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Huh? The Human Bomb -- destroying a subway train? What in the world is going on? A good question, friend… one we're about to answer! Up to now, those abilities -- like the power of the Human Bomb -- have been used for the advancement of that abstract concept known as "good" --! Apparently, things have changed, indeed!
Uncle Sam rips a giant hole in the concrete and the Ray barrels through a group of policemen.It seems three of the Freedom Fighters aren't exactly wreaking this havoc with their own free will…
Meanwhile, District Attorney Pearson is questioning his decision to allow the heroes entrance to New York. He argues with the mayor's chief of staff about the political ramifications.
Suddenly the Silver Ghost appears on televisions everywhere. He says, "My ancestors once owned most of Manhattan Island, when it was known as New Amsterdam. Through treachery and deceit--
Pearson calls the police commisioner…
It seems we have no other choice. Capture the Freedom Fighters -- and if necessary -- shoot to kill!
When Sam hears that the Silver Ghost intends on people dying, he declares their truce over. The battle begins.
Afterwards, the Ray discovers that the Silver Ghost's "Midas touch" was merely an "electromagnetic gimmick."
But if he's dead -- then Sandy, Darryl and Tom -- are doomed!
Not necessarily. We don't see how exactly he does it, but the Human Bomb reminds everyone that he's a physicist. Before you know it…
The police are still after the team, though, and in the last panel, they arrive, ordering them to surrender, or they will open fire...
With one and a half pages of recap, Freedom Fighters #2 seems a little light on content. Granted it covers a lot of ground, but it's still a quick read. It begins in the middle of the action and I had to flip back to the cover to make sure I hadn't skipped an issue. It takes a while before the three team members that were turned to solid silver are even mentioned.
The Human Bomb is the hero that shines in this issue. He's got a short fuse (pun intended)...
The Ghost is gonna pay for this, Sam! Some day -- he's gonna pay!
...but we also learn a little more how he feels about his powers. During battle, he says, "Never thought I'd be happy I'm a freak --
We also see Uncle Sam in action more than we did last issue:
The team is feeling good at the end that they've won their first battle; however, little do they realize the war is just beginning...
Cover Date: May/June 1976
On Sale Date: Feb. 10, 1976
Cover Artists: Dick Giordano, Tatjana Wood, John Workman
Penciller: Pablo Marcos
Inker: Tex Blaisdell


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Something more 1, from the series Something more
Australia, United States of America
12 Nov 1960 –
Untitled (woman in shed)
102.6 x 131.7 sight; 109.4 x 138.5 x 4.0 frame
Not signed. Not dated.
Hallmark Cards Australian Photography Collection Fund 1989. Commissioned by the Albury Regional Arts Centre with assistance from the Visual/Craft Board of the Australia Council, the NSW Ministry for the Arts, and the Regional Galleries Association of NSW Exhibitions Development Fund.
20th-century galleries (lower level 1)
© Tracey Moffatt. Courtesy of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Tracey Moffatt is probably Australia's most successful artist, both nationally and internationally. She is certainly one of the few Australian artists to have established a global market for her work. A filmmaker as well as photographer, Moffatt has held around 100 solo exhibitions of her work in Europe, the United States and Australia. Her films, including 'Nightcries – A rural tragedy', 1990, and 'Bedevil', 1993, have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the Dia Centre for the Arts in New York, Centre for Photography in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Over the last 25 years Moffatt has produced a cohesive body of work, from her celebrated 1989 series 'Something more' to 'Fourth', 2001 to Picturesque Cherbourg 2013 . Each series devolves upon an unwritten narrative – a story is implied, but never stated. Part of the artist's project is to dismantle the conventions of storytelling, paradoxically by using artifice alone to tell her tales. At the same time, the power of her work derives from the persuasions of myth. Moffatt's subjects touch on deep-seated, implacable issues, on the wounds that never heal – hence the title of her tragicomic series, 'Scarred for life', 1994. Based on true stories told to the artist, this series captures both the pain and the restless energy at the heart of suburban life, its potency is due to the fact that, as the artist has explained, everyone has a tragic tale to tell'.
Like the work of Destiny Deacon, Moffatt's art is sharpened with pain and humour. In works such as 'Something more' and, most explicitly, 'Laudanum', 1999, she engages the rhetorical confusions of racism through the sadomasochistic dynamic of the colonised subject. Indeed, her avowed ambivalence about being categorised as an indigenous artist is at odds with her commitment to the fostering of Aboriginal culture, and to the central place of Indigeneity in her work. This seeming contradiction – an apparent moral inconsistency – is resolved in her dedication to the accoutrements of success: as much as Moffatt's work is about pain, it is also about glamour.
Moffatt's vision is essentially theatrical, and one might argue that being an artstar - with all its attendant posturing is as much a part of her practice as the art itself.
adapted from Hannah Fink in 'Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004
© Art Gallery of New South Wales
Photographs from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Mar 1993–09 May 1993
Critic's Choice, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Apr 1994–10 Jul 1994
Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995
20th-Century galleries Rehang (Lower Level 1), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
Referenced in 14 publications
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Great gifts, great patrons: an exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery , Sydney, 1994. no catalogue numbers
Anthony Bond and Victoria Lynn, AGNSW Collections , 'Contemporary Practice - Here, There, Everywhere ...', pg. 229-285, Sydney, 1994, 270, 271 (colour illus.).
Sandra Byron and Isobel Crombie, Twenty contemporary Australian photographers - from the Hallmark Cards Australian Photographic Collection , Melbourne, 1990, 36 (colour illus.), 44.
Centre national de la photographie and Centre Cultural de la Fundació "la Caixa", Tracey Moffatt , Paris, 1999, 31 (colour illus.), 32 (colour illus.).
Deborah Edwards, Daphne Wallace, Margo Neale, Victoria Lynn and Sandra Byron, Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales , "Women Artists in the Contemporary Collection", Victoria Lynn, p13-15, Sydney, 1995, 14 (illus.), 15, 23. no catalogue numbers
Helen Ennis, Photography and Australia , 'Black to Blak', pg.31-50, London, 2007, 46-48.
Hannah Fink, Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia , 'Tracey Moffatt', pg. 90, Sydney, 2004, 90, 91 (colour illus.).
Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook , 'Australian Collection: Australian Photography', pg. 198-207, Sydney, 1999, 207 (colour illus.).
Ewen McDonald (Editor), Biennale of Sydney 2000 , Sydney, 2000, 9 (colour illus.), 84. titled 'Something More No.1'. AGNSW edition not used in this exhibition.
Robert McFarlane, Critic's Choice , Sydney, 1994, 3 (illus.), 10.
Gael Newton and Tracey Moffatt, Tracey Moffatt Fever Pitch , Sydney, 1995, 17, 39, 57 (colour illus.).
Laura Pia, Look , 'Tracey Moffatt: On the subject of Alfred Stieglitz and Prince...", pg. 25-27, Sydney, Aug 2010, 26 (colour illus.).
Dr Miranda Wallace, Brought to light II: Australian art 1966-2006 , 'Tracey Moffatt's visual pleasures', pg. 308-315, South Brisbane, 2007, 312 (colour illus.). NOTE: this is not the AGNSW print
Judith White, Look , 'Vital signs', pg.38-39, Melbourne, Apr 2000, 39 (colour illus.).
Other works by Tracey Moffatt
Job Hunt, 1976 Tracey Moffatt 1994 128.1996.1
Charm Alone, 1965 Tracey Moffatt 1994 128.1996.2
Useless, 1974 Tracey Moffatt 1994 128.1996.3
The Wizard of Oz, 1956 Tracey Moffatt 1994 128.1996.4
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Games, Games, and More Games »
Storytelling and Roleplaying »
Topic: Government RP (OOC)
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eropS
Out Run Speedster
That's right, I went there
Re: Government RP (OOC)
Oh this is sick, im campaigning for the next elections now.
Name: The Cole-Bert Coalition
Economic Standing: 0%
Social Standing: 10%
Party Leader: Christopher Cole
Leader Description: Christopher was born a rich lad, he was raised to be a politician. High school class president, captain of his swim team, one of the top graduates of his college class, Christopher was book smart beyond belief, and a dirty player as well. He wasn't afraid to bribe or back stab to make things go his way. He has little remorse or mercy for his political opponents, but outside of the political ring Christopher is a charming lad who likes to have fun and joke around. He often is heard saying "I don't let my political life influence my 'real' life", showing he thinks of politics as a game that he must beat. His friend, Steven Bert proposed to him that they begin their own political party and take the Human senate by storm. Christopher happily agreed, only if he could be the leader that is. Steven obliged and thus here he is, leader of the Cole-Bert Coalition.
General Information: The Cole-Bert Coalition stands strong on the idea of a free market. They believe the government should have no control over private enterprise. Thus, they obviously favor the Upper Class and the Captains of Industry much more than the working peasants. As with a free market they believe the government should have minimal control over the lives of its people. They don't think the government has a right to control people, merely steer them in the right direction, thus they want the government to intervene occasionally, just not everyday, and not on everybody. They would have literally no business restrictions, and little union support. They are fans of freedom as well. This is, the Cole-Bert Coalition.
Quote from: sgore on October 26, 2011, 06:59:49 am
No, no, he did. In the everything else section, at least. Officially, this makes him king.
Grangan
Q*Bert Qrazy
We're all mad here.
Opinion of The Cole-Bert Coalition:Laughable. Does not fear at all. Intends to quickly and easily demolish, perhaps through false scandals.
Twas Brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe, all mimsy were the borogoves and the mome raths outgrabe.
Track and Field Jock
And, boom goes the dynamite.
Name: Democratic Order of Mediocrity (aka D.O.O.M)
Economic Standing: 55
Social Standing: 45
Party Leader: Baron Baron Von Victor, III
Leader Description: Once a leader of a small region in a small country, Baron is both his name and his former title. Growing up in the mountain region of a small nondescript country, young Baron quickly grew to be popular with his people. Whether this was the influence of his despotic father, or sleazy harlot of a mother is not known, but it is widely believed that indeed he was popular. Why else would people send him lovely burning bouquets of roses? Being the son of a noble family has afforded him the best in education. He is one of the richest people in the world, despite his former-country having been so small. He managed this by working the old stock markets, and getting into the "P.I.M.P" business. He is a person of fine moral upstanding, but is not afraid to "smack a 'ho" or grease the political wheels with "funding". He is a very average person, physically. Average height, average hair, and average eyes.
General Information: The D.O.O.M Party favors balance, and establishing of a system a system that works towards evening out the social landscape. They favor the distribution of basic necessities to the middle class, such as food, clean water, and midget house cleaners. D.O.O.M is a party of the masses, it just so happens those masses tend to be the middle classes who are easily swayed by empty promises, the promise of no more reality TV, and well conducted commercials between airings of the hit TV shows "I wanna sell out, compromise my moral integrity, and fade into obscurity!" and "When Midgets Attack V: The Bloodening".
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"Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and hurt you." - Elvis Presley
Thats 8 parties, woo.
/lurk
Dragon Warrior Slime
Economic standing: ??%
Social standing: ??%
Party leader: Blakely Lurkington aka "The Lurker" aka "The Lurkinator" aka "BLAKE-7", Independant
"Leader" description: Pro wrestler turned politician, THE LURKINATOR is guaranteed a seat in the Senate by his legions of loyal fans turning out to vote. Unfortunately his lack of patience for long-winded speeches (which is every speech in the Senate) and inability to agree with any other politicians on, well, anything prevent him from using his popularity to further any particular political agenda. Or perhaps that is fortunate?
General information: "THE LURKER makes decisions from the GUT! GRAAAH!" *Turnbuckles a nearby Senator*
Yyyyyyeah my only excuse is that it's 2:45am.
Not a winner anymore.
No. Just no.
Josasa
Commando Soldier
You can control the 2 "other" people that are currently in the Senate.
The Three Branches Bill has Failed!
Propose bills in the other topic.
Yes, also only one bill at a time. I will also limit it that one party cannot propose two consecutive bills.
Crystal Castle Gem Eater
I'm a drunk...
Oh, damn. Should I take down my bill?
Quote from: Kenotai on October 15, 2009, 06:50:05 pm
The best person ever. She should have won the Peace Prize.
Quote from: Razonatair on July 06, 2010, 12:40:38 pm
What? No full control over children? You do realize that some of us have particular plans for those children.
If you could just to cut down on confusion. But you should keep up the 'no' vote if that's what you decide.
EDIT: Sorry Little, this is moving faster than i thought!
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Questron Serf
Try posting a placeholder before you write up the bill so you still get first.
-Also, not everyone is getting to vote.
True, but if 200 people vote no, it cannot be passed since 301 cannot be reached.
Also, sorry about this reelection thing, but because of the large number of people joining now, i figured it wouldn't do to keep them waiting too long.
I suggest that no further parties be allowed in. Our once good amount of power is likely to get divided up quickly. At the least, the last bill should pass since both the Socialists and the Caretakers support it, before the elections occur again. Otherwise, we acheived nothing.
The new bill is intended to keep the senate safe, and the guards would be neutral, so
Just a precaution.
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2 posts categorized "Interviews"
The Heretic's Mother, and Other Heretical Notions!
The issue of the recent interview I gave to Ynet continues to generate enough controversy it seems that my mother was finally asked by journalist to weigh in on it. She did so in a brief interview with the website Middle East transparent.
To no one's surprise, I hope, my Mom refused to disown me, which is always a good thing I guess. Thanks Mom. "My son is free in his political stances." She also said. "I have never tried to impose any opinion on him." Very true. Unfortunately though, she has to bear some of the burden associated with my own opinions. Sorry Mom.
On a different note, I have to apologize for my lack of activity on the blog lately, and for failing to take issue with some of the recent Syria-related developments. No. I have not been exactly otherwise preoccupied, but I fear protestations at this stage will go nowhere. The momentum has simply shifted in favor of the "realists," and their brand of realism needs to run its course. I fear the realists are far more righteous and morally indignant than the neo-cons, indeed, their ear drums are already cluttered with their mutual self-flattery and assertions with regard to the manifest correctness of their own assuredly ingenious ideas. They will not listen now. No. They are too busy being brilliant, in their own minds of course, to listen to those who will tell them that they are not, not by a long shot. We have to wait until such time when their brilliance become less self-evident to them, and their cluelessness becomes somewhat more admissible, then we might have a chance at giving them an earful, interspersed, hopefully, with some useful advice.
One word of caution though, if the Bush Administration Democracy Campaign has gained America's new enemies and cost it some friends, some of whom might have actually been real and useful, the realists' Stability & Peace Campaign is bound to make matters even worse, namely: by offering America a few new back stabbing friends, losing her last few allies in the region, and re-emboldening the terrorists. After all, terrorists were not exactly the products of liberal democratic regimes, and the European-born exceptions that some usually trudge up here are primarily the products of enduring western racism vis-à-vis the migrant communities in their midst, more so than Middle Eastern politics.
Be that as it may, the basic ethos of the game is still the same: the survival of the least hopeless and dumb in a world that is becoming more and more hostile to the merest hint of sanity and sobriety.
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Towards a democratic Syria!
In 1998, only 219 Syrians voted against Hafez Assad's government. One of them was Ammar Abdulhamid. Now exiled and awaiting political asylum in US, Syrian opposition leader talks to Ynet in exclusive interview.
Yitzhak Benhorin
WASHINGTON – In a national referendum held by late Syrian President Hafez Assad in 1998, only 219 people voted against the government. One of them was Ammar Abdulhamid, 40, a Syrian opposition activist, exiled from Damascus in 2005 and currently awaiting political asylum in the United States.
"The security agents give you a paper with a circle saying 'yes' and a circle saying 'no.' I voted 'no', and the person in front of me was shocked. He said, 'Look, you made a mistake. You said 'no' to the president.' He thought I had made a mistake. We expected for some time that somebody would come and say, 'Come with me', but it didn't happen. For 219 people, they didn't give a damn."
In his first interview with an Israeli news agency, Abdulhamid tells Ynet how he frequently took risks, wrote articles against the president and generally pissed off the Syrian administration, until they got tired of him and showed him the door. In Washington he serves as representative of the National Salvation Front (NSF), a Syrian reform group operating abroad against President Bashar Assad's regime.
So why didn't they show him to a prison cell instead of deporting him? Abdulhamid believes it is because his mother was superstar actress Muna Wassef, one of Syrian's most famous TV celebrities. "It wasn't easy to arrest the son of such a famous and popular actress," he says.
Enemy of the regime
With long brown hair tied back in a ponytail and an easygoing demeanor, Abdulhamid isn't exactly how one might imagine a Syrian reformist. His English is refined and he demonstrates impressive knowledge. He declares that he doesn't believe in God and he has no qualms about talking with Israelis. The first time he left Syria's borders was in 1986, when he came to the United States to study at the University of Wisconsin. He returned to Damascus in 1994, but after a decade relocated to the US again, this time on a research fellowship at the Brookings Institute in Washington, DC. At the end of the fellowship, he returned to Syria – a rather surprising move considering the vehemently anti-Syrian articles he published while in Washington.
How did you become an enemy of the Syrian regime?
"They told me to leave, over a variety of issues. Apparently the project I was doing was a main issue. It was on majority-minority relations. So I am basically trying to create grassroots dialogue between different sects. I started in 2001, but officially in 2003."
So what did you do that was so wrong that they told you to leave?
"We were accused of fomenting the very thing we were trying to combat, which is sensitivities between the majority and minority. But I think what they are afraid of is these issues being raised at the popular level and being resolved at the popular level because our regime survives by exploiting the fears between the sects." In 2004 he left for Washington, where he wrote for the English-language Lebanese newspaper the Daily Star. He wrote a joint article with Israeli professor Moshe Maoz on the need to renew the Israeli-Syrian peace process. It was the first time a Syrian and an Israel had written something together which appeared publicly.
Hariri murder was last straw
Despite his severely critical writings, Abdulhamid returned to Syria. He said he didn't want to make trouble, and even made a commitment to hold his pen and stop writing against the regime. The quiet lasted until the regime arrested a group of Syrian intellectuals, followed shortly thereafter by the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and Abdulhamid could no longer keep quiet. "I was a loud-mouth, I couldn't control my tongue. When Hariri was assassinated a lot of people started pouring into Syria and asking questions, 'Who did it?' and whatever, I was very clear that I thought the the president was behind it. And I was very clear in calling him a moron in a number of interviews, and I think that was always not a good move. I was in Damascus calling the president of my country, which is a dictatorship basically, a moron.
Why didn't they arrest you?
"Arresting me would have really been problematic, I think. The person who made the decision not to arrest me was Assef Shawkat, head of the Syrian intelligence. You have two problems. One, you are arresting the son of a very famous actress who is very respected in Syria, and who said very clearly at one point, 'I may not necessarily agree politically with what he's saying the whole time, but if anything happens to him, you know, he's my son.'"
After that meeting, Abdulhamid was invited to meet Shawkat, Assad's brother-in-law, who is suspected to have been thickly involved in Hariri's murder. "I had a meeting with Shawkat - my wife insisted on coming with me, so instead of having an interrogation you have a social event, and he tries to sort of contain the situation. I was under a travel ban at the time, so they lifted the travel ban and I promised to stop writing and simply to work quietly." But Abdulhamid didn't keep his mouth shut for long, and the regime started getting tired of him.
Soon he found himself on a plane from Damascus with a one-way ticket. That was probably Syria's biggest mistake: Back in the US, Abdulhamid became the opposition's intermediary between the Syrian opposition and the American administration. "There are about a 100 active dissidents in Syria. The ones who are well known are 15-20 maybe. And I was never one of them… My strategy was, 'Look, I can get you the funding and support your activity so you wouldn't have to deal with the Americans directly or the Europeans or whoever.'
" Together with his colleagues from the Muslim Brotherhood, Abdulhamid founded the National Salvation Front, an umbrella organization of opposition groups working for the democratization of Syria. Former Syrian vice president Abd Al-Halim Khaddam is apparently closely associated with the Front.
What relation do you have with Khaddam, who was part of the corrupt dictatorship?
"He knows a lot of secrets and they are afraid of him. He meets with King Abdullah, he has access to people in the region. He has contacts with people inside the regime as well. Khaddam's joining is also meant to signal to the regime that we aren't here for revenge. We aren't involved in vengeance or in the past. We want to operate like (Nelson) Mandela: We'll forgive, but we won't forget. Our faces are to the future."
What is your stance on Israel?
"The Muslim Brotherhood, by the way, said they prefer a negotiated settlement with Israel. They are not calling for Jihad to return the Golan (Heights). They went public on it, and I was very surprised nobody in the media picked up on it. And the head of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sadr Al-Din al-Banouni, said it very clearly in an interview on al-Jazeera. This is exactly why we decided we can talk to the Muslim Brotherhood.
"We simply cannot ignore the Islamists. We are talking about change, about democracy, about elections at one point in time. So it's really good to sit down to realize with whom we can talk and how much they can moderate their language, and what sort of deals we can arrive at. Because either we do this or we have two other options: Either we talk to the Islamists and find moderates and work together for change at the risk of being betrayed. The other options are to stick to the status quo but then the status quo cannot hold a lot with the Assads.
"The final analysis is that they are a minority regime, they are dictators, and they are not addressing any of the country's problems … and had they been good, slightly enlightened, I would never be in the opposition. It is much better to work with a slightly enlightened regime than to risk the chaos that comes with change. So we either continue to cooperate with a regime that will continue to abuse the system or we resort to violence ... All we want is support were do not want someone to do the work for us … As long as we are building networks, and we know we are creating realities on the ground, I don't care if it takes ten years.
Why did you agree to do an interview for the Israeli media?
"Many Israelis are wondering whether they should talk to Assad or not. I said at one point they cannot deliver what he wants because sooner or later this regime is going to fall. Because it represents a very small group of people, because it is corrupt, because the economy in Syria is imploding, poverty is rising, the Kurdish-Arab divide is widening, the Sunni-Alawit divide is widening. So sooner or later it is going to pass either peacefully or violently.
"I hope for peace and if it is going to be violent I don't want to have anything to do with it. I really want Bashar to become a genius overnight, I really do. Even if he killed Hariri, I believe that, I am willing to forgive so many things, just to save us a violent solution for the country and to have some sense of reform. We do need to begin tackling the Sunni-Alawit divide because the more they postpone it the more it is going to get violent."
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Islom Tukhtahujaev ( (Iszlom Tuhtahodzsajev); Fergana, Szovjetunió, 1989. október 30. –)  üzbég labdarúgó, a Lokomotiv Tashkent hátvédje. Korábbi U19-es U20-as válogatott, bemutatkozott a felnőttválogatottban is.

Jegyzetek

1989-ben született személyek
Üzbég labdarúgók
A 2015-ös Ázsia-kupa labdarúgói
Labdarúgóhátvédek
Élő személyek

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A car mechanic from Britain revealed on Tuesday he had predicted he would be a multi-millionaire "this time tomorrow" just hours before he won a £107.9 million lottery jackpot.
(AFP) A car mechanic from Britain revealed on Tuesday he had predicted he would be a multi-millionaire "this time tomorrow" just hours before he won a £107.9 million lottery jackpot.
Neil Trotter, 41, from Coulsdon in south London, said he had told staff at his father's office on the day of the Euromillions draw Friday that he was feeling lucky.
At around 10.30 pm that night, he went "white as a sheet" when he learned he was the single ticket holder to scoop the massive jackpot worth 128.8 million euros.
After becoming the fourth-biggest lottery winners in British history, Trotter and his partner Nicky Ottaway, 33, celebrated modestly with two bottles of beer.
Trotter now plans to give up work and indulge his passion for touring car racing. Ottaway resigned from her job on Tuesday.
At a press conference with her, Trotter said: "I've always thought I'd win big and I'd had a good feeling all week.
"On Friday evening we were sitting at home when I checked the time and thought the draw must have taken place by now.
"I took out my ticket to check the winning numbers and amazingly one by one they matched. I told Nicky, 'I've done it, I've won the lottery'.
"But she told me to shut up and to stop being an idiot.
"Apparently I turned white as a sheet and couldn't sit still, I kept walking round the house -- I didn't know what to do with myself.
"I got her to check the numbers with me and she started screaming!"
He said his father initially accused him of being drunk when he told him.
Trotter said the couple intended to start splashing their cash on a new house and cars.
They have been to look at new cars since the win, but their first foray into the world of the super-rich left them feeling uncomfortable.
"People give you the look as if you haven't got the money to buy them," he said.
His girlfriend said she had a similar experience when she enquired about a handbag.
"I just asked the sales guy how much it was. He said '£1,100' but he'd already turned his back and was walking away from us."
Asked if she thought the salesman regretted his actions now, Ottaway said: "I hope so, yeah!"
The mechanic, a keen amateur racing driver, said he now had the financial means to indulge in his hobby.
"I'm taking time off and going to really enjoy following the British Touring Car Championships," he said.
"It's my passion and I wouldn't mind a guest driver slot if I can find the right car," he said.
The instant riches from the Euromillions have not always brought the winners happiness.
Adrian and Gillian Bayford, the second-biggest British Euromillions winners, separated last year and blamed the stress of their £148 million jackpot for the collapse of their nine-year marriage.


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Wertkauf war ein deutscher Einzelhandelskonzern, der bis zur Übernahme durch die US-Supermarktkette Walmart 21 Märkte hatte. Die Hauptverwaltung des Konzerns war in Karlsruhe.

Geschichte

Die erste Filiale öffnete im Jahr 1958 in Karlsruhe. Auf einer Verkaufsfläche von etwa 3.500 m² wurden allerdings anfangs keine Lebensmittel angeboten. Bereits vor Mitte der 1960er-Jahre war der Laden ein Voll-Sortimenter. 1966 wurde in Freiburg im Breisgau ein Wertkauf-Center mit 3.500 m² eröffnet. Das neue Karlsruher Einkaufszentrum aus Mitte des Jahrzehnts wurde am 26. August 1969 bei einem der schlimmsten Großbrände in der Geschichte der Stadt fast völlig zerstört. Danach wurde es an gleicher Stelle neu und leicht vergrößert wieder aufgebaut.

Acht Jahre später wurde das zweite Verkaufshaus in Freiburg eröffnet dessen Fläche 6.000 m² betrug. Im Jahre 1968 errichtete das Unternehmen das zu diesem Zeitpunkt größte europäische SB-Warenhaus im Münchner Euro-Industriepark mit einer Verkaufsfläche von 13.500 m². Zu den Neuerungen zählte die Lagerhaltung in Hochregalen direkt in den Märkten; auch während der Öffnungszeiten wurden die Waren per Gabelstapler umgeschlagen.

Im Zuge der Auflösung wurden einzelne Standorte der SB-Warenhauskette mehr Wert 1976 an Wertkauf veräußert. Zum 1. Januar 1977 übernahm offiziell Wertkauf 10 Märkte der Latscha-Gruppe. Die unter Kaufpark laufenden Standorte mit rund 720 Mitarbeitenden wurden dabei bereits im August 1976 durch einen Vertrag übernommen, es bedurfte nur noch die kartellrechtliche Zustimmung. Zum Januar 1977 flaggten die Filialen auf Wertkauf um.

Bis zuletzt erwirtschaftete die Kette mit ca. 6.000 Mitarbeitern einen Jahresumsatz von bis zu 1,5 Milliarden Euro.

Eigentümer war Hugo Mann (und seine Frau Rosmarie, geb. Porst), der auch die Möbelkette Mann Mobilia gegründet hatte, aus der sich später Wertkauf entwickelt und dann abgespalten wurde.

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Im Jahr 1997 wurden die Wertkauf-Märkte an die amerikanische Handelskette Walmart verkauft. Nach wirtschaftlichem Misserfolg wurde 2006 das gesamte Deutschlandgeschäft von Walmart an die Metro Group weiterverkauft, die ehemaligen Wertkauf-Center werden unter der Marke real weitergeführt und aufgrund der aktuell laufenden Zerschlagung reals (Stand: August 2021) an andere Mitbewerber verkauft oder geschlossen.

Rückwirkend zum 1. Juli 2005 wurde auch die Möbelkette Mann Mobilia in Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Wiesbaden, Dreieich, Ludwigsburg, Freiburg und Eschborn von der österreichischen XXXLutz-Gruppe mit Sitz in Wels übernommen. Im Zuge der Übernahme wurde die Hauptverwaltung in Karlsruhe aufgelöst.

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The announcement of next year's Spice Girls tour has sparked fond memories for a costume lecturer at The Northern School of Art.
Jane Havakin designed outfits for the group when they first started out and watched with pride as they wore them on Top of the Pops.
The five-piece band, made up of Sporty, Scary, Baby, Ginger and Posh Spice, also sported outfits created by Jane in a promotional poster for HMV.
Now programme leader of school's Costume Interpretation with Design degree at its campus in Hartlepool, she remembers first meeting the singers before they were famous, just before they had their first number one hit with 'Wannabe' in 1996.
"I turned them down to start with," Jane said.
"Wannabe singers and novice actors as well as well-known celebrities looking for free clothes are a common feature of the industry shows.
"They told me that they were going to be the biggest band in the world and I wasn't entirely convinced.
"I finally gave in, though, and my sales went up when they proved me wrong about their success!"
"One of the judges was Mary Quant and I got to spend the day with her, which was incredible," she added.
"It was a great experience," Jane said.
"It's good to share with my students now, to give them an insight into the industry."
"I was on the train down to London a lot," she added.
Alongside the Spice Girls she also chalked up other celebrity clients including dressing Zoe Ball when she was on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast.
While Cat Deeley was Jane's model before both of their careers took off.
She still puts her industry contacts to good use for students on the costume degree course she currently runs, where every student gets the chance to work on a live assignment for a real client out in industry.
They also have the chance to do work experience for a wide range of projects, which recently included a stint in the wardrobe departments of BBC Three drama Killing Eve.
Students on the course learn how to create anything for the entertainment industry that characters wear on stage or screen, including recreating realistic blood and sweat stains and bullet wound holes for costumes.
The bespoke range of skills covered include corsetry, tailoring, mask-making and leather work.
And it is the only UK course to offer a full module on millinery (hat-making).
Jane also maintains an archive of original clothing from the Edwardian era to modern day that students are able to handle to learn about traditional construction techniques.
Along with the millinery skills they study, they are then well-placed to recreate historical costumes accurately for period films and TV dramas.
"We are so proud of our course," Jane said.
"Students come from around the world as well as all over the UK to study with us and most then go off to work in some amazing places and have great careers."
Alumni from the course have worked on a huge range of dramas including ITV's Victoria, the BBC's Sherlock Holmes starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Wolf Hall, starring Damien Lewis and Disney's Rogue One – Star Wars film.
"If Victoria Beckham isn't designing the clothes for her former bandmates for their tour next year I can recommend lots of very talented students and former students who would make some fabulous outfits for them," Jane joked.
Further details about the BA (Hons) Costume Interpretation with Design course and other creative degree level programmes at The Northern School of Art can be found here.
Open days to view the facilities and talk to staff and students at The Northern School of Art's university-level campus in Hartlepool take place on Saturday, March 23, Saturday, June 8 and Thursday, July 4 next year.


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Governor Ige proclaims LIS Program Week in September 2015.
The UH Mānoa program leading to the degree of Master of Library and Information Science (LIS) has received Continued Accreditation status for the maximum seven-year period from the American Library Association's Committee on Accreditation (COA). The decision was made at the COA's meeting in Boston on January 10, 2016, according to COA Chair Joan Howland of the University of Minnesota Law School.
Said LIS Chair Rich Gazan, "We received both praise for our uniqueness and constructive suggestions for improvement. But, in my final meeting with the Committee on Accreditation, they mostly wanted to talk about how impressed they were with the level of engagement of our students, alumni, faculty, administration and the local LIS community."
LIS is 50 years old, and has graduated over 1,600 information professionals working in Hawaiʻi and throughout the world. There are currently 59 ALA-accredited LIS programs, with the UHM LIS Program's School Library Media Specialization ranked in the Top 10 by U.S. News and World Report.
On Friday, September 11, 2015, at the state Capitol, Governor David Ige and Lieutenant Governor Shan Tsutsui proclaimed September 13-19 to be "UH Mānoa Library and Information Science Program Week" in honor of LIS' 50th anniversary.
Founded in 1965, the Graduate School of Library Studies (GSLS) set out to prepare professionals for work in libraries and other types of information-handling agencies by offering the Master's in Library Studies degree. In June 1987, the school recognized the rapidly changing world of libraries and information technologies and the role of information in society, by officially changing its name to the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS), offering the Master's in Library and Information Studies degree simultaneously.
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Q: Proof of $f(A \cup B) \subset f(A)$ I had a test yesterday and that was one of the questions:
Let $X$ and $Y$ be non-empty sets, and let $f\colon X \rightarrow Y$ be a function. Let $A$, $B$ be subsets of $X$. It's true that $f(A \cup B) \subset f(A)$?
I thought it was false, but my teacher said it was true. If someone can help me, I would like to understand why it's true.

A: Let's consider $f(x)=x$ and $A=[0,1], B=[1,2]$. Obviously, $[0,1] \not\subset [0,2] $, so, possibly, your teacher means some additional assumptions or some other rule.
For example, holds: 1. $f(A \cup B)\subset f(A)\cup f(B)$,
2. $f(A \cap B)\subset f(A)\cap f(B)$.

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James Watterston Herald
A Celebration of Watercolours
James Watterston Herald is the most heavily represented artist within the collection of Kirkton House. As an artist pre-occupied with the coast and towns of North-East Scotland, it is a way the owners have managed to draw the surrounding landscape and history into the interior fabric of the house.
LOT 105 | James Watterston Herald (1859-1914) | The Travelling Theatre, Buffalo Bill at Arbroath |
£7,000-10,000 + fees
Watterston Herald painted predominantly in watercolour, working in a very 'wet' manner to create atmospheric blots and puddles, within his evocative depictions of rainy city streets, urban parks at dusk, local harbours full masts and the idiosyncratic architecture of the local towns. As an accomplished Scottish watercolourist, Herald is often compared to Arthur Melville, yet his wet technique is quite different and his colours softer and more imaginative, with a restraint, transparency and distinctive palette that is often unrelated to nature.
LOT 107 | James Watterston Herald (1859-1914) | After the Service, Arbroath |
£1,500 - 2,000 +fees
Once he had established his distinct technique and approach, Watterston Herald consistently produced good quality work throughout his career. He had briefly lived and worked in Croydon in the 1890s and at that point achieved recognition and some success in selling his work, yet in 1901 he returned to Arbroath. He was thus surrounded by his inspiration, and worked well and prolifically, but such distance from urban artistic centres meant he struggled to achieve further success. It seems he looked on this with regret, with his brother writing to a friend after his death, 'he confessed to me a few days before the close that he had made a "mess" of it,' and that ultimately he died 'as simply as he had lived.' In the hundred years since his death, his talent has been re-evaluated and recognised, as collectors have enjoyed discovering their subtle beauty, considerable technique and evocative spirit.
LOT 101 | James Watterston Herald (1859-1914) | Queen Street, Outside the Royal College of Physicians |
The sale of the collection of Herald's from Kirkton House is a true celebration of his work, demonstrating the range of his subject and technique. There are distinctive watercolours of Edinburgh after a rainstorm, many busy Scottish harbours and even evocative scenes of everyday life, with figures spilling out of church in their Sunday best. All the key local towns are represented, as well as some more unusual subjects - a charming work in pencil and pastel of a tender moment between mother and child, and a striking depiction of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Some of the works even reveal an intriguing surprise, with a further watercolour to be found verso. This is particularly unusual when working in watercolour, as it is technically difficult to manage getting the paper wet enough to work with, without affecting the image on the other side - a further hint at the technical skill Watterston Herald possessed and we now have the great pleasure of appreciating.
Viewing | Sat 06 & Sun 07 October, 12 noon to 4pm | Mon 08 & Tues 09 October, 10.30am to 5pm | Day of sale from 9am
Auction | The Contents of Kirkton House | 10 October 2018 | 10am in Edinburgh
Location | 33 Broughton Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3RR


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Florida Atlantic University, Culture & Society Building
Client Florida Atlantic University
Architect Astorino
Location Boca Raton, FL
Attributes Building Information Modeling (BIM), Cultural & Entertainment, Higher Education, Classroom / Adminstration Building, LEED Certified, Green Building, Theater-Auditorium, Education, Florida
The Culture & Society Building at Florida Atlantic University is a 79,000 square foot facility for the College of Arts and Letters on the main campus. A site-cast, tilt-up concrete structure, the three-story building contains classrooms on the first floor as well as offices for the Communication and Multi-Media Studies, Language, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Sociology, and English departments.
The design also includes a separate wing for the Living Room Theatre program consisting of four 50-seat theaters, a café, kitchen and other support spaces. The Living Room Theater wing is joined to the classroom/office wing by a three-story atrium that serves as the University entrance to the classrooms and faculty departments as well as to the Theater. It also provides access from the parking lot through to other buildings. The Culture & Society Building is certified LEED Gold.
The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Chicago, IL,


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Cash price for canola was $10.84 per bushel- based on delivery to the Northern AG elevator in Yukon yesterday. The full listing of cash canola bids at country points in Oklahoma can now be found in the daily Oklahoma Cash Grain report- linked above.
Increased Beef Access to Japan: Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor & Welfare (MHLW) is in the final stages of approving expanded access for U.S. beef - from the current 20-month cutoff to 30 months. An announcement could come as early as the end of this month. While the specific logistical details on resolving access issues must be addressed, this single change, expected to be finalized in the first half of 2013, will provide a major boost to U.S. beef exports.
China/Hong Kong: Even without access to mainland China, U.S. beef sales to this region (including Vietnam) have seen steady growth and are expected to rise in the future. While the global beef market stalled in 2012, exports to this region were up about 20 percent to nearly 500,000 metric tons and this does not include the growing volumes of water buffalo from India to Vietnam.
Mexico: Already the No. 1 volume market for U.S. pork, Mexico shows no sign of losing its appetite for U.S. hams, picnics, Boston butts, trimmings and variety meat. The growth of American pork exports to Mexico far exceeded last year's industry trend. Through 11 months of 2012, Mexico purchased 550,408 metric tons (1.2 billion pounds) of U.S. pork valued at $1.03 billion - increases of 15 percent and 11 percent, respectively, over 2011 and on a pace to set new records. That trend is expected to continue in 2013 as Mexican consumers look for more high-quality, affordable protein to feed a booming population and a growing middle class.
Click here to read more about expanding markets and opportunities for U.S. red meat in 2013 by clicking here.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency (FSA) reminds producers that the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 extended the authorization of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (the 2008 Farm Bill) for many Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) commodity, disaster, and conservation programs through 2013. FSA administers these programs.
The extended programs include, among others: the Direct and Counter-Cyclical Payment Program (DCP), the Average Crop Revenue Election Program (ACRE), and the Milk Income Loss Contract Program (MILC).
FSA will begin sign-ups for DCP and ACRE for the 2013 crops on Feb. 19, 2013. The DCP sign-up period will end on Aug. 2, 2013; the ACRE sign-up period will end on June 3, 2013. USDA has decided to offer producers a lot of choice in this one year deal- you can pick either DCP or ACRE- it does not matter which election you had made in the earlier years of the 2008 law. AND- if you elect ACRE- you can still drop that choice after June 3 and jump back to just a Direct Farm Program payment if you do so by the August 2nd deadline(according to USDA radio newsline report).
USDA has two fact sheets on the choices for the 2013 farm safety net- click here for the DCP factsheet and click here for the ACRE factsheet.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the House Ag Committee, Congressman Frank Lucas, hailed the FSA's actions in a statement released yesterday afternoon.
The National Farmers Union Policy Committee met in Washington, D.C., last week to begin revising their policy manual. The American Farmers & Ranchers are represented by Kent McAninch, who farms in the Tonkawa, Oklahoma area. AFR is a state affiliate of the NFU and continues the tradition of the Oklahoma Farmers Union as being the largest state organization involved with NFU in the country.
According to Roger Johnson, President of the NFU, "The Policy Committee members play a vital role in carrying on the tradition of grassroots policy formation in our organization. The committee is tasked with reviewing our current policies and offering changes and addition s for the delegates to vote on at our upcoming convention. This policy is what we will advocate for during the course of the next year."
The committee heard from a number of White House, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Capitol Hill staff to ensure members have a broader working knowledge of current legislative issues as they revise NFU's organizational policy. Speakers included Doug McKalip, senior policy advisor for Rural Affairs, White House Domestic Policy Council; Jonathan Coppess, chief counsel, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and Krysta Harden, chief of staff, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist Derrell Peel writes about the depleted state of forage supplies in the U.S. in the latest Cow-Calf Newsletter.
Two years of drought have taken a huge toll on U.S. hay production. In the recently released USDA Annual Crop Production Summary, total U.S. hay production in 2012 was 120 million tons, down nearly 18 percent from the 2006-2010 average. This is the lowest U.S. hay production total in data going back to 1974. This follows the 2011 hay production total of 131 million tons, down nearly 10 percent from the same five year average.
The combination of reduced hay production and increased hay feeding due to drought the past two years leaves the U.S. with severely depleted forage supplies. Pasture conditions in most regions are similarly poor. With the final pasture and range condition report at the end of October, 15 states had more than 60 percent of pastures in poor or very poor condition and another five states had 40-60 percent poor to very poor pasture conditions. Anecdotal indications are that crop aftermath, especially corn stalks, have been heavily used this winter to provide critical feed resources for cattle. The latest Climate Prediction Center forecast for drought conditions indicates little improvement in much of the country through the forecast period to the end of April. If drought conditions extend into spring the impact on cattle is likely to be immediately severe given that forage resources across much of the country are critically low. This, combined with water shortages for livestock is some regions, will lead to another significant round of cow herd liquidation beginning in the second quarter of the year unless drought conditions moderate.
You can read the rest of Derrell Peel's analysis of the tenuous hay situation by clicking here.
Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, applauded Majority Leader Harry Reid for his commitment to making a new Farm Bill priority legislation for the 113th Congress. Reid introduced the Senate-passed version of the Farm Bill today as one of several privileged, top priority bills, underscoring his support for and commitment to enacting a new five-year farm bill.
"I applaud Sen. Reid's leadership and commitment to getting a five-year farm bill done to provide certainty to the 16 million Americans working in agriculture," Chairwoman Stabenow said. "Last year we were able to pass a farm bill with overwhelming bipartisan support, saving more than $23 billion in taxpayer money and reforming farm bill programs to be more cost-effective and market-oriented. Unfortunately, the House didn't bring the Farm Bill to the floor. Majority Leader Reid has demonstrated that the Senate will once again make supporting our nation's agriculture economy while cutting spending a top priority."
In 2011, market incentives were such that it looked like a rebuilding of the cow herd was imminent, then drought hit hard in Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma. Mama cow numbers then fell even further. The trend continued as the drought persisted throughout 2012. Long-term weather forecasts predict the drought may continue. So when will we see herd rebuilding?
Extension Livestock Marketing Economist Glynn Tonsor of Kansas State University says it's going to take a substantial incentive to interest cattle producers in adding mama cows back to their herds.
"It used to be a $100 per cow expected profit trigger to expand the herd. If you add uncertainty and risk to a situation, it's going to take a bigger incentive than that $100 per cow to get the typical producer to pull the trigger. I don't know if a hundred bucks is sufficient to expand the herd anymore and nearly everybody has a different threshold. I'm using 100 there as an example. The magnitude increase from that varies a lot across producers. And, underneath that, has a lot to do not just with their cost situation but how comfortable they are with this higher uncertainty; I always use the term 'new normal' in the environment, the new paradigm, we work in today.
"Those that are more comfortable with that or think that they can manage through that more than average are the ones who will do that expanding in 2013 and going forward."
Glynn is my guest on the latest Beef Buzz. Click here for more.
John Mueller has been named Acting State Conservationist for the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service in Oklahoma. He assumed the duties on January 14 after being appointed by Jason Weller, Acting NRCS Chief in Washington, D.C. Mueller replaces Ronald L. Hilliard, who retired after 36 years of service. John is expected to serve until a permanent State Conservationist is named.
Mueller is from Texas- and has served in four different states, including Oklahoma, during his career as a NRCS professional. Click here to read more about John- as he sets up shop in Stillwater at the state NRCS headquarters.
Now about those other four names we listed in the headline above- I don't think they will ever be quite as famous as John, Paul, George and Ringo- but Will, Katie, Chris and Bo have been selected to help put a face at the national level on farming and ranching. The US Farmers and Ranchers Alliance conducted a national search of young farmers and ranchers- had narrowed down to their finalists back in December and yesterday- named these four as their Faces of Farming and Ranching.
Will Gilmer is a dairy farmer from Alabama, Katie Pratt of Illinois is a grain farmer, Chris Chinn raises hogs in Missouri and Bo Stone is a North Carolina row crop farmer who also operates several swine finishing barns. The winners will act as national spokespeople, and will share stories and experiences on a national stage to help answer consumers' questions about how food is grown and raised to feed our nation.
Click here for the webpage that can introduce you to these four bright lights of US Agriculture- you can learn more about their farming operations as well as more about their families as well.


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Speech by The Hon Julie Collins MP
Launch of National Homeless Persons' Week
I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and pay my respects to their Elders, both past and present and any Elders who are here with us today.
I would also like to acknowledge Ms Liz Fritz, Treasurer of Homelessness Australia and Mr Mark Bolton, General Manager of the Ladder, and thank them for the great work they do in assisting vulnerable Australians.
My colleague the Minister for Housing and Homelessness, Brendan O'Connor, is unfortunately unable to attend today's event but asked that I extend his apologies and he sends his best wishes.
It's a pleasure to be here today representing Brendan at this national launch of Homeless Persons' Week – a week when all Australians are encouraged to think of those in our community who do not have a safe and secure home to call their own.
We know there are tens of thousands of Australians who are homeless on any given night – couch surfing, staying in motels or emergency shelters, or sleeping rough.
Many of these are families. Of the people seeking assistance from specialist services in the three months to December last year, 59 per cent were women, almost half were under the age of 25, and 18 per cent were children under the age of 10.
It is not acceptable in this country, a relatively wealthy one, that so many Australians are homeless.
It is indefensible that a mother and her children are living in a car or that a teenager is sleeping rough.
Women and Homelessness
As Minister for the Status of Women, I know all too well that domestic and family violence is the main reason women seek help from homelessness services, which includes women's refuges.
It is the main reason why children are homeless.
The Australian Government, together with the states and territories, have committed to a range of initiatives to help women and children escaping domestic violence under the $1.1 billion National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness.
There are more than 180 initiatives under the Agreement – 30 of them specifically targeting women and children escaping domestic or family violence across Australia.
In 2010-11, assistance was delivered in 16,400 cases where women and children were experiencing family or domestic violence.
The Australian Government has also committed $86 million to the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022 – a single, unified strategy bringing together government and community efforts to reduce violence against women.
Making homelessness a national priority
Everyone deserves a safe and secure home. A home is the foundation on which a person builds their life.
Without a stable home, people – no matter their age – struggle to live healthily, stay in training or education, or find and keep jobs.
That's not good for them, for their families, for their communities or for the country.
That is why this Labor Government has made homelessness a national priority.
In our White Paper on homelessness we committed to two ambitious headline goals, to halve overall homelessness and to offer supported accommodation to all rough sleepers who seek it by 2020.
Government action
To achieve our goals, the Labor Government has committed almost $5 billion in new funding since 2008 to provide support services and programs to assist people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
This includes the $1.1 billion National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness, which has seen over 180 new or expanded services established across the country and 22 here in Victoria.
This Labor Government has invested over $20 billion in making housing more affordable.
We're building over 20,000 new social housing homes through our $6 billion social housing investment, which is the largest commitment ever by an Australian Government. More than 18,000 of these dwellings are now completed and 16,000 homes have families living in them.
More than 8,000 of these individuals and families were homeless before being housed thanks to the Labor Government's investment.
And we've repaired and refurbished a further 80,000 homes, many of which would have been uninhabitable.
Indeed, this Labor Government has made a direct financial contribution to one in every 20 new homes built since 2008. This is in stark contrast to the years of neglect from the Coalition – who ripped $3.1 billion out of the housing budget.
Here in Victoria our investment has built more than 4000 new homes and repaired another 9,300.
As recognised in our inaugural White Paper on Homelessness, we have intervened early to prevent homelessness.
As a result of the community-based early intervention service, Reconnect, more than 50,000 young people are back with their families, and are in school or are in training.
The Household Organisational Management Expenses Advice Program has helped over 3,600 families to stay off the streets by providing advice and assistance to people who were struggling to pay the rent or keep up with the mortgage during personal or financial crises.
In my home State of Tasmania, more than $32 million in funding under the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness is supporting six new or expanded homelessness initiatives.
These include the Keys to the Future and Stay programs – funded through a contribution of almost $5 million by the Australian and Tasmanian Governments.
The two services work together to provide an intensive, holistic and long term response to help 100 vulnerable people who are experiencing or are at risk of homelessness. They're achieving some wonderful results.
But we know much more needs to be done.
Homeless Persons' Week
The Australian Government is pleased to support this year's Homeless Persons' Week with a $20,000 sponsorship under the National Homelessness Strategy.
This year National Homeless Persons' Week will focus on the many and varied reasons that lead to homelessness.
They can range from domestic and family violence, to relationship breakdown, substance abuse, mental illness, financial hardship, and youth unemployment and disengagement.
Events will be held right across the country – including street soccer matches, surfing competitions and sleep outs.
Some of these events are raising funds for local homelessness services. Others are simply raising awareness of the challenges homeless people face every day.
I'm so pleased to be here today because I know how hard people in this room work to make the lives of our vulnerable Australians just that little bit easier.
The Ladder Foyer here works to provide stable housing options, access to vocational training and wrap-around support services to young people between 12 and 24 and has achieved fantastic success.
I am delighted to hear that many young people have made the transition from Ladder to independent living.
It says a lot about the success of this service.
Again, thanks to Homelessness Australia for inviting me to help launch Homeless Persons' Week.
I hope all the wonderful events you and your members have organised around the country are a success and that they help make more Australians aware of this very important issue.


Rojer 621 is the code named used by a New Republic spy that managed to infiltrate Moff Sarne's ranks before the New Republic liberated Kal'Shebbol. Very few people know who Rojer 621 really is, where he or she serves under Moff Sarne, with whom the spy is actually affilited or if this person is really just another ploy to mislead the Farstar.
Somehow, Rojer 621 sometimes leaves clues behind to help guide the Farstar on their mission, seemingly from out of nowhere. It's usually not very much, like a small piece of a datafile from some obscure system, a secret code or a strategically-placed note. Since he first makes contact with the Farstar once they are too far out to contact reliable New Republic sources, Rojer 621 seems to be the best source for inside information, if the crew is willing to trust him.
* - Due to the fact that Rojer 621 has successfully infiltrated Imperial ranks, it is assumed that the character is Human.


Discussion in 'The Doctor's Clinic' started by Moose, Mar 25, 2011.
Any suggestions to them or better sets in general? It makes well as an annoyer and a supporter..
Rest-Anything with rest requires Sleep Talk, as not doing anything for two turns is a big waste.
Ingrain- Is nowhere near as reliable as Leech Seed. Leech Seed may miss from time to time, but more importantly, it doesn't keep Ferrothorn in play like a sitting duck while the oppoent switches into something with a Fire attack.
Spikes- nowhere near as good as Stealth Rock these days, since Pokemon with Levitate or are Flying will not take damage from it.
If you roll with Leftovers, then pick Toxic over Leech Seed and vice versa. Ferrothorn doesn't have that much HP to begin with, so it doesn't take much to heal it up. Toxic and Leech Seed function to force your opponent to switch, making them take damage from Stealth Rock if you managed to set it up. Power Whip/Seed Bomb is a STAB move and is a good measure against Taunters and to pick off stragglers that got decimated by stealth rock or toxic/leech seed. Last slot is mostly filler, Iron Head for more STAB or Iron Defense/Curse to build up Ferrothorn's already impressive defenses. Curse only raises defens eby one stage, but it does raise attack as well, adding even more damage to your Power Whip/Seed Bomb.
Gyro Ball, Gyro Ball, GYRO BALL. Base 20 Speed begs for it, and it's by far the strongest Steel-type move Ferrothorn will have access to.
That's definitely a good set. Thunder Wave is viable if you find your team suffers from being outsped by enemies a lot, but your current set is A-OK as it is.


Happy Tuesday, everyone!! I took the week off last week from posting, so I could catch up on photo sessions. If you didn't know, October is the craziest time of year for photographers, and this year is no different. Sometimes, you just gotta cut yourself some slack and have a good ol' fashioned Netflix binge to get you back on track. That's just what I did- watched Netflix (I happen to have a few shows I'm obsessed with! 😉 ) , and edited, ran between sessions, had a little fall fun at the pumpkin patch (making sure to cram in as many of these moments this year), and now I'm ready to take on the world again!
There was a time when I wasn't a huge fan of black and white images. I'm not sure what the excuse what back then for not loving them, but I can guess it's because I hadn't figured what it was that made a black and white picture awesome. Since everyone can take images and convert them to black and white on any camera, I thought I would share some tips to create awesome black and white images.
You can find all sorts of things that add texture to your images everywhere. Bark on trees, buildings, rocks, sand, blankets, carpets, the list really goes on and on. Since you're not using colors to add interest to your images, texture does an incredible job of adding interest for you!
Again, since there is no color to make your subject pop, finding creative lighting or light that showcases your subject is a key element to photographing black and white images.
There are certainly times when I have a backlit image with areas in the background that are a bit blown out or overexposed, however , when you are taking black and white images it's even more crucial to be properly exposed. Facial details and other important details with a shades of gray that are only slightly darker or lighter than the next will not show up properly if your picture isn't exposed correctly.
Try to get catchlights in your kid's eyes.
Here are some tips for creating amazing catchlights. There won't be color in your image to show off your subject's eyes. If there is no light reflecting in them, they are likely to be dark, and lost.
Use a program like lightroom or an app like pictapgo or VSCO on your phone to convert your image to black and white, and add contrast and brightness as needed.
Any of these options make it insanely easy to convert your images to black and white. Side note; if you aren't currently using lightroom to edit your pictures, you really should check it out. There is so much you can do to your pictures, and it is beyond user-friendly!
30+ pics to take of your kids every year!
By this time next year, your kids will be completely different. The only way I have found to freeze time is to take pictures. This is a great list to help you remember to photograph the things you want to remember forever!
i want to freeze time!
Your pictures are absolutely gorgeous! I need to learn to play with the light and shadows more, especially for black and white photos. Thanks for sharing!
I love black and white photos. They are so clean and full of depth.
I love black and white photos. I'm always looking to improve my photography skills. Love this article!
Favorite is the girl behind the fence and the girl with the arrow. This is so great. i hadn't thought of texture. Tha makes so much sense! I miss seeing more black and white photos!
thanks, heather! I love those too! texture makes such a big difference. happy to hear there was something new on this list for you.
Nice pics. I have always loved black and white photos. Looks so classy.
All of these photos are stunning! I especially love the last one!
Your pictures are amazing! You make it sound so effortless. I will be playing around with B&W a little more now, hoping to get a good shot!
You've included so many great examples! I love B&W photography…it's my all-time favorite. That second picture of the little girl looking down is so sweet.


I was riding my motorcycle along a black top county road in Oklahoma and noticed this waypoint for Phroso on my map. I have these Oklahoma ghost towns marked so that when I see one during my travels I can stop in and see what is left. In I also noticed the town marked on my GPS and after investigating, I figured my GPS waypoint was incorrect. Sometimes they are off a bit because I have to create the waypoints using Range/Section/Township info from the book Ghost Towns of Oklahoma, which gets me within about a mile of the town location. I have to guess after that, and this time I guessed slightly wrong it seems.
Not much in Phroso anymore. Just a couple of houses and a friendly dog greater.
"Phroso is somewhat typical of numerous hamlets that developed in the dryer and rougher western part of the Cherokee Outlet. Soon after the Outlet was opened for settlement, a small store was started. The area had no roads, and transportation, either on horseback or in a wagon, was slow. The store prospered and expanded as those living in the vicinity traded there because of the difficulty of getting to a larger place.


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