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The Road Ends Here
Four teams have arrived in San Antonio—all with hopes of winning the National Championship. Find out who will advance to Monday night and who will win it all.
#11 Loyola-Chicago vs. #3 Michigan, Saturday, 6:09pm., TBS
Loyola-Chicago of the Missouri Valley Conference has taken the world by storm and is the fourth 11-seed in the history of the NCAA Tournament to make the Final Four. With wins over Miami, Tennessee, Nevada, and Kansas State, the Ramblers have proven that although they are small in stature, they can play with anybody in the country. Defensively, Loyola-Chicago has trumped their opponents—limiting them to 63.5 points per game in the Tournament. Four players, Clayton Custer, Aundre Jackson, Marques Townes, and Ben Richardson, have each led Loyola-Chicago in scoring over their four games in the "Big Dance." Sister Jean is in San Antonio and the Ramblers want nothing more than to cut down the nets on Monday night.
Entering the NCAA Tournament, Michigan was one of the hottest teams in the country. The Wolverines have won 13 consecutive games, including wins over Montana, Houston, Texas A&M, and Florida State. The best seed Michigan has faced in the Tournament was 6-seeded Houston, who they needed a buzzer beater to get past. The Wolverines have a top five defensive team and have proven to be stout throughout their run to the Final Four. Michigan has held their opponents to 59 points per contest over the past two weeks. Mo Wagner, Charles Matthews, and Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman will look to lead the Wolverines to their first National Championship game appearance since 2013.
Loyola-Chicago 69, Michigan 66
#1 Kansas vs. #1 Villanova, Saturday, 8:49pm., TBS
Kansas has powered past Penn, Seton Hall, Clemson, and Duke through the use of the three point shot. Mississippi State-transfer, Malik Newman, has stepped up in March, providing a third scoring option in addition to the veteran guards Devonte' Graham and Svi Mykhailiuk. Lagerald Vick can also shoot the three. With a healthy Udoka Azubuike, the Jayhawks have been unstoppable on offense in the NCAA Tournament. Kansas is averaging 81 points per game over their first four contests in the NCAA Tournament. The Jayhawks are a formidable foe that will look to beat Villanova with a taste of their own medicine Saturday night.
Villanova has been one of the favorites to win it all since the field of 68 was announced on Selection Sunday. The Wildcats arrive in San Antonio with wins over Radford, Alabama, West Virginia, and have made it to the Final Four despite a poor shooting performance from behind the arc in their win over Texas Tech in the Elite Eight. Villanova has averaged 82.3 points per game in the "Big Dance." The Wildcats have a balanced attack that can do it all on the offensive end. All five starters are strong shooters from distance and have the ability to drive it to the hoop. Look for AP National Player of the Year Jalen Brunson and Mikal Bridges to lead Villanova to the title game.
Villanova 84, Kansas 82
National Champion: Villanova Wildcats
Jay Wright has created a culture of winning at Villanova. The Wildcats are the most dominant program in the last five years, winning 88.4% of their games over that span. Look for Villanova to be on top of the college basketball world again and win their second National Championship in three years.


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Document Type
Date of Award
Spring 1996
Degree Name
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering - (M.S.)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
First Advisor
Zoran Siveski
Second Advisor
Nirwan Ansari
Third Advisor
Hongya Ge
Decorrelating detector is one of the sub-optimum detectors for CDMA applications that generally has better performance than the conventional detector and is near-far resistant. Synchronous decorrelating detector employing DPSK modulation is considered and its simulation results are presented.
Attention is focussed on one-shot decorrelating detector for a two user case for asynchronous transmission, where each symbol interval is considered seperately. Initially the performance of the detector with exact estimation of the relative delay is analyzed and then the effect of inaccurate estimation on the probability of error is discussed.
Recommended Citation
Borkar, Ashwini A., "Asynchronous multiuser decorrelating detector for AWGN channel" (1996). Theses. 1084.

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It's not uncommon for a contemporary rapper to say they don't want to be recording past the age of 40, so where does that leave Public Enemy? Hip-hop artists' attitudes toward aging puts Chuck D, Flavor Flav, and co. in an inherently awkward position, seeing as they're now three decades removed from their formation. Fortunately, they can manage. Man Plans God Laughs arrives with a unique set of circumstances. In interviews leading up to the album, the group's best since 2007's How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?, Chuck has repeatedly mentioned being inspired by Kanye West (specifically Yeezus), Kendrick Lamar (specifically To Pimp a Butterfly), and Run the Jewels (presumably both albums, because they're both so great). So, even if Public Enemy aren't trying to rein in younger generations of listeners, they're not blind to the merits of the noise those generations are already bringing.
That acknowledgment of the substance of today's rap (explicit in the music when Chuck references Kendrick's Black Hippy crew, for example) is a development as exciting as any in Public Enemy's recent timeline. Another exciting development: Compared to the group's 60- and 70-minute albums, Man Plans God Laughs is refreshingly exacting. It's just 27 minutes long, with only two of its songs eclipsing the three-minute mark; it's not a chore to listen to and try to grasp it. Man Plans God Laughs could have been a slab of endurance-testing ambition for the group's latter-day era, but really, things only sound hopelessly awkward during the anti-establishment rendering of The Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" ("Honky Talk Rules").
Rap has become more of a finesse game since Public Enemy expanded its parameters with Yo! Bum Rush the Show in 1987, but battering-ram force still defines the group's music. With The Bomb Squad's Gary G-Wiz in tow to handle all production, Man Plans God Laughs has its share of explosiveness on songs like "Give Peace a Damn" and "Those Who Know Know Who". Still, the album never feels hefty or unmanageable. It's just a smooth distillation of everything Public Enemy are known for, from Chuck's booming and percussive voice, to the themes of oppression and revolution, to the disorienting Bomb Squad crush. It does nothing to alienate diehard fans who've been riding with the group since Yo! Bum Rush the Show. It's just a question of who else is going to hear it, of whether or not it can reach a broader audience than their last few albums have.
To be fair, there are plenty of things worth hearing here. Even after controversially defending Bill Cosby on Twitter earlier this month, Chuck remains an agreeable and purposeful lyricist. He's not correcting today's rappers; he's joining them in their discourse. In doing so, his words have the weight of both experience and concern for today. He gets started right away with "No Sympathy from the Devil": "Crazy, government created grown-up '80s crack babies/ Treat your ass cold 'til the frostbite bites in December." On inevitable single "Me to We", he straightforwardly addresses the virtues of togetherness, risking cliché for a clear message: "We're all relatives, human family/ No 'I' in team, but who we be?" On "Mine Again", he talks about using his success as a black American to give to a malaria-infested Africa: "It's cool to be black until it's time to be black/ Ain't never too late to go back and give back." Throughout the album, his voice is charged with the intent to use hip-hop as a podium for relevant ideas, even if it means his delivery is sometimes clumsily forceful.
There are those who would argue that rappers today are closer to Flavor Flav than Chuck D, but no one, really, is saying hip-hop is dead. It's a hard case to argue when, nearly 30 years after the emergence of the group's tagline (and Malcolm X paraphrase) "too black, too strong," Public Enemy have been healing from atrophy; Man Plans God Laughs is the group's third album since 2012. "Every generation got their music," Chuck raps here on "Lost in Space". For rappers over or approaching the age of 50, it sets a lofty standard for socially engaged hip-hop that doesn't let the weight of its subject matter hold down its timelessly propulsive energy.
Essential Tracks: "Me to We", "Praise the Loud"


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What makes a real leader? Retired Army Lt. Col. Timothy Lupfer is a guest on the Kim Monson Show "Let's have a conversation!" Lt. Col Lupfer graduated first in his class at Westpoint and commanded a combat tank battalion during Desert Storm. In this podcast, Tim explains why Leadership may require some tough love.
In this episode, I chat with leadership and history expert Timothy Lupfer. As someone who likes to mix those two topics myself, I found this discussion riveting. Welcome to this episode of the burden of command podcast. Today I've got a really special guest as somebody who falls in line a lot with my philosophies on leadership and some of the guests we've had on here as well.
Timothy Lupfer's entire life has been a study of leadership. Lean in as he discusses his experience with crisis and the qualities in leadership that matter on The Master Leadership Podcast.
Timothy Lupfer: A New Look at Leadership on The Nice Guys on Business Podcast
Tim Lupfer has been an army officer, commanding a tank battalion in combat, then a business executive, and now he wants to save the world from muddled thinking about leadership. He draws from his experience and history to offer us a more precise way to assess and develop leaders.
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Autocar Pro News Desk ,
01 Nov 2018
Maxxis India, part of the global Maxxis Group, has crossed the 1,000 dealership landmark in India, with 1,018 dealerships across 325 cities, within just 12 months. This speedy milestone is an indication of Maxxis' aggressive growth outlook for the Indian tyre market.
The West region (which includes Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Goa and Madhya Pradesh) accounts for the highest number with a total of 504 dealers including 210 in Gujarat, 107 in Maharashtra and 106 in Madhya Pradesh. The North region (which includes Punjab, Haryana, Delhi NCR, J&K, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand), the dealership count is 236 with 87 in Punjab and 83 in Uttar Pradesh. In the South (Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka) there are 195 Maxxis dealers with Tamil Nadu the biggest with 118 dealers. And the North East region (Assam, Tripura, Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland) has 49 dealerships.
Maxxis India has a sharpened focus on digitisation and business analytics. In line with this, the dealer locator on the company website directs the customer to the nearest Maxxis dealership and also enables him/her to call or get directions to the nearest dealership via Google navigation from the listing on the site.
Commenting on the dealer network, Bing-Lin Wu, marketing and retail sales head, Maxxis India, said, "As we make deeper inroads in the country, network expansion is a critical part of enhancing the customer experience. In order to realise the potential of the market, we are making our tyres more accessible to the customers and ensuring best-in-class services across all our dealerships. We are very pleased with the pace of growth in India as it is a priority market for us and we have a strong commitment to grow our presence in the country."
To strengthen its relationship with existing and new dealer partners, Maxxis India has been conducting dealers' meets and activations across India. The company says these dealer meets aims to enhance reach in the regional market and facilitate dealers to provide seamless customer service, and help brand expand its reach to a wider customer base and in Tier 2 and 3 cities.
"Owing to the robust dealer engagement activities and customer-centric polices, we witnessed a tremendous growth spurt with the on-boarding of the last 100 dealers within a short span of two weeks. We have conducted 8 dealers' meets across 8 cities so far and intend to keep the momentum going in 2019," added Bing-Lin Wu.
Targeting a big share of the India tyre market
The India market is touted to play a vital role in achieving Maxxis's global vision to become one of the top 5 tyre manufactures in the world by 2026. Maxxis India inaugurated its first manufacturing facility in Sanand, Gujarat in March this year and is targeting a market share of at least 15 percent of India's two-wheeler tyre market within 5 years.
Maxxis India's Sanand plant has a production capacity of around 20,000 tyres and 40,000 tubes per day. Maxxis says that it currently serves as an OEM tyre supplier to Honda (Two-wheelers), Maruti Suzuki India, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Motors and Jeep in India.
Also read: Maxxis India's first supplies begin, targets 1m tyres to OEMs by end-2018
Liou Jia Ciao: 'Maxxis has come to India because of the market size, not the low cost of manufacturing.'
Maxxis Tyres targets 1,000-strong dealer network in India by end-2018
Maxxis India conducts first dealers meet in Gujarat
Suzuki invests in company that makes "flying cars"
Autocar Pro News Desk ,
28 Sep 2022
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In what seems to me to be an indisputable refutation of an oft-repeated claim, ScienceBlogs has shown that any claim by Patrick Moore that he founded GreenPeace, or was a co-founder, is false.
Of particular note is a letter written by Moore to Greenpeace asking to be included on a voyage to participate in a nuclear protest, written well after the founding of Greenpeace. You should read the post and view it for yourself, as well as the letter which GreenPeace sent in response.
Then there are the founders of GreenPeace, who should know pretty well who they are — and aren't.
The next time you hear, anywhere, from anyone, that Patrick Moore founded or co-founded GreenPeace, demand a response. I would love to hear him explain this one.


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Lordstown Motors Corp prototype of the electric vehicle start-up's Endurance pickup truck, which it will begin building in the second half of 2021, is seen at the company's plant in Lordstown, Ohio, U.S. June 25, 2020.
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Shares of Lordstown Motors surged nearly 20% before cooling off in the company's volatile trading debut Monday on the Nasdaq.
The stock jumped as high as $21.75 but was trading at $19.42, up 6.6%, as of 1:25 p.m. It began trading Monday after closing a reverse merger last week with DiamondPeak Holdings Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC.
Ohio-based Lordstown Motors is among a growing group of electric vehicle start-ups going public through deals with SPACs, which have become a popular way of raising money on Wall Street because they have a more streamlined regulatory process.
SPAC stocks typically get an initial pop after the deal is announced but tend to underperform the broader market in the long run, according to Goldman Sachs. Shares of Hyliion, a hybrid and electric commercial truck firm, have been cut in half since it began trading after its reverse merger with Tortoise Acquisition Corp. in October.
Lordstown was expected to receive about $675 million of gross proceeds from the deal. It planned to use the funds for the production of a new work truck called the Endurance. Lordstown says it has secured 40,000 preorders for the truck, which would equate to $2 billion in revenue.
The company plans to begin producing the pickup beginning next year at General Motors' former Lordstown Assembly plant in Ohio. Lordstown purchased it from the automaker last year. Deliveries are expected to begin in late summer.
Lordstown expects to achieve breakeven or better operational earnings margins in 2022, its first full year of production, and eclipse 10% by 2024.
Lordstown has received major boosts in public awareness recently thanks to the Trump administration, including visits with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
DiamondPeak raised $250 million in its IPO in March 2019, with the company initially looking to target a "business with a real estate related component."


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How can Mlm Marketing bring happiness?
So, you're probably wondering how a Mlm marketing business makes one happy? So here it goes, it can improve one's ability to create a sustainable income, shatter the chains of a time clock, open doors to travel, meet likeminded individuals and help others find freedom. This is only a few of the benefits just mentioned, so you could see some prime examples. Some people in the industry have paid off their homes, own new cars, have a nice retirement fund and have time to travel. This won't happen overnight, but with the right attitude and focus, you could achieve your goals as well.
When one is happy, their overall health is significantly better than those slaving away at their jobs. Mlm marketing is not a job, it may never provide an hourly income, but it is a career that may give you a hefty income. Which means a check every month so that you're meeting your end goals and going above them.
If you had more time on your hands to do some hobbies, what would they be? This career doesn't own you, you own it. Even if you decide to work eight hours a day to build the business up, it doesn't have to continue down this road after reaching your goal.
The right thinking can help reduce life struggles
By working in Mlm marketing and meeting your business goals, your life will still have struggles, it's just a fact of life. However, if you're happy, then you may find less fighting, arguments and less frustration over a period of time. The right state of mind can open doors to finding success, this includes beating sickness and other problems that tend to slam a hammer down on our toes. If you are ready for a change, send David an email to learn more about Mlm marketing. Thanks for reading.


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The Marine Stewardship Council™ (MSC™) is an international non-profit organization founded in 1997, established to address the problem of unsustainable fishing and safeguard seafood supplies for the future.
The MSC certification is the main global seafood certification scheme for sustainable fishing at international level. It is a voluntary certification open to all companies involved in fishing.
The purpose of the certification is to contribute to the health of the world's oceans by recognizing and rewarding sustainable fishing practices.
The certification is based on two standards, that meet international best practice guidelines for certification:
- the MSC Fisheries Standard, that measures the sustainability of wild-capture fisheries
- the MSC Chain of Custody Standard, that is a traceability and segregation standard applicable to the full supply chain from a certified fishery or farm to final sale.
The Chain of Custody assures consumers and seafood-buyers that MSC labelled seafood comes from a certified sustainable fishery. Each company in the supply chain handling or selling an MSC certified product must have a valid MSC Chain of Custody certificate. The MSC blue label can be only applied to wild fish or seafood from fisheries that have been certified to the MSC Fisheries Standard.
The MSC does not assess a fishery or business, and it does not issue certificates. Assessments are carried out by third party independent organizations accredited by ASI (Accreditation Services International): Vireo is accredited by ASI (ASI-ACC-086) and can provide MSC certificates.
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This is more or less a newsletter for job seekers like myself. I try to find good job search strategies, bad job search strategies, pure BS and job related articles every week. So far I've never run short. Please pass this around. I'm not doing this for any reason other than the desire to help and communicate with other job seekers. If you have any good links or stories, especially stories please comment. If you want the story private, just put that in the comment and I will trash it and not let it post.
Treat everybody at a place well. Even the person at the front desk.
One of the most important people in the interview process
Those people tend to be more important than you might think.
Another Liz horror story.
The fact is that almost nobody is fully "qualified" for the work they do, on paper. Yet somehow the work gets done.
What HR depts. could learn from Hayek
And then other, more philosophical questions flooded in. Without any feedback other than a basic employment application, can the HR department's algorithm or its employees truly determine the best candidate pool? Can HR's remaining candidate pool predict the future employees who will provide the most value to the company?
Of course not. If the company's department managers, who better understand their group's needed skillsets and experience, cannot perfectly forecast the most valuable future employees, the individuals in HR far removed from the department manager's knowledge stand no chance.
HR Commissars
In other words, HR's problem is Hayekian in nature. F.A. Hayek writes, "it [the economic problem of society] is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only these individuals know."
Government interventions in HR have the unintended consequences of burdening companies' other departments.
While HR employees may be equipped to attract talent, this is only one-half of their economic problem. The other half, the one in which HR is ill-equipped, is the process to secure (hire) these resources – specialized labor across a multitude of job functions – despite not understanding specific skills and relative importance of these skills to respective hiring managers.
In this respect, HR and their algorithms serve as central planning commissars, devoid of the feedback and knowledge needed to approve or disapprove candidate hiring for the company's departments. As technical innovation and the development of required skillsets to fill these openings inevitably continues, the service provided by the traditional, centralized HR hiring department to their coworkers in specialized, technical departments may suffer.
The contrast between HR departments, whose foremost objective is compliance with government regulations and whose structure reflects the bureaucracy that they enshrine, and companies' other lean, innovative departments could not be more stark. Government interventions in HR have the unintended consequences of burdening companies' other departments, which operate not according to government dictates, but solely based upon profit and loss.
Science suggest you quit your job for your health.
They've turned over applications to 'bots. Now they want to turn over the interview?
No one from the employer has spoken with you. No manager has taken time to answer your questions. No one at the employer company knows you exist.
When you're done, you click your video interview up to a database at a company called HireVue. What you don't know is that no human will ever take time to watch you answer all those questions. No one hears you speak.
Another robot "views" your video and algorithms scan the sounds and movements you make in the video.
The employer has invested its money in HireVue, not in you, to conduct this assessment — which we can't even call an interview because although HR is viewing there is no inter-action with anyone. It's just your bit stream and a recording and some software and hardware, saving the employer the cost of deploying a human to judge you.
There's a recent fluff piece about HireVue in the Wall Street Journal — which should know better: Video Job Interviews: Hiring for the Selfie Age. (The Journal requires a paid membership, but you can view the article for free by searching Google for the title, then X-ing past the splash screen.) On the other hand, the dusty skeleton in the WSJ's closet is its defunct CareerJournal, which compromised the newspaper's editorial integrity to sell its job-board service: Job-Board Journalism: Selling Out The American Job Hunter. So perhaps it's no surprise the WSJ is hawking HR technology.
I'd like to ask the Ask The Headhunter community: Do you as a job seeker (or as a hiring manager, or as even one of the many HR folks who subscribe to Ask The Headhunter) buy this stuff?
Interview videos infomercial claim #1
"…companies say [HireVue] is an efficient, fair and inexpensive way to process hundreds of applicants…"
The key word in this statement is "process," as in "process meat." Here's what Gilman Louie, partner at Silicon Valley venture firm Alsop Louie, told me about how modern HR technology destroys an employer's competitive edge:
"HR processes 2,000 candidates! They don't look through 2,000 candidates! And at the end of the process, what they get is the same candidate that everybody else running PeopleSoft gets! So where's your competitive advantage if everybody turns up with the same candidates?"
And still more:
Thank you so much for applying with Connections Education! I am sending you a first round, preliminary digital interview request in a separate email through our vendor, HireVue, for the position with Connections Education. [Note the redundancy in mentioning the company name twice, was this email sent by an algorithm?] This process allows you to record yourself answering questions that will be watched by the hiring team, who will then set up second round, in-person interviews."
I replied as follows:
"To quote the letter writer in this ATH article (HR Pornography: Interview videos), I find this request creepy, impersonal, presumptuous, Orwellian, exploitative, voyeuristic, unprofessional, and perhaps even unethical. It is also insulting. A hiring manager that won't 'waste' their time interviewing candidates is certainly not worthy of my time. I am withdrawing my application."
Her response:
"I am sorry that you feel that way and it is certainly not meant to be any of those items listed. If you would prefer to do a phone interview instead, we can arrange that. The reason we use HireVue as the first step in our process is because of the high volume of positions we have open, it would be impossible to screen the amount of applicants we are able to using a tool like HireVue. You can also opt to turn the video part off and just do audio id desired. I hope you'll reconsider this position and agree to a phone interview." [sic]
So, there ya go, I refused the HireVue and got a phone interview with the hiring mgrs.
The call consisted of a man who was the creative mgr and a woman who was director of marketing. The woman seemed nice, but the man had the personality of an uncooked potato. How's that for ironic? I certainly would like to have seen this guy perform on a video camera to see if it would have been worth my time to talk to him (it wasn't!).
Needless to say, the "interview" went nowhere — when you talk and talk and talk but the hiring mgr has nothing much to say other than "do you prefer mac or pc" (and you get sentenced to hell if you answer pc!) the outcome is inevitable.
I got their rejection email a few days later, to my relief. Of course, I'm still unemployed, but hey at least I stood my ground…*sigh*
I suppose that wasn't a huge leap into pure Orwell, but does HR have to take it?
Hey recruiters, job seekers are people too!!
My motivation for writing this is based on an email I received from a friend currently seeking his next opportunity. Please read, review, respond—whatever. I hope you will share that this can become a more robust discussion.
I have nothing more to add to what my friend says so eloquently below.
Thanks so much for thinking of me. I want you to know that I was not ignoring your thoughtful inquiry, but I find it hard to admit that I am struggling to keep my spirits up. I was so optimistic about a position that I had many reasons to believe I would be offered, only to find out weeks later that I was passed over. This was a very hard blow and one that the lack of feedback as to why has been consistently on my mind.
With every rejection a bit of self-esteem is peeled away. I know that I have become far too sensitive, taking it far too personally and therefore become too affected when repeatedly not selected for interviews. Also when someone takes an extra day or week to get back to me from what they promised I feel like I've been treated shabbily. Often they become unresponsive when I am checking back to find out the status of positions that I have applied to weeks' prior with nothing more than an automated response either acknowledging my application or a rejection notice for not being further considered.
Five signals that a company's culture may have issues.
What is your career balance sheet?
Yet another job search horror story. From Linked In
I went to a job interview a couple of weeks ago, and in fact I have some feedback for the managing director. Here are some points you may want to consider: – Leaving a candidate waiting in an interview room for the best part of an hour whilst you laugh, joke and eat with employees in full view of the candidate until you decide that you are ready to begin. – Failing to apologise to the candidate for your lateness. – Leaving the room without warning or apology mid-interview for 15 minutes at a time. – Swearing repeatedly during an interview. – Slating previous employees who happen to be good friends of the candidate. Those at the top are not exempt from basic manners and courtesy!
Hey boss this job is making me sick.
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Death by HR: Biased HR Degree Programs Create Biased HR Bureaucracies
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The IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction system, factors out extraneous circumstances, focuses on student learning of 12 specific objectives and can be administered online or on paper.
Research has shown there is no single, correct way to teach. As a result, The IDEA Center tailors each report to fit the instructor's selected learning objectives and offers recommendations for improvement based on our vast national database.
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Personal disposition is a person's true character, attitude and outlook. It is a person's tendency or habit to act in a certain way or perform an undertaking. A personal disposition can also be described as a habitual inclination.
Some examples of positive personal dispositions are being trustworthy, loving and open-minded. On the other hand, negative personal dispositions can include being cowardly, imprudent, biased and ill- tempered. A disposition differs from a skill in that a skill is something learned over time. A personal disposition is an inborn trait, sometimes inherited from one's parents. For example, a person may be skilled at reading fluently but not inclined to do so.


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For Thomas Fire, Monday's progress came amid ash-covered hillsides
Monday marked a bright spot for firefighters tackling the Thomas Fire as winds backed off, controlled burn operations went forward in the wilderness above Ojai and new aircraft continued assaults from the sky.
What's more, many roadways reopened in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and some residents returned home as evacuation orders continued to peel away.
The massive wildfire that started Dec. 4 near Thomas Aquinas College outside Santa Paula has so far burned through 271,000 acres, according to Cal Fire estimates, making it the third largest fire recorded in California. Officials said Monday it could eventually move into the No. 1 spot now held by the 2003 Cedar fire in San Diego, which reached 273,246 acres.
As of Monday — Day 15 — officials had tallied destruction of 1,032 structures. Of those, 760 were single-family homes, most in Ventura County. The blaze is 50 percent contained, fire officials said Monday evening. Costs have so far reached nearly $137 million.
More than 8,000 personnel are still fighting the fire, with help coming from many western states.
On Sunday, the Los Padres National Forest's wildfire division brought a new airplane into the mix, said Deputy Fire Chief Jim Harris. A pair of "super scoopers," or Canadair CL-415s, were brought online for the first time in the forest's firefighting history, he said.
The fixed-wing planes can get water from lakes and other standing sources rather than having to return to an air tanker base to fill up. That meant 15-minute turnaround times for water drops Sunday on hot spots along Camino Cielo, a winding mountain road above Santa Barbara and Montecito, Harris said. The planes refilled at Lake Cachuma Sunday.
On Monday, the super-scooper planes were used to support a so-called "firing operation" on the Highway 33 corridor in wilderness area above Ojai, Harris said, where firefighters are tackling the blaze's northern front. During such operations, vegetation is intentionally burned to choke off fuel sources for the fire. Those operations could continue this week, weather permitting, creating plumes of smoke visible for miles
The weekend firestorm in Santa Barbara and Montecito erupted Saturday when wind gusts of up to 70 mph funneled flames down canyons toward homes in the foothills. The fire's three-and-a-half mile run to Gibraltar Road, which connects to Camino Cielo above Santa Barbara, set hillsides aglow and unleashed a seemingly apocalyptic cloud of smoke over the area Saturday. The smoke had largely subsided by Sunday.
At least 104,000 residents in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties have been evacuated or sheltered during the incident, officials said.
As of Sunday night, the Red Cross continued to house 405 people — 260 in Ventura and 145 in Santa Barbara, said Georgia Duncan, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit. Their efforts for displaced residents were going well at both sites, she said.
Duncan also expressed hope about improved conditions for firefighters.
"We're really grateful that the winds are dying down," she said. "Maybe they can get things under control soon."
In Ventura, where some neighborhoods were particularly hard hit when the fire raced through in its first days, the city is offering packets with parcel records for those whose homes were damaged or destroyed. The packets contain building permit records as well as zoning and other information. They will be available starting Tuesday at 8 a.m. to property owners with identification at City Hall, 501 Poli Street, in room 124. Residents can request electronic versions at email@example.com.
By Monday, many area roadways had reopened, allowing residents to view both charred hillsides and areas untouched by the fire. Many closures remained in place along State Route 192 in Montecito Monday evening as fire crews worked through hot spots there. Officials said residents should stay tuned as evacuation orders are downgraded in coming days.


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Fibicher Bernhard (ed.), Nalini Malani : splitting the other : retrospective 1992-2009, exh. cat., Musée cantonal des beaux-arts, Lausanne (20 March – 6 June 2010), Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2010→
Frémon Jean (ed.), Nalini Malani : Cassandra, exh. cat., Galerie Lelong, Paris (15 May – 10 July 2009), Paris, Galerie Lelong, 2009
Nalini Malani, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 11 July – 14 October 2007→
Nalini Malani: Hamletmachine, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 13 November 2002 – 12 January 2003
Indian painter and mixed media artist.
Born in the British Indian Empire, Nalini Malani grew up in Calcutta then in Bombay, where her family settled after the partition of India. During her studies at the Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay (1964-1969), she worked in a studio at the Bhulabhai Memorial Institute, a cultural and intellectual hub. She lived and worked in Paris from 1970 to 1972 after receiving a scholarship from the French Government. In 1981, she took part in her first major exhibition, Place for People (Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, then Rabindra Bhavan Galleries, New Delhi).
Concerned with feminist issues, she showed autobiographical works from the series His Life (1979-1984), in which she explored relationships within families and their effects on their female members. The characters she depicts are undulating masses, the bodies of which are approached in a tangible way, using nervous strokes; her watercolours (1983-1984) show sequences of moving bodies in a neutral space. Drawing and painting have always been the cornerstone of her work, but she also started diversifying media and techniques during the 90s.
City of Desires (1992, installation, Gallery Chemould, Bombay) marked the beginning of these new experiments. The artist collaborates in theatre projects that combine painting, video, installation, neon sculpture, music, and theatrical performance, such as the Medea project (Max Mueller Bhavan, Bombay, 1993), based on Heiner Mueller's play and his interpretation of the sadomasochistic relationship between Jason and Medea as a metaphor of coloniser and colonised. Although Malani's art displays strong psychoanalytic connotations and is politically and socially committed, the artist always positions herself as a mediator.
Nalini Malani, All We Imagine as Light. The City from Where No News Can Come, 2016, painted tondo on the reverse, Ø 112 cm, © Anil Rane
Nalini Malani, Remembering Mad Meg, 2007-2011, video-shadow theater with three channels, sixteen light projections, four video projections, eight plastic rotating cylinders Lexan, sound, variable dimensions, Paris-Delhi-Bombay exhibition view, Centre Pompidou, 2011, Paris, © Payal Kapadia
Nalini Malani, Damaged Survivors, 1970, collage and photogram, 37 x 46 cm without edge, © Nalini Malani
Nalini Malani, Hamletmachine, 2000, four screens video-theater, sound, 20'', three video projectors and screens, 330 x 440 cm each, projected video on white salt platform, 360 x 270 cm, black reflective floor, © Arario Gallery
Nalini Malani, Onanism, 1969, 16 mm blanck-and-white film transferred to digital media, 03 mn 52 sec, © Nalini Malani
Nalini Malani, Unity in Diversity, 2003, video-theater on a single screen, golden frame, sound, 7'', thirteen black-and-white photographs of Gandhi's and Nehru's lives, traditional wall lights, sofa, © Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Nalini Malani, Nalini Malani working on an in situ drawing, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 2010, © Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne


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Tour de France: Tadej Pogacar, 21, Rides to Victory
Paris (AP) — Riding high on a performance for the ages, 21 -year-old Tour de France rookie Tadej Pogacar was cruising into Paris with the race leader's iconic yellow jersey Sunday, on his way to becoming the youngest post-war winner of the showpiece event that braved, and overcame, France's worsening coronavirus epidemic.
On the 21st and final stage, a traditional procession where only riders not in the running for the podium chase the prestige of the stage victory in the finishing sprint to the line, the Tour was celebrating multiple victories.
First and foremost, for Pogacar, who left the race breathless by snatching away the overall lead from Slovenian countryman Primoz Roglic at the last possible opportunity, in a high-drama time trial on Saturday, the penultimate stage with the last real racing for the title.
But the Tour was celebrating a victory, too — over the coronavirus. It left the start town of Nice on the Mediterranean three weeks ago unsure that it would be able to negotiate unscathed through the epidemic to Sunday's finish on Paris' tree-lined Champs-Elysees boulevard.
But none of the 176 riders who started, or the 146 finishers who were riding into Paris, tested positive in multiple batteries of tests, validating the bubble of measures put in place by Tour organizers to shield them from infection. Roadside fans still cheered them on, mostly through face masks, but were kept well away at stage starts and finishes.
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When is surplus state-owned property offered for sale to the public?
Answer: After a surplus property is considered for re-use by other state agencies and offered to the town or city which it is located and has been declined, then the property is advertised for sale to the public.
Is State-owned real estate offered through a bid process?
Answer: No, DAS asks interested parties to submit a proposal to purchase. Each proposal is evaluated based on the entirety of the proposed terms not simply price (i.e. whether there are contingencies, time needed to close, etc.)
Where can I find State surplus real estate for sale?
Answer: Go to DAS surplus real estate for sale for properties offered by the Department of Administrative Services. For properties offered by the Connecticut Department of Transportation go to DOT surplus real estate for sale.
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Restaurant: Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop
Cuisine: Sandwiches/Deli/American
Last visited: September 12, 2011
Location: Manhattan, NY (Gramercy/Flatiron)
Address: 174 5th Ave (between E 22 St. and E 23 St.)
Transit: 23 Street
Price Range: $10 or less
1: Poor 2: OK 3: Good 4: Very good 5: Excellent 6: FMF Must Try!
Food: 5 (based on just pastrami)
Service: 3
Ambiance: 3.5
Overall: 4.5
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- Since 1929
- New York's famous deli
- "Must try" pastrami
- Multiple award winning deli
- "Best in City"
- Local & tourist favourite
- Frequented by celebrities
- Long lines at peak hours
- Budget-friendly/Cheap eats
- Eat in/Take out
- Accepts credit cards
- Mon-Fri: 6:30am-8pm
- Sat: 8am-6pm Sun: 8am-4pm
**Recommendations: Pastrami Sandwich and Tuna Melt, but I didn't get to try the Tuna Melt although I've heard.
Of course a New York culinary experience is never complete without one real pastrami sandwich experience, but when it comes to Follow Me Foodie in New York, it's never complete without at least 2. I already tried the most famous Katz's Deli earlier on in the trip, but I have a real issue with letting one place represent the benchmark for what a pastrami sandwich should taste like. I mean how do I know how good something is if I've never tried it anywhere else and have nothing to compare to?
I felt the same way about New York Pizza (see Lombardi's Pizza VS Grimaldi's Pizza), ramen in New York (see Momofuku Noodle Bar VS Ippudo), Montreal Bagels (see St. Viateur Bagel VS Fairmont Bagel), Montreal Poutine (see Montreal Poutine VS La Banquise), Montreal Smoked Meat (see Shwartz's Montreal Hebrew Delicatessen VS Deli Lester's), and last but not least the Stollen Smackdown (possibly the most epic). Those are just some examples showing that more foodie research is never a bad thing!
New York is full of award winning delis that claim to have the city's "best pastrami sandwich". I asked a handful of trusted New York foodies some of their favourites and Eisenberg was one that came up often along with 2nd Ave Deli. I wouldn't say Katz's is the "tourist trap", because I did really like it, but I just wanted one more example that was perhaps less typical. I wasn't going to exhaust the whole "pastrami theme" with my limited time there, but I had to try at least 2.
Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop is a small deli in Manhattan and although it's not considered as much of a New York institution as Katz's Deli, it's still worth a try. With photos of the owner Josh Konecky, and many celebrities all over the walls, the theme was reminiscent to Katz's too. It recently had a makeover ever since Konecky took over so it doesn't look as dated, but the history is still there.
If it's good enough for Susan Sarandon than it's good enough for me… on the other hand, not really… because food and acting isn't really relatable.
I was on my way to watch a fashion show during New York Fashion Week, so I decided to contrast the day's activities by eating for the models as well. Eisenberg's was my appetizer and Shake Shack was my main. Pastrami sandwiches and New York's favourite burgers for lunch? Yes please! They were pretty much walking distance apart so I might as well squish them together for a "more meat Monday" instead of a "meatless Monday". It was really Monday when I came here too. I'm not a hardcore carnivore, but I do love my meats. Vegetables are always good too, but in this case my veggies were pickles from Eisenberg's and fries from Shake Shack.
The saying for Eisenberg's goes "Raising New York's Cholesterol Since 1929" and you better believe it! I'm not sure if that's something to be proud of, but that's their traditional saying.
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**Pastrami Sandwich – 5/6 (Excellent)
- $9
- So this was it! This was what I came for. One of their "must try" items.
- Just to give a point of reference I've tried the pastrami at Katz's Deli and the Montreal Smoked Meat at Schwartz's, both considered "the best" in their respective categories and cities. They are quite similar, but not exactly the same. "The best" is always trivial in my opinion, so there could be better.
- I found this pastrami sandwich noticeably different from Katz's Deli even just by looking at it.
- The pastrami was hand sliced upon order and served hot as it always should be.
- It came with an optional side of pickles which were much smaller than the ones from Katz's.
- It was offered with a few options for the bread, but classically it should be a rye bread.
- Usually there is a thin slab of old fashioned yellow mustard on the slice of bread, but this one barely had any.
- The bread was a standard rye and the meat was stacked high which is key to a great pastrami.
- The slices were slightly thinner than Katz's Deli and it didn't taste as cured or salty, but it was still very flavourful and savoury with perhaps more spices.
- The pastrami was no doubt moist and juicy and you can see the oils sweating in the photo, but it was slightly chewy. It didn't seem as melt in your mouth tender as the one at Katz's.
- As you can see, the meat meant business. It was fatty. It had a rim of fat around the edges of the brisket which Katz's did not.
- It almost reminded me of corned beef and it was quite peppery with a freshly cracked black pepper dry rub and other spices.
- The fat was still a bit chewy if I ate it alone, but it was more or less overlooked in the context of the sandwich as a whole.
- The meat seemed a bit more stringy rather than falling in pieces, but it could be due to the cut.
- It was an excellent pastrami sandwich and I would recommend it if you have room for one more pastrami experience outside of Katz's Deli.
- Again, it could get better than both these places, but I didn't have time to scope out the pastrami scene any further.


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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Julie & Co's Jaw-Dropping Japanese Temari Ball Decorations
Since words couldn't possible do Julie's Temari work justice (she's a color GENIUS!), and I couldn't possibly fit all of my favorite pieces in this blog post...
...I invite you to simply visit her online gallery, instead, where her shop announceent invites us:
"Welcome to my little corner of Etsy and enjoy browsing through my handmade items! I love to work with my hands, I delight in the feel of soft cotton, smooth threads, cool crochet hooks, and fuzzy yarn. I love beauty and texture, detail and color. I have been sewing, crafting, creating and imagining for over 30 years and still find joy in each new project and idea.
Japanese Temari hand balls are my passion -- their colors and symmetry delight me and their design and precision challenge me. These ancient folk art creations are visually stunning and so wonderful to display. Perfect for housewarming gifts, unique thank-you offerings, and special-day gift giving.
Please linger, browse, envision temari in your home and in your custom colors! Be inspired!"
Julie, I couldn't be more inspired, thank you for putting your outstanding work "out there" for everyone to enjoy!
5 comments:
- Lona said...
- October 23, 2008 at 3:04 PM
- Brian and Jennifer said...
Incredibly beautiful! I'd love to fill my house with them!
- October 23, 2008 at 4:20 PM
- Janice Judge said...
Hey Celeste -- Thanks for the beautiful scarves -- they are perfect now for our fall weather and the colors are just gorgeous. Please check out my website and my blog -- www.shimmeringstarzjewelry.com
Thanks again, Janice
- October 30, 2008 at 8:28 AM
- Lenox Knits said...
I just discovered Julie a& Co's shop a few weeks ago myself. Her balls are truly awe inspiring. I had to send her a convo telling her so as soon as I saw them.
- October 30, 2008 at 11:10 AM
- Kunklebaby said...
Wow-those are amaing!
- November 8, 2008 at 9:24 AM
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The legality of a decision by the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade, to release some prison inmates is the subject of a debate between two prominent Senior Advocates of Nigeria, ADE ADESOMOJU reports
The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade, on August 17, 2017, ordered the release of 43 underage inmates from the Ikoyi Prison in the state.
The action followed similar developments that occurred between August 1 and 14, 2017, in which Justice Atilade released a total number of 209 underage inmates from the Badagry and Kirikiri prisons in Lagos State.
This reportedly followed a protest by the head of the legal team of the Fountain of Life Church, Mrs. Modupe Olubamowo, who had lamented the anguish of the underage inmates.
It was also reported that 12 of the juveniles freed on August 17 were sent to the Adigbe Foster Home in Ogun State due to the severity of their crimes, which bordered on murder and armed robbery.
Earlier in April last year, Justice Atilade was said to have freed 153 awaiting inmates of the Kirikiri Maximum and Medium prison.
Three of the released inmates were said to have been in custody for over 15 years.
It was reported that 24 of the inmates were released from the maximum prison, while the rest of the 129 inmates were released from the medium prison.
Among the 129 inmates released from the medium prison, 79 were standing trial for capital offences, while 50 were standing trial for minor offences.
Atilade reportedly said that the amnesty extended to the released inmates was part of her statutory duty to ensure the decongestion of prisons in the state.
Earlier this year, the Chief Judge of Sokoto State, Justice Bello Abbas, granted pardon to 28 awaiting trail inmates in the Sokoto Central Prison.
Justice Abass reportedly ordered their release after reviewing cases of awaiting trial inmates during his visit to the prison.
He said the move was part of his efforts to ensure the suspects were not detained more than necessary and to decongest the prison.
These are just few examples of pardon often granted to inmates by Chief Judges of states as part of their contribution to ongoing efforts to decongest prisons across the country.
Although these actions have been going on for a while, just recently a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Sebastine Hon, called to question the powers of the Chief Judges to grant pardon to awaiting trial inmates.
"The practice of Chief Judges, particularly of the states, granting pardon or amnesty to offenders has been going on for quite some time now, but I make bold to say that it is clearly unconstitutional," Hon said.
But Hon's claim had not been left unchallenged. Another Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Femi Falana, had without any delay faulted Hon.
Falana did not only maintain that the Chief Judges had the power to grant amnesty to prisoners; he urged the heads of the judiciary in the various states of the federation to "conduct prison visits, on a more regular basis, for the purpose of setting at liberty the thousands of prison inmates held in custody illegally including criminal suspects whose case files cannot be located by the various ministries of justice".
Both Hon and Falana had subsequently gone on, in a back-and-forth manner, to debate the issue.
According to Hon, the Constitution had not given the Chief Judges, acting in their administrative capacities, a "pre-conviction authorisation for pardon or release from custody".
He argued that section 35(4) of the 1999 Constitution had stipulated that anybody accused of an offence should be arraigned in court within a reasonable time, adding that the same court could "make an order remanding such a person in prison and ordering his release from custody – either conditionally or unconditionally".
He also argued that the only authorities conferred with the "constitutional powers of pardon or amnesty" were the President, "after consultation with the Council of State (under section 175), and the Governor of a state, acting in consultation with an advisory Council of the State on prerogative of mercy, established by a law of such the State".
"While the President pardons those accused or convicted of Federal offences, the Governor of a State pardons those accused of State offences," he added.
Hon said that section 270(2)(a) of the Constitution merely established the office of a state Chief Judge with no specific functions assigned to it, insisting, therefore, that such Chief Judges could only perform functions assigned to them by their respective State High Court Laws and High Court Rules.
He added that even if such state laws granted powers of pardon to the state Chief Judges, such laws, by virtue of the inconsistency rule in section 1(3) of the 1999 Constitution, was unconstitutional.
He said such laws would be in conflict with sections 35(4), 175 and 212, respectively, of the 1999 Constitution, and were therefore null and void "to the extent of their inconsistency".
Hon also noted that most states had not constituted the Advisory Council on Prerogative of Mercy, as enjoined by section 212 of the Constitution, "thereby leaving a lacuna which the state Chief Judges, out of good but unconstitutional intentions, from time to time seek to fill."
He said, "I, therefore, counsel State Chief Judges to halt their routine prison amnesties. Rather, the various State Houses of Assembly should enact legislation establishing the State Advisory Council on Prerogative of Mercy, to make the various State Governors perform their constitutional functions in this regard."
He said the good intention of the state Chief Judges, especially for the purposes of decongestion of the prisons, was not enough justification for the breaches of the relevant provisions of the Constitution.
But Falana, in response, said that by virtue of section 11 of the Prisons Act Cap Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, the Chief Justice of Nigeria and the Chief Judges of the states were among prison visitors ex office "empowered to visit all prisons in Nigeria and Chief Judges are restricted to conduct prison visit in their areas of jurisdiction".
He added, "Conducting prison visits, the Chief Justice of Nigeria and the Chief Judges of the states are empowered by the Criminal Justice (Release From Custody) Act to order the release of any person, if satisfied that the detention of that person is manifestly unlawful; or that the person detained has been in custody, whether on remand or otherwise, for a period longer than the maximum period of imprisonment which the person detained could have served had he been convicted of the offence in respect of which he was detained."
While encouraging the Chief Judges to perform more of the visits, he said, "In view of the foregoing, it is submitted that the powers so conferred on the Chief Justice and Chief Judges of the states cannot be said to be unconstitutional, in so far as it is designed to decongest our prisons by ensuring the release of any person detained in any prison in Nigeria, not being a person detained in execution of a sentence of a court or tribunal duly constituted by law."
Hon later said that Falana was only embracing statues lower than the Constitution for refuge.
The fulcrum of Hon's argument was that the two laws that Falana relied on were both null and void. He described as shocking, the latter's claim that since the Prisons Act, 2004 and the Criminal Justice (Release from Custody) (Special Provisions) Act fell under Item 8 of the Exclusive Legislative List of the Constitution, they were constitutional.
"This is my first time of hearing this constitutional theory! Listing of legislative items under the Legislative Lists is only intended to draw the line, in a federal setup like ours, between what the Federal Government, on the one hand, and the federating states on the other hand, have competence to legislate on and it is not a licence to enact unconstitutional legislation," he said.
Hon broadened the scope of the argument further by recalling that Falana had recently stated that the provisions of the Economic and Financial Crimes Act, which made it mandatory that the Senate must confirm the appointment of the EFCC Chairman, were unconstitutional.
He asked, "Was the EFCC Act not made pursuant to the powers granted by the Constitution in the Legislative List?"
He also maintained that section 35(4) of the 1999 Constitution had covered the field on what should be done to any person accused of an offence.
Holding on to his argument that there was no room for any administrative action by the judiciary to release an inmate from prison, he said, "Only judicial actions can lead to the release of detained persons, hence any administrative action, apart from the one in sections 175 and 212 will be directly in conflict with the said section 35(4).
"Also, sections 175 and 212 of the Constitution have advisedly used the phrase 'a person concerned with or convicted of an offence."
Hon said the phrase concerned with an offence, used in the Constitution, had been so wide that it completely covered the situations contemplated by both the Prisons Act and the Criminal Justice (Release from Custody) (Special Provisions) Act.
"The Constitution having covered the field, these two Acts are null and void, for attempting to provide for the same release from custody, yet by the administrative action of the Judiciary," he said.
On the legal implication of the Chief Judges being permitted to release persons from custody, Hon asked, "do the detainees get the reprieve of pardon that only the President or the Governor can grant? No!"
He asked further, "They are merely released, while the charges against them are pending! What then happens to those charges, judging from our Constitution or even the Acts cited by Mr. Falana, SAN? Nothing!"
Citing the decision of the Court of Appeal in Falae Vs Obasanjo (No. 2) (1999) 4 NWLR (Pt. 599) 476 at 495, he said 36(10) of the Constitution could only be handy in erasing the conviction or even accusation when President or the governor of a state granted a pardon to persons in custody.
He said, "I conclude by restating that the respective Chief Judges, including the Chief Justice of Nigeria, have no constitutional powers to embark on prison amnesty."
The Senior Advocate also argued that such powers to grant an amnesty, including the power of the Attorneys-General to enter nolle prosequi (withdrawal of charges) were deliberately left by the framers of the Constitution in the hands of politicians and not conferred on judicial officers, through administrative means, "to avoid the sacredness of the judiciary being muddied or messed up with".
Not relenting, Falana again fired back, describing Hon's consistent questioning of the constitutional validity of the administrative power of Chief Judges "to order the release of under trial prisoners languishing in dehumanising conditions in Nigerian prisons" as speculative.
He said the debate over the issue was needless, but went on to argue that Hon in his "curious rejoinder" did not pay any attention to the laws while insisting "that his shaky submission on the matter was unassailable".
Falana noted that the Chief Judges had not usurped the powers of the President and the governors to pardon prisoners. The released prisoners, he argued, were not pardoned but merely released from illegal prison custody.
Falana said, "To that extent, such prisoners may be rearrested and prosecuted by the government. But a convict pardoned by the President or a state governor is said to be a new man (novus homo) having been acquitted of all corporal penalties and forfeitures annexed to the offence. See Falae v Obasanjo (No 2) (1999) 4 NWLR (Pt 599) 476.."
He also argued that it was not in dispute that the President and state governors had constitutional powers to grant pardon to convicts and criminal suspects, he cited the case of Edwin Iloegbunam & Ors v. Richard Iloegbunam & Ors (2001) 47 WRN 72 "wherein the Court of Appeal had upheld the constitutional validity of the Criminal Justice (Release from Custody) (Special Provisions) Act".
He quoted the leading judgment of the court delivered by Justice George Oguntade (retd) then of the Court of Appeal, as saying in part, "there is power in the Chief Justice of the Federation or any of the Chief Judges of the states to order the release of persons detained in prison custody in the exercise of their power under section 1(1) of the Criminal Justice (Release from Custody) (Special Provisions) Act Cap 79 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 is not in doubt."
He noted that the heads of court in other jurisdictions in common law countries were applying similar laws to decongest prisons by releasing indigent prison inmates from prison custody during prison visits.
He cited an Indian Supreme Court's judgment delivered on September 16, 2014 and in which the court "directed magistrates and session judges to visit prisons in their districts for two months to identify and release under trial prisoners who had already been held in custody for half of the maximum period prescribed by law for the offences for which they were charged."
Stating that the Indian court pointed out that the order did not apply to prisoners under trial and whose offences attracted death penalty, he said the judgment was a progressive one in view of the fact that "not less that 66 percent of inmates were awaiting trial" in the various courts across the country.
Falana said, "The progressive verdict of the Supreme Court of India has reverberated throughout common law countries and has strengthened the campaign for prison decongestion.
"Our Chief Judges are on terra firma in exercising their powers under the Criminal Justice (Release from custody)(Special Provisions) Act in ordering the release of under trial prisoners during prison visits."
He said that, apart from the decision of the Court of Appeal in the case of Iloegbunam v Iloegbunam, the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 also "imposed a duty" on Chief Judges to appoint high court judges and magistrates to visit detention centres once a month, so that "the indigent under trial prisoners are not detained without legal justification".
So far, the last salvo has come from Hon, who insisted that Falana was wrong on his continued positing that the Chief Justice of Nigeria and the respective Chief Judges had the constitutional power to embark on prison amnesties.
He maintained that the Criminal Justice (Release from Custody) (Special Provisions) Act permitting the extra-judicial exercise, was null and void by virtue of "sections 1(3), 35(4), 175 and 212, conjunctively and respectively, of the 1999 Constitution as amended."
Faulting Falana further, he said, section 1(1) of the Criminal Justice (Release from Custody) (Special Provisions) Act, which Falana relied on "requires either the Chief Justice or a Chief Judge issuing an 'order' for the release and not such authority embarking upon a prison visit to physically undertake that exercise".
But he said an 'order' in law could only be issued following the judicial proceedings as opposed to the administrative process.
He added that section 1(1) of that Act was unconstitutional on the grounds that the Chief Justice of Nigeria could not sitting alone, to constitute the judicial quorum of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and dish out such "orders".
He said "supposing the order detaining the prisoner was made by a High Court judge in exercise of his constitutional jurisdiction, would the CJN or even the Supreme Court have any jurisdiction to make an administrative order of release without the matter first passing through the Court of Appeal? This cannot be, under our constitutional jurisprudence!"
In addition, he asked if the state Chief Judges could, "using administrative fiat, sit on appeal on orders made by their fellow Judges while in the exercise of the latter's constitutional jurisdiction?"
Although, he expressed the hope that this will "satisfy Mr. Falana this time around", section 1(1) of the Criminal Justice (Release from custody) (Special Provisions) Act, being in contradiction or at least, competition with sections 35(4), 175 and 212 of the 1999 Constitution as amended, is null and void", it however remains doubtful if Falana would accept that "the Honourable Chief Justice of Nigeria and the various State Chief Judges have no constitutionally-recognised or cognisable power to conduct prison amnesties."


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One Word For Your Saskatchewan Love
From the outset of my Saskatchewandererings, I've been challenging people to express their love for Saskatchewan in one word. No hints or suggestions were provided, and no time limit or pressure was added. What resulted is a series of answers that reflect the uniqueness of this province and its residents.
My one word: People.
Throughout 2016, I've experienced firsthand how the people of Saskatchewan are as diverse as the landscape and their warmth and hospitality is genuine and endless. I've also discovered that anyone who calls Saskatchewan home is a Saskatchewanderer at heart - the passion and drive to share the best of our province is innate here.
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the african idea of god: the all & all / two speeches by dr. john g. jackson
These two speeches, one audio and one video, give a thorough look into the work of historian Dr. John G. Jackson. Together they lay out an important discussion on the origins of religion and early human religious practices. While I wouldn't consider myself an atheist, I do think Dr. Jackson's historical framing of the term is interesting and makes sense. More importantly though, his studies seem to have imbued upon him a comprehensive understanding of the role and conceptualization of God throughout human history, which I find extremely valuable.
Wikipedia: John Glover Jackson (April 1, 1907 – October 13, 1993) was a Pan-Africanist historian, lecturer, teacher and writer. Jackson was born in Aiken, South Carolina on 1 April 1907 and raised Methodist. At age 15 he moved to Harlem, New York where he enrolled in Stuyvesant High School. During this time, Jackson became interested in African-American history and culture and began writing essays on the subject. They were so impressive that in 1925, while still a high school student, Jackson was invited to write for Marcus Garvey's newspaper, Negro World.
From 1930 onwards, Jackson became associated with a number of Pan-African historians, activists and writers, including Hubert H. Harrison, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, John Henrik Clarke, Willis Nathaniel Huggins and Joel Augustus Rogers. He also authored a number of books on African history, such as "Man, God, and Civilization" (1972) and "Introduction to African Civilizations" (1974). He also became interested in the idea of Christianity's origins in the Egyptian religion. A staunch atheist, he authored a number of books on the idea, including "The African Origin of Christianity" (1981), "Christianity before Christ" (1985), as well as writing the foreword to Gerald Massey's "Lectures" (1974). He also wrote the controversial text, "Was Jesus Christ a Negro?" (1984), which argued that Jesus may have been a black man.
During his life, Jackson also served as Associate Director of the Blyden Society and lectured at many colleges and universities throughout the United States. He died on 13 October 1993. (source)
On magic, religion and science: "Frazier says the first people didn't have religion, they believed in magic. Then they realized magic doesn't always work so they moved on to religion. They they realized religion didn't always work so they moved on to science. He stopped there but I believe he should have kept going because science doesn't always work either... I think a certain amount of magic is valid. I think a certain amount of religion is valid. And I think a certain amount of science is valid."
"All the religions of the world go back to the Pygmies... In early days god was imaged not as a man but as a woman because the first god was mother earth. The worship of the Earth branched out and turned into the things that were on the Earth. Tree worship. Plant worship. Animal worship. Terrestrial, on the ground. But then religion went from the ground up to the sky. Then you have sky worship, star worship, moon worship, sun worship. And these all mixed together and produced the zodiac."
"In my research... the African idea of god is this: The Christians say that everything around us is nature, and it couldn't have created itself so there must have been a super-natural god that created it. The African says that there is no such thing as the super-natural, that nature is all. And, therefore, that god is just another word for nature, or universe... The universe is nothing more than a big box with no top, no bottom and no sides [laughter]... They took the position that god is the all and all, the sum total of everything. And he's the great god. And these little gods -- the sun, the moon, the stars and the words -- you put them all together and you get the great god. Just like you take a bunch of colleges and put them together and get a university. According to the old-African type of religion, god is the physical universe and Christ is the spiritual universe. And you take matter and spirit and put it together and you've got Everything."
"The right title should have been "The African Origin of Christianity", but I realized that if I gave it that title very few people would buy the book because a sad feature about black people today is that most of them are almost totally illiterate they can't read anything anymore. Television done robbed them of what little literacy they had. So I just called it "Christianity Before Christ" in hope that a few white intellectuals would read it. And it worked out all right."
"The Schomburg library stayed open until 11pm. So if you couldn't go to school you could go to the library. Nowadays they close early so if you work you're not going there. I had the good fortune to be born before there was any radio and before there was any television, so I had to learn to read, write and count."
"Instead of Europe civilizing Africa, Africa civilized Europe twice."
We don't need you to save the nation or save the world. Save yourself first so you can lend a helping hand to your brother... Don't worry about loving your enemy, love yourself... Most of us have wishbones where our backbones ought to be."
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Oh man, do I love a good a good Syrah/Mourevadre blend. While visiting Sculpterra in Paso Robles (highly recommend a visit; the wine is delicious, but they also have an awesome sculpture garden and often have music out in the back), I picked up their Mourevadre, which actually was blended with a bit of Petit Sirah.
This dry red wine has a bit of vanilla in there, making it sweeter than expected. Some fig and plum also pop out. The wine is aged in oak for 10 months, 25% in French Oak.
I brought it along to one of our favorite Italian restaurants in Santa Monica called Fritto Misto. It has a cheap corkage fee ($2 a person, not bad!).
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Winery: Sculpterra
Type: 88% Mourevadre, 12% Petit Sirah
Origin: Paso Robles
Vintage: 2013
Price: $36
Alcohol content: 15.3%
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Jun 24, 2009
Specific to the June 2009 quarter:
Relative to the September 2009 quarter, for planning purposes the Company is assuming that:
"The operational and financial performance improvements we have delivered over the last few months are encouraging," said Steve Luczo, Seagate Chief Executive Officer. "We are making successful transitions to our newer, more cost effective and more competitive products. We are returning to our technology leadership position, as evidenced by our time-to-market position with 640GB 2.5 inch and 2TB 3.5 inch products. This progress combined with improved operational efficiencies and product management is accelerating our path to profitability."
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to the Company's preliminary results for the June 2009 quarter and its future operating and financial performance in the September 2009 quarter, and thereafter, and include statements regarding expected revenue, gross margin, inventory levels, product competition, customer demand for disc drives, product transitions, the Company's ability to return to profitability, effective tax rates and general market conditions. These forward-looking statements are based on information available to Seagate as of the date of this press release. Current expectations, forecasts and assumptions involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors may be beyond the Company's control. In particular, the decline in global economic conditions continues to pose a risk to the Company's operating and financial performance as consumers and businesses have deferred, and may continue to defer, purchases in response to tighter credit and negative financial conditions. Such risks and uncertainties also include the impact of the variable demand and the aggressive pricing environment for disc drives, particularly in view of current business and economic conditions; dependence on Seagate's ability to qualify, manufacture and sell its disc drive products successfully in increasing volumes on a cost-effective basis and with acceptable quality, particularly the new disc drive products with lower cost structures; the impact of competitive product announcements and possible excess industry supply with respect to particular disc drive products; our ability to achieve projected cost savings in connection with our announced restructuring plans; and the impact of changes in foreign and domestic tax regulations. Information concerning risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements is contained in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on 13 August 2008, and in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on 6 May 2009, whose statements are incorporated into this press release by reference. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's views as of any subsequent date and Seagate undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which they were made.


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Marple has been charged for driving without a license and has argued that the court has no jurisdiction over him as he is not "operating a motor vehicle", which he says is a legal term that only applies to people traveling for commercial purposes. Despite Marple filing an exhaustive legal memorandum outlining the various cases on which he bases his position, the robed woman cited her own court cases:
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has also consistently ruled that the operation of an automobile- upon a public highway is not a right, but" … only a privilege which the state may grant or withhold at pleasure …. " State V; Sterrin, 78 N.H. 220, 222 (1916), citing Comm.v. Kingsbury, 199 Mass. 542. The Court, in State v. Sterrin, at 222, also cited State v. Corron, 73 N.H. 434, 446 (1905), which references a liquor licensee, by stating: "The statute confers a privilege which the citizen is at liberty to accept by becoming a licensee, or not, as he pleases. Having accepted the privilege, he cannot object to any conditions which have been attached thereto by a grantor with power to entirely withhold the privileges."
Translation: "There is no right to travel safely on the roads without asking your master government's permission first. We are in charge here and you'll do what we say, or else."Spath then went on to have the trial date for Marple driving without the state permission slip set for April 18th at 12:45pm in Concord district court.
However, it doesn't end there. Marple has since filed an 11-page "Affidavit of Truth – in Commerce – Second Demand" with the NH Secretary of State's office and the court. In the affidavit, Marple challenges jurisdiction again, saying the court needs to show the signed "instrument" where he consents to their rule and further demands a jury trial. He says Spath's stand on her alleged jurisdiction is an "abuse of discretion" and cites more court cases claiming that the state may not interfere in your personal business. He demands the case be dismissed with prejudice, saying that Spath's claim that he voluntarily chose to acquire a license is false. Marple says he was under duress to contract for the license:
"The photo ID purchased bas imbedded under the plastic following this Affiant's signaturethe letters "TDC", signifying, "Threat, Duress, and Coercion" hence not a meeting of the minds and not a valid contract"
On page three of his affidavit, Marple contends that that if the target of the affidavit does not rebut the issues raised within 15 days that it:
will be understood as a confession and acceptance, as well as tacit acquiescence of all FACTS herein enumerated… "Government officers and agents are required to affirmatively prove whatever authority they claim. In the absence of proof, they may be held personally accountable for loss, injury and damages". Ryder v United States, 115 S. Ct 2031,132 L.Ed.2d 136, 515 U.S. 177, "Failure to contest an assertion … is considered evidence of acquiescence". US Supreme Court, Mitchell v. United States- No. 97-7541 (Dec. 9, 1998)
According to this document from the Secretary of state, judge Spath and the clerk of court Theresa A McCafferty, have not responded to rebutted any of Marple's Affidavit of Commercial Default filed back in December.
Where will this go next? Presumably to trial. Stay tuned here to Free Keene for the latest.