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Sen. Charles Schumer wants Congress to approve a new bill that would give college grads a “fair shot” at an affordable education by allowing them to refinance their student-loan debt and take advantage of lower interest rates currently offered to new borrowers.
The plan would allow grads who are paying back loans with interest rates as high as 14 percent to refinance at today’s lower rates of 3.86 percent, Schumer announced at a press conference Sunday.
“High interest rates create an anchor around the necks of young professionals,” Schumer said, while standing with students saddled with massive school debt.
Recent legislation has brought interest rates down to between 3 and 4 percent for students taking out undergraduate loans for the 2013-14 school year.
But that’s little consolation for recent grads, most of whom are about $30,000 in debt.


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He has really seen it all!
A United States Coast Guard veteran recently celebrated his 100th birthday in New Orleans, Fox 5 DC reports.
Andy Washington was a member of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) from 1942 until 1946, having served in World War II. On June 27th, Washington celebrated his 100th birthday, with a full on parade, second line band, tributes from USCG officials and surrounded by family and friends, all wearing shirts emblazoned with “Andy’s 100th Birthday” on it. The centenarian watched it all from his front yard seated on his black and gold throne.
Captain Michael Paradise, commanding officer of the Coast Guard Base New Orleans came to pay honor to Washington, saying, “This week I had the privilege of finding out about Mr. Andy’s 100th birthday, and that Mr. Andy was a World War II United States Coast Guard veteran. When I heard that, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to come over and wish Mr. Andy a happy birthday. And from me, and the United States Coast Guard, sir, I stand here and salute you.”
Paradise and Washington exchanged salutes before the Captain presented the vet with a gift and an official Coast Guard flag. You can check out Mr. Washington’s celebration below!
Happy Birthday Mr. Andy! Thank you for your service!
Photo Courtesy of Fox 5 DC

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Second Regular Session 112th General Assembly (2002)
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HOUSE ENROLLED ACT No. 1238
AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.
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SECTION 1. IC 5-22-21-7 IS AMENDED TO READ AS
FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2002]: Sec. 7. (a) Except as
provided in section 7.5 of this chapter, surplus property available for
sale shall first be offered for sale to all political subdivisions. If the
property is in the possession of the Indiana department of
transportation, the commissioner shall notify each supervisor of county
highways appointed under IC 8-17-3-1 of the sale.
(b) Notice of the sale shall be mailed or provided by another means
at least fifteen (15) days before the date of the sale to each county
auditor and to each political subdivision that has previously requested
notice of the sale from the commissioner. Information regarding the
sale shall also be made available at any time before the sale to political
subdivisions upon request.
(c) A political subdivision that wants to purchase the property must
deliver a sealed bid to the commissioner before the date of the sale to
(d) The department shall sell the surplus property to the highest
responsible governmental bidder. The commissioner shall determine
a market price for the surplus property that is stated in the notice
of the sale. The department shall sell the surplus property to the
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There’s nothing worse than coming home from a trip and finding out you could have had a much better time had you known to make different choices. Here we’ve listed a few things worth keeping in mind when planning and going on a vacation in Greece, along with plenty of useful links to content on our site that will help make your holiday everything you hope for.
Choosing the wrong destination
Greece may not be among the largest European countries, but it’s undoubtedly one of the most diverse. Some Greek destinations are made for families while others are awe-inspiring and romantic, and yet others are loud, bustling, and great for young party-goers. That’s not to mention the paradisiacal regions less trodden, suitable only for nature lovers, the wine regions and the cities with their interesting gastronomy scenes and shopping.
While there’s a reason to love them all, one of the biggest mistakes you can make is booking a trip to the wrong place. For example, Santorini’s Oia may be on many people’s travel bucket lists, but for those whose physique doesn’t allow for constant climbing of steps, and for those who want to spend most of their vacation on the beach, a town like Hora on Naxos might be a better option. Smaller and lesser-known islands, meanwhile, may be gaining popularity, but those who tend to get restless and wish to spend their evenings barhopping may be better off choosing a more established destination like Mykonos or Paros.
In other words, extend your research beyond photos and a hotel website. These articles below are a good place to start:
Choosing the wrong time to go
As with picking the most suitable destination, choosing the right month for your trip can make your holiday infinitely better. Greece is on a mission to grow its tourism season, and the incentives for visiting in low-season are plenty. If, for example, you do wish to go to Santorini, but also want to avoid crowds, a visit in spring is lovely. Islands famous for their scenic beaches, like Milos and Kythira, meanwhile, are wonderful places to go in the fall, when the sea is warm and most Greek and foreign tourists have gone. In addition to this, did you know that Greece has multiple ski resorts, and amazing mountain villages that are more beautiful than ever in the winter?
You can find some of our best tips for destinations to visit in the shoulder seasons and in the winter by typing the season you wish to travel into our search bar.
Having all your meals at the hotel
While there are certainly resorts with restaurants worth dining at more than once, don’t let your all-inclusive deal stand in the way of discovering other nearby gems. We have articles that guide you to the best food and restaurants in most parts of Greece.
Find our gastronomy content here, or type your destination into our search field (most of our destination guides include tips for where and what to eat).
Which brings us to:
Choosing the wrong restaurants, and ordering the wrong food
To be fair, you may be able to find chicken skewers and tzatziki on par with those at your local Greek restaurant at home even at the eateries Greeks typically avoid. However, steering clear of the restaurants catering solely to tourists is a good rule of thumb when you’re looking for a place to eat. Another is to ask your waiter for tips when ordering. You might be hungry for moussaka, but if it’s not eggplant season (find our guide to Greek produce and what to eat when here), another special, like a meaty stew or pastitsio, might satisfy your craving.
Ask about local specialties, not just dishes but products as well. If the taverna uses a local cheese or their own olives, they may bring you some to try.
To get served the best food each establishment has to offer, be aware of the different types of Greek restaurants, and order accordingly:
Tavernas are often specialized in either meat or fish and seafood, but can also excel at both. Here, you’ll also find typical home-style dishes like ladera (vegetable-based, usually vegan, dishes cooked in oil), moussaka, and meat stews. Good tavernas cook with seasonal produce and fish.
Mezedopoleia serve appetizer-sized dishes known as meze, preferably to be enjoyed alongside a few glasses of ouzo, raki or tsipouro (learn what they are here). In some places, especially in the city of Volos, a meze will be brought to you for free with your drink.
Kafeneia are traditional cafés which mostly offer Greek coffee, Greek spirits (see link above), and beer, but often also a few simple meze. Read more here and find a list of three kafeneia worth visiting in Athens here.
Souvlatzidika serve souvlaki, i.e. meat skewers or gyros, most commonly wrapped in pita bread along with other fillings: traditionally tomato, yogurt and parsley, but very often also some fries, leafy greens or cabbage, and tzatziki or mayonnaise-based sauce. You can also get plain skewers. For those visiting Athens, you can find some of our favorite souvlatzidika here.
It’s also worth noting that not only traditional Greek food is good in Greece. If you’re a foodie and visiting a big city or a large island, it’s absolutely worth looking into restaurants serving other cuisines.
Read more here.
Not sharing food
If your favorite quote to identify with is “Joey doesn’t share food,” you may want to adapt yourself on this vacation, because the average Joe might get away with that but the average Greek will tell you that that’s no way to order; plenty of dishes for the table – not just meze, but mains as well – is the best way to experience the local cuisine. This way, you get to try more things at every meal. If you’re goal oriented enough, challenge yourself to try several new dishes every day, find your favorites, and on your last evening, you can create your ultimate Greek dinner to remember.
Overlooking the mainland
When you picture Greece, you picture an island. Or do you? The mainland, in fact, boasts some of the most beautiful coastlines, complete with the sandy beaches and picturesque villages the islands are so famous for. What’s more, the mainland, including the Peloponnese, offers endless opportunities to see more, to easily travel by car from one destination to the next, and see things like winding mountain roads, forests that are home to bears and wild horses, rural areas and vibrant cities, waterfalls and beaches, all on the same trip.
The islands actually make up less than twenty percent of the country in terms of land, so if you haven’t seen any of the mainland, you haven’t really seen Greece.
Type “road” into our search bar for road trip ideas, or check out the Mainland and Peloponnese categories through our Destinations tab, to find out about a plethora of our favorite destinations.
Flushing your toilet paper
While there are hotels and resorts where it may be okay to do this, it’s really not worth the risk. In a majority of places, Greek plumbing consists of dated, narrow pipes which will easily clog if you flush toilet paper or other items down them. Toilet paper should be tossed in the bin next to the toilet. Don’t worry though, the bin usually opens with a foot pedal, and shuts tightly so as not to smell.
Drinking tap water, or Not drinking the tap water
Depending on where you’re going in Greece, your mistake may be one or the other. In cities like Athens and Thessaloniki, and in various other places with their own water supply, the tap water is fine to drink, and purchasing bottled water is therefore both unnecessary and environmentally unfriendly. However, there are also many Greek islands which have limited or no water supply of their own, and the tap water quality there may be quite bad. On some islands, part of the island may have its own water supply, while the rest depends on non-potable water brought from the mainland. The only right thing to do is to ask at your destination. No matter where you go, bottled water can be found and purchased at all grocery stores, kiosks and restaurants.
Spending no time in Athens (or Thessaloniki)
For a long time, tourists treated the Greek capital strictly as a layover – somewhere to spend one night at a hotel and squeeze in a visit to the Acropolis before heading to the islands. Thankfully, in recent years, the world has opened its eyes to the city as a destination in its own right.
While the city isn’t the ultimate place for those looking to spend their whole trip on the beach (although the Athenian Riviera does have some great beaches, other areas offer better backdrops), it has many other attributes. The sights are some of the most renowned on the globe (in fact, they were recently named the best in the world), the museums are great, as is the dining and shopping, and the nightlife is unbeatable (parties here outlive even those in buzzling cities like New York and London, research has shown).
The same is true for travelers heading on holiday at the Halkidiki peninsulas, landing in Thessaloniki. This amazing city is now making a name for itself as a great place for a city break.
You can read everything you need to know ahead of a visit to Athens or Thessaloniki in our magazines dedicated to the cities, available for free though our e-shop, or check out hundreds of articles about the cities through our Destinations tab.
Drinking tax-free wine
Some tourists make a habit of purchasing wine at the airport to bring to their hotel in Greece for evenings on the balcony. But while Greece isn’t France, bringing wine here is still a little bit like taking coffee with you to Brazil, or stocking up on chocolates for your trip to Belgium. Oenophiles know that Greek wine is so much more than retsina served in pitchers at the taverna.
You can read about Greek winemaking in our magazine, Greece Is Wine, available in digital format here, and in the Wine category through our In Depth tab. The articles below are a good place to start:
Not sleeping during siesta
Taking a nap during the day in the summer (preferably inside – passing out on a sun bed doesn’t count) is not about being lazy, it’s about the rhythm of the day. During the hottest hours, doing anything outside is usually a bad idea. Sleeping saves you the energy you need to instead stay up late at night, so that you can enjoy dinner when the Greeks do and experience restaurants and bars in the atmosphere that suits them best. Locals will usually begin the last meal of the day at 21:00-22:00 in the evening in the summer, and if a restaurant has live music, that’s when it will start too.
Buying the wrong souvenirs
Sure, you’ll still find the typical tchotchkes and knickknacks you would buy as presents in the 1980s in dedicated souvenir shops, but there are so many better options. Handmade sandals, bags and hats from local artisans, delicious food products, or candles and soaps with scents that brings back memories from your vacation can be purchased in little design stores at most tourist destinations, as well as online. Find loads of ideas for what to purchase through our Made in Greece tab, or check out the articles below.

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BROADWAY, Va. — For years, Matt Lohr visited the Department of Agriculture’s conservation office in Rockingham County to talk about what he does to protect land and water on his Shenandoah Valley farm.
It’s a familiar discussion with old friends for the Lohr family, fifth-generation farmers involved in federal programs that encourage them to plow less and plant cover crops such as red clover when crops like soybeans or corn aren’t in the ground.
Since December, though, the relationship has changed for Lohr. He’s now the national chief of the agency running those programs — the Natural Resources Conservation Service — and what he does or doesn’t do on his own farm can set an example far and wide. He has his wife, Beth, visit the NRCS offices together to avoid appearances of undue influence.
"I’ve known them and worked with them for years, so it’s probably a little weird. I’m chief and not just farmer Matt," Lohr said on a recent afternoon at the 250-acre farm, called Valley Pike.
Lohr, a 47-year-old father of six, lives in a good place to mull the challenges of modern agriculture and environmental stewardship. Sandwiched between the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and the Alleghenies to the west, the Shenandoah is home to mostly small to medium-sized cattle and poultry farms, but the numbers add up: Four counties in the region were home to more than 159 million chickens and more than 528,000 beef and dairy cattle in 2017, according to the Environmental Integrity Project.
Farms generated more than 410,000 tons of poultry litter and a billion gallons of liquid manure annually, the organization said. Although the Shenandoah is one of the driest locations east of the Mississippi, receiving around 30 inches of rain a year, it has particular water pollution challenges due to its location in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and the abundance of phosphorus tied to livestock waste.
Environmental groups say the optional conservation measures the NRCS promotes aren’t enough to protect the Chesapeake and other water sources and that state and federal governments should mandate more aggressive conservation measures and cover farmers’ expenses to undertake them. State and federal agencies cover about 75% of installing fences on pastures, for instance, and aerial surveys show barely 20% of farms in Augusta County — next to Rockingham — are fencing off streams to keep cattle out, the environmental group said.
"We’ve concluded the voluntary system for the bay is simply not working for agriculture," said Tom Pelton, director of communications for the Environmental Integrity Project.
As the first active farmer in 25 years to lead the NRCS, Lohr has one foot in the problem and another in the solution as he manages the voluntary system that’s the backbone of federal conservation efforts. Not everything is optional; bay-related regulations agreed to by surrounding states place some requirements on farms, including annual monitoring of phosphorus in the soil. Poultry litter often can’t be spread on farms because of the high levels; Lohr said he can spread it every few years and otherwise has it trucked three or four hours away.
Farmers sometimes consider the bay-related regulations a hassle, but "it’s a good thing from an environmental standpoint," Lohr said. "It makes us good stewards of the land. In the long run, I think it’s really what’s best for protecting our groundwater."
‘I wasn’t out campaigning or looking for a job’
Lohr didn’t come to the job as a political novice. A Republican, he was Virginia’s state agriculture commissioner from 2010 to 2013, appointed by then-Gov. Bob McDonnell (R). Before that, from 2006 to 2010, he was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing Harrisonburg and part of Rockingham County. His first wife, Andrea, died of cancer in 2011. He’s a past president of the Rockingham County Farm Bureau and was vice president of the national FFA, formerly called Future Farmers of America. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 1995.
Political connections helped him get the job. He knew Bill Northey, the former Iowa agriculture commissioner, through the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture. Northey had recently become the Trump administration’s undersecretary for farm production and conservation, and one day he called Lohr, who was picking sweet corn on the farm.
"I saw the D.C. number and said, ‘I’d better get that one,’" Lohr said. "I wasn’t out campaigning or looking for a job."
If anything, Lohr was settling in as a full-time farmer, having returned and taken over operations in 2017. His parents still live on the farm. He stays home on weekends and one weeknight, he said, leaving the farm at 3:30 a.m. in order to be at his desk in Washington by 5:30.
On the farm, he raises 800,000 broiler chickens a year for Pilgrim’s Pride, keeps 180 head of black angus beef cattle, and grows grain corn and soybeans for the animals and 20 acres of sweet corn for roadside sales.
Lohr is the first active farmer to lead the NRCS in 25 years. Hands-on experience helps in interacting with farmers, he said, because he knows how the programs work. But it can be a complication, too; his vetting process for the job was more complicated because of perceived or potential conflicts, and he had to step down as head of the family corporation in charge of the farm. He can’t sign any new contracts for agency programs, although agreements already in place can continue, administration lawyers decided.
"You’d think being a farmer would be an asset, but they think about conflict of interest," Lohr said.
At the NRCS, Lohr navigates the sometimes-mixed messages of an administration that’s looking to cut the very programs he uses — such as the Conservation Stewardship Program — while publicly promoting concepts such as soil health and reducing carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. Congress hasn’t gone along with the administration’s budget-cutting proposals, which predate Lohr’s arrival, brushing them off in the 2018 farm bill and in annual appropriation measures.
One of the biggest programs at the NRCS is Conservation Stewardship. Farmers enroll their entire farm for a range of practices, including cover crops — which prevent erosion and promote healthy soil — and reduced tillage and fencing to keep livestock out of streams, where their waste can contaminate water. But the program has a checkered history, as critics say its requirement to sign up an entire farm rather than specific parts of a farm discourages enrollment. In its budget request for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, the administration said that the program has "struggled to demonstrate outcomes" and that payments overcompensate farmers for conservation practices.
Still, Lohr and the NRCS win praise from conservation advocates for moving ahead with new rules related to CSP in the farm bill, including boosting payment rates to farmers for planting cover crops. That program is the biggest in the country, topping 70 million acres enrolled.
Under Lohr, the NRCS has engaged regularly with stakeholders, said Alyssa Charney, senior policy analyst at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. The NRCS has done a good job rolling out funding for programs such as CSP and conservation easements, and Lohr’s experience as a farmer has proved helpful, she said.
Lohr has a lot of work to do still, Charney said, including implementing a requirement that the Environmental Quality Incentives Program make advance payments available to farmers from historically disadvantaged groups.
Lohr uses a number of programs on his farm. He said he’s used a five-year CSP contract to re-seed clover — which contributes nitrogen to the soil — every other year. This rotates grazing for beef cattle and replaces nozzles on a spray rig used to apply chemicals, for improved efficiency.
While some conservation measures are old news on the farm — the Lohrs have practiced no-till so long that some fields haven’t been plowed in 25 years, he said — Lohr said he isn’t finished looking into new ideas. He’s especially interested in cover crops, he said — fescue, orchard grass and possibly radishes.
"I’ve learned from traveling around the country the last six months that these cover crops can do some pretty neat things with the soil," Lohr said.
Research supports his conclusion. Cover crops can add enough nitrogen to the soil to reduce fertilizer costs, in some cases providing all the nitrogen an incoming crop such as potatoes needs, according to Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, an organization that offers grants for conservation projects and works with USDA. Cover crops suppress weeds, meaning less chemical weedkillers. And they protect water quality by reducing erosion and runoff from fields, SARE said on its website.
Another threat — commercial development — looms in the Shenandoah as well. Lohr put the farm under a conservation easement, a two-year process that meant giving up development rights and keeping the farm as a farm indefinitely.
"I’ve seen up and down the valley where land along here has been developed," Lohr said. "We really wanted to see the land stay in farming. I don’t know if we’ll have a future generation in farming, but I hope so."

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Popular Akwa Ibom gospel act Godfada has been nominated for the 6th Niger Delta Advancement Awards (NDAA).
He got nominated in the Gospel Song category for his single “It Is Over” featuring Mista Xto.
Godfada is the President of the Ibom Gospel Artiste Forum – IGAF and the current Secretary of Akwa Ibom Entertainers Movement AKEM.
He recently released a new single titled “Going Higher“, a song dedicated to his father who he fondly refers to as “Ette Governor” as a tribute.
You can vote for Godfada online by: Clicking: http://www.ndaa.bunox.net/ Please know that you must have ‘Facebook’ & ‘Twitter’ accounts. For sms voting, type ‘NDAA (Space) V-Code’ E.g. NDAA 034. Send SMS to 33120 on MTN, GLO, AIRTEL & ETISALAT Networks. #NDAAwards2015. You can vote as many times as you can everyday via SMS and online.


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Happy 100th Birthday!!! WWII, Veteran, Pearl Harbor Survivor from the USS Oklahoma, Roy "Swede" Boreen, Retired, CWO, Navy. celebrates his 100th Birthdayin Pinehurst, North Carolina.
Thank you to all that participated in making Swede birthday special.
We are truly blessed to be able to honor our friend “Swede” for his Birthday
Special Thank you to Marva Kirk and Sandhills Veteran Festival, The Heritage Flag Company, Pinehurst First Responders and Patriotic Community for making Swedes Birthday Special!
We capturing the moments of amazing parents spending quality time teaching their kids about our WWII, Veteran, Pearl Harbor Survivor, Retired CWO, Navy, Roy “Swede” Boreen.
Award to our Pinehurst Caretakers
The beautiful handcrafted wood from The Heritage Flag Co. was given to the Pinehurst Brookdale Solutions staff from Children of Fallen Heroes as an award.
The Heroes Behind the Flag Award was presented to Brookdale Solutions in honor of their dedication and commitment to caretaking of our heroes. God Bless
We appreciate each and everyone of you for all you do both seen, and unseen.
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Following his 18th birthday, Swede enlisted in the United States Navy on Aug. 3, 1938. He did his recruit training at the U. S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Ill. On Dec. 17, 1938, he was assigned to the Battleship USS Oklahoma (BB37). The USS Oklahoma's home base was shifted from the West Coast to Pearl Harbor in 1940. Swede was aboard the USS Oklahoma when Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941.
Swede met the of his life, Cora Evans, in June 1945 at a picnic in Honolulu, Hawaii. Cora worked in stock tracing at the Hawaiian Air Depot, Hickam Field. They were married on Jan. 20, 1946, in San Francisco, Calif.
In September 1959, Swede retired from the U. S. Navy after 21 years of service.
Cora his beautiful wife, passed in June 2004.
For Swedes 100th Birthday, our beloved community gathered together to show appreciation, love, and to wish Happy Birthday to our hero local "Swede".

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Turkey's Prime Minister left Syria in no doubt today of the consequences of launching another mortar attack over the border. Tayip Erdogan said that testing his country's capacity for deterrence would be a 'fatal mistake". He added:
"We are not interested in war, but we're not far from it either. This nation has come to where it is today having gone through intercontinental wars."
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A hands-on guide to preprints
Preprints are (academic) manuscripts that have not been peer-reviewed or published in a traditional publishing venue. In Open Science and academic publishing, the preprint increasingly appears on the radar as an important element in academic communication. By posting preprints, academics can rapidly share their findings and build upon each other’s work.
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‘US approves sale of 22 Guardian drones to India’
The deal, estimated to be worth $2-3 billion, has been approved by the State Department, the sources said.india Updated: Jun 23, 2017 09:00 IST
The United States is reported to have approved the sale of 22 Guardian drones India had sought for its navy, clearing a key defence agreement ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s maiden meeting with President Donald Trump in the US next week.
The US state department, which had some reservations regarding the impact the sale might have on regional security balance, communicated its decision to clear the deal, PTI said in a report.
“As a matter of policy, we do not discuss potential or pending arms sales before they are notified to Congress,” a state department official told HT.
New Delhi has viewed its request to buy these unarmed drones as a key test of ties with the US under the new Trump administration.
The Obama administration had declared India a “major defence partner”, giving it the same status for co-development and co-production of defence equipment as close allies, and this has been endorsed by Trump administration officials.
The purchase of drones was a big-ticket ask. “We are trying to move it to the top of the agenda as a deliverable. This is something that can happen before all the other items,” an official tracking the progress of the drone discussions told Reuters.
The deal had the support of Congress and the White House and the state department had concerns that seemed to have been sorted out, according to reports.
Prime Minister Modi is expected to arrive in the US on Friday on a two-day visit. He will meet Trump in a set of one-on-one meetings on June 26 at the White House, ending the day with a dinner.
This will the first meeting for the leaders who have spoken multiple times on phone, starting the morning after Trump’s stunning electoral victory in November 2016.
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Brazilian ‘king of football’ Pele dies at 82
The first global icon of soccer, Pelé, a Brazilian legend who won three World Cups, has passed away at age 82.
Late in November, Pelé was hospitalised in So Paulo for complications from colon cancer and a respiratory infection.
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Franchise giant Retail Food Group (RFG) breached Australian Consumer Law (ACL) by misleading two Michel’s Patisserie franchisees about a Townsville store in 2012, a Queensland court has ruled.
After a lengthy legal battle, RFG has become the third franchisor to be prosecuted for ACL breaches this year, but this time, it wasn’t the ACCC spearheading the case.
Former franchisees Frederick and Karen Guirguis pursued RFG through the courts, claiming they were left hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket by unsatisfactory supply arrangements and poor-quality products.
The Guirguis’ claimed RFG representatives misled them about a supply line to a Townsville outlet from Brisbane prior to their signing of a franchise agreement in 2012.
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They alleged RFG reassured them about their ability to supply high-quality products from 1,400km away, but shortly before they opened the Brisbane supplier went bust, meaning products had to be driven up from Sydney, which is over 2,000km away.
In a complaint sent to RFG via email in July 2012, Mrs Guirguis said products were arriving in such bad condition they could not be sold.
“Our large cakes take way too long to get to our store, we can’t have icing sugar, cream or photos on the cakes,” she explained in the email.
“They arrive thawed out and most (I have all the photos to prove this) of the cakes small and large arrive in a poor state so bad that most can NOT be sold. Also as I have stated before some of your products are just too dry and we get a lot left on the plate or returned.”
The Guirguis’ sent several more complaints to RFG via email over the proceeding months regarding poor stock quality, and by August 2012, were trying to sell the business.
Frustrated with the ongoing supply and quality issues, the Guirguis’ stopped paying franchise service fees and marketing levies to RFG in October 2012.
Midway through 2013, the couple abandoned the outlet, having racked up $37,631 in trading losses.
An RFG representative had previously told the franchisees they could make $12,000 a week from the store, dismissing their original concerns about the outlet’s supply chain arrangements before their franchise agreements.
In its defence, RFG argued representations made to the franchisees before they signed on were “mere puffery”.
In legal terms, puffery relates to marketing speak that’s not supposed to be seriously considered and is not able to be proved correct or incorrect.
But Brisbane District Court judge Rosengren didn’t agree it applied in this case.
“I do not accept that any of the established representations can be characterised as mere puffery in the various contexts in which they were made,” she said.
“They were as to the kinds of products to be supplied to a potential franchisee for retail sale by it, the reliability and frequency of that supply from Brisbane and the quality of those products upon their receipt in Townsville. They were significant definitive statements.”
In a counterclaim, RFG attempted to recover $650,552 from the couple, claiming it had suffered a financial loss as a result of unpaid franchise fees and other costs associated with the store being abandoned.
But Judge Rosengren dismissed the counterclaim, finding in favour of the Guirguis’ and agreeing to hear submissions from both parties before making formal orders on costs and interest.
“The plaintiffs’ claims have been successful and the defendants are liable. RFG cannot recover damages or other relief for loss and damage caused by misleading and deceptive conduct of the plaintiffs, where the loss or damage is liability in damages to the plaintiffs for misleading or deceptive conduct under the ACL,” she said.
The franchisees spent $72,000 on franchise fees, $216,993 on fit-out and equipment, and incurred $3,900 in transaction costs setting up the business. In addition, $42,237 in borrowing costs were also incurred.
Lost wages, including super, amounted to a combined $105,000, with Mr Guirguis leaving a $250,000-a-year role at engineering business Laing O’Rourke to operate the franchise.
In total, the couple is out of pocket over $400,000, not including legal fees.
The case is the latest cog in the wheel for RFG, which has come under repeated criticism in recent years over its dealings with franchisees.
In a statement, an RFG spokesperson said the company was considering its legal options.
“The matter concerns events that occurred in 2012, which we consider are unique to the case. It was initially tried in the District Court in 2016, where the Franchisor was successful in its defence,” the spokesperson said.
“We are disappointed with the District Court’s most recent decision, and are engaging with our legal advisors regarding those options which may be available to the Franchisor.”


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Arizona is also making moves this evening.
According to the club’s official Twitter feed, the Diamondbacks declined a $1.24 million mutual option Wednesday on catcher Henry Blanco and a $4 million club option for reliever Matt Lindstrom.
Blanco appeared in only 21 games this season because of a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left thumb and batted just .188/.224/.281 with one home run and seven RBI in 67 plate appearances while healthy.
The D’Backs will try to find a more reliable backup for Miguel Montero this winter.
Lindstrom, 32, posted a stellar 2.68 ERA in 46 relief appearances this past summer between the Orioles and Snakes, fanning 40 batters and issuing only 14 walks in 47 innings. It’s probably worth noting that right-hander Heath Bell — acquired via trade earlier this month from the Marlins — had a 5.09 ERA in 63 2/3 innings this year in Miami and will be paid $13 million by the Diamondbacks over the next two seasons. Weird.
Attempting to make a play on a bunt during Wednesday’s split-squad game against the Athletics, Brewers starter Wade Miley suffered a strained left groin, Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Miley will undergo an MRI to determine the severity of the injury. On the afternoon, he gave up two runs on three hits and three walks with three strikeouts in four innings.
Miley, 31, signed a minor league contract with the Brewers last month. He had been having a solid spring until last Friday, when he served up seven runs in three innings against the Reds. The lefty had been battling for a spot in the Brewers’ rotation but this injury may take him out of the running.
Last season with the Orioles, Miley made 32 starts spanning 157 1/3 innings, posting a 5.61 ERA with a 142/93 K/BB ratio.
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Jakarta, Indonesia – Entering the end of first semester in 2016, the automotive market in Indonesia was still showing a stagnant growth, even decreasing 0.6% compared to the same period in 2015. However, PT Honda Prospect Motor succeed to achieve growth in sales within the period, with 36% increase compared to last year. Honda’s sales growth was recorded as the highest among other major brands in the country.
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Other main models like Honda HR-V and Honda Mobilio also contribute significantly to Honda sales in this period. HR-V made up 21% of total Honda sales with 21,142 units while Honda Mobilio contributed 20% of Honda sales with 20,426 units of sales.
To support its increasing sales and aftersales demand, this year Honda also actively expanded its dealer network across Indonesia. Currently Honda already had 180 dealers throughout the country completed with sales, service, and spare parts facilities. In the first semester of 2016, Honda has opened 10 new dealers in various areas, and targeting to achieve total of 200 dealers by the end of this year.
To celebrate this year’s Idul Fitri holiday season, PT Honda Prospect Motor introduces new sales and aftersales packages for its customers. The program named “Hebatnya Punya Honda” was aimed to ease customers in purchasing Honda cars and provide additional benefits during their daily usage.
Through this program, Honda car buyers can choose one of packages suitable to their needs, which include:
- Low Installment starting from 1 million/month + 3 Years Periodical Maintenance package
- 0% Interest for 6 months + 3 Year Periodical Maintenance package
- Free Periodical maintenance for 3 years*
- Low Down Payment starting from Rp. 20 million*
- Low Installment starting from Rp 1 million / month*
- 0% Interest for 6 months*
- Longer lease period up to 8 years*
Beside offering its sales programs, Honda also introduced new periodical maintenance package called “Paket Cermat Mini”. The package was designed to provide more affordable periodical maintenance cost with the same level of quality by Honda authorized dealers. Through this package, Honda customers can buy 1 year package of periodical service which can be extended up to 5 years or 100,000 km mileage.
As with previous periodical maintenance packages, “Paket Cermat Mini” also provides many benefits for customers which includes more economical service cost, free of annual cost increament, payment can be included to monthly car leasing, while at the same time ensures the car always in its prime condition. Currently the package is available for Honda Mobilio and Honda Brio, starting from August 1, 2016.
Honda already had provided many benefits for its customers through many aftersales programs, such as Extended Warranty – which enables customers to extend their warranty periode up to 5 years, and Honda Experience – a 24/7 and 7 days/week emergency services when customers have problems on the road.
Since last year, Honda also had introduced Honda e-Care apps, which provides easier access to Honda sales and aftersales facilities using smartphone. Through this apps, Honda customers can have a service reminder for their car, book service time in dealers, find dealer locations, and many more. The Application is available for free download at AppStore and Google Play.
During the Lebaran period, Honda also organize “Honda Emergency Service” programs, to accompany their customers during holiday’s homecoming season. This year, a total of 93 dealers and road side assistance standby for 24 hours a day – starting from July 1 to 10, 2016, to assist customers along the homecoming route across Java and Bali.
“Honda wants to provide satisfying experience for customers, not only when they first purchase the car, but also continues as long as their using Honda cars. We believe this will provide great benefits for customers,” said Tomoki Uchida, President Director of PT Honda Prospect Motor.

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French actor who is best recognized for his work with the TF1 network including on the series Tomorrow Belongs to Us where he starred as Maxime Delcourt. He is also known for having starred in the 2019 series For Sarah.
He first started his acting career in theater, starring in productions beginning in 2009. After completing his theater studies in 2016, he landed a recurring role on Tomorrow Belongs to Us in 2017.
He is known for having won the Best Actor award at the French Soap Awards in 2018.
He was born and raised in Maubeuge and shared a photo with his grandfather through Instagram in March of 2019.
He shared a photo with dancer Denitsa Ikonomova through his Instagram in January of 2019.


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Teri Thornton, an affecting jazz singer whom Cannonball Adderley once called ''the greatest voice since Ella Fitzgerald,'' is about to release her first recording in 36 years. ''I'll Be Easy to Find,'' due on CD from the Verve label on Oct. 12, ''tells you basically what I've been doing through the years,'' she said. And what she has been doing has recently recaptured the attention of the jazz world.
Miss Thornton, 65, made her recording debut in 1961 with ''Devil May Care,'' backed by jazz luminaries like Clark Terry and Freddie Green. She made two more albums but stopped recording by the mid-1960's as musical tastes changed, although she worked steadily as a composer and a singer and pianist in piano bars.
Later, she faced a number of personal hardships, including a cancer diagnosis in 1997. She now lives at the Actors' Fund Nursing Home in Englewood. But last year, she gave an astounding performance at the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition in Washington, which she won.
On ''I'll Be Easy to Find,'' she draws on musical theater, rhythm-and-blues, and well-known ballads. ''We knew that we wanted a sort of eclectic range of selections ranging back to when I began,'' she said. She may be best known for ''Somewhere in the Night,'' the theme from the 1960's television show ''Naked City.''
Years ago, she said, her self-assured contralto was ''something that was just there, like my eyes.'' But nowadays, she takes nothing for granted. ''Somebody who has the good fortune to record a second time makes it even more phenomenal,'' she said.
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As we've seen during Micro Week, tiny homes in New York City aren't merely limited to studio apartments; they can come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and configurations. But what are some of the more popular—or, on the other hand, lesser-known—types of small city dwellings out there? Herein, you'll find an illustrated guide to some of the more quintessentially "New York" types of tiny homes, from 18th-century carriage houses to the more modern, architecturally-approved micro apartments.
These days, a carriage house that's been converted into a residence can regularly fetch millions of dollars, but the origins of these small dwellings are slightly more humble. Most were built to house the horses—hence, carriage house—of the wealthy homeowners who lived in nearby mansions in the 18th and 19th centuries. That explains why so many can be found throughout neighborhoods like Brooklyn Heights and the West Village, both of which have always attracted the well-to-do. But they're not as prevalent as they once were, which makes them incredibly valuable real estate: for example, Norah Jones picked up a Cobble Hill carriage house for more than $6 million. And earlier this year, one on Cornelia Street listed for a whopping $49,500 per month.
Also known as single-room occupancy apartments, these spartan dwellings—which typically have enough room for a bed, a sink, and little else—were seen as a solution to overcrowding in the early part of the 20th century. But times have changed, and so too has the thought that these are the best way to tackle New York's affordable housing crisis. (One big con: the rooms typically don't have a toilet or a kitchen.) Though SRO buildings still exist in the city, there are a number of laws governing how they can be used, and landlords are forbidden from converting single- or multi-family dwellings into new SROs. But they're not all bad: One Harlem SRO recently got a facelift, with modern appliances and space-saving furniture, and is now geared toward for people who need a good "starter apartment" (and, presumably, are still okay with sharing a bathroom).
Traditional studio apartment
Not as tiny (or terrible) as an SRO, but not as cleverly designed as the newer micro apartments that are popping up nowadays, the majority of studio apartments in New York (yes, even those designed by starchitects) fall somewhere in between. The small, one-room dwellings are typically pretty bare-bones, measuring anywhere from 300 to 600 square feet (sometimes smaller, but rarely larger), and usually comprising little more than a kitchen, bathroom, and—if you're lucky—some kind of sleeping alcove situation. (There are also the ones with loft beds—good in theory, terrible in practice—and murphy beds, which afford slightly more floor space.) Depending on how creative the occupant is, these can be totally spartan, or beautifully designed.
These tiny homes, which were originally built as vacation houses for New Yorkers looking to escape the hustle and bustle of Manhattan, can be found throughout certain parts of New York City—particularly in coastal areas of the outer boroughs. The most famous bungalows are perhaps the ones found in the Rockaways; thousands once dotted the area back when it was a bustling beach town, though their numbers have dwindled over the years (and Hurricane Sandy didn't help matters much). But, as photographer Nathan Kensinger found in 2015, "many Queens bungalow residents … are staying put, with no plans to move out or tear down their homes." Similar bungalow colonies existed in Coney Island and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, and New Dorp Beach in Staten Island. Today, listings for these tiny homes occasionally hit the market, but those looking to test-drive the lifestyle can rent a restored Rockaway bungalow for $130 per night.
Modern micro apartment
In contrast to traditional studios, the micro dwellings built in the past few years are, by and large, all about finding ways to cleverly utilize the available space to create a comfortable tiny space. The work of architect Michael Chen is a perfect example: His unfolding apartment, for example, transformed a 400-square-foot apartment into a space that seems much larger, thanks to a cabinet with different elements (a murphy bed, folding desk, etc.) that offer homey amenities without taking up too much space. Other micro dwellings have been purpose built to be tiny: Carmel Place, the city's first all-micro-unit building, is a perfect example of that. But will we see more of those in the future? Only time will tell.
They're not permanent residences, of course, but capsule or pod hotels are yet another solution to the ever-pressing issue of fitting more places to stay into an already overcrowded city. The best-known purveyor of these is the Pod Hotel brand, which offers a number of different reasonably-priced rooms that range in size from a tiny single room with a twin bed (and shared bathroom) to a "studio pod," or a traditionally sized room. But other chains—including Yotel and CitizenM—have similarly tiny rooms. Another new brand, Arlo Hotels, just launched downtown, and bills itself as "the first micro hotel in the United States with four-star design" (AvroKo is behind the interiors), so clearly the trend is here to stay.
Okay, so these aren't as prevalent as the other types of dwellings we've featured here, but they do exist—and their owners have found ways to turn them into totally livable spaces. Take, for example, Victoria Fine and Jon Vidar, who transformed a 200-square-foot houseboat into a floating tiny house. And there are plenty of marinas around the city where wanna-be seafarers can dock: the 79th Street Boat Basin on the Upper West Side is a popular spot, as are the marinas in the Rockaways and outer Brooklyn. If you want to test-drive houseboat life, there are some listings on Airbnb, too.


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Bride of Chucky
For ten years, the tortured soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray has been imprisoned inside a child's doll. "Chucky" is reborn when his old flame, Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), rescues his battered doll parts from a police impound. But Chucky wants his new playmate cut down to size, so he transforms his blushing bride into a stunning little terror.
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Make this gorgeous watercolor cake for your next get-together this summer.
To Make from Brit + Co
How to make a watercolor cake + video.
Watercolour #customcakes #cakeink #ombre #watercolour by cake_ink
artistic blue wedding cake
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Musicology: The Key Concepts
15 February 2016
First published by Routledge in 2005, Musicology: the Key Concepts co-authored by Dr David Beard and Professor Kenneth Gloag, is an essential reference guide for students of contemporary musicology.
Now a revised and expanded 2nd edition is available from Routledge. The book is a fully cross-referenced, A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, the authors have updated all the concepts from the original edition, added 20 new concepts, and more than doubled the number of bibliographical entries to 1600.
New entries include: Autobiography; Cold War; Conflict; Consciousness; Creativity; Decadence; Disability; Ecomusicology; Emotion; Ethics; Film music; Form; Gesture; Lateness (late works/late style); Listening; 9/11; Politics; Popular musicology; Sound/soundscape/sound studies; Stance.


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THR Names Music's 35 Top Hitmakers
This story first appeared in the Feb. 15 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
At 23, Michael Williams -- under the name Mike WiLL Made It -- broke out early in the Southern rap scene, sending beats to Gucci Mane and Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group label. Now, the Atlanta native is one of the genre's most in-demand maestros, thanks to his proven propensity for hit-ready rhythms. After early work with 2 Chainz and Waka Flocka Flame, Williams strutted onto the hip-hop and rap charts with the Meek Mill's Rick Ross-featuring "Tupac Back." Since, he's stuck around strong with Future's "Turn on the Lights," 2 Chainz and Drake's "No Lie", and Juicy J's "Bandz A Make Her Dance" with cameos by Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz -- all of which were certified gold last year. And when Kanye West was looking for the a beat to "Mercy," the Grammy-nominated track that became the lead single to his G.O.O.D. Music crew's Cruel Summer, he rang Williams to craft it and help rake in sales of more than 2 million.


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CBD Health Benefits
CBD is considered a nutritional and food supplement, and federal regulations do not allow claims on whether or not natural CBD hemp oil can help with specific ailments.
However, there are studies that have shown CBD may help with restlessness, stress, alertness, focus, nausea, varieties of skin conditions, sore muscles and joints and many other issues. There have been over 15,000 medical publications on the positive benefits of CBD use.
CBD can positively affect:
- Vanilloid Receptors, which modulate pain levels
- Serotonin Receptors, which impact stress and mood
- Adenosine Receptors, which regulate the quality and depth of sleep
- Endocannabinoid Receptors, which influence stress levels, energy levels, memory, and appetite

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8 hours (Approx.)
Hotel pickup offered
Offered in: English
Good for avoiding crowds
Skip the typical group tours and enjoy a unique experience of Hangzhou. This private tour, exclusively for your party, includes a stroll along the West Lake, home-made lunch at a local farm house, and a visit to a tea field and tea ceremony.
- Private tour exclusively for your party: Ensures a personalized experience
- Includes a home-made lunch at a local farm house in Meijia Dock
- Hassle-free pickup and drop-off from your hotel
- Get insider tips and information from your guide
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Transport by private vehicle
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Departure & Return
Departure PointAccording to the hotel you book in Hangzhou
Return DetailsReturn to your hotel
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Dress code is smart casual
- The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infant seats available
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
- OPERATED BY Top China Travel
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
- Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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The Obama administration pays its U.N. bills on time, embraces many U.N. treaties, and routinely praises the sacrifices of UN field workers — it has even raised the prospect of placing American GIs in blue helmets again. U.S. relations with Turtle Bay have rarely been better.
But the emergence of the Tea Party, a nascent conservative political movement concerned primarily with the size of the U.S. government but also hostile to the United Nations, provides a fresh reminder of the heartland’s deep well of antipathy for the world organization. It should provide a cautionary lesson for those who manage U.S. relations with the U.N.: they can turn bad on a dime, particularly at times of economic stress and national uncertainty. Indeed, after a brief respite, U.N.-bashing is back.
In the run up to mid term elections, Tea Party candidates have called for the withdrawal of the United States from the U.N., cited U.N. plots to rescind Americans right to bear arms, and decried so-called socialistic programs that promote bicycle rental programs in the heartland in an effort to curtail American freedoms. Dan Meas, a Tea Party candidate who just won the Republican primary in Colorado, charged earlier this month that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper‘s promotion of an internationally-backed bike ridership program was “converting Denver into a United Nations community.”
The Tea Party is a loose coalition of fiscal, social and Christian conservatives who share a deep suspicion about the role of international treaties and organizations, principally the United Nations, that they fear will curtail American freedoms, undermine American values, and siphon America’s wealth into unnecessary foreign pursuits. It has made inroads into the GOP, with Tea Party candidates winning Senate and gubernatorial primaries in North Dakota, Kentucky, and Colorado. The Maine Republican Party issued a platform that echoes the Tea Party’s positions, including its call to “oppose any and all treaties with the U.N. or any other organization which surrenders U.S. sovereignty.”
Rand Paul, a Kentucky GOP Senate candidate and a standard bearer of the movement, has derided the U.N. as a “forum for dictators like Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya to insult the United States…. I believe that the United States should withdraw from and stop funding altogether those U.N. programs that undermine legitimate American interests and harm the cause of freedom around the world.” He has also borrowed some proposals from John Bolton, a prominent conservative critic of the United Nations and former U.S. ambassador, saying U.S. funding to the organization should be voluntary and that it was a mistake for the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to join the U.N.’s Human Rights Council, which includes many countries with poor human rights records, including Cuba and Saudi Arabia.
Sharon Angle, a Republican Senate hopeful in Nevada, suggests she would take a scalpel to the U.N.’s finances if she is elected. . “I don’t see any place in the constitution with those priorities about the United Nations,” she says. “So when we start talking about cutting programs, five percent per year, I think the United Nations fits into that category.
Angle, Meas and Rand follow a long line of American conservatives who have tapped into anxieties about foreign threats to U.S. sovereignty to gain votes at the ballot box. While their numbers are small, they have had an outsized impact on the American political discourse, particularly during periods of high unemployment and political and economic uncertainty. They have done so by mining ia deep reservoir of suspicion among less educated constituencies that America’s elite foreign-policy practitioners are conspiring with foreign elites to rob ordinary Americans of their rights, according to U.N. experts.

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Received Corporate Responsibility Award by CPC
CAIPA received Corporate Responsibility Award by CPC
CAIPA was honored to receive the Corporate Responsibility Award from Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) on its Annual Lunar New Year Celebration. On behalf of CAIPA, CEO & President Dr. George Liu received the award from the hands of his son Gilbert Lau, J.D. Special guests Mayor De Blasio and Senator Chuck Schumer attended this special event along with government officials, entrepreneurs, hospital and health plan professionals, and leaders in the community.

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Gordon Brown was under fresh pressure from Labour MPs last night after his party's huge byelection defeat.
Labour MP Barry Sheerman said: "If the chief executive doesn't deliver he has to consider his position. He's got the summer to recognise this isn't about members' expenses, it's about something more fundamental."
Mr Sheerman's comments came after the party lost the Norwich North byelection to Tory Chloe Smith, who will become our youngest MP at 27.
Ex-Home Secretary Charles Clarke and Labour MPs Kate Hoey and John McDonnell also criticised Brown's leadership - as bookies made the Tories odds-on favourites to win the next election.


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How Often Game Board
Students use prompts on a board game to practice using adverbs of frequency and time expressions about daily activities.
Topic: Daily activities
Grammar: Adverbs of frequency
Time: 30 minutes
- Make one copy of the Game Board for each group.
Ask the students to get into groups of 4 or 5 people.
Give one Game Board to each group.
Ask students to get two coins for their group, and a space marker for each person.
How to use the coins:
Heads + Heads = Move 1
Tails + Tails = Move 2
Heads + Tails = Move 3
Ask the students to put their space markers on Start. The first student flips the coins, moves the corresponding number of spaces on the game board, and follows the instructions.
- Prompt = student on left uses the prompt to ask a question to the student who landed on the space. The student answers the question using an adverb of frequency and a time expression.
For example: Send an email
Student on left: How often do you send an email?
Student: I usually send an email on Friday evenings.
- Arrow = answer the question, then follow the arrow to jump ahead on the game board.
- Trade places = trade places with another person.
- Go ahead = move the designated number of spaces forward on the game board.
- Go back = move the designated number of spaces backward on the game board.
Students continue taking turns. The first student to reach Finish is the winner.
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