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Most people do not remember the amount they paid the last time they went to a fancy restaurant for dinner. But if you ask the same people how much they paid for a visit to a fancy hospital they will be able to pin-point the amount to the last detail. Since the medical care costs are so high, people try and avoid them as far as possible. They would much rather spend the money on something other than medical costs. The point is that when similar treatments are available at other hospitals for less, why should a person spend so much?
The simple answer to the question is the quality of the medical care that the individual gets. One should make it a point to get treatment of the best quality whenever needed. The quality of the treatment often determines the effectiveness thereafter. If people have access to good quality medical assistance, they would not be in any kind of trouble post the treatment. A shoddy treatment means that the person is at risk of facing problems afterwards.
If people are serious about medical care, they should ideally get a good health insurance policy. The plan would assist them in dealing with healthcare hassles. Given the steep rise in medical care costs, one should remember that only a health insurance plan that covers major treatments would be able to get people the right kind of medical care and assistance.
If the family has a medical history of heart disease, and they choose a policy that does not cover them, they would be at a grave loss. The cost of heart care, when compared to the cost of the policy is a lot. But when people have a health insurance policy, they can easily get the needed medical care and assistance without bothering about financial aspects.
A lot of people buy health insurance simply because they know that it would give them tax benefits. It is true that one can get quite a bit of tax benefits with the plans, but people should not make it the only reason to buy health insurance. The plans should be bought for their coverage rather than the tax benefits they provide. People should be serious about health insurance for it's true worth.


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Hello lovelies, hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Summer is here and it is BEAUTIFUL and in my opinion, there is no better way to celebrate a warm sunny weekend than having a barbecue.
Today's recipe is a super easy recipe you can add to your bbq spread, it is healthy, clean and will stop you snacking mindless while waiting for the men to "stop chatting and grill some meat". Replace your mandatory 'bowl of crisps" with this healthier non processed crunchy treat that is as tasty and will keep you slim and trim this summer.
Seasoning( Salt, chilli, paprika, black pepper, cayenne pepper) any will do.
Julienne peeler ( I just of one of these from Amazon and I am currently 'Julienne crazy'). I bought mine from Here for around £11.
Peel sweet potato and cut in strips with the Julienne peeler.
Place strips on the mesh and bake, checking and stirring at 5 minute intervals.
This will make the crisps nice and crunchy, you are welcome!
Keep an eye on it, the mesh helps it bake faster and it can get overly brown quickly.
When all the strips are baked and crispy, leave to cool at room temperature.
And BOOM! It is ready to be devoured as snack or a side. Enjoy :).
Did you try this recipe or have any other healthy and tasty summer recipe? I would love to hear from you leave a comment below and let me know how it went.
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Gosh your recipes are giving me life, whats the alternative to a peeler?
Thanks Temitope! You can you use a knife to make thin slices, they are crispier than the julienne version. You can also use a potato peeler for a slightly wider strips. Hope this helps :).


An excellent free source of information which includes the 1881 UK census and the International Genealogical Index (IGI).
Very good site for contacting other people who may be connected to your family. Your can browse the site for free and down load your tree for others to view but if you want to participate in activities, such as contacting people you may be related to you have to pay a small Fee. However, caution should be taken, as many people using this site tend to copy other peoples trees without verifying that the information is correct. Subsequently many family trees on this site are incorrect and these problems are compounded as more people add their own incorrect data.
An offshoot from Ancestry.com which is mainly US orientated, is now a well established site dedicated to UK ancestry. Most of the important areas required for research have to be subscribed to but if you really want to research your own family tree and not copy others this site will give you a good head start and the reasonable subscription is well worth it.. The English 1841 to 1901 census information are available on this site and just recently some Scottish census information has been added . Another good way to get information from this site is to visit the message boards for the surnames or particular locations you are interested in. You never know your luck if you leave messages on these forums – I have had some very helpful people giving me information & advice which has led to finding new branches to my family tree.
Very similar to Ancestry but is very much US orientated. Once again use the free genealogy forums (message boards).
Free access to many Births, Deaths and Marriages which is continually updated.
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Comic Book Market Collapses: 'Pencils Down'
It's "pencils down" as the comic book market is collapsing due to the coronavirus.
Following Diamond Comic Distributors announcing that it has stopped shipment on all comic books and with stores closing due to government-mandated lockdowns and quarantines, a number of comic book industry professionals have taken to social media to let it be known they have been told to stop work immediately on all present projects.
"Just got the first of the dreaded 'pencils-down' emails. I imagine there will be more," tweeted G. Willow Wilson. "It was inevitable after the store closures and Diamond announcement. Sending love to all my comics people--artists, writers, retailers, editors, fan. This really sucks."
Kath Leth followed up Wilson's tweet with, "Yep, Got one last night. My sympathies."
Cecil Castellucci also tweeted: "It's starting. Two books due out late spring and early fall now on suspension of work and indefinite hiatus. I was expecting it but still feels like a blow."
Wilson even went on to question the future of the industry.
"Anyway, as others have already said more eloquently, it's likely that this crisis will reshape the publishing industry, and comics in particular," she tweeted Thursday. "It's revealed the inflexibility of the business model. So will any of what is true today be true in 6 months? I have no idea."
Business as usual for DC Comics and Marvel -- for now
As of now, it seems "pencils down" is only affecting the indie comic book market, as reportedly, both DC Comics and Marvel have told their creators it's business as usual and to keep working on new comic books, which may mean DC and Marvel will release them digitally as presently there really is no way to distribute comic books physically, plus most of the shops are closed.
Marvel has also told Diamond they are extending the timing of the payments owed to Marvel, which Diamond can then extend to retailers.
In an open letter to comic book publishers, Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson has also outlined what Image is going to do, including making products returnable, canceling non-essential releases like second printings and reprints, looking at ways to reschedule and stagger the release of their comics, trade paperbacks, and graphic novels, and more.
Dark Horse has also announced they are not going to release new comics digitally that are not available in print, so, for the time being, that means no new comics from Dark Horse. The company did state they are still going to release collections, original graphic novels, and art books that are available through digital and Penguin Random House.
Dynamite Entertainment is also offering free comics digitally through Comixology.
(via Comics MATTER w/Ya Boi Zack YouTube, Ethan Van Sciver Twitter, Bleeding Cool)
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Bitflux recently launched new wholesale LTE data services on Alepo's advanced policy and charging control, convergent charging and billing, and CRM platform.
Thursday, August 25, 2016, Austin, TX – Alepo (www.alepo.com) – an award-winning global provider of core network and IT software solutions for communications service providers, announced today that Bitflux, the only wholesale communications service provider in Nigeria, has launched the first wholesale LTE services in the country on Alepo's complete BSS platform.
With Alepo's core LTE solution and built-in affiliate management, Bitflux is able to operate as a mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE), supporting multiple MVNO operations on a single, hosted platform. As part of the deployment, Alepo delivered its advanced policy and charging control, convergent charging and billing, CRM, and other BSS modules.
With the deployment, Bitflux promises to deliver faster Internet user experience than what existing 4G LTE service providers offer in Nigeria.
Nigeria shows immense potential for 4G LTE connectivity, boasting a population of more than 160 million and rapidly growing economy. In the effort to advance Nigeria's National Broadband Plan and to accelerate Nigeria's development in LTE technology innovation, Bitflux will work closely with Alepo as its strategic "All Things Data" technology partner.
With Alepo, Bitflux enjoys a proven, end-to-end 4G LTE solution that supports current business needs and future services as they evolve. The pre-integrated solution provides Bitflux a sophisticated service creation environment, enabling a rapid time to market while maintaining a low total cost of ownership.
Bitflux Communications Ltd. is a licensed Wholesale Wireless Access Broadband Service Provider offering innovative 4G Broadband Services on a state-of-the-art world class LTE Network. Bitflux is focused on helping telecommunications service providers grow nationwide.


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Here's an exclusive behind the scenes look at the video shoot of Melanie's single 'Let There Be Love' which was filmed during a sunny autumn day on Brighton's seafront.
'Let There Be Love' is available on iTunes now, as well as on CD in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. If you don't live in these regions, you can import the CD single through Amazon.de at http://www.amazon.de/Let-There-Be-Love-2track/dp/B0060QO4MS/
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Greek Defence News
Greece received the first six of eighteen Rafale fighters
The Greek Air Force today, January 19, received the first six Rafale fighters from the French consortium Dassault…
Greece buys four warships with VLS, 200 missiles, and 76mm OTO guns
Greek government will increase the combat capabilities of its navy by purchasing four warships with accompanying…
Greece has ordered French frigates for nearly €4 billion
On September 28, 2021 French President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis signed an…
Despite Greece's protest, Turkey will receive its submarine
Greece said that if Western Europe continues to close its eyes and not take an arms embargo against Turkey, the…
Weapons fever – new frigates and strengthening of Greek naval bases
The Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will chair, today, Tuesday, at 10:30, the regular meeting of the Government…
Israel and Greece made a military record deal of $ 1.65 billion
A $ 1.65 billion agreement was reached between Israel and Greece over the weekend when the two countries' top…
France to Greece: 'We give you as a gift ships free of charge'
The Greek City Times writes that Paris has offered Athens frigates and a destroyer as a gift free of charge. These…
Greece can buy F-35 fighters, but not earlier than in five years
US Ambassador to Greece Jeffrey Payat has signaled that the Balkan country could acquire fifth-generation F-35…
Greece and France at the negotiating table for new frigates
Two days ago, the French edition of Zone Militaire Opex360 announced that the door for negotiations between Greece…
Greece wants its Rafale fighter jets 'armed to the teeth'
Greek parliament voted to buy French Rafale fighter jets. In addition to 18 aircraft, including six new ones, the…
Military means against Turkey is an acceptable option for the Greeks
Military means against Turkey is an acceptable option for the Greeks is the final conclusion of a local Greek poll,…
Greek Rafale is getting closer – the agreement is expected before Christmas
According to the Greek media, the contract for 18 Dassault Rafale fighters' supply is to be signed before the…
Greece officially asked to buy stealth F-35 fighters from the United States
Greece has officially sent a request to the United States for the acquisition of 18-24 stealth multi-role…
Greece, India to co-operate in defense to oppose Turkish-Pakistani axis
Last Thursday , The Greek Foreign Minister held an in-depth and constructive conversation-analysis with his Indian…
Speed is the key in the competition between the F-35 and Rafale … for Greece
It was known that the United States had agreed to sell 20 F-35A multi-role aircraft to Greece. Its source is the…
Greece and Turkey canceled their own military maneuvers in the Aegean Sea
Both Greece and Turkey canceled sea maneuvers planned for the end of October, learned BulgarianMilitary.com…
Greece wants from Germany to cut off arms supplies to Turkey
Against the background of military conflicts in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, quiet political-military…
Greece may acquire four warships through joint production with the US
According to a publication in the US military online magazine, Defense News, Washington has offered Athens to sell…
Greek S-300 missile systems are preparing to fire, and this has worried Turkey
Exactly seven years ago, the Greek missile forces performed the first test and fired a missile from the S-300…
The Greeks: 'Absolute fiasco for Erdogan- Turkish S-400 missile system test failed'
The test launch of the S-400 missile opened the debate on whether it poses a threat to the Greek Air Force and…
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Yet another drug is proven beyond doubt to cure covid-19. It's called Ivermectin, but our NHS cartel, governments and general swamp do not wish to report it. I can't be bothered to explain why, yet again. At it's least sinister, it's a racket, designed to give the pharmaceutical companies a large sum. At it's most sinister, it is to use this "vaccine" which contains no dead virus to experiment on the population and "accidentally" cause mass infertility - for climate change purposes (obviously.)
Here's the evidence - read it for yourself.
Dr. Pierre Kory, president of the FLCCC Alliance testifies before Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs looking into early outpatient COVID-19 treatment:
"It is true that these rapidly emerging studies demonstrate the power of Ivermectin, a repurposed, 40-year-old drug first approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) for treating parasitic infections," said Dr. Paul Marik, the founder of the FLCCC Alliance, Professor of Medicine and the most highly published Critical Care physician in America. "Furthermore, over the last four decades, Ivermectin has been used safely by 3.7 billion people."
Why it works so well in COVID-19 is that Ivermectin has shown very high activity fighting both the SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as the inflammation produced in all stages of COVID-19. It works pre-and post-exposure, the early symptoms phase and late-stage disease," continued Dr. Marik. "New and highly compelling data has emerged since August—which is the last time the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reviewed or updated their data. We now know from numerous and increasing randomized controlled trials that Ivermectin inhibits the SARS virus and prevents the virus from multiplying. Study after study shows consistent and reproducible efficacy."
In response to this evidence, the pharmaceutical companies and owned government bodies cried out - "no meta-analysis!"
In steps Dr Tess Lawrie , director of the Evidence-based Medicine Consultancy in the UK. She took 15 studies and conducted the meta-analysis. She proved the Ivermectin group within the studies were undeniably more likely to survive. She's been asking to meet the Prime Minister, she's emailed all the health overlords but no one's interested. I wonder why.
Here's the discussion and conclusion of her meta-analysis:
"Discussion
This review and meta-analysis confirms that ivermectin substantially reduces the risk of a
person dying from COVID-19 by probably somewhere in the region of 65% to 92% according
to RCT data. The uncertainty in the evidence relates to the precise extent of the reduction,
not in the effectiveness of ivermectin itself. Similarly, when ivermectin is used as
prophylaxis among health care workers and contacts, it is clear that ivermectin substantially
reduces COVID-19 infections, probably somewhere in the region of 88% (82% to 92%). Data
from numerous currently active RCTs will help to determine the precise extent of its
protective effect in these at risk groups.
Despite the FLCCC's strong recommendation that ivermectin should be implemented
globally to save lives from COVID-19, most governments and health professionals still
appear to be unaware of this profoundly effective COVID-19 treatment. Not only is
ivermectin a safe, effective and well-known medicine, at an estimated cost of less than 10
pence per person treated with a 12 mg tablet, it does indeed seem like a miracle drug in the
context of the current global COVID-19 situation.26 Guidance and protocols on using
ivermectin for COVID-19 can be found on the FLCCC website
https://covid19criticalcare.com.
Ivermectin is an essential drug to reduce morbidity and mortality from COVID-19
Placebo-controlled trials of ivermectin treatment among people with COVID-19
infection are no longer ethical and active placebo-controlled trials should be closed."
If you can't be bothered to read the science, you can listen to her interviews:
This is getting pretty boring now. It is crystal clear there are plenty of medications available to treat sars-cov-2, however we're being misled to trust an untested "vaccine." You know it is not trustworthy because even it's proponents cannot tell you how many doses you need. Let alone if it works on mutations (which I said would happen last year.) And, even after you take this "vaccine" you will still have to wear masks, social distance and stay home because it doesn't reduce transmission. To be honest, there's no evidence that the "vaccine" does anything in relation to the virus because the results were based on PCR tests which are so unreliable it's beyond a joke. Oh yeah, and also, coronaviruses prior to 2020 have never been vaccinated successfully (because of their immensely quick mutation cycles.) Again, this was all agreed before 2020, before the covid-19 virus came in and disproved everything, from vaccines to mask effectiveness.
Here's some tips: If you are one of the unlucky few to suffer from covid-19 quite seriously and require hospitalisation - ask your doctor's about these drugs and ask them to show you the evidence they have read. Do not accept going on to the ventilators, that's proving to be a nuisance with people dying. Although this has been hushed up and denied - along with people dying after taking the vaccines. But, don't forget - die within 28 of a PCR test and it's undeniable evidence to shut down the global economy. Give me strength! I'm not giving medical advice, I'm saying ask the doctor these very simple questions. You do what you think is right. Peter Doshi of the BMJ has proven that doctors are just like everyone else - assuming the research is done properly without looking into it themselves.
Let's also just remember, these "vaccines" are being rolled out during a trial. The end date of the trial is not until January 31, 2023. Your GP should be telling you this before you accept this "vaccine." You are participating in a trial. It has not been proven yet. If the GP does not notify you, they can be in trouble with nuremberg code. Whether or not the nuremberg code has any bite I do not know, but I have my fingers crossed! Personally, I'm hoping for the Nuremberg Trials v 2.0 on the back of this fraud. It's a huge hope, I doubt it will happen, but I will hope none the less.
1. Dr Pierre Kory testimony - https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FLCCC-Alliance-Call-for-Action-News-Release-Press-Conference-Follow-Up.pdf
2. Dr Tess Lawrie meta-analysis - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348297284_Ivermectin_reduces_the_risk_of_death_from_COVID-19_-a_rapid_review_and_meta-analysis_in_support_of_the_recommendation_of_the_Front_Line_COVID-19_Critical_Care_Alliance_Latest_version_v12_-_6_Jan_2021
3. Ventilators causing deaths - https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200422/most-covid-19-patients-placed-on-ventilators-died-new-york-study-shows
4. Clinical trial ends in 2023 - https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04368728
5. Nuremberg Code - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2352998/
6. Peter Doshi - https://www.christophernunn.net/post/peter-doshi-government-departments-and-corporations-marketing-vaccines-by-marketing-disease


The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) recently approved the Winter Reconnect Order to help Ohioans reconnect or maintain electric and natural gas service during the winter heating season between Oct. 17, 2016 and April 14, 2017. Any customer of a PUCO regulated electric or natural gas utility may take advantage of the order. Last winter heating season, more than 246,000 Ohio utility customers utilized the PUCO's Winter Reconnect Order.


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Our Review Of Fenix Protect Extended Warranties (2022)
Is Fenix Protect your best bet for an extended warranty?
Updated: Dec 15, 2021 at 10:46am ET
By: Brogan Woodburn
Having an extended warranty could help you avoid unexpected bills and provide peace of mind. A vehicle service contract covers many common repairs. It can be used to supplement a manufacturer's warranty, or it can provide coverage after the original warranty has expired.
We looked at several extended warranty companies and compared coverage options, pricing, claims handling, and customer service. We have compiled a list of what we think are some of the best extended car warranty companies.
In this article, we'll give you the details on Fenix Protect. It focuses on extended warranties, unlike other companies that offer a wide range of services, and its plans cover both new and used vehicles. We recommend getting free quotes from several providers and comparing costs and coverage.
Summary: What We Think About Fenix Protect
Fenix Protect Quote And Plan Selection Process
What Fenix Protect Plans Cover
How To Select A Plan
Fenix Protect Claim Process
Fenix Protect Reviews And Customer Service
Our Take On Fenix Protect: 3.0 Stars
Other Providers To Consider
Frequently Asked Questions About Extended Warranties
For around 10 years, Fenix Protect has focused on auto service contracts, unlike many other businesses that offer a wide range of services. The company says that focus enables it to offer some of the top plans at competitive prices. Fenix Protect provides extended warranties from Black Diamond Administrative Company, which cover a variety of repairs for both new and used vehicles with any number of miles.
Fenix Protect claims to have a no-pressure sales policy and customer service. It says representatives explain plan options and pricing, answer questions, and help customers make decisions that suit their needs and budget. After choosing a plan, a customer can sign a contract and choose from multiple payment options.
Customers can use the online quote form or call to request information on vehicle service contracts. After Fenix Protect receives information on the vehicle's year, make, and model, a customer service representative can reach out and provide information coverage options. There is no obligation to purchase an extended warranty.
Fenix Protect offers seven plans with a variety of coverage options. Two plans cover new vehicles, while five are designed for used vehicles. The chart below provides more details about each plan's coverage and exclusions.
Plans for New Vehicles
Plans for Used Vehicles
Triple Diamond: Exclusionary coverage for vehicles with fewer than 70,000 miles; highest coverage for mechanical and electrical repairs Double Diamond: Stated coverage for vehicles
with fewer than 100,000 miles
Double Diamond: Stated coverage for vehicles
with fewer than 80,000 miles Diamond: Enhanced powertrain coverage for vehicles
Emerald: Best powertrain coverage for vehicles
Ruby: Standard powertrain coverage for vehicles
Sapphire: Basic powertrain coverage for vehicles
All extended warranties offered by Fenix Protect cover roadside assistance. That includes:
Emergency lockout assistance
Delivery of vehicle fluids
Flat tire changes
When choosing an extended warranty, it may be helpful to research which mechanical components tend to wear out the most in your vehicle and how much those repairs typically cost. Then you can consider which types of repairs each plan covers and decide whether it would make sense to pay for that coverage or whether you would be comfortable paying for a repair out of pocket, if necessary.
It might be tempting to choose an inexpensive plan to save money, but you could regret it if you got stuck with a large bill for a repair that wasn't covered. Since it's often impossible to predict which vehicle components might break down and when, you might be better off paying a little more each month for greater peace of mind.
If you need to file a claim, you will be assigned a personal claims adjuster. Once an administrator and an authorized repair facility have verified that the part needs to be repaired or replaced and the administrator has determined that your plan covers it, the claim will be authorized.
In most cases, a repair must be pre-approved before a mechanic does the work. If you don't get the necessary authorization, you may have to pay the bill out of pocket.
If you purchase a vehicle protection plan from Fenix Protect, you will need to have regular vehicle maintenance performed at an authorized repair facility to keep the plan valid. You may be asked to provide proof that you have kept up to date on maintenance.
Installing aftermarket parts may void a service contract. If you have questions, check with the plan administrator.
Fenix Protect has a four-star rating on Trustpilot. Here are some positive reviews the company has received:
"Very helpful and very clear on describing coverage. We are very pleased with the service."
– Dennis/Linda Michelle Johnson
"Very helpful and a great deal. Everyone explained the program in great detail so that I felt comfortable making the purchase."
Other online sources paint a different picture. According to the Better Business Bureau (BBB), Fenix Protect, Ltd is an alternate business name for American Automotive Service Solutions, Inc. The BBB has posted an alert regarding American Automotive Service Solutions, telling consumers to use caution when considering this company.
Fenix Protect offers extended warranties for both new and used vehicles that can help you avoid expensive repair bills. Although the company touts its impressive track record when it comes to customer service, enough consumers have complained about Fenix Protect's poor customer service to prompt a warning from the BBB. We would advise consumers to use caution, make sure a representative has answered all questions to their satisfaction, request a detailed written explanation of a plan, and review the document carefully before agreeing to purchase an extended warranty.
Coverage options for new and used vehicles,
including vehicles with high mileage. The Better Business Bureau posted an alert due
to consumer complaints.
All plans include roadside assistance. Customers must properly maintain vehicles or
possibly not have repairs covered.
Customer service available in English and Spanish. Installing aftermarket parts may void service contract.
Customers who file a claim are assigned a personal adjuster.
When it comes to extended warranties, companies vary in terms of what they cover, how much their plans cost, and how well they treat their customers. We reviewed numerous extended warranty companies and found Endurance, CARCHEX, and CarShield to be great choices.
Before you select a plan, you should compare options and quotes from several providers to choose an extended warranty that matches your needs and budget.
Endurance: 4.6 Stars
Endurance is our #1 pick for coverage out of all of the car warranty companies in the industry. There are hundreds of positive Endurance warranty reviews online, and the company has earned a place on Inc. magazine's Inc. 5000 list as one of the nation's fastest-growing private companies numerous times.
Endurance offers six levels of coverage. The first five are extended warranties with varying levels of coverage to protect against mechanical breakdowns. The last Endurance plan is a combination between an extended auto warranty and a maintenance contract. As a new customer, you will also gain access to additional perks through the Endurance Elite program, including roadside assistance and rental car reimbursement.
CARCHEX: 4.4 Stars
CARCHEX is our pick for the "Best for Used Cars" award. The company has been selling extended warranties for over 20 years and has earned an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau, as well as accolades from Kelley Blue Book, CARFAX, Edmunds.com, and the Vehicle Protection Association.
Customers are often confused and frustrated when they don't understand what a plan covers or how much it will cost and appreciate companies that provide straight answers. CARCHEX makes its coverage options and pricing clear, which is a big reason why it's one of our top picks.
CARCHEX offers over 20 warranty plans in five tiers of coverage. It also provides sample contracts online, so customers can understand a plan before making a decision.
CarShield: 4.2 Stars
We named CarShield the Best Value extended warranty company. It acts as an intermediary between consumers and insurance companies and offers plans from multiple providers for both new and used cars, as well as plans for specialty vehicles and cars with advanced electronics. CarShield offers flexible coverage options, including month-to-month contracts for customers who would prefer not to make a long-term commitment.
Payments for approved claims are made directly to repair shops, and customers can choose plans with low or no deductible. CarShield's service contracts offer other benefits, such as 24/7 roadside assistance and rental cars, in some cases.
What Does An Extended Warranty Cover?
Car insurance covers repairs for damage resulting from an accident or another covered event, such as hail damage. New and some used vehicles are sold with a manufacturer's warranty, but it's limited in terms of what it will cover and expires after a set number of years or miles driven.
A vehicle protection plan, often referred to as an extended auto warranty, covers mechanical components that break down due to regular wear and tear. It offers coverage in situations where car insurance doesn't apply. An extended warranty covers many repairs after a manufacturer's warranty has expired, and it may also cover repairs that are excluded under a manufacturer's warranty while the original warranty is still in effect. An extended vehicle protection plan can remain in place as long as the owner pays for coverage, or the vehicle accrues too many miles.
Is Buying An Extended Warranty Worth It?
Vehicle repairs frequently cost hundreds of dollars, and many Americans don't have enough extra cash to cover an unexpected bill. That can force drivers to use credit cards, which often carry high interest rates, or to miss work or rely on public transportation, ride-sharing services, or favors from friends or family members.
If you can't afford to pay for a repair, your car may still be drivable, but putting off getting a problem fixed can result in even more damage – and even more repair bills.
The cost of a vehicle service plan may be significantly less than what you would have to pay out of pocket for repairs. It's easier to budget for a fixed monthly payment than to be hit with an unexpected bill. With coverage for repairs, you may be able to keep your car for a long time for a fraction of what it would cost to buy a new vehicle.
Extended warranty coverage can be particularly valuable for older vehicles or ones driven a lot since they are more likely to break down as a result of wear and tear, even if they're well maintained. If you bought a used car, you may have no idea how well the previous owner did or didn't maintain it, which means problems could pop up unexpectedly.
Do I Need An Extended Warranty On A New Car?
Buying a service contract can also be a good idea if you have a newer vehicle. A manufacturer's warranty often only covers a handful of components. A more comprehensive vehicle service contract can supplement the original warranty.
Modern vehicles are much more complex than older ones since they contain more electronic components. That means repairs are often complicated, time-consuming, and expensive. A new car is costly enough. The last thing you want is a large repair bill you weren't expecting on top of your regular monthly loan payment.
If you drive a lot, the miles can add up quickly, and the manufacturer's warranty may run out faster than you expect. If your car breaks down and you don't have an extended warranty, you may find yourself forced to pay an expensive bill out of pocket.
Purchasing an extended warranty when you buy a car will allow you to be prepared if the manufacturer's warranty doesn't cover a necessary repair or if it expires so you can avoid any gap in protection. You may also get a lower rate if you purchase a service contract when your car is new.
In an effort to provide accurate and unbiased information to consumers, our expert review team collects data from dozens of extended auto warranty companies to formulate rankings of the best providers. Companies receive a score in each of the following categories, as well as an overall weighted score out of 5.0 stars.
Industry Standing: Warranty providers with a history of strong business practices and endorsements from experts receive the highest scores in this category.
Coverage: This rating is based on types of extended warranty plans available, coverage terms, and added benefits like roadside assistance.
Cost: Our research team reviews sample quotes for a variety of plans and vehicles. Companies with lower prices per year of coverage receive the best scores.
Transparency: This score takes into account contract transparency and the availability of a money-back guarantee.
Customer Service: We comb through customer reviews and perform our own shopper analysis to get a sense of the responsiveness and helpfulness of each warranty company.
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EU Budget 2018: European Parliament Rejects Council Cuts and Proposes More Money for Jobs and Security
Today, the European Parliament's Budgets Committee has approved the amendments to the EU Budget 2018 by large majority, as proposed by MEP Siegfried Mureșan (EPP), the European Parliament's chief negotiator. Siegfried Mureșan's compromise proposals target the increase of budget appropriations for job creation for young people as well as for security, while rejecting and restoring all Council cuts.
"My objective is to ensure that the EU Budget generates sustainable growth and jobs in the EU, especially for young people, while ensuring the security of its citizens. The €160 billion budget proposed by the European Commission is drafted around these three main priorities. Yet, the Council proposed cuts of €1.7 billion, mainly from research, innovation and infrastructure. Agreeing with the Council's position means to agree to a budget that weakens the EU, instead of making it stronger. Under these circumstances, we would not be able to deliver what our citizens expect. This is why I proposed to reject and restore all Council cuts and to increase budget appropriations for job creation for young people as well as for security", MEP Siegfried Mureșan added.
"Youth unemployment remains too high across Europe. We want to avoid endangering the future of an entire generation of young Europeans, therefore we proposed to increase the budget of the Youth Employment Initiative to €600 million in 2018. Furthermore, we proposed to grant an additional €50 million to support young farmers in order to reduce youth unemployment in rural areas. We also proposed an increase of €143 million for research, innovation and environmental programmes to ensure sustainable development. Security remains a top priority on our agenda. This is why we proposed an increase of €80 million for several migration and security budgetary lines and agencies with migration and asylum-related tasks. For more stability in the EU's neighbourhood we proposed an increase of €299 million for EU's external action, which includes the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood", MEP Siegfried Mureșan said.
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When Can You Masturbate After a Vasectomy?
Medically reviewed by Janet Brito, Ph.D., LCSW, CST — By Tim Jewell on December 8, 2021
Do you still ejaculate?
How a vasectomy works
When to seek help
A vasectomy is a form of birth control, and a relatively minor outpatient procedure. It's usually done under local anesthesia, and has a short healing time.
The penis and genital area may feel a little sore and swollen in the days following your vasectomy. You may need to rest and wait a week or more after the procedure before being able to comfortably masturbate again. Some people may need to wait longer than a week before masturbating or having sex.
Until swelling and discomfort start to go away, masturbation (whether you ejaculate or not) can be uncomfortable and even painful or risky until your incisions are fully healed. Consider waiting until you no longer feel pain or discomfort, or talk with a medical professional if you're not sure if it's safe to masturbate again after a vasectomy.
What will happen if you don't wait?
There's no exact deadline for when you're able to masturbate after a vasectomy. Some people may be able to masturbate again comfortably within a few days. Others may need to wait longer than a week while they fully recover.
Try to pay close attention to your body. Masturbation could put pressure on or damage sensitive tissues that may not yet be fully healed. Even if pain is mild, you may be unknowingly damaging skin around the surgical site.
If you masturbate in the immediate days following your vasectomy, it's a good idea to ask yourself:
Do you feel any pain or discomfort? Is it minor or sharp and severe?
Do some masturbation techniques cause more pain or discomfort than others?
Do certain parts of your penis or scrotum area feel more sensitive or tender than others?
Do some body positions (like lying down, sitting up, on your side) feel more comfortable or put less pressure on the area where the surgery was done?
A 2019 case report showed that a sperm granuloma is one possible side effect of ejaculating too soon. This happens when a lump of sperm forms cysts or bumps in the area. It's not a serious condition, but it can cause pain and may need to be surgically removed.
Other possible side effects of masturbating too soon after a vasectomy include:
pain lasting longer due to tissue irritation or damage
soreness and bruising around your scrotum
permanent tissue damage
scar tissue buildup
scrotum blood clots
blood in your semen
Are there any side effects of masturbation?
There are currently no known long-term complications from masturbation, whether after a vasectomy or otherwise.
Masturbation also currently has no documented side effects or health risks. It could be a completely safe activity with its health benefits, including:
relieving stress
lowering blood pressure
reducing muscle cramps
increasing awareness of personal sexual preferences
Do you still ejaculate after the procedure?
Yes, typically, you will still ejaculate after a vasectomy.
Having a vasectomy prevents sperm produced by the testicles from entering seminal fluid released from the penis during ejaculation. This means your ejaculate will not include sperm, and won't be able to cause pregnancy.
No other sexual functions should be affected during a vasectomy. Your hormones, muscles, and nerves involved in sexual desire, functioning, and ability to get an erection should not be impacted by this procedure.
Research has also confirmed that sexual performance and satisfaction are typically no different before and after a vasectomy. A 2017 study with 294 couples found that a vasectomy had no impact on their sex lives.
Men in this study who had a vasectomy reported more satisfaction with erections and after sex compared to men in the study who didn't. Women in the study whose partners had vasectomies reported no differences in sexual satisfaction compared to women whose partners didn't have the procedure.
You still need to ejaculate after a vasectomy
Right now, a vasectomy doesn't work instantly.
According to the University of Virginia School of Medicine, a doctor will likely advise you to ejaculate at least 20 times or wait about 12 weeks after a vasectomy before having sex (oral, anal, penile vaginal) without a condom or other barrier method. This ensures that any sperm remaining in your vas deferens or urethra are cleared out, eliminating the possibility of pregnancy.
You can do this either by having sex, masturbating until you ejaculate, or a combination of the two.
How does a vasectomy work?
Vasectomies are considered a highly effective form of birth control, with an average long-term success rate of more than 99 percent. This surgery is usually performed by a urologist.
A vasectomy is a quick procedure that takes about 30 to 60 minutes, involving local anesthesia that numbs the area around the scrotum during the operation. You can usually go home the same day as the procedure and don't need to take much time out of daily activities, such as driving, working at a desk, or doing light exercise.
To perform a vasectomy, a surgeon will:
Make two incisions or a small hole on the surface of the scrotum to get to the vas deferens tubes.
Cut each vas deferens tube so that the tubes can no longer carry sperm from the testes to the urethra (meaning semen cannot be made).
Use stitches to seal the incisions, or place sterile gauze over the hole until it heals (sometimes cauterization is used instead).
Your recovery time can depend on which kind of vasectomy you had. There's the conventional two-incision vasectomy, and the popular no-scalpel vasectomy (NSV). While they each access the vas deferens tubes differently, the procedure of cutting the sealing the tubes is the same for both.
Per a 2020 research review, NSV is associated with a shorter surgery length, fewer complications, and a faster healing time and return to sexual activity.
Vasectomies are usually, though not always, reversible. A vasectomy reversal is only sought by a small percentage of patients. It's a more challenging procedure for surgeons and often not covered by insurance.
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There's a wide array of temporary birth control options available to all genders! Familiarize yourself with the possibilities:
How to Use Condoms Safely
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Intrauterine Devices (IUDs)
Complications resulting from a vasectomy are rare, but they can occur. If you are experiencing pain or difficulty during partnered or solo sex following your recovery, consider reaching out to your doctor right away.
Try to contact a medical professional if you notice any of the following symptoms after a vasectomy:
severe, persistent pain in your penis or scrotum that doesn't improve several days after a vasectomy
pain or discomfort when you get an erection or ejaculate
unusual discharge from your penis when you're not ejaculating
the presence of blood or other unusual discolorations in your semen
inability or trouble getting or keeping an erection
semen not coming out of your penis when you ejaculate
A vasectomy is a safe, common procedure which usually has minimal healing time.
You can typically return to all your usual activities around a week into recovery, including masturbation. Some people return to their normal routines within days. The amount of time until full healing depends on which type of procedure you had (two-incision or no-scalpel method), and your overall health.
It's important to pay close attention to how your body is feeling as you return to masturbation and other forms of sexual activity after a vasectomy. Try to follow your surgeon's care instructions, and give yourself time to heal.
Consider reaching out to your doctor if you're experiencing pain or other complications, or if you're unsure whether it's OK to begin masturbating again.
Last medically reviewed on December 8, 2021
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Q: novice Ubuntu-user: beginners assistance Hello possible fellow Ubuntu-users,
Until now I've been using Windows operating systems and my current laptop is going to retire soon. In my search of a new, basic (read: not too expensive) laptop I thought about Ubuntu several times. As a computer enthousiast I have a basic knowledge and interest but this is far from the expert-level. Recently I was pleased to see a big computer brand to launch a budget model including a pre-installed Ubuntu Linux 14.04 SP1 operating system with the following specs:
Processor: Intel® Celeron® Processor N2840 (1M Cache, up to 2.58 GHz)
Operating System: Ubuntu Linux 14.04 SP1
Memory: 4GB Single Channel DDR3L 1600MHz (4GBx1)
Hard Drive: 500GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
Video Card: Intel® HD Graphic
Display: 15.6-inch HD (1366 x 768) Truelife LED-Backlit Display
Wireless: 802.11bgn + Bluetooth 4.0, 2.4 GHz, 1x1
The laptop will be used for the basis stuff: internet, documents,...
Does this configuration seem adequate to run Ubuntu smoothly?
I'm also considering to change the 5OOGB HDD with a 250 SSD drive for some faster handling.
Having read some basis research it should be possible. However I'm doubting if I will succeed to transfer the pre installed files to the new SSD drive and run Ubuntu. Any experiences for a Ubuntu novice are highly appreciated.
Hopefully you guys or girls can guide this windows-user into a new and bright Ubuntu age :-)
thx alot!
grtz

A: Ubuntu (as any other Linux distribution (Linux is the kernel, a distribution provides a working environment based mostly on other open source applications)) would work well on this PC, especially when you add the SSD. But of course "good performance" is always a little bit subjective, so just try it out. To make things easy start a new installation of Ubuntu on the new SSD, you can then copy any important files via a 2.5" harddisk USB adapter. When you have transfered your files use this HDD for backup.
For web browsing you can install chrome or firefox via the Ubuntu Software Center. For email you can use thunderbird. Linux and Open Source is about freedom so choose the applications that suit your needs at best.
If you discover issues with your hardware you can open a command line (= terminal or console) and you'll get hardware information via the commands lshw, lspci, lsusb. You can then google for help on driver settings or similar.

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MK Dons have signed 20-year-old Wolves midfielder Stephen Gleeson on loan until the end of the season.
"We're bringing Stephen in to help us in the rush to the end of the season, Dons manager Roberto di Matteo told the club's official website.
"He's a player that can add a lot of quality to our midfield and give us some more strength in that department."
Currently on international duty with Republic of Ireland Under-21s, Gleeson is available from Saturday 4 April.
Gleeson is a product of the Wolves academy, but has spent much of his time out on loan at Stockport, for whom he has made over 50 appearances.
He also played four times in a short loan spell at Hereford and made his full Republic of Ireland debut against Ecuador in 2007.
Di Matteo added: "He played against us in the home game against Stockport earlier this season, but we've been watching him in other games too and we feel he can be an asset to us."


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Patricia was born in Germany in 1948 to an Air Force family. She started school in the Phillipines and graduated High School in Thailand. She graduated from Sacramento State University, Sacramento CA. She worked for the Air Force as a civil servant at McClellan AFB CA and then joined the Navy, where she did tours at Treasure Island and CINCPACFLT. She left the Navy in 1983 and married Carl Bell in 1984 and moved to Lincoln CA. She started her own business. She became planning commissioner for the city of Lincoln in 1988. She retired from her business and she and Carl moved to Sacramento in 2001 where they lived until 2010 when they moved to Salt Lake City UT and are enjoying retirement life.
We honor you, Patricia Whitten-Bell.
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Iconic songwriter Hank Cochran died Thursday morning at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
The writer behind country standards including "Make the World Go Away," "She's Got You," "I Fall to Pieces," "The Chair," "Ocean Front Property," "Don't You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me," "Is It Raining at Your House," "That's All That Matters," "Set 'Em Up Joe," "This Ain't My First Rodeo," and many more, Cochran built a multi-decade career as he helped compose the great American songbook.
Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins, Ray Price, Elvis Presley, Lawrence Welk, George Jones, George Strait, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Ronnie Milsap, Bobby Bare, Don Gibson, Burl Ives, Patsy Cline, Dottie West, Loretta Lynn, Jimmy Buffett, Jim Reeves, Elvis Costello, Vern Gosdin, Linda Ronstadt, Faron Young, Mickey Gilley, Tom Jones, Reba McEntire and the Statler Brothers, as well as Leann Rimes, Billy Ray Cyrus, Lynn Anderson, Junior Brown, Johnny Cash, Keith Whitley, Bing Crosby, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Dean Martin, Wayne Newton, Buck Owens, Nancy Sinatra, Ernest Tubb, Lee Ann Womack and many more all recorded his heart-breaking, wryly simple songs.
Cochran's catalogue has generated almost 36 million performances, which, if played back to back, would amount to more than 200 years of continuous airplay. Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1974, he received 22 BMI Country Awards and 6 BMI Pop Awards.
BMI saluted the legend in 2009 with an intimate reception, during which Cochran's peers including Merle Haggard and Bobby Bare, along with admirers including Jamey Johnson and Lee Ann Womack, performed his songs in a spellbinding acoustic tribute.
An artist and friend whose talent was only matched by his generosity, Mr. Cochran will be missed, but never forgotten.
Pictured above: Hank Cochran celebrates with friends at BMI in June 2009.


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Why You Must Lead With AI
Alyssa Rochwerger
AI will soon be a necessary part of doing business. Every company will have an AI strategy in the same way that they have a social media strategy, branding strategy, talent strategy, etc.
So if you want to stand out from the competition and gain an edge, you can't just use AI; you must lead with AI.
What does that look like?
To lead with AI, you can't simply set up a small innovation team to solve point problems. You must embed AI throughout the organization, so that every team is taking advantage of the technology and incorporating it into their operations.
The specifics will vary from company to company, but there are some general strategies that will help you begin leading with AI.
Be Persistent
Leading with AI doesn't just happen in the blink of an eye. It's going to take time and hard work, and it's critical you stay persistent.
Amazon, a leader in machine learning technology applications, didn't start out using advanced AI techniques on day one. Just like everyone else, they had to go on a journey filled with discovery, successes—and the occasional course correction. For example, in 2017, Amazon launched a TV ad that accidentally triggered Alexa devices in its customers' homes to purchase an expensive dollhouse. Not ideal, and not the best advertisement for the convenience of their machine learning devices.
They stuck with progress, though, and learned from their mistakes. They were persistent, even though they started out behind the pack. Their focus on incremental progress meant that it only took five short years for Alexa to beat out Siri and Google Assistant in the smart home speaker market. Alexa may have had a slow start, but now she's a very strong player in the market.
Persistence and determination are the ingredients that build leaders in AI—not perfection from the start.
Train Your Leaders to Look for AI Solutions
Before a business can lead with AI, it has to identify problems AI can solve. You can't accomplish this by building an AI tiger team and turning them loose to hunt through each department for inefficiencies. That AI team wouldn't have the necessary context, and all its time would be spent coming up to speed on the operations of the various departments.
Each division or department is familiar with its own operations and has the context to identify the most important problems. What they might lack is an understanding of AI and the types of problems it can solve. Giving them that training is the first step.
Organizations that do this successfully start with the belief that every department can use AI to solve some of its problems and work toward enabling their leaders to identify and solve those use cases. For example, a CFO, who is presumably good at what they do, probably doesn't have any experience in AI—their expertise lies in finance. That CFO will need training to develop an AI-aware mindset, the ability to identify the places within the finance department where AI can solve problems.
Obviously, your leaders don't need to understand everything about AI; they just need to know enough to be able to identify when AI is a good solution.
Create Cross-Functional Teams
When you think of AI, your mind might jump to data scientists, but there's a lot at play in an AI model. It's a marriage of technology and business, which means you need cross-functional teams to develop the best solutions. Because of this, the organization as a whole must become highly effective at multidisciplinary communication and collaboration.
At its simplest, this might involve rolling out something like Slack to improve communication across departments. Some companies might adopt Agile processes and workflows to encourage collaborative planning of requirements, or they might institute regular all-hands meetings to sync up business priorities all at once and provide transparency.
The details will be different for every organization, but every company will have a need for departments to collaborate more than before to identify common problems, prepare and share data, and develop related models. In some cases, this may be best served by restructuring the organization and reporting lines; in others, a department that expects an extensive adoption of AI—marketing, for example—may need to establish its own data science team.
This degree of change may seem overwhelming. It's important, however, for organizations to avoid the short-term solution of creating an AI team that's shared across the company, or that team will end up being the primary bottleneck blocking AI adoption.
Budget and Allocate Resources
Nothing happens in a company without a budget and allocated resources. Finding the budget to implement AI solutions—to buy off-the-shelf products, hire people with the needed skills, spend time and resources annotating data—is critical, but challenging, especially because a good portion of the investment in AI has to be made company-wide up front.
Leading with AI can necessitate reallocation of significant money and people, both of which are, in most cases, already budgeted out to normal operations. Deciding how much to reallocate and from where will impact the entire organization.
Cutting costs is always unpopular, but you must look at it as an investment. Take, for example, a company eager to invest in AI that runs a call center to capture support calls and return requests and complaints. There's no magical pool of money sitting around to invest in AI to improve this call center.
Instead, the company will have to take money out of the yearly budget to spend on the AI initiative and just accept that the time to handle a call will go up for a period because fewer agents are deployed to receive those calls. The promise, of course, is that the investment in AI will lead to a chatbot that can divert 15% of those incoming calls, requiring fewer agents to handle calls and improving the call-handling time overall.
Clearly articulating the long-term gains of AI will make it easier to secure buy-in across the company, so that the needed resources will be allocated.
Leading With AI
Leading with AI is hard. It will take time and massive investment. It's never easy to switch up the operation of huge chunks of a business, reorganize reporting structures and refocus priorities; it will almost certainly require killing some sacred cows.
Amazon, for example, spent years and a lot of investment to make the transition to leading with AI. Now, on the other side, they've maintained their status as a leader in their industry, with the infrastructure and culture that enables them to implement new AI solutions throughout their businesses as opportunities and problems arise.
With persistence, AI-aware leaders, cross-functional teams and the right budget and resources, you, too, can begin leading with AI, ensuring a future competitive advantage.
Co-author Wilson Pang is CTO at Appen.
Leading with AI is hard. It will take time and massive investment. With persistence, AI-aware leaders, cross-functional teams and the right budget and resources, you, too, can begin leading with AI, ensuring a future competitive advantage.


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A native Georgian, Rusty Ricketson came to know Christ as a senior in High School. Being mentored by Campus Crusade for Christ at the University of Georgia, he soon sensed a call to vocational ministry. Upon college graduation he taught public school for one year and then matriculated at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, receiving the M.Div. with languages degree. He married the former Sharon Waddle in 1984, and they have two grown children.
Ricketson helped plant two churches in the north Atlanta area, serving as senior pastor for a combined eighteen years. In 2003 he became an adjunct professor and joined the full-time faculty in 2004. He enjoys teaching, preaching, reading, writing, and God's great outdoors. Besides his school work, Ricketson serves as president of Foundation of the Faith, Inc., a ministry whose purpose is to develop followers of Christ and create follower first organizational cultures in churches throughout the United States and developing countries.
Please visit the following links for more of Dr. Ricketson's published works and writings.


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High Court blocks SLPP injunction
HomeAYV NewsHigh Court blocks SLPP injunction
The judge told the jam-packed court session that prior the filing of the Originating Notice of Motion in the High Court, the Supreme Court had earlier gave orders and judgment in a matter between Alie Issa Bangura and some national officers of the SLPP, which the plaintiffs failed to comply with.
He opined that a court of law could not act in vain as the SLPP was ordered to establish rules and regulations for the conduct of lower level elections, which were to be endorsed by the party, approved by the Political Parties Registration Commission, PPRC, and gazetted for the peaceful conduct of the party's entire election process.
According to Justice Edwards the SLPP had conducted its lower level elections and also realised that the plaintiffs did not comply with the orders of the Supreme Court, thus making the court to act in vain and therefore, the plaintiff's lawyers should ensure that the defendants in the matter were served and their action instituted should be published in a widely read newspaper.
Earlier, lead counsel for defendants, Umaru Napoleon Koroma, argued that the court shouldn't waste their time to look into the Originating Notice of Motion from counsels for the plaintiffs, Mugbe Musa and Alhaji Kamara, dated 14 December 2016, which sought for an injunction on the party's administrative activities on the grounds that the motion lacked validity and legal substance.
He further argued that the SLPP established rules and regulations for the conduct of the party's lower level elections as earlier ordered by the Supreme Court, noting that the said rules and regulations were endorsed and approved by the PPRC and gazetted as required by law, contrary to legal views and conviction of counsels for plaintiffs, who prayed on the face of their Originating Notice of Motion, seeking for an injunction on the party' ongoing administrative arrangements.
Lawyer Koroma also submitted that the defendants were never served in respect of the matter before the court and plaintiffs deliberately reneged to comply with the rules and regulations for the conduct of party's lower level elections, as ordered by the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone.
High Court , he went on, should discharged the motion with immediate effect, as the rules and regulations, lead Counsels for Plaintiffs, Musa Mugbe made reference to, were not endorsed and approved by the PPRC and gazetted, as ordered by the Supreme Court.
He also argued that defendants (party's secretariat) never received any complaint about the conduct of the party's lower level elections, stating that, the said rules and regulations were the only existing and acceptable instruments, used for the conduct of the party lower level elections , considering the fact that, national elections were just around the corner.
Lawyer Mugbe Musa, who represented all plaintiffs, countered that High Court should impose an injunction on the ongoing activities of the party , on the grounds that, the rules and regulations for the conduct of the party lower level elections, were never endorsed, approved by the PPRC and gazetted, as earlier by ordered by the Supreme Court.
He noted that, during the party lower level elections, Plaintiffs raised certain concerns and reservations about the conduct of the election, but that, the national secretariat, never bothered to look into their concerns and reservations.
According to lawyer Musa even the said rules and regulations, Umaru Koroma made reference to in his argument, were still in their draft stage, awaiting endorsement by the party and approval by the PPRC before being gazetted, as required by the Supreme Court orders.
After weighing and thoroughly perusing arguments put forward by Counsels for Plaintiffs and Defendants, Justice Babatunde Edwards in his wisdom ruled that, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party should continue with its administrative arrangement, until the matter is determined by the court.
The Plaintiffs included; Alusine Bangura, Alex Kargbo and Victor Sheriff, whiles Defendants included; Chairman and Leader of the SLPP, Chief Somanoh Kapen, Acting National Secretary General, Regional Vice Chairman North, Regional Vice Chairman South, Regional Vice Chairman East.
The matter was adjourned to Tuesday, 20 December 2016, in which counsels for plaintiffs, Mugbe Musa and Alhaji Kamara, would be expected to file in an interlocutory notice of motion, in furtherance of argument for High Court to impose injunction on the on-going administrative arrangement of SLPP.


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Ukraine interior ministry leadership among those dead from helicopter crash
Published January 18, 2023 at 12:06 PM CST
At least 14 people — including four children — are known to have died after a helicopter carrying top Ukrainian officials crashed near a kindergarten in the town of Brovary near Kyiv. Also among the dead are Ukraine's interior minister Denys Monastyrsky, his deputy interior minister and a state secretary. The cause of the crash is being investigated.
Here & Now's Scott Tong gets the latest from nearby Kyiv with NPR's Lauren Migaki.


Hughton, we have a problem. Not since Count Dracula has there been anything in the world more scared of crosses than Brighton in the 2017/18 Premier League season.
Saturday's defeat at Crystal Palace saw the Albion concede in the fifth minute after failing to deal with a Luka Milivojevic short corner that was turned in by Wilfried Zaha; the 14th minute after failing to deal with a long corner to the far post where James Tomkins eventually smashed home and the 24th minute when a Milivojevic cross found Zaha completely unmarked to head home.
Simple stuff that cost three goals and arguably three very big points against not just a relegation rival, but our arch rivals as well. If we were able to write this off as a one-off then maybe, just maybe, it would be acceptable – but we can't. Conceding cheap goals like this has been a recurring theme throughout the season.
Leicester away, Harry Maguire free header from a corner. West Brom home, Oliver Burke heads down cross to James Morrison to smash home. Everton home, Bruno can't defend a free kick so elbows Dominc Calvert-Lewin in the face to concede a penalty which Wayne Rooney scores. Stoke home, Kurt Zouma free header.
Manchester United away, corner not cleared leading to Lewis Dunk own goal. Liverpool home, Emre Can free header from a corner. Huddersfield away, two Steve Mounie goals from balls into the box. Spurs away, Serge Aurier scores direct from a cross and Son Heung-min with a header from a free kick.
Chelsea away, Alvaro Morata with a header and Marcus Alonso from a corner. Bournemouth home, Steve Cook heads home a corner and Callum Wilson a shot after a corner isn't cleared. West Brom away, Jonny Evans and Craig Dawson both score from corners. Southampton away, Jack Stephens turns home a free kick. Everton away and Gaetan Bong's own goal comes from a Yannick Bolasie cross. Leicester home, Vicente Iborra heads home a Ben Chilwell cross. Followed by Saturday's debacle. I'm writing before we've played Spurs on Tuesday as well, so the list might be even more exhaustive as you are reading this.
That makes for a grand total of 22 of our 46 goals conceded this season having come from crosses or set-pieces. In terms of points, you can make a case that 16 points have been lost.
With those on the board, we'd be on 51 points, one behind Burnley in seventh and dreaming of a possible Europa League tour rather than still sweating about what division we'll be in next season.
So, what's the answer? It's almost sacrilege to question Lewis Dunk and Shane Duffy but the statistics don't exactly shine a good light on them. While replacing one with an expensive centre-half upgrade would be harsh given the service they've given in getting us into the Premier League, time waits for no defending and you constantly need to be improving to move forward. It's a dog-eat-dog world.
Likewise, with that number of crosses coming into the box then are the full-backs doing their jobs? Ezequiel Schelotto and Gaetan Bong were both poor at Palace and that might be another area that Chris Hughton needs to address next summer.
Whatever the answer, a lot of supporters are blaming the fact we aren't yet safe on our lack of goals. True, we haven't scored enough, particularly away from home, but the number of opposition goals that have gone in from crosses far outweighs any misfiring forwards.
Saturday was just the tip of the iceberg – it's a problem that the Albion need to sort and fast.


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Do you like handmade jewelry? Have you ever tried some DIY idea of making any accessory for yourself? I love easy and quick jewelry making ideas and I have designed many for myself as well as my friends. If you are following me for some time, you might already remember my previous handmade jewelry and accessory DIY ideas. Today I am going to share a super easy and quick Wool Thread Wrapped Hoop Earrings tutorial. I hope you will enjoy this idea to refashion any old rusty pair of hoop earrings.
I have designed a rusty pair of hoop earrings. I was not wearing these since long because of their rusty look. Recently I thought to design it and wear again as the hoop earrings are trendy these days. Have a look how I have turned an old pair of earrings into a complete new look.
Quick crafts with less supplies are my favorite kind of DIYs. Who likes to collect a long list of craft supplies? Atleast not me..hehe! I try to make crafts with available supplies mostly. Also as I am a craft supplies hoarder, so I keep collecting stuff for no reason. I find it later & use it while crafting then.
Take a 20 inches long wool thread and double the thread together. You can decide the length according to your earring size. Glue it on the point where you are starting to wrap on the hoop earring.
Apply glue on the metal, so thread will be adjusting on it well, wrap around and glue the ending carefully. It should not be too close to the locks or too far from the locks. Whatever looks better, go for it according to your choice.
Wait for a moment until thread gets fixed on hoop. Then apply some transparent glue on the thread and paste the rhinestones lace. It would be better if you will measure & cut out the lace before pasting it on the earring.
Simple, easy and quick DIY for giving your ordinary plain hoop earrings a new look. Isn't it? I hope you enjoyed my tutorial.
You can also have a look at some of my previous Jewellery Making DIYs. You will find my step by step tutorials of earrings and pendants making mostly. They are super easy and any newbie can try it well.
So pretty and such a simple idea. Now I could make earrings in any colour I like – fab!
Thanks a lot Julie :) You should give it a try!
Love these earrings — so very pretty!
Beautiful! I love the color, too!
You make them look so easy! I love these!


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By Cari Martens May 21, 2008 2:10 pm
By Cari Martens | May 21, 2008 2:10 pm
By Cari Martens
Are you as American as apple pie? Well, a New York Times article reports that pollsters are tracking your voting habits by your eating habits.
According to the story, "If there's butter and white wine in your refrigerator and Fig Newtons in the cookie jar, you're likely to vote for Hillary Clinton. Prefer olive oil, Bear Naked granola and a latte to go? You probably like Barack Obama, too." And if you plan to vote for John McCain, it's a good guess that pizza delivery is in your future.
It's just another way of looking at consumer behavior, called microtargeting, but we think it's also kind of fun to think about. If that person next to you is drinking Dr. Pepper, is he really a Republican? If she swears by Sprite, does that make her a Democrat? According to the pollsters, if you subscribe to cooking magazines, you are more likely to be a Democrat. So far, no word on what an addiction to food websites might say!
It makes a certain amount of sense – If I know what you like to eat, I can surmise some of your other habits. And if I know your habits and hang outs, I can eventually judge your political affiliations.
For more innovations and insights, check out CultureWaves. And, take a look at a few of our other Hot & Cool Trends from CultureWavesâ"¢.
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Chef Cari is the host of The Food Channel's popular cooking series, :90 Seconds In The Kitchen. Her culinary expertise has a foundation in consumer insights and hands-on restaurant management. Martens was a Cultural Strategist for CultureWaves, the consumer insights network that fuels editorial content for The Food Channel, prior to expanding into culinary creative as The Food Channel's chef and host. Before that, Martens served as General Manager for Ristorante Teatro, a high-end Italian restaurant concept in southwest Missouri. Her passion for food inspires fans worldwide, and she's known for her trademark phrase, "Now get in the kitchen!"


PCTF-4 with benzothiadiazole exhibited the highest CO2 uptake (20.5 wt%) and CO2/N2 selectivity (56) among the reported covalent triazine-based frameworks.
Four covalent triazine-based frameworks (PCTF-1 to PCTF-4) with triphenylamine as the core were synthesized by a consolidated ionothermal reaction between aromatic nitriles under the catalysis of ZnCl2. The Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) specific surface area values of PCTF-1 (853 m2 g−1), PCTF-2 (811 m2 g−1) and PCTF-3 (391 m2 g−1) are gradually decreased when increasing the length of branched arm. It indicates that PCTF using monomers with longer branches can be packed more efficiently, resulting in higher density and lower surface area. PCTF-4, compared with PCTF-2, just has the middle benzene of the branches replaced with benzothiadiazole, however N2 adsorption isotherms showed that its BET specific surface area value (1404 m2 g−1) is the highest among the PCTFs, almost two times that of PCTF-2. The nitrogen-rich characteristics of C3N3 triazine rings result in the frameworks' strong affinity for CO2 and thereby high CO2 adsorption capacity. In particular PCTF-4 with benzothiadiazole exhibited the highest CO2 uptake (20.5 wt%) at 273 K and 1 bar, this value is one of the highest reported values for covalent triazine-based frameworks. The results demonstrate that the introduction of strong polar groups (benzothiadiazole) into a polymer skeleton is an efficient strategy to produce CO2-philic microporous organic polymers with enhanced binding affinity to CO2 molecules. In addition, such PCTFs with high physical–chemical stability and comparable BET surface areas exhibited ideal CO2/N2 selectivities (14–56) and CO2/CH4 selectivities (11–20) at 273 K, showing that these materials are potential candidates for gas storage and separation. However, in the presence of water vapor, the CO2 uptake of all polymers decreased probably due to the formation of hydrogen bonds with water, suggesting that materials that perform well under dry conditions may deteriorate under practical conditions.
Storage of hydrogen, methane, and carbon dioxide in highly porous covalent organic frameworks for clean energy applications.
Dihydrogen, methane, and carbon dioxide isotherm measurements were performed at 1-85 bar and 77-298 K on the evacuated forms of seven porous covalent organic frameworks (COFs). The uptake behavior and capacity of the COFs is best described by classifying them into three groups based on their structural dimensions and corresponding pore sizes. Group 1 consists of 2D structures with 1D small pores (9 A for each of COF-1 and COF-6), group 2 includes 2D structures with large 1D pores (27, 16, and 32 A for COF-5, COF-8, and COF-10, respectively), and group 3 is comprised of 3D structures with 3D medium-sized pores (12 A for each of COF-102 and COF-103). Group 3 COFs outperform group 1 and 2 COFs, and rival the best metal-organic frameworks and other porous materials in their uptake capacities. This is exemplified by the excess gas uptake of COF-102 at 35 bar (72 mg g(-1) at 77 K for hydrogen, 187 mg g(-1) at 298 K for methane, and 1180 mg g(-1) at 298 K for carbon dioxide), which is similar to the performance of COF-103 but higher than those observed for COF-1, COF-5, COF-6, COF-8, and COF-10 (hydrogen at 77 K, 15 mg g(-1) for COF-1, 36 mg g(-1) for COF-5, 23 mg g(-1) for COF-6, 35 mg g(-1) for COF-8, and 39 mg g(-1) for COF-10; methane at 298 K, 40 mg g(-1) for COF-1, 89 mg g(-1) for COF-5, 65 mg g(-1) for COF-6, 87 mg g(-1) for COF-8, and 80 mg g(-1) for COF-10; carbon dioxide at 298 K, 210 mg g(-1) for COF-1, 779 mg g(-1) for COF-5, 298 mg g(-1) for COF-6, 598 mg g(-1) for COF-8, and 759 mg g(-1) for COF-10). These findings place COFs among the most porous and the best adsorbents for hydrogen, methane, and carbon dioxide.


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Ziadabad (, also Romanized as Zīādābād) is a village in Beyza Rural District, Beyza District, Sepidan County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 226, in 54 families.

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Populated places in Beyza County