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Following the launch of an online probate service at the start of the year, criticism has been cast upon the government for also digitising the vital job of determining the validity of a Will.
The digital scanning firm, Exela, reviews all online probate applications but many believe the tool devalues the difficult job of ensuring the Will in question is valid.
Previously, the reviewing process was carried out by experts within HM Courts and Tribunals.
Furthermore, some have speculated that digital scanning systems fail to identify invalid Wills that could lead to the incorrect issue of a Grant of Probate.
The Public and Commercial Services Union have also claimed that since the launch of this new digital system, error rates have increased by 74% and probate applications are already being delayed.
Ruth Pyatt, director of Solicitors for the Elderly, said:
"Validating a will is not only a fundamental part of checking whether the document, on the face of it, meets legal requirements, but is also necessary to check the signs for any possible alterations since the will was executed, or any other discrepancies in the submission."
In defence of the system, a spokesperson from the HM Courts and Tribunals Service said:
"Our new online service is making probate simpler and more convenient for bereaved people and 93% of those using the new service have been satisfied or very satisfied by it.
"The validity of the will is still checked by HM Courts and Tribunals Service and the added counter fraud measures include holograms, digital seals, and digital signatures to make cheating the system even harder."
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Town 1 Crawley Town 1
Shrewsbury: Weale, Woods, Goldson, Jones, Jacobson, Taylor, Summerfield, Wildig, Parry (McAllister 84), Main (Burke 88), Bradshaw (Reach 84):
Subs not used: Anyon, Winfield, McQuade, Smith
Crawley: P Jones, Hurst (M Jones 84), Sadler, McFadzean, Connolly, Simpson, Bulman, Drury, Adams, Clarke, Proctor (Sinclair, 70)
Subs not used: Essam, Torres, Walsh, Maddison
Shrewsbury picked up a deserved point at in-form Crawley in an end to end encounter which saw Aaron Wildig grab his second goal of the season, and keeper Chris Weale pull off a fine first half penalty save.
The blank score-line at half time was largely due to the brilliance of the Town stopper, who denied striker Billy Clarke from 12 yards after Darren Jones was adjudged to have wrestled Nicky Adams to the floor three minutes before the break.
Clarke struck the ball well, but Weale was equal to it, with a flying save to his left.
The afternoon got even better 90 seconds into the restart when the visitors hit the opening goal. Curtis Main held the ball up well, Ryan Woods delivered in a cross from the right, and Wildig powered in a brilliant volley from the edge of the box that bulleted hard and low into the bottom corner. It was right in front of the travelling band of 253 Shrewsbury supporters, and added to the midfielder's consolation goal against Bolton in the League Cup at the Greenhous Meadow in August.
But on 63 minutes, Crawley pressure paid off and the home side found an equaliser. Adams' menacing cross was flicked on by former Town loanee Jamie Proctor and Andy Drury headed in to give Weale no chance.
Both sides could have nicked it after that in a thrilling second half, in a match that ebbed and flowed throughout.
In fact, Shrewsbury came close to firing in the opener after just seven minutes. Jon Taylor let fly with a stinging 25 yard drive, parried by keeper Paul Jones. The rebound dropped to Tom Bradshaw but the ball came at the striker quickly, he couldn't connect cleanly with his shot from 6 yards and his scuffed effort went wide of the post. Minutes later, the presence of Connor Goldson proved a problem for the hosts, but in a congested penalty area, the young defender powered his header well wide from a Taylor corner.
Crawley's first real opportunity came after 15 minutes. Goldson got back to block a goal-bound effort from Billy Clarke after tricky work by the lively Adams on the left. Weale was then called into action soon after but it was an easy save for the keeper, with a bending 20 yard shot from Andy Drury straight at him.
Adams then wasted a glorious chance to put the Red Devils in front. Proctor's intelligent lay-off sent the midfielder clear on the right, but while his shot was struck powerfully, he shot a yard ward of Weale's post.
At the other end, Luke Summerfield nearly opened his account for the season, with a fine 25 yard low drive that flashed narrowly wide. Parry then also warmed the gloves of Jones with a neat shot, capping a flowing move involving Main and Summerfield, and while the Crawley stopper could only parry the Welshman's shot, no player in blue and amber could follow up for the rebound.
After Weale's dramatic penalty save, Bradshaw may have given Shrewsbury the lead in the dying moments of the half, but after a dazzling run into the area, his shot was pushed clear by Jones.
After Town's perfect start in the second period, Woods and Wildig then nearly proved to be the dream combination again eight minutes later, with the defender's cross just evading the Welshman who was waiting to pounce inside the six yard box for his and Shrewsbury's second.
The home side also looked dangerous going forward though, and once again acrobatics from Weale kept Crawley at bay - with the Town keeper producing a fine fingertip save from a Clarke strike that looked destined for the top corner. Drury then blasted wastefully over as the match became more stretched, skipping past Woods, but he failed to keep his shot down from 20 yards, and it sailed well over the bar.
The Crawley equaliser came as no surprise, as Town sat back, soaking up large amounts of pressure. But even after Drury's goal, Turner's team had chances.
The best of them fell to on loan Middlesborough striker Main, a real threat throughout, but he saw a guilt-edged chance go begging. Paul Parry sent in a cross from the right, but Main, in a decent amount of space, couldn't direct his header on target and it sailed narrowly over. He came close again two minutes later when a vicious shot from distance whistled wide.
Town fans also appealed for a penalty eight minutes from time when Bradshaw went down in the box, but referee Ward waved away protests, before Adams blazed over when well placed after being slipped through by sub Emile Sinclair.
Former Town loanee James Hurst was booked in the dying stages for a late challenge on stand-in skipper Joe Jacobson - and was subbed by his manager Ritchie Barker soon after.
Crawley finished the game the stronger of the two sides but Town defended well to preserve their point, and extend their unbeaten league run to four matches.

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THE MEMPHIS MAFIA/ELVIS is an original Project Astral series that focuses on the obscure tales of ELVIS.
The Initiation
Elvis Presley was born with talent and tragedy etched into his destiny. His twin brother Jesse died at birth, leaving a lasting effect on Elvis' personality. Elvis' mother, Gladys stated that Elvis had "the energy of two people." Throughout his life many people noticed that Elvis always searched for answers of the unknown; what exactly did Elvis seek-out and did he ever find it?
in 1964, Elvis' hairdresser, Larry Geller initiated Elvis into the Self-Realization Fellowship. The philosophies of Paramahansa Yogananda were inherent to his spiritual journey. Paramahansa Yogananda was an Indian mystic who initiated Western civilization to meditation and Kriya Yoga (the most popular form of Yoga system). Memphis Mafia associate Alan Fortas claims that Elvis was given the books and soon after began an odd spiritual quest that saw Elvis refer to himself as a "divine messenger" from God.
Elvis' intrigue in the occult started around the same time The Beatles hit mainstream status. In 1965 Elvis met The Beatles, although the meeting was awkward and didn't consist of many conversations – it left Elvis with an admirable impression. The Beatles' trip to India in 1968 to take lessons into Transcendental Meditation left Elvis seeking more of the mysticism that he had longed for.
(Elvis' Manager, Tom Park, Elvis, and Larry Geller)
(Paramahansa Yogananda)
Elvis's wife Priscilla wrote in her book "Elvis and Me" that mysticism was key-part of his wife at the start of their marriage. She didn't like what it entailed and his connection to Larry Geller, in which she stated:
"Larry was a total threat to us all. He would spend hours and hours and hours with Elvis, just talking to him, and he wasn't anything that Elvis represented; he didn't represent anything that Elvis had believed in prior to that time… [Elvis] read books studiously for hours and hours. He had conversations with Larry for hours and hours — he was going on a search for why we were here and who we were, the purpose of life; he was on a search with Larry to try to find it."
Elvis eventually submitted to her desires by burning his mystic and occult books.
Later Life
Ipsita Roy Chakraverti is a Wiccan priestess who dated Elvis in 1975, two years after he filed for divorce from his wife Priscilla. She is known for her work out of India that incorporates feminist qualities while maintaining a connection to the mystical realm.
The final book Elvis read was "The Shroud of Turin" given to him by friend Larry Geller. Elvis was reading the book while on the toilet when he died on August 16, 1977. The Shroud of Turin is claimed to be the burial cloth that covered Jesus after his crucifixion.
After Life
Since Elvis' death, he has risen to a music Saint of sorts. Elvis' name has ties to Sainthood as there is an actual St. Elvis. The Angel Times portrayed him on the cover of one of their magazines, hundreds of thousands of fans flock each year to Elvis' Graceland Mansion located in Memphis, Tennesee and his name/image are known worldwide. Elvis Presley created a source of energy that people will forever connect to.
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Last month, me and my boyfriend Jamie, got back from one of the best holidays I have ever been on. We decided to go to Skiathos, Greece. It was truly one of the most incredible places; the people, the beaches, the food... everything. If anyone is thinking of going on holiday to Greece, please do, it's amazing. Here are some photos of our holiday. (All photos taken by me or Jamie).
This photo was taken when we went on a boat trip. This photo hasn't been edited whatsoever, this was actually how clear and how blue the sea was!
The view from our balcony.
Cocktails at the Rock 'n' Roll Bar.
Hope you've enjoyed looking at this small selection of holiday photos! Obviously I couldn't put each and every one in a blog post as you would be here for hours looking at them.
Enjoy the rest of your week,
Love Amy
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INNOCENCE LOST by Sherilyn Decter- A Book Review by Pat Garcia
With the ratification of the eighteenth amendment on January 19, 1919, one of the bloodiest, if not the bloodiest period of the United States of America history began.
Innocence Lost by Sherilyn Decter, documents the detrimental effects that this period played in the lives of a young widow, her son, her son's friends and the people living as borders in her house.
Sherilyn Decter has done an excellent job of painting a picture of what most people only know as the Roaring Twenties. She incorporates it into a real story where illegally transporting alcohol into various states become the backdrop for murdering those who did not keep their mouths shut.
Her characters are believable, engaging, and it is her characters that force you to turn to the next page and keep reading because you want to know more. Decter hammers into the head of her readers what the streets of Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, must have been like as she shows the traumatic experiences of a young widow, Margaret, and her son. A widow who rises up against her own mother's norms and standards and finds steps out to find her own way of living. I truly enjoyed her characters especially, Inspector Geyer, i.e., Frank. Outside of watching Maggie's internal growth, he was my favorite character.
Innocence Lost depicts the bootlegging scene that swept the United States; that gave many poor immigrants pouring into the States a job although illegal and put food on their families' tables.
It presents historical facts with a fictional story interwoven within it.
Well-crafted and very well written, I highly recommend investing your time in reading this book.
Innocence Lost by Sherilyn Decter is available on all Amazon Online Stores.
Shalom aleichem,
Pat Garcia
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Pat, I enjoyed your review of this fascinating story. Thanks for being a part of the tour.
This seems to be a fascinating read. Thanks for sharing it, Patti. How are you doing? ❤ Thinking of you very often!
Terrific review! Thanks. I haven't read any books set in the '20s since I devoured Fitzgerald's books years ago. This sounds like the perfect book to dip my toes back into that era.
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BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ — Lijit Networks, Inc., the leading provider of search and discovery tools for online publishers, announced today it has chosen CDNetworks as its exclusive provider for global content delivery. This collaboration will dramatically increase the speed, reliability and scalability of Lijit's services, used by thousands of blogs and commercial websites worldwide.
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24 Ways to Impress Your FriendsDecember 2nd, 2005 by Jerome Dahdah
I don't care much for advent calendars myself, but this is one I think I'll enjoy: 24 Ways to Impress Your Friends. Every day, they're offering one new tutorial on standards based web ownage, starting with 1337 Ajax sk1llz and typographical finesse.
4 Responses to "24 Ways to Impress Your Friends"
Kayzah says:
December 7th, 2005 at 1:36 am
I've read two of the CSS-Section and think it's quite cool stuff! Thanks for your nice Article.
ehem… so i got something to do at the holiday weaks, huh?
Learning Popearning… :D
JackDirtt says:
December 9th, 2005 at 4:01 pm
It should be 24 ways to impress your uber geeky friends. Useful stuff though.
Jerry says:
December 9th, 2005 at 5:27 pm
Hehe, geeky or not, it's good stuff. :)
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I couldn't resist: Happy 4th of July to all my American readers!
I spent my Independence Day at work, trading jokes with Brits about how things went completely downhill for them after 1776. Not very original. Actually, not very funny, either. But a nice change from talking about the weather (which really has been rubbish, by the way).
Envious of reports coming back from the U.S. about barbecues, fireworks and summer weather, I still managed to enjoy myself today.First, several coworkers and I met a former colleague (wow, I've been here long enough to have former colleagues) at a Keralan restaurant near Oxford Circus. The place was a true dive, right down to the dirty, unattractive bathroom in the basement. How do I know it was Keralan cuisine? Well, it just so happens the place is named "The Keralan Restaurant."
I'd stop by only if I were on Oxford Street and craved dosas, which were pretty tasty at the restaurant – a crisp crepe outside and a tasty mushy potato inside. The parathas were also good, reminding me of the best type of oily, hot bread you get when you order roti canai at a Malaysian place. The other seven or eight dishes I tried were so-so. Probably more appealing are the 1L-size bottles of Kingfisher available. Total tab for lots of food and drinks was £24 per person.
After dinner, I hopped on the Victoria Line back to my neighborhood and met Jon and our some of American friends for drinks at Desperados. We couldn't think of anything more American than Tex-Mex, so margaritas it was at £17 per pitcher. Good times.
The decor is total kitsch, but what puts Desperados on the map is the fact that Tony Blair and Gordon Brown struck their infamous deal inside this very restaurant. Obviously nothing could be more July 4th than dinner at an Indian restaurant followed by drinks at a sub-par Mexican restaurant.
And what could make me more proud to be an American than I already am? Definitely the news that an American 23-year-old beat Kobayashi in today's annual Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest.
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LAPO MfB decries high cost of education, gives 3,004 scholarships
LAPO Microfinance Bank (MfB) has lamented the increasing cost of access to quality education, which is depriving children from low-income households.
The managing director, Dr. Godwin Ehigiamusoe, expressed the concern yesterday during LAPO MfB 2018 Scholarship and Skills Acquisition Awards ceremony in Benin City, Edo State.
According to him, education is critical to personal and national development, stressing the urgent need for prioritisation of education by all.
Ehigiamusoe urged governments at all levels to institute well-managed scholarship schemes to help brilliant children from low-income households realise their potentials.
His words: "Substantial proportion of the TETFUND allocation should be for scholarship awards to indigent students.
"I am very thankful to the LAPO Scholarship Board led by Prof. Christiana Okojie, and the Skills Acquisition team for their commitment to our collective vision to give quality education to our children, one step at a time. "
We congratulate our beneficiaries for their readiness to learn and grow," Ehigiamusoe said.
He said that the scholarship was to assist LAPO clients to consolidate their future, adding that the scheme had nurtured the dreams of 3,004 students since 2007.
"In our over 30 years of engagement with Nigerians at the bottom-end of the society, we have to realise that their major concern is quality education for their children. The scholarship is therefore designed to assist them realise that aspiration," Ehigiamusoe said.


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The simple answer to the headline is no, neither parts of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will win the Oscar for Best Picture. And even with ten available slots, the recently released "Deathly Hallows Part 1" won't likely be nominated in the category, either. But as much as it seems a given the series isn't Oscar-caliber, I kind of feel it deserves at least the honor. Looking at the ten other most successful film franchises of all time — of which "Harry Potter" is now THE greatest, gross-wise — "Star Wars" was nominated for Best Picture, ditto for "Raiders of the Lost Ark," all of the "Lord of the Rings" installments got nods and the last won the award and Albert Broccoli was given the Irving G. Thalberg Award, which was basically like an award to the James Bond series for being one of if not the best franchises ever (had there been ten slots a few years back, by the way, "Casino Royale" would certainly have been the first 007 to go up for Best Picture). As for "Shrek," that got Best Animated Feature, which is relatively equal, and "Toy Story 3" will get it this year, if not also a nomination for Best Pic. I predict "The Dark Knight Rising" also making up for the previous Batman movie's lack of recognition, and for all we know, Marc Webb's "Spider-Man" reboot will resonate with the Academy.
That leaves "Potter" and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, which at least garnered Oscar love in Johnny Depp's initial performance. Former Best Picture-winner director Rob Marshall ("Chicago") won't do any better for the franchise. Last week, Nicole Sperling at the Los Angeles Times looked into the boy wizard's chances:
Some Oscar consultants say it's unlikely the Academy will look seriously at this year's film, " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1″ after snubbing the series for so long – and knowing that they have another chance next year. But if director David Yates delivers a tour de force with the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" in July, the Academy might take a closer look next season, essentially honoring the eight-picture series for its overall achievement.
Unlike the last of the "Lord of the Rings" movies, however, there's no way the last "Harry Potter" movie could take the trophy. Because also unlike that other series, there isn't enough recognition of isolated achievement for the "Harry Potter" adaptations. Most of us — whether or not we enjoy the films — think they're more like supplements, illustrated extensions, of the books. They would barely stand on their own without J.K. Rowling having had written them first and readers eating them up beforehand. Maybe fifty years after publication "Harry Potter" could have had that sort of independence in film form. Perhaps there will be remakes and we can find out.
If there was a prize awarded for special recognition of a great completed franchise, producer David Heyman should get one. He's not going to get a Thalberg anytime soon the way Broccoli did. Would it be terrible for the Academy to do as they used to and conceive of one-time (or occasional) honors for situations like this? It's not even that they're all great movies, but they are and will continue to be quite significant to film history and the industry. Maybe Heyman doesn't even get it. Maybe Rowling does, for writing something that was so easily and popularly and perfectly and obviously successfully put on the big screen. Neither will happen, of course, but as an equivalent I agree with Sperling that the eight movie, "Deathly Hallows Pt. 2," will earn a Best Picture nomination.
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Hi again, it's me blogging from my couch to which I am confined for yet another 2 weeks! I'd never have believed that twisting your ankle could turn into such a big fat pain in the arse… anyway, since I can't walk right now (except the five steps to my fridge and the bathroom) I'll provide you with some oldish (well, not really but well from before the walking ban) pictures.
I am sporting a really cool leather sleeve blouse and a pair of Happy Monday jeans that I found over at Sojeans. They have quite a great collection of denims, so if you're looking for a pair right now, especially my German readers, you should hop over there and have a look.
Oh and I just want to say thank you all for your lovely comments all the time! I'll try to get back to all of them as soon as possible! You beauties rule my blogworld!!!


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Learn the key elements about exactly what the crusades were, when they occurred and why. We no longer learn any of this in American public schools, doesn't that feel like it's probably by design?
For the record, the crusades were completely REACTIONARY to a multi-century onslaught by jihadists. The purpose of the crusades were to free Christians while the purpose of jihad (Islam's march) was to conquer and kill the kaffir (non-muslims). There is no moral equivalence to the two.
Watch this quick clip by Dr. Bill Warner regarding these mysterious crusades and please, please, please, share it!!!


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It will be held in late March Paris Orchidées a fascinating exhibition of orchids which will include thirty growers and producers of this beautiful flower, which will be in Paris to show in all their glory the colors and variety of their work, so having to compare orchids from every corner of the world in front of a large audience.
EOC and EOCCE
The EOC is a federation that counts about thirty associations and institutions in Europe dedicated to orchids. Its purpose is to coordinate activities and communications among its members and to deal with topics of common interest. Every three years, an EOCCE (European Orchid Council Conference and Exhibition) takes place in a large city of the European Union and the EOC decides which of its members will co-ordinate and organize this event. The first took place in May 1967 in Vienna, the 8th in Paris in 1988 while the most recent in Dresden in 2009, in Budapest in 2012 and London in 2015.
The exhibition
Thirty producers from all over the world will present their specialties
in an enchanting setting. And for collectors, there will be the possibility of making pre-orders to avoid transportation fees related to e-commerce.
You will be able to admire vast selections of flowering plants from the collections of the Luxembourg Garden (Senate), the Garden of Rouen Plants, Writhlington School (GB), as well as cut flowers of Eric Young Orchid Foundation (Jersey).
The main orchid associations French, but also English, Italian and German will exhibit a considerable number of their products, while specialists other species will be present (bulbs, cacti, tillandsias) to show and participate in the exhibition. Several stands will offer products around the orchid: material, jewelry, books …
Finally, various activities will be organized for the entire duration of the event: photo contest, flower arrangements, workshops for children, signing of books…And of course there will be a bit of catering available on the site.
Where, how, when
Paris Orchidées will be held in Paris from March 23rd to 25th 2018 with opening from 9 am to 7 pm for the first two days and from 9 am to 6 pm for 25th March
Paris Event Center
20 Avenue de la Porte de la Villette
75019 Paris
How to get:
Métro: line 7, station Porte de la Villette exit 4bis
Bus: N42, 139, 150, 152, get off at Porte de la Villette
Tramway: 3B, get off at Porte de la Villette
More info: https://eocce2018.com/ eng and fr


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A Nevada senator wants to preserve electric-vehicle federal tax credits for Tesla and begin canceling them entirely within the next four years.
According to an unpublished bill introduced by Dean Heller, R-Nevada, last Thursday, consumers claiming a federal tax credit on a new plug-in vehicle purchase would be eligible for the maximum $7500 without regard to a manufacturer's total sales. Last week, Tesla announced its vehicles will be no longer eligible to apply for that credit after the end of 2018, since the company had already hit 200,000 U.S. sales, the threshold at which each subsequent electric vehicle sold since January 1, 2010, no longer qualifies for the full credit. (Tesla clarified to C/D that customers are eligible to apply for the full $7500 federal tax credit as long as they take delivery of their vehicle before the end of 2018.)
Under the current law, all Tesla buyers purchasing a car starting in 2019 will only be eligible for a $3750 credit. That amount would halve again to $1875 before disappearing entirely in 2020. Under Heller's bill, the IRS would eliminate the 200,000-unit cap on electric vehicles but then begin a phase-out for every automaker in 2022. Heller's bill is listed as S.3582 on the congressional database but has not been published in full.
As of August, Tesla has invested $3.7 billion in its Gigafactory battery plant since it began construction four years ago and has employed more than 3200 people, according to the Reno Gazette Journal. Under an incentive agreement that required Tesla to invest at least $3.5 billion, the automaker will receive $1.3 billion in state tax benefits over 20 years.
General Motors and Nissan stand to benefit from Heller's bill more than any other mainstream automakers. Through September, GM has sold more than 186,000 plug-ins since the tax credit went into force, including the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Volt and the discontinued Cadillac ELR. Nissan has sold more than 127,000 Leaf models in that same period. The credit only applies to vehicles with a minimum of five kilowatt-hours of battery capacity, which excludes conventional hybrids.
Separately, Rep. Diane Black, R-Tennessee, introduced legislation to the House on Tuesday that would also begin the credit phase-out in 2022 and remove the sales cap. Similarly, on October 6, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, proposed canceling the current tax credit within a year and 30 days of his bill passing Congress and called for a new tax on owners of alternative-fuel vehicles to make up for lost federal gasoline taxes.


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Delhi Public School, Bathinda was established in 2003 under the aegis of Delhi Public School Society. It is a senior secondary co-educational day-cum-boarding school affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
Life in Delhi Public School centers on a shared commitment to academic excellence, intellectual growth, arts, athletics, high standards of ethical awareness, sportsmanship, and community service. Depth and variety are added to each student's life by the school's traditions and accessibility to a broad curriculum.
The campus is spread over a lush green, pollution free area of 14 acres on main Bathinda - Goniana road. It is divided aesthetically and thematically into various blocks, designed for maximum convenience and utility of the students. The hostel blocks constitute a separate section away from the main building, yet within the secure precincts of the campus. The school provides provision for all amenities and infrastructure.
The school has seven clubs :
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Eco Club
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Art Club
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Those who own ornate lightning rods and weather vanes know the collectibles are both artistic and functional. But some are also historical, telling a story about the place and what the owners did or produced.
Collectors continue hot after old rooftop items, so values continue to increase. Proof of that is the large number of fakes and reproductions on the market.
One rod I particularly remember was in Greene County, Iowa, adorned with a vertical, fat ear of corn complete with kernels and shucks. I hope the fancy barn it topped also remains there. Besides protecting the barn from lightning, the rod showed that the original owner likely got big yields from the fields behind the barn.
Similar lightning rods with colored-glass balls, pendants and other wind vanes were often mounted on new buildings erected during times of prosperity. In many areas, that would include roughly the years from 1875 to 1916 (excluding the recession of 1893).
Top quality decorative collectibles often were made of hammered sheet copper, using molds, while some vanes had weighted zinc heads to balance a longer arrow's weight. Flat, sheet-iron vanes are most common, with many of those being decorated lightning rods. Seed companies occasionally gave gilded animal-motif vanes, such as roosters or pigs, as premiums. Values of those often run into several hundred dollars, especially if they are unrestored and unpainted.
Lightning rods range from plain ones to those with copper tips, ornamental glass balls or pendants, and weather vanes. The balls were decorative, but they also had a practical side: if broken, they served notice of possible lightning damage.
Phil Steiner, Wanatah, Ind., avidly collects and deals in rooftop objects. Ever-higher prices have been the rule recently, he says, especially for the scarcer genuine items. One example he gives is a gray Moon and Star ball worth up to $9,000 recently, and climbing. But more common balls – like the plain whites and blues – can still be bought for $10 to $50, he adds.
Phil has seen balls sell in the $500-$ 1,500 range, especially if they're the "hard to get" colors: gold, silver, root beer, pink, slag, some cobalts and reds. The more valuable ones were never mounted since being produced in the late 1870s. He recalls a neon yellow Plain and a cobalt Moon and Star each bringing $3,500 a few years ago, and an orange Moon and Stars fetching $5,000.
He considers balls or vanes of questionable origin of little worth.
"Without some reliable means to document or provide assurance of the source of a lightning rod ball and its authenticity," he says, "we will no longer sell, buy or trade for any light amber balls or pendants, including Maher, Mast, RHF, JFG or several others."
Solid facts are your only protection, he says.
"Have some knowledge before you buy, and knowledge of the dealer you buy from," he says. "Before you got there, someone could have traded something newer for something else old, with you and the dealer both being unaware. With some experience, you can better tell age by the newness and texture of the glass. Older amber is darker, for example, not the color of fresh straw never rained on."
Finally, Phil says, you're less likely these days to find additions to your collection while on a jaunt into the countryside. But shows like three he attended in Iowa last summer were very successful.
"All over the U.S., there's a lot of interest, with many collectors now venturing into Canada," he says.
Missouri collector Hardin Cox owns about 35 vanes, balls and related items. Amassing a collection of that size, he's learned to have an eye for detail.
"You learn to tell how weathering affects the genuine items," he says. "But some people use acids on new fakes, and even shoot bullets into vanes to make them look more authentic. You can pay many times the price you should if you don't pay attention to things like that."
If you're looking to become a serious collector, the number of types and colors of balls alone can be fairly astounding at first. Study – and talking with experienced collectors – is highly recommended. But even experienced collectors are thinking twice these days.
"The rods and ornaments I've bought are usually from owners of abandoned property that didn't know they were there," Hardin says. "Because of the sharply rising cost and scarcity of original vanes, I recently chose to slow down collecting, and enjoy what I have.
"I recall a very ordinary horse vane, which a farmer had painted, which takes away from the price," he says. "When I found it had brought $125 at an auction, sold to an antique dealer – who intends to make a profit on it – I knew I was practically out of the business."
Hardin keeps his hand in, through a creative turn.
"I still carve a few," he says.
Many very early vanes were carved from pine, he says.
"Books on the subject told me that the best carver of the household would carve an arrow to put on the barn for the vane," he explains.
His collection includes a homemade, hand-carved propeller with a rudder made from a tin-can lid; a touring car with driver (about 30 inches long); various arrow designs (one with the glass still in it); and pieces with horses, pigs, a cow, and even a homemade bear which was added after the original ornament had come off.
"Most of the pieces in my collection are actual used vanes," Hardin says.
In today's market, aluminum vanes have replaced earlier models made from tin and tin alloys. Hardin has only one cast aluminum vane.
"I don't collect things I can't enjoy along the way, be it pictures, toys, guns or whatever," he says. "I certainly have enjoyed what I have, and hope others have, too." FC
For a newsletter/catalog featuring rare balls, send $10 to Phil Steiner, Weather or Knot Antiques, PO Box 321, Wanatah, IN 46390; (219) 733-2530.


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In Silicon valley assisting during the arrival of a new granddaughter, the Numpties were pretty busy with toddler gym and toddler swimming, as well as decorating a bedroom wall with a seascape, and not looking forward to the last numerical of the year.
Finding nothing in those sparse clues to justify Kea's continued membership of the Listener Setters Tipplers' Club (but we can't really expel an editor, can we?) I continued to paint clown fish and handed over to the other Numpty, as usual with the numericals.
A numerical with only six 'real' clues? With fifteen lettered lights, and another seven letters just lobbed in for good measure? Economy seems to be the order of the day, even the title giving nothing away as it reflected the terse preamble!
Marooned in America without the comforts of our Tables of Quite Interesting Numbers, The Book of Data or my fifty year-old Mathematical Tables we were discouraged at first but with a web table of primes and a bit of scribbling, clues O, H, A and D succumbed (but I kept confusing my reversed primes and primes!).
The restrictions on neighbouring digits and the quite tight constraints of clues H and I led to a grid fill after a couple of sessions interrupted by our two year-old grandson and his week-old sister. This was a puzzle whose economy of clues reminded me of the one where the setter had 'lost' all the across clues, but which was still solvable. Thanks for this interesting challenge, Kea, milder than the digital nightmare we had been dreading for the year's final numerical! A great stellated icosidodecahedral cut-and-paste origami puzzle is probably in the works somewhere, I fear…


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we are still in between the gospel of Mark and the gospel of Luke, and we read two short but beautiful Pdalms and three chapters of Deuteronomy.
March 20: Psalm 19, Psalm 20, Deuteronomy19, Deuteronomy 20, Deuteronomy 21 (click on the chapter to begin reading)
Psalm 19, of David. "This Psalm reflects, more than any other, the beauty and splendor of the Hebrew poetry found in the Psalter. C.S. Lewis wrote, 'I take this to be the greatest poem in the Psalter and one of the greatest lyrics in the world.'" (VanGemeren)
Psalm 20, of David. The people's prayer for the King is heard by the LORD. The most quoted part is: " Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God." The Lord saves, we pray for the King.
Deuteronomy 19. God commands to set aside three Cities of Refuge, maybe three more as the land expands. Do not change property boundaries. There must be two or three witnesses for a conviction in court. From this chapter comes the saying "an eye for an eye".
Deuteronomy 20. Rules for warfare: The Lord fights the battle for you. If you are too chicken or are building a house or are pledged to marry, you may be excused. For the rest of you, show no mercy unless they surrender, but above all, save the fruit trees.
Deuteronomy 21 deals with what to do with unsolved murders. Can you marry a female taken captive? What are the rights of the firstborn? What to do with a rebellious Son? A man punished to death and hung on a tree, he must be buried the same day. From this we get "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree".


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Virginia Cooperative Extension to co-host Economic Resources for Rural Virginia forums, May 19 and June 7
Emory & Henry College, Longwood University, the Virginia Tech Office of Economic Development, and Virginia Cooperative Extension's Community Viability program are hosting two economic forums that will link rural communities to Virginia's economic resources.
The 2011 Economic Resources for Rural Virginia forums will be held on Thursday, May 19, at Emory & Henry College and on Tuesday, June 7, at Longwood University. Both sessions will begin at 8:45 a.m. and conclude at 4 p.m.
Elected officials, economic developers, local government employees, business leaders, and members of the community are encouraged to attend one of the sessions. Participants will gather information on Virginia's incentives and resources for rural economies, discuss opportunities available for expanding a community's broadband infrastructure, explore links to support and expand a region's manufacturing sector, learn the process of building a creative economy, and network with higher education institutions that offer training and intellectual resources to local leadership.
"Emory & Henry College is eager to be involved in this partnership-building forum" said Tal Stanley, director of the Appalachian Center for Community Service at Emory & Henry College. "These workshops build on the college's historical mission and ongoing efforts with and for the people and places of Southwest Virginia. The economic forum promises the opportunity to focus on more effective strategies for sustainable economic development for our region, at the same time as looking to the people of our region to be the leaders and visionaries in that effort."
Local officials are already searching for resources to support economic development initiatives within Virginia counties and cities.
"Emphasis must be placed on the need for each community to fully assess its strengths and weaknesses and then develop a proactive plan to build its economic power base," said Otis Brown, vice rector of Longwood University. "Business as usual is a thing of the past."
Attendees will hear speakers representing the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, Carroll and Smyth counties, Prince Edward/Farmville Electronic Community, Virginia Tech eCorridors Program, Virginia Manufacturers Association, GENEDGE Alliance, Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Fort Lee and the Virginia Logistics Research Center, and the Virginia Community College System.
Jesse White and Josh Levy, both of the University of North Carolina Office of Economic and Business Development, will use the 2010 report, The Appalachian Colleges Community Economic Development Partnership, to explore Virginia's opportunity to link to its colleges and universities.
At the Emory & Henry College session, representatives from the Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Commission, Virginia Tourism Corporation, and U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Rural Development will share insight into resources for a creative economy.
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Mickey Mouse (and Minnie) was the beginning of what the Disney company is today. This plucky little mouse has brought smiles and laughter to generations of audiences. He's done this not only in the US, but the world over. And, to commemorate his 88th birthday, he did a world tour.
Though his look has changed a bit throughout the years he is still easily recognized throughout the world. And, for 88, he looks pretty good for his age!
With the opening of Shanghai Disneyland earlier this year, both Mickey and Minnie have a bit of a "new look." And both shine brighter than ever as they come to life to greet guests across the globe. It's great to see that they are still park icons after over 80 years.
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Playboi Carti Cites "Producer Problems" As Reason For Mixtape Delay
Lil Yachty asks Playboi Carti where that mixtape at.
This past week at SXSW, Fader Fort had performances from both Lil Yachty and Playboi Carti, resulting in a surprise appearance from A$AP Rocky. It was equally eventful backstage at the Dream Hotels artist lounge, where a meeting of the minds went down, when Yachty and Carti linked up to interview each other.
In the brief discussion, the two Atlanta natives reminisce about the first time they met, while Lil Boat asks the hard questions, like what's up with that Playboi Carti mixtape???
"Producer problems," Carti replies, "I wanted to stick to one sound, but that one sound wanted to give the sound to everybody. So I had to hold off until I find that n*gga that's gunna sit there and be on Carti's sound, and just young Carti's sound only." "I wanna be on my Gucci, Zaytoven shit, that's how I wanna be with my producers."
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With no face, just sound, Syd Straw works on this level throughout War and Peace (Capricorn), her modestly titled second solo album. In "CBGB's," a woman runs into a man she hasn't seen for ten years and wonders if he ever did any of the things he was going to do. Just at the point where you can feel the conversation unraveling into what-do-we-say-now? clichés, a gust of hostility seems to blow the singer back, and she comes back in kind. "Hey, I'm just asking!" she says, and you'll never untangle the complex of emotions she gets into those four words. There's anger, vehemence, love, and a whole string of questions: Why are you so defensive? What is your fucking problem? Can't you tell I care? Don't you? You don't even remember me, do you? When at the end of the song she asks again, "All the dreams you had/Have any or all of them come true?" and then answers herself, because he can't or won't, "If they haven't yet I hope they do," it's so painful and lovely I just want to give it up, check into a monastery, and take a month to think through the way she balances the phrase.
Ever since she started singing with the Golden Palominos in the mid-'80s, Syd Straw has seemed too big for her settings: full-throated, passionate, heedless, and cramped. By the time she got into the Palominos, they were a downtown New York art band essaying a version of arena rock you just knew they hoped their friends would take for parody and everyone else would buy for the real thing. Straw's songs were unformed and she had nowhere to go in the group. Her 1989 solo album, Surprise, was so fussed over it took me forever to hear it and I can't remember a thing about it. But she made one recording in 1985 that put her on the same level as Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello, and Alison Krauss, or rather showed she could get to the level where a singer does everything with the smallest twists and turns. That was "Listening to Elvis" by Scott Kempner—then of the Del-Lords, now of Little Kings—a vivid lament that turned up only on a New Jersey anthology called Luxury Condos Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood. Here's Straw, in a bar, sounding like she was born in one and she'll die in one, talking about why her boyfriend shot a guy the night Elvis died, and you're glad. It was all worth it—Elvis's death, her boyfriend ruining his life, the jerk he shot dying—if the end result is a performance this smart, thoughtful, and drenched in the anticipation of memories to come.
War and Peace is too long. There are too many how-could-you-leave-me? songs. By the time Straw sings "How could you leave me?" on "Madrid," not halfway through the disc, the question contains its own answer. But from the start, you can feel an artist rising to her own possibilities.
What makes Straw her own woman in the pop game is her ability not simply to summon or project emotion but to create characters, act them out, build suspense, and shock you with what a character who's been holding back has now dumped in your lap. Though her songwriting is often strong, and the backing on War and Peace—by the Skeletons, the been-there-forever Springfield, Mo., straight rock 'n' roll outfit—is fluid and taut, full of big rolling chords and theatrical shifts, what Straw does is all a matter of a singer's rule. With changes in tone, with inflections, hesitations, and leaps, she writes the scripts of the songs and directs them, translating words and melodies into the sort of real-life, real-time speech—thrown-away asides, explosions, pleas, mutterings—you can recognize in an instant. This record can be troublesome. Given the way Straw rolls out a phrase and pulls it in, you may end up on the end of it. Straw moves slowly, deliberately, reflectively into "Love and the Lack of It," maintaining the same distance from the subject for so long that a sense of abstraction takes over. There doesn't seem to be any need here for an actual person—no one with her own specific desires and disasters. But then a few words build to a violent break you can't hear coming, and the stakes go up like a fever. Pressing down on a word and lowering her voice, Straw throws you into an unpleasant room where the woman over in the corner is Nan Goldin and she's not taking Syd Straw's picture, she's taking yours.
"You gave me up but I'm still within the reach of reason," Straw sings in "Love and the Lack of It." It's a disturbing line, and it echoes through "CBGB's." The singer might be a little crazy, but too much passion often sounds like that. The Skeletons pump the shiny California sound of the Byrds through the old Bowery punk club—it's hard to imagine the place ever had room for anything this sweet. The feeling carries you through every scene, every turn away from the audience, the singer's hair coming loose. You begin to picture everything: the way the man in the song is killing himself for losing this woman, the way he can't bear to listen to her for another second, the way he realizes that, no, he doesn't have any idea who she is. "Do you remember me?" she keeps asking, and the tragedy in the song is that you can't know. So alive, so full of the demands you make on life that life resists, the woman in this song can make you smile over wounds—your wounds, not just hers—she is uncovering. That sort of pop miracle can happen to anyone, anytime, and anything can cause it. Most performers don't get close to it once, ever, but with Syd Straw I'd bet it's what she's been after for years.
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If you haven't yet seen Tressie McMillan Cottom's piece on targeted Pell grants as a new poll tax, check it out. She makes the crucial point that excluding prospective students on the grounds of not being "college ready" -- when they're already required to bring either a diploma or a GED -- would disproportionately exclude students of color, just as the old poll tax functioned to exclude voters of color.
The politics of "aid" are tricky. If you try to target aid to get the most bang for the buck, you'll direct it to those who least need it. You'll get great "efficiency," but you'll defeat the larger purpose. If you try to target it to those who most need it, you're taking a serious political risk; just compare the political fate of "welfare" to the political fate of "social security." Once a program is identified exclusively with the poor, its support dries up.
I know this is counterintuitive in American political culture, but it seems like the best way to square this particular circle is to direct the resources to institutions, and to instruct the institutions to keep prices low. If you do that, you reduce the amount of "aid" that needs to be provided in the first place, and you ensure that the "access" the aid buys is access to something worthwhile. As a bonus, by making the institutions strong and inexpensive, you gain the political support that attends middle-class benefits.
In the meantime, the very real charge for those of us in those institutions is to figure out how to do right by those who most need it. It's a worthy mission.
Snow days generate some odd conversations. Highlights from yesterday:
The Girl: We should start an e-harmony for dogs!
The Boy: Can you imagine The Dog's ad?
Me: "I Like Big Mutts and I Cannot Lie."
TB: Ewww, Dad…
TB: Look at those big, fat flakes…
TG: That would be a great name for a band! "Give it up for the Big Fat Flakes!"
Earlier this week, The Boy's junior high jazz band performed for the school committee.
If you haven't heard a junior high jazz ensemble lately, well, it's a distinctive sound. But TB did us proud. He sat among the saxes for the first song -- some sort of mid-tempo blues -- playing his alto. But for the second song -- "Don't Stop Believin'," by Journey, which I don't think of as a jazz standard -- he came upfront to play guitar.
As a parent, it's a little jarring to see your kid -- who you still think of very much as a kid -- flashing a winning smile and playing confidently while towering over his bandmates. He's five foot ten now, and lanky, but athletic enough that he isn't usually tripping over himself. At home he's still the sweet, goofy kid he has always been, but among his peers…
For a few minutes there, my kid was replaced by a handsome, confident young man with an electric guitar and a smile that could melt butter at fifty feet. You could see the girls in the band notice him.
He came home and was his usual, goofy self. I felt like I had seen the future. It's a great future, but I'll enjoy the sweet, goofy present just a little longer.
Is the plural of cul-de-sac "cul-de-sac's," "cul-de-sacs," or "culs-de-sac?" And am I revealing too much by asking that?
I did the math the other day, and realized that TW and I have been married for longer than my parents were. It's a sort of Gen X milestone.
We met in the 90's, when I was in grad school and she had just moved out of her parents' house. She saw past the 1989 Toyota Tercel with a bad muffler, and the crappy apartment with a roommate, and the tunnel vision of a grad student who had spent way too much time dissertating. I just saw what was right in front of me.
I still do.
Happy Valentine's Day, honey.


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Kizad supports German business in Abu Dhabi
picKHALIFA INDUSTRIAL ZONE ABU DHABI (KIZAD), THE NEW INDUSTRIAL AND LOGISTICS ZONE NEXT TO ABU DHABI'S KHALIFA PORT, HAS ANNOUNCED AT HANNOVER MESSE THAT IT WILL BE SPONSORING A KEY GERMAN INDUSTRY FORUM.
Arno Fuchs, CEO, FCF Fox Corporate Finance; Khaled Salmeen, CEO and Managing Director of Kizad; and Mr. Mohamed Al Neaimi, Executive Director of Communication & Business Development, Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce.
Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad), the new industrial and logistics zone next to Abu Dhabi's Khalifa Port, has announced at Hannover Messe that it will be sponsoring a key German industry forum.
The popular annual event held in the UAE is focused on improving the flow of business activity, facilitating joint ventures and sharing know-how and technology transfer between Germany, the UAE and the wider Gulf region.
The sponsorship is a natural link for Kizad. Khalifa Port and Kizad are one of Abu Dhabi's biggest infrastructure megaprojects to date and will become one of the world's biggest industrial zones. Connected by road, rail, air and sea, Kizad groups major industries as 'vertically integrated clusters' which will through proximity, deliver transport and production efficiencies and lower costs.
In its fifth year, the popular German Industry Day (GID 2013) is an effective forum for exploring investment opportunities and broadening the network of top industry executives. Senior management and Director-level professionals come from the private and public sectors in the UAE and wider region, to network with some of Germany's leading SMEs in the light and heavy industrial sectors.
The Forum also includes two top level panel discussions with leading industrialists and economists, providing valuable insights into the global macro-economic environment and its relation and effect on industrial production and trade.
Organised by FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH, bookings already indicate that this years' event will be the biggest yet.
Commenting on the announcement, Khaled Salmeen, CEO and Managing Director of Kizad, said: "With a growing demand in the Middle East, and the Gulf Region for construction and engineering projects, there is a corresponding level of interest for Kizad's offering – from both large and small sized industrial-focused companies in Germany. Kizad is an excellent option for businesses looking to expand into and locate in a stable and prosperous area of the Middle East region. Our strategic geographical location, access to first-class regional road networks throughout the Arabian Gulf and low operating costs, together with our red tape-cutting 'One-Stop-Shop' combine to offer investors an exciting proposition."
Arno Fuchs, CEO of FCF Fox Corporate Finance, the organisers of German Industry Day 2013, said: "We are delighted to have Kizad join us as a strategic partner at this year's event. As an investment bank looking to support SMEs we are acutely aware of the necessary infrastructure that is often crucial to a company's success. Kizad is clearly an entity with an offering that will appeal to many German SMEs in the industrial sectors complementing our investment strategies.
"German industrial companies have already established strong reputations by delivering on key infrastructural contracts in the Gulf Region, indeed some have been directly involved in the construction of Khalifa Port and the Kizad industrial zone," added Fuchs.
Abu Dhabi's newly inaugurated Khalifa Port and Kizad Zone A (first phase) was constructed at a cost of EUR5.64bn (USD7.2bn) and is now the only fully operational deep-water port with a semi-automated container terminal in the region.
Kizad has identified various vertical sectors and specifically assigned industry clusters in its new commercial and industrial zone. They include; aluminium; steel; glass; pharmaceuticals and healthcare; food; paper, print and packaging; trade and logistics; and mixed use industries.
Kizad's Zone A and Khalifa Port area covers 52sq.km but will expand to 418 sq. km in the second phase – an area equivalent to two thirds the land mass of Singapore.
German Industry Day 2013 will be held at the Fairmont Bab Al Bahr Hotel on 28th May. The event is run by Fox Corporate Finance GmbH, an independent investment bank with financial specialisation in small to mid-sized businesses, and supported by Kizad, Deutsche Bourse and the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce. Participation at the GID is exclusive to pre-registered guests only.
If you would like to attend the conference or if you would like to participate as a presenting company, please contact Ms. Veronika Degle on


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Some of the girls kidnapped from taking exams at school have escaped from their captors. They were not rescued; they managed to get out on their own power. The Nigerian government's response to the abduction has so far been discouraging.
The day after the abduction, the Nigerian military claimed that it had rescued nearly all of the girls. A day later, the military retracted its claim; it had not actually rescued any of the girls. And the number that the government said was missing, just over a hundred, was less than half the number that parents and school officials counted: according to their tally, two hundred and thirty-four girls were taken.
In the wake of the military's failure, parents banded together and raised money to send several of their number into the forest to search for the girls. The group came across villagers who persuaded the parents to turn back. They told the parents that they had seen the girls nearby, but the insurgents were too well armed. Many of the parents had just bows and arrows.
The reason why Boko Haram decided to kidnap these girls (they are a mix of Christian and Muslim, according to Okeowo's article) was simply that they were attending school. The government's response to a terrorist group kidnapping triple digits of schoolgirls and selling them into sexual slavery is to pretend to have done something, and then still not do anything. Those girls are left to twist in the wind.


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We are looking forward to attending the Island Highland Gathering 2014, at Northwood House, Cowes 10am onwards (with the closing ceremony from 5pm).
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Researchers: No new graves at former Florida reform school
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Researchers studying underground anomalies at a former Florida Panhandle reform school known for horrific abuse and dozens of unmarked graves said Tuesday that recently discovered earth disturbances don't contain human remains.
University of South Florida forensic anthropologist Dr. Erin Kimmerle said most of the 27 anomalies at the former Dozier School for Boys in Marianna are root balls from pine trees removed years ago. Others contain construction material, like bricks, piping and concrete. She said that's good news.
"Nobody wants to see the tragedy of deaths like that," Kimmerle said in a phone interview.
Kimmerle's team will now scan as much of the 1,400-acre (565-hectare) property as it can using Lidar technology, which uses lasers to identify variations in the earth in a bid to identify any other anomalies.
The reform school located about 60 miles (95 kilometers) northwest of Tallahassee opened in 1900 and later became known for decades of abuse, including beatings, torture and rape. The state opened an investigation into the facility's past in 2009. The school was closed in 2011. The Legislature apologized for the abuse two years ago with many of the survivors gathered at the Capitol for the vote.
Kimmerlie also led a USF team from 2012 to 2016 that identified 55 graves at the school and unearthed the remains, using historical records and DNA to identify many of the boys buried there. The recently discovered anomalies were reported by a contractor using ground-penetrating radar while preparing the site for new development. The contractor raised concerns that there could be additional graves.
Before excavating the graves, Kimmerle's team researched school records and identified nearly 100 people who died there, and had a list of 50 names of boys who might be buried at what's called the Boot Hill Cemetery. The area has about 30 white, iron crosses with no markings.
"We ended up finding more individuals than we thought should be buried there. At the end of it, we had five more sets of remains than we had names on that list," said Kimmerle, adding that there's no way to be 100 percent certain that there aren't more people buried at the school. "This idea that there's additional burials, it could certainly be someone unaccounted for. It could be gaps in the historical record. But generally, we like to know who we're looking for."


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" Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood."
Clint Eastwood is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and politician who has been an enduring cultural icon of masculinity ever since his roles as the Man with No Name in the Dollars trilogy (60s), and as Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films (70s-80s).
He was born on Saturday May 31st 1930, in San Francisco, California, United States.
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The 30-year-old former Wallabies wing won 86 caps and helped Australia land the world title in 1999 with victory over France.
He also went on as a replacement during the 2003 final when Australia lost to England in Sydney.
Roff will be available for the Varsity Match between Oxford and Cambridge on December 12. He shortly begins studying at Oxford.
"We are obviously thrilled that Joe is coming to study at Oxford and we look forward to him playing at the club," said Oxford University rugby administrator Tim Stevens.
"His experience and talent speaks for itself, and everyone is excited about his involvement not only with the Varsity Match, but the whole season."


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The city of Darwin
in Australia
was named after Charles Darwin, the scientist and evolutionist who had sailed
on several expeditions on the HMS Beagle.
Though Darwin
was not on board in 1839, when Darwin
harbour was first sighted, the captain of the Beagle decided to name the port
after him.
It wasn't until 1869 that a small group of
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back then administered the Northern
In 1870 the first poles of the famed
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and it was finally connected to the rest of the world...
The next boost to Palmerston's development
occurred in the 1880s, when gold was discovered at Pine Creek, just over 200 km
The Northern Territory
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small town.
Development was slow, the distances to
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weather unpredictable.
Enter WWII. In the 1940s 10,000 allied
troops were moved to the city of Darwin on Australia's
northern coastline. It didn't prevent the two major air raids by the Japanese
on 19 February, 1942. 243 people died in the Darwin bombings. Darwin had to live through 63 more raids, the
only Australian capital city to come under major attacks during WWII.
But the biggest disaster hit the city of Darwin on 25 December,
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documented in Darwin's
Museum & Art Gallery of the NT, a fascinating and chilling exhibition.
50 People died on Christmas 1974, and 70%
of the city of Darwin
were destroyed. 30,000 people had to be evacuated in the biggest airlift in Australia's
But during the 1970s Darwin was rebuilt, bigger and better. Some
locals say it's due to that rebuild that the city of Darwin is so easy to navigate today. The
planners were given a second chance to get it right...
Nearly a quarter of Darwin's resident's are of Aboriginal or
Torres Strait Islander descent. Another big percentage of the population has
immigrated from South and East Asia. 75
nationalities are represented in the city of Darwin all together.
Today Darwin
in Australia is a lively and
multicultural city, and a "Gateway to Asia".
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With 4 little boys… 10, 8, 6, and 4… I am not a fan of scissors. Noah got tired of asking and learned to tear his paper for his pictures carefully. Becca says *this* is why he won't let daddy clip his nails! LOL
Noah worked on his own to create this solar system… I think he did a great job. Again and again the creativity my dc show amazes me.
the artist and his work
close up
Saturn (this is where the finger nails came in handy)….
Noah is an intensely visual child. He sees something and wants to recreate it. He loves to draw and write. When younger he loved to create words and notes with our letter blocks. He has frequently *labeled* our home… in fact did it again in sidewalk chalk this week. So yes, I live and live gladly with writing and pictures on my floors, furniture, and walls. Now he is expanding out… last week it was using the wooden logs to create outlines of the country and states. This week it is tearing paper. Besides the solar system he has done the alphabet and numbers 0-9.
What will he come up with next?


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In collaboration with the IMC, ABAAD conducted a number of Stress and Anger Management workshops for young Iraqi and Lebanese men. The trainings dealt with issues such as: the number and diversity of possible stressors in our lives; signs of how stress and anger appear in thoughts and behavior; healthy and unhealthy stress and anger management; advanced techniques for short term stress and anger management (such as Muscle Relaxation and Guided Imagery); and long-term solutions for stress and anger management. In addition, to be being very interactive and dynamic, the workshops were very successful, which was demonstrated by participants showing marked increases in scores on "Knowledge of Stress and Anger Management.


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The Internet has given way to amazing advancements: Connectability, freedom of information, having the entire world at your fingertips, and of course, Social Media. While these advancements are, for the most part, seen as improvements to our lives, Social Media has also lead us down the path of oversharing and thinking everyone everywhere needs to know everything we're doing at any given time. And, if you or your company is active on Social Media, you understand the sheer power it has. And we can bet dollars to donuts that there are things that you wish you could take back, erase, undo, CTRL+ALT+DELETE if you could.
If you've taken all careful measures to make sure what you've posted is either private or SFW (safe for work) or both, there could still be the chance someone else will post an embarrassing photo of you somewhere. (thanks a bunch, smartphones.)
When your name is Googled, do you want that photo your friend took of you drunk as a skunk at a party and shared all over Facebook and Twitter to now be what comes up? Sure, you can ask the friend to delete the photo, and if they truly are a friend, they will. But does that mean it's gone? No. That photo can remain on social media and the Internet for a long time.
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In recent years laboratory studies using AMPI-109 — a novel alkylating analog of vitamin D — have shown the experimental therapy is a potential killer of triple-negative breast cancer cells. But no matter how positive the results in the lab, anti-tumor drugs can only be included in a human clinical trial when researchers know their mechanisms of action.
A recent study now proposes that AMPI-109 exerts its protective effect by regulating the activation of the PRL-3 gene, which encodes an enzyme (with the same name) that controls the activation or senescent (sleep) state of cancer cells.
The study, "Loss of the oncogenic phosphatase PRL-3 promotes a TNF-R1 feedback loop that mediates triple-negative breast cancer growth," was published in the journal Oncogenesis.
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The authors said using genetic tools or AMPI-109 to inactivate the PRL-3 gene in triple-negative breast cancer cells had the same effect: the death of cancer cells. They believe that, by shutting down the PRL-3 gene, AMPI-109 forces cancer cells to stay inactive for a longer time, which eventually leads to their detection and elimination by the immune system.
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This is an important finding, given that many cancer types can effectively hide from the immune system and therefore, certain therapies are engineered to avoid the progression of cancer instead of killing it completely.
Additional studies on the potential beneficial effect of AMPI-109 may help understand whether this drug could possibly become an effective therapy for triple-negative breast cancer and enter a human clinical trial.


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Key busing hubs no longer central in RIPTA plans
Agency turns focus to expansion near Rhode Island Hospital
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Building a new bus center in the south part of downtown was a key selling point for a $35-million mass-transit ballot question approved in 2014 and a $43-million parking garage outside the Garrahy Judicial Complex, authorized a few months earlier.
But as the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority looks ahead to expanding bus service in the capital city, neither the Garrahy garage, nor the mass transit bond feature centrally in the agency's plans.
Although RIPTA still expects to create a bus stop or stops at Garrahy, transit planners don't envision a "hub" or terminal there and actually see more potential for expansion farther south, near Rhode Island Hospital.
"Rhode Island Hospital is a huge ridership area for us," said Amy Pettine, RIPTA's executive director of planning. "Garrahy emerged as an opportunity, but with the hospital as a key anchor, we will probably need something further south."
RIPTA is working with the Rhode Island Convention Center Authority, which is building the Garrahy garage, on determining what kind of mass transit presence makes sense, from a regular stop, to a "super stop" with passenger amenities and a place for drivers to take a break.
RIPTA spokeswoman Barbara Polichetti said the development of the Jewelry District and former Route 195 land by Garrahy will help determine how RIPTA expands in that area and whether it needs additional facilities, such an area where buses can turn around.
Whatever RIPTA plans south of Kennedy Plaza, the agency is not anticipating using any part of the $35-million bond to pay for it, Polichetti said.
The "transit hub infrastructure bond" ballot question voters approved in 2014 did not specify where the money would be spent, although then-Gov. Lincoln Chafee suggested the Amtrak station, Garrahy and Kennedy Plaza.
Building a bus terminal at the train station was the primary focus of the transit hub bond, but planning for that project has moved slowly.
Last year state Department of Transportation officials said they hoped to show progress, planning a public-private partnership at the train station in the first quarter of this year, but on Thursday, DOT spokesman Charles St. Martin pushed that back to the "first half" of this year.
"The next step is for RIDOT to engage the [real estate development] industry in review of the hub proposal, prior to soliciting proposals for the development of the hub at the Amtrak station, for its design and construction," St. Martin said in an email.
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