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The Denver Museum of Nature and Science hopes to ignite a passion for learning about nature and science for all who own Denver homes and other visitors. This wonderful facility includes the museum,an imax theater, and a planetarium. The museum houses many permanent exhibits as well as special and traveling ones as well. There is something for everyone in the family to enjoy. The museum is open every day of the year except for Christmas from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm. Consider checking it out for a daily admission fee, or those owning Denver homes may want to consider a membership that pays for itself in just two visits.
Families will enjoy such exhibits as a hands on discovery zone, gems and minerals, prehistoric creatures, space odyssey, wildlife, and many more. In addition to the museum, imax, and planetarium, there are also shopping and dining options. Furthermore, those owning Denver homes will enjoy taking advantage of all of the special events that the museum offers. From bird watching, to learning about bats, to overnights at the museum, to weekend workshops, there is something for children, families, adults, and school groups. The Denver area is lucky to have such a fine facility to learn about nature and science, so be sure to check it out at DMNS.org.


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JAKARTA - A rescue operation was underway to rescue dozens of passengers after a ferry capsized in the Bali strait on Friday (March 4).
Media reports said the ship was travelling in the waters between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java when it capsized.
The boat, Rafelia II, was leaving Gilimanuk port in Bali to Banyuwangi in the east of Java island.
An AP report citing TV footage said passengers had jumped into the water after the boat began sinking.
There were conflicting reports on the number of passengers on board the ship. But Didi Hamzar, head of Bali's Search and Rescue Agency, said the ship's manifest listed 51 people on board including 14 crewmen, AP reported.
It was also unclear how many had been rescued so far, with some media reports saying all on board had been rescued while others said the number ranged between 41 to 71 people. Boats in Indonesia are often overloaded.
Indonesia is heavily dependent on ferry services, but the industry has a poor safety record and fatal accidents are common.

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I am so so so excited that Spring is in the air! I am ready for sunny trips to the farmers market, Sunday night BBQ’s in Malibu and picnics on the beach. As a personal chef, Spring brings lots of fun parties and I always try to take advantage of the great markets we have here in L.A. It doesn’t get much better than cooking a fabulous backyard dinner party with freshly squeezed juices in cocktails, farm fresh produce on the table and happy clients! Oh yea, I’m totally ready for Spring!
This year I am beyond excited and honored to be part of Spring Fling!
Spring Fling 2011 is a five-week celebration of all things Spring with Margaret from A Way to Garden, Jaden of Steamy Kitchen, and Todd and Diane of White on Rice Couple, Shauna and Danny of Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef, Nicole from Pinch My Salt, some fantastic people from Food Network and Cooking Channel and myself!
Here’s what the 2011 Spring Fling Schedule looks like:
Weds April 20th: Asparagus
Weds May 4th: Rhubarb
Weds May 18th: Artichokes
Weds June 1st: Strawberries (Bring on the strawberry cocktails – this one’s taking place on my 25th birthday!!)
Weds June 15th: Peas
And the best part about this is everyone gets to join in, click around and share your tips and recipes for the fabulous spring produce we are featuring!
So here’s how it works:
Go ahead and leave your tips/recipes/and favorite links in the comments below my Spring Fling post! Then click around to the other collaborators and do the same. Share your love for the recipe everywhere that way everyone gets to see it and join in on the conversation!!
Doesn’t that sound fun! So go ahead and join on in! I, for one, can’t wait to hear all your fantastic ideas about all the topics and turn this Spring Fling into a big fabulous party all about food!
This week is all about Asparagus! I personally love the tiny little skinny asparagus bunches that are showing up at all my local farmers markets. They cook up in almost no time and pack a lot of flavor! Plus they have such a thin skin that you don’t have to peel them before cooking!
To kick things off I made not one, not two, but five of these Asparagus, Gruyere and Parmesan Tarts for my personal chef clients this week. They made for an excellent appetizer before a dinner party and everyone devoured them! I’ll be making more of these this weekend too since they will be a perfect addition to my Easter Brunch menu!
- 1 piece of Puff Pastry (store bought is totally fine)
- 1/2 cup Gruyere, shredded
- 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, shredded
- 1 bundle skinny asparagus
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Sea salt
- Crushed Black pepper
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Thaw the puff pastry either by placing it in the fridge overnight or by laying it on the counter, on a piece of parchment paper, for about an hour.
- Trim the ends of the Asparagus by 1 inch to get rid of the woody stalk
- Once thawed unfold the flaps and slightly roll out the dough to get rid of the seems. Transfer the puff pastry dough while still on the parchment paper to a baking sheet. Sprinkle half the Gruyere and Parmesan on the puff pastry. Line the asparagus on top of the cheese. Scatter the rest of the cheese on top of the asparagus and drizzle with the olive oil. Bake for 20 minutes until the pastry dough has puffed and the asparagus is roasted and cooked through.
- Sprinkle with salt and cracked black pepper before serving.
Food Network Healthy Eats Asparagus 5 Ways
A Way to Garden 12 Don’t for Growing, Cooking and Preserving Asparagus
Food Network Dish Spring Fling: Asparagus
Cooking Channel Asparagus Frittata, Your Easter Brunch Centerpiece
Pinch My Salt Asparagus Gratin
What’s Gaby Cooking Skinny Asparagus and Gruyere Tart
Food2 Seasonal Spotlight: Asparagus
Steamy Kitchen Asparagus Gratin
I am so excited you are making one of my recipes and I would love to see how it turns out. Make sure to share it on instagram and tag me @whatsgabycookin so I can see your masterpiece!

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After the first ascent was made in the year 1953, Mt. Everest has been climbed by over 4000 people, who along with making their names in the record books have also contributed to the estimated 50 tons of trash left on the highest peak on the world. As you can imagine, bringing down all that trash from the summit isn’t as easy as going through a landfill. However, 65 porters and 75 yaks have toiled hard in the last two years to bring down about 8 tons of trash from the slopes, some of which has been donated to an art club in Nepal.
The club has made use of all that trash, which includes cooking gas containers, oxygen tanks, broken tent poles and even parts of a helicopter that crashed on the mountain in 1974, to create eco friendly sculptures. The sculptures have been designed to raise awareness about the litter problem on the beautiful peak. 15 artists from the club have created 75 pieces from recycled raw materials including wind chimes and an idol of the Hindu God Ganesha. The Art Club Nepal hopes to raise enough funds to have the sculptures installed on permanent display in the Everest region.


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China's Belt and Road programme offers to fill missing railway links across the region, but do the plans make economic sense and can countries afford them?
30 Jul 2018
The dream of a pan-Asian railway network has been around for decades but the story so far has been mostly one of false starts and missing links.
Now, however, proponents of fast and seamless rail transport have a new spring in their step, thanks to the vision of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) pushed by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Belt and Road envisions a series of new overland trade and communication routes, complemented by a "maritime Silk Road" served by strategically located ports. Both the land and sea components hold great promise for Southeast Asia, but challenges remain.
The Kunming-Singapore rail network, for instance, still has numerous chokepoints. They include stretches from Vientiane in Laos to Nakhon Ratchasima in Thailand, and from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore.
In the case of the former, Thailand has been resisting heavy pressure from China for more financial, commercial and operational control. In the case of the latter, new Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad thinks his scandal-plagued predecessor made a terrible financial deal with China.
No one disputes that Asean nations need better infrastructure, and the prospect of US$1 trillion in BRI-linked investments in railways, roads, ports and other projects is dazzling. But concerns ranging from a lack of participation by local workers to heavy public debt loads are rising. Critics warn of a "debt trap" and point to Sri Lanka and Laos, which have taken on more financial obligations than they can comfortably manage.
The Belt and Road consists of six major corridors spanning various parts of the Asian continent and beyond. The China-Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor (CICPEC) consists of three proposed high-speed rail routes: the Central Route linking Kunming in Yunnan province with Vientiane, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore; the Eastern Route from Kunming via Hanoi, Phnom Penh, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur to Singapore; and the Western Route from Kunming via Yangon, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur to Singapore.
The goal is to link China's underdeveloped southwestern region, including Yunnan and Guangxi provinces, with markets in Southeast Asia including Singapore as a financial hub.
Yunnan's gross domestic product (GDP) was 1.5 trillion yuan ($221 billion) in 2016. That compares with $68 billion in Myanmar, $16 billion in Laos and $203 billion in Vietnam. However, the province's GDP per capita was only $5,500, compared with average of $9,800 for all Chinese provinces, and $20,000 in Beijing.
This massive disparity between China's rich eastern cities and the rest of the mainland prompted the central government to initiate a high-speed railway network worth $112 billion in January this year. The plan is to add 30,000 kilometres of new high-speed lines by 2020, linking most big cities.
Yunnan's growth prospects, along with the existing rail and road links between Kunming and major Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou have made the province an attractive investment destination. According to the Yunnan Statistical Yearbook, foreign direct investment there rose from $777 million in 2008 to $3 billion in 2015.
Meanwhile, bilateral trade between Asean and China hit a record $514.8 billion in 2017, up 13.8% year-on-year, the fastest growth between China and any of its major trading partners. A direct connection between Yunnan and Asean would clearly help Southeast Asia trade even more efficiently with the mainland.
But travel will not necessarily be as fast as many people believe, cautions the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
"First of all, many governments are calling (Kunming-Vientiane) a high-speed train but I wouldn't call it high-speed," Supee Teravaninthorn, director-general of the Investment Operations Department at the AIIB, told Asia Focus ahead of the bank's annual meeting in Mumbai last month.
"In technical terms, we call it medium-speed. The real high speed is from KL to Singapore as it has a top speed of around 320 to 350 kilometres an hour."
Any train with a top speed of less than 300km/h is not considered high-speed. Various reports say that the China-Laos railway, with bridges and tunnels making up 63% of its total length of 414km, is only designed for an operating speed of 160km/h for passengers and 120km/h for freight.
Construction began in 2015 with an investment of $5.8 billion, 70% from China and the rest from the Laos. The first leg is being built through mountainous, mostly unpopulated terrain. Now 25% done, it should be finished by December 2021, according to Dr Supee. Laos was the first in Asean country to sign on for a BRI project.
"I am sure that the Lao people will be able to see this railway before the Thai people even make a decision (on the line) from Nong Khai to Nakhon Ratchasima," she said.
However, with a project cost of nearly one-third of the country's $16-billion GDP, there are concerns that the debt burden on Laos will outweigh the benefits. Public debt reached 68% of GDP in 2016 (it is less than 50% in Thailand), raising the debt distress level from "moderate" to "high" in the recent World Bank/IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis.
Laos is now leading Asean in terms of external debt to gross national income at 93.1% compared with the regional average of 26% for all developing countries, according to FT Confidential Research, a unit of The Financial Times. Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia then have the next highest debt ratios in Asean, respectively.
The BRI does, however, fit with the goal to transform the country from "landlocked to land-linked", as Lao policymakers like to say. The railway will cut travel time from the Mohan-Boten border to Vientiane to below three hours, even at a medium speed.
China promised that the railway would provide 5,000 job opportunities for local people along with new roads, but Lao media have been focusing more on the plight of 4,400 families displaced because of the project. They have yet to receive the compensation promised by the government.
"Laos is not ready to turn itself from landlocked to land-linked, at least not with this project," a source in the Lao Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the Bangkok Post last month.
His main concern is that the amount of debt taken on and the unbalanced agreements mean that China will ultimately be the only beneficiary of the project. He said the Vientiane government would not be able to solve problems caused by the project, especially compensation and relocation promised to affected residents.
The Vientiane Times last month reported that Bounchanh Sinthavong, the Minister of Public Works and Transport, said payments would begin by the end of June. He said the loss of all property, including land, buildings, fences, crops and trees would be compensated but nothing has happened so far. The total compensation cost, which will be the responsibility of the Ministry of Finance, has been estimated at $297.7 million.
"No official from any department has come to talk to us," one affected resident told Radio Free Asia. It reported that 12 households in Muang Xay in Oudomxay province were told recently that their compensation payment would be delayed "indefinitely".
PAIN AT THE PORT
Those who worry that Laos has dug itself into a deep hole point to the unhappy experience of Sri Lanka and Pakistan with BRI megaprojects. Gwadar port in Pakistan on the Arabian Sea is an ideal location for a deepwater port and now the centrepiece of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
About 1,000 people, half of them Chinese, are now working at a recently completed container terminal. China will now be able to link its landlocked western region with the port at Gwadar, allowing ships carrying oil and other goods from the Persian Gulf to avoid the chokepoint in the Strait of Malacca. China has also pledged to spend $63 billion on power plants, ports, airports, expressways and other supporting infrastructure in Pakistan.
But Pakistan's trade deficit with China has been rising from all the Chinese-linked projects and there are concerns now about the implications if the country is unable to repay the debt.
The China-Pakistan corridor "will no doubt be a game changer for Pakistan, but we need to be careful", Ehsan Malik, chief executive of the Pakistan Business Council, told Nikkei Asian Review in March. "Ten-year tax concessions, 90-year leases for Chinese companies and cheap imports will affect the competitiveness of existing domestic industries."
According to the Belgium-based Committee for the Abolition of illegitimate Debt, an international network of activists, Pakistan will have to pay back around $100 billion to China by 2024 from the total investment of $18.5 billion. Beijing has become Pakistan's biggest lender, surpassing Japan's $19 billion. The CPEC loans will add $14 billion to Pakistan's total public debts of $90 billion by June 2019.
"One day, China will turn Pakistan into its own semi-colony as it did recently with Sri Lanka," wrote Panos Mourdoukoutas, an economist at LIU Post, a private institution of higher education in New York, in Forbes last April.
Indeed, China's takeover of the Hambantota deep-sea port in Sri Lanka has raised sovereignty concerns. Under the $1.12-billion deal, state-owned China Merchants Port (CM Port) will run the $1.5-billion Chinese-built facility on a 99-year lease and the payment will be used to cut the Sri Lankan government's debt to China.
The first phase of the project, which ended in 2010, cost $361 million with the Export-Import Bank of China financing 85%. Lack of commercial activity meant that the Sri Lankan government found itself struggling as external debt reached $48.3 billion in 2017.
Meanwhile, its annual external financing needs have reached $11 billion which is roughly the same as its annual tax revenue. Sri Lanka's debt to China now totals $8 billion and is said to carry an interest rate of 6%.
A plan to give the Chinese firm an 80% stake triggered protests by Sri Lankan trade unions and opposition groups, forcing the government to limit China's role to running commercial operations. But the Chinese firm still hold a 70% stake in a joint venture with the Sri Lanka Ports Authority.
The joint venture is part of a plan to convert China's $6 billion loans to Sri Lanka into equity. The Colombo government also said CM Port would invest an additional $600 million to make Hambantota operational.
Other problems linked to BRI projects include delays, increasing deficits in some partner countries, and rising sovereignty concerns, according to a study by the Japanese publication The Banker, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Reconnecting Asia Project.
In Indonesia, construction of the country's first high-speed railway through a tea plantation outside Bandung, with an estimated value of $6 billion, is now experiencing delays. The 142km line between Jakarta and Bandung was launched in January 2016 but as of February 2018, only one-tenth of the work was completed while its cost is escalating.
"Since the project launch, there has been almost no activity besides the cleared land," a local villager was quoted as saying by The Banker. "No rail tracks. Nothing. Work only restarted about three months ago, for the underground tunnel."
According to the publication, only half of the total land needed for the railway has been acquired. The delay, coupled with increasing land prices, is also contributing to the rising price tag from $5.5 billion when it was launched two years ago to the current $6 billion.
The China Development Bank, which agreed to cover 75% of the project cost with loans, has also repeatedly delayed disbursement since it signed the loan agreement in May 2017 and this is slowing progress further.
Similar delays have been seen in BRI projects in Kazakhstan and Bangladesh, while concerns about increasing external deficits have also been raised in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the Maldives.
STUCK AT THE STATION
In Thailand, a 250km railway worth $5.2 billion in the first phase is expected to link Nakhon Ratchasima to Bangkok. It has been under construction, barely, since December 2017 and is expected to be operational in 2021.
The full line is expected to stretch 873km, linking Thailand and Laos at Nong Khai. Construction of a token 3.5-kilometre line in Nakhon Ratchasima was started in December, mainly as a face-saving gesture by both sides, which have been sparring over financing, commercial and operational matters for three years. The link connecting Nakhon Ratchasima and Nong Khai, meanwhile, is only at the blueprint phase.
"The 3.5km is still far, far away from what is expected," Dr Supee said.
One leader who has been heeding the various BRI warning signals is Dr Mahathir. Last month he ordered a review of all BRI projects in Malaysia, including the KL-Singapore high-speed line. However, the AIIB remains optimistic about the outcome.
"Dr Mahathir said it will be delayed for a few years and that's okay," Dr Supee said. "We heard of the delay … as they the body in charge of the investment, MYHSR (Malaysia High Speed Rail Co), is about to be scrapped. But that is not a source of concern as the deal has already been done by the two countries."
She also noted that the AIIB, which is one the main Chinese bodies tasked with financing a large part of the BRI, has yet to disburse even one baht for the construction of proposed railways through Southeast Asia.
"The AIIB was not involved with the BRI funding in Laos because the Lao government already had its financial plan worked out including loans from China's Exim Bank and Chinese government investment," she said.
"For the KL-Singapore side, we think we will take part from KL to Johor Bahru but that is not happening with the new government, while Thailand never wanted to borrow money from anyone as it wants to mobilise the funding domestically."


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Skidoo Father Christmas
Father Christmas on his silver skidoo with festive holly on the front.
Made from tin & hand painted, this decoration can be hung on a tree or stood on a mantle.
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H-9, without the jute twine
Please note this item is handmade from tin so may differ slightly from the picture shown.

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SANTA ANA – A woman at the center of a 1960s housing discrimination lawsuit in Santa Ana lost her home in a fire late last year and supporters are now working to raise funds on her behalf.
Dorothy “Dottie” Mulkey’s home burned down Dec. 14 due to an electrical malfunction involving a surge protector used to power a microwave oven and toaster. She has been staying with a friend nearby since then, Mulkey said.
Mulkey’s insurance had lapsed and she cannot afford to restore her home, leading Eli Reyna, a documentary filmmaker who has made a couple of videos about Mulkey, to try to raise money for her on crowdrise.com.
So far, $425 has been donated.
Mulkey said she was at church the Sunday morning that the blaze broke out. Despite the loss of her belongings, as well as boxes of goods she had planned to donate to charity, Mulkey is looking on the bright side.
“It would have been devastating had I been at home,” Mulkey said. “I know I should be in despair, but I’m not because I was not in that burning house.
“That gives me joy … The sun’s going to shine tomorrow, joy or no joy. I know this house is going to be restored. I know that, and for that reason I can’t be down.”
Mulkey was honored in May by OC Human Relations during a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
Mulkey came to prominence in the 1960s after she tried to rent a Santa Ana apartment with her then-husband, Lincoln, but they were turned away because they were black.
That’s not what they were told at the time, but Proposition 14, approved by California voters in 1964, gave landlord Neil Reitman the edge he needed to win round one in her legal battle in Orange County Superior Court.
The NAACP, which championed her cause along with the ACLU, had Mulkey again seek to rent an apartment from Reitman, but were again refused.
Meanwhile, white couples posing as would-be renters worked undercover to ask for the same apartments and were immediately handed contracts.
The NAACP and ACLU’s lawsuit against Proposition 14 led the U.S. Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional in May 1967.


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A hold has been put on the decision to revoke the licence of a Blackpool bus firm.
Catch22bus was told last week its licence to operate would be withdrawn following a breakdown in trust between the firm and regulators.
Those issues surrounded a video published on the internet featuring North West traffic commissioner Beverley Bell.
The footage was filmed by a private investigator hired by Catch22 boss Philip Higgs following a dispute between the pair.
The firm has submitted an appeal to the Upper Tribunal over the decision to revoke its licence.
That appeal has now been granted and the company has been given a ‘stay’ on the revocation, which was due to come into force on January 18.
The company has said it will continue to operate services and is expanding this month with a new Sunday only service linking Knott End to Cleveleys.
Mr Higgs, Managing Director of Catch22Bus said: “We now look forward to presenting the company’s case to the Upper Tribunal and until then it is very much business as usual”.


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Not All Millennials Are Created Equal
As Millennials gain a foothold in the job market, investments and the economy as a whole, financial industry marketers are re-evaluating how best to reach this new generation of consumers. Their goal: to get the attention of Millennials in an age of information overload and a myriad of distractions.
Financial marketers can do this by first remembering that not all Millennials are created equal. Although analysts tend to over-generalize about this age demographic, the truth is that there are many distinct segments within this audience.
One way to break down the Millennial generation, according to a new report by Equifax, is by wealth tiers. In the report titled “A Financial Marketers Guide to Mass Affluent Millennials,” Equifax identified three unique groups of Millennials:
- Mass Market: Households with less than $100,000 in total investable assets.
- Mass Affluent: Households with $100,000 up to $1 million in investable assets.
- Affluent: Households with more than $1 million in investable assets.
Which of these wealth tiers should financial marketers most actively pursue?
According to Equifax experts at the CBA Live 2015 conference session, Looking to the Future: Emerging Affluent Millennials, Mass Affluent Millennials are most worth the investment of relationship building and marketing efforts. Compared to Mass Market Millennials, Mass Affluents have begun to accumulate wealth and generally have higher levels of income, spending and credit balances. Furthermore, Mass Affluent consumers are more likely to move into the Affluent tier than their Mass Market peers, making it in a marketer’s best interest to consider them the “emerging affluent.”
Before marketers can best reach this audience, they must first understand it better. Research from Equifax and data provided by Gfk MRI suggests that Millennials tend to be ambitious- seeking leadership positions and working hard to be the best employees they can be. Mass Affluent Millennials specifically are more likely to be future-oriented, value career jobs, are driven by material motivators, and are more likely to hold a bachelor’s or post-graduate degree.
Geographically, Millennials typically reside in large metro areas. IXI Services, a division of Equifax, compiled a list of the top 10 cities with the highest concentrations of Mass Affluent Millennials compared to the Millennial population as a whole, discovering that the San Jose/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara area has the highest level (one-third of Millennials in this area are Mass Affluents). Other cities in the top 10 include San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., and Napa, CA.
Once the ideal target audience has been defined, the real challenge begins: determining what techniques will best grab Millennials’ attention. Although Millennials face many challenges – from student debt to waning job prospects – Mass Affluents are generally focused on their careers and are even beginning to plan their futures by weighing mortgage, investment and retirement options.
As a result, using optimistic marketing strategies tends to resonate well with them. According to Equifax research in “Straight Talk from the Next Generation of Credit Card Customers,” Mass Affluent Millennials also respond well to financial tools (such as banking apps) that are easy to access digitally. However, don’t try to use social media or online advertisements to lure Millennials – they generally separate their personal and financial online activities.
Mass Affluent Millennials are typically more attracted to added value. That means financial marketers should consider highlighting account incentives, such as rewards programs, rewards points and cash back offers for maximum impact. In fact, roughly four in 10 Millennials use their credit card(s) as often as they can in order to maximize rewards points, according to the Equifax report.
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Zilla Fatu is the latest wrestling hopeful to commence their training under the tutelage of Booker T and his Reality of Wrestling promotion. With a rich family history in the industry, Zilla is the son of the late, great Eddie Fatu, better known to wrestling fans as Umaga.
ROW took to Twitter to announce the news of their latest trainee.
Welcome the newest member of Reality Of Wrestling training school Zilla Fatu.Advertisement
His father Umaga was a part of Reality Of Wrestling and now he begins his own journey. pic.twitter.com/uBmPqpznqF— Reality of Wrestling (@TheOfficialROW) December 7, 2022
Reality of Wrestling has amassed quite the reputation for developing talent over the years, with Booker T and Sharmell having launched the company - which serves as both a wrestling promotion and a training centre - back in 2005, initially under the Pro Wrestling Alliance name. In recent years, Roxanne Perez, Sammy Guevara and ma.çé are some of the notable names to have been trained at ROW.
As for Zilla Fatu, the 22-year-old is the latest member of the famed Anoa'i family to enter the wrestling business. In addition to being the son of Umaga, Zilla is the nephew of Rikishi and the Tonga Kid, and the cousin of Jimmy Uso, Jey Uso, Solo Sikoa and former MLW World Champion Jacob Fatu.
For Zilla, he's seemingly looking to start a new chapter in his life by turning his attention to the squared circle, with the youngster having previously spent six years incarcerated after being charged with aggravated robbery when he was 15 years of age.
Upon the announcement that Zilla Fatu is now sitting under the learning tree of Booker T, the wrestling world has reacted with plenty of encouragement for Fatu.
Congratulations & welcome to the family business. You’re gonna crush it young Uce pic.twitter.com/G0tRJw2sOo— Shelton J. Benjamin (@Sheltyb803) December 7, 2022


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Booth is married to John Lahr, the son of Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Booth co-wrote with Cleese, and co-starred , in the sequence Fawlty Towers . She also appeared in a brief film titled Romance with a Double Bass, tailored by Cleese from a short story by Anton Chekhov. In 1971, Booth and Cleese had a daughter, Cynthia, who appeared alongside her father within the movies A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures.
The tales had been based mostly on real-life experiences described in archival documents from the Society for Psychical Research. A book was additionally launched to accompany the collection. When Peter Plunkett’s Irish castle turned resort is about to be repossesed, he decides to boost the attraction a bit for the ‘Yanks’ by having his staff faux to hang-out the citadel. The hassle begins when a busload of American vacationers arrive – together with some actual ghosts. Among the vacationers are married couple Jack and Sharon.
Faith was launched on DVD in United States on 8 November 2005 by Koch Vision. This prime-notch adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel tells the story of sisters Nan and Virginia St. George and their associates Lizzy Elmsworth and Conchita Closson . Shunned as “new money” by elitist New York society, the foursome travels to London to look for husbands, where they soon find themselves courted by numerous suitors.
Dickens of London is a 1976 television miniseries from Yorkshire Television based mostly on the lifetime of English novelist Charles Dickens. Both Dickens and his father John were performed by British actor Roy Dotrice. The collection was written by Wolf Mankowitz and Marc Miller. In the United States, the collection was proven in 1977. Children1Connie Booth (born 1939/40 or 1941 or 1944) is an American-born retired writer, actress, comic and psychotherapist based mostly in Britain. Connie Booth is an American actress who performed Mrs. Hudson / Francine Moriarty in 1977 in the parodic TV film The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It with John Cleese as Arthur Sherlock-Holmes.
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In 1994, she performed a supporting role in “The Culex Experiment”, an episode of the children’s science fiction TV collection The Tomorrow People. Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus (Monty Python’s Flying Circus) are a pair of 45-minute Monty Python German tv comedy specials produced by WDR for West German tv. The two episodes have been respectively first broadcast in January and December 1972 and have been shot totally on film and totally on location in Bavaria, with the primary episode recorded in German and the second recorded in English and then dubbed into German.
She has been married to John Lahr since August 19, 2000. Booth secured elements in episodes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969–seventy four) and in the Python movies And Now for Something Completely Different and Monty Python and the Holy Grail . Booth’s father was a Wall Street stockbroker and her mom an actress. They moved to New York State after Connie’s birth in Indianapolis, Indiana. Booth entered appearing and worked as a Broadway understudy and waitress.
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Connie Booth (born 1939/forty or 1941 or 1944) is an American-born author, actress, comedian and psychotherapist primarily based in Britain. She has appeared in a number of British television programmes and movies, including her function as Polly Sherman on BBC2’s Fawlty Towers, which she co-wrote together with her then-husband John Cleese. For 30 years Booth declined to talk about Fawlty Towers till she agreed to participate in a documentary about the collection for the digital channel Gold in 2009. Connie Booth is an American-born retired author, actress, comedian and psychotherapist based in Britain. The actress Connie Booth married the English comic John Cleese on February 20, 1968 . In German-speaking nations, Booth is also known as the mom of the little lord within the 1980 movie adaptation of The Little Lord , which ARD repeats every year before Christmas .
With Cleese, Booth wrote the scripts for and co-starred in each sequence of Fawlty Towers, although the 2 were truly divorced earlier than the second sequence was completed and aired. Booth’s daughter Cynthia married screenwriter Ed Solomon in 1995. Booth performed various roles on British tv, including Sophie in Dickens of London , Mrs. Errol in a BBC adaptation of Little Lord Fauntleroy and Miss March in a dramatisation of Edith Wharton’s The Buccaneers . She additionally starred in the lead function of a drama called The Story of Ruth , by which she performed the function of the schizophrenic daughter of an abusive father, for which she obtained critical acclaim.
The Tomorrow People is a British children’s science fiction television sequence created by Roger Price. Produced by Thames Television for the ITV Network, the series first ran from 30 April 1973 to 19 February 1979. Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth and broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. The show was ranked first on a listing of the one hundred Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, and in 2019 it was named the “best ever British TV sitcom” by a panel of comedy specialists compiled by the Radio Times. Bergerac is a British television collection set in Jersey, which ran from 18 October 1981 to 26 December 1991. Worlds Beyond was a British television anthology collection of supernatural fiction.

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I was delighted that we were able to help 54 families with roofing material in the totally devastated village of Irku, Nepal. After losing their homes during the earthquake and having no shelter from the elements, having a roof over their heads is one of the most urgent needs these days for the people in Irku.
The little village in Irku was totally devastated by the earthquake. When I arrived in this village people were struggling to clear the debris and build temporary shelters using old material recovered from the debris. The whole village had become a pile of rubble. The village head, an elderly gentleman, politely urged me to help them with roofing material so that they can make shelters to live in.
After traveling three and one-half hours from the capital city Kathmandu, I arrived in Irku with my assistant monk Soma, Sanje, who is a school teacher, my translator and Deepak who is the village representative. It was a 12-hour journey to visit this village and return back to Kathmandu. Road conditions were not good and I personally had to be careful with the food that I ate or water I drank because of hygienic concerns.
This was my first visit to the Irku region and, as always, it is heart breaking to see the struggle of the people who have lost everything and the lack of coordinated efforts to take care of their urgent needs. After spending an hour touring the village and speaking to the families, I immediately made arrangements to provide them with roofing material and rebuild one of the school buildings so that the children will have a safe place to study.
Even though travel to the village was exhausting and difficult, at the end of the day when I knew our visit has made a difference in the lives of 54 families I could only smile and feel gratitude to everybody who is helping me to help the victims of this devastating earthquake in Nepal. Thank you.

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Bridget Jane Fonda (born 27 January 1964) is an American actress.
Fonda first became involved with the theatre when she was cast in a school production of Harvey. She refused to solicit acting tips and advice from her famous relatives and studied method acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
She made her film debut at the age of five in the 1969 movie Easy Rider as a child in the hippie commune that Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper visit on their trek across the United States. Her second (also non-speaking) bit part was in the 1982 comedy Partners. In 1988 she got her first substantial film role, costarring with John Hurt in Scandal, based on the Profumo affair. That year she also appeared in You Can't Hurry Love and Shag.
Her breakthrough role, however, was as a journalist in The Godfather, Part III. After gaining additional work experience in a few theater productions she was cast in the lead in Barbet Schroeder's Single White Female, followed by a role in Cameron Crowe's ensemble comedy Singles, both in 1992. A review in the New Yorker proclaimed her "provocative, taunting assertiveness", and Rolling Stone said Fonda was "a comic delight". In 1997 Fonda was on the same plane flight as Quentin Tarantino when he offered her the part of a beach babe in Jackie Brown. Fonda was also offered the lead role in the television series Ally McBeal (later accepted by Calista Flockhart), but turned it down to focus on her film career.
* 1990 - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Scandal
* 1997 - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for In the Gloaming
* 2002 - Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television for After Amy


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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the new Obama administration hasn't decided what to do about a proposed European missile shield to which Russia objects. Gates, in Poland for NATO talks, said the economic crisis and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have taken precedence. He added that Washington needed a little time to look at the plan laid out by former President George W. Bush to place missile interceptors and radar in Poland and the Czech Republic as protection against a possible strike from Iran. President Barack Obama has not been a vocal supporter of the program, but hasn't indicated he would cancel it either. Gates, a holdover from the Bush administration, said he asked his Polish counterpart for patience as the new team gets settled.


As a teenager, I would tease my grandmother because she turned first to the obituaries when reading a newspaper. Her reasoning was that at a certain age, your friends begin to die. At the age of 32, I now understand.
As a gay man I shudder when the paper arrives. Seven deaths in Chicago were attributed to AIDS last month, and 165 in all have died. The overwhelming majority of these deaths, 87 percent have been gay or bisexual men. It is estimated that there were 600 cases of AIDS here by the end of 1986.
While the gay community has been making preparations to deal with this crisis, our local governments have not. Chicago`s Public Health Department has taken minimal actions. The Illinois Department of Public Health has only recently begun to study the problem.
The response to AIDS by the city has been to authorize funding of $200,000 this year. It is ``responding`` to an epidemic by proposing $654 per diagnosed case, and nothing for future cases. That this is inadequate, is an understatement.
That Cook County Hospital has created an AIDS Clinic is not a result of action by the County Board. The clinic has no line item in the county budget. It is a creation of a hospital administration which was lobbied by the gay doctors on its staff.
The city and county response looks generous however when compared with the Illinois Department of Public Health. The IDPH was responsible for
``gutting`` HB 725, dealing with AIDS, in the 1985 spring session of the legislature. Not one dime of state money has been spent on AIDS so far.
The governor`s new budget requests $2.4 million for AIDS projects. However, the IDPH seems determined to waste those dollars on mandating state registration of HTLV-III antibody positivity and contact tracking. If the Centers for Disease Control estimates are correct, there are 100,000 people in Illinois whose sexual histories will have to be taken.
And though the IDPH is busy snooping into everybody`s closet, other AIDS needs will go unaddressed and unfunded. The priorities of our health departments need to be radically altered to take action in other areas:
-- Prevention. While the gay community has been independently conducting an education campaign about AIDS, the straight community has had to rely on supermarket tabloids for information.
-- Patient care. Health care providers, like Cook County and Oak Forest Hospitals, as well as the gay community`s Howard Brown Clinic and Chicago House, need support in meeting the overwhelming financial burden of assisting people with AIDS. Chicago House has yet to receive the $91,000 approved for it by the city council in December. That check should be written today.
-- Confidentiality. IDPH`s proposal to register positive HTLV-III antibody tests results will guarantee that non one will take the test. The risk that this information will be misused is too high. What the state should be doing is offering guidelines to guarantee the anonymity of antibody test results. Nothing less will work.
These are just three of the issues which need to be addressed by our public health departments. Convincing them that doing so is their
responsibility has become a frustrating and bitter experience. So is reading obituaries at the age of 32.


City of Grand Rapids wants residents to apply for Neighborhood Match Fund
If you’re a Grand Rapids resident with an idea for a community engagement project, the city could give you money to make that idea happen.
Residents can apply every three months for up to $2,500 in match funds for neighborhood projects. These projects can range from community gardens to community yoga classes.
Residents have the entire month of June to fill out an application, which the city is willing to help people with. Application forms are on the city’s website.
The idea behind the city’s Neighborhood Match Fund is that people living in the city’s neighborhoods best know how to improve the quality of life in their community.
Stacey Stout, assistant to the city manager for the city of Grand Rapids, says she wants people to know that their ideas are good and they are wanted.
“And so I hope these informational meetings folks walk away with like ‘I can do this and I’m going to have support from the city to do it,” Stout said.
Stout says these neighborhood projects don’t need to be complex, but do need to be community-focused.
“So instead of just having a community garden, there’s got to be some sort of way to get people interacting with one another,” she said.
The money from the city is a match, meaning residents have to match whatever amount of money they get. This can be done with cash donations or volunteer hours.
Erica Millbrooks received match funding last year. She runs Threads Sewing Circle, where people can make quilts that are later donated.
When she first applied, Millbrooks knew that what she needed for idea to work was a long-arm sewing machine.
Millbrooks was surprised by how much the city supported her ideas.
“So I really appreciate that they have this fund available. It just brings people together,” Millbrooks said.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Stacey Stout as the assistant city manager for Grand Rapids. She is the assistant to the city manager.


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ENGLEWOOD — Englewood Methodists are readying themselves for their annual free Christmas dinner.
Roger Thomas dug into church’s archives and discovered Dwight Eakin with the Rev. Dave Wagner started what’s become a 28-year church tradition of offering anyone and everyone a free Christmas Day dinner. Eakin donated $1,000 for the first dinner.
Like the church has done for years, a traditional holiday dinner will be served from noon to 3 p.m. Christmas Day in the fellowship hall at Englewood United Methodist, 700 East Dearborn St. The dinner is free to everyone, but donations are accepted.
Those who are homebound or need a ride to the church can make reservations by calling 941-474-5588, ext. 253, no later than 11:15 a.m. on Christmas Day.
Grace Talada, who oversees the organization for the dinner, said they still follow its original goal that “no one needs to be alone at Christmas.”
Last year, volunteers served 1,472 meals in the fellowship hall, prepared 628 takeout dinners and delivered 187 dinners to 110 locations.
“We’re preparing to serve even more this year,” Talada said.
In preparation for this year, the church has ordered:
• 575 pounds of cooked and sliced turkey.
• 90 number 10 cans (which can hold as much as 109 ounces per can) of sweet potatoes for sweet potato casseroles.
• 84 number 10 cans of green beans.
• “Cases and cases” of mashed potatoes.
• 1,700 dinner rolls.
• 25 number 10 cans of cranberry sauce.
• More than 1,700 slices of pumpkin pie.
Actual preparation for the Christmas dinner begins 8 a.m. on Christmas Eve. More than 400 volunteers make the dinner possible. Talada hopes a few more people will be willing to volunteer.
“They need to be versatile,” she said. Anyone wishing to help out can call her at 941-474-2385.
For more information about the Christmas dinner, visit englewoodumc.net or call 941-474-5588.


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- Architect: AC Martin
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- Completion Date: 2021
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As part of the overall project, the Department of General Services will make some exterior improvements to the historic Heilbron house, which will remain on site.
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Many white Americans have only recently realized what Dr. Marcella Alsan has studied for most of her career – that systemic racism in health care has fostered mistrust among Black and brown patients, widened health disparities and produced dire outcomes for those communities.
The COVID-19 pandemic worsened those disparities even further, stacking “inequality on top of inequality,” Alsan said. In 2020, Black men had lower life expectancy rates than any other demographic group, according to provisional federal data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Until then, Black Americans had been slowly gaining years of life, but had never caught up to white Americans on life expectancy.) When millions of Americans began to work remotely from home, a disproportionate number of people of color were filling essential roles — such as nurses, first responders and grocery store employees — and did not have that option. At higher rates than white people, Black and brown Americans lacked health insurance and paid sick leave, were exposed more frequently to the virus, and died at higher rates – all results of systemic racism.
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But long before the virus, a lack of access dictated the lives of many of Alsan’s patients, whether they lived in Chicago’s Southside or Ecuador, she said, overriding physician instruction and the ability to improve their health. Complications, such as additional health issues, scarce food, and supply of medications, like insulin, could always derail Alsan’s plan for a patient. She, and they, faced a system where individuals in positions of power and privilege were denying others basic resources and adequate services based on nothing more than their race or ethnicity. People in affected communities have come to expect indifferent or even dishonest physicians, and do not need to look far into history to find evidence of unethical medical practices involving people of color.
Alsan’s curiosity about how racism undermines the health and wellbeing of Black people in the U.S. carried her to barber shops in Oakland, California, for a groundbreaking 2019 study that amplified the need not only for narrowing disparities but also diversifying health care. In the study, she focused on Black men, who have “the lowest life expectancy of any major demographic group in the United States,” and the ways that Black physicians and health care workers could influence their outcomes through preventative medicine.
Her team created a pop-up health clinic and recruited Black men from area barber shops. They hired 14 doctors – seven of them Black — who were randomly assigned to each doctor. Then, Alsan and others studied the demand for preventative care, such as checking their blood pressure or getting a flu shot, from the patients, and examined which doctor worked with each patient, along with that doctor’s race.
After consultation, Alsan found that Black men were “much more likely to select every preventive service, particularly invasive services, once meeting with a racially concordant doctor.”
Last September, recognizing the pressing nature of her research, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded Alsan with a MacArthur genius grant, which Alsan plans to use to continue seeking answers to these complex problems.
In addition to being a doctor, Alsan is an applied microeconomist who teaches public policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She’s been exploring how to narrow those gaps since the 1990s, while making Meals on Wheels deliveries to HIV-AIDS patients alongside her mother.
Growing up in the Midwest as the daughter of a surgeon and a nurse, Alsan said she was expected to do service to others, but as a child she didn’t think that she would become a physician and an economist.
“I always wanted to understand better about how things work,” Alsan said.
READ MORE: 5 stories about COVID-19 vaccine mistrust from Americans of color
Racism continues to exact a major toll on Americans and the U.S. as a society. The country has lost $16 trillion over the last two decades alone because of racism against Black people, economist Dana Peterson estimated in 2020. These financial losses took the form of lost wages, housing segregation and disparities in education. The confluence of conditions and disparities have also stolen years from the average Black person’s life expectancy, compared to their white peers. According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, Black infants and mothers face higher mortality rates than white infants and moms – tragic outcomes that often are preventable with better access to affordable health care.
While Black Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, only 4 percent of physicians are Black, she wrote. Alsan’s 2019 study suggested that when Black men interacted with Black doctors, the gap in Black-white male cardiovascular mortality could shrink by 19 percent. Roughly speaking, that consultation from a trusted source could potentially increase as much as 1.5 years in life expectancy for a Black man, Alsan said.
READ MORE: What two decades of data on overdose suicides shows about mental health care disparities
The Presidential COVID-19 Equity Task Force was broadly influenced by research like Alsan’s. Established during the early days of the Biden administration, the task force’s primary role was to identify disparities and ways to build more equitable access to vaccines, especially in Black and brown communities. These efforts included building up the presence of health care workers who live and serve within their communities.
This work has become no less urgent during the pandemic, Alsan said, who added that as a result of disparities exacerbated by the coronavirus, “the Black-white gap has basically erased 15 years of progress.”
Javarcia Ivory has watched these inequities play out within his own family. Growing up in Clinton, Mississippi, Ivory said his grandfather and older uncles “were less likely to go to the doctor,” in part due to “several breaches of trust that Black people have experienced.”His grandfather, who managed several chronic health conditions, “didn’t feel he was really heard” when he did go visit the doctor, Ivory said.
During his freshman and junior years at Stanford University, Ivory helped Alsan recruit participants for the barber shop study. One Saturday when he was talking to an elderly Black man, the reason the study mattered came into sharp focus. An older Black woman approached Ivory and asked him for documentation about what he was doing. He said he fumbled to answer her, not sure whether sharing information could compromise the study.
Eventually, he said, the older woman walked away, but not before telling him he needed to have something to give to people about their study, adding “‘We can’t have another Tuskegee.’”
“When she said that, it really struck me just how that [experiment] still has some effect in how we talk about research in marginalized communities,” Ivory said, especially the need for “proper treatment and access to care.”
Alsan’s research is difficult to conduct and can be expensive, so she plans to devote her grant money to developing “riskier projects.” She is interested in exploring issues of access in correctional facilities, where there are 11 million admissions to the health system every year and “very little oversight to the type of care that is provided.” Right now, people who are incarcerated have a constitutional right to “adequate care.” But that broad label ultimately becomes “poorly defined benefits,” some researchers have argued, meaning people may actually receive “inconsistent and frequently inadequate care.”
READ MORE: Arizona’s privatized prison health care has been failing for years. A new court case could change that
“We could improve correctional health care, so people could live healthier in their community, building up that human capital,” Alsan said.
Before Ivory began working on the barber shop study, he had planned to pursue basic research, working in laboratories with mice and rats to solve scientific riddles tied to medicine. But since seeing what was at stake in the Black community, he’s redirected his career to earn a master’s degree in epidemiology. He sees this as contributing to the work to “re-earn the trust of Black patients and minority patients” and reduce health inequities and disparities. And while Ivory knows change won’t happen overnight (“it’ll take generations before we are really able to observe and document the effect,” he said), he remains optimistic that better days lie ahead.


How does dog management relate to wildlife?
Pets provide companionship and are a wonderful part of our lives. Awareness of the needs of wildlife and responsible pet management can ensure that the needs of both domestic and native animals are met. Poor management of domestic animals, on the other hand, can impact on the welfare of our wildlife and the environment at large.
Native animals may be at risk from domestic pets in urban areas. In some cases, dogs can injure or kill native animals as they move about in the landscape searching for food and shelter. For example, in the Clarence Valley, several koala deaths in recent years have been attributed to attack by domestic dogs within the boundary of the property.
You may be guilty of an offence if your dog harasses or attacks a person or animal in a public place. Within your property, we need your help to ensure that our wildlife remains safe.
Where can I walk my dog off-leash?
Do I need to register my dog with Council?


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Franchising in Scotland
Scotland is an exciting place to be right now and, not for the first time, we are attracting more attention around the world than our geographic size might ordinarily warrant.
Business is good, but there is always room for improvement; opportunities are plentiful but we can never have too many of them. One particularly strong source of opportunity here in Scotland is franchising; and you've certainly come to the right place to find out more about it.Read more...
Franchisee success stories
Exclusive interview: "Franchising success for me and my family"
Papa John’s franchise operates around the world with well over 300 outlets in the UK and 4,800 stores in more than 40 international markets and territories. Zulfiqar Haidar runs four Papa John’s in Scotland with his brother Iftikhar and will soon to open a fifth store. To get a unique inside perspective from winners of the Scottish Asian Business awards and Papa John’s International franchisees of the year... Read more
Scottish franchise news
Leading care at home provider, Bluebird Care, urge people looking to start a business to consider franchising.
In support of Scottish Franchise Week, the homecare provider recognises the potential for franchising to further contribute to the Scottish economy. The success of franchise businesses has been linked to generating greater wealth and creating jobs in local communities.Read more
Looking to franchise your business?
If you are running a successful business in Scotland, the time may be right to look to expand it. Franchising is an excellent method of expanding an already successful business but that's not to say that it is right for every business. In this section we look at the benefits of franchising a business, we help you to identify if your business is franchiseable and we outline the steps to franchising a business. You can also contact franchise consultants based in Scotland to enquire about franchising your own business. Read More

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Pomegranate Salad Dressing
Updated: Apr 22, 2022
Pomegranate Salad Dressing by FHK
3/4 Cup pomegranate arils.
3/4 Cup extra virgin olive oil.
1/4 Cup maple syrup.
2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar.
2 Tbsp lemon/lime juice, freshly squeezed.
1/2 Tbsp Dijon mustard.
2 Tbsp fresh cilantro leaves, chopped.
3 Garlic cloves.
1/4 tsp ground cumin.
1/4 tsp ground cayenne pepper or black pepper.
1/2 tsp sea salt or to taste.
Place all the ingredients in a food processor or a blender and mix for few minutes till you reach the desired dressing consistency.
Enjoy with Love on your favorite salad and dishes!!!🙏🏻💓
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In her regular blog, H4 Visa Wife, Minakshi Shekar documents the move to United States and the judging she is subject to, for being a wife who chose to travel with her engineer husband. In her own way, she shatters stereotypes and questions the questions ‘they’ pose at her all the time.
In my early 20’s, I did everything to avoid conversations that revolved around my marriage. My mom has been relatively liberal and always said, “First they’ll ask you to get married and no one will help, then they’ll ask you to have kids and you’ll be stuck with kids and no help!” I’m guessing she was talking from experience. So the topic of marriage never came from her but random relatives who I hadn’t seen in years. I’ve met all sorts of guys – the chauvinists, the hot tempered, the kind who body shamed and even the kind who had their own Wikipedia pages written out because they thought they were the real deal. This put me off marriage and its attachments and especially stayed away from the kind of conversations that started with a, “He’s a very nice Brahmin boy, an engineer in Silicon Valley earning in dollars!”
He’s a very nice Brahmin boy, an engineer in Silicon Valley earning in dollars – Minakshi Shekar on ‘those’ conversations about marriage
Yet, here I am at 31 years old married to a Brahmin boy, an engineer earning in dollars! And believe me, I’m not complaining because guys like my husband are rare these days. I never thought I would be the girl who quit a good job to move across the world for her husband.
I never thought I would be the girl who quit a good job to move across the world for her husband – Minakshi Shekar
Now that I was married, there was other nagging I had to deal with, “You better learn how to cook!”, “You will get so bored in the US”, “have kids, at least it’ll keep you occupied”. Ummm, why is having kids the solution to every problem?, My husband makes a pretty mean biryani and when you live in a city like Denver, Colorado, you’re anything but bored. Also the last I remember, it’s 2017 and not the 1700’s.
We’ve lived here for a little over a year and I do not want to move back to India. The air is cleaner, the people are nicer, no leering men at the gym (that’s a post for another day) and the opportunities are endless. I may not be allowed to work as an H4 visa holder but I walk dogs, I write, I hike, I work out, I explore, I travel, I experiment with food and I have so much more ‘ME’ time.
We have rarely seen them on hikes of the beautiful Colorado Rockies, don’t see them at the gym and definitely don’t see them enjoying a beer
I’m lucky to have been brought up in a liberal home, I’ve travelled and been exposed to many cultures. Sadly, even in today’s world I’ve heard of H4 visa wives who are victims of domestic violence, are abandoned and even murdered, all while probably living outside India for the first time in their lives. I see a lot of women in my own gated community who don’t drive, who sit around and gossip while handling rambunctious babies and have absolutely no time for themselves. I am not judging them because I want kids of my own some day but I just wish women, for once put themselves first- make their husbands baby sit, take a dip in the hot tub if they wanted to, go have a beer if they felt like it. My husband and I always talk about how we know where to find majority of the Indians – the grocery store, IKEA, the Indian grocery store, Indian restaurants, etc. We have rarely seen them on hikes of the beautiful Colorado Rockies, don’t see them at the gym and definitely don’t see them enjoying a beer. I feel like Indian women in India are way more liberated than the ones living in the US.
I see a lot of women in my own gated community who don’t drive, who sit around and gossip while handling rambunctious babies and have absolutely no time for themselves. I am not judging them – Minakshi Shekar
My mom often jokes with my husband about how he better not turn out to be like those husbands who beat and abandon their wives in the US and his standard reply every single time is, “Aunty, if anything, my parents should be worried about Minakshi beating me up!” And boy, has he got that right – I may be an H4 visa wife, but I’m the weightlifting, beer drinking, dog walking kind.


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Today, Transport for London (TfL) said that more than 200,000 passengers of the Northern Line would benefit from faster and more frequent trips as it improves its high-frequency services.
Starting today, around 225,000 commuters will benefit from the new timetable which will observe TfL increasing the length of its highest frequency “evening peak” services in the central London section to avoid crowding.
Between 5 pm and 7 pm, the Northern Line carries about 225,000 passengers per day. Currently, these customers will benefit from 24 trains per hour on both the central London branches of the Northern Line, as well as 30 trains per hour on the Kennington to Morden section between 5 pm and 7 pm.
Before, that level of peak service had only operated for an hour, between 5.30 pm and 6.30 pm, so TfL said that this change effectively doubles the length of time of the operation of the highest frequency services.
The managing director of London Underground of the TfL, Mark Wild, stated: “This boost in capacity is a hugely important step in making journeys quicker and more comfortable for our hundreds of thousands of customers who use the Northern Line. We have worked hard to find innovative ways to maximise train frequency on the Northern Line which means we can offer the best level of service in the line’s 127-year history.”
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, stated: “The Northern Line is the busiest line on London’s Tube network, and our new timetable will provide a quicker, less crowded journey for hundreds of thousands of commuters who rely upon the line every day.
“Since becoming mayor, I’ve frozen TfL fares and invested record amounts in new infrastructure across London’s transport network. I’m delighted that by doubling the time of high-frequency evening services, more Londoners on the Northern Line will now get home faster after a long day at work.”
In 2017, customers of the Northern Line completed 294m journeys, making it the busiest Tube line. It runs through both the Waterloo and King’s Cross St Pancras Tube stations – the two of the busiest on the network.
The changes to the Northern Line have been made after TfL was urged to shelve upgrades on both the Jubilee and the Northern Lines, due to an unexpected decline in passenger numbers.
A drop of about two percent in Tube numbers has had a notable impact on the five-year business plan of TfL, as the Tube is the only part of the public transport network that is generating a profit, leaving the transport body “faced with an investment prioritisation process.”
There had been some plans to purchase additional trains for the two lines. However, they have been abandoned in order to save £600m over the period of the business plan. TfL said that it was confident of delivering additional capacity without the need for new trains, by examining at sweating out its assets.


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British airline EasyJet says that it has been the victim of a cyberattack that exposed the email addresses and travel details of around 9 million of its customers, Bloomberg News reports. In a statement, the company said that, of these customers, 2,208 had their credit card details accessed by what the company describes as a “highly sophisticated” attack.
EasyJet said that it has already closed off the unauthorized access that allowed the data breach, and it has contacted customers who had their credit card details exposed. Although EasyJet says that “there is no evidence that any personal information of any nature has been misused,” it added that it will be contacting all 9 million customers who have been affected by the breach by May 26th. No passport details were exposed in the hack, The Guardian reports.
Outside of the customers who have had their credit card details exposed, the risk for most of the 9 million customers affected will be phishing attempts. Criminals will know if an individual has been an EasyJet customer, and could imitate the company’s emails as part of a scam. The company said it is advising customers to be cautious about any unsolicited emails claiming to be from EasyJet or EasyJet Holidays.
“We would like to apologise to those customers who have been affected by this incident,” EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren said in a statement. “We are contacting those customers whose travel information was accessed and we are advising them to be extra vigilant, particularly if they receive unsolicited communications.”


Modeling Fluvial Floodplain Deposits
Floodplain deposition maintains and builds up low-lying lands along rivers and on deltas. Over geological timescales, floodplain deposition and channel migration determine lowland depositional architecture with impacts on reservoir characteristics.
We advanced a 3D floodplain architecture model, AquaTellUs. AquaTellUs uses a nested model approach; a 2D longitudinal profile, embedded as a dynamical flowpath in a 3D grid-based space. We model the main channel belt as a 2D longitudinal profile that responds dynamically to changes in channel geometry, water discharge, sediment load, grain-size distribution and sea level based on first-order, physics-based principles. Sediment flux is described with a modified Exner equation by separate erosion and sedimentation components. Erosion flux along the main flowpath depends on river discharge and channel slope, and is independent of grain-size. Depositional flux along the channel path as well as in the lateral direction into the floodplain depends on the local stream velocity, and on grain-dependent settling rates. Lateral depositional patterns are informed by analysis of remote-sensing imagery of recent flood deposits, particularly along the Indus River. Floodplain deposition is an event-driven system — only peak discharge events cause overbank flow, crevasse-splays, and potential channel avulsion. The computational architecture of AquaTellUs preserves stratigraphy by event, allowing for preservation of information of depositional layers of variable thickness and composition.
We present stratigraphic sections and pseudo-wells resulting from numerical experiments that show the pronounced effect of different probability density functions for river discharge and sediment load, i.e. flooding recurrence times on the stratigraphic architecture. These experiments generate training images and enhance reservoir geo-statistical modeling.
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The far-right anti-Islam Freedom Party PVV, which props up the minority government in parliament, has demanded that the Dutch police corps enforce the burqa ban. The PVV is supported by Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten on the issue.
PVV MP Joram van Klaveren was speaking on Sunday in response to remarks made by the chief of Amsterdam’s police corps, Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, on national TV talk show Eva Jinek op Zondag. Mr Aalbersberg said it should be left up to the police officer on duty to decide whether or not to write out a ticket for a Muslim wearing a burqa or niqab. The police chief added issuing a warning should also be an option.
The burqa ban in the Netherlands has stirred up a national debate. Earlier, other police chiefs from various Dutch corps announced they did not intend enforcing the new law when it is passed.
The lower and upper houses of parliament still have to vote on the legislation which will ban all clothing which covers a face in public.
The burqa ban was part of the PVV’s election programme and its implementation was part of a deal negotiated by the Freedom Party and the coalition partners, the conservative VVD and the Christian Democrats. Geert Wilders’ party gives parliamentary support to the minority government.


With an opportunistic offense and a bend-but-don’t-break defense, the Cal Bears improved to 2-0 with a 34-13 win over New Mexico State on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
The Bears were actually outgained by the Aggies, 330 yards to 300, but took advantage of some great field position thanks to the defense and special teams. Cal’s four touchdown drives covered a total of 113 yards, including efforts of 15 and seven yards.
The Cal defense, led by rush end Tully Banta-Cain’s 4 sacks and forced fumble, kept the Aggies (0-2) out of the endzone until a last-minute consolation touchdown with the game all but over. Four times the visitors drove inside the 20-yard line, but two field goals were all the Aggies could muster before the final drive in front of a crowd of 24,619.
“Our defense did a good job keeping them out of the endzone,” Cal head coach Jeff Tedford said. “They really stepped up when they had to.”
The Bears forced two turnovers, both on fumbles, that led to Cal scores, and the special teams setup two second-half touchdowns. Wideout LaShaun Ward, who caught a 15-yard pass from quarterback Kyle Boller for the Bears first score, returned a kickoff 43 yards in the third quarter, leaving just 47 yards for Boller and the offense to cover. Eight plays later, tailback Joe Igber cut back for a four-yard touchdown run and a 24-6 lead.
Cal’s final touchdown came courtesy of defensive tackle Lorenzo Alexander, who blocked a New Mexico State punt to give the Bears the ball on the 7-yard line. Boller dove over the top of the line from the 1 to seal the win.
The Bears were handed a short field to start the game, as New Mexico State head coach Tony Samuel tried a little trickery with an onside kick. One of Samuel’s players touched the ball before it went the requisite 10 yards, giving Cal the ball on the New Mexico State 44. After Boller converted a 4th-and-1 with a 15-yard naked bootleg run, he hit Ward between two defenders to open the scoring.
After the teams traded field goals, Cal defensive tackle Josh Beckham wrapped up fullback Rambo Fiaseu on a plunge into the line, then ripped the ball out of his hands with Josh Gustaveson recovering on the 15-yard line. Igber picked up nine yards on a draw, then Boller found tight end Tom Swoboda on a play-action pass for a six-yard score, putting the Bears up 17-3.
With all that good field position, the Cal offense was productive without producing a lot of yardage. Boller threw for just 190 yards on 19-of-32 passing, but he also didn’t throw an interception for the second game in a row, a first in his Cal career. His long passes were either well-covered or dropped by his receivers, so Boller settled for throwing short hitches to his receivers, screens to Igber and play-action passes to Swoboda, who had a career-high six catches for 45 yards.
“You always want to make the big play, but the defense was playing off my receivers,” Boller said. “The deep balls just weren’t there.”
Tedford was impressed by his quarterback’s patience against an Aggie defense that was content to sit back and wait for a mistake that never came.
“Kyle was pretty sharp today. He made good decisions and ran the huddle and the offense very efficiently,” Tedford said. “He’s going to get better every week.”
The Bears’ defense looked shaky to start the game, as Aggie quarterback Buck Pierce ripped off some big gains on option keepers on the opening drive. But after a 33-yard keeper the Cal defense started to figure out how to defend the option, a good sign for a team that will face option-heavy Air Force in two weeks. Pierce finished the day with just 62 yards on 20 carries, although those numbers were deflated by the Bears’ four sacks, and left the game late in the third quarter with a bruised shoulder.
The Aggies didn’t help themselves with eight penalties for 85 yards, including a holding penalty that wiped out a 55-yard touchdown pass from Pierce to Chris Lumpkin. New Mexico State ended up with no points to show for that drive. Another drive that made it down to the Cal 8-yard line stalled when a personal foul on offensive lineman Shalimar Jackson and a Banta-Cain sack drove them back to the 33, forcing kicker Dario Aguiniga to launch a career-long 50-yard field goal just to salvage three points for a 17-6 deficit.
“We had too many penalties and mental mistakes,” Pierce said. “When playing a Pac-10 school like Cal, you just can’t make those kind of mistakes.”
It’s been quite a while since an opposing player gave Cal that kind of respect, but the Bears will face a much stiffer challenge this Saturday against No. 15 Michigan State. Tedford knows the Spartans will be a formidable foe, but he sees plenty of room for improvement from his own team.
“The good news is that we’re 2-0 and we haven’t played our best yet by any means,” he said. “We’ve still got a long way to go. We have a major challenge coming up to go on the road and play a great Michigan State team.”
Banta-Cain, who had recorded 9 1/2 sacks in the last three games going back to Rutgers last season, said the Michigan State game has been circled on his calendar for a long time.
“It’s going to be our first real test of the season,” he said. “Our goal was to be 2-0 going into that game, and we’ve done that. We’re pumped up and confident.”


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Muhammad, Lailatul Niza (2009) Implementation of a calibration method for lightning locating system (LLS). Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
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Data validating is important for a country-wide lightning mapping system. The existing lightning mapping and locating system owned by TNB Malaysia covered a wide area surrounding the Peninsular Malaysia. The system known as the Lightning Detection Network (LDN), consists of high performance sensors and is able to determine the coordinates of cloud to ground lightning strikes within ± 500 m accuracy. Obviously, it is desired that the mapping accuracy of the LDN data be improved for purposes which desire more accuracy such as insurance claims due to lightning strikes. Regarding that, a new method known as the localised lightning locating system (LLLS) is introduced in UTM Skudai to determine the coordinate of any cloud to ground lightning strike within a local region with a claimed accuracy of ± 20 m. This localised system is based on the measurement of induced voltages due to lightning strikes in the vicinity of a purposely overhead constructed twisted telephone lines. This study was carried out with the objectives of comparing the LLLS system in UTM with that of the LDN TNB system. Previously captured measurement data was analyzed and compared with the LDN TNB data readings. In addition, the improvements had been carried out on the LLLS to give better strike locations. The online system is ready to be used at any time for lightning data capturing (implemented using LabVIEW Software). The theoretical explanation of lightning induced voltages due to the travelling wave effect on a typical transmission line had also been proven using ATP EMTP Software.
|Item Type:||Thesis (Masters)|
|Additional Information:||Thesis (Sarjana Kejuruteraan (Elektrik-Kuasa)) - Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2009; Supervisor : Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zulkurnain Abdul Malek|
|Uncontrolled Keywords:||lightning, computer programs|
|Subjects:||T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering|
|Deposited By:||Kamariah Mohamed Jong|
|Deposited On:||08 Aug 2012 01:52|
|Last Modified:||08 Aug 2012 01:54|
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Browning (ATD) Auto Takedown (Belgium) 22 cal semi=auto
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This is a like new Browning takedown Grade 1 tube in the tock Belguim made gun. I think it was made in 1973 serrial number is 13635T37. It has a redfield scope mount and a Browning 4X scope. Was bought in 1975. The gun is like new. Have the originial paperwork.


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