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Posted byJamesJoyce	 June 27, 2014 October 23, 2019
On 27 June 1846 Charles Stewart Parnell was born.
The most significant and controversial Irish politician of the late nineteenth century, Parnell was also an important influence on the world of James Joyce, and there are references to Parnell in all of Joyce's works.
Parnell was born into a landowning Protestant family in Wicklow. Elected as Home Rule MP, he soon made clear his sympathies with Fenian ideas in opposition to the moderate lines pursued by the Home Rule League, headed by Isaac Butt. A charismatic speaker and astute tactician, Parnell quickly rose through the ranks. He reformed the Irish Parliamentary Party into a disciplined organisation that made use of obstructionist tactics and the balance of power in Parliament in order to further its aims. As his achievements grew, so also did his ambition.
The revelation of his long-term affair with Katharine O'Shea, wife of one of his MPs, brought his enormous success to an end. The Party split into Parnellite and anti-Parnellite factions, with the Catholic Church and the British Liberal Party backing the anti-Parnellites. After Parnellite candidates failed to get elected in by-elections in 1891, Parnell returned to England where he died of a heart attack on 6 October 1891, aged just forty-five.
John Joyce was an ardent Parnellite and blamed anti-Parnellite factions for ousting him from his job with Dublin Corporation. Much to his father's delight, the first thing Joyce wrote that we know of was a poem, 'Et tu, Healy,' denouncing Tim Healy, Parnell's former close aide, as a betraying Brutus. John Joyce proudly had it printed and distributed to his friends. In 'Ivy Day in the Committee Room' in Dubliners (commemorating both Parnell's 'death day' on 6 October and the Westminster Committee Room 15 in which the split in the Irish Party took place), Joyce gives an impression of the miserable state of local politics after Parnell.
In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the famous Christmas dinner scene shows the viciousness of the split in Irish politics after Parnell's death, a split that was never effectively mended. In Ulysses we get not just an impression of the failures of the Irish Party after Parnell, but of the new movements and new politics that would soon start to overtake the Party. Themes that were central to Parnell's personal and political life – such as betrayal, forgery, illicit love, and the fall of the big man – are also central to Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Joyce makes 27 June the date on which Rudolph Bloom dies in the Queen's Hotel in Ennis in Ulysses. By coincidence, it was on this day in 1928 that Joyce met F Scott Fitzgerald, and on this day in 1929 that the Déjeuner Ulysse took place.
Sources & Further Reading:
Ellmann, Richard: James Joyce – New and Revised edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Bew, Paul: Enigma – A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2012.
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Los ngesh o mingeh son espíritus de la naturaleza del folclore de la región de Kuba de la República Democrática del Congo. Se les atribuye cualidades humanas y residen cerca de agua en bosques y aldeas, pudiendo ser encontrados en cualquier momento. Cada comunidad tiene sus propios ngesh con nombres propios y descendencia. Se creía que afectaban a los asuntos humanos, incluyendo las cosechas y la fertilidad de mujeres.

Cada ngesh tiene un nombre y es distinto del resto. Especialmente, tienen su propio temperamento particular, con sus gustos y aversiones diferenciadas.

Mascaradas Kuba
Las tradiciones descritas en los rituales con máscaras de Kuba describen cómo el creador de la máscara encontró un ngesh en el bosque y, tras desorientarse, regresó a casa para tallar un modelo del ngesh. Los ngesh se representan así figurativamente en figuras enmascaradas, que reciben poderes de estos espíritus de la naturaleza.

La agresividad de algunos intérpretes es parte de la mascarada y quiere mostrar la naturaleza imprevisible de los ngesh en la cultura de Kuba. La asociación entre ngesh y máscaras se refuerza por las normas tradicionales que prohíben tocar una máscara o acercarse a un bailarín enmascarado.

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Ribelle dal 1980, artista con una causa (e un brand) da vent'anni. Spegni la televisione, accendi Tv Boy.
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A career in "downhill" (from the highest to the lowest positions) that leads Wally to leave the world of communication, to enter into the street art world and to found the collective Orticanoodles.
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Australia reached the knock-out stage of the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 16 years after a shocking 1-0 victory over Denmark at the Al Janoub Stadium in Doha, Qatar yesterday.
The Danes, needing victory to progress, dominated possession but were caught out on the break when Australia scored the winner on the hour mark. Denmark lost the ball in the Australian box and Mathew Leckie finished a brilliant counterattack with a low shot past Kasper Schmeichel.
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Domonique Johnson (born November 7, 1985) is a former American football cornerback. He was signed by the Denver Broncos as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Jackson State University. Prior to transferring to Jackson State, he played at the University of Missouri.

He has also been a member of the New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Minnesota Vikings, Washington Redskins, Indianapolis Colts, Philadelphia Eagles, and Detroit Lions.

Professional career

2009 NFL Combine

Denver Broncos
Johnson signed with the Denver Broncos as an undrafted free agent on April 27, 2009. The Broncos waived him, but he was signed to the team's practice squad on September 6.

New York Giants
The New York Giants signed Johnson off the Broncos' practice squad on November 11, 2009. He made his NFL debut in Week 15 against the Washington Redskins, where he recorded two tackles. He played a total of 3 games his rookie season, recording six combined tackles.

He was re-signed by the Giants on April 16, 2010. He played seven games for the Giants before being released on November 20.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers
On November 24, 2010, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers signed Johnson. He was promoted to the team's active roster on December 8.

He was released by the Buccaneers on September 5, 2011 for final roster cuts before the start of the 2011 season.

Minnesota Vikings
Johnson was signed to the Minnesota Vikings' practice squad on September 7, 2011.

Washington Redskins
The Washington Redskins signed him off of the Vikings' practice squad on November 8, 2011. He was released on November 29 by the Redskins.

Philadelphia Eagles
Johnson was signed to the practice squad of the Philadelphia Eagles on December 2. At the conclusion of the 2011 season, his practice squad contract expired and he became a free agent. He was re-signed to the active roster on January 2, 2012.

Indianapolis Colts
On July 22, 2012, the Eagles traded Johnson to the Indianapolis Colts for defensive tackle Ollie Ogbu.

The Colts waived him on September 1, 2012, but signed to the team's practice squad the next day. He was waived by the team on October 1.

Second Stint with Redskins
Johnson re-joined the Redskins on October 23, 2012 after the team signed him to the practice squad. He was activated from Redskins' practice squad on November 6. He was placed on the injured reserve list on January 4, 2013 after spraining a ligament in his left knee in the last regular season game against the Dallas Cowboys

The Redskins released Johnson on February 4.

Detroit Lions
Johnson was signed to the Detroit Lions on February 6, 2013. On August 23, 2013, he was cut by the Lions.

Post-NFL Career
Current, Johnson is an assistant high school football coach for the Dickinson Gators, a neighboring district just to the north of where he grew up in La Marque, Texas.

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1985 births
Living people
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Smarter Faster Better is ideal book for someone who loves both stories and career-related self-improvement. Readers looking for quick answers, bullet points or sound bites may be disappointed as Duhigg's approach is to focus on case studies, told with the flair of a short story, and then extrapolate from these rather than listing tips and exercises. However, if you have the time and patience to get to the point of each chapter slowly (and surely this is a subject matter worth devoting time to), you will doubtless find that Duhigg is an excellent storyteller and cleverly articulates the key message from each story so that they stick.
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My only criticism of this otherwise brilliant book is its treatment of gender. Duhigg uses several examples from very male dominated environments (a car manufacturing plant, the marines, the FBI) and one very female one (the nurses in a special care baby unit). For 2017, it's rather disappointing to read such gender stereotypes. Duhigg features a female prime minister but in a negative light, the only positive portrayals of women being a poker player and a director at Disney who is, in fact, the first female director in Disney's history. It would be encouraging if Duhigg had used some examples of successful people pursuing careers not usually associated with their gender and a more equal male, female balance.
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Further reading suggestions: Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can Change by Robert Kelsey.
You can read more book reviews or buy Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg at Amazon.com.
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IRA is a retirement savings plan provided by many financial institutions that provides advantage for retirement savings under the US Law. In traditional IRA, the contributions are tax-deductible, all the transactions under the IRA have no tax impact and withdrawals after retirement are taxable. While you convert traditional IRA to Roth, the income tax is paid on the contributions. The taxable amount converted is added to your income tax and is taxed as regular income tax on the total income. There is no income cap to convert a traditional IRA to Roth. Converting to Roth IRA will ensure that you don't have tax burdens after retirements and the penny saved can be used for investments. When the conversion is done in a low income year, the total taxable income will be less, it will reduce the amount of taxed paid during conversion.
Certain 401(K) plan allows you to exceed the normal limits by allowing "After tax". This is not an advantages investment since the withdrawal amount is taxable at ordinary income rates. This account can become beneficial when the plan allows conversion on after –tax money into Roth IRA contributions. Although the contributions are taxable but the withdrawals after retirement shall be tax-free.
Local or state government employees can contribute to 457 in addition to 401(K). The pre-retirement withdrawals are not chargeable when it is saved under 457. The allowable contribution limit for 457 in 2017 is $18000, above 55 aged personnel can contribute additional $6000 making it $24000 annually. Participants within three years of normal retirement age of 65 are allowed to contribute "twice the annual limit" in 457. The person availing this should not have availed the "Under 50 catch up limit" in the same year. It is always better to have maximum savings in 457 while 401(K) is maintained.
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Horry County Court Finds that SC Forfeiture Laws are Unconstitutional
by Charleston Criminal Defense in Civil Asset Forfeiture. Posted October 16, 2019
A circuit court judge in Horry County, SC, has issued an Order declaring that SC forfeiture laws are unconstitutional.
According to the Greenville News Online, the Horry County Solicitor asked the court to reconsider its ruling in a motion hearing yesterday, but the court has not issued a ruling on the motion to reconsider yet.
Attorneys, civil rights advocates, and citizens affected by the state and federal government's policy of stealing cash from motorists on the side of the road – or their vehicles, or their homes – have been speaking out about the need for civil asset forfeiture reform for years. Finally, a case here and a case there, the lower courts across the country are setting in motion an appellate court process to review the constitutionality of these laws and their effect on everyday Americans.
Why did the Horry County Court declare SC forfeiture laws are unconstitutional? Have other courts reached the same conclusion? What can you do if police seize your money on the side of the road?
Why SC Forfeiture Laws are Unconstitutional
In Richardson v. Green, the trial court said, "No" to the Horry County Solicitor and refused to approve the seizure of over $20,000 in a drug investigation.
Instead, the Court signed an Order declaring that SC forfeiture laws are unconstitutional because they violate the Excessive Fines Clause of the US and SC Constitutions and because they violate Due Process under the US and SC Constitutions by placing the burden on property owners to prove their innocence, by institutionally incentivizing forfeiture officials to seize money and prosecute forfeitures, and by not providing a process for judicial review either pre- or post-seizure:
This Court finds that South Carolina's forfeiture statutes, S.C. Code Sections 44-53-520 and 44-53-530, violate the prohibition on excessive fines found in the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I, Section 15 of the S.C. Constitution.
Furthermore, this Court finds that S.C. Code Sections 44-53-520 and 44-53-530 violate due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and Article I, Section Three of the S.C. Constitution in that the forfeiture statutes 1) place the burden on the property owner to prove their innocence, 2) unconstitutionally institutionally incentivize forfeiture officials to prosecute forfeiture actions, and 3) do not mandate judicial review or judicial authorization prior to or subsequent to the seizure.
That's four separate grounds for why SC forfeiture laws are unconstitutional.
The Excessive Fines Clause
The Court found that SC forfeiture laws are unconstitutional because they violate the Excessive Fines Clauses of the US and SC Constitutions:
This Court finds that South Carolina's forfeiture statutes violate both the federal and S.C. constitutional protections against excessive fines by permitting the government to seize unlimited amounts of cash and other property without regard to the proportionality of the crime that may have been committed. Indeed, they allow the government to seize unlimited amounts of cash and other property when no crime has been committed, without a criminal conviction and without proof of a crime having been committed beyond a determination of probable cause.
For example, South Carolina's forfeiture statutes would allow law enforcement to seize millions of dollars in assets from an individual when the maximum fine authorized by law is minimal, or when no crime has been committed at all. This unfettered authorization to seize unlimited amounts of property from citizens without regard to the proportionality of the offense committed – indeed, without evidence proving that the individual committed an offense – compels this Court to find that the statutory scheme is unconstitutional and must be invalidated under the federal and state constitutional prohibitions on excessive fines and pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. ___ (2019).
According to the Greenville News article, this is the first time that Timbs v. Indiana has been applied in the country since the US Supreme Court decision was issued:
The decision marked the first time the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling on excessive fines in the case of Timbs vs. Indiana has been applied in the country since the ruling, said Wesley Hottot, the attorney who argued that case before the Supreme Court.
The Order may be appealed to the SC Supreme Court – putting the members of the state's highest court in the position of deciding whether SC forfeiture laws are unconstitutional. Although the state legislature can amend SC's forfeiture laws and there are constant "rumblings" about proposed legislation, it is unclear whether they will act to fix the forfeiture laws.
The court found that SC forfeiture laws are unconstitutional because the burden of proof is on the property owner:
Although, in some cases, the affirmative defense rules pronounced by the U.S. Supreme Court permit the burden of proof to be placed on the defendant in a criminal case, see Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 334, 96 S.Ct. 893, 47 L.Ed.2d 18 (1976), these rules only apply if the government first proves some wrongful act by the defendant. Because S.C.'s forfeiture statutes do not require meaningful proof of any wrongful act by the defendant, they unconstitutionally shift the burden of proof to defendants who, in some cases, are not even charged with a crime. See Martin v. Ohio, 480 U.S. 228, 233-34, 107 S.Ct. 1098, 94 L.Ed.2d 267 (1987), Nelson v. Colorado, 581 U.S. ___ (2017) (invalidating a Colorado statute that required a defendant to "prove her innocence by clear and convincing evidence to obtain the refund of costs, fees, and restitution paid pursuant to an invalid conviction").
The forfeiture laws allow the government to seize a person's property "when a defendant has not been convicted of a crime, when a defendant has not even been charged with a crime, or when the government has not provided any meaningful evidence that the property is connected with a crime."
Unconstitutional Incentivization
The court also found that SC forfeiture laws are unconstitutional because they provide a financial incentive for law enforcement to seize and keep citizens' cash and property:
Because forfeiture programs in South Carolina are self-funding, they violate due process in that they create an institutional incentive for forfeiture program officials to vigorously pursue forfeitures even where there is no basis for a forfeiture and when leniency would be more appropriate. See Tumey v. Ohio, 273 U.S. 510 (1927).
Enforcement personnel are responsible for conducting investigations following a seizure, including verifying whether the seizure was justified and determining whether to return a defendant's property, demand the full amount of forfeiture money or property, or negotiate a settlement in which a defendant who has not been proven guilty must relinquish some of their property, ensuring the continued flow of forfeiture funds.
Furthermore, the very existence of the forfeiture programs depends on the maintenance of income generated by the programs.
Basically, if the person prosecuting a case on behalf of the government, or their agency, has a financial incentive to make seizures, that creates an unconstitutional conflict of interest. The danger is that forfeiture officials will make decisions based on their own financial interests or the financial interests of their agency rather than the merits of the individual cases or what Justice requires.
Insufficient Judicial Review
The court's final reason for finding that SC forfeiture laws are unconstitutional is the lack of judicial review or judicial authorization either before or after the property is seized:
Under South Carolina Code § 44-53-530(c), the seizing agency is required to file a forfeiture action within a reasonable time of the seizure. The statute does not define a reasonable time. The law permits a seizure without a warrant if the seizure is made as incident to arrest or if probable cause exists to believe that the property was used in violation of the drug laws. See, S.C. Code § 44-53-520(b)(1) and (4). The statute does not have a provision for any type of pre-seizure or post-seizure hearing to determine if probable cause exists. For a seizure under subsection (b)(1) and (4), the law does not provide for any judicial review or judicial authorization prior to or subsequent to the seizure.
Although the statute requires the state to file a forfeiture action "within a reasonable time of the seizure," that does not provide enough protection for citizens:
There is no judicial review or authorization prior to seizure of assets;
There is no judicial review within a "reasonable time" after the seizure;
When the state does file a forfeiture action, according to the Greenville News article, it takes an average of 17 months for the case to go before a judge; and
In many cases, citizens are forced to sue the government to get their property back.
Although the court's order does not address it, many victims of SC's forfeiture laws cannot file their own lawsuit or effectively defend against a government forfeiture action because they cannot afford to pay an attorney to handle the case for them.
Why Haven't Courts Addressed These Issues Before?
Although many advocates in SC's legal community have been saying SC forfeiture laws are unconstitutional for years, it can be difficult to get "the right case" on appeal.
If a solicitor's office does not like the outcome of an individual case but does not want to "make bad law," they can decline to appeal a bad result;
If a solicitor's office is likely to win a case but it is not a case they want the defendant to appeal, they can either dismiss the action or negotiate a settlement before trial; and
Most defendants in forfeiture actions do not have attorneys – most forfeitures are of "small amounts" of cash that forfeiture defendants cannot afford to litigate. If police take $1200 from a motorist's wallet, there's just not enough money at stake to cover attorney fees to file or defend a lawsuit.
Although the Richardson v. Green case may not have been "the right case for appeal" either, the court's analysis seems to be that the law is "facially unconstitutional" – it is unconstitutional regardless of the underlying facts – as opposed to "unconstitutional as applied" to the facts of any individual case.
What Other Courts Have Declared Forfeiture Laws Unconstitutional?
The Horry County Court cites other lower-court cases, including Harjo v. City of Albuquerque, where a federal district court in New Mexico found that a civil forfeiture scheme operated by the City of Albuquerque was unconstitutional for the same reasons – the burden of proof was on the property owner to prove their innocence and the City had an unconstitutional financial incentive to seize property.
A federal district court in Iowa reached the same conclusion last year in Flora v. Sw. Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force:
Similarly, in Flora v. Sw. Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force, 292 F.Supp.3d 875 (S.D. Iowa, 2018), the District Court for the Southern District of Iowa found that "a special Iowa police task force charged with, among other things, drug investigation, enforcement, and civil asset forfeiture," had an unconstitutional profit incentive where "the task force distributed ten percent of any successful civil forfeiture to the county attorney's office, twenty percent to the state, and the remaining funds back to the task force." Id. The District Court denied the task force's summary judgment motion on profit incentive because: "(i) the profit-sharing agreement did not 'limit forfeiture shares to expenses accrued by the Task Force and the [county attorney's office] in pursuing the forfeitures'; and (ii) whether the task force received excessive funds from its seizures 'rest[ed] on the sole determination of the Task Force Unit Supervisor.' Harjo, 326 F.Supp.3d at 1196, citing Flora, 292 F.Supp.3d at 904.
How are the laws that were declared unconstitutional in these cases like SC's forfeiture laws?
The common thread in these cases, and possibly the clearest argument for why SC forfeiture laws are unconstitutional, is the financial incentive for law enforcement to seize money and property from people. The Horry County Order breaks down why SC forfeiture laws "institutionally incentivize" forfeiture officials:
Facts that demonstrate an unconstitutional incentive to prosecute forfeiture cases under South Carolina's forfeiture scheme include:
Forfeiture revenues in each agency are directed to a designated special revenue fund;
These funds are used to pay expenses directly associated with the program;
These funds are used to pay for discretionary items that would otherwise be unavailable to law enforcement agencies;
The funds are used to pay for recurring expenses, creating a secondary budget within each agency that is not subject to legislative approval and that results in agency dependence on forfeiture funds to continue paying those expenses;
The existence of forfeiture programs in each agency depends on the revenue generated by forfeitures;
Forfeiture revenue is used to justify the salaries of forfeiture officials;
Declines in forfeiture revenue may require the elimination of positions of forfeiture officials;
Declines in forfeiture revenue would require the elimination of significant discretionary spending by each agency involved; and
In practice, officials involved in the forfeiture programs control how forfeiture income is budgeted and spent with little or no oversight from the legislature.
Under SC forfeiture laws, 75% of the assets or cash seized goes directly to the agency that seized it, and the agency has complete discretion on how the money is spent. 25% of the money goes to the prosecutor's office that handles the forfeiture action, and only 5% goes to the general fund of the state.
Articles About Why SC Forfeiture Laws are Unconstitutional
If you want to learn more about why SC forfeiture laws are unconstitutional, SC attorneys and media outlets have been writing about it for years:
Why forfeiture laws are preventing the US from implementing common-sense, evidence-based drug policies;
Horry County judge declares SC forfeiture laws unconstitutional;
Civil asset forfeiture in SC – policing for profit;
Asset forfeitures in SC;
Forfeiture reform in the SC legislature goes nowhere;
SC could abolish forfeiture;
SC forfeiture laws are a formula for greed, theft, and corruption.
A two-year investigation into civil asset forfeiture in SC, called Taken,
…examined more than 3,200 cases in South Carolina from 2014 to 2016 and found:
Agencies in South Carolina seized more than $17 million from people over the course of three years. The bulk of that money ended up in the hands of law enforcement to pay for drug-crime fighting;
About 65% of the cases involved black men though black men make up just 13% of the state's population; and
Prosecutors have up to two years after police seize money to file a civil court case justifying the seizure. On average, when a person petitions to have money or property returned, the case takes 17 months from the time of the seizure to be resolved, regardless of the outcome of any related criminal charges.
According to the Greenville News article, there is a pending motion to reconsider that was filed by the Horry County Solicitor's Office – the court might still decide to change its ruling. If not, the case will be heard by the SC Supreme Court if the solicitor decides to appeal the ruling.
If not, more courts may follow Horry County's lead in finding SC forfeiture laws are unconstitutional, and it is possible the SC legislature will take up the issue again next year.
Forfeiture Defense Attorney in Charleston, SC
If your property has been seized by SC law enforcement, Charleston, SC asset forfeiture lawyer Grant B. Smaldone may be able to help you by answering the government's forfeiture complaint or by filing a civil rights lawsuit against the agency that took your property.
Call now at (843) 808-2100 or send an email to schedule a free consultation.
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This creates a big issue in terms of my being able to leave and get to the next client in a timely fashion, and also prevents me from respecting my time and other obligations.
I always make time to chat and follow-up with parents for about five minutes but after that I really need to be able to leave.
Can I Get Parents to Respect My time Without Being Rude?
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Referencing the World Health Organization's recent definition change of disability, de los Reyes says "disability is actually an outcome of design." Using objects such as the telephone, keyboard and remote control as examples, he explains how designing for a subset of disabilities can actually have a positive influence on the user base as a whole.
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Will O2 woes burst the iPhone's bubble?
Bobbie Johnson
Apple has talked up the iPhone as the dawn of a new era in the mobile internet. But does it stand up to the test? Find out in the second part of our extended review.
Read the rest of the review here
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One of the iPhone's plays is that it's great for browsing the web: Apple has made much of talk of the handset as a "breakthrough internet device".
Having used a number of other Wi-Fi enabled handsets, it's true that the iPhone beats them hands down for simplicity. Finding a wireless network doesn't take an ounce of effort – it's automatic – and once you're logged on to a network, you should never have to do it again. I surfed without any difficulty at home and in the office, as well as in coffee shops, pubs and simply walking down the street.
The trade-off of having to use Wi-Fi instead of 3G (which isn't supported by the iPhone) is made a little easier if you spend a lot of time near a hotspot operated by The Cloud, the wireless provider that has struck a deal with Apple and O2 to offer unlimited access to any iPhone customer. Most of us, however, will use the wireless access in a more limited way.
Still, it's surprisingly good on battery life: even with heavy browsing, listening to music and making calls, the phone managed to come through the test period on just a few charges and without dying once. Here Apple has the chance to benefit from harnessing iPod behaviour such as the nightly docking ritual.
Once you're logged on, you'll want to take a trip around the web. The on-board browser, Safari, renders sites clearly and relatively quickly. Gone are the days of Wap: instead we have something that tries, not entirely successfully, to bridge the gap between desktop web browsing and small screen surfing.
When it works, pages look beautiful: double tap to zoom in (the phone smartly understands CSS and fills your screen with the contents of a column), or use the now-famous pinching technique to pick your spot. You can even flip the phone onto its side to turn the web around for a landscape format - but it can't get away from the fact that sometimes looking at a big web page on this screen can be a disconcerting experience, like turning up to a Victorian circus to see a homunculus of the internet.
Little additions such as very straightforward bookmarking and tabs are the sort of thing you struggle to find on other phones, and you can share links via email with a couple of clicks.
Some of the other web services offered on the phone are also intriguing: Google Maps, for example, could be a clincher for road warriors. Clunkier flavours are available on other devices, but the iPhone variety offers a neat and swift service for maps and directions.
Other web widgets turn out to be more of a mixed bag, however. The YouTube video viewer is OK - if you're into watching outtakes and dodgy TV rips. For example - top of the charts at the time of writing was a one-minute video of a laughing baby. The iTunes Wi-Fi store works perfectly well – and integrates nicely with your desktop computer - but it doesn't yet deliver podcasts to you, which would have been a useful stopgap solution for iPhone radio.
The lack of rabid small investors in the UK, meanwhile, means it's hard to imagine many Brits using the stock market viewer (conveniently pre-loaded to show you Apple's ever-increasing share price). Coupled with the Google Maps logo – which carries an American-style road sign – it feels as if a bit more time thinking about the needs of the locals would have been well spent.
This is the area of embedded applications is where the iPhone has room to stretch its legs, and where hackers have been enjoying themselves. Unfortunately Apple has kept things locked down for the British model: there's still no support for Flash, and everything has to happen through the browser itself. When the iPhone launched initially, it spoke in mealy-mouthed terms about Safari as the interface for applications – that roughly translates as "build web pages if you want to design for the iPhone". And although Apple has announced it will be releasing a development kit for programmers in January, it also feels like double talk.
There are some intriguing possibilities for the future, though. Simply having integrated Wi-Fi offers a number of options itself – such as voice over internet calling, ala Skype, or perhaps internet radio or TV.
For now, however, those outside a Wi-Fi zone – or in parts of Britain where hotspot density is much lower than in the middle of our major cities - are restricted to using O2's network.
That includes the now-infamous Edge standard, a sub-3G speed network that's not heavily used by British customers. O2 is spending lavishly on updating its network to incorporate Edge, which Apple says is the best trade-off between and speed and battery life. In fairness, where Edge is available it does offer faster downloads – never snappy, but sometimes quick enough.
However the breadth of delivery remains too limited, and I found plenty of black spots around the country where getting any sort of O2 signal – let alone an Edge one – was an impossible task.
It's a bitter pill to swallow, but until somebody hacks the latest software update, there's little option.


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Cheering for the Red, White & Blue
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Men Loyal to Denim Brands, U.S. Product
Around the July 4th holiday, patriotism runs high. So it is an ideal time for retailers to promote that American original, denim — especially to men, who are particularly loyal to their favorite brands.
MATiAS USA's Matias Sandoval, founder and designer of the locally-made denim brand, says the male spirit fosters brand loyalty because of how men "identify with their social surroundings" and where they find themselves fitting in.
"We have a fairly educated consumer, and they prefer USA-made garments whenever possible."
-Frank Pizzurro,
Brooklyn Denim Co.
"I also believe the brand needs to remain true to itself and true to its followers and/or customers," Sandoval explains. "Men don't change their style quite as much as women. Women tend to have more confidence and courage with what they wear. Men typically play it safe — meaning a men's brand really needs to stay on point."
Men are significantly more likely than women to have a favorite brand of denim (66% versus 58%), indicating they are more brand loyal in their denim purchases than women, according to the Cotton Incorporated Lifestyle Monitor™ Survey.
Brooklyn, NY-based Williamsburg Garment Company's Maurice Malone, designer, says women change brands more because they are more loyal to fit than to a label.
"My direct-to-consumer website sales are about 90% men's, while at wholesale men are about 60%," he says. "I attribute the imbalance to the fact that women need time to shop my denim in stores to learn that it's a good fit for them."
On average, men own 6 pairs of jeans, according to the Monitor. Nearly a third would like to have more denim in their wardrobes. And 74% of men say they plan to purchase the same amount of jeans in the next 12 months, versus 66% of women who say they would purchase the same number.
But Malone says loyalty only goes so far.
If you're not on top of your game, loyalty to a brand only means three years or until the consumer feels you're no longer cool," he says.
Brooklyn Denim Co.'s Frank Pizzurro, founder and owner, says that while male shoppers are not as daring as women, he is starting to see them become more adventurous in their buying.
"As a rule, men have been more loyal to brands than women," Pizzurro admits. "But in recent years, we find men are much more open to trying a new fit or brand. Men now are looking for something new and want to know what we think is the best new jean. It is quite a change from the past."
As for colors, men mostly stick to classics, with 72% likely to purchase dark blue, 65% medium blue and 51% black, the Monitor shows. Men also like light blue (38%) and gray (19%). But for the less than 10% who like other colors, earthy tones and the occasional bright red or green are livening retail denim selections.
Besides colors and labels, men also have a healthy interest in whether or not the jeans are made in the United States.
"We have a fairly educated consumer, and they prefer USA-made garments whenever possible," Pizzurro says. "We carry a wide variety of denim in our store but we are about 70% USA-made products. There are many advantages to products that are made in the USA. The most important is the quality and the workmanship that is offered, as well as the fact that it means more workers have jobs here at home."
When buying a pair of denim jeans, nearly half (46%) of male consumers say having the jeans made in the USA would be important to them, according to the Monitor, followed by the jeans being an American brand (38%).
Black & Denim, based in Tampa, FL, began manufacturing in 2008, "for men that are inspired by Americana, music and the American lifestyle." Co-founder Roberto Torres told Manufacturing.net the company was founded to "reconnect consumers with the American idea of design, craftsmanship, functionality and practicality."
Sandoval of MATiAS denim says his creativity is sparked by virtue of the fact that he can make jeans in his artist-like studio in Los Angeles.
"I am able to construct and change things exactly to my liking, on the fly," Sandoval says. "In an overseas factory, development is all about efficiency, and I think it would be tough to achieve some of the detailing."
Sandoval says all MATiAS denim is cut in small batches, rivets and buttons are hand-patinaed, and wash prototypes are often completed in-house with alternative substances or materials.
"And of course, design and pattern-making is all completed and inspired by my life and my daily surroundings," Sandoval says. "We are forever comfortable with our little studio by the sea."
Malone, too, says it is important he continue to produce Williamsburg Garment Company's denim on American shores. His pieces retail for under $125. That is more than the average asking prices for men's denim, which is highest at specialty stores ($66) and lowest at mass merchants ($19), according to the Cotton Incorporated Retail Monitor™. But Malone's is priced well for premium quality, made in the USA.
"I was really inspired by President Obama's call to create more American jobs," Malone says. "That's why it's important for me to make my jeans in the U.S."
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☐ Core ☐ support ☐ Roaming ☐ Mid ☐ Offlane ☐ Carry and . . .
This would only limit the game. I understand what you're trying to achieve, but I highly believe this change would only be met with recentment.
Scenario 1: Someone with the worst stats picks Carry.
Scenario 2: Two people picks Carry. He picks Clinkz and Bounty // He picks PA after they picked CK // He picks PL and the enemy picks ES.
Scenario 3: You are unable to pick LC because you already have a carry, but the enemy team just picked Huskar.
Problem: Some carry heroes have more team roles than just being pure damage. Some support heroes have more team roles than just being pure support.
Scenario 4: You select initiate. The lane combination however requires you to pick an extra support.
Problem: You are now forced to follow a system rather than making a rational choice based on your own knowledge and experience.
he request picking sven , then 2 player should accept then he can pick it .
Carry : 5.6/10 Sup :7.8/10 Mid : 2.4/10 .. . .
question : How will this save dota from dying? If anything it will just kill it. Queue times will be much longer, not to mention this will be highly exploitable.
comment : Okay stop right here.
Because you are now creating an ever increasing complex system (which there was no actual demand for in the first place) that will create more question marks the further you go for each point you adress.
It's a downward spiral which will continously have more and more factors to consider, the player community, the game mechanics etc, until finally the eventual answer will be a No.
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Haha , thank you valve .
frist time u heard my idea .


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My Two Favorite Walkers
Ben Greenberg
"Ruby and Clifton were my two favorite Walkers," recalled Clifton's sister-in-law Rita Bell Walker. "Of the whole family, those were my two favorites."
At 80, Mrs. Walker recalled the murder of her brother-in-law, Clifton Walker. She spoke with me over the phone in April 2010, from her daughter's home in New Orleans.
Clifton was "a very decent sort," she said. "I'm not sure how much education he had, but I know that he worked real hard and he sort of lifted himself up."
The weekend of the murder, Clifton's brother Elmo and his wife Rita were in from the north to visit family in Woodville and New Orleans.
"They seemed to feel that since we had come down from Milwaukee that my husband may have had something to do with the Civil Rights Movement," Rita recalled. "They said that maybe they thought that the two of them would be together and they would pretty much get both of them at the same time."
Elmo Walker and Rita Bell had met and married in her home city of New Orleans in 1949 and moved north a few years later for better work opportunities outside the segregated South. In Milwaukee, Elmo found a job at Ladish Cudahy Forging and Rita worked as a nurse.
While Elmo and Rita were establishing themselves in Milwaukee their two oldest children were being raised by Rita's family in New Orleans. They had three more children in Milwaukee.
The time came in February 1964 for Rita and Elmo to bring their first two children back home. They got some time off from their jobs and drove south with the three small Milwaukee-born children, one a newborn.
The Milwaukee Walkers made it to Woodville on Friday, February 28—in time to have lunch with Clifton and Ruby Walker and their children before Clifton went off to the International Paper Plant for the 3-11 pm shift, from which he never made it home.
After Clifton went off to work, Elmo and Rita drove down to New Orleans to Rita's family to get their two eldest sons. They stayed two nights in New Orleans, then drove back to Woodville on Sunday, via Baton Rouge, where they stopped to see other relatives.
"When my husband and I and the kids got to Baton Rouge," Rita remembered, "we couldn't find any of the relatives at home. My husband said something is wrong."
They had planned to go up to Woodville with Clifton and Elmo's Baton Rouge brother-in-law Wright Williams, who was married to their sister Alma. Instead they proceeded to Woodville alone.
On one of the local Wilkinson County roads, not far from Clifton and Ruby's, Elmo and Rita came on Wright Williams. He was heading in the opposite direction, having just come from the Walker family land, off of Route 563.
"He was the one who told us that Clifton had been murdered," Rita said, "and we were so shocked we couldn't believe it. We just couldn't believe it.
"He turned around and we all went out to Clifton's house. And his mother lived just up the road from them. So we went to the mother's house and that's where we all convened."
Rita felt a strong affinity with Ruby and remained close with her until she died in 1992.
"There's just some people you care more for, and you feel more comfortable with than others," Rita explained. "Ruby was very quiet. She didn't believe in a lot of visiting here and there. She stayed at home with her children.
"I know that she suffered a lot. I loved her dearly, like a sister."
(Photo: Ruby Phipps Walker, courtesy of Catherine Walker Jones.)
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Though as a rule an orator could not hope to be successful in fourth-century Athens without a professional training, yet there were at times men who, either through strength of character or natural gifts, could dispense with a rhetorical education.
An unsparing critic of the democracy, as he was nevertheless their faithful servant, he continued, from the purest motives, to urge peace, though the best years of his life were spent in war. He was respected for his high character by Philip and Alexander, and acquiesced in the government instituted by Antipater in 322 B.C., but fell a victim to the hatred of the extreme democrats, and was forced to drink hemlock, at the age of eighty years, in 317 B.C.
Demades, his contemporary, and a member of the same political party, is a perfect type of the vulgar demagogue. He depended for his success on a lively wit and a never-failing flow of words. After the battle of Chaeronea, where he was taken prisoner, he became an avowed agent of Philip and Alexander.1 In consequence of his supposed services to Athens after the destruction of Thebes, he attained great popularity, his statue was erected in the market-place, and the more material benefit of perpetual meals in the Prytaneum was decreed to him. He was put to death by Cassander, the son of Antipater; his fellow-citizens melted down his statues and applied the metal to even baser purposes.2 His recorded sayings show imagination—'Alexander is not dead; if he were, the whole world would stink of his corpse'; or again, 'Macedon without Alexander would be like the Cyclops without his eye';3 finally, Athens is to him 'not the seafighter whom our ancestors knew, but an old woman, wearing slippers and supping barley-water.'4 For the high opinion entertained of his eloquence we may refer to the verdict of Theophrastus—'Demosthenes is an orator worthy of Athens; Demades is on a higher plane than Athens.'5 We have no further means of forming any conception of his style.
1 Dinarchus, Demos., § 104, "ὁμολογῶν λαμβάνειν καὶ λήψεσθαι".
2 Plut., Moralia, 820 F, "κατεχώνευσαν εἰς ἀμίδας".
3 Demetrius, de Elocutione, §§ 282, 284.
5 For this and other judgments, see Plut., Demos., chs. viii.-x.
7 Dionysius, Isaeus, ch. iv.
The Greek Orators. J. F. Dobson. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. Methuen and Co. London. 1919.


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Ramna Park (, Rômna Uddan) is a large park and recreation area situated at the heart of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. This forested park with pond near its center is one of the most beautiful areas in Dhaka. Islamabad's diplomatic district is named Ramna as a tribute to Ramna Park. This dates from when Bangladesh was East Pakistan and the newly established capital of Pakistan, Islamabad, was divided into various sectors named after various provinces such as Shalimar depicting Punjab and Ramna Bengal.

History

17th century
The history of Ramna starts about 1610 CE during Mughal rule, when the city of Dhaka was founded by Subehdar Islam Khan under Emperor Jahangir.  At that time two beautiful residential areas were developed in the northern suburb of Dhaka city. New residential houses, gardens, mosques, tombs and temples were built in this area during that period. After the fall of the Mughal rule, Ramna gradually lost much of its glory. Ramna was then a barren area with bushes, abandoned or dilapidated buildings, tombs and old temples.

19th century
Ramna area began to regain its glory since 1825, when Mr. Dowes, a British collector of Dhaka initiated a series of steps for development of the city. Engaging convicts, he cleared up the bushes and demolished most tombs and monuments except the Ramna Kali Mandir. The old mosque and tomb that now stand by the western side of old High Court building were spared. The renovated area was given the name of Ramna Green and was fenced by a boundary for using it as a race course. In 1908 he began the work of a garden that took 20 years to take a shape.

The Nawabs of Dhaka developed the racecourse area as a beautiful garden and named a part of it as Shahbagh, the royal garden. The Nawabs also set up a zoo at Ramna. In 1851, the European civil servants established the Dhaka Club on the northern corner of the racecourse and after the Partition a good number of beautiful residential houses were built at Minto road area for the High Court judges and top bureaucrats.

20th century
After creation of Pakistan in 1947, Ramna area continued to occupy an important place in the history of Dhaka city. A new road from Shahbagh to the Eden Building was constructed, and the eastern side of the road was developed as the Ramna Park. A miniature zoo with a few animals and different kinds of birds was left there, at the northeastern side of the present Supreme Court of Bangladesh building and was later moved to the present location at Mirpur.

Ramna Park was officially inaugurated in 1949 with an area of  of land with 71 species of plants. The large open spaces on the southwest facing the lake were used for holding National Fairs and Exhibitions. In 1960, Queen Elizabeth II was accorded a rousing civic reception at the Ramna Park with display of local fireworks. A raised concrete platform was built for the Queen, the remnants of which can still be seen in the park close to the lake.

The present landscape of Ramna Park was designed in 1952 by the Public Works Department of Bangladesh (former C&B Department). The lake was excavated deeper and extended in length. Walkways and garden paths were built in phases as, sections were regraded and replanted. Irrigation of the rare variety of tree saplings was done by tree wells, with deep vertical tubes/watering pipes to encourage roots to grow deeply. A bud-shaped water tower to supply them was built on the park's northern side.

On the night of 25 March 1971, the Pakistani Army launched its violent campaign against the civilian population of Dhaka. The Ramna Kali Mandir and the neighbouring Maa Anandamoyee Ashram were demolished and more than 200 Hindus who had taken refuge inside were massacred.

Present day park
Ramna Park now protects an area of , of which the lake covers . Ramna Park now grows 71 species of flowering trees shrubs, perennials, and annuals, 36 species fruit bearing plant, 33 species medicinal plant and 41 species of forestry and 11 other species. Walkways inside park have been widened and five new gates built for entry from different sides. The park features many beautiful and modern venues for relaxation, which is maintained by the PWD.

Plants and Trees
Nagessorchampa, Sornochampa, Ritha, Corpur, Naglingom, Arjun, Mahua, Kusum, Telsur, Ashok etc.

Bengali new year celebration

The celebration of Bengali new year Pahela Baishakh begins at dawn arranges by the cultural organisation Chhayanaut welcoming the year at Ramna Batamul under the banyan tree in the Ramna Park.

See also
 Ahsan Manzil
 Lalbagh Fort
 Shaheed Minar, Dhaka
 Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban

References

Parks in Dhaka


After a wonderful month in La Paz we sailed across the Sea of Cortez which is about 180nm. We initially went ~10nm outside of La Paz to a beautiful anchorage out of a picture book or stock photo to put on your laptop. We left to travel further south on the Baja side towards Muertos where we spent the night and left before sunrise to sail across towards Mazatlan. We had a beautiful sail and landed 32 hours later. We carefully navigated the very short (a few hundred yards) channel which is also very narrow. For sailors this means lots of surge. Lots of water trying to squeeze through a small space. To add to the excitement, there is a dredger that works the narrow channel as it is an estuary and the silt builds quickly. We radio'd the Port Captain for the status and with a little bit of nail biting we entered the channel, whisked by the dredger, and found an end tie to rest Namaste. We secured all her lines and took in our surroundings of palm trees and resort style ammenities. We were quite excited since my mom was flying in a few days after we arrived so we wanted to explore quickly to get an idea of things to do.
Mazatlan is a big city which took some adjusting on our part. Buses are readily available and cheap-they even have "tourist" buses that have AC and cost a few pesos more if you chose. The buses go all over the city which is convenient. Our first day out was hot and humid which we were not used to as La Paz was cooler (70's) and we were experiencing 90% humidity and 80+ degree temperatures. Needless to say, tempers were short as we tried to figure out where to go. We regrouped over lunch.
To make things interesting, Carnival was also starting which means the city becomes a huge party. My mom flew in and we got her checked into the El Cid Marina Resort. She had a great room that looked out towards our boat. Journey moved in for the 2 week visit.
We settled into a routine, met some great friends at the marina, and had a great visit with mom.
Just checked the La Cruz update -- damn, you guys have covered some ground!! We may be heading to Mexico in May for a week, though probably not the Pacific coast, though it would be so cool to hook up with you guys!
We will be heading north in April/May/June to position ourselves properly for Hurricane Season. Enjoy Cozumel!


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13,700 Sq Metres of Extra Slicing Capacity in Poland
POLAND - Danish Crown's subsidiary Sokolow is bringing together all its cold cuts slicing activities at a single factory.
Danish Crown's subsidiary Sokolow is building a 13,700-square-metre extension at its factory in Sokolow Podlaski.
The intention is to gather all cold cuts slicing activities in one place rather than at several different locations, as is the case today.
"Traditionally, Polish consumers have bought their cold cuts at the delicatessen counter, but the market for ready-packed sliced products is seeing strong growth, while the retail structure is rapidly becoming more and more modern. Large retail chains are gaining ground, and there is an increasing demand for deliveries to be made to central warehouse facilities. Sokolow is at the leading edge of this development thanks to investments in the central slicing plant," explained Tom Vedby Jørgensen, Danish Crown's consultant in Poland.
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Sokolow is a partially owned subsidiary in the Danish Crown group. During the planning phase, a delegation from Sokolow visited Tulip's factories in Oldenburg in Germany as well as the UK to ensure the factory was geared for the future and to share know-how with others in the Danish Crown group.
"In light of their experience, a factory has been designed which will have no problems meeting the very highest EU standards as regards product safety," said Mr Jørgensen.
At the same time, storage capacity has been increased for the products which will be sliced, and the production facility has been extended so it is now longer than originally planned.
"Each new generation of modern slicing lines tends to be that bit longer than the last. Therefore, extra floorspace has been built to accommodate future developments," said Mr Jørgensen.
Looking forward to more space
A large proportion of the products will be produced on site at the large factory in Sokolow Podlaski, where the Sokolow headquarters are also located. Other products will be transferred to the slicing facility from Sokolow's six other factories in Poland. Initially, the slicing lines that are currently being used at other factories will be transferred. Then the lines will be gradually replaced with new, high-performance upgrades.
Production continues to grow at the factory, and it is getting more and more crowded, for example in the packing department and dispatch stores, so all the employees are greatly looking forward to the new department. The plan is for production at the new extension to commence in Q2 2012, with 200 people working there.
Size of foundations: 9,000 sq m.
With the upper floor, the total floor area is 13,700 sq m.
The warehouse capacity for semi-finished and finished products will total 900 tonnes.
There is space for 12 production lines at the facility.
In the long term, production capacity is expected to increase to more than 2,500 tonnes a month.


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On Monday night, Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s season of The Bachelor officially kicked off, and with it came some major drama from one of his former fellow Bachelorette contestants. But despite what his detractors might be saying, Arie's response to Jef Holm's diss shows that he's planning on taking the high road on this one.
If you're not familiar with the tension between Arie and Jef, it all started back when they were Emily Maynard's final two picks on The Bachelorette. Arie was absolutely heartbroken when, instead of getting his chance to propose, Emily sent him home. But, he was still thinking about her for so long afterwards that he ended up flying to her North Carolina home to deliver the journal he'd kept while filming in hopes that his words could change her mind about him. During After The Final Rose, Emily revealed that she'd never read the journal out of respect to Jef and their new relationship, and that was that.
That's a very bold statement to make on night one of The Bachelor, especially since, after watching the episode, it's pretty clear that there were a few women Arie definitely hit it off with. And rather than respond to Jef with a tweet of his own, Arie shared his thoughts during an appearance on Access Hollywood this week.
"It's like he's throwing a lot of shade. But we haven't talked in four years since [Sean Lowe's] wedding ... I have so much to concentrate on with this, and I'm just trying to stay positive and negativity is — you know, I'm just concentrating on me."
Hearing Arie's response to Jef's tweet confirms the persona Arie's put forth all along. He comes across as a mature guy who's ready for love, and that's where his focus is at — not on any social media drama that is happening. And as entertaining as it would have been if Arie had a sassy comeback up his sleeve, honestly, there probably couldn't have been a better way for him to respond to a tweet than the way he did. Anything else he might have said could have just fueled the fire, but this way, he shuts it down at the source.
Well, it's probably safe to say that Jef won't be showing up on The Bachelor this season to surprise his friend with a show of support or anything like that. Even so, it doesn't sound like Arie is too bothered by it — he's simply too busy enjoying the crazy Bachelor journey he's on to think about it. Maybe any other rude comments Jef might make this season will roll right off Arie's back, too. It's too exciting a time in Arie's life to deal with that kind of negativity.


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Gerrard slams Celtic offside goal and explains why Morelos took Rangers penalty
Metro Sport ReporterSunday 8 Dec 2019 5:55 pm
Gerrard was unhappy (Picture: Getty Images)
Steven Gerrard was unhappy with officials for failing to spot a clear offside in Celtic's winner in the Scottish League Cup final, as his Rangers team suffered a devastating 1-0 defeat to their most bitter rivals.
Gerrard's men were the dominant force throughout at Hampden Park but it was Neil Lennon's side who came away with victory, winning their 10th domestic trophy in a row.
Christopher Julien scored the winner on the hour mark but he and a couple of his Celtic team-mates were offside, much to the annoyance of Gerrard.
'It's tough right now,' the Liverpool legend told BT Sport. 'Obviously still very raw from the game.
"It's tough right now. Obviously it's still very raw but I can't really ask anything more from my players."
Steven Gerrard on Rangers' #BetfredCupFinal defeat… pic.twitter.com/AfBmUluJkq
— Fitba on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) December 8, 2019
'I can't really ask any more from my players in terms of the performance and what they were asked to do. We were really, really good. But we got one big moment wrong, we never defended a set-piece. There's a possibility two or three of them are offside but we've still got to defend it better.
'Slightly offside, isn't it? I think the three of them are in an offside position. Unfortunately we're in a league where there's no VAR so they don't go for you. But you'd expect the officials to get one of those right out of the three, unfortunately they haven't.'
The game's other defining moment came three minutes later. Jeremie Frimpong was sent off as he gave away a penalty but Alfredo Morelos surprisingly stepped up to take the spot kick over regular taker James Tavernier.
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However, Gerrard insists Morelos was the designated penalty taker for the afternoon.
He added: 'Alfredo was the nominated penalty taker, yeah.
'It was certainly a big moment for him. In terms of what was going through his mind, you'd have to ask Alfredo. It was a very, very big moment in the game, red card, you score the penalty you've got the extra man advantage with a big chunk of the game left.
Morelos saw his penalty saved (Picture: Getty)
'Bt if you look at the game over the 90 minutes, we were superior, we dominated. It seemed all the action was where we wanted it to be. But that doesn't win you football matches, big ones. You need to take your chances. You need to score the penalty. Those are the big moments in the game. We haven't executed today.'
Former Celtic goalkeeper Pat Bonner was confused by the move, telling the BBC: 'Why isn't James Tavernier not taking that?
'I can't believe the penalty taker gives the ball away. He's the captain, he should take responsibility.'
While it was a tough result to take for Rangers, Forster was the hero on the night for Lennon's Celtic, making save after save on a famous 10th consecutive win for the Scottish giants.
He told the BBC after the match: 'As long as you win, that's all that matters. We really had to fight and grind it out.
'It was just one of them days, it went my way today. I'm buzzing. There's been days when it's not gone my way, today it has. I can't say how much it means to me.
Christopher Jullien scored the winner (Picture: Getty)
'I didn't really think about the penalty to be honest. I picked the way it went. I'll take it.
'That's why I came back; to play in games like this, to win silverware, to play European football.'
Lennon was full of praise for his goalkeeper, saying: 'He's world class. I have so much faith in him. We're so thankful to have him here. He was awesome today. He needed to be because first half we were so flat.
"He's world class, I have so much faith in him"
Neil Lennon hails the hero of the final, Fraser Forster 🙌 pic.twitter.com/9O2c1LQvEL
'We looked off it first half. You have to give Rangers credit for that but we galvanised ourselves and showed a lot of mental strength.
Captain Scott Brown added: 'It's one of the best performances I've ever seen.
'I think Rangers pressed us really well, forced us into trying to make mistakes.'
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So I am really surprised by all these limitations that are put by some colleagues on this issue. International law prohibits arbitrary killings, and this should be the main reason, in addition to what I have already said, for having a firm position against this new weapon. So I hope that this resolution will be the first step towards a total ban on this weapon.


Double barrelled first names are a more modern creation. They are probably inspired by the double barrelled surnames frequently found in English speaking countries. The meaning of the name can be taken to be a mixture of its two parts theoretically. Ellie comes from Eleanor, the French form of the Greek Helen, which means 'Bright One'. Louise is of Old German origin and is said to mean 'Famed Warrior'. Combined we could take the meanings to be 'Bright And Famed Warrior'.
Have you thought about Rylan for a girl name?


I send blessings of love to those who feel alone and blessings of comfort to those who feel deep sadness. I am wishing you peace and healing. If your heart feels wounded, torn or empty, I ask that the space be filled with the light of the Divine to help you to heal and give you strength so that you may feel whole again.
I ask that the burden of your sorrows be lifted and cleansed away so that you may feel the warm light of love, support and comfort sitting on your skin. I beg to summon Mercy to arrive for those who feel tortured.
I ask that this will ease the mind of any anguish, stress and confusion.
and present a sacred space to welcome you.
There is no punishment to face here. For your journey, it is time to grow and time to focus on healing.
heart-energy to those despairing and in need of a friend to talk to.
May you know you have freedom. May you feel peace. May you have comfort and rest well.
and someone who cares for the well-being of another human being.
Be relieved of worry and receive tranquility.