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Michelle Cuevas Double-Book Release Party!
The Bookloft is proud to host the book release party on Saturday, September 30th at 3:00pm for Michelle Cuevas' TWO newest children's books, The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole, and Smoot: A Rebellious Shadow. Michelle, acclaimed author of The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles and Confessions of an Imaginary Friend, is one of our favorite children's authors! And she will be here to sign her new books and to chat with readers young and old!
The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole
"'A pet black hole can be your light in the darkest dark...'
Caring for a black hole is rather complicated. Eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez has to learn the hard way, when a black hole follows her home from NASA one day, and seems to want to live in her house as a pet. The black hole swallows everything it touches, which is rather frustrating but also turns out to be a convenient way to get rid of those items that Stella doesn't want around. Especially the ones that remind her of her dad, who died recently and left a cosmically vast space in her heart.
But the black hole ends up accidentally swallowing something too precious to lose. Now Stella herself must go deep inside to embark on an epic, interstellar adventure. After all, her whole world is at stake.
Who knew having a pet black hole could cause so much trouble?"
Smoot: A Rebellious Shadow
"'A brave shadow finds a more colorful life in this joyous picture book by the acclaimed author of The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles and illustrator of Sidewalk Flowers.'
Smoot the shadow has been living a yawn-filled life for years. His boy never laughs and never leaps, so Smoot never does either . . . until the day he pops free, and decides to hit the road in search of the life he dreams about. And as he enjoys his first colorful day—singing, dancing, and playing—other shadows watch him, and they become brave, too. The frog's shadow takes the shape of a prince, the dragonfly's shadow that of a dragon. Even the rock's shadow gets in on the excitement. But what will become of the timid beings their shadows have left behind? Will they finally be inspired to find their own daring?"
(descriptions from www.michellecuevas.com)
About the Author
Michelle Cuevas is the author of the national bestseller The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles, illustrated by Caldecott medalist Erin E. Stead, Confessions of an Imaginary Friend: A Memoir by Jacques Papier, which is being developed into an animated feature film by Fox, Beyond the Laughing Sky illustrated by Julie Morstad, and The Masterwork of a Painting Elephant illustrated by Ed Young. Forthcoming books in 2017 and 2018 include Smoot: A Rebellious Shadow illustrated by Sydney Smith, The Town of Turtle illustrated by Catia Chien, and a new novel about a girl with a pet black hole.
Michelle graduated from Williams College and holds a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of Virginia, where she received the Henry Hoyns Fellowship.
Her books have been translated into over 20 languages worldwide.
She is a native of Berkshire Country, Massachusetts.

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Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (SHATIU) is accepting nominations for the year 2018 in the following categories: (Deadline for submissions is August...
Oh, don’t bother yourself with it, my boy, don't bother. The English beat Hitler and the Axis powers while we were still suckling our mother’s milk. So I think they can fix the defects of Bedford trucks and these Land Rovers. It is their craftsmanship, and we learned it from them, then mastered it in Baluchistan and in the garages of the Sultan’s Special Forces, which would not have won over the imams if it hadn’t been for those vehicles, despite their numerous defects.
Many women crossed paths with his, and in the midst of his longing they glowed then fizzled out, leaving behind fallen momentos from which he made a wax monument of the woman he coveted. His deep passion, confused but solid, began with a painful obsession with a woman he called Sheherazade, the one perpetually beyond reach. His infatuation gave way to a slavish resignation that came with the expected pleasures but drained the soul in a series of attachments to women where he sought some of Sheherazade’s
'It's wonderful that an august specialist magazine such as Banipal has been active for all these years, providing an outstanding service that essentially has nothing to do with commerce or profit-making, but aims to build bridges between the Arab world and Europe through the English language. "I’m proud that the first creative writings of mine to be translated into English appeared in the pages of Banipal magazine, and the magazine continues to offer texts by Iraqi creative artists who are my colleagues, and by a large group of other Arab writers from a variety of countries
Sitting on the sofa, reading the same page 24 as she has been doing for days, my mother was suddenly old. I haven’t grasped how my mother grew old. We went to sleep and she was young, we woke up and like that, she was old. Had she aged over night? Is one night enough? Is a handful of dreams from a single night enough for a person to get as old as this? I say that it’s lucky she became old at night and not in the middle of the day, for instance, as I would have been terrified.
A monster story set in Baghdad is among 13 contenders for the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. The long list of finalists announced Monday includes Iraqi writer Ahmed Saadawi's "Frankenstein in Baghdad," which depicts real and imaginary horrors after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. South Korea's Han Kang, who won in 2016 for "The Vegetarian," is nominated again for "The White Book." Novels from Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Argentina and Taiwan are also on the list.
The Man Booker International Prize has revealed the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ of 13 novels in contention for the 2018 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world.
The Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation has pleasure in inviting you to Celebrate Translating Arabic Fiction Today Robin Moger, Jonathan Wright & Paul Starkey – the winners of the last three years of the prize – in conversation with Wen-chin Ouyang 5.00pm, Saturday 3 March Djam Lecture Theatre, SOAS Main Building, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG Robin Moger’s winning translation is The Book of Safety by Yasser Abdel Hafez, Jonathan Wright won the 2016 prize for The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi, and Paul Starkey won the 2015 prize for The Book of the Sultan's Seal: Strange Incidents from History in the City of Mars by Youssef Rakha. This is a free event but do reserve your place by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org ALL WELCOME
When he had come to Suez four years earlier to work in the cultural centre, he had had a vague dream that he would find himself in this isolation and that he would sort out the chaos into which his life had descended. He hadn’t dreamed of any major change or great deeds, but he had said that cutting off his ties to Cairo would help him see things differently and that he would at least be able to adapt to the new reality and, most importantly, he would be able to put in order his relationship with the past.
This view is by no means exclusive to Aslan: in a cultural community characterised by its flattery and narrow interests, Alaa al-Deeb is widely regarded as a saint. Litterateurs of various generations view his writings on them as both an endorsement and a recognition of their talent. Indeed, what earned the late novelist his well-deserved stature was his objectivity and keenness to encourage the new voices in which he saw potential.
Comrade Dakhil and his friends in their olive-coloured uniforms descended on us from our roof, coming over the neighbouring roofs. They wandered about the house and went into all the rooms. As evidence, they presented comrade Dakhil with the rosaries they found and small prayer-disks of sacred earth used in prostration, and then they entered the kitchen
My models were great historians of Cairo: Jabarti and, before him, Ibn Iyas. It was very enjoyable finding and employing a unique language for the book, mainly because it was risky, a challenge, but also because it was an opportunity to think about words and their origins and how they fit together. It was a way of rediscovering and reanimating the Arabic language.
But suddenly, something happened that saved my life. As a young writer, I had been publishing poems, short stories and articles for years, in the local newspapers and magazines, under the pseudonym “Shakespeare of Baghdad”. The name caught the attention of military commanders, who were looking for writers and journalists to work in their propaganda wing, and began looking into my whereabouts, until in the end they found me and pulled me out of the hole where I had been buried
Because of the extraordinary state of emergency declared in America and Europe immediately after the terrorist incidents, I head directly from the coffeehouse to my Paris home. I am welcomed rather anxiously by my beloved house robot, Bahlul. His artificial intelligence programs system, which is linked to the internet, learned that danger threatens the entire inhabited world. The moment I arrive his eye’s cameras direct their electronic sensors
The identity crisis so keenly experienced by some of the characters in the novel is as personal as it is political. For example, “Darwish’s book” in the first chapter is Albert Hourani’s History of the Arab Peoples. Now dying of lung cancer, Professor Darwish begins to ponder the figurative cancer in all of his failed relationships. Hourani’s book opens a window into this dark world.
In the kitchen thirst fell down. His dreams trembled. The window was torn open, stabbed by lightning scattering in the hallways. His hands settled down and his soul reclined but there was nothing to lean on. They dived into clouds, drowning caught them and salt followed suit. Water flowed, sobbing until the walls were dry. The pictures flaked off the walls and glass leapt out of the wooden frames. The estrangement of his bed subdued, it makes him a nightcap.
Mohammed Hasan Alwan, Najwa Binshatwan, Ismail Fahd Ismail, Elias Khoury, Mohammed Abdel Nabi and Saad Mohammed Rahim have today, Thursday 16 February, been announced as the six authors shortlisted for the tenth International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
Her last husband, who was the imam and muezzin of the mosque in Tidikelt, had drawn her attention thanks to his beautiful voice when it reminded the faithful to pray to their God five times a day. At first, the muezzin had been a little disconcerted when he’d heard his wife speak to her bees in Latin
My sister, whom I haven’t seen for more than two years, told me she was going to cross the sea in a rubber dinghy. She hung up and didn’t want to hear what I thought. She just said something profound and sentimental and entrusted her three children to my care in the event that she drowns. A few minutes later I tried to call the unfamiliar Turkish number but the phone had been turned off
Die weitaus meisten Autoren, welche Sprachwechsler sind, nicht in ihrer Muttersprache schreiben und mehrere Herkünfte und Identitäten für sich reklamieren, entscheiden sich am Ende für eine der beiden Seiten. Dass Hussain al-Mozany sich nicht entscheiden konnte oder wollte, dürfte zwar dazu beigetragen haben, dass ihm größerer Ruhm versagt blieb. Es macht ihn auch unter den Autoren, die den Chamisso-Preis bekamen, zu einem Sonderfall
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Environment and modernization are considered to be apart. Climate change is a reality we are facing. Our environment needs more attention now than ever! In such a situation, a decision like this has the potential to reflect the importance of wildlife conservation and the benefits that are shared.
Beavers had been extinct in England since the last 400 years, until 2013. In 2013, a surprising video showed a family of beavers on the aptly-named Otter River, in Devon, England. With this appearance, they garnered the interests of various researchers and environmentalists in England.
Devon Wildlife Trust conducted a detailed study. They researched beavers and their impact on the environment for almost five years. Their study shed light on the positive effects they had brought with their presence on the Otter River. The River Otter beaver trial showed that the animals’ skill replenished and enhanced the ecology of the river catchment in East Devon. You can read the full report here.
Beavers have been termed as Nature’s engineers, as they create dams underwater. This, in fact, reduces the chances of homes flooding downstream. They have also improved the fish biomass and water quality of the river.
The Right to Remain
In a landmark decision, 15 Beaver Families were given the legal right to remain at the Otter-River in Devon. The decision was taken after looking at the astonishing positive aspects pointed out in the Devon Wildlife Study. They’re the first extinct native mammal to get government backing to be reintroduced.
This is not in isolation. Other factors are yet to be considered. The farmers and landowners will be provided with special assistance. Natural England will be taking up the responsibility to draft a unique management approach so that a healthy ecosystem is maintained.
This move is one step of the many. The Government has outlined a 25 Years Environment Plan which highlights key targets like clean air, minimizing waste and so on. You can read the jet highlights of the plan here. A significant mention is also given to thriving plants and wildlife. This report was chalked out in 2016 and updated in 2019. This landmark decision is undoubtedly a step in the right direction.
The decision is facing criticism. Critics say that the beavers can trouble the framers and disrupt the fish population of the river. However, the Government is already planning a Land Management plan that will aim at ensuring less or no trouble to farmers.
This is not the first time such a landmark decision has been made. European beavers were successfully reintroduced into the wild in Scotland more than a decade ago, and in 2016 were given legal permission to remain by the devolved Government in Edinburgh.
India has also taken measures to protect its environment. We have been privy to various conventions and treaties in the environment. We have also successfully incorporated the principles like Polluter Pays and Sustainable Development in our Environmental Jurisprudence.
We also have various legislations on Environment and Wildlife protection. Judiciary has played a pivotal role in bringing the concept of Environmental Jurisprudence to life. One such judgment was delivered on 4th July 2018 by the Uttarakhand High Court. The Hon’ble Court in Narayan Dutt Bhatt v Union of India & Others (Writ Petition (PIL) No. 43 of 2014), effectively granted legal personhood to “the entire animal kingdom including avian and aquatic,” with the citizens in the State of Uttarakhand being declared “persons in loco parentis as the human face for the welfare/protection of animals.”
Although we have all the legislation in place, their implementation remains a significant hurdle till date. Since most of the laws have been drafted decades ago, the fines prescribed in them are still very less. This leads to a lenient attitude towards obeying these laws. Moreover, the lesser conviction rates in these cases add to lenient behaviour.
In conclusion, the author would like to say that we need more such decisions. The environment can not be neglected especially during these times. Climate change is at its peak, so is development and modernization. Law is a tool that is vital during these times. If implemented correctly, it can create a better future for all. It will help in coexistence with humans with the environment around us.
We need better laws, better policies and most importantly, better implementation for a healthy and green future.
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Maratek Environmental Inc is a manufacturer of off-the-shelf and custom engineered solvent recycling systems, which can include specialized solvent recycling methods such as fractional distillation when required.
We recently made a custom fractional distillation system for a client in the pharmaceutical industry, in California, USA. This client had very strict tolerances for their final product, so we worked closely with the team to ensure their needs would be met. In this case, we were processing ethanol mixed with water and other impurities. Being in the pharmaceutical industry, because of the strict tolerances of the finished recycled product required, we advised the client to use a fractional distillation system.
All our equipment is made with the highest quality materials to insure our equipment not only works great, but continues to perform for many years. Our custom systems come with many features such as a wireless PLC control touchpad with ethernet capability, allowing us to remotely monitor and support clients as needed. For this recent build, we included scrapers (to add further efficiency to the system), fully automated fill & discharge, as well as an Allen-Bradley PLC control system. All of our equipment, Off-the-shelf or custom made, includes MATLAB division 1 class 1 for total operational safety.
Heating of the solvent waste can be done via steam or electric heaters which heat an oil jacket, creating vapours which travel up the distillation column. Vapour can be cooled by liquid or water, depending on different client requirements.
Fractional distillation allows us to get a higher purity final product, it works by having solvent vapours travel up a column which will contain mixed mediums, filtering the product further. IT also allows for reclamation of different wastes in one system. Our team of in-house engineers test, design and manufacture our systems so we are able to create even the most complicated recycling opportunities. This process also gives our clients an average ROI of under a year.
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Objectives: To determine the prevalences of overweight, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension (HT) in the Mexican population and compare them with those of a previous Mexican urban survey and an American survey.
Design: A structured, randomised, nationally representative Mexican sample was compared with a 1993 Mexican urban survey and the US Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) of non-Hispanic Whites.
Setting: The Mexican National Health Survey 2000.
Subjects: SUBJECTS were 12,856 men and 28,332 women, aged 20-69 years, who had their body weight, height, waist circumference (WC), blood pressure and fasting capillary blood glucose measured.
Results: Mexican adult men and women had a high prevalence of overweight (41.3 and 36.3%, respectively) and obesity (19.4 and 29.0%, respectively), similar to those in the USA in 1988-1992 and exceeding those of the 1993 Mexican survey. The prevalence of HT was 33.3% in men and 25.6% in women, with inferred DM rates of 5.6 and 9.7%, respectively. Abdominal obesity affected 46.3% of men (WC>or=94 cm) and 81.4% of women (WC>or=80 cm). There was a high prevalence of abdominal obesity in normal-weight women, with co-morbidities relating better to WC than to body mass index (BMI) in both sexes. Rates of DM and HT exceeded US rates on a comparable BMI or WC basis in adults aged <50 years.
Conclusion: The high prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity in Mexicans is associated with markedly increased prevalences of DM and HT to levels comparable with, or even higher than, those in NHANES III of non-Hispanic Whites.

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10 mins flight on Scooter, very happy, but can I
Finally, I got three 10 minutes flights on my scooter, very happy. Just wanted to share with you the mistakes I had. And if possible, find some ways to extend the flight time a little bit more.
First mistake, replacing the stock motor with a Speed 400 7.2V motor. It flew only a few minutes, but the battery still had a lot of juice in it. Special thank to DEATHspiral for pointing out this one. Now I switch it back to the stock motor.
Do I need to add capacitors to the motor for noise reduction?
Second mistake, the pinion gear was not tight to the motor shaft. As a result, the 10 teeth gear was lost during flight. Luckily, this Scooter is also a good glider, I can still land it. I then replaced the pinion gear with a 12 teeth.
Now it is running at 2.5:1 gear ratio, APC 9*6, Sanyo 1600mAh NiMH 8 Cells battery, and it has around 10 minutes of flight time. I am not sure if this is normal as I saw some members posted they had 20 minutes of flight time.
With 2.5:1, should I scale back to 10*4.7?
Or if there is still some set up problem?
p.s. thanks Wade for your advice last time.
You might try an APC 10x7 too. That's what I used and got 11-12 minutes at full throttle. Anybody getting 20 minutes is using throttle management and probably thermal aided as well. I personally think only full throttle times should be posted and used for comparisons. Those times have a better chance of being duplicated by someone with the same setup.
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Control a monkey with magical powers in this original puzzle platformer! To possess things, fling magic poop at it. Be creative, and use squirrels, bats, rocks, and yourself (the monkey) to get to the end of the level: your reward--a magic banana!
Crazy Hangover 3
A ridiculous adventure of excessive proportions. Find out what happend to Ted and the Pyroguys in this point and click game. What do you get when you mix an arrogant lead singer of a rock band, lots of booze, plenty of fans and a deserted farm?
Every year the orange pumpkins are the king of the Halloween season but, this year, something is changing. The green pumpkins are really angry.
Platform game about a hare named Bakame. Explore huge levels full of hidden secrets, collect all the fruits and vegetables and try to find the exit. Watch out for dangerous enemies like snakes and bats, Bakame can jump on top of enemies or shoot them with his catapult. This game features beautiful hand-drawn graphics created by KEZA design.
'The game' is a representation, a satire, of the world we know, love, and cherish today. If 'the game' is the most downright bizarre thing you've ever seen, I've done my job.
Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home allows you to nurture your inner designer. Create the room of your clients’ dreams with hundreds of unique pieces of furniture and accessories across dozens of homes each with their own challenging riddle. Then, with deadlines looming, direct your build team to assemble it all in front of your eyes!
Space is Key
Jump through 15 levels worth of pixel exploding mayhem. Such a simple concept, but are you sure you can do it?

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ISBN: 1413471765Издательство: Xlibris Corporation
Год издания: 2005
In southern literary tradition, A Yellow Watermelon, using realistic language, takes you into the cotton fields, streams, churches, whiskey stills and the heart and mind of a young boy as he struggles with the hypocrisy and wonder of the small world around him in rural South Alabama, amid the lingering effects of the Great Depression and the current effects of racial division. It began at the saw mill, where the young boy is befriended by an escaped black convict named Jake, who secretly begins to teach him the inequities of life, the wisdom to survive it, and the joys in between.

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Review on the Top Movie Based Online Slot Games
Online slot game developers have taken online slots to the next level over the last decade or so by creating games based on hit theatrical releases. And just like in Hollywood, these movie themed Internet slots have become instant favorites.
People seem to not only enjoy playing them because of their movie them, but also because of their enticing graphics, add-ons, and extra features. To help you decide if playing movie based slots is something that you want to do, here is a brief review on some of the top move themed online slot games. They're broken down in no particular order.
This video slot makes you feel like you're a part of the Captain America movie almost like your one of the characters. It's real life graphics is just one of the reasons it's so much fun to play since it also has two wild symbols, a wild that expands, a scatter feature, and four, yes, four progressive jackpots. With its five reels, 20 pay lines, free spins, and bonuses, it's tough to top this movie themed slot offering.
The Wizard of Oz
You can follow the yellow brick road just like Dorothy and her pals playing this video slot. It actually retells the tale of Dorothy navigating her way back to her home. In fact, all of the popular characters are featured in this game's reels including the Scarecrow, Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and even Toto. A jackpot feature offering large sums of money takes this game to the next level, making it an awesome one to play.
The Dark Knight
If you're a fan of the new Batman movies, then you'll love the Dark Knight video slot. It showcases all the characters from the movie including Christian Bale as Batman and even Heath Ledger who played the Joker. The graphics are simply stunning while 243 ways to win make it one attractive game to play.
This movie slot puts you right into the Mummy film that debuted right before the year 2000. Just like the movie, this game is completely entertaining thanks to its five reels and 25 pay lines depicting pictures from the actual film. With its many bonuses, jackpots, free spins, and fun game play, this is a slot that's quickly making a rise.
The film Top Gun was a box office smash back in the 1980's and this slot game is just as impressive. The graphics are realistic, the bonuses are awesome, and the wild symbols open up all sorts of ways to win. Featuring 5 reels, 25 play lines, and a money jackpot, it's a game that's both fun and affordable.
These movie based online slots just mentioned are just a few of the options that are out there. So, if you don't see your favorite movie in this review, don't worry. There's a good chance that one was developed for it and to find it, just go online and do a keyword search. Now stop reading, and get out there and start playing!

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(for tithe, tenth; Lat. decuma), formerly a unit of local administration in England. In some districts the men who were bound to be in frankpledge were grouped in associations of ten, twelve or more individuals called tithings. When a person who was accused of any crime was not forthcoming, inquiry was made whether he was in frankpledge; if he were not, and had no right of exemption, the township was amerced, but if he were in a tithing,-then it was upon the tithing that the amercement fell. South of the Thames the tithings were districts normally identical with the township which discharged the duties of the frankpledge. Some townships, however, contained more than one tithing. There are also indications that in the ancient kingdom of Mercia the tithing was originally a district and not a mere association of persons; but in Northumbria it is doubtful whether the system of frankpledge and tithing, either personal or territorial, was ever established. If, as seems likely, the territorial tithing is older than the personal, each territorial hundred (q.v.) was probably divided into ten tithings.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Tithing'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/tithing.html. 1910.

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I had to get some clarification on dates and have updated the story. Yes the amount now owed is about $80,000.
The suit does not say what the injuries were, nor what exactly the problem was with the scaffolding. Had it gone to trial, all that would have come out. Settlements are often not made public.
According to the deeds filed with the county: Ronald and Karla Fisher to New Jersey Water Supply Authority and Township of Lebanon, property at 51-55 Anthony Road for $337,500.
The only money put in by the township came from previously awarded state Green Acres funding for another deal that fell through after the county backed out. That was $113,062.50.
The lawsuit names Sundancer Capital - see sundancercapital.com and you will see they are a solar energy company. There are mortgage firms named Sundance Capital in Utah and Texas..
This event is not part of the Lights Out America. It is a local event and yes it is March 9 in Tewksbury
If I have such information that I can confirm, yes I do the same. If you are referring to a recent porn arrest which I posted last week, I did not have the information at that time. The print version was updated to include the fact that it was a squad member.
His involvement in the firefighting community is a large part of who he is. This information is necessary to positively identify THIS man. Due to the Internet, anyone from anywhere can look up the name Frank Venable and will find not only this Frank Venable but a priest and a college professor named Frank Venable. It would be a terrible injustice to those men if they were to be confused with this one.
Anna Muss - We include the background information to make it less likely that those accused of crimes will be confused with other people of the same name. For instance there is another Frank Venable who happens to be a priest who is NOT accused of any crimes. There is no intent to sensationalize anything. I do not think most people would assume that one man's alleged actions represent any organization he might be involved in.
Justacountrygirl - Foul language will not be tolerated even if you use stars or other symbols to bleep out certain words when it is clear what you meant. That is the likely reason your comment was deleted.
Also if he had pleaded guilty to the charges there would be no need for a trial. He has NOT admitted to anything in Hunterdon County court and is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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Komichi, who was arrested in July, is facing charges of contravening Section 85 of the Electoral Act and has spent more than a month.
Allegations against Komichi are that in July, he misrepresented to ZEC that he had picked up a sealed tamper proof envelope with a special vote ballot paper from a dust bin at a Harare hotel.
He allegedly approached ZEC’s command centre and claimed that an unnamed person informed him he had picked the envelope from a dustbin.
Komichi further alleged that he had opened it out of curiosity and discovered that there were ballot papers whose votes were cast in his party’s favour. According to the State, Komichi’s conduct was in violation of the country’s electoral laws.
This came during cross examination during which Komichi’s lawyer, Alec Muchadehama, made an observation that Pamire’s evidence in court was in direct contradiction to his police statement.
Pamire said some of the information contained in his police statement was from discussions at the ZEC Command Centre where Komichi had presented the stray ballots.
In his police statement, Pamire said the National Assembly ballot belonged to Harare East but told the court that he did not handle the ballots.
He later went on to tell the court that he compiled his statement basing on what he had saw and what he had heard from other people from ZEC.
Pamire further told the court that he did not write down the serial numbers of the ballots and was not aware of the candidates listed on the ballots since he did not handle the papers.
He however said that he had noted down the serial number of the presidential ballot box which was 000047991.
On the whereabouts of the notebook, he however said he had thrown it away.
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➤ Transfer to snowmobiling take off point
➤ Safety briefing and training
➤ Snow ride to fishing site
➤ Ice fishing
➤ Hot picnic lunch
➤ Return to the hotel
Breakfast. Transfer to Thermalny & change to snowmobiles to get to the fishing site of Paratunka River or to one of its many tributaries. Depending on the distance of the place, moving can take from 30 minutes to one and a half hours.
The Paratunka River originates in the foothills of the Vilyuchinsky volcano, passes near Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and flows into the Avachinsky Bay of the Pacific Ocean. Length - 81 km, basin area - 1500 km2. The river is shallow, fast, with a large number of tributaries throughout its length. Salmon fish breeds spawn here: mikizh and kunja.
We choose a place of glue, drill holes and throw fishing rods. While we are waiting for the fish, we will warm up with hot tea to the stories of the guide about Kamchatka and local traditions.
Winter fishing is a test that requires patience and endurance. Frosts in Kamchatka are not too severe, but there are days when the temperature drops to 30 ℃ below zero.
A hot lunch awaits us 3 hours after the start of fishing, after which we will continue fishing. Until it gets dark, we collect catches, gear and on snowmobiles we go to the parking lot, from where we return to the city. We will be in a hotel at 7 p.m.


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Meet Nicole Kendall, who is a young and beautify currently at the age of 25 years old. She is married to Emtee, he is a South African rapper who stated his music career at 17 years old.
Nicole Kendall Biography
Emtee’s wife, Nicole Kendall Chinsamy met her husband (Emtee) in 2012 and got engaged in November 2018 while in Ghana. Nicole is estimated to be around 25 years old as of 2023. It’s wonderful to see the couple’s love story and their commitment to each other.
Emtee | Nicole Background
- Emtee is a South African rapper who started his career at the age of 17.
- Nicole Kendall Chinsamy, Emtee’s wife is a style artist and fashion designer born in South Africa
- They got engaged in November 2018 in Ghana
- They have two sons named Avery and Logan
Emtee | Nicole Controversies
- Emtee has been accused of abusing his pregnant wife.
- A live video has surfaced on Twitter where the couple is shouting at each other.
- Emtee’s wife accused Emtee of abuse.
- Emtee defended himself on Twitter stating he is not at fault and all about love and honor.
Thank you for reading the brief Wikipedia biodata of Emtee’s wife, Nicole Kendall Chinsamy. You can as well read the full biography and net worth of Kellylivinglarge, he is a Nigerian singer born in Lagos State, Nigeria.

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Icahn withdrawal clears the way for Dell buyout path
By Agam Shah
After a long battle, Carl Icahn and associates admitted they were fighting a losing battle and have stepped away from their attempt to buy Dell.
Icahn’s withdrawal leaves only a buyout offer from company CEO Michael Dell and associate Silver Lake Partners on the table, who have proposed a deal in which shareholders will get $13.75 per share and a special dividend of $0.13. Dell’s board has recommended shareholders back the Dell/Silver Lake offer and a final shareholder approval vote is set for Thursday.
Icahn and shareholder Southeastern Asset Management had a buyout proposal that they believed was potentially worth $15.50 to $18 a share for current stockholders. In a withdrawal letter to Dell shareholders Monday, Icahn said he was fighting a losing battle and continued to believe the company was being undervalued.
“We therefore congratulate Michael Dell, and I intend to call him to wish him good luck (he may need it),” Icahn wrote.
In February, Dell and Silver Lake originally proposed buying the company for $24.4 billion, or $13.65 per share, but the offer was revised twice after shareholder opposition and multiple counteroffers from Icahn. Dell’s board delayed the shareholder vote twice, but last month reached a deal with Dell/Silver Lake on revised voting guidelines in which only “yes” or “no” votes would count, with abstentions left out.
Icahn filed a lawsuitin early August with the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware against Dell’s board of directors on shareholder vote delays and requirements of votes considered. However, the court ruled against Icahn, which cleared the path for the final shareholder vote this week.
“We won, or at least thought we won, but when the board realized that they lost the vote, they simply ignored the outcome. Even in a dictatorship when the ruling party loses an election, and then ignores its outcome, it attempts to provide a plausible reason to justify their actions,” Icahn wrote.
Dell’s business largely revolves around the deteriorating PC business. The company is trying to increase its presence in the lucrative enterprise market. The company has virtually no presence in the growing smartphone and tablet markets.
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Get set for out-of-this-world excitement when Pooh, Tigger, Darby and Buster embark on a thrilling full-length adventure! After a mysterious shooting star falls in Rabbit’s garden, his vegetables suddenly become gigantic. And when our heroes eat the super-veggies, they get incredible superpowers! Packed with delightful songs, surprises and good friends working together to save the day, Super Duper Super Sleuths is fantastic fun for everyone!
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WNC Historical Association will sponsor a concert (staged) reading of Gary Carden's play, "The Raindrop Waltz" in the Ferguson Auditorium on March 6th at 7:00 and March 7th at 2:00pm. The playwright will attend the performances and will enter into a dialogue with the audience about the autobiographical content of the play. A-B Tech is on 340 Victoria Road in Asheville.See More
The Black Mountain Authors Guild will present local author David Madden reading from his collection of short stories, The Last Bizarre Tale, Thursday, February 19, 6pm, at the Monte Vista Hotel. With titles like “Who Killed Harpo Marx?” and “James Agee Never Lived in This House,” Maddens stories range wide over time, geography, and the human soul. In “The Last Bizarre Tale,” for example, a young man witnesses strange behavior involving a corpse that has hung on a hook in a funeral home garage…See More
A special celebration honoring the local and regional talents of Andrews NC and Cherokee County, featuring author readings and book signings by Gary Carden, Wayne Caldwell, Anna Berenyi and hopefully more authors of Appalachia. Drummings, Native American crafts, Nature walks, Backyard remedies, Native Bees, Animals of the Forest, Country and Blue Grass Music and so much more.See More
Barbara Taylor Woodall was born and raised in Rabun County Georgia. This county touches both North Carolina and South Carolina, so you can already guess it was a special place to grow a child. Barbara wrote about her life as a child and the wonderful people God joined her to as she grew and learned. It's Not My Mountain Anymore tells some of these stories. Barbara will share from her book and from her life, June 6, 2015 at Splendor Mountain.See More
Webster author, David Joy will present his new novel on Friday, March 6th at 6:30 p.m. at City Lights Bookstore. Where All Light Tends to Go, a staff pick of both Chris and Eon, is set in Jackson County and tells the story of Jacob McNeely, a young man who is in a fight against his fate. “Expertly balancing beauty and brutality, David has written a novel that stays with the reader long after the final page has been read. Where All Light Tends to Go, though very much an Appalachian tale, is…See More
Techniques and tips abound as Connie shares her wisdom gained over her career as an international teller. There are two ways to participate. Some can develop their story and work on performance skills without the pressure of being on stage. Others will perform on Sunday afternoon at “Asheville Wordfest,” a literature, songwriting, and story festival at the Asheville Art Museum. The workshop concludes May 5 with a feedback session for further growth and guidance. Either way, all participants…See More
Connie Regan-Blake, renowned Appalachian storyteller, will perform “Taking a Leap: An Evening of Connie’s Stories” on Sunday June 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Hawk and Ivy Bed and Breakfast in Barnardsville, NC, twenty minutes north of Asheville. Persons interested in learning or developing the craft of storytelling can also attend a workshop entitled “Opening Doors: A Storytelling Workshop Exploring Memories” at 3:00-5:30. Workshop fee is $40 before June 21 and $55 after. Fee includes both events.…See More
Enjoy seven days of stories, study, coaching, community performance, and day trips. This in-depth storytelling and story-listening workshop is designed for all levels of expertise, from beginner to experienced teller. Register online: www.storywindow.com.See More
December 9, 2011 at 7pm to December 10, 2011 at 5pm
a weekend storytelling workshop on story,myth and journey. Courtney Smith, music therapist, joins storyteller Connie Regan-Blake as workshop leaders to inspire, guide and encourage participantsthrough playful and transformative activities. By using story, music, art, poetry and guided imagery, you will have the opportunity to examine who you are and where you are going, and to embrace the story of your hero’s journey that lies within. Register online…See More
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On August 11, 2010, writer Jerry Holkins and illustrator Mike Krahulik, creators of the Penny Arcade webcomic published a strip
whose punchline, a rape joke, incensed the feminist community and led to a public back and forth argument that exemplified a dark side to the gaming community.
As a response to the fallout, the International Game Developers Association Dev Center hosted a panel at PAX East 2011 this weekend, examining the presence of hate speech in the gaming community, how online communities can create safe spaces, and how to introduce diversity to a wider audience of gamers and developers.
Regina Buenaobra, community manager at Guild Wars
developer ArenaNet and co-founder of The Border House
, a blog for "marginalized" gamers, urged developers and gamers alike to not only tolerate diversity, but welcome it.
She defined diversity as the "concept that underscores that there is no single perspective or background or point of view to consuming or creating media."
Alexandra Raymond, also a writer at The Border House, agreed with Buenaobra that diversity was especially important to consider as gamers.
"It's important because [diversity] is just a fact of the world we live in," she said. "We need to deal with the increasingly diverse video game community."
Ablegamers Foundation founder and CEO Mark Barlet called for community involvement and volunteering as ways to combat gamer stereotypes and encourage outreach. "We tell a lot of awesome stories of how gamers help people's lives," he said, "but we also get told games are evil. We need to find good things to do with gamers."
David Edison of Gaygamer.net
said the path to diversity is established with "relentless persistence and small victories." He asked for gamers in marginalized communities to make themselves visible and their voices heard. For Edison, their mere presence is a positive influence both in the communities of gamers and the games they play.
At the same time, the panelists agreed that visibility alone is not enough. Raymond called for stronger leadership, saying influential people within the community have the power to tolerate intolerance or condemn it. Not taking a stance leads to a sense of validation for intolerant gamers.
While Raymond and many of the other panelists spoke eloquently of the power peer pressure has to promote tolerance, she felt that strong leadership was where it started. Big communities that can't employ moderators can try user moderation, but in her experience community members will actually uprate sexism, homophobia, and racism if they think their views are validated. The tone of a blog, article, or video game will draw a community. Beyond moderations, authors can help by acting in a way that promotes tolerance.
Language itself was the most important issue at stake for the panelists. Buenaobra discussed how intolerant language in gamer communities leaves some would-be community members disenfranchised.
"We want to be included but we don't want to deal with the shit that is thrown at us," she said. In her perspective, these communities, especially within game spaces like MMORPGs or Xbox Live, exclude gamers unwilling to endure hate speech.
But Buenaobra also discussed how language promoting tolerance needed to be chosen carefully as well. "Working in the game industry, you can't always be fighting all the time," she said. "It alienates people if you're always criticizing their language, so you have to prioritize your battles." This issue spoke to the larger problem, which was a general lack of understanding in the games industry of these marginalized groups and their members.
Buenaobra pointed out that people who belong to marginalized groups have a set of language to describe their situation that people with privilege do not have and do not understand. "When I'm trying to articulate these things to my coworkers in the games industry i have to take a step back and ask how they'll be able to relate with what I'm saying," she said.
Edison emphasized how important diplomacy was to diversification and tolerance, calling again and again for discussion rather than argumentation, despite his own personal feelings of anger and frustration. He saw his role as establishing a connection with the industry, to show up to developers and remind them of marginalized groups. "The point is that we try to be there at every step of the industry," he said.
When an audience member asked for the panelists to address the Penny Arcade debacle directly, Buenaobra responded with something she had said to game consultant N'Gai Croal at GDC the previous week: "I think that certain people in the game industry aren't aware of how influential they are and how what they create here at PAX creates and perpetuates culture, and the influence it has."
Edison described the webcomic controversy as "a potentially wonderful teachable moment that lacked a teacher."


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V.20 No.33 | 8/18/2011
Entertainment genre demographics
By Jessica Cassyle Carr
On average, what kind of nightlife do Albuquerque, Santa Fe and surrounding areas have to offer? Based on a sample taken from this week’s Music Calendar, a lot of DJs. People playing prerecorded music of various forms, formats and qualities is nearly twice as common as the next highest ranking genre—jazz. Rock, Americana (which includes folk, singer-songwriter, alt.country and bluegrass) and karaoke rounded out the top five. For proportional illustration, view the makeup of the Alibi’s Music Calendar in this appetizing pie chart.
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The first Olympic Games – level 3
Tuesday, April 6, 2021, marks the 125th anniversary of the first modern Olympic Games that took place in Athens, Greece, in 1896.
The ten-day event was officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad and it included 241 athletes from 14 countries, competing in 43 events. Participants were all European or living in Europe, with the exception of the US team, and over 60% of the competing athletes were Greek. An American, James Connolly, became the first champion of the modern Games, winning the triple jump. Winners were given a silver medal, while runners-up received a copper medal; however, the International Olympic Committee retroactively converted these to gold and silver, and awarded bronze medals to third placed athletes to comport with more recent traditions.
The 1896 Olympics were regarded as a great success, being the largest international participation of any sporting event to that date. The Olympics didn’t return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics, 108 years later.
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Two years ago, Gary Panter was featured alongside Charles Schulz, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman and others in the touring museum exhibition Masters of American Comics. Lofty company, but the Oklahoma-born Panter earned it; hes one of the few American graphic artists for whom the term comic books, while perfectly valid, just doesnt quite seem to do the work justice. Perhaps best known for his punk-rock protagonist Jimbo (who does a Dante turn in Panters 2006 book Jimbos Inferno
), Panter also designed the cover of the Red Hot Chili Peppers first album, won three Emmys as lead set designer on Pee Wees Playhouse
and won the 2000 Chrysler Design award.
Panter will be autographing copies of his brand-new, two-volume career retrospective slipcase set (one volume contains more than 700 of Panters paintings, drawings, posters and sculptures, while the other contains never-before-seen work from his sketchbooks). After the signing, Panter will narrate a slideshow of some of his most famous images. 6 p.m. signing, 8 p.m. slideshow. Domy Books, 1709 West-heimer. For information, call 713-523-3669 or visit www.domystore.com. Free.
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Tyson Fury v Oleksandr Usyk 2023: Terms Agreed
Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury have reached an “agreement” for an undisputed heavyweight clash, the World Boxing Association has confirmed.
The unification bout is scheduled to take place on 29 April at Wembley Stadium. But the bout had appeared to be in doubt as the two camps struggled to agree terms. Many of the negotiations between the two had played out on social media. And on Friday March 10, with a 22:00 GMT deadline to agree terms looming, Usyk’s promoter said the fight was “unlikely to happen next”.
However, the WBA says an agreement was made before the deadline, though both parties have requested time to “work on the contracts to close the deal”.
A lawyer for Usyk told news agency Reuters that the two sides had agreed terms that will see Fury take a 70% split to the Ukrainian’s 30%.
This followed the “Gypsy King” offering the 70/30 split of the purse via his social media channels on Friday.
Usyk then took to Instagram saying he would accept if the Briton immediately donated £1m to the people of Ukraine and also gave up 1% of his share to Ukraine for every day he delayed.
The WBA statement said: “WBA President Gilberto Mendoza received confirmation from Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury’s teams that there is an agreement to make the unification fight.
“They request time to work on the contracts to close the deal.”
This has been the match-up that boxing fans have craved since the Autumn. After Usyk’s victory over Anthony Joshua, Fury called out the Ukrainian, suggesting a December meeting. However, Uysk ruled out a return to the ring before 2023 so Fury instead took on Dereck Chisora.
Winner to Become First Four-Belt Undisputed Heavyweight Champion
The last undisputed heavyweight champion of the world was Briton Lennox Lewis who held the WBA, WBO and IBF titles from November 1999 to April 2000. The winner of the bout will become the first four-belt heavyweight champion.
Fury, 34, is the WBC champion while the former undisputed cruiserweight champion Usyk holds the WBO, WBA and IBF titles.
Usyk, 36, has won all his 20 professional bouts, while Fury, 34, is also undefeated with 33 victories and one draw, against Deontay Wilder, on his record.
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The bookies are making Fury favourite. Nobody doubts Usyk’s class as a boxer, however, may pundits feel that Fury’s size and strength could prove too much for the former cruiserweight.
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Giant US etailer Amazon may be finally looking to open an Australian outpost after years (and years) of speculation that they were planning to head across the pacific.
The evidence comes from the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), who reported August 17 that Australia’s second largest newspaper publisher Fairfax had rejected an offer from Amazon to put its papers (including the SMH) on Amazon’s Kindle ereader. The same report also noted that News Ltd (the Australian arm of News Corp, and Australia’s biggest newspaper publisher) was “looking beyond Amazon at other devices,” suggesting that they to had been approached by Amazon.
What’s missed in the article is the details on the distribution side. Amazon doesn’t have a presence locally, and doesn’t ship electronic goods to Australia, citing “export restrictions” as the reason why. It’s not clear whether these restrictions were legal, or imposed by manufacturers; certainly it’s not hard to get items listed on Amazon shipped to Australia from the United States via eBay sellers for example.
Even if there wasn’t any legal restrictions, Amazon then hits import rules in Australia, including customs issues and GST; items under AU$1000 in value can be imported without duty, but this is applied to individuals. Then there’s the issue of wireless internet access: Amazon would require a local partner, and even then they’d need a new version of the Kindle because the current version runs on CDMA, while all mobile networks in Australia are 2G/3G GSM.
The SMH claims that the rejection by the newspaper publishers might stop Amazon selling The Kindle locally, completely ignoring the key fact that newspapers aren’t the main driver of Kindle sales (it is after all an ereader, not a newspaper reader alone.) Indeed, the SMH article borders on outright stupidity, like this quote
The decision by Fairfax paves the way for a two-way contest between Sony and possibly Apple as the dominant reader for the digital generation.
Whether Amazon will balk without newspaper deals in Australia is yet to be seen, but likewise if they’ve already had discussions, their plans to enter the Australian market in one form or another would already be well advanced.
It’s unlikely they’d sell the item from the United States in US dollars to Australia, which leaves three possibilities: they offer the Kindle and other items in Australian dollars from the United States, they set up shop in Australia and sell it locally online, or they sell the Kindle through a third party. The last option is unlikely, but not impossible, the first option isn’t out of the question, but the second option makes the most sense.
As a long suffering Australian who has longed for Amazon to set up shop here for the better part of 15 years, they can’t come quickly enough.


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Vandalism shuts Port Elizabeth refuge for homeless in lockdown
The Walmer Town Hall in Port Elizabeth has been shut as a temporary shelter for homeless people because of vandalism.
This is according to social development MEC Siphokazi Mani-Lusithi’s spokesperson, Lufefe Mkutu.
He said those staying in the hall had vandalised the building.
“There were bottle stores nearby, which was a big challenge in controlling the use of alcohol. The residents were very disruptive during the evenings.”
He said the people staying in the hall had been separated and sent to shelters in Kwazakhele and Motherwell.
A worker, who asked to remain anonymous, said the vandalism started on April 2.
Windows were broken and equipment stolen.
“We found the sound system at a drug house in Sydenham. They stole the copper pipes from the toilets, the hand basins, the door handles, hand driers and extractor fans.
“The windows are broken and the stove is not working. They took the fridge and left it in the passage.
“The passage was full of urine bottles and used drug needles,” the source said.
Sean Rivers, who volunteered as a co-ordinator at the hall, said he had stopped working there in the middle of April.
“My sponsors had peace of mind while I was there.
“Everything that was used and brought in was logged individually, but after I left things started going wrong, and all my sponsors pulled out.”
Thomas Case, 61, who is wheelchair-bound due to a stroke that has left him homeless for 31 years, said 80 people had been taken to Kwazakhele and the rest to Motherwell.
“For four months the hall was [the site of] an orgy for sex, drugs and rock and roll. There was no law or order.
“Had there been no theft, we would still be having orgies. Since my stroke I’ve never had that much sex.
“In the last two months there were food problems.
“Every time reporters came they’d fix things for about three days and then things went back to their horrible state.
“I’m in debt because I took a loan.
“I bought clothes that were stolen. I bought food and a camping bed,” Case said.
Peter Lawrence, 31, said he refused to live in the temporary shelters offered because they were Covid-19 hotspots.
He feared if contracted the coronavirus now he would not live longer than a week.
Bryon Booth, 33, from KwaZulu-Natal, refused to go to the offered temporary shelters because he is afraid they are coronavirus hotspots.
“I don’t want to go to unfamiliar areas now. I rather stay in an area I am already familiar with,” he said.
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Zoe Saldana is on the market again, after she and actor Bradley Cooper broke up this week. (PR)
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The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education recently released its annual report on higher education across the U.S. Pennsylvania’s individual report card grades varied across categories. PA received an “A” in “Completion”—which examines the percentage of students who enter college that graduate college—but an “F” in “Affordability”—which looks at the cost of higher education. Spokesperson for the Center Daphne Borromeo says PA is taking steps towards improving affordability through community colleges. Other grades PA received include a “B-” in “Preparation,” a “C-” in “Participation,” and a “C” in “Benefits.” Overall, the Commonwealth is about even with the national average in all categories.


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I remember Liv's excitement when Nathan Fillion was announced as a guest for FACTS convention. I was thrilled for her. I knew Nathan was a huge guest for a Comic Con. Oh yes, I remember the moment Carola messaged me about this, as if it was yesterday. We (Tristan and Liv) were on a short holiday in Malta.We were waiting for a bus and I decided to turn on my roaming to search for the times. At the moment I did that I saw Carola sent me a Whatsapp message. Nathan Fillion was coming to FACTS and I just started jumping from hapiness. I wanted to scream out the news, but then I realised that the people in Malta couldn't care less haha. I have been a fan of Nathan Fillion since his role as Johnny in Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza place. And of course I love him in his role as Rick Castle. I hadn't ever watched Castle, so my excitement level didn't go through the roof (like mine did). But the fascination of Liv and many, many other people inspired me.I looove Castle, it's such a cool show. The cast is great and they have an amazing on screen chemistry ( want to know more about the show? Check put our article about it). I got curious: What was Castle ( I knew nothing about the series) and would I like it? I bought season 1 -3 second hand on DVD and decided to give it a go: Let's watch Castle!
So, I started watching. And I loved it immediately. Nathan is so funny as Rick Castle. The series is funny and exciting. I love see how they solve every case . So, after a few episodes I started to get excited as well about Nathan coming over to Belgium. Liv and I decided to buy a photo op for FACTS convention! I was over the moon and I thought it was awesome that Carola was excited about it too. The countdown to FACTS began.
Nathan is a Canadian actor born in 1971. He is best known for his role as Richard Castle in the TV series Castle. Castle revolves around Richard Castle. He’s a best-selling writer of crime novels, but he suffers from a writer’s block and kills off the main character of his novels. He’s brought in by the NYPD, because of a striking similarity between his novels and recent murders. During this visit he gets intrigued by Detective Kate Beckett, the detective assigned to the case. He decides to use her as a muse for a new novel, starring Nikki Heat. If you want to know about the series, check out our series tip!
But Nathan Fillion has done much more than just Castle. He's also known for his role as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly. He voiced several video games like Halo 3 and Destiny. And you also might recognize him from Saving Private Ryan, Slither, Trucker and Two guys and a Girl.
Nathan Fillion panel
Liv and I were lucky enough to be able to attend 2 panels with Nathan Fillion: His own panel and a panel he did together with Morena Baccarin! And it was great! Nathan is just as charming as Rick Castle haha. He was funny (Hilarious!), spontaneous and very kind. Yes he was, I had a smile on my face throughout the whole Q&A.
Morena and Nathan played in Firefly together! That's why they were doing a panel (and photo ops) together. They were an amazing duo and had this great chemistry. They seemed to have a lot fun together on stage. It was cool to watch them joke around and it just gave us the feeling they were good friends. Before their duo-panel, Morena had a single Q&A. From the moment Nathan stepped on stage the joking around started and Nathan had a question for Morena too: "Who is your favorite captain on the Firefly?". Since there was only one captain (Malcolm Reynolds played by Nathan Fillion) everyone started laughing immediately and that set the tone for the rest of the panel. It really was a lot of fun.
During the panels Nathan told a lot abut Castle and Firefly. But he also talked about other movies and series he did and talked about Halo as well.
Nathan Fillion: Photo op!
We were so excited that we would have the chance to do a photo op with Nathan! The timing however wasn't that good (unfor-tunately). The end of Nathan's photo shoot was at the same time a Ben McKenzie's panel. We're were naive and thought we might make it if we would be there in time for the photo op. But by the time we got there, the queue was huge already! And the photo shoot was delayed as well, so we had wait for a long time! Waiting was quite boring, even though we laughed a lot haha. At one point we (read I: Liv) got a little bit irritated, but I also had a lot of fun. We kept on joking about how we hoped that Mr. Fillion was worth the wait and the effort we put in waiting. Well he was! It was annoying to miss Ben's panel. On the other hand: I wouldn't want to miss this photo op for the world!
Even though the photo itself goes very quickly, I was sooooo happy to do this photo op. Nathan was very charming and kind. It was so nice to meet him. He was very sweet to all of his fans and very enthusiastic and talkative. If you're at a comic con: be sure to meet him and have chat, he's so funny! If the queue for the autographs hadn't been so long , we might have walked over to him and hand him a present or talk a bit. But the queue was really huge for autograph as well. Liv did give him a present at the photo op (Usually don't allow that, but we this time she could give it to him!). And he was very happy! Yes I gave him "Speculaas", this is a sort of cookie typical for The Netherlands and Belium (and Germany). I hope he liked it. So Mr. Fillion if you ever read this let us know wht you thought about the present and we hope to meet you again some time! Thank you for making our day!
Do you want to see the rollercoaster of emotions Carola and I went through? Take a look at the video below...


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Video report by Dumfries and Galloway reporter Lewis Warner.
The Royal British Legion is appealing for more people to give up their time to help sell poppies.
In Dumfries, there are only three volunteers currently working and the charity says it particularly wants to encourage the younger generation to get involved in the appeal.
Veteran Colin Harris from the Royal British Legion Scotland said: "We're struggling for numbers, we're getting a bit more senior so we're more prone to illness and injuries."
"The uptake in donations has been really slow this year, we're sitting about halfway from what we were at this point last year."
Dumfries has always had a good track record when it comes to raising money for the Scottish Poppy Appeal.
It often finds itself in the top ten areas across Scotland for donations.In recent years, big anniversaries have meant goodwill wasn't in short supply.
But fewer poppy sellers inevitably means fewer poppies sold.
There's now a drive to get younger volunteers involved.
Veteran Brian Dickie said: "You don't have to work all year, just a couple of hours over two weeks.
"It doesn't have to be a veteran, anybody in the community can come and help it's there for everybody because if it wasn't for the veterans, people wouldn't be here."

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A Constitutional Court employee is seen attending to a customer, Jakarta, Friday (24/2). (ANTARA)
JAKARTA, GRES.NEWS – Debates surrounding vote difference thresholds have reemerged following the Constitutional Court’s ruling to continue to keep Law No.10/2016’s regulation on the required minimum vote difference for candidates to file a legal claim to challenge the results of a regional election.
According to said law’s article 158, candidates may file a legal claim to the Constitutional Court only once the following requirements are met:
1. Maximum vote difference of 2 percent for provinces with less than 2 million population.
2. Maximum vote difference of 1.5 percent for provinces with 2 million -6 million population.
3. Maximum vote difference of 1 percent for provinces with 6 million - 126 million population.
4. Maximum vote difference of 0.5 percent for provinces with over 12 million population.
1. Maximum vote difference of 2 percent for regencies/municipalities with less than 250,000 population.
2. Maximum vote difference of 1.5 percent for regencies/municipalities with 250,000-500,000 population.
3. Maximum vote difference of 1 percent for regencies/municipalities with 500,000-1 million population.
4. Maximum vote difference of 0.5 percent for regencies/municipalities with over 1 million population.
The thresholds have been subject to a lot of public criticism. State administration law expert Refly Harun, for instance, said the Constitutional Court should focus on the facts in the field.
In agreement, Independent Committee of Elections Observers (KIPP) Secretary General Kaka Suminta said the Constitutional Court should not have merely considered the legal aspects in making the ruling.
KIPP said there were numerous indications of unfair practices in previous provincial, regency and municipal elections.
"The many unfair practices can’t be denied. Some of the unfair practices may be ‘structured,' systematical and conducted on a massive scale. There were also issues on abuse of voters data, and abuse of power and government facilities. Most of the complaints regard money politics, which cannot be reduced with Article 158 of Law no.10/2016," said Kaka, in a written statement to gres.news, Monday (12/3).
CHANGE INSTITUTION – Over the long time needed to settle regional election disputes, Constitutional Court Chairman, Arief Hidayat, and Supreme Court Chairman, Hatta Ali, suggest the establishment of a new court for regional election disputes.
"We have been saying that regional election disputes do not fall into the authority of the Constitutional Court. There must be a special institution for that. This has been emphasized through a Constitutional Court ruling," Arief said to gres.news, Jakarta, Thursday (9/3).
"Rulings from the special court would be legally binding.
Rulings from Supreme Courts can be subject to appeals," Hatta said. (dtc).


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TOKYO -- The government and ruling coalition have begun considering legal revisions to ban corporal punishment of children by their guardians at home in a latest bid to prevent child abuse amid recent high-profile cases of child deaths after "disciplining" by parents, according to people familiar with the matter.
The government first intends to write a ban on corporal punishment into the Act on the Prevention, etc. of Child Abuse during the current session of the Diet, and will aim at removing from the Civil Code the "right to discipline" children for those exercising parental authority, they said.
The government wants to move ahead with the child abuse prevention act revision first because changing the Civil Code requires discussions at the Legislative Council, an advisory council to the justice minister, and will thus take time.
Discussions on the prohibition of corporal punishment to prevent child abuse have happened in the past. Particularly, the Civil Code provision on the "right to discipline" has been pointed out as a factor discouraging child consultation center officials from intervening in abuse cases rooted in "discipline."
Article 822 of the Civil Code states that a "person who exercises parental authority may discipline the child to the extent necessary for the care and education." The 2011 revision of the code said that disciplining is "for the child's interest" to make sure that this provision cannot be used as an excuse for child abuse. The Justice Ministry considers corporal punishment such as beatings should be "substantially limited," although it says that "the common sense of the times" is the basis for judgment. The School Education Act clearly bans corporal punishment by principles or teachers who are not legal guardians.
Yet deliberations at the Legislative Council in 2010 included opinions against banning corporal punishment, including some that said people might misunderstand that they cannot discipline their children. The prohibition therefore was not incorporated in the 2016 revisions to the anti-child abuse act although the item was discussed.
But "disciplining" was the reason cited for violence against 10-year-old Mia Kurihara of the city of Noda east of Tokyo, and 5-year-old Yua Funato of the capital's Meguro Ward, who both died after alleged parental abuse, sparking strong public interest in the issue. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided to present a draft ordinance banning corporal punishment and verbal abuse against children by guardians to the metropolitan assembly, to be convened on Feb. 20. If approved, it would be the first local law of its kind in Japan.
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child issued a recommendation on Feb. 7 to the Japanese government saying a legal prohibition on corporal punishment should be introduced. On Feb. 13, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the House of Representatives Budget Committee that he would instruct the Justice Ministry to "review" the Civil Code provision on the right to discipline. Justice Minister Takashi Yamashita told reporters on Feb. 15 that he has "had departments in charge consider how to examine (the provision) and when," implying that he intends to refer the case to the Legislative Council.
Figures including a suprapartisan group of lawmakers discussing child abuse prevention headed by former welfare minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki have been calling for a total ban of corporal punishment by changing the anti-child abuse act. Yet some conservative members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party are strongly against "intervention in family affairs," and the government is going to carefully consider the issue.
(Japanese original by Ai Yokota, Medical Welfare News Department)