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Date: Wednesday 03 September 2014
Disabled people seeking a brand new home that's perfect for their needs will find just what they are looking for at Chobham Manor, the first residential neighbourhood on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, east London.
The London Legacy Development Corporation and Chobham Manor LLP, a joint venture between Taylor Wimpey and L&Q, have designed a neighbourhood suitable for a wide range of Londoners who want to build their lives in an exciting new community, including well-designed homes for wheelchair users.
All of the homes at Chobham Manor will be designed to meet Lifetime Homes Standards, ensuring they are suitable for the changing needs of residents at different stages of life, including people with mobility impairments.
In addition, 10 per cent of homes at Chobham Manor will include features to ensure they are adaptable for wheelchair users.
Simon Baxter, spokesperson for Chobham Manor LLP, says: "A key aim of Chobham Manor is to become a neighbourhood that is suitable for a wide range of people – if it wasn't, it simply wouldn't be a neighbourhood.
"The wheelchair adaptable homes which we are providing across Chobham Manor will have space standards built into their design and will require minor non-structural alterations to make them fully wheelchair accessible."
The first phase of homes at Chobham Manor went on sale in May, and includes three wheelchair adaptable properties – a one and a two-bedroom apartment, plus a three-bedroom house.
Features of these wheelchair adaptable homes include provision of accessible parking spaces, internal mobility scooter storage and charge points, allowance for full wheelchair circulation within the homes and communal spaces and storage.
In addition, Lifetime Homes Standards include features such as accessible communal lifts, allowance for wheelchair turning spaces in living and dining areas, the potential for future stair lift installation, space for through-the-floor lifts in houses and duplex apartments, accessible bathrooms and increased hallway widths.
Chobham Manor LLP are also supporting this year's National Paralympic Day on Saturday 30 August. Visitors to the event, which includes international sports competition for just £5 and a free family festival showcasing disability sports and arts, will be encouraged to visit the Sales and Marketing Suite to learn more about the accessible homes.


Should there be a relation between the vision of a company and the marketing strategy? If you ask this question to a strategist, they will emphatically say a Big Yes. But are the marketers really giving importance to the relation between the vision and marketing strategy is something which is of debate.
There has to be a perfect relation between the vision of the company and marketing strategy else it might spell doom for the company. We can elicit real stories from the business world to understand the same well.
One is Apple INC, who moved away from their vision and paid for it. Once they got their strategy aligned to the vision, they became a part of the history. Second is Reliance Communication, which waited more than 3 years for the government regulations to change to suit their vision before reaching and ultimately conquering the market.
In the initial years, Apple strategy makers and marketing team concentrated only on one target group i.e. professionals. By the start of 1985, Apple was out of race from the PC market because their competitors started offering low price PCs targeting students and educators and this threatened the position of Apple. During this time, there were many top management people who didn't toe the line of investors and started moving out and it was only in 1998, when Apple was sinking, Steve decided to go with investor's demand of concentrating on two markets: consumer and professional. Moreover he stressed on bringing market differentiation around 'computing experience', which was part of their original vision. He stressed on creating 'compelling user experience' in the design of 'i' generation products. By 2010, Apple became one of the giants and Steve Jobs earned his investors confidence completely.
Let's see what happened to RCom. RCom started in 1999 with the vision of, "Make the tools of information and communication available to people at an affordable cost. They will overcome the handicaps of illiteracy and lack of mobility." The strategists at RCom felt that it will not be possible to achieve this vision, if they purchase spectrum at high auction price which prevailed at that time. They realized that they will not be able to face the competition and waited till they got spectrum at a reasonable price.
In 2002, after they purchased spectrum at low cost, they entered the market with a BIG BANG. They succeeded in positioning themselves as LOW COST SERVICE PROVIDER marking a revolution in the Indian Tele Communication industry. Just look at this wonderful idea of waiting for a right opportunity to fulfill their vision.
So what is the learning out of these discussions? It's simple; develop your marketing strategies based on your company's vision no matter even if you have to wait for the right time. It's when you deviate from vision of the company that trouble starts creeping in. You may antagonize your investors and as well as alienate a section of your target customers. So, this relation between vision and strategy is the key to success of any company.
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Research has demonstrated that people learn better when they are well nourished. With this in mind, our schools have breakfast and lunch available for our students. We use Whitson's Food Services to make available these healthy and tasty meals for our students. Please visit Whitson's Website for more information about their services, or click below to find out about menus, costs, or how to apply for free or reduced meals.
Free and Reduced Priced Meals are Available!
You might be surprised how easy it is to qualify your child for free or reduced-priced meals each day. Eligibility is based on family size and income. Click here to view the Press Release describing the program and eligibility requirements.
To apply for free or reduced-priced meals through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs please complete an application and return to the main office in your student's school (only complete one application per household). You can download the application from this website or pick up a copy at any of our schools. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE APPLICATION MUST BE COMPLETED EACH YEAR - EVEN IF YOU WERE PART OF THE PROGRAM PREVIOUSLY, YOU MUST COMPLETE THE APPLICATION FOR 2018-2019.
For further instructions to complete the school meals application and/or additional information about benefits available to you and your child(ren), view the Parent Meals Letter, Addendum A-Sharing Information, Addendum B-Husky, Addendum B-Husky(Spanish), Addendum C- SNAP and Addendum C-SNAP (Spanish).
Elementary Schools: Elementary school students can get breakfast at school. The cost is $1.15 daily ($5.75 per week) for grades K-6. The cost is $1.50 per week for all students who receive a reduced cost breakfast. Students receiving free lunch also get breakfast for free! Students must sign up for each week the Thursday before the week in which you want your child to have lunch. Ask your school office for more information.
Middle Schools: Middle School students can get breakfast at school. The cost is $1.40 daily ($7.00 per week) for grades 7 and 8, or $1.50 per week for all students who receive a reduced cost breakfast. Students receiving free lunch also get breakfast for free! Students must sign up for each week the Thursday before the week in which you want your chld to have lunch. Ask the middle school office for more information.
Hamden High School: Hamden High now offers breakfast for students. A variety of breakfast selections will be available every day to students in the cafeteria from 7:00–9:00am. Free and reduced meal benefits will apply to this program. A full-price breakfast is $1.40 and the reduced price is $0.30 daily. Students receiving free lunch also get breakfast for free. Students may inquire about this program in the cafeteria or call 203-230-1010.
Our elementary, middle and high schools have lunch and milk available for students daily. Costs for milk and meals are reasonable, and many students qualify for free or reduced cost milk, breakfast and lunch.
Hamden has set up a system to make it easier for kids to purchase meals at school. This system allows parents to set up an account for their child and add money to the account as needed for student meals. Students simply enter their account code at the cafeteria register and are able to purchase meals without having to worry about having cash available. To register for an account or learn more about the program, visit MySchoolBucks.com. You can also use this link to check your account balance or to make a payment to an account.
The Food Service Department utilizes a computerized POS system to keep track of a student's personal meal account. Students may purchases meals with the funds that have been deposited into their personal meal account. Cash and checks are also accepted at the school offices and/or cafeteria cash registers.
Elementary School Level: As a courtesy and convenience, the Food Service Department at Hamden Public Schools extends "credit, to elementary students purchasing lunch, with the understanding that there are "occasional moments" when lunch money is lost, forgotten or inadvertently overlooked. Please be aware that we rely on all lunch revenue to sustain the lunch program and to continue serving nutritious, appetizing meals. We ask that "charging privileges" be exercised as infrequently as possible and not used as a payment practice.
Upon reaching the "charge limit" of $8.00, students will be offered the menu item of the day. Notification of charge balances are sent home weekly from each school in the form of a letter. We recommend that parents monitor the balance in their child's lunch account to avoid negative balances. Parents can monitor this on-line (MySchoolBucks.com) or contact Whitsons at 203-230-1010.
Middle School Level: As a courtesy and convenience, Hamden Middle School extends credit to students to purchase lunch, with the understanding that there are occasional moments when lunch money is lost, forgotten, or inadvertently overlooked. We ask that "charging privileges" be exercised as infrequently as possible and not used as a payment practice. Middle School students may borrow funds from the main office to pay for a single lunch with the expectation that the money borrowed would be repaid the next day. Should the funds not be repaid, the student would not be able to borrow again. Additionally, all unpaid funds would be considered an unpaid obligation and subject to records withholding as per BoE policy. A courtesy phone call notifying families of any unpaid balances to the main office will be made weekly. We recommend that parents monitor the balance in their child's lunch account to avoid the need to borrow.
High School Level: High school students are responsible to make payment for their lunch in advance or in the lunch line. Special circumstances will be considered on an individual basis for charge privileges.
Please visit MySchoolBucks.com for account information, set-up low balance email alerts and to make payments to a lunch account.


Spending too much on your phone service? You could maybe cut that bill down a bit, if you're willing to make a few sacrifices. How does free sound? FreedomPop, which previously started offering free mobile and home internet access, is expanding into phone service. For $0 per month, you can get 200 voice minutes, 500 texts, and 500MB of 3G/4G data.
This is obviously not a plan for heavy data users, but 500 MB might be workable if you're on WiFi most of the day. Only 500 texts might also be a bit tight unless you rely on data-only IM services like Hangouts. FreedomPop also offers paid mobile phone services, so expect the up-sell.
For $7.99 per month you get 500 voice minutes and unlimited texts, but data is still stuck at 500MB. A $10.99 monthly payment bumps it up to unlimited voice and text with 500MB of data. All the plans have data caps with no overages, but you can buy more on a pay-as-you-go basis for 2.5-cents per megabyte, which is a lot. Alternatively, FreedomPop will bump up the data to 1GB on any plan for an additional $9.99 per month.
FredomPop is running this service on the Sprint network, just like its mobile broadband offering. Users get access to Sprint's EvDo 3G network, but the 4G FreedomPop is talking about is WiMAX, not LTE. There is only one smartphone available to the service as well, the HTC Evo Design 4G. It's not exactly top-of-the-line, but the price isn't bad at $99 with no contract. If you think you can deal with the usage limited, FreedomPop is taking orders now. Full PR below.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FreedomPop, the free wireless internet company, today on its one year anniversary launched its beta of the world's first completely free mobile service with free voice, text and data. The company will give users a guaranteed 500 MBs of data, 500 text messages, and 200 anytime voice minutes free every month for life. FreedomPop will also offer heavier users unlimited voice and unlimited texting for just $10.99 per month with no contracts or commitments – 80 to 90 percent less than similar plans offered by large carriers, saving consumers over $1,000 per year.
"FreedomPop is changing the mobile market forever with the sole intent of bringing better value to consumers and increasing accessibility," said Stephen Stokols, FreedomPop's CEO and co-founder. "FreedomPop's mission is to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, convenient and essential communication services. With this launch, we've just taken our largest step to date towards delivering on this objective."
The FreedomPop Phone service will initially be available on the HTC Evo Design smartphone, which will sell for at a 65 percent discount for just $99. Later this year, additional popular Android handsets will be offered.
"The historically staid mobile operator industry is not only ripe for disruption; it is being disrupted today by creative pricing and service delivery strategies," said Rich Karpinski, senior analyst with Yankee Group. "Combining more economical voice over IP-over-cellular technology with emerging freemium business models such as these provides choice for customers looking for mobile service alternatives while pressuring incumbent carriers to respond as well."
The FreedomPop Phone comes a year after FreedomPop launched and took the mobile market by storm, offering free 4G over mobile hotspots. Led by outstanding consumer demand and organic growth, FreedomPop has demonstrated the commercial viability of its freemium model, while giving away more than half a billion free MBs of data to date. The company has also raised over $16 million in financing it is putting toward disruption of the $200 billion mobile phone service market where consumers currently pay over $1,500 per year on average.
"A user paying $1,500 per year for mobile services today can save well over $1,000 per year for the same plan with FreedomPop," Stokols added. "That is real value, real savings and a real meteor to the current market dynamics."
To sign up for access of FreedomPop's Phone now go to FreedomPop.com/phone.


UPDATED: Actor Will Ferrell was taken to the hospital Thursday night following a crash in Aliso Viejo, Calif., according to the California Highway Patrol.
Ferrell was a passenger in an SUV that was sideswiped and flipped over on the northbound I-5 at 10:55 p.m. Video footage from the scene showed Ferrell talking on a cell phone while being loaded into an ambulance.
A 27-year-old woman was also in the SUV. She was not wearing a seatbelt, and was seriously injured, according to the Orange County Register. The CHP reported that the SUV was headed north in the carpool lane, just north of La Paz Road. The driver of a Toyota in the lane to the right swerved into the SUV, causing it to hit the center divider and flip, Officer Rafael Reynoso told the Register.
"The driver of the Toyota apparently had fallen asleep and struck the rear end of the (Lincoln) Navigator causing it to hit the center divider wall," Reynoso told the paper.


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Mindre teatern (The Smaller Theatre), Nya teatern (The New Theatre), Lindeberska teatern (The Lindeberg Theatre), was a Swedish theatre at Kungsgatan in Stockholm, active 1842–1863. The building was used as localities for the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1863–1908.

History
The theatre was founded by Anders Lindeberg in 1842 after the theatre monopoly of the Royal Dramatic theatre was abolished. It was called Mindre teatern (The Smaller Theatre), as the old Royal Dramatic theatre was called "The Big Theatre", Nya teatern (The New Theatre), and also Lindeberska teatern (The Lindeberg Theatre), after its founder.

It became a popular theatre, which rivaled the Royal Theatre. In 1863, the theatre was sold to the Royal Theatre and dissolved. The building itself became the new house for the Royal Dramatic Theatre, who also employed many of the actors, and continued as such for 45 years. It was the fourth building to serve as localities for the royal theatre. When the royal opera and the royal theatre shared building, the Royal Dramatic Theatre was often called "The Small stage", while the Royal Swedish Opera was called "The Big stage", and this continued after they were separated.

Eventually, the building was deemed inadequate, and when the new building for the Royal Theatre was finished in 1908, it was demolished.

References
 Nordensvan, Georg (1918). Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar. Senare delen, 1842-1918. Stockholm

1842 establishments in Sweden
1863 disestablishments in Sweden
Former theatres in Stockholm
19th-century theatre
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Deconstructing Dayeinu
Apr 12, 2008 | by Rabbi Avi Shafran
Would it really have been enough?
Much of our Seder-night message to our children, mediated by the Haggadah, is forthright and clear. Some of it, though, is subtle and stealthy.
Dayeinu, for example.
On the surface, it is a simple song -- a recitation of events of Divine kindness over the course of Jewish history, from the Egyptian exodus until the Jewish arrival in the Holy Land -- with the refrain "Dayeinu": "It would have been enough for us." It is a puzzling chorus, and everyone who has ever thought about Dayeinu has asked the obvious question.
Would it really have "been enough for us" had God not, say, split the Red Sea, trapping our ancestors between the water and the Egyptian army? Some take the approach that another miracle could have taken place, but that certainly would weaken the import of the refrain. And then there are the other lines: "Had God not sustained us in the desert" -- enough for us? "Had He not given us the Torah." Enough? What are we saying?
Contending that we don't really mean "Dayeinu" when we say it, that we only intend to declare how undeserving of all God's kindnesses we are, is the sort of answer children view with immediate suspicion, and make faces at.
One path toward understanding Dayeinu, though, might lie in remembering that a proven method of engaging the attention of a child -- or even an ex-child -- is to hide one's message, leaving hints for its discovery. Could Dayeinu be hiding something significant in plain sight?
Think of those images of objects or words that the mind needs time to comprehend, simply because the gestalt is not immediately absorbed; one aspect alone is perceived at first, although another element may be the key to the image's meaning.
Dayeinu may be precisely such a puzzle. And its solution might lie in the realization that one of the song's lines is in fact not followed by the refrain at all. Few people can immediately locate it, but one of the events listed is pointedly not followed by the word "dayeinu."
Can you find it? Or have the years of singing Dayeinu after a cup of wine obscured the obvious? You might want to ask a child, more able for the lack of experience. I'll wait...
The exodus from Egypt was the singular, crucial, transformative point in Jewish history, when we Jews became a people.
...Welcome back. You found it, of course: the very first phrase in the poem. Dayeinu begins: "Had He taken us out of Egypt..." That phrase -- and it alone -- is never qualified with a "dayeinu." For only it refers, so to speak, to a "non-negotiable." The exodus from Egypt was the singular, crucial, transformative point in Jewish history, when we Jews became a people, with all the special interrelationship that peoplehood brings. Had Jewish history ended with starvation in the desert, or even at battle at an unrippled Red Sea, it would have been, without doubt, a terrible tragedy, the cutting down of a people just born -- but still, the cutting down of a people. The Jewish nation, the very purpose of creation ("For the sake of Israel," as the Midrash comments on the first word of the Torah, God created the universe), would still have existed, albeit briefly.
And our nationhood, after all, is precisely what we celebrate on Passover. When the Torah recounts the wicked son's question (Exodus,12:26) it records that the Jews responded by bowing down in thanksgiving. What were they thankful for? The Hassidic sage Rabbi Shmuel Bornstein (1856-1926) explains that the very fact that the Torah considers the wicked son to be part of the Jewish People, someone who needs and merits a response, was the reason for the Jews' happiness. When we were just a family of individuals, each member stood or fell on his own merits. Ishmael was Abraham's son, and Esau was Isaac's. But neither they nor their descendents merited to become parts of the Jewish People.
That now, after the exodus, even a "wicked son" would be considered a full member of the Jewish People indicated to our ancestors that something had radically changed since pre-Egyptian days. The people had become a nation.
And so the subtle message of Dayeinu may be just that, the sheer indispensability of the Exodus -- its contrast with the rest of Jewish history, its importance beyond even the magnitude of all the miracles that came to follow.
If so, then for thousands of years, that sublime thought might have subtly accompanied the strains of spirited "Da-Da-yeinu's," ever so delicately yet ever so ably suffusing Jewish minds and hearts, without their owners necessarily even realizing it.
In any event, it's an idea worth pondering. For now, dayeinu.
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Rabbi Avi Shafran
Avi Shafran blogs at rabbiavishafran.com and serves as Agudath Israel of America's director of public affairs
(2) Ruth Housman, April 13, 2008 4:41 PM
what would have/might have been... enough
This is something to think about, namely your way of deconstructing this often repeated passage. I never noticed, always thinking that being brought out of Egypt was under the rubric, it would have been enough as the other parts of this almost recitative or chant. I was thinking it was all in praise of the Almighty and never thought to deconstruct this, but yes, it is surely true, that if ALL these things had not happened, we wouldn't be singing this song. The build up of Dayenu seems a build up of praise, as in a heightening of feeling, that just rises and rises. It would have been enough. For me at times I do think of Dayenu in my own, small life. If YOU had given me the trees, it would have been... the sunset... my husband... my children... my life... one more day...I think it's a beautiful song that incorporates LIFE itself in all its dimensions. One more rose.
(1) Emeq, April 13, 2008 12:30 PM
Dayeinu, of missed opportunities
I have often posited that we are still stuck in Egypt, in our minds and in our hearts. Anywhere we my be in the Diaspora is our own personal Egypt. It seems that the perpetuation of "Next year in Yerusalem" has become a mantra instead of an enboldenment to Shuva.
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Kilema was born in 1960 in Toliara, a small coastal city in the Southeast of Madagascar, lapped by the waves of the indian Ocean as it passes through the Traits of Mozambique, right at the hart op the Tropic of Capricorn. His parents had clear ideas as to the best education possible for their children, and so sent them to the most prestigious school in Toliara, the Sacred Heart of Tsianaloke, run by the French missionaries. The nature of the institution meant that Kilema and his siblings received a thorough education, not only in academic terms, but also in its rigorous – some might say excessive – discipline, based on the classical European education system. All this helped to forge Kilema's character, which still bears the traces of those formative years.
Kilema's interest and training in music began in his childhood, through the Tsianaloke parish choir in which he sang every Sunday with his 5 brothers. With the help of his musical teacher, Frère Lefèbvre Laurent, with whom he still maintains contact, Kilema gradually improved and strengthened his singing ability.
Growing up in an Amborogony household with five brothers and three sisters offers a child the possibility of knowing and contrasting a multitude of life experiences, which will accompany him throughout his life. Seeing his siblings dedication to music sowed the seed of Kilema's future vocation. His brother Germain still plays the drums and saxophone now; back in his youth he fronted a popular dance music band in Toliara called 'The Shoot Guns', playing at parties and cabaret nights. He would practice at home, to the delight and awe of his younger siblings, while Kilema would take advantage of Germain's breaks and absences to secretly play his instruments, such as the drums and guitar, exploring in his own way the sounds they created.
The climate of political change which Madagascar experienced in its first few years of independence reflects the sometimes awkward cohabitation of ancestral traditions with the hangover of French colonialism. Thanks to his mother, Kilema had always had the opportunity to attend traditional Malagasy religious rituals, a syncretic blend of ancestor veneration and Christianity, both Catholic and Protestant, which dominated the country's religious landscape.
Accompanying his mother at these ancestral rituals he discovered the 'marovany',and 'mandoliny', handcrafted instruments harmonically synchronized to facilitate the trance of the spirit mediums. This was the music of his roots, pure and simple.
From this time on, Kilema dived headlong into the task of teaching himself, sharing the experience with his neighborhood friends, making his own instruments – particularly the small guitar mandolin – using bicycle brake leads for strings. Despite their paternal prohibition, Kilema and his other sibings Selma, Benja and Nesta kept alive the flame of music in their family.
But once he reached adolescence, KIlema watched with a heavy heart as his childhood friends – including Regis Gizavo, "Tsanga"' and Lepiera – began playing in local bands, while he had to content himself with the Choir of the Church of Sanfily, organising occasional concerts with the aim of raising funds for the poor people of his neighborhood. His father remained inflexible about his children's education, and once he had finished his high school diplaoma, Kilema decided to head off to Antananarivo to begin a university degree in English. Kilema's affinity for music grew, however, as he started playing in bands with fellow students and performing as cabaret nights in the big city. The grant which he had been awarded did not cover all of his basic needs, and so he went to an audition at the Papillon Bar nightclub at the Hilton hotel. Helped along by a recommendation by his childhood friend and fellow musician Tsanga, he got the job.
During his two-year contract with Hilton, he and his bandmates formed the group 'Cadence Bleue', which toured up and down the country, even travelling to the neighbouring island of Réunion. This was a crucial stage in Kilema's professional future; in the nocturnal festivities of that famous hotel Kilema discovered a route to deep personal satisfaction pursuing what he loved most in life; creating music and performing it. It was an added bonus to be remunerated for his enjoyment – a privilege denied him by his father. His Parents had passed away by the time Kilema finished university, and with his inheritance and the support of his brother Benja, who lived in France since 1979, he decided to take the plunge and move to Europe.
Arriving in Paris in 1993, Kilema began to move about and collaborate with other 'Malagasy' bands, playing at parties and celebrations held by his compatriots. He got in contact with 'Dago Group', which had become popular playing at all kinds of celebrations. It was during one of these performances that he met Doudou, a member of the Justin Vali Trio, torchbearers of traditional 'Malagasy' music who were enjoying great international coverage at that time. The Jusitin Vali band needed a drummer for a festival in Moers, Germany. With his personable nature, as well as his references – especially his links with Cadence Bleue abd Dago Group – Justin Vali's manager, Sir Alizadeh, called Kilema back the very next morning. After a trial period, Kilema travelled with the band to Germany, and then on to Italy, the UK, Spain, etc… He remained an official member of the group from 1993 to august 1997, accompanying the trio with his small kabosy, katsà, voice and above all his ability to captivate listeners with a musical exuberance which resonated with a wide range of audiences.
The Justin Vali Trio played on the international festival circuit for more than four years, including WOMAD, run by Peter Gabriel's record label Real World, in places as far as Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Europe and the Eastern Bloc. They were even invited to participate in the 25 year anniversary celebrations of the legendary US festival Woodstock in 1994.
Playing on this circuit offered Kilema the chance to get to know music from other parts of the world, bands, sounds, and all their subtleties, discovering at the same time the cultural wealth of the planet, and highlighting the value of his own. This has been the catalyst for him to research and immerse himself into his cultural heritage, especially that of the South of Madagascar, replete with ancient traditions based on the practice of animism – bringing deeper meaning to his memories of those childhood trips with his mother. From that moment on, Kilema considered himself a nomad, a citizen of the world and an ambassador for Malagasy music, the music of his motherland.
Kilema has music in his blood; it is a part of his life and for him a life without music would be unimaginable. Any instrument which finds its way into his hands he plays, interprets, adapts to the rhythms of his birthplace.
In 1997, after the dissolution of the Justin Vali Trio, Kilema decided to push a new project forward, this time bearing his own signature, and created a band under his nickname – a kind of colloquial translation of his first name, Clément. With the project outlined clearly in his mind, he got to work studying and deepening his skills in the traditional music of his country, particularly that of the South. This is what enabled him to rediscover the marovany, an instrument regarded as having a magical quality, and fundamental to the trance rituals of the ancestor cult. The marovany has now become Kilema's musical emblem, pivotal to most of his compositions and performances. Constructed entirely from salvaged materials, it is made of a hollow, rectangular wooden box with twelve metal strings on each side. The strings are made of wire and even today are not produced commercially. They are built by the mediums of te trance rituals, and Kilema adapts them to use on stage.
1999 saw the release of Kilema's first CD with his new band, on the Iris Music and Harmonia Mundi label, under the name 'Ka Malisa' ('No Rush'). It picks up where Kilema left off on the world music festival circuit around Italy, France, Spain and other countries. While promoting the CD he settled in Andalusia, Spain, where he started to develop a new kind of musical training with Andalusian and Malagasy musicians who have accompanied him ever since. In 2003 he published his second CD, 'Lavi Tany' ('Far From Home'), which is tinged with a certain nostalgia, accentuated by the great similarities between the Andalusian and Malagasy lifestyles. In Andalusia he founded his 'second home'.
Meanwhile, concerts dates started coming thick and fast; Mlaysia, the USA, Japan, Finland, France, Italy, Portugal … Kilema's constant work on the international world music circuit has established him as a point of reference in the field of traditional Madagascan music. In 2008 , Kilema and his band celebrated their tenth anniversary together – and what better way that to release a new album ?
'Mena' ('Red') digs deeper into Kilema's cultural roots, and reflects somewhat sadly on our new, globalized world and the role of the media in portraying nothing but the worst of our planet. Despite this perspective, Kilema expresses his music with an irrepressibly cheerful, positive spirit, the same way the Malagasy people deal with the difficulties of their daily lives in a country which has so little, and yet enjoys life so much. Kilema recorded 'Mena' in Belgium together with Madagascan and Andalusian musicians, as well as his brother Nesta and his 'white brother' Pedro Delgado, from whom he has been inseparable since 2000.


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import org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FastByteArrayInputStream;
import org.apache.cassandra.net.Message;
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Cobalt 27 Capital Corp. [KBLT-TSXV, 270-FSE] was among the victims in a warehouse heist in Rotterdam, Holland last month.
According to a report by Bloomberg news service, which was also posted by Scotiabank, thieves stole more than $10 million worth of cobalt, a key component in electric vehicle batteries.
About 112 tonnes of cobalt was stolen from the warehouse, which is owned by Vollers Group Gmbh, according to a statement by Minor Metals Trade Association, a U.K. based industry group, Bloomberg said. That metal is worth approximately $10 million at current prices.
Cobalt 27 Chairman and CEO Anthony Milewski did not comment on the report. However, corporate filings show the large majority of Cobalt 27's 2,900-tonne holding is stored in Rotterdam warehouses run by C. Steinweg Group, Bloomberg said, adding that the company holds 100 tonnes of metal in Vollers depots in the port. However, Bloomberg said Cobalt 27 has insurance on all of the metal it holds, according to company filings.
The report said thieves would have been attracted by the explosion in the price of cobalt. Prices have tripled since early 2016 to a decade high in April, 2018 on the back of forecasts that rising demand for electric cars will boost demand for cobalt, which is a key component of lithium-ion batteries.


Over the last few months, I have been asked several times to help with transitioning a family to a healthier lifestyle, especially as it relates to nutrition. Generally, the considerations of healthy choices for parents and young children, as well as budget and possible food sensitivities, shape the solution. Below are a few things that have worked for my family.
Just to give you a clear picture of our nutritional parameters at this point, one person in our family needs to stay free of gluten, cow dairy, and amaranth (which is present in many manufactured gluten-free foods and recipes). Another person is sensitive to beans and legumes, excluding green beans. These few sensitivities already eliminate so many possibilities from a standard American diet that they would seem daunting to most people. Thankfully, even before these food sensitivities showed up in tests, we have already chosen to follow a primal/paleo-style diet, making the additional adjustments a lot easier.
Our focus is on health. We do not restrict portions — in fact, since I'm nursing, I need extra nutrition to ensure that my own resources are not depleted. We do not obsess over weight. The results of the food sensitivity testing have given us a clearer view of our gut health. Via modifying our diet a bit further, we are looking to heal the gut. Once that's done, we can try re-introducing some offending foods on a limited basis to see if (a) they cause any issues, and (b) we still enjoy them.
We buy beef in bulk once a year in the fall from a local farmer and store it in the chest freezer. Throughout the year, we buy the rest of the meat and eggs from a local farm that does not use antibiotics or hormones, with a large part of animal food coming from grazing. We place an order about every 3 weeks when we are running out of eggs. Fish we buy on occasion and prefer wild Alaskan sockeye salmon that has a short life span (doesn't have time to accumulate lots of contaminants), is not a predator (doesn't consume other fish incorporating their contaminants), and is not subject to farming practices.
For the vegetables and fruit, we get a weekly all-organic vegetable and fruit box delivered, with mostly local seasonal produce. We can adjust the contents of the box online to include more of what we need. Ordering online and/or on sale allows for tighter budget control — if you don't enter a grocery store often, you are less likely to buy things you don't need. If we do shop at a grocery store, we stick to food that can go bad and rarely venture into the inner isles. In summer, we also have a garden that provides us with lots of greens, herbs, and fresh vegetables.
We get coconut oil and a few other staples at Costco or online. Whatever additional produce we need to pick up during a week, we aim to buy organic at Loblaws or local health stores like Rainbow Foods or Herb & Spice.
Eggs with variations. You can add chopped up veggies, ground meat, sausage, bacon, fish. You can make a scramble with paprika, coriander, fresh-ground black pepper, sea salt, or try cinnamon for a sweeter option. Lots of opportunities to integrate leftovers into an egg-based breakfast, you can bring in broccoli, mushrooms, peppers, etc. The variations are endless. Eggs are a powerhouse of nutrients, and there are recipes (such as egg muffins or egg zucchini loaf) where you can replace grains with eggs).
Buckwheat with raisins, berries or nuts and coconut oil.
Quinoa with chopped up veggies and greens, or with berries and fruit pieces.
Goat milk yogurt with berries or nuts and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
All of these are popular with our kids. We also give them a daily dose of probiotics by mixing it in water (for the baby) or in apple sauce (for older child). They also get vitamin D daily (a higher dose during the long Canadian winter) and the older child gets an EFA supplement and vitamin C.
For lunch, we often do pureed soups from sweet potato, beets, turnips, squashes – whatever is in season. The chest freezer comes in handy for storing these — in the morning, I pull out portions of whatever soup strikes our fancy on a particular day.
Lots of times lunch consists of leftovers from dinner. I often cook in advance, which means we have a variety of protein and veggie options in the fridge ready to be combined for whatever meal we want. I generally base each meal on a protein: eggs, meat, seafood. Then I add lots of veggies – stir-fried, steamed, roasted, fresh. Our staples are sweet potatoes, beets, green beans, mushrooms, bell peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage.
Dinners often include roast meat or fish, or ground meat cooked with spices, stir-fries, salads, stews, steamed veggies. I love Thai cuisine, so curries and rice noodle dishes make an appearance often. We use olive oil, vinegar, avocado, sesame oil, lime and lemon juice for salad dressing, instead of buying store-based ones. Sometimes I venture into recreating a staple such as pizza by using rice or cauliflower crust, organic tomato sauce, fresh veggies, ground meat or sausage pieces, and shredded goat cheese, or remember one of my Russian recipes, such as borsch or marinated eggplants, to add more variation.
We always have lots of different nuts and seeds on hand for snacking and adding to salads, stir-fries, yogurt. Mark's Daily Apple has great guides to nutritional content of nuts and seeds.
We make smoothies with kale, spinach, other greens, adding in an apple or a banana to sweeten, frozen berries, and hemp, chia or ground flax seed for additional nutrition.
Cut up veggies (carrots, bell peppers, celery, cucumbers, broccoli, cauliflower, etc.) with hummus.
Apple or pear slices with almond butter.
Fresh and dried fruit and berries.
Avocados with freshly-ground black pepper.
One of the first steps to transitioning to better nutrition is to stop buying junk food. If it's not in your house when you are hungry, you are not going to eat it. Another step is not to succumb to convenience of getting pizza or fast food delivery – instead, keep your freezer stocked with ready-to-heat healthy prepared meals. All you have to do is make a bit extra whenever you cook and freeze it. It comes in very helpful if you or the children are sick and you have less time to cook — feeding your family nutritious meals instead of conveniently-available junk will speed up their recovery. Eating out often or impulsively getting food delivered is also a sure way to go over budget.
People are creatures of habit. When you create the habits of healthy eating, you would have mastered the transition. People are also lazy creatures, in that we are looking for the most efficient and least time-consuming way to do things. Make it easy for yourself to not eat junk food or order in, by having healthy, quick and easy meal options in your fridge or freezer instead.
There are books written on this subject and it's easy to keep going, but I think I'll stop here. There are lots of organizational and budgeting nuances and culinary possibilities, but my formula is to start with non-contaminated ingredients, cook them lovingly, share them with my loved ones, and save some for the future.
What are your strategies for better nutrition?


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Coventry City have signed Bulgarian international Vladimir Gadshev until 30th June 2017.
The Sky Blues have snapped up the experienced midfielder on a deal until the end of the 2016/17 season, with a one-year extension option in the club's favour.
The 28-year old started his professional career in Greece with Panathinaikos and enjoyed loan spells with Levadiakos and OFI Crete.
In 2008, he moved back to his native Bulgaria on loan to Levski Sofia before making the deal permanent in 2009. Gadshev was with the Bulgarian giants for six years where he made 186 appearances, scoring 25 goals where he obtained Champions League and Europa League experience, before leaving in December.
His form at Levski saw him break into the Bulgarian national team in 2010 which has seen him capped 25 times, scoring one goal in a 2-1 win against Belarus, and recently played in the UEFA European Qualifiers against Malta.
City boss Tony Mowbray said: "We're delighted to welcome Vladimir to the club and I'm looking forward to working with him.
"Vladimir joined the club on a two-week trial and we've been really impressed with what we've seen from him. It's obvious to me that he has a lot of technical quality with the ball and I can only see that benefiting the team in the future.
"Looking over his career, he has vast experience in the Greek and Bulgarian top flight and he's an experienced international so he has plenty of pedigree which is a valuable asset to any club.
"Whilst he's available for the rest of this season, it's important that we make sure Vladimir settles into the club and into the squad as we continue to build a squad for the future."


For next month's dinner, we will attempt to answer one of life's great dilemmas: wine or beer?
Each of our five courses will be paired with *both* a wine and a beer. We'll be highlighting several of our favorite local booze producers–as well as some favorites from further afield.
This event will be on Saturday, May 21 at 7pm. Cost will be $85, inclusive of all the beverage pairings. We'll send confirmed guests the exact directions to our location (in the Dogpatch) a few days before the dinner.
Seats went quickly for our 4/15 event, so drop us a note ASAP to RSVP. Hope to see you there!


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A few days ago, as part of giving myself a guided tour of the College, I went to see the uniform shop. There I met several new Year 7s trying on the Newington black and white for the first time. There they were, already wholly formed characters, with their stories of primary school, their unique web of friends and family, as well as their favourite books, their favourite sports and their favourite movie over the holidays (usually Aquaman). At the same time, they were alive with the possibilities for their future as Newingtonians-to-be. Over the next six years, I wondered, were they going to be fencers or cellists, rowers or debaters, mathematicians or artists – or a wonderful combination of these and more. There was excitement for the journey ahead, as well as some trepidation. Either way, it is all there in front of them.
As a new starter myself, I sympathised with them. Although I don't need to buy a new uniform (my suits still fit, even after Christmas), I have a similar sense of the excitement and potential the years ahead could hold. Even though I taught here for five years in the early 2000s, I am looking forward very much to learning and hearing so much in the months to come about the Newington of 2019.
As the previous Head, Dr David Mulford, so often said, Newington is a place where each person can discover what is possible. I think this really encapsulates the school's vision. These corridors, classrooms, playing fields, chapel and stages act as springboards to discover the very best in each child.
I know already that, at Newington, we want each child to be curious and energised by the rippling wonder of our world and optimistic about their own place within it. We want each child to really stretch themselves by being the very best at something that matters. We want each child to see society as a collective to which they give back, not a resource from which they simply take. We want them all to be generous and open-hearted young men who respect the men and women around them, as well as themselves. We want it for the handful of boys I met at the clothing pool and for the many thousands of others who have and will walk through the gates too.
We are, and have all been, committed to making a College that is a caring community and a vibrant powerhouse at the same time. I hope our website gives you an impression of all that could be possible for your son at Newington.


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Live Arts: A Combined Effort and Commitment to Community and Creativity
Posted on November 6, 2018 by Hidden River Arts
One of the most important things for a vital community is a live arts network where musicians, writers, poets, playwrights and their audiences can meet, share some food and drink and enjoy a night of creative exchange. Hidden River Arts is located in Philadelphia, where we are fortunate to have such vitality. We are blessed with arts organizations of all sizes, and with venues that range from those of the most expensive theatres to small pubs and community spaces where art can be made and shared. Our intern, Nancy Allen, writes of her experience at one such event. Nancy is a student in the Creative Writing program at Temple University here in Philadelphia, and is just beginning to explore such opportunities. I'm grateful that she was willing to share this information with us. I hope that, as you read through, you will be thinking about the possibilities and opportunities that might exist in your own part of the world. We here at Hidden River would love to hear about them. One of our goals in 2019 is to begin building networks for artists – live arts venues, venues for book and poetry readings, spaces for gallery shows and other mixed-art activities. If we all share our knowledge of our own communities, towns and cities, we will be able to build such a network from our combined information. Then, with that network in place, we can begin to create "tours" of indy artists who can work cooperatively to support each other's work, to invite each other to different parts of the U.S. and to other countries, other parts of the world…making it possible to create some really wonderful fellowship among artists and audiences. Boy, do we ever need it!
Debra Leigh Scott
Nancy Allen is an intern here at Hidden River Arts as well as a Creative Writing major at Temple University
On September 26, Moonstone Arts held a poetry reading at Fergie's Pub hosted by Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook, where Catherine Bancroft and Lisa Grunberger performed, and the reading was followed by an open mic. Moonstone Arts Center, for more than 35 years, has held events for poetry all across Philadelphia. It is a Philadelphia institution, the likes of which every city and town deserves. Moonstone Arts began in 1981, in a second floor space above Robin's bookstore. Both the bookstore and the programs were run by Sandy and Larry Robin, and both quickly became Philadelphia institutions. The Moonstone fundraiser, "Sounds and Words," will be held this year on November 10.
An institution for over 20 years in Philadelphia, Fergie's Pub is a popular spot for live arts and social gathering
Fergie's Pub, over twenty years old, has opened its doors to a variety of arts programs, live music, theatre readings, and literary activities for years, believing that a traditional "publick house" was meant to be a center for all sorts of creative and social activities.
Catherine Bancroft is an artist and writer who has performed her poetry at the Philadelphia Poetry Festival, Green Line Cafe, as well as other venues. Catherine has had her work shown at Muse Gallery, Off the Wall Gallery, The Sketch Club, The Main Line Arts Center, FireWorks Gallery, and many other places. She works mainly in collage, acrylic, mixed medias, and altered books. Her current Ellis Island Series was inspired by photographs of early 20th century immigrants. Catherine has also co-written two children's books, Felix's Hat and That's Philomenia. She has also written book reviews for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Lisa Grunberger is a professor in Temple University's English department. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Religions from the University of Chicago. Grunberger is an award winning poet, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, and she is the author of Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie's Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Position (Harper Collins Press), and has recently staged her new play, Almost Pregnant, at The PlayGround at the Adrienne during the Fringe Arts Festival this past September.
As we mentioned, Moonstone Arts Center is having their 1st Annual Fundraiser on November 10th at 7pm. Eleven poets and two bands will be playing that evening. You can find more information and purchase tickets through their website, moonstonearts.org. If you are interested in discovering more about the poetry scene in Philadelphia, check out Phillypoetry.org, which serves as a great resource for events and places to go in the city for poets and poetry lovers.
It's important for writers to stay connected and attend readings and live arts events throughout their city. This is great for the community and offers wonderful opportunities for the artists. We would welcome hearing from you in our comment section about the sorts of live arts events that help to create community and support local artists in your town or city! It would be a wonderful thing to begin building a national network of community arts venues and organizations to help artists move beyond their own local territory, grow their audience and develop relationships with colleagues across the country.
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Those moments when you see a favourite writer's work, suddenly and fleetingly, in a stranger's hands! In the lineup at the post office the young woman turned a page and looked up from her book. I said: "Nadine Gordimer." She smiled and said: "I am going to read every one of her books this summer. Two so far."
Searching for Bobby Orr spotted on the subway... Hemingway beside the seat of a student/taxi driver. "Class is hard, the language is hard for me," he said, and grinned. "But exciting."
Three strangers, our carry-ons being combed through at a tiny Caribbean airport, had packed Cheryl Strayed's memoir, Wild. Our paperbacks slapped onto a long steel table, from a knapsack, a briefcase and a tote bag. We saw each other on the island and chatted about Wild each time we did. Hammock, pool, lunch. "Finished yet?" "Those blisters, her feet -- I Googled her feet -- they healed!"
Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes in coffee shops. Lisa Moore at the dentist; in a medical waiting room, Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, distracting a fellow patient.
The room used to make me cry a little -- they're all sick, damnit, damnit. "I don't want this book to end," she told me. Her face was strained when she broke away from the book and it softened as she went back to it, back to Atkinson's Ursula Todd, who lives life after fraught and dangerous life. I hope the worried woman is herself living far from whatever brought her there. I hope she has begun again.


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DA's Office and Federal Partners Have Secured Close to $12 Billion in Penalties from 9 Banks Since 2009
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., together with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), today announced the resolution of a joint investigation into the criminal conduct of Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (CACIB), a subsidiary of the French bank Crédit Agricole S.A. (CASA), and the payment of $312 million in penalties and forfeiture to resolve the matter. In the Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) and corresponding Factual Statement, CACIB admitted that it violated New York State law by falsifying the records of New York financial institutions.
In addition to the $312 million which resolves the joint criminal investigation conducted by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and DOJ, CACIB and CASA have agreed to resolve parallel regulatory inquiries arising out of the same pattern of conduct, in which the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) and the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) imposed additional civil monetary penalties in the amounts of $90.3 million and $385 million respectively. The total amount of $787.3 million also includes an agreement of $329.5 million reached with Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (OFAC), with this amount being credited to the total penalties and forfeiture amount.
"With this resolution, as well as eight previous agreements, my Office and our partners are sending a clear message that financial institutions must comply with sanctions against rogue nations," said District Attorney Vance. "Over the course of our investigation, it was revealed that subsidiaries of Crédit Agricole illegally moved hundreds of millions of dollars through the U.S. on behalf of clients in Sudan, Iran, Cuba, and Burma. This type of conduct requires the bank be held accountable, and I would like to thank all our partners for their efforts to ensure that our financial system is protected."
"Sanctions laws are critical to both our national security and foreign policy interests," said U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips for the District of Columbia. "CACIB, through its subsidiaries, violated our laws and our interests by conducting business on behalf of entities in Sudan. CACIB's subsidiaries succeeded in these efforts, in large part, by hiding their conduct from CACIB's employees in the United States. In this case, the overwhelming majority of the unlawful conduct occurred at a foreign subsidiary that no longer exists. Although CACIB moved quickly to end these unlawful transactions and fully cooperated with investigators, today's resolution demonstrates that there will be significant consequences for any financial institution that allows its foreign subsidiaries that do not intend to respect U.S. law to, nevertheless, access the U.S. financial system."
"The financial penalties imposed on Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank send a powerful message to any financial institution that prioritizes profits over adherence to the law," said Joseph S. Campbell, Assistant Director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division. "This investigation is another example of our commitment to work closely with our federal and state partners to ensure compliance with U.S. banking laws to promote integrity across financial institutions and to safeguard our national security."
The U.S. government restricts certain countries – including Sudan, Iran, Cuba, and Burma – as well as entities and individuals from those countries from accessing the U.S. banking system.
OFAC is charged with administering these economic sanctions against targeted foreign countries and regimes, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and other threats to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States. Sanctioned financial institutions, countries, and individuals generally are prohibited from accessing the U.S. financial system.
Banks in Manhattan, which process most of the world's U.S. dollar payments, use sophisticated computer systems commonly known as "OFAC filters" to prevent sanctioned entities, as well as terrorists, money launderers, and other criminals, from gaining access to the U.S. banking system. These OFAC filters act as the first line of defense to protect the U.S. financial system.
CACIB helped its sanctioned clients, predominantly from Sudan, evade U.S. banks' OFAC filters to illegally gain access to the U.S. financial system. Additionally, CACIB processed violative payments on behalf of Iranian, Cuban, and Burmese entities.
CACIB's Conduct
As detailed in the DPA and Factual Statement, between August 2003 and continuing through September 2008, CACIB, through its subsidiary in Switzerland, Crédit Agricole (Suisse) SA (CAS), and its predecessor entities, Crédit Agricole Indosuez (Suisse) SA (CAIS) and Crédit Lyonnais (Suisse) SA (CLS), violated U.S. and New York State laws by sending prohibited payments through the U.S. financial system on behalf of entities subject to U.S. economic sanctions. In an effort to evade detection by U.S. bank personnel as well as U.S. authorities, CACIB knowingly, intentionally and willfully concealed the sanctioned entities' involvement with these transactions. Consequently, U.S. and New York financial institutions processed transactions that otherwise should have been rejected, blocked, or stopped for investigation pursuant to regulations promulgated by OFAC relating to transactions involving sanctioned countries and parties.
The conduct of CACIB included, among other things, (1) sending payments on behalf of sanctioned customers without reference to the payments' origin; (2) eliminating payment data that would have revealed the involvement of sanctioned countries with the specific intent to evade U.S. sanctions; and (3) using alternative payment methods to mask the involvement of sanctioned entities, including the use of two payment messages, for payments involving sanctioned financial institutions that were sent to the United States. By engaging in this conduct, CACIB caused false entries in its own records and records of other financial institutions located in Manhattan.
Specifically, CLS allowed 11 Sudanese banks to maintain USD accounts, despite the fact that CLS personnel were aware of the U.S. sanctions against Sudan and the fact that these sanctions applied to payments CLS sent through the United States. Many of these USD payments were bank-to-bank transfers, which are typically completed through a single payment message. Instead, as a general rule, CLS would generate two payment messages for bank-to-bank transfers involving its Sudanese bank customers. The first payment message would be sent to the payee's foreign bank and reference the Sudanese entities involved in the transactions. The second message, however, that CLS sent to the US-based banks concealed the involvement of the Sudanese entities, thereby deceiving U.S. financial institutions and creating the false appearance that the transaction had no connection to the sanctioned entities.
Moreover, CAS developed policies and procedures to use cover payments, which did not reference any sanctioned entity's involvement in transactions, fully recognizing that this payment method would conceal from U.S. financial institutions the fact that these transactions concerned sanctioned parties.
While today's DPA was designed to impose a substantial punishment on CACIB and send a strong message of deterrence to other banks, important mitigating factors led to the agreement to defer prosecution. Those factors included the fact that CACIB cooperated throughout the investigation and devoted significant resources to both its internal investigation and the investigations conducted by the District Attorney's Office and DOJ. CACIB also fully acknowledged and accepted responsibility for its conduct, and voluntarily undertook a series of remedial actions before entering into the DPA.
Prior Sanctions Cases
In June 2014, BNP Paribas Bank (BNPP) pleaded guilty in New York County to falsifying business records and conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions and paid a record $8.83 billion in criminal forfeiture and penalties. Since 2009, nine banks, including BNPP and CACIB, have forfeited approximately $12 billion for their illegal conduct, with half of the funds being paid to the City and State of New York. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office previously has entered into Deferred Prosecution Agreements with the following financial institutions related to U.S. sanctions violations:
Commerzbank AG for $342 million in 2015
HSBC Bank for $375 million in 2012
Standard Chartered Bank for $327 million in 2012
ING Bank for $619 million in 2012
Barclays Bank for $298 million in 2010
Credit Suisse AG for $536 million in 2009
Lloyds TSB Bank for $350 million in 2009
The investigation was conducted jointly with the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the United States Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation division. District Attorney Vance recognized the substantial contributions of the New York State Department of Financial Services, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and OFAC, which conducted their own investigations.
The CACIB case was investigated and prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Kim Han, Deputy Chief of the Tax Crimes Unit, and Judith Weinstock, former Deputy Chief of the Major Economic Crimes Bureau, under the supervision of Christopher Conroy, Chief of the Major Economic Crimes Bureau, Polly Greenberg, former Chief of the Major Economic Crimes Bureau, and Executive Assistant District Attorney David Szuchman, Chief of the Investigation Division. Financial Intelligence Analyst Morris Breitbart and Trial Preparation Assistant Victor Hollenberg assisted in the investigation.
District Attorney Vance also thanked the following individuals for their assistance in the investigation: Assistant United States Attorneys Matthew Graves and Maia Miller, of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia; Katherine Landy, Yoon Hi Greene, and Sean O'Malley of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Michael Dondarski and Amanda Miralrio of OFAC; Special Agent Matthew Komar of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Special Agents Michael Fleishman and Jeffrey LaMirand of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation.
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The Gallia County Board of Commissioners regular meeting on Thursday, May 9, 2019 is being rescheduled to Tuesday, May 7, 2019 due to Commissioners being out of town for training.
The GALLIA County Board of Commissioners has determined that surplus personal property including motor vehicles acquired for the use of County Officers and departments, and road machinery, equipment, tools, or supplies, which is not needed for the public use, or is obsolete or unfit for the use it was acquired is appropriate to be sold by Internet auction.
The auctions shall be conducted on a continuous basis through accessing the GALLIA County surplus property through the GALLIA County website located at www.gallianet.net.
The surplus property will be posted for a period of no less than 15 days, including Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, but such time may be extended at the discretion of the Board or its representative in order to maximize the financial return to the County.
The Board or its representative on an item-by-item basis may determine minimum price or reserve price and the terms or conditions of sale, including but not limited to requirements for pickup and/or delivery, method of payment, and payment of sales tax in accordance with applicable laws for that item. Such information shall be available on the website.
d. It is determined that a bidder is purchasing the surplus for a use contrary to the health and welfare of GALLIA County or its citizens.
e. The Board of Commissioners has contracted with GovDeals, Inc. to provide the software necessary for completing the Internet auction.
Vote on Motion: Ms. Snyder Aye; Mr. Foster Aye; Mr. Montgomery Aye.
WHEREAS, GALLIA County throughout the year will have miscellaneous minor office furniture, chairs, filing cabinets, shelving, miscellaneous minor office equipment, computers, monitors, printers, fax machines, copiers, typewriters, miscellaneous building hardware and materials, and minor tools and equipmentwhich are not needed for public use, or are obsolete or unfit for the use for which they were acquired.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the board of Commissioners of GALLIA County, State of Ohio, declare that when the above type of personal property becomes obsolete, unfit, or not needed for public use and when the estimated fair market value of each item is less than $50.00, authorize the public auction, private sale, internet auction, or the disposal or salvage of property that has no value, as set by the Ohio Revised Code Section 307.12.


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Column: The smart grid and the Green New Deal
The urgency of the problem requires the nation to harness the best minds to bring ideas to the forefront of the discussion and to bring to the implementation stage ideas like the smart grid.
Published February 22
Updated February 24
By William L. Holahan and Charles O. Kroncke
Special to the Tampa Bay Times
The Green New Deal (GND) is a resolution put forward to address climate change and income inequality. Seemingly, endorsement of this document is a "progressive" litmus test for Democratic Party presidential candidates, even though many of its ideas have been met with blistering criticism for their impracticality.
In the face of this criticism, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted that the intent of the GND is simply a "request for proposals" to draw ideas from the country's scientists, engineers and economists at think tanks, universities, and government and private labs as well as from "garage tinkerers." One of the line items in the GND with great promise for reducing fossil fuel usage and substituting renewable energy is the "smart electricity grid." We will likely hear a great deal more about this, but what in the world is a smart grid ?
FIRST, THE GRID. The first electric companies were simply one-plant operations, generating power with river water pressure or coal-fired boilers. As the demand for electricity expanded, they added more generating plants, and their connections became known as "grids." Over time rural electrification was added, and electric companies merged with one another, producing larger grids. These larger grids permitted lower operating costs, fewer power outages, energy savings per unit of electricity and higher profits.
Now supporters of the GND recognize an additional advantage of larger grids: the connection and transmission of electricity generated from renewable sources, such as wind and solar, reduces reliance on fossil fuels. Such a national grid would enable companies at various locations to buy and sell electricity to each other across long distances to take advantage of different weather patterns across the country. So, when electricity is produced in a wind alley, such as the one that exists from North Dakota to West Texas, it could get sold through the grid to such disparate sites as the Ohio Valley or Southern California. Electricity produced in a solar farm in Nevada could be sold to the rainy Northwest.
A larger grid brings another advantage: competition among companies and even allowing customers to sell to the grid. Modern technology enables customers to install solar and wind generation equipment on their property, use that electricity to supplement the power from the grid, and when the sun and wind produce a surplus, sell the extra power back to the grid. This capability creates a market for new inventions by creative companies, since every user of electricity can now be a customer for new ways to compete with the grid. Everyone on the supply side and the demand side have a steady incentive to innovate to save both money and fuel.
SMART PRICING. Smart pricing can save even more fuel by smoothing the fluctuations in demand. By charging customers higher prices during high demand periods and lower prices when demand is less, then the total capacity and energy needed to serve demand is less. For example, smart pricing would give people opportunities to save money by washing their clothes and dishes in non-peak demand periods and charging their electric cars at night for the next day of driving.
With robotics, the adjustment to changing electricity rates can be pre-programmed. A customer could say, "Alexa, when the price of electricity hits 20 cents per kilowatt/hour, dim the lights, turn off the major appliances and the car charger. Send the kids outside to play."
IN THE END. The science is real. The response must be realistic. Ocasio-Cortez's description of the GND as a request for proposals was probably a quick-witted tactical retreat in the face of the negative reaction to the resolution deal. But it's a good idea, nonetheless. The urgency of the problem requires the nation to harness the best minds to bring ideas to the forefront of the discussion and to bring to the implementation stage ideas like the smart grid. The ensuing competition in the marketplace of ideas should be the fastest way to get control of this long-ignored threat.
William L. Holahan is emeritus professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Charles O. Kroncke, retired dean of the College of Business at UW-M, is also retired from the University of South Florida. They are co-authors of "Economics for Voters.''
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Audiobooks > Science Fiction > Space Opera > Alliance Space
Download Alliance Space Audiobook
Author: C. J. Cherryh Narrator: Daniel May Publisher: Tantor Audio Audio Length: 21.75 hours Release Date: February 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook Delivery: Instant Download ISBN: 9781705276624
Two Alliance-Union novels, Merchanter's Luck and Forty Thousand in Gehenna, bound in one omnibus volume for the first time!
Merchanter's Luck
His name was Sandor and he was the owner and entire crew of a tramp star-freighter that flew the Union planets under false papers and fake names. Her name was Allison and she was a proud but junior member of the powerful family whose mighty starship, Dublin Again, was the true queen of the spaceways. They met at Viking Station, she seeking a night's dalliance, he desperately in search of a spacer assistant. Their fateful meeting was to lead to a record-breaking race to Pell Station, thereby catching the calculating eye of the grim commander of the Alliance battlecraft Norway, and a terrifying showdown at a deadly destination off the cosmic charts.
Forty Thousand In Gehenna
When forty thousand human colonists are abandoned for political reasons on a planet called Gehenna, and re-supply ships fail to arrive, collapse seems imminent. Yet over the next two centuries, the descendants of the original colonists survive despite all odds by entering a partnership with the planet's native intelligence—the lizard-like, burrowing calibans.
Merchanter's Luck is well-paced with a nice balance of action, mystery, and character exploration.
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C. J. Cherryh planned to write since the age of ten. When she was older, she learned to use a typewriter while triple-majoring in Classics, Latin, and Greek. With more than seventy books to her credit, and the winner of three Hugo Awards, she is one of the most prolific and highly respected authors in the science fiction field. Cherryh has been named a Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
Daniel Thomas May is a native of Atlanta. For 15 years May focused his work on stage, both in Atlanta and across the country, but in the past 2 years May has turned his talent to the screen, with roles on the Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries, Drop Dead Diva, and a number of commercials and independent film projects.


First service requirements on reconditioned engines, in chassis rebuilds and head gasket replacement.
Traditionally in the past all first engine services included a cylinder head retension. The reason behind this stipulation was very simple and straightforward. Cylinder head gaskets by their nature of construction change thickness due to clamping load changes that occur from a cold engine to a normal running temperature situation.
E.g. If the thickness of the unfitted gasket in a relaxed state measures 2mm. the thickness in its cold assembled state could be decreased to as low as 1.5mm. Once the engine is run up to normal operating temperature extra clamping load will be applied due to heat expansion of the head against the head bolts. After the gasket has been subject to this changed increase in clamping load for a number of times the relaxed state of the compressed gasket will measure considerably less than when first tensioned. This reduced thickness that has developed during the first 800km has now reduced the cold clamping pressure to a point that is unacceptable. To add to the condition we have to also consider a small amount of bolt stretch and recession……………….So the justification for a cylinder head retension has never been in doubt.
Slowly all future production engines will change from using head bolts that are tensioned to a predetermined torque setting to the use of "torque to yield" head bolts.
Engine design has reduced the number of head bolts.
Engine design has increased the length of head bolts.
Higher performance outputs require higher clamping loads.
Lighter castings require more consistent clamping loads.
So torque to yield bolts and angled tightening achieve almost all the requirements for a modern engine.
A simple explanation of the difference between "torque bolts" and "torque to yield" head bolts.
Traditional head bolts are tensioned to a predetermined torque measured by a torque wrench. This torque reading is not an accurate measurement of the downward clamping load but rather an accumulated measurement of friction resistance between the two threads and the spot face and bolt head and the clamping pressure. With this system the accuracy and consistency of clamping loads are very unreliable. Each head bolt could have varied amounts of friction created due to differing contact surfaces, thread conditions and bolt contact surface finishes. This method often results in inconsistent and inadequate gasket clamping load.
As this allows the clamping load to decrease as the head gasket crushes during service a head re-tension at 800km. is always recommended. (alloy cold & cast iron hot.) Some manufacturers stipulate a head retention at every 20,000km. interval due to loss of clamping pressure during service.
Angle tensioning is even a good practice with head bolts that are tensioned within the elastic phase of tensioning. This will eliminate any shortfall caused by friction differences.
Angle tensioning uses a tension wrench to establish a snug torque position for all the head bolts. Snug torque is the term given to the torque applied to establish even direct contact between two components being assembled together. In our industry the head, the gasket and the block face. This position is established at a low torque of around 35ft.lbf. From this equal position, clamping loads can be established equally on every bolt by tightening each bolt a specified number of degrees. This is usually done in a series of steps. This method eliminates any influence on clamping load created by differing amounts of friction present at each head bolt.
This method like the first method reaches the required tension while the bolt is still in the elastic stage. (That is where the relaxed bolt still returns back to the original free length.) As also this allows the clamping load to decrease as the head gasket crushes during service a head re-tension at 800km. is again always recommended.
Now lets talk about the third method that does not look that much different from the angle tensioning method. This method is called tension to yield. (TTY) This method uses a low torque application to establish an equal snug torque position. As in angle tensioning. The main difference in the tension to yield method is the composition of the head bolt and the fact that the required clamping load is established when the bolt is in the plastic stage not the elastic stage.
This is the stage of tightening when you think the bolt is about to break or snap. The difference with this plastic stage is that at this point the bolt may not return to the original length when removed. In the plastic stage not a lot of extra clamping tension is reached but the bolt will tend to hold the required clamping tension even as the gasket crushes in service. This feature has allowed manufacturers to suggest that a head re-tension is not necessary.
If the bolts are replaced or within given specifications a first service head re-tension can be considered to keep the clamping load further into the plastic range of the bolt maintaining maximum clamping pressure for much longer.
Some manufacturers also insist upon TTY head bolts being replaced on every removal while others only require the used TTY bolt to meet a relaxed length specification. While other manufacturers insist upon replacement yet supply a relaxed length specification. A fair amount of confusion still exists in this area.
If in doubt replace is a safe method but be warned these bolts are not always available. The after-market parts suppliers have just upgraded their range in 2002 to a level that covers the most common applications.
Considering all of the above and after consulting some of the largest re-manufacturers in Australia our conclusions are that UMR ENGINES will remove the head re-tension as a requirement of the first service on engines with TTY head bolts. Every other UMR Engine application where the head bolts are tensioned in the elastic stage only will still require head re-tensioning.


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Section 165 of the Community Charter requires municipalities to prepare a Financial Plan for a period of five years, which is adopted annually by Bylaw. The Charter also requires Council to undertake a process of public consultation regarding the proposed financial plan before it is adopted.
Ensure service levels in all operations and facilities are cost effective and meeting expectations of residents and visitors.
Complete priority projects identified by Council and department Directors.
Identify sufficient contingency to respond to unforeseen expenditures.
Adjust capital expenditures to maintain current service levels.
Maintain property tax policy of increases to cost of living as directed by current financial plan objectives and policy.
Establish a Museum Land Restoration Reserve Fund to lessen the impact when the Museum relocates.
Establish a Waste/Recycling Initiative Reserve Fund to lessen the impact for transitioning to a new bin collection system.
Establish a Water Metering Reserve fund to lessen the impact for moving toward water metering.
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