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General conditions of sale
These Recruiter Terms and Conditions ("Recruiter Terms") are deemed accepted by the Recruiter when any Services are ordered by the Recruiter.
1. Definitions
In these Recruiter Terms the following terms shall have the following meanings:
"Affiliates" means any holding company of the Company or any subsidiary of such holding company from time to time (and holding company and subsidiary shall have the definitions set out in section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006);
"Business Day" means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday;
"Company" means the company providing the Services as set out on the Order Form;
"Contract" has the meaning set out in clause 2.1 of these Recruiter Terms;
"CV" means the curriculum vitae of the Jobseeker that is prepared and supplied by a Jobseeker;
"Fair Use Policy" means the Company's fair use policy available at http://www.fashionjobs.com/texte/1.html
"Fees" means the sums payable by the Recruiter to the Company for the supply of the Services;
"Issue Date" the date that the Order Form is issued by the Company as set out on the Order Form;
"Jobseeker" means a person who uses the FashionJobs Network to search for, obtain information about and apply for job opportunities;
"FashionJobs Network" means the Sites and other recruitment websites and widgets operated by the Company, its Affiliates or third parties in partnership with the Company and/or its Affiliates;
"Order Form" means the order form or online purchase confirmation page issued to the Recruiter by the Company;
"Non Business Day" means a day which is not a Business Day;
"Recruiter" means the person, company or firm named on the Order Form;
"Recruiter Content" means all or any part of the content and materials (including job advertisement particulars) supplied or made available by the Recruiter in connection with the Services;
"Recruiter Services Menu" means the menu of products/services that are available to be ordered by the Recruiter from the Company and which sets out specific conditions that apply in respect of the supply of individual products/services. A copy of the Recruiter Services Menu is located at http://www.fashionjobs.com/societeCompte/
"Service Duration" means the period during which the Company shall provide the Services as set out on the Order Form;
"Services" means such of the product/services listed on the Recruiter Services Menu that the Company has agreed to supply to the Recruiter as set out on the Order Form;
"Sites" means the website(s) specified on the Order Form;
"Upload System" means the system (if any) made available by the Company to the Recruiter in order to facilitate upload of the Recruiter Content to the Sites and includes any Upload System Software; and
"Upload System Software" means any software supplied by the Company to the Recruiter to assist upload of Recruiter Content via the Upload System.
2. Contract Between the Company and the Recruiter
2.1 The contract between the Company and the Recruiter in respect of the Services (the "Contract") shall comprise the Order Form, the Recruiter Services Menu and these Recruiter Terms to the exclusion of all other terms and conditions (including any terms or conditions which the Recruiter purports to apply under any purchase order, confirmation of order or other document).
2.2 In the event of a conflict in terms between the Order Form, the Recruiter Services Menu and these Recruiter Terms, the documents shall rank in the following order of precedence: (i) Order Form, (ii) Recruiter Services Menu and (iii) these Recruiter Terms.
2.3 Except as set out in clauses 12 and 13.7, the Contract cannot be terminated or cancelled by the Recruiter without the written agreement of the Company.
3. Services
3.1 Subject to these Recruiter Terms and in consideration of the payment of the Fees by the Recruiter, the Company shall provide the Services to the Recruiter during the Service Duration.
3.2 The Company shall use reasonable skill and care in its provision of the Services but the Company makes no representation or warranty that the Services and use of the Upload System will be uninterrupted or error free or fit for the Recruiter's particular purpose.
3.3 The Company shall be entitled to temporarily suspend or alter the operation of the Services and/or Upload System for legal or technical reasons. The Company shall endeavour to notify the Recruiter as far in advance as possible of any temporary suspension or significant alteration but the Recruiter acknowledges that prior notice may not always be possible.
3.4 The Company may in its sole discretion decline to post on or remove from the Sites and Services any of the Recruiter Content and/or require the Recruiter Content to be amended at any time if the Company considers that the Recruiter is in breach of any of clauses 4, 5 or 6 below.
3.5 The Recruiter may request the removal of a job advertisement from the Sites and the FashionJobs Network (as applicable) before the end of the Service Duration but shall not be entitled to any refund of Fees.
3.6 If any quota of Services is not used up by the Recruiter within the Service Duration specified on the Order Form then such quota shall expire. The Recruiter shall remain responsible for full payment of the Fees.
4. Recruiter General Warranties and Obligations
4.1 The Recruiter acknowledges and agrees to the specific conditions (if any) that apply in respect of the Services as set out in the Recruiter Services Menu.
4.2 The Recruiter shall ensure that only its authorised personnel access the Services.
4.3 The Recruiter shall not disclose any login password to any third party and shall not resell or licence the Services to any third party without the Company's prior written consent.
4.4 The Recruiter shall deliver Recruiter Content to the Company in a format compatible with the technical specifications issued by the Company from time to time.
4.5 The Recruiter undertakes and warrants that its use of the Services and all Recruiter Content (including, without limitation, job advertisements) comply with all applicable laws and codes of practice and shall not be defamatory, discriminatory or otherwise objectionable and shall not infringe any copyright, trade mark or other rights of any third party.
4.6 The Recruiter authorises the Company to use and display Recruiter Content on the FashionJobs Network.
4.7 The Recruiter warrants that it holds all necessary consents and licences to use and grant the Company the right to use the Recruiter Content as envisaged by the Contract.
4.8 The Recruiter shall not publish, disclose, reproduce or create derivative works from any information obtained pursuant to the Recruiter's use of the Services except for internal business purposes unless expressly agreed in writing by the Company.
4.9 The Recruiter shall not copy, make modifications to, reverse engineer or decompile the Upload System Software, except to the extent permitted by law.
4.10 The Recruiter shall not use any automatic extraction software (such as software tools commonly known as robots and spiders) or any other means to facilitate the downloading or capture of volume quantities of information from the Company.
4.11 The Recruiter shall comply with the terms of the Fair Use Policy.
5. Job Advertisements
5.1 The Recruiter warrants that:
5.1.1 its job advertisement particulars shall be accurate, honest and truthful;
5.1.2 its job advertisements shall not contain unnecessarily repeated words or phrases intended to cause a false positioning in the search results seen by a Jobseeker;
5.1.3 its job advertisements shall not contain links to the website of the Recruiter (or any third party) or any job application contact information without the prior written agreement of the Company; and
5.1.4 its job advertisements shall not promote any 'get rich quick', pyramid selling or network marketing opportunities or similar.
6. Jobseekers and CVs
6.1 The Recruiter shall only use CVs and personally identifiable Jobseeker information for the purpose of finding employment for Jobseekers.
6.2 The Recruiter shall keep confidential and not supply or make available to any person CVs and personally identifiable Jobseeker information that the Recruiter receives from the Company or any Jobseeker without the Jobseeker's express consent.
6.3 The Recruiter shall comply with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and, in particular, shall take all appropriate technical, organisational and security measures to prevent unauthorised access, loss and use of personal data relating to Jobseekers.
6.4 The Recruiter accepts that it is responsible for satisfying itself as to the suitability of Jobseekers for a job vacancy and verifying the identity of such Jobseekers.
7. Recruiter Indemnity
The Recruiter shall indemnify the Company and its Affiliates against all claims, costs, damages, losses, expenses and liabilities suffered or incurred by the Company and its Affiliates arising as a result of any breach by the Recruiter of clauses 4, 5 and 6.
8. Fees
8.1 Fees are as stated on the Order Form and are exclusive of VAT which shall be paid by the Recruiter in addition at the rate and in the manner prescribed by law.
8.2 The Recruiter shall pay all invoices within 30 days of the invoice date and by such method as may be agreed by the Company.
8.3 If the Recruiter fails to pay any amount due to the Company by the due date for payment then:
8.3.1 the Company reserves the right to charge interest at the rate of 4% per annum above HSBC Bank plc's base lending rate in force from time to time or such higher rate as may be permitted by law from the due date until settlement or discharge of the debt; and
8.3.2 without prejudice to any other right or remedy available to the Company, the Company shall be entitled to suspend the Services until all monies owing to the Company have been paid in full by the Recruiter.
8.4 The Company reserves the right to require the Recruiter to pay a deposit and/or a non-refundable advance payment before making Services available to the Recruiter. If a deposit is paid by the Recruiter, it shall be repaid by the Company to the Recruiter on termination of the Contract subject to the Company's right to offset any outstanding amounts payable by the Recruiter against such deposit.
8.5 The Company reserves the right to charge the Recruiter its reasonable administration costs in dealing with any failed payments and/or any costs incurred by the Company in relation to pursuing debt collection (including debt collection agency fees and expenses).
9. Intellectual Property Rights
The Recruiter acknowledges that all intellectual property rights in the Services, technology supporting the Services (including the Upload System) and the FashionJobs Network vest in the Company and/or its licensors and partners and that the Recruiter has no rights in, or to, such intellectual property other than the right to use in accordance with the Contract.
10. Limitation of Liability
10.1 This clause sets out the entire financial liability of the Company to the Recruiter in respect of:
10.1.1 any breach of the Contract;
10.1.2 any use made by the Recruiter of the Services; and
10.1.3 any representation, statement or tortious act or omission (including negligence) arising under or in connection with the Contract.
10.2 Nothing in the Contract shall exclude or limit the Company's liability for death or personal injury resulting from the negligence of the Company or for fraud or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law.
10.3 All warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statute or common law in relation to the Services are, to the fullest extent permitted by law, excluded from the Contract.
10.4 The Company has no liability to verify the identity of any Jobseekers or check the suitability of any Jobseekers for any job vacancy.
10.5 The Company shall not be liable to the Recruiter under or in connection with the Contract for any loss of business, contracts, profits, anticipated savings, data, damage to hardware and software, or for any indirect, special or consequential loss.
10.6 The Company does not accept liability for loss of any Recruiter Content.
10.7 The Company's liability in respect of any failure to perform the Services in accordance with the Contract shall be limited to the re-performance of the relevant part of the Services as far as is practicable.
10.8 Subject to the provisions of this clause 10, the total liability of the Company to the Recruiter in respect of any loss or damage under or in connection with the Contract shall not exceed the aggregate amount of Fees paid by the Recruiter in the twelve months immediately preceding the incurring of such loss or damage.
11. Confidentiality
The Company and the Recruiter agree to keep the terms of the Contract and all information that is obtained about the business, finances, technology and affairs of the other strictly confidential. This clause shall not apply to information which has come into the public domain other than by breach of this clause or is required to be disclosed by law.
12. Termination
12.1 Either party may terminate the Contract:
12.1.1 immediately upon written notice to the other party if the other party commits any material or persistent breach of any of the provisions of the Contract and, in the case of a breach which is capable of remedy, fails to remedy the same within 14 days after receipt of a written notice giving particulars of the breach and requiring it to be remedied; or
12.1.2 immediately upon written notice to the other party if the other party shall cease to carry on its business or shall have a liquidator, receiver or administrative receiver appointed to it or over any part of its undertaking or assets or shall pass a resolution for its winding up (otherwise than for the purpose of a bona fide scheme of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction where the resulting entity shall assume all the liabilities of it) or a court of competent jurisdiction shall make an administration order or liquidation order or similar order, or shall enter into any voluntary arrangement with its creditors, or shall be unable to pay its debts as they fall due.
12.2 Where the Company believes (in it is sole discretion) that the Recruiter has failed to comply with the terms of the Fair Use Policy or has otherwise breached the provisions of clauses 4, 5 or 6 then without prejudice to any other right or remedy available to the Company, the Company shall be entitled to (i) suspend the Services and/or (ii) terminate the Contract immediately upon written notice.
12.3 Upon termination of the Contract for any reason:
12.3.1 the Recruiter shall immediately cease using the Services, permanently delete any access passwords for the Services and erase any Upload System Software; and
12.3.2 the Recruiter shall immediately pay to the Company all outstanding sums due to the Company under the Contract; and
12.3.3 save in the case of termination by the Recruiter in accordance with Clause 12.1, the Recruiter acknowledges and agrees that it shall not be entitled to a refund of any sums paid in advance to the Company.
12.4 Termination of the Contract shall not affect the accrued rights or liabilities of the Company or the Recruiter under the Contract nor any provision of the Contract which is expressed or required to survive or operate in such event.
13. General
13.1 The Contract contains the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter covered and supersedes any previous agreements, arrangements, written or oral, between the parties in relation to such matters.
13.2 No amendment, variation or modification to the Contract shall be deemed valid unless it is agreed in writing by the parties.
13.3 The Recruiter shall not assign, transfer or deal in any other manner with all or any of its rights or obligations under the Contract without the prior written consent of the Company.
13.4 A person who is not a party to the Contract has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any terms of the Contract.
13.5 Nothing in the Contract shall be deemed to create any kind of partnership or joint venture between the Company and the Recruiter.
13.6 No failure or delay by either party in exercising any of its rights or remedies under the Contract shall operate as a waiver of those rights or remedies. No waiver shall be effective unless in writing and shall apply only in relation to the matter in respect of which it was specifically given. No waiver of any breach of the Contract is a waiver of any subsequent or other breach.
13.7 Neither party shall be liable for any delay or non-performance under the Contract caused by any event beyond its reasonable control (a "Force Majeure Event") provided that the party affected gives prompt notice in writing to the other party of such Force Majeure Event and uses all reasonable endeavours to continue to perform its obligations under the Contract. If the Force Majeure Event continues for more than one month, the party not subject to the Force Majeure Event may terminate the Contract by notice in writing to the other party.
13.8 If any provision of the Contract is held to be illegal, void, invalid or unenforceable the legality, validity and enforceability of the remainder of the Contract shall not be affected.
13.9 Notices under the Contract must be in writing and shall only be deemed to have been duly served if hand delivered, sent by facsimile (provided the transmitting machine reports successful transmission), recorded delivery or email to the contact address of the party set out in the Order Form or such other contact address as may be notified by that party under this clause.
13.10 The Contract shall be governed by and construed in accordance with French law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the French courts in relation to any disputes arising under or in connection with the Contract.


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GOP wins contempt fight, but legal dispute looms
House Republicans won a historic political fight to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, but the GOP probably is still a long way from obtaining documents it wants in an investigation of a bungled Justice Department gun-tracking operation.
There are two routes to enforcing the contempt citations approved by the House on Thursday, a criminal prosecution and a civil lawsuit, although the White House on Friday virtually shut down the criminal path. The civil route through the courts would not be resolved anytime soon.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Justice Department going back to the administration of President Ronald Reagan has not pursued prosecutions in contempt cases involving assertions of executive privilege.
President Barack Obama invoked a broad form of the privilege to prevent sending department documents to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is leading the effort to get the material related to Operation Fast and Furious.
"This is pure politics," Carney said.
"Remarkably the chairman of the committee involved here has asserted that he has no evidence that the attorney general knew of Operation Fast and Furious or did anything but take the right action when he learned of it.
"No evidence, so if you have no evidence as he has stated now about the White House and the attorney general, what else could this be but politics?"
More than 100 Democrats walked out of the House chamber to boycott the first of two contempt votes, saying Republicans were more interested in shameful election-year politics than documents.
Republicans demanded the documents for an ongoing investigation, but their arguments focused more on the need for closure for the family of slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. Two guns from the gun-tracking operation were found near his body after a shootout in Arizona.
Democrats promised closure as well, but said a less-partisan Republican investigation was the only way to get it.
Adding to the emotion of the day, the family of the slain agent issued a statement backing the Republicans.
"The Terry family takes no pleasure in the contempt vote against Attorney General Eric Holder. Such a vote should not have been necessary. The Justice Department should have released the documents related to Fast and Furious months ago," the statement said.
It all happened on the day that President Barack Obama's health care law survived in the Supreme Court, prompting some Democrats to speculate that the votes were scheduled to be overwhelmed by news stories about the ruling.
About five hours after the court ruled, with news sites flooded with information about the health care ruling, the House voted 255-67 to declare Holder in criminal contempt.
The matter goes to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who works under Holder.
A second vote of 258-95 held Holder in civil contempt and authorized the House to file a lawsuit.
In past cases, courts have been reluctant to settle disputes between the executive and legislative branches of government.
The issue became more complicated when Obama invoked a broad form of executive privilege, a legal position that is designed to keep private certain communications of executive branch agencies.
Issa's committee will consult with the House counsel's office about a court challenge to the administration's decision not to cooperate, spokesman Frederick Hill said.
The documents were written after Fast and Furious was shut down. The subpoena covered a 10-month period from February 2011, when the Justice Department denied that guns purchased in the U.S. were allowed to "walk" across the border into Mexico, to early December 2011 when the department acknowledged the earlier assertion was in error.
Republicans said the contempt citations were necessary because Holder refused to hand over documents that could explain why the Obama administration took 10 months to come clean about gun-walking. The operation identified more than 2,000 illicitly purchased weapons. Some 1,400 of them have yet to be recovered in the failed strategy to track the weapons to gun-running rings.

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As part of our Healthy for Life® initiative, we are proud to be working with the American Heart Association to improve the health of Americans 20% by 2020. Healthy for Life 20 by 20 introduces a unique health impact partnership model where a preeminent health advocacy organization and a leading food company work together to leverage their combined reach and resources as part of a multi-year collaboration designed to help millions lead healthier lives.
Recognizing the scope of the public health challenge, this innovative model works to:
- Impact the food environment through healthy menu commitments.
- Engage our consumers through health awareness, education and marketing programs.
- Support under-served communities through community based nutrition education curriculum combined with culturally relevant and family centric cooking classes.
- Improve the health and wellbeing of Aramark employees and their families through extensive workforce wellness programs.
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Our menus are created by experienced chefs who have a passion for food.
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We provide calorie conscious choices and make nutrition information available for all the food we serve.
When available, our menus include seasonal selections with local and sustainable products.
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We are reducing the amounts of sodium and unhealthy fats in our recipes, and working with our suppliers to do the same in their ingredients.
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Our chefs and dietitians help take the mystery out of healthy eating with nutrition education programs and wellness events.
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PLEASANTON, Calif. – Apr 06, 2010 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice communications solutions, today announced expanded standard capabilities for its entire line of standards-based Polycom HDX room telepresence systems, including 1080p high definition (HD) video at up to 50 percent less bandwidth, to ensure an optimal, UltimateHD™ user experience.
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"Customers are embracing visual communications faster than ever, extending its use across their organizations, and looking to integrate video into their unified communications environments," said Joe Sigrist, senior vice president and general manager of video communications, Polycom. "To support this growth, the expanding applications, and to ensure the best possible user experience, Polycom is making our industry-leading UltimateHD capabilities standard across all of our Polycom HDX room telepresence systems. This includes support for our Polycom Open Collaboration Network partners, beginning with native integration in Microsoft UC environments."
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Episode Summary
Just as a job of a parent is to both bless and discipline one's children, it is the job of a pastor, a shepherd of a flock of God, to both bless and discipline the church. In many ways, Romans shows this need and is also a good example of how the church should be both blessed and disciplined. This book is also a good example for the whole congregation, as well, of how believers should be correcting each other in situations in which a pastor doesn't necessarily need to be involved. In this last half of the last chapter of Romans, Paul tells the church how they should be acting, and this is still applicable to the modern church. Today, Pastor Mike covers Romans 16:17-27.
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17 Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. 18 For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple. 19 For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil. 20 And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
21 Timothy, my fellow worker, and Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my countrymen, greet you.
22 I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you in the Lord.
23 Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, a brother. 24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
25 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began 26 but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith— 27 to God, alone wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.
Abide in Truth is a ministry of Calvary Chapel Emmett and listeners can tune in every weekday at 10:30 am and again at 5:45 pm. Mike Hughes is the teaching pastor at CC Emmett and each week he looks to go through God's Word, book by book and chapter by chapter. We are currently going through the book of Romans in a series entitled Amazing Grace. So grab your Bible, turn up the volume and follow along with us.
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Helen Thomas retires in Israel remarks flap
WASHINGTON - Longtime Washington journalist Helen Thomas abruptly retired Monday as a columnist for Hearst News Service following remarks she made about Israel that were denounced by the White House and her press corps colleagues.
The 89-year-old Thomas, dean of the White House press corps, has long been a fixture in Washington and has been lauded as a pioneering journalist who has covered presidents since 1960.
Known for her confrontational questioning, Thomas apologized for comments that were captured on video and have spread widely on the Internet. On the May 27 video, Thomas says Israelis should "get the hell out of Palestine," suggesting they go to Germany, Poland or the U.S.
Hearst announced her retirement, effective immediately, shortly after White House press secretary Robert Gibbs called her remarks "offensive and reprehensible."
The White House Correspondents Association also issued a rare statement, calling her comments "indefensible."
"Many in our profession who have known Helen for years were saddened by the comments, which were especially unfortunate in light of her role as a trail blazer on the White House beat," said the statement, signed by journalists who are officers of the association.
Thomas had been scheduled to speak at the June 14 graduation of Walt Whitman High School in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., but Principal Alan Goodwin wrote in a Sunday e-mail to students and parents that she was being replaced.
"Graduation celebrations are not the venue for divisiveness," Goodwin wrote.
Thomas wrote on her website that "I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians."
She added: "They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon."
The national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham H. Foxman, said Sunday that Thomas' apology didn't go far enough.
"Her suggestion that Israelis should go back to Poland and Germany is bigoted and shows a profound ignorance of history," Foxman said in a statement. "We believe Thomas needs to make a more forceful and sincere apology for the pain her remarks have caused."
Thomas began her long career with the wire service United Press International in 1943, and started covering the White House in 1960, according to a biography posted on her website. She became a columnist for Hearst in 2000.


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Recipients of City of Monroe ARPA funds will be assigned to one of the following categories: contractor or subrecipient. If the applicant agency is the direct and final recipient, the agency is a contractor; if the applicant agency is in turn passing ARPA funds through to other entities (individuals, non-profit agencies, or businesses), the applicant agency is a subrecipient. For questions about the compliance requirements for contractors and subrecipients, contact Finance Manager David Hammond at firstname.lastname@example.com or 360-863-4885.
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The City of Monroe has assembled a group of volunteers from amongst current members of City Boards, Commissions, and Committees. Applications involving projects that will impact and/or support businesses will be reviewed by members of the Economic Development Advisory Board (EDAB); applications involving projects that will impact and/or support people will be reviewed by members of the Community Human Services Advisory Board (CHSAB); applications involving projects that will impact community infrastructure or events/activities that bring people together will be reviewed by members of the Planning Commission and Park Board.
The City of Monroe has established evaluation criteria, based on input from a group of members of City Boards, Commissions, and Committees, that will be used to evaluate all ARPA funds applications. A link to this document is also available on the general ARPA funds webpage.
"Project" is the term the City of Monroe uses in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Funds Application to describe what the applicant intends to accomplish. This is inclusive of all allowable uses of ARPA funds.
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If the primary applicant has either a Monroe business license or a 501(c)(3) non-profit designation, then partners/partnerships are not required. If the primary applicant has neither of these, at least one partnering agency that holds such a designation is required.
The City of Monroe has established three categories into which applications will be assigned (definitions for each category are provided in the application packet): Supporting Recovery, Reconnecting Community, and Building Resiliency. Mayor Thomas and the Monroe City Council have dedicated $437,000 to each category for the current round of funding.
Applications will be reviewed in October, and the recommendations of the respective review committees will be submitted to the Monroe City Council for its consideration in November or December. A funding timeline is available on the ARPA Funds webpage.
The City of Monroe is anticipating a second round of funding. Applications will be available beginning in the first quarter of 2022, with funds available in the second quarter of 2022.
Yes. Recipients of ARPA funds from the current funding round will be eligible for funds in the second and any subsequent funding rounds, for either the same or a new project. If the applicant anticipates applying for continued funding of the same project in future funding rounds, a description of that anticipated future need should be included in the Budget Narrative section in the application packet.
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God's Passover is to be held on the fourteenth day of the first month
The Bible tells us that Passover is always on Nisan 14. Numbers 28:16-17 says: "In the first month on the 14th day of the month is Adonai's Pesach (Passover). On the 15th day of the month is to be a feast." The Scriptures verify this several times. On the 14th, as Jehovah instructed, His people were to slaughter the lamb toward twilight/dusk toward the evening and eat it "that same night" – because the 15th was to be a feast.
So on the night when the 14th Nisan begins we as believers come together to commemorate the last moments of the life of Jesus Christ. The days afterwards we can gather with family and friends and celebrate the liberation of God's people. When it is still day light it would be still the 14th of Nisan but as soon the sun goes under the 15th of Nisan begins and the evening meal can be taken full of joy, because the people who could leave Egypt was the way to the Land of God for the Jews. And the death of Christ was the liberation of all people so that everybody could receive the opportunity to come closer to God and would be able to enter the Kingdom of God.
We should always remember that Jesus himself said to the apostles, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;" (Luke 22:15 NAS) Jeshua died on the first evening of Passover, and Passover seders are to be held on the evening (sunset) of Nisan 14th, for the 15th (which starts immediately after sunset) is to be a feast (Numbers 28:16-17).
As such we are happy to invite everybody to gather with those who believe in Christ his death and resurrection for becoming our mediator between God and man and would like to find them in prayer and worship on 14 Nisan at the memorial table.
""For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite [you.]" (Exodus 12:23 NAS)
""You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And none shall appear before Me empty-handed." (Exodus 23:15 NAS)
""You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt." (Exodus 34:18 NAS)
"3 "You shall not eat leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), in order that you may remember all the days of your life the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. 4 "For seven days no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory, and none of the flesh which you sacrifice on the evening of the first day shall remain overnight until morning. 5 "You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any of your towns which the LORD your God is giving you; 6 but at the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name, you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the time that you came out of Egypt. 7 "And you shall cook and eat it in the place which the LORD your God chooses. And in the morning you are to return to your tents. 8 "Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; you shall do no work on it." (Deuteronomy 16:3-8 NAS)
2013 Confusion or controversy
This year there were many controversies on which day to hold the Memorial Meal. We take the gospel of John in consideration where is spoken of the 14th of Nisan as "the preparation of the Passover." The next morning, after the final supper Jeshua had with his disciples, after the Jews had apprehended Jeshua and interrogated him, early that morning, they led him to the hall of judgement be judged by Pontius Pilate, Roman governor. The Jews themselves, however, would not go into the Roman judgement hall, "lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the Passover" (John 18:28). Clearly Passover had not yet come. So for sure the 14 Nisan or our Memorial Meal service would have to take place one evening before the night the Jews would take their Pesach seder.
According to certain Jewish groups Erev Pesach ('Eve of Passover') – First Seder would be on Monday March 25, 14 Nissan, 5773.
The Torah (Exodus 12:15, as per Talmud, Pesachim 5a) sets midday of Nissan 14—for 2013 on Monday March 25th –as the deadline for the destruction and/or removal of all leavened foods ("chametz") from their possession in preparation for the festival of Passover, which begins that evening at nightfall. In practice, Torah law mandates that we desist from eating chametz two hours before midday, and that no leaven remain in our possession an hour before midday. These are not clock hours but "proportional hours", defined by Jewish law as a 12th part of the time between sunrise and sunset.
When the Holy Temple stood in Jerusalem, the Passover offering was brought there on the afternoon of Nissan 14 which would mean on the afternoon Tuesday 26. That day it is commemorated by the Jews their recitation of the "Order of the Passover Offering" in the afternoon of Tuesday 26 March, by the "shankbone" placed on the seder plate this evening, and the afikoman — a portion of matzah eaten in its stead at the end of the seder meal.
The Jewish calendar date begins at sundown of the night beforehand. Thus all holiday observances begin at sundown on the secular dates listed, with the following day being the first full day of the holiday. (Thus, the first Passover seder is held on the evening of the first date listed.) Jewish calendar dates conclude at nightfall.
The first two days of Passover (from sundown of the first date listed, until nightfall two days later) are full-fledged, no-work-allowed holiday days. The subsequent four days are Chol Hamoed, when work is allowed, albeit with restrictions. Chol Hamoed is followed by another two full holiday days.
According Chabad the holiday of Pesach, or Passover, falling on the Hebrew calendar dates of Nissan 15-22.
Here are coinciding secular dates for the upcoming years:
2013: March 25-April 2
First Seder – Night of Monday, March 25, 2013
First Day – Tuesday March 26, 2013
Second Seder – Night of Tuesday March 26, 2013
Second Day – Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Seventh Day – Monday, April 1, 2013
Eighth Day – Tuesday, April 2, 2013
2014: April 14-22
2015: April 3-11
2016: April 22-30
2017: April 10-18
According to The Premier Kosher Information Source on the Internet Passover begins with the first Seder on the eve of the 15th day of Nisan, corresponding (according to them) to Monday evening, March 25, 2013, and ends outside of Israel at the conclusion of the 22nd day of Nisan, corresponding to Tuesday evening, April 2, 2013.
According to us we have to take in account the difference of timing of the East (Jerusalem), Europe and the United States (even there the East and West coast).
For 2013 we had New Moon on March the 11th and Full Moon on March 27, so 14 Nisan should be on the evening of 26 March this year.
Therefore we kindly invite you to join us on Tuesday night for the Memorial of Jesus' death, the Pesach or Lamb of God. On that evening we shall meet to commemorate the greatest man on earth and we shall examine what makes Jesus—and his sacrifice—so vitally important.
Preceding articles: 14 Nisan a day to remember #4 A Lamb slain
14 Nisan a day to remember #3 Before the Passover-feast
14 Nisan a day to remember #2 Time of Jesus
14 Nisan a day to remember #1 Inception
Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: 14 Nisan een dag om te herinneren #5 De te vieren dag
Please do find also other related articles:
Articles on 14 Nisan and Pesach/Pascha:
- 1 -15 Nisan
- Day of remembrance coming near
- Around the feast of Unleavened Bread
- Pesach
- Korban Pesach
- Seven days of Passover
- Day of remembrance coming near
- Observance of a day to Remember
- Jesus memorial
- Bread and Wine
- Deliverance and establishement of a theocracy
- High Holidays not only for Israel
- Festival of Freedom and persecutions
About Jesus his death:
- About a man who changed history of humankind
- How is it that Christ pleased God so perfectly?
- God showing how far He is willing to go to save His children
- Grace and beloved by God
- The meek one riding on an ass
- Why did Jesus have to die on the cross?
- A new exodus and offering of a Lamb
- Ransom for all
- Swedish theologian finds historical proof Jesus did not die on a cross
- Impaled until death overtook him
- The day Jesus died
- Jesus three days in hell
- The redemption of man by Christ Jesus
- The one who makes us well and gives life
About Easter:
- Peter Cottontail and a Bunny laying Eastereggs
- Altered to fit a Trinity
- Jesus is risen
- Risen With Him
- Christ has indeed been raised from the dead
- A season of gifts
- Wishing lanterns and Christmas
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- How long was Jesus in the grave? (wnd.com)
For centuries, Christians have observed the crucifixion of Jesus as being on Friday afternoon and the resurrection at dawn the following Sunday. This is only a period of about 40 hours and certainly does not fit Jesus' prediction of three days and three nights?
"For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a whale, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth," Matthew 12:40. The problem is neither with Jesus' prediction nor with the Bible. The problem is with our tradition that misses a very important fact of the events of that week in Jesus' ministry. The Bible tells us that Jesus was crucified on the Day of Preparation for the Passover Sabbath (Mark 15:42, Luke 23:54, John 19:14, 31). The Hebrew calendar begins each day at the evening twilight of the previous day. For example, the Jewish Friday begins at what would be the beginning of Thursday evening on our calendars. The Day of Preparation for Passover was always the 14th of the Hebrew month Abib (also known as Nisan). Passover began that evening, the 15th.
- Preparations for the Passover Meal – Luke 22: 7-13 (shalommysticwind.wordpress.com)
The synoptic want to emphasize the Passover significance of the Last Supper and therefore they date it to the night of 14th or 15th of Nisan when the Jews celebrate their Passover Meal. Here the Last Supper is presented as Jesus' own Passover, the new Passover Meal of his own body and blood. In gospel of John, however, the death of Jesus is connected with the Passover and not the Last Supper. Jesus the Lamb of God is sacrificed on the Cross at a time when the Passover lambs are slaughtered in preparation for the Passover Meal.
- Passover and the Feast of First Fruits (thebereanstand.wordpress.com)
At the end of this month Christians around the world will be celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In the week before Jews will be observing the Passover. What most Christians do not know is that these two "Holy-days" are related to each other. The story of the preparations for the Passover Meal is itself introductory to the account of the Last Supper in Luke 22: 14-23.
The parallel passages in Matthew 26: 17-19 and Mark 14: 12-16 also present Jesus' meal with his disciples as a Passover Meal held on the 14th or 15th night of Nisan. The same night Jesus was arrested and the following day, namely, on 15th of Nisan he was crucified. It is also interesting to note that the three synoptic evangelists explicitly mention that day as the day of preparation, that is, the day before a Sabbath (cf. Mk 15: 42; Mt 27: 62; Lk 23; 54-56). The fourth evangelist (John) is also in agreement with the synoptic on this point.
- Our Passover Lamb (eternalchrist.wordpress.com)
What does it mean that Christ is the fulfillment of the Law and prophets?One of the ways we can see this is by examining the Feasts ofIsrael. YHWH established appointed times that the nation of Israel wouldmeet with Him in worship and thanksgiving. There were three feasts in the Spring (Passover, Unleavened Bread and First Fruits); one in the Summer (Pentecost); and three in the Fall (Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacle).
Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of these feasts, or appointed times.
- Faith Without Obidience (ioan17.wordpress.com)
Special care was to be taken of this lamb until the 14th of the month, the Passover, when the lamb would be slaughtered at twilight. On the original Passover, the blood of the lamb was smeared on the doorposts of every Hebrew home to distinguish them from the Egyptians and to protect them from the destroyer.
- Happy Passover 2013 (/aksyrin.wordpress.com)
Much of the symbolism of Jesus' last Passover week is lost to us because we are unaware of the customs of the time.
The day Jesus was crucified was the day of the Passover celebration and the day that the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed. For the previous 1,200 years, the priest would blow the shophar (ram's horn) at 3:00 p.m. – the moment the lamb was sacrificed, and all the people would pause to contemplate the sacrifice for sins on behalf of the people of Israel.At 3:00, when Jesus was being crucified, He said, "It is finished" – at the moment that the Passover lamb was sacrificed and the shophar was blown from the Temple. The sacrifice of the lamb of God was fulfilled at the hour that the symbolic animal sacrifice usually took place. At the same time, the veil of the Temple (a three-inch thick, several story high cloth that demarked the Holy of Holies) tore from top to bottom – representing a removal of the separation between God and man. Fifty days later, on the anniversary of the giving of the law (Pentecost), God left the earthly temple to inhabit those who call on the name of Jesus through His Holy Spirit.
- The Lamb of God (calvinistview.com)
One source tells us that around the time of Christ, 256,000 lambs were slain in Jerusalem for just one Passover. According to ancient Jewish law, there were ten people required for every one lamb. So that puts the population in Jerusalem for Passover at roughly 2.5 million people plus!
- The Passover Lamb has Gone Missing (waynehilsden.com)
After sunset we join Jews around the world in a "seder" meal.
The lamb has gone missing. Yet the lamb of God was essential to Israel's redemption. As followers of Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah we behold with the Jewish prophet John "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29). And we celebrate Passover knowing that Jesus is the reason for the season. In the words of Rabbi Saul/Paul, "For indeed Messiah, our Passover, was sacrificed for us." (1 Corinthians 5:7)


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Sunday, November 18, 2012
Thanksgiving and Wine (Thoughts from PB, Reposted by NW)
A Thanksgiving Day meal with friends and family provides a perfect opportunity to enjoy nice wine. Because so much fuss is made over food and wine pairings in general, I find people get a little stressed out about what to serve guest on this special day. Fortunately, many wines have a much broader range than they get credit for. With that in mind, I have some basic suggestions that might help.
If you are planning a very traditional Thanksgiving meal, complete with Turkey and all the assorted sides, a number of red wines can work well like Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Zinfandel, and Merlot. All of these varietals have a pretty broad range, except maybe the Zinfandel. However, I put Zinfandel on the list because it works well with cranberry sauce and heavy starches like mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes.
In order to make things even more festive at the table, I suggest you offer guests two wines. This is especially easy if you are able to provide you guests with two wine glasses and allow them to pour and sip as they like. Simply place the bottles on the table and allow your guests to discover the different pairings as they please.
As a rule of thumb, plan for at least a half bottle per person while at the table. Which two wines? Try offering one Cabernet Sauvignon and one Pinot Noir, perhaps both from American wineries in the spirit of the holiday.
While wines at the dinner table are often the focal point, don't forget that you can create a special experience with wines before and after the meal. A nice bubbly is a great way to start the festivities, especially with assorted appetizers or finger food. To finish things off, try a nice dessert wine. Something sweet but light, for example a muscat or icewine, should help wash down the pie. Do this before the coffee.
Raise a glass to a Thanksgiving table complete with wine!
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Look at these bullets. They're rubbery, less lethal,"almost incapable of penetrating the body," and happen to resemble Koosh balls—a popular toy. Getting shot with these must be fun.
I'm kidding. I don't really think getting shot by anything would be fun, but it's really difficult to believe that "[t]his may be the most intelligent way to defend your family against home intruders." Especially when the "WARNING: Keep out of reach of children" is distracting me.
Either way, rubber projectiles like these have been used by law enforcement agencies for ages, but now they're available to consumers. I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing. [Wired]


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This file is a bash(1) shell script. It is used to set some shell variables and a shell function that are used by the backup script. Be careful in what you write here: the configuration file is sourced and all commands within are executed on the beginning of a backup.
SILENT If set to true, simplebackup will print only errors and warnings. TARGETDIR This is the directory where the backup is written to. Be sure to have enough free disk space here. WORKDIR This is the directory where the backup is prepared. Disk space needed here is the sum of all data to be backed up. This directory will be deleted on startup, so don't point to anyting important. BACKUPDIRS These paths and their subdirectories are to be backed up while crossing file system boundaries. Use : to separate multiple paths. BACKUPDIRS_ONEFS These paths and their subdirectories are to be backed up. No file system boundaries will be crossed. Use : to separate multiple paths. NAME This is the name of the backup. It is later prepended with a timestamp. LOCKFILE This lockfile is used to detect another running backup. You can run multiple different backups in parallel by using different lockfiles in different configurations. NICELEVEL Nice level to run with. 20 is low priority, 0 is normal, -20 is high priority (only root can do this). CHROOT Chroot path. If you want to backup another system that is reachable via your file system, you have to point this variable to the other system's root directory. Leave empty for normal operation.
extracommands() These commands are executed before the backup. Here you can dump databases, save your partition layout etc. Put additional files to be backed up into $WORKDIR or subdirectories thereof. extracommand() is executed before entering a possible $CHROOT. postcopy() These commands are executed after copying all files into the $WORKDIR, but before putting them into the backup archive. If some files need to be excluded from the $BACKUPDIRS then delete them here. postcopy() is executed outside a possible $CHROOT. postbackup() These commands are executed after the backup. The new backup filename is available as $BACKUPFILE.
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Street lighting within the City is provided by fixtures owned and maintained separately by the Snohomish County Public Utility District Number 1 (PUD), the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), and the City.
For this reason, you are asked to call the City and not PUD or WSDOT to report a malfunctioning light. When the City receives your report, staff determines who is responsible for maintaining the particular light, and requests that it be repaired.
The City is asking for your help in reporting malfunctioning streetlights. Should you notice a streetlight out or cycling (turning on and off repeatedly during the night), contact City of Mountlake Terrace Public Works at 425-670-8264.
Please be as specific as possible when reporting the location of the streetlight. Some lights have a large number, "S-121324" for example, on the underside of the light hood. If possible, please report this number and closest street address. Thanks for your assistance.


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Ten Second Review
The Ford Focus Estate has been given a proper working over in MK4 form, with more boot space, sleeker looks, a more user-friendly interior, more efficient engines and some suspension tweaks that aim to remind us what made the Focus great in the first place. It's not the biggest or the cheapest estate in its sector, but it might just be the most appealing all-rounder.
Such is the pull of small SUVs that the estate car seems to have had its last rites read time and again, yet still they struggle on. The reason why they refuse to die? They're a good idea. What's more, if people were honest about why they really needed a vehicle, an estate car would make more practical sense. They carry just as much as many SUVs, yet they're better to drive, they're lighter and more aerodynamic which means better efficiency - and they're usually cheaper to buy too. Ford's brought us some brilliant estates down the years but as much as customers have warmed to the Focus hatch, the five-door estate has never occupied a huge slice of the overall Focus sales pie chart. Perhaps this current version can formulate a more convincing argument.
Driving Experience
This fourth generation Focus estate, like its predecessors, has a reputation as a family station wagon with the ability to entertain at the wheel - and if you enjoy your driving, that's something you'll appreciate pretty early on the first time you try one. Twenty years ago, the original version of this model achieved much the same thing by standardising advanced multi-link rear suspension across its model line-up. Today, you get that too - in contrast to the hatch body shape which restricts this more advanced damping set-up to its most powerful 1.5-litre EcoBoost petrol and 2.0-litre EcoBlue diesel variants. To give you the engine line-up in full, things kick off with the brand's familiar three cylinder 1.0-litre EcoBoost petrol powerplant, available in 85, 100 or 125PS variants that now feature cylinder deactivation. Next up for petrol people is the 1.5-litre four cylinder EcoBoost engine with 150PS, borrowed from the Fiesta ST hot hatch, this unit also available with 182PS. The Focus ST gets a 2.3-litre EcoBoost petrol unit with 280PS. As for diesels, well there are 90 and 120PS versions of Ford's 1.5-litre EcoBlue powerplant, then 150 and 190PS versions of the company's 2.0-litre EcoBlue diesel. The ride isn't overly firm, but body control through the bends is exemplary, allowing you at the wheel to make the most of the stiff new C2 platform, the feelsome power steering and the torque vectoring control system that helps you get the power down through the bends. It all combines to create a car that really can still reward at the wheel, even in its most affordable forms: there's still nothing else in this segment that feels quite the same. Yet it still does the sensible stuff well too, being decently refined, with confident braking and a lovely tactile gearshift.
Design and Build
The styling has useful evolved but looks a touch conservative in this station wagon guise. The front of the cabin's of much higher quality than before and comes complete with Ford's latest 'SYNC3' infotainment touchscreen in most models. There's space for four adults inside without too much of a squeeze, but levering a third body onto the rear bench will be a bit of a pinch. Since this is an estate though, our emphasis needs to be on the luggage bay, which really is a lot bigger than it is in the hatch. A typically-specified estate model fitted with a mini-spare offers up to 575-litres of capacity - or as much as 728-litres if you load to the roof. If you need more room and want to push forward the 60:40-split rear bench, then up to 1,620-litres of space is on offer, thanks to 175mm of extra loading length this time round and an extra 43mm of roof height for this generation model, an increase apparently calculated so as to enable owners to comfortably accommodate a dog crate. Go for this station wagon variant and auto-folding 'Easy Fold' rear seat backs come as standard, plus you can have a gesture-controlled powered tailgate if you're prepared to pay extra for it.
Market and Model
This estate body style attracts a premium of £1,100 over the equivalent hatch. That means starting prices beginning from around £19,400. An 8-speed automatic gearbox is an option across virtually the whole range - for an extra £1,450. Ford claims to have reduced the number of orderable Focus configurations by 92% this time round, but the vast model line-up still takes a bit of getting your head around. Basically, in the mainstream range, there are a couple of budget-minded model lines ('Style' and 'Zetec'), then three luxury-orientated variants ('Titanium', the 'Titanium X' version and top 'Vignale'), plus a couple of 'Sport' models ('ST-Line' and 'ST-Line X'). And you can ask your dealer about an SUV-style 'Active' version and a fully-fledged ST fast estate derivative too. Only the two base powerplants are available with entry-level 'Style' or 'Zetec' trim. Of the two affordable powerplants, most will choose the 1.0-litre EcoBoost petrol option, available with either 85, 100 or 125PS. If you can afford a little more and enjoy your driving, then you can go for one of the more powerful engines that come fitted with more sophisticated 'control blade' multi-link rear suspension package. These include a 150PS 2.0-litre EcoBlue diesel and an all-new 1.5-litre three cylinder EcoBoost petrol option, offered with either 150 or 182PS.
Cost of Ownership
Let's get to the figures, which as usual we'll quote using WLTP measurement for fuel and NEDC2 measurement for CO2 - in line with current industry practice. Bear in mind with all the engines that if you choose the optional 8-speed auto gearbox, you'll hit your efficiency readings by around 10% - which isn't the case if you go for a Volkswagen Group model with DSG auto transmission. The 1.0 EcoBoost petrol unit that most will choose comes in three forms with 85, 100 and 125PS, all of which return up to 48.7mpg on the combined cycle with respective CO2 readings of 110, 107 and 108g/km. For the 1.5-litre EcoBoost petrol engine, the figures are up to 45.6mpg and up to 125g/km of CO2. Or 42.8mpg and up to 129g/km of CO2 for this engine in its uprated 182PS state of tune. What about the diesels? Well, for the 1.5 EcoBlue unit in its base 95PS state of tune, you're looking at up to 62.8mpg on the combined cycle and up to 96g/km of CO2. Or up to 61.4mpg and up to 97g/km with this engine in its 120PS state of tune. For completion, we'll also give you the figures for the 2.0-litre EcoBlue diesel variant - up to 56.5mpg and up to 117g/km.
The Focus estate has always seemed a bit of an afterthought from Ford. It was neither big enough or buoyed by serious promotion and that hasn't and won't change, for the short term at least. What does seem to be changing, slowly but surely, is customer perceptions of estate cars in general. Maybe it's a backlash against suburban SUVs that once smacked of active lifestyles but now just scream shopping and school run. The estate car is quietly staging a revival. If you're looking for an estate car of this size, the fact remains that the Focus is one of the very best. It's not the biggest and nor is it the cheapest, but as an all-rounder it takes some beating. The smaller petrol and diesel engines are well worth a trip and in the shape of the sporty ST-Line variants, Ford offers a real Q-car to family buyers. A Focused estate - you might say.
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A federal district court judge in Ohio has ordered Eric Chason and Kevin Bollaert, the founders of the "revenge porn" site You Got Posted, to pay a woman $385,000 for posting sexually explicit images of her on their website.
The suit, filed by a "Jane Doe" plaintiff in May 2013, involved photos that were taken of the plaintiff when she was underage. After finding several sexually explicit images of herself as a minor on the site, which were distributed without her knowledge or consent, the plaintiff sued the site's operators.
The default judgment included a $150,000 award to the plaintiff for each of the two child pornography counts and $10,000 for the right of publicity count. It also included a $75,000 punitive damages award, a penalty that is typically used to deter others from engaging in similar conduct.
The precedent set by this case could serve as a deterrent against other would-be child porn and revenge porn site operators. It could also enable other exploited individuals to similarly pursue child pornography and right of publicity claims in combination, as well as request the court to issue a punitive damages award.
While money damages certainly do not make such plaintiffs "whole," as the civil system is designed to do, they nevertheless provide a means of recourse when the criminal system does not provide for a just result. Marc Randazza, the plaintiff's attorney in this case, who has referred to the defendants as "scumbags," commented:
The message this $385,000 judgment sends to people who run revenge porn sites is unambiguous. These sites irreparably harm their victims, and often without any criminal action against them. In this case, a civil suit allowed our client to obtain justice against the people who exploited her.
In a related legal action, on December 10, 2013, the California Attorney General's Office has previously indicted and arrested Bollaert in connection with his involvement with ugotposted.com. Bollaert had been charged on criminal counts including identity theft, conspiracy, and extortion. California Attorney General Kamala Harris commented on the charges.
This website published intimate photos of unsuspecting victims and turned their public humiliation and betrayal into a commodity with the potential to devastate lives. Online predators that profit from the extortion of private photos will be investigated and prosecuted for this reprehensible and illegal Internet activity.
Hopefully the legal actions taken against these rogue site operators will make others think twice before starting websites dedicated to revenge or child pornography.


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I am an early riser, not by choice. Thirty years of getting up at four-thirty as a nurse has reset my internal clock so Most often, I still wake the roosters. I'd be happy to roll over and doze a while, but once my eyelids flap up like cheap window shades, sleep has fled.
On a recent visit to relatives, I found myself watching an autumn sunrise as I dawdled over a cup of coffee. No one else moved. As light peeked through the trees, one cup of coffee stretched to two and I heard the first of the birds getting about making their living. I happened to notice my reflection in the window and took a photo to capture the quiet
moment. Just as the sun broke through the trees, I heard gunfire from the woods behind the house. The peace of the morning shattered for me and the deer. I hope that one got away to enjoy the peace another fall morning.


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One of my first weekends at Middlebury, a friend and I ran up Chipman Hill. As we reached the top, both of us grew quiet. Taking in the vast expanses of the patchwork landscape – the Green Mountains to the east and the Adirondacks to the west – I stood in awe of the place I would grow to call home for the next four years.
From my freshman year, the combination of the natural beauty of Addison County and a curiosity to understand it led me to the study of Conservation Biology. Throughout the campus, and especially as an Environmental Studies major, we often engage in conversations around sustainability. As a budding ecologist, climate activist, and a steward of our natural world at Middlebury, sustainability is more than an oft-repeated buzzword across Admissions brochures. It's a guiding principle we live every day.
Derived from the Latin word sustinere – to hold up, support, and endure – sustainability at Middlebury is a forward thinking principle that acknowledges the future consequences of today's human impacts, the interconnectedness of natural and human communities, and the moral obligation to support future generations.
Take my BIOL 0302 class, Vertebrate Natural History with Steve Trombulak. You wake up at 5 in the morning. It's pitch black. You slowly crawl out of bed, throw on as much wool as you can find, and walk into the biting cold to set out mist-nets. Minutes later you'll walk the lanes of nets, hold in your hand a Black-capped chickadee, a White-throated sparrow, or maybe a bright red male Northern cardinal. That same afternoon you might go out to Lewis Creek to electrofish or set up Sherman traps to collect a flying squirrel in Cornwall. Or take BIOL 323, Plant Community Ecology, when we hiked through the old-growth hemlock-pine forest of the Battell Research Forest, measured the invasion of European buckthorn and Eurasian bush honeysuckle, and traced the changes in forest composition along an altitudinal gradient.
At Middlebury, our professors do not treat us as students in the traditional sense, but as apprentices in the craft of each field of study. Middlebury students are budding mathematicians and economists, future surgeons and psychologists, or emerging marine biologists. When we learn about how to protect species diversity, conserve natural habitat, and protect wildlife corridors, or the importance of breeding grounds, pollinators, and seed dispersal pathways, this knowledge is not theoretical. It is the work of the future.
All Environmental Studies majors participate in a capstone seminar course which is both project based and in conjunction with a community partner. The theme of this spring's senior seminar is "issues in transboundary sustainability." I'm working with a team of five other ES majors each with a unique focus. We are students of political science, economics, biologists, and geographers looking to understand the cross-jurisdictional regional prevention of aquatic invasive species in Lake Champlain. While our professors and community partners are here to guide us with academic support, resources, and expertise, the whole project is ours. Inspired and enriched by this project-based philosophy, we are able to pursue solutions with curiosity, self-discovery, and collaboration.
Four years after beginning my study of conservation biology, the top of Chipman Hill is more familiar. What was once a vast expanse of space has been transformed into place, both personal and specific.
When I arrived at Middlebury, I fell in love with the forested landscape of Vermont with no real regard for its natural history, inhabitants, or processes. Four years later, Addison County is no longer a "landscape" but a place, endowed with value and meaning as I have experienced more attachment to this community. Walking around campus bird songs are no longer undifferentiated calls as I have learned the tones and rhythms of their chirpings. The forest is no longer filled with "trees" but individual species, each with taxonomic nomenclature and natural history. At the top of Chipman Hill, I no longer only see a view, but become a part of what Aldo Leopold pens as the sensory experience of the "theatre of evolution."
I never thought I'd ever call going back to Middlebury "coming home."


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Environmental Health at USAID has compiled an annotated bibliography of 21 journal articles on household water treatment and safe storage that were published from January-July 2009.
Link: http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/ehkm/bibliography-hwt_july2009.pdf (pdf, 70KB)
Below are 3 of the 21 studies from the bibliography:
1 – Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2009 May; 80(5):819-23.
Laboratory assessment of a gravity-fed ultra-filtration water treatment device designed for household use in low-income settings.
Clasen T, Naranjo J, Frauchiger D, Gerba C.
Interventions to improve water quality, particularly when deployed at the household level, are an effective means of preventing endemic diarrheal disease, a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the developing world. We assessed the microbiologic performance of a novel water treatment device designed for household use in low-income settings. The device employs a backwashable hollow fiber ultrafiltration cartridge and is designed to mechanically remove enteric pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and protozoan cysts from drinking water without water pressure or electric power. In laboratory testing through 20,000 L (approximately 110% of design life) at moderate turbidity (15 nephelometric turbidity unit [NTU]), the device achieved log(10) reduction values of 6.9 for Escherichia coli, 4.7 for MS2 coliphage (proxy for enteric pathogenic viruses), and 3.6 for Cryptosporidium oocysts, thus exceeding levels established for microbiological water purifiers. With periodic cleaning and backwashing, the device produced treated water at an average rate of 143 mL/min (8.6 L/hour) (range 293 to 80 mL/min) over the course of the evaluation. If these results are validated in field trials, the deployment of the unit on a wide scale among vulnerable populations may make an important contribution to public health efforts to control intractable waterborne diseases.
4 – Environ Sci Technol. 2009 Feb 15; 43(4):986-92.
Household water treatment in poor populations: is there enough evidence for scaling up now?
Schmidt WP, Cairncross S.
Point-of-use water treatment (household water treatment, HWT) has been advocated as a means to substantially decrease the global burden of diarrhea and to contribute to the Millennium Development Goals. To determine whether HWT should be scaled up now, we reviewed the evidence on acceptability, scalability, adverse effects, and nonhealth benefits as the main criteria to establish how much evidence is needed before scaling up. These aspects are contrasted with the evidence on the effect of HWT on diarrhea. We found that the acceptability and scalability of HWT is still unclear, and that there are substantial barriers making it difficult to identify populations that would benefit most from a potential effect. The nonhealth benefits of HWT are negligible. Health outcome trials suggest that HWT may reduce diarrhea by 30-40%. The problem of bias is discussed. There is evidence that the estimates may be strongly biased. Current evidence does not exclude that the observed diarrhea reductions are largely or entirely due to bias. We conclude that widespread promotion of HWT is premature given the available evidence. Further acceptability studies and large blinded trials or trials with an objective health outcome are needed before HWT can be recommended to policy makers and implementers.
7 – Int J Epidemiol. 2009 Jul 2.
Evaluation of a pre-existing, 3-year household water treatment and handwashing intervention in rural Guatemala.
Arnold B, Arana B, Mäusezahl D, Hubbard A, Colford JM Jr.
BACKGROUND: The promotion of household water treatment and handwashing with soap has led to large reductions in child diarrhoea in randomized efficacy trials. Currently, we know little about the health effectiveness of behaviour-based water and hygiene interventions after the conclusion of intervention activities.
METHODS: We present an extension of previously published design (propensity score matching) and analysis (targeted maximum likelihood estimation) methods to evaluate the behavioural and health impacts of a pre-existing but non-randomized intervention (a 3-year, combined household water treatment and handwashing campaign in rural Guatemala). Six months after the intervention, we conducted a cross-sectional cohort study in 30 villages (15 intervention and 15 control) that included 600 households, and 929 children <5 years of age.
RESULTS: The study design created a sample of intervention and control villages that were comparable across more than 30 potentially confounding characteristics. The intervention led to modest gains in confirmed water treatment behaviour [risk difference = 0.05, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.02-0.09]. We found, however, no difference between the intervention and control villages in self-reported handwashing behaviour, spot-check hygiene conditions, or the prevalence of child diarrhoea, clinical acute lower respiratory infections or child growth.
CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge this is the first post-intervention follow-up study of a combined household water treatment and handwashing behaviour change intervention, and the first post-intervention follow-up of either intervention type to include child health measurement. The lack of child health impacts is consistent with unsustained behaviour adoption. Our findings highlight the difficulty of implementing behaviour-based household water treatment and handwashing outside of intensive efficacy trials.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — It's hard to imagine another hedge-fund manager approximating the larger-than-life reputation of Steven A. Cohen, the founder of SAC Capital Advisers LLP.
Cohen, aptly described by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best-known and most successful practitioners of his trade, a billionaire art collector and a cherished client of Wall Street firms that earn millions of dollars annually from SAC Capital's trades.
Now that résumé is in jeopardy.
Cohen has been implicated in a scandal in which Matthew Martoma, a manager at an SAC Capital affiliate was charged with insider trading. It's not a one-off deal, either, but an 18-month pattern that netted $276 million, according to prosecutors.
It will be interesting to see if investors have second thoughts about working with Cohen. He wasn't charged, but his role was described as "integral." Read full story on Steven Cohen's implication in SAC insider scandal.
For Cohen, being sullied by an insider scandal could be a mere speed bump, not unlike David Einhorn's being tarnished when his Greenlight Capital Inc. was fined by U.K. regulators in January for insider trades. See story on Einhorn's insider trading case.
Einhorn shed some of his gilded reputation, but, if the media attention paid to him is any indication, not an iota of influence.
The alternative to a gentle, Einhorn-style resolution would be the debacle that befell Galleon Funds. Raj Rajaratnam's elite hedge fund closed within a matter of weeks after Rajaratnam was charged with insider trading — charges for which he was eventually convicted and sentenced to 11 years in prison. See full story on Rajaratnam's sentence.
Because Cohen has been more successful in the industry for longer, he has more at stake. It also means he is an attractive target. Federal investigators have examined SAC and Cohen for years, with nothing to show for it.
Tuesday's dramatic development could be a first sign that investigators' luck and Cohen's reputation are changing.


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Jonathan Turley column: Preserve freedom of the press
Fifty years ago this week, the Supreme Court handed down one of its most celebrated defenses of the free press in The New York Times v. Sullivan. In its unanimous decision, the court referred to growing threats against the news media and the need to limit liability to allow them to perform their unique constitutional function. The threats in 1964, however, now seem almost quaint in comparison with those faced in 2014.
In 1964, the United States was viewed as the world's leading protector of press freedom. Now, America is viewed as a growing menace to press freedom. In this year's World Press Freedom Index by the respected Reporters Without Borders, the U.S. ranked 46th in the world, behind Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Czech Republic, Ghana, South Africa and El Salvador, among others.
New York Times v. Sullivan dealt with a defamation lawsuit by Montgomery, Ala., public safety commissioner L.B. Sullivan, who objected to errors in an ad concerning civil rights abuses. He won a $500,000 award under Alabama law.
The Supreme Court saw civil liability as creating a chilling effect on reporters, resulting in self-censorship that is just as stifling as direct censorship. Wiping out the award, the justices sought to give the free press "breathing space." In his concurrence, Justice Hugo Black warned that "state libel laws threaten the very existence of an American press virile enough to publish unpopular views on public affairs and bold enough to criticize the conduct of public officials."
"The imminence and enormity of (the) threat" to press freedom the court warned of in 1964 pales in comparison with today's threats.
While courts were highly sympathetic to the news media in reporting on civil rights, that sympathy evaporated when the subject went from figures such as Alabama segregationist Bull Connor to Osama bin Laden. Both the Bush and Obama administrations challenged the distinction between journalists and other people who receive classified information. The Obama administration placed Associated Press reporters under surveillance and, in 2010, named Fox News correspondent James Rosen "an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator" for his work with a whistleblower.
If that seems perfectly Nixonian, it is actually perfectly Obamian. While President Nixon was denounced for his use of the Espionage Act of 1917, Obama has brought twice the number of such prosecutions of all prior presidents under the act. Julian Assange, the publisher of the WikiLeaks material, is now hiding in an embassy in London, and the administration is seeking an absurd 105-year sentence against freelance journalist Barrett Brown for linking to hacked e-mails and other leaked information.
At one time, virtually every local news organization had investigative units that went undercover to expose abuses or corruption. Then, in 1999, the federal appellate court in Virginia ruled against ABC in an exposé on unsanitary conditions at a Food Lion store. While reducing the damages, it held that the news media was not protected any more than ordinary citizens in committing fraud or trespass.
Reporters are also still facing prison for protecting confidentiality. Recently, the incarceration of reporters led to renewed demands for a federal shield law for reporters protecting confidential sources. However, Congress used the watered-down law to actually exclude some classes of the growing "new media," such as bloggers, from any protection.
Since 1964, courts have proved generally hostile to claims of journalistic principles and rights. Greater protections are now found under freedom of speech as opposed to the freedom of the press — losing the unique function (and protections) accorded journalists. New York Times v. Sullivan affirmed a distinct role — and the need for distinct protections — for journalists. Federal courts have steadily eroded that distinction.
Ironically, we are living through one of the most inspiring periods for journalism. Neither the courts nor Congress revealed abuses ranging from torture programs to warrantless surveillance to secret prisons. The only moving part fully functioning in this system is the free press.
The question is whether in another 50 years, citizens will even recognize the type of journalism protected by New York Times v. Sullivan.
Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, is a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors.