four key points in justification were made as to why the decision was appropriate:
Exceptions to fixed costs should be limited
Certainty for all parties dealing with cases subject to fixed costs
Parity between defendant and claimant as a late accepting claimant does not get penalised with indemnity costs so neither should a defendant
Within a costs assessment, exceptional circumstances in accordance with r.45.29J provides for the possibility of escaping the fixed costs regime if 'exceptional circumstances' are proven.
The judgment also upheld the defendants' submissions on indemnity costs and late acceptance. So the conduct of a paying party must firstly be unreasonable 'to a high degree' and the case must be 'out of the norm'. The established principle that there is no presumption for indemnity costs just because there is late acceptance of a Part 36 offer was confirmed.
The outcomes in both Hislop and Kaur were therefore resolved in the defendants' favour. Although both claimants' had a theoretical escape out of fixed costs through exceptional circumstances under r.45.29J, in neither case was such an escape made out. On the facts, neither case justified an escape as neither case was exceptional.
What this means for you
This is a welcome boost for the fixed costs regime and certainty. It is apparent that the door is now closed on any argument that late acceptance automatically entitles a claimant to escape fixed costs. There will be a number of cases that will have been stayed which can now be resolved. Of significant assistance to paying parties, it has been made clear that the theoretical escape route by arguing exceptional circumstances within a costs assessment should be a high threshold to overcome. However, it was expressly made clear that the claimant does not need to prove a direct causative link between the exceptional circumstances and the increased level of costs, 'What matters are the particular facts of each case'. In Hislop, a nineteen month delay with no explanation was insufficient to trigger exceptional circumstances as there was a finding that there was nothing out of the norm in the case. If there was nothing out of the norm that it can't be exceptional. Paying parties should therefore be watchful of attempts to divert claims through an exceptional circumstances route and prepared to maintain a robust stance. It has been made clear that such claims must be truly 'out of the norm' rather than simply yet another attempt to avoid fixed costs.
Authored by Adam Burrell and Marie Ingoe (BLM costs)
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Career
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Mission Room (Demolished)
Riddings, Wesleyan Chapel
Ironville, Ironville New Cemetery
Somercotes, Lower Somercotes Chapel (Demolished)
Riddings, St James's Church
Ironville, Ironville Old Cemetery
Riddings, Baptist Church (Demolished)
Ironville, Christ Church
Riddings, Congregational Chapel
Riddings, Free United Methodist Chapel (Demolished)
Ironville, Ironville and Pyehill Providence Chapel
Riddings, Zion Methodist Chapel
Somercotes, Birchwood Mission Room
Place of Worship has been
Demolished.
Mission Room (Demolished), Pye Bridge, Riddings
Mission Room (Demolished),
Main Road,
Pye Bridge, Riddings, Derbyshire.
This Church had a graveyard.
This Place of Worship was founded in 1887, and it has since been demolished, but we don't know when.
The Mission Room (of St James's Church, Riddings) is recorded in Kelly's Directory of 1895 as opened in 1887, and capable of holding 120 persons. It was also used as an infants' school.
Old Maps show it as adjacent to the Pinxton Canal.
Now or formerly Church of England.
This Church was located at OS grid reference SK4387552960. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:
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ECB: Higher Inflation Needed
3/14/2018 | 6:29 AM CDT
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- European Central Bank head Mario Draghi says the expanding eurozone economy still faces "risks and uncertainties" — including a looming trade dispute with the United States — and has cautioned that inflation needs to rise further before monetary stimulus is ended.
Draghi said Wednesday that higher inflation, not growth, is the "very clear condition" for the central bank to end its bond-buying stimulus program, and that risks to the outlook remain. Inflation of 1.2 percent annually is short of the bank's goal of just under 2 percent considered best for the economy.
Inflation could stay low if slack in the economy and the labor market takes longer to shrink than usual in economic recoveries. Meanwhile a protracted trade conflict could hurt growth and inflation as well. U.S. President Donald Trump has announced new import taxes of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum.
Draghi said that tariffs' "first round effects are likely to be small." But he warned that, after that, the "second round effects could have much more serious consequences" if the European Union retaliates and the dispute spreads trade restrictions to other categories of goods. That escalation could in turn hit business confidence and investment.
The European Central Bank, the top monetary authority for the 19 countries that use the euro as currency, has said its 30 billion euros ($37 billion) in monthly purchases will continue at least through September, but has given no fixed end date. Annual growth has strengthened to 2.7 percent in the fourth quarter.
Speaking at a conference at Frankfurt's Goethe University, Draghi echoed earlier cautious comments by saying that monetary policy needs to be "patient, persistent and prudent." He said that the central bank would stick to its guidance on the sequencing of the next steps, meaning that the first interest rate increases will only start well after the end of the bond purchases. That would put them off until at least 2019. Currently the bank's benchmark short-term rate is at a record low zero.


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For the week ending 1 December 2012 / 16 Kislev 5773
Shabbat 58 - 64
Badge and bell of the slave and animal
When a vessel loses its status regarding spiritual impurity
Many uses of a horseshoe
"Jerusalem of Gold"
Headbands and other adornments
The hobnailed shoe and its history
Which shoe you put on first
Tefillin and kameia charms
What a woman cannot carry in the street
Causes of exile and of poverty
Weapons and the future of war
Advice for successful study of Torah
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Headband of the Kohen Gadol
Ritual impurity of garments
Feminine headdress
The vessels of the Midianites
The Best Way to Help
What is the best way to help someone in need?
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One who lends money to a needy person performs a greater kindness than one who simply gives him charity. Rashi explains that this is so because the recipient does not suffer the shame which accompanies taking a handout.
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Venusianer (englisch Venusian) ist eine Bezeichnung für fiktive Bewohner des Planeten Venus (siehe dazu auch Leben auf der Venus). Sie ist das Äquivalent zu den Marsianern, den hypothetischen Bewohnern des Mars.

Spekulationen zu Venus, Mars und Mond

In den vergangenen Jahrhunderten haben verschiedene Astronomen darüber spekuliert, ob die Venus bewohnt sein könnte, und teilweise sogar das Wort "Venusmensch" verwendet. Genährt wurden diese Überlegungen vor allem
 von der erdähnlichen Größe des Planeten (nur 5 % kleiner, während Mars, Merkur und Mond 50–70 % kleiner sind)
 von der ähnlichen Dichte (5,2 gegenüber 5,5 der Erde)
 von der dichten Atmosphäre und ihren Wolken, die den Planeten verhüllen und als Wasserwolken gedeutet wurden
 und gleichzeitig die Temperatur dämpfen könnten.

Seit dem 18. Jahrhundert beobachtete man Veränderungen an den sichtbaren Oberflächen von Mars und Mond (siehe u. a. Hieronymus Schröter), was Analogien zur Venus nahelegte. Als gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts der Mars ins Zentrum des Interesses rückte und wegen der irrigen Deutung der Marskanäle als "sterbender Planet" galt, stilisierten manche die Venus zu einer "jüngeren Erde".

Verschiedene Medien griffen diese Gedanken gerne auf und ließen – auch durch Erfolge der Technik beflügelt – eine Science-Fiction-Literatur zum Thema außerirdisches Leben entstehen. Die Gedankenspiele über den Abend- und Morgenstern reichten noch in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren bis zu einer möglichen Urwald-Vegetation und der Frage, ob es dort Dinosaurier geben könnte.

Ältere Literatur über Venusianer
Bereits kurz nach Kepler, der den Venustransit von 1631 voraussagte, erschienen einzelne Werke, in denen die Venus als bewohnt geschildert wurde.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle veröffentlichte 1681 sein Buch "Über die Weltenbewohner", in dem er die Bewohner des Merkur als Hitzköpfe darstellt, wogegen sich jene der Venus von Luft und Liebe nähren.

Beim Venusdurchgang von 1761 schloss der Magdeburger Lehrer Georg Christoph Silberschlag aus einer diffus-hellen Aura um den Planeten, dass seine Atmosphäre noch dichter als vermutet sein müsse. Seine These veröffentlichte er am 13. Juni 1761 in der Magdeburgischen Privilegierten Zeitung und legte in diesem Artikel zugleich den Grundstein für Spekulationen über Venusianer, die in paradiesischer Landschaft leben sollten. Diese Mär hielt sich bis in die Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Fiktive Venus-Bewohner in der neueren Literatur
Der Begriff Venusian kam in den englischsprachigen Medien und der Science-Fiction-Literatur ab etwa 1950 in Gebrauch, wird aber seit etwa 1965 seltener verwendet. Fiktive Venusianer waren unter anderem:
 die kriegerischen Venusbewohner im Amtor-Zyklus von Edgar Rice Burroughs
 Mekon, Erzfeind des Comic-Helden Dan Dare der 1950er
 die Bewohner eines zweiten Garten Eden in der Novelle Perelandra von C. S. Lewis
 Die War Veteranen in einer Kurzgeschichte von Philip K. Dick 1955. Neben Kämpfen auf Mars- und Venus-Kolonien kommen auch roboterähnliche Wesen vor.
 Between Planets von Robert Heinlein handelt von diversen Extraterrestrischen und der Gefangennahme des jungen Don Harvey, der auf dem Weg zu seinen Eltern am Mars zur Venus entführt wird. Ein Drache namens Isaac Newton befreit ihn schließlich.
 In Last and First Men von Olaf Stapledon ist Venus von sauerstoffarmen Ozeanen bedeckt, deren von Radioaktivität lebenden fischartigen Bewohner im Laufe des Terraformings vom Menschen ausgerottet werden; die späteren menschlichen Siedler entwickeln sich zu flugfähigen Wesen.
 Der Science-Fiction-Klassiker Clash by Night von Lawrence O'Donnell (Henry Kuttner) berichtet von Städten unter dem Meer und Kämpfen an der Oberfläche.
 In 20 Million Miles to Earth findet ein Taucher ein Ei, das von der Venus zur Erde kam und aus dem ein zweibeiniges Reptil schlüpft.
 In den 1950ern und 1960ern entstanden auch zahlreiche Science-Fiction-Filme und -Serien, z. B. Abbott and Costello Go to Mars oder Space Patrol, in denen Venusfrauen die (männlichen) Astronauten entweder bekämpfen oder äußerst willkommen heißen.
 In der britischen Science-Fiction-Serie Doctor Who wird eine Venuszivilisation angenommen. So beherrscht der dritte Doktor venusisches Aikido oder Karate, singt venusische Schlaflieder und besitzt eine venusische Pilotenlizenz. Auf der Venus selbst wird von Seen aus Metall und Blumen berichtet.
 Etwas solider geht es in Ben Bovas Novelle Venus (2000) und In the walls of Eryx zu.
 In der Anime-Serie Cowboy Bebop wurde die Venus durch Terraforming bewohnbar gemacht. Die meisten Venusianer leben in schwebenden Städten.
 Im fiktiven Star-Trek-Universum ist Venus Schauplatz einiger Aktionen der Starfleet Academy.
 Der Verschwörungstheoretiker und Esoteriker Jan Udo Holey behauptet, dass die Venus ebenso wie Mars und Erde hohl wäre und auf ihrer Innenseite von Ariern bevölkert sei.

Heutige Sichtweise

Inzwischen sind mehrere russische Sonden auf der Venus gelandet und haben sie als schwefelige Wüste enttarnt – mit Temperaturen um 470 Grad und einer Kohlendioxid-Hülle, 92-mal dichter als die Erdatmosphäre. Nach einer Stunde fielen die Sonden aus. Seit den Flügen dieser Raumsonden zur wolkenverhangenen Venus und insbesondere seit einigen erfolgreichen Landungen kann man Leben auf dem giftig-heißen Planeten weitgehend ausschließen. Dementsprechend ist die SF-Literatur darüber fast versiegt, während aber z. B. über den Mars bis heute neue Filme entstehen.

Diese "Entzauberung" der Liebesgöttin hat sich aber nicht im Sprachgebrauch ausgewirkt, sondern nur in der Raumfahrt. Die Helligkeit des Abend- und Morgensterns und die seltenen Venustransite (der nächste ist am 11. Dezember 2117) behalten ihren speziellen Reiz. Einige Wissenschaftler halten es für möglich, dass in der oberen Venusatmosphäre mikroskopisches Leben existieren könnte.

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Federal Court denies absolute immunity to prosecutor who fabricated evidence
A Louisiana prosecutor and a detective lost their bids for absolute immune from a former murder defendant's lawsuit alleging that they intimidated a juvenile witness to adopt a narrative about the crime they conjured from whole cloth, reported Bloomberg.
The prosecutor was acting as an investigator, rather than an advocate, and thus isn't entitled to absolute prosecutorial immunity, Judge James L. Dennis said Tuesday. Police officers also aren't "entitled to the absolute immunity reserved for a prosecutor," the court said.
The 1998 murder of a pizza delivery driver in Livingston Parish, La., was a cold case until a jail-house informant implicated Michael Wearry. Although Wearry had an alibi, district attorney Scott Perrilloux and detective Marlon Foster allegedly intimidated a juvenile facing prosecution on other charges into testifying that he saw Wearry near the crime scene.
Wearry was convicted for the murder and sentenced to death, but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction, and the juvenile recanted his testimony. When Wearry sued Perrilloux and Foster for violating his civil rights by fabricating evidence, they both claimed absolute immunity.
Absolute immunity applies only when a prosecutor is performing advocatory functions, such as organizing, evaluating, and presenting evidence, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said. The doctrine doesn't apply to investigatory functions, such as gathering or acquiring evidence, it said.
Perrilloux and Foster detained and coerced the juvenile into testifying to a narrative that had no basis in any evidence gathered in the case, the court said. Fabricating evidence is evidence creation, which is not part of the advocate's role, but a corruption of the investigator's function of searching for clues and corroboration, it said.
Foster argued that since he and Perrilloux were accused of the same fabricating acts, Perrilloux entitlement to absolute immunity should apply to him, too. Not only has the Supreme Court rejected that exact argument, Perrilloux isn't immune from Wearry's suit, the court said.
Judge Carolyn Dineen King joined the opinion.
In a dubitante opinion questioning the continued validity of absolute prosecutorial immunity, Judge James C. Ho said "governing precedent requires us to grant prosecutorial immunity in this case."
The Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center represented Wearry. The Moody Law Firm represented Perrilloux. Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson LLP represented Foster.
The case is Wearry v. Foster, 2022 BL 153489, 5th Cir., No. 20-30406, 5/3/22.
Posted by Law and Justice Policy at Thursday, May 05, 2022
Labels: absolute immunity, Criminal Trial, federal Court, prosecutor
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Yes, the 20th Century fell a bit short in terms of protecting women from violence, didn't it? All that strategic bombing. All that total war. From crossbow to hydrogen bomb the history of warfare since Napoleon's rise has been one of greater and greater "inclusion"–including the "equal-opportunity" citizens of Warsaw, London, Dresden, Berlin, Tokyo or Hiroshima. The relatively recent development of smart bombs, precision-guided munitions, laser technologies seemed to offer the beginning of a technical end-run from the massive slaughter of civilians. Okay, nothing in war is pleasant, but it's an improvement over say, the bombing and use of napalm on North Vietnam that occurred in my lifetime. Somehow, the US military and the Admin seems bound and determined to quarantine that progress, to neglect the value of that trend. Perhaps because it will never work perfectly; there will be human shields, there will be munition factories staffed by pregnant women, there will be awful bumps in the road.
But stay the course: the US must consistently signal that it is against "inclusion" in warfare–that it really is taboo, as a species, to indiscriminately kill women, children and the aged, that we genuinely want to shrink the target set, that don't endorse doomsday strategies. One critical way to do that is to continue the trend of making US combat troops increasingly professional and yes, increasingly rare.
Although Nat Hentoff is an atheist and a leftist, he took a pro-life position in the abortion debate. His main exhibit was a thought experiment: imagine a woman being bayoneted; imagine a pregnant woman being bayoneted; notice the emotional and moral distinction between the two images. I submit that moral picture applies to war as well.
No top-down policy can erase, or wish away, our species-wide instinct to protect those who give life–or our inability to forgive those who hurt them. For it is those sorts of atrocities–pregnant women, young mothers and children being killed in Belgium for example–that gave birth to the Western trenches of World War I, and ultimately, to strategic bombing, to the age of genocide that we have just passed through.
Stimulated by the politically galvanizing effect of the tragic Newtown shooting, I suspect that there are more than a few in the Administration who harbor secret fantasies, who never want a serious crisis to go to waste; at the expense of a few female atrocities, the US engaging in warfare will become simply too painful. War itself will become impossible.
You might ask: Is it really possible that members of the Administration want to use my niece in combat so they can shed crocodile tears over her body-bag in some perverse political photo-op? Well, yes. And if that's the motivation, even if it's a subconsciousness one, it's a deeply immoral impulse. I mean, why not enlist my nine-year-old or my aging dad in combat too–just like the defense of Berlin? But even if such a plan–to make warfare taboo through the use of limited female sacrifice–is justified by a conscious, chilly, utilitarian calculation of long-term morality and the greater good, as long as an enemy lives and breathes, the calculation is flawed by its essential ignorance. Following the Great War, Douhet's Theory of strategic bombing–which most intelligent people subscribed to at the time–premised exactly the same idea. After the first bombs were dropped on urban centers, the common people in horror and revulsion would rise up and force their leaders to sue for peace. How did that work out in London in 1940? Or, for that matter, in Berlin? History shows, quite conclusively, that we are not just an aggressive species. Once war begins, we are a deeply vengeful one.
There may be many noble motives at work within the Administration and the highest level of the Pentagon. I don't preclude that. But their naive assumptions have proliferated to the point of irrationality. Women in combat is a Pandora's Box which contains the potential to usher in a second age of total war.
Anyone reading through this blog will know that I'm not a scientist. OK, I am literate and not an easy pushover for rigid ideological frameworks, but what could I possibly add to a scientific debate? Yet my little layman observations have been gnawing at me for some time now. And while I have been a genuine agnostic about the man-made global warming theory, I find myself becoming increasingly skeptical and dismissive. Two reasons. First, because global temperatures haven't really risen for a decade (although I readily admit that could just be a blip in the long-term data). Secondly, because the credibility of so many advocates of the theory feels well, shaky. And that's what this nobody-asked-me-but post is all about.
"In a sign of discomfort with the White House stance, Fox's television news competitors refused to go along with a Treasury Department effort on Tuesday to exclude Fox from a round of interviews with the executive-pay czar Kenneth R. Feinberg that was to be conducted with a "pool" camera crew shared by all the networks. (New York Times, October 22, 2009: full article here).
Iranian nuclear warheads redux: The evidence that North Korea has tested a viable nuclear weapon, on the order of 10 kilotons or so, is indisputable. I don't intend to repeat my entry "Iranian nuclear warheads — a technical note" here (scroll down the page a little), but I will say this: given the close links between the Iranians and the North Koreans on nuclear weapons development–the Iranians were present at the fizzle of 2006–this has to be seen as an Iranian test too. And if the Israelis intend to strike, they should do it now. And yes, it really is that simple.
As you probably picked up from my carping in the previous post, there are a couple of things on my mind. Such as this: The Iranians will have enough materials for two nuclear warheads (unclear what yield–25 kilotons, perhaps–the Jerusalem Post is referring to here) by the end of 2009.
Without minimizing the implications of that, let's point out that no state, including America in the middle of an out-and-out war, has ever used a nuclear weapon, or even threatened to use one, without testing first. For the Iranians to fire a dud–or what's usually called a fizzle, i.e. the trigger does not "ignite" the bomb material properly or the modifier does not allow for a chain reaction–at Israel…well, that would invite full-on, uninhibited, nuclear retaliation on the Iranian bunkers, command and control, and nuclear facilities. Never mind hitting Tehran, the Israelis will use a high exoatmospheric airburst producing a pulse that will knock out every electrical system, every computer, every vehicle, every toaster in Iran. (This can't be done to Israel's electrical grid without knocking out Amman, Damascus and Beirut as well–Israel is just too small). All this, and the Iranians haven't even killed any Jews. That's pretty suicidal right? So they have to test, right?
The twist: There is no way to test in secret. Even the Israeli test in the South Atlantic/Indian Ocean, the so-called Vela Incident, was picked up by observatories and sensor stations around the world, even back in 1979. So in 2009, the world will know. Israel will know. And there will be time, maybe very little time, but time, for the Israelis to attack the Iranian nuclear assets preemptively , using conventional and nuclear assets. World opinion will still condemn the Jews, yadda, yadda, but coming in the wake of an Iranian test, the Israelis will have a legitimate case.


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REINVENTING THE TOILET: TAPPING INNOVATORS TO BIRTH A BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
Most people in developed countries don't think much about sanitation: they simply flush and forget. But the systems that we depend on simply haven't been able to scale to meet the needs of people living in most fast-growing cities in developing countries. They are too expensive, both to build and to maintain and operate. However, companies have not yet stepped up to address this market failure with alternative approaches that don't require the same level of investment. It was this failure that caused Bill Gates and others at the Gates Foundation to consider whether there was a way to catalyze new, transformative approaches to sanitation. It started with a simple question: could we find a way to turn every toilet into its own treatment plant, powered only by what users deposited into it? An affordable toilet that wouldn't need to be connected to a water line, sewer line, or electrical line? Five years after posing this question, a growing number of audacious approaches to this problem are showing promise, including one being advanced by a pioneering team here at the University of Toronto. Join us to learn about the challenge to reinvent the toilet, the progress being made, and the potential for these innovations to transform lives around the world, while birthing a brand new multi-billion dollar global industry.
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BRIAN ARBOGAST leads the foundation's effort to bring groundbreaking innovations in sanitation technology and new ways to deliver sanitation products and services to people in the developing world. Arbogast was previously a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Corporation, leading an international portfolio of R&D projects. More recently, he concentrated on cleantech and international development, driving market solutions to address some of the world's most pressing challenges. He served as a Senior Advisor with The Boston Consulting Group and as a board member of the Northwest Energy Angels and of Water1st International. He is a founding board member of Progress Alliance of Washington and an advisor to Upaya Social Ventures. Arbogast received his Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and a Certificate in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.
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Are these some of the scenarios that made you look for relationship advice? Then you have come to the right place!
Relationships can be a tricky matter. As much happiness they bring into our lives, they also compel us to think about so many things as once; sometimes it feels like we need to play them like games; sometimes we wish there was a manual for all relationships that could give all the right advice on how to have the perfect relationship!
When you feel that the person you are with may actually be interested in someone else!
Apart from the romantic ones, relationship problems can also include issues with parents, siblings, friends, co-workers etc. and they are just as important to lead a happy life.
A trained therapist can teach you relationship and interpersonal skills that are built up on strong theory and research, and which can equip you with ways to be happy in all relationships for life!
I'm assuming that if you have landed on this page it is because you are going through a rut in your romantic relationship, I would like to assure you that you are not alone. Love relationships are like a roller coaster ride for many, where you don't know what the next bend is going to bring. More often than not though, these ups and downs sort themselves out if your relationship is built on a strong foundation. You just need to ride these times like a surfer rides a wave. Stay balanced, don't let it drown you.
If you feel that your partner appears distant and if he/she does not give a satisfactory answer when you first ask, leave them alone for a while. Sometimes things are small enough to get resolved on their own with a little time. But if somebody keeps drawing your attention to it by asking repeatedly, it's bound to get worse.
It may seem like right now you're spiralling down a dark hole where your relationship is concerned, but you need to plant your feet on the ground. Too much of any emotion at a sensitive time like this will not do any good.
When your partner is upset, don't make it about you. It may just be something they need to deal with alone. At this time don't push them away, keep them close and let them know you're there by their side. And sometimes, all you need to do this is a warm hug, their hand in your hand or just a silent walk with them.
My experience tells me that sometimes, in relationships, we over-emphasize resolving issues. But many a times, the issues are something else, but due to this over-resolution, become entwined with the relationship. When crises strikes, always remember, you need to remember "us" rather than "you and "me". If you can bring back the "us", you will be able to sail through any storms!
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So come, talk about matters of your heart, and while you look for your own solutions, you may just give a hand to someone else too, you never know! I look forward to seeing you there!
I would be glad to help you. That's exactly what we do here. Please check your inbox for an email from me.
I need help please. I'm stuck in a very bad situation in my relationship but a very strange one too. I can't express it all in this comment but I need help. I feel emotionally broken. I want to stop the tears rolling down from my eyes. Desperate need of help.
hi. i need help on some serious matter. i need to talk to and seek advice from someone. i found no better place than this. but i cant explain things here on the comment area. how can i talk to directly?
I'm married n happy also .I've a kid also sometime idon't understand my husband behaviour.it creates problem in my life.mostly i don't like his smoking habbit.i need some suggestion.he ve anger problem.how to stop these things.i want some healthy relationship so dat i feel happy n he also.
Hi aklima, I'm sorry to hear that you are going through a difficult phase with your husband. A happy marriage requires both understanding and tact. Sometimes when we get used to seeing our partner from one perspective, it can get tough to switch our view, but with proper advice it can be changed. We would be happy to help you as a couple or just you to better adapt to your situation. You can get in touch with us at www,hopenetwork.in/contact-us and let's get working!
Next wt i ve to do .how can i ll handle d situation.
how to stop smoking.der z any medical suggestions or medicine available.plz suggest.Till w i adopt every situation,i need some changes in life for happiness.bcoz my kid also suffering from d same situation.
the most important thing is how you feel with her talking to her or spending time..all your answers lies within you..
only time will say he is serious or not you have to wait and observe him how he behaves with you or when you have your conversation he forgets or remembers every thing about you these are some small things that can give your answers you need to find in you is he honest or not…AND dont make hurry to get into any relationship until you forget your past try to forgive him who had dumped you only then your heart will heal or else you cannot deal with your problems..
you dont need to get frighten he will not do anything he is just frightning you….and about your loves career concern if he is educated then no one can finish his career you need to study laws nowadays there are laws for women you can fight..
I love my husband and kid. After 9 years of my marriage my in-laws try to create misunderstanding between us. They both do weird things when he is home. I don't know what to do. Please suggest.
It seems that because your boyfriend quit taking his medication for depression before time, it caused a relapse of his condition and even though he is taking meds again, it looks like they are not proving very effective.
You have to understand that depression is just like a physical illness, of which if you don't complete the treatment course, it comes back. His asking for space, and distancing himself from you shows that either he is struggling with depressive feelings of his own and is feeling crowded. Instead of expecting him to behave like a typical boyfriend, be there for him just to listen to what he has to say. When he seems aloof or irritated, ask him how he's feeling and try to understand his state of mind. Never make him feel he's defective in some way that he is taking meds for depression. In fact you should be proud of him that he has the awareness to tackle his problems in the right way. Also, when the time is right, communicate to him gently without making it sound like a blame that it hurts you to see him pull away and you would really like to know what he expects from you in this relationship. If you feel you may lose your temper or get too needy while saying this in a conversation, you can write an email to him, communicating your thoughts; but keep it blame free and neutral.
Also advise him to go and check in with his psychiatrist once again or take some psychotherapy help. He can even consult one of the professionals here online. All the Best!
Thank you maam.He is saying its medic action makes him numb.But i m blaming him .May be i m wrong.But i m feeling insecurity,cant sleep at night,cant focus on my exams.some of his words make me feel lost lik "If u want to b separated you can,i l nt feel upset because my feelings are not working".I become dependent on him.I feel suffocation.Doc told to take medic for 2 years.Maam dat 2 years he l be like that?What should i do maam?
He is absolutely right when he says he is feeling numb; especially if it is a relapse of his condition. Just imagine, if he had cancer or heart disease, then would you have blamed him or taken care of him? Then why should depression be any different? It is an illness just like any other. It is not something he can just snap out of, like a bad mood. You have to understand him. He needs YOU more than you need him right now. Don't cling on to him, he does not have enough to give right now…he needs your love and nurture. Be there for him, he's going through something very painful. As for your question, whether he will be like this for two years, just think, would you ask an irritated cancer patient the same question? Recovery is not magic that just take a pill and get all better. Ask him to consult his doctor again and tell him these feelings and also ask him to consult a psychotherapist. That is very very important. I can recommend an excellent therapist in Hyderabad itself if he is interested. You can ask him and let me know.
Maam he is now no more in Hyderabad.I m from Tripura.He will start councelling here.Do you know any councellor here?Yes i made him irritated with my rude behaviour.I will recover it with my love.Thanx a lot for your advice.I was feeling insecurity.But after taking medic he become more matured.Thanx a lot maam.
Im glad that i found this article today , I have been going through a very difficult phase both emotional and physical self harm in my relationship and i strongly want to speak out things and find what's exactly happening with me , so i wll be really gratefull to you if you can help mewith this.
condition ye hai ki hum aapse thik se baat bhi nhi karte .


This morning, I went to pick up my beautiful little girl from my parents place after she had a sleep over last night.
When I arrived my mum pointed to a large box in black plastic wrap and says "That's for you". No description, just to open it. I said thank you for whatever was inside because I didn't even care what was in it, I was just grateful to have a present!
I eagerly tore off the plastic and inside was a Baby Bullet! Yay!! I have really wanted one of these!! I got it home opened it, gave everything a quick wash and dry, then it was time for dinner!
Purée apple and carrot for Scarlett for dinner tonight courtesy of my new toy. She loved it, mouth opening and closing waiting for more.
I can't wait to play around with different combos of flavours and meals. Does anyone else have one of these? If you do what is your little ones favourite meal?


I like man who likes sports.
Yes, all variants are possible basically .
she has perfect beauty in herat and style and face .very naeeve and feminine .one of best lady I ever met before .her personality appears on her face ..kind and soft and she is like angel !


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Verdi-Mogul és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat de Nevada. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 2.949 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Verdi-Mogul tenia 2.949 habitants, 1.159 habitatges, i 841 famílies La densitat de població era de 47,3 habitants per km².

Dels 1.159 habitatges en un 34,1% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 62,6% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 6,6% dones solteres, i en un 27,4% no eren unitats familiars. En el 22,0% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 5,6% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,54 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 2,98.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 25,3% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 5,0% entre 18 i 24, un 23,3% entre 25 i 44, un 36,1% de 45 a 64 i un 10,3% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 43,8 anys. Per cada 100 dones hi havia 102,12 homes. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 100,91 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 67.708 $ i la renda mediana per família de 79.342 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 54.048 $ mentre que les dones 36.793 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 38.233 $. Aproximadament el 3,1% de les famílies i el 3,6% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

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Concentracions de població designades pel cens de Nevada
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343 Died, Himachal Suffered 1600 Crore Loss In Monsoon: Chief Minister
4,033 people were rescued by different means from Chamba, Kullu and Lahaul-Spiti districts between September 3 to October 1.
All India | Press Trust of India | Updated: November 28, 2018 06:23 IST
405 incidents of landslides and 34 cloudbursts were reported in the state. (File)
Shimla:
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said on Tuesday that the state had suffered a loss of Rs 1,600 crore since July 1 this year due to monsoon rains and untimely snowfall in tribal areas that also claimed 343 lives.
The chief minister said this while presiding over the meeting of an inter-ministerial central team at Mandi, which is on a state visit to assess the damages caused to the state due to untimely snowfall and heavy rains.
Mr Thakur said the Public Works Department (PWD) suffered major losses due to damages to roads and bridges. The total losses on this account have been assessed at around Rs 930 crore.
He said 405 incidents of landslides and 34 cloudbursts were reported in the state. The Irrigation and Public Health department suffered losses worth Rs 430 crore while damages to agriculture crops and infrastructures cost Rs 130.37 crore, he added.
The chief minister said that 343 people lost their lives due to flash floods, landslides, cloud bursts and road accidents -- all during the monsoon fury.
The state government has provided ex-gratia of worth Rs 13.72 crore for the loss of human life, Mr Thakur said.
Mr Thakur said that as many as 4,033 people were rescued by different means from Chamba, Kullu and Lahaul-Spiti districts between September 3 to October 1.
He thanked the Union government in general and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in particular for providing all possible help to ensure relief and rehabilitation work in the state.
It was on the request of the state government, Mr Thakur said, that seven Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters were provided to the state to airlift the stranded people in Lahul-Spiti and Chamba districts. He said that as many as 292 people were airlifted from these districts.
The Chief Minister urged the inter-ministerial central team to recommend for maximum support from the Centre keeping in view the gravity of losses and damages suffered by the state which were "worst in the last 10 years"
Minor, Kidnapped Weeks Ago, Found Dead In Himachal Pradesh; Man Arrested
Nepal Floods Death Toll Reaches 67, Rainfall To Continue: Officials
Kalraj Mishra Appointed Himachal Pradesh Governor
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A couple was startled when they woke up to a loud crash at their home, waking them up form sleep. When they looked to see what the source was, a car was inside their home. This has happened more than once at this exact home.
Cape Coral Police Department arrested Jason Estes after he drove drunk early Sunday morning when he sped past road signs right into the front doors of a Cape Coral home at the end of El Dorado Parkway and Skyline Boulevard.
The home has been the scene of four crashes since 2004.


I've said this time and time again, Divine Council is probably one of the most unique and unfuckwittable new rap groups to come out in the past 5 years. All of the rappers in the crew can hold their own with finesse, and ICYTWAT is a goddamn mastermind behind the boards. Click play on the video above for a fire live rendition of their song, I Like, and please give their music a listen. I'M NOT GON' SAY IT AGAIN…. well maybe until their next piece of music drops.
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hollingsThe Maker's Mark Secretariat Center (MMSC) is located in the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 2004, with major donations from Marylou Whitney, the late Dr. Frank Lyons, and Maker's Mark, through their Triple Crown commemorative bottle sales, the MMSC gives off-track Thoroughbreds a world stage in the heavily trafficked horse lovers destination. Retraining at MMSC is based on the Horse Centered Reschooling Program, developed by MMSC Director Susanna Thomas. I caught up with Thomas, who just recently announced a new satellite location for MMSC in Illinois. The MMSC is a TAA-accredited organization.
DP: What is your background in horses and how has it influenced the mission and work at MMSC?
ST: Horses have been my lifelong interest and passion. I grew up a horse crazy little girl in New York and in Europe, and was constantly seeking out ways to be close to and to learn about horses. Because of where I have lived, I have an eclectic background with horses. In addition, I am ceaselessly curious and forever fascinated by the art, philosophy and science of horses and horsemanship. Over the years I have competed in dressage and hunt seat, done extensive groundwork training, foxhunted, driven carriages and I've ridden sidesaddle. I taught riding, spent many years writing for horse magazines, worked in many aspects of the racing industry from working with broodmares, breaking yearlings, working at the sales, being a vet tech, night watching, and breeding a few sport horses. Add all of this to my holistic approach to wellness in life–a constant balance of–mind, body, spirit, relationship–and what we get is the Horse Centered Reschooling Program, a training methodology where each of these factors is addressed to give the horse the best chance of success in whatever job it is being asked to do.
When I took over the Center in 2008, I wanted to move as many horses as possible but in doing so, I had to stay true to my personal beliefs and make sure that we were fulfilling our duty to the horses in every way. You sometimes feel in the business of racing, the best interest of the horses isn't or can't always be the number one priority. The horses have to fit into the racehorse mold–perform or move on. That makes sense at the track, but not so when putting horses up for adoption.
The end goal is to make sure that these horses have successful new careers and homes. The best way to achieve that in my opinion, is to make sure that each horse is prepared for a new job, and placed properly. Instead of running horses through the center speedily because that is the foremost need of the industry, we flip the ratio and make each horse's individual needs the focus first. Taking the time it takes, as expeditiously as possible–we do whatever is necessary to give every horse the best chance to succeed in a new job and to have longevity in a new home.
Education matters, right? As Alois Podhajsky, head of the Spanish Riding School always said, "one makes haste slowly with horses." So we go as fast and as slow as we can and it has really paid off because we have adopters who love our methods and approach, very few mismatches and many, many repeat customers who want an additional MMSC horse in their barn.
DP: Let's talk about MMSC by the numbers. How many stalls do you have at MMSC? Does that determine the number of horses in training at MMSC? How many horses are in the MMSC barn at this time?
ST: We have 10 stalls at MMSC, all named for donors who sponsored them, and 10-15 horses on the grounds at a time throughout the year. We try to keep them outdoors as much as possible, although we generally have five or six up at night if they need special attention. Over the year, we will move between 40 and 50 horses through our program.
DP: How many staff and volunteers does it take to keep it running?
ST: We have four full-time employees who handle the horse care, training, adoptions, marketing, educational outreach, fundraising and office management. We all do barnwork, and groundwork, whatever it takes, and we have a covey of the most wonderful volunteers and amazing interns to help us keep the place up.
DP: Are you launching any new initiatives in 2019?
ST: I am thrilled about a new program conceived of by our chair, Dorothy Crowell, an international level event rider and Olympian, granddaughter of Leslie Combs, a Thoroughbred aficionada, called the Allstar Program which aims to bring the Thoroughbred back to the highest levels of sport. There are many owners who get into the business of racing because of the love of the horse and seeing it compete. Dorothy's thought was why does the fun have to stop when the racing days are done? For a cost that is minimal in comparison to racing expenses ($4,000 a year), the owners can support their horse–if it seemingly has the talent–in a competition syndicate and cheer it on, perhaps even to the highest levels of equestrian sport.
We have one international level rider already, Jonathan Holling and his MMSC graduate Ragtime Rebel (Union Rags) who was given to us by Charlie LoPresti. And we have received quite a few calls from upper level riders all over the country who want to join the effort to showcase the Thoroughbred as America's elite sport-horse. Now, all we need are more owners to join in.
DP: The MMSC is located in the much-revered Kentucky Horse Park. Tell us how that affects the day-to-day operations of the MMSC and how has that location helped or hurt your mission?
ST: The great thing about being in the Horse Park is that Lexington is not only the Horse Capital of the World, it is the Thoroughbred Horse Capital of the World. That gives us a huge stage from which to shout out the wonders of this amazing breed and the value of our industry. The challenges are that we have a very small campus, so we are limited to the amount of horses that we can take on. We also do tours and get many drop-in visitors which one might call "interruptions" because it does curtail our work routine. I take them not as interruptions at all but, as opportunities to share our passion and knowledge and make new friends for the MMSC and for racing. We are very proud of our location and we want to do anything we can to showcase the Kentucky Horse Park as the amazing facility that it is. We have discussed a variety of ways that the Horse Park and the MMSC can work together for the mutual goal of educating and celebrating the horse-in this case, the Thoroughbred horse. I would welcome the TB industry reaching out to us more and using our stage to broadcast their good works in aftercare.
DP: What is unique or special about the training program at MMSC?
ST: What is special about the MMSC is our laser-like focus on each horse–what it tells us with its body, its reactions, its actions. Then we make an individualized plan using the deductive skills of Sherlock Holmes and the compassionate tact of Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's companion, to search out the mysteries of each horse and to teach it in a way that it can best understand. Every horse receives, not only the dental and farrier care it needs, we also do bodywork, chiropractic adjustments, integrative therapies, proceed through desensitization and trust–building exercises using natural horsemanship, problem solving skills by introducing Tellington-Jones techniques. We start from the ground, lunging, and long-lining, and free jumping.
DP: What is the biggest challenge facing your organization in 2019?
ST: We have two huge challenges. The first is funding. I am honored that professionals and amateurs alike have called us the "Gold Standard of Thoroughbred Reschooling," but Gold Standards are pricey to uphold. The racing industry is beleaguered by charities doing good work, but clamoring for the same funds. It is a constant struggle to be able to afford to give these horses what they need.
The second challenge is that our campus is really small–17 acres of paddock. This limits the number of horses we can take in. Not only that we don't have an indoor arena so training is often limited by the weather and the season. If we had more funding, we could solve both of those things, so I guess, the biggest challenge is truly funding.
DP: You recently announced a satellite facility. Can you tell us a little about it?
ST: It seemed to us that the way to help more horses was to open additional facilities. This was something the board had discussed over the years, but it seemed really challenging to find a way to ensure that our "Gold Standard" would be upheld. Over the last two years, the MMSC has adopted out five horses to the lesson program at a showcase facility in Frankfort, Illinois called the Ranch. As a result we have come to know Rick Bulthuis, owner of the Ranch in Frankfort Illinois and his general manager, Daniele Turner, really well and we realized that they were very much in line with our philosophy. We began talking about a satellite arrangement in the spring of last year and we are super excited to announce that we are open for business now in Illinois. In fact, in the short time since the announcement, we have adopted out two lovely reschooled horses from the MMSC at the Ranch.
DP: Is there a horse you have in training today to whom you'd like to introduce us?
ST: Yes, War of Ideas. He was a $470,000 sales yearling, who ran a bit, and was felled by a guttural pouch infection that threatened his life. With the support of Dr. Liz Barrett at Hagyard Medical Center, he was nursed back to health at the MMSC and is the RRP Makeover horse of our talented trainer, Kara Toye. He's a gorgeous, gray masterpiece of a horse–which goes English, or western, has a great jump, and is wonderful field hunter. Please follow him on our social media and come cheer him on at the Makeover!
Diana Pikulski is the editor of the Thoroughbred Adoption Network.


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Maasai women of Kenya make a visit to Central Newcastle High School
By Ruth Lognonne
Maasai women from Kenya visited Central Newcastle High School yesterday to meet pupils for whom they designed jewellery
Jewellery designed by Central Newcastle High School pupils and made by Maasai women in Kenya
Jewellery designs by a group of Newcastle schoolgirls have been brought to life by Maasai women from Kenya.
The girls from Central Newcastle High School yesterday welcomed Maasai visitors from Kenya's Namayiana project, who have been using their traditional beadwork skills to roll out the designs of pupils.
The visit was the joint initiative of Central High and Shared Interest, a Newcastle-based ethical investment co-operative and fair trade lender, which finances buyers and producers in the developing world.
Shared Interest has links with Namayiana project, a group of enterprising Maasai women from the Ngong region of Kenya who make and sell traditional beaded jewellery.
Their beautiful work is providing much-needed money for their communities and is also improving the status of the women within their tribes.
Alison Goldie, head of art at the school, was keen to make a connection with the Maasai women running the project, and set her pupils the task of creating designs that could be produced with the Maasai techniques. Each girl in Year 10 has designed a piece of jewellery for the Namayiana project to make. The designs were sent over to Kenya, and the women have been working over the last few weeks to bring 90 pieces of jewellery designs to life.
Ms Goldie said: "It has been a wonderful opportunity for the girls to be able to become involved in such an interesting project and great to see the variety of designs that the girls produced and how the ladies have translated these images into their beautiful jewellery.
"Not only were the girls able to be creative and imaginative in their designs, but they were also able to learn about many different aspects of the Namayiana ladies lives.
"As well as learning how they made the jewellery, the girls also found out how the women make a living from their cooperative, their living conditions and the very limited opportunities that Maasai women and children have, and also how they would be able to help with the potential education of Maasai girls from this area".
As well as talking to the girls about their work and life, the two visitors, Cathereine Mututua, project manager of Namayiana and Nouason ene Marona, chair of Namayiana, also held jewellery-making workshops at both the junior and senior schools.
Education for girls has never been a priority for the Maasai community, and the women of Namayiana are fundraising to ensure that girls from their community can now begin to enjoy an education.
The jewellery will be sold at the school and proceeds will be donated to the education fund for the Maasai children.
Ms Mututua said: "It is wonderful to visit the UK and meet our investors, and also to share time with women and girls in a different culture to our own.
"We have 268 children in our community who are in need. The Maasai women face many challenges which are generally brought about by lack of education. With this in mind, we have decided to fundraise to help our children to go to school."
Central High headteacher Hilary French said: "We are very grateful to the Shared Society for introducing us to this wonderful and very worthwhile project and very honoured that Catherine and Nouason are with us today to unveil the beautiful jewellery which has resulted from this joint collaboration."
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Aside from the soda-pop cake, though, it's usually not this easy in the world of egg-free baking. That's why I eyed the recipe my mom had clipped from a magazine suspiciously.
Take a chocolate cake mix and add pumpkin. That's it.
I don't see how that possibly works, I said. There's just not enough leavening.
Even though I've run across a slew of printed egg-free recipes that never worked for me, I gave up arguing and headed for the kitchen.
Much to my astonishment, it did work. I guess there's just enough leavening in the cake mix for it to rise, as well as enough structure in the pumpkin to keep it that way.
The only complication I ran into is that it's a little hard to mix. I blame that on wrists weakened by years of typing and cake decorating. It probably won't be a problem for most people.
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Divide batter into a muffin pan. I treated mine with cooking spray and didn't use papers. The muffins slid out easily. Bake for 20 minutes at 400 degrees.


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At the outset, I wish to congratulate you, Mr Chairman, for convening this ever more important ministerial gathering, not only as it reaches today its ten-year milestone, but also because it points to the increasing collective strength of your group of countries.
It is indeed the guidance emanating from this meeting that all of us working closely with your delegations rely upon as we proceed with our concerted efforts to advance the interests and address the concerns of the landlocked developing countries within the United Nations and in other relevant regional and global fora.
I also wish to commend, Minister Lara Castro, your personal leadership and dedication to the Group and the excellent work done by your Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. Dos Santos, during Paraguay's two-year tenure as Chair of the LLDC Group. You certainly leave big shoes to be filled by your successor.
In particular, the next chairmanship will need to decisively steer the Group through the substantive preparations for the comprehensive global review conference of the implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action in 2013 — a decision that you, Honorable Ministers, in your communiqué, are asking the UN General Assembly to take during its current session. In this regard, I wish to reassure all of you of the unrelenting support that I personally and, of course, my entire office will provide all along the challenging road ahead of us.
The global economic recovery remains extremely fragile, compounded by the re-emergence of rising food costs, volatile energy prices and the continuous threat from irreversible climate change impacts.
The Secretary-General, in his annual progress report on the Almaty Programme, which I will have the honor to introduce in less than a month to the Second Committee of the General Assembly, stresses that given the vulnerability of our economies to external shocks due to limited export diversification in the majority of our countries, it is only prudent for us to remain vigilant while striving to structurally transform our economies and follow a path of sustained and sustainable development that will ensure a better future to our people.
With this grand objective in mind, the full and effective implementation of the Almaty Programme priorities would directly and efficiently contribute to the acceleration of the rate of progress of landlocked developing countries towards the Millennium Development Goals.
Currently, the group of 31 landlocked developing countries still accounts for less than one percent of global merchandise trade. Year after year, evidence has shown us that the single biggest obstacle to increasing this share is the very high cost of transport which, for our countries, is a bigger barrier to trade than tariffs. Notwithstanding the notable progress made by every landlocked developing country on the Almaty priorities, lack of direct access to the sea and remoteness from major markets continue to represent enormous impediments to growth given the persistent inadequacy of transit transport infrastructure, cumbersome customs and border crossing operations and generally unreliable transit transport logistics, drastically reducing the competitiveness of LLDC exports on world markets.
The ten-year comprehensive review Conference of the Almaty Programme and its preparatory process will offer a critically important and timely opportunity for the landlocked and transit developing countries and their development partners to assess, with unprecedented depth of analytical detail, the implementation of the Almaty Programme, looking in particular at its best practices and areas of weakness.
The Conference should develop a new common action-oriented strategic framework for the next decade, based on scaled-up partnerships among landlocked and transit developing countries with substantially enhanced support of the development partners, with a view to effectively assist our countries to develop and efficiently maintain adequate transit transport infrastructure, ensure connectivity through regional strategic trade corridors to access seaports or regional trade partners and lower trade costs, with the main objective to facilitate our integration into a growingly complex and changing world economy.
The Conference should be preceded by sub-regional, regional and substantive preparations in a most effective, well-structured and broad participatory manner. The existing mechanisms of the UN regional commissions shall be fully utilized – and I indeed look forward to a period of intense, close cooperation with my colleague Alicia Barcena for an effective review in the Latin American region.
Allow me at this point to commend the continuous generosity, solidarity and deep commitment to the cause of the landlocked developing countries of the Government of Kazakhstan, also shown through strong, unremitting support provided to the work of my Office, for which I am very grateful. We also welcome their offer to host the Fourth Meeting of the Trade Ministers of LLDCs as well as the first high level review meeting that will officially launch the preparatory process for the comprehensive review conference – both to be held in Almaty during the first half of 2012.
Before I conclude, let me point to two crucial recent developments that promise to give an important boost to the Almaty Programme implementation rate.
First, I am glad to share with this ministerial meeting the progress made by my Office in close cooperation with the Economic Commission for Africa and the African Union Commission in promoting the conclusion of an intergovernmental agreement on the Trans African Highway. Just earlier this week, my Office organized, together with ECA and the African Union Commission, an Expert Group Meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I am pleased to report to you that the representatives from the African Regional Economic Communities agreed on the draft text of the regional agreement on the Trans African Highway. The draft agreement, along with the Plan of Action leading to its conclusion, will be submitted to the Conference of African Ministers in charge of Transport that will be held in November 2011 for their consideration.
Second, let me underscore another important initiative, this time of global scale: the International Think Tank on the Landlocked Developing Countries. In this regard, I wish to call on all of the Governments of the LLDCs, that have not yet done so, to come forward and sign and ratify the multilateral agreement on the establishment of the International Think Tank. A minimum of ten signatures is required for it to become operational – we need at least six more. Let me congratulate, first of all of course, Mongolia for the tremendous leadership and commitment shown to the cause of the Group by spearheading this initiative and making tangible progress in the physical and substantive establishment of the new institution, that H.E. Elbegdorj Tsakhia, President of Mongolia, described as "vitally important" to the landlocked developing countries in addressing the high-level debate of the 66th session of the General Assembly just 2 days ago. I also congratulate Paraguay and Ethiopia for having signed the agreement yesterday and Niger who will sign on Monday. As you well know, this is one initiative which the Secretary-General strongly supports and is keen to see take off and achieve its expected concrete results. The Think Tank analytical work and innovative approaches will also be needed during the upcoming preparatory process for the review conference.
It is clear that what we have ahead of us are two critical years during which the concerted political leverage of your Group must be very cleverly and strategically used, vis-à-vis both your transit neighbors and your development partners, including the international and regional financial institutions. Positive inspiration must be drawn from the widespread pockets of success in advancing the Almaty agenda on the ground. Solutions to persistent problems and constraints must be accompanied by renewed political will and strengthened financial support.
We need to aim high, to an ambitious results-oriented new partnership framework that is, at the same time, deeply rooted in the realities of our countries and strongly supported by more vigorous commitments on the donors' part. Only through genuine, strong and focused engagement and cooperation by all stakeholders, I am convinced that the landlocked developing countries will be able to overcome their geographical disadvantages, unlock their potential and become active and successful participants in the international economy.


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Q: How can I compare two samples of percentiles? I have two data samples from a population. I want to find out, if values of certain attribute (BMI) are significantly different among the samples, i.e. whether the samples have same means or not.
If I had the measured values, I would simply perform T-test (for example) and  try to decide, if the samples have different means.
The problem is, that for each individual I have only the percentile, not the actual measured value. That is, instead of I had the BMI for each data point, I only have the percentile telling me, how is the (unknown) value compared to others.
I am pretty sure, that I cannot use t-test given these conditions.
Any ideas what should I do?
Thanks in advance.

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