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Orlando Live Music Joints: 11 Places for Great Sounds
Do you love sitting in a cool place, hearing a great band play in front of you? Who doesn’t! Are you a concert dancer who loves to rock out? I hear ya. Orlando live music awaits you!
We’ve got some great recommendations. If you want to take some friends, or go solo, to hear great bands, check out my list below. Orlando can be tough—if you’re an indie kid, artsy type. So avoid the suburbanites and the tourists.
1. The Social— Orlando Live Music in an Intimate Setting
This is my all-time fav (as long as the band is decent.) It’s just so intimate and such a classic charm place. So many great memories of life have happened here, amongst the little stage and good little acoustics. I’ll never forget the day my sister & I wandered into a Nouvelle Vague concert here, they just took over and absorbed the venue. The nice thing about small venues is that the artists really consume the place.
Address: 54 N Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32801
Hours: Open today · 8PM–2AM
2. Backbooth—Great Band Party in a Pub Vibe
Backbook has quite a few decent bands come through. A little more downtown trash feeling than other places, but fun for grabbing a drink and seeing a good band. Sure gets loud in there, but that can be a good thing if you love the sound of the band you’re there to hear.
Address: 37 W Pine St, Orlando, FL 32801
3. Grand Bohemian—Elegant Orlando Live Music in a Classy Setting
This is more the gypsy jazz with the martini place. It’s pretty posh and high end feeling. (We usually end up here after a wedding when we don’t know where to head in our bridesmaid dresses.) It’s nice for a fancy date night. Check to see who’s playing—some really good bands do play here. If you’re into a 3 piece cello band, check out the Cook Trio. They’ve played here before & we really enjoyed them. (Very ‘Midnight in Paris’ vibe.) You can’t really check their website, but if you call, sometimes the front desk people can tell you who’s playing this evening or weekend.
Address: 325 S Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32801
4. Venue 578 (Formerly Firestone Live)—Major Bands Play Orlando Live Music
This is a big venue. Think lots of dancing. Lots of people. The big singers hit this place. If you want to rock out to Phantogram, you’ll end up here. Not intimate, not cutesy. But it serves a purpose. It lets you see Animal Collective, Foster for the People, and other big name bands. I prefer this music venue to House of Blues! (At least you can avoid I-4 and the Disney mess of traffic.)
Address: 578 N Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32801
5. Stardust—Local Band Fun
This is a small coffee shop place, but sometimes good local bands play. Think: unknown people, local (very good!) artists. And some open mic (that can be painful). It’s a fun local joint. You can meet people. Hang outside. Run into friends. Enjoy relaxing in chill Winter Park. It’s good for its own reasons.
Address: 1842 Winter Park Rd, Orlando, FL 32803
Hours: Open today · 7AM–12AM
6. Plaza Theater Live—Big Names in a Vintage Theater
This is a nice theater, which is a theater, so it’s a little weird sometimes for concerts. Kinda messes with my ‘dance it up’ vibe. But if you want to see the likes of bands like Of Montreal, Modest Mouse and the like—you’ll probably find them here.
Address: 425 N Bumby Ave, Orlando, FL 32803
Phone: (407) 228-1220
7. Salsa Heat—Learn to Dance to Orlando Live Music
Okay hipsters, you live in Orlando now (or you’re at least visiting.) It you want to go dance your butt off salsa heat style, you can try a Friday night for $5 at salsa heat. Watch out! You may have an embarrassingly lot of fun. 🙂 I recommend taking your Spanish dancer friends you can find.
Several location. See website for details.
8. Samba Room—Best Cuban Sounds away from Miami
After you learn to dance at Salsa Heat, head to Samba Room for the best Orlando live music of the Latin genre. The food is actually really good too. The Cuban guys on bongos are just amazing though! Even if you HATE Latin music, you should at least hear it here. It’s the best thing North of Miami.
Located in: Publix Super Market at Plaza Venezia
Address: 7468 Sand Lake Rd, Orlando, FL 32819
9. Park Avenue CDs—Cute Hipster CD Place, with Bands Playing Orlando Live Music
Really…a cd shop? Yes. It’s just fun, and the used records are well priced. You’ll find cool local gifts there. Local bands perform as they come to town at times. Call them up or drop by to check on what’s playing this week. (Sometimes you can catch the likes of Vampire Weekend here for $10ish or less.) It’s a tad pretentious inside, but come on—it’s a hipster cd & record shop. It’s bound to have that vibe. In Brooklyn it would fit right in to the woodwork.
Address: 2916 Corrine Dr, Orlando, FL 32803
10. Relight Redlight—Great Beer, Great Sounds
The sweet beer shop has plenty of space for a large crowd, but retains its arty vibe. On weekends, there are some fun bands who play Orlando live music there. Check out their site or their Facebook for what’s coming up this weekend. We’ve seen good gypsy music here. Or a good beer and Orlando live music, this can be a gem on the weekends.
Address: 2810 Corrine Dr, Orlando, FL 32803
11. The Sax Guy on Park Ave, Winter Park—Support a Local!
Okay, this sounds lame? Not if you’re into having an intimate date & just chat on a bench (for free.) It’s delightful to hear this guy on (most) Saturdays mournfully pour his heart into his saxophone Saturday evenings on Park Ave. Bring your own wine & cups. Sit under the twinkle lights & enjoy him. (To be a decent human, do go throw a few bucks in his music case.)
Address: Park Ave, near William’s Sonoma outside on a sidewalk
If you haven’t tried these places for Orlando live music, you should. End of story. 🙂 It’s always a good idea to check who’s playing before you drop in, but sometimes a surprise can be nice too. Enjoy!


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Surfing in the Dominican Republic – Surf spots and destinations
Want to go on a holiday? Love surfing? But confused about an ideal surfing holiday spot? Then you hit the right button as this article is going to guide you all about the best surfing spots in the Dominican Republic.
The right time to surf
Well known for its beaches, resorts and golf clubs, the Dominican Republic is a Caribbean country that is situated on the island of Hispaniola. Surfing here is surely a best holiday one can have. The DR isn’t huge. But this country is novel and famous for surfing because it has a sufficiently expansive land that makes the winds change, offering a preferred and more reliable surf over most different zones in the Caribbean Basin.
This tropical country is famous among surfers because one can surf here during the entire year. You can experience greater waves in the Cabarete region during winter. However, a huge wave season starts in October and lasts till April. The long stretches of time from May to August usually still have a ton of fun waves of high scale. However, this period is perfect for learning how to surf or for mid-level surfers. August and September can likewise be favourable months, because Atlantic hurricanes can spin off far north of the island and bring great conditions for surfing toward the North shoreline of the Hispaniola Island.
Best surf spots in the DR
The beaches located on the north Dominican coast are usually the best, known by surfers. However, many of those located on the south coast are gaining more and more both national and international followers.
1. Punta Cana
Punta Cana is one of the most popular destionations among surfers. For example, Macao beach located only 30 minuted drive to the north of Punta Cana is a wide beach with more than a kilometer of shallow coastline, completely surrounded by beautiful palm trees. The wonderful and fine white sands contribute to highlight the brilliant sea waves color, making the surfing experience really fascinating. The shoreline is ideal for novices and it is an awesome place to relax in a bar following a water filled day. Several schools located on that beach offer the opportunity to learn surfing.
Considered one of the most beautiful and natural areas of the Dominican Republic, the Samana Peninsula, located on the northeast coast of the country, is a unique and ideal destination for lovers of nature and an active lifestyle. Among the numerous beaches that the peninsula presents for surfing, there is Playa Cosón. It is a still virgin beach located 10 minutes from the picturesque fishing village of Las Terrenas. It is a perfect beach for those intermediate level surfers who enjoy soft waves, in an atmosphere of great tranquility. El Valle beach, located between two mountains, and Playa Bonita, in Las Terrenas, are also recommended. They especially serve for beginner and intermediate surfers.
3. Rio San Juan
The most risky surfers will find their opportunity for adrenaline on the beaches of Río San Juan. It is a municipality in the María Trinidad Sánchez province, on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. Playa Grande, which as its name indicates is one of the largest in the country, attracts numerous surfers from all over the world eager to “dominate” the great waves caused by the Atlantic Ocean. A few meters away there is La Preciosa. It is another beach visited by surfers in wave season. The beaches of El Barco and La Muela are also well known for its surfing capacity. Various surfing tournaments have been held on these beaches, which are becoming increasingly recognized.
Reazons to surf in the DR
- Many places to surf, few people. Due to the fact that one can surf in the Dominican Republic during the entire year and that there are many beaches to surf, you really can enjoy surfing alone.
- Surf in a bathing suit. The freedom that gives a bathing suit is unique, the feeling is in each movement, no matter how wet the suit is.
- Waves all year round. In winter the north coast, in summer the south coast, you just have to choose a beach to surf and come.
- Hot water. You can enjoy a hot water all year round, starting at 6 a.m. in the morning with the first rays of sunlight you can enter the water and see how great the temperature is. You can be always aware of the weather in Punta Cana, just check this article about the best time to visit Punta Cana.
- Kindness and friendliness of the local people. They are happy, cheerful and helpful.
- Marine life is not dangerous although it is very abundant. You can surf around sea turtles, stingrays, harmless sharks and even flamingos, it’s a paradise!
- Nature adventures for days without waves. Rivers, waterfalls, secluded beaches, mountains with spectacular views, excursions, you will not get bored!
Where to learn surfing
Thus, you can see that so different characteristics of the Dominican beaches guarantee that every surfer, regardless of their level of preparation, will enjoy the wave. Even those people who simply are curious to try to surf, can venture and take a first class at one of qualified surfing schools, where they will find tailored suit and board, and experienced surfing trainers who will accompany them to embark on a great sea adventure. Here you can find several surfing schools:
- Kitesurf Punta Cana – KBS School
- Bayahibe SUP (Stand Up Paddle Boarding)
- Punta Cana Surf Adventure
- Pro Kite Cabarete
- Macao Surf Camp
- Pirata Surf School Playa Bonita Las Terrenas
If you are an experienced surfer we would recommend you to visit the Dominican Surfing Federation website, where you can find much useful information, including news about the ongoing surfing championships.

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- Official Name:
- People’s Republic of Bangladesh
- 144,000 square kilometers
- parliamentary democracy
- Taka (approximately 80 Taka=USD 1)
- National Days:
- National Martyrs Day (February 21)
- Independence Day (March 21)
- Victory Day (December 16)
- 162 million (2011 Estimate)
- Principal Crop:
- National Bird:
- Magpie Robin
- National Fish:
- National Fruit:
- Favorite Meal:
- Fish Curry
- Seasons (6 seasons, each 2 months long):
Bangladesh is a beautiful, sub-tropical country crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers and dotted with thousands of small ponds. This nation sits on the great river deltas that join here and flow south to the Bay of Bengal. India wraps a giant arm around most of Bangladesh, and Myanmar lies to the southeast.
From March to October the climate is hot and humid. The monsoon rains begin in June and last until October. The heavy rainfall causes catastrophic floods and storms, while the winter season, November through February, has very little rain; the weather is usually cool and pleasant.
Formerly called East Pakistan, Bangladesh was born out of blood and ashes of the War for Independence in 1971. The new leaders adopted a parliamentary form of government, which is striving to correct the problems of overpopulation, hunger, poverty, disease, unemployment, illiteracy and devastating floods. Bangladesh continues to be one of the world’s poorest countries.
Bangladesh relies heavily on agriculture, fertile soil being its chief natural resource. Because of the warm temperatures year long, farmers can grow up to three crops yearly. Rice is the major crop; in fact, Bangladesh is one of the world’s leading rice-growing countries. Other export products include paper, tea, wood, fish and leather, tobacco, and jute. The country has also developed burgeoning garment and ceramic industries.
The heart of Bangladesh is in its 68,000 rural villages, few of which have plumbing or electricity. Most Bangladeshis are poor farmers who struggle to feed themselves and their families. Most landless manual laborers work for less than US $2.00 a day. Although the lifestyle is quite simple, general living conditions have improved somewhat with the advent of electricity, radio, television, cell phones, internet, and improved farming methods. Money sent home from overseas workers does more for Bangladesh than all foreign aid put together.
Though this land is small, Bangladesh is home to over 162 million people, making it the most densely populated rural nation in South Asia. The 2009 census estimates this agricultural nation to be home to 999 people in a square km (2639 people per square mile), half of whom are under the age of 15.
Ninety-five percent of Bangladesh’s population belongs to the Bengali ethnic group. Cultural arts have flourished for hundreds of years in stories, ballads, poetry, dance, and drama. Bengalis are people-oriented and excel in hospitality. They spend leisure time chatting with friends and relatives.
Bangladesh has several minority ethnic groups. Many tribal peoples live in the jungle-covered Chittagong Hill Tracts. Originally these groups migrated from Burma, Thailand, Assam or elsewhere in Southeast Asia. The largest groups of the southeastern region of Bangladesh include Chakmas, Marmas, Mru, and Tripuras. Each tribe has its own customs, religion, and culture. Tribals are traditionally Buddhist or animistic. None practice Islam nor speak Bangla as their native language.
The people of Bangladesh are deeply religious. 85% of Bangladeshis are Muslim; 12% are Hindu; 3% are Buddhist; 1/2 of 1% are Christian. Mosques, temples and shrines to revered saints fill the cities and dot the countryside. The year is punctuated with religious festivals and holidays.

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The big game fishing Kenya coastline has been, for many years, fished by many adventurous anglers such as Ernest Hemmingway and in the early days was world famous for being one of the best Sailfish destinations in the world. Back when Ernest Hemmingway was fishing Kenya, he classed the Striped Marlin fishing as being the best there was.
Shark Fishing Holidays
The waters off the South African coast are incredibly diverse, and teeming with life. Where there is an abundance of food, there is also an abundance of predators, and these oceans are home to some of the most highly evolved apex predators on the planet: sharks. These sea creatures have been around since before the dinosaurs, and some species have remained virtually unchanged for millions of years. There are more than 400 species of shark in the world, and South Africa is home to around 100 of them.
Every shore angler has heard of the amazing Shark fishing for Bronze Whalers along the Skeleton Coats of Namibia, so called due to the amount of whale and sea bones that litter the sea-shore. The coast sits in the cold, nutrient rich Benguela current the cold current brings a mass of plankton which in turn, brings the fishy predators.
This trip has to be on every shore anglers bucket list! You will travel to Namibia with Sportquest host Matt Crowe to target the immense, super hard fighting Bronze Whaler Sharks from the Skeleton Coast shoreline with renowned Shark guide Simon Mcgowan. This is one shore angling holiday you will not want to miss.

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In Tel Aviv on Tuesday, an Israeli court rejected an appeal by the Islamic Council of Jaffa to preserve a 200-year old Muslim cemetery, ruling instead that the municipality of Tel Aviv can move forward with plans to build a homeless shelter on the site.
The ruling followed weeks of protests, in which Israeli police beat Palestinian citizens who challenged the plan to demolish the cemetery. They said it was part of the Israeli government’s policy to erase Palestinian heritage, just as the Israeli government had erased and demolished so many Palestinian towns, villages and historic sites over the past 72 years that Israel has existed.
In addition to ruling that the cemetery could be destroyed, Judge Limor Bibi ordered the Jaffa Islamic Council to pay $2,200 in legal fees.
The case evoked memories of a similar fight that took place in Jerusalem several years ago, in which Palestinians resisted the Israeli plan to demolish a Muslim cemetery in order to build a ‘Museum of Tolerance’. They lost that fight, and the cemetery was destroyed in order to construct the Museum.
In the current case, the Islamic Council had managed to get an Israeli court to temporarily halt construction on the site when they proved that the Tel Aviv municipality had no legal permit to destroy the 200-year old Al-Isaaf cemetery. The original hearing was supposed to be July 22nd. But lawyers for the city of Tel Aviv argued that the city’s finances were being negatively impacted, and the court agreed to move the hearing up to July 7th.
The municipality argued that the site was not a place of special significance to Jaffa’s Muslim community, claiming that it had been abandoned for decades until their construction equipment dug up the skeletons of thirty people while doing excavation on the site.
The director of the Islamic Council, Tarek Ashkar, called the court ruling “legal acrobatics”, and said it was a blatant example of anti-Palestinian discrimination in Israel.
The judge appeared to make the decision based on a technicality – the fact that construction had continued on the site, and had not ceased for an entire year – because of the continuation of the work, Judge Bibi said that the permit was never invalidated, and so the municipality should not have to apply for a new permit.
According to Middle East Eye, the Al-Isaaf cemetery, which lies just north of the walls of Old Jaffa near the Hassan Bek Mosque, was built almost 200 years ago. Despite not being in active use for nearly 90 years, the cemetery holds hundreds of Palestinian tombs.
Middle East Eye points out that Jaffa was once an epicentre of the Palestinian economy, with some 120,000 people living in and around the flourishing city on the Mediterranean Sea in 1948. Almost 95 percent of the Palestinian population of Jaffa and its surrounding villages were expelled by Zionist militias during the Nakba, or the catastrophe, that year, during the formation of the state of Israel.
Over the decades, Jaffa’s historic neighbourhoods were progressively demolished and the city shrank into a small town that was then absorbed by the municipality of Tel Aviv.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR|
Elected officials should be held to higher standard
To The Daily: First, I have to say that I am very disappointed in the Morgan County commissioners. What are they trying to hide? Firing the HR person was just the first step in what should have been a complete investigation. The chairman, guilty of the same conduct, has walked right back into his chair with no difficulty.
What makes elected officials think they are held to a lower standard than employees? Should they not be held to a higher standard for the trust the public has placed in them by electing them in the first place?
I applaud the officials and employees who followed the law and gave their computers to be inspected. They had nothing to hide. The ones like Sheriff Greg Bartlett and Revenue Commissioner Amanda Scott evidently do have something to hide. Why do they think that they are above the law? Do they not have to answer to someone? This “sensitive material” on their computers is a sorry excuse. Public records should be just that.
I think Commissioner Stacy George is fighting an uphill battle against the “good ol’ boy” system, but I give him credit for still trying to do what is right and uncovering the truth about our county government. If I were an employee or elected official who had my computer inspected, I would feel a sense of discrimination, since others were allowed to refuse this order and evidently got away with it.
If I lived out of state and was considering Decatur for my home, I would think twice about moving to a city where elected officials cover up for other elected officials.
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
Commissioners’ actions ‘pathetic and unacceptable’
To The Daily: Thank you for the coverage of our county commissioners because, without your articles, we the people would not know. The casualty count continues to rise. One person gone, another one threatened with termination and who knows when it will end? It will end on the next Election Day, boys.
Unfortunately, collateral damage so far, includes: loss of respect for fellow commissioners, employees, elected officials and the public, as well as the image of Morgan County. Not to mention this preoccupation with a work-ethics issue to the point of neglecting creative work to continue to improve Morgan County government. The media is telling this story because nothing else is getting done.
As well-meaning and morally driven as some might be, they can do better. The zeal and passion is evident; however, it is without knowledge.
They need to focus on building up this county, one person at a time. Using their elected position to hound another official on such a foolish concern has defined the limit of their capabilities. This is the point they have overlooked.
This e-mail spat has demonstrated once again that some on the commission need to, as Dirty Harry Callahan in the movies said, “know his limitations.” Apparently they do not even understand how pathetic and unacceptable their actions are — yet.


A grim catalogue of torture has emerged from former detainees describing their treatment in Syria's detention centres since the predominantly peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s government began in March 2011.
Amnesty International's report reveals that all the various security forces are routinely torturing and ill-treating detainees held in the context of the protests and unrest, using methods of cruelty mostly used for decades.
The torture carried out appears to be part of a widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population as part of Syrian government policy to crush dissent.
Amnesty's report identifies 31 torture methods described by witnesses with the group saying the situation resembled the "nightmare" of Syria in the 1970s and 1980s.
The report is released as the UN announces it will shortly deploy human rights monitors to Syria's neighbouring states.
The human rights organisation Amnesty International says tougher action is needed to deal with a "grim catalogue" of state-sponsored torture and ill-treatment in Syria.
The group says it has fresh evidence of widespread abuses of civilians detained by security forces.


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Its been a very busy last few days and weeks for Little Happy Cats the cat sitting side of my business, I have been caring for regular clients Huey and Billy ( same household) since last week until this coming weekend, and this current week I started cat visits for new cat sitting client Pepper in New Mills, from Monday to Friday this week.
Huey and Billy get one visit a day, while Pepper gets two visits am and pm. So with Pepper I have gone to see to her early before my first dog walk of the day near home Whaley Bridge and as it has been raining the last few days I have gone back pm, a little earlier than planned as she has no cat flap she is relying on me to let her back in! She is super friendly jet black with white socks.
Having cared for cats since 2012 with Little Happy Hounds, I have lots of experience, and I am very fortunate that I have a lot of returning customers.
My cat care experience stretches back to 1998 for several years, I use to too look after my friends mums persian cats at her home, she was away at university for several days at a time and I would go and feed her cats, brush her cats, maintain their litter trays.
I offer my cat sitting service or small animal visits, at £7.00 for one visit or £11.00 for two visits, I do not charge any extra for weekends, or any extras you may require, curtains drawn/opened, plants watered, whatever you looking for I personally will make sure I try and deliver.
Little Happy Cats from Little Happy Hounds, dog walking and pet care services, is fully insured, CRB checked, trusted key holder.
Covering High Peak, Whaley Bridge, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Chinley, Furness Vale, New Mills, Hayfield, Birch Vale, dog walker, puppy visits, cat feeding, pet sitting,

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brochure “Partizanski spomenik u Mostaru” (1980)
book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.”
another document or proof of the memorial stone (e.g., a photograph).
Mustafa M. REPAK
MUSTAFA MUJA REPAK, son of MUHAMED, born on December 16, 1921* in Ljubinje*. He lived and studied in Mostar, working as a carpenter. According to family members, he was an avid photographer and around a hundred of his photos have been saved to this day. He became a member of the League of Communist Youth (SKOJ) in 1940 and joined the Battalion in May 1942. He was a fighter who died during a Chetnik coup in Dramiševo near Nevesinje in June 1942.
EXCERPT FROM LITERATURE on Mustafa’s death during the Chetnik coup:
“A group of locals led by JG attempted to disarm and take six Mostar residents who were in the Žerojica marshes to Dramiševo. There they encountered four fighters: Šefik Vila, a worker from Mostar, Mustafa Repak, a worker from Mostar, Kemal Kadić, a student from Konjic, and Dževad Jusufbegović, a student from Prozor. Joko Glogovac immediately tried to disarm them. The young men resisted, and they were killed in the process.”
* According to book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.”
Ćemalović, Enver (1986): Mostarski bataljon, Mostar; grupa autora (1986): Hercegovina u NOB 2. dio, Beograd; група аутора (1986): Херцеговина у НОБ, Београд ; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945 . Fotografija: https://www.cidom.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Most_Kralja_Petra_II_1940-ih_Mustafa_Mujo_Repak_1.jpg.jpg
Photo of the memorial plaque: S. Demirović
Do you have more information about this fighter? Share your stories and photographs. Let’s keep the memory alive!


Sheffield black cab fares rise agreed by councillors
Councillors have passed plans for a small increase in black cab fares in Sheffield after a request by the GMB union and the Taxi Trade Association.
The proposals will mean on average a 3.5 per cent rise across the city.
Calculations show short journeys would go up by around seven per cent, but the cost of a trip of more than 10 miles would increase by only one per cent on average.
The request initially included a card payment percentage fee on a journey but councillors agreed any journey under £10 would incur a 50p charge.
The changes also include a 20p surcharge for passengers taking a taxi directly outside Sheffield train station.
Drivers currently pay a £515 fee to pull up and take passengers from the station – the 20p charge is said to go some way to cover an increase costs.
GMB representative and taxi driver Ibrar Hussain said after the meeting: “We feel it’s a reasonable and fair increase for all involved and I’m glad the councillors on the licensing committee have listened to us.
“We have to be sensible about this, I don’t do this to make huge profits. Many of these changes will meet the costs and demands we face.
“We’ve had six years with no increase – it’s a very long time with out one.”
Changes come into force on Sunday, September 4.


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Hearing the Voice team members Charles Fernyhough, Christopher Cook and Ben Alderson-Day are delighted to be speaking at the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Spirituality SIG Conference on ‘Hallucinations and Spiritual Experience: Voices, Visions and Revelation’, which will take place in November later in the year.
Unusual perceptual phenomena, including visual and auditory hallucinations, have been associated with spiritual and religious experiences since ancient times. Since hallucinations associated with major psychiatric disorders not infrequently include spiritual and/or religious content, this has led psychiatrists to take a reductionist approach that treats all such anomalous experiences as pathology and likely to be indicative of mental illness. However, research shows that many people who experience anomalous perception should not be diagnosed as mentally ill and are not in need of mental health services. For some, such experiences serve to enrich and enhance their sense of life purpose.
This day conference will bring together recent scientific research on hallucinations with spiritual and religious perspectives. Mental health professionals need to be aware of alternative frameworks for making sense of anomalous perceptual experiences, with important implications for both clinical practice and the spiritual life.
This meeting is open to all members of the College and non-members. It will be especially relevant to psychiatrists, students, trainees, chaplains, spiritual directors, academics and researchers interested in spiritual and religious experiences.
£100 (Standard rate)
£50 (Trainees, retired members, subsidised)
Registration is now open. Book online here.
For queries about the conference, please contact Emma Jacobson.

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Herzliya is a coastal city located in the central region of Israel, known for its beautiful beaches, rich cultural heritage, and lively nightlife. The city is situated on the Mediterranean coast, north of Tel Aviv and is considered one of the most affluent and upscale areas in Israel. It is a popular destination for both local and international tourists.
One of the main attractions in Herzliya is the city's beaches, which offer a wide range of activities such as swimming, sunbathing, and water sports. The most famous beach is the popular Herzliya Marina Beach, which is known for its excellent swimming and sunbathing opportunities. Visitors can also take boat trips from the marina to the nearby islands and coves.
Another popular attraction in Herzliya is the city's cultural heritage, as it is home to a number of historical sites and landmarks. Visitors can explore the ancient city of Herzliya Pituah, which dates back to the Hellenistic period, or the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, which features a wide range of contemporary art exhibitions.
Herzliya is also known for its lively nightlife, with a variety of bars, clubs, and restaurants that offer a wide range of entertainment options. Visitors can enjoy a night out at one of the city's many bars and clubs, which offer a great atmosphere and great music.
The city offers a wide range of accommodation options, from budget-friendly hostels to luxury resorts. There are also many restaurants and cafes that serve traditional Israeli cuisine, as well as international dishes.
In conclusion, Herzliya is a city that offers a great blend of culture, history, and entertainment. With its beautiful beaches, rich cultural heritage, and lively nightlife, it offers something for everyone. Whether you're looking for relaxation, adventure or culture, Herzliya has it all. It's a perfect place to explore the beauty of the Mediterranean coast and the culture of Israel.

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Farm Aid rocks into the night
Saturday, September 21, 2013
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Not my snare, check out his music its fire🔥
I love the snare
wow nice! I really like this one.
This is not every ones cup of tea. This is stuff I took an interest in as i started to find more music. Some electronic music now a days are so basic & people dont take risks. I like too make music to share my weird taste & try to bring something new & different. My opinion is this is very unique along with literally every one of CHEE's tracks. Yall take a listen to his weirdness & you will come to think, hey this sounds really cool & different, my music i make can be as weird as I want it to be & should not have to worry about social acceptance. So yall embrace this thing hobby you have.

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| Mar 18, 2013
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SAN FRANCISCO — Roberto Clemente was baseball royalty long before dying on a relief mission at the height of his Hall of Fame career.
Ernie Banks knew the kid had something as soon as he saw the young Puerto Rican play right field for the Pirates....
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YOUR MORNING PHIL: Plantains, all-WBC, Maddon
Talking baseball while wondering if anyone remembers where to find Tru TV:
1. Fernando Rodney is the Dominican Republic’s magic man, appearing in all seven of the Dominicans’ wins, to the concern...
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Never underestimate Mike Ilitch's appetite for a championship.
While the Tigers loved what they got from Anibal Sanchez a year ago, they didn't have $80 million budgeted to keep him off the free-agent market. But that's what Dave Dombrowski persuaded...
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By Jessica West
Published in The Ploughshares Monitor Volume 42 Issue 2 Summer 2021
Imagine a crowded urban setting. Suddenly, there’s an explosion. Through the burning soot, you see flying shrapnel, dead and dying civilians, and burning buildings. This is one face of contemporary warfare and it is widely condemned.
Now imagine an explosion in space miles above Earth, where there are almost no humans or structures. Such an event won’t cause any real damage, right?
Orbiting our planet are thousands of satellites that support military operations as well as critical civilian and commercial infrastructures that provide essential services for humans all over the world. Like the civilians in the opening scenario, these satellites are unprotected and can be seriously damaged by even the smallest piece of orbital shrapnel or debris. And in space, the danger is ongoing, because the debris stays in orbit.
Unchecked, the effect of military and security-related activities could be devastating.
So far, no wars have been fought in space. But weapons tests have been conducted, with serious consequences. They must be banned.
BUILDING ON NORMS
For the past year, colleague Gilles Doucet and I have been working on a project to lay out the norms (reflected in laws, regulations, policies, best practices) that govern human activity in space. We are often asked about which new measures are most feasible to enhance international security in outer space and we always answer: a formal restriction on the deliberate creation of space debris.
There is evidence that a norm to prevent the deliberate creation of space debris already exists, rooted in key values and principles of space governance: environmental protection, due regard for safety, and responsibility. Voluntary commitments have been made. The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee guidelines include a stipulation against the intentional destruction of objects on orbit likely to create long-lived debris. Such a commitment is also in the Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, and the Committee’s recently adopted Guidelines for the Long-Term Sustainability of Space Activities, which are compatible with states’ defence and national security interests.
So why call for a formal restriction? Because the practice of debris mitigation still falls far short. Unchecked, the effect of military and security-related activities could be devastating.
HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS FOR A BAN
Weapons that explode in orbit or that destroy or physically damage satellites (anti-satellite or ASAT) have been tested in space and many have produced debris. In 2020, Secure World Foundation released a spreadsheet documenting all known ASAT tests in space, 15 of which are known to have produced 959 pieces of trackable debris (10 centimetres in diameter or larger). Thousands more pieces too small to track were also created and still pose significant risks to space objects.
States that conduct weapons tests sometimes try to minimize the impact. India characterized its 2019 ASAT test as “responsible”; indeed, India’s Defence Research & Development Organisation claimed that the test produced “no debris.” In reality, at least 40 large pieces of debris were produced, some of which threatened the International Space Station.
But only a few states issued formal complaints. Is it possible that the social prohibition against such activity is waning? More reason to institute a test ban.
There is precedent for such an action. The 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty included a ban against nuclear explosions in outer space, which had been shown to cause indiscriminate harm while having limited military utility.
The same logic applies to the testing of kinetic or other destructive capabilities in space. All such events produce debris and space junk, which can collide with other objects in space, creating a cascade of damage that not only harms other satellites—including those of the testing actor—but can, over time, make orbits unusable for anyone. And while the crisis may take time to develop, a few on-orbit collisions or explosions could trigger a swift catastrophe.
Another useful precedent is the 1977 Environmental Modification Convention, which bans military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques that have widespread, long-lasting, or severe effects. And we can look as well to the current diplomatic effort to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure by banning the use of explosive weapons in populated areas (EWIPA). Importantly, all of these precedents involve a ban on specific behaviours or actions, not hardware or capabilities.
Banning the intentional destruction of objects in orbit is not a new idea. China’s ASAT test in 2008 spurred a call for a ban on debris-producing ASAT tests from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Such a ban is also implied in the model Code of Conduct published by the Stimson Center in 2010. A ban is explicitly included in the draft Code of Conduct proposed (but since abandoned) by the European Union.
Restricting debris is also included in the guidelines for testing ASAT weapons proposed by the UN Institute for Disarmament Research. Banning debris-causing ASAT tests has been a significant focus of debate at the UN First Committee on Disarmament and International Security in recent years. Canada has proposed it as a possible focus at the Conference on Disarmament. And, it has gained renewed support by other leading civil society space experts.
LINKING NORMS AND ARMS CONTROL
Banning the testing of kinetic weapons systems in space is a key way to link behaviour-based governance with arms control. Developing such linkages could help to end the decade-long stalemate between those who want to prevent war in outer space by banning certain hardware in space and those who believe that the best way to achieve this goal is by pursuing transparency, confidence, and other behavioural measures such as norms.
There is evidently support for this linked approach. There has been wide support for a United Kingdom initiative, embodied in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 75/36, which aims to enhance security in space through norms of behaviour.
The goal of this initiative is to identify and pursue activities in space that avoid unintentionally making others feel threatened or that are subject to misinterpretation and encourage unnecessary escalation toward conflict. States and civil society organizations responded to this initiative with a trove of relevant and practical suggestions (the Ploughshares submission can be found on our website at www.ploughshares.ca). And the most consistent theme? The need to prevent the creation of space debris.
Banning intentional activities that create debris, such as weapons testing, rather than specific weapons themselves is a feasible first step for conventional arms control in space. Many pieces of such a ban—including a norm against debris creation—are already in place. Such a ban does not close off all methods of weapons testing, just those that cause debris.
Space debris is a pressing environmental and humanitarian threat in space. One step to easing this threat lies in recognizing the impact of weapons testing and ending such tests. The mess from weapons testing cannot be swept up nor the harm to satellites easily remedied. How much better to act now, before a catastrophe in outer space destroys so much of what we enjoy today.


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An aircraft conducting a surveillance mission for France’s DGSE foreign intelligence service, crashed on take-off in Malta on Monday, killing all five people on board.
The ministry declined to say what the purpose of the surveillance operation was. Airport officials said the plane had been heading for Misrata in Libya, where some Western powers have sent small teams of special forces to support the new U.N.-backed unity government in its fight against Islamist militants.
The twin-prop Fairchild Metroliner went down near the runway of the southern Mediterranean island nation’s main airport in the morning, sending smoke billowing into the sky. Malta International Airport was closed for several hours.
On board were three DGSE operatives and two pilots, who were also French. France’s defense ministry and Luxembourg-based CAE Aviation, which operated the plane, said the five died. CAE said it was an accident but gave no details.
“A light reconnaissance aircraft … carrying out surveillance operations over the Mediterranean for the defense ministry crashed this morning at 0630 at Malta’s Luqa airport, during take-off,” Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said.
The French daily Le Monde wrote that the defense ministry officials belonged to France’s intelligence services.
The Maltese government initially said the flight was part of a customs operation France has been conducting for the last five months. But French customs said they had no personnel on board.
The remains of all five victims were found, the Maltese government said, and inquiries were under way to determine what had happened.
The plane, registered in the United States and leased to CAE, “was being flown by an experienced crew with no technical issues reported on previous flights”, a CAE statement said. The cause was unknown but was being investigated.
The flight had been due to return to Malta within hours without landing in any other countries, Malta’s government said. The crash was the country’s worst peacetime air incident.


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Japan’s silver market to provide numerous opportunities for UK firms to do business in Japan
Japan’s reputation as one of the most rapidly ageing societies in the world precedes it, making this market a potentially positive and profitable one for British firms on the cutting-edge of medical innovation.
The UK’s medical devices technology sector is made up of more than 3,000 companies, more than 80 percent of which are small and medium-sized enterprises. Worth over GBP18 billion a year, the sector employs around 88,000 people across the UK and the nation exports more than it imports. Over the past five years, the sector has recorded positive growth in both employment and turnover.[memb_has_membership memberships=REGISTERED-MEMBER]
“It is well known that most developed economies have ageing populations, increasing levels of chronic disease and an associated increasing demand for healthcare,” said Neil Stephen, commercial manager for exports for The Blatchford Group.
“There has long been collaboration between technology companies, healthcare providers and academia to foster advances in technology that help to drive efficiency and improve affordability,” said Stephen, whose company designs, develops and manufactures prosthetic, orthotic and other rehabilitation devices, as well as providing healthcare services across the world.
The Blatchford Group sees Japan – which has the second-largest medical devices market in the world – as a place where it needs to have a presence, one of the reasons the company took part in the year-long “Innovation is Great” campaign.
“As a developed economy with a population of more than 127 million people, Japan is a key market for many medical technology companies,” Stephen said.
Organisations like UKTI can help with finding the perfect Japanese distributors
“The UK Trade & Industry team was instrumental in helping Blatchford to identify a key partner in Japan,” he added. “We have been thrilled to be involved with the Innovation is Great launch in Tokyo in March this year, where we had the opportunity to share Linx, the world’s first fully integrated limb system.”
The Linx breaks new ground by integrating computer control of the knee and foot, meaning that the parts communicate with each other seamlessly. The software monitors feedback from sensors throughout the limb, enabling the knee and foot components to make subtle adjustments while walking, giving the user stability and confidence.
And the company has already tasted success here, taking orders for the Echelon hydraulic ankle, which was recently approved for reimbursement by the Japanese authorities.
The Blatchford Group has a long-standing working relationship with Matsumoto Prostheses Manufacturing Co., with other British companies looking to utilise the UKTI campaign to forge similar alliances with local firms.
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar, of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics at The University of Edinburgh, arrived in Japan with precisely that aim for the Robo-Limb and I-Limb Ultra. To date, more than 600 prosthetic limbs devised by the technicians at the centre have been fitted in the UK, with the technology tried and tested, he said.
“They are designed so that it is easy for a person to learn how to use them and we use a unique bio-interface that makes our devices the best in the world for upper-body limbs,” Professor Vijaykumar said.
And while Japanese research institutes may be very good with the technological side of similar devices, they are yet to effectively package the various elements into a completed, functioning product, he said.
Giving amputees significant levels of manual dexterity once more is sure to strike a chord in Japan, the professor said, and he hopes to finalise collaborative arrangements with academic institutes and companies here.
The life sciences market in Japan is open to start-ups as well as established companies
Another start-up company with an eye on the Japanese market is Open Bionics, which is showcasing its 3D Printed Hands. Using three-dimensional scanning and printing to innovate the prosthetics industry, the company can custom create a new limb for a user.
Recognised with the “Best Product Innovation” at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, the company aims to reduce the weight of current prosthetic limbs by half and bring the cost down to one-tenth of the price at present.
Established in 1982, Scotland-based Vascutek is also looking for a new outlet for devices that meet the complex needs of cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgeons. The company is a global leader in the design and manufacture of devices such as Thoraflex Hybrid, a new surgical graft that is designed to reduce operating times and significantly decrease patient mortality.
Infant mortality was similarly the concern of James Roberts, the founder of MOM Incubators Inc. and winner of the 2014 James Dyson Award for coming up with a low-cost, inflatable baby incubator that is designed to work in the challenging conditions of disaster zones or refugee camps.
Roberts had his “eureka moment” while still a student at Loughborough University, he said, and overcame countless obstacles – not least the scoffing of experts who said his quest was impossible – before he was satisfied with the final design. He believes he made more than 100 prototypes before reaching that point.
Because it is inflatable, the MOM incubator can be transported in small packages and takes up only a limited space when stored. The inflatable material is inexpensive, while air is one of the best insulators, meaning that the incubator is heated efficiently.
Roberts’s incubator costs about GBP250; a conventional version can run to as much as GBP30,000.
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Valiance Online Invites Players to Blow Up The Server
Valiance Online is a “living world” superhero massively multiplayer online game in which player choices and actions are paramount. Set at the end of the 21st Century in the fictional city of San Cielo, players take on the roles of heroes and villains who battle using superhuman powers and advanced technology.
Some of the features planned for Valiance Online include:
- ● An evolving game world tied to character choices
- ● An open world environment with continuous no-loading between zones
- ● Travel powers including fan favorites like swinging, acrobatics and flash stepping
- ● Over 25 zones planned, ranging from futuristic city, island fortress, Atlantis, subterranean
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- ● A choice through action system for character alignment
- ● Player run stores and a decentralized market system
- ● Semi-Freeform character build options
- ● Powers customization options
- ● A flexible and customizable UI
- ● Multitudes of costume choices
- ● Player created content
The game is currently in pre-alpha but the servers are ready for the first of several stress tests so
players are being invited to join in and help toward that end and also get a chance to see progress on the game so far.
To sign up for stress testing, visit the Valiance Online website (link below) and register for the
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For more information about the game visit http://valiance-online.com
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A plane carrying oil workers bound for Aberdeen slid off the runway in Rotterdam following a warning signal from the flight deck.
The chartered Saab 340, operated by Flybe franchise Loganair, took off yesterday afternoon, however a warning signal went off in the flight deck instructing the plane to return to the airport.
The plane landed at the Rotterdam airport around 4:35pm local time where it was brought to a halt, but due to an issue with the hydraulics it subsequently rolled off the runway.
The 17 passengers on board the stricken aircraft jumped from the doors onto the grass below.
No-one was injured.
A Loganair spokesman said: “The captain of an aircraft operating one of our private charter services bound for Aberdeen returned to Rotterdam Airport shortly after take-off yesterday afternoon following a warning signal from the flight deck.
“The aircraft landed safely at the airport around 4:35pm local time where it was brought to a halt, but subsequently rolled just off the runway due to an issue with the hydraulics.
“As is standard procedure, the aircraft was met by the airport’s emergency services.
“All 17 passengers disembarked the aircraft safely, returned to the terminal by bus and a replacement service was dispatched from Glasgow to take them on to Aberdeen.
“We would like to apologise to our customers for the inconvenience they experienced yesterday.”


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Over the past few years, we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of solicitations requiring a contractor to have an “approved accounting system”. A recent example is the draft Request-For-Proposal for the CIO-SP4 Contract, which requires contractors to maintain an adequate accounting system. We have also seen more and more large prime contractors pushing this requirement down to their subcontractors. For smaller contractors, this means that at some point, there is a good chance they will need to go through a Pre-Award Survey of Prospective Contractor Accounting System performed either by the DCAA, another cognizant agency, or an independent CPA firm. Although this may seem like a daunting task for smaller contractors, it is a manageable undertaking with proper guidance. Simply put, the review is going to look at whether your accounting system, policies, and procedures are designed and functioning properly to comply with requirements set forth by government contracting regulations.
To assist with preparing for a survey, we are going to review in a series of articles the Evaluation Checklist criteria on the Standard Form 1408 (SF 1408), which serves as a guide for helping you prepare for the audit. These articles are meant to serve as a starting point, not a master guide. If this is your first time through the audit process and you lack in-house personnel with expertise in this area, I would encourage you to seek out a consultant to help prepare for the audit. As we go through the Evaluation Checklist, we will also demonstrate a practical example for how to address each item in your accounting system.
In each article we will tackle one of the checklist criteria, and discuss the principles behind the criteria and how to begin putting processes in place and setting up your accounting system in order to meet the criteria. The checklist criteria we will discuss this week is:
2a. Proper segregation of direct costs from indirect costs
FAR 31.202 defines a direct cost as “any cost that can be identified specifically with a particular final cost objective”. For most contractors, the distinguishing factor between a direct and indirect cost is based on whether a cost is directly allocable to a contract. If a contractor employs a Subject Matter Expert, and that employee works on a specific contract and charges their time to that contract, the result is a direct cost of that contract. Alternatively, when that Subject Matter Expert takes vacation or performs administration functions, those hours can’t be directly assigned to any one contract, and is therefore an indirect expense.
There are two key components to bear in mind when properly segregating direct costs from indirect costs. The first component is establishing a method for the costs to be distinguished between direct and indirect based on the source document and any systems in place. The second component is how the accounting system is designed to segregate those direct costs. Most contractors will have some component of labor that is a direct cost. To properly segregate costs, the timekeeping system must allow for employees to record their time to direct charge codes as well as indirect charge codes. Similarly, purchase orders and expense reports should be designed so that employees can specify whether the cost is direct or indirect, and what contract the purchase relates to for direct costs. The second component to segregating direct costs from indirect costs relates to how the accounting system and chart of accounts is set up. The accounting system should have separate accounts for direct expenses vs. indirect expenses.
Putting the criteria into practice in your accounting system
A starting point for meeting these criteria is a properly designed chart of accounts. You want a numbering sequence for your chart of accounts that clearly distinguishes between direct costs vs. indirect costs, and allowable costs vs. unallowable costs. A common method for numbering your chart of accounts is as follows:
5000-5999: Direct Costs
6000-6999: Fringe (indirect)
7000-7999: Overhead (indirect)
8000-8999: General & Administrative (indirect)
9000-9999: Unallowable costs
This design allows for a clear segregation between the different types of costs. To take the example further, instead of having a general “Salary” or “Labor” account, you will likely have a combination of the following accounts:
– Direct Labor (5000 series)
– Holiday, PTO (6000 series)
– Overhead Salaries (7000 series)
– G&A Salaries (8000 series)
– Unallowable Labor (9000 series)
Note how each of these accounts should be within the first numbering sequence to properly segregate the costs. If you are using QuickBooks, you likely will want to classify your 5000 series as “Cost of Goods Sold” for the account type. This allows you to further build in the functionality of segregating direct costs and making a clear distinction between direct and indirect costs. QuickBooks however won’t allow for a further breakdown of account types where you could separate Fringe, Overhead, G&A, and Unallowable. All of those accounts will need to be set up in your chart of accounts as an account type of “Expenese” or “Other Expense”. You can however use parent accounts – for example you can create an account 6000 that is called Fringe Expenses, and then not charge to that account, but have all other fringe accounts as a sub-account of the parent 6000 Fringe Expense account. More robust accounting systems such as Deltek Costpoint & Unanet Financials will give you the functionality to classify an account as direct, fringe, overhead, G&A, or unallowable based on the pools and bases you set up within those systems, but that goes beyond the scope of what we will talk about today, and is certainly not a requirement to meet the checklist criteria being discussed here.
As a final note, it is important to keep in mind that with all the evaluation criteria, to pass the review you must do more than just set up the accounting system properly. Setting up different accounts for direct and indirect expenses is the first step, but there must also be policies and procedures in place, as well as systems and processes built around the accounting system to allow for proper segregation of costs. This requires building a timekeeping system that allows charging to proper categories of labor and specific contracts. In addition, this requires training personnel, specifically accounting personnel, so that they are familiar with the principles of government contract accounting, and can correctly distinguish between direct and indirect costs.
For example, if the CEO of a company is not billable on a given contract, but perhaps they spent their entire day speaking with the CO for that contract and managing their employees on that contract, the CEO may logically think that their time should be charged to that specific contract. This would not be correct though, as they are performing overhead and administrative functions that are not directly allocable to the contract, and should not be charged as such. Personnel must be trained to charge their time properly, otherwise the setup of the accounting software itself to segregate direct and indirect costs becomes meaningless.
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RADA taking creative route
Mark Titus, Gleaner Writer
WESTERN BUREAU: DONOVAN STANBERRY, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, has said the with an impossible ratio of 100 Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) officers to 220,000 farmers in Jamaica, new and innovative ways must be employed to provide the technical support to the farming communities.
"We have to look on RADA based on the resources they have and the enormity of the task of servicing 220,000 farmers with 100 officers," Stanberry told The Gleaner in a recent interview. "It will always be a difficult task for a RADA man to reach every single farmer."
"With 100 officers visiting a farm every day for the 365 days of the year, it will take around three years to get around to every farmer," said Stanberry. "... so we are now employing more innovative ways of reaching them, by training a group of farmers, putting the technology in their hands, so they, in turn, can go and train their colleagues... . Only training will solve the problem."
In his presentation during the 2014/2015 Budget Debate, the late Roger Clarke, then minister of agriculture, announced an increase in allocation to RADA from J$936 million in 2013/2014 to just over J$1 billion for the current year.
Clarke also stated that his ministry was re-inventing the concept of extension by infusing a greater level of technology in the provision of extension services so that the necessary support would be in place to advise and assist cultivators, despite a shortage of personnel.
According to Stanberry, a recent nine-week training course on Beet Armyworm Integrated Pest Management, for some 150 farmers in St Elizabeth is just one of many such programmes that will be implemented by the ministry to strengthen the management capacity of the farming community.
The training was coordinated under a two-year project being funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization at a cost of approximately US$213,000.

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- Conversations in Literacy shared several ideas on phonics notebooking for younger kids.
- For littles as well, A Teacher's Treasure showcased an excellent notebook page for word families.
- Keep track of fiction and nonfiction books read in your homeschool with a Venn diagram notebook page.
- Get crafty with this fun and creative poetry page for your language arts notebook.
- This is an idea to get some creative adjectives flowing from mind to notebook page. I included it not to print, but this would be an excellent homemade notebook page!
- Still on adjectives, but more crafty, create this little flapbook for any part of speech.
- After reading a book, have your child summarize in only a few sentences with a thumbnail printed of the book!
- The sky is the limit for the inside of this fun little bat book. Again, summarizing with a fun twist!
- Get in the Fold shares a great way to showcase strong beginnings and endings of stories.
- Get your middle schooler analyzing character with this interactive notebook page.
- Give your student descriptive words of characters in a current book on a card and have them find sentences to support that trait. Then store the cards in a character analysis pocket.
- Display similes and onomatopoeia in a creative and accessible notebook page. I love this blog!
- Here's a freebie! I created copywork and picture study pages for my upper elementary girls. The sentences are in print, but I required them to translate the sentences into cursive. These could be for early elementary as well since they are in print.
- Zany flap books bring some fun to types of sentences!
- Cement in those Latin root words with these notebook pages.
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Friday 27 September 2013
Q. I bought a Sony Alpha A58 camera on 29 August from Curry's. On 8 September while using the camera, the built-in flash malfunctioned. It seemed that a part of the plastic mechanism inside had sheared off. The built-in flash worked correctly up to that point, although I did notice that once or twice it seemed to "catch" when I closed it. This time something more drastic happened and it could not be closed at all.
Thursday 26 September 2013
'There's nothing like dry-roasting spices and grinding them by hand'
Saturday 24 August 2013
One certainty is there will be no boycott neither will the games be shifted
Monday 22 July 2013
Britain has turned Royal Baby crazy as the news is announced that The Duchess of Cambridge has finally gone into labour.
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Uncooked curry leaves in a chutney left more than 400 people who ate at a street food festival with diarrhoea and vomiting or salmonella poisoning, health officials have found.
Saturday 15 June 2013
London captured alive by a 21st-century Pepys
LA child sex abuse case involving one of the 115 cardinals currently voting to elect the next Pope is settled for $10 million
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Cardinal Roger Mahony is accused of covering for a confessed paedophile
Sunday 10 March 2013
While his leader attended a drinks reception seen as the unofficial gathering of the Lib Dem elite, Tim Farron sat down with his closest aides for a balti, washed down with Cobra beer, at Noori's Indian restaurant.
Sunday 24 February 2013
Nineteen-year-old Joe Evans claimed a bronze medal at his first Modern Pentathlon World Cup in Palm Springs.
Tuesday 19 February 2013
Carol Vorderman has revealed she is on a three-month detox programme - after over-indulging while working on a new TV food show.
Monday 18 February 2013
PM urges major institutions to remove barriers to female success in workplace
Saturday 16 February 2013
Sunday 16 December 2012
Southend United 2 Bradford City 2: Bantams get back to the routine grind with a draw against Southend in League Two
Friday 23 November 2012
One person was killed and four others injured when a helicopter carrying five American passengers crashed in a Bahamas millionaires' playground resort.
Saturday 29 September 2012
Nigel Farage defends Kerry Smith 'ch***y' comment: 'If you are going for a Chinese, what do you say you’re going for?'
Rozanne Duncan: Ukip expels councillor for 'jaw-dropping' comments made in BBC TV interview
British actor Idris Elba cannot star as James Bond because he is black, says shock jock Rush Limbaugh
Germany anti-Islam protests: 17,000 march on Dresden against 'Islamification of the West'
Panic Saturday: 13 million Britons spend £1.2bn – while 13 million others across the country live in poverty unable to afford food
BBC director Danny Cohen: Rising UK antisemitism makes me feel more uncomfortable than ever
- 1 Planes go hybrid-electric in important step to greener flight
- 2 Antonio Martin shooting: Mayor says there should be 'no comparison' to Ferguson


Click on the image to enlarge & read the coming news ad.
I see you're completely ignoring the questions in this graphic half page news ad of January 2012, placed in Deborah O'Neill's local electorate. Despite many reminders, this fax to your office remains completely unacknowledged for over 11 weeks.
You're also steadfastly ignoring shocking evidence of Schapelle's innocence, just leaked in this dramatic new report of April 2012, by expendable.tv
So you know something? We're going to put it right under your nose in this graphic news ad. Needless to say, we'll choose the publication strategically, as in this most recent example.
Also, please note Schapelle's in this week's edition of New Idea Magazine again, with Mercedes her sister defiantly proclaiming her innocence - plus The Gold Coast Bulletin told around 60,000 Queenslanders all about expendable the movie on page three of their Saturday 7 April edition.
We also paid a visit to Craig Emerson's electorate office (Trade Minister), check out the photo - and distributed flyers in the Forde electorate on the way, seen here. And that's not the only place they're appearing, as they jostle top-selling women's magazines for shelf space, in some of your most marginal electorates. Then of course, the stickers are getting up close and personal everywhere.
We're also going to do a bit of afternoon camping outside selected electorate offices on a regular basis, and a few good examples come to mind immediately. Do you think the large, brilliant red and yellow poster I picked up this week would draw attention, stuck to the shop-front window? And let's not forget the T shirts and flyers. And when we pack up around 5pm, we'll be just in time to educate the local residents as they get off the train from work.


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by Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent
Scientists will now be able to use the technique in all serious crimes, after it proved successful in a series of pilots.
Police forces and forensic scientists are also combing the archives of thousands of so-called "cold cases", in which no-one has been convicted of the crime, for DNA samples which could be reassessed.
Called "DNA Boost", the new technique, developed by the FSS, allows scientists to create profiles from "mixed" samples, which contain genetic information from two or more people found on the same surface.
Previously scientists found it impossible to analyse many of these samples, which make up around 10 per cent of all those collected from scenes of crime.
"In the past it has been very difficult to unscramble these samples," said Mark Pearse, from the FSS, "which means they cannot then be searched for in the DNA database."
Now, however, the FSS has developed computer software capable of matching "pairs" of this scrambled data together, creating possible DNA matches.
These can then be fed into the database, which currently contains the details of about four million people, identifying potential suspects.
These can then be suggested to the police as possible leads for their investigations.
Martin Bill, from the FSS, said that DNA Boost was the greatest breakthrough in forensic science since the introduction of low copy number testing, which allowed profiles to be built from tiny samples of DNA, in the late 1990s.
"There will be thousands of cases in our archives that could benefit from this technique," he added.
The technique was "scientifically robust" he insisted.
He added: "We feel that this approach is scientifically very sound and that there is little potential for both false inclusion and false exclusion."
However, he added that DNA Boost would not replace the judgement and interpretation of scientists and police on how genetic information came to be fopund at a crime scene.
Although it is rare that blood or semen samples to become mixed, officers often find that samples of cells taken from surfaces such as tabletops or cigarettes can contain the DNA of more than on person.
A DNA profile is a "genetic fingerprint", unique to each person.
They can be identified from analysis of cells, including from tiny samples of blood, semen, saliva, skin or even sweat.
Professor John Brookfield, an expert in forensic science from Nottingham University, said that researchers had struggled for years to deal with the problem of mixed samples.
"Often the problem is that you do not get an even proportion of the two components, making them a real challenge to analyse for a profile," he said.
The software is available for use in all cases referred to the FSS, after trials carried out in four police forces, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Humberside and Northumbria, proved successful.


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Slave resistance in the caribbean
Lesson 5 grades 4 - 12 slavery resistance, rebellions, and escapes lesson duration: 1-3 class periods (30 - 50 minutes) for each section. The ability of the black caribbean slave woman to withstand punishments, maintain cultural identity, resist the master, and to take on various authoritative roles is the essence of true resistance and the black caribbean slave woman passed on her power. Resistance was an integral part of caribbean slave society slaves resisted in myriad ways-from the subtle and passive, acted out on a routin-ized daily basis, to the violent, whether singly or collec. African enslavement: the terrible transformation learning objectives: appreciate the kinds of passive resistance demonstrated by african slaves in order to exert demand for slave labor, especially in the caribbean, continued to drive the price of. 'african and african-style cultures in the caribbean' is the continuation of an african study titled 'africa in the caribbean' another aspect of slave resistance in the caribbean directly linked to african ethnicities was the creation of maroon communities. Resistance on the plantations resistance was difficult there were hundreds of slave revolts in the caribbean, they averaged at least two per year during the period 1789-1815 africa and the americas have their own local heroes. Anti-slavery resistance movements forms of resistance african slaves engaged in many forms of resistance, from organized uprisings to the practice of their own native culture learning objectives examine the traditions that shaped the african-american community and slave-resistance movements.
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Rachel rustad bst 450u: female resistance personalities in the african diaspora professor clare washington final exam essay 16 august 2008 essay 4: the experiences of caribbean women are of growing interest to scholars as well as writers, and are often compared with the experiences of north american women. This article discusses the historiography of slave resistance despite persistent attempts by historians to force a uniformity of vision and goals on rebel leaders, insurgent slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries differed from one another fully as much as white revolutionaries in the same era. Resistance and revolt - download as word doc (doc), pdf file (pdf), text file (txt) or read online resistance in the caribbean.
In writings about slave resistance as early as 1500, captive women become active participants in resistance to slavery resistance history in the caribbean and americas in its various forms has always emphasized the role of men as leaders and heroes. Comparative race and slavery: slave resistance and revolt in the slave women in caribbean society (1990) the transatlantic and arlene torres, an interpretive essay on racism, domination, resistance, and liberation, in whitten and torres, blackness in latin. Passive and active resistance slaves hated slavery and they rejected this imperial ideology by active and passive rsistance there were four major slave revolts in the caribbean these were: berbice/coffy revolt (1763) haitian revolution (1791.
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Slave resistance in the caribbean
The book the caribbean: including slave culture, resistance by prominent scholars of the caribbean, discussing a broad range of topics from pre-columbian cultures via plantation slavery and decolonization to the caribbean diaspora. In barbara bush's detailed book-length study of female slave resistance, slave women in caribbean society: 1650-1838 4 responses women, slavery, and resistance in the african diaspora → damaur quander july 27, 2009. Strategies and forms of resistance focus on slave women in the united states resistance: studies of african, caribbean, and afro-american history,edited by gary y okihiro possible history of slave women in resistance and revolt let us consider a.
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