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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in Instantly successful, widely read in high schools and middle schools in the United States, it has become a classic of modern American literature , winning the Pulitzer Prize. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch , has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. Historian, J. Crespino explains, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its main character, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism.
The story is narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, who is almost always called by her nickname, Scout. Scout starts to explain the circumstances that led to the broken arm that her older brother, Jem, sustained many years earlier; she begins by recounting her family history. The first of her ancestors to come to America was a fur-trader and apothecary named Simon Finch, who fled England to escape religious persecution and established a successful farm on the banks of the Alabama River. Their sister, Alexandra Finch, stayed to run the Landing. A successful lawyer, Atticus makes a solid living in Maycomb, a tired, poor, old town in the grips of the Great Depression. Their cook, an old black woman named Calpurnia, helps to raise the children and keep the house.
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Scout, the narrator, remembers the summer that her brother Jem broke his arm, and she looks back over the years to recall the incidents that led to that climactic event. Scout provides a brief introduction to the town of Maycomb, Alabama and its inhabitants, including her widowed father Atticus Finch, attorney and state legislator; Calpurnia, their "Negro" cook and housekeeper; and various neighbors. The story starts with the first summer that Scout and Jem meet Dill, a little boy from Meridian, Mississippi who spends the summers with his aunt, the Finchs' next-door neighbor Miss Rachel Haverford.
Jem and Scout lament the fact that "Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty. Their view of their father changes when they see him shoot a mad dog. As Tom Robinson's trial grows closer, Jem and Scout endure more slurs against their father. When their neighbor Mrs. Dubose, a mean, elderly woman confined to a wheelchair, makes a particularly stinging remark, Jem retaliates by destroying some of her flowers. Of course, Atticus hears what happened and he makes Jem apologize to Mrs.


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Opening Statement: Alexander: Animal Drug User Fee Legislation “Critical” to Keep Food Supply Safe, Animals Healthy
Posted on February 13, 2018
Farmers and families in Tennessee want to have access to the drugs that keep their animals and pets are healthy.
For example, I know an East Tennessee farmer who raises calves. He checks on them several times a day, and when he notices one isn’t feeling well, he pulls him aside and gives him a drug.
This farmer wants to ensure the drug he gives his sick calves is safe for the calf and for our food supply.
We know that the human medical products we use are safe because the Food and Drug Administration has approved them.
The way the farmer knows the drug he has given to his calf is safe is the same – the FDA has approved it.
And similar to the user fee agreements this committee reauthorized last year for human medical products, this year we need to reauthorize the Animal Drug and Generic Drug User Fee Agreements.
These are agreements between the FDA and the animal drug industry to pay user fees help speed the approval of new drugs to farmers and ranchers, families, and veterinarians to keep their animals and pets safe and healthy.
These agreements are much smaller than the human drug user fee agreements – the revenue FDA receives from the animal drug user fees IS only about 3 percent of the revenue FDA receives from the human drug program – however they are still critical to keeping our animals healthy and preventing outbreaks of disease.
There are two agreements – one for new brand animal drugs, which the FDA calls pioneer drugs, and one for generic new animal drugs.
Last year, FDA received 780 applications for new pioneer animal drugs and 240 applications for generic new animal drugs for review.
While animal drugs are used to treat almost every animal species, much of the drug development focuses on the seven major species: horses, cattle, pigs, dogs, cats, chickens, and turkeys.
These include both animals that are common family pets as well as the livestock that is our food supply.
On average, the animal drug industry spends over $30 million a year to develop new products for farm animals, and over $22 million a year for new treatments for our pets.
And according to the animal drug industry, it can take up to eight years for a drug intended for use in farm animals to be available for veterinarians and farmers, and over six years for new pet medicines.
These agreements help bring these new medicines to the veterinarians who write prescriptions for families to care for their pets and treat diseases, such as cancer or heartworm disease.
And while these agreements are important to our family pets, we also want to ensure the farmers and ranchers raising our food supply are able to treat their animals with the safe drugs they need.
Farmers often use animal drugs to prevent outbreaks of infectious disease, to treat pain, or prevent swelling of joints in animals.
Having safe and effective animal drugs is important to both the consumer – that food-producing animals are safe to eat – and the farmer or rancher – that he has a product to treat his animals and prevent outbreaks.
According to the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, the cattle and calves industry and the poultry industry are two of Tennessee’s largest agriculture sectors.
Since the last reauthorization of these agreements, the number of cattlemen in Tennessee who have been Beef Quality Assurance Certified – meaning they have proper training to administer animal drug products – has increased from about 17,000 cattlemen to 23,000.
So it is important that farmers and ranchers continue to have access to new medicines to keep their animals healthy and prevent infectious disease outbreaks.
These updated agreements have been carefully worked out between the Food and Drug Administration and animal drug industry with input from farmers and ranchers, food and feed producers, veterinarians and other stakeholders.
FDA and the manufacturers of animal drugs held eight meetings to discuss the pioneer drug agreement and six meetings on the generic drug agreement.
Our committee has held eight bipartisan staff briefings over the last three months in preparation for reauthorizing these important agreements.
I have carefully reviewed the agreements and believe they are good for FDA and good for farmers, ranchers, veterinarians, farm animals and our pets.
Today we are going to hear from Dr. Steven Solomon, a veterinarian and the Director for the Center for Veterinary Medicine at FDA about the agreements.
One of the important goals in the updated animal drug user fee agreements is for FDA to reduce approval times in certain areas.
For example, one goal is to cut in half the time it takes for FDA to approve the combination of medicine for animal feed and water, which helps farmers and ranchers keep their herds or flocks healthy by allowing them to combine medicines together in the food they feed their to their farm animals.
These user fees are a critical funding source for FDA to do its job to expedite the review of safe and effective treatments for animals – they fund over one third of all activities related to pioneer animal drug reviews and over half of generic review activities.
If Congress does not do its job to reauthorize these critical programs, more than 115 people who work on reviewing these drugs will lose their job.
As was the case when we reauthorized the user fees for drugs and devices for humans last year, we have a deadline. If Congress does not have a reauthorization in place by August 1, FDA will need to notify staff within 60 days of when funding is expected to terminate.
This would lead to delays in approving new animal drugs and bringing new treatments to farmers, ranchers, veterinarians, and families.
We hope to mark these two important agreements up by the end of the month so we can move them to the floor and this committee can continue our work on other important issues.
These agreements are essential to ensure the animal drugs on the market are safe and effective and keep farm animals and pets healthy, and help keep our food supply safe, and I look forward to quickly reauthorizing them.

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by JoAnn Fleming, volunteer Executive Director of Grassroots America – We the People
Free-spending, big government protecting types call it “root canal politics.” Constitutional Conservatives call it a necessary means for survival. Simply put – we cannot afford the size and scope of government we have today. As never before, we need elected officials with courage – the courage to cut government down to size – the courage to do the right thing now so that future generations will live free.
Conservatives sent a strong message in the November 2nd General Election by electing a Republican “super-majority” to the Texas House, but business-as-usual from both parties is not acceptable in the State Capitol. It is time for tough, decisive leadership because time is running out on small businesses and families.
Our state legislature must take decisive action to confront the high cost of illegal aliens in terms of both security and financial costs. State officials must reduce the size, scope, and cost of state government to balance the state budget for the 2012-2013 biennium with no tax increases, no unfunded mandates pushed down to the local level, and without raiding the Rainy Day Fund.
As for the current budget shortfall of approximately $4.3 billion – until the state legislature has exercised every single cost-cutting option available to reduce the shortfall, tapping the Rainy Day Fund is unacceptable. To date, the legislature has not enacted any spending cuts for the current budget. Instead, the legislature appears eager to take the easy way out by raiding the People’s Savings Account. It is time for the Texas Legislature to make immediate cuts to non-essential programs and services before grabbing the Rainy Day Fund umbrella.
The Case for Cutting Spending: State government spending increased by nearly 300 percent between fiscal years 1990 and 2010, or 139 percent after adjusting for inflation. (Source: Legislative Budget Board). During the same period, the population of Texas grew by only 49 percent. It is clear that over the last decade state government has grown to unsustainable levels. Now is the time to do the hard work required to get spending under control.
Fourteen-Point Plan to Cut Spending and Balance the State Budget: Across-the-board cuts do not get to the root of the over-spending, over-regulating problem. Cutting 2.5%, 5% or 10% of a department, agency, or program that is outside basic constitutional authority does not go far enough to solve the spending problem. It is time to get state government spending under control by:
1) focusing on the basic constitutional duties of state government, making those the top budget priorities;
2) employing zero-based budgeting for every agency, department, and program;
3) mandating proof of citizenship or legal residency for all state and local public services and benefits, and for those emergency health care and public education services mandated by the federal government or by court ruling – all service providers should be required by law to check citizenship/legal status (by e-verify or other reliable means), track costs of services rendered to illegal aliens, and report these costs to the State of Texas and to the People;
4) eliminating overlapping, duplicated agencies, departments, and programs (just one example – natural resource agencies: TCEQ, RRC, PUC, GLO, AG Commission, P&W);
5) injecting competition into the delivery of services for improved service quality and lower costs (outsourcing, improved centralized procurement for volume purchasing discounts, and efficient contract management);
6) determining feasibility of purchase deferrals for all unspent appropriations in current budget and for new budget requests for capital assets (vehicles, equipment, technology, new facilities/upgrades/remodels);
7) instituting an immediate hiring freeze and review of all state government positions, all personnel policies, and all benefits; review solvency of benefit funding for state employees; end longevity pay for state employees; increase contribution levels for state employees toward their own pension and insurance benefits;
8) cutting pay for state employees, including statewide officials. Top officials should lead by cutting their pay first. (No public employee should make more than the Governor, including school superintendents.)
9) ending the practice of diverting funds from the originally-intended purpose to other uses (for example, the state motor fuels tax of which 47% is diverted to non-transportation fund use);
10) mandating review of all agencies, departments, and programs to match funding with originally-intended mission and to determine whether or not the agency/department/program is producing measurable results; although this is the purpose of the Sunset Commission, the Sunset Commission needs to be revamped with more private citizen representation on the review board;
11) reviewing all state debt for possible savings through debt consolidation, lower interest rates;
12) suspending funding of parks, bike and walking trails, and renovations of historical properties;
13) ending state economic incentives and subsidies (our low taxes, limited regulations, right to work laws, and civil justice system provide plenty of incentives for companies to come to Texas, when compared to other states);
14) reasserting State Sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution. Too much state spending is driven by accepting unconstitutional federal funding with strings, regulation, and mandates. All federal funds that come with added strings and regulation should be rejected.
This will not be the state’s last difficult budgeting cycle in the near term. According to Texas Public Policy Foundation, “Medicaid costs before ObamaCare will double every 10 years through the next three decades. ObamaCare adds 3.1 million people to Texas’ Medicaid rolls by 2014, and Texas will need an additional $10 billion in the next budget to meet those costs.” In addition, rising fuel costs, unrest around the globe, and the uncertainty caused by suffocating federal debt and onerous regulations affirm that it is a wholly reasonable and prudent expectation that the 82nd Texas Legislature would exhaust all fiscally-responsible cost-cutting remedies before ever thinking about raiding the People’s Rainy Day Fund.
Next week, the legislature is set to raid the Rainy Day Fund. It is imperative that you immediately contact your state senator, state representative, House Speaker Straus, Lt. Governor Dewhurst, and Governor Perry. Tell them you want spending cuts now. It’s high time state government learned to live with less.


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We have much to be proud of in Australia, and in chronic disease we have led the world, but the health of the nation's Indigenous population remains sorely neglected. In terms of rates of chronic disease, the greatest disparity in our community occurs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Life expectancy at birth has risen dramatically over the past 100 years for non-Indigenous Australians, however, life expectancy is much lower for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, with Indigenous males living at least 12 years less and 10 years less for females.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are more than 3 times as likely as non-Indigenous Australians to report some form of diabetes. The total incidence rate of end-stage kidney disease is 6 times as high as it is among non-Indigenous Australians, and Indigenous people are 8 times as likely to begin dialysis or receive a kidney transplant.
In context of these figures, and as part of our mission to reduce death and disability from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and related disorders, Baker IDI’s work in Indigenous health is committed to addressing this inequality. A research base in Alice Springs in Central Australia, along with researchers in Melbourne, conduct community-based, scientific and clinical research to improve the health of the nation's most disadvantaged group.
The three diseases that represent the most significant health burden in Indigenous communities are kidney disease, heart disease and diabetes. Baker IDI’s Indigenous health research program is conducted in close consultation with local communities, working with existing community services to improve the health of Indigenous people when it comes to chronic disease.
To support health equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, particularly residents of Central Australia, by reducing the risk and impact of non-communicable and communicable diseases that contribute to the significant gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians.
To reduce death disability and illness caused by non-communicable and communicable disease amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with a particular focus on the residents of Central Australia.
To date, Baker IDI Central Australia has primarily focussed on vascular disease and diabetes, across the following areas:
• Research on prevention, early detection and treatment of disease
• Health services research
• Provision of health services which are complementary to our research
• Health care provider support and education
Please see the Indigenous Health Program page for an overview of projects at Baker IDI Central Australia.

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Tour the Main Street Station transit hub
The public got to look around at Valley Regional Transit's new Main Street Station, a bus hub that will go into service Oct. 24. Main Street Station will have eight bays for ValleyRide buses. Additional bus space will be available on Main Street between 9th Street and the station’s exit ramp. The station will have a customer service office, restrooms, a bike storage area for monthly rental with a repair station and a Boise Police satellite office, along with new public art.
“It’s incredible,” said Tiffany Scudder, who served on the planning committee for the hub. Scudder now lives in Sun Valley and drove down to see how the project turned out. “Having watched it slowly from the foundation infrastructure and looking through the fence as they were digging the dirt out to watching from the parking garage as they were pulling the beams out — it’s really neat to see the final product.”
Two more informal drop-in events are scheduled from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Oct. 20; and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 21. Main Street Station is at 777 W. Main St., Suite 170, below the Clearwater Analytics building.
“As the city of Boise grows — and as rural areas are growing, too — public transportation becomes more important,” Scudder said
Some ValleyRide service changes will go into effect on Oct. 24 as well. For complete information, go to ValleyRide.org.


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By Neto Baptiste
Businessman Carlton “Tyre Master” Lewis said his aim is to act as a conduit between potential investors and the Antigua Turf Club (ATC) in hopes of commercializing the sport of horse racing in Antigua.
Lewis made the revelation during a recent candid interview on the Good Morning Jojo Sports Show, stating that he however has no desire to work with the current executive body headed by Neil Cochrane as president.
“My plan is to go and get the finance to push horse racing and you have some fine guys up there [at the track], a lot of good guys, so I would turn over the whole race track for them to control. They would specify their races, do what they are doing. The investors would go in because we had plans to put all sorts of things there to get money together but the way they are doing it makes it difficult for me to go forward so I want to get rid of them altogether and work with the turf club,” he said.
The popular businessman is currently in a legal battle with the turf club over the lands housing the Cassada Garden’s Race Track. Lewis argues that he is the sole holder of a lease for the property while the ATC is claiming to have been given permission by the government to utilize the property.
In 2018, the ATC won a court battle against Lewis, who has also claimed to hold a lease for the property. However, Lewis has since appealed the judgment.
Lewis said that although the ongoing dispute over the lands has acted as a deterrent to potential businessmen in the past, he is confident he could get others to come forward.
“You can’t do any business and do it as a loss and it may not be me, but investors that come in. I got some guys to come in from Canada and when we took them up where they do the commentary and all that they didn’t want to come down and asked, when can we sign this? Even if they put in a little five million US dollars it’s peanuts to these guys but it’s so much for us to do some racing,” he said.
There has been no racing at the Cassada Gardens Race Track in over a year due to a combination of issues at the track.


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Welcome to the Caspian Daily, where you will find the 10 most important things you need to know on Caspian Sea Region. We appreciate ideas, reports, news and interesting articles. Send along to Caspian[at]moderndiplomacy.eu or on Twitter: @DGiannakopoulos
1Russian diplomacy has shifted into overdrive as Putin seeks to avoid the collapse of the embattled regime of Bashar al- Assad, a longtime ally who’s fighting both a 4 1/2 year civil war and Sunni extremists under the banner of Islamic State. Putin’s proposal, which Russia has communicated to the U.S., calls for a “parallel track” of joint military action accompanied by a political transition away from Assad, a key U.S. demand, according to a third person. The initiative will be the centerpiece of Putin’s one-day trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 28, which may include talks with President Barack Obama. Bloomberg
2Russia threatens US with nuclear arms ‘counter-measures’. Russia has threatened to take “countermeasures” if the United States goes ahead with the deployment of a new type of nuclear weapon to bases in Germany, raising fears of a return to a Cold War style arms race in Europe. The Kremlin said plans reported by German media for the US to upgrade its nuclear weapons arsenal in the country would be “a serious step towards raising tension” in Europe. “Unfortunately, in the case of these plans – and we can say with certainty that they are moving towards realisation – this can lead to a violation of the strategic balance in Europe,” said Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman. The Telegraph
3OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs’ advanced negotiations with Azerbaijan and Armenia on Karabakh conflict settlement helped reduce tensions along the contact line, James Warlick, the U.S. Co-chair said Tuesday, September 22. In an interview with Azerbaijani news agency Trend, Warlick commented on Minsk Group’s work aimed at resolving the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Warlick said the co-chairs look forward to the Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers’ meeting at the UN General Assembly to continue the dialogue on presidential level.
4Kazakhstan is keen on strengthening the position in traditional markets for exporting grain – Azerbaijan, Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asian countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Kazakhstan is also interested in increasing grain export to the promising markets, including Europe and Turkey, where there is a constant demand for high-protein and durum wheat. Kazakhstan is among the world’s major grain exporters. In 2011, the country had a record harvest of nearly 27 million tons of grain in net weight. Kazakhstan exported 8.7 million tons of grain in 2013-2014 marketing year.
5Turkmenistan Pushes Ahead on TAPI Pipeline. “As the United States Congress prepares to deliberate on the agreement reached between Iran and the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) over Iran’s nuclear program, a small flurry of statements were released in mid-September announcing that construction on the long-stalled Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline would commence in December 2015. Facing the impending prospect of competition from Iran’s unfettered participation in global natural gas markets, Turkmenistan has adopted a new policy orientation to expedite TAPI’s construction” The Diplomat
6India is ready to invest more than $15.2 billion to build projects in Iran including taking up full-scale development of Chabahar Port if Tehran offers better terms including cheaper gas, Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday. India is one of the few countries that continued trade links with Iran, isolated by Western countries against its nuclear programme. New Delhi is Tehran’s second biggest oil client after Beijing. “We are ready to make a huge investment in Iran and this is mainly linked to gas pricing offered by Iran … Gas price is a crucial issue,” Mr Gadkari told a news conference.
7The State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) and Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation have jointly acquired landmark retail property Kirarito Ginza in Tokyo, Japan for 52.3 billion Japanese yen (nearly $444.24 million). This is SOFAZ’s first real estate investment in Japan. The property was purchased from Elliott Advisors Asia Limited and Orix Corporation. Kirarito Ginza is located in Chou Avenue, Ginza, which is the most prestigious retail location in Japan. The property was built in 2014 and is one of the very few trophy assets recently completed in Ginza area.
8What Iran’s Nuclear Deal Means for Oil Prices. From early 2016, Western sanctions on Iran will start to wind back. At that point, Iran’s oil production will increase. As will the amount of supply it forces onto global markets. That’s either good or bad, depending on your point of view. For already depressed oil prices, it’s a disaster. Especially for the governments that rely on oil to underwrite budgets. At the same time, low oil prices will help the global readjustment to slowing growth. Low prices, for the foreseeable future, will help weather concerns about the global economy. Not surprisingly, Iran will be the biggest winner from this development. Daily Reckoning
9The housing sector has had a positive impact on the construction industry in Kazakhstan, according to the Ranking.kz analytical service. Kazakh construction companies have added an all-time high of roughly 719,000 cubic meters of new residential property in August. This amounts to a 30.5 percent increase in new residential property compared to last August, adding 3,259 apartments and 2,391 single-family houses on a turnkey basis. The top three areas for housing construction are Astana, Almaty and the Almaty region, while the highest growth rate was seen in East Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan, and the Akmola region.
10The Azerbaijani Accounting Chamber became a full member of the Working Group on the Public Debt of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI). The working group defines the main issues for the preparation of procedures and obligations in connection with the audit and evaluation of state debt obligations. It is engaged in the exchange of experience with the research groups, international organizations and similar bodies of other countries involved in public debt, and so on. INTOSAI brings together the supreme audit institutions of the UN member-states. It was founded in 1953. It includes more than 180 national supreme audit institutions.
Poland must make urgent legislative reforms to combat foreign bribery
Poland must make urgent progress on carrying out key recommendations of the OECD Working Group on Bribery that remain unimplemented, more than four years after its Phase 3 evaluation in June 2013.
Poland still needs to take urgent steps to ensure companies can be held responsible for foreign bribery, even if the persons who perpetrated the offence are not convicted. In addition, Poland must increase the fines for companies in order to ensure foreign bribery is punishable by effective, proportionate, and dissuasive sanctions.
The Working Group is disappointed by Poland’s failure to take measures to ensure that the “impunity” provision in the Penal Code that applies to foreign and domestic bribery cannot be applied to the bribery of foreign public officials. This provision allows perpetrators of bribery to automatically escape punishment by notifying the law enforcement authorities of the offence before the authorities learn about it from other sources.
In the context of ongoing reforms, Poland should also ensure that appropriate measures are in place to protect from retaliatory or disciplinary action private and public sector employees who report suspected acts of foreign bribery in good faith and on reasonable grounds.
The Working Group reviewed a report submitted by Poland on its progress in implementing these outstanding recommendations at its plenary meeting on 13-15 March 2018. The Working Group requested that Poland provide a written report on further progress in addressing these concerns in December 2018, at which time the Group will consider additional measures in the absence of significant progress.
Solving the e-waste problem in Latin America
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Ministry of Environment of Ecuador (MAE) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), have officially presented a project which will provide policy advice to 13 Latin American countries to help them solve the e-waste problem in the region.
The initiative addresses the proper disposal and recycling of electrical and electronic waste by adopting a circular economy approach in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The inauguration was attended by Ecuador’s Minister of Environment, Tarsicio Granizo, UNIDO’s Director of Environment, Stephan Sicars, representatives of national authorities, and ambassadors and representatives of the 13 countries participating in the project.
Sicars pointed out that there are still many challenges that remain for e-waste recycling. “The policies have to be, not only suitable for each individual country, but also sufficiently harmonious to prevent unnecessary, as well as ensuring protection of human health in recycling activities and safeguarding the environment from toxic releases
Meanwhile Granizo emphasized the need to reduce the production of waste and added that “it is necessary to promote national and regional policies that allow community work to be able to deal with the adequate management of electrical and electronic waste, which present a challenge that cannot be addressed only from the national level”.
This initiative will start on 5 June 2018 and will last for five years. During its execution, US$$ 9.5m will be invested, assisting the 13 participating countries both technically and financially, and providing advice on policies, business, legislation, technology and awareness-raising.
IsDB Prize for Women’s Contribution to Development
The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has announced the winners of the 13th edition of IsDB Prize on Women’s Contribution to Development.
Mrs. Hamsatu Nashe Alamin, founder of the Network of Civil Society Organisations for Peace in Borno and Yobe, Northeastern Nigeria, and Mrs. Rehma Kasule, founder of Century Entrepreneurship Development Agency (CEDA) in Uganda are the winners of the Prize for the individual category. Each winner will receive US$25000 to support their community work.
A Togo based NGO, (Groupe de réflexion et d’action, Femme, Démocratie et Développement) won the organization category award. The NGO will receive US $100,000 to support its activities. The award will be given in Tunis during the Annual Meeting of the IsDB Group Board of Governors from 1st to5th April 2018.
According to IsDB President, Dr. Bandar Hajjar, “I am confident that this prize will energize the winners to continue working hard in order to change lives in their communities. Building partnership with NGOs and civil society organizations is one of the pillars of the President’s 5-year program (P5P).”
“I am humbled that the little l am doing for the voiceless communities of North Eastern Nigeria is being independently, and in a transparent international manner, identified, recognized and rewarded by this esteemed Islamic financial institution.” Mrs. Alamin stated.
She added that “this is indeed an eye opener for Muslim women, and particularly those of us living in conflict ridden and marginalized worlds to come out and play our part, for the reward now is right here at our doorsteps; for me, this is just the beginning.”
Speaking on the award, Mrs. Kasule stated: “This award is a symbol of the blessings that I receive for the sacrifices to make the world a better place. This Award is not for me, it is for the dedicated youth ambassadors and mentors, and the young women in post-conflict communities that keep dreaming despite the challenges that surround them.”
“I will use the prize to produce peace edutainment messages and strengthen interreligious dialogue in schools. I am more energized to take up bold and innovative steps to promote peace education for the youth. I thank IsDB for this honour.” She concluded.
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Tom Waits has well-nigh perfected the art of writing a certain kind of song. It’s the song that sounds intimately personal when sung, as if emanating from the most brutal and delicate recesses of the soul, and yet which simultaneously has absolutely nothing to do with Tom Waits himself. When Waits bends over the microphone and wails, “I’m lost at the bottom of the world,” he’s not baring his own heart so much as slipping into costume and borrowing the tongue and windpipe of another character from another world.
After more than three decades of making records, Waits’s dizzying capacity to cultivate and inhabit alternative personas has not waned. The particular lyrics above come from the refrain of “Bottom of the World,” just one of the dozens of masterpieces that populate his newest album, “Orphans.” Waits has always been gifted at breathing life into nearly any material he touches, but these songs possess entire lives unto themselves, even beyond Waits’s distinctive and evocative treatments. Each song exists in its own little universe, exuding its own attitude and proffering its own nuggets of wisdom along with a wink, a tear or a curl of the lip.
Checking in with 54 songs, “Orphans” carries plenty of luggage. Not every song is entirely new: Only 30 tracks are making their first appearance on disc, while the remainders are culled from a variety of sources, including other people’s records (such as The Ramones’ “Danny Says” and Kurt Weill’s “What Keeps Mankind Alive,” co-written with Bertolt Brecht). But even covers receive the requisite imprint of Waits’s signature schizophrenic style, as a sublimely raucous rendition of Leadbelly’s “Good Night Irene” demonstrates.
Most interesting, however, is the manner in which Waits has organized the material, splitting the songs into three discs entitled “Brawlers,” “Bawlers” and “Bastards,” respectively. The anthropomorphism proves to be startlingly accurate. “Brawlers” showcases a collection of mean, no-nonsense numbers replete with blues riffs and primal grooves, and it features a veritable parade of the strange and twisted personalities that have set Waits’s career apart throughout the decades: fictional characters like Little Son Jackson, Nimrod Cain, Buzz Fledderjohn and the poor, drunken wretch who can’t go anywhere without getting soaked. Old blues pros like Charlie Musselwhite and John Hammond, Jr., lend a hand with their consummate musicianship, helping to create a top-rate backdrop for Waits’s menacing growl and variegated lyrics.
The one very sour note of the album’s first disc is the seven-minute polemic “Road To Peace,” a song no doubt intended to be a profound and relevant insight into contemporary politics, but which instead ends up as tendentious and simpleminded as it is banal. It is perhaps telling that there’s hardly a single rhyme throughout the entire diatribe, and lines like “But he is reluctant to risk his / Future with the fear of his political failure” are positively dead on arrival. The baffling inclusion of this bloated track threatens to spoil the album’s atmosphere of freedom and whimsy.
Luckily, “Bawlers” soon redeems such faults with its finely tuned balladry. Situated most often at the piano, Waits pounds out a score of haunting and bittersweet melodies that convey an austere and penetrating sense of humanity. Avid followers are probably already familiar with the tune and lyrics to the divine “Fannin Street,” but the true gem of the second disc is “Down There By The Train,” a truly memorable composition that emerges as wounded and frail as any number Waits has ever recorded.
“Bastards,” finally, gives room for Waits’s most bizarre and mischievous sonic incarnations. This final disc is where casual fans might part ways with more diehard Waits devotees. But even among the most cryptic and macabre material, listeners of any stripe will be able to find playful glints of genius. Whatever the reason, listening to Waits expound upon the predatory behaviors of insects in the spoken-word deadpan of “Army Ants” is as delightful as it is puzzling. “Nirvana” features an equally gratifying, deeply tender reading of a Charles Bukowski poem. The rest of “Bastards” is home to Waits’s usual gamut of junkyard rhythms and sinister rumblings, each of which has its particular flavors and charms.
Permeating all three discs on “Orphans” is Waits’s impeccable sense of the American musical and linguistic vernacular, coupled as always with an aura of manic spontaneity. If Dylan offers us the occasional spoonful of the Old, Weird America, then Waits sounds as if he’s lying face down in the stuff, delivering lines that rattle and wail from the primordial echo chamber of a nation. Wait’s lines from “Rains On Me,” shouted over a lazy blues boogie, sound as if they have existed since the dawn of time: “This is how the world will be / Everywhere I go it rains on me / Forty monkeys drowning in a boiling sea / Everywhere I go it rains on me.” All that Waits feeds us is American, through and through: the rambunctious abandon, the harsh turns of fate and the lyrical sense of self making its own way through struggles and triumphs.

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An off-duty officer with the Homewood, Ill., Police Department contacted Dyer Police at 9:55 a.m. with reports of a suspicious black male wearing a CTA uniform, hat and sunglasses and pacing in front of the TCF Bank Branch in the Jewel-Osco Store, 805 Joliet St., a representative with Dyer Police said.
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I'm surprised that the offender wasn't wearing a Markham police uniform!
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"contacted Dyer Police at 9:55 a.m. with reports of a suspicious black male"
That part of the story should be no surprise since "black males" do about 75% of the crime, yet are only about 7% of the population. But you'll never hear that from the liberal media!
Next thing you will hear from the retarded liberal media is how the white Dyer police officers will be called, oh horror of horrors, RACIST because they profiled this poor innocent victim of discrimination (I'd bet the farm he has a long rap sheet) who was only minding his own business!
Wake Up White America!
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Microsoft has officially declared Windows 11 version 22H2 as Feature Complete. This means that the next update will be focused on quality over quantity and stability, which is a shift from previous updates in recent history of Microsoft’s Operating System releases.
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As most of you are aware, Windows 11 was released to the public on October 5, 2021, when the Redmond-based tech giant declared it ready.
Unfortunately, nothing could be farther from the truth, as many customers resisted making the switch due to the many issues and overall negative experience.
When it comes to the new operating system, Microsoft has announced that it would provide a single feature update every year for Windows 11 and 10.
We’re happy to report that the first feature update for Windows 11 has now been deemed feature complete.
This summer, Windows 11 22H2 might be released.
Microsoft has recently published Insider Preview build 22567 for Windows 11 as well as a cumulative update build, bringing the total to 22567.100.
According to Microsoft, the KB’s primary objective was to test the service pipeline for builds in the Dev channel, therefore it didn’t contain any new features or modifications.
As a result, this current update validates the version of the next feature update, which is listed in Windows Update as Windows 11 version 22H2.
You may also be interested to know that the version number specifies the timeframe for the publication of the next version, which in this instance is the second half of 2022.
Although many of you were expecting for further features, once Windows 11 versions are certified feature complete, no additional features will be released.
The tech behemoth will keep working on new features for the next feature upgrade, which is set to arrive in 2023.
Zac Mendez revealed the information on Telegram on Friday, announcing that the Feature Complete for Windows 11 22H2 is really true.
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Russell Watson has left fans elated over the past year with his exceptional performances at some of the UK’s most astounding historical buildings.
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He said on the tour’s expansion: “It has been an honour to perform in some of the UK’s most beautiful cathedrals in 2023.
“These venues have a special place in the hearts of so many people, and I am honoured to be able to perform in them.”
Russell added: “I can’t wait to carry on sharing my music with fans old and new in these incredible locations.”
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Power comes from a V12 6262cc engine with 800 horsepower at 9,000 rpm and 516 lb-ft of torque at 6,750 rpm. The electric motor provides an extra 163 horsepower and 199 lb-ft of torque. With close to 1000 hp, the LaFerrari emits just 330 g/km of CO2.
Power is sent to the wheels through a seven-speed DCT, enabling the LaFerrari hit 0-100 km/h in less than three seconds, 0-200 km/h (0-124 mph) in under seven seconds and 0-300 km/h (186 mph) in 15 seconds. Top speed is more than 350 km/h (217 mph).
LaFerrari is 4702mm long, 1992mm wide, 1116mm tall, with a wheelbase of 2665mm. It weighs 1,255 kg.
It all rides on 19-inch wheels at the front with 265/30 tires and 20-inch wheels at the rear with 345/30 rubbers.
Other highlights include Brembo carbon ceramic brakes, ESC stability control, EF1-TRAC (F1 electronic traction control integrated with the hybrid setup), third-gen differential and magnetorheological damping with twin solenoids.
The HY-KERS system weighs 140 kg, of which 62 is the weight of the centrally-mounted batteries, which recharges whenever the power unit generates excess torque and also via regenerative braking.
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A justifiably high stock ratingStrong growth from a low financial base has also meant a premium stock rating where sentiment shifts mean higher volatility, hence higher risk than Britvic. You could also say that such risk is mitigated if you choose times to buy after a market drop and apply patience, accumulating a stake in the business. At around 2,650p a share, Fevertree is capitalised at around £3.1 billion versus £2.5 billion for Britvic which is currently priced at 930p a share. Britvic is expected to make some £200 million pre-tax profit on £1.6 billion revenue with an operating margin of 7.3%, its growth rates advancing from mid to higher single digits thanks to an investment programme. Fevertree lacks profit projections, according to Company REFS, but last year made £75.7 million pre-tax profit on £237.5 million revenue – top-line growth was 40% – with a 31.7 % operating margin. It shows how the most successful companies are frustrating to value, where a subjective element means sentiment does shift. And yet the underlying dynamics suggest a high chance the company can grow into this rating. There’s time too: England’s most famous gin craze lasted from around 1700 to 1760! Source: TradingView Past performance is not a guide to future performance
A good hedge against Brexit/sterling weakness
Both companies are leveraging their brands internationally: in 2018, Fevertree established its own operations in the US and extended its distributors across Europe: “As the world’s leading premium mixer brand with a strengthening global distribution network we are well set to drive the international opportunity as the move towards the premium long mixed drink continues to gather momentum around the world.” This should mitigate risk of UK consumer retrenchment if Brexit sours – the UK represents 56.5% of total revenue. However, even Brexit may not be such an issue given consumption of gin and other long drinks seems quite a metropolitan lifestyle, areas that tend to be more affluent. Growing divisions of wealth in society mean, for example, that the best quality bars, hotels and restaurants feel compelled to stock Fevertree to complement their premium (high-margin) spirits offering.
Down from over-extended PE multiplesBritvic is a more defensive investment because Fevertree’s racy valuation makes its stock vulnerable to “risk-off” shifts in wider market sentiment. Since last summer, Fevertree shares have de-rated from 74 times 2018 earnings per share (EPS) of 53p, to a 40x range, assuming conservatively that EPS this year will be about 60-65p. The rating is high on a 10-year view, but global potential for a business with £237 million revenue last year justifies a premium in the next five years or so. See from the table how annual average historic price/earnings (PE) multiples ranged from around 70x to 110x – despite doubts among commentators – the whole way through the stock’s bull run from 175p in 2015 to 3,950p by last September. That rating was exotic, buoyed by football’s World Cup and the royal wedding during a long hot summer, and meant a dramatic near-halving in the share price when the cold front of last autumn’s market jitters arrived.
Strong conversion of earnings to cash: a special payout?The table below shows a trend of very strong cash flow versus capital spending needs, plus the cash flow statement within the 2018 accounts has net cash generated from operations up 35% to £58.4 million – 50.8p per share on a pre-tax basis, or £45.5 million/39.7p per share post-tax. With investment constituting only £0.8 million spent on property, plant and equipment, £4.4 million was distributed as dividends. After year-end cash has soared 64% to £83.6 million there is scope to re-rate payouts – and also pay a special dividend – if no major new strategic move utilises this excess. The company seems to have plenty of organic growth potential than embark on acquisitions. I’d also note a clean and vigorous financial growth profile than a serious gap between headline and “adjusted” figures due to exceptional costs and the like.
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|Year ended 31 Dec||2014||2015||2016||2017||2018|
|Turnover (£ million)||34.7||59.3||102||170||237|
|IFRS3 pre-tax profit (£m)||2.5||16.8||34.3||56.4||75.6|
|Normalised pre-tax profit (£m)||3.6||16.8||34.3||56.4||75.6|
|Operating margin (%)||23.0||28.7||33.6||33.1||31.7|
|IFRS3 earnings/share (p)||1.5||11.5||23.7||39.2||53.2|
|Normalised earnings/share (p)||2.9||11.5||23.5||39.2||53.2|
|Earnings per share growth (%)||744||300||104||70.0||35.7|
|Price/earnings multiple (x)||49.8|
|Annual average historic P/E (x)||112||65.9||73.4||109|
|Cash flow/share (p)||4.1||8.8||17.8||28.2||25.0|
|Dividend per share (p)||0.3||3.1||6.3||10.7||14.5|
|Covered by earnings (x)||9.7||3.7||3.7||3.7||3.7|
|Net tangible assets per share (p)||7.6||18.7||39.8||76.0||92.0|
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May’s share price fall relates to macro events2019 saw a 24% rebound in the share price from 2,200p to 2,720p by end-April, then a renewed slide despite nothing adverse in Fevertree’s newsflow. The last two regulatory news announcements in April showed two global investors slightly increasing their stakes, while the 24 May AGM cited “further encouraging operational progress across our key international regions. Bosses added:
“Whilst we are mindful of last year’s exceptional summer trading performance in the UK, we remain confident in achieving board expectations for the full year ending 31 December 2019.”Most likely the drop in share price relates to risk aversion among investors after US/China trade negotiations hit the rocks, and further inversion of the US yield curve on Treasury bonds invited fear that the US economy is being propped up by tax cuts late in the business cycle. On Wednesday 29 May, Fevertree’s price fell to 2,600p, which has triggered buying up to the 2,640-2,650p area – a notional support level, albeit short timeframe.


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IFA faces Fifa sanction over poppy display
THE Irish Football Association has said it will "robustly defend" disciplinary charges from Fifa over poppy displays at a recent international match in Belfast.
Northern Ireland and Wales are both to face sanctions from Fifa in relation to the last round of World Cup qualifying matches, falling foul of Fifa rule 4.4 concerning political, religious or commercial messages.
Before their match with Azerbaijan on November 11 the IFA agreed to abide by Fifa's ruling that players must not wear a poppy symbol on their jerseys and instead wore black armbands.
A minute's silence was held though, a wreath was laid and a poppy mosaic was displayed by fans in the West Stand of Windsor Park.
The names of players connected with the association who died during the First World War were also displayed on the big screen while the Royal British Legion collected inside the ground for the Poppy Appeal.
A FIFA spokesman said: "The Disciplinary Committee decided to open proceedings against the Irish Football Association and the Football Association of Wales in relation to several incidents involving the display of poppy symbols reported after the matches Northern Ireland-Azerbaijan and Wales-Serbia respectively."
In response the IFA has said it "will robustly defend the disciplinary charges that have been levelled against it".
Earlier this month Fifa opened disciplinary proceedings against the Football Association of Ireland after Republic players wore special jerseys commemorating the Easter Rising in a friendly against Switzerland in Dublin in March.
Both the English and Scottish Football Associations also face sanctions after players violated the Fifa ruling by wearing black armbands with a poppy symbol during their World Cup Qualifying match on November 11.
All four nations now face the possibility of a fine or even a possible points deduction.

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Cytori Therapeutics received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for a burn clinical trial using the Cytori Cell Therapy.
Cytori Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CYTX) received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for a burn clinical trial using the Cytori Cell Therapy.
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This trial, named the RELIEF trial, is a continuation of Cytori’s ongoing research and development efforts under its contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The RELIEF trial will assess safety and feasibility of intravenous delivery of Cytori Cell Therapy™ as an adjunct to usual care in patients with thermal burn injuries covering between 20% and 50% of their body surface area. The trial is approved to enroll up to 30 patients in up to 10 U.S. sites. Initiation of RELIEF is dependent upon execution of a contract option by BARDA to provide the necessary funds.
“This announcement is yet another milestone achieved as BARDA and Cytori continue to move this technology forward through the development process, from preclinical to clinical implementation,” said Dr. Marc Hedrick, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cytori. “Approval of RELIEF is a major step towards the ultimate goal of making this technology available to our citizens as a national countermeasure against burn injuries potentially including those complicated by radiation exposure.”
The current healthcare system is ill-prepared for large numbers of patients requiring simultaneous treatment for thermal burns, particularly those complicated by radiation exposure. Current standard of care consists of dressings, skin grafts and skin substitutes. Despite these treatments, patients with severe burns commonly suffer from prolonged pain, aggressive scarring, skin contracture and reduced range of motion. Cellular therapeutics such as those offered by Cytori may have the potential not only to improve the quality and rate of wound healing and reduce scarring but also to be deployable in a cost effective manner, even in mass casualty situations.
According to the American Burn Association, there were approximately 450,000 burn injuries in 2013 that required medical treatment in the United States, with approximately 40,000 requiring hospitalization. According to a report from the Government Accountability Office, as many as 10,000 patients could require thermal burn care in a mass casualty event. The limited number of specialist surgeons and burn centers in the U.S. creates a public health need for a burn wound therapy that can be quickly and broadly applied by non-specialist medical personnel following such an event.
The RELIEF Trial is designed as a prospective, open-label, parallel group, usual care controlled, multi-center randomized (2:1, active: usual care alone) safety and feasibility study targeting thermal burns. Subjects will have at least one deep partial or full thickness burn wound that is to be autografted with a meshed split thickness skin graft (STSG). Subjects randomized to Cytori Cell Therapy will undergo small volume fat harvest (100 to 150 mL) during scheduled burn surgery followed by intravenous delivery of Cytori Cell Therapy. Subjects randomized to usual care will not undergo a fat harvesting procedure.
About Cytori Therapeutics, Inc.
Cytori is a therapeutics company developing regenerative and oncologic therapies from its proprietary cell therapy and nanoparticle platforms for a variety of medical conditions. Data from preclinical studies and clinical trials suggest that Cytori Cell Therapy™ acts principally by improving blood flow, modulating the immune system, and facilitating wound repair. As a result, Cytori Cell Therapy™ may provide benefits across multiple disease states and can be made available to the physician and patient at the point-of-care through Cytori’s proprietary technologies and products. Cytori Nanomedicine™ is developing encapsulated therapies for regenerative medicine and oncologic indications. For more information, visit www.cytori.com.

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Wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in 1995. It was not without controversy and to this day it remains a heated debate. Wolf packs in the Greater Yellowstone area continually have their own disagreements-commonly over life or death issues.
I was in the right place at the right time with seconds to capture this member of the Canyon Pack. Wolf watchers reported that two packs had just ‘collided’ and the alpha female seen here was seeking refuge after that conflict.
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Muhaarar picked up his third group stakes win in his past five starts and secured his first victory at the highest level when he delivered a decisive score in the $361,000 Commonwealth Cup (Eng-I) June 19.
A colt from first crop of Rip Van Winkle led trading Nov. 25 at the single-session Tattersalls December yearling sale, which saw a marginal decline in total sales, compared with 2012, but increases in average and median.
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Realme 9 Pro Plus price in Pakistan is Rs. 94,999. Realme mobile always launches phones that have some amazing specs to compete with the world. It is giving tough competition to other well-known mobile brands. Realme never disappoints customers with the quality of its smartphones. Realme 9 Pro Plus launch date in Pakistan is February 21, 2022. It is another flagship smartphone launched by the brand to showcase the high-end features it owns. The brand has made sure that the mobile phone is worth spending this much amount of money on. 9 Pro Plus Realme will make you feel superior to others with its exceptional design and high-tech specs.
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As much as we would love to keep our prices as low as possible we do need to keep the lights on! So as of March 15th, we will be increasing our Mobile phone repair hourly rate from $60 to $75 per hour.
While the hourly rate will go up some of the prices for parts are starting to drop. So who knows our prices depending on the device
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We will still keep the company policy of “Under 15 mins it’s Free”. After all this policy is what creates the most smiles in our phone repair shop!

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Sai Amrutdhara is a Marathi album released in 2008. There are a total of 5 songs in Sai Amrutdhara. The songs were composed by Dinesh Nimbalkar, a talented musician. Listen to all of Sai Amrutdhara online on JioSaavn.


The recent controversies about stones and plaques containingThe Ten Commandments being placed around town halls invarious places in the U.S. brings up the question of whetherthe U.S. was started by Christians. Most of us wouldautomatically say “yes,” but in William Henry?s startlingnew DVD, ANation Under God, he reveals some hidden realities aboutour Founding Fathers. Many of them were Freemasons, who hada greater connection to the Knights Templar and theRosicrucians than they did to Christianity. Don’t missthis exquisitely produced new DVD, in which he points outthe Masonic symbols that still surround us today, such asthe goddesses of Freedom and Liberty, the eagle and the AllSeeing Eye on our dollar bills. William presents over 150rare images from America’s founding that can be linked tothe ancient world.
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A false encyclopaedic guide to the Paris collections, presenting:
Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2013
Gene Moore Tiffany & Co, 1963
2. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2002
3. The Secret Museum of Mankind Weed-robed celebrants of Ghoulish rites, 1935
The surrealist window displays of Gene Moore, the characteristic imagery of Vogue Italia and Owens' ethereal sportswear infusion resulted in a post-romantic plastic raincoat doll tribe massacre.


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Carlos Boozer's annual basketball camp at his alma mater, Juneau-Douglas High School, hits the midway point today, but the biggest news to come out so far is about the 2011 edition - it's going to be free.
"The goal for next year is to have a free camp and to have the kids come through, use the different gyms and just let them come for free," he said. "They'll get the exact same coaching, fundamental work, the afternoon games and the Friday championship games, but it will be free.
"We just want to give back to Alaska the way it's given back to me."
Boozer's eyes lit up when the topic turned to the Crimson Bears girls' basketball team, the reigning 4A state champions. Several key players return next season to defend their title, and Boozer knows a little something about that. He led the JDHS boys to back-to-back state crowns in 1997 and '98.
"They have to know the 'X' will be on their backs," he said. "After you win the first one, you've proven that you're a champion and people take notice. People start paying more attention to you and they're going to get every team's best game. They'll be the favorites."
Whether they want it or not, Boozer said, the Crimson Bears will be under a lot of pressure.
"The biggest thing is they need to stay together as a group and if they lose a game, don't get too low," he said. "If they stay focused, they can win it back to back. But it's not going to be easy. Sometimes the second one is harder because everybody expects you to win it. From my perspective, I wish them the best of luck."
Boozer also said he heard about the first meeting between the Juneau-Douglas and Thunder Mountain boys' programs last season, and how the gym at JDHS was packed like it was during his playing days.
Boozer said competition is good when it comes to having two high schools in Juneau now, but he hopes it doesn't drive a wedge between the two fanbases.
"When I was in high school, I loved having just the one school. All of my friends played on the same football, baseball, basketball teams, whatever sport, and I think it might divide the community a little bit if you have kids staying in just one area of town," he said. "But it's already over and done with. We have two high schools now so I think the rivalry is going to grow as the competition grows and the kids grow."
This has been a big offseason for Boozer after having found a new home in Chicago with the Bulls, where he is looking forward to the start of the 2010-11 season.
In addition to landing Boozer, Chicago also brought in two of his former Utah Jazz teammates, Kyle Korver and Ronnie Brewer, and a new head coach in Tom Thibodeau.
"We have a great group of guys, a young nucleus and a new coach in town who won a championship with the Celtics in 2008," Boozer said. "For me, I'm looking forward to coming in with my experience and the goal is to win a ring."
Boozer likes Chicago's chances with emerging star Derrick Rose at point guard, a "top five center" in Joakim Noah, and a "very talented and versatile player" in Luol Deng, as well as Brewer, Korver, Kurt Thomas and Taj Gibson.
"When you add me into the mix, I think we'll be right there (in the title hunt). Everybody's talking about other teams - as they should -but we'll go out there and earn our respect," Boozer said. "We don't want anybody to give us anything. We'll be the underdog but I guarantee that we'll have something to say come playoff time."
Boozer likes Los Angeles, San Antonio and Denver out of the Western Conference, but he thinks the East might be a bit more top-heavy with the likes of Chicago, Miami, Boston and Orlando.
"The top four or five teams in the East have been good the last three or four years. The Western Conference will always be good with the Lakers, San Antonio, Denver - all those teams will be good, 50-plus win teams," he said. "The East is going to be really good, though. Those top four or five teams are going to be battling it out and it should be exciting to see how the East is won this year."
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Saguaro National Park Tucson, AZ. It takes up to 75 years for a Saguaro to grow one side arm. Most grow 40-60 ft high with a 10 foot girth and may live for more than 150 years. Enjoy the beauty and wildlife: road runners, coyote, bats, quail, scorpions and beautiful flowers on the way to the Sonora Desert Museum.
Two new species of pseudo-scorpions discovered in Northern Arizona - Two new species of ‘pseudo-scorpions’ have been discovered in a cave on the northern rim of the Grand Canyon. Named Hesperochernes bradybaughi and Tuberochernes cohni they are fully described in the November Issue of the Journal of Arachnology. (credit: J. Judson Wynne, Northern Arizona University)
Lavender - Scorpion Repellent. Plant some lavender around your property and see no more scorpions. Lavender grows easily in Arizona. Looks nice and works great! Also use some organic lavender oil inside the house. I NEVER see scorpions anymore! Enjoy! #Lavender #Scorpions


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Angling in Australia and elsewhere Joseland, Howard
Book contains a letter from Howard Joseland to [unknown] Marston dated January 22, 1921, regarding whether or not Mr. Marston thought the book might be published in England.
Letter is attached to the inside of the back cover, opposite the old catalogue card.
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I’m watching Spring Watch, a BBC nature programme that is on at this time every year in the UK. Its a pleasure to watch animals and see their lives, to see places in Britain that I may never visit. I can learn about the life cycle of beetles, explore pond life, watch deer that were imported by the Victorians. This time they have discussed ancient oak trees and what lives on them, the release of a seal in Ireland, buzzards and their young, swallow nesting and many other topics. So yes little owl, I’m watching you!
We went for a walk last week and saw a fox carved into an old tree stump. Unfortunately the photo I took didn’t turn out (memory problem on my phone). I spoke to the person whose garden it was in and he told us the artist who had done it.
I decided to enquire about a carving, I have an idea of either an owl, a fox, or even a green man being carved into it. I’ve passed on my details and the size of the tree. Maybe in a few weeks I’ll be posting photos of a sculpture.
A lion was waiting on a roundabout when it saw a disco ball in a hall window… The light from the sun reflected off it and made tiny stars sparkle off every surface. The magic it set off created a bronze dragon, which unfortunately was only tiny. It was seen by a bag in the shape of an owl. Which swallowed the dragon whole. The owl then grew new feathers of purple and blue wax. It flew over a lake with oriental buildings and trees. It followed an orange man walking backwards with his legs sticking through the bottom of a boat. Two people watched on in horror. Finally all the owls toy cushion friends stood and applauded as it flew in and landed quietly and quickly in the corner.
Yes that is a lot of silly words, but I’d gathered these odd photos together and wanted to describe them. Not much of a story really!
Clearing up my photos on my phone I decided to delete and optimise them. It jumbled up the ones I left behind. I loved drawing this on the sketchfu website that has since closed so don’t go looking for it.
I love owls, we have visited owl sanctuaries and animal sanctuaries. I just love the patterns on their feathers, and the fact that most of them fly silently. Their eyes are amazing. Staring at you like they are pinning you to the ground like a small rodent!
I looked over at the sofa and saw, my bag was staring at me, its stone eyes glaring? I knew there were sharp talons underneath. Any moment it could fly up and attack me. And yet it was my favourite bag? What could I do, I couldn’t look away, I did not dare sleep. I would have to watch it until dawn. Until I would be safe.
The owl hooted in my mind, a mournful call, a gentle sound, my head nodded, sleep was coming. I shook myself to wake up. The owl glared. I was trapped.
A year ago I was painting this owl. I was working towards a couple of craft fairs, including one at Endon Well dressing. Now things are quiet and I just don’t have the motivation to paint, although I am doing drawings every day. I just can’t be bothered to faff about getting my paints out and I need some canvases, I shall have to buy some more.
Digital drawing I did at the now defunct sketchfu web site, several years ago now. I called it owl mask, which is what it is. The site got too popular and the owners couldn’t afford to keep it going. I have lots of art from there and other websites. Luckily I saved a lot before it closed.
These days there seems to be less freedom, more colouring in images that someone else has drawn, for instance. Less chances to do different styles and ideas.
I think it’s also because of the ubiquitous play stores. It seems hard to find pure drawing websites that aren’t about gaming. Why aren’t more ideas are allowed. It’s hard to know what is going on.
A process of cropping, mirroring and flipping images to create interesting patterns. I think the final result looks like a little owl reflected in water. I’ve changed the tones and hues slightly in the image to enhance the shadows in the cloudscape. The idea has always been to have abstract shapes apparently floating in the sky. It’s a recurring theme of mine.


Setting up a Cisco 8861 Phone at home
If you are setting the phone and will be connecting over WiFi, reference the following instructions to establish internet connectivity.
You need to check out the phone with your building’s technicians before taking it home. The phone will not work without configuration changes to allow external network access.
When taking home a Glenbard issued Cisco 8861 phone, you first need to reset the service mode.
1. Go to Settings
2. Click Admin Settings
3. Click Reset Settings
4. Click Service Mode
5. Click Reset and then the phone will reboot
After the phone reboots, you are now able to proceed with the login information
1. On the Welcome window, enter glenbard.org
2. On the Sign In page, enter your PowerSchool credentials
The phone will take a short time to register.
Note: The phone will act like a regular desk phone when the setup is complete. If making an external phone call, you need to start with a “7” before entering the rest of the phone number
When bringing the phone back to Glenbard, you need to reset the Service Mode again. Follow the same steps above. You will not need to enter the login information when the phone restarts.


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The Elixir Short Sharp Shocks #26 Lee Allen Howard Horror Short Stories Publication Date: July 26, 2019 Print Length: 48 pages Pauly needs cash - NOW - for a fix. When he encounters Belia Demkakova, he negotiates to do yardwork for her. But the old woman has something that can erase his withdrawal symptoms. At a price. What will Pauly give to be free of his addiction? More than he bargained for!
Pauly is hard up for a fix and comes across an elderly lady named Belia that needs some help with yardwork. He jumps at the chance to make a little money. Pauly goes in thinking it’s going to be easy, but it turns out to be the complete opposite.
I loved this twisted short! Howard pulls you in immediately with Pauly’s overwhelming need to score some drugs. Belia seems to know that Pauly is having some withdrawal and offers him the Elixir to help. He accepts and from that moment everything goes crazy. When Pauly first meets Belia you think things are going to go one way and by the end the story completely flips!
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Although born and raised the son of a preacher, Lee Allen Howard knew since second grade he wanted to be a horror writer. Having a love for all things creepy and a recurring nightmare in which Dracula, the Wolfman, and the Mummy chased him all around the house led to his telling stories on the dark side of reality.
Since then, he’s written five novels and a collection of short stories. He also writes dark poetry. He edited two horror anthologies for Dark Cloud Press: THOU SHALT NOT… and TALES OF BLOOD AND SQUALOR.
Lee has worked as a technical writer in the software industry all his adult life and also edits fiction and nonfiction. Stay up to date with the latest on Lee's work Amazon | Website | Facebook | Instagram


Justice A. T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Friday, May 20, 2022 convicted and sentenced a former Special Assistant to Mr. Dan Abia, erstwhile Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Goerge Turnah, to four years imprisonment.
Turnah, who was prosecuted by the Port Harcourt’s Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, between 2017 and 2022 for obtaining money by false pretence, money laundering and abuse of office, was jailed for failure to make full disclosure of his assets in his disclosure to the EFCC. He was arraigned, together with his wife, Jennifer Tinipre Turnah, on four-count amended charges.
Turnah is currently serving as special Adviser to Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State and also aspiring the PDP House of Assembly ticket Ogbia constituency 3
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