Are you a media company, brand, ad agency or production company looking for film / photography production support or shooting crew in Indonesia? We have fully vetted, locally based fixers, service producers, directors, DP's, videographers, cameramen, photographers, sound operators, production drivers, and a range of other film crew. Contact us for referrals, questions, cost estimates and references.
Want to know more about shooting in Indonesia? See below for an introduction to Indonesia locations, permits, when to shoot, costs, talent, crews, equipment, art department, studios, post facilities, visas and work permits, film friendly hotels, transport, communications and safety advice.
Consisting of over 17,000 islands, Indonesia offers a wealth of diverse filming locations.
Bali is known for its forested volcanic mountains, iconic rice paddies, beaches and coral reefs. There are eleven volcanoes to chose from with Mount Batur still active. Bali offers black, white and yellow sand beaches, and surf breaks. There are many sleek, modern villas and resorts available for filming. Other locations of note include Pura Bratan lake temple, and the Ubud Monkey Forest.
Irian Jaya (West Papua) is known for its tropical rainforests, craggy mountain peaks, swampy lowland forests, grassy savannahs, mangrove forests, beautiful coastal islands, and isolated indigenous villages such as the Korowai. Small permanent snowfields and relic glaciers grace the highest elevations at Puncak Jaya. The Raja Ampat Islands are a paradise archipelago comprising over 1,500 small islands.
Java is a beautiful island where beaches, terraced rice fields, palm forests, plantations and volcanoes shape the land. The capital Jakarta is a vibrant and densely populated cosmopolitan city of around 10 million people. Java boasts world-renowned locations including the Borobudur and Pranbanan temples, and the active volcanos Mount Krakatau and Mount Bromo. Ujung Kulon National Park is known for its monitor lizards, gray macaques, peacocks, rhinoceros, banteng cattle, leopards and unique Javan crocodiles. Kebun Raya Cibodas is a high altitude botanical garden. Kampung Warna-Warni is a colourful village in this part of Indonesia. Kawah Ijen is a volcano in East Java famous for its gases that combust and stream an electric-blue coloured fire down the side of the volcano.
Kalimantan (Borneo) is known for its beautiful beaches and ancient rainforests which are home to a wide variety of biodiversity including orangutans, clouded leopards and exotic plants such as the enormous Rafflesia flower.
Lombok is a pristine tropical island a short plane or boat ride from Bali. The interior consists of a luscious jungle surrounding the huge volcanic centerpiece of Gunung Rinjani. Lombok has picture-perfect, white sand beaches, turquoise waters, tropical islands and surf breaks. Lombok is also known for its underwater photography options.
Nusa Tenggara is an archipelago best known its multi-coloured volcanic crater lakes, beautiful beaches, unique villages, and underwater photography options. Komodo National Park is the home of the Komodo Dragon. Flores is a rugged island known for the Kelimutu volcano caldera. Sumbawa has beautiful mountainous terrain and surf breaks. Sumba is known for its peaked houses, megalithic grave sites, and beautiful beaches.
Sulawesi is world-renowned for its coral reefs and dive sites, such as Bunaken Marine Park, the Togian Islands and Wakatobi Marine Park. Tana Toraja in the mountainous northern part of South Sulawesi is one of the most beautiful regions of Indonesia. Traditional Toraja villages sit in a backdrop of rugged mountains and green terraces. Lore Lindu National Park and Tangkoko National Park are home to a variety of biodiversity.
Sumatra is known for its lush rainforests, exotic flora and fauna, cascading rivers, sparkling crater lakes, white sand beaches, and spectacular volcanic landscapes. Locations of note include the Sumatran Orangutan Society, Mount Merapi active volcano, Lake Maninjau, Sipisopiso waterfall, and the Kampar River which offers tidal bore surfing of the Seven Ghosts Bono.
Indonesia's agricultural locations of interest include palm oil, rubber, cocoa, rice, tea, and coffee plantations.
Indonesia has played host to films such as Gold, Eat Pray Love and Oliver Stones' Savages.
To film in Indonesia, a visiting production is required to obtain both a National Film Permit as well as permits specific to locations. The fastest and easiest way to get these is through a local accredited service producer or fixer. To apply for film permits, our Indonesian service producer / fixer will need you to first send them a complete application form, visiting crew and talent list with passport photocopies, a final list of locations, equipment list, complete schedule and project synopsis. Our local fixer / service producer will then review the application to make sure the best approach is taken. The visiting crew then submit the complete application to their local Indonesian consulate/s. Authorities in Jakarta review the application. Depending on the project, permit approval can take up to a month so allow plenty of lead time. The process can sometimes be expedited at extra cost. Once the National Film Permit is approved, our Indonesian service producer / fixer will then go ahead and obtain any required regional and forestry location permits. Note, the film permit is valid for 30 days. A government appointed minder may be required to accompany the visiting crew during filming. Please contact us for location specific information.
Indonesia has a year-round warm, humid tropical climate. The wet season runs from November to March. April. The cooler, dry season runs from April and October. This is the best time to film for weather. For monthly weather statistics please see here.
The Pasola Festival takes place in February / March on the island of Sumba. Waisak takes please in Borobudur in May. The Lembah Baliem Festival takes place in Papua (Irian Jaya) in August with tribes performing mock wars. The Bali Arts Festival takes place in September. The Krakatoa Festival is held in October.
Indonesia is a predominately Muslim country where many observe the holy month of Ramadan. Many services remain open during this time although permitting offices may be slower to respond.
Public holidays may affect timing, availability and costs. See here for public holiday dates in Indonesia.
Costs. The favorable exchange rate means that your currency goes far in Indonesia. Locations and talent are generally inexpensive. The greatest cost is the need to bring in your key crew and equipment. Indonesia is a very large country and locations are often remote which also adds to costs. That said, our locally based fixers and service producers will negotiate deals and provide the appropriate level of production support to match every budget.
Tax Incentives. There are no tax incentives for feature films or commercials in Indonesia.
Crews. Indonesia has a small pool of local directors, directors of photography and stills photographers. Unfortunately the depth of local crews is quite limited and most don't speak fluent English. It is advisable to bring your key crew from abroad.
Contact us if you are looking for a Jakarta or Bali based director, DP, photographer, videographer (cameraman / camera operator), camera assistant (focus puller), sound operator, grip, gaffer, stylist, hair and makeup, PA / runner, production driver, or any other film crew in Indonesia.
Talent. Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous nation. The Javanese and Sundanese are the largest ethnic groups but many other groups exist offering a variety of pan-Asian and indigenous talent looks.
Talent is non-union and buyouts are negotiable. Day rates are very reasonable and negotiated on a personal basis.
Bali as a major tourist centre offers a variety of locally based multicultural looks to choose from.
Irian Jaya is home to many unique indigenous looks. One fifth of the world's languages are spoken in Irian Jaya.
Java offers pan-Asian looks with some multicultural talent available in Jakarta.
Kalimantan, Lombok, Nusa Tenggara, Sulawesi, Sumatra also offer an array of pan-Asian and indigenous looks.
Standard grip, lighting and camera equipment is available out of Jakarta. The two largest Indonesian equipment houses are Elang Perkasa and Cinerent. The rest needs to be flown in abroad with Kuala Lumpur and Singapore the closest major production centres for gear.
For productions intending to bring in equipment Indonesia is an ATA carnet country.
Art department and set construction are up to international standards. Master craftsmen and construction teams are plentiful and inexpensive.
Studios do exist but facilities are very basic.
Backlots. At present no backlots exist in Indonesia.
Post Production. The best facilities are offered by G1 post. Eltra Studio and VHQ Jakarta also have facilities.
Clients, agency and talent travelling on western passports can enter visa-free for stays of up to 30 days. Visiting shooting crews require journalist visas. At the same time that the above mentioned (see Location Permits section) National Film Permit application is approved, so to is the journalist visa. Each visiting crew member then needs to go to their local Indonesian embassy / consulate to get their passports stamped. The film permit and journalist cards are then picked up in Jakarta by either the visiting crew or the local fixer / service producer. Note, both the film permit and journalist cards are valid for 30 days. Contact your local Indonesian embassy / representative for more information.
Transportation Infrastructure. The road system is quite undeveloped. Indonesia is well serviced domestically by several airlines. Charter planes and helicopters are often required to reach more remote locations.
If you are looking for a film or photographic production service company, line producer or fixer for your shoot in Indonesia, please contact us.
If you are looking for a shooting crew for your shoot in Indonesia, such as a director, DoP, photographer, videographer (cameraman / camera operator), camera assistant (focus puller), sound operator, grip, gaffer, stylist, hair and makeup, PA / runner, production driver, please contact us.


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Former CS:GO pro DaZeD admits to "smacking" a woman, live on Twitch dating show
Former Counter-Strike pro Sam 'DaZeD Marine shocked viewers of Raji Patel's Twitch show King Of The Hill when he told a story about him "smacking the shit" out of a woman.
King of the Hill is a popular Twitch 'dating' show, where four female streamers are invited to judge various male candidates, and pick who should take the spot as 'king of the hill'.
In an attempt to convince the girls that they are the right pick, the men will often talk about themselves, their careers and past relationships, but DaZeD's sex story went too far most of the women on the show.
DaZeD explained that a woman once bit his finger during intercourse, and, in response, he "smacked the shit out of her", partly because he was "way too drunk."
More: Ninja upset by people looking for the next big thing on Twitch
Three of the women were shocked, as was host Rajj Patel, who seemed to be concerned that the story was too much information to share in front of thousands of viewers. However, one of the streamers, Kandy, could be heard saying: "I promise you she was happy about that."
DaZeD left the stream after not being picked by any of the women, but later, on his own channel, he addressed the controversial story, which had garnered attention on popular sub reddit 'LivestreamFail'.
On his own stream, the former CS:GO and CS: Source player explained that he was surprised by the girls' reaction. "Every time I [tell this story] to a girl in a bar, they're always like 'that's so hot', and they just want to fuck me."
The original clip, and entire VOD from the King of the Hill show, has been removed from Twitch.
The show has had previous controversies, often caused by contestants sharing too much information, including one streamer admitting to killing a dog.
Streamer embarrasses H1Z1 hacker with fake 'interview'
Doublelift pleads to Twitch "don't ban me" after watching bizarre video

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Children Incorporated provides resources to children in need in the United States and abroad because we passionately believe that children everywhere deserve education, hope, and opportunity. Through our sponsorship program, we provide basic necessities such as food, clothing, healthcare, and educational support to children living in poverty. These essentials, so often taken for granted, are vital to a child's growth and success in school.
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Ophelia. She was young. No more than eighteen. Probably less. Her hair could be blonde or brown, it was hard to tell, soaked wet in the gloom. She was wearing white, bright against the dark river, almost an accent to the fresh snow that lay heavy on the ground. Her pale face, blue lips slightly parted, was turned up to the inky sky. She was snagged on twigs as if the bent branches, bare of leaves and broken by winter, had grasped to save her, to keep her afloat.
What an opening! This is the best opening to a novel that I've read in a really long time, I just want to keep reading right now! The short staccato sentences at the very beginning, and then the longer ones that are almost like a list are wonderfully intense and give so much information. I want to know who this girl is and how she got in the river. Did she drown? Was she murdered? Has there been a terrible accident? The description is so vivid, and I can't stop thinking about the branches that appear to have tried to save her. How beautiful and how tragic at the same time. I cannot wait to read more of this book and I'm certain it'll be one I read in one sitting.
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Great description in the opening. Chilling! I'd keep reading to discover how she ended up in the river.
I, too, am intrigued by the opening. At first I thought it was Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet, so I thought she was dead for sure.
That is a terrific beginning!
Thanks for participating in BBOF! I don't often get around to everyone to leave a comment, but I'm glad you are playing along with us! I'm now following you on twitter.
It's great, isn't it? Thanks so much, I really enjoy joining in every week and reading everyone else's BBOF.


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Empa teams up with industry and academic partners in UN-led initiative for E-scrap recycling to salvage valuable components
Growing need for recycling precious elements in high-tech scrap – often incinerated in poor countries.
Empa teams up with industry and academic partners in UN-ledinitiative for E-scrap recycling to salvage valuable components
Mar 7, 2007 | MICHAEL HAGMANN
Under the auspices of United Nations University (UNU), an international initiative called «Solving the E-Waste Problem» (StEP) is officially launched Wednesday, March 7. Its goals are extending the life of computers and other electronic equipment as well as markets for their reuse, reducing pollution and improving the salvage of increasingly valuable components in electrical and electronic scrap (E-scrap). Empa and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) are Swiss StEP partners, joining UNU and other governmental and academic institutions as well as major high-tech companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, Ericsson, Philips and Cisco Systems.
Legend: South African worker dismantling PCs
Valuable resources in every scrapped product with a battery or a plug – computers, TVs, radios, telephones, MP3 players, household utilities, to name but a few – are being trashed in rising volumes worldwide. Worse, items charitably sent to developing countries for reuse often remain unused for a host of reasons, or are shipped for illegal disposal. And, too often, E-scrap is incinerated, not only wasting needed resources but adding toxic chemicals to the environment. «There's more than gold in those mountains of high-tech scrap, » says Rüdiger Kühr of UNU, which will host the StEP Secretariat in Bonn. «This partnership is committed to salvaging these increasingly precious resources and preventing them from fouling the environment.»
Chinese worker plucking printed circuit boards
In addition to well-known precious metals such as gold, palladium and silver, unique and indispensable elements have become increasingly important in electronics. Among them: Indium, a by-product of zinc mining used in more than 1 billion products every year such as flat-screen monitors and mobile phones.
In the last five years, indium's price has increased six-fold, making it more expensive than silver. Though known mine reserves are limited, indium recycling is so far taking place in only a few plants in the U.S., Belgium and Japan, which recovers roughly half its indium needs through recycling.
In a similar vein, the market value of other important minor metals used in electronics such as bismuth (for lead-free solders) has doubled since 2005, and ruthenium (used in resistors and hard disk drives) has increased by a factor of seven since early 2006. «The large price spikes for these special elements underline that supply security at affordable prices can't be guaranteed indefinitely unless efficient recycling loops are established to recover them from old products,» says Mr. Kühr.
woman preparing printed circuit boards for copper
Unqualified recycling methods can cause a myriad of environmental and health problems
It's not only the scarcity of resources, though, that makes an efficient recycling loop mandatory; unqualified or unscrupulous treatment of E-scrap leads to numerous environmental and health problems, such as emissions of highly toxic dioxins, furans and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), caused by burning PVC plastic and wire insulation or soil and water contamination from chemicals such as brominated flame retardants (used in circuit boards and plastic computer cases, connectors and cables), PCBs (in transformers and capacitors), as well as lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc, chromium and other heavy metals (in monitors and other devices). Studies have shown rapidly increasing concentrations of these heavy metals in humans, which can cause neuro-developmental disorders and possibly cancer.
In many industrializing and developing countries, growing numbers of people earn a living from recycling and salvaging E-Waste. In most cases, though, this is done through so-called «backyard practices», often exposing workers – men, women, children – to extensive health dangers. A global guide to dismantling E-scrap and maximizing the recovery and controlling recovered substances is a major StEP objective. A large-scale project to help e.g. China safely dismantle and dispose of its domestic E-scrap is also in the works.
The StEP initiative is the offspring of UNU, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Inter-related StEP task forces will help shape government policies worldwide and address issues related to redesign and product life expectancy, reuse and recycling, and help build relevant capacity in developing nations. Empa's «Technology and Society» laboratory, which has been running the SECO program «Knowledge Partnerships in E-Waste Recycling» in countries such as India, China and South-Africa, will be leading the StEP task force «Recycling». «StEP enables us and our partners to kick-off and fund urgently needed research projects. Only recently, for instance, did an Empa diploma student finish her thesis on recovery efficiency for gold from computer circuit boards through «backyard» recycling in Bangalore, India», says Rolf Widmer, Empa scientist and leader of the StEP «Recycling» task force. This project, he adds, could only be realized due to the active collaboration between numerous StEP members, especially from industry. «This is exactly the reason why we set out, about two and a half years ago, to launch the StEP initiative.»
Indian children digging for e-waste on dump sites
Annually, E-scrap today would fill a line of dump trucks spanning half the globe
E-scrap is one of the fastest growing components of the global waste stream and, arguably, one of the most troublesome. The European Environmental Agency calculates that the volume of E-scrap is now rising roughly three times faster than other forms of municipal waste. The total annual global volume of E-scrap is soon expected to reach roughly 40 million metric tons – enough to fill a line of dump trucks stretching half way around the world.
Rapid product innovations and replacement, especially in information and communication technologies (ICT) and office equipment – the migration from analog to digital technologies and to flat-screen TVs and monitors, for example – is fuelling an increase of E-Waste. OECD figures show global trade in ICT amounted to €1.33 trillion in 2004, 7.7 per cent of the gross world product. In 2004, every other German household was equipped with a personal computer, a figure that jumped to three-quarters by the end of 2006. The same 75 per cent rate also applies to households in Japan (compared with just 0.07 per cent in Niger, 1.2 per cent in India, 2.3 per cent in Bolivia and 4.1 per cent in China). The market for electronic products is expected to continue growing in developing markets and industrialized ones, where there is a rising tendency to own more than one computer, telephone etc.
Manufacture of a single desktop PC uses 1.8 tons of raw materials
Improved reuse and recycling would also lessen the environmental impacts caused by producing new electronic equipment in the first place. A 2004 UNU book, «Computers and the Environment», found that an average 24-kg desktop computer with monitor requires at least 10 times its weight in fossil fuels and chemicals to manufacture. This is much more materials-intensive than for the manufacture of an automobile or refrigerator, which only require 1–2 times their weight in fossil fuels. In absolute numbers, the manufacturing of a desktop computer with a 17-inch monitor uses at least 240 kg of fossil fuels, 22 kg of chemicals and 1500 kg of water – a total of 1.8 tons of materials – roughly the weight of a sports utility vehicle (SUV) or a rhinoceros.
«There is a clear need and opportunity now to address the resources, health and environmental concerns being created by a surging increase in E-Waste. We hope that the StEP initiative will point the way for governments, companies and consumers alike to reverse this growing international problem,» says UN Under-Secretary-General and UNU Rector Hans van Ginkel. «Consumers will benefit through knowing what to do with their obsolete machines, less pollution and longer lasting electronic equipment. Companies involved in StEP will benefit through globally standardized, safe and environmentally-proven processes for disposal, reduction or reuse and recycling of E-scrap. Member manufacturers will work to design products more easily upgradeable because we all agree buying an entirely new product is wasteful when what's really wanted are upgraded components.» The StEP logo will signal to consumers that E-scrap processes associated with a company's products conform to agreed international standards and guidelines, he adds.
Rolf Widmer, Empa, Technology & Society, Phone +41 71 274 78 63, Rolf.Widmer@empa.ch
Terry Collins (Toronto, Canada), Phone +1 416 538 87 12, mobile +1 647 284 87 12,
Dr Michael Hagmann, Empa, Communication Dept., Phone +41 44 823 45 92, michael.hagmann@empa.ch
Press release as PDF-File
Memberlist of StEP initative
E-Waste Homepage hosted by SECO und Empa
United Nations University


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View Full Version : Cthulhu Bun!
Today I found myself innocently wandering through the Articles section, looking for buns with which to try out my new hair fork. I come across Gumball's Timeless Hug Bun, which looks awesome, and decide to give it a try.
I have no idea what went wrong, but I kind of like the way it turned out.
Haha! It's like the Off-Coiled Bun gone wild! Lovely hair all the same, it sure is an interesting look!
Woot! I had to click into this thread out of nerdiness, and I was magnificently satisfied! Haha. Rockin' "Bun of the Elder Things" there! I think it looks great.
That is an absolutely awesome bun! I see nothing whatsoever wrong with it.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the ability of the human mind to correlate all its contents into a hairstyle." ;) Looks good to me.
Okay, that is awesome... and you just reminded me that I need to go borrow the one (and only) Lovecraft book from the library to finish reading.


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Question: On the Motion (Motion to Waive CBA Re: Nelson (FL) Amdt. No. 2730 )
Vote Number: 5
Vote Date: February 2, 2006, 07:34 PM
Vote Result: Motion Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 2730 to S.Amdt. 2707 to H.R. 4297 (Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005)
Statement of Purpose: To provide for necessary beneficiary protections in order to ensure access to coverage under the Medicare part D prescription drug program.
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Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Nay
Allard (R-CO), Nay
Allen (R-VA), Nay
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Bennett (R-UT), Nay
Biden (D-DE), Yea
Bingaman (D-NM), Not Voting
Bond (R-MO), Nay
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brownback (R-KS), Nay
Bunning (R-KY), Nay
Burns (R-MT), Nay
Burr (R-NC), Nay
Byrd (D-WV), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Chafee (R-RI), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Nay
Clinton (D-NY), Yea
Coburn (R-OK), Nay
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Coleman (R-MN), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Craig (R-ID), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
Dayton (D-MN), Yea
DeMint (R-SC), Nay
Dodd (D-CT), Yea
Dole (R-NC), Nay
Domenici (R-NM), Not Voting
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Ensign (R-NV), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Nay
Feingold (D-WI), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Frist (R-TN), Nay
Graham (R-SC), Nay
Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Gregg (R-NH), Nay
Hagel (R-NE), Nay
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
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Jeffords (I-VT), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
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Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (D-CT), Yea
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lott (R-MS), Nay
Lugar (R-IN), Nay
Martinez (R-FL), Nay
McCain (R-AZ), Nay
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Obama (D-IL), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Salazar (D-CO), Yea
Santorum (R-PA), Nay
Sarbanes (D-MD), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Nay
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Smith (R-OR), Nay
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Stevens (R-AK), Nay
Sununu (R-NH), Nay
Talent (R-MO), Nay
Thomas (R-WY), Not Voting
Thune (R-SD), Nay
Vitter (R-LA), Nay
Voinovich (R-OH), Nay
Wyden (D-OR), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Dayton (D-MN)
Jeffords (I-VT)
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Nelson (D-FL)
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Obama (D-IL)
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Coburn (R-OK)
Cornyn (R-TX)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Isakson (R-GA)
Martinez (R-FL)
Sununu (R-NH)
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KITSAP COUNTY SHERIFF: Bremerton police officer takes on State Patrol lieutenant
Sun | Election
By Julie McCormick, Sun Staff — Oct 14th, 1998
This year's election for Kitsap County Sheriff was probably the hottest contest in the primary, but it remains to be seen whether Republican nominee Kent Boekweg can build up enough momentum to convince the overwhelming majority of voters who chose a Democrat in September to switch their allegiance in November.
Boekweg narrowly defeated his closest primary rival for the Republican nomination, but together the three Republican candidates captured only 30 percent of the vote.
Democrat Steve Boyer won 32 percent of the primary vote in a three-way race that gave Democrats 70 percent of the total.
Now, Boyer's closest rival, Acting Sheriff Mike Davis, is out of the race, defeated at least in part because of the troubles that sprang up inside the department under his old boss, former Sheriff Pat Jones, after the 1994 election.
Now election issues turn away from the need for change, Davis opponents' favorite mantra before the primary, and toward the question of which candidate is best prepared to run the show.
Boyer, a lieutenant with the Washington State Patrol, turned down a promotion to stay in Kitsap County and has steadily risen through the ranks during his more than 20 years with the organization.
His experience within the patrol ranges from criminal and traffic investigation to SWAT command.
He has the administrative training and background that Boekweg can't match.
Boekweg characterizes Boyer as another "good old boy," and characterizes himself as the "No. 1" crime prevention professional in the county, an allusion to his three-year stint as BPD's crime prevention specialist.
He has now rotated back to patrol.
Boyer's civic involvement includes the Silverdale Rotary and he is president of the Kitsap Regional Library Foundation.
Boekweg has promised to revive the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program in the schools that was discontinued by Jones.
Boyer supports programs that are more customized toward drug and alcohol abuse prevention.
Boekweg, who has been a police officer for 17 years, the last eight in Bremerton, says the best thing he can do for the 200-person department and the community is provide himself as a role model for behavior and ethics.
The new sheriff will serve a four-year term and be paid $79,664 a year.
The office oversees law enforcement for all of the unincorporated county, about 70 percent of residents. The Sheriff's Office has 84 patrol deputies.
What is your top priority as sheriff?
Boekweg: "To affirm our strong professional commitment to protect the citizens of Kitsap County."
Boyer: "My overarching goal is a safe community."
What is the first change you would make in the department?
Boekweg: "I will appoint every deputy to seek out our citizens' views. Effective immediately, every employee of our office will be recognized as an ambassador to bring forward community concerns about our service and other issues. And on day one, my door will be off the hinges."
Boyer: "We are going to listen to each other."
Is there serious division in the department, and if so, how can you repair it?
Boekweg: "Everyone knows the history of the Sheriff's Office and any division in a law enforcement agency is serious. Instead of installing another 'good old boy' our problems can best be healed by publicly sharing credit...within the department."
Boyer: Leadership must work as a team to improve communication, develop people who are already inside the department, earn trust from the citizens with fair and equitable treatment for everybody."
Why should voters choose you over your opponent?
Boekweg: "It is more important that our sheriff be an accessible, experienced leader than another budget manager with little real experience in community policing."
Boyer: "What I offer is the experience and understanding of labor, crime and management issues and I've had the opportunity to serve in leadership roles and see what works."
CANDIDATE PROFILES
Steve Boyer
Party: Democrat
Occupation: Washington State Patrol district lieutenant for Kitsap County
Education: Bachelor of arts, Central Washington University
Political experience: No previous elective office
Kent Boekweg
Party: Republican
Occupation: Patrol officer, Bremerton Police Department
KITSAP COUNTY: Boyer launches bid for sheriff
By Julie McCormick Sun Staff It's official: Washington State Patrol District Lt. Steve Boyer is among those seeking the party nomination for Kitsap County sheriff. Boyer, 47, has acknowledged his interest in the job as candidates began lining up to take on Sheriff Pat ... [Read More...]
KITSAP COUNTY: Sheriff Boyer will seek re-election
Democrat Steve Boyer announced Tuesday that he will run for a second term as Kitsap County sheriff. Boyer was elected sheriff in 1998 after a 26-year career with the Washington State Patrol in which he advanced to the rank of lieutenant. "Being sheriff, there ... [Read More...]
CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF: Boekweg would revive DARE
By Julie McCormick Sun Staff Kent Boekweg is a burly man with a soft voice, a steady gaze and a desire to be the next Kitsap County sheriff. Longtime Sheriff Pat Jones, plagued with lawsuits from former employees, hasn't said whether he'll run ... [Read More...]
SHERIFF'S RACE: Outsider status helps, candidates agree
* Both Kent Boekweg and Steve Boyer, speaking at a forum, say they would bring about change in the Sheriff's Office. Numerous times during Tuesday's Eggs & Issues forum, sheriff hopeful Kent Boekweg mentioned the word "integrity" and hammered on the "good-old-boy system." Finally ... [Read More...]
KITSAP COUNTY SHERIFF: Candidates promise racial sensitivity
* A new African-American political organization is determined to have a say in the sheriff's race. By Julie McCormick Sun Staff Six white candidates for Kitsap County Sheriff faced eight black leaders with eight pointed questions on Friday. It was candidates night for the ... [Read More...]


Try this healthy and meat free breakfast alternative.
Chop the onion and add to a frying pan with coconut oil or avo oil.
Sautee until onions are translucent, approximately 4-5 min.
Add mushrooms to the frying pan with the salt and pepper.
Sautee for 5 more mins or until mushrooms start to brown.
To make the bean coriander crema, place kidney beans, coconut milk, garlic and coriander into food processor and process until smooth (you may need to add a splash of water to thin it out).
To make the guacamole, mash avocado and add chopped coriander, finely sliced spring onion, salt and lime juice.
To assemble tacos, spread thin layer of coriander crema, add mushrooms, arugula, parsnip, add guac and sauerkraut. Squeeze the lime juice on top and top with chilli.
To add some colour, include KOO Sliced Beetroot to the tacos.


The core doctrines of administrative law have not taken account of developments in the theory and practice of organization. The contours of these doctrines were set in the mid-twentieth century when the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) was passed. Although these doctrines have evolved since then, administration itself has changed more. Many of the widely perceived deficiencies of the doctrines, including some associated with overregulation and others with underregulation, seem influenced by an anachronistic understanding of organization.
Much administrative law continues to understand public administration as bureaucracy. In particular, doctrine is strongly influenced by three premises. First, the backward-looking conception of legitimacy sees organization as instrumental to previously chosen values and goals. Authority thus depends on prior authorization. Second, there is the balance between fixed rules and unreviewable discretion. In the bureaucratic view, the rule is the most important type of norm. However, because rules are relatively inflexible and difficult to change, residual pockets of unaccountable discretion must be tolerated. And, third, is the reactive approach to error detection. Errors are understood to arise from idiosyncratic circumstances; they are addressed primarily through complaints, and complaints are understood to raise primarily issues of individual accuracy or fairness.
The model of organization these premises express is associated in the private sector with mass manufacturing of standardized products as it developed in the early and mid-twentieth centuries. The ideas developed in manufacturing influenced public administration, especially the Progressive and New Deal regulatory and social welfare programs. The designers of the APA were responding to these programs. This model was once the dominant paradigm of efficient large-scale organization, but it now competes with, and in some quarters has been displaced by, another one. This newer, postbureaucratic or performance-based approach has emerged in the private sector as industries have sought flexibility to adapt to more volatile economic circumstances and to the demand for more differentiated products. As reformers have recognized an analogous need for government to respond to fluidity and diversity, they have imported elements of the postbureaucratic view to the public sector.
William H. Simon, The Organizational Premises of Administrative Law, 78 Law & Contemp. Probs. 61 (2015).


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India Ferrah talks 'All Stars' drama and why she returned to the show
But she didn't leave with a bang. It was more of a bomb(shell). Or a 'BAM!'
Joey Guerra July 10, 2020Updated: July 10, 2020, 9:27 am
India Ferrah
Photo: VH1
India Ferrah was the cat with at least four lives on "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars." The Las Vegas queen survived the bottom three times before being eliminated after a disastrous Jeffree Star impersonation during Snatch Game of Love.
But she didn't leave with a bang. It was more of a bomb(shell). Or a "BAM!"
GET REAL: Mayhem Miller talks playing the 'All Stars' game
Now stay with me. India told Shea Couleé that Alexis Mateo was secretly trying to get India to vote Shea out a few weeks back. It was supposedly a master plan to send frontrunner Shea home early when she landed in the bottom. Shea brings it up to all the girls, Alexis denies it. None of the other queens say they were approached by Alexis. But it's now cast doubt about Alexis' intentions.
And honestly, if Alexis did do it, so what? This is a game, henny. You have to play to win.
India talked about the drama, returning to "Drag Race" and being more than the queen who was lifted by Mimi Imfurst.
OK, sis, who's telling the truth? You can tell me.
I know it's always gonna be a he said, she said. But I know deep down in my heart the truth, and that's what I left with. That was my main goal, to not leave with a dark cloud hanging over me, and I wanted to make sure Shea was aware of who she was competing against and who was playing the game.
And you said you'd been carrying that for a few weeks?
Yes, absolutely, and it was exhausting. And then being in the bottom and witnessing Alexis kind of play fake with Shea. "I love you so much, sister" and this and that. I just finally, I couldn't take it. I knew that I did bad in the challenge. And I knew that I was probably going home, so I did not wanna leave with anything that would cause me to be mentally messed up and to go crazy, sitting at home, knowing that those girls are still there without being aware of what happened a few weeks ago.
Were you surprised that Shea pulled your lipstick?
No, not at all. I was happy because it showed me from day one that Shea has been honest with me and that she's been truthful. It was always if we deserve to go home, then we deserve to go home. Shea did not deserve to go home in the third episode, and they should have never put those lipsticks in the box that week.
Snatch Game of Love was the challenge that sank you. Did you have other impersonations in your pocked besides Jeffree Star?
My first choice was actually Vicki Lawrence from "Mama's Family." That was what I really prepared for. Sadly, due to copyright laws and all that, because she was a character on a TV show, I couldn't do it. I had to pull out Jeffree Star. I wanted to do Mariah Carey, but I knew that Shangela just did it on "All Stars." You wanna try to give the fans something new.
You stayed in the game despite multiple trips to the bottom. Was it tough to keep pushing?
It was exhausting. It was hard. It kinda messes with you mentally. You know this is a competition, and you wanna do your best, but I kinda got to the point where no matter what I did, I felt like I wasn't gonna be good enough for what the competition wanted or needed. I thought I did really good in the "She-MZ" challenge. I thought I broke out of my shell, and I thought I showed good personality. Being put in the bottom, it was like, "OK, well, what else can I do?" I win the first challenge, and then it just goes downhill. I become this power bottom. Something I relate to.
What motivated you to come back after all this time?
I think my family and my fiance. My mom has Chron's Disease, since I was nine or ten years old. I've always wanted to become a star and get some coins to be able to take care of her, to put into research and charity. My fiance is a drag queen as well, and he's been my No. 1 fan. He's been my rock. He's the one that really pushed me and told me, "You're ready to do this. You've changed. You've grown. You know who you are now. And the world deserves to see that."
What did you want viewers to see this time around?
India is an actual drag queen who didn't just get picked up (by Mimi Imfurst), you know what I'm saying? That's all I was known for from Season 3, an iconic moment, but I wanted to show my maturity, my growth. I wanted to be able to show that India was a performer, an entertainer, a real drag queen.
The tense moments with Derrick Barry and Alexis must have been difficult.
You just have to rise above it. You have to really center yourself and know the reason why you were there. I had to keep reminding myself, "Why are you here? Is it to let other girls bring up your past to try to destroy you? Or are you gonna let the world see who India Ferrah is now?"
Joey Guerra
Joey Guerra is the music critic for the Houston Chronicle. He also covers various aspects of pop culture. He has reviewed hundreds of concerts and interviewed hundreds of celebrities, from Justin Bieber to Dolly Parton to Beyonce. He's appeared as a regular correspondent on Fox26 and was head judge and director of the Pride Superstar singing competition for a decade. He has been named journalist of the year multiple times by both OutSmart Magazine and the FACE Awards. He also covers various aspects of pop culture, including the local drag scene and "RuPaul's Drag Race."
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Today's news review looks at A level results day and Learndirect.
On Thursday, 18 August, pupils received their A level results. These are the first results since we brought in reforms to make sure the qualifications prepare pupils better for university and the world of work. Overall, the pass rate remains stable at 97.9 percent. There was also an increase in the number of entries awarded the top A* or A which now stands at 26.3 percent. Maths remains the most popular A level subject and this year saw an increase in entries for STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects.
A level results day was covered widely in the media in print, online and on broadcast, with most outlets focusing on either the rise in the number of top grades being awarded or the fact that boys have outperformed girls.
Toby Young has written for the Telegraph (p.15) about the A level reforms, distinguishing between 'more difficult' and 'more rigorous' — the latter of which is the overall aim of the reforms and is the reason why there is no decrease in the pass rate. In addition Rosemary Bennett has written for the Times praising the radical A level reforms and adding a comment from Professor Smithers of the University of Buckingham who has said that the 'more demanding exams are having an impact and universities should be pleased when students start next month'.
New A levels were reformed to ensure the content is up to date and the structure of the course better prepares students for the challenges of university study. They remain of the same high standard as the ones they are replacing.
Congratulations to everyone receiving their results today, which are the culmination of two years of dedication and hard work. We want everyone, regardless of background, to be able to fulfil their potential and for many, A levels are the pathway to a university degree.
The increase in entries to facilitating subjects, those that give students the greatest choice of options at university, mean even more young people will have access to all the opportunities higher education provides.
There has been a strong uptake in core subjects, such as maths, which continues to be the most popular A level with maths and further maths having nearly 25 per cent more entries than in 2010. This and increasing entries to science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects bodes well for the economic prosperity of our country. It will help to grow our workforce in these sectors, allowing young people to secure well paid jobs and compete in the global jobs market of post Brexit Britain.
Increasing the number of girls studying STEM subjects has been an important objective of the Government, so it is particularly pleasing to see that more young women are taking STEM subjects and that for the first time since 2004 there are more young women than young men studying chemistry. I hope everyone receiving their results will go on to successful careers.
Following a poor Ofsted report, we have confirmed that Learndirect's current adult education budget (AEB) contract with the ESFA will end on 31 July 2018. It is important to note that whilst Ofsted graded Learndirect as inadequate (grade 4) overall, and gave the same grade to their apprenticeship provision, they graded their adult education delivery as 'requires improvement' (grade 3).
The AEB contact will be gradually wound down rather than immediately terminated in order that learners are protected. This contract extension comes with a number of specific conditions designed to prevent the delivery of inadequate provision and ensure that the ESFA has detailed oversight of Learndirect's delivery over the course of the year.
ESFA funding rules are clear that any contract that is terminated must be given at least a three month winding down period. However, that should be longer where it is necessary to protect learners or essential services. In the case of Learndirect, we decided to give it a year to wind down so that learners still receiving training aren't unfairly penalised and to avoid jeopardising contracts for other public services.
Commentators have claimed that this constitutes "special treatment". This is entirely wrong. In fact, around 15 percent of terminations have been given notice periods of longer than three months.
We are creating a world-class technical education system and already have the highest number of apprentices on record. We are determined to build on that success so where providers are failing to meet the required standards it is right that action is taken.
Following Learndirect's Ofsted inspection we are terminating its ESFA contract. In line with ESFA rules we are winding down the contract over the course of a year rather than terminating it in the minimum three month period. This is in order to protect those apprentices still receiving training.


There is some confusion among online businesses over how PayPal payment acceptance relates to PCI compliance. You may have heard that by using PayPal, your business is not subject to the PCI DSS.
The truth is, even accepting PayPal payments requires you to be PCI compliant. In this scenario, it is helpful to think of PayPal as a payment processor. Even though they are ultimately storing, processing and transmitting the cardholder data, as a merchant your business is the one accepting that information. Therefore, your online environment can have the ability to affect the security of the payment process/transaction.
The good news? Using a PCI-compliant third party service provider (PayPal, Auth.net, etc.) can limit your scope of compliance. And, if your e-commerce business accepts less than 300,000 card payments per year, then you can self-assess your compliance rather than hire a PCI QSA.
In versions 3.0 and 3.1 of the PCI Self Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs), if the entire payment page is outsourced to PayPal or any other PCI-compliant third party service provider, then you can validate with an SAQ A.
The key here is the word "entire." The entire payment page must be rendered by the third party service provider. If you pass any data other than that required for the transaction to the payment page at the time of the transaction (like java script to render the page so that it looks like your website), then you must validate with an SAQ A-EP, which is much more burdensome. More on the differences between SAQ A and SAQ A-EP.
There is actually a third SAQ option for e-commerce merchants: SAQ D-Merchant. So if you have an e-commerce site, I recommend checking out PCI SAQ 3.1: E-Commerce Options Explained to learn more about the online payment processing scenarios that map to SAQ A, SAQ A-EP and SAQ D-Merchant.
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Of all the places where I might have expected to find a vision of the future of dining, Alnwick wouldn't have been anywhere near the top of the list.
Don't get me wrong, I like the town a lot. When the weather is fine, The Gardens are a lovely way to spend an afternoon. When inclemency strikes, many a happy hour can be whittled away amongst the aged tomes of Barter Books. But groundbreaking? Not the Alnwick I know.
I've always thought of it as a genteel, antiquated kind of place, stuck somewhere in the 1950s; it's the last place on earth you'd expect to find a hi-tech gadget-filled eatery. So when I heard rumours of a pub that had introduced "iPad self-service ordering booths" and a craft beer "tasting wall", I was intrigued. What does it feel like to ask for food from a screen rather than a person? Does it improve the quality? Reduce the price? I had to find out.
The Dirty Bottles was reborn last year from Ye Olde Cross, a pub with a curse. Behind an ancient window was a collection of dusty bottles. Alnwick folklore has it that a former owner tried to move them nearly two centuries ago and promptly dropped down dead. Since when, the bottles have got dustier and dirtier, until the restored pub took on their name last year.
The new owner is Mark Jones, owner of Zecca in Amble, and although he hasn't dared move those dirty bottles, he has paid some attention, and not a little cash, to the design of the interior. Walls and tables were hewn from natural-looking, lightly treated wood, punctuated by darkly grouted white tiles and (but of course!) filament lightbulbs.
We settled into our own iPad self-service ordering booth. In the middle of its table sat a touch screen that swiveled in order to allow all five of us access to its digital embrace. We settled in and immediately began tapping and swiping away at our new electronic companion; also mounted on the table were a pair of beer taps. A human waitress "activated" us and we were off.
So, does it work? Yeah, sort of. Like the plugged-in technophiles that we are, we vigorously ordered ourselves a range of drinks and dishes from across the vast menu. When beverages started appearing it felt a bit like magic. Or like working in Starbucks.
We did, however, encounter a few glitches. Our touch screen hadn't been programmed to understand why anyone would ever want a whole pint of lime and soda, so our pal had to order two halves, which of course arrived together.
Mrs Diner struggled gamely to substitute out some fries for a salad, but the computer was having none of it. When, in despair, I pressed the "call a waitress" button, it felt like we'd all failed.
So much for the tech — how was the food? Truth be told: not particularly great. The good part first: they at least know what they're doing with a deep-fat fryer.
A starter of potato skins were crisp, as were some sweet potato fries that accompanied my main.
A portion of chilli cheese fries involved some really quite good chilli that spoke of a properly unrushed cooking time.
Mrs Diner's starter of prawns in chilli and garlic were enjoyable, if somewhat less revolutionary than the method of their ordering.
Elsewhere, however, lurked some serious clangers. A Scotch egg was overcooked — the non-oozy yolk took me straight back to the pre-Broad Chare era of the 1990s. This mistake may once have passed without comment, but times have moved on; nowadays it's a crime. As is charging £6.75 for said item, alongside some boringly underdressed salad. The Broad Chare (Newcastle) Scotch egg is less than half this price and more than twice as good.
Meanwhile, a chicken Caesar salad turned out to be nothing of the sort. Since when did a Caesar salad contain red peppers, tomatoes and red onions, but no discernible anchovy or parmesan? Never, that's when. Try as I might, I couldn't find a "take it back" button on the iPad.
Mains were mostly poor. My own, a two meats and two sides board from the smokehouse, featured desperately poor sausages and dreary brisket. The latter had been pulled into strands rather than being served in pink-tinged slices. Pit beans were better, at least having proper smokiness and some tang in the sauce.
Elsewhere a chicken burger was dry and thick — it hadn't been pounded out at all. Chicken wings were just as arid.
Mrs Diner's sirloin was edible, although it possessed that slightly boiled note that comes from average beef, averagely cooked. It lacked char and proper seasoning.
Best of the mains bunch were kebabs of prawns and chicken. Dull, but not bad for a pub in Alnwick.
Whatever the food lacked in quality, it made up for in volume. Portions were enormous. However, as much as I never enjoy returning uneaten animal to the kitchen — it seems such a waste of a life — here there was no option: eating much of it just wasn't very pleasurable.
Neither was the one dessert that we tried. The website claims that all the food is prepared fresh on site. Either the word "prepared" is doing rather a lot of work in that sentence, or they need a new recipe for chocolate fudge cake. It wasn't just dull, it was yawn-making, a mind-numbing waste of time, lacking any hint of competence or thwack of good cocoa. A selection of ice-creams was better, although this resulted from good shopping rather than cooking, as it had come from the local Morwick dairy.
Beers were, once we had acquired a card, dispensed from a self-service "tasting wall". This is actually quite a good idea. The machine charges you for the actual amount you consume, which can be as little as you want. So you could taste the lot, before committing to a pint. A shame then that the libations on offer were a couple of Brewdog standards and Blue Moon, which are fine, but widely available in local supermarkets.
The technology almost caused total carnage at the dessert stage of proceedings as we somehow managed to order ten of each. Thankfully there was a sensible human on hand to recognise the error. Service, for that matter, was good, although in theory there shouldn't have been much need for any.
And that, I think, cuts to the heart of the issue; are these machines serving us, or vice versa? A lot of science fiction pits us against them in some kind of dystopian struggle for existence, but perhaps the reality will be rather more banal. Maybe in the future we will all just be eating ridiculous quantities of ice cream and really bad chocolate fudge cake so as not to offend our new digital overlords. A terrifying thought.
I can now relate in a whole new way to the lyrics of one of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs. As he sang, some years ago, "I've seen the future, brother: it is murder".


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Newsroom / In the News / Achieving data privacy in police investigations involving digital evidence
Achieving data privacy in police investigations involving digital evidence
April 5, 2021 | Adam Jaffe - VP of Global Communications
Thursday, January 28, was International Data Privacy Day (Data Protection Day in Europe). This day was initiated in 2007 to raise awareness and promote best practices for preserving privacy and protecting data. As law enforcement agencies continue to evolve amidst the rapidly changing digital landscape, many agencies are transforming the way they work and employing far more robust platforms to handle data management across the investigation workflow.
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By building and managing some of the country's most acclaimed golf courses, Eric Bergstol, Founder of Empire Golf Management, has changed the face of the golf industry.
A subsidiary of Bergstol Enterprises, within its portfolio Empire Golf Management is responsible for the financing, development, management, merchandising, and day-to-day supervision of nine, world-class, golf clubs.
Our courses offer the highest levels of customer service. Our Members and guests consistently enjoy superior golf and dining experiences. In fact, through our Club Max USA program, Members enjoy reciprocal privileges at each of our three "Core Clubs." Additionally, they are treated to significant savings at our "Bonus Club" Twisted Dune Club.
Empire Golf Management - Executive Team: Eric Bergstol, Mark Unger, Mike Sommerfeldt, Dr. Richard Hurley, and Rudy Virga.
Eric Bergstol, Owner and Founder, a native of Rockland County, New York, is the founder and visionary behind Empire Golf Management, where developing golf courses isn't a business ... it's a passion.
A leader in real estate development for more than 50 years, Bergstol Enterprises today has a presence along the entire U.S. East Coast with three primary real estate divisions - golf, residential, and retail/commercial.
Eric first became involved in the golf course development industry in 1989 when he acquired property to create Minisceongo Golf Club. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Bergstol developed Pine Barrens Golf Club in New Jersey to universal acclaim, and then Branton Woods Golf Club soon followed. It premiered as the Number 2 course in Golf Digest's Top 10 New Upscale Courses for 2002.
Empire Golf is a fully integrated golf company featuring site identification, acquisition, development, design, construction and management. Empire Golf's experience extends beyond its own portfolio and provides the full array of services to third parties.
Mark Unger, President, is responsible for the company's three divisions: golf, residential, and retail/commercial. In 2005, in addition to his CFO responsibility, he assumed the responsibility of President of Empire Golf Management. 'Bergstol is a long standing, established entrepreneurial real estate company that has diversified within the real estate development business, and I am proud to be a part of it,' says Mr. Unger.
Mark was instrumental in forming the firm's golf division, Empire Golf. 'We manage every element of the golf course development spectrum including site identification, acquisition, development, golf course design, construction, marketing, pre-opening and operational management,' says Mark.
As President, Mark maintains a constant focus on marrying superior customer service with sound principles in accounting and finance, controls, and systems.
Mark holds a B.S. degree from Cornell and an MBA in finance from New York University.
Mike Sommerfeldt, Director of Finance, brings more than 20 years of financial services experience to Empire Golf Management. Beginning in 1985, Mike worked in public accounting for Ernst and Young [NY] and then moved to the hospitality industry with Schieffelin & Somerset. In 1989, Mr. Sommerfeldt moved to Club Corp. of America, serving as Controller for the Plaza Club in Phoenix. From there, and he became Controller at Sleepy Hollow Country Club, Briarcliff Manor, New York. During his tenure at Sleepy Hollow, he supervised the computerization of the entire accounting system and was instrumental in conducting a Champions TOUR event held there at the time.
In 2001, Mike became the EGM Director of Finance. Mike and his staff oversee the financial operations for all of Empire Golf Management's properties, third party management contracts, and new golf course construction. 'Our goal at Empire Golf Management is to provide our clients with a level of accounting and financial management that exceeds what is required at the country's finest clubs,' says Mike.
Mr. Sommerfeldt holds a B.S degree from Saint John's University.
Rudy Virga - Director of Operations. Rudy has worked for Empire Golf Management for the past 14 years. Most recently serving as General Manger of Pine Barrens Golf Club for the past 10 years, he started his career at Empire as the First Assistant Professional at Minisceongo Golf Club, in Pomona, NY.
Prior to joining Empire Golf Management, Rudy had extensive experience in the golf industry. He held the position of First Assistant Professional at the Baltimore Country Club in Maryland for two years and prior to that he worked as the First Assistant Professional for Westchester Country Club.
Rudy participated in the Ben Hogan Tour, South African Tour, T.C. Jordan Tour, Canadian Tour, the Emerald Coast Tour and the Gold Coast Tour. Rudy holds the distinction of being a nationally recognized amateur which was highlighted by the 1989 U.S. Amateur at Merion Golf Club where he finished in the final 32 players in match play. He earned membership to the PGA of America in 1999 and currently holds a PGA A-9 Classification.
Rudy is a graduate of Central Connecticut State University earning a BS in Marketing and Management.
Richard H. Hurley, Ph.D. & CPAg - Director of Golf Course Maintenance. An accomplished agronomist, Dr. Hurley specializes in the development and selection of grasses to complement golf course and sports field construction. He handles projects both domestically and abroad, including Europe and the Far East. He has authored dozens of professional articles, and some of his writings have been translated into Japanese.
Since 1978 he has served in a volunteer capacity preparing Augusta National Golf Club for the Masters. A recipient of several national awards, he is also a member of the New Jersey Turfgrass Hall of Fame.
Rich joined Empire Golf Management in 1998, supervising agronomy operations for course designs and construction, while also directing the use and establishment of turfgrass and natural plant selection. He continues to provide his extensive knowledge of turfgrass management for existing courses, as well as, the development of Empire's new construction.
A past President of the New Jersey Turfgrass Association and Turfgrass Foundation, Dr. Hurley received his Master's Degree from the University of Rhode Island [Plant Science & Turfgrass Management], and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University [Soils & Crops and Turfgrass Breeding].


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Young Donegal woman hopes for Lyme disease treatment to get her life back
A young Castlefin woman is on an urgent search for relief from the pain of Lyme Disease.
Jenny Brolly, aged 29, has lived with poor health for the past 8 years.
It was only last year that she solved the mystery behind her symptoms and was diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease.
Every day is a battle with constant pain and persistent fatigue, brain fog and chronic inflammation in her organs. She has endured being rushed to hospital on two occasions, countless tests and scans. But Jenny, an ever-positive and 'amazing lady', is determine to beat her illness and get back to work and living a normal life again.
She is due to marry the love of her life, Simon Carr, this October. What would make their small wedding a dream come true is the prospect of planning a pain-free future together.
Simon has launched a GoFundMe appeal (click here to visit) to raise money for Jenny to access treatment in Germany.
"The treatment is a mix of infusions, therapies and stem cell treatment. It is an intense treatment programme, but one that has worked so well for so many people. They now have a new lease of life," said Simon.
"Jenny is in constant pain and has persistent fatigue, brain fog and chronic inflammation in her organs. Her immune system is at an extremely low point. She also has an incurable condition called Tuberous Sclerosis (TSC) and the Chronic Lyme Disease is making it more difficult to treat this illness.
"With Lyme Disease treatment, however, she can boost her immune system and be free of so much pain and fatigue. This should significantly increase the effectiveness of the treatment for TSC also."
The couple is hoping to raise €30,000 and they are already receiving generous support from family and friends in their campaign – https://gofund.me/314b334d
"Jenny has endured poor health for most of the last 10 years and this treatment gives us hope that Jenny will be able to look forward and lead a very normal and productive life that is pain and fatigue free. The most exciting prospect, for Jenny, is to be able to return to work," said Simon.
"I will finish off by saying that Jenny is the most amazing lady. Despite feeling so ill, for so long, she always has a smile on her face. She deserves to get so much better.
"We would be so grateful if you could help us to fund this treatment in Germany. The treatment is intense and will cost approximately €30,000 and so we really need some help to make it happen. We would be so grateful for your support."
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Experts: No Link Between Killing, Autism
WUSF Public Media - WUSF 89.7 | By Carol Gentry
The man who allegedly shot 20 first-graders, seven adults and himself last Friday supposedly had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism.
Since then, some may have assumed that Adam Lanza's violent killing spree was somehow linked to his having a form of autism.
Three Florida mental-health experts who work with autism say the answer is almost certainly no. Even patients who have the most severe cases of autism would not behave that way – not without some other form of mental illness or personality disorder.
"We have never had a case (of extreme violence) in treating the autism population here at the university," said Matt Nguyen, chief of pediatric and adolescent psychiatry at University of Florida in Gainesville.
Anyone -- including a person diagnosed with autism -- can contract a psychiatric disease such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, he said. But the two would not be connected.
Besides, said Nguyen, the shooter would not necessarily have to have that sort of psychiatric disease. Pointing to the prison population, he said, "to murder, you do not have to have a mental illness."
Two psychologists affiliated with University of South Florida agreed that such violent behavior is very unlikely to stem from autism spectrum disorder, the new name that covers Asperger's and other variants of autism.
"Simply having a diagnosis of Asperger's or autism would not be a factor that would influence behavior that is as extreme as what we've seen (in the Sandy Hook shootings)," said Karen Berkman, executive director of USF's Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD).
Jillian L. Childres, a faculty psychologist in pediatrics at University of South Florida, said that if a person with severe autism becomes agitated, it's because he's frustrated over the inability to communicate, "not so much a planned violence towards other people."
Since autism is listed in the diagnostic manual of psychiatric disorders, it may technically be considered a mental illness. But both USF psychologists said they don't regard it as such; instead, they said, it is a developmental disability that stems from an overgrowth of neurons in the brain. The neurons interfere with communication between different parts of the brain, they said.
Like everyone else, families and individuals connected to USF's CARD center have been talking about the mass shooting at the Newtown, CT. elementary school, Berkman said. But they have the extra worry that the public will draw the wrong inference from the alleged shooter's diagnosis of Asperger's.
That could worsen discrimination against those who already carry the burden of autism, Berkman said.
"One of my concerns is young adults trying to become employed or become involved in the community or make new friends may be judged by the behavior of one person," she said. "That would be very unfair."
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Carol Gentry, founder and special correspondent of Health News Florida, has four decades of experience covering health finance and policy, with an emphasis on consumer education and protection.After serving two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia, Gentry worked for a number of newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times), the Tampa Tribune and Orlando Sentinel. She was a Kaiser Foundation Media Fellow in 1994-95 and earned an Master's in Public Administration at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 1996. She directed a journalism fellowship program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for four years.Gentry created Health News Florida, an independent non-profit health journalism publication, in 2006, and served as editor until September, 2014, when she became a special correspondent. She and Health News Florida joined WUSF in 2012.
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compiler, FOROTS, FORLIB, and FORDDT.
supported in accordance with the FORTRAN-77 full language standard.
files generated by this version of FORTRAN.
Two copies of this manual are enclosed with this release package.
A copy of this installation is enclosed with this release package.
Two copies of this booklet are enclosed with this release package.
This manual will be available from SDC in May 1983.
patch is listed in section 4.2 below.
1.  Character data at the FORTRAN-77 full language level.
and image mode I/O.  See section 2.2 below for more details.
13.  Support of FORTRAN-77 statement ordering rules.
assigned to the left hand side.
extension is also provided by VAX FORTRAN.
performed on the character argument.
the corresponding actual must be of type character.
character variables will always begin  on  a  word  boundary.
and numeric data, there may be unused character positions.
when running in an extended addressing environment.
the location of its character data descriptor.
mode, which is now indicated by /X.
character constants as per the ANSI standard.
user's program.  It cannot be declared in FORDDT.
as specified by the full FORTRAN-77 standard.
an END DO statement as discussed below.
control transfers to the statement following the loop.
described in section 15.10 of the FORTRAN-77 standard.
NINT, REAL, SINH, TAN, TANH.
The second arument to CMPLX is now optional.
versions) handled DO  loops  in  accordance  with  the  old  standard.
Version 7 supports the new standard.
the value of the implied DO variable is indeterminate.
be used as format specifiers in I/O statements.
* or &) that name will still refer to the intrinsic function.
block will be preserved.  Blank COMMON is always preserved.
feature.  This is provided by LINK version 5.1.
null argument list, but there was no way to reference such a function.
statement function that had a null argument list.
2.  Statement functions with null argument lists may be declared.
allow parentheses.  Version 7 supports both forms.
but parentheses were not allowed.
3.  Statement numbers are  legal  on  non-executable  statements.
subscript expressions in data statements.
expression.  FORTRAN version 6 only support simple constants.
data  type  of  the  constant  rather  than that of the symbolic name.
statements and control information lists.
numbers, and the values of all numeric OPEN statement specifiers.
values of all character OPEN statement specifiers.
FORTRAN version 7 will also support a new option to the DEBUG  switch.
calls the involve old REL files.
transform the actual argument  into  a  "passed  by  address"
-  The argument must be a constant.
image must be word aligned.
descriptor) to 17 (ASCIZ string).
/DEBUG:ARGUMENTS when compiling his FORTRAN program.
1.  If the argument counts in the caller and callee disagree.
if the length of the actual is known at compile time.
all other argument  types  will  be  "pass  by  address".
action described in item 2 above will be performed.
not listed in the above table are ignored.
write his own fixup routines for arithmetic exceptions.
SUBR can change this value.
If SUBR is not specified, no routine is called on the APR trap.
If there are no available unit numbers, IUNIT is set to -1.
disabled by using the ERRSET function with error number 22.
FORTRAN-20 version 7 provides support for G-floating double precision.
on KL model B processors.
G-floating is an alternative internal  format  for  double  precision.
program was compiled with /DEBUG:ARGUMENTS.
G-floating is not supported on the KS or the KL model A.
first product to meet this standard.
support long file names in these commands.
must use a /LISTING switch to get a listing file.
prior to the beginning of compilation.
nesting depth of 10 take files is supported.
program at an offset relative to the normal starting address.
Prints the help file, FORTRA.HLP.
compilation switches will accept non-ambiguous abbreviations.
source file, and extension .LST.
compiles FOO.FOR and produces a listing file called  FUM.LST.
of a compilation that contains errors.
compatibly with the F77 standard.  This is the default.
old-style PARAMETER statements (see section 2.17 above).
precision.  This switch may be abbreviated /G or /GFLOAT.
There are two types of lines in a SWITCH.INI file.
1.  Lines that specify default switch values.
if the user types a conflicting switch in a command line.
the  global  optimizer  and it will always suppress the "DIM"
/NOOPTIMIZE or /WARN in the command line).
2.  Lines that define "options".
(as well as the new TOPS-20 style syntax) when  running  under  batch.
guarantee that this feature will be supported for all future versions.
command line.  Logical device names may be used  in  the  file  names.
FORTRAN-10/20 version 7 supports the subset level FORTRAN-77 standard.
1.  The INQUIRE statement is not supported by version 7.
may they appear between two continuation lines.
compiler generates the wrong value for such an expression.
meantime if you wish to use /GFLOATING.  User input is in lower case.
expgf/   DMOVE 4,DPNEGN#+12   dmove 4,pat..
gstep1+7/   DMOVE 1,DPNEGN#+12   dmove 1,pat..
gover+5/   DMOVE 1,DPNEGN#+12   dmove 1,pat..
2)              wasn't G-ized enough.  Change 1.0 to 200140000000.
1.  There are several deficiencies in the compile-class commands.
occur in TOPS-20 releases 4.1, 5.0, and 5.1.
the TOPS-20 EXEC fixes this problem.
switches  given  in  response  to a ?, is not recognized.
2.  Do not install TOPS-20 edit 2819 (CTCO 607.1).
differently  in  version  7  than  they did in version 6.
opened with no FORM or MODE specifier.
it defaults in accordance with the  FORTRAN-77  standard.
unformatted files and unformatted I/O to formatted files.
!  the file have "mixed form"
statement to include the FORM specifier.
This functionality is NOT affected by the /F66 switch.
to satisfy the requirements of the FORTRAN-77 standard.
always closes the file and reopens it.
was also not detected by version 6.
and to improve the performance of formatted I/O.
2.  Version 6 ignores NULs.
count.  Version 7 interprets it to be a word count.
= 2560 (5 X 512).
actual blocksize is shorter than the program expects.
to the next internal record.
This warning may be disabled with the ERRSET function.
disabled with the ERRSET function.
performance  reasons,  this  capability has been removed.
error  message,  do  fix up the result, and jump to addr.
processed compatibly with version 6.
parentheses, a warning message is issued.
in version 6, which is by the type of the constant.
to cause DO loops to be executed compatibly with version 6.
1.  In version 7 of FORDDT, /C is used  for  CHARACTER  mode.
7, /X is used for COMPLEX mode.
TOPS-20 style interface.  See section 2.21 above.
of constructs that are fatal in version 7.
expression illegal as UNIT specifier".
two error classes are now fatal.
formals.   A LINKtime fixup will be done to support this.
argument, then the LINKtime fixup cannot be done.
The default value of this switch is /F77.
is specified, all DO loops execute at least once.
as the name of a user defined function.
statements is suppressed when /F66 is specified.
Other errors may also occur.
file with the new FORLIIB/FOROTS, you must recompile.
version 7 FORPRM in order to use version 7 FORLIB and FOROTS.
with an earlier version of FORTRAN.
a fix-up must be performed on the character argument.
an earlier version of FORTRAN.
will force the loading of DBMS with the user's program.
for calls to FOROTS and sharable DBMSF.EXE for calls to DBMS.
FOROT7.EXE for calls to FOROTS.
DBMSF.EXE for calls to DBMS.
thus use no sharable high segment.
illegal in versions 6 and 7.
program will be in user-supplied MACRO subroutines.
therefore different) than those produced by version 5A.
version 5A, the value returned was the numerator.
which blanks are always treated as 0's.
by 5A;  version 6 treats them as multiple records.
leaves the file positioned before the erroneous record.
an ERR= branch, you can now use REREAD with an ERR= branch.
record size is fatal with both versions.
by  spaces,  and  so  will  be  interpreted incorrectly by 6.
Files written by 6 can be read by 5A.
many of the conversion routines.
rename if it detected an actual change.
characters read into the FOROTS internal record buffer.
in general, not be readable as random-access files.
width was invariant for data type.
the 2nd word of the double precision variable to 0).
value (-1E-1) and converts it appropriately.
suppress the line feed for the succeeding WRITE.
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Ramakrishna Mahabaleshwar Hegde (29 August 1926 – 12 January 2004) was an Indian politician who served as the third Chief Minister of Karnataka for three terms between 1983 and 1988. He was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 1957, 1962, 1967, 1983, 1985 and 1989, and to the Rajya Sabha for two terms, 1978–83 and 1996–2002. He also served as Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Union government (1998–1999).

Early life
Hegde was born at Siddapura in Uttara Kannada district into a Havyaka Brahmin family, he was son of Mahabaleshwar Hegde and Smt. Saraswati Amma Hegde, who hailed from Sirimane village near sringeri. Hegde completed a part of his studies at the Kashi Vidyapeeth in Varanasi and later obtained a degree in law from Allahabad university. A lawyer by profession, he participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942 and was an active member of the Congress Party.

Political career
Hegde became the president of the Uttara Kannada District Congress Committee from 1954 to 1957 and rose to become the general secretary of the Mysore Pradesh Congress Committee in 1958, a post he held until 1962. Much of his early administrative experience was built up during the governments of S. Nijalingappa (1956–58 and 1962–68) and Veerendra Patil (1968–71). He was first elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 1957 and appointed a deputy minister. He was later promoted to cabinet-minister rank, holding diverse portfolios such as Youth Welfare and Sports, Cooperation, Industries, Planning, Panchayat Raj, Development, Information and Publicity, Excise and Finance between 1962 and 1971.

During the famous split in the Congress in 1969, Hegde followed in the footsteps of his mentor Nijalingappa and joined the Congress(O), the faction that was opposed to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He was Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council for a few years until 1974. The 1975 Emergency crackdown on opposition leaders saw his arrest along with several other state and national level leaders. When the emergency was lifted, he joined the Janata Party and became the first general secretary of its Karnataka state unit. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha during 1978–83.

Chief Minister of Karnataka
When the Janata Party came to power by emerging as the single largest party in the 1983 State elections, he emerged as a consensus Brahmin candidate between the powerful Lingayat and Vokkaliga lobbies. In the process, he became the first non-Congress chief minister of Karnataka. A master strategist, he cobbled up a two-thirds majority for his government by an arrangement of outside support from other parties. His government secured the outside support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Left parties and 16 Independents.

Following the poor performance of the Janata Party in the 1984 elections to the 8th Lok Sabha (it won only 4 out of the 28 seats from Karnataka), Hegde resigned on the grounds that his party had lost its popular mandate and sought a fresh mandate for his government. In the 1985 elections, the Janata Party came to power on its own with a comfortable majority. As Chief Minister between 1983 and 1985 and again between 1985 and 1988, he became an active votary of State rights within a federal set-up, but one who made no concession to regional or linguistic chauvinism. Secondly, he took innovative initiatives in expanding the federal principle within the State, primarily in the area of devolving power to local bodies and in trying to enforce accountability. During his Chief Minister-ship, Karnataka pioneered legislation on Panchayat Raj that devolved a substantial degree of financial and administrative powers to a three-tiered structure of local government. He supported the tireless work of his Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Abdul Nazir Sab, in promoting devolution of power to the gram panchayats in the state, and the Karnataka implementation became a role model for the rest of India. In 1984 he introduced legislation to deal with official and administrative corruption through the institution of the Lokayukta. Also, he started the 'Kannada watchdog panel' to oversee the implementation of Kannada in administration. He has the rare distinction of presenting thirteen finance budgets in the state assembly.

As Chief Minister, Hegde enjoyed immense personal popularity and was acknowledged as an efficient administrator. However, as days passed by, his rule was mired with several scams involving alleged corruption on the part of his own family. His son was accused of taking money for a medical seat. There were allegations made by the Congress (I) against him in a case involving the transfer of shares by the NGEF company.

He submitted resignation from Chief Minister-ship on 13 February 1986 when the Karnataka High Court censured his government for the way it handled arrack bottling contracts, but withdrew his resignation after three days on 16 February.

He resigned and quit office in 1988 after allegations of phone tapping of prominent politicians and businessmen in the State. Hegde then filed a case against Subramanian Swamy in 1989 and 1990 after Swamy accused him in tapping. Soon after, he quit the Janata Party and joined the Janata Dal.

He contested Lok Sabha elections from Bagalkot in 1991 and was defeated by Congress candidate Siddu Nyamagouda.

He was also the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India during the tenure of V. P. Singh. He was expelled from Janata Dal by its president Lalu Prasad Yadav, as per the instructions of Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda in 1996. Following his expulsion, Hegde formed the Rashtreeya Nava nirmana vedike a social organisation and then his own political party Lok Shakti. He allied with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the alliance won a majority of the Lok Sabha seats from Karnataka in the 1998 General Elections. He became the Commerce minister in the BJP led NDA government in 1998. After the Janata Dal split of 1999, the faction led by his protégé, Chief Minister J. H. Patel, and the Lok Shakti merged to form the Janata Dal (United) and allied with the BJP. However, the alliance suffered a setback in the 1999 General Elections owing to the anti-incumbency against the Patel Government and the Congress party emerged victorious in Karnataka.

Personal life
Hegde was married at a very young age to Shakuntala Amma, in a match arranged by their families in the usual Indian way. The marriage, which lasted throughout their lives, was blessed with three children, a son named Bharath appa and two daughters named Mamata and Samata. Shakuntala is a conventional lady, a devoted wife and mother, who adhered to the traditional view that a woman's dignity exists in staying away from the public gaze and the rough and tumble of public life. She continues to reside in Bangalore after Hegde's death, and had to suffer the pain of witnessing the early death of her only son, Bharath, who died of liver cancer in February 2013. Shakuntala Amma Hegde is now of very advanced age and is being cared for by her two daughters.

Hegde was also the romantic partner of a renowned Indian classical dancer Pratibha Prahlad who was junior to him by 36 years, from the 1980s until his death in 2004. He is also the biological father of her twin sons, Chirantan and Chirayu, who were born in 1998.

Later life
Despite the weakening of his political stock, Hegde continued to play the role of elder statesman in the fractious Janata Parivar. He gradually moved away from active politics owing to poor health. He died in Bangalore on 12 January 2004 after prolonged illness at the age of 77. His death caused an outpouring of grief in Karnataka.

A versatile personality, Hegde also acted in many dramas and films such as Marana Mrudanga, Prajashakti. He was the political mentor of a large number of politicians such as Jeevaraj Alva, Abdul Samad Siddiqui, M. P. Prakash, P. G. R. Sindhia, R. V. Deshpande, and groomed many younger politicians. In the latter part of his life he became depressed and trusted only few friends like Alva, Siddiqui and advocate Manas Ranjan, along with his partner, Prathibha Prahlad, who he confided in and spent his free time with. His wife, Shakuntala, unsuccessfully contested Rajya Sabha as a BJP candidate in 2004.

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Lok Shakti politicians
Commerce and Industry Ministers of India
Mysore MLAs 1957–1962
Mysore MLAs 1962–1967
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Murder rate still rising
El Salvador's murder rate, already the highest in Latin America, is continuing to rise. La Prensa Grafica reports that there were 55 more murders in the first four months of 2006 than in the corresponding period in 2005. There have been 1143 murders in the country since the beginning of the year.
The government seems to be helpless to stop the rise in murders. Every few months the government comes out with a new plan to tackle the violence, yet there is no change to the pace of the killing, and only a small percentage of the murders are ever punished. There are no simple answers. Among the many things which must happen, police must receive training and resources, the justice system must become efficient, opportunities must be created for the marginalized members of El Salvador's society, programs must be developed to keep youth out of gangs, and a culture must emerge which rejects violence as a method to solve disputes.
I have an idea...
Why not sign a mutual defense agreement with the USA, and thus abolish the military - or reduce it to Costa Rica style - mainly police. This would save hundreds of millions of dollars, eliminate a source of corruption and trouble, and allow for a much stronger police force, with more funds to back up the whole system, with much to spare.
That is too simple, El Salvador has a history of militarism, and corruption is not isolated only to certain sectors of society. Factors that influence the violence in El Salvador include the legacy of the civil war, poverty, and corruption too. The Costa Rica model does not fit to El Salvador because of all of this reasons.