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G R P Charitable Trust
The G R P Charitable Trust is a small grant-making charity (no 255733) set up via a trust deed dated 18th March 1968 by George Richard Pinto. It disburses grants to with a particular focus on Jewish and conservative and zionist recipients.
For example it has supported conservative zionist organisations such as the UK based Anglo-Israel Association and the Israel-Diaspora Trust and the controversial Israel based Jerusalem Foundation which is implicated in construction activity on Israeli occupied territory in East Jerusalem in contravention of international law. In addition it has given money to neoconservative think tanks such as Civitas and the Henry Jackson Society and to other foundations such as Stanley Kalms Traditional Alternatives Foundation and the obscure Institute for Policy Research - both of which have then passed money to neoconservative and neoliberal think tanks such as the Centre for Social Cohesion, Open Europe and the Centre for Policy Studies. Between 2008 and 2013 the Trust gave £26,000 to the Politics and Economics Research Trust a charity that mainly raises funds for the Taxpayers' Alliance. (See below).
1 Trustees
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The Trust is run by a firm called Kleinwort Benson Trustees Limited which also runs a number of other charities most of which appear to be run b members of the extended Pinto family and bear the initials of the person in whose name they were set up. They include the C H (1980) Charitable Trust (no 256283), The A M Charitable Trust (no 260991 - named after Ann Catherine Marks, the sister of George Richard Pinto), The GP Charitable Trust (no 1115903, named after Gladys Pinto and created by her son George Richard Pinto), The Richard Carne Trust (no 264994), The Sir Mark And Lady Turner Charitable Settlement.[1] This has the result that no trustees names appear on the Charity Commission website.
Grant recipients of the G R P Charitable Trust in £ sterling [2]
Total 2005-2013
ABF The Soldiers' Charity 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 500	 500
Alexandra Wylie Tower Foundation 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 1,000	 0	 1,000
Anglo-Israel Association 2,000	 2,000	 10,050	 2,000	 13,500	 4,925	 2,125	 2,000	 2,000	 40,600
Anglo-Jewish Association 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 6,000	 5,000	 5,000	 16,000
Arrhythmia Alliance 0	 0	 0	 200	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 200
Barnabas Foundation 5000	 5,000	 10,000	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 20,000
Barts and the London Charity 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 5,000	 0	 0	 1,500	 6,500
Breast Cancer Care UK 0	 0	 100	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 100
British Forces Foundation 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 1,000	 0	 0	 1,000
British Friends of Israel Free Loan Association 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 4,000	 4,000	 0	 0	 8,000
British Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 5,000	 0	 5,000	 5,000	 3,000	 3,000	 3,000	 3,000	 1,000	 28,000
British Heart Foundation 0	 0	 0	 0	 2,000	 0	 0	 0	 2,000	 4,000
British ORT 20,000	 0	 0	 0	 0	 17,000	 17,000	 0	 0	 54,000
British Technion Society 350	 0	 0	 0	 12,000	 0	 0	 14,000	 0	 26,350
Cancer Research Campaign 0	 0	 0	 0	 3,000	 0	 0	 0	 3,000	 6,000
Canterbury Cathedral Trust Fund 0	 0	 2,000	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 2,000
Chicken Shed Theatre Company 500	 500	 500	 500	 500	 500	 500	 500	 500	 4,500
Civitas 0	 0	 25,000	 0	 1,000	 1,250	 1,000	 1,250	 2,000	 31,500
Coldstream Guards Charitable Fund 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 500	 500
Community Security Trust 3,000	 3,000	 3,000	 3,000	 0	 3,000	 3,000	 3,000	 3,000	 24,000
Council of Christians and Jews 5,000	 5,000	 5,000	 5,000	 5,000	 5,000	 0	 6,000	 5,000	 41,000
Coventry Cathedral 250	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 250
Downs Syndrome Association 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 1,000	 0	 1,000
Evelina Children's Society 0	 12,000	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 12,000
Fairbridge 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 500	 0	 0	 0	 500
Fitzwilliam Museum Development Trust 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 10,000	 0	 10,000
Fresh Hope Trust 5,000	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 5,000
Friends of Boys Town Jerusalem 0	 0	 5,000	 0	 0	 0	 0	 5,000	 0	 10,000
Friends of the Courtauld Institute 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,500	 1,500	 1,500	 4,500	 0	 13,000
Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 10,000	 10,000	 0	 10,000	 30,000
Gurkha Regimental Trust/Gurkha Welfare Trust 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 9,000
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 1,000	 0	 1,000
Haifa University/British Friends of Haifa University 500	 500	 500	 500	 500	 500	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 6,000
Hemihelp 1,000	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 1,000
Henry Jackson Society 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 2,500	 0	 0	 2,500
Hertford House Trust 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 5,000	 5,000
Institute for Policy Research 0	 5,000	 0	 0	 0	 3,000	 3,000	 0	 2,000	 13,000
Israel-Diaspora Trust 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 5,000	 2,500	 0	 0	 7,500
Jerusalem Foundation 0	 14,300	 14,000	 14,000	 0	 1,000	 0	 31,000	 50,000	 124,300
Jewish Care 20,000	 20,000	 20,000	 0	 0	 20,000	 20,000	 0	 0	 100,000
King Edward VII Hospital Sister Agnes 100	 100	 100	 100	 100	 100	 200	 100	 200	 1,100
Magen David Adom UK 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 10,000	 0	 10,000
Moorfields Eye Hospital Development Fund 0	 0	 5,000	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 5,000
Norwood Ravenswood Child Care 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 2,000	 2,000
Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies 50,000	 50,000	 50,000	 80,000	 100,000	 50,000	 52,000	 102,000	 0	 534,000
Oxford Playhouse Trust 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 500	 0	 0	 0	 500
Politics and Economics Research Trust 0	 0	 0	 5,000	 5,000	 5,000	 2,000	 6,000	 3,000	 26,000
Philharmonia Trust Limited 500	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 500
Prostate Cancer UK 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 500	 500
Royal British Legion 0	 0	 500	 500	 500	 400	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 4,900
Royal School for Deaf Children - Margate 100	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 100
St Clements Church Tower Appeal 0	 0	 50	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 50
St Peter's Trust for Kidney Bladder and Prostate Research 1,500	 0	 0	 0	 0	 100	 0	 0	 0	 1,600
Simon Marks Jewish Primary School Trust 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 1,000	 9,000
Soil Association 1,500	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 1,500
Spotlight Appeal 100	 100	 100	 200	 200	 200	 200	 200	 200	 1,500
Stroke Association 0	 0	 0	 0	 100	 0	 0	 0	 0	 100
Thames Diamond Jubilee 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 3,000	 0	 3,000
Three Faiths Forum 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 1,000	 0	 0	 1,000
Traditional Alternatives Foundation 0	 0	 0	 25,000	 0	 0	 25,000	 25,000	 25,000	 100,000
Trinity College Cambridge 0	 0	 0	 10,000	 0	 0	 0	 5,000	 0	 15,000
UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 2,000	 2,000	 0	 2,000	 6,000
United Jewish Israel Appeal 0	 0	 10,000	 0	 0	 10,000	 10,000	 10,000	 10,000	 50,000
Wallace Collection 5,150	 5,000	 5,000	 17,500	 12,500	 0	 75,000	 75,000	 0	 195,150
Weizmann Institute Foundation 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 14,000	 14,000	 28,000
Woolf Institute 0	 0	 0	 500	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 500
World Jewish Relief 10,000	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 10,000
Yad Vashem UK Foundation 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 200	 0	 0	 0	 200
Youth Aliyah - Child Rescue 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 0	 15,000	 15,000
Total	 139,550	 125,500	 173,900	 172,000	 162,400	 155,675	 248,525	 342,550	 168,900	 1,689,000
The G R P Charitable Trust
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In a perfect world, you should be able to put ink in the press and run a job. Unfortunately, there are so many variables that affect color that printing operations often waste thousands of pounds of substrate, and thousands of dollars in press time, making adjustments.
Advancements in technology have made it easier to measure color, but the variables still exist. To help you over come them, we'll be featuring a series that points out many of the reasons your color could go wrong at press side.
We'll start with five tips for using your spectro.
The backing material underneath your print sample is very important because it ensures the spectro is only reading the color you want it to measure.
To see what I mean, hold your print sample in the air and take a reading while looking at the back. You'll probably see the light shining right through. That means when you're reading a sample without using a backer, the light from the device is reflecting right back into the instrument, skewing your results. This is a very common and often overlooked problem.
A stainless steel table, wooden workbench, or stack of press sheets is not a correct backing material for reading samples. For consistency, you should always use the same black or white backer. You can purchase ISO certified backing materials, but they can be expensive. Another option is to purchase ceramic tiles from the hardware store, but you must make sure they are all from the same lot number.
ISO provides L*a*b* values for both black and white backers, and G7 provides targets values based on white backers. Make sure to use the correct target values for the backer that you are using. Generally speaking, a black backer is best when printing on both sides of media, or when measuring density. Many time specifications require one or the other, so you need to confirm.
Remember to enter your standards using the same backing material you're using for your samples.
Make sure your spectro is in good working condition, and that you're using it correctly.
A poorly calibrated instrument, especiallyone that has been dropped, can lead to some bad color readings at press. If your instrument is reading incorrectly, and calibration is NOT checked closely, the ink techs could be toning colors that don't need to be toned just so the software says it's correct.
Always pay attention to your calibrations to make sure they're in line to prevent this from happening. If your instrument fails calibration, or your readings continue to be far off, the unit could be due for service. X-Rite offers lots of options for service and certification.
Choose the correct instrument geometry.
One of the most important factors to consider when choosing a spectro is the type of surface you'll be measuring. There are three primary types of spectrophotometers: 0/45°, spherical, and multi-angle – the name describes the way each device measures color.
Although 0/45°s are commonly used in print and packaging, they won't work for highly reflective materials, like metalized poly, foil balloons, because the light from the spectro will bounce off the flakes in radical directions. A lot of printers still use a 500 series or eXact instrument on metallic inks with limited success. The device will take the readings, but the user will usually get inconsistent data depending on the reflectance of the metallic flake. For these applications you need a sphere geometry spectrophotometer, such as an SP62, SP64, or a Ci64.
More printers are starting to set their instruments to M1 to adjust for optical brighteners found in paper, and the industry, including GRACoL, is starting to lean toward adopting this setting, too. If your operation hasn't made the switch, you still need to be aware of the m-standards because some standards might have been entered using M0, M1, M2, or M3.
Be aware of these M-Settings in coordination with your operation. If you make the switch, you will most likely be re-entering a lot of standards.
Pay attention to illuminant settings.
Printing facilities usually check colors under a D65 illuminant, 10° observer (noon sunlight), or a D50 illuminant, 2° observer (horizon sunlight). But when choosing an illuminant and observer, you need to know how your standards and samples are being read. You must also read your sample using the same method as your standard. Some customers specify unique tolerances ahead of time. If not, ask.


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Local Business Owner, Lyla Corkern, Named to NSBA Leadership Council
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Lyla Corkern, owner of Finding Solace in West Monroe, was recently appointed to the National Small Business Association (NSBA) Leadership Council. NSBA is the nation's oldest small-business advocacy organization and operates on a staunchly nonpartisan basis. Corkern, a recognized leader in the small-business community, joins the NSBA Leadership Council alongside other small-business advocates from across the country as they work to promote the interests of small business to policymakers in Washington, D.C.
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Corkern accepted appointment to the NSBA Leadership Council as part of her efforts to tackle the many critical issues facing small business, including tax reform, regulatory restraint, health care costs and how access to capital will impact small business. The NSBA Leadership Council is focused on providing valuable networking between small-business advocates from across the country while ensuring small business a seat at the table as Congress and regulators take up key small-business proposals.
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Finding Solace has been formally recognized as a second stage company and is an active member of Louisiana Economic Development's Growth Network, The American Academy for Entrepreneurs, and The West Monroe West Ouachita Chamber of Commerce. Lyla Corkern has participated in Small Business Roundtables, CEO Roundtables, Systems for Integrated Growth Program, and Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Small Business Program. Corkern now advocates for small businesses in NELA through educational workshops, executive officer/business coaching, and representation through the NSBA Leadership Council.
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September 20, 2018News Alert
Ninth Circuit Creates New Challenge for Divisibility in Complex CERCLA Sites
Beveridge & DiamondLucy Infeld, Rachel Roberts
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pakootas v. Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd., affirmed the Eastern District of Washington's decision to find Teck liable for more than $8.25 million in damages to the Colville Confederated Tribes, including $4.8 million in attorney's fees, related to its liability under CERCLA for contamination to the Upper Columbia River. Pakootas, -- F.3d --, 2018 WL 4372973 (2018). The court held that Teck's divisibility of harm defense failed because Teck did not account for all of the harm at the site, and thus it failed to show that the harm was theoretically capable of apportionment. The Court also held that costs of investigations by the Tribe's expert consultants and attorney fees both qualified as recoverable costs of response and removal under CERCLA § 107(a).
The Colville Tribe has traditionally used the Upper Columbia River, and through treaty rights retains the right to fish the River up to the Canadian border. Teck operates the world's largest lead and zinc smelter in Trail, British Columbia. The smelter is located ten miles upstream of the U.S. border. Between 1930 and 1995, Teck is estimated to have discharged almost ten million tons of metal slag directly into the Columbia River.
In 1999, the Colville Tribe petitioned the EPA to investigate contamination into the River. As a result, the EPA issued a unilateral administrative order against Teck. However, after Teck contested whether it was subject to CERCLA, the EPA chose not to enforce the order. Instead, the Colville Tribe initiated a CERCLA action against Teck.
The District Court, in a trifurcated trial, dismissed Teck's divisibility defense to joint and several liability on summary judgment. The court found that Teck had not presented sufficient evidence to create a genuine issue of fact as to whether the harm could be found divisible. That issue, as well as considerations about the amount of damages and award of attorney's fees to the Tribe, were certified for appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
Raising the Bar for Divisibility
CERCLA liability is typically joint and several, except where the harm can be shown to be divisible. Divisibility analysis proceeds in two steps. First, the court considers whether the environmental harm is theoretically capable of apportionment. Second, if the harm is theoretically capable of apportionment, the factual question arises whether the record provides a "reasonable basis" to apportion liability. At both steps, the party asserting the divisibility defense bears the burden of proof.
The Ninth Circuit, in Pakootas, emphasized a high burden of proving divisibility. The court noted that a party must make a "fact-intensive, site-specific assessment," complete with "concrete and specific" evidence, and that shows divisibility by a preponderance of the evidence. Pakootas, at *16. The court held that for the purposes of apportionment, the relevant harm is the entirety of the contamination at a site that has or foreseeably could cause a party to incur response costs. The Ninth Circuit found that Teck's failure to account for the interaction and mixing of hazardous substances, meant Teck failed to carry its burden showing that the harm is theoretically capable of apportionment.
Additionally, the Ninth Circuit held that Teck also failed to show a reasonable basis for apportioning liability. The Court found that Teck's expert failed to show a connection between his volumetric analysis and the harm at the site. The Court noted that Teck's own evidence showed the importance of geographic effects, as well as the passage of time on the River's contamination, but did not account for these factors in its divisibility analysis.
As such, the Ninth Circuit found that Teck failed both steps of its divisibility defense and affirmed the District Court.
Teck's Challenge of Costs Awarded to the Tribe
In the second phase of trial, after finding Teck liable as an arranger under CERCLA 107(a)(3), the District Court found Teck liable for $8.25 million of the Colville Tribes' response costs, including over $4 million in attorney's fees. The Ninth Circuit held that these costs were recoverable given that they helped advance the purposes of CERCLA in: "asses[ing] ... [the] threat of release of hazardous substances"; investigating the presence and movement of toxic wastes; and tracing the origins of the slag and sediment metals found at the Site. 42 U.S.C. § 9601(23).
Additionally, the Circuit upheld that efforts to identify parties responsible for the disposal of toxic wastes at a site are recoverable costs. Despite Teck's argument that many of the Tribe's studies should not be recoverable as a removal action because they are litigation-based, the court found that since the Colville Tribes bring their cost recovery action as a sovereign under section 107(a)(4)(A), they are entitled to all costs rather than just the necessary costs of response. 42 U.S.C. § 9607(a)(4)(A), § 9607(a)(4)(B). Moreover, the Ninth Circuit took a very broad reading of CERCLA's cost recovery provisions, and found it makes no distinction between cleanup and investigatory costs.
The Ninth Circuit also upheld the District Court's grant of the Tribe's attorney's fees. The Court focused on the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act amendment of section 101(25)'s definition of response to add the following clause: "all such terms (including the terms 'removal' and 'remedial action') include enforcement activities related thereto." Pub. L. No. 99-499, § 101, 100 Stat. 1613, 1615 (1986) (codified at 42 U.S.C. § 9601(25)).
Implications for CERCLA Parties
The opinion underscores the difficulty of establishing divisibility of harm at a large, complex CERCLA site with numerous sources and contaminants, particularly for many of the sediment mega-sites around the country.
The Ninth Circuit's finding that parties must account for all harm at the site, not just the harm caused by the parties to the litigation, adds to the complexity of the divisibility analysis for parties at these sites. The parties seeking allocation then need to show that the harm is theoretically capable of apportionment and that a reasonable basis for apportionment exists through a rigorous expert assessment. By requiring a detailed assessment of the numerous independent factors at play in a site, this decision emphasizes the high standard within the Ninth Circuit for proving a reasonable basis to apportion liability.
For parties seeking to apportion liability in the Ninth Circuit, be prepared to account for all harm at the site, as well as to provide a fact-specific analysis for each independent factor bearing on the site's contamination to meet the bar set in this case.
Beveridge & Diamond's Superfund, Site Remediation, and Natural Resources Damages practice group assists clients in litigation and allocation of CERCLA sites, including complex, large-scale sites. We counsel clients on developing case law and requirements under CERCLA and state-equivalent hazardous waste laws. For more information on CERCLA liability, allocations, or issues related to hazardous wastes in general, please contact the authors.
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ATLAH Worldwide Missionary Church Posts Horrific Anti-Gay Sign In Harlem, New York
James Nichols
A sign in front of a church in Harlem, N.Y. led by a polarizing and controversial anti-gay pastor is not only making its rounds on the Internet, but raising quite a few eyebrows along the way.
Called the ATLAH Worldwide Missionary Church, the religious organization is led by Dr. James David Manning, a man who has been outspokenly critical of the Obama administration and the progression of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights over the course of the past six years.
The sign reads: "Obama has released the homo demons on the black man. Look out black woman. A white homo may take your man":
The Atlah Worldwide Missionary Church in Harlem #NYC has a special message. o_O #Atheist #Atheism pic.twitter.com/Jf9Iz99RHK
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The sign was reportedly inspired by the above video, in which Manning makes some jarring statements about both gay culture and black culture -- though these extremist statements from the pastor of ATLAH are nothing new. In explanation of ATLAH's sign in the above video, he tells viewers,
This is devastating what Obama is doing to the black man and the black woman, and how the white homo is now moving into the black neighborhoods looking for black men that have been converted into homosexuality. But black woman let me say something to you: you have a very hard time competing against a white homosexual male. He's usually got money -- a white homo usually has an American Express card. He usually has an opportunity at the theater -- homos love the theater. They love to go out to dinners, parties, they love that kind of a thing... black people need to rise up in mass and recognize the utter destruction that Obama is going in to destroy the black family with these homosexual statements that he has done and release of demons.
Manning also tells his viewers that his church fully supports the anti-gay laws in Uganda and Nigeria that have enabled a pervasive culture of fear and violence for members of the LGBT community. Just yesterday, a Ugandan newspaper published the names of 200 "Top Homos," with many on the list saying they "are scared and they need help."
This certainly not the first time that Manning has made headlines for his extreme claims. Last November, he provided a platform for and conducted an interview with a woman who claimed to have been a former classmate of Obama's, stating that the president was formerly a cocaine-using gay hustler.
For more from Manning, check out the video below.
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Vellayani Lake is a fresh water lake, which is located in the Thiruvananthapuram District of Kerala. Covering an area of 7.5 sq km, this lake is the largest freshwater lake in Thiruvananthapuram District. Many people visit this lake during moonlit nights.
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Nigeria and the Allianz Global Pension Report 2020
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Nigeria ranked 64th out of 70 countries in the Allianz Global Pension Report for 2020
The number of our population currently older than 65 years is 5.6million and in year 2050 this will triple to 16million. Considering the stress this would put on our social security system, is our pension system robust enough to cater to this huge increase?
According to the report, very few countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Belgium have already made their pension system demography proof while most other countries pension systems is predicted to struggle, beset with high public deficits and an uneven balance sustainability and adequacy.
A close look at the African continent shows no country ranks among the 10 countries as Pension systems in most of these countries are still in the build up phase.
What does this result potend for a country like Nigeria?
It means there's a pressing need for the government to further reform the pension system such that pension funds will be available to the spike in number of retirees in the next decades.
Allianz unveiled the first edition of its Global Pension Report, taking the pulse of pension systems around the world with its proprietary pension indicator, the Allianz Pension Indicator (API). The indicator follows a simple logic: It starts the analysis with the demographic and fiscal prerequisites and then continues to examine pension systems along their two decisive dimensions: sustainability and adequacy. Hence, it is based on three pillars and takes all in all 30 parameters into account, which is rated on a scale of 1 to 7, with 1 being the best grade. By adding up all weighted subtotals, the API assigns each of the analyzed 70 countries a grade between 1 and 7, thus providing a comprehensive view of the respective pension system.
Sweden, Belgium, and Denmark come out as the relatively best pension systems worldwide. Nigeria ranks on the 64th place after South Africa (41st), Kenya (55th) and Morocco (60th) especially because of the insufficient adequacy of its pension system. The coverage of the pension system is still very low and limited access to financial services hampers the build-up of sufficient private old-age savings to cushion the lack of the public pension pillar. With respect to sustainability, Nigeria ranks also in the bottom third. The harmonization of the retirement ages of the various professions and adjusting the retirement age in line with future gains in life expectancy would improve the long-term sustainability of the pension system further.
Nigeria's youngest population puts it at advantage
Among the analyzed countries, Nigeria has by far the most comfortable starting position especially due the fact that it has one of the youngest populations worldwide. Nevertheless, the number of people aged 65 and older is set to increase from 5.6 million today to around 16 million in 2050. Thus, there is a need for the introduction of a pension system with a broad coverage and for further improvement of the access to financial services.
Ignore demographics at your peril
"Demographics and pensions have been eclipsed by other policies in recent years, first and foremost climate change and today the fight against Covid-19," said Ludovic Subran chief economist of Allianz. "But you ignore demographics at your peril, demographic change will soon be back with a vengeance. Defusing the looming pension crisis and preserving generational justness and equality are key for building inclusive and resilient societies."
Dramatic shift in demographics
The dramatic shift in demographics is best characterized by the increase in the global old-age dependency ratio (People aged 65 and older in percentage of people aged between 15 and 64): Until 2050, it will grow by a whopping 77% to 25%, i.e., faster than in the last 70 years since 1950. In many emerging economies, the ratio is going to more than double within the next three decades, that is, in less than half of the time this development took in Europe and Northern America. The most prominent example is China where the ratio is going to increase from 17% to 44%. For industrialized countries, however, the absolute level of this ratio is the main reason for concern, reaching, for example, 51% in Western Europe.
Africa scores well on demographics
This development is reflected in the first pillar of the API, called the starting points, which combines demographic change and the public financial situation (financial leeway). Not surprisingly, many emerging countries in Africa score rather well as the population is still young and public deficits and debts are rather low. On the other hand, many European countries such as Italy or Portugal are among the worst performers: Old populations meet high debts. "For most industrialized countries, the old Scottish joke applies: If I were to build a stable pension system, I certainly wouldn't start from here," said Michaela Grimm, author of the report. "And that is the situation before the coronavirus and its tsunami of new debt. One of the legacies of the current crisis will certainly be that we have to double our efforts to reform our pension systems. What had remained of financial leeway has gone for good."
Retirement age is an important lever
The second pillar of the API is sustainability, measuring how systems react to demographic change: Are there built-in stabilizers or will the system be blown apart when the number of contributors falls while that of beneficiaries keeps rising? In that context, an important lever is the retirement age. In the 1950s, an average 65-year old men, living in Asia could expect to spend around 8.9 years in retirement (women 10.3 years). Today, the average further life expectancy of a 65-year old is 17.8 years for women and 15.2 years for men and it is set to increase to 19.9 years (women) and 17.5 years (men) respectively in 2050. Consequently the ratio of working life to time spent in retirement has declined markedly. Countries, which decided to adjust the legal retirement age or the increase of pension benefits to the development of further life expectancy like the Netherlands, have thus a more sustainable pension system than countries where postponing retirement further is still a taboo.
Standard of living in old age
The third pillar of the API rates the adequacy of a pension system, questioning whether it provides an adequate standard of living in old age. Important levers are the coverage ratio – i.e. how big are the shares of the working age population and the age group in retirement age that are covered by the pension system? –, the benefit ratio – i.e. how much money (measured in terms of average income) does an average pensioner receive? –, and last but not least the existence of capital-funded old-age provision and other sources of income. Overall, the average score in the adequacy pillar (3.7) is slightly better than that in the sustainability pillar (4.0), a sign that most systems still put greater weight on the well-being of the current generation of pensioners than on that of the future generation of tax and social contribution payers. The countries leading the adequacy ranking have either still rather generous state pensions, like Austria or Italy, or strong capital-funded second and third pillars, like New Zealand or the Netherlands.
Retirement solutions under pressure
However, capital-funded retirement solutions are under increasing pressure in the persisting low interest rate environment. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated this trend by further pushing down yields. "The low yield environment has forced both pension funds and life insurers to explore alternative asset classes," said Cameron Jovanovic, head of global retirement proposition at Allianz SE. "This push into alternatives enables benefit providers to capture the illiquidity premium that matches well with their portfolio duration. Another strategy is to offload risk rather than chasing returns as longevity swaps, pension risk transfers and creative reinsurance set-ups become means of optimizing the exposure taken on by pension funds and insurers."
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City contractors contributed more than $84,000 to a 1999 environmental summit that is a subject of city Prosecutor Peter Carlisle's investigation into Honolulu Mayor Jeremy Harris' 2000 re-election campaign.
RM Towill Corp., Park Engineering, CH2M Hill, Water Resources Inc., Mitsunaga & Associates Inc., M&E Pacific Inc. and USFilter Inc. each gave $7,500 to $15,000 for the Mayor's Asia-Pacific Environmental Summit in 1999.
Towill and Park are linked to tens of thousands of dollars in questionable contributions to the Harris campaign. Since 1996 the seven firms have received millions of dollars in city contracts from the Harris administration.
Carlisle's office and the Honolulu Police Department's white-collar division recently queried members of the Honolulu City Council about a $100,000 city appropriation to the conference as part of a criminal investigation into political contributions to the Harris campaign from city contractors.
Prosecutor's also subpoenaed the Bank of Hawaii and First Hawaiian Bank for the financial records of the Environmental Foundation and the Friends of the City & County of Honolulu, which helped organize the summit.
The disclosure comes as an Oahu grand jury subpoenaed dozens of city contractors, city officials and campaign workers earlier this month as part of Carlisle's investigation into the Harris campaign.
The Environmental Foundation is a locally based organization headed by Harris campaign official Peter Char. In 1999 the foundation and a separate nonprofit headed by Char, the Friends of the City & County of Honolulu, raised about $560,000 for the environmental summit.
The Mayor's Asia-Pacific Environmental Summit is a city-sponsored conference held every two years. The first summit was held in January 1999 and was attended by nearly 500 delegates from 29 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
William McCorriston, attorney for the Harris campaign, said there is nothing wrong with city contractors contributing to the mayor's summit or other worthwhile charitable causes such the Honolulu Symphony, Honolulu City Lights or Honolulu youth sports.
He said less than 20 percent of the contributions to the summit came from city contractors, while large endowments such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the First Hawaiian Bank Foundation and Japanese-based AEON Environmental Foundation provided more than $200,000 for the event.
McCorriston also defended the city's $100,000 appropriation to the Friends of the City, which was approved by the City Council. He said the Harris administration appropriated the money to the Friends of the City under a contract that specified that it would only be used for the summit.
"They're going to find absolutely nothing," McCorriston said. "The reputations of very good people are going to be smeared."
The prosecutor's office had no comment.
Two of the firms -- Park and Towill -- have been subpoenaed by the Oahu grand jury looking into the Harris campaign. But it is not clear whether the subpoenas are related to the firms' contributions to the environmental summit.
State campaign spending records show that Park Engineering's officers and their relatives gave more than $80,000 to Harris' campaign. The firm also gave about $26,000 to Gov. Ben Cayetano's 1998 re-election campaign.
Since 1996 the city has awarded the company more than $5.5 million in nonbid work, including a $1.5 million contract to help build sewer facilities in Kalihi Valley and a $300,000 engineering contract for the Ted Makalena Golf Course, according to city records.
Officers of RM Towill and their relatives gave more than $42,000 in campaign contributions to the Harris campaign since 1996. During the same period, the Harris administration has awarded the Towill firm more than $16 million in nonbid work, including a $2.9 million contract to manage the city's planned $300 million expansion of the Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Under state law a donor can give no more than $4,000 to a mayoral candidate during a four-year election cycle. The limit for a gubernatorial race is $6,000 per donor.
City records also show that the Harris administration has awarded M&E Pacific and Mitsunaga about $2 million each in nonbid work since 1996, while the firms of CH2M Hill and Earth Tech have received more than $1 million in nonbid work.
USFilter built the $48 million Honouliuli Wastewater Reclamation Facility for the city, while Water Resources International Inc., a subsidiary of Barnwell Industries Inc., has conducted contract drilling work for the Board of Water Supply.


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W. Cameron Beard elected as President of the NACC
President of the NACC, W. Cameron Beard
On April 17, 2018, I was elected as the 28th President of the Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce. I am honored, but also recognize that I have big shoes to fill. Having served on the board of the NACC for more than twenty years, I have had the opportunity to witness and admire the work of a number of very able NACC presidents, all of whose contributions to the organization have been substantial. I am therefore especially grateful for the opportunity I have been given to serve the interests of the NACC membership, and to work with the NACC during an exciting period of growth and development.
It goes without saying that we are deeply indebted to our departing president, Giacomo Landi. During Giacomo's presidency the NACC made a number of great strides forward, including but not limited to: hiring its first new general manager in almost four decades, implementing a new management software that will streamline the activities of the NACC organization nationwide, and moving the NACC's national offices to the vibrant WeWork facility above Grand Central Station in Manhattan, where NACC staff can work closely with representatives of a number of other Nordic organizations.
Looking forward, my hope is that the NACC will continue to build on positive work that is already underway. A primary goal will be continued close cooperation between all NACC chapters nationwide to build an organization offering truly national support and networking opportunities.
Past President Giacomo Landi with newly elected President of the NACC, W. Cameron Beard
Another goal will be to increase NACC membership, a project that has already been set successfully in motion by our highly motivated new general manager, Live Sletten Diakolios, assisted by the NACC's invaluable media manager, Maria Antvort. In seeking out new members, the NACC has been and will continue to be responsive to the increasingly diverse Norwegian businesses and entrepreneurs who are venturing into the United States market, as we demonstrate the relevance of the NACC and inform prospective members of the many ways in which the NACC can serve them.
Needless to say, I look forward also to strengthening the bonds between the NACC and the other members of the Norwegian team in the United States, including but not limited to the Royal Norwegian Embassy and Consulates, and Innovation Norway. Working together, we can make great things happen!
W. Cameron Beard


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A: Often Esc, the escape key works.

A: It depends on where R is running. Try CTRL+C on the keyboard, if you are running plain R. Some IDE (like RStudio) have a Stop button you can press to abort the command given.

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By: Gail Veley
Originally appeared in the Winter 2017-18 Issue of the Upper Midwest Cervid Newsletter
Eddie Ray Borkholder was handling infected deer antlers last year, to stop an infection from spreading in one of his bucks during the velvet shedding season. He'd heard you should always wear gloves, but didn't give it a second thought. With his bare hands he attended to this valued deer. The next day he started to feel sick, and then noticed a streak of red travelling up his arm. Without hesitation he went to the emergency room to be treated for blood poisoning. Shortly afterwards, he reacted badly to the antibiotic treatment and once again was back at the emergency room. It took an entire month, but he made a full recovery.
"It was crazy because a week afterward I helped a friend (cutting antlers) and he didn't wear gloves either, and he ended up in the emergency room too," said Eddie Ray, owner of Pine Creek Farm in Nappanee, Indiana. "Not that he wasn't warned. Now I know how serious it can be."
Eddie Ray now wears durable arm-length plastic gloves each and every time he handles infected deer antlers, and strongly recommends everyone else does, too. Once you are done wearing them, take them off while turning them inside out, throw them away immediately in a trash can and wash up with antibiotic soap, he stressed.
However the silver lining in his experience, is that it may change the way safety-minded deer farmers handle the velvet shedding season. Eddie Ray now has large street sweeper brushes over a post in his buck pens for the bucks to rub on, for faster velvet shedding. Not one buck ended up with an infection this past season at Pine Creek. "My bucks shed 100% better than they ever did before," he said. "I usually have two or three every year with problems but with the brushes I had zero." Although the deer were initially very skittish about the brushes, which cost about $200 apiece, after a couple of hours they settled down and started rubbing on them.
The typical shedding season begins around Labor Day weekend each year and lasts two weeks. Once a deer actually begins the shedding process, it's usually over in two to three days. If all the velvet is not sufficiently shed, infection can set in. Eddie Ray's 35 years of deer farming has now enabled him to handle this period without a hitch. Beginning in August every morning and every night, Eddie Ray or one of his older boys checks the antlers for signs of infection, since the blood flow to them begins to slow down during this time. They also look for signs of trouble by observing the deer's mannerisms, antisocial behavior being the first sign of a problem. "Sometimes you think nothing's wrong and then you take them down and look [at the antlers] and you find something," he said. "If you're not careful flies can lay eggs in open infected areas and you'll have maggots."
Fly suppression is another management tool Eddie Ray advises to implement. He adds garlic powder bought from a feed mill to his grain, 15 to 20 pounds of garlic powder per ton of grain, to help keep the fly population to a minimum and enhance a deer's immune system. The cost of garlic is relatively nothing compared to the budget draining costs of antibiotics to treat antler infections, or the loss of deer. Typically Eddie Ray injects infected deer with the cephalosporin antibiotic Excede, although there are other drugs one can use.
Not only does Eddie Ray work hard to medicate correctly to prevent the loss of deer, he also works hard to ensure no humans are injured by his deer. "The worst thing is a tame buck," he said. "When they don't have any fear they could attack during the rut."
One of his friends and fellow deer farmers, Fritz Helmuth, 60, was attacked by one of his tame buck during the rut. "He went into feed them and had a tame one come up and gore him and knock him down," Eddie Ray said. "He didn't think he was going to get up and get out of there. So far, I have not had an issue with that because mine aren't tame. I warn my children when they go in to feed to be careful, too."
Pine Creek deer pens are equipped with self-feeders that are filled from outside the pens, cutting down on the time spent inside them during morning and evening feeding. If Eddie Ray ever needs access to one deer, he can chase the others away and put the desired one into an adjacent corral. This makes his entire deer operation as safe and efficient as possible.
If he knew back in 1983, when he first became a deer farmer, what he knows now "there would have been a lot of shortcuts," he emphasized. He advises anyone new to deer farming to talk to as many other farmers as they can, to potentially avoid some mistakes that they may have made when they first began. "See what will work best for you,' he said.
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View3DScene 3.6.0 was released recently and this means a great improvement in the scope of X3D and viewers for this format.
* X3DLightNode.shadows field, to easily activate shadows on everything.
* Apperance.receiveShadows field, to easily activate shadows on specific shadow receivers.
* Easy menu items to control shadow maps, see the new View -> Shadow Maps -> ... submenu.
* New ProjectedTextureCoordinate node for projective texturing. Can project a texture also from a viewpoint now.
* Extensions to control head-bobbing in VRML/X3D worlds.
These improvements were already part of Kambi VRML Game Engine, but now they are also available for content creators using View3DScene as standalone browser.
The most usual criticism towards VRML and X3D browsers was the lack of good shading comparable to other technologies. View3DScene and Kambi VRML Game Engine show that these graphics features and others can be incorporated to VRML and X3D.
Also, the slides from the Web3D 2010 talk about Shadow Maps (and the paper) are available now.


On the 17th of April 2009 this court made order prohibiting Platte Island Resort and Villas Ltd paying the Applicant (Defendant company) the sum of USD 1,000,000. The Applicant filed papers and moved court to have the said order vacated. On the 20th of July 2009 the application to have the said order vacated was dismissed. This is a notice by motion dated 23rd of July 2009 seeking leave to appeal against the said order of 20th July 2009.
In any such cases as aforesaid the Supreme Court may in its discretion, grant leave to appeal if , in its opinion the question involved in the appeal is one which ought to be the subject matter of an appeal.
In the case of Jean Claude Vidot v Allen Jude Medine SCA N0 19 of 2008 it was held that the principle in deciding this issue, is that leave to appeal against an interlocutory order must be granted when the decision disposes of the matter in issue substantially. The same principle was followed in the case of Marzocchi and anor v Government of Seychelles and anor 1996 SLR.
It is clear that the vacation of an order of prohibition or provisional seizure does not in any way substantially, dispose the matter in issue in the Plaint between the parties, namely EME Management Services Ltd and Island Development Company Ltd. This is further supported by the fact that the affidavit filed by the Applicant (Defendant) in support of the motion does not contain any averment to the effect that the intended appeal will fully or substantially dispose of the Plaint. Therefore this court is not satisfied that the question involved in the appeal is one which ought to be the subject matter of an appeal. Furthermore this court is not satisfied that this is a matter of national importance as mentioned in paragraph 8 of the affidavit to be treated as an exceptional or special application and thus to permit the application under these circumstances would only delay the case further.
It is to be noted that the Applicant too sought and obtained a prohibition order prohibiting Port Launay Resort Ltd from paying a sum of Rs 1,905,563.57 to the Respondent (Plaintiff) EME Management Ltd in respect of their counterclaim. Furthermore the Applicant has turned down the offer by the Respondent EME Management Ltd that in the alternative a bank guarantee be given. The Applicant company, seeks to complain of "financial strangulation" in paragraph 7 of their affidavit, which in itself casts doubts as to the ability of the Applicant to pay the Respondent if he were to succeed. This court is satisfied that the grounds stated in the said order of the court dated 20th July 2009, suffice to dismiss the said application to set aside the prohibition order issued by court.
For the aforementioned reasons the motion for leave to appeal against the said order dated 20th July 2009 is dismissed.


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Q: Selenium WebDriverBackedSelenium Internet explorer error I am trying to run my tests on IE.The problem is that on Firefox it works, but when i try to run it on IE, it opens the browser, navigates to my site, but just after the page finishes to load the following error is returned:
    com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleniumException: JavaScript error (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 302 milliseconds
Build info: version: '2.21.0', revision: '16552', time: '2012-04-11 19:08:45'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.6.0_25'
Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver
at org.openqa.selenium.internal.seleniumemulation.SeleneseCommand.apply(SeleneseCommand.java:42)
at org.openqa.selenium.internal.seleniumemulation.Timer.run(Timer.java:39)
at org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverCommandProcessor.execute(WebDriverCommandProcessor.java:145)
at org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverCommandProcessor.doCommand(WebDriverCommandProcessor.java:75)
at com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium.focus(DefaultSelenium.java:221)
at com.extjs.selenium.form.TextField.setValue(TextField.java:127)

My code:
public void setUp(String server, String browser) throws Exception {
    WebDriver driver = getWebDriver(InputData.BROWSER);
    selenium = new WebDriverBackedSelenium(driver, server);
}
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    if (browser.equalsIgnoreCase("*firefox")) {
       return new FirefoxDriver(firefoxProfile);
    } else if (browser.equalsIgnoreCase("*iexplore")) {
        return new InternetExplorerDriver();
    } else if (browser.equalsIgnoreCase("*chrome")) {
        return new ChromeDriver();
    }   else if (browser.equalsIgnoreCase("*htmlunit")) {
        return new HtmlUnitDriver(true);
    }   else  {
        logger.error("Browser not supported");
        return null;
    }
}

Can anyone help me on this one? I am stuck in trying to have it run on IE. I am using the latest drivers that i could download from  http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list
Thanks


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Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) is advising that it has implement special arrangements; to accommodate the Traffic Ticket Amnesty on tickets issued before September 21, 2010 announced by the Minister of National Security. These activities form part of several measures to make it easier for customers to pay over their outstanding traffic fines.
In anticipation of the increased customer traffic TAJ will implement dedicated lines in its offices where necessary and increase floor management teams. Persons are advised to make note of the traffic ticket number or take along the traffic ticket for easy reference when making payments. It should be noted that tickets issued before September 21, 2010, and therefore eligible for the amnesty are not payable via the on-line tax facility, and MUST be paid at a Tax Office.
Persons may check for outstanding tickets by using the online query traffic ticket option available on the Jamaica Tax Portal at www.jamaicatax.gov.jm, by entering their TRN or Driver's Licence Number. The public is however advised that there may be discrepancies, particularly for tickets paid through the Courts. A team is currently working to cross check the traffic ticket database against the payments made and to make the necessary adjustments.
Taxpayers are being advised to avoid peak days on or around the 14th and on or around the last day of the month, as these as regular due dates for other tax types and are usually busy; this will result in paying over traffic fines with very little delay.
These arrangements come on the heels of an expected increase in customer traffic across its network of offices over the six month period of the amnesty.
Persons may call the Ministry of National Security's phone bank for details of the amnesty or to make queries about available information, at: 928-2155/928-3450/928-9831/928-4181/930-3505/930-0141/930-0042.


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Victorious 2.0: More Music from the Hit TV Show
Reviewed by Kidzworld on Jun 13, 2012
The second soundtrack from the hit TV show Victorious hit shelves June 5, 2012.
Victorious 2.0: More Music from the Hit TV Show Courtesy of Sony Music
Victorious 2.0: More Music from the Hit TV Show features six songs performed by Victoria Justice and the rest of the show's cast, including the brand-new single "Make It In America," co-written by Victoria Justice and Martin Johnson (Boys Like Girls), plus the infectious "Take A Hint" and "Countdown".
The new soundtrack has six songs, including:
"Make It In America" featuring Victoria Justice
"Take A Hint" featuring Victoria Justice & Elizabeth Gillies
"Shut Up and Dance" featuring Victoria Justice
"5 Fingaz To The Face" featuring Victorious Cast
"Countdown" featuring Leon Thomas III & Victoria Justice
"Don't You Forget About Me" featuring Victorious Cast
Plus, if you buy the album on iTunes, you get a special bonus song, "I Think You're Swell" featuring Matt Bennett.
Check out the music video for "Make it in America" below!
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What Are Lemon Law Attorneys?
When we purchase another auto, we make a point to get an auto that works fine and we feel great in it. This is the reason a large portion of us pick test-driving an auto before buying it. It is a keen activity. Be that as it may, all things considered, our deepest desires will be smashed if the auto we purchased begins to act peculiarly and it quits running. Much more troublesome is when after rehashed repair endeavors, the auto still has a similar issue. For this situation, we are tragic to declare you, yet youve unearthed a lemon. The best activity is to get your auto supplanted with a working one or have your cash returned. Contract a lemon law lawyer if things dont run well with the auto merchant.
When you understand that after successive repairs, the auto you have purchased still shows similar issues or issues caused by the underlying imperfection, you should make a move towards recuperating your venture. The right portrayal that fits for your auto is lemon . Whats more, each state has particular laws that arrangement with this kind of issues.
Besides, there is a particular branch of attorneys that arrangement with these autos. These lemon law lawyers are the opportune individuals to go to. An accomplished legal counselor will break down the case and will instruct you precisely. Furthermore, having a legal advisor on your side will enable you to recover the cash less demanding and quicker.
As we said, each state has particular laws for unsalvageable vehicles. It additionally has particular necessities for an auto to be announced a lemon. Other than being under guarantee, an auto should likewise have experienced a specific number of repair endeavors. A legal counselor has the right stuff and information to consult with auto merchants or straightforwardly with the auto producers and clarify why the auto is viewed as a lemon and you ought to be repaid. Consulting with uncooperative auto merchants or organizations can be truly debilitating and unsavory.
On the off chance that you are stressed over the charges of the lawyer, you should disavow every one of your feelings of dread. On the off chance that your auto is positively a lemon and you will win the question, your legal advisor will be paid by the auto maker. Along these lines, it is to his greatest advantage to win the case and get strong contentions your support. This is the reason you should let an expert handle every one of the viewpoints, incorporating the correspondence with the merchant and producer.


These lyrics were never meant to be taken lightly. They were written to be a prayer of a generation scared to death of doing what God called them to but even more scared of not trying. Their purpose was to shake us up, make us uncomfortable, and move us to action.
Instead, we've made them into Pinterest quotes that make us feel good.
But what if church isn't supposed to make us feel good?
What if worship songs aren't meant to be clever photo captions or pretty wall decorations?
What if the entire point of this whole thing is to flip our world upside down and move us past our nice feeling comfort zones?
I stopped singing that morning when the band played Oceans. Instead, I began praying. I told Jesus those lyrics terrified me. I told him I didn't feel comfortable singing them if I didn't mean them and I didn't know if I meant them or not. The fear inside me to give over my comfortable life was greater than the desire to go deeper.
Fear kept me from singing something I wanted to be true but knew wasn't.
Jesus knew how the story was going to end. He knew he would be betrayed by his closest friends, beaten an inch shy of death then left to be publicly shamed while he suffocated in front of the entire city.
He also prayed a prayer like mine.
Knowing the God I worship went through what I'm going through changed things for me.
Jesus was more scared than any person on earth has ever been. His anxiety was so high that he began sweating blood. Can you imagine how high his blood pressure must've been for that to happen? Even so, with all that fear and anxiety, he still said the most impactful prayer ever prayed: Not my will but yours be done.
Following Jesus isn't about pretty pictures on Pinterest that make us feel good.
Following Jesus is about getting past ourselves, swallowing our fear, and going deeper than we'd ever go on our own.
Have you ever taken a minute to determine if you really mean the songs you're singing?
Have you thought about what following Jesus actually looks like?
Have you ever realized he was scared too?


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Season of Suffering
Coming of Age in Occupied France, 1940–45
Nicole H. Taflinger
The Nazi invasion forever altered 13-year-old Nicole Braux's world in 1940. Four years later, following liberation, she found herself deeply in love with an American, a pilot for General Patton. Her memoir draws a poignant, candid rendering of her life as a passionate French adolescent under German occupation—an existence drenched in deprivation and despair, but also marked by miraculous events and unexpected romance.
"Taflinger tells her story in unflinching words, detailing emotions that seem as raw today as they were 70 years ago."—Lewiston Morning Tribune
"I am engrossed in Pullman author Nicole H. Taflinger's graceful and eloquent memoir. Few writers have more bittersweet stories to tell than Taflinger."—Jim Kershner, Spokesman Review
"An endearing memoir that will stay with you. I can't recommend it highly enough."—Inland Register
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Born in 1927, Nicole Braux's earliest recollections occur in the French city of Nancy, where her father owned and operated a hotel and restaurant. Her charming reflections paint a picture of a romantic culture still wounded by the First World War.
Nicole was twelve when her father was recalled into the reserves in 1939. Within months, she watched German troops invade. "We peeked above the window sill and saw them…Our imaginations hadn't exaggerated; they looked as evil, if not more so, than we'd expected!"
Little by little, the Braux family adjusted to life under occupation. They experienced recurrent air raid alerts, Nazi propaganda, rationing, the Black Market, and bombings. As they struggled simply to acquire food and keep warm, thinking of the future became irrelevant. Teachers, friends, employers, priests, nuns, and doctors disappeared in the night. Relationships became veiled in worry, suspicion and secrecy.
French citizens quietly resisted. They concocted strategies to elude curfew. They purposely dressed to offend Germans, donning short skirts and makeup, and choosing the bright colors of the French flag. They sold tainted food to the despised oppressors. As the fighting drew ever closer, desperation and terror increased, but miraculous events brought hope.
Finally the inconceivable joy of liberation came. However, food remained scarce, the fate of her father still unknown, and now eighteen, Nicole found herself deeply in love with Lieutenant Ancel G. Taflinger, pilot for General George S. Patton.
Written decades ago but never published, the author's guileless voice enhances her adolescent memories of the German occupation—an existence of fear, loss, suffering, and fierce hatred—and illustrates the immense emotional toll of war.
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"In simple, straightforward style, she writes from her heart, it seems, about the fear, suffering and deprivation of the French people in her town of Nancy, but also about the defiance and bravery of those same people…Taflinger's first-person account of the occupation, the war and the postwar years through the eyes of a girl growing to adulthood is an important and gripping read…Taflinger tells her story in unflinching words, detailing emotions that seem as raw today as they were 70 years ago."—Lewiston Morning Tribune
"I am engrossed in Pullman author Nicole H. Taflinger's graceful and eloquent memoir. Few writers have more bittersweet stories to tell than Taflinger's story of growing up in Nancy, France, surrounded by occupying German forces during World War II."—Jim Kershner, Spokesman Review
"Season of Suffering is an endearing memoir that will stay with you. I can't recommend it highly enough."—Inland Register
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Charlottengrube (także Charlottegrube) – niemiecki nazistowski podobóz Auschwitz-Birkenau, zlokalizowany w Rydułtowach.

Obóz znajdował się przy kopalni węgla kamiennego Charlotte, która należała do  koncernu Hermann Göring Werke. Więźniowie zostali umieszczeni w kilku małych obozach, które stanowiły jeden duży kompleks. Osadzonymi byli w zdecydowanej większości Żydzi, pochodzący z Węgier, Czech i Słowacji. Wszyscy oni mieszkali w murowanych barakach, wyposażonych w trzypiętrowe prycze. Skazani odbywali prace górnicze i zostali podzieleni na dwie grupy: pierwszą pracującą w szybach Leon I i Leon II oraz drugą działającą na powierzchni, przy sortowaniu i transporcie węgla. Część z drugiego zespołu zatrudniono też w kopalnianych warsztatach, a także przy budowie elektrowni Charlotte. Do pilnowania wszystkich więźniów zatrudniono 54 esesmanów pilnujących obozu, a także żołnierzy Wehrmachtu i Sturmabteilung, nadzorującą prace w kopalni.

W styczniu 1945 r. podjęto decyzję o pieszej ewakuacji więźniów do obozu Gross-Rosen. Po dwóch dniach marszu okazało się jednak, że drogi odwrotu zostały odcięte przez jednostki Armii Czerwonej, dlatego skierowano ich z powrotem do Rydułtów, po czym do Wodzisławia Śląskiego, skąd przewieziono koleją do obozu Mauthausen.

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Ice-T has already managed to turn his culinary inexperience into ad revenue.
A couple weeks back, the rapper and Law & Order: SVU star revealed that he had never eaten a bagel or drank a cup of coffee in his life (despite playing a cop on TV), and Twitter freaked right out. Now, though, Ice-T has not only sampled the breakfast of champions, but he's turned the first-time experience into an advertising partnership for a dating app.
Ice-T posted a video ad to Twitter the other day, which sees him trying a coffee and a bagel on behalf of dating site Coffee Meets Bagel.
Unfortunately, he didn't seem to be a perfect match for coffee — taking a sip and declaring that it would be his last. "Why would you do that?" he pondered.
The clip also sees him trying bagels. First up, he tries a plain bagel with cream cheese (or "an unsweetened donut," as he put it).
"It's not bad," Ice-T said, before observing that "it has a different consistency than a donut" and determining that after one bite, "I feel like I just ate a loaf of bread."
He also tried a bagel with cream cheese and lox, but the chewiness prompted some dental fears about pulling out fillings and caps.
"I just tried something new," Ice-T concluded, before suggesting that viewers do the same by looking for their next date on Coffee Meets Bagel.
Sure, it's a gimmicky cash grab, but it's still good to know that the guy has finally tasted the breakfast staples.
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Afghan High Peace Council sets no preconditions for talks with Taliban
'Our main duty is to end the war and begin the peace negotiations,' said HPC Chairman Mohammad Karim Khalili.
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Mohammad Karim Khalili, chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council, speaks at a Kabul news conference December 6. [Afghan Peace High Council]
KABUL -- The Afghan High Peace Council (HPC) is ready to hold peace talks with the Taliban without any preconditions, HPC Chairman Mohammad Karim Khalili said Wednesday (December 6).
"Our main duty is to end the war and begin the peace negotiations," he said in a news conference in Kabul, according to TOLO News. "People should be involved in the peace process. We had discussions with political parties, and they announced their support for the peace process."
The HPC is ready to hold talks with the Taliban "through whatever mechanism they suggest", HPC Secretary Akram Khpalwak said at the news conference.
"We hope the Taliban give a positive response to the call for peace," he said. "No one thinks war is a solution to the problem in Afghanistan."
The Taliban can open their office in Kabul or anywhere in the world for peace talks, according to an HPC statement.
Positive coverage of the peace process by Afghan and Pakistani media can change the situation in the region, according to Khalili.
"We had a discussion with Pakistani journalists who visited Kabul [this week] and talked about the peace process and their role in it," he said.
The Indonesian government also has announced its support for the Afghan peace process, Khalili said.
"The Indonesians want to put an end to the ongoing war in Afghanistan and bring stability," he said.
Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla and a group of the country's religious scholars are expected to visit Kabul in the near future.
Last month, Khalili headed a delegation that met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo and other officials in Jakarta to discuss the Afghan peace process.
None of the peace council's mission has any effect in regards to making peace between Afghanistan and Taliban.
Taliban leaders ready for peace talks, says Afghan officials
As pressure mounts, Afghan High Peace Council tries new inclusive strategy
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani sent a strong message to the Taliban this week, reflecting the Afghan people's desire for peace and his cabinet's growing impatience.
Taliban officials to meet with Afghan delegation, says former militant


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Thiago Santos de Lima (ur. 7 stycznia 1984 w Rio de Janeiro) – brazylijski zawodnik mieszanych sztuk walki (MMA). Były zawodnik oraz pretendent do pasa UFC w wadze półciężkiej. Aktualnie związany kontraktem z PFL.

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Urodził się w ubogiej rodzinie w Rio de Janeiro. We wczesnym dzieciństwie cierpiał na niezdiagnozowaną chorobę, w wyniku której w jego żołądku wyrosły torbiele, które jednak zostały usunięte chirurgicznie. W czasie jednej z powodzi, które od czasu do czasu nawiedziły miasto, rodzina Santosa straciła cały dobytek i po okresie bezdomności zamieszkała w cieszącej się złą sławą dzielnicy Cidade de Deus. Ojciec Santosa zmarł zaledwie kilka dni po jego debiucie w mieszanych sztukach walki w 2010 roku.

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Home / Children's / Teenage fiction: Fantasy / Gone
Publisher: Egmont UK Ltd
Welcome to the FAYZ! This is Book 1 in the series that Stephen King calls a 'driving, torrential narrative'.
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Categories: Children's / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children's / Teenage fiction: Science fiction, Children's / Teenage fiction: Thrillers
Welcome to the FAYZ! This is Book 1 in the series that Stephen King calls a 'driving, torrential narrative'. In the blink of an eye all the adults disappear in a small town in southern California and no one knows why. Cut off from the outside world, those that are left are trapped, and there's no help on the way. Sam Temple and his friends must do all they can to survive. Chaos rules the streets. Gangs begin to form. Sides are chosen – strong or weak. Cruel or humane. And then there are those who begin to develop powers … The GONE series is Lord of the Flies for the 21st century. In turns breathtaking, harrowing, and utterly terrifying. Its complex characters and moral dilemmas will delight fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner. This is dystopian fiction at its best. Have you got all 6 titles in the New York Times bestselling saga: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, and Light? 'I am now free to leave the FAYZ, but my time there was well spent' Stephen King If you love GONE, be sure not to miss Michael's new series Front Lines – it's WWII but not as you know it! The first book is Front Lines, followed by Silver Stars. Michael Grant also has a World Book Day book, Dead of Night, which is set in the Front Lines universe and written exclusively for World Book Day 2017. Michael Grant has lived an exciting, fast-paced life. He moved in with his wife Katherine Applegate after only 24 hours. He has co-authored over 160 books but promises that everything he writes is like nothing you've ever read before! If the Gone series has left you hungry for more from the dark genius of YA fiction, look out for the BZRK trilogy: BZRK, BZRK Reloaded, BZRK Apocalypse and the terrifying Messenger of Fear and its sequel The Tattooed Heart. Michael is a World Book Day author for 2017.
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Islamabad:A terrorism attack was foiled by the law enforcement agencies in Islamabad and two suicide jackets along with arms and ammunition were recovered on Saturday, the media reported.
According to local police officials, two explosives-laden jackets and arms were found from the capital's Golra area in the G-14 sector neighbourhood. Rhe recovered arms and ammunition included hand grenades, ball bearings, pistols and bullets, they added.
Islamabad Police said that the suicide vests weighed six to eight kgs and have been made recently to carry out the terrorist activities in the city.
The Bomb Disposal Squad of police successfully defused the jackets and a search operation was also being conducted in the area to arrest the culprits, the reports added.
Police's timely action saved the country's capital from an untoward incident, said Dunya News while quoting security officials, adding that the Counter Terrorism Department registered first information report and launched an investigation into the incident.
The incident also spread terror among the residents of Islamabad. Security forces have issued high alert in the city and additional contingents are deployed at the sensitive points.


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Greetings from the Gathering Committee for the 2006 Friends General Conference Gathering of Friends! We feel privileged to be able to share with you this e-mail message about this historic 2006 Gathering. We have felt Spirit ever-present with us as we have prayed and planned to bring the Gathering week of worship, workshops, programs and community for the first time to the western part of the U.S. We will gather, God willing, July 1-7 at Pacific Lutheran University in Washington State near the Puget Sound.
Our planning meetings in the breathtakingly beautiful Pacific Northwest have given us an understanding of the unique opportunities this location offers for Friends from both the eastern and western parts of the U.S. and Canada.  For eastern U.S. and Canadian Friends, travel to this year's Gathering makes such nearby destinations as Mount Rainier National Park also readily accessible. For western U.S. and Canadian Friends, Gathering participation won't require the cross-country travel that has often been necessary. Friends who come to the Gathering at PLU can expect an unusual blend of eastern and western Quakers!
On March 1, Friends can see '06 Gathering details in the Advance Program at www.fgcquaker.org. and can begin registering for the Gathering on that date.  We are encouraging Friends to use on-line registration. Real-time confirmation of your workshop choice will begin on March 1.  Also, the Gathering may reach capacity before published deadlines are reached and registration will be closed when programs are full. Printed copies of the Advance Program are being sent to meetings in North America, scheduled to arrive in Friends' homes not later than March 15.
We look forward to welcoming long-time and first-time FGC Gathering attenders from east, south, middle, north and west as together we create the familiar and well-loved Gathering community in this historic new setting.  We especially look forward to greeting you!
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Industry experts give high marks to Statesman site plan
Shonda Novak @snovak999
Aug 26, 2019 at 4:43 PM Aug 27, 2019 at 12:06 PM
This story has been updated with comments from Austin City Council Member Kathie Tovo.
The large waterfront development planned for the site that currently houses the American-Statesman newspaper offices drew favorable responses from local architects and planners who were briefed on the proposed 19-acre mixed-use project Monday.
About 90 industry professionals attended the event at the Statesman offices at 305 S. Congress Ave. on the shores of Lady Bird Lake, where renderings of the proposed project were presented showing gleaming tall buildings and a large public park with bats flying overhead.
The forum was organized by the Austin chapter of the American Institute of Architects, or AIA Austin, whose Urban Design Committee has been following the proposed project as well as the city's South Central Waterfront planning effort. The planning initiative, in the works for several years, includes the Statesman site and 34 other properties along the lake's southern shore — a total of 118 acres where the city would like to see the coming wave of new development occur in a cohesive way and bring a multitude of community benefits.
At Monday's event, local architects, urban planners, landscape architects and others from the design community heard from two representatives of the companies that are master-planning the Statesman project, which is named 305 S. Congress: Douglas Voigt, director of urban design and planning for Chicago-based Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; and Kevin Conger, president of San Francisco-based CMG Landscape Architecture.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is planning the placement and orientation of buildings, streets and sidewalks throughout the proposed project, and how it will integrate with the waterfront and public spaces. CMG Landscape Architecture's role is to design the open spaces, such as parks, trails, plazas and landscaped areas.
Members of the Atlanta-based Cox family own the property. Cox Media Group last year sold the Statesman to Gatehouse Media.
The Cox family is partnering with Austin-based Endeavor Real Estate Group to transform the site with up to 3.5 million square feet of development.
The vision calls for high-rise towers with offices, apartments, condominiums and hotel rooms, shops and restaurants, a waterfront park; a boardwalk; an amphitheater; and a bat-watching area. Developers also envision new streets with wide sidewalks, and the extension of Barton Springs Road through the property. Most of the parking would be underground.
The project is the largest development planned in the South Central Waterfront district. Under the city's master plan for the waterfront, developers would have to make contributions to the "public realm" — such as parks, streets, trails and affordable housing — to gain additional height and density for their proposed projects. Financing details of the proposed 305 S. Congress project remain to be worked out and could include the establishment of a tax increment financing district.
Alan Holt, a principal planner with the city who heads up the waterfront planning effort, said the plan "can't be done on the developers' backbone" alone and that the city will be a collaborative partner with "skin the game."
Voigt and Conger said the idea is to create a pedestrian-oriented destination that will be recognized globally and locally, with public spaces that can be used year-round for a site that Voigt said has limited access today.
In planning the Statesman project, Voigt said Skidmore, Owings & Merrill conducted an assessment of "great waterfronts" around the world, noting that a key attribute is their accessibility to everyone.
Ingrid Spencer, executive director of the Austin chapter of the American Institute of Architects, said the project promises to be a stand-out development — "a huge opportunity to get an important large swath of our waterfront right."
"Austin has some community gathering places, but nothing like this proposed development," Spencer said. "It's exciting to think about a future spending time enjoying our waterfront from these proposed spaces."
Nationally recognized architect Michael Hsu, founder and principal of Austin-based Michael Hsu Office of Architecture, said he liked what he saw and heard Monday.
"A more welcoming, accessible and active waterfront is exactly what an increasing urban Austin needs, reconnecting us with heart and soul of our city, the outdoors and Lady Bird Lake," Hsu said.
Endeavor is an experienced developer with large, complex and high-profile retail, office, residential and mixed-use projects, including the Domain in North Austin.
A proposal to rezone the Statesman site was filed in July by Richard Suttle Jr., the Austin attorney for the Cox family. Suttle filed an amendment to the site's existing zoning, which is a planned unit development.
Suttle has said the zoning process that could take a year or more as the development plans make their way through various boards and commissions. The Austin City Council would have the final vote in the zoning case. Suttle said in June construction could start about a year after the zoning process is completed.
On Monday, Suttle said the hearing process at City Hall could start in about six to nine months, and the case could initially go before the City Council within a year.
The proposed project is in Council Member Kathie Tovo's district.
"Redevelopment of the Statesman tract will transform the south bank of Lady Bird Lake and the landscape of the South Central Waterfront," Tovo said in an email. "I'm glad to see that the architects and other professionals designing the site are approaching the project from that perspective — and that their express intent is to create superior, inclusive public spaces amidst the residential and commercial buildings. I am looking forward to learning more about the details of the proposed project so that I can better understand how elements of the rezoning aim to codify that vision."


PORTSMOUTH � A federal health agency won�t say when it will release a draft study that reportedly concludes PFAS contaminants are dangerous at lower levels than the Environmental Protection Agency has acknowledged.
In response to an inquiry from the Portsmouth Herald, the office of Communications for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) stated they do �not have a release date identified for the� study on PFAS exposure.
The ATSDR will first produce a draft profile and then have a 30- to 90-day public comment period, according to the statement.
�After the comment period ATSDR considers all comments, revises the documents, and then finalizes the profile,� the statement said.
The agency is �preparing to release the draft PFAS Toxicological Profile for public comment,� ATSDR said, but has not set a release date.
Thousands of people working at the Pease International Tradeport, along with children and infants who attended two day-care centers there, were exposed to multiple PFAS chemicals from contaminated water in the city-owned Haven well.
Andrea Amico of Portsmouth, one of the co-founders of the grassroots advocacy group, Testing for Pease, said she received the same answer when talking to an ATSDR official this week.
Pat Breysse, the director of the ATSDR, participated in a teleconference call with members of Pease�s Community Assistance Panel (CAP) this week, Amico said Tuesday.
Breysse told Amico he had received a letter that the Testing for Pease mothers sent to him demanding the immediate release of the draft profile.