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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The Man From London
The films of Béla Tarr have always been haunted by film noir to one degree or another. Tarr's downtrodden characters plod miserably through gloomy, shadowy wastelands, getting tangled up in plots and intrigues that briefly distract them from the otherwise unchanging stasis of their lives. In The Man From London — an adaptation of a Georges Simenon novel that was already adapted for noir films twice in the 1940s — the influence of noir is as overt as it's ever been in Tarr's work, but tellingly it is not a drastic departure from the rest of his oeuvre, only a slight shift in emphasis that brings these subcurrents to the surface. It is, typically of his work, slow-moving and stunningly beautiful, shot in a high contrast black-and-white where light sources generate hot, blinding whites that threaten to burn through the frame, while the blacks of shadowy nights are dense and inky, and the characters in the film are, at various times, swallowed up by both the darkness and the light, both representing equal threats. As with all his films since Werckmeister Harmonies, Tarr's longtime editor Ágnes Hranitzky is credited as a co-director, but this too hasn't signalled much tangible change in his art; instead, it seems a way of affirming the paramount importance of editing to his films, presumably on the basis that in a film with so few cuts, each one must be vitally important.
This is a gorgeous, mysteriously moving film, its potent chiaroscuro images buttressed by the moaning organ drones of Tarr's frequent musical collaborator Mikhály Vig, as well as the expressive sound design in which every creaking, metallic, mechanical sound of the docks is amplified into a hypnotic percussive rhythm. The Man From London is often considered lesser Tarr, whatever that means, but this film finds the Hungarian master in as fine a form as ever despite its troubled production history. The one minor problem is the distractingly bad dubbing of the actors' voices into French and English, which seems to have been done with little care for syncronizing the audio to lip movements. Even this adds to the film's powerful sense of disconnection and alienation, as does the multilingual dialogue, which Tarr has said was his preferred audio for the film even though some early screenings aired with everyone dubbed into Hungarian.
In the gorgeous, atmospheric opening, the camera watches from the windows of a high tower at a dock where ships moor, letting off passengers who shuffle across to a railroad station nearby. A railroad worker, Maloin (Miroslav Krobot), sits in the tower all night, and the camera is aligned with his perspective, tracking in slow arcs around the interior of his tower room to take in the whole dock area. There's a voyeuristic thrill to this opening sequence, as Maloin, from his godlike perspective, sees things that he is obviously not meant to see. A man on a docked boat throws a suitcase into the darkness of a nearby pier, where it's picked up by a second man. The two men later fight, and in the struggle one of them falls into the water and never resurfaces, taking the suitcase with him. When the surviving man quickly leaves, Maloin climbs down from his tower with a hook and fishes the suitcase out of the water, discovering that it's full of money.
This opening sets the tone, patiently observing as these events unfold without fuss, the camera tracking past the windows to slowly sweep across the whole scene. Down below, pools of light and shadow are stretched out across the docks, with streetlamps casting bright ovals carved out of the darkness, figures melting in and out of the dark as they prowl around. Their furtive, secretive movements avoid detection, except of course for the near-omniscient viewpoint from which Maloin watches, a viewpoint that associates him with the voyeuristic audience, watching a typical noir tale of treachery and violence. It plays almost like a silent film; there's no dialogue in the entire first half-hour except for some distant, barely overheard murmuring. No words are needed, because these are familiar cinematic archetypes, carved in light and shadow, enacting a primal noir drama for an audience hiding up above.
The details of that pantomimed opening are later filled out, when the British private detective Morrison (István Lénárt) arrives, investigating the robbery of 60,000 pounds from his employer by a man named Brown (János Derzsi), one of the men Maloin had seen in the opening. It almost doesn't matter, though, because in typical fashion, Tarr is less interested in plot mechanics than he is in the mundane routines and boring lives that continue to trudge forward uneventfully even as this investigation circles inexorably around the events of that night. Maloin grimly watches as the inspector tries to figure out where Brown and the missing money have gone, while Brown himself begins stalking the dockworker, apparently suspicious that Maloin may have seen something or retrieved the suitcase.
The plot is extremely basic, stripped down to just the essentials, and in a way the only big events in the film are those that occur during that opening half hour; everything else is simply an elaboration of the consequences of that noirish template. In one scene, the opening sequence is virtually repeated, this time with the inspector moving around in the darkness below, trying to recreate the potential chain of events, cleverly working out how the two criminals had snuck the suitcase full of money past customs, and then discovering the corpse in the harbor. This reinforces the impression that the film's story is an archetypal template, a basic form — ordinary working man stumbles across illegally gotten cache of money — that can be repeated and restated infinitely. The story's familiarity and simplicity frees Tarr to confine the narrative to the background, focusing instead on atmosphere and on the protagonist's grim, lifeless existence. Tarr even has the violent climax play out offscreen, keeping his camera trained on a closed wooden door during Maloin's final confrontation with Brown, the camera shaking slightly as if in shivery anticipation of the outcome of whatever's happening, unseen, beyond that door. If the opening encouraged a voyeuristic perspective on distant events, this scene denies and frustrates that voyeurism, granting the characters the private intimacy to carry out the conclusion of their story without any prying eyes to observe.
What's interesting about the film's study of Maloin is that he hardly seems to want the money once he has it; even in the shot where he opens the briefcase for the first time, there's not even a flicker of emotion on his face as he stares down into the case, before the camera tracks around and then angles down to peer into the open case, revealing the money inside. He retrieves the money, then dries it out, with a mechanical lack of feeling, compelled to do so by the momentum of the plot and little more. Once he has the money, it hardly helps him escape his dull life, nor his clearly unhappy marriage to a woman (Tilda Swinton) with whom he does nothing but shrilly argue.
The only way in which he ever uses the money is to help his daughter Henriette (Erika Bók), who first appears in a fascinating scene in which Maloin, walking home with the money, stops to watch her sweep the floor in the butcher shop where she works. At first, the scene seems as voyeuristic as the opening, with Maloin watching as the girl in the shop bends over to sweep, her skirt riding up so that her ass is clearly visible to anyone on the street outside. When it's revealed that she's actually his daughter, the emotional tenor of the scene subtly changes, and he becomes angry at his daughter's careless flaunting of her body, angry with the work that makes her display herself like this. His reaction is almost as if he's discovered she's a prostitute, and later he protectively pulls her out of her job, then buys her a fur in a store where the pushy salesmen chatter in excited tandem at father and daughter until they decide on a purchase.
Notably, Maloin never tries to use his newfound money to escape his grim home life, nor does he deviate from his routine or begin spending wildly, the downfall of so many noir heroes in similar situations. Like many of Tarr's characters, he's trapped by a lack of imagination, an inability to see past the dull materiality of his circumstances, to grasp at something greater that occasionally seems to be lurking just beyond his senses. At one point, as he leaves a bar, he walks, without looking, past a surreal scene of several bar patrons playing an odd game, one of them balancing a pool ball on his forehead while the other lunges at him with a chair, both of them doing this strange dance to the wheezing sound of an accordion. The scene recalls the extended dance sequences in Damnation and Sátántangó or the living diagram of the solar system in Werckmeister Harmonies, scenes where the dullness of ordinary life is interrupted by outbursts of strange exuberance, moments of sensuality and celebration. Here, this dance is relegated to the background, a momentary diversion that the main character, locked into his private hell, barely notices.
This is one of several points at which Tarr hints at something stranger and grander just outside the border of the main character's circumscribed sense of reality. The way the high-contrast photography renders light as an incandescent and impenetrable whiteness similarly suggests something beyond, an almost spiritual dimension to this otherwise prosaically grounded story. In one rapturous shot, Maloin's wife opens the glass doors leading out to their balcony and steps out into the bright light that swallows her up, nearly erasing her black-clad form in a suffusion of light, pouring over her and flooding the center of the frame with this blinding nothingness. When she then closes the shutters, the room is smoothly plunged into darkness, the light chased away by shadows; it's a beautiful and mysterious shot that suggests the ways in which these characters are closed off from light, hope, spirituality, anything that might fend off the darkness and shadows. The light is also tinged with a sense of danger, though, as though these people might burn up if exposed to its brilliance for too long. In the film's mysterious final shot, Brown's silently suffering wife (Ági Szirtes) simply stares straight ahead until the white light absorbs her, the image fading to a plain white nothingness before the credits roll.


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Enterprise Inns hopes for hot summer to boost sales
Britain's biggest pub landlord cheered recent warmer weather after the freezing winter kept drinkers at home, driving down half-year sales by 4.2 per cent.
Enterprise Inns, which leases out more than 6,000 pubs across the UK, said business during the six months to the end of March was ‘particularly challenging’ and shrunk pre-tax profits by 14 per cent to £55million.
But Enterprise said recently-improved trading has slowed the like-for-like sales slide to 1 per cent, boosting its hopes of a return to underlying sales growth in its second half.
Sinking a pint - or sinking feeling? The coldest spring since 1952 didn't help pubs
The coldest spring since 1952 combined with weak consumer spending and the ongoing disposal of pubs to drag overall half-year sales almost 9 per cent lower to £312million.
It sold another 161 pubs during the six months, raising £54million to reduce its debt mountain to £2.7billion.
Enterprise expects to sell pubs worth £150million during the year.
Shares in the Solihull-based company closed 0.85p lower at 99p.
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This is a list of resources for solo role-playing.
I was looking for a list of solo engines and resources some years ago. Unfortunately, I found none.
That’s why I started this list at the G+ Lone Wolf community and completed it with the help of others.
If you know of a resource that is not listed yet, you can shoot me an email.
Want to know how to get started with solo role-playing? I wrote a short blogpost that covers the essentials. There is also a short wiki entry on reddit. John Yorio has an excellent in-depth guide in several blogposts. I recommend this for a better understanding of solo role-playing.
Please note that some links below are affiliate links. A small portion of the sale goes to my account credit at OneBookshelf and allows me to buy new games. THANK YOU!
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#CannotEverCry (FREE) an Instagame RPG: complete, playable RPG as an Instagram-sized 1080px by 1080px image.#WritingWithDice: Reframing Solo Roleplaying blog post here2 Hour Dungeon Crawl dungeon-crawler, playable solo3 Stone Stories (FREE) a lightweight story engine by Rodney SloanA Basic System 12 (ABS12) (FREE) by Ken WickhamAdventurer: The Solo Roleplaying Game (FREE) an attempt to write a full Solo RPG by Shane Garvey and Stuart LloydALONe: A Solo Game Engine BETA (PWYW) a standalone solo engine (beta)Ancient Odysseys: More Treasure Awaits! the supplement for Ancient Odysseys with wilderness adventures and more classesAncient Odysseys: Treasure Awaits an introductory dungeon-crawling game which allows you to play solitaire or with a groupAvalon Quests: Pathfinder solo gaming (the price point of USD $14.99 is a bit steep)Beholden (FREE) "Beholden" is a game based on "Beloved". It basically switches the roles, and adds another twist: You're a deity.Beloved (FREE) a story game by Ben LehmanBivius Solo RPG (FREE) simple solo system by Lino PangChapter System (FREE) a simple solo system by RoryB BracebuckleChronicles of Arax (FREE) a solo swords and sorcery RPG set in the world of AraxChronicles of Blood (FREE) a solo wargame in the world of Arax (see Chronicles of Arax)CRGE (PWYW) a complete GM Emulator by the guy who made UNE and BOLD (see below)Daydream Solo (FREE) by Henry Harrison, feedback appreciatedDeath Queen and the Life Stone a D&D 5e solo module for a Cleric or a FighterEPIC (FREE) solo engine by RoryB BracebuckleFirst Ride / Last Ride a short but intense one-player game about living on the edge, pulling heists and driving high performance cars in illegal street racesFlipping Zombies (PWYW) a 1-player dexterity game that prints in two pages and plays in about ten minutesFour Against Darkness solo dungeon-crawler solo dungeon-crawler, additional adventure Caves of the Kobold Slave-Masters availableFree FAE Solo Adventures (FREE)Free Will (FREE) addon for Mythic GME (so-called "driver"): more about that here and hereGrey Flowers (FREE) web-based Choose Your Own AdventureHall of the Dwarven King (FREE) a solo dice gameHigh Stakes – Free Storytelling and Adventure Rules (FREE)IN-RADIC (FREE) solo wargaming system, but can be used for RPGs, tooLegend of Wayfarer 1st ed. (FREE) by Stuart Llyod, some free adventure gamebooks are here (scroll down to Wayfarer)Lone Blade Solo Rules for (Advanced) Song of Blades and Heroes (FREE) solo rules for ASBH by Aleksandar BattrepsMicroscope world-building/epic history game: while not strictly a solo game, it can be used as great solo engine, as explained on the Risus Monkey blog hereMiso RPG (FREE) minimal freeform solo framework; epub, mobi and PDF package hereNewMiso RPG Houserule: Rolling Critical (FREE) by Dan DavisMystic Punks a zine-only RPG, more information hereMythic GME the classic amongst the solo systems, requires a bit bookkeeping and playing it can feel a bit scattered, nonetheless the most “complete” GM emulatorNine Steps And A Bloody Heart (FREE) investigative systemOculus v1 (FREE) Geoff Osterberg’s versionOculus v2 (FREE) Konrad Zielinski’s versionOf the Woods: Lonely Games of Imagination a collection of six single-player lonely games - a lonely game is a game of questions to tell haunting, introspective, and quiet storiesOne Page Solo Engine (FREE) by Karl HendricksPenguinComics.com Random Solo Adventures solo gamebooks, some books are on Lulu, too, and the guys behind these also run http://www.gamebooknews.com/Perilous Intersections (FREE) one of my favorite story frameworks, again by RoryB BracebucklePythia Oracle Python framework for solo gaming/sandbox content creationQADD: Solotastic! a four level dungeon of solo adventuring action for the QADD: Quick And Dirty Dungeons RPGQuill: A Letter-Writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player (PWYW) living documentQuill: Coal & Parchment (PWYW) supplementQuill: Love Letters (PWYW) supplementRewind by Todd Zircher (PWYW) a framework and light role playing game for solo or single player game playScarlet Heroes one of the BEST systems for solo-ing with an OSR ruleset, great D&D-like system + solo engineScarlet Heroes Quickstart (FREE) a free quickstart version of Scarlet Heroes without the solo engine and the tablesSCRAWL (FREE) by Stuart Llyod, short for Solo CRAWL, involves wandering around a world, killing monsters and stealing their stuff (murder-hobos), free adventure Dungeon of the Orc BossSimple RP System (FREE)so1um Expanded (FREE)so1um, WIP (FREE) simple solo system inspired by Tiny Solitary SoldiersSolo - Zozer Games solo add-on for TravellerSolo engine by Tiny Solitary Soldiers (FREE) based on Free Universal Role Playing Game (FU)Solo Gaming Rules a stand-alone solo rpgSolo Grail (FREE) by Evandro NovelSolo-HACK-tastic! a four level dungeon of solo adventuring action, requires "The Black Hack" core rulesSoloist RPG (FREE) by Chris Atthestudy, WIPSoloist RPG Draft (FREE) by Chris AtthestudySpace Scavenger (PWYW) a roll-and-write solitaire game where you become the captain of the galaxy’s lowest budget spaceshipStar Smuggler a classic game from 1982. It’s a lot like Traveller, but for one person and a little simpler.Storium a new play by post RPG platform, although it’s primarily played by a narrator and players, you can play it solo by being both the player and the narratorSupervillain You (FREE) one person game by Ron Edwards and Rafael Chandler, an be used as a backstory generator for super powered characters.Swords and Savagery another dungeon crawling game that you can play solo, this one has a"dungeon deck"Swords of the Skull-Takers (FREE) solo RPG by Joe J PrinceThe 9 Questions (FREE) a story framework by John FioreThe Covetous Poet’s Adventure Creator and Solo GM Book lots of tables, classic Three-Story-Arc structure; I was pretty disappointed, but others enjoy it very muchThe Doctor Who Solitaire Storytelling Game (FREE) solo game by Simon Cogan with over two-dozen expansions, playable onlineThe Gamemaster’s Apprentice a card-based idea generator & solo engineNewThe Trouble with Rose (PWYW) a story telling parlour game of romance, comedy, and betrayalWayfarer (FREE) by Stuart Lloyd, your character explores a quasi-medieval world full of ancient ruins and strange creaturesWicked Blades of the Blood Forest (FREE)a #200WordRPG solo game by Ivan VaghiZATHRUM (free) a simple d20 solo engine by Riccardo Fregi
#SoloRPGVideoResources (FREE) youtube videos about solo role-playingNewAbandoned Brain by Dan DavisAdopted by Mentor Apocalypse World 2ealea iactanda est blog with elaborate session reportsAlone Amongst Many has a great series about old school gaming with Scarlet HeroesBattreps solo role-playing and wargamingbob loblaw's solo log blog Mike Overbo's development blog for his solo web appChimerical Realm Vampire the Masquerade blogDan's Gaming Blogdie heart solo the solo section of this blog 🙂Dungeons & Dutch Ovens by Ed OrtizFiveMeninNormandy by Ivan SorensenGaming While Driving by James Carrmaulpodtoddcast - solo rpg actual play solo rpg podcast and youtube channelMetamorphosis Zeta Scarlet Heroes solo play and moreMoonSylver's blogMythic RPG Youtube series videologNights Of Solitude Karl Hendricks' page on Obsidian PortalNo One to Play With RoryB made several small solo engines (I like Perilous Intersections, see above) and also writes interesting session reportsNoels 15mm SciFi and Fantasy 15mm SciFi wargaming blog solo role-playing and wargaming, the link goes to the 4AD tagOne Player, Many Stages solo actual plays and other collaborative effortsPlundergrounds Hangout #1 (With Yours Truly) G+ Hangouts discussion about solo role-playing, especially with Dungeon WorldReddit Wiki Solo (FREE wiki entry) A simple article to get you startedRolling Dice and Writing Words solo rpg and writingRolling Dice and Writing Words by Geoff OsterbergSolo Actual Plays on RPG.net thanks to Alex Yari for taggingSolo Heroes by Steven LincolnSolo Roleplayer a general resource for solo gamingSolo Rpg Gamer some general thoughts about solo rpgsSolo Rpg Voyages interesting break-down for different role-playing gamesSolo un mondo di carta the author constantly tries out new tools with cool sketches, very interestingsolospelunking mostly actual plays with different systems (Star Wars FFG, 13th Age, FU etc.)Tabletop Diversions excellent solo musings by John Yorio, check out his tutorial on how to play solo rpgs on the right side of the pageThe Bwogosphere short snippets of actual play reports which are easy to readThe Gnomish Embassy old-school and new schoolThe Lone Crusader solo D&D role-playingThe Silverfang InnUbiquitousRat.net classic fantasy games (RuneQuest, Traveller etc.) soloWorld of the Fifth Sun solo RPG blog by Kern Wickham, also develops his own solo system

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Ep 118: telco
Episode 118 of The Popko Project Podcast features indie rock artist, telco – music. Brought to you by Keller’s Garden Center/Keller’s Lawn Care And Landscaping Services LLC, Ionic Development, The V-Spot Bar in Scranton, and Axelrad Screen Printing.
Once a trader on wall street, telco quit the rat race in 2020 to focus on his music career full time.
With 2 EPs and new music on the way in 2023, telco has proven he is committed to the process.
We talk about his plans for 2023 INCLUDING kicking off the new year with a show at the Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple with James Barrett Music and Glass Mask on January 6th. We also get into writing music when you’re in a good head space vs. a bad head space, living in cities like New York and Nashville and how that has helped his mission, getting married, recording music videos, using social media to promote music, covering music by The 1975 and Bleachers, life and so much more.
Tickets are available to the Scranton show now – linktr.ee/telcomusic – purchase in advance and save a few bucks and be sure to stream telco’s music on all music platforms.
Also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music and more – https://linktr.ee/thepopkoproject

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Toni - Well said.
Tonight's anti-Olympics protest at the federal plaza was vocal and well organized. The police presence there seemed almost as large as that at the noontime protest at City Hall and Daley Plaza. I was there in support of our officers and firefighters. The fact that they've been 2 years without a contract is a disgrace.
The track record of Mayor Daley and the city with major projects like Millennium Park does not inspire confidence in the likelihood of building multiple sports venues, an Olympic village, transit improvements and other necessary changes on time and without significant budget overruns. There's a very real possibility, based on the last few Olympics, that Chicago could end up incurring enormous debt without enough of an increase in tourism revenues during and after the games to avoid making our current budget deficit much worse.
I'd be happy to see Rio get the 2016 Olympics.


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You're completely frustrated with your tenant and you want to lock this person out. Maybe they're destructive to the property, create a racket at night and upset other tenants, or have ignored notices about late rent payments. Don't make any hasty moves. States and municipal jurisdictions have detailed procedures about how to legally evict tenants, and forcing them out by changing locks is often unacceptable.
Legal Consequences of Locking Tenants Out
Changing the locks on tenants without following legal procedure is one type of strategy known as a self-help eviction. Most states prohibit self-help evictions. Your state might allow this action in certain circumstances, but you would probably have needed to address this in the lease.
For instance, your state may allow you to change the locks if the lease has a provision about this potential action. For example, the provision would alert tenants that being delinquent on rent could lead to a lockout after a written notice.
If a lockout isn't legal in your state, you may have to pay a fine. You might have to reimburse the person's living expenses while they couldn't get into the residence. You will most likely have to let them back in. Under many circumstances, the tenant will legally be able to continue living there. After all that aggravation, you still need to pursue the legal eviction process or wait for the lease to run out.
You also run the risk of retaliation by an angry renter if you take that sort of bold step. You might find a good bit of damage inside the residence and have no way to recoup the cost for repairs aside from keeping the security deposit.
What to Do Now
Call the general number at your courthouse and ask to speak to someone about starting the eviction process. You'll need to file a notice in court, but if you've never done this before, you'll want someone to walk you through all the steps.
After the tenant voluntarily moves out or the eviction process progresses to a certain point, that's the time to call a locksmith from The Lock Shop and get the locks changed. Your state might allow this action within a certain time frame if the tenant has been served a legal notice of eviction by the sheriff's department. You'll want to deal with the locks as soon as it's legal to do so, even if the tenant has returned the keys, since they could have made copies.

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News-Press Challenges Union Victory
by Nick Welsh
In the singular Perry Mason moment of the Santa Barbara News-Press case against the Teamsters, embattled editorial page editor Travis Armstrong on Tuesday all but accused lead Teamster organizer Marty Keegan of stalking him. In a federal hearing room, Armstrong testified he was the acting publisher at the time of the suspicious incident publishers Wendy McCaw and Arthur Von Wiesenberger having left for the Mediterranean — and that he was having trouble sleeping. Armstrong recounted looking out his window and seeing a man standing in front of an SUV across the street, staring toward his apartment.
Armstrong said he hadn’t seen the man again until the court proceedings, when he identified the late-night lookout as Keegan, the Teamster organizer who spearheaded the union drive that culminated in late September’s 33-6 newsroom vote in favor of unionizing. During a break in the proceedings, Keegan denied Armstrong’s accusation, stating, “I have no idea where he lives, and until today, I had not ever laid eyes on the man.” Besides, Keegan added, he drives a Chrysler Concorde, not an SUV. Keegan said he was “shocked” by Armstrong’s accusation but dismissed it as “street theater” calculated to undermine the credibility of the Teamsters’ organizing drive.
Although the Teamsters won overwhelmingly and 95 percent of eligible newsroom workers cast ballots — the election results have not been certified because News-Press management has charged the union and its newsroom supporters engaged in coercive and intimidating behavior. This week’s legal proceeding — held under the auspices of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) — aims to evaluate the News-Press’s claims.
Specifically, the newspaper owners contend that the election results were tainted because some editors and managers actively supported the Teamsters; that the savethenewspress.com Web site — operated and maintained by the Teamsters on behalf of the News-Press union drive — falsely gave workers the impression that the paper’s owners supported the union effort; that an employee’s car bearing the News-Press masthead next to a pro-union bumper sticker gave the same false impression; that union supporters in the newsroom engaged in job actions that intimidated other workers, such as marching en masse to Wendy McCaw’s office to deliver a letter of demands; and finally, that an anonymous post on the BlogaBarbara Web site threatening to inflict mayhem, cyber-sabotage, and vandalism on the News-Press computer system and newspaper racks created an atmosphere of such fear and intimidation that a fair election was impossible.
Teamster attorney Ira Gottlieb noted that the News-Press had already unsuccessfully filed three of the four allegations as unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB. In one of those instances, the NLRB found the company’s two-day suspension of the 14 workers who marched to McCaw’s office constituted an unfair labor practice. Gottlieb stated the union had no responsibility for anonymous threats posted on the Web and argued that McCaw, knowing she was going to lose the union election by a large margin, issued a press release about the cyber threat just days before the election even though the posting had occurred months earlier. “We’re here today because of denial and delay,” Gottlieb declared.
On the witness stand, Associate Editor Scott Steepleton and Armstrong described union activists behaving like “a mob” or “storm troopers.” Steepleton stood up twice to demonstrate their stomping gait as they marched on McCaw’s office. When asked how he felt at the time, Steepleton said, “Scared.
Intimidated,” though he later acknowledged he was never personally threatened. When Human Resources Director Yolanda Apodaca tried to relay complaints of union intimidation she’d heard from two News-Press workers who demanded anonymity, Administrative Law Judge William Schmidt — normally congenial — came unglued. “Are you saying that some anonymous employee is going to come in and testify that they were intimidated?” the judge demanded. “Not in my hearing room. This is not a star chamber. No. This hearing room is about due process.”
At the end of the day, Gottlieb moved to have all charges dismissed outright, arguing the News-Press failed to meet its burden of proof. While Judge Schmidt agreed some of the charges against the union seemed notably thin — supervisorial interference in particular — he said he was inclined to give the allegations of intimidating behavior greater scrutiny before rendering a decision.


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Medium (140-150 degrees Fahrenheit) A steak grilled to ″medium″ will have a lot of pink in it. On the exterior, a little ring of grey may appear, and a strip of red may stay in the middle of the circle. The temperature at which the fat begins to liquefy and provide flavor to steaks with greater marbling will be higher for these cuts of meat.
What is the best temperature to cook steak?
Cooking your steaks to 140 degrees will begin to get them to a medium degree of doneness, with the possibility of tough flesh and a distinct loss of moisture. While medium may appear to be a tempting option, we at Steak University advise against it since quality cuts of meat taste best when cooked to medium-rare steak temperature.
Is medium rare always the perfect steak temperature?
Why Medium Rare is Always the Optimal Steak Cooking Temp Whether you’re an experienced carnivore or a novice, when it comes to the search of the ideal steak, both aficionados and novices will agree that medium-rare beef is the finest option. To which we at Steak University wholeheartedly subscribe!
Do you need a meat thermometer to cook steak?
You will need a meat thermometer, such as a ThermoPro Digital Instant Read Thermometer, combined with the accompanying steak temperature chart in order to achieve the right cooking temperature for a medium-rare steak each and every time you cook one. When it comes to cooking steak, why is it important to pay attention to the temperature?
What is medium well steak supposed to look like?
The middle of the meat is just barely pink, and there is little to no pink hue on the outer margins of the flesh when it is cooked medium well. Cooked to perfection, the core temperature is around 155°F on average; nevertheless, when reached at 145°F, it must be removed from the fire immediately.

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An antioxidant for the maintenance of good health.
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The Girls By Emma Cline
The Instant Bestseller & Named One of the Best Books of the Year by 18 Publications
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged—a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence.
Simon & Schuster publishing company released a variety of discussion questions to consider while reading The Time Traveler’s Wife. They also had a conversation with Audrey Niffenegger, the author, about how this story came to her and how she began to write this story and keep up with its unchronological events. Check it out below:
The Time Traveler’s Wife By Audrey Niffenegger
A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger’s cinematic storytelling that makes the novel’s unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.
An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler’s Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.
One of the authors, Irin Carmon, developed several discussion questions that we can think about after devouring the latest on the one and only RBG. The list of questions can be found here: http://irincarmon.com/notorious-rbg-book-club-questions/
Let us know if you have any other questions or thoughts that came up while reading Notorious RBG.
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik
New York Times Bestseller
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame—she has only tried to make the world a little better and a little freer.
But nearly a half-century into her career, something funny happened to the octogenarian: she won the internet. Across America, people who weren’t even born when Ginsburg first made her name as a feminist pioneer are tattooing themselves with her face, setting her famously searing dissents to music, and making viral videos in tribute.
Notorious RBG, inspired by the Tumblr that amused the Justice herself and brought to you by its founder and an award-winning feminist journalist, is more than just a love letter. It draws on intimate access to Ginsburg’s family members, close friends, colleagues, and clerks, as well an interview with the Justice herself. An original hybrid of reported narrative, annotated dissents, rare archival photos and documents, and illustrations, the book tells a never-before-told story of an unusual and transformative woman who transcends generational divides. As the country struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stands as a testament to how far we can come with a little chutzpah.
One wise, mystical leader (Oprah) chose this as her book club book and created these great questions to consider after reading!
- When Cheryl discovers the guidebook to the Pacific Crest Trail, she says that the trip “was an idea, vague and outlandish, full of promise and mystery.” Later, her soon-to-be ex-husband suggests she wants to do the hike “to be alone.” What do you think her reasons were for committing to this journey?
- In the beginning of the book, Cheryl’s prayers are literally curse words—curses for her mother’s dying, curses against her mother for failing. How does her spiritual life change during the course of the book?
- Cheryl’s pack, also known as Monster, is one of those real-life objects that also makes a perfect literary metaphor: Cheryl has too much carry on her back and in her mind. Are there other objects she takes with her or acquires along the way that take on deeper meanings? How so?
- “The thing about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail…was how few choices I had and how often I had to do the thing I least wanted to do,” writes Cheryl. “How there was no escape or denial.” In what ways have her choices helped and/or hurt her up to this point?
- “Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves,” Cheryl writes her first day on the trail. She is speaking about her fear of rattlesnakes and mountain lions and serial killers. To defeat that fear, she tells herself a new story, the story that she is brave and safe. What do you think about this approach, which she herself calls “mind control”? What are some of her other ways of overcoming fear?
- At one point, Cheryl tells herself, “I was not meant to be this way, to live this way, to fail so darkly.” It’s a moment of self-criticism and despair. And yet, some belief in herself exists in that statement. How do the things Cheryl believes about herself throughout the memoir, even during her lowest moments, help or hurt her on the PCT?
Comment if you had any reactions to these or thought of any other questions while reading!
While reading Wild, I was able to listen to a few other long-distance backpacking tales from the Appalachian and the PCT (Still have not found one for the Continental Divide Trail).
Two of the ones I was able to listen to were AWOL On The Appalachian Trial and Thru Hiking Will Break Your Heart. Both were telling of the day to day life on the trail, but also covered the emotional journey.
AWOL, a hiker name, had several missteps within his journey and often found himself at the whim of others. Through hitchhiking and asking to sleep in front yards, AWOL made his way slowly up to Maine from Georgia. He was taking a pause after some financial hardships in 2002 and decided it was time for him to commit to the journey. He is much more by-the-book and exact in his retelling than other books.
Carrot Quinn wrote Thru Hiking Will Break Your Heart after she completed her 2013 trek of the Pacific Coast Trail. She found and lost love, she addressed her problems with food security, and of not having the proper gear. She was not focused as much on the getting there, but as her emotions surrounding her days. She is not as exact on the places she stopped or the guide she uses. However, she does say how many miles she walks in a day, the details of her zero days, and when she had to resupply. The only note I may add is that she is Gluten Intolerant and often eats gluten along the trail leading her to stomach pains. She also had tendinitis, tonsillitis, and a parasite that were all self-diagnosed. So take some of the emotions with a grain of salt and focus on the bigger journey.
Wild led to an interesting world of backpacking and long distance hikers that most do not go down. However, these stories are intricate and independent. It really shows the meaning of “Hike Your Own Hike”.
Please comment on other backpacking or adventure novels you would recommend!
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
#1 National Bestseller
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

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This certainly was the week that was. Trump threatened nuclear war against North Korea. He threatened to invade Venezuela. Along the way, he attacked various people in his administration and the Republican Party for supposedly letting him down. It ended on the other hand with him blaming “many sides” for the violence in Charlottesville.
The world is usually black and white, without any shades of gray, for President Trump. Except, now it’s all gray when the ugliest part of his political base, the Nazis, KKK, white supremacists, anti-Semites and lovers of Confederate traitors who supported slavery, cause death and injury to those who believe in democracy and equality. Trump’s response was late, even later than his wife’s tweet condemning the violence. And when he finally issued a statement, it was so wishy-washy as to be almost meaningless. With his comment about condemning the “many sides” to what happened, he morally equated those who brought hatred and violence to Charlottesville with those who opposed it. The fascists were thrilled with his “condemnation” and so much so that the founder of the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi white supremacist web site hailed Trump for “refusing to disavow” them.
Don’t think for a second that those coming to Charlottesville to rally to “Unite the Right” desired anything other than to brutally demonstrate their physical determination to turn America into a fascist state. They came fully armed with shields, head gear, pepper spray, and clubs. According to Virginia Governor McAuliffe, the fascist militias who came with them were better armed than the police; 80 percent of them had semi-automatic weapons. None of this was needed to exercise free speech; indeed, they came to intimidate and crack heads the way Hitler’s Brown Shirts did during his quest to take over Germany.
On that level, the ACLU deserves special mention for failing to recognize that free speech does not include the ability and intent to harm others physically. When the City of Charlottesville sought to move the fascist demonstration to another park, about a mile away, the ACLU successfully filed suit to prevent it, even though the city was saying it needed to do so to preserve public safety.
If you think that calling these demonstrators fascist is extreme, consider that they gave a torch lit parade reminiscent of Hitler’s Germany, while shouting “Blood and Soil,” a slogan created by Hitler’s party in the 1920s to proclaim their view that pure German blood evolved from Germany’s rural areas. And if that wasn’t enough, they also shouted, “The Jews will not remove us.”
There are photographs on the web of James Alex Fields Jr. holding a shield with the insignia of Vanguard America, one of the fascist groups that called for the Unite the Right rally. He is the young man who posted a baby picture of Hitler on his Facebook page, registered to vote Republican in the last election and stands accused of murder by deliberately driving his car into a peaceful crowd of people leaving the area. If you go on Vanguard America’s website, the group rails against gays, Jews, Blacks and women having sex outside of marriage. They proclaim to support the institution of the family, Christian values and a fascist state in America. “Democracy has failed in this once great nation, now the time for a new Caesar to revive the American spirit has dawned,” states Vanguard America’s manifesto, which bears the title “Fascist America.” This new fascist America, in the eyes of Vanguard America, will be “exclusively for the White American peoples” who settled and built this country.
It is worth reading their Fascist America manifesto. It explains the fascist attraction to Trump, his attraction to them, and it highlights the need today for the labor movement to educate America’s workers against fascist demagogy about supposedly caring for working people.
Like traditional fascists of the 1930s, Vanguard America pretends to oppose workers’ exploitation: “Vanguard America stands indomitably opposed to the tyranny of globalism and capitalism, a system under which nations are stripped of their heritage, and their people are turned into nothing more than units of cheap, expendable labor.”
Of course, American workers’ exploitation is due to an international Jewish conspiracy which controls the international corporations and prevents us from enjoying a truly national economy that serves our needs. Once that exploitation is lifted, according to the manifesto, the American worker will have economic security in a classless capitalist society, albeit, as directed by a benevolent national state without any freedom of the press to interfere:
- Like all independent nations, America should strive for a truly national economy. An economy that is self-contained, and free from the influence of international corporations, led by a rootless group of international Jews, which place profit beyond the interests of our people, or any people. Neither for the rich or the poor, ours should be an economy directed to act in the interest of our people and our people alone. America should protect the man’s right to fulfilling work so that every hardworking man can provide for his wife and children. His labor will be directed to serve the interests of the national community. The chains of debt slavery wrap themselves tightly around White Americans, such conditions must be reversed. A new generation of corporate leaders, who hold the interests of White America first and foremost, will naturally rise to the top of this new economy.
- The free market is not the enemy, but global finance is. Average businesses will keep their usual functions and retain a profit motive. However, the large multinational corporations that have bled this nation dry will not be allowed to continue their detrimental efforts unabated. Once they are brought to heel, our currency will no longer be manipulated on the whims of the vested few, our jobs and industry will not be exported to foreign nations, and the media and entertainment industries will no longer be allowed to poison the minds of our people.
This manifesto explains the programmatic reasons why fascist groups like Vanguard America supported Trump for he complained about globalism, about jobs being exported overseas, of unfair trade agreements that sold American out, and that he was for the forgotten common man. Of course, it also helped that Trump wanted to deport Muslims and immigrants and urged violence against protesters at his campaign rallies. Moreover, he denounced the news media as “fake news,” a term that Hitler coined, (lügenpresse – lying press) to describe newspapers that did not support him, and led the racist effort to discredit President Obama as supposedly not having been born in America.
By making Steve Bannon his campaign CEO and then elevating him to be a special advisor at the Whitehouse after he won the election, Trump signaled to the far right his acceptance of their views as part of the legitimate political discourse. Some even say that it was Bannon’s vision when putting into practice by Trump enabled him to win. He certainly won in the rust belt and other states where America’s white working class was hurting. (Bannon was the editor of Breitbart News, a far-right online news, opinion and commentary website which, according to Philip Elliott and Zeke J. Miller of Time, has “pushed racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic material into the vein of the alternative right.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon.) It’s no wonder that Trump couldn’t condemn the ideology of the fascist hooligans of the alt-right at Charlottesville.
Trump’s failure to denounce the fascist and racist ideology on display in Charlottesville quickly met with stinging criticism from leaders within his party. U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) publicly called on Trump to condemn “white supremacists” and to use that term. He also tweeted: “Mr. President — we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists, and this was domestic terrorism.” Gardner chairs the Republican Party’s Senate election effort.
Other Republicans denounced the fascists in the clearest possible terms. U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released a statement decrying the white supremacist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia:
- Our Founders fought a revolution for the idea that all men are created equal. The heirs of that revolution fought a Civil War to save our nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to that revolutionary proposition.
- Nothing less is at stake on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, where a violent attack has taken at least one American life and injured many others in a confrontation between our better angels and our worst demons.
- White supremacists and neo-Nazis are, by definition, opposed to American patriotism and the ideals that define us as a people and make our nation special.
- As we mourn the tragedy that has occurred in Charlottesville, American patriots of all colors and creeds must come together to defy those who raise the flag of hatred and bigotry.
U.S. Senator Orin Hatch (R-Utah) tweeted Saturday night: “We must call evil by its name. My brother didn’t give his life-fighting Hitler for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tweeted that it was “very important for the nation to hear” Trump “describe events for what they are, a terror attack by white supremacists.” U.S. Senator Ted Cruz tweeted: “The Nazis, the KKK, and white supremacists are repulsive and evil, and all of us have a moral obligation to speak out against the lies, bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred that they propagate.” He called on the Department of Justice to open an investigation of what he called “domestic terrorism.” Even Gov. Chris Christy (R-NJ), a strong Trump supporter, tweeted: “We reject the racism and violence of white nationalists like the ones acting out in Charlottesville. Everyone in leadership must speak out.”
On Saturday, we watched Trump finish his milk toast denunciation of violence in Charlottesville by walking out and refusing to answer reporters’ questions about why he was not denouncing white supremacists. On Sunday, an unnamed Whitehouse spokesperson emailed these reporters to put some spin on what Trump said. The Whitehouse claimed that Trump’s Saturday statement was one that “condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred, and of course that includes white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups.” While it’s nice that the Whitehouse is rewriting history to a positive purpose, it is not enough. Trump must personally condemn those responsible for the terrorist violence. He must also personally denounce the Nazi, KKK, white supremacist, and anti-Semitic fascist ideology that propelled the violence.
Hitler’s party called itself the National Socialist German Workers Party for a reason. It claimed it was on the side of Germany’s working class. And, unfortunately, many workers believed this and voted for the Nazi Party. Of course, once in power, Hitler smashed independent trade unions, rounded up their leaders (as well as the Jews, the disabled, the communists, the Romani and millions of others) and put them into concentration camps where they died. If Trump does publicly denounce these fascist groups, it will go a long way to weakening them, in part because a segment of the unionized and nonunion American working class supports him. If Trump does not denounce these groups, they may continue to grow and become a force in our body politic and within our unions.
*Larry Cary is a partner at the labor law firm of Cary Kane LLP in New York City. His mother grew up in Nazi Germany but was able to leave because she had birth right citizenship, having been born in New York City. His law firm’s website is http://www.carykanelegal.com/

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The Climate Ribbon is an area between the city and the River Gudenå/the Randers Fjord, and is a significant part of the city's overall urban development project “The City to the Water”. The area is appointed as a risk area R1 in the municipal CCA Plan. The CCA plan refers to the Flood Risk Management Plan regarding implementation of initiatives, and within the latter, the project "City of Water" is a major part of the plan containing several purposes and actions.
Figure 37. With 62,000 inhabitants (the 6th largest city in DK), Randers is situated at the river mouth of the northern part of the River Gudenå at the estuary of Randers Fjord, between the hillsides of the vally of the River Gudenå to the north and south.
Randers City Council has a vision to connect the city to the water by 2021
Historically an industrial city with a busy port, the city now faces its back to the water and the nature. However, soon all port functions shall be totally relocated to another area along the fjord, the industrial area will be abolished, and a possibility for the city to turn to the water has emerged.
Thus, convening the city, the nature, and the water constitutes a major potential for future urban development. New CCA measures should be developed and implemented while at the same time fully respecting the unique nature of the Randers Fjord and the River Gudenå, bringing biodiversity closer to the city and generate nature based recreational activities close to the city center.
‘The City to the Water’ covers 92 hectares along the River Gudenå and the Randers fjord. The previous industrial and port area must be climate-proofed for urban development without losing its direct, attractive location at the center of nature with easy access to the water. In this process, Randers Municipality is seeking means to find new, innovative CCA solutions and mobilise investments (the C16 action) protecting the city agaings flooding by storm surge, while keeping direct and close contact with unique nature and future acces to water.
Traditional CCA based on embankments, dams and dikes saves the city from water damage, but also creates new barriers between the city and the water, resulting in a poorer experience of nature and greater distance between the city and the water. New buildings on high plinths create closed facades and dreary spaces that are not pleasant to pass by.
An important feature of the urban development project is the creation of a new large coherent ‘Climate Ribbon’ connecting the city with the countryside to the east and west and at the same time connecting it to the water. The Climate Ribbon is a green corridor of 8.8 km, winding between the city and the water. Here, docks and embankments, urban nature, infrastructure, buildings, urban spaces, and city life integrate into one large CCA project.
Furthermore, the relocating of the port operations, and reducing of the traffic on Randers Bridge, two types of water could easily merge with a positive impact on biodiversity in this area. The meeting between the salty water of the Randers Fjord and the fresh water of the River Gudenå an improved water environment create the basis for a healthy and stable ecosystem with the potential of more animals and plants as well as new species of fish, birds and insects.
Figure 38: the merger of the two types of water – the fresh water of the River Gudenå and the salty water of Randers Fjord
The ultimate goal is to avoid new barriers between the city and the water, and instead include water as a positive resource and an active part of the solution to the city's challenges. However, solutions are not evident, so the purpose of the project is to gather knowledge and innovative CCA answers, disseminate and consolidate this knowledge, and create new experiences and eventually generate investments and continued momentum in the realization of the project.
Phase 1 deals with collecting relevant data on the contents of the Climate Ribbon and the subsequent launch of an international tender for innovative nature-based solutions.


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“Things don’t have to be extraordinary to be beautiful. Even the ordinary can be beautiful.”
― Wicker Park
When I was younger, it took something truly extraordinary to inspire me. As the years have passed, I look for inspiration in the little things — the day-to-day.
Some ordinary moments that inspire me are:
1) Driving my car on the open road on a beautiful clear, sunny day. I am truly blessed to live where I do. When I get past the road construction and traffic and find a stretch of road on a clear day, the feeling is something I can hardly put into words. I was driving back from SFO airport the other day on the 280. The views of the citylines and the hills and the sky were just breathtaking. It made me want to go for a run and just enjoy the beauty of the outdoors.
2) The smell of coffee in the morning I am a sucker for a good cup of coffee. I taste coffees like some people taste wine! The smell of freshly roasted beans being ground is intoxicating to me. I think I enjoy the smell more than actually drinking the coffee itself.
3) Bringing home fresh flowers. I picked up the most beautiful dahlias and Bells of Ireland at the Los Altos Farmer’s Market yesterday. It amazes me how something so simple can be so beautiful and put a smile on my face for days. It’s like art in a vase — Love it!
Every ordinary day is filled with extraordinary moments. What ordinary things give you inspiration?


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Besides, transfer of shares by these companies has to be done only in the demat or electronic form.
This step has been taken for "further enhancing transparency, investor protection and governance in the corporate sector," the Corporate Affairs Ministry said in a release.
From October 2, issue of further shares and transfer of all shares by unlisted public companies shall be in dematerialised form only, the ministry said.
Under the Companies Act, 2013, there are public as well as private companies. Generally, those having more than 200 members are classified as public companies and they have to follow stricter corporate governance norms.
Generally, shareholders are referred as members.
There are more than 70,000 public companies, as per official data.
According to the ministry, elimination of risks associated with physical certificates such as loss, theft, mutilation and fraud, would be a key benefit from the decision on having shares in demat form.
Further, the move would help improve the corporate governance system by increasing transparency and preventing malpractices such as benami shareholding and back-dated issuance of shares, it said.
The ministry noted that "exemption from payment of stamp duty on transfer" as well as ease in transfer and pledging of securities, are among the other benefits.
The Companies (Prospectus and Allotment of Securities) Rules, 2014, have been amended by the ministry.
Now, such entities have to ensure that "before making such offer, entire holding of securities of its promoters, directors, key managerial personnel has been dematerialised," according to the rules.
"Unlisted public companies are expected to facilitate the dematerialisation of their securities in coordination with depositories and share transfer agents," the release said.
Grievances of any security holder of unlisted public companies would be handled by the Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) Authority.
The authority can initiate "any action against a depository or participant or registrar to an issue and share transfer agent after prior consultation with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi)," as per the the rules.
Last month, senior officials told that the government would soon make it mandatory for unlisted companies to issue new shares only in the demat form and also ensure that shares are transferred only in the demat form.
The proposed move would help in enhancing transparency in ownership at corporates, curb benami transactions and bolster the efforts to weed out shell companies that are allegedly used for illicit activities, they had said.
At the end of June, there were more than 11.89 lakh active companies. Out of them, 71,506 were public companies and over 11.10 lakh companies were private ones, as per data compiled by the ministry.
Section 29 of the Act pertains to public offer of securities to be in the demat form.
Every company making a public offer and such other class or classes of public companies as may be prescribed shall issue the securities only in dematerialised form by complying with the provisions of the Depositories Act, 1996.
Further, certain class of companies "may convert its securities into dematerialised form or issue its securities in physical form in accordance with the provisions of this Act or in dematerialised form in accordance with the provisions of the Depositories Act, 1996 and the regulations made there under," as per Section 29.


Pakistan vs Australia – Aamer and Asif tear through Aussie top order
Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer took three wickets each on the opening day of Pakistan’s Test match with Australia at Lord’s to leave the ‘away’ side floundering on 229/9 at stumps.
Pakistan are regarded as the hosts due to terror threats on the subcontinent and have moved to 7/4 to win the match, just behind Australia on 5/4. With wickets tumbling freely a draw looks unlikely at 9/4.
Pakistan took six wickets after tea to leave Michael Hussey, on 39, and bowler Doug Bollinger on 0, as the men left at the crease and the Australia first innings on the brink of being a surprisingly low total.
Hussey averages 52.16 in Tests, though, and his trademark resilience could make backing a final score of over 239.5 runs a worthwhile bet.
Earlier in the day, Simon Katich and Michael Clarke had built a century third-wicket stand as Australia recovered from the loss of two early wickets to reach tea on 171 for three.
Mohammed Aamer dismissed Shane Watson and Ricky Ponting as Pakistan sought to capitalise on winning the toss under gloomy skies at Lord’s, which delayed the 10.30am by one and a half hours.
The 18-year-old dismissed Watson with a ball that nipped back to thud his back pad and hit the stumps and then Ponting, going on to collide with the Australia captain while celebrating.
Mohammad Asif unleashed a devestating spell either side of tea. He got his first wicket by trapping Clarke LBW on the last ball before tea and then sent Katich and Michael North (out for a duck) packing in his first over after the break.
Pakistan then took four wickets for 25 runs with Australia on 205. Umar Gul had Tim Paine caught behind, Danish Kaneria trapped Steven Smith LBW, then bowled Mitchell Johnson, with Aamer finishing the day’s play by bowling Ben Hilfenhaus.
Looking ahead to the Pakistan innings, it would be wise to put money on Salman Butt to be the team’s top scorer.
The opener made a century in the first innings of the final Test match between these two in January and is 4/1 to be the highest run-getter again.
Fancy 20-year-old Umar Akmal to continue the youthful success of Aamer and top score? He has a Test average of over 48 and is 4/1 to be Pakistan’s top scorer.


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A stand-alone expansion bundle containing all the previous stand-alone expansions: Monikers: Shmonikers, Monikers: Something Something, and Monikers: The Shut Up & Sit Down Nonsense Box.
Play this game on it's own, or combine it with any other box in the series:
A dumb party game that respects your intelligence.
Monikers is pretty simple: get your friends to guess the name on a card. Each team has 60 seconds to get through as many weird, inappropriate names as they can.
In the first round, you can say anything you want. In the second, you can only use one word. And in the third, you can’t say anything at all — just charades. The same cards are used in each round, so by the end of the game, you’ve made up a bunch of hilarious jokes together.


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I made a card! lol I almost feel like shouting it from the roof tops. It isn’t my best ever but it is done! Yay! It has been hard to find the time to create over the last week or so. The few times I have had a moment have been unproductive, but today…success! And, I was just looking at the Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge for this week and weirdly enough my card fits the sketch. Double yay!
And here is my card:
It is not quite what is in my head but given that it took me about five times to get the toadstool coloured in a way I liked, I am MORE than happy with it! 🙂 Inspired to keep creating now. 🙂
Hope you are all happy and well. Big hugs and best wishes to all my Canadian friends as they celebrate their Thanksgiving Day!
Such a cute little mushroom house, Kylie … the hard word on all those attempts at getting the colours just right was definitely worth it … it stands out in the thumbnails! Anita (in France) 🙂
Thank you so very much, Anita! I appreciate your kind words! 🙂 Thank you too for taking the time to comment. Hope you have a great day!
Yayyy…you’re back with such a sweet card – and I’m Ms. Slow Poke in catching up! Amazing how *behind* I get when I’m absent from my routine for a couple days, with a repeat about to happen Friday, as we’re returning to see my family! So excited!! Your take on the PS sketch: delightfully darling! Bev’s trip down memory lane sparked me on a similar journey. Eons ago, my sister and I used to have troll dolls (you’re too young to remember those), who we outfitted in the most stylish clothes imaginable (seriously – we used sort of a ‘triangle-ish pattern’ and decorated away). Not only were they well clad (and coiffed), but we made them a wee house; indeed, a mushroom house! Who would have thought that a stamp like this would be created, never mind stir recollections of childhood fun! And to have YOU share it: only too perfect, my dear friend! I’ll echo Bev: your cards stir the emotions!! Hope you’ll be creating more real soon; love coming to visit, even if I’m tardy at times!! Hugs to you, Kylie!!
Hi C, I am more of a slow-poke than you. I am going to catch up this weekend though. That’s my promise to myself. 🙂 I want to see what you’ve all been up to. So excited for you that you get more family time. Yay! I do remember the troll dolls. 🙂 How cute that you made them a little house too. ADORABLE!! Thanks sooo much for your oh-so-sweet comments, my friend! hugs!
Very cute card! I do wish I was there instead of where I am… sounds like I am equally busy to you with no time to craft… and that little house looks so peaceful!!
I do too, Morag! Be nice to have a cute little escape house like that. Thanks so much for stopping by and for taking the time to write too. 🙂
So good to see your work back in blogland!! And what a comeback! My sister got a little mushroom house when we lived in Germany (waaaaay long time ago), and this so reminds me that little house. You always manage to evoke the most wonderful emotions with your cards – but that’s exactly what cards are supposed to do! Love that wonderful red. Such a happy card. Love it. Hugs, Bev
I’m so bad at the moment, aren’t I? I haven’t even been reading blogs which mean I haven’t caught up with your news in ages. 🙁 I’m so thrilled my little card brought back some memories and I don’t think I could ask for a sweeter compliment than that which you have just written. Bev, thank you so very, very much! big hugs to you.
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Tokyo is a big city and there is always something new to find. I decided to head over to Yoyogi Park area for a wander and came across a break dancing competition under the bridge. People were crowded around as this fellow spun the tunes.
Yes, breakdancing survived the 80’s. It started with 4 groups .. getting warmed up.
Then they broke into a competition. I stood in the middle and couldn’t help but think that this looked like some kind of dance off … like you have seen in movies (that you turn off). In person it is very entertaining. They were extremely talented and agile.
A few shots as the two sides (left and right) went at each other.
A coordinated taunt.
As each new dancer started they would usually face the crowd and make a taunt or two before they began throwing themselves into it.
The crew on the right had a few kids in it. And the little batman took his turn.
If you are wondering about athletic prowess .. check out the height.
And then it was over, just as this fellow stepped out. He turned to the DJ and they all asked .. one more!
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Cults are fascinating. Now more than ever, specific information is available to us detailing the rise downfall of many notorious cults. When we hear the word “cult" we think of maybe the Manson “Family", or the Children of God, or The infamous Jonestown.
Cults, in short, are groups of people who are fully committed to a leader and a set of ideas.
What we don't realize is that many of us are actually in cults right now and dont consider why or how we got there. Some cults can exist and operate without abuse — but many fall into the wrong hands and are manipulated into dangerous subgroups in which escape feels impossible.
A cult is defined by Miriam Webster dictionary as: “ A great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (such as a film (religion) or book)."
A cult is also called a Total Institution. Coined by popular sociologist Erving Goffman, the term has grown increasingly relevant. Examples of total institutions could be a boot camp, a mental Asylum, the mafia, or even a traveling soccer league.
Total institutions are all-encompassing. They influence most aspects of your life and guide your decision making and behavior. Religions are often considered cults due to their strict insistence on a set of rules. A total institution is a social system in which a particular set of rules and norms are fervently enforced in a closed space.
Many people in cults will leave their previous way of life and their families in order to embrace a new, enticing system of thinking. A common trick for a cult leader is to ask everyone to give up their money and worldly possessions in the name of purity, but then profit from their charity. Conformity is achieved through usually a closed off group either geographically or socially. People in a cult will rely on each other synergistically and usually a singular authoritarian figure and are discouraged when interacting with those outside the cult. This person, the leader—can claim they are God, or they can just act like it. They usually set ground rules and orchestrate the container in which society is performed. A script and a stage is set: and only a special few are allowed to see the show.
An institution can be entered willingly or unwillingly. Even those who enter willingly might not understand the extent that which a cult can control your life. Cults can be extremely traumatizing and abusive: such as the Jonestown massacre. If you've heard the phrase “don't drink the kool-aid" then you've heard about one of the most lethal cults in America. 918 men, women, and children were murdered under the influence of the deranged Jim Jones.
Many call it a mass suicide — but they'd be wrong. Many of the children were forced to drink poison, and those who tried to escape were shot. Those who decided to drink did so under duress or delusion. Either way, the powerful influence of ONE man led to the death of almost a thousand people. Many of whom were simply looking for a simple life.
Cults can root themselves within your heart slowly — little by little before the roots constrict your free will, all while convincing you that you don't need it.
A cult leader can be charismatic, well spoken, influential, and attractive in many ways. This is how they sink their teeth into you. Whether or not they believe the lies and regimes they tell and follow, only “God" knows. Many cult leaders will construct rules and boundaries for their followers under false pretenses, and shirk following the rules themselves — as they consider themselves exalted figures.
Are you worried that your club, church, or group is invading your personal sphere? Do you feel like your choices aren't your own? Is there a person or small group of people who dictate your behavior? Do you think you cannot leave or choose not to follow the rules for fear of retribution?
You might want to call your dad. You're in a cult.
The signs are clear:
1. A single authoritative person or small group of people create rules to follow.
When not followed, there is punishment. In cults and pyramid schemes — certain rules or ideas are withheld until a conditioning process is undergone so one cannot escape.
2. Your group is isolated or encouraged to stay and keep secrets within the in-group.
Secrets can be used as currency — and used against those who rock the boat. You may be asked/forced to cut off communication with your parents, friends, or family for “the good of the group."
3. Critical thinking and questioning are met with resistance, deferment, and or punishment.
Gas-lighting, or reflecting criticism back onto oneself is common.
4. Cults are totalistic.
This means extreme forms of behavior and thought processes are encouraged, and any abnormality is discouraged. Those in a cult may think in black and white, right and wrong. They usually are under the firm assumption that they are right, and those who don't agree completely are wrong.
5. Hostility, sanction, or aggression when leaving the group is brought up.
6. Formal ceremonies and rituals take place to indoctrinate and reaffirm beliefs communally.
All are expected to attend and believe in the core values of which the cult was founded on.
7. “Love Bombing" or bipolar behavior.
This refers to a manipulation tactic that includes two steps. First, a cult leader or group will paint everything with rose colors. They will draw you in with kindness, acceptance, possibility, and safety. Gain trust. Step two: Test their trust by revealing abusive, neglectful, omissive, or untruthful behavior or ceremonies.
8. Food, work, and social activity are monitored or controlled.
Drugs may be involved, overwork, or the manipulation of food that can leave a person weak or susceptible to command.
9. A sense of “community" is extremely valued above the comfort and desire of the individual.
10. Important decisions are influenced or made by the people in charge.
Hierarchy is often stressed, with those at a lower caste being at the mercy of those above them.

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Maeve Sheehan: Meanwhile, all is peaceful and above board at the Russian embassy in leafy Dublin 6
Russia's man in Ireland laughs off concerns over the size of a new development at the embassy, writes Maeve Sheehan
A war of words rages across the water over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury. In equally leafy Dublin 6, however, it seems the Kremlin has been quietly doing its bit to help the Irish housing crisis.
The Russian Embassy's plan for a massive expansion of its compound on the leafy Dublin 6 suburb of Orwell Road has been interpreted as a grand surveillance outpost for Russian spies with America tech firms in their sights.
"This is ridiculous," says Russia's man in Ireland, ambassador Yury Filatov. "The idea is to bring all the diplomats inside the compound. Otherwise they are renting apartments in the city."
Dublin rents are indeed extortionate.
"There are a number of factors here. Not least of which an altruistic factor that we have to contribute positively to resolving the housing crisis," he says. He's joking - he likes to be 'humorous'.
"The main point is security. Well, Dublin is essentially a secure place but nevertheless it is always better, it is a safer environment, let's put it this way. And economically speaking, it just makes better sense." (That's not to suggest that embassy staff are at any risk in Ireland, his press adviser later clarifies).
The embassy is about to start building work within weeks on 24 apartments, consular offices, a new tennis court and other amenities, all powered by its own electricity sub-station.
Russia has diplomatic accreditation in Ireland for 17 staff and their partners, in addition to other staff such as drivers, security and housekeeping, who all come from Russia. The embassy has planning permission for 24 apartments. Britain has accreditation for 18, and the US for 22.
The ambassador says the expansion will provide more suitable meeting rooms than the one we're sitting in now - a brown-hued living room with a bay window filled with heavy furniture.
He says he held a press conference last week on the steps of the embassy building "for one reason". "They won't fit in here. This is the only reception area we have," he says.
The ambassador called the press conference to denounce "preposterous" accusations that Russia was involved in the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal (66) and his daughter Yulia (33).
Russia has been on the Irish security radar since long before then. Security sources told the Sunday Independent this weekend the embassy's expansion plans attracted attention, because the "footprint" is "massive". The authorities are being "vigilant", a source said.
Meanwhile, security firms have been monitoring Russian cyber-attacks, from organised criminals looking for blackmail demands and a more sinister type of Kremlin-sponsored attack, typically on utilities and state services, thought to be "trial runs" or "training grounds" for bigger attacks.
Ronan Murphy, chief executive of Smarttech, told a conference earlier this month how "organised criminals sat down in a boardroom in Russia and decided to target Ireland" in a cyber-attack.
Last week, Labour Party leader Brendan Howlin said he intends to seek an inquiry in the Dail.
The Russian ambassador denies all of it and says he would be happy to talk to Mr Howlin.
"I don't see anything coming out of the Irish Government on that subject. If there was any kind of specific concern from the Irish Government, I would have heard about that. But I didn't," says Mr Filatov.
"I am not aware of any police investigation, nothing of the sort. I haven't heard anything from the Irish authorities on this subject. It is simply sucked up from the air with a view to a political reason to hype up the current atmosphere, nothing else," he says.
"If there are questions and uncertainties, or whatever issues, we would be very much open to discuss that with the Irish authorities, no question about that. In fact, I would be very glad to talk to Brendan Howlin, or whoever in parliament may be interested in talking about these issues."
The ambassador is also unaware of a Trinity College study that identified €1bn channelled through the IFSC since 2007 by Russian companies, which, according to one of Ireland's former regulators, poses risks.
"I don't have anything to suggest there is something fishy going on in Ireland, in that respect," he says.
Later, he asks: "Would you really believe that there is someone in the Russian government thinking about a scheme to destroy Europe or everybody else, cutting links, wreaking havoc, influencing elections, etc, etc?"
Well, according to Irish security sources, Ireland has its suspicions.
But Mr Filatov says Russia is getting along quite nicely with Ireland right now, which may become a destination of choice for Russians frozen out of London.
"Well, if you are looking at what the British prime minister is suggesting, I would think twice about re-establishing myself in London. I don't know, but it seems like the environment is not really good. I would think of other options like Paris, Madrid, Dublin."
He says he is not aware of any Russian "migration" here. "But certainly, Ireland is an attractive place for Russian businessmen, for entrepreneurs," he says and "even under the unfortunate sanctions, Irishmen are engaged in promoting business in Russia and Russia in Ireland."
The oligarch Oleg Deripaska owns Aughinish Alumina plant in Limerick, the Russian state leasing agency has offices here, as does Kaspersky, the Russian cyber-security firm whose software US government systems have been ordered not to use.
The Irish Government has stopped short of directly blaming Russia for the poison attack on the Skripals. Neither Taoiseach Leo Varadkar nor Tanaiste Simon Coveney mentioned Russia in their condemnations of foreign attacks on British soil.
But that may change if the retaliatory action escalates beyond the expulsion of diplomats - 23 Russian diplomats from the UK, countered by 23 Britons from Russia yesterday.
Mr Filatov offers the same trenchant denials of involvement in the poison attack as other Russian diplomatic outposts all over the world: Russia was not involved in the poison attack; Britain has no proof; Russia wants to examine samples of the nerve toxin used in the attack; and says Britain is violating chemical weapons agreement by not doing so.
Britain's biological research centre, Porton Down - close to Salisbury - has identified Novichok, a nerve agent produced by the Russians in the 1990s, as the poison used on the Skripals.
"About the agent, contrary to the assertions by the prime minister, Russia has not been involved in the research or the same, of this agent, since the early 1990s. The whole chemical programme which we inherited from the Soviet Union has been stopped," he says, adding that stockpiles have been liquidated.
Mr Filatov points the finger at Porton Down. Russian scientists were "invited" to the US and the UK. "We do know that the same type and class of agents have been researched and produced at Porton Down and other laboratories in the US and other European countries. That's a fact," he says.
He also claims that "hypothetically" Russia could sue. "I would think down the road at some point in time, there is a possibility of making a legal action against someone who is making false claims," he says.
The ambassador remarked on the BBC last week that the "British territories" were "very dangerous for certain types of people". Who was he talking about?
"Well you have to have a certain sense of humour, otherwise you won't survive in the normal circumstances," he says.
"I've been talking about the pattern when people are moving to Great Britain, and they keep on, you know, we have a number of mysterious deaths there, you know?
"It's not only recent incidents. Litvinenko [Alexander, a former spy who died in the UK of polonium poisoning blamed on Russia], Berezovsky [Boris, a powerful Putin critic, found hanged in the bathroom of his UK home] Ah, well there are a number of murky, I would say, figures - who have died.
"But there are a number of conspiracy theories about them. Every time that happens, the suggestion of choice is of course, this is a bloody Russian regime killing people all over Great Britain. I would suggest otherwise. We do not have that kind of a policy."
Mr Filatov was posted here in November. A widower and career diplomat who loves Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde, he came from Moscow where he was former chief of state protocol in the Kremlin.
So Ireland's last spy scandal was before his time.
Luckily, our photographer, Dave Conachy, can fill him in.
He was part of a charity trip to Russia in 2010 unwittingly caught up in the scandal. It transpired that the passport details of one of his group - a volunteer with the charity - were used by a Russian spy in the US.
The Irish government later expelled a Russian diplomat - and gardai advised Dave Conachy to get a new passport.
As it happened, the spy was one of 11 deported by the US to Russia in a "spy swap" with Moscow, securing Sergei Skripal's release from prison.
Mr Filatov appears instantly concerned for our photographer.
"I am not familiar with this case. I hope it didn't do any harm to you personally," he says meaningfully, before adding. "Let us leave that kind of stuff to certain inter-governmental channels."


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Pharmacy curriculum patient care centeredness: United States vs. European higher education area
- At: 2014 FIP Congress in Bangkok (Thailand)
- Type: Poster
- By: FERNANDEZ-LLIMOS, Fernando (University of Lisbon, Department of Social Pharmacy, Lisboa, Portugal)
- Co-author(s): Nunes-Da-Cunha, Ines (University of Granada, Granada, Spain)
Martinez Martinez, Fernando (University of Granada, Granada, Spain)
Aims: Our aim was to analyse and compare the syllabus of United States (US) and European Higher Education Area (EHEA) undergraduate pharmacy curricula in order to know the load of the patient care focussed subjects. Setting: EHEA and US undergraduate pharmacy curricula. Methods: Websites of the pharmacy schools from US and the 41 countries at the.. The access to the whole abstract and the presentation file is available to FIP members and to congress participants of that specific congress.

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The big advantage to M/L hunting here in Colorado is that I get to hunt during the rut. I'm not a bow hunter, never was and never will be. The biggest problem I have see is the attitude of the bowhunters, they don't want the M/L hunters to intrude on THEIR season. Sharing with them is ok with me, hell they could even bowhunt during rifle season too. Makes me no difference.
I'm going to guess they were the plunger type. The have an unusual safety. I bet they weren't set. Muzzleloaders are just as safe as CF guns if you practice safe handling.
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It's too bad what happened, but I wouldn't just blame the guns.
That's a sore spot with me too. The bow hunters get a month, and we get 9 days in ML season. They can choose to hunt with us, or not. They still have 3 weeks if they choose to not hunt with us. If they're not happy talk to the DOW. All we can do as ML hunters is hunt when the DOW tells us we can hunt.
Originally Posted by Colorado Cowboy
To be honest. If I had my way. I'd let the bow hunters have their season the way it is. Then give us the 9 days after bow season ends, and before 1st rifle season begins. There's room on the calendar to do that. Then we'd be in the rut better, and the weather would be a bit cooler. Just a dream though. DOW never listens.
You are 100% correct! Gun safety is gun safety, no matter what kind it is.
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