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Introduction: Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa lived in Palestine in the mid-first century A.D., and was a friend and colleague of Yohanan ben Zakkai, the founder of the Academy at Yavneh (Jamnia). He was especially famous for his total piety, being considered a completely righteous man (bBer. 61b); “one for whose sake God shows favor to his entire generation” (bHag. 14a).
Our rabbis say, once upon a time Rabban Gamliel’s son got sick. He sent two men of learning to Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa to beg him mercy from God concerning him. He saw them coming and went to a room upstairs and asked mercy from God concerning him. When he had come back down he said to them, “Go, the fever has left him.” They said to him, “What? Are you a prophet?” He said, “I am not a prophet nor am I the son of a prophet. But this I have received from tradition: if my prayer of intercession flows unhesitatingly from my mouth, I know it will be answered, and if not, I know it will be rejected.” They sat down and wrote and determined exactly the moment he said this, and when they came back to Rabban Gamliel he said to them, “By the Temple service!1 You are neither too early nor too late but this is what happened: in that moment the fever left him and he asked for water!”
Once again when Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa was going to study Torah with Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai, the son of Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai became ill. He said to him, “Chanina, my son, ask mercy from God for him and he will live.” He put his head down between his knees2 and asked mercy for him, and he lived. Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai said, “Now if ben Zakkai fastened his head between his knees all day long, there would not be any attention paid to him.” His wife said to him, “What? Is Chanina greater than you?”3 He replied, “Of course not, but he is like a servant before the king and I am like a prince before the king”4 (bBerakoth 34b).
1. A kind of oath; “By God!”
2. Indicating especially strenuous praying.
3. At this time, ben Zakkai was the Ruler of the people, just after the great rebellion A.D.
4. He can go in with requests anytime.

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While many consumers may have dubbed the Amazon holiday #primedayfail, the marketplace giant reported significant growth in sales through the manufactured holiday, marking it a success. But what does that all mean for the third-party seller or those interested in selling on marketplaces? Here is what Prime Day taught us.
ChannelAdvisor tracked the key sell-oriented metrics from Amazon to see how well the marketplace giant performed. No surprise – Amazon hit some impressive numbers and grew 27% y/y in Q2.
For three straight years, Trend Nation has ranked in Inc. Magazine’s list of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. With the team’s hard work and the support of vendors, Trend Nation continues to grow at an amazing speed!

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In the distant reaches of Blue Sky Basin at 11,480 feet, this rustic outpost is the farthest-flung dining destination on Vail Mountain. Warm up with hot chocolate and coffee or grab a snack and keep on skiing. Pre-made sandwiches, chips and cookies, brownies and other sweets are available. This small, mountain-hut space features picnic-style seating and a roaring fire indoors, but it is known for its deck that's outfitted with two grills for back-country cookouts. Pack in your own food and supplement it with offerings from Belle's Camp to enjoy a picnic lunch in an awe-inspiring setting. Belle's Camp is open during the winter season only.
Vail Mountain, Vail

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Watch Manachya Dhundit Remix By Dazzy D-Nesh - Ft. V.C.KEY
Presenting you the remix of famous Marathi song Manachya Dhundit by D-Nesh and Group.
Manachya Dhundit, is a classic hit Marathi romantic song, the group of D-Nesh and Aakash Dhakoliya, Snehal Sonje & V.C.KEY has revised the song in Hip Hop version and its worth listening to.
Manachya Dhundit Original Credit
Lyricist : Shanta Shelke,
Singer : Jayawant Kulkarni,
Music Director : Devdatta Sable


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Season 4, Episode 8 Angkor Wat: Eighth Wonder of the World
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Reading Time: ~10 minutes
The boat set sail early in the morning, on a summer day. Mark boarded it first. His wife, Linda, followed. The children came last, jostling each other other in their excitement.
“Stop that,” Mark said to them, embarrassed.
They either didn’t hear or him or ignored him. Tom pushed Alice and Alice pushed Tom. Tom was about to push Alice again, giggling, but Mark caught his wrist. “God damnit,” Mark said. “I said stop it.” He shook Tom for a few seconds and then released him.
Tom bolted to his mother, crying into her dress. Linda put her hand on his head. “Mark, honestly.” Alice trailed behind. Mark led the way to a lady with a clipboard. “The Waldens,” he said. The humidity hung heavy, broken by bursts of an intermittent ocean breeze. He took out a handkerchief and dabbed at his temples.
Reading Time: ~15 minutes
The floating island was home to several hundred men, women, and children. Beyond it, a floating mist perpetually floated, where clouds clung together like errant dreams. Rivers squirmed through the tropical air, bubbling in the misted sunshine, and spiraled off into infinity. Long, endless vines hung from the grassy edges of the island, tendrils dangling down into churning swirls of fog. People told stories about brave men and women who had dared to hang from the vines and try to climb down, but no one could imagine what lay underneath the island or past the clouds, so these stories primarily resulted in disappearances.
The people of the village lived in houses constructed from the moist bark of the island’s palm trees. They tended fields of worthless green hay for hours and hours, until their skin felt like it was melting from the wet heat of the sunlight. Night would fall like ash over the island and people would retire to their houses, talking quietly and telling stories. It wasn’t a bad life. There were no murders and no suicides.
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Harold’s wife is cheating on him. He knows it. It’s obvious. She gets home later than usual. It’s happened for a few months. Her excuse is that the newspaper has had to fire some copy editors, so now the reporters have to look over their own articles. It takes a few extra hours.
“Hours,” she says. “Can you believe that? They make us stay like we don’t have to get to dinner with the family.”
Hours, he thinks. Hours of animal pounding, half-heard words in dark sweaty rooms and coiled sheets. The temporary release from the material world and the monotony of stunted dreams and evaporating ambitions. The escape from life through the thrill of sex and the thrill of betrayal.
He knows. He grins when she tells him.

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Despite everything, Rosie has maintained her top pig status, but I doubt a younger pig would be willing to take that as read! There is also Purdie who is blind and has no concept of normal guinea pig manners - the others got used to this over time, and are very tolerant of her now.
The trials of having geriatric piggies :S
It's about pea sized, unconnected to skin or muscle, and doesn't seem to bother her at all when I palpate it. I'm not sure if it's brand new or always been there as it's really well hidden.
The vet showed me that she has one equal sized on the other side, and that they were her thyroid glands, perhaps slightly swollen but not too much. Gracie of course is completely unimpressed that I took her to the vets to have her thyroids confirmed...
Anyway, before I hang my head in paranoid shame, is it fine that her thyroid glands are a little swollen? Her behaviour, eating, drinking, poop, pee, weight etc are all completely normal, and she is not living fairly happily with Foster and Tahini with minimal arguments.
However, her behaviour hasn't changed except that she is a little tired (though that could be because Tahini is in heat and has been bugging her a lot), and her appetite and drinking and everything are the same.
Obviously she isn't a candidate for surgery but I think we'll have to get this lump checked out :/
Before this she was so healthy and young for her age. We're both totally devestated.
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Slough Town's U13 and U14 boys teams were both in action last weekend, and both recorded resounding victories.
The U13 boys made the short trip to Maidenhead, and came away with a brilliant 10-0 victory.
The goals came from Walid (five), Michael, Charlie, Amir, Louis and an own goal. There were some wonderful performances, brilliant goals and beautiful assists, with the boys playing some lovely football. Their defending has improved so much also.
Stand-out performers were Amir, whose performance was fully rewarded with a goal - along with the best celebration this season – as well as Alfie and Ryan.
The U14 boys travelled to Chinnor on a lovely summery February day.
A quick start saw the young Rebels go 3-0 up in 10 minutes through a tidy finish from Nico, followed by a great strike from Caleb and a close range finish from Joseph after good build-up.
It was soon four just before half time when James went on a mazy run to the byline and finished superbly.
The second half started in the same vein and only some superb goalkeeping from the Chinnor keeper kept the scoreline at 4-0.
But Joseph added a fifth followed by the sixth, which was an excellent team move. And after a few more chances, Alfie T rounded the scoring off from the penalty spot.
There were some great performances and a real boost to confidence heading into the cup quarter final next week. Man of the Match was Alfie T.
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This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
Valery Gergiev, cond; Jonas Kaufmann (
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MARIINSKY 0527 (4 SACDs: 236:16 Text and Translation)
This superbly cast, conducted, and recorded
derived from multiple dates in 2011 and 2012, is the first installment of a
cycle from Valery Gergiev.
will be issued by the end of the year, with
to follow in 2014. Wagnerians, budget accordingly because this
will most certainly be an essential acquisition.
The utter necessity of ownership can be explained in two words:
Anyone who encountered Pape’s performances of Marke and Gurnemanz in the late 1990s and marveled at the vocal majesty and “gravitas” that that German bass manifested when he was in his mid-30s surely looked ahead to the time when he would inevitably get to Wotan. It is not a stretch to conclude that Pape’s realization of the part is the finest on a commercial recording of the stereo era—and that includes the iconic Solti/Decca cycle where the great Hans Hotter, most would agree, was past his prime. Both halves of Pape’s vocal range satisfy immensely: The lower reaches with a capacious resonance and tactile burr, the upper octave with an unstrained, appealingly colored lyricism. His meticulously inflected Second Act monolog seems conversational rather than expositional (and really lets us know what makes the Battle Father tick.) “Leb wohl” is emotionally charged but not cloying, and the singer never resorts to crooning. Pape’s instrument is so commanding that sputtering rage isn’t required to get across how pissed off he is when confronting Brünnhilde in act III. This singer’s Wotan seems to have his emotions more under control than many worthy competitors, so his quick acquiescence to the Valkyrie’s request for a more lenient sentence seems more believable. Another benefit of featuring “The Black Diamond Bass” is that other imposing low male voices can be included without a risk of overshadowing Wotan at his most powerful. So, Mikhail Petrenko sounds formidably malevolent as Hunding but he’s still merely human. One looks forward to the Alberich-Wotan/Wanderer scenes of
with great anticipation.
There are, of course, at least two other Wagnerian heavy hitters in the cast. Jonas Kaufmann’s Siegmund is certainly a known quantity, if only because a couple of hundred thousand people saw his performance in Robert Lepage’s Metropolitan Opera production in movie theaters around the world (it’s also now available on video.) Kaufmann’s smoky, well-supported Heldentenor is put in the service of a passionate representation of his character. Nina Stemme has been singing Isolde for a decade and more recently added Brünnhilde to her repertoire mix. Stemme once told an interviewer as her Wagnerian star was rising: “My heart is still with Puccini and Verdi but my voice is with Wagner and Strauss.” Indeed, Stemme delivers the full range of the Valkyrie’s personality—the confident power of the imperious warrior/daughter as well as a warmly human side, as she interacts with the doomed Siegmund in act II. As noted above, Petrenko’s commodious bass-baritone makes him a dangerous-sounding Hunding. Anja Kampe has performed most of the major Wagner soprano roles (including Sieglinde opposite Plácido Domingo in Washington) and the final quarter hour of act I with Kaufmann is infused with a Tristanesque yearning, not just raging hormones. Ekaterina Gubanova also possesses a voice well suited to her role: Her Fricka can seem insistent and borderline shrill, but it’s not unsympathetic.
Gergiev’s part in assuring the success of this
can’t be minimized. He takes his time at the outset of act I, as Siegmund and Sieglinde are figuring out who the other is, but the conductor always knows where he’s going: His total timing for act I is shorter than most, especially live performances. Gergiev lavishes great care on intervening orchestral passages so they are, as Wagner intended, extensions of the words and thoughts of the singers. With the music leading up to Hunding’s arrival in act I, we can
his evil presence before the brute actually says anything. All the glaring and body language you’d get in a staged performance comes through your speakers, thanks to careful shading of dynamics and color by both singers and orchestra. The “Alex Ross passage” after Fricka’s final words to Wotan in act II (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, track down Ross’s column in the April 11, 2011, issue of
The New Yorker
) indeed represents—Ross’s words—“a solitary spasm of regret.” The Walkürenritt’s dotted rhythm gets a little sing-songy and occasionally, it sounds like a line intended for one Valkyrie is given to several. I’m not losing any sleep over it.
Mariinsky’s multichannel sound is conservatively executed, but singers and instruments have a gratifyingly dimensional quality and vocal/orchestral balances are excellent. Voices are richly characterized—Pape in all his glory—as is the augmented brass section. There’s a libretto in German and English plus a plot synopsis and essay in Russian, English, French, and German. This is a
for connoisseurs: a vitally engaged conductor leading singers with voices that are ideal for their parts and who understand their characters from extensive onstage experience but aren’t burdened with costumes, makeup, or weird directorial conceits. This is going to be one hell of a
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Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
René Pape (Bass),
Jonas Kaufmann (Tenor),
Anja Kampe (Soprano),
Ekaterina Gubanova (Mezzo Soprano),
Nina Stemme (Soprano),
Mikhail Petrenko (Bass)
St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater Orchestra
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Music Gear News
Gibson acoustic guitar 'used by John Lennon on first Beatles single'
The first single from The Beatles featured John Lennon playing a new Gibson acoustic guitar.
Andrew Vaughan, a columnist for the Gibson Lifestyle blog, noted that Love Me Do was the debut track from the famous four-piece and explained the Gibson J-160E had an important role to play in its creation.
Beatles manager Brian Epstein purchased two of the acoustic guitars for the group in 1962, with one going to Lennon and the other being taken by George Harrison.
Lennon used his new instrument for the recording of Love Me Do, which went on to reach number 17 in the charts when it was first released, marking the first step for The Beatles on their path to global success.
He went on to use it for the next year before it was stolen, getting a replacement version in 1964 ahead of the group's famous tour of America.
The music of The Beatles was recently made available for the first time on iTunes.
Their 13 studio albums made during their career, as well as the Past Masters compilation and Red and Blue collections, can now be downloaded via the Apple portal.
Save Money On Acoustic Guitars Today
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Is It Worth It to Buy Expensive Cat Food for My Cat?
I use to own my own pet supply store and had taken classes on pet nutrition as well as having done my own research on brands and ingredients. As such I feel I am fairly qualified to judge if a cat food is good or bad. I use to buy cheap cat food because I was unaware that they used cheap filler. Now I know better and always read the ingredient list if buying a new cat food (I usually stick to one cat food though).
I recently conducted a poll on how people decide what cat food to buy, and most of the people said " I buy the food my cat likes to eat ". Believe it or not but that is the wrong answer - after all, I like to eat donuts and french fries but I really should not eat either on a daily basis. The poll is still open and if you want to see the results or take the poll, click here .
Most pet owners shop for pet food by either buying a food that they are familiar with on a name basis, or whatever happens to be cheapest or on-sale that week.
Typically the lower priced foods are low quality, and more likely to cause health problems in cats over time. They are cheap because they use cheap ingredients, corn, wheat, by-products. Some are cheaper because they use even cheaper ingredients such as corn gluten meal and so forth.
On the flip side some expensive cat foods are not exactly priced according to quality. Some pet food companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars creating loyalty in veterinary students so that when the students graduate and become vets they will recommend that particular pet food brand, or will sell it themselves. Veterinarian students do not usually take a lot of courses in regards to pet food ingredients so they are unaware of the true low quality of the foods they end up promoting later.
If a cat appears to like a food it might be that the food has such poor nutrition that the cat has to eat and eat and eat to feel full or to satisfy its needs. Or it might use so much fat (to add flavor) that the cat simply becomes addicted to it. Indeed cats on poor quality food sometimes object to eating good food (with meat as a main ingredient) simply because they are addicted to the junk cat food!
In the end cheap pet foods are likely to cause more healthy problems in pets, most of which will not show up until later in life. Such as cancer and diabetes.
Not all expensive cat foods are worth the higher price , a concerned owner will become familiar with ingredients and read the list.
When a cat is fed a better quality cat food it actually eats less and typically can cost less in the long run so - yes, most of the time the expensive cat foods are worth it.
I published a similar article to this http://www.bubblews.com/news/3765026-is-expensive-cat-food-worth-the-price

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FOOD SAFETY POLICY STATEMENT
Kenya Wine Agencies Limited is committed to establishing maintaining and improving a Food safety Management System based on FSSC 22000 Scheme.
We shall procure, produce, package, market and sell Quality wines, spirits and juices that meet statutory and regulatory food safety requirements.
To achieve this KWAL shall:
- Include quality and food safety strategies in the annual business planning process to ensure that food safety and quality remain an integral part of operations.
- Commit to continually review our food safety Management System for improvement.
- Comply with food safety statutory, regulatory and customer requirements.
- Establish an effective communication and feedback system that addresses Food safety requirements throughout the organization.
- Continually enhance personnel competencies through training.
- Align our organization objectives and will always reflect changes and reviews arising from both internal and external audits.
- Continually monitor and manage risks emanating from our operations and address them through PRPs, HACCP plans and OPRP programmes.
- Implement Food Defence and Food Fraud Mitigation Plans in accordance with the Global Food Safety Initiative requirements.
- Validate the effectiveness of the Quality and Food Safety management systems through internal and external audit processes recognized by the GFSI


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Myths Busted - Mid-Barataria Will Help, Not Hurt, Coastal Louisiana
There’s been a lot of talk about the effects the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion. This project is a cornerstone of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan and will build and maintain 30,000 acres over 50 years by reconnecting the Mississippi River to its wetlands.
Despite the scientific evidence and research, there are claims that the proposed sediment diversion should not be built. Some critics cite “scientific” studies that they say back-up their positions. But If you analyze these claims, you find that the facts don’t add up.
Dr. Alisha Renfro, a scientist with Restore the Mississippi Delta, refutes concerns and explains point-by-point the real facts about sediment diversions and why they are crucial to rebuilding coastal Louisiana.
Diversions build land. Period. The claim that diversions will cause, not curb, land loss is a result of the land loss experienced in the Breton Basin following Hurricane Katrina, including the area around the Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion.
While not a Sediment Diversion, the Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion builds land. Since 1991, the freshwater diversion has built 700 acres of new land, despite not being intended or implemented for that purpose. Mid-Barataria will carry sediment at a larger scale and is designed to recreate lost areas.
Wetlands need sediment to survive. The Mississippi River carried sediment and built the Wetlands of Louisiana. Without sediment from the river, our coast can’t be sustained or create land long-term.
Roots + Sediment = Stronger Soils, More Resilient Marshes. Some claim that freshwater marshes are inherently weaker than saltwater or brackish marshes against storm surge, but marshes with low mineral sediment input, like those near the Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion before Katrina, are weaker and more vulnerable to storms because of their lack of sediment. The Wax Lake Delta, located in Atchafalaya Bay, has been impacted by storm surge over the years, but quickly recovers and continues to grow and push out into the Gulf because of its supply of sediment. As a result, it is one of the few areas of our coast gaining land.
There is More to Sediment than Sand. There is a push to dredge the Mississippi River instead of using diversions. Sand dredged from the river bottom can and is being used to restore wetlands, but only dredging this material is not enough. Only around 20 percent of the sediment that the river carries is sand, the rest is silt and clays, which stay in suspension, never settling onto the bottom where it could be sucked up by dredges.
Diversions are Field-Tested and Scientifically Solid. Since 1989, CRCL has called for sediment diversions. The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion is one of the most studied and modeled projects in our state’s history. The Mississippi River built the delta’s wetlands, and most of the areas of Louisiana’s coast that have been maintaining or even gaining land instead of losing it are doing so because of regular sediment input from the Mississippi River.
The Mid Barataria Sediment Diversion is a Coastal Restoration Project, Not MRGO. Another recent tactic is to propose that the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion poses risks like those created by the dredging of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet. MRGO destroyed areas through bank erosion and saltwater intrusion; the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion will build and maintain the land. Comparing a massive navigation channel like MRGO to a sediment diversion is comparing apples to oranges.
Diversions + Nutrients = Dynamic Estuaries. Some have argued that sediment diversions will cause so-called low-oxygen dead zones. The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion will bring more nutrients into the Barataria Basin, which will spur the growth of wetland plants. Those plants, in turn, will pull some of the excess nutrients from the diversion waters, helping reduce the dead zone in the Gulf.
To learn more, read “The Mississippi River is our Greatest Force for Building Land” by Dr. Renfro. Her article goes into more depth and explains more thoroughly the importance of large-scale sediment diversions.

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ArcelorMittal pins its hopes on exports
Low steel demand in SA prompts search for opportunities elsewhere
With current steel demand in SA almost at a 10-year low, steelmaker ArcelorMittal is looking for export opportunities in the rest of Africa, says CEO Kobus Verster.
The domestic steel demand looks set to be lethargic for longer, with economic growth being slow. The IMF this week lowered its economic forecast for 2018 to 0.8%, from 1.5%. It also lowered the 2019 forecast from 1.7% to 1.4%.
“Most steel companies require a reasonably strong local demand to be profitable. We are at the bottom of the cycle at this point in time and steel demand is severely impacted, with the current steel consumption in SA almost at a 10-year low,” Verster said.
He said the company wanted a bigger market share in the rest of Africa as there was no evidence of growth in domestic demand.
The foray into new markets was among steps the company was taking to improve financial and operational performance. These included restarting the Vaal Meltshop plant in Vereeniging.
Verster said the company had prioritised reducing its cost base. “I think it is naïve to think that you can come out of a period of seven or eight years of losses and suddenly start making profits.”
The company’s “structured” cost reduction included lowering costs by $50 a ton, which would improve the company’s sustainability. In addition, ArcelorMittal wanted to increase its output, hence the decision to restart Vaal Meltshop.
In August, the company said it was evaluating the building of a new arc furnace at the Vanderbijlpark mill, with a capacity of 700,000 tons to 1-million tons a year. Verster said the facility would stimulate employment and procurement benefits for the Vaal area.
The low steel demand was in contrast to the improvement in international steel demand in the past two years. “China has become much more responsible in its supply. Internationally, we are around 80% of global steel capacity utilisation. That has resulted in much better prices. In the past two years, steel companies in Europe, US, Canada, China and South America are making good money,” Verster said.
Commenting on US tariffs on imported steel and aluminium, he said the company’s exposure to the US market was minimal. But there could be a risk of countries now exporting to the US diverting their material to ArcelorMittal’s traditional export markets, especially east Africa. “We have not seen that yet,” he said.


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Don’t expect a grilling. Gayle King, who vacationed with the Obamas and is a Democratic donor, will score the first interview with Barack Obama as he promotes his new book. According to CBSNews.com, “The former president will return to CBS News to speak with Gayle King for CBS Sunday Morning, and Scott Pelley for 60 Minutes. The interviews will be conducted in Washington, D.C.”
The King interview will be previewed on the CBS Evening News on Thursday and CBS This Morning on Friday. The idea that a partisan Democrat would be considered for a “news” interview is insulting to the very idea of fairness.
As I previously noted in an MRC special report, King has given exclusively to Democrats. According to Open Secrets, she donated over $33,000 to the DNC, $7300 to Barack Obama, $1000 to Democrat Harold Ford Junior. Open Secrets reports that the donations stopped in 2011 as she began at CBS. But the fact that she hasn’t given anything to Republicans shows that she’s a partisan leftist.
In an analysis of King’s Democratic connections this past August, I wrote:
If donating only to Democrats wasn’t enough, in 2017, King has vacationed with them as well. The CBS co-host enjoyed a trip on a yacht with the Obamas, angering actual journalists within CBS. According to the New York Post’s Page Six, it didn’t go over well at the network. The paper cited a network source:
“The ‘Capital J’ journalists are pissed and raving mad that she was on a yacht with the Obamas over the weekend. The old-school people were talking about it. She shouldn’t be doing that. She’s an anchor of a news program that covers the White House.”
King ridiculously tried to defend the trip, spinning, “My vacations are not political and so I went on vacation with a great group of people and, to me, that's not a political statement.” Last we checked, she hasn’t gone on yacht vacations with members of the Trump family.
According to Deadline.com, King’s good friend, Oprah Winfrey (who endorsed Obama in 2008 and 2012), praised the book as well:
“This book was worth the wait,” said Winfrey. “Everybody who reads it is going to be on this journey from the grueling and monotonous grind of the campaign, to taking us inside the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room and the Situation Room and sometimes, even the bedroom. This book has both the intimacy and the grandeur coming through in this memoir, and I have so been looking forward to speaking with him about all of it.”
During the Democratic convention, King gushed over vacation pal Michelle Obama’s Democratic convention speech: “I can’t stop thinking about it, to be honest with you.”
A Democratic donor interviewing another Democrat with whom she vacations with. This is the kind of hack, non-journalism you can expect from CBS "News."

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I’m not a big fan of camping. Throughout my formative years, my parents dragged me and my three siblings around New England for countless camping trips. Still, memories of damp sleeping bags, eating ash-covered hot dogs and using a less-than-fragrant outhouse were not enough to completely quell the camping bug, and I continued with this quaint custom into my 20s. Upon waking in a rain filled tent one morning outside of Montreal, I told myself that I was done.
My career has taken me to many countries, and the opportunities to camp persisted in rearing their matted, unwashed heads. I resisted their entreaties each and every time: in Egypt, where I was invited to camp in the famed White Desert or at Ras Mohamed, which is a beautiful seaside preserve in the southern Sinai Peninsula (this meant hot, camping in sand – no chance of showering); in Ghana, where we could have camped along a river or in the mountains (hot and humid, mosquitoes and malaria, and no river swimming because of the very real risk of bilharzia, commonly called snail fever); and in Tanzania my husband and I could have camped on a number of safaris, but are you kidding? Tents are merely sandwich bags for lions. Pass.
This fall we received a call from a friend we had met and taught with in Ghana. A mutual friend had gotten his captain’s license for sailing catamarans. He was planning to rent a 42-foot catamaran for the week of Christmas to sail around the islands of Thailand. Were we interested in joining them? Um, yes, please!
On the day we arrived at the marina from where we were to set sail, I remember taking a deep breath of the fresh, salty air. It was warm, slightly damp and had that indefinable scent that true sea-lovers recognize and crave when they are away from it too long. The sound of the waves gently slapping against the pier was in the background as we packed up the boat and smiles, maybe even grins, were on all of our faces.
Within 30 minutes of motoring out of the marina of Koh Chang, we were all in bathing suits and slathering ourselves with SPF 50. The ocean colors changed from a tropical blue to a light, crystal clear aqua-green. We anchored off our first island, noting that though the water was several meters deep, we could easily see the floor under us. Let the snorkeling begin!
After sundowners, we had dinner on the boat that night, taking turns with the cooking and cleanup. Later, we all relaxed on the front deck – a flexible, trampoline-like area where the “boys” slept each night. We watched the green lights of the local fishing boats trying to net cuttlefish while adjusting to the rhythm of the boat and trying to identify constellations.
Each day of our trip brought new sights that made us search for adjectives to describe the natural beauty. Small, uninhabited islands surrounded by coral reefs competed with isolated, white, sandy beaches for “best” and “most beautiful.” Sunsets and sunrises, each different from the last, all equally stunning.
On Christmas Eve, we took the dinghy to a small fishing village on the island of Koh Kood. Sunken nets contained live fish for us to choose our dinner from, and we tried to communicate with the Thai fisherman that we preferred our fish gutted, not whole. Try pantomiming that!
Another day we took our dingy into a stunning estuary on the island of Koh Kut. Roots of mangrove trees competed for space and sunlight with a variety of palm trees as we boated along a small river community that supported a small shop or two, a restaurant, hostel, and even a Buddhist monastery.
On another day, we hiked to a freshwater waterfall that sported not one, but two Tarzan ropes. Sadly, I learned that my arm muscles were not what they were in my teens at my grandparents’ Maine camp.
As we neared the end of our trip, we sailed to a tiny island with some of the clearest waters we’d seen yet. A small sandbar rose slightly above the water. The water was clear enough to spot a starfish on the bottom.
On our last evening, we dined on leftovers, trying to empty the fridge and storage boxes as much as possible. We all sat on the deck one last time, watching the sunset and marveling at how quickly it changed. We took turns reflecting on what our favorite parts of the trip had been, reminding each other of events and sights seen and felt throughout the week.
As I sat there listening and laughing, I realized that I had essentially been camping for a week, albeit on a boat, surrounded by the sea. And that I would do it again.


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Like other parents, I’ve been concerned about the future of today’s generation. As I specifically work with teens struggling with anxiety, ADHD, delinquency, depression, and other issues, it can be easy to become stressed about my children’s future.
Yet, as I have guided and watched my children grow into their self-identity, I’ve been consistently amazed by strengths which many news pundits discount when discussing today’s younger generations.
Younger Generations Embrace Technological Change
One of the hallmarks of younger generations is their enthusiastic embrace of changing technology. While Gen Xer’s around my age began to experiment with technology in our teen years, I still vividly remember the sound my dial-up modem made, the inability to make phone calls while online, and how intimidating creating an AOL account was for me. This is not the digital world my children have grown up experiencing.
In life, there are people who can learn anything faster in the blink of an eye and others might need a bit longer to learn a simple concept or theory. In this article, however, I will highlight and showcase the 5 hacks anyone can use to learn anything (yes, anything) much faster than usual.
1. Review your errors
It’s a life truth that you learn better from your mistakes. Any mistakes you have made in the past act as a pinpoint reference for you to better yourself. Reviewing them even for the shortest amount of time will help understand where your problem-solving skills let you down.
This hack is fantastic as you gain a pure understanding of how you approached the problem before, where you went took the wrong turn and you become stronger at the problem.
People want to get better every day, the only thing that holds them back is they don’t know where to start. Even famous people with MBA degree sometimes find it difficult to focus on their personal growth. Below is the list of ten simple life hacks that can contribute greatly to your personal development.
It’s quite easy to become lax when it comes to taking care of ourselves as adults. Normally, we don’t have that nagging voice in the ear telling us when to sleep or how to eat as our mother’s once did. This sad realization comes to many of us as we stand in front of the mirror after stepping out of the shower. The phrase, “What happened?” usually crosses our minds. Right there is when we make a crucial decision. Do we commit to taking better care of ourselves, or do we put it off until tomorrow? You must fight the urge to procrastinate decisions affecting your physical needs. What do you do when it comes time to take action?
Sometimes, the things we expect the least – both good and bad – can teach us the best lessons in life. Last month, I said to a group of 26 child leaders that in many things of our life, the important thing is not what others give us, but what we choose to take. When I said that, I did not consider the possibility of taking a lesson from others without any intention on their part.
Two weeks ago, we learned a very valuable lesson from a good friend of ours. Tom, our friend, had never planned on giving us this lesson. In fact, if it was up to him, I think he would gladly not teach us this lesson at all because of the heavy price he had to pay for it.
I hope that when you read this story, you will choose to take as much as possible from it. Remember, it is not about what I write, but what you choose to receive.
I like to walk around our beautiful neighborhood in the morning. It is one of the things that make me happy. I do it to warm up my body and mind, get my creative juices flowing (into the voice recorder on my mobile phone) and be ready for another great day.
About half way through my walk, when I was already going at a good pace and feeling pretty pumped, I saw a young Chinese woman leaving one of the houses and saying goodbye to a young man standing on the doorstep.
Suddenly, the young woman noticed a bus at a stop about 200 meters away. She became visibly uptight, her pitch rose and she looked like she was asking the young man what to do (as I do not speak Chinese, this is all my interpretation).
The man gestured towards the bus and looked like he was urging the woman to run for it and try to catch it. She kept pleading with him until he joined her and they started running toward the bus stop.
By the time they decided to run and crossed the street, I had been half way to the bus and it was still there. There were no passengers in sight, its doors were closed and it kept waiting.
In our time, pressure seems to be everywhere. There is a wealth of information like never before, which means we could find out about anything we wanted, only this takes time, so we look for “drip feeds” that will give us up-to-the-minute updates and we assume our sources do a reasonable job at finding and telling things as they are.
Reality is a bit different, unfortunately. Most of our information feeds are controlled by a fairly small group of huge profit-driven conglomerates, which make their money by selling. To sell well, they need people to “see red”, so they inspire fear via TV news broadcasts, bold newspaper headlines and various other methods.
The result of this is the general view that violent crime is everywhere, that different people cannot live together in harmony and that all too often, the only way to sort things out is to wage war on another ethnic group or country, even at the cost of “friendly” life.
Picture yourself sitting in an old cinema all by yourself, watching a movie. Turn your head towards the back wall and see there a big window. Behind the window, there is a projection machine. In that machine, a long, wide film is running, a film you have created.
A strong light travels through the film towards the screen. You can see the beam of light getting wider as it travels through the air, showing flickers of colors and movement inside it. Follow the beam of light with your eyes as it keeps on going and getting wider, until you are facing forward and looking at a huge screen, which practically fills your entire fields of vision.
As you look, you become absorbed in the movie, finding yourself emotionally attached to some of the characters, fearing some of the others, hating a few and getting carried away with the story.
Real life is very much the same. We become absorbed in our own story, which we project onto the world. When we interact with other people, we each look at our own “film” and can get into all kinds of trouble.
At the end of high school, my teen daughter Eden took a personal development course for teenagers and came back very disappointed. In a two days workshop, every speaker talked about hitting rock bottom before finding the light and that light, for some reason, was a way to make money.
She paced back and forth and stormed, “I never see myself not having money for food or sleeping in my car because I have no home to sleep in. I never see myself without a family to support me. All I got from these presenters was that I must get very low if I want to be successful, which means I’ll never be successful. What kind of motivation technique is this?”
I said to her, “I’m sure that’s not what they meant” and tried to convince her to find something she could still learn from her experience, but it was no good.
4 years later, I think this course has done more damage to her attitude than I thought initially (although it may still contribute to her personality and attitude towards life in a positive way).
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us” – Jane Austen

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Smudge the Stolen Kitten Paperback / softback
by Holly Webb
Illustrated by Katherine Kirkland
Part of the Holly Webb Animal Stories series
Olivia is delighted when her family adopt a beautiful little kitten.
She can't wait to show Smudge off to her friends, and neither can her older brother Ben.
When Ben invites his naughty friend Rob round for tea, Olivia is worried that the two boys will upset Smudge.
Her fears come true when later that evening the kitten is nowhere to be found.
Could Rob have anything to do with Smudge's disappearance - and where is the helpless kitten now?
From the best-selling author Holly Webb comes another heart-warming animal story.
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher: Little Tiger Press Group
- Publication Date: 07/03/2011
- Category: Animal stories
- ISBN: 9781847151605
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Employers are expecting to use an increasing number of contingent workers and correspondingly decrease their reliance on full-time employees, according to new research by Willis Towers Watson.
The research surveyed more than 1,000 organizations in 40 countries on the changing world of work and adoption of digital and automation technologies in the workplace. It found contingent workers, such as freelancers and free agents, and employees on loan from other organizations currently make up 4.2 per cent of workforces. And that’s expected to grow to 5.2 per cent over the next three years.
Meanwhile, survey respondents said they expect their workforces to be 76 per cent full-time workers, down from a current 80 per cent.
“The increasing sophistication of the skills that contingent workers possess and the work expected from them, combined with the growing premium placed on speed, is encouraging more organizations to consider the use of contingent talent, which can frequently be more quickly sourced, onboarded and deployed productively to specific projects than traditional employees,” the report said.
One in four organizations said they’ll make more use of contingent talent because of automation and digitalization, with that number expected to more than double in the next three years to 51 per cent.
Three years ago, seven in 10 organizations were already using contingent workers and, as a result, have a higher percentage of contingent talent in their workforces. Among employers that have used contingent employees for more than three years, their workforces are made up of freelancers (8.3 per cent), workers on loan (7.1 per cent) and freelancers from talent platforms (3.7 per cent). Those numbers are expected to rise to 9.2 per cent, 6.5 per cent and 4.4 per cent, respectively, in three years.
By comparison, the makeup of organizations that started using contingent labour in the last three years is freelancers (5.3 per cent), workers on loan (3.9 per cent) and free agents from talent platforms (4.3 per cent). In another three years, those percentages are expected to increase to 8.4 per cent, 6.9 per cent and 4.9 per cent, respectively.
While the use of these types of workers is on the rise, a large percentage of employers are struggling to integrate them into the workforce. Just 41 per cent said they’re effective at this integration, while 45 per cent said they’re effective at retaining employees and contingent workers with important technology skills.
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Range management, IUT.
Faculty of Natural Resources, Isfehan University of Technology.
Range management, Gorgan Agricultural and Resources University.
Vegetation cover over time and space is the result of interactions between
vegetation cover and environmental factors. Changes occurred in range covers are caused by
matrix dominance, one of the most important environmental factors. Decision support system
(DSS) could be used for determining the rate and importance of each factor. Actually, in
methods based on DSS, relations between input and output factors are identified. Up to now,
various methods have been used in analyzing multivariate decision that includes binary
comparison method that has been used in this study. This method has become one of the most
commonly used methods of multivariate decision making and has been used for resolving
unstructured issues in various human areas such as agriculture and natural sciences. In this
study, nine sites were selected in west of Isfahan, Iran, then different vegetation cover and
environmental factors were examined in each of these sites. By analyzing main components,
effective factors and impact of range were identified, finally using analytical hierarchical
pattern (AHP) model, the quantity of effective factors on Yellow Astragalus and grass sites
was determined. The rate of limestone of soil and slope factor in Yellow Astragalus were 14.4
and 14.2%, respectively, which have the greatest effect and with regard to grass transmittal,
Soil limestone and soil acidity influenced 20 and 13.2% of variation, respectively.

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The restructuring "will reduce the overall number of headquarters, while sustaining as much combat capabilities as possible," he told reporters.
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The 12 combat brigades would be cut over the next four years, with some troops reassigned to other bases. Ten of the brigades are in the United States and two due to be scrapped are in Germany, which the Pentagon had already announced.
Under the reorganisation, the Army would bolster its remaining infantry and armor brigades with another battalion. That would mean adding about 600-800 soldiers to a brigade, which is roughly 3,500 troops.
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Welcome back to ASEAN Wonk BulletBrief! This week we’re looking at ASEAN’s Indo-Pacific balancing act on display at the recent round of summitry in Indonesia; a development in India-ASEAN connectivity; supply chain cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) with the recent round of negotiations in Singapore, and much more.
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ASEAN’s Indo-Pacific Balancing Act in the Spotlight at Summit
Key outcomes of the recent ASEAN summit spotlighted what can be characterized as the grouping’s ongoing Indo-Pacific balancing act: with efforts to both maintain ASEAN’s relevance by shaping its own Indo-Pacific outlook in a more contested geopolitical environment, while also making this Indo-Pacific conception more relevant for the needs of a region pursuing growth amid uncertainty and managing manifold internal and external challenges.
What’s Behind It
The ASEAN summit chairman’s statement saw a focus on ongoing efforts to align and concretize the Indo-Pacific conception around the region’s realities, including the pursuit of post-pandemic economic growth. The statement kept alive ideas that Indonesia and more forward-leaning members have been supporting with respect to ASEAN’s approach to the Indo-Pacific, including developing a defense concept paper on the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP) adopted back in 2019; convening an Indo-Pacific Forum that will focus on items such as the creative economy; and deepening the AOIP’s sectoral focus around four pre-agreed areas: maritime cooperation, connectivity; UN Sustainable Development Goals and economic and other possible areas of cooperation. ASEAN leaders also adopted declarations on cross-border economic issues that are key to growth like payment connectivity and an electric vehicle ecosystem.
The statement reinforces ASEAN’s balancing act in both managing strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific while also promoting economic growth amid a shifting geoeconomic environment. ASEAN as a bloc has been struggling to react to the proliferation of Indo-Pacific strategies (see graphic below, published before the release of additional outlooks over the past year from additional countries such as Bangladesh, Canada and South Korea) in the context of intensifying major power competition, as well as the dizzying array of initiatives pursued by diverse countries within the bloc in search of post-pandemic growth in areas like the digital economy and supply chains. Part of the bloc’s response has been to try to concretize AOIP around inclusive functional issues relevant to the region such as infrastructure, while also regionalizing certain economic workstreams even as countries pursue their own national journeys.
Why It Matters
ASEAN’s approach to the Indo-Pacific is a subset of wider anxieties within parts of the region around the bloc’s relevance and centrality in the face of mounting internal and external challenges including the ongoing Myanmar civil war; sharpening U.S.-China competition; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and uncertainties around globalization and the international rules-based order. Ahead of the summit, Indonesia’s former Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, who had advocated for a more proactive approach for ASEAN in shaping the Indo-Pacific conception around what he had termed a “dynamic equilibrium” in the early 2010s, warned that the grouping “faces a possible future of diminishing relevance” without “a renewed and reinvigorated effort” to “show its mettle.” Multiple years of surveys by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore have also indicated discontent even among ASEAN elites about the bloc (see an example from the latest report below).
Indonesia’s chairmanship year in 2023 is seen as a key year for ASEAN to navigate these geoeconomic and geopolitical challenges. Indonesia’s leadership has previously been an important variable in key advancements within ASEAN, including the kickstarting of the Political-Security Community and the evolution of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the world’s largest free trade agreement which entered into force last year. Though Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo himself has been less focused on foreign policy relative to his predecessor, Jakarta has nonetheless been playing a leading role on select issues such as the adoption of the initial AOIP and diplomacy on Myanmar. In an editorial published following the ASEAN Summit, The Jakarta Post acknowledged Indonesia’s leadership in promoting ASEAN as an "Epicentrum of Growth” and shaping the grouping’s longer-term outlook out to 2045, but noted that in another sign of ASEAN’s wider challenges as a grouping, “the two-day summit largely avoided addressing tough questions in favor of quick wins.”
Where It’s Headed
With this round of deliberations concluded, the focus will shift to the next ASEAN summit expected in September, which will reveal more about how ASEAN is navigating its Indo-Pacific balancing act. Of particular note will be tangible progress on efforts to sectoralize of the AOIP into specific areas through mechanisms like the Indo-Pacific Forum, and the extent to which notable initiatives like secretariat-to-secretariat cooperation between ASEAN and the Pacific Islands Forum and the Indian Ocean Rim Association translate into substantive outcomes beyond any performative value. ASEAN’s efforts will also be evaluated within the context of a more globalized Indo-Pacific conversation: to take just one example, we just witnessed the holding of the latest EU Indo-Pacific ministerial forum in Sweden as part of its holding of the presidency of the Council of the European Union, with Indonesia participating. The Indo-Pacific will also be in focus in upcoming non-ASEAN engagements like the G7 Summit in Japan and the Quad Summit in Australia, which have significance for the grouping’s place within the wider regional and global institutional architecture.
The second half of the year will also provide more indications of how the ASEAN agenda will shape up heading into 2024. Following ASEAN’s alphabetical ordering of its annually rotating chairmanship, Laos is set to take up the ASEAN chair in 2024, and there will be a gradual handing over of the chairmanship and shaping of Vientiane’s own priorities through to the end of the year. Though Laos may not have the weight of Indonesia and often appears in the headlines for its dependence on China or debt levels, it is active in certain areas of broader regional economic relevance such as cross-border energy trading and payments, and has relevance for several issues in focus during the summit like addressing the vast network of scams across Southeast Asia (see a select list of ASEAN Summit outcomes below).
IPEF and Critical Minerals Supply Chains; Managing China Gray Zone Aggression; Supply Chains Indo-Pacific; The Data Transparency Power Challenge
“While sector-wide supply chain work is critical, IPEF should not stop there [and] sector-specific work…should also be pursued…the critical minerals and materials sector makes the most sense as the first candidate, given its economic and geopolitical importance, coupled with its current high levels of concentration, with the corresponding urgency for diversification,” notes a new report released amid the latest round of IPEF talks in Singapore by the Asia Society Policy Institute. The issue of critical minerals has implications for several key Southeast Asian countries, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam (see the above graphic for more country specifics). The full report is available here.
“Providing physical capabilities to push back against China’s maritime coercion is necessary. But simply gifting equipment to partners will be insufficient if not accompanied by efforts to bolster key intangible factors such as national political will and interagency cooperation,” notes a piece over at Proceedings magazine published by the U.S. Naval Institute on how Southeast Asian countries can help confront gray zone coercion by Beijing with help from allies and partners. You can read the full piece here.
“Findings from this research revealed that more than half of the region has poor to insufficient data transparency, representing electricity needs of 684 million people,” notes a new report on the state of data transparency for power sector decarbonization in Asia by Ember and Subak. Several of the countries within this bucket are in Southeast Asia (see the graphic below). The complete report is available here.


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The film ‘Serpentário’, by Carlos Conceição, will be in competition at the Berlin film festival in February, integrated into the contest for first feature films, announced today the organization.
“Serpentário“, a Portuguese-Angolan co-production, will be screened under the forum’s parallel program and was selected today for the competition of first feature films, along with 15 other works, according to the statement from the Berlinale.
The German film ‘Gli ultimi a vederli vivere’ by Sara Summa, the French-American co-production ‘So Pretty’ by Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli, the Romanian film ‘ Mon? Tri ‘, by Marius Olteanu, and the Spanish-Costa Rican’ The Awakening of the Ants’, by Antonella Sudasassi Furniss.
For the first feature film contest was also selected the Brazilian production ‘Greta’, by Armando Praça, which will be displayed in the Panorama section.
Nimrod Eldar (Israel), ’37 Seconds’ by Hikari (Japan) and ‘The Day After I’m Gone’, Nora Fingscheidt (Germany) Buoyancy ‘by Rodd Rathjen (Australia),’ Flesh Out ‘by Michela Occhipinti (Italy), and’ Dog Barking at the Moon ‘by Xiang Zi (China / Spain).
Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s “My Extraordinary Summer with Tess” by Steven Wouterlood (Netherlands / Germany) and German productions ‘Cleo’ by Erik Schmitt, ‘Die Einzelteile der Liebe’ by Miriam Bliese and ‘Oray’ by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, of the Generation section, are the remaining feature films that are eligible for the prize.
The jury of this competition is composed of German writer and journalist Katja Eichinger, the Franco-Senegalese director Alain Gomis, and the Chinese director and screenwriter Vivian Qu, was also announced today.
‘Serpentário’ is the first feature film by Carlos Conceição, about “a boy who wanders through a post-catastrophe African landscape in search of his mother’s ghost.” The film also marks the debut of Mirabilis, António Gonçalves and the director himself.
For the Forum, the film ‘A Portuguesa’ by Portuguese director Rita Azevedo Gomes had also been selected, an adaptation of a short story by Robert Musil, written by Agustina Bessa-Luís and Rita Azevedo Gomes. interpretation of Clara Riedenstein.
The program of the 49th Forum announced on the 18th, will present a choice of 39 films that “try to experiment, take a stand and refuse to compromise.”
“Some look at the history of the twentieth century, while others focus on what is yet to come, even if they are anchored in the ‘here and now’,” reads the press release.
The Forum will also feature three Brazilian films: ‘Chão’ by Camila Freitas, ‘Querencia’ by Helvécio Marins Jr., and ‘A rosa azul de Novalis’ by Gustavo Vinagre and Rodrigo Carneiro.
The Berlin Film Festival will be the 69th edition, between February 7 and 17.


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How to get a TFN?
The TFN can be obtained by applying online at the Australian Tax Office website. It is available 24 hours a day and 7 hours a week. It is free. To apply you will need to have an address in Australia
The TFN application is mandatory if you want to work in Australia. If you don’t have one, you will be taxed at a maximum rate of 47% (backpackers pay 15%).
Following your request, you will receive a reference number that you can use while waiting to receive your final TFN in Australia. It will be sent within 28 days to the postal address indicated in your application. If you do not live at this address anymore, do not worry. You can still get your TFN number by calling 13 28 61 (8 am to 6 PM Monday to Friday). If you do not speak English very well, you can always contact their translation service at 13 14 50.
Step 1: Check that you meet the conditions to apply
To apply, you will need:
- Be in possession of a foreign passport, be a permanent migrant or a temporary visitor
- You are already in Australia
- Your visa is one of the following:
- a permanent resident visa
- a visa with work rights
- an overseas student visa
- a visa allowing you to stay in Australian indefinitely (including New Zealanders automatically granted a visa on arrival).
Step 2: Prepare the necessary documents for the application
To apply, you will need your passport, a postal address in Australia, an Australian mobile number and a valid email address.
Step 3: Connect to the ATO website
Note that if the website is under maintenance you can always download the TFN application form (it will be available for download) and send it to the address indicated on the form.
Once on the homepage, click on “Apply online for a TFN“:
Step 4: Fill out the online form
The first page explains who can apply for a tax file number, and provides you the useful phone numbers if you wish to contact the ATO. After reading the page, click Next.
On the next page, you must confirm that you have the visa in Australia required to obtain a TFN and list any necessary documents. After checking them, click on Next
Travel documentation details
Next is the part where you are asked to enter your details:
The fields marked with an asterisk must be filled in.
You must enter your passport number, country of issue and indicate if you’ve ever been in Australia before (holiday, studies, work etc).
Once the fields are filled, click Next
Your personal details
You can move on to the next page where you must enter your details identity :
You are asked to provide your title (Sir, Madam, Miss), your last name and your first name.
You are asked if you have been known by any other names before (e.g. maiden name if you took your husbands name after marriage). Click No if this is not the case.
Then provide your date of birth, gender and other details. Then click Next
Existing ABN or TFN
The next page inquires about any former TFN or Australian Business Number (ABN) you may have had:
The first question asked on this page is “Have you ever applied for a TFN or ABN in Australia?“. You may have applied for an ABN or TFN a few years ago and even gotten one, but you do not remember it. In this case, we advise you to contact the ATO before applying online.
The second question is whether you have already obtained a TFN or ABN in Australia. If you had one, but do not remember it, contact ATO.
Next, you will be asked whether you have already filed a tax return in Australia. The general answer will be NO.
The last question requires you to indicate if you own any property or gain any profits in Australia (e.g. from dividends). In general, the answer will be NO. Once completed, click Next.
Verification of your personal information
The following page is a summary and is used to validate your personal information :
Edit your information in case of error.
If the information is correct, click on Re-Submit.
The next page will ask you to enter an address in Australia :
On the next page, you will be required to provide an address in Australia. This could be the address of a caravan park, hostel or friend. It will be the address with the letter containing your TFN will be sent.
You will also be asked to provide your home address, an Australian phone number and your email address (from your Home country if you don’t have an address in Australia).
Personal contact details
On the next page you will need to provide your personal details or those of someone who represents you:
In the event that the Taxation Office would need more information to complete your application you must indicate your personal details or those of someone who can represent you.
If you wish to be contacted tick the box “Me” and then fill in the following boxes with your information.
If you want someone to respond to your site check the box for “Another person“, choose the reason and fill in the following boxes with the details of the person.
Once your application is complete you will receive your TFN within 28 days. If you change your address in the meantime you can call the ATO at 13 28 61.
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Rimini is a seaside town on the Adriatic coast of Italy, renowned for its beaches and nightlife, and equally popular with Italians and overseas visitors. The town has a population of around 140,000 and a history that dates back over 2,000 years; the Tiberius Bridge over the Marecchia River that’s still in use today was built between 14-21 AD. There’s a modern marina that’s also home to working fishing boats, and an old town area full of narrow, cobbled streets and cafe-lined squares.
If you’re in the party mood, Rimini offers bars, restaurants and over 150 clubs both in town and in Riccione just to the south. The birthplace and former home of Federico Fellini (for whom the international airport is named), Rimini has six railway stations and is an ideal base from which to take day trips to Florence, Venice and San Marino.
iperhotel.com makes choosing the right accomodation easy if you’ve decided to take a trip to Rimini. A website specializing in hotels in Italy, iperhotel has over 170 choices in Rimini itself, ranging from 1 star to 5 star. (You can even find the beautiful Il Grand Hotel Rimini, used by Fellini in some of his films.) The site is available in English, Italian, French and German, and offers individual descriptions and interior/exterior photos of each hotel.
Each hotel page features a written review and easy-to-understand icon key of the hotel’s facilities and amenities (e.g., restaurant, fitness centres, childcare, etc.) Prices are given for each hotel in Euros, along with any supplements for single occupants or reductions in prices for children. The booking page is straightforward, and there’s a quick email page if you want to directly contact the hotel.
Full contact information is listed for each hotel, links to individual hotel websites are provided, and there are interactive maps of the hotel locations along with written travel directions.
The greatest number of hotels available are in the 3 and 4 star range, but whichever end of the price scale you’re looking for, there’s an option on this site.
iperhotel.com also offer hotels in around 23 other cities and regions of Italy, including Milan and Venice.


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