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MAKATI CITY, Philippines, April 27, 2015 – Megaworld, the country's leader and pioneer in developing integrated urban townships, is opening two new hotels this year in its two townships in Metro Manila and Iloilo.
Richmonde Hotel Iloilo, which will occupy eight levels of the 12-storey Richmonde Tower in the 72-hectare Iloilo Business Park in Mandurriao, Iloilo City, is set to open in June this year. The business hotel will be the first Richmonde Hotel outside of Metro Manila and will have 151 guest rooms.
It will house a restaurant and deli, function rooms, business center, fitness gym as well as a lap pool with its own pool bar.
Megaworld has commissioned world-renowned architectural firm Gettys to design the hotel's façade, grand lobby, restaurant and guest rooms. Gettys took inspiration from the city's rich agricultural roots for the hotel's design concept.
The same firm has designed some of the world's prestigious hotels such as The Peninsula Hong Kong; Hyatt Regency in Cancun, Mexico; Jumeirah Beach Hotel in Dubai; The Ritz-Carlton in Miami, Florida; Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago; Westin Golf & Spa Resort in Abu Dhabi; Shangri-La Hotel in Beihai, China; and Hard Rock Hotel in Macau, among others.
"Finally, we are bringing a new hotel experience for Iloilo where business indeed meets sophisticated pleasure. The people of Iloilo can now be proud of having a hotel that truly provides first class standards. We will certainly set the bar of hotel lifestyle in Western Visayas," says Carmen Fernando, managing director, Prestige Hotel & Resorts, Inc., the hotel management company of Richmonde Hotel Iloilo and a subsidiary of Megaworld.
By second half of the year, another hotel will open in the 25-hectare Newport City, the country's first 24/7 integrated leisure and entertainment township that is home to the famous Resorts World Manila.
The Belmont Luxury Hotel Newport, just right in front of the new Marriott Grand Ballroom and a walking distance from Resorts World Manila, will stand 10-storeys high with 480 well-designed suites.
The hotel boasts of first class amenities that include pocket gardens and landscaped atrium, 24-hour fitness center and workout area, lap pool with in-water pool lounge, paved sunbathing lounge, massage deck and seating area, pool spa, steam and sauna as well as its own medical clinic.
The hotel will also have its own coffee shop and bar and some retail shops at the ground level.
"We have been experiencing an increasing demand for hotel rooms in Newport City because of its proximity to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, and of course, the presence of Resorts World Manila. Belmont Luxury Hotel Newport will primarily cater to business travelers who expect luxurious hotel experience in a private enclave," explains Francisco Canuto, senior vice president, Megaworld.
"By the year 2020, we envision our group to be the largest hotel developer in the Philippines," Dr. Tan said.
At present, both Megaworld and Travellers International have already built 1,900 rooms in its existing hotels: Richmonde Hotel Ortigas; Eastwood Richmonde Hotel; Marriott Hotel Manila, Maxims Hotel and Remington Hotel in Newport City; and Fairways and Bluewater in Boracay Newcoast.


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Maitland Court House is a heritage-listed courthouse at High Street, Maitland, City of Maitland, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Walter Liberty Vernon and built in 1895-96. The property is owned by the Department of Justice. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

History

The Maitland Court House was built in 1895-96 to the designs of Government Architect Walter Liberty Vernon at a cost of £11,700. The contractors were William Taylor and Sons of Maitland, and the stone used in construction came from the Ravenswood quarry. It was formally opened on 19 December 1896. It was designed as a joint courthouse and police station. The new courthouse - often referred to as West Maitland - continued in joint operation with the pre-existing courthouse at East Maitland. The site had originally been set aside ten years prior to construction, but the project had faced numerous delays.

The building ceased to be used as a police station in 1986, and the police area remained vacant at the time of the building's heritage listing. The Local Court of New South Wales continues to sit in the courthouse.

The courthouse underwent a $1.1 million restoration in 2013-14, including repairs to the clock tower, replacement of the roof with slate tiles, new floors and new seating. It closed from November 2013 to February 2014 to accommodate the works. It had previously undergone a $50,000 security upgrade in 2010; prior to this, the building had been described as "effectively [having] had no security".

Description
The Maitland Court House is an outstanding building designed during the transition of Victorian and Federation periods. It is Federation Free Classical in style and detailing, using typical Federation materials such as face red brick with contrasting sandstone trim. The building complex is prominently located in the main business street. The clock tower mounted on the Court House roof is a land mark within the district. The Court Room is accessed through a formal colonnaded portico. Classical detailing in Ravensfield sandstone decorates the building. The hipped and gabled roofs are clad in slate tiles.

Other accommodation includes a general office, waiting room, prisoner access to court room, toilets, and community legal centre office,

It was reported to be in good condition as at 30 October 2000.

Heritage listing
The Maitland Court House is an outstanding and grandly designed Federation Free Classical building. The building is located prominently within the business precinct of Maitland where the clock tower mounted on the Court Room is a local landmark. This building is of significance to the state. The building has a lengthy association with the provision of justice in the district.

Maitland Court House was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

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New South Wales State Heritage Register
Maitland, New South Wales
Courthouses in New South Wales
Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register

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Mill Village, PA, population 389, is located in Pennsylvania's Erie county, about 18.4 miles from Erie and 89.4 miles from Buffalo.
Through the 90's Mill Village's population has declined by about 4%. It is estimated that in the first 5 years of the past decade the population of Mill Village has declined by about 5%. Since 2005 Mill Village's population has declined by about 1%.
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"Set Free from Bondage"
A Sermon on Luke 13: 10-17,
Delivered at St. Bartholomew's Church,
Lord Matthew Hale, whose Legacy Continues, courtesy of Sam Alito.
Today's Gospel can be viewed as a purely theological document, or even another more reminder of the true purpose of the Sabbath day, and its importance in the Jewish tradition, and thus, in our own tradition as Christians. And, although it could be read as a touching story of Jesus reaching out to a woman who would be deemed unclean or even cursed, that's the narrative, and not the heart of where this story takes us.
So I can't recommend those views of the Gospel, not in the context we are presently living in. Because today's Gospel echoes themes that we live with and among even now, and so it isn't as just a story of two millennia ago. Because that would be making it easy, and simple, and a reminder of times that we can look at as more primitive, less enlightened than our own. That sermon would be a sweet slice of chocolate cake—tasty, filling, and with minimal nutritional value. And I owe you better than that.
So Buckle up.
Just about two months ago, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs vs Jackson's Women's Health Organization overruling the Court's 1973 decision in Roe v Wade and in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
Well, actually, that's only two of the cases that the Court overruled in Dobbs—the only two it acknowledged. In fact, The Supreme Court had previously reaffirmed Roe, with some modifications, roughly twenty times from 1973 up until the 2016 decision in Whole Women's Health v Hellerstadt. In the Dobbs case, the decision written by Samuel Alito, relied on the writings of several English judges, Henry de Bracton, a medieval jurist, who died in 1268, Lord Matthew Hale, who lived from 1609 to 1676, and Sir William Blackstone, who lived from 1723 to 1780.
Alito relied on Hale's Histories of the Pleas of the Crown, published after his death in 1736, citing him eight times. In that treatise, Hale wrote that marital rape could not be a crime because marriage itself constituted irrevocable consent to sex — but only for the wife. As Hale wrote, "For by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract," he wrote, "the wife hath given herself up in this kind unto the husband which she cannot retract."
As Amanda Taub noted in The New York Times, a "central tenet of Hale's legal philosophy was that giving women legally enforceable rights over their own bodies was a threat to men's freedom."
Taub gives the example of Hale's famous description of rape as "an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent." Hale's dictum, she notes, "became the basis for centuries of jurisprudence and jury instructions that treated the moral character of rape victims as the paramount concern in rape cases, and often presumed that they were lying if they could not produce corroborating witnesses or other outside evidence for their claims."[1]
In addition, Hale presided over the trial for witchcraft of Amy Duny and Rose Cullender in 1664, at Bury St. Edmunds, finding both women guilty. The story was preserved by William Renwick Riddell. As he described the trial, the principal accuser refused to be confronted by the defendants, and there were concerns about the evidence, but Hale instructed the jury that he "did not in the least doubt but these were witches." Convicted on Thursday, March 13, 1665, they were executed on Monday, March 17, Sir Matthew Hale being so satisfied with the verdict, that he refused to grant a reprieve."[2]
An interesting choice of authorities on which to rely in voiding what the Roe Court had found to be a fundamental right of women.
And in the less than two months—just the first few weeks since the abrogation of Roe—we have already seen Dr. Caitlin Bernard who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim in June, has been criticized across right-wing media, faced harassment and is the subject of an investigation by the Indiana attorney general. She has, as the New York Timesput it, landed at the center of a post-Roe clash that the medical community has been dreading —one in which doctors themselves are the focus of political and legal attacks."[3]
Just yesterday, the British newspaper The Guardian reported a case of a Louisiana woman who was denied an abortion "even though the fetus was missing the top of its skull – a condition known as acrania, which kills babies within minutes or hours of birth." The hospital refused to act for the woman because acrania was not specifically included in the exemptions to Louisiana's strict anti-abortion law, and the hospital was afraid of prosecution.[4]
In Jesus's time, a constellation of rules limited the lives and autonomy of women, the Jewish women among whom Jesus grew up, and the Greek and many of the Roman women who lived among them. Jewish women were to be kept off the street, inside the house, could not attend public events, had to attend worship at odd hours to not attract attention.[5] More to the point, men acted as their legal guardians even in adulthood. In "I, Claudius," we can chuckle at Antonia's irritation at having to ask Claudius, the son she writes off as an idiot, to allow her to spend money or transact routine household business, but for non-noble women, or unhappily married women, their lives were at the mercy of their husbands or sons.
In a different way, the end of Roe is creating a constellation of restrictions for women, limiting where and how and when women whose health and even lives are at risk are able to obtain possibly life saving care. Women's rights have fundamentally changed in the twinkling of an eye.
In today's Gospel, Jesus encounters a woman with a "spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years," Luke tells us. She is bent over, unable to stand up straight at all. The pain must be horrific. Jesus sees her, in pain, calls her over to him, and sets her free from her ailment. He cures her, takes away her pain. The leader of the synagogue is furious, he repeatedly bellows that "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day."
Jesus rebukes the leader as a hypocrite, and reminds him that he gives his own ox or donkey food and leads it to water on the sabbath day. And then he asks the rhetorical question, "And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?"
The law sinks into irrelevance here—Jesus sees the crippled woman as valuable, worthy of honor, a daughter of Abraham, who deserves a full life. She isn't just a drudge, or someone else's chattel, she's a daughter of Abraham, and worthy of being loved. In past weeks, as we have followed Luke's Gospel, we have seen the love he bore for both Mary and Martha, two sisters with different callings, both of whom he affirmed and cherished. We have seen Jesus refuse to employ the law in a family dispute.
I think it's because law has limitations that are hard on the soul. As Nadia Bolz-Weber said in a Reformation Day sermon:
The Law is always conditional and never anything anyone can do perfectly. When we treat Law as if it will save us- as if it is Gospel there can never be flourishing. Under the Law there are only 2 options: pride and despair. When fulfilling the "shoulds" is the only thing that determines our worthiness we are either prideful about our ability to follow the rules compared to others or we despair at our inability to perfectly do anything.[6]
But love? Love is mysterious, a free gift, as our Lutheran friends, such as Pastor Nadia, would tell us. Love is being accepted, in all our humanity, flaws and all, and being cherished. Love is being cared for in the best possible way.
Jesus sees the crippled woman, really sees her, and is not willing that she should bear her suffering for even a single moment more, let alone a whole day. He cares for her as she is, and wants her free of the bondage to the pain that has bent her almost in half.
No rule was going to slow Jesus down in curing her, let alone stop him. This daughter of Abraham was going to be restored on the spot, and so she is. Imagine a world in which we cared for women as much as we expect women to care about men. Imagine that, loving women as important in their own individual right, for themselves, as being worth our concern, our care, and honor.
How much better than the crabbed rule book wielded against women by Matthew Hale, and his disciple Samuel Alito, in which women and their lives are barely acknowledged, let alone cherished.
We are followers of a God of love. Of Jesus, who valued women in a world that didn't, and was prepared to flout the rules to serve one woman he didn't know, because he knew one thing about her: she was worth it.
[1] Amanda Taub, "The 17th Century Judge at the Heart of Today's Women's Rights Rulings," New York Times, May 19, 2022, archived at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/world/asia/abortion-lord-matthew-hale.html
[2] William Renwick Riddell, "Sir Matthew Hale and Witchcraft," 17 Am. Inst. Crim. L. & Criminology 5 (1926-1927) .
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/us/politics/abortion-doctor-caitlin-bernard-ohio.html
[4] Ramon Antonio Vargas, "Louisiana Woman Faces 'horrifically cruel' abortion choice over fetus missing skull, The Guardian, Aug. 20, 2022, archived at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/20/louisiana-abortion-woman-nancy-davis-benjamin-crump
[5] Erwin R. Goodenough, The Jurisprudence of The Jewish Courts In Egypt, (Yale, 1929); see also Pieter JJ Botha, "Submission and violence: exploring gender relations in the first-century world," Neotestamentica, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2000), pp. 1-38.
[6] Nadia Bolz-Weber, "Sin Boldly, a Reformation Day Sermon, Nov. 1, 2021, archived at https://thecorners.substack.com/p/sin-boldly
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Flitcroft - We Are Ready For Forest Green Clash
Gaffer Looks Ahead To Tonight's Big Game
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Swindon Town Boss Dave Flitcroft says his side are prepared and up for the challenge ahead of tonight's Sky Bet League Two clash against Forest Green Rovers.
The Reds head to The New Lawn later (7:45pm Kick-Off) for what is their first-ever league meeting with the EFL newcomers, and the showdown will be shown live on Sky Sports.
There is plenty of attention on tonight's game with former Town Boss Mark Cooper now in charge of Rovers, but Flitcroft is confident that his team will focus on the task at hand following a hugely productive week on the training ground.
"Any League Two team offer a real challenge and a real threat," he told the local press at his pre-match press conference on Thursday.
"Forest Green have got two very big boys upfront and there is a direct style and approach to what they do when the two giants play.
"They get it forward to them very early and play off that point but we've also seen with Mark's (Cooper) team that when they open you up they can play and move the ball quick as well through the pitch.
"We're expecting a real tough encounter and it is one we're looking forward to.
"We've been working all week on what we're good at and what we are going to become very good at.
"We've been putting in a lot of miles on the training ground and we are going to be really focused on and concentrated on what Swindon Town can offer in this match.
"We are going to be making sure that we are on point and the players have had a real focus and a real concentration this week.
"It has been a very good preparation for the game."
Dave Flitcroft
Tonight's game will be broadcast live on Sky Sports but Flitcroft has vowed that his troops won't be getting distracted by all the additional hype around this fixture.
"We are absolute perfectionists and we haven't done anything differently. We have kept the same methodical approach to what we do and the lads have bought into the detail we are trying to get into the team more and more," he added.
"It is another game that we're preparing for, 11 v 11 and we've done our work this week.
"This team are prepared for our next challenge."
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We last left our adventures deep under the castle in a long forgotten place called The Below. After creatively "taking care" of a statue they have continued their exploration of the caves as they search for a way out.
"Are you sure?" asked Journey.
Ari'el shrugged, motioned to the door and moved aside to give the rest of the party a view of the doorway. Waaagh stepped forward, squinted at the door and said, "Are you sure this is even a door?" It was clear that he did not have much experience with locked doors or traps for that matter.
Poppy stepped up next to Waaagh to examine it as well. "You know, I think this might be a door. I just can't tell if it is locked," she said. The party would have been more disappointed, but after Waaagh not recognizing it as a door, there was not a very high expectation.
The party all shook their head in embarrassment. Journey opened the door and gestured for the others to go through. Poppy moved to go first but then stopped. She cupped a hand to her ear and listened into the dark room. She could hear the crackling of energy and she could see a strange light dancing on the walls.
"I think there is something in there. We should probably get ready for a fight," she said as she pulled out her magic wand.
The party followed suit and readied their weapons as well. They order Vonk to the lead and quickly followed him into the room. Once inside they are able to see the source of both the light and the sound, which were one and the same. They also quickly realize that it was a good idea that they got their weapons ready as an arrow whizzed by Vonk's head and embedded itself in the wall.
Standing across the room from the party were four animated skeletons holding bows and standing in a line. They were all in the process of pulling the strings back to fire on the party again. In front of the skeletons, lighting the room with a soft glow, was a body of water about a foot deep. It was glowing with a light blue light that gave the room an eerie as the shadows danced on the walls.
Journey was the first one to jump into action. "Charge!" he yelled as he directed Flowers to attack the skeletons. Vonk, not wanting to be left behind, ran along side the boar in the charge. The two splash into the water together in an attempt to reach the skeletons as quickly as possible.
There was a bright burst of light from the pool and electricity scattered across its surface. The party watches in horror as both Vonk and Flowers are jolted by the electricity. "Oooochieeee!" Vonk yelled.
Waaagh moved to the waters edge but does not step into it. He decides to look at his inventory, trying to think of a way to get across or to attack the skeletons. Poppy raised her wand and cast a bolt of magic energy at the foot of the skeleton on the far left. A small hole appeared, which caused the skeleton to trip and fall sideways. He releases his arrow and it goes wild, connecting only with the opposite wall of the room. The push from his falling comrade causes the next skeleton to also release his arrow early. Unlike the last arrow, however, it connects with Waaagh who is only standing about 15 feet away. Ari'el returns fire by tossing a small dagger. It connects with the skeleton.
Flowers and Vonk quickly jumped out of the water on the side where they had started from. The party looked in confusion at each other as they decided what to do next. "Who has a ranged attack?" asked Journey.
"I have a few more daggers left but not many," replied Ari'el. And she tossed another one at the enemy which connected cleanly with the skeleton. The party could see the dagger lodged in the ribcage of the skeleton but they couldn't tell if it caused any damage.
"I can keep using my wand," Poppy said as she opened another hole under the one on the far left again. It was uneffective, however, as the skeleton seemed to expect it this time.
"I don't have any ranged attacks at all," Journey explained to the party. Journey was standing back away from the skeletons while trying to think of something he could do to help.
"Vonk use little piggy!" Vonk said as he picked up Flowers. Before anyone could stop him, Vonk raised Flowers above his head, pulled back, then threw the frighted boar with all of his might. Flowers flew across the room and collided with one of the skeletons. The skeleton shattered under the impact. Flowers rolled and prepared to attack again.
"Vonk smash! Vonk do it!" Vonk yelled cheerfully.
"Well I guess that works," Journey said.
"Yeah! Go get them Flowers!" Waaagh called to the boar.
The party continued their weak assault from across the room while Flowers slowly dispatched the skeletons one by one. Soon the room was silent except for the quiet hum of the strange electric water.
With the battle over, the party moved forward to examine the water. "What is that stuff anyway?" Poppy asked as she peered into the water.
After a brief debate, they decided that it was holy water that it was somehow charged with electricity. They agreed that they should have looked at it closer sooner since it probably would have made fighting the skeletons much easier. They decide to name the liquid "Holy Vodka" because it had similar properties to holy water and the fact that they all wished they were in a bar getting drunk. They filled a few flasks full of the water since they felt it would make a great weapon in the future.
The party searched the room and found a door leading out, but as they start to leave, Flowers lets out a loud squeal. The party looks back and realized that the boar was stuck on the other side of the water with the bodies of the skeletons.
"Well since you threw him over there, you have to go get him Vonk," Journey explained to Vonk.
"Awwww," Vonk groaned. He moved over to the water then he backed up and took a running leap, landing on the other side of the water next to the boar with ease.
"Um. So why didn't we think of doing that?" Waaagh asked.
"Holy crap," Journey said as he shook his head. "That would have made things a lot easier.
Vonk tossed the boar back over and then jumped back over himself. He had a wide grin on his face when he made it back. "Vonk did it! Vonk not get wet!" he said proudly.
"Good job Vonk," Ari'el said from across the room. It was clear to everyone else that she wasn't really paying attention, but the compliment made Vonk very happy nevertheless.
The party moved into the next room, ready for a fight. What the found, however, surprised them. In the center of the room was a large glowing, red crystal. It was surrounded by a group of fire beetles which appeared to be moving hot coals around it. As they watched, they could see the beetles pushing around coals that were used up and replacing them with new ones.
A dagger flew across the room and connected with one of the beetles, killing it instantly. The party looked to see Ari'el already moving into attack.
"What are you doing?" Waaagh asked. He was clearly upset that Ari'el had decided to attack, but she didn't appear to notice.
"Killing them? Duh?" Ari'el replied.
"Don't you think we should investigate a little first?" Waaagh replied angrily.
"No use arguing about it now," Journey said as he pointed towards the beetles. It appeared that they didn't like being attacked very much and were charging the party.
The party raised their weapons and attacked. The beetles were no match and were quickly defeated. With the beetles taken care of, the party moved forward to inspect the large crystal.
After looking at the crystal, Waaagh said, "Oh, I know what this is. It is a fire gem. It stores heat and using the right command word will cause it to release the stored heat in a stream of fire." Everyone was impressed that Waaagh recognized the gem and there was much ooohing and ahhhing and he explained it's history.
Since Waaagh had knowledge of the gem, the party decided that he would be the best one to carry it. They searched the room for more loot, but they came up empty handed. They found a long hallway in the back of the room and decided to follow it. It didn't take long before they came upon a doorway, which did have a lock on it this time.
Ari'el stepped forward, explaining to the party that she could handle a locked door with her rogue lockpicking skills. The party watched as she pulled some pins out of her hair and went to work trying to open the lock. After a few minutes there was a loud click, "I got it!" she yelled in excitement.
The party readied their weapons as Ari'el prepared to open the door. "Go ahead," Journey said. As the door opened, the party could heard a loud mechanical click.
Ari'el jumped back from the door and let out a shriek. Spikes had emerged from the floor where Ari'el had been standing. It was clear that they had been connected to the opening of the door in some way.
"Didn't you check for traps?" Poppy asked Ari'el.
Ari'el only shook her head and cautiously stepped over the trap, not looking back at the party. The party followed and there eyes went wide as they saw the contents of the next room.
Keep reading to find out what happens next!


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The popular outdoor gear company Patagonia, who saved an eye-watering $10 million from Donald Trump's tax cuts, has given away their savings to 'fight climate change' rather than pay their employees bonuses.
The company, based in California and headed by CEO Rose Marcario, claimed that the donation to environmental groups is an extra 1 percent it gives to the causes.
Following the GOP's comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. tax code last year, which saw corporate rates reduced from 21 percent, from 35 percent, the company enjoyed a huge windfall.
"Far too many have suffered the consequences of global warming in recent months, and the political response has so far been woefully inadequate—and the denial is just evil," Marcario wrote.
The donation has been made following the recent National Climate Assessment, which White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said was "not based on facts," and "not data-driven."
"Our government continues to ignore the seriousness and causes of the climate crisis. It is pure evil," Yvon Chouinard said, Patagonia's founder.
The Federal Climate Change Report warned of natural disasters getting worse in the U.S as a result of global warming.
It also claimed that severe weather and floods had cost almost $400 billion since 2015 with the annual loss potential reaching hundreds of billions of dollars.
Despite economists agreeing to financially related findings concerning climate change, Donald Trump has discarded the report's assessment concerning the possible economic repercussions.
Patagonia, who no doubt has gained a lot of press from their virtue signaling stance on climate change, has joined many lawsuits challenging Trump's decision to chop up two large national monuments in Utah.
The company also endorsed Democratic Sens.-elect Jon Tester of Montana and Jacky Rosen of Nevada, who both prevailed against GOP incumbents.
Sanders denounced the National Climate Assessment before she supported Trump's publicly by displaying doubt about its data of probable severe ocean-level rises and correlated economic damages.
"Modeling the climate is an extremely complicated science that is never exact."We think this is the most extreme version, and it's not based on facts. It's not data-driven. We'd like to see something that is more data-driven. It's based on modeling," she added.


PlaceShapers, the network of over 100 community-based housing associations, reacted quickly to last night's shock Election result.
Chair Tony Stacey said: "Our members pride themselves on working with tenants, central and local government and other partners to offer solutions that work in their communities. The Conservatives have pledged to solve the housing crisis and whilst we have already questioned the potential impact that some of their proposals would make to this commitment, we look forward to early discussions with the new Government on how we can continue to contribute to this goal.
"Nevertheless, most of our members will now be undertaking a fundamental rethink of their Strategies and Business Plans. Whilst the details of proposed changes will require primary legislation and are therefore unclear, the Government's declared wish to extend the Right to Buy to charitable housing associations will shoot to the top of many of our members' risk maps and require a reappraisal of asset management strategies.
"Many of our members are already actively churning properties in order to free up cash and security for new building in line with the Government's own views on this. However, members will want to rethink whether selling existing stock is still the right thing to do given the potential threat of the RTB.
"Members will also want to quickly reappraise their Development programmes. Placeshapers agrees with the view that extending the RTB to housing association tenants makes no economic sense in the face of an accepted major UK housing crisis which points to the requirement for more not less social housing. Working with the NHF, the HCA and others, we will be seeking views of lenders and the charity commission on how best to respond as the detail of proposals emerges.
"Additionally, our members need clarity over where the suggested further £12bn cuts to welfare support will fall. We are already concerned that proposals to further reduce the benefit cap could mean lettings to some families on benefits are no longer be sustainable and will want to do all we can to support families and businesses to manage their budgets.
"In other respects it will be 'business as usual' for PlaceShapers. The Devolution agenda and the growth of the City Regions will, continue. PlaceShapers are playing leading roles in many parts of the country. Similarly, the integration of health, social care and housing is unlikely to lose steam and this is another area where PlaceShapers locally are making significant inroads in designing system change."


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Politics of tokenism
The West Bengal Chief Minister has demanded that the Central Government declare Netaji's birthday (23 January) a national holiday. The Centre has turned down the request, and rightly so. Announcing a holiday is not the way to show respect. There are better alternatives. And it is here that the Congress-led Governments have always confused the people of the country with its strange ways of showing respect or remembering past greats.
When the All India Forward Bloc proposed that 23 January be celebrated as Deshprem Divas, the UPA Government refused it on the ground that Netaji was not the only patriot or freedom fighter. Fair argument, but not honest. The question then arises as to what led the UPA Government to announce a Central holiday on BR Ambedkar's birthday in 2011. The Government may also like to explain why Teachers' Day is celebrated on 5 September (was Dr Radhakrishnan the only teacher in India?), why Children's Day is celebrated on 14 November (was Pandit Nehru the only one who loved children?), was Mahatma Gandhi the only martyr in India, or was Raiiv Gandhi the only symbol of Sadbhavna?
If the Government so wills, the best tribute to Netaji would be to accord him the rightful place of being the first Prime Minister of India's first free Government. But that probably would be asking too much from a political party that cannot think beyond the ruling dynasty. It is not difficult to understand the main reason behind the Congress Government's refusal to honour Subhas Chandra Bose. And that is unlikely to change. It is therefore up to the ordinary citizen of the country to thumb his nose at official hypocrisy and to remember the first Prime Minister of India's first Free Government, and what he stood for.


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Doggy Camps Swamped For Holidays
The holidays are a time of the year when many families get on the road to visit relatives.And many times, those families' four-legged friends will have to be left behind, so doggy day and overnight camps are being swamped with man's best friend.At Camp Bow Wow in Bentonville, it's the busiest time of the year. Families bringing their four-legged friends to get boarded for the holidays."Very, very busy. We sold out about two weeks ago, so we've had to waitlist," said camp director and owner Jeff Kosecki.Pups are packing the pound, and it's only three days before Christmas."We're over 50 right now. We'll easily go over 100 by the 24th and 25th," said Kosecki. He said many of those dogs will be at Camp Bow Wow until the New Year, and so will his staff."Christmas, we don't go on vacation because we have a lot of dogs to take care of," said Kosecki.The pets are cared for and fed every day and set in play groups.And it's not even man's best friend they've been asked to look after."I just had a request today to watch somebody's fish. Last year, we had to watch Rosie the fish. So this year, I don't know who it's going to be," said Kosecki.He said the holiday season is the time they bank on the most since many owners want to make sure their pets have a happy and safe holiday too."We treat all our clients' dogs like our own dogs. They're a real important part of their lives and we want to make sure they have a good time out here," said Kosecki.
The holidays are a time of the year when many families get on the road to visit relatives.
And many times, those families' four-legged friends will have to be left behind, so doggy day and overnight camps are being swamped with man's best friend.
At Camp Bow Wow in Bentonville, it's the busiest time of the year. Families bringing their four-legged friends to get boarded for the holidays.
"Very, very busy. We sold out about two weeks ago, so we've had to waitlist," said camp director and owner Jeff Kosecki.
Pups are packing the pound, and it's only three days before Christmas.
"We're over 50 right now. We'll easily go over 100 by the 24th and 25th," said Kosecki. He said many of those dogs will be at Camp Bow Wow until the New Year, and so will his staff.
"Christmas, we don't go on vacation because we have a lot of dogs to take care of," said Kosecki.
The pets are cared for and fed every day and set in play groups.
And it's not even man's best friend they've been asked to look after.
"I just had a request today to watch somebody's fish. Last year, we had to watch Rosie the fish. So this year, I don't know who it's going to be," said Kosecki.
He said the holiday season is the time they bank on the most since many owners want to make sure their pets have a happy and safe holiday too.
"We treat all our clients' dogs like our own dogs. They're a real important part of their lives and we want to make sure they have a good time out here," said Kosecki.


Our homes are situated in the ancient town of Manciano which rises on the top of a hill open to the four winds with a breathtaking view in all directions: from the Amiata to the Fiora Valley, from Talamone to the beaches of Montalto di Castro, from the Argentario to the islands of Giglio and Montecristo. Manciano extends for 37,203 square kilometers in a hilly zone situated between the valleys of Albegna and Fiora. It is thought that the town's name derives from the patrician Roman family name of Mancia who owned a large area of property called "Praedium Mancianum." At one time, Manciano was a fairly important market town for the area. Its stronghold already recorded in the 12th century. A brief occupation by Siena (1419-1455) left the town an imposing fortress built around 1424. The first mention of the Manciano castle is found in a privilege emanated in 1188 by Pope Clemente III in favor of the Church of Sovana. In that area, it was already subjugated to the AldoBrandeschi Dominion and in 1274 with the act of division of the Aldobrandesca County; it was assigned to the Branch of the Counts of Sovana.
Manciano is in the heart of the Tuscan Maremma with the enchanting seaside villages of Porto Santo Stefano and Porto Ercole only 30 minutes away. The natural heritage of the Maremma are also present which make a natural unicum of rare beauty from winter skiing on Monte Amiata to the most enchanting coastline of the Tirreno Sea which takes its name from the ancient inhabitants of the Maremma: The Etruscans. Here we are in the heart of ancient Etruria.
The mysterious Etruscan culture flourished in this precious area that left us millions of signs of their fascinating civilization. Agriculture is the main activity. Typical products are traditionally squeezed olive oil, wines and cheeses with pecorino cheese being the most common. You can find tastes of the past which find their exaltation in the traditional kitchen.
Manciano is a small town with a big atmosphere. The first week of May sees local cheese tasting in the "Mercatino del Centro Storico" together with the enticingly named "Merenda Maggiolina." The strawberry festival takes place at the end of the month. Early September is the "Festa delle Cantine" which celebrates the local wine. It starts with a traditional night torch parade on horseback. Go into mid October for "Incontrimuci a tavola con i funghi" or local mushroom harvest and mid December for "Seguendo un filo d' olio" or the presentation of the new extra virgin olive oil.
Beyond Manciano are the medieval hill towns of Saturnia, considered by some to be the cradle of Italian civilization, with an Etruscan Roman and medieval past. However, even more than its history, this area is known for its world class spa, "Terme di Saturnia" and for its hot sulfur springs which have been gushing since the Roman period with a constant temperature of 99.5 degrees F.
Stay at home to enjoy what beautiful Northwest Connecticut has to offer! This exciting package includes an overnight stay and breakfast at the Mayflower Inn and Spa located in the idyllic town of Washington. This is an exquisite country retreat, nestled in 58 acres of beautifully landscaped gardens and woodland. Kent Falls Brewery will be one of your destinations! They brew a stunning range of modern farmhouse beers using the highest quality ingredients in the traditional artisan way. The brewery is part of Camp Road Farm, a 50-acre diversified farm with one acre of hops. White Silo Farm and Winery will be an exciting day trip of wine and chocolate tasting in their circa 1780 dairy barn that was converted to a tasting room! White Silo Farm is a small specialty winery. Their wine is produced and bottled on premises from farm-grown fruit. Wondering what to do one evening? How about 2 tickets to Theatre Works right here in New Milford with your choice of which show to see! To cap off this package you will enjoy dinner for two at the Hopkins Inn, an enchanting 19th century country inn overlooking Lake Waramaug in Connecticut's Litchfield Hills. Combine a few of these into one or two exciting days and nights or spread them out to have something special to do over the year!
…and aren't you lucky?! Chef instructor Blythe Roberts is going to perform his culinary magic in your home while you and 5 guests will have the opportunity to watch and to learn, and then enjoy the food!! Chef Roberts is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute of America. He will be preparing an appetizer of Seafood Cioppino; Caprese salad; Garlic and Lemon Roast Pork Loin; Stuffed Eggplant; Roasted Potatoes with Fennel and Tiramisu for dessert! Bon Appetit!
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Mourinho's emotions boil over as Chelsea snatch late draw
Fido | October 20, 2018 October 20, 2018 | Football
Embattled Jose Mourinho had to be restrained on the bench after angrily reacting to Chelsea celebrations as Manchester United drew 2-2 at Stamford Bridge.
Mourinho found himself caught up in a touchline tussle on his return to Stamford Bridge as Marco Ianni, who is a second assistant to Maurizio Sarri, took great delight in seeing Ross Barkley 96th-minute equaliser rescued Chelsea's unbeaten Premier League start.
He jumped off his seat upon seeing the ball hit the net and made a point of expressing his delight in front of Mourinho, who remained rooted to his bench.
Ianni swung a clenched fist in front of the Portuguese, who did not take kindly to being provoked at such an emotional moment.
Mourinho took off after his rival and had to be held back as a mass brawl broke out at the entrance to the Chelsea tunnel.
Backroom teams from both sides, along with security officials, were caught up in the tussle before players also got involved.
United's manager was incensed and made his feelings clear to those in the opposing dugout.
United had taken a 2-1 lead thanks to two goals from Anthony Martial after trailing at the break. But, deep into six minutes of added time, David Luiz headed against the post and Barkley was free to bundle in an equaliser for Chelsea.
Mourinho stayed in his seat but, after Ianni ran past him, reacted to something the Italian said and had to be restrained.
"Oh come on, I can tell you that the 97 minutes of the game was so good that you have to focus on that," Mourinho told Sky Sports when asked about the incident after the game.
"I am not annoyed with anything. What happened was with Sarri's assistant, Sarri was the first one to come to me and say he will resolve it.
Chelsea, meanwhile, remain unbeaten and seven points in front of the Red Devils.
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Babatunde Fowler, executive chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), says the service plans to recover N750 billion from 55,000 defaulting taxpayers by extending its account substitution policy.
Fowler was speaking in Abuja on Tuesday during a meeting with the joint house committees on finance; appropriations; and aids, loans and debt on the 2019/2021 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP).
According to him, a bank account substitution exercise has already pulled 500 defaulters into the tax net, leading to a recovery of N23.25 billion.
He said the same exercise will be extended till June to get 55,000 tax defaulters with a turnover of N100 million and above into the tax net.
"From the Bank accounts substitution exercise, we used banking information to bring non-compliant taxpayers with N1 billion and above turnover to comply. It has so far resulted in the recovery of N23.35 billion," Fowler said.
"The exercise has been extended to cover those with a turnover of N100 million and above. To date, about 500 of them have come forward and they have paid and we have collected in the region of about N24 billion.
"We believe we should be able to go through the 55,000 before the middle of this year which will be the middle of this year, June 30th. In terms of estimates, which we should be able to generate from this exercise alone, that will be about N750 billion."
The "substitution" empowers FIRS to appoint the banks as collection agents for tax, and all tax defaulters will have their accounts frozen or put under substitution pending when they come forward.
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He said the service is broadening its VAT collection scope using modern technology with the adoption of States Accountants Generals (SAG) collection platform, VAT Auto-Collect, integration of the GIFMIS (Government Integrated Financial Management Information System) platform with Ministries, Departments and Agencies, (MDAs) and through e-Service payment options.
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On tax audit exercise of the service, Fowler said the National Tax Audit (NTA) contributed the sum of N212. 79 billion to tax collection in 2018 and is expected to "produce increased audit yield in 2019".
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Agency of Fear
Opiates and Political Power in America
Chapter 33 - The Drugging of America
Power unused is power abused
Egil Krogh, 1972
While attempting to suppress narcotics, the federal government had inadvertently become a major supplier of narcotics. When the Nixon administration first assumed office, In 1969, It will be recalled, it was discovered that agents in the New York office of what was then the federal Bureau of Narcotics had become the leading dealers in heroin in the United States and were protecting the operations of illicit dealers (who in turn were providing them with their sacrificial "arrests"). Most of these agent-dealers were subsequently indicted, fired, or relocated.
For very different reasons. the Nixon administration also went into the business of distributing an addictive narcotic in the inner cities: methadone. In the belief that methadone was the only practical means they had of lowering crime statistics and overcoming the opposition from both bureaucrats and cabinet officers before the 1972 election, the White House strategists had succeeded in 1973 in funding some 450 methadone programs which distributed more than 7.5 million dosages of this synthetic narcotic annually in the United States. These federally financed treatment centers doled out daily dosages of the drug to over 73,000 persons (and almost any over twenty-one who desired to receive the drug could by one means or another enroll in the program). Although a radical change in government policy from narcotics suppression to narcotics distribution had almost been achieved by election time, the White House strategists were unable to persuade President Nixon publicly to identify himself with methadone treatment. Jeffrey Donfeld prepared, he recalled, "dozens of scenarios in which the president would visit a treatment center." But all were peremptorily rejected. In New York, in June, 1972, while the president and his party were flying in a helicopter from the Downtown Heliport to Kennedy Airport, Egil Krogh broached the subject to the president. Pointing downward toward the borough of Queens, the president replied, "The people down there couldn't care less about treatment or education. All they want to do is lock the folks up involved with drugs ... just lock them up." Unlike his young and inexperienced staff assistants, who quested for magic-bullet solutions, Nixon realized, probably instinctively, that pouring out a synthetic drug in the ghettos could produce damaging side effects (with which he did not want to be personally identified before the election).
One such side effect was that the treatment centers rapidly became centers for the illicit distribution of drugs in their communities. Despite -the elaborate "blockade" theories which the proponents of methadone advanced, in which methadone was supposed to prevent the use of heroin, patients enrolled in these programs persisted in using illegal drugs. For example, in an extensive month-long examination of a sample of patients drawn from a maintenance program in Philadelphia, Carl D. Chambers and W. J. Russell Taylor found through urinalysis that there was an extensive pattern of cheating. In examining those who had remained in the program for more than six months, Chambers and Taylor found that 77 percent of these long-term patients were still using heroin - 30 percent were using barbiturates; and 25 percent, amphetamines. Nine months later the same sample was again tested for another month-long period. This time 92.3 percent of the methadone patients were found to be using heroin; 43.6 percent, barbiturates: 69.2 percent, amphetamines; and 43.6 percent, cocaine. Moreover, nearly two thirds of the patients tested had evidence of drug abuse half the time they were tested. Chambers and Taylor were thus forced to conclude pessimistically:
Even after a year on relatively high dosages of methadone; neither a narcotic blockade had occurred nor had drug craving significantly diminished. These findings must also be viewed within the context that neither the patients themselves nor the program within which they were being treated are significantly different from most other methadone programs or patients.
Since a large number of methadone patients continued in their pursuit of illicit drugs (heroin, barbiturates, amphetamines, or cocaine), they not uncommonly sold or traded the weekend methadone dosages for money (or traded them directly for the illicit drugs they preferred). As the BNDD had originally feared, methadone thus leaked into the underworld of drugs: by 1973 it had become the major drug of abuse in the United States. In March, 1974, the New York medical examiner reported that methadone poisoning surpassed heroin as a cause of death from narcotics, and national statistics drawn from emergency rooms and medical examiners around the country confirmed this trend. An April, 1974. report from the statistical and data services division of the newly created Drug Enforcement Agency, entitled "Methadone: A Review of Current Information," stated, "Within the nine months reporting period [in 1973] . . . methadone deaths showed the most rapid rate of increase [of any drug]." It also found that there was "a five to one predominance of methadone to heroin deaths in the last six months," suggesting that methadone is partially replacing heroin as a drug of abuse." The notion that the methadone addict would be less prone to commit crimes than the heroin addict he replaced was also debunked by this report, which found:
Methadone addicts are not necessarily rehabilitated heroin addicts. A limited study of heroin and methadone addicts indicates that methadone addicts are equally prone to arrest, are more prone to commit property crimes or crimes of assault, and they are equally unemployed.
Verifying the high leakage from the federally financed methadone programs, the report also discovered that "almost half of those arrested obtained methadone outside of treatment programs" and that "methadone is readily available and heavily abused, contributing substantially to the overall drug problem." In examining police arrest statistics in New York City, the unpublished report further found that methadone does not necessarily ... lower the crime rate," and even where there is an extensive methadone program, there were more methadone addicts arrested for various crimes than heroin addicts." Although this report was never made public, its implications were not lost on the White House, which began rapidly to disassociate itself from the funding of these treatment programs.*
* Jeffrey Donfeld also found in examining some of the treatment programs in Washington. D.C., that many of the statistical results were extremely dubious, if not entirely fraudulent. For example, in examining one methadone-treatment center in Washington which claimed to have enrolled thousands of addicts but refused to provide the names to the Government on the grounds that it would violate its "black militant philosophy," Donfeld found that "the necessary verification and reconciliation of receipts and disbursements could not be accomplished based on the information supplied by the center. The accounting procedures made it impossible to check the application of funds." Of $214,310 in funds made available to this center, $81,579 could not be accounted for in any way; only $55,517 of the money paid to the center was deposited in a checking account , of which $11,000 was used for petty cash (and checks drawn from the account were payable to either the local liquor store or to the mother of the individual who headed the program). Some attempt was made to examine the patients being serviced by this center. The three hundred patients claimed in January dropped to fifty two patients in September (most of whom were also unavailable for any sort of verification).
As the methadone problem became more pronounced in urban centers-or at least received more unfavorable publicity-the White House quietly divorced itself from the once-vaunted Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention. This office was moved into the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, where it was in turn merged into the National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA), located in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Jerome Jaffe, who had been promised direct access to the president, was cut off from the White House staff after the election: in early 1973 his pass to the White House cafeteria was revoked. Fully realizing that the White House strategists had been interested only in election-year public relations rather than the medical rehabilitation of drug addicts, Jaffe resigned in June, 1973.
In the hopes of increasing its election margin the Nixon administration had willy-nilly brought about 'he de facto legalization of a narcotic. As Nixon had realized in his dealing with the Veterans Administration earlier, once a problem is turned over to the medical bureaucracy, it becomes difficult and perhaps impossible, in political terms, to phase it out. Thus, even though the heroin "epidemic" by all measures abated and the number of addicts turning up for treatment (or for free methadone) drastically declined after 1973, the methadone programs continued to expand, and the amount of illicit methadone available to addicts increased in direct proportion to the number of treatment programs. The federal government, therefore, again assumed its unwitting role as a major supplier of illicit drugs.


Julian Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending, and three of his earlier books have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and Arthur & George.He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh (his late wife's surname). In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories. He was selected as the recipient of the 2011 David Cohen Prize for Literature.
Barnes has also won several literary prizes in France, including the Prix Médicis for Flaubert's Parrot and the Prix Femina for Talking It Over. Previously an Officier of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2004 he became a Commandeur of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His honors also include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Shakespeare Prize, the San Clemente literary prize, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He received the Europese Literatuurprijs in 2012.