The trials and tribulations of the Belfast Project if nothing else should serve as a salutary lesson to oral historians who opt to capture narratives of an acutely sensitive nature. Like other history the oral component often deals with a safe subject, posing no risk to the researcher, research participants or the research project. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with that. But history construction, particularly that which seeks to excavate armed conflict is often going to unearth knowledge that is frequently more toxic, than safe.
Out there is a fertile terrain waiting to be mined that because of its sensitivity and disputatious nature will not easily yield its secrets. Should the researcher back off and leave that important area unexplored? Or should they step out from the shelter afforded by less dangerous pursuits and seek to pioneer their way through that challenging territory known as the past?
In my view it is the vocation of the historian, conventional or oral, to preserve as much of the past as is possible. What has been pithily stated by Gene Kerrigan and Pat Brennan of journalism could as easily be applied to oral history: one of its functions 'is to accumulate and preserve hard won information, to act as a kind of communal memory.' That accumulation cannot be achieved by plastering a verboten sign over certain areas of inquiry because they are too dangerous, might be officially considered the preserve of others or because they may require the historian to tramp on the toes of vested interests.
The Belfast Project, for all its shortcomings and oversights was a groundbreaking venture which thus far, from what has been made publicly available, has provided new insights into the world of republicanism as it functioned during the conflict years. To cite one area where a change of episteme was arguably ushered in was in relation to the 1981 hunger strike.
a recipe against historical inquiry. It's a guarantee of a return to silence. It seeks evidence in one case that closes the door to evidence in every other. It is obvious madness, and yet no one who lives on a government paycheck will be bothered to notice.
The Belfast Project germinated from an idea to gather the voices of a number of Northern conflict participants before the opportunity to tap into their narratives had passed forever. The methodological approach of oral history, unlike other strands in historiography, is time specific. There is a small window of opportunity before the voice of the prospective candidate is lost forever.
In this type of endeavour the researcher is engaged in a race against time. An unrelenting foe of information acquisition in the field is age profile. If the moment is lost it is kaput. As it would prove to be with the Belfast Project some people who agreed to be interviewed died prior to the interviews being started. Given their off the record discussions, which were not taped, it is clear that lost with them was much in the way of great potential insight into events that for so long came to characterise the Northern conflict. Truth recovery has undoubtedly been diminished as a result.
Prior to the action of the British authorities, which amounted to an effective sabotaging of the Belfast Project, the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Owen Paterson, proclaimed himself an admirer of the same project, stating that 'some of the people involved in the events of recent history … are now getting old, their memories are fading. I think there is merit in trying to capture this information now before it is lost.' Not as much merit seemingly as trying to seize academically meritorious research for the purposes of police investigations.
This was a bona fide academic exercise of considerable intellectual merit … It's clear to the Court … these materials are of interest. They are of interest – valid academic interests. They're of interest to the historian, sociologist, the student of religion, the student of youth movements, academics who are interested in insurgency and counterinsurgency, in terrorism and counterterrorism. They're of interest to those who study the history of religions. And I'm sure others.
The idea was first proposed in 2000 by Professor Paul Bew of Queen's University, now Lord Bew. Bew had been a visiting professor at Boston College and felt that adding an extra string to the bow of the academic disciplines, political science and history, would prove invaluable. Bew returned to Belfast with a proposal that an oral history project would be a valuable resource for academia to be in possession of. He discussed the matter with Ed Moloney.
Subsequent to that when Moloney discussed the viability of the proposal with me, our overriding concern was whether confidentiality could be guaranteed without any caveats. It had to be an all or nothing approach. Without cast iron unqualified guarantees of absolute confidentiality there simply would not be a Belfast Project.
Distilled down, the overriding purpose of the Belfast Project was to ultimately enhance public understanding. This was to be achieved through collating and sealing for a time within academia the perspective of those who were combatants or people who had insights that would add to societal knowledge of the conflict. Professor Tom Hachey of BC publicly summarised it as serving to 'illuminate the mindset of people who are engaged at the operational level, people who implemented the campaign, what their attitude was then and what their thinking is looking back on it retrospectively.' Rather than recreate something akin to True Detective the project called for much moral reflection on the part of participants about conflict and the use of political violence.
Further it was envisaged that the material would be of benefit not merely to historians but also to people involved in conflict resolution and policy making right across the board. If the causes of politically violent conflict can be better understood and anticipated in advance then it stands to reason that the potential for averting such conflict increases.
And what is perfectly clear to me is that the subject of the materials I am reviewing now would never have said the things she said had she in any way understood that they could be revealed to the requesting state, specifically here, the British authorities. The British authorities in Northern Ireland. And it's perfectly clear to the Court that had that been understood she never would have consented to these interviews and what she has to say would be lost.
From the outset the researchers sought and were ultimately given guarantees by the research institution that the work they engaged in would not be subject to any prior release unless stated otherwise by the research participants, and that there would be no question of law enforcement agencies being able to breach any guarantees given.
Seeking clarification on this crucial and non-negotiable matter delayed the initiation of the project for around 8 months. While the BC librarian from the outset stipulated that no material would be accepted into the library archive if there was any possibility of legal repercussions accruing for the research participants, this fell short of what both I and Moloney required. We wanted it properly formulated and advised BC to check with their lawyers prior to any donor contracts being drawn up.
The end result was that the research participants were given a donor contract issued by Boston College stating that the 'ultimate power of release' shall rest with the interviewee while copyright would become the exclusive property of BC.
In terms of sequence the donor contract guaranteeing 'ultimate power of release' was preceded by the BC contract with Moloney 'guaranteeing to the extent American law allows the conditions of the interview and the conditions of its deposit at the Burns Library including terms of an embargo period if this becomes necessary…' Given that this appeared in a paragraph of Moloney's contract separate from the paragraph in the same contract mentioning confidentiality BC was readily able to imply that it addressed copyright.
Was the subsequent contract granting 'ultimate power of release' to the donors not permissible by American law there was a clear onus on the issuing authorities, BC, to warn the research participants and researchers that confidentiality would not prove resistant to a court order or a subpoena. Moloney's contract, unlike similar contracts in Canada, did not state that 'any information that is obtained during this study will be kept confidential to the full extent permitted by law.' BC, it seems, rather disingenuously inserted a number of paragraphs between use of the word confidentiality and the phrase 'guaranteeing to the extent American law allows …' Crucially, BC failed to insert anything about the extent American law allows into its donor contract. As stated by Professor John Brewer, that is a minimum requirement in any donor consent form.
They also needed to know that we would honour an agreement not to publish any of their testimony until death. The only caveat is that if they give their consent before their death in writing, that would clear us legally.
B.C. is firmly and unconditionally committed to respecting the letter and intent of what is a contractual agreement never to release any of the material to anyone unless given permission in writing (notarized) beforehand by the participant, or until the demise of a participant.
Voices From the Grave was the first book to have emerged from the Belfast Project that acknowledged its roots in the project. While Richard O'Rawe had earlier in 2005 published his ground breaking account of the 1981 hunger strike he refrained from identifying it as having originated in the interviews that he gave to BC in 2001.
There has been a considerable amount of controversy about Voices and some, including BC, have taken to blaming Ed Moloney for publishing it and in doing so having acted as the catalyst for the subpoena. Yet the book was written with the cooperation of Boston College, two of whose staff members, Tom Hachey and Bob O'Neill, penned the forward and had royalties transferred to their own personal accounts. It was the college that saw the opportunity to promote its non partisan stewardship of the Belfast Project by projecting an account that spanned both sides of the North's sectarian fault line. Hence the narrative of former UVF leader David Ervine was to run parallel with that of the former IRA leader Brendan Hughes. Like the confidentiality agreement that preceded it, the book too was subject to the St Peter Syndrome only after the subpoena.
An additional factor in the appearance of Voices was the insistence of Brendan Hughes who during the course of his involvement with the Belfast Project had been pressing for his narrative to be made public. He was persuaded to desist from going to print while the project was still live given the potential any such action would have for derailing ongoing research. This is the type of problem that can arise carrying out sensitive oral history work. A fine tuned balancing act has to be in place in order for it to proceed. In this case Hughes was given undertakings that his account would see the light of day.
With both Hughes and Ervine dead Boston College was contractually free to lift the embargo on their interviews. If there was any reason for BC to believe that the material held in its archive might not prove resistant to a court order that was the moment to have raised misgivings. They would most certainly have been promptly heeded by Ed Moloney and no book would ever have seen the light of day.
I've always argued the defence against the subpoenas is a sham, it's required as an alibi for Price and McIntyre and Moloney for handing over the material to the PSNI. The whole project was always a sham.
The inference to be drawn here is that there has long been intent on the part of two researchers and one research participant to provide British police with sensitive information on republican activities during the Northern conflict. It requires no great leap of the imagination to work out where that could lead.
As an aside for anybody remotely interested, the same lecturer almost a decade ago could be found writing lengthy diatribes against myself and Ed Moloney in his bid to demonstrate that Freddie Scappaticci AKA Stakeknife was not a British agent secretly working at the heart of the Provisional IRA. As Jack Kerouac might have said of him, he has nothing to offer anybody except his own confusion.
The role of Dolours Price has emerged as a central feature in the case, and has prompted BC to abandon any defence of her archive on the grounds that she breached confidentiality. Both I and Ed Moloney have continued with the legal fight to protect her despite the undoubted problems her press interventions have caused.
In February 2010 Price gave an interview to a journalist from the Irish News despite protestations from her family to the paper's staff that she was troubled. Within days of this a journalist with the Sunday Life newspaper reported that he had heard tapes in which Price allegedly admitted her involvement in the phenomena known as the disappeared including the abduction and slaying of Jean McConville. In the course of that article it was reported that Price had made admissions to Boston College in her interviews with me. Given that the one tape that certainly did exist was made by the Irish News reporter the logical assumption is that the tape heard by the Sunday Life reporter was the same one made by the Irish News.
On this basis it was claimed by the US Justice Department in its subpoena request that the Sunday Life reporter had listened to Price's BC tapes. This was simply impossible. As would later be submitted in affidavits to courts in Belfast from both myself and Ed Moloney, Price disclosed nothing of her alleged involvement in the abduction or death of Mrs McConville in any interview that I carried out with her for the Belfast Project.
The same Sunday Life journalist later posting on the Slugger O'Toole website under the pseudonym 'Maradona' called for the Boston College tapes to be handed over to British authorities.
In view of this we are left to conclude that British authorities sought interviews as part of a fishing expedition based on a shady report by a Northern journalist who later demonstrably sought to have the tapes made available to the same British authorities.
When the first subpoena was issued in the spring of last year Boston College did not inform the researchers. One member of staff confused and concerned by the developments brought the matter to the attention of Ed Moloney. What he told Moloney was disturbing. There was an attitude forming amongst campus in-house lawyers that the research participants were just a bunch of terrorists anyway and their welfare should not be a factor in the deliberations of BC on how to respond to the subpoena. Moloney then took the view that Boston College was going to comply with the subpoena and hand the requested material over to the US Justice Department for the purpose of it being shipped to British authorities.
The only way to ensure Boston College honoured its commitment to confidentiality was to go public and effectively make it difficult for the college to hand over the material surreptitiously which in our view was its intention.
For a while Boston College refused to publicly commit itself to a position of seeking to have the subpoena quashed. This enhanced suspicions that its instinct was not to contest the matter. It is the view of both Moloney and me that BC ultimately agreed to fight because of the press coverage he had ignited by going public.
When warned by myself in the wake of the first subpoena that a second one was likely to follow and that BC should take measures to put an endangered confidential archive, not yet subject to court order, beyond reach of the British authorities, BC declined to do so. It came up with a number of specious arguments including one that the college had given its word to the research participants that their donations would be safely stored on the college and for BC to put them anywhere else would be a breach of confidence.
This was pure moonshine. The last place the research participants wanted their donations to be at that point in time was BC for the very reason stated in court in December last year by the external college lawyer Jeff Swope: that 'we are holding them and took them on a condition of confidentiality and we can't maintain that.' Attempts through solicitors to have them withdrawn from the college on the grounds that BC could no longer honour its commitments were turned down. This is in spite of Swope having informed the court that the college would have to return the material to the donors upon request on the grounds that confidentiality could not be maintained.
BC also stated that the likelihood of any second subpoena was farfetched and the college had been advised to this effect by lawyers including those formally schooled in international law. A second subpoena duly arrived.
This leads to a blunt conclusion: Boston College simply did not check out the legal position or if it did it wilfully failed to convey the legal status to its researchers or research participants. We are entitled to infer from this that it was equally cavalier in its approach to the legal situation from the outset. It is impossible to believe that BC despite its phalanx of lawyers took any proper, observable and recorded legal guidance, relying instead on a belief expressed to it in good faith by Paul Bew that the British authorities would not come looking for material that predated the Good Friday Agreement. The alternative is to believe that BC's legal advisers were so incompetent and not up to speed in developments in international treaties that they failed to see that a second subpoena was legally permissible and likely to come. How plausible is that?
The BC response reinforces the contention of the researchers that BC neither at the beginning of the project or after it, even at the very point when it was falling down around its ears, ever properly engaged its formidable array of lawyers who would readily have warned it of the perilous course it was on. BC wanted a valuable archive in its possession and was prepared to gild the legal lily to obtain it.
The US Federal Court ruled against the BC motion to quash the subpoenas. Boston College pulled stumps and decided to walk off the legal park, making no attempt to appeal in the case of Dolours Price. Neither the federal court nor the First Circuit court of appeal opted to defend the right of researchers to carry out the research free from law enforcement incursion.
Aided by excellent lawyers Eamonn Dornan and James Cotter, I and Ed Moloney took up the fight and in doing so have ensured that nothing apart from the Hughes material has found its way to British authorities. A motion by me and Moloney to independently intervene in the case in the US courts was denied by the Federal and First Circuit courts. In the bid to intervene we were backed by the American Civil Liberties Union. We are now seeking to have the case heard by the US Supreme Court again with the backing from the ACLU. And there is currently an application in the Belfast High Court seeking leave to have a judicial review. Judgement there is expected to be delivered on Monday morning.
In the US there has been considerable political lobbying with Irish American bodies, senators and members of Congress making their voices heard in support of the tapes not being handed over to British authorities. The incongruity of the subpoena is being flagged up by reference to the extradition treaty between the UK and the US which rules out any extradition requests for people suspected of activity prior to the Good Friday Agreement.
A fuller understanding of any situation is proportionate to the information gleaned in the subject area under investigation. The input of participants is important and can only add to and never diminish public understanding. The historian Arthur Hibbert once advised Salman Rushdie that people should not write history before they hear people speak. It seems axiomatic that in the study of conflict and combat the combatants are people whose voices if denied leave silences which amount to epistemological black spots.
In this respect oral history is an invaluable tool for displacing the mute and inserting the spoken, throwing light into tenebrous caves, adding to the complex tapestry that broadens and deepens our understanding of conflict. It explains much about motive even in those situations where the attempt is to mask. The probing oral historian is not a blank sheet upon which the narrative of the interviewee can be seamlessly laid. He/she has the ability to critically interact with primary source material and can prompt it to speak back, something that cannot be done when parsing written records.
Yet the value of this information unlocking research is set to be devalued. The chill effect on accessing sources has already been felt. A number of academics have publicly commented on it and there was a report in the Guardian that already one London university had, as a consequence of the Belfast Project difficulties, aborted a similar venture, this time drawing on the narratives of people in the security services.
Unfortunately, it seems that the protections available to oral historians as well as researchers or journalists for that matter are nowhere near as robust as they arguably need to be. Whatever safeguards are in place there is no effective shield law that will protect research in all circumstances. It seems that the courts are unwilling to protect confidential research. At best they offer protections which are neither strong nor expansive.
If the first obligation of a researcher is to protect research participants from any harm that may accrue from information revealed during the course of a confidential interview it is then incumbent on the researcher to use whatever means at their disposal to ensure that protection.
On occasion that might require following the example of Rik Scarce, a US researcher engaged in research work with animal rights activists. He went to prison for 159 days rather than make his research available to investigating authorities. The judge eventually relented after a number of months during which it became clear to him that Scarce was not one of the push over professors the authorities were more used to dealing with and getting their way.
Last ditch action like this is unavoidable in those situations where the university is unwilling to resist law enforcement and possibly more than willing to shaft its researchers and research participants.
Ted Palys and John Lowman from the Simon Frazer University in Canada have spent many years examining the issues around research confidentiality and have shown how universities as institutions will take the easy way out and abandon researchers and research participants in the process of protecting the institution regardless of what assurances they may have issued to begin with. In the celebrated case of Russell Ogden, a Canadian researcher who conducted work on assisted suicide involving AIDS sufferers and whose work was subpoenaed by a coroner's court, Judge Steinberg, who eventually heard Ogden's claim for damages, was scathing of Simon Fraser University for its abysmal failure to support Ogden.
Palys and Lowman offer a perspective which oral historians should seriously consider. If it is accepted that researchers have the fortitude to refuse to be corralled in any epistemological Garden of Eden where they can be told that there is a certain tree of knowledge from which they shall not eat, then it is incumbent upon them to know exactly what measures are open to them in the event of the state trying to plunder their research.
Even where it is no easy task to decipher it is crucially important for researchers to both familiarise themselves with and anticipate the law. If something untoward can happen the researcher must assume it will happen and on that basis make a choice. If their deliberations are guided by the law of the land perspective, where the law must be complied with by researchers no matter how draconian its demands, then it is better that they do not involve themselves in research if in so doing the research participants may reveal something that could be harmful to them and which the researcher is not willing to be a shield for research participants against any encroachment by law enforcement.
If they follow the Ethics First perspective, which holds that, 'in the last instant, law must be subordinated to ethics' then they must realise that no matter what the law insists upon, once they have given the guarantee of confidentiality to the research participant it becomes incumbent on them to engage in civil disobedience of the type admirably carried out by Professor Scarce as a last resort to protect their research participants. In short researchers who are not up to the onerous burden of facing imprisonment and other court sanctions as a means to protect sources have no option but to side step the type of research that may place them on the horns of a dilemma. Much might be lost to them but as Marvin Wolfgang argues 'the social scientist is not a representative of any branch of government with an obligation to execute certain police or judicial duties.' Their overriding obligation must be to their research participants against whom they must never consciously gather information that might be used as evidence against them.
If researchers yield in this crucially important arena it can only lead to a situation whereby certain areas of knowledge will be foreclosed to the researcher and in the fields of criminology, conflict studies, history and political science, there will be tendency towards a law enforcement view of some matters. We know from experience just how skewed that would be. We can also envisage how it would be used to protect law enforcement from some forms of external scrutiny and investigation. As argued by Palys and Lowman the law is not the arbiter of ethics and should not be free to impose ethical limits on the researcher.
Oral history techniques have the potential to play some role in conflict resolution. They tease out narratives that would otherwise not be heard. Research participants will reveal things to oral historians that would never be forthcoming to police detectives. Knowledge of conflict is subsequently enhanced. At the end stage of a peace process when the thorny issue of truth recovery emerges the role of the oral historian can acquire greater significance. The oral historian has some advantage in this regard over his fellow historians. She has talked with the people involved in the very conflict that is actively being resolved.
But perhaps of equal significance is the role that oral history projects may have to play in conflict avoidance. A greater societal understanding of the causes of conflict might in some way, no matter how limited, help to ensure that the conditions likely to give rise to armed conflict are dealt with in advance. Indeed all historical study of conflict helps to play this role and it is important not to plead special circumstance on behalf of oral historians. But their work should never be devalued.
In the North where truth is more about recrimination than reconciliation the role of the oral historian takes on added significance. If the oral historian is to wait around for some agreed mechanism whereby the past can be tackled he or she shall have preserved nothing to be considered. For the oral historian it is crucial to act early although in doing so the ethical and procedural challenges faced are made all the more difficult.
Academics who fail to defend confidentiality once solemnly rendered or seek reasons to limit it or find every excuse to compromise it conjure up imagery of the writers Hugh Trevor Roper and John Le Carre who sought to blame Salman Rushdie for his book Satanic Verses rather than stand up for freedom of expression and the imagination.
There is no doubt that the outcome of the legal battle being waged around the Belfast Project will set parameters on what oral historians can actually collate certainly in any institutional setting. It will always be easy to tease out from a combatant what they had for breakfast on any morning of their activist lives. How tenuous in value that is we hardly need reminded of. It is much more difficult, yet I would argue more productive and beneficial, to ask a combatant about a particular operation they were involved in, the strategic decision making processes that shape political violence, and to interrogate the moral dilemmas that must lie at the heart of political violence in a way that is not distant and abstract but up close and personal. This is what gives the edge to works like Jean Hatzfeld when he interviewed the Hutu Power killers of Rwanda, Mark Baker when he spoke to US military Vietnam vets and Horacio Verbitsky when he brought out the voice of a senior Navy figure behind the Disappeared in the Argentine security services.
While confidentiality is essential to many different types of research, nowhere is it more important than in research where subjects are asked to divulge information about criminal activity and criminal justice processes, especially when this concerns criminal activity and/or rights violations that have not been detected. The primary role of research ethics is to ensure that subjects are not harmed by their participation in research. When subjects divulge information about crime or criminal justice processes, it is our ethical responsibility to ensure that the information cannot be used against them. Without a guarantee of confidentiality and confidence in our willingness and ability to maintain it, neither offenders nor those who prosecute, process and incarcerate them police, prison guards, prosecutors and judges are likely to reveal sensitive information about the nature of their activity and the operation of the criminal justice system.
The choice is stark. But for myself and Ed Moloney the luxury of choice is something denied us. We have no choice to make. Our freedom for action is totally circumscribed by the undertakings we gave to interviewees on behalf of Boston College when we walked into their lives and asked them to cast light on a dark past. As journalists and oral historians we are ethically bound to protect them in all circumstances and to face whatever legal consequences or financial hardship that may flow from that.
You give your research participants assurances of confidentiality, and you stand by those statements. What you don't do is to do what Boston College appears to be doing, which is to cave in, in an instant. The tragedy is, that is exactly what many institutions do.


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Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will post a lower pre-tax profit in 2015 than in the previous fiscal year due to major investments and a blast at China's Tianjin port that destroyed thousands of its cars. (Reuters)
Luxury British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will post a lower pre-tax profit in 2015 than in the previous fiscal year, its CEO told Reuters, due to major investments and a blast at China's Tianjin port that destroyed thousands of its cars.
The company, which said on Tuesday it will invest nearly half a billion pounds in its British engine manufacturing centre, saw up to 5,800 cars damaged or destroyed in a chemical explosion at Tianjin in August.
JLR, which has been rapidly expanding its model line-up and volumes with new production planned in continental Europe and South America, recorded a pre-tax loss of 157 million pounds in the three months to the end of September, weighed down by a charge due to the blast.
JLR's Chief Executive Ralf Speth told Reuters in an interview that he did not expect his company to match the 2.61 billion pound ($3.95 billion) pre-tax profit it made in 2014/15.
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JLR's 450 million pound investment in its British engine manufacturing centre comes just over a year after the 500 million-pound facility was opened and will help meet demand as the firm ramps up volumes.
China was Jaguar Land Rover's fastest growing market in 2014 and Speth said demand in the world's biggest car market was returning after the company saw sharp declines in sales earlier this year.
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Ariel Waldman is being honored as a Champion of Change for her dedication to increasing public engagement in science and science literacy.
Science should be something that is disruptively accessible. Citizen science is less about replicating science experiments and more about people from any background being empowered to create new ways to explore the overlooked, underfunded and fringe areas of science. Unfortunately, the relationship most adults have with scientific exploration is one of observation: watching government agencies and scientists explore on behalf of us, but not actually exploring it ourselves.
That was my relationship with space exploration prior to 2008. That year, I was watching a documentary on the Discovery Channel, called When We Left Earth, and I became so inspired by it that I decided to randomly send NASA an email, volunteering myself to help in case they ever needed someone like me. I have no formal science background; my degree is in graphic design and I had been working at an ad agency for a number of years. Serendipitously, I got a job at NASA from that email. Never having expected to work at NASA, the experience was life changing – setting me on a mission to enlighten others that they, too, can actively contribute to science.
After NASA, I created Spacehack.org, a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. From discovering galaxies to building spacecrafts, Spacehack.org catalogs how anyone can actively contribute to scientific discovery and exploration. There has been a considerable movement in the last few years to make science more open between scientific disciplines and to the perceived "public". But simply making science open – by placing datasets, research, and materials online and using open source licensing – is only half the battle. Open is not the same as accessible.
Open science materials are often very cryptic or are buried deep within a government website where they're not easy to find. You only need to look at projects on Spacehack.org, like Galaxy Zoo, to understand the importance of making science accessible. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey had opened up their data, but it wasn't until Zooniverse, the group behind Galaxy Zoo, created a thoughtful interface for it that it truly became accessible for hundreds of thousands of people to interact with it and actively contribute to scientific discovery through it. So how can we continue to make science more disruptively accessible across all science disciplines, geographies, industries and skill-sets?
Born out of this frustration that there's actually quite a bit of open science "stuff" but no one is actually doing anything interesting with it, came an event called Science Hack Day. Science Hack Day is a 48-hour-all-night event that brings together designers, developers, scientists and other enthusiastic geeks in the same physical space for a brief but intense period of collaboration and building cool, weird, amazing things. A hack is a unique modification, an interesting mashup or a quick solution to a problem – maybe not the most elegant solution, but often the cleverest. You don't need to be a scientist or a hacker to attend, you just need to get excited and make things with science. By having a fresh set of eyes from those who solve different types of problems across a variety of industries inside and outside of science, new concepts often emerge and can go on to influence science and adults' relationship to science in unexpected ways.
I am the global instigator for Science Hack Day – working with passionate people in countries around the world who want to organize a Science Hack Day in their own city. There's an open source set of instructions for how anyone can create a Science Hack Day at http://sciencehackday.com. I am incredibly amazed to be included as a Champion of Change in Citizen Science. I never imagined I could work at NASA and I never imagined I would be honored by the White House for sharing my excitement about science and space exploration. Through hacking, anyone can actively contribute to science, and often in surprising new ways.
Ariel Waldman is the Founder of Spacehack.org.


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TiX crowdfunding spotlight
By KrisWB | Published: March 1, 2015
TiX Crowd Funding Spotlight is our latest weekly feature showcasing a selection of projects on the likes of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo that are either being primarily developed for Xbox platforms including Xbox Games for PC/Windows Phone or include stretch goals that will see the project released onto either of those platforms.
In our first weekly edition we have an old PlayStation game 'Fan Edition' looking to make its way to Xbox One. A 2006 Xbox 360 classic looking for a revival. An RPG drawing inspiration from Thief, Deus Ex, BioShock, Skyrim and Dragon Age and finally a fan art book looking to raise money in the fight against cancer.
Strength of the SWORD ULTIMATE
Originally a PS3 game, Strength of the Sword gathered a massive following. Now Ivent Games, a two-man team, are hoping to re-release this ultimate fan edition on as many platforms as possible.
The entire original game is ported and polished as part of the new ULTIMATE game. Every location, every blood-thirsty monster from the original campaign will be back with as much bite if not more. New features include a PvP mode, CO-OP mode, Dark mode (hinted at as an awesome asymmetrical PvP marathon!) and an extended single player mode bringing the new ideas of Ivent Games to fruition.
Towards the end of the week, Ivent Games dropped the stretch goal for a current gen console release from $100,000 to $82,000 but there is a catch… backers of the project need to vote here for their console of choice. The winning console, well wins. To see this project released on Xbox One, click the link just gone and get voting!. Currently they've raised just shy of $51,449 and have 9 days left. Having passed $43,000 the game will see a release on PS Vita and the Wii U, which although we are happy for Ivent Games we want to help push them to Xbox One. So check out the project using this link and donate if you'd like to see an Xbox One release.
Crystal Quest Classic
Crystal Quest Classic is a revival of the 1987 award-winning video game. The original was played on almost every Macintosh computer in existence before being ported to the Apple IIgs, Amiga and the Game Boy – followed many years in 2006 by a reawakening on the Xbox 360.
All the addictive levels and mesmerising gameplay of the original have been retained in the design of Crystal Quest Classic. The goal is to match the mechanics of the original with even better sound and graphics. Plus the developers want to get it on as many platforms as possible. Although the initial plan is to release it for PC, Mac and Linux, with a little more support and funding Crystal Quest could see itself back on the Xbox platform.
Crystal Quest Classic has only managed to raise just short of $3,000 towards their $14,000 target. That said there are still 7 days left to back the project. So check out the full project page on Kickstarter here support them if this revival is up your street.
Game Artists unite to battle cancer
Gamer for Life is a Fan Art Tribute book. 283 game artists came together and donated 476 art pieces to be used in this campaign to raise funds for the fight against cancer. In 2012 Kevin, a game developer at Blizzard was diagnosed with stage four Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma, an incredibly rare cancer with no cure and no clear treatment path. This project came to be when those close to Kevin decided they had to do something for their friend and fellow game developer, Kevin Kenai Griffith (KKG). Unfortunately in Oct. 2014 KKG passed away, as the content for the book was completed.
The initial goal for the funds raised by the book was to cover Kevin's medical expenses. When Kevin passed he had no unpaid medical expenses. Gamers for Good were able to financially support his memorial event. Now 4 months on, word has spread beyond those with personal connections to Kevin and gained interest from around the globe. Artists from Blizzard, Riot, Carbine, Activision, Microsoft, Ready at Dawn, GREE, Tencent, Turtle Rock and many more have all come together to contribute to this book.
In order to try to stay as close to the original intent of the project, the organisers we will be splitting proceeds of this campaign between 2 charities in KKG's memory; Games Changers and CureASPS. With 18 days left this project is almost there having raised $38,847 of the $40,000 target. Donators will receive a variety of thank you gifts so check out the project page on IndieGoGo and donate what you can.
And finally another project that caught our eye was Underworld Ascendant the rekindling of the Underworld universe. Ultima Underworld (and Ultima Underworld II) are fantasy RPGs that influenced RPG titles like Neverwinter Nights, Skyrim and even BioShock. The project has been picked up by The OtherSide Entertainment who between them have worked on over 25 award-winning games like Deus Ex, Neverwinter Night, Dishonoured, Medal of Honor, Uncharted, Last of Us, BioShock Infinite and many more.
Far more than a dungeon crawler, Underworld Ascendant features a dynamic, player driven narrative, an improvisation engine, intense combat and inventive magic, create your own character class feature and new 'stretch RPG' mechanics.
Although not immediately set for a console release, they have a mystery stretch goal yet to be announced. One has to hope that the team with their experience of releasing titles like Dishonoured and BioShock Infinite will make the jump to console, now that would be the perfect final stretch goal. I for one would love to see Underworld Ascendant make it that far.
With 5 days to go until the project runs out of time, The OtherSide Entertainment have managed to raise just their initial target of $600,000 towards development. You can check out the full KickStarter page here including additional detail, concept art and videos.
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Chapel at New Braselton Hospital to Be Named for Longtime Public Servant, Thanks to Donation from Family
When Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) Braselton opens its doors on April 1, patients and visitors will be able to find respite in a chapel named in memory of a pillar of the local community – all thanks to a donation from his family.
Jim Moore, chairman of The Medical Center Foundation board, made the special announcement about the new signature gift from the family of Henry Edward Braselton during a celebration Thursday night. Mr. Braselton served as mayor of Braselton from 1988-2001 and was a member of the Braselton town council for more than 40 years, a visionary businessman and a beloved member of the community which bears his family name. He passed away in 2009.
"Henry served on Northeast Georgia Medical Center's advisory board and was at the table developing plans to prepare NGMC for future growth," says Anthony Williamson, president of NGMC Braselton. "Before his passing, he participated in the cornerstone ceremony on the grounds of the new hospital. He was so very proud about future access to healthcare for Braselton and surrounding communities."
The chapel will be completed when NGMC Braselton opens in the spring of 2015. Prominently situated along the ground floor main corridor amidst the 100-bed hospital's full service café and atrium dinning space, the Braselton family's gift will make possible a reverent destination of hope and healing for patients, their families, and staff. The chapel will include beautifully custom made light filtering stained glass windows, craftsman bench seating, a custom water feature, Georgian stone and wood floors and accent paneling throughout.
"The Medical Center Foundation is grateful and humbled by the Braselton family's decision to give this meaningful gift, which will make a difference in the lives of others for generations to come," adds Nancy Colston, president and chief development officer for The Medical Center Foundation. "They are creating a very heartfelt legacy for someone who meant so much to them. The chapel will be a lasting tribute to the love Henry Braselton had for his family, his community, and his Creator."
For more information, please contact Maggie James, Signature Gifts Officer, at 770-219-8099
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"Recently, the WhiteHats released this video of Lord James of BlackHeath urging the House of Lords to conduct an investigation into a possible bank heist to the tune of US$ 15 Trillion.
This is a very significant measure as it is now put on public record, right at the very heart of the British Empire, those "wild rumors" being passed around in the alternative media.
The White Dragon Society represented by Ben Fulford is also confirming that a March 31st deadline has been set by the Gnostic Illuminati against the Khazarian Satanic Cabal to transfer power over to Prince Harry before Global Settlements can be implemented."
My message to the 'Occupy Movements': Keep doing what you're doing! The banking empire is starting to crumble. Don't give up!
No more money = no more corrupted governments, no more famine, no more sufferance, no more wars!


To be one of Malaysia's top 100 lawyers, you must have the "utmost professionalism and a vast amount of experience and knowledge", according to Desmond Raju, head of legal of Malaysian Football League, when describing Faisal Moideen, managing partner at Moideen & Max. Simply put, "[Faisal] is a brilliant lawyer," he adds.
Deepak Pillai, a partner at Christopher Lee & Ong "is an authority when it comes to technology in Malaysia. He is very experienced and up to date with his advice," according to Norman Ho, a partner at Rajah & Tann in Singapore.
Gerardine Loggere, managing director of Tatum (KL), Malaysia, says, "Leonard supported my company on a complicated dispute … his professionalism and way of working is more than excellent," when describing Leonard Yeoh, a partner at Tay & Partners.
Comments such as these, submitted to Asia Business Law Journal by the clients of Malaysian lawyers and lawyers practising in Malaysia, suggest that they not only look for lawyers with an extensive knowledge of the law, but also those who are client orientated, have a great understanding of business needs and are culturally sensitive, sincere and highly trustworthy.
In addition, most international clients seek out Malaysian lawyers who are commercially savvy, practical when giving advice, and demonstrate passion for the profession.
Malaysia, a member of the Commonwealth of nations, enjoys one of the most robust and industry-diverse economies in Southeast Asia. The country engages in the adoption of cutting-edge technology for the manufacturing and digital economy, and its people live an affluent lifestyle due to low national income tax, low costs for local food and transport, and a fully subsidized single-payer public healthcare system.
The electronics, automotive and construction industries are the biggest industries in Malaysia, and the country boasts a highly educated and productive labour force because of better education and knowledge-based industries. Malaysians place great value on establishing and nurturing business relationships, and it is an attractive place for foreign businesses.
The Malaysian legal system is largely based on the British common law system as a result of British colonization in the 19th century until 31 August 1957, when the Federation of Malaysia officially declared independence. There is a dual law system in Malaysia and this is based on criminal and civil, and on sharia law. It has also incorporated Australian and Indian Laws into its justice system, as well as Islamic laws that only apply to Muslims, who have their own courts and sentencing guidelines.
Malaysia's mixed legal system is complex, especially for foreigners, which makes it imperative for both domestic and international businesses to seek legal assistance when navigating the regulatory environment.
The Malaysian legal market continues to be one where clients seek out good lawyers, rather than good law firms. Perhaps this is because of the respect and trust individual lawyers have built and nurtured in lawyer-client relationships, and more importantly their reputation by name, which far outweighs their firm's brand name or actual size, factors that are predominant in more developed jurisdictions.
It is against this backdrop that Asia Business Law Journal presents its A-list of the top 100 lawyers (including foreign legal consultants/advisers/counsel) practising in Malaysia (see the list of all 100 lawyers and the key practice areas for which they are endorsed following this article).
The list is based on extensive research conducted and nominations received from in-house counsel based in Malaysia and elsewhere, as well as Malaysia-focused partners at international law firms based outside Malaysia. Nearly all of the A-list lawyers are located in the country's capital, Kuala Lumpur. This may reflect the premium on lawyers who are well placed to have their ear to the ground with regard to developments among the financial and sector-specific regulators, and within the corridors of power in government.
As would be expected, the heads of Malaysia's top law firms are included in the A-list. These include: Foong Chee Meng, managing partner at Foong & Partners; Adrian Yeow York Koh, managing partner at Mah-Kamariyah & Philip Koh; Azman bin Othman Luk, managing partner at Rahmat Lim & Partners; Christopher Leong, managing partner at Chooi & Company + Cheang & Ariff; Mohamed Ridza Abdullah, managing partner at Mohamed Ridza & Co; Iain Sedgley, managing partner at Sedgley & Co; Ambiga Sreenevasan, founding partner at Sreenevasan; and Wong Jin Nee, managing partner at Wong Jin Nee & Teo.
Not to be outshone by their male peers, a portion of the A-list was filled by Malaysia's leading women lawyers including: Esther Chik, a partner at Wong & Partners, who has a practice focus on finance and projects and is currently under secondment in Baker McKenzie's Hong Kong office; Caroline Francis, managing partner at RamRais & Partners, who specializes in IP law; Lee Lin Li, a partner at Tay & Partners who heads her firm's IP & technology practice group; Lilian Liew, a partner at Zaid Ibrahim & Co who has led many award winning capital market deals; Grace Yeoh, managing partner at Shearn Delamore & Co, who became her firm's first female managing partner in its more than 100-year history; and Moy Pui Yee, a partner at Rahmat Lim & Partners, who also sits on the board of directors at Sime Darby, a global trading and logistics player.
"[Jalalullail] is commercial-thinking. He understands client's needs and provides extensive advice beyond the requested queries," was how Azrie Johari, associate legal counsel at Bank Negara Malaysia, describes Jalalullail Othman, a partner at Shook Lin & Bok.
Satisfied clients such as these are what make a lawyer or foreign legal consultant/counsel/adviser one of Malaysia's top 100.
The A-List is based on extensive research conducted by Asia Business Law Journal. To identify the top 100 lawyers in Malaysia, we turned to thousands of in-house counsel in Malaysia and around the world – as well as partners at international law firms – and asked them to tell us which lawyers should make the cut. Nominations were made by professionals at a wide range of Malaysian and global companies, financial institutions and law firms, including: Allen & Overy; American Express; AmInvestment Bank; Asian International Arbitration Centre; Bank Negara Malaysia; Bird & Bird; Bombardier Malaysia; Briddge Legal and Finance; the British Council; China Construction Bank; CIMB Bank; Clover Infinite Capital Ventures; ENRA Group; Eversheds Sutherland; Grant Thornton; Guangdong Wang Jing & Co; Hewlett-Packard; LG; Malaysian Football League; Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu; Navis Capital; Perbadanan Stadium Malaysia; PETRONAS; Powerchina Real Estate; Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia; Shopee Malaysia; Sidley Austin; TerraLex; University of Malaya; World Bank; Zhong Lun Law Firm; and many more. The nominations process was backed up by thorough editorial research.
The final list reflects the nominations received combined with the Asia Business Law Journal editorial team's more than 30 years of collective experience in documenting and analyzing Malaysia's legal market. All Malaysian private-practice lawyers were automatically eligible for inclusion in the nominations process and, as always, there were no fees or any other requirements for entry.
The names and photographs of all 100 A-list lawyers are published here. In addition, each A-list lawyer was given the opportunity to include their biography and contact details, for which a publishing fee was charged.
It is important to note that while the compilation of the A-list was based solely on independent research, the biographies and contact details that appear alongside many of the listings have been written by the participating lawyers and the content has not been independently verified by Asia Business Law Journal.


Some call it stress relief, some call it art. We call it a great way to learn how to personalize your new hiking stick! Skylar Johnson is from Estes Park, Colorado and he is one of the most talented woodcarvers we know. His 46-page book on carving this famous face into a walking stick is a step by step way to learn how to carve. Buy it for yourself or add it to your walking stick gift - what a great way to suggest to someone that they should learn how to "sit a spell" and enjoy their new life with a walking stick.


The Salmon River and the surrounding waters are a kayaking and rafting paradise. Float down the Salmon River during the summer months and relax. Or put your kayak skills to use during one of the Salmon water scheduled releases. Or put your kayak skills to use during one of the Salmon water scheduled releases. Sorry we do not rent rafts or kayaks.
Maybe you are interested in spending a portion of time on the river and other time on some still water. As you probably know, there is no shortage of lakes and finger lakes in the Pulaski, NY region. It's a 30 minute drive to the Redfield reservoir and only 10 minutes to lake and mouth of the salmon river for some great night salmon fishing in early September.
There is water to suite every style. So, whether you are coming with a kayak, raft, inner tube or a canoe; be sure to consider the Fox Hollow Salmon River Lodge for all of your outdoors and water sports accommodation needs. We are dedicated to serving you and providing you with a clean and comfortable lodging environment during your stay. We want you to become a long term customer of ours, and not just a one night customer. Where you stay on the Salmon is proportional to your experience. And, if you stay with us you will not be dissapointed.


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Genre: Aventure
Lula 3D is an adult adventure video game developed and published by cdv Software Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. It was released in Europe on June 22, 2005. It is part of the Lula video game series. The plot centers on Lula, a pornographic actress, who is trying to produce her next porn movie, but must delay her shoot when her female co-stars are kidnapped. The player guides Lula to recover her lost co-stars. The title received negative reviews from critics, who felt that technical problems…
Developer cdv Software Entertainment
Genre Aventure
Publisher cdv Software Entertainment
Platforms Microsoft Windows
Engine Vulpine Vision


One of the most rewarding things about building a house is looking back. You never think you will get to the end. Here is a progression of the kitchen. The cabinets are solid Hickory, they have alot of character which I really like.
The counters are granite, uba tuba, a very dark green / black.
We love the island it is the place we do everything. It has drawers, shelves, trashcans and a chair, each side is something different.
The sink is on the other side of the bar as well as the Jenn air downdraft is on the left below the bar. The double oven is on the left.


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Home » Housing » US Real Estate » Luxury Real Estate » Wealthy billionaires are paying millions in Palm Beach real estate frenzy
Wealthy billionaires are paying millions in Palm Beach real estate frenzy
By Mike Wheatley | July 17, 2021
The ultra-rich community of Palm Beach, Florida, saw prices hit an all-time high in the second quarter as the number of mansions for sale fell to a record low.
Palm Beach saw its median price for a single-family home hit a whopping $11.7 million at the end of the quarter. That's up 38% from one year ago and a record high for the area, according to real estate brokers from Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel.
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The skyrocketing prices in a market that's already known to be super expensive are being driven by an influx of wealthy private equity chiefs, hedge fund managers and other finance executives moving into the area from places such as New York and other financial centers, CNBC reported. That's pushing up demand, and there simply aren't enough luxury homes to go around.
Samuel Miller Chief Executive Jonathan Miller told CNBC that it's a major reset of the Palm Beach real estate market. "We're now seeing $50 million transactions on an almost weekly basis," he said. "That's a big change, and it appears to be sustainable," he added.
Real estate prices in Palm Beach are now almost as expensive as in Manhattan, Miller said. The price per square foot there topped $1,500 in the second quarter, inching close to the $1,545 price in Manhattan.
But the sky-high prices aren't deterring buyers, who keep paying up, he said. Data from Samuel Miller shows that sales of single-family homes in Palm Beach were up 90% in the quarter compared to the same period one year ago, when the area was already seeing increased activity from the first human migrations at the outset of the COVID-19 pademic.
Palm Beach is now suffering from an acute shortage of mansions for sale. Samuel told CNBC there's barely a one-month supply of homes for sale in the glitzy town, a record low. There were just 25 homes for sale at the end of the quarter, but the real number is likely lower than that as some are probably under, or already heading to contract, he said.
To deal with the shortage and find homes at the behest of their clients, some brokers have taken to going door to door, asking people if they'd be willing to consider a sale.
That's the main tactic of Christopher Levitt, one of Douglas Elliman's top brokers in Palm Beach. He told CNBC that simply going around and asking isn't enough because although the high price might be tempting, anyone who sells will still need to find another house. So Levitt explained that his job now entails helping sellers find another, smaller home to buy, and then also helping the smaller homeowner find a new place as well.
"It's about repositioning people," Levitt told CNBC. "It's no longer about just MLS listings and selling a house."
It's unlikely to be a short-term trend either, Levitt said of the hot Palm Beach market. He believes the pandemic and the remote work trend will result in the permanent migration of numerous wealthy finance chiefs from New York and other traditional financial centers. It's notable there has already been increaseed development of large-scale office towers and amenities in West Palm Beach, for example.
"This is the tip of the iceberg," Levitt insisted.
Some examples of wealthy finance chiefs who already appear to have relocated to Palm Beach permanently include the hedge fund billionaire David Tepper, who in February doled out $68 million to buy a mansion in the area. That same month, Scott Shleifer, a partner at Tiger Global Management, paid a record-breaking $122.7 million to buy an oceanfront spec house (pictured) in Palm Beach that was once owned by former President Donald Trump.
They're both now neighbors of Igor Tulchinsy, the founder, chairman and CEO of quantitative asset management firm WorldQuant, who recently purchased his own $39.5 million home in North Palm Beach.
Some developers are looking to cash in on the trend too. Todd Michael Glaser has reportedly just acquired a private island off of Palm Beach for $85 million. He said he and his partners intend to renovate the existing property on the island and sell it on for profit.


Floods are the leading natural cause of property damage. Four times more homes are destroyed by flood than by fire, causing over $2 billion in property damage every year. In Lake City, we get some heavy rains, and you have to buy flood insurance 30 days before coverage begins.
After Katrina, many homeowners found out they were not insured since they lacked flood insurance. Insurance against flooding (rising water) is different from insurance against driven rain or leakage, which often are covered. Since that time, tens of thousands of Americans have purchased flood insurance for the first time.
Fortunately, Flood Insurance is affordable, though, flood damage is not.
Remember, act now, before the flood comes, there is a 30 day waiting period for flood insurance. Just because you experience a flood disaster, that doesn't mean you have to experience financial ruin.
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Carrie Underwood Net worth Carrie Underwood is an American Songwriter, Singer, and Actress. She Got her Fame from winning the fourth period of the American Idol. In the time of 2004 her First Debut Album a few hearts was discharged and got the gigantic measure of distinction among the general population of the assembled states. Carrie Underwood Net Worth is Around 87 Millions USD. It had one of the best frequently opening quite a while by a female skilled worker and earned Underwood two Grammy Awards.
Her next gathering, 2009s Play On, was a business accomplishment drove by the single Rancher Casanova. Her first plan gathering was a graph and arrangements accomplishment and earned her a Grammy Award. Carrie's fifth accumulation, Storyteller, made her the principle down-home skilled worker to have all underlying five studio accumulations achieve either number perhaps a couple on the Billboard 200.
Carrie Marie Underwood conceived in Muskogee, Oklahoma, the U.S on tenth March 1983. Her Parents names are Carole and Steve Underwood. She was raised on her parent's ranch. She was raised by her mom father and grandma. In her adolescence, she generally needed to wind up a craftsman and artist. She sang tunes in her school capacities. Her companions and instructors commended her for her voice and tunes. She said to her folks that she needed to wind up an artist and her parent gave her authorization.
In the wake of entering media outlets she got enormous love from her fans and from the general population of the assembled conditions of America. In the midst of her immaturity, Underwoodperformed at Robbins Memorial Talent Show and sang at her neighborhood church, First Free Will Baptist Church. She later sang for close-by events in Checotah, including Old Settler's Day and the Lion's Club. In mid of 2018 Carrie Underwood Net Worth is Around 87 Millions USD.
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Talking about Carrie Underwood's profit, she gathered 7.5 millions USD alone in 2006 which got multiplied in the next year. In 2009, she earned 13.6 millions USD which makes her wealthiest nation artist. A few sources assert that Carrie snatched over 166.3 millions USD all through her expert vocation.
Carrie's singing profession isn't the main wellspring of her wage. All things considered, Carrie Underwood's total assets runs higher with her multi-million dollars supports. To be clear, she has marked manages Olay, Almay, Nintendo, Target, Sketchers, and numerous others which is unquestionably helping her to include additional fortune.
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What is a Tajine? A tajine, or tagine is a Berber dish from North Africa, that is named after the special earthenware pot in which it is cooked. The traditional tajine pot is formed entirely of a heavy clay, which is sometimes painted or glazed. Tajines in Moroccan cuisine are slow-cooked stews braised at low temperatures, resulting in tender meat with aromatic vegetables and sauce.
I never try to justify what my mind is, my mind has a mind of its own.
But I kinda crack myself up sometimes as I wonder am I being hypocritical, as I perceive myself as this eco-friendly, modest living, recycle everything, Mr. GreenPeace, "Save-the-Wales" kinda dude, who at the same time, loves the sit in the "Lap of Luxury"


The digitalisation of business activities across all sectors is giving rise to new jobs and skills. The Bachelor in Web Design and Graphic Communications is based on the experience and the strength of both Excelia Group and ICAN, and aims to meet this need by offering a quality and recognised professional programme.
Through the Bachelor in Web Design and Graphic Communications, you will learn how to build websites and develop graphic communication elements. Today, in addition to these skills which are highly sought after by companies, you will need other competencies such as excellent communication skills, artistic ability and technical knowledge, all of which form part of the programme. The programme can be carried out in La Rochelle or Niort.
The Bachelor in Web Design and Graphic Communications can be carried out as either a 3-year post-High School programme or a 1-year programme if 2 years of higher education have already been completed since leaving High School. The Bachelor is awarded in partnership with the institute for digital creation and animation, ICAN (Institut de Création et d'Animation Numériques).
This 3-year programme has been developed to prepare you for the demands of the corporate world. Following Year 1, which is designed to introduce you to the world of business and internet graphics, you will progressively develop the skills required for your specific career.
This programme will ensure you master the fundamentals of IT and graphics, understand the different solutions for creating and managing professional websites whilst, of course, developing your skills in web design.
The programme is project-based with theory being put into practice through case studies, business games and conferences given by professionals. In this way, you will explore each aspect of the various jobs in detail and test your skills and knowledge throughout the learning process.
To encourage and facilitate teamwork and enhance the learning process, dedicated areas have been created for your specific use. You will also have access to many online educational resources such as Myintranet, Cyberlibris, CrossKnowledge etc.
All courses are taught in French. You will however continue to learn English as a specific course module.
At the end of each academic year, you will carry out a company-based internship where you will confront the realities of the job. These placements, lasting between 2 and 4 months, are often an excellent springboard for the job market.
A work-study track can be chosen in Year 3 provided you have negotiated an employment contract (contrat de professionnalisation) with a company.
The Bachelor in Web Design and Graphic Communications is offered by La Rochelle Digital School which is part of Excelia Group. You will therefore be part of a dynamic, multicultural campus where you will benefit from the savoir-faire, the teaching resources and all the personal support tools offered by the Group. This Bachelor programme will provide you with a wealth of experiences.
The Bachelor in Web Design and Graphic Communications has been developed to ensure that you gain a maximum of work experience to be able to enter the job market with ease. Therefore company-based internships form a key part of your programme. They can be carried out in any type of company (start-ups, multinationals etc.) and can be undertaken in France or abroad. By the end of your studies, your CV will boast between 10 and 12 months' company-based work experience.
Year 3 can be carried out on a work-study track provided you have negotiated an employment contract (contrat de professionnalisation) with a company. Through this, you will gain significant professional experience whilst earning a salary and having your year of studies paid for.
You have the possibility of getting involved in one of the 40 associations at Excelia Group. Working in these associations will enable you to develop your skills and knowledge in a supportive and professionally-oriented environment. In addition, it is a great way to settle into school life and experience something unique.
In Year 3, you can undertake a social, humanitarian or civic voluntary project in an NGO or an association, either in France or abroad. This is one of the unique features of Excelia Group, which is committed to educating students to become future managers who are both responsible and conscious of the importance of their role in society.
To help you develop your professional project in a coherent way and to support you in your search for internships and employment, you will benefit from the personalised support and guidance of a tutor throughout your studies. In tandem to this, the School offers workshops structured around personal development (self-awareness and self-assertion), communication tools (such as CVs and cover letters), understanding the job market, learning about different careers and developing your professional network.
In a business world that is increasingly focussed on digital technology, existing jobs are evolving and new ones are being created. Experts predict that by 2030, some 50% of the jobs that will be available don't yet exist.
Taking full account of these predictions, the Bachelor in Web Design and Graphic Communications will provide students with the digital skills required by companies.
To assist students in their search for an internship and a job position, throughout their studies they will have access to 250 digital business partners grouped together within Digital Bay and Syndicat des Professionnels du Numérique (SPN). In addition, support will be provided by the graduates from the Alumni network who work all over the world.
In Year 3, students are offered personal support in their search for a work-study position. This support helps students identify their personal attributes: define their experiences (professional, voluntary, sporting, charitable, international) as well as their academic and professional skills. It is also an opportunity to work on a portfolio and a LinkedIn profile which companies may refer to.


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Cubs Trade Tony Kemp, Which Shouldn't Matter, But Kind Of Does, Which Is Sad
It's a minor move, and it was hard to figure where Tony Kemp would fit onto this team anyway. In fact, the whole thing with Kemp was weird, as he was received for Martin Maldonado, whom the Cubs only had for a couple of weeks while Contreras was hurt. And they gave up an actual arm for that, even though Mike Montgomery asked out. But he might have been nice to have when the whole bullpen and rotation was burning in September. Like I said, just weird.
Anyway, Kemp was shipped out to Oak-town for Alfonso Rivas today. Rivas is a mid-level 1st base prospect who apparently can't hit for power, at least not yet. But hey, that carries on a tradition for the Cubs that started with Mark Grace and extended to Hee-Seop Choi, which Grace is still complaining about. Rivas got about eight games above High-A last year, and probably figures to start in AA this year. Nothing more than a lottery ticket.
While Kemp's production was never going to be anything, and appears to be the second year in a row the Cubs got fascinated with the idea of a pinch runner for playoff games they ended up never playing, it makes the Cubs bench even uglier. And dear reader, it was ugly before. This is the kind of bench that you'd read the names of to punish your children for breaking the rules of the house.
As it stands: Albert Almora, Victor Caratini, Daniel Descalso, Robel Garcia, and Hernan Perez. That's one glove, a backup catcher who might be good, a backup infielder who isn't, a switch hitting Pedro Cerano who's not nearly as fun, and whatever Hernan Perez can do (i.e. not much).
Some of this will be alleviated if Nico Hoerner can make the team out of Arizona and shift David Bote back to a support role. But if that doesn't happen, the fear is that the Cubs will face a situation where all their regulars are stepping on their tongues come August and can't finish the season strongly or at all, like we saw with Baez, Bryant, Rizzo, and one or two others last season. And there isn't anyone out of Iowa who can help solve this right now.
It doesn't even help the Cubs on the payroll front, as Kemp wasn't even arb-eligible so the savings are minimal. Most estimates have the Cubs still $2M-$6M over the $208M threshold, which is clearly where they're aiming to get under. So how they can improve the bench while still cutting payroll is going to be a neat trick. And by "neat" I mean "awful and probably make you feel bad."
Of course, a simple trade of Quintana while taking no salary back will solve this, except it would weaken the rotation something fierce. But then again, the Cubs don't seem to care about that kind of thing. Y'know, the thing where you try to win games, and like a lot of them so you can go to the playoffs and possibly win more games and even like, 11 of them. Did you know they give you a trophy for getting under the luxury tax? Yep, gonna fly that flag right out there in right-center field.
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Max Manning in Texas Biennial
Congratulations to Max Manning who has been included in the 2017 Texas Biennial.
The biennial this year is curated by Leslie Moody Castro who has been appointed TX★17 Curator and Artistic Director. Moody Castro has a history of making artistic voices and the communities they work within central to her practice, all of which oscillate around the importance of place. Moody Castro toggles between Mexico City and Austin as her primary locations, but has an identity in itinerancy. Under Moody Castro's leadership, TX★17 will magnify the excellence and diversity of contemporary art being produced in the state.
Leslie Moody Castro has organized and collaborated on exhibitions at Artpace San Antonio, for the Contemporary Art Month, San Antonio, Texas State University, CentralTrak Dallas, and Co-Lab Projects. She is committed to creating moments of artistic exchange and dialog and as such recently co-founded Unlisted Projects, an artist residency program in Austin, Texas.
Moody Castro is also a regular contributor for Artforum, Flash Art International, Frieze Magazine, ArtNews, and ArtCritical. Moody Castro earned her Master's degree at the University of Texas at Austin in Museum Education with a portfolio supplement in Museum Studies in 2010, and her Bachelor's degree in Art History at DePaul University in Chicago in 2004.
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You will be met by our representative at the pier or at your hotel and takes you on a nautical tour of Buzios. The boat offers personalized onboard service with drinks provided. Both sides of the peninsula are visited (subject to change according to sea conditions) with stops for snorkeling and swimming. Snorkel, swim, and enjoy stops at beaches and coves.
At the end of this excursion you are taken back to the cruise ship by private transfer. This excursion takes about 4 hours and includes private round-trip transfers from the cruise, an English-speaking specialized guide, transfer in/out, fresh and salt water showers, mineral water, soft drinks, caipirinha, masks and snorkel equipment (optional lunch at a rustic restaurant).
Travel by car with your host to snorkel and swim at beaches and visit lookouts on the south side as well as the city center. Afterwards you are returned to the cruise ship. This excursion takes about 2 hours and includes private round-trip transfers from the cruise and a car with an English-speaking specialized guide.
What makes booking with Evia special? Click the word Buzios to learn more about some of the beaches.


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Freaks Action Network Announces 2019 Holiday Jam Silent Auction & Raffle
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Scott Bernstein
The Freaks Action Network (FAN) launched the 2019 Holiday Jam Silent Auction & Raffle. Proceeds will benefit Break the Hold, an "organization committed to 'breaking the hold' on mental illness and providing education about suicide prevention." Items up grabs include Phish, Joe Russo's Almost Dead and moe. tickets, VIP experiences and more.
FAN was started by the NYC Freaks community, a group of like-minded live music fans in the New York City area, to give back to the community that provided it with so much joy. This year's Freaks Action Network Holiday Jam will be held at Littlefield in Brooklyn on December 20 featuring Kaleta & Super Yamba Band and Chris Lightcap's Superette.
Round-trip airfare for two for a trip to Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, California hosted by Jason Crosby followed by a Jason Crosby & Friends concert, two tickets to Phish's shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City on December 29 – 31, tickets to JRAD's February 21 and 22 concerts at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, an intimate evening/house concert with JRAD/Ween bassist Dave Dreiwitz, a seafood tower eating experience with Karina Rykman, a meet and greet with Marco Benevento and VIP tickets for The Disco Biscuits' New Year's Run are among the items available via the silent auction. There are also sports experiences and memorabilia up for bid. Head here to buy a raffle ticket or for a full list of items.
Raffle tickets run one for $10 or five for $40. Prizes include a Freaks Ball XX experience, tickets to see Phish at MSG on December 28, tickets for JRAD's show at The Capitol Theatre on February 23, tickets to any 2020 moe. headlining show, a VIP experience for four at Brooklyn Bowl locations in New York City and Las Vegas, many other ticket packages, poster packages, t-shirts, books, Knicks tickets and more. Head here for a full list of items or to place a bid.
Last year's event, auction and raffle raised over $10,000 for cancer research. Both the auction and raffle are open to all. Participants do not need to attend the concert to win.
Mike Gordon Honors Little Feat's Paul Barrere In Ithaca
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Trey Anastasio Band dusted off "The Landlady" during their two-night opener at The Wiltern in Los Angeles.
Umphrey's McGee welcomed Doom Flamingo vocalist Kanika Moore for a debut of Rush's "Anthem" in honor of Neil Peart.
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Suwannee Rising revealed its 2020 lineup.
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The Trey Anastasio Band kicked off the main portion of their winter tour at The Observatory North Park in San Diego on Thursday night.
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moe. guitarist Chuck Garvey talks "The Art Of The Setlist" after a Jam Cruise 18-centric "The Rundown" on Episode 54 of 'The JamBase Podcast.'


Hi, long time lurker here. Ordered my T4 at end of April, and have been occaisionally checking in here in the hope customers would start reporting delivery dates somehow moving forward. My delivery date has only have slipped backwards (originally November, then December, then January). Called my dealer today for my monthly reminder that I exist and that updates would be nice, and I genuinely spat my coffee out to hear the car is in the factory and should be delivered 17 December.
After all the delays I'm still in "believe it when I see it" mode, but allowing myself to get slightly excited. May have the best Christmas present I ever gave myself this year.
Congrats on the good news - we have similar cars on order with mine arriving late Jan'. Fingers crossed it arrives before Christmas.


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Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, at January Term, 1832, Delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in the Case of Samuel A. Worcester, Plaintiff in Error, versus the State of Georgia
With a Statement of the Case, Extracted from the Records of the Supreme Court of the United States
John Marshall
rds: "It is ordered by the Court, that the clerk of the Court to which any writ of error shall be directed, may make return of the same by transmitting a true copy of the record, and of all proceedings in the same, under his hand and the seal of the Court."
[2] 6 Wh. Rules.
This has been done. But the signature of the Judge has not been added to that of the Clerk. The law does not require it. The rule does not require it.
In the case of Martin vs. Hunter's lessee,[3] an exception was taken to the return of the refusal of the State Court to enter a prior judgment of reversal by this Court, because it was not made by the Judge of the State Court to which the writ was directed; but the exception was overruled, and the return was held sufficient. In Buel vs. Van Ness,[4] also a writ of error to a State Court, the record was authenticated in the same manner. No exception was taken to it. These were civil cases. But it has been truly said at the bar, that, in regard to this process, the law mak
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Q: How to avoid duplicates in INSERT INTO wordpress I am trying to insert record into wordpress tables but the problem is, its inserting duplicate records.
This is my sql query
$qv = $conn->query("INSERT INTO wp_posts (post_title, post_content, post_name, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_author) VALUES('$title[$i]', '$description[$i]', '$url[$i]', '$date[$i]', '$postdate[$i]', '$author[$i]') ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE post_name = post_name");

I don't want to insert any duplicate records, how to fix this?

A: create unique key on column and use insert ignore instead of insert like below
  ("INSERT ignore INTO wp_posts (post_title, post_content, post_name, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_author)
 VALUES('$title[$i]', '$description[$i]', '$url[$i]', '$date[$i]', '$postdate[$i]', '$author[$i]'));

A: wp_posts has id as auto increment primary key and your insert query does not have id, hence your on duplicate constraint will not work.
If you want to have unique record by post title then you will have to create unique index on it. Unique constraint can be applied to combination of more than one column, if necessary.
Also insert ignore will igonre the duplicate records and not update it. You will have to handle it in your application.
Query to add Unique Constraint in MySQL
ALTER TABLE wp_posts ADD CONSTRAINT unique_post UNIQUE (post_title,post_name);

A: Disallow Duplicate Post Using Titles
function disallow_posts_with_same_title($messages) {
    global $post;
    global $wpdb ;
    $title = $post->post_title;
    $post_id = $post->ID ;
    $wtitlequery = "SELECT post_title FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post' AND post_title = '{$title}' AND ID != {$post_id} " ;

    $wresults = $wpdb->get_results( $wtitlequery) ;

    if ( $wresults ) {
        $error_message = 'This title is already used. Please choose another';
        add_settings_error('post_has_links', '', $error_message, 'error');
        settings_errors( 'post_has_links' );
        $post->post_status = 'draft';
        wp_update_post($post);
        return;
    }
    return $messages;

}
add_action('post_updated_messages', 'disallow_posts_with_same_title');

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