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Washington DC law emphasizes the rights of children in every family law case. Every parent has a legal obligation to support their kids, and local judges have the power to enforce this obligation. Any parent who has less physical custody of their children must provide financial support to the other parent to help with child-raising costs, which includes clothing, shelter, food, and other necessities.
A legally binding child support order can have a substantial impact on a parent’s financial health as well as the wellbeing of their children. For this reason, it is best to work with a Washington DC child support lawyer when drafting an initial order, modifying a current arrangement, or contesting financial obligations requested by your child’s other spouse. En Español.
Ordering a Parent to Pay Child Support
According to the Code of the District of Columbia §16-916.03, a judge may consider whether to award child support to one party at any time that they deem appropriate during hearings concerning the care and custody of children. This means that a child support order could arise out of a divorce case, a custody dispute, or a paternity hearing.
Both parties have a legal obligation to care for their children, so either parent and their Washington DC attorney may request that a court consider awarding child support. A court may take the initiative in establishing these orders even if neither parent requests child support. Additionally, parents who are already subject to a support order can ask a judge to modify their child support order if their circumstances or income has changed.
Determining an Appropriate Amount
DC Code §16-916.01(a) states that if a judge finds that there is an obligation to pay child support, they must determine an appropriate amount and duration using certain statutory guidelines. For example, a family court must consider:
- The incomes of both parents
- Tax obligations
- Spousal maintenance obligations
- Any other active support orders
- Any income benefits such as SSI or SSDI
DC law also provides tables and worksheets that parents can use to estimate an expected child support payment amount. A child support lawyer in Washington DC could help parents utilize these guidelines and establish an appropriate amount of child support.
Get in Touch with a Washington DC Child Support Attorney Today
Providing a better future for your kids may require the assistance of a local lawyer if your child’s other parent is not fulfilling their financial obligations in relation to child-raising costs. Family courts have very little discretion when it comes to ordering either parent to provide child support to the other because child support is viewed as the right of the child.
Child support hearings evaluate the finances of both parties and may result in one parent being ordered to provide payments until that child becomes self-supporting or reaches the age of twenty-one, whichever happens first. It is also important to note that a family’s circumstances can change dramatically throughout a child’s life, and you have the right to seek a modification of a court order to ask a judge to modify an existing support order if your kids’ needs are not being met.
A Washington DC child support lawyer could assist you in establishing a fair order, modifying current terms, or even refuting these obligations altogether. Reach out to us today to learn more about how an attorney from our firm could help you.


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By Norman Isaac Mwambazi
Today, Saturday, December 19, 2020, Uganda’s national air carrier the Uganda airlines has successfully completed their maiden flight from its hub at Entebbe International Airport (EBB) to N’djili International Airport (FIH) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
This becomes the 10th destination for the airline, after destinations to Nairobi, Mombasa, Dar-es-Salam, Mogadishu, Bujumbura among others were launched last year. The airline has tweeted about their flight thanking DRC for welcoming the Crane to their skies.
“Thank you DR Congo for the wonderful welcome of Uganda Airlines to Kinshasa N’djili International Airport. Merci Beaucoup! Matondo mingi!” Uganda Airlines shared on their official Twitter page.
Uganda Airline is expecting to receive two Airbus A330 aircraft this month of December 2020 and will soon start having long-haul flights to farther destinations. The destinations confirmed are Johannesburg in South Africa, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the Middle East, Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
The airline is also planning flights to European cities like London in the United Kingdom, and to Mumbai in India.
Uganda Airlines officially resumed business on October 1, 2020 after over seven months on the ground due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to that, the airline had been used to airlift Ugandans that had been stuck in foreign countries like South Africa, India, Nigeria, and the UAE among others when countries closed their borders and issued travel restrictions due to the pandemic.
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Volodarka district occupies 646 km2 or 2.2% of Kyiv region. The flatness of the local landscape makes the district a cozy one. Taking into account the amenable disposition of local residents, it is hardly possible imagining that they actively participated in the uprising led by Nalyvaiko, and that in the liberation war led by Bohdan Khmel’nyts’kyi they were the main driving force behind the uprising in the Kyiv region. A famous Haidamak’s leader Martyn Teslia, whose detachments were destroying the estates of the nobility, was born here…
As it is with many other towns along the Ros’ river, the rise of Volodarka, a village on the Ros’, 32 km from Skvyra is connected with the construction of fortresses to defend Kyiv from Polovets and Tatars. The Kyiv Rus’ mounds still remain here, for instance, The Tsar’s Grave and Orlykha. The first written record of Volodarka (Volodariv) dates back to 1150. In 1240 the Mongols destroyed Volodarka. Since those times and for almost two hundred years after that it has not been mentioned in historical documents. A new settlement was established there only in the mid-fifteenth century.
A picturesque village of Parkhomivka sprawls over Volodarka district in the Kyiv region close to the Tarhan river. The village was founded as early as the sixteenth century, in the nineteenth century it came into ownership of the famous Russian engineer V. Holubev. In a short period of time he built a school, handicraft school for the boys and girls, a library, a hospital, etc. After the death of V. Holubev in 1903 the building activities in Parkhomivka were carried on by his successors. Wishing to immortalize their father, they decided to build a majestic cathedral with a chapel there. They commissioned a famous architect V. Pokrovs’kyi.
The centerpiece of the St Mary-the-Protectress Church complex is the cathedral. This building consists of three aisles and one conch, and culminates with the helmet-like cupola.
The frescos, made by the painter V. Perminov based on the sketches of M. Rerikh, decorate the cathedral conch. Blue colors enrich the frescos with elegance and freshness, characteristic of the M. Rerikh easel works.
The mosaics are the main decoration of the cathedral; they are made based on the M. Rerikh’s sketches at the shops of the famous mosaics painter V. Frolov in St Petersburg. Depending upon the light, its intensity and their incidence, mosaic icons look differently: smalt colors are either flashing out brightly, glimmer, or completely fade away. Such an effect stimulates special sensation and raised spirits.

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Invoice Factoring & Receivable Financing For Maintenance Companies
Paragon Financial gets you the critical cash your maintenance company needs today. We understand that waiting 30-90 or more days for payment of an invoice creates working capital issues not allowing your company to grow and take on larger opportunities. Through our factoring programs, you will have the money to meet payroll, grow your company, and pay suppliers. For example, Paragon worked with a property maintenance startup for commercial real estate buildings and major retailers. Services include parking lot sweeping, porter service, painting, janitorial, and pressure cleaning. The company had a great opportunity to begin fulfilling a large contract with Wal-Mart. The business started to struggle with payroll funding, which is not uncommon as large retailers can often take months to pay. Paragon tailored a payroll funding program through an accounts receivable factoring line. They resolved their payroll issues and with profitability fulfilled their contract with Wal-Mart.

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Fuente de Pedro is a campsite nestling amongst the pine forests on the northern slopes of Teide, in the municipality of San Juan de la Rambla.
It is one of the larger, better appointed sites.
Covering some 10,000 square metres, it can accommodate up to 150 people.
Facilities include fresh running water, a shower block with eight showers, a rest room and a parking area.
Unfortunately, there is no disabled access.
The Office Manager for this site is based at the Casa Forestal de Aguamansa, or Aguamansa Forest House and can be contacted on the number 922 330701.
To locate this campsite will be a little like finding a needle in a haystack, but I can direct you to its rough vicinity.
Firstly, from the TF-5 north motorway, exit at the junction marked TF-342 (signposted La Mancha, La Guancha). You're then heading for La Guancha on this road. Once in this small town, keep on this road, watching out for it forking into two. You have to take the right fork (there's a restaurant on the right at this point called El Arado).
After taking this fork, take the next right. There should be a sign pointing up this road saying Casa Forestal, amongst other things. This is now the TF-344 road and you need to stay on it for ages.
Eventually, you need to take a right off this, but that's where it gets awkward. I've absolutely no landmarks to give you. I can only hope there are signs for the campsite. Good luck!
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Waterfront Public Consultation
The City of Cornwall’s Planning Division is hosting a Design Charrette event to gather input from residents, businesses, and other stakeholders on their ideas for the future of Cornwall’s waterfront.
The event will take place on Wednesday, November 7th from 1:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Cornwall Civic Complex in Salon B.
The ideas generated and “collected” at the end of the charrette will be used by the consulting team to further develop and refine concepts and recommendations for the waterfront. The ideas developed at the charrette and subsequent refinements will be presented at the next community open house.
Everyone is welcome!
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What are the Advantages of Hiring a Birth Injury Attorney / Cerebral Palsy Lawyer?
Childbirth results in immeasurable happiness for any parent. However, there are instances where children are born with birth defects due to the negligence or preventable errors of doctors and hospitals. Hypoxia or brain injury due to insufficient oxygen, cerebral palsy, and medication injuries and errors are just some of the possible consequences. With help from a cerebral palsy lawyer; you can get assisted in the ways highlighted below.
Major causes of the condition include improper delivery techniques, improper use of equipment, failure to monitor the intake of oxygen by the baby, surgical mistakes during C-sections, prescribing dangerous drugs to expectant women, and many others. What is most saddening is that no one in the medical facility will own up to the fact that the cerebral palsy was avoidable. Without legal help, you may never find out if the mistake was preventable or not. Identifying the responsible party may be impossible in such a case, meaning that you may have no cause for legal action. A cerebral palsy lawyer will conduct investigations to determine the sequence of events that led to matter in question.
In addition to being respectable, doctors are expected to be some of the most careful persons in their line of work. As a result, initiating a claim against a doctor may not be very easy because the expert may sound more believable than you. The hospital in charge may also institute strong legal defenses that include hiring the best lawyers in town to counter your claim. It is only with a tough cerebral palsy lawyer that you can solidify your claim in the face of such an opponent.
The treatment of your baby will involve long-term consultations and treatments from a cerebral palsy specialist. It is a condition that presents financial challenges for many families due to the huge costs involved. You need all the help you require to afford the medical treatment of your son and daughter. After evaluating your claim and its facts, your cerebral palsy lawyer will advise you on the amounts that the defendant should pay you. Your lawyer will then put up a fight to ensure that all such amounts are paid by the guilty party.
Handling the case, your job, and the baby will not be easy. With a cerebral palsy lawyer dealing the paperwork and procedures of your case, it will be easy to handle the rest.
Like other cases of a personal injury nature, you will only pay your cerebral palsy lawyer once the outcome of the claim favors you. Such a feature is a great relief for many parents who may not afford the legal costs of hiring a top-notch attorney.

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Telia Carrier has added a new diverse and latency-optimized DWDM route in the U.S., between Chicago and Denver via Des Moines, IA and Omaha, NE. The expansion is part of the company’s ongoing organic buildout of its North American network and commitment to provide customers both direct and diverse route options.
The Telia Carrier network buildout also includes new metro ring overbuild networks in Chicago connecting the O’Hare area, where there are dozens of data centers nearby, proceeding directly to Des Moines and Omaha and then on to Denver with metro overbuild in the Tech Center area.
Telia Carrier deploys the latest generation of “high-capacity enhanced-reach coherent DWDM technology and an open photonic layer” to expand the local availability of high-speed Wavelength, IP Transit, Cloud Connect, Ethernet and Internet Exchange (IPX) Connect services for operators, content providers and enterprises alike.
Serving America’s Heartland
According to the Silicon Prairie News, the American heartland has quietly been cementing its place in the technology world with three tech hubs that make up the Silicon Prairie: Des Moines, IA; Omaha, NE and Kansas City, Mo., are experiencing rapid growth in the tech sector. From Des Moines and Omaha, new regional cloud and content data center deployments and emerging startups have triggered a tech revolution, building out operations and manufacturing in the region.
“Customers that are flooding the region demand more diversity in routes and connectivity options,” said Art Kazmierczak, Telia Carrier’s Director of Business and Network Development. “Diversity protects against interruptions in service, which is essential to customer experience in today’s competitive markets. Our new expansion in the region offers flexibility, gives customers access to shorter routes, and lays the foundation for future route expansion in North America. We’re committed to the needs of our customers, delivering new diverse routes between major hubs; and connectivity at-scale in edge markets along those routes. These new network buildouts position Telia Carrier as a preferred provider for diversity with an extensive footprint serving America’s heartland.”
The new diverse East-West route would deliver the capacity to content, application, and cloud providers and underserved populations in the region to bring connectivity to rural communities, particularly in the Midwest.
The Telia Carrier ‘Silicon Prairie’ network build includes existing infrastructure and new options to connect key locations:
- Two new metro ring network overbuilds in Chicago and Denver
- A new core network PoP in Chicago near O’Hare airport, serving the data center cluster there
- A new core network PoP in Denver in the Tech Center area, serving the data centers there
- A new unique long haul route, from Denver to Chicago that bypasses downtown Chicago and downtown Denver to directly connect data center hubs
- The addition of a new network PoP in Des Moines serving regional demand in Iowa
- New DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) network services connecting the Farnham data center in Omaha


Victoria records one new local case of COVID-19
Victoria has recorded just one new local case of COVID-19 as the state enters day three of its five-day snap lockdown.
Another case was also detected in hotel quarantine, with more than 25,000 tests conducted in the past 24 hours.
There are 21 active cases in the state.
Victoria's CHO says there's no cause for concern over Greek tennis player's case
Stage four restrictions are in place across Victoria until 11.59pm on Wednesday.
Australian Open organisers are hopeful crowds will be able to return to Melbourne Park on Thursday for the final four days of the tournament.
Under the restrictions, Victorians are only allowed to leave their homes for four reasons: shopping for essentials, giving care, essential work and education, and exercise for two hours per day with household members, an intimate partner or one other person only.
Prior to the lockdown, crowds at Melbourne Park were only at 50 per cent crowd capacity.
To help players with a sense of atmosphere, fake crowd noise is being used across the venue.
There were concerns at the Australian Open yesterday when Greek player Michail Pervolarakis tested positive overseas, days after he played in the ATP cup event in Melbourne. He has since left Australia.
Aussie Ash Barty powers through to next round of Australian Open
However health officials say there is no concern for Greek teammates Stefanos Tsitsipas or anybody else at the tournament, as they believe he contracted that virus once he left Melbourne.
Meanwhile a three-year-old child and a woman were the two latest locally acquired COVID-19 cases in Victoria yesterday, as more exposure sites were added to the state's ever-growing list.
Health Minister Martin Foley confirmed the cases and said both were linked to the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport and each visited the same venue on the same night.
"Both attended a private dining venue in Sydney Road, Coburg on the night of February 6," he said.
Mr Foley said they are from separate households and have been in isolation since Friday. Both returned a positive test on the weekend.
More exposure sites listed in Victoria as two new cases linked to Coburg venue
The toddler has attended the Goodstart Early Learning Centre in Glenroy but it has not been added to the list of exposure sites. The centre is closed today.
"Goodstart Glenroy – Pacoe Vale Road will be temporarily closed after a child at the centre tested positive to COVID-19 late [Saturday] night," a statement read.
"Families have been notified of the closure and the parents of any child who is deemed a close contact with the positive case will be contacted directly by DHHS.
"The child contacted the virus from a person outside of the centre linked to the Holiday Inn cluster."
The centre will be deep cleaned before it is given clearance to re-open by DHHS.
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The full list of current exposure sites and times are as follows:
- Yarra Trams No. 11 on February 11, 7:55am – 8:10am between Harbour Esplanade and William Street
- Yarra Trams No. 58 on February 11, 8.10am – 8:25am between Bourke Street/William Street and Queen Victoria Market/Peel Street
- Queen Victoria Market, Queen Street Melbourne, 8:25am – 10:10am Section 2 - Fruit and Vegetables, and used Section 2 - Female toilet
- Yarra Trams No. 58 on February 11, 9:40am – 9:55am between Queen Victoria Market/Peel Street and Bourke Street/William Street
- Elite Swimming, Pascoe Vale on February 8, between 5pm and 6pm
- Woolworths inside Broadmeadows Central in Broadmeadows on February 9, between 12.15pm and 12.30pm
- Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses, Broadmeadows on February 9 between 12.30pm and 12.45pm
- Oak Park Sports and Aquatic Centre, Pascoe Vale on February 9 between 4pm and 7.30pm
You can view the full list of current COVID-19 exposure sites for Victoria on the Department of Health and Human Services website.


The RSPCA’s new ethical food label RSPCA Assured - previously Freedom Food - has exceeded all expectations by achieving 26% consumer recognition in its first four months.
The poll - carried out by Atomik Research - also revealed that 76% of people who are aware of the logo are likely or very likely to buy products labelled RSPCA Assured.
This news comes as RSPCA Assured also announces that 29 new product lines - including 15 in Sainsbury’s and 11 in Ocado - have been launched since the label first hit supermarket shelves in May this year.
Whilst it is too soon to report on sales of products, early indications are positive.
And RSPCA Assured estimates the amount of labelled food could increase by as much as 200% in the next five years due to an increase in consumer demand.


Thousands of small Taobao vendors are engaging in e-activism over a dramatic increase in annual service charges for sellers on the popular online market.
Yesterday we mentioned in passing that Taobao Mall is planning on increasing its annual service charge from 6,000RMB to as high as 60,000RMB as well as increasing the deposit amount from 10,000RMB to as high as 150,000RMB in order to encourage small-businesses and sellers to be more mature and “serious” in their dealings.
In retaliation for the hikes, small-business vendors have begun “attacking” large retailers like Uniqlo by buying and then immediately returning their products, thus lowering their credibility rating on Taobao.
Little more than a few hours after the hikes were announced, almost 40,000 small sellers heavily reliant on Taobao for income gathered en masse in a chat room, to discuss the unfairness of the practice and coordinate their assaults.
We are the ones that helped Taobao prosper in the first place. How can they treat us so harshly now?
Ms. Quan — Wedding gown vendor
I came online last night to find people playing a Nazi anthem, shouting “destroy everything, destroy everything,” hurting innocent people.
That comment, posted yesterday at 10:30am, has already been forwarded 20,000 times and garnered over 30,000 comments, ranging from unequivocal support to claims that Taobao has forgotten what it’s like to be a small company.
Despite the protests, vitriol and e-activism, Taobao is huge enough to be able to weather out this storm, which will likely leave many small sellers out in the rain and potentially knocking on the doors of Taobao competitors 360buy.com or buy.qq.com.


THE SUN sets over frosty fields in Aberdeenshire this Boxing Day with weather warnings issued across the UK forecasting snow and freezing temperatures.
The snow that is expected to sweep across Scotland tonight followed by ice, has triggered a yellow - “be aware” - severe weather warning from the Met Office.
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Posts tagged "huntington beach"
Banzai Bowls..i can’t wait to try every bowl on their menu. YUM!
I went to HB last weekend and I had the perfect lunch for a hot day (that felt like summer) at Banzai Bowls. There are other locations in OC, but this one is in downtown HB near the pier. The 2 bowls shown are acai bowls: the OG and the Maui Sunrise… totally delicious and refreshing and covered in granola and fruit.
Secret Spot is not a secret in HB.
2 vegan-rizo burritos please…so fucking delicious. This place is always on my mind when i’m near the beach. Billy (the owner) is rad, the food is rad, and it’s across the street from the beach. It’s one of my fave places for breakfast, besides Herbivore in SF and Sage and Flore in LA.
A day in Laguna beach..this goes along with my post yesterday about vegan donuts, which i enjoyed with ed and deanna templeton and melissa and ted last weekend. we drove down to The Stand and had burgers, tamales, and hummus and guacamole sandwiches with plenty of sweet and sour sauce (not the bright pink kind at chinese take-out places, but a home-made deliciously tangy one to drizzle on everything). we walked on the beach for a bit, took pix and then headed off to The Bucks for some tasty beverages and to have those amazing vegan cake donuts from The Donuttery. Perfect sunny Sunday catching up, eating, and drinking with great friends.
**last pic of Ed is of him checking instagram. he posted about our donuts and we kept guessing how many likes it had every five minutes. at this moment it has 1375! that’s what happens when you have 55K followers. dang…
The Donuttery in Huntington Beach, Ca. vegan cake donuts….MMMM
I never thought i’d see the day where i could grab a vegan cake donut from a local donut shop just a few blocks away from my mom’s house..but it happened! I heard rumors that they started making vegan donuts and tried to get them before, but they never had them. It’s a regular old donut shop that’s been in HB since i was a kid. it’s open 24hrs (except on sundays they close at 3) and they are always busy. whenever i stopped by or called when i was back in HB they said they didn’t have flour or the stuff to make em. i started to think maybe they made a batch of vegan donuts once and then stopped cos it was too hard or expensive. then friends began posting pix of their late night donut runs and donut boxes. So, when i was back in HB last weekend i actually got them 2 days in a row! My friend meliss grabbed an assorted box sunday before we all met up, which 5 of us cut up & sampled. then i went the next day and got a few different flavors. i’ve been slowly savouring them and loving them. they taste like the cake donuts of my childhood. i haven’t had a normal cake donut in 13 years, so i’m a lil’ warped, BUT, i am in love with them. i narrowed down their selection and now know my faves for whenever i’m back in the old hood.. what i’ll be getting from now on is as follows : maple (the best by far), vanilla sprinkle (runner up), strawberry (tangy and sweet), and plain chocolate (classic). i didn’t see any nut options when i was there, but i know they have them sometimes. the best part is, you don’t have to pay the “vegan penalty” or “vegan tax” and pay $3.50 a donut, just .90 cents each. hopefully that doesn’t go up…it is a real treat to have fantastic, cakey, sweet, rich donuts at the ready..
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Long Live Food Porn Friday!
This is WAY behind, but in Sept was my good friend Allison’s B day. her fave friends (my words, not hers) gathered at her fave spot Mitasie in HB and ate great food, drank coconut snow bubbles, and then ate more— a homemade ice cream cake i brought and some cakes they sent out. i stuck a sparkler in my cake for fun. we talked outside the restaurant til way after the staff went home. good times were had. the end.
Miles, Berryhill, lil’ Dill, Miss Mikes..
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a paper yellow cat + Hello Kitty + an American Flag swan+ Allison with a coconut bubble = dinner at Mitasie 3 in HB. yum.
BBQs, Horseshoes and Fireworks…OH MY!
that’s how i spent my 4th of July.
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My first skateboard. I didn’t skimp. I got a Tony Hawk deck and Hosoi Rockets wheels and made my own design with the grip tape. Got all the stuff at the local HB skate shop Gremic. It was fun to be a kid in the 80s. I have some scars to prove it.
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! you should be near the beach! i will be…
RAD video about my friend Ed Templeton and his photography, made by the peeps at Leica… camera nerds and art fans and skate fans, WATCH IT!

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We gotta find out who made the tail tidy for the bikes used in Long Way Up. They ditched the rear fender entirely and moved all the signals and plate frame up under the seat.Hi fellow owners, are any of you planning mods for the bike? So far I've done two. From and rear axel covers and charge port cover. I'm also planning on doing something to that rear fender hole!
This is the camera setup I have on mine, if cost is a factor.Clip-ons, full frame mounted fairing, Innov cameras front and rear (all powered from USB-C),


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These things just abound on the internet, and they're way too much fun (at least for the blogger) to avoid or ignore. Literary agent Janet Reid is responsible for finding this one.
I figure that's a pretty good reading level, though perhaps a little higher than I'd like it to be. (I want my blog to be accessible to as many people as possible...on the other hand, I guess I am writing to writers, who can be expected to have the equivalent of at least a high schooler's vocabulary.)
Now you know you're going to have to try it on your blog...let me know what you find out!
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When two members of a circus die after mishaps with an elephant and a tiger, who's to blame? Find out on this episode of Radio Daze, as the staff reads "Dick Tracy: The Big Top"!
Original & golden-age radio plays. Drama! Comedy! Farce! You name it. Produced & performed by volunteers & staff at BMC. It's radio on TV!


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A brilliantly surreal mix of stories and artwork by award-winning genius Shaun Tan, who gave us The Arrival. Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street? Or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass? Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night? Find out in these dark and delightful tales. Homemade pets, dangerous weddings and secret rooms. Shaun Tans suburbia is weird,
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This hand crafted stretched canvas of Retrobot, 'Gear Robot' is a museum quality reproduction of the original work. Shipped to you finished and ready-to-hang, it is a welcome addition to any type of decor. Artist: Retrobot Title: Gear Robot Style: Traditional Format: Vertical Size: Medium Subject: Vintage Overall dimensions: 22 inches high x 11 inches wide x 1.5 inches deep
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Starting June 12th, 2019, Filipino indie studio Ranida Games will launch their fantasy fighting game based on Filipino historical figures called BAYANI – Fighting Game into Early Access on Steam.
The game can be added to your Steam wishlist right now by visiting the Steam store page, where the game will go live tomorrow. Alternatively, you can download the demo right now ahead of the game’s launch into Early Access by visiting the official BAYANI website.
Ranida has also been demoing the game at various events taking place throughout the Philippines, including the Pinoy Gaming Festival 2019 and at the Coliseum Summer Tournament 2019 event.
The game itself takes a fantasy approach to Filipino history by turning historical freedom fighters and political activists into over-the-top fighters, as you can see in the animated trailer below.
Obviously you probably have no clue how the game actually plays based on that animated short, which was nicely done for the studio to be a small Pinoy group working on the project.
They do have a second gameplay trailer that showcases more of the general gameplay mechanics, including the neutrals, the combos, the specials, and the super moves. You can check out the minute long compilation of gameplay clips below.
Alternatively, there’s an entire four minute gameplay video available showcasing an unedited match between Joe and Tonio, where you can get basically get an idea of what the general pacing, specials, zoning, and combos are like.
The game reminds me a lot of a Filipino version of SNK’s highly celebrated Last Blade in terms of historical elements and celebrating a country’s rich history of combat. You can check out the full gameplay demonstration below.
As far as polish is concerned the team still has a long ways to go. Audio processing needs cleaning up, and higher quality sound effects would probably make the impact of the moves sound more convincing.
There are also a few glitches with the air-combo timing. The character initiating the combo can get stuck in the air for a bit too long, which gives the opponent a wide opening to completely destroy the person stuck in the air.
The toughest part of the design looks like it’s been handled well, though, and that comes in with the player movement, the animation fluidity, and the transitional blending between frames. All of that looks good and appears to be implemented competently.
Hopefully they work on the sound effects (especially adding a lot more when it comes to the “wooshing” and “swishing” effects that are absent when you see some of the specials taking place). It’s tough to get an idea of what else they need to fix until we see more of the gameplay, but that will happen when the game goes live into Early Access over on the Steam store.
(Thanks for the news tip Mad Lucied)

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What is exhaust emission and why we need to perform
diagnostics on it? What is a gas analyser and why we need to use one? Those
are questions often asked and even more often left unanswered. Simply put,
the exhaust emissions are the gases that are produced during internal
combustion in the engines and exhausted through the tale pipe. Some of those
are harmless, others really vicious gases that we don't want to breath.
Besides the need of running "clean" cars, the emissions can tell a
diagnostic technician a lot about what is happening in the combustion
chamber and what actions to take to make the engine run as it was designed
The gas analyser is your best friend in diagnosing exhaust emissions and the more you understand it the better chance you stand to fix those problems faster. There was a wide spread joke in SA that "one doesn't need a 4 gas analyser to see that there is a hole in the exhaust" but thankfully more and more technicians now see the true benefits of well equipped workshop. Using gas analyser is a fast and reliable way of checking the overall condition of engine, ignition and injection systems. It takes 5 min. to take a gas sample and find out is this engine burning the right amount of air/fuel mixture at the right time. Talking about fast service. Otherwise, how exactly, one will know why is the customer complaining from high fuel consumption or lack of engine power. Don't just "Look at this smoke..."
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Petrol Exhaust Gas Analysers Q & A
Why do I need a Gas Analyser?
If you think about the Engine as a Power Plant the only way to see if it is burning its fuel fully, is to monitor the smoke coming out of the chimney. This relates straight to its fuel consumption and performance. Automotive engines make no difference. The only way to see if the engine is economical and performs to its best is to check is it burning the fuel completely. In times when petrol price tends to go only high, economy is one of the best things you can give to your customers. Besides, a Gas Analyser is the only tool that can prove you have done a proper Tune-Up! The proof of the pudding is in eating it!
How many Gas Channels?
Simply put, the more the merrier. 4 Gas (CO, HC, CO2 and O2) is probably the best for most workshops. If you are in to “hot engines” or “performance tune-up” using Dino equipment, only then the 5’th gas ( NOx ) is a must.
Do not be tempted to get less than a 4 Gas Analyser. With any missing gas channel, you will be missing part of the diagnostic capabilities a 4 gas analyser provides.
4 Gas Analyser VS (any) Lambda Sensor:
Don’t be fooled by the advertisements! You can use Lambda Sensor/s to MONITOR a well tuned engine. In the end of the day, this is what the engine manufacturer’s use. But there is no way you can rely on a Lambda Sensor ALONE to “hot-tune” an engine or repair any emissions problem. Remember you can get Lambda=1 under different circumstances and with different gas values. (Clearly Rich mixture of HC = 1547, CO = 3.5, etc. etc. can still give you Lambda=1).
What to look for when choosing a Petrol Exhaust Gas Analyser?
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Natural Appetite Stimulant: Appetite Loss or Lack of Appetite mentions having less or don’t want to eat.
Lots of people around the world know these common terms.
There are many causes for happening of appetite loss.
However, among those causes tension and health matters are highly responsible for poor appetite.
A man or woman with appetite loss must take the instant step to live a healthy life.
If anybody cannot control Appetite loss, it may cause many health problems.
Poor appetite or Lack of appetite occurs to unusual weight loss.
Lots of people have a tendency to take medicines for this trouble, however, home remedies for poor appetite work well without side effects.
At this time, we are giving information about 5 Natural Appetite Stimulant ingredients to throw away poor appetite.
5 Natural Appetite Stimulant Ingredients:
Lemon plays a key role to increase your taste. Lemon is a kind of citrus fruit that is high in vitamin C and it is able to develop the taste.
So, it assists to become hungry.
Therefore, you can throw away a range of health problems that are linked to poor appetite.
You can improve the taste of many foods and dishes by including lemon.
This technique will be very useful in enhancing your appetite.
Ginger is One more Natural Appetite Stimulant Ingredients that increases your craving is ginger.
Ginger plays a vital role in increasing saliva and stomachic secretions and also helps to increase your taste.
This natural ingredient helps in inspiring digestion and decreases the touch of poor appetite.
Therefore, add ginger to your regular diet. You can also take a little piece of ginger daily.
Coriander is a useful organic solution for many health problems. This is also very helpful in controlling appetite loss.
Coriander is very useful to improve the digestive system and gives you ease from gastric troubles.
Besides, it helps to normalize your appetite.
Fennel is the most regularly employed ingredient in the kitchen.
It is very helpful in controlling digestive disorders and increases taste. A digestive disorder is one of the major causes of appetite loss.
There are lots of remedial properties presents in fennel seeds. Take 1 teaspoon of fennel seeds for Chewing after your meals.
This method is obviously useful in recovering your appetite.
Fennel seeds are also very much able in controlling flatulence and so it encourages being hunger.
The remedial properties of peppermint are countless.
Peppermint is very much capable of providing you ease from several health problems such as bloating and indigestion, as they are responsible for appetite loss.
Peppermint works very well in continuing the way of the digestive tract, so, it improves appetite.
For that reason, keep a preference to drink peppermint tea every day to get faster outcomes.


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There’s now officially a new standard for the world’s longest flight by a drone after a more-than-two month voyage came to an abrupt end late last week.
The Zephyr, a solar-powered drone developed by Airbus and undergoing testing by the U.S. military, took off on its latest journey in mid-June and broke its own record for longest drone flight nearly 26 days later.
The drone, which flies at altitudes of more than 60,000 feet using power harvested by solar arrays across its 75-foot wingspan, continued to coast along for another 38 days — setting the new mark at 64 — before, as an Airbus official put it, “an issue … ended the flight campaign.”
Reports did not detail what the specific issue might have been, but they did provide some context about the end of the flight: publicly available flight data showed the craft descending as quickly as 4,500 feet per minute before crashing in Arizona.
The mission, part of an airborne sensor experiment conducted by the Army, provided analysts with more than 1,500 hours of data to pore over. The Zephyr can provide high-def views from the stratosphere of an area of more than 230 square miles; officials have said it could be used for surveillance, as well as possibly to disrupt radar systems.
Although the latest mission set a new record for the longest drone flight, it fell just hours short of breaking the record for longest flight overall. That record – for now – still belongs to Robert Timm and John Cook, who flew their Cessna 172 for more than 64 days and 22 hours in 1959.


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Congressman Chaka Fattah Intro's Healthcare Premium Pre-Tax Legislation.
Fattah said his legislation - House of Representatives Bill No. 3791 - would allow individuals who are not otherwise enrolled in a group insurance plan to file and take above-line deductions on their tax returns to cover health insurance premiums.
Wed Dec 18, 2013
The Times of Israel
MoU brings Israel-US institutions together for brain research
Dr. John Donoghue accepts the $1 million B.R.A.I.N Award from President Shimon Peres at the recent BrainTech 2013 event in Tel Aviv The first fruits of cooperation between Israeli and U.S. researchers on neuroscience research were harvested this week, as a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between several U.S. and Israeli institutions.
Mon Dec 16, 2013
Reps. Israel and Fattah Announce International Partnership in...
Signers of the MOU included the Feinstein Institute in , and Israel Brain Technologies in Ramat Hasharon, Israel.
Sun Dec 15, 2013
Area Votes in Congress
Two-year budget deal. Voting 332-94, the House on Thursday approved a two-year budget deal that would enable Congress to operate through September 2015 without real or threatened government shutdowns or lurches from one stopgap budget to the next.
Tue Dec 10, 2013
Congressman Chaka Fattah Announces Over $400,000 in Grants for the Arts in Philadelphia
WASHINGTON, Dec.10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Congressman Chaka Fattah , a ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee announced today that 16 Philadelphia arts organizations have been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts .
Gerlach, Fattah Recognize Service and Sacrifice of Black Soldiers...
Res. 68 , also calls on the U.S. Senate's Armed Services Committee to revise a 1949 subcommittee report to include an appropriate recognition of the massacre of the 11 black soldiers of the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion of the U.S. Army who were beaten, stabbed and shot multiple times at the hands of their Nazi captors almost seven decades ago on ... (more)
Fri Dec 06, 2013
Philadelphia Daily News Chris Brennan column
Dec. 06 -- THE PHILADELPHIA School District is caught in a funding-crisis cycle -- and that is likely to be a factor in the 2015 race for mayor.
Thu Dec 05, 2013
Pa. Lawmakers Join World in Mourning Nelson Mandela
Mandela, who served 27 years in prison for anti-apartheid activities in white-minority South Africa, emerged to become his country's first black president.
Treasurer McCord Urges U.S. House Members to Back ENDA
Citing economic as well as moral grounds, State Treasurer Rob McCord is asking members of the Pennsylvania U.S. House delegation to support the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act that recently passed the Senate.
Chaka Fattah Preps New Public Affairs Show
Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah will add TV personality to his rA©sumA© next year, spearheading a forthcoming public access show dubbed "A Capitol Idea with Chaka Fattah."
Tue Nov 26, 2013
University City Review
Political updates on the State & Local Level
The UC Review and Weekly Press compile political news that affects voters each week on the city and state level to keep readers more abreast of local politics.
Philadelphia Public Record
Berry Gordy Jr. Honored At Marian Anderson Awards In Philadelphia
David Cohen, executive vice president of Comcast, and his wife Rhonda represented Comcast as a major sponsor of the dinner and concert.
Safety Group's Annual Report Lists Latest Unsafe Holiday Toys
With the holiday toy shopping season getting underway, safety activists are warning of some items that are best left out of Santa's sack.
Sun Nov 24, 2013
Area Votes in Congress
Regulation of hydraulic fracturing. Voting 235 for and 187 against, the House on Wednesday passed a GOP bill to prohibit federal regulation on federal and tribal lands of the energy-extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, a boom industry in many states in which chemical fluids are injected deep into the earth to break loose previously ... (more)
Sat Nov 23, 2013
City gets $500,000 from HUD for North Phila. project
With a heavy police presence, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary Shaun Donovan holds a press conference November 22, 2013 to announce a $500,000 grant for the Philadelphia Housing Authority to come up with a plan for reviving the Norman Blumberg Apartments in North Philadelphia.

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What a pleasure it was to perform at the Jaipur Jazz & Blues Festival! I’m very grateful for the opportunity to bring Canadian Jazz music to the Indian audiences. The Seher organization produced a fantastic event, and I was very impressed with the welcoming cultural environment they created. I very much look forward to returning to India and to working with Seher again.
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The Biden administration wants the World Health Organization to improve global equity in the next public health emergency by pushing manufacturers to voluntarily share their products and technology, according to a document drafted by the Department of Health and Human Services and obtained by POLITICO.
Biden administration officials coordinating with a WHO group focusing on preparedness in health emergencies wrote the paper, outlining ways to expand equity through a potential pandemic treaty or some other kind of global agreement.
The document — details of which were previously unknown — is a window into the Biden administration’s effort to ensure low- and middle-income countries have equal access to the data, vaccine and treatments needed to respond to the next pandemic. It lays out U.S. “targets” for improving equity, including widening access to vaccines by increasing manufacturing capacity worldwide — specifically through the “promotion and facilitation” of the voluntary licensing of the products, according to the paper.
“Identifying opportunities to promote equity in the response to health emergencies is a policy priority for the United States,” the paper reads. “We … must consider how to tailor approaches to address underlying issues necessary to enhance equity in preparing for and responding to the next pandemic …”
In recent weeks, WHO member state representatives have ramped up their discussions of what topics to include in a potential treaty negotiation. But the Biden administration, led by officials from HHS, has said little publicly about how it is approaching the WHO talks and what it is pursuing behind the scenes.

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Geee Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 UK Independent: A Nazi train thought to be full of gold and gems which vanished during the Second World War has been found by two men in Poland, the pair have reportedly claimed. The armoured train is said to have gone missing near the then East German city of Breslau, now a Polish city named Wroclaw, as the Soviet army approached towards the end of the war in 1945. And a law firm in south-west Poland says it has been contacted by two men who say have discovered the train, with Polish media reporting that the men want 10% of the value of the train's contents. Radio Wroclaw said the discovery matches reports in local folklore of a train carrying gold and gems which went missing at the end of the war near Ksiaz Castle. It supposedly entered a tunnel near the castle and never emerged. The tunnel was later closed and its location forgotten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Shares in TUI (LSE:TUI) are up 16% since the start of the year. If a post-pandemic travel recovery can push the stock back to where it was in 2019, there’s a potential 180% gain for investors.
I think this is unlikely, though. Rather than a once-in-a-generation opportunity, this looks to me like a value trap.
In 2019, TUI generated £402m in operating income and its share price reached £4.58. This was the product of three things.
First, the company’s low level of debt meant that most of its operating income flowed through to its bottom line. £402m in operating income translated into £371m in net income.
Second, the company had around 1.1bn shares outstanding. As a result, £371m in net income meant 34p in earnings per share (EPS).
Third, interest rates were at 0.75%. Consequently, investors were willing to pay a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 13 for the company’s stock.
None of these things is the case in 2023. The company has much more debt, far more shares, and interest rates are significantly higher.
This means that I don’t see the stock heading back to its 2019 levels any time soon. Even if travel demand means TUI’s operating income gets back to £402m, I think there are ongoing problems.
The first problem for me is the company’s balance sheet. The interest payments TUI makes on its debt have gone from £69m in 2019 to £401m last year.
As a result, if the company makes £402m in operating income today, that won’t leave £371m in net income. As I see it, it will leave almost nothing after the company has made its interest payments.
I therefore doubt that a return to pre-pandemic operating levels would mean a return to the net income levels of 2019. But even if they do, there’s another problem.
Back in 2019, £371m in net income equated to 34p per share. But TUI has increased its share count by 63%.
That means that £371m in net income now equates to 21p in EPS. Applying a P/E ratio of 13 to that number still leaves the stock some way short of its 2019 levels.
The last problem for TUI shares has nothing to do with the company’s intrinsic features. Interest rates are now much higher than they were in 2019.
Instead of 0.75%, the Bank of England base rate is now 3.5%. And with inflation still high, that rate looks set to rise further.
As a result, investors are paying lower multiples for stocks than they were before. And this makes me doubt that TUI shares will trade at the same P/E ratio as they did in 2019.
TUI shares are currently benefitting from a resurgent demand for travel. And this might well push the stock higher in the near term.
As an investor, though, this just doesn’t add up for me. Even if it can recover its 2019 levels of operating income, the business faces significant headwinds.
TUI’s debt is lowering its net income, its share count is weighing on its EPS, and higher rates make it unlikely to trade at its previous P/E ratio. Each of these is a big problem.
The stock is down 75% over the last five years. But everything about this looks like a value trap to me.
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bouley | 40% hike
bouley, once a two-michelin starred restaurant, has in the past week raised the price of its tasting menu 40% to $175, up from $125, according to a reservationist. the tribeca-based chef had fallen on somewhat difficult times in recent years, having closed his critically acclaimed upstairs, the poorly received secession and his bouley bakery on west broadway. that said, SUTTON says the new seven-course menu is a STRONG BUY. the old $125 tasting (available for much of 2010) was underpriced given the amount of white linens, fresh flowers, hay baked chickens, medieval arches, plush banquettes, francophone waiters, delicious parting gifts and rotting apple cloakrooms at this urban chateau of an eatery. of course, any regular knows a seven-course menu at bouley can easily become 10 or 12 courses with all the extra freebies the chef sends out. and bouley’s long-delayed brushstroke has finally opened. perhaps this is the big bouley comeback?


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Nissan is in the middle of expanding production across the Americas, with the new plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico, making the most progress toward completion.
This is the third manufacturing complex in the country and the second in the state of Aguascalientes. It is intended to increase manufacturing capacity needed to satisfy the high demand for Nissan vehicles in the Mexican and international markets.
Construction on this plant started in July 2012 and it is nearly 80 percent complete today. About 50 percent of the mechanical and electrical work is done on Phase I. The plant will be up and working in record time, aiming to be operational by the end of 2013.
Nissan's expanded production will be supported by a network of suppliers based at the adjacent supplier park, as well as from other locations. Vehicles manufactured in Mexico by Nissan have 80 percent domestic content. The facility will bring 3,000 new direct jobs, and about 9,000 within the supply chain and greater community.
When completed, the plant will be able to produce 175,000 compact vehicles per year (B-platform)
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the first time jared came to visit me in nj, i was waiting anxiously for him to arrive and decided to have a go at making what in my mind was a gluten free version of apple crisp. substituting quinoa for oats and wheat flour.
unfortunately, i decided that all the quinoa needed was some water and it would cook just fine. So he arrived and there was the smell of yummy apple crisp -- i looked like the perfect girlfriend who was cool and could bake!! we had awkward conversation, since this was our first time seeing each other after only meeting twice in chicago a month before and communicating with each other every single day via phone, chat, im, text and email.
i nervously checked the damn stuff about 50 times -- adding more and more water hoping for some magic change. the quinoa never popped. jared was really antsy to try it, and i thought it got sort of mushy so we ended up trying it. at first taste it was all yummy but it had a crunch that suspiciously resembled uncooked quinoa -- or in layman's terms uncooked rice -- and not in a good way.
jared brings this up whenever he says something about my cooking, as in, you always cook great stuff except for that time when i first came to visit and you made that apple stuff -- that sucked. and i laugh, because i totally agree -- it sucked.
regardless, there really hasn't been another time where i had a repeat of that failed attempt, except this sunday when i had a bake fail from a box mix. it happens, people. it usually happens when you don't follow directions (note: i don't really like to follow directions).
anyway, we were out of butter so i substituted smart balance in the betty crocker gluten free chocolate chip cookies box mix (which i might add, i got at the lackawana pathmark in montclair). the damn things wouldn't come off the cookie sheet and true to gf baked good form they were crumbly. BUT -- they tasted damn good. we scraped them off the sheets and ate the cookie crumble out of a plastic baggie.
my review -- follow the directions and you can be reminded of why chocolate chip cookies taste so good. it was easy and i am sure they will work with real butter. i did put some in a small loaf pan and they came out fine.


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$5m Chinese takeaway
The Barnett Government has paid the owners of a popular Perth Chinese restaurant at least $5 million to close its doors.
And the bill to taxpayers will rise once compensation negotiations arising from the Government's decision to tear down the Grand Palace restaurant's former home - the heritage-listed Florence Hummerston kiosk on the Perth Esplanade - is finalised this year.
The Government secretly paid Wang Nominees, the family company of Grand Palace co-owners Fai and Wenny Wang, a $5 million "advance payment" in February last year when the Government decided to dismantle the building to make way for the Elizabeth Quay project.
It will be moved to a new island to be built in the middle of the Swan River inlet as part of the Elizabeth Quay works, with a new operator to be found through an open expressions of interest process.
Details of the payment were only revealed when shadow heritage minister Margaret Quirk asked questions of Planning Minister John Day in Parliament. Mr Day told Parliament "independent evaluations" of Wang Nominees losses were being undertaken before the WA Planning Commission could make the Wangs a final compensation offer.
The Grand Palace, a swanky, modern Chinese eatery popular with high-flying corporate and legal types, closed in May last year.
The Wangs signed a 10-year lease with three 10-year options with the City of Perth in 2004, which owned the building until it relinquished the land to the Government for Elizabeth Quay.
The lease contained no break provisions and the Wangs had an exclusive option to exercise each of the 10-year options that would take its tenancy through to 2044.
City of Perth records show the council contributed $200,000 in 2003 to a renovation that reportedly cost more than $1 million, with the balance met by the Wangs. The Wangs initially paid $32,760 a year in rent to the council but that had risen to $40,555 a year by 2011.
Mr Day's office would not be drawn when asked how much more money taxpayers might have to pay, saying it was subject to confidential commercial negotiations.
"An advance payment against a final settlement is standard practice of the WA Planning Commission," Mr Day said. "In consultation with the State Solicitor's Office, $5 million was paid to Wang Nominees Pty Ltd as an advance payment prior to a formal compensation claim being lodged."
Ms Quirk said $5 million was a lot of money to buy out the lease and she suspected it would be a "drop in the ocean" compared with the final figure. "Prior to the election, the Government led us to believe $1.5 million was the total cost of deconstructing Florence Hummerston kiosk," she said.
The Wangs could not be contacted for comment.
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Following the controversy that he was into, the acquitted murder suspect, George Zimmerman, has managed to demonstrate his philanthropic side by rescuing a family after a car accident.
According to recent news reports, while Zimmerman was traveling along a highway in Sanford, Florida at around 5:45 in the afternoon of July 17, he noticed an overturned SUV off the road. As a prompt response, he reportedly sprang into action along with another man. They helped all four of the passengers, two parents and two children, to get out of the wrecked vehicle, according to media sources.
Fortunately, there were no reported injuries following the accident. Meanwhile, officers told the media that Zimmerman was not a witness to the incident and in fact left immediately after contacting the deputy.
Based on initial investigation, the SUV was traveling toward an off-ramp on State Road 417 when its driver lost control. As a result, the vehicle went off the road and rolled over.
Incidentally, this has been a rough month for Zimmerman after he was accused of shooting and killing Trayvon Martin on the night of July 13 but was eventually acquitted of the crime.
Such incident only teaches everyone a lesson. Even though someone had been branded as a villain, it doesn’t necessarily mean that he or she could never have the chance of being hailed as a hero, reminded by a car accident attorney in Los Angeles.


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“I thought I told you that we won’t start!” Jim Jones and Yobi are helping to bring that old Puff Daddy, Notorious B.I.G and 112 feeling back. You have to bop your head to this 112 remake. When you have Funk Master Flex rocking your song on the NYC airwaves you have to be clear and pay attention… if not you’re done!
Influenced by Whitney Houston and Mary J. Blidge, Yobi sings with feeling and conviction. She is a new comer with a street smart twist. Check out “The One” featuring Jim Jones.
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Sunday’s July 2 Press had a surprising article on the front page. Mr. Don Soltman reflected on his tenure on the Idaho Education Board. Quite interestingly, Mr. Soltman endorsed (bequeathed) Mr. John Goedde, a local non-reelected politician, previous school board member, and the previous board president of the Senate Education Committee. He said Mr. Goedde is “supremely qualified.”
That would have made sense except that Mr. Soltman further explained that Mr. Goedde “knows where the skeletons are.” Idaho seems to have chronic “skeletons” that make quality public education an unattainable goal.
Not surprisingly, endless meetings by politicians don’t move the needle. Locally and nationally, what goes on in classrooms is what taxpayers need changed. This superintendent and our 271 school board keep their jobs by pretending that they know how to improve Coeur d’Alene public schools. Since District 271 results are chronically very poor, it makes sense to install TV monitors in all District 271 classrooms.
Certainly, it is in the best interest of Idaho to replace Mr. Soltman with a citizen who believes that an absence of progress for 10 years is “feeding at the government trough” without results. Our Coeur d’Alene kids’ futures are at stake. Believe it or not, our 271 superintendent and board uses the excuse that “Our kids just don’t test well.” No joke!
The solution: This superintendent and board should go down the street and see how it’s done at the Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy and then solve the serious issues identified by their $50K failed evaluation.
Editor’s note: Mr. Deady is one of the applicants for the State Board of Education trustee position now held by Mr. Soltman.


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Yes, you read that correctly: Michelle Williams is married! The Manchester by the Sea actress revealed in a Vanity Fair interview that she secretly wed indie musician Phil Elverum in a private ceremony in the Adirondacks with a few friends and both of their daughters present.
Williams, 37, opened up about her вЂњvery sacred and very specialвЂќ relationship with Elverum, 40, and creating a new family together (Williams is mother to Matilda, 12; Elverum has a 3-year-old daughter of his own).
вЂњObviously I've never once in my life talked about a relationship,вЂќ she said. вЂњBut Phil isn't anyone else. And that's worth something. Ultimately the way he loves me is the way I want to live my life on the whole. I work to be free inside of the moment. I parent to let Matilda feel free to be herself, and I am finally loved by someone who makes me feel free.вЂќ
In previous interviews, Williams revealed that falling in love again while grieving was a challenge. In 2008, she had lost her partner and her daughter's father, the late actor Heath Ledger.
"We were trying to deal with grief, and that can't be dealt with publicly," she told Elle in an interview last year. But despite the hardships of coping with a lost love, the Brokeback Mountain actress said she stayed hopeful that she would find a loving relationship again.
вЂњI never gave up on love. I always say to Matilda, 'Your dad loved me before anybody thought I was talented, or pretty, or had nice clothes,'вЂќ she told Vanity Fair.
Williams said that keeping her life private has helped her cope with her loss. Her now-husband also lost his wife, illustrator and musician GeneviГЁve CastrГ©e. CastrГ©e died of cancer 18 months after giving birth to their daughter.
вЂњI don't really want to talk about any of it,вЂќ she said. вЂњBut there's that tease, that lure, that's like, 'What if this helps somebody? What if somebody who has always journeyed in this way, who has struggled as much as I struggled, and looked as much as I looked, finds something that helps them?' Don't settle. Don't settle for something that feels like a prison, or is hard, or hurts you,вЂќ Williams insists. вЂњIf it doesn't feel like love, it's not love.вЂќ
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Objective: The steady-state pharmacokinetics of two doses of a transdermal testosterone cream (TTC) was investigated after daily application for 21 days.
Methods: This was a two-way cross-over study conducted for 6 weeks. Seven healthy postmenopausal women (mean age, 59.3 y) were randomly allocated to 5 or 10 mg of TTC applied daily to the upper arm. Serum total testosterone (TT), free testosterone (fT), sex hormone–binding globulin, and metabolite concentrations were measured. Baseline-corrected and uncorrected serum TT and fT pharmacokinetic parameters (AUC0-24, Cavg, Cmax, and Tmax) were calculated using a standard model-independent approach.
Results: After the single-dose application of 5 mg of TTC on day 22, the median uncorrected TT Cavg was found to be 0.54 ng/mL (range, 0.43-1.31), and the median uncorrected fT Cavg was found to be 4.14 pg/mL (range, 2.41-9.72). Doubling of the dose only resulted in a 30% increase in baseline-corrected TT Cavg (0.52 vs 0.69 ng/mL for 5 and 10 mg, respectively) and a 31% increase in baseline-corrected fT Cavg (4.75 vs 6.24 pg/mL for 5 and 10 mg, respectively). Neither dose resulted in any meaningful variation in dihydrotestosterone, estrone, estradiol, or sex hormone–binding globulin across the postdose sampling period.
Conclusions: The 5-mg TTC dose restores TT and fT levels to levels above and within the reference range, respectively, for premenopausal women.
From the 1Women’s Health Research Program, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; and 2School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences and 3Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Received December 23, 2013; revised and accepted March 20, 2014.
Funding/support: Monash University sponsored the study. Lawley Pharmaceuticals (Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia) funded the cost of hormone quantification and provided the study drug. E.F. is a PhD student sponsored by the Iran Ministry of Health and Medical Education. S.E.R. is a National Health and Medical Research Council Australian clinical fellow (grant 1054946). S.R.D. is a National Health and Medical Research Council principal research fellow (grant 1041853).
Clinical trial registration: ACTRN12612001250820.
Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: S.R.D. is presently an investigator for Trimel.
Address correspondence to: Susan R. Davis, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, Women’s Health Research Program, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred Center, Commercial Road, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org


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Is Pac-12 already out of the playoff race? We rank each conference's chances
The SEC appears to be a lock for at least one playoff team, maybe two. The Pac-12? Again, things don't look quite so rosy out West.
Southern gets 1st win, wallops NAIA's Edward Waters 61-0
After opening a promising season with back-to-back losses at McNeese State and Memphis, Southern walloped NAIA member Edward Waters College, 61-0 in the Pete Richardson Classic Saturday night.
Southern Miss, Troy score TDs on three straight plays
After Southern Miss scores a passing touchdown, Troy returns the ensuing kickoff for a touchdown. On the very next kickoff, Southern Miss scores another touchdown to mark three consecutive touchdowns.
Arizona grinds out 28-14 win over Texas Tech
Khalil Tate accounted for 314 yards and two touchdowns, Gary Brightwell capped a late 99-yard drive with his second touchdown run and Arizona grinded out a 28-14 win over Texas Tech Saturday night.
Oregon wraps nonconference slate with 35-3 win over Montana
Justin Herbert threw for 316 yards and five touchdowns in No. 15 Oregon's 35-3 victory Saturday night over Montana, the Ducks' final tuneup before opening Pac-12 play at Stanford next week.
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Video game publisher Activision has partnered with PepsiCo to get players of its upcoming title, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, to ‘Fuel Up for Battle’ on Mountain Dew and Doritos.
The promotion will allow US-based players of the latest game in the Call of Duty series to collect codes from specially-marked bottles of Mountain Dew and bags of Dorito chips. Codes have to be entered online at at DewandDoritos.com. They can be exchanged for high-tech gear that can be used in the game, such as an advanced exoskeleton, heavy vest kit, helmets, goggles and boots. This gear will be offered exclusively under the promotion until February 15, 2015.
“We’re thrilled to bring together with Call of Duty such iconic brands as Mountain Dew and Doritos in a compelling and fun way that benefits both of our respective communities,” said Ashley Maidy, vice president of licensing and partnerships, Activision Publishing, Inc., in a press release. “So, with the exclusive in-game gear waiting for DEW and Doritos consumers, gamers just need to fuel-up and login.”
Players will be able to collect their gear through the 'Supply Drops' feature that will be introduced with the game. Codes can also be used to unlock double XP and rapid supply rewards. In addition, each code entered will give players a chance of winning an Xbox One.
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The promotion begins on October 6 with the release of the branded Dew and Doritos products. Codes will come on specially marked 3.375 oz. bags of Nacho Cheese, Cool Ranch, Spicy Nacho and Dinamita Chile Limon flavored chips and bottles of Mtn Dew Game Fuel Citrus Cherry and the new Mtn Dew Game Fuel Lemonade.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will be released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One on November 4.


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So psyched is Team Newt about this spot that they started pushing it to the media this morning before the vid was even done, sending around the script instead. It’s good, but the image of Romney as a ruthless, slippery politician who’ll say whatever he has to in order to win is, I fear, already priced into his stock. In fact, just as this ad hit YouTube, BuzzFeed came up with yet another example:
The campaign makes a practice of whitewashing transcripts and stories before circulating to the press, a practice that has become familiar to reporters covering the candidate.
For example, last Monday, during a press call with Tim Pawlenty, a Miami Herald reporter asked the campaign surrogate about Romney’s investments in Freddie Mac…
Pawlenty punted on the question–saying that he’d “have to ask the campaign to follow up with you.” But when the Romney press shop e-mailed out a transcript of the call later that day, the exchange was nowhere to be found…
The cherry-picking extends to the news and opinion articles the campaign forwards to reporters as well.
Remember, this is a guy whose very first attack ad against Obama late last year was built around a ridiculously out-of-context quote. If you nominate Romney, that’s what you’re getting. The thing is, conservatives want him to be this way in the general against O, right? One of the sorest spots on the right about the 2008 campaign was the sense that McCain didn’t hit Obama as hard as he could; that fear persists with Mitt because he dutifully concedes The One’s good intentions whenever he’s asked, which irritates the hell out of the “Obama is evil” crowd but is defensible strategy in appealing to undecideds who don’t hate Obama the way many grassroots righties do. Maybe we shouldn’t fear that Romney will go easy on O, though. Like Obama himself, Mitt tends to play the nice guy on the stump while letting his ad team and other surrogates be as cutthroat as they need to be with his opponents. He does what he thinks he needs to do to win, which is alienating if you’re a Newt fan but maybe not so alienating if you’re a Republican who’s most interested in ousting O. All of which is to say, while this spot does a nifty job of making Romney less likable, I’m not sure that the big conclusion on electability is true.
Besides, how receptive are voters really to attacks on a politician’s honesty? It’s like attacking a pol for influence peddling: In exceptional cases it might matter (the Freddie Mac fingerpointing between Mitt and Newt is exceptional because of Freddie’s role in the housing crisis and wider recession), but to some degree voters cynically expect that behavior. Exit question: How much of an effect can any one ad have at this point when Romney’s outspending Newt by this much?


Former legislator and Independent candidate John Leslee K Sangma who lost to State Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma has blamed his defeat on the use of money power by his opponents in the by-election to South Tura Legislative Assembly Constituency.
In a statement to the media, the former MLA said that it is disheartening at the way politics has emerged these days, where issues of public importance took a back seat and money played a major role in many of the localities.
“It is an open secret that huge amounts of money were distributed everywhere and people flocked to the residences of workers and leaders for such handouts during the general election and by-election,” alleged John Leslee, who faced defeat a second time in six months from a constituency he represented in 2013.
Terming the contest as a ‘good fight’ for himself and co independent Chris Kabul A Sangma for having fought against a sitting Chief Minister and a former Chief Minister (Mukul Sangma), whose candidate was in the fray, John Leslee said he expected the new representative to work for the people in a positive way.
“My congratulations to Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma and my gratefulness to those who voted for me and took a stand to say that they don’t subscribe to the stand of Conrad Sangma regarding the job reservation policy and his stand on issuing work permit to Bangladeshis. I hope the problem in NEIGRIHMS regarding Garo MBBS candidate will be sorted out soon as possible,” said John Leslee.
He also denied leaving politics as reported recently saying that it was a ‘personal feeling and desire’.


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kompong trabek village, Kompong Trach district, Kampot province – Every morning at 5:30, Kim Vibol climbs out of bed and onto his bicycle to begin an 8-km round trip to buy a day’s supply of water for his family.
The 26-year-old villager’s daily routine began in mid-March, when the communal pond close to his house finally dried up after months without rain. Drawing water from the village pond cost Kim Vibol nothing. Now that he is forced to pay 100 riel for every liter he buys, he cannot afford to waste a drop.
“I spend 3,000 riel on water every day,” Kim Vibol said. “My son has a bath every day but I save water and just use a little.”
Lin Da, 37, is more fortunate. Everyone in her family has two baths a day. While neighbors who tried to dig wells found only salt water, her family managed to tap an underground freshwater reservoir on their property.
As a result, 20 to 30 people from her village arrive at her house early each morning to ask for water. She gives it to them free, knowing how easily she could be in their situation.
The story is the same all over the coastal province of Kampot, where natural sources of running water are scarce. According to Kampot First Deputy Governor Tit Ream, at least 30 rain-filled ponds and reservoirs have dried up, leaving people struggling to find alternative supplies.
Kampot is one of five provinces most affected by this dry season’s unusually low rainfall and high temperatures, said Seth Vannareth, deputy director of the department of meteorology and hydrology at the Agriculture Ministry. Other provinces now facing shortages are Battambang, Siem Reap, Pursat and Oddar Meanchey.
“This year has seen the strongest influence of the El Nino weather phenomenon since 1950,” Seth Vannareth explained. “El Nino has changed the weather from tropical hot-wet to hot-dry.”
El Nino has sent rainfall levels plummeting and temperatures rising by several degrees. The usual minimum and maximum temperatures in Kampot this time of year are 24 and 33 degrees, Seth Vannara said. This year, they have risen to 27 and 35.
Undersecretary of State for Agriculture Chan Tong Yves says the adverse weather conditions in Kampot are compounded by the absence of any large rivers.
Countrywide, NGOs such as Sawa, Japan International Cooperation Agency and Japan International Volunteer Center have dug about 500 wells to supply fresh water, he said. But that is still not sufficient to provide clean drinking water for the country.
Sorm Yem, deputy director of Acape, a French NGO working in hydrology, agrees digging wells in Kampot is not the answer. “The problem with a place like Kompong Trabek is its proximity to the sea. The deeper you dig, the saltier the water,” he said.
People living in such areas, he said, should dig deep ditches to act as reservoirs when the rain begins to fall in order to build up reserves for the next dry season.
According to Seth Vannara, forecasts indicate there will be no shortage of rainfall to fill village ponds in the forthcoming rainy season.
In fact, government meteorologists are predicting typhoons, and with them, wide-scale flooding in the areas bordering the Mekong River.