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Ageas UK’s consistent growth has seen its chief exec promoted to group COO. We look at how the UK business will be key to the group’s overall strategy.
The recent management shake-up at Ageas UK highlighted the importance of the business in the overall group structure.
The UK arm has grown rapidly since 2009. Out of the four core non-life operating units - UK, Asia, Belgium, and Continental Europe (CEU) - the UK non-life business grew by the largest margin, by £65m between 2009 and 2011.
This is in comparison to the Asia and Belgium arms, which posted small declines, and CEU which grew only slightly. (See table below)
When Ageas revealed its group strategy to investors in London last September, it outlined its goal for non-life business to be about 40% (currently 29%) of the total group business, and to achieve a 11% return on non-life shareholders’ equity of €1.2bn (£997m), by 2015. To do this, Ageas said it would need to make profit of €33m a quarter to hit their 11% ROE target.
The group will rely heavily on the UK to meet this target after posting strong quarterly net profits in the past two years (see table below), aided by strong penetration into the broker market (up 12% to 96% in the 12 months to November 2011).
The group is also targeting a group combined operating ratio (COR) below 100% by 2015. In November, Ageas UK posted an overall COR of 98.6% for the first nine months of 2012, an improvement from 99.9% for the same period in 2011.
Former Ageas UK boss promoted to group role
Outgoing Ageas UK chief executive Barry Smith (pictured) will be expected to deliver the same kind of performance across the other Ageas group businesses in his new role as group chief operating officer reporting to group chief executive Bart De Smet.
The solid performance of the UK business could go some way to explaining why the Ageas group board wants Smith to have operational responsibility for the rest of its business. The insurer wants to deploy at least 25% of its capital in emerging markets in Europe and Asia (from 15% end 2011).
Smith told Insurance Times his new role was “totally consistent with the group strategy”, and that the insurer would “continue to do what we do in the UK”.
He said: “It’s key for us to take the right actions in the UK. That means where we have an advantage and we see an attractive market, let’s make sure we move quickly. They key to that will be the continuation of staying very close to understanding the real needs of the broker market.”
He added: “We’ve made some very early decisions based on the acquisition of Groupama and that’s so we can continue to concentrate on what the market wants us to do.”
Watson inherits strong UK business
New UK chief executive Andy Watson is inheriting a business from Smith that is in a healthy position. Based on the current performance of the UK business, keeping the ship steady would be enough to keep group bosses happy.
Watson said: “The plans that we have put together for 2013 within the UK, and the plans that I inherit and have partially co-authored, are very much aligned to those group targets.”


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Maple Planked Salmon with Maple Soy Glaze
A glaze that combines a soy sauce reduction with maple syrup delivers the perfect combination of sweet and savory. Great for salmon or chicken and a nice finish for grill-roasted sweet potato fries.
For the Maple Soy Glaze
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
For the Planked Salmon
- Maple plank(s), soaked at least 1 hour
- 2 pounds salmon fillet, skin removed, divided into 4 equal portions
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Sea salt
- 2 slices lemon, 1/4-inch thick
- 1 tablespoon sliced green onions
Preheat the grill with all the main burners on high. Once you are ready to put the planks on the grill, you will turn off the burners under the planks and proceed with indirect cooking at about 400°F.
While the grill is heating, reduce the soy sauce in an 8-inch skillet over medium heat until thickened, about 10 minutes. Stir frequently and be very careful not to burn the sauce. Stir in the brown sugar until dissolved.
Return to a simmer and stir in the maple syrup.
Return to a simmer and then remove from the heat.
Lightly brush the salmon with olive oil and sprinkle with salt on both sides. Place on the plank(s) with the skinned side down.
Brush the tops with the maple soy glaze and transfer the planks to the grill. Turn off the burners under the planks and cook with the hood closed at 400°F. Brush the salmon with additional glaze after about 10 minutes.
Keeping the hood closed as much as possible, grill the lemon slices in the direct cooking zone for about 2 minutes per side until they are nicely marked.
The total cooking time for the salmon should be about 20 minutes. The salmon is cooked when it flakes freely under gentle pressure.
Remove the salmon from the grill and serve, either on the planks or off, garnishing each portion with 1/2 slice of grilled lemon and a sprinkle of green onion slices.

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text: Hello. I have no idea how I ended up here...it was totally random but it seems like a good place to start and just talk about things...I suffer from depression and let me tell you, it's not easy at all. I battle with it on a daily basis and days like today is the worst of them. It eats you up from the inside out, a cloud of hopelessness surrounds you and right now it feels like I'm sinking in darkness and I'll never get out of it. What makes it worst is that my family doesn't understand..well at least the family I still have left. My older sister and I don't get along, my older brother was murdered, my father is a verbally/emotionally abusive bastard and mum, well my mum doesn't quite understand how painful it is to go through what I go through all the time. The things that once interested me doesn't anymore and it's so frustrating when some people know what you are going through but they laugh it off saying 'it's just a phase' or 'stop being so dramatic' and the best one yet 'you choose to be depressed. Yeah that's what I've been told. But who in their right mind would want to feel like this? Absolutely no one. It sucks because I have no one to talk to, no one who understands.

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Debuting with Shah Rukh Khan in Om Shanti Om made Deepika a star over night, but now Deepika seems to be in another world. The lady wishes to work with Salman Khan, SRK’s archrival.
The Damsel quotes, “I’m really looking forward to work with Salman.” She also states that, she and Sallu were supposed to be paired, long before, if some projects didn’t fall out the wrong way.
Deepika can boast about working with almost all the big names in the industry. From SRK in Om Shanti Om, to Akshay Kumar in Chandni Chowk to China. She even romanced Saif Ali Khan in Love Aaj Kal, ex-flame Ranbir in Bachna Ae Haseeno and recently Farhan Akhtar in Karthik Calling Karthik.
Deepika is to be seen with Junior Bachchan, Imran Khan and Neil Nitin Mukesh in Khelien Hum Jee Jaan Se, Break Ke Baad and YRF’s untitled project.
Now that’s an interesting line-up Deepika. Deepika went on to decline that she was offered a film called Kick opposite Salman, which was to be produced by Sajid Nadiawala and directed by A.R Murugadoss of the Ghajini fame.


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1. Switchel is an apple cider vinegar-based beverage. It also contains water and other ingredients such as ginger or honey. Maple syrup, molasses, and fruit juice are common additions.
2. The drink has been around for centuries. Many historians believe that switchel originated in the Caribbean before making its way to North America in the 18th century. According to the book Forgotten Drinks of Colonial New England by Corin Hirsch, many colonists blended the beverage at home and enjoyed the tangy flavor of a refreshing and energizing alternative to water.
3. Apple cider vinegar-based drinks like switchel are associated with certain health benefits. They contain high levels of polyphenols (micronutrients found in certain plant-based foods), which may inhibit DNA damage and have a positive impact on cardiovascular health. Some anecdotal evidence suggests that apple cider vinegar may aid in gastrointestinal health.
4. As innovative beverages surge in popularity, new versions of switchel are hitting the market. The UW–Madison Center for Dairy Research (CDR) and the United States Dairy Export Council recently teamed up to create a protein-rich, cherry-flavored variety. The drink combines dairy-based whey protein with tart cherry juice produced in Wisconsin. By adding natural ginger flavor and just a touch of cane sugar, CDR food scientists created a product that contains only 120 calories and a whopping 11 grams of protein per eight fluid ounces. This new take on an old tradition adds to the list of the beverage’s benefits. For one, cherry juice is known to have anti-inflammatory compounds that may help with muscle pain. Whey protein isolate, a filtered and dried by-product of cheesemaking, contains all nine of the essential amino acids. Often referred to as “the building blocks of life,” amino acids are the catalysts for many important bodily functions, including muscle growth and repair. It’s no surprise, then, that the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant is producing this whey protein cherry switchel as a sports recovery drink for UW’s student-athletes.
5. Dairy-based switchels require a few tricks to make them look and taste just right. For the CDR’s cherry switchel, all of the ingredients are mixed together and given about 30 minutes for the whey protein to be fully hydrated prior to pasteurization. This step, along with the right level of acidity (i.e., a low pH), provides the best conditions for a safe and good-quality whey protein drink. The beverage can be pasteurized (heated to 175°F for 16 seconds), bottled, and stored cold for three to four months. It also can be hot-filled (heated to 180°F for two minutes) into bottles for storage at ambient temperature for up to a year.
Hong Jiang is a research specialist at the UW–Madison Center for Dairy Research (CDR). Bekah McBride is the CDR’s communications specialist. Helping U.S. food companies create functional, nutritious, and flavorful dairy-based products is a major goal of the center.This article was posted in Five Things, Front List, Spring 2018 and tagged Bekah McBride, Five Things, Grow 2018 Spring, Grow Spring 2018, Hong Jiang, Switchel.


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Carnegie-Jones was previously marine commercial manager in Europe for World Fuel Services. Image Credit: GP Global
Energy company GP Global has appointed Max Carnegie-Jones to lead its bunkering business in the UK, the company said Wednesday.
Carnegie-Jones joins the company from World Fuel Services, where he was marine commercial manager in Europe, and he will report to Chris Todd, the company's head of bunkers for the West of Suez region.
"Recent world events and a challenging global economic climate have shed light on how important it is to have the right team in place," Prerit Goel, managing director of GP Global, said in a statement.
"Capitalising on growth opportunities remains our primary focus while we continue working towards safeguarding our international network of teams across the globe."

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How does wordsworth convey a london of light, life and liberty in the poem composed upon westminster bridge william wordsworth (1770-1850) wrote the poem entitled “composed upon westminster bridge” on 3rd september 1802 after his first visit to london in july of the same year. Two levels of comprehension questions about the poem composed upon westminster bridge by william wordsworth, plus extended essay question copy of the poem included. Blake’s “london”(1794) and wordsworth’s “composed upon westminster bridge”(1803) are good examples of poems from the romantic era, as both poets share a sense of emotional involvement in their works. The daffodils and upon westminster bridge both the daffodils and upon westminster bridge were written around the turn of the 19th century in georgian times to illustrate william wordsworth's view of the natural world.
Reading composed upon westminster bridge by william wordsworth pages 1 words 266 view full essay more essays like this: william wordsworth, london 1802, composed upon westminster bridge not sure what i'd do without @kibin - alfredo alvarez, student @ miami university exactly what i needed. William wordsworth’s sonnet ‘composed upon westminster bridge, september 3, 1802’ is one of his most celebrated poems here is the poem, and a few words by way of analysis: here is the poem, and a few words by way of analysis. Example essay - this is an extract answer, written with the poem in front of me explore the ways in which wordsworth vividly conveys his state of mind in this poem in this poem wordsworth explores his joy and inspiration when witnessing a slumbering london interact so perfectly with nature immediately he gives the reader. ‘composed upon westminster bridge’ was written describing the beauty of london early in the morning and it uses different styles including metaphors and personification a comparison between ‘composed upon westminster bridge’ and ‘the solitary reaper’ written by william wordsworth home / free essays / in the poem ‘the.
William wordsworth is an optimist and conveys a positive image of london through his westminster poem and connects london to a wildlife environment william blake uses emotive language to create a negative image of london. A second analysis: composed upon westminster bridge is one of the most famous sonnets of william wordsworth this sonnet, a poem of fourteen lines, was composed between july 31 and september 3, 1807, and was first published in poems in two volumes in 1807. Analysis of lines composed upon westminster bridge by william wordsworth william wordsworth was a leading figure in the romantic movement and although many of his poems deal with rural themes upon westminster bridge describes a very urban landscape the poetwilliam wordsworth was one of the major poets of the romantic movement in britain, and his poetry is generally focused on nature and man.
A summary of “london, 1802” in william wordsworth's wordsworth’s poetry learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of wordsworth’s poetry and what it means perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. Annotation prompts for william wordsworth’s 'composed upon westminster bridge' 'composed upon westminster bridge' is about someone observing events from the famous london landmark. - essay question: with reference to composed upon westminster bridge by william wordsworth and pied beauty by gm hopkins dicuss the reason for the poets awe and admiration, and how each poet employed methods and techniques to express these emotions. Composed upon westminster bridge, september 3, 1802 on april 7, 1770, william wordsworth was born in cockermouth, cumbria, england wordsworth's mother died when he was eight—this experience shapes much of his later work the love letters of william and mary wordsworth (1981) essays essay upon epitaphs (1810) facebook twitter. I have chosen to compare and contrast the british transport holiday in london leaflet, the interview with rachel, upon westminster bridge by william wordsworth and the opening of bleak house by charles dickens.
Westminster bridge by william wordsworth and london by william blake upon westminster bridge was written by william wordsworth on september 3rd 1802 william blake wrote london between 1757 and 1827 both poems are about london, but they have very different views of the city. Lines composed upon westminster bridge is one of his poems that appeals to the modern reader wordsworth sees beauty in the city of london as well as in the fields that surround it wordsworth speaks of the city with the lines like a garment wear/ the beauty of the morning silent, bare english – william wordsworth – essay posted. Composed upon westminster bridge, september 3, 1802 is an italian sonnet, written in iambic pentameter with ten syllables per line the rhyme scheme of the poem is abbaabbacdcdcd the poem was actually written about an experience that took place on july 31, 1802 during a trip to france with wordsworth's sister, dorothy wordsworth.
Composed on westminster bridge and london print reference this disclaimer: william wordsworth was born on 7th april, 1770 in cumberland, in the lake district composed upon westminster bridge wordsworth became a huge figure and one of the leaders of the romantic movement in english poetry in 1807, wordsworth published ‘composed. Composed upon westminster bridge, september 3, 1802 by william wordsworth prev article next article while william wordsworth was taken with the glory of nature, that does not mean to say that he was unaware of the beauty offered in other places as well. Essays for wordsworth’s poetical works wordsworth's poetical works essays are academic essays for citation these papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of william wordsworth's poetry and prose.
Composed upon westminster bridge, september 3, 1802 introduction in a nutshell in the summer of 1802, william wordsworth traveled with his sister, dorothy, to calais, france. William wordsworth (1770-1850) wrote the poem entitled “composed upon westminster bridge” on 3rd september 1802 after his first visit to london in july of the same year. Literature network » william wordsworth » upon westminster bridge william wordsworth poetry books lyrical ballads 1798 lyrical ballads with other poems, 1800, volume 1 lines left upon a seat lines written at a small distance from my house lines written near richmond.

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The art department regularly recognises the achievements of individual pupils in the junior school through the award of the title, ‘Artist of the Moment’. Entries cover a wide range of disciplines, including drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation and mixed media.
Rory from U2 has created this mixed media rainforest piece, inspired by Henri Rousseau’s Surprised painting. We love the vibrant chalk pastels against the textured green background. Well done!

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While litigators have had a field day in court with Merck's arthritis pain-relieving drug Vioxx, a majority of prescribing physicians surveyed recently believe the benefits derived from the drug outweigh the risks.
A study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) indicated that 80 percent of the orthopedic surgeons it asked believe Merck's former wonder drug ought to be back on the market.
It was pulled off the shelves in September 2004 after studies indicated use of Vioxx could lead to heart problems.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the CEI's findings are not surprising.
"These physicians work regularly with people suffering from chronic pain, specifically from arthritis for which there is usually no cure other than joint replacement," the WSJ report stated. "Trained in the vagaries of medical treatment, they also know that almost all drugs have risks. So they see no sound reason Vioxx should be ruled out as an option for patients who can't find relief elsewhere."
More than 100 product liability/personal injury suits against Merck over Vioxx have made their way into Madison and St. Clair County courts in the past two-and-a-half years. The first local Vioxx trial is scheduled to begin later this month. (See related story).
After Vioxx was removed from the market, and the nation's courts were flooded with thousands of claims, congress pushed the Food and Drug Administration for stronger regulation.
In the CEI study, 175 orthopedic surgeons surveyed seem to agree "that the FDA is generally overcautious, not too lenient, when approving new drugs," the WSJ reported.
The survey respondents (76%) said the FDA approval process is "too slow" and the doctors said that "on balance" FDA regulations "hinder" rather than help their ability to treat patients.
The WSJ reported that a CEI survey taken of oncologists in 2002 produced similar findings, "lest anyone dismiss this survey as a one-off."
"This year promises to be an important one for the FDA, with the complicated Prescription Drug User Fee Act up for reauthorization and a number of Senators urging even stricter regulation under the guise of 'reform'," the WSJ report stated. "Congressmen could do worse than listen to what doctors have to say about the current system before they make valuable treatments even harder to obtain."

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When do early HIV symptoms first appear?
Answer From Pritish K. Tosh, M.D.
Early HIV symptoms usually occur within a couple of weeks to a month or two after infection and are often like a bad case of the flu. In many people, early HIV signs and symptoms include:
- Swollen lymph glands
- Sore joints or muscles
- Sore throat
These early HIV symptoms are called acute retroviral syndrome or acute HIV infection and are the body's natural response. Symptoms, if they appear at all, usually disappear within a week to a month and are often mistaken for those of another viral infection. During this period, you are very infectious. More-persistent or more-severe symptoms of HIV infection may not appear for several years after the initial infection.
The symptoms that indicate an early HIV infection are extremely common. Often, you can't tell them apart from symptoms of another viral infection. If you're concerned that you might have been exposed to HIV, talk to your doctor about your testing options.
Pritish K. Tosh, M.D.
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Blizzard has released Dragonflight Patch 10.2: Guardians of the Dream launch trailer.
The launch trailer provides a comprehensive preview of what players can anticipate in this latest update. It gives the viewers glimpses into the unfolding narrative and introduces a range of exciting new features:
- The new zone Emerald Dream
- The Public Event Superbloom
- The faction of the Dream Wardens
- And, of course, the highly-anticipated new raid Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope.
Wondering what lies ahead? You may want to check out our article here:
Many gamers have noted that WoW new cinematic embraces the style of Marvel’s blockbusters. So, without further ado, we will let you experience it yourself.


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HEIRLOOM. Its flavor is rich and full—often compared...
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When it comes to shopping for ginseng for men, the internet is a great place to start. You can find a variety of options online, and the process is fast and convenient. Just remember to check out the price and the brand before buying, and be sure to compare prices online. This article will give you some tips on shopping for ginseng for men. You may also like to consider the reviews of other customers. You’ll find the following information useful.
There is a lot of buzz about panax ginseng for men. Many men take it to improve their libido and erectile dysfunction. Unfortunately, it’s not as effective as modern medications for erectile dysfunction. But it’s a proven herbal remedy for ED that may work for some men. While most people associate erectile dysfunction with old age, it can happen to younger men, as well. And in some cases, it can even be the result of underlying medical conditions.
A study was conducted to determine if the herb can help men with erectile dysfunction. The results showed that men who took panax ginseng were more likely to achieve an erection than those who did not take the herb. Although there was a placebo group, the results were not statistically significant. The men who took panax ginseng saw significant improvements in erections, penetration, and erectile function.
Korean Red Ginseng
Korean Red Ginseng for men is a special type of Korean ginseng that has been shown to provide a boost to energy levels. This supplement is designed especially for middle-aged men. The formula is designed to enhance blood circulation, which is essential to overall health. It also has a calming effect on the body, which helps men cope with stress. Moreover, this supplement is effective for men’s reproductive health as it boosts male hormones.
Impotence is a common problem for men. ED medications like Viagra can help treat this problem, but they are expensive and come with unpleasant side effects. Men may also experience a lack of vitality, which is one of the reasons for trying Korean red ginseng. But, the benefits are far greater than these. Its composition contains several important components that improve male reproductive health. So, is Korean red ginseng for men right for you?
Panax ginseng berry
Korean red ginseng has many medicinal benefits, but it also has side effects. It can make your immune system more active and may worsen auto-immune diseases. In addition, it can affect your heart rhythm and blood pressure. If you are suffering from cardiovascular disease, you should avoid taking Panax ginseng. And it can make you sleepy, which is not always good for your sex life.
In animal studies, Panax ginseng berry has antihyperglycemic and antiobese effects. In one study, ginsenoside Re from Panax ginseng berry extract significantly improved glucose homeostasis in obese mice. It also normalized the IPGTT results. In humans, it has been shown to improve lipid profiles and reduce blood glucose levels.
The use of ginseng for men has long been popular in Asian cultures. While ginseng is considered to be an excellent supplement for both men and women, its effects are not universally applicable. Men should discuss their needs with their doctor before beginning a ginseng regimen. If you are not sure whether ginseng is right for you, here are some of its benefits. Ginseng is a powerful anti-aging and reproductive supplement that can be found in most Asian countries.
The root of ginseng is a natural plant that helps promote sexual function and reduces erectile dysfunction. A study of ginseng berry extracts found that a specific substance called ginsenosides can improve male sexual function and increase sperm count. The ginsenosides in ginseng promote testosterone production. This increases the sperm count and improves erectile function.
For thousands of years, traditional Asian physicians have used ginseng root for its many health benefits, including sexual function. Today, more than 6 million people in the United States regularly consume ginseng. Studies have shown it to boost the immune system, treat various diseases, and treat sexual dysfunction. Its benefits extend far beyond sexual dysfunction, however. In addition to enhancing libido, ginseng also helps improve memory and brain activity.
Although ginseng root has many health benefits for both men and women, it has also been shown to increase sexual drive. It has long been revered by Asians and has even been proven to enhance sexual function in older men. In addition to increasing libido, it also helps open the arteries that carry blood to the genitals. In the West, ginseng was long considered worthless, but studies by South Korean scientists suggest its benefits are real.
Ginseng berry extract
There’s a growing body of evidence that ginseng berry extract for men improves erectile dysfunction in men. A 2012 study of 119 men with erectile dysfunction showed that ginseng berry extract significantly improved sexual function and general well-being. Participants received Korean ginseng berry extract or a placebo. There are still many questions about whether this herb is worth the hype.
The study design was randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, and at one center. The participants were randomly assigned to receive either the ginseng berry extract or a placebo. The clinical visits were conducted at weeks 0, six, and twelve. The participants were instructed to take four capsules daily. In addition to these studies, several other randomized controlled trials and clinical trials have analyzed ginseng berry extract for men’s effects.

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And the Capitals’ coach insists he will be able to carry out his job even though he’s currently on crutches.
Christiansen broke a kneecap in the opening period of his first Elite League game of the season.
He was released from Hull Royal Infirmary last Thursday and allowed to return to Scotland.
And he was behind the bench over the weekend adamant that it will be business as usual off the ice as he recovers from surgery.
Christiansen brushes aside fears he will be out for the rest of the season, claiming: “It’s probably going to be the rest of 2009 – but hopefully early 2010, I will be back.
I didn’t do anything to the ligaments and I’ll need a lot of rehab.”
Caps’ owner Scott Neill is giving the Canadian his total backing and has told him his job is safe, even though the club is now a player down.

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The Young Democrats of Orange County have announced their October election plan which includes four weekends of canvassing for Orange County Democratic candidates. YDOC will launch their October canvass drive this Saturday, October 1, with US House District 7 Candidate Stephanie Murphy. Local Young Democrats will also be getting out the vote for Hillary Clinton […]
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer just can’t help supporting conservative Republicans over his own fellow Democrats, but why is Dyer still sharing the stage and introducing Hillary Clinton at events? Why is Dyer still considered Central Florida’s top Democratic surrogate? Conservative Republican Mike Miller represents nothing that the Democratic Party or our officials should be supporting, […]
Chief Val Demings, the Democratic candidate for Florida’s 10th Congressional District, was invited by the Hillary Clinton campaign to introduce former President Bill Clinton at a campaign stop in Orlando today. The appearance took place at the Dr. James R. Smith Center in the heart of district 10. “Today, I had the honor of introducing […]
This was essentially a debate between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. The other candidates were merely along for the ride.
Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL09), today filed a complaint against Representatives Kevin McCarthy and “Trey” Gowdy with the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) of the US House of Representatives, over their use of the taxpayer-funded Select Committee on Benghazi for political purposes.
Rivals Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton will speak at the same event for the first time during the presidential campaign when they deliver their messages to black voters at the National Urban League conference in Fort Lauderdale on Friday, a gathering that will also draw three more 2016 contenders.
Blacks turned out in record numbers to elect Barack Obama, twice. Now, many are asking, what was the point as nothing has changed.
James Webb, a 51-year-old YouTube celebrity, who says he has voted for the Republican Party for 32 years and is a charter member of the Tea Party Patriots, is thinking of voting for Hillary Clinton in the upcoming 2016 Presidential election. Why? He is terrified that a Republican president would take away his affordable health insurance.


It was 1984 and Barry Eccleston was in London, pitching the new V2500 engine to British Airways for the first time.
A junior executive with International Aero Engines, he pulled out a drawing of the engine and made an earnest presentation.
But it was a short meeting.
"That's very nice," the airline executives said politely as they ushered Eccleston to the door. "Why don't you come back when you're actually running some of these things."
He did, and two weeks ago British Airways signed a contract with IAE worth as much as $2.5 billion -- the biggest in the history of the Pratt & Whitney-Rolls-Royce joint venture. It was the airline's first order with IAE and its first with Europe's Airbus Industrie.
The deal, on the heels of a $2.3 billion order from a group of Latin American carriers and $700 million in follow-on orders from United Airlines, shows that the V2500 is finally coming of age, said Paul Nisbet, an aviation analyst with JSA Research in Newport, R.I.
The string of contracts gives IAE work through 2006, puts the V2500 engine on order with four of the world's five largest airlines, and guarantees decades of revenue from lucrative spare parts sales.
The V2500 had some initial problems after its launch in the late 1980s, but they seem to be resolved, Nisbet said. "It's a good engine," he said.
IAE is still far behind rival CFM International in total sales -- CFM has an exclusive on the popular Boeing 737 -- but IAE this year has won 61 percent of the Airbus A320- family aircraft on which the two engines compete.
The partnership delivered its 1,000th engine to Lufthansa this week during a ceremony at the Farnborough Air Show in England, and has orders or options for another 1,600 engines. Eccleston hopes to have 4,000 in service by 2015. CFM, in comparison, already has more than 8,000 engines flying.
Both companies set records for orders this year because demand for 120- to 190- passenger jetliners has surged, said Carl Opdyke of Forecast International, a Newtown company that analyzes demand for aviation systems and aircraft.
Orders for larger planes, used mostly for international flights, have been hurt by the Asian financial crisis. But airlines have continued to buy smaller planes to replace older aircraft on their growing domestic routes.
Opdyke said the market for narrow-body aircraft should continue "at a reasonable pace" through next year. Most industry analysts expect the market to enter a decline late in 1999, then rebound a few years later when Asian economies recover and airlines in that region begin placing orders.
Eccleston, a Rolls-Royce executive who returned to IAE as president in 1994 and will be leaving Oct. 31 for Fairchild Aerospace in San Antonio, Texas, said all but one or two of the largest orders in the current cycle of buying have been placed. Orders in 1999 won't be as strong as this year's, but should be steady, he said.
For IAE, that means a shift away from a focus on winning sales, and toward a focus on getting engines into service, maintaining reliability, improving customer service and continuing on-time production, Eccleston said.
No V2500 has ever left the shop late, despite a 50 percent jump in deliveries in each of the past two years, he said. He attributes that to the efforts of workers who assemble the engines at a Pratt plant in Middletown and a Rolls-Royce plant in Derby, England.
Eccleston said tweaking the V2500 so it can be used on other aircraft will not be a top priority in the next couple of years. He said, though, that the partnership plans to make modifications so the V2500 can power an extended-range version of the A320.
IAE had considered "derating" the V2500 so it could power a new 100-passenger Airbus jet. But Eccleston said IAE decided the V2500 was a bit too big and a bit too heavy for the small plane.
Pratt and Rolls-Royce were also concerned that a derated V2500 would compete with their own engines. Airbus announced Monday that the new jet, called the A318, will be powered by Pratt's PW6000.
Pratt is developing a slightly more powerful new-technology engine, the PW8000, that will compete against the V2500 in a few years. Airbus has agreed to test-fly the engine on an A320 in 2003.
Pratt spokesman Mark Sullivan emphasized that Pratt will keep supporting the V2500 as long as customers continue to fly it. It's no different from Pratt supporting older JT9D engines that are replaced by newer Pratt & Whitney PW4000s, he said.
In the meantime, the V2500 is Pratt's only engine in large-scale production for narrow- body aircraft. IAE's financial results are proprietary, but Pratt says the V2500 is an increasingly important part of its business.
Still, with no engine on the Boeing 737, IAE does not give Pratt the share of the market that it wants, Sullivan said. Pratt executives hope the PW8000 will solve that problem.


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In the Guyana Chronicle of the 26th October, 2013, at page 9, the Honourable Attorney General with the pretended reverence of being the “protector of the public’s legal interest and the defender of the Constitution of Guyana,” concluded that the Honourable Justice Roxanne George “fell into error by issuing the said gag order. . . the Order issued by the learned Judge cannot be supported by legal principles . . . It is a misuse, if not an abuse, of the “sub judice” principle. I am fortified in this view by the decision of the landmark English case of Wallersteiner v. Moir.”
Nowhere in the A.G.’s article did he set out the facts which were before the judge on which she exercised her discretion to make the said order.
During the hearing of the action between NICIL and Royal Investments, before the Honourable Justice Roxanne George, Counsel for Royal Investments drew the Court’s attention to several articles published in the Guyana Times newspaper which were considered prejudicial to the fair determination of the hearing and the issues before the Court.
Justice George in the presence and hearing of Attorney-at-Law for NICIL said that she had no objection to the evidence taken in court being reported in the press provided that they do not contain expressions of opinions or analyses of the evidence which tend to prejudice a fair hearing and the determination of the issues before her.
In other words the judge did not want a trial by newspaper.
It is well settled law that the public has a right in good faith to criticize in public or private, the public act done in the seat of justice. That right however, is subject to the proviso that the criticism must not impute improper motives to the judge or attempt to impair the administration of Justice.
While the decisions of the cases of Ambard v. A.G. of Trinidad and Tobago; R v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis Ex parte Blackburn; Wallersteiner v. Moir; Thomson v. Times Newspaper Ltd. referred to by the Attorney General in his said article all show that common law Courts are open to criticism by reasonable comment on, or protest at, a judicial act, yet the liberty of the press is no greater and no less than the liberty of the subject.
It is strange that the A.G. should criticize the judge in the press without referring to the facts on which the judge exercised her discretion before making the Order; was the A.G. so reckless not caring to know what the facts were on which her Order was made? A conclusion unsupported by facts or based on falsified facts is worthless. For that reason it has always been a counsel of prudence to disclose the facts from which one’s inference has been drawn.
In his rather extensive opinion, the A.G. failed to refer to the principle which applies when litigation is actively in suit. The Judge had a discretion to make a gag order to avoid a trial by the press. I commend to the Attorney General the following cases for his further reading:
As long ago as 1742 Lord Hardwicke L.C. articulated the Court’s concern for trial by the press. In The St, James Evening Post (Roach v. Garvan) (1742) 2 Atk. 469 the Lord Chancellor said:
“Nothing is more incumbent upon courts of justice, than to preserve their proceedings from being misrepresented; nor is there anything of more pernicious consequence, than to prejudice the minds of the publick against persons concerned as parties in causes, before the cause is finally heard.”
A more recent statement to a similar effect was made by Lord Justice Watkins in Peacock v. London Weekend Television (1985) 150 J.P. 71 at p. 80, he said:
“In our land we do not allow trial by television or newspaper. Until the well recognized institution of this country for the doing of justice, namely the courts, have worked their course, then the hand of the writer and the voice of the broadcaster must be still.”
In Times Newspapers Ltd. (1974) A.C. 273 Lord Reid stated at page 300:
“There has long been and there still is in this country a strong and generally held feeling that trial by newspaper is wrong and should be prevented.”
In A.G. v. Times Newspaper (1973) 1 AER 815 at 821 Lord Denning M.R. who had condemned the “sub judice” principle in Wallersteiner v. Moir (supra) on which the A.G. had relied, emphasized the principle of no trial by newspaper “when litigation is pending and actively in suit”. The Master of the Rolls said at p. 821:
“It is undoubted law that, when litigation is pending and actively in suit before the court, no one shall comment on it in such a way that there is a real and substantial danger of prejudice to the trial of the action, as for instance by influencing the judge, the jurors, or the witnesses, or even by prejudicing mankind in general against a party to the cause. Even if the person making the comment honestly believes it to be true, still it is a contempt of court if he prejudges the truth before it is ascertained in the proceedings.
“I regard it as the first importance that the law which I have just stated should be maintained in its full integrity. We must not allow ‘trial by newspaper’ or ‘trial by television’ or trial by any medium other than the courts of law. But, in so stating the law, I would emphasise that it applies only ‘when litigation is pending and is actively in suit before the court. To which I would add that there must appear to be ‘a real and substantial danger of prejudice to the trial of the case or to the settlement of it.”
Having regard to the facts and the reportage by the newspapers, the Attorney General’s conclusion that the judge’s order “cannot be supported by legal principles” and that the judge “misused or abused the ‘sub judice’ principle” is itself gravely misconceived and bad in law. The only proper course of action is for the Attorney general to issue a retraction of his statement and offer an apology to the judge.
Rex McKay, S.C.


Council to vote again over denied 5th ward appointee Jaclyn Smith-Esters
GALESBURG — The Galesburg City Council will vote May 17 for a second time over whether to confirm Jacyln Smith-Esters to fill the Fifth Ward council seat of mayor and former alderman Peter Schwartzman, Schwartzman has confirmed.
At the May 3 city council meeting, Jacyln Smith-Esters was put up by the new mayor to replace his own position as the alderperson of Galesburg’s Ward 5. Smith-Esters was denied the position in a 4-2 vote, with three votes against her confirmation and another abstaining vote being added to the “no” total due to council rules.
Following this vote, council member Bradley Hix, who had made one of the "no" votes, asked that the vote be made again at the May 17 council meeting as a way to allow council members more time to review the candidate. He said later to The Register-Mail that he would like to interview Smith-Esters personally.
Still, whether Smith-Esters would actually be able to be voted on at the meeting was unclear. Usually if a candidate to replace a council seat is voted down by the council, a second nominee from the mayor goes up for vote. If that second nominee is also voted down, the mayor can appoint either of the nominees without a vote needed.
Whether the same person could be voted on twice by the council was unclear, however, and the city had to undergo a legal review to ensure that this vote could be made. Friday, Schwartzman told The Register-Mail that this legal review has been completed.
“The reconsideration of Smith-Esters has been deemed legal and will be on the agenda for the May 17th meeting,” Schwartzman said via email. “I have encouraged the council members to reach out to her.”


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From: Wooleen Station
Distance: 415 km (220 km more than planned!)
Our final dawn at this station was shepherded in with a storm rumbling overhead, complete with rainbows. The raw beauty of this place just takes your breath away, and Catherine doesn’t have much breath to play with in the first place 🙂
One last look down the stretch of the Murchison River that had shown us so many different moods in our few days here.
We hitched up with our usual mixture of feelings when we find a special place. A bit sad to leave, knowing its very unlikely we will ever see this place again, and excitement for what’s ahead. We retraced oursteps to the Murchison Roadhouse. Now if anyone of you have occasion to refill the tank in these parts we can thoroughly recommend the place. Diesel at $1.29 a litre, cheap for this part of WA, spotless facilities, free Wifi that actually works and flowers in the garden!
Ms Google was taking us to Mullewa, a tiny settlement that would break the otherwise long trip back to the coast. We arrived to find our unpowered site was on a hot, shadeless and dusty gravel car park across the road from any facilities in the main park…so we left in disgust. Why we should pay the local council $20s to stay in a car park I’m not entirely sure. A quick call to our next park and they were able to extend our stay to tonight…so off we roared.
The most dramatic change in landscape occurred half way to to the coast. We went from the red dirt plains and acacia of the last few months up over a hill and this verdant scene opened up. Fields of yellow rape seed – our first cultivated non-grazing land since leaving northern NSW in early June.
We arrived at our caravan park in Kalbarri pretty tired and quickly set up, heated up some pre-cooked yummy Spanish Mackerel curry and flopped in front of the iPad for our nightly injection of Suits.


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In an age of rising house prices, crazy consumerism and a trend towards living more simply, it makes perfect sense that the tiny house movement is finally making in-roads in Australia.
US shows such as Tiny House Nation and Tiny House Hunting are helping pique our interest in these cosy and super-affordable dwellings, of course, but many who’ve jumped on the tiny bandwagon believe ‘going tiny’ could offer a real solution to the housing crisis.
“I’m convinced that the tiny is the house of the future – well, for a big chunk of the Australian market,” says Grant Emans, NSW-based builder and owner of Designer Eco Homes, which specialises in tiny houses. “It’s sustainable in so many ways, not just environmentally but socially. I think it’s just a great option for many people.”
Emans isn’t the only one. Big World Homes unveiled its sustainable, portable flatpack tiny home late last year, which includes a living room that converts to a bedroom, running water, plumbed-in bathroom, solar panels and rainwater tanks. They’re optimising the structure so that IKEA products can be easily integrated into the build for storage, and claim the tiny homes, at 2.5 tonnes, can be towed by a ‘regular 4WD’.
The surprisingly spacious Designer Eco Homes can take about three months to build
In terms of costs, the average tiny house with kitchen, bathroom and loft bedroom will set you back anywhere from $50,000-$90,000. Designer Eco Homes’ tiny houses range from $55,000 to $85,000 and take about three months to build – while the Big World Home’s tiny house is $65,000, and can reportedly be constructed with a hammer and a drill in a matter of days.
Who’s going tiny?
In the US, an estimated 40 per cent of tiny houses owners are over 50, and while Emans’ clients are all ages – including young first homebuyers – he also gets single and/or divorced women in their 50s or older who are seeking something small and manageable. “I also get older couples who might already have a beautiful home, but want to invest in a tiny home to put on their property as a guest house, or to rent out for extra cash on Airbnb,” he says.
Tiny homes can be used as a home or as a guest house for your property
A true ‘tiny home’ on wheels (THOW) is essentially a registered caravan, and it must be built in accordance with Australian Design Rules. That’s a maximum height of 4.3m tall, 2.5m wide and 12.5m long. “It cannot weigh more than 4.5 tonnes, either, whereas American tiny homes can be 7 tonnes,” adds Emans. “Also, it’s not the kind of thing you want to drag down the highway every week. The reality of a tiny home is it’s caravan built to look like a house – but it’s not aerodynamic and it’s too heavy to tow all the time.”
Tiny design that’s all about you
The beauty of going tiny is you can afford to customise it exactly as you’d like it – rustic, Scandi-sleek, super-luxurious, industrial chic or a mixture of styles that you love. You might want a tiny home that connects to existing services, or one that’s completely off-grid so you save even more on bills. Clever storage, airy loft bedrooms and mod cons are a given – the rest is really down to your imagination, the talents of the builder and what you want to pay. Want a bigger kitchen because you love cooking? Tick. Skylights in the loft so you can lie in bed and look at the stars? Tick. A teeny built-in desk for a home office? Tick.
“Some have two lofts, some have ground floor bedrooms,” says Emans. “And everything is dual purpose. Stairs double as a storage cabinet; the front door doubles as an indoor ladder to get to the second loft, the handrail might double as a shelf. I believe good design should be simple and practical. Everything in a tiny house is customised to suit your style and living habits. If you’re seriously thinking about going tiny, go and visit a few to ensure you’re comfortable living in the space. Most people who come to our workshop usually find the tiny houses bigger than they’d expected.”
There are infinite possibilities when customising your tiny home
Where to put your tiny house?
Finding a permanent or semi-permanent bit of land on which to park your tiny is currently the biggest drawback for potential homeowners, says Emans. “Some people buy bush blocks, and others have family who own a large property and have space in the backyard. My advice? Before putting down a deposit to build one, acquire the land it’ll go onto first.”
Big World Homes is looking to establish ‘Big World Home Communities’ for those who buy its homes but have nowhere to put it. The only other option is to do a DA to create a caravan park – which might be one way if you have a bunch of friends who are keen to go tiny. “The industry is only about three years old in Australia, and while we’d eventually like to see legislation to create tiny house villages, councils will take a while to catch up,” says Emans.
That said, people are already bucking the trend, with tiny house villages being created by enthusiasts around the country. Phonse Moon, who is creating Beachside Village in NSW’s Ulladulla, is one of them. “We’re building a tiny house community in an old caravan park with residents due to move in early next year,” he says. “It’ll have a vegie patch, chooks, a big communal kitchen. We’re in the early stages of tiny house living but I imagine it’ll be a huge thing in coming years with house prices and rent so high. It just offers another option.”
Would you live in a tiny house – or do you already?


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The idea came to me when I was out in the Wet Kitchen (more info about Malaysian wet kitchens in an older post here.) pictured above. This wet kitchen serves mainly for washing big pans and other cleaning activities. Although the Malaysians use it to cook in. See in the photo above the yellow gas tank under the counter. It is the gas tank that connects to my stove in my kitchen. But, the wet kitchens usually have a countertop hob burner placed on the lower counter in the photo above (where the water bottle is sitting). Anyway, one day I was potting some seeds out on that countertop and looked over to the empty covered patio to the right of the wet kitchen.
When we first moved in I thought we would put some furniture back here and would sit back here. But that didn't really materialize one because the space is just behind the bathroom on the first floor and two because there are upper floor bathroom pipes running above it to the second floor master bedroom bathroom. Third because the neighbor's house in the back backs ours so there is no real view except the wall. So it just isn't the kind of place I want to lounge around, I'd rather go to the front patio.
So I had this idea while potting plants that the space could be a pseudo-greenhouse because the roof on that part is clear not tile. I thought it would be a good place to grow seeds and cuttings for the garden. I made some concrete and glass platforms with glass that was in the house when we moved in and now I have my own greenhouse! It is hot and humid enough here that having a fully enclosed greenhouse in Malaysia, I'm not even sure if that would work it might be too hot. So this clear cover roof with open sides, I think allows for air circulation. It's been working pretty well so far, the space gets good sun but not too much.
I have planted some seeds and some are starting to sprout. I've also taken some cuttings and have them in water bottles some have started to root as well. My thought on that is everything here in Malaysia grows so fast, so some of these plants should root. The greenhouse is more of an experiment to see what I can grow from seed and cuttings. For example, I took some cuttings from the hedge around the front of the house as I'd like to fill it in with some more plants. But I don't think those are going to root. If not, oh well. I've also taken cuttings from the passion fruit vine and some other orange plant vine which grows on my neighbors property. I've got Thai basil attempting to root as well as some Christmas palm seeds, the bunga kantan experiments, chili peppers and peacock tree seeds. There's more I'm forgetting too. I'd like to have an herb garden around this space with herbs I can't get in the stores easily here like tomatillo which I have never seen. Also grow herbs we use a lot of like Thai basil. But it will all be very slow to start.


New Charges Fly Over Leaked Democratic Intelligence Memo
Contrary to earlier statements, Senate Republicans possessed a copy of a Democratic memo laying out a strategy for exploiting allegations of intelligence failures leading up to the war in Iraq, according to a GOP member of the Intelligence Committee.
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) told home-state reporters on a conference call Thursday that Intelligence Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) told him about the existence of the memo late last week.
Hagel’s comments go against an official statement from Roberts in which he blasted the Democratic memo Tuesday, saying he had “just learned” of its existence.
But during his call with Nebraska reporters, Hagel asserted that Roberts had shown him the memo late last week and that it had been discovered “in the Senate Intelligence Committee staff room.”
“Chairman Roberts brought the copy of the memo to me last Friday morning, actually Thursday morning — when he first found out about it,” Hagel said in the conference call. “The way it is written, it is literally a campaign document. It is a political roadmap.”
A spokesman for Hagel said the boss “misspoke” during the conference call, but then offered conflicting answers himself about when the Nebraska Senator first viewed the memo. After clarifying that the Senator first saw the memo on Monday of this week, Hagel spokesman Mike Buttry changed his statement.
“Senator Hagel found out about it on Tuesday,” Buttry said.
The memo’s existence was first reported Tuesday afternoon by Sean Hannity on his nationally syndicated radio talk show. That disclosure sparked a national firestorm, with Republicans charging that Senate Democrats were trying to politicize intelligence failures in advance of the 2004 presidential election.
But Senate Democratic aides told Roll Call on Friday that Hagel’s comments suggest that Republicans knew about the memo sooner than they let on, and that this week’s complaints about the memo formed a pre-meditated political attack.
“The question for Pat Roberts and other Republicans on the Intelligence Committee is what they did know and when did they know it,” said a senior Senate Democratic aide. “If it’s true that they had it for so long, it appears indignation grows slowly among Republicans.”
Republicans who had already planned to discuss the memo on the Senate floor Friday also criticized those who said Roberts was engaged in partisan warfare.
Roberts, meanwhile, released an official statement criticizing Democrats for trying to politicize the issue.
“We are talking about the integrity of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has a more than 25 year history of bipartisan commitment to safeguard our national security and the Democrats want to talk about timing,” said Roberts. “That is a red herring so they don’t have to answer the charge that they have politicized national intelligence oversight.”
A spokeswoman for Roberts would not address when the Kansas Republican received the memo, saying only, “We are not talking about timing — we are talking about the issue and what it means to national security.”
In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, noted it was a draft memo that “was not approved by me, was not given to any other member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, nor to any other staff person.”
He also questioned how the memo ended up in Hannity’s hands.
“At some point very soon the committee and the Senate are going to have to explore the chain of events surrounding this draft memo since it raises serious questions about whether the majority is obtaining unauthorized access to private internal materials of the minority, and who made the decision in this case to leak the draft of an unofficial memo to the press,” Rockefeller said.


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Acoustic noise suppression for helicopter communication systems
Author(s)Evernham, Jeffrey Thomas
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FDA Approves Upgraded FUS Fibroid System
Thursday, October 22, 2015
The FDA has approved broadened treatment options available to the millions of women who suffer from uterine fibroids. First, the FDA approved a more advanced next generation ExAblate system for fibroids. In addition, the FDA removed the “family complete” requirement, confirming that women who want to maintain their fertility can use FUS to treat their fibroids.
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Arthur Brooks made a great point in his Wall Street Journal opinion piece yesterday, Republicans and Their Faulty Moral Arithmetic.
Raging against government debt and tax rates that most Americans don’t pay gets conservatives nowhere, and it will always be an exercise in futility to compete with liberals on government spending and transfers.
Instead, the answer is to make improving the lives of vulnerable people the primary focus of authentically conservative policies. For example, the core problem with out-of-control entitlements is not that they are costly—it is that the impending insolvency of Social Security and Medicare imperils the social safety net for the neediest citizens. Education innovation and school choice are not needed to fight rapacious unions and bureaucrats—too often the most prominent focus of conservative education concerns—but because poor children and their parents deserve better schools.
That reminds me. I have made headway with liberal friends on the subject of school choice by doing exactly what Brooks suggests, making it about the kids and the parents who need the most help.
I pointed out that middle-income and wealthy folks already have school choice because they can afford to live in an area with a good public school district or pay to send their kids to private school. That may contribute to why these schools are successful.
I then asked why low-income parents shouldn’t be given more choice, too.
Several told me that changed their mind about school choice and they became supporters of it.


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The newly created Office of Youth & Families will host its first-ever Family Fest to engage communities and highlight work being done to promote a safer, healthier and more active atmosphere for families across New Orleans. The festival will be held Saturday, Sept. 29, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the St. Roch Playground.
WYLD-FM host Wild Wayne will serve as the emcee and DJ for the event, which also will include live music, dance and other performances as well as a Resource Fair with local community nonprofits, government agencies and other organizations committed to building stronger families.
The event is free and open to the public and will include free food and drinks provided by local vendors, along with some refreshments for sale.
“The new Office of Youth and Families is charged with creating better outcomes for our young people and our families,” said Mayor Cantrell. “The first-ever Family Fest this weekend is a great opportunity to engage with our residents and show some love to the people— while we highlight the kinds of resources the Office of Youth and Families can offer the community.”
Office of Youth & Families Director Emily Wolff has been charged with coordinating a range of social programs and services for the city’s residents. This includes working with the New Orleans Public Library, the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission and the Youth Study Center.
“We are mindful of the fact that 37 percent of our city’s youth live in poverty, and we have to engage with and serve them in a more holistic way so our services work in synch together and not separately,” Wolff said. “While our residents can enjoy the sports, entertainment, food and refreshments throughout the day, they will have multiple opportunities to learn more about how we can best serve them.”
Festival-goers will enjoy performances from the Roots of Music, ReNEW Mass Band and AllStar Dance Team, KB Dance Dolls, the Youth Empowerment Project Band and many more. Family Fest is coordinated through the Office of Youth & Families, the Office of Neighborhood Engagement and NORD.


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About Ireland, Index to Griffith's Valuation, 1848-1864
This database, an index to one of Ireland's premier genealogical resources, Griffith's Valuation, references approximately one million individuals who occupied property in Ireland between 1848 and 1864. Information listed in this index includes name of resident and parish and county of residence.
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This database, an index to one of Ireland's premier genealogical resources, Griffith's Valuation, references approximately one million individuals who occupied property in Ireland between 1848 and 1864. The Griffith's Valuation, or Primary Valuation of Ireland, was executed under the direction of Sir Richard Griffith to determine the amount of tax each person should pay towards the support of the poor within their poor law union. This involved determining the value of all privately held lands and buildings in rural as well as urban areas to figure the rate at which each unit of property could be rented year after year. The resulting survey was arranged by barony and civil parish with an index to the townlands appearing in each volume. The original volumes of the survey are held in the National Archives, Dublin and Public Record Office, Belfast.
Griffith's Valuation is an invaluable reference for family historians with ancestors in Ireland. It is a record of extreme importance since no census material of the nineteenth century has survived. In effect, Griffith's Valuation can be used as a census substitute for the years before, during, and after the Great Famine. While it represents an impressive undertaking in terms of property survey, Griffith's Valuation is also an important record of valuable social and economic data. For those seeking information on their Irish ancestors, it provides more than just names and locations of residences. Griffith's Valuation is, effectively, the only detailed guide to where in Ireland people lived in the mid-nineteenth century and what property they possessed. In addition to providing the name of the householder, Griffith's Valuation provides a map reference number to help you identify and perhaps locate property.
Few other records can be used to identify an immigrant ancestor's exact place of origin, and only Griffith's Valuation links an individual to a specific townland and civil parish. This information is of extreme importance since the first step in Irish genealogical research is to identify an ancestor's townland and civil parish. This information can lead you to ecclesiastical parish records of births and marriages.
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Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre was set up as a confidential helpline in 1982 by a small group of local women. It was a response to a growing awareness of sexual violence against women and girls, and the need to provide a safe space.
The Centre gave many women their first chance to talk openly about their experiences of rape, sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse and other forms of sexual violence. It also meant they could support each other in their recovery and healing.
Today, nearly 40 years later, we have expanded to become a specialist sexual violence charity delivering a range of life-changing support services to survivors of sexual violence.
Our mission is to ensure women and girls across Cambridgeshire who are being, or have been, subjected to any form of sexual violence are able to access the best possible, user-led, specialist
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Our free, confidential and non-judgemental support services include a telephone helpline, email support, counselling and advocacy support. We are run by women, for women, and provide protected time and space to empower survivors to recover, begin to rebuild and go on to thrive.
We also provide training for individuals and organisations on a wide range of issues surrounding sexual violence.
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Cambridge Herstory is an archive and resource of Cambridge Women’s Heritage, celebrating the courage and resilience of the women of Cambridge.
The archive celebrates the contributions of women who have lived, worked and studied in Cambridge throughout the ages: from stories of women in history who changed the city for the better, and often contributed nationally to stories of women currently living in Cambridge who make massive contributions to improve the lives of their friends, family, neighbours, colleagues, community members and our city every single day.
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HTC is keeping up the pressure on its competition by creating yet another mobile phone, in addition to the recently observed Legend, that will run on the Android operating system: this time version 2.1.
The latest HTC design is known as the Incredible and is seen here, in the accompanying photos, situated next to the original T-Mobile G1 phone. Notice the relatively subtle red accents on the flanks of the new Incredible.
The revealed feature count of the new design is limited at the moment. However, we do know that the handset will include a WVGA touchcreen with an optical mouse input and the Sense user interface. The phone will include a built in camera of unknown specification but it will also feature a dual LED flash, according to the Phandroid website.
The new phone is expected to be released later this month but reports say that it may suffer from delays making May a more likely date. A UK release is possible but, before the phone is released into the UK, it may undergo a name change.
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Last week, after posting my story about Willie “Little Beaver” Hale, I noticed that there were several readers that found their way to this site not from Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit but rather from an obscure four-lettered website – www.iorr.org. It turns out that this is the official website for the Rolling Stones Fan Club; the acronym “iorr” stands for It’s Only Rock-n-Roll.
I like it, I like it, yes I do.
A little more digging brought me to the site’s fan forum where one inquisitive Stones fan, under the heading Willie Hale – Little Beaver – almost a Stone? had posted that he once read that Little Beaver had been approached to join the Rolling Stones after guitarist Mick Taylor left the band in the 70s. The fan closed with, “Does anybody know anything about this?”
A few years back on the same fan club site, there was this exchange about Little Beaver’s iconic guitar playing on the 1971 Betty Wright hit song ‘Clean Up Woman.’
Rolling Stones Fan 1: “I always thought that the Stones studied the way the two guitars work together on Wright’s hit. There are two interlocking guitar parts on that record that are fun to play. I might be wrong, but I think one of the parts was played by Little Beaver who was supposedly considered for the M. Taylor slot.”
Rolling Stones Fan 2: “You’re right about Little Beaver playing on Clean Up Woman… Great Miami funk… I also heard he was considered to replace Mick Taylor.”
Over the course of the more than 5 hours, over two days, that I spent with the legendary Miami guitarist at his home in Opa-locka, this topic never came up. I did my fair share of prep work for the interview. Did I miss something this big?
I called Beaver the other night and asked him about it.
No, he said, he was never actually approached to join the English rock band but, …
There was a concert or a tour and I did hear that it was a toss-up between me and Stevie Wonder performing with them.
Was it a concert or a tour? I asked.
I think it was a tour.
Let’s pause for a second and reflect on this.
In the summer of 1972, the Rolling Stones, upon release of their album Exile on Main Street, embarked on a tour across the U.S. and Canada. The opening act night after night? Stevie Wonder.
Wonder, then 21 years old, was just hitting his stride with the release of his LP, Talking Book, which contained the classic hit ‘Superstition.’ On the tour, he would join the Stones on stage during their encores on songs like ‘Honky Tonk Woman’ and ‘I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.’
Willie Clarke, a producer and composer who oversaw the production of ‘Clean Up Woman’ as well as many of Little Beaver’s R&B records at TK said he didn’t have much recollection of the Stones/Beaver story but he said it wouldn’t surprise him that Beaver received consideration.
Beaver won guitarist of the year around that time so he was very popular.
The Stones 1972 American Tour remains one of the most famous concert events in music history and the subject of countless published works including documentaries and photography books. The tour is credited with elevating the band to the very top of the rock-n-roll world.
And Stevie Wonder? With the wider visibility and exposure to a rock audience gained during the tour, his career flourished, cementing him as one of the most celebrated musicians of our time.
Here’s Little Beaver again:
The fact that it was between me and Stevie Wonder… Man, just to be in the company with Stevie Wonder, that’s all I need.
That was great to me.
Stevie Wonder & the Stones, 1972:
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BARCELONA, Spain - The world's largest wireless carriers, including the four largest in the United States, announced Monday they are combining forces to make it easier for software developers to write applications to run on as many phones as possible.
The "Wholesale Applications Community" is an attempt to retake the initiative from phone makers like Apple, Nokia and Research in Motion, which have their own apps stores. Google is also building a store for its Android software.
The 24 carriers in the community, announced here on the first day of the annual Mobile World Congress trade show, will let software developers write applications that will run on phones from many different manufacturers. While there won't be a joint applications store, a developer will be able to submit an application and have it sold across several different carrier stores.
Cell phones apps are a fast-growing market, yet developers face the problem their products run on only a few phones. For instance, an application for Apple's iPhone won't run on any other phone.
U.S. carriers Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA are part of the group. Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics, the largest maker of cell phones for the U.S. market, revealed Sunday the first phone running Samsung's own "smart" software. It's called bada.
With bada, Korea-based Samsung is taking the TouchWiz system used on its touch-screen non-smart phones and making it the basis of a smart-phone platform, hoping to compete with the iPhone and the BlackBerry. Samsung said the phone will go on sale in April. - AP


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Skills partnerships have never been more important24 March 2014
Column originally published in the Local Government Chronicle on 10 March 2014.
Three significant learning and skills developments will impact significantly on local economic regeneration.
Latest participation data from the Skills Funding Agency shows the number of adults taking part in publicly funded learning in England has dropped by almost 200,000 compared with last year.
There were 63,000 fewer adults on maths courses – a 14% drop – and 51,000 fewer on English courses, an 11% fall.
Although these are provisional figures, they should cause some head scratching in local enterprise partnerships.
Second, employer skills survey data from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills revealed that almost a quarter of job vacancies – 22% of the 655,000 total – are unfilled because of skills shortages.
Basic skills in literacy and numeracy and those for skilled trades, management and professional roles were among the most lacking.
Third, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills’ annual Skills Funding Statement delivered the blunt headline that we face 20% cut in the adult skills budget over the next two years. Nearly £500m is disappearing from the budgets of further education colleges.
These support significant local interventions to address skills shortages, which the UK Commission for Employment and Skills has identified.
Like recent local government settlements this hardly paints a rosy picture.
But like the best of local government it provides a big opportunity to re-energise local partnership working.
Councils’ biggest challenge is making the most of their skills partnerships.
This means local government working collaboratively with colleges, employers and LEPs to provide creative local solutions to match supply and demand in the skills system with the demands and motivations of learners and employers.
The LEPs and city deal areas with which we work are taking action to address these dilemmas, including:
- LEP-level labour market assessments, diagnosing the skills needs of all adults
- Analysis on the impact of the SFS on course viability in local FE providers – across LEPs and local public service boards
- Developing employer-led skills strategies that seek to influence learner demand and motivation across LEP areas
- Impact assessments of the financial outlook for skills on those citizens furthest from the labour market
- Understanding the opportunity and risks around the provision of advanced learning loans at level 3 and 4
Learning and skills must not end when people reach the age of 24.
This view is widely shared by the employers we work with.
The new local partnership landscape of LEPs and councils now needs to rise to the challenge of addressing this to benefit local labour markets.
The NIACE is here to help local government with that task.


Spacemen eyeing third in regular season finale‘’(Brien A. Mitchum)‘’
The Fort Wayne Spacemen of the US Premier Hockey League are wrapping up their inaugural season with the final two games of an 11-game homestand Friday and Sunday at the SportOne Parkview IceHouse, with a chance to move up in the standings.
Coach Kaleigh Schrock says they’re trying to make the most of a seven-game winning streak as they take on the Metro Jets Developmental Program (Friday, 7:30pm) and the MidWest Blackbirds (Sunday, 6pm):
“We’re looking at an opportunity to lock up third place,” he says. “MJDP has a game in hand against us. If we can find a way to win that one, and find a way to win on Sunday, we’d need MJDP to drop a game against Lansing. We’re trying to just continue to play the same way we’ve been playing.”
After this weekend, the Spacemen will look at starting the first round of the playoffs at home – with game 1 on February 28th at 9pm, game two on 2/29 at 4pm, and game three (if necessary) on March 1st at 3pm – against either MidWest or the Detroit Fighting Irish. It’ll be a best-of-three series, with the second round being against another division opponent as well, either at home or on the road. The following and final rounds will be held in Boston.
Schrock adds that plans are in the works to honor Spacemen captain Jared Fisher, who recently broke the USPHL records for goals scored in a single season and cumulative points in a single season, in a special on-ice ceremony, although he wasn’t sure if that would be during this last weekend of the regular season or during the opening round of the playoffs.
“He’s obviously been a big part of our success, not only in the stats he’s put up and as a leader, but also in recruiting. He’s such a good person that, when other players learn he’s here, they wanted to join the party. He’s a fun kid to be around. We owe it to him to honor him not just because he deserves it, but because of the guy he is.”