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Pentagon Top Lawyer Jeh Johnson to Step Down
by Ross
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Jeh Johnson, general counsel at the Defense Department since 2009, is stepping down from his post at the end of the year to return to private practice, the Washington Post reports.
Emily Heil writes Johnson is expected to return to Paul, Weiss Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a law firm where he previously was a partner.
After serving as a federal prosecutor in New York's southern district between 1988 and 1991, he joined the firm and tried several cases for clients such as Armstrong World Industries, Citigroup and Salomon Smith Barney.
He re-joined the firm in January 2001 after serving as general counsel for the Air Force for 27 months, starting in October 2008.
While in New York, he prosecuted public corruption cases, trying 12 cases and arguing 11 appeals.
The New York Times reports his name had been floated within Pentagon circles as a potential successor to Attorney General Eric Holder.
However, he has said he wants to return to private practice after taking some time off, Charlie Savage writes.
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The other night, before the wildfire smoke blew in to town, I was walking in my neighbourhood in the evening about how lucky I am to be living at this latitude, with the magical long twilights as we approach the summer solstice. The long light warm evenings feel rich with extra opportunity. And I wondered how to share that feeling.
Last night I watched Foote in the Door's production of A Little Night Music, a Sondheim musical based on an Ingmar Bergen movie directed by Mary-Ellen Perley. It's set in Sweden around 1900. The second act takes place at a country estate, much of it outdoors. And there are songs about that magical extended twilight, songs that describe the feelings better than I ever could, with lighting (Sarah Karpyshin) and abstract set pieces (Leland Stelck) to support them.
A Little Night Music has a cast of 18. At first I kept referring to my program to figure out who was who and how they were connected. But later on, it just made more delightful threads of plot arcs to follow, to wonder how the cat's-cradle of romances and affairs would untangle itself. Commenting on the liaisons and prospects of the others, and on the nature of love in general, are a grandmother (Pauline Farmer) and granddaughter Fredrika (Rebecca Erin Curtis, a MacEwan grad I will watch for again).
I loved the detail, consistent through the show, that star actress Desiree (Glynis Price) was surrounded by clutter and chaos – stockings and scarves draped over her furniture, enough male visitors that they cross paths in her apartment – her current lover Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm (Russ Farmer) and her former lover Fredrik Egerman (Morgan Smith), both sporting mustaches of importance. Count Malcolm's indignant wife Charlotte (Monica Roberts), a likeably sarcastic character, comes up with a unlikely scheme to defend both herself and Egerman's young wife Anne (Ruth Wong-Miller) from Desiree's designs on their husbands. Anne is an astonishingly naive 18 year old. She claims to love married life but seems oblivious to being more passionate about teasing her stepson (Allan Cabral) than about her much-older husband. It was "amusing" (as the character often says) to watch Wong-Miller in this role, since she usually plays characters with more agency but was completely believable as the protected and petted young wife. Desiree's daughter Fredrika, canonically about 13, seemed to be wiser with more understanding of the world and relationships, just from listening to her grandmother's stories of liaisons and from having toured with her mother's acting troupes.
Monica Roberts, as Charlotte, and Morgan Smith, as Fredrik, in A Little Night Music. Photo by Nanc Price Photography.
There were a lot of bits in this production that had me laughing out loud – some of them were funnier to me than to other members of the audience. The part where Fredrika's grandmother says that she brought Fredrika home to do a better job raising her because " Stage managers are not nannies, dear; they don't have the talent." The bit where Fredrika takes Anne to watch Desiree on stage in a French comedy, the play-within-a-play a more exaggerated version of the grandmother's liaison stories and the contemporary affairs and intrigues, and Brian Ault playing a footman or herald in a truly bizarre wig.
One of the common features of Sondheim musicals is complex music. Daniel Belland is musical director, with an ensemble of eight other musicians. As well as the characters named above, there are several servants, some with their own romantic plotlines, and a chorus of six, singing clever harmonies and hinting at further layers of complication ("Remember") that we don't get to see.
A Little Night Music is a musical for people who like musicals, a change from this company's last production, the stage-musical version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. It's long but it moves along at a good pace and I was surprised when it was already time for intermission. It's playing at La Cité Francophone, until June 8th, with tickets through Tix on the Square.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, but oh so good …
The original Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a 1988 movie with Steve Martin and Michael Caine. I can't remember if I ever saw it, or if I just saw the trailer in a theatre and got a general sense of it – a goofy story of con artists trying to beat each other at their shared game.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is also a musical, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek, who seems to have a career of making unlikely movie comedies into musicals that one would never expect, such as Full Monty and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Plain Jane did this one last spring but I didn't write about it) The musical is currently being performed by the local company Foote in the Door Productions.
I didn't really remember anything about the plot or characters of the movie when I went to see it opening night, and I decided not to listen to the soundtrack ahead of time. It was a lot of fun this way. I could immediately pick out the character tropes (Russ Farmer as the sophisticated English con artist and Trevor J as the uncouth American one, Melanie Lafleur as a rich gullible visitor to the Mediterranean resort and Zack Siezmagraff as a crooked French police officer who reminded me of Captain Renault in Casablanca. But the plot had a lot of twists I didn't anticipate, and both the storyline and the general character ridiculousness had me giggling a lot. I asked director Carolyn Waye beforehand what she'd most enjoyed about working on this production. She said that they had all laughed a lot during rehearsals, and she couldn't wait to watch an audience enjoy the bits they'd already had so much fun with.
I was so caught up watching the interplay of the two con artists with their various marks and allies, along with some delightful dance interludes (highlighting Megan Beaupre, Julia Stanski, Tim Lo, and Andrew Kwan) that it took me a while to realize that I hadn't yet seen the other Foote in the Door principal, Ruth Wong-Miller. She appears later, as Christine Colgate, the American Soap Queen. Both scammers see Christine as an ideal target, so they decide to compete for her money, the loser to leave town.
The songs had very clever lyrics and enough changes of genre to be interesting, especially Shannon Hunt's "Oklahoma" and the cheesy rock ballad "Love is my Legs". Matt Graham was musical director of a nine-piece ensemble, visible behind sets of French doors and acknowledged occasionally by the script when characters called for changes of atmosphere, but never overpowering the singers.
This show is a lot of fun. The two hours flew by for me, and the endings were surprising and satisfying. Foote in the Door has tackled some more serious material (Carousel) and more complex drama (Company) – but I think it's equally impressive that they pulled off this heist of a tall tale without a hitch.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is playing at L'Unitheatre until November 10th. Tickets are available through Tix on the Square
Trevor J, Ruth Wong-Miller, Russ Farmer, Melanie Lafleur, and Zack Siezmagraff. Photo by Nanc Price.
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Gin & Rees, the music makers from East London release 'Sohniyeh' as a tribute to the incredibly talented Jagdev Jammu who tragically lost his life in a car accident at the age of just 35.
The brothers had been working with Jagdev for some time and previously released the hit song 'Dil Aj Nachan Nuh' featuring Jagdev on vocals. They had almost completed his debut album when on the 1st October 2013, Jagdev sadly sustained fatal injuries in the crash and was pronounced dead on the scene. A great loss to the music industry and to those who did not get to witness his true talent.
Jagdev was definitely a star in the making and we at RNC RECORDS will continue to release Jagdev Jammu's songs in the future in his memory. He was like our third brother. He lived for the music and we feel it's the right thing to do, to put out the music that he so wanted to release before he was taken from us. After working with Jagdev for 10 years in music, I can vouch for his god gifted talent in singing, composing and song writing. We were just months away from releasing his album and he was sure to have a prominent career ahead in our music industry, but god decided that he had other plans for him.
This goes to show that god has only leased our life to us and therefore we need to appreciate it and what we have. It comes back to the old saying, you never know what you've got till it's gone! This is an incredibly sad time for everyone that has known him and is a grave loss to us all. Let us all honor the passing of this great soul by learning, appreciating and spreading love in our own lives.
'Sohniyeh' releases on 19th December 2013 on the RNC Records label and is available now to pre-order via iTunes. Proceeds from the song will go to his family in India.


Suppose it's your job to identify SQL that may run slower in the about-to-be-upgrated Oracle Database. It's tricky because no two systems are alike. Just because the SQL run time is faster in the test environment doesn't mean the decision to upgrade is a good one. In fact, it could be disastrous.
For example; If a SQL statement runs 10 seconds in production and runs 20 seconds in QAT, but the production system is twice as fast as QAT, is that a problem? It's difficult to compare SQL runs times when the same SQL resides in different environments.
In this posting, I present a way to remove the CPU speed differences, so an appropriate "apples to apples" SQL elapsed time comparison can be made, thereby improving our ability to more correctly detect risky SQL that may be placed into the upgraded production system.
And, there is a cool, free, downloadable tool involved!
There are a number of reasons why a SQL's run time is different in different systems. An obvious reason is a different execution plan. A less obvious and much more complex reason is a workload intensity or type difference. In this posting, I will focus on CPU speed differences. Actually, what I'll show you is how to remove the CPU speed differences so you can appropriately compare two SQL statements. It's pretty cool.
If a SQL statement's elapsed time in production is 10 seconds and 20 seconds in QAT, that's NOT an issue IF the production system is twice as fast.
And in QA the sql ran in 20 seconds… so really they ran "the same" in both environments. If I am considering placing the SQL from the test environment into the production environment, then this scenario does not raise any risk flags. The "trick" is determining "production is 2 times as fast as QA" and then creatively use that information.
Fortunately, there are many ways to determine a system's "speed value." Basing the speed value on Oracle's ability to process buffers in memory has many advantages: a real load is not required or even desired, real Oracle code is being run at a particular version, real operating systems are being run and the processing of an Oracle buffer highly correlates with CPU consumption.
Keep in mind, this type of CPU speed test is not an indicator of scalability (benefit of adding additional CPUs) in any way shape or form. It is simply a measure of brut force Oracle buffer cache logical IO processing speed based on a number of factors. If you are architecting a system, other tests will be required.
As you might expect, I have a free tool you can download to determine the "true speed" rating. I recently updated it to be more accurate, require less Oracle privileges, and also show the execution plan of the speed test tool SQL. (A special thanks to Steve for the execution plan enhancement!) If the execution plan used in the speed tool is difference on the various systems, then obviously we can't expect the "true speeds" to be comparable.
Before we can analyze the risk, we need the "speed value" for both systems. Suppose a faster system means its speed rating is larger. If the production system speed rating is 600 and the QAT system speed rating is 300, then production is deemed "twice as fast."
Now let's put this all together and quickly go through three examples.
So if the SQL elapsed time is 25 seconds and the system speed value is 200, then the standardized "apples-to-apples" elapsed time is 5000 which is 25*200. The "standardized elapsed time" is simply a way to compare SQL elapsed times, not what users will feel and not the true SQL elapsed time.
To make this a little more interesting, I'll quickly go through three scenarios focusing on identifying risk.
1. The SQL truly runs the same in both systems.
In this scenario, the true speed situation is, QAT = PRD. This means, the SQL effectively runs just as fast in QAT as in production. If someone says the SQL is running slower in QAT and therefore this presents a risk to the upgrade, you can confidently say it's because the PRD system is twice as fast! In this scenario, the QAT SQL will not be flagged as presenting a significant risk when upgrading from QAT to PRD.
2. The SQL runs faster in production.
Now suppose the SQL runs for 30 seconds in QAT and for 10 seconds in PRD. If someone was to say, "Well of course it's runs slower in QAT because QAT is slower than the PRD system." Really? Everything is OK? Again, to make a fare comparison, we must compare the system using a standardizing metric, which I have been calling the, "standardized elapsed time."
In this scenario, the QAT standard elapsed time is greater than the PRD standardized elapsed time. This means the QAT SQL is truly running slower in QAT compared to PRD. Specifically, this means the slower SQL in QAT can not be fully explained by the slower QAT system. Said another way, while we expect the SQL in QAT to run slower then in the PRD system, we didn't expect it to be quite so slow in QAT. There must another reason for this slowness, which we are not accounting for. In this scenario, the QAT SQL should be flagged as presenting a significant risk when upgrading from QAT to PRD.
3. The SQL runs faster in QAT.
In this final scenario, the SQL runs for 15 seconds in QAT and for 10 seconds in PRD. Suppose someone was to say, "Well of course the SQL runs slower in QAT. So everything is OK." Really? Everything is OK? To get a better understanding of the true situation, we need to look at their standardized elapsed times.
In this scenario, QAT standard elapsed time is less then the PRD standardized elapsed time. This means the QAT SQL is actually running faster in the QAT, even though the QAT wall time is 15 seconds and the PRD wall time is only 10 seconds. So while most people would flag this QAT SQL as "high risk" we know better! We know the QAT SQL is actually running faster in QAT than in production! In this scenario, the QAT SQL will not be flagged as presenting a significant risk when upgrading from QAT to PRD.
Identify risk is extremely important while planning for an upgrade. It is unlikely the QAT and production system will be identical in every way. This mismatch makes identifying risk more difficult. One of the common differences in systems is their CPU processing speeds. What I demonstrated was a way to remove the CPU speed differences, so an appropriate "apples to apples" SQL elapsed time comparison can be made, thereby improving our ability to more correctly detect risky SQL that may be placed into the upgraded production system.
Looking at the "standardized elapsed time" based on Oracle LIO processing is important, but it's just one reason why a SQL may have a different elapsed time in a different environment. One of the big "gotchas" in load testing is comparing production performance to a QAT environment with a different workload. Creating an equivalent workload on different systems is extremely difficult to do. But with some very cool math and a clear understanding of performance analysis, we can also create a more "apples-to-apples" comparison, just like we have done with CPU speeds. But I'll save that for another posting.


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Seminole State a platinum sponsor of Sanford MLK 2022 Celebration Weekend
Written by: Mark Richardson
Seminole State College of Florida is partnering with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Steering Committee to sponsor the City of Sanford's MLK 2022 Celebration Weekend.
Several events will take place over the weekend of Jan. 14-17 including an oratorical contest, celebration banquet, interfaith service, and a parade followed by Festival in the Park at Fort Mellon Park on the shores of Lake Monroe in downtown Sanford.
Sanford MLK 2022 Celebration Weekend
MLK Oratorical Contest
Friday, Jan. 14, 6 - 7 p.m.
Seminole State College, Building C, Sanford/Lake Mary Campus
The contest is open to local high school seniors who are required to write a speech applying one of Dr. King's quotes below to a challenge our country is currently facing and conduct an oral presentation in front of a panel of local community.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. oratorical contest topics:
"Where do we go from here."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."
"It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people."
The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Committee will award a $3,000 scholarship to the first, second and third place winners to attend Seminole State College.
The purpose of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship fund is to honor Dr. King's accomplishments as well as encourage youth, through education and experience, to continue to strive to become productive citizens and give back to their communities through seeking higher education beyond high school.
35th Annual MLK Banquet
Saturday, Jan. 15, 6 p.m.
Sanford Civic Center
The 2022 Commemorative Banquet will be held at the Sanford Civic Center and feature Bishop Derek T. Triplett speaking. College leaders including Seminole State President
Dr. Georgia L. Lorenz will attend the banquet.
MLK Interfaith Service
Sunday, Jan. 16, 3– 4 p.m.
The interfaith service will be held at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church
813 Pine Ave., Sanford, 32771
Speaker: Rev. Sammie J. Edwards, Sr. Pastor, St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church
MLK Parade & Festival in the Park
The parade will start at 10 a.m. at Crooms Academy of Information Technology High School, 2200 Historic Goldsboro Blvd. (formerly West 13th Street) and will proceed east to Holly Avenue. Seminole State students will be marching in the parade.
Festival in the Park will begin immediately following the parade on the event grounds at Ft. Mellon Park.
For more information on the MLK Weekend, visit mlksanford.org/mlk-2022
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By Josh Scott Canadian Startup News January 12, 2021
Lightspeed launches new integrated supplier network for North American retailers
Lightspeed Supplier Network product shot
Montreal-based retail tech company Lightspeed has launched a supplier network for North American retailers that allows merchants to order and manage stock on the company's point-of-sale (POS) system.
The Lightspeed Supplier Network will initially be available for bike, outdoor sport, jewelry and pet product retailers. Lightspeed stated plans to roll out the system to all of its retailers in the near future.
"It's just the first piece of a lot of what we have coming over the next couple years."
Amid increased supply chain pressure due to COVID-19, the company claims the stock ordering and management network will help even the playing field between small merchants and retail and e-commerce giants.
"This new tool enables independent businesses to discover new products, more easily sell online and make better use of their capital to strategically increase order frequency," said Dax Dasilva, founder and CEO of Lightspeed. "The disruption of 2020 cemented the need for SMBs to use technology to remain agile and the Supplier Network is deeply in line with Lightspeed's mission to strengthen their operational resilience."
Founded in 2005, Lightspeed provides cloud-based POS and e-commerce software for small businesses. The publicly traded company operates in over 100 countries, with more than 1,000 staff located in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia. Its tech helps retailers, including restaurants and online sellers, build and manage their businesses.
The new Lightspeed Supplier Network connects small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) directly to brands within the company's platform, granting retailers access to up-to-date product catalogues, order management tools, and automated shipment handling. The company claims this will help sellers stay flexible and shift to a demand-driven inventory model.
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The network also aims to help retailers discover new products and brands, and allows them to directly import product images and descriptions, a feature Lightspeed says will give suppliers increased control of product branding by increasing the likelihood that merchants use brand-approved names, pictures, and summaries.
"Lightspeed has always helped retailers understand what they have in stock, what's selling, how much you should price it for," Peter Dougherty, Lightspeed's VP of partnerships told BetaKit. "What we haven't done in the past, and where [the Lightspeed Supplier Network] now steps in, is we're actually helping retailers place the orders and decide who they should be placing those orders with."
Lightspeed claims this new network will "democratize SMB access to a level of strategic inventory visibility typically available only to big retailers." Dougherty said large retailers tend to have access to more information from suppliers than SMBs because of their scale and their spending power, and often tap directly into the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software of bigger brands.
"Smaller SMBs don't have access to that," he said. "They can't afford it, they don't know who to talk to, and a brand or a supplier wouldn't even give them access to that information."
Dougherty claimed this kind of POS-integrated supplier network tech is rare, particularly within the SMB market that Lightspeed serves.
He said the network has been a piece of Lightspeed's strategy for a long time. Given the supply chain pressures associated with the pandemic, it recently decided to accelerate the launch. Dougherty added that COVID-19 is "making it even harder for the smaller retailer."
According to Dougherty, pandemic-related manufacturing delays have made it more difficult for Lightspeed's SMB retailers to access inventory on a timely basis, and more expensive, as manufacturers have passed increased costs associated with ensuring worker safety during COVID-19 on to merchants.
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Lightspeed, which launched on the TSX in March 2019, went public on the NYSE last September, raising $397 million USD and joining rarefied air as one of Canada's few dual-listed companies. Since then, the company has been buying up retail SaaS companies. In November, Lightspeed acquired ShopKeep, a New York-based cloud commerce platform provider, for $440 million, and in December, bought Upserve, an American restaurant management software company, for $430 million.
Last year, the firm began expanding into new verticals. In 2019, Lightspeed partnered with Stripe to launch two new offerings—its own payments product for North American retailers and a business loan program for US-based SMBs—and began allowing its merchants to collect subscription revenue.
Dougherty said the new network is an "enabler" for almost everything else Lightspeed does.
"It helps us drive retailers to more easily sell online, it helps them better understand their inventory, it helps them make better buying decisions, it will drive transaction volume," he said. "It's just the first piece of a lot of what we have coming over the next couple years."
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KJ focuses his practice on corporate and securities transactions, as well as general corporate representation. He primarily works on mergers, acquisitions, private equity investments, strategic investments and securities offerings for private equity funds, their portfolio companies and a variety of other private and public companies. The following is a list of representative matters in which KJ has assisted.
Goldman Sachs Renewable Power Fund in connection with its acquisition of a 142 MW portfolio of solar power generation assets from a subsidiary of Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation
Caprock Midstream Holdings in its $950 million sale to EagleClaw Midstream
Daseke in its $626 million merger with Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. II, a special purpose acquisition company, in an all-stock transaction
TPG in its $2.66 billion acquisition of assets from EnerVest in a SPAC business combination
Oncor Electric Delivery Company in its approximately $400 million asset swap with Sharyland Utilities and Sharyland Distribution & Transmission Services
Magnolia Oil & Gas, a TPG Pace Energy portfolio company, in its $135 million acquisition of substantially all of the South Texas assets of Harvest Oil & Gas
Milestone Apartments Real Estate Investment Trust in its $2.85 billion sale to Starwood Capital Group
Quintana Energy Services Inc. in its $96 million initial public offering of common stock
Chisholm Oil & Gas in the formation of Great Salt Plains Midstream Holdings, a joint venture with MVM Midstream to expand crude oil and gas infrastructure in the STACK play
Daseke in its merger with Aveda Transportation and Energy Services, one of the largest oil rig moving companies in North America
Titanium Exploration Partners, LLC in connection with the sale of certain conventional assets in Oklahoma's SCOOP play to Red Rocks Energy Partners, L.P.
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29 October 2014 by Jackwell Feris Mining and Minerals Alert
Minister of Mineral Resources not empowered to waive the legal requirement to exhaust internal appeal for any adverse administrative decision(s) – The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act
The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, No 28 of 2002 (MPRDA) as amended by the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Amendment Act, No 49 of 2008 (Amendment Act) is the principal legislation in South Africa which, inter alia, regulates the granting or refusal of prospecting rights, mining rights, exploration rights and production rights to applicants by the state as the custodian of all mineral and petroleum resources of South Africa through the Minister of Mineral Resources (Minister).
The legislature in terms of s96 of the MPRDA introduced a compulsory internal appeal process which an aggrieved party must follow. The internal appeal process must first be complied with before approaching a court for relief as s96(3) of the MPRDA makes it clear that no person is entitled to apply to a court for the review of an administrative decision taken in terms of the MPRDA until that person has exhausted their internal remedies. However in exceptional circumstances if a court deems it in the interest of justice an aggrieved persons would be entitled in terms of s7(2)(c) of Promotion of Administrative Justice Act, No 3 of 2000 to directly approach a court for relief without exhausting the internal remedies.
The Constitutional Court in the case of Dengetenge Holdings (Proprietary) Limited v Southern Sphere Mining & Development Co Limited and Others 2014 (5) SA 138 (CC) recently confirmed "The promulgation of PAJA made it compulsory for aggrieved parties to exhaust internal remedies before approaching a court for review unless they were exempted from this duty by a competent court.
The corollary was that the (peremptory) remedy-exhaustion requirement in s96 of the MPRDA could not be waived by administrative functionaries. They were bound to consider the aggrieved party's internal appeals."
Any party who approached a court for the judicial review of a decision by the Minister without first exhausting the internal remedies does so at their own peril. The biggest concern most aggrieved parties have with internal appeals to an administrator is that the internal appeal does not automatically suspend the administrative decision of the Minister or their delegated official.
However, the new s96(2)(b) of the Amendment Act, which came into effect on 7 June 2013, also introduced additional protection to aggrieved persons by suspending any competing applications in terms of the MPRDA in respect of the same/similar rights pending the finalisation of an internal appeal.
Further in respect of internal appeals (including judicial review) there are time-periods within which such process must be initiated. The failure to initiate the process within the prescribed time-periods could result in a court refusing to review and set aside the adverse decision even though such decision was irregular. It is important to obtain legal advice on whether a proper case could be pleaded to demonstrate to a court or an appeal forum that a right or legitimate expectation was materially and adversely affected by the decision of the Minister or her delegated official, which decision must be reviewed, set aside and substituted with the correct decision.
Should you require further information relating to the aforesaid, please contact Jackwell Feris on (T) 011 562 1825 or jackwell.feris@dlacdh.com.
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many di erent places, but pinch yourself and you are instantly brought back to the now.
and feeling of breath lling our bodies. All this happens gradually over the course of time and with guidance from a quali ed instructor. When we reach that place of quiet, an awareness blossoms!
Yoga means to unite, to yoke together, in Sanskrit, an ancient Hindu language.
all for the same goal: to reach a state of being cognizant of our thoughts, words and actions.
As famed yogi BKS Iyengar said, "Yoga for me as I understand is to unite the body with the mind, and taking body and mind together to bring it in par with the eternal evergreen state of the self," meaning that when we practice with steadfastness, focus and good intention, we can all reach a level of awareness equal to spiritual masters. We can all reach that level if we want it!
will. The mind is merely an action that can be stopped.
in silence with yourself and listen to what's going on inside the mind. Then try to look for the silence behind those thoughts. The physical practice of yoga can train us to create that quiet, to be able to notice the gaps between thought and breath. When the body is healthy and strong, we can focus on making the mind equally as healthy and strong. Some yogis can stop their heartbeats; some can live without food or water for weeks, months. This is all due to mental control and pure awareness of their bodies in connection to mind and self.
The more we practice attentiveness to ourselves, the easier it becomes to notice the beauty in living. We allow the limited time we have to infuse us with inspiration for the betterment of our daily lives and appreciate how they a ect others around us. The best part is, anyone can practice yoga.It is a practice designed to improve life one breath at a time, one pose at a time.
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi.


Authors: Krywanczyk, Alison; Bundock, Elizabeth A.
Determining the age of a subdural hematoma at autopsy is of great interest for medicolegal purposes. The appearance of pigment‐laden macrophages is often referenced as evidence that the subdural hematoma is 3–4 days old. However, understanding the significance of macrophages and hemosiderin requires understanding the histology of infant dura. Samples of grossly unremarkable dura taken from 17 pediatric autopsies were identified and histologically confirmed to lack subdural neomembrane. CD68 immunostaining and Prussian blue staining was performed. The CD68‐positive cells per high‐power field were quantified, and the presence of iron‐containing cells was recorded. CD68‐positive cells were present in all cases, even in the dural border layer. Iron‐containing cells were identified in 59% of cases, and in the dural border layer in 29%. Therefore, CD68‐positive and iron‐containing cells can be present in pediatric dura without neomembrane or macroscopic subdural hemorrhage, and this requires consideration when estimating the age of a subdural hematoma.


Proper maintenance of a kids' health is of utmost importance as a healthy kid is not only an asset for the family but also for the Nation. While ensuring proper maintenance of kids' health it is also necessary to focus on the maintenance of mental health of the kids.
Maintenance of physical health: Maintenance of a kid's physical health begins from the moment of his birth. Physical well-being is primarily concerned with factors including but not limited to vaccination, proper treatment against various diseases, balanced diet, maintenance of personal hygiene etc. Besides, it is also important to ensure clean and hygienic environment around the kids so that they are not easily attacked by germs causing different diseases.
Maintenance of mental health: Like physical health maintenance of mental health of the kids also commence from the moment of their birth. Maintaining mental health of kids is more challenging than the maintenance of their physical well-being. This is because mental health of kids may be affected by large number of factors both indoor and outdoor. Indoor factors include: most importantly the relationship between the parents of the kids, nature of his family (whether broken or unbroken), mental stability and soundness of other members of the kids' families as the kids learn from everybody around. Moreover, mental state of the kids' is also dependent on the moral and ethical values which are taught in the early childhood. Besides, the attitude of the parents towards the schooling and overall study of the kids largely affect their mental health.
Outdoor factors affecting mental health of the kids include: most importantly the surrounding circumstances in which the kids are brought up. For instance: treatment of the kids in the school particularly by the teachers and classmates, types of persons with whom the kids are mingling and also the outdoor facilities (like availability of playground, open space) that are enjoyed by the kids. Prevailing violence and unrest around the kids are also adversely affecting their mental and physical stability.
Maintenance of kid's health in reality: Unfortunately everything around us including our attitude is not apt for the proper maintenance of our kids' health. Due to reckless urbanization our kids are not provided with lush green environment, open playground which our predecessors used to enjoy. Besides, family violence is the most common feature in almost all the families. Increasing trend of violence by way of newer types of crimes is also making our kids more aggressive, hostile and unsound.
Conclusion: It is necessary to seriously come forward for the proper maintenance of our kids' health in keeping pace with modern methods (like parents counseling, child counseling etc). This is because today's kid is the future of the Nation. Hence, if we want to develop a healthy nation, it is indispensable to maintain kids' health properly.
Daniel White explains how to take care of your kids health. He is children's' health advocate. His message is: While ensuring proper maintenance of kids' health it is necessary to focus on the maintenance of mental health of the kids.