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Amidst the season of biopics, the next in line is the biopic of PM Narendra Modi. It will chronicle the story of NaMo, from his journey as a tea-seller to grabbing the seat of the Prime Minister. The titular role will be played by Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi and the makers have kept the buzz going by revealing one character after another. The latest addition to the star cast is Boman Irani.
The 59-year-old will essay the role of business tycoon Ratan Tata in the biopic and reportedly joined the film’s team in Ahmedabad on Sunday. Talking about how he said yes for the role, he said, “I have always received comments on social media that I resemble Mr Ratan Tata. I always thought the day the character comes along, I will be more than happy to play it. So when Omung, Sandip and Vivek called me for the role, I immediately agreed to do it. We have already shot my part and it went very well.”
Further speaking of co-actor Vivek, he mentioned that the actor has worked his part ‘with great maturity and homework’.
Besides Boman, other actors part of the ensemble cast includes Barkha Bisht as PM Modi’s wife, Zarina Wahab as Heeraben Modi and Prashant Narayanan as Aditya Reddy among others.Read More


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(CNN) — A family of eight died Wednesday in Enoch, Utah, after they were shot inside their home in a murder-suicide, according to a news release from City Manager Rob Dodson.
“Resources indicate that the suspect took his own life after killing seven people in the home,” Dodson said.
Dodson identified the suspect as 42-year-old Michael Hyde. His wife, Tausha Hyde, 40, and his mother, Gail Earle, 78, were two adults, according to the statement.
The other victims were the couple’s five children: girls aged 17, 12 and 7 and boys aged 7 and 4.
“We join everyone who is deeply saddened by this tragic incident and wish to extend our condolences to the families and friends of the victims,” Dodson said.
Police responded to the Enoch City home, about 240 miles south of Salt Lake City, on Jan. 4 to respond to a well-being check requested by family and friends who had not heard from the victim, according to the release.
The family, whose father was killed in their Utah home, was known to police prior to the murder-suicide, according to a news conference with local authorities.
“We know the family, yes,” Chief Jackson Ames told local reporters.
“Two years ago we had some inquiries with the family,” he said, but declined to comment on the nature of the interactions.
City Manager Rob Dodson said the family was going through a divorce, but Enoch Mayor Jeffrey Chesnut would not say there was a reason, saying investigators were still looking into the possibilities.
“The information we have is that a divorce has been filed and the hearing is ongoing at this time,” Chestnut said. “According to court documents, he appeared on December 21 and was arraigned by his wife.”
Dodson said the family welfare check was requested after the suspect’s wife, Tausha Hyde, missed an appointment Wednesday morning. Hours after that request, Tausha still could not be found, and a missing person report was requested from the Cedar City Police Department, where the suspect’s office is located.
Cedar City police forwarded the report to Enoch City police, Dodson said, who eventually tracked down the deceased family.
Authorities have not released when the shooting happened, but said Tausha and one of the couple’s daughters were seen at a church ceremony the night before the family was found.
Autopsies will be performed by the state medical examiner’s office, Dodson said.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox asked the public to keep the Enoch community in their prayers.
“Our hearts go out to all those affected by this senseless act of violence,” Cox said in a statement. Tweet On Wednesday.
Utah Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson also offered his condolences Tweet “What a tragedy. I pray for the Enoch community tonight.”
— CNN’s Amanda Musa, Aya Elamrouzi and Chris Boyd contributed to this report.
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This unreleased project has been largely shrouded in mystery, but thanks to video game historians Liam Robertson and Frank Gasking – creator of ‘Games That Weren’t – we’ve now got our first look at the game in motion.
Ocean began working on Green Lantern in 1991 for multiple platforms but shelved it within months. By 1993, work started again on the project, this time for the SNES. It was a mixture of genres including a platformer, shoot ’em up and even made use of the system’s Mode 7 capabilities. A third iteration followed in 1995 and was then cancelled.

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The Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Dr Walter Mzembi is leading a Zimbabwe delegation, comprising of 15 companies to the International Travel Bourse (ITB) to be held in Berlin, Germany.
The expo which has attracted over 185 countries will run from 8 March to 12 March 2017.
In a statement released to the media on Tuesday, Zimbabwe Tourism Authority, Head of Corporate Affairs Sugar Chagonda said all is set for the show and Zimbabwe is raring to go.
“We are very much excited to be participating at this year’s edition of ITB Berlin. We defied all odds and prevailed over the obtaining challenges to maintain our presence in the European Market. The Zimbabwe delegation comprising the Minister, officials from the ZTA and the private sector is already on the ground in Germany ready for the expo,” said Chagonda.
The ZTA spokesperson added that a total of fifteen companies from Zimbabwe are exhibiting at the ITB Berlin and these include, the African Bush Camps, African Sun Hotels, Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe, Rainbow Tourism Group, Shearwater Victoria Falls, Sikiliza Adventures, The Amalinda Collection, Wilderness Safaris, Zambezi Cruise Safaris, Zimbabwe International Trade Fair, Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, Zimbabwe Tourism Authority and Zimbabwetravel.info.
Germany contributes 18% of European arrivals into Zimbabwe and ranks 3rd after the United States of America and United Kingdom, contributing 26 355 arrivals recorded in year 2015, a drop from the 76 000 arrivals attained in 1999, which was Zimbabwe’s tourism peak hence the need for aggressive marketing to regain the lost market share.
The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority Chief Executive, Karikoga Kaseke paid homage to the Zimbabwe tourism operators participating at the fair and expressed optimism that they will consolidate and grow their market share by securing lucrative business deals.
The ZTA boss added that Zimbabwe’s participation at the ITB Berlin and other related International travel fairs is premised on the need for continuous investment in aggressive marketing in order for the tourism sector to achieve the projected growth rate.
Over 10 000 exhibitors are attending this global forum which is also attracting cities, tour operators, Airlines, hotels and various services advancing tourism businesses which makes it a significant and must attend show for any destination targeting the European market.

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Recenty, Central Government has started a major drive to catch GST fraudesters, specially those, who are dealing in Sale-Purchase of Invoices without making any supply of goods or services. Undoubtedly, the government has found many such fraudesters doing such business of Crores (INR) and put them behind the bars.
Moving forward with this, government brought one more provision to put an obligation on GST registered persons to settle their output liability in cash to the tune of 1% of such liability. In this article, we will discuss the same.
Central Government through CBIC, has issued a Notification No. CGST Notification-94/2020 dated 22/12/2020 to amend CGST Rules 2017. By this, it brought a new Rule No. 86B under “Chapter IX- Payment of Tax”. The Rule 86B is titled as “Restrictions on use of amount available in electronic credit ledger”. The provision has been made applicable w.e.f. 1st January 2021 (01/01/2021).
As per this rule, with effect from 01/01/2021, A registered person can use the amount of Input Tax Credits (ITC) for settlement/payment of Output Tax Liability only upto 99% of such liability. Balance 1% to be paid other than ITC, i.e. to be paid in cash.
Even though a person has ITC more than its tax liability, he has to pay 1% GST mandatory in cash.
As per Section 2(82) of CGST Act, 2017, “output tax” in relation to a taxable person, means the tax chargeable under this Act on taxable supply of goods or services or both made by him or by his agent but excludes tax payable by him on reverse charge basis.
Applicability of Rule 86B
Rule 86B is applicable only when a Registered person has taxable supply in a month exceeding Rs 50 Lakh.
Taxable Supply shall not include Exempt Supply and ZERO Rated Supply.
This rule provides for monthly threshhold of Rs 50 Lakh. Till date, there is no provision with Monthly threshhold under GST laws. This is an exception to the same.
Absurdity in application of provisions of Rule 86B
A question arises here that whether or not:-
- This rule will be applicable only for that month in which turnover surpassed threshhold limit; or
- This rule would be applicable for each month from a month in which turnover surpassed threshhold limit; or
- This rule would be applicable on the basis of previous financial year.
Exceptions to Rule 86B
The provisions of Rule 86B shall not be applicable in following cases:-
Where Income Tax Paid for more than Rs 1 Lakh in each of two previous years:-
Where any of following persons have paid more than one lakh rupees as income tax under the Income-tax Act, 1961 in each of the last two financial years :-
- Registered person himself or
- the proprietor or
- karta or
- the managing director or
- any of its two partners,
- any of its two whole-time Directors,
- any of its two Members of Managing Committee of Associations or Board of Trustees,
Last Two financial years to be taken for which the time limit to file return of income under subsection (1) of section 139 of the said Act has expired.
Where GST Paid in cash cumulatively for more than 1% of Total Output Liability till latest Tax Period:-
Where the registered person has discharged his liability towards output tax through the electronic cash ledger for an amount which is in excess of 1% of the total output tax liability, applied cumulatively, upto the said month in the current financial year.
e.g. In Financial Year 2020-21, upto the month of November 2020, a person has paid GST in cash of Rs 2 Lakh out of Total Output Liability of Rs 1 Crore (i.e. 2% till November 2020). During the month of December 2020, GST output Liability is Rs 10 Lakh. Now his total payment in cash is Rs 2 Lakh out of Rs 110 Lakh liability (i.e. 1.82%) which is still more than 1% of Total output liability. Here, the person can settle all his liability of Rs 10 Lakh of December 2020 with Input Tax Credits.
Where GST Refund claimed against “Zero Rated Supplies without payment of GST”:-
Where the registered person has received a refund amount of more than one lakh rupees in the preceding financial year on account of unutilised input tax credit under clause (i) of first proviso of sub-section (3) of section 54.
Clause (i) of first proviso of sub-section (3) of section 54 deals with Refund of GST in case of zero rated supplies made without payment of tax;
Where GST Refund claimed under “Inverted Duty Structure refund Scheme”:-
Where the registered person has received a refund amount of more than one lakh rupees in the preceding financial year on account of unutilised input tax credit under clause (ii) of first proviso of sub-section (3) of section 54.
Clause (ii) of first proviso of sub-section (3) of section 54 deals with refund where the credit has accumulated on account of rate of tax on inputs being higher than the rate of tax on output supplies (other than nil rated or fully exempt supplies), except supplies of goods or services or both as may be notified by the Government on the recommendations of the Council.
Where the Registered person is :-
(i) Government Department; or
(ii) a Public Sector Undertaking; or
(iii)a local authority;or
(iv) a statutory body:

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Some £350,000 of funding will be invested into the kitchen at North Kesteven School near Lincoln to extend capacity and completely refurbish the restaurant.
Staff say that due to the extra demand for primary school meals from September 2014, the facilities need to be expanded to cope with the uptake.
Work started on July 21 and is expected to be completed by September 2014.
The kitchen at the school on Moor Lane, North Hykeham, currently makes and delivers over 400 healthy and varied meals every day to a number of local primary schools.
From September, the school will be supplying an additional 360 meals to local primary schools – a total of 700.
The sum, from the Capital Maintenance Fund, has enabled the school to work with other local companies to start with the expansion plans.
Richard Mellows, Deputy Headteacher at North Kesteven School, said: “We are proud of our good relationships with the local primary schools and our catering team work tremendously hard to supply them with freshly cooked, nutritious meals.
“The extension and refurbishment taking place will allow our staff to serve even more meals as well as allowing large numbers of students and staff to relax and enjoy eating in a state of the art restaurant.”


Michael Rubin, chairman of the board of directors of online sportswear giant Fanatics, told CNBC on Wednesday that retail sales this holiday season were negatively impacted by shipping problems.
“There was so much pressure on the various shipping networks to deliver, I think there was even more demand that could have been had,” Rubin said on Squawk Box. “As good as the business is, it could have been better.”
Overall, e-commerce sales rose 22% to $ 9 billion on Black Friday alone as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Adobe Analytics. However, this growth comes at a price that puts a strain on warehouse and logistics networks. For example, on Cyber Monday, UPS asked its drivers to stop picking up packages from some major retailers after those companies reached their capacity allocations.
The rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, which began this month after the Food and Drug Administration approved the emergency use of Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, kicked off millions of additional doses being distributed in the U.S.
UPS spokesman Dan McMackin said vaccine shipments were “the top priority for delivery on the UPS network,” but he said it did not affect vacation package deliveries.
“UPS has carefully planned the main holiday season with our customers. We have also worked with Operation Warp Speed, vaccine manufacturers and other partners to carefully plan for many months what vaccine delivery requirements need to be made,” he said.
Rubin, a partner with the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers and the NHL’s New Jersey Devils, said the pandemic had generally sped up e-commerce adoption by two or three years.
“I think e-commerce you will see 30% plus [growth] across the border. We had a great year, “said Rubin, whose fanatics were worth $ 6.2 billion during a Series E funding round in August.” Most interesting, however, was that the demand could have been even better if the shipping networks only had more capacity. But with Corona delivering vaccines for the first time, there is so much pressure on the shipping networks this year. “
Earlier this week, Fanatics announced that it has partnered with Barnes & Noble Education to run the e-commerce operation for sporting goods sold in bookstores on campus. The partnership includes Lids, with the companies making a $ 15 million equity investment in Barnes & Noble Education.
“I think somehow the company was misunderstood, and from our perspective we looked at it and said, ‘We really believe we can work together to strengthen this offering,'” said Rubin of Barnes & Noble Education. “We’re going to leverage all of Fanatics’ e-commerce capabilities and place them behind the 775 universities to give them the best deal – better technology, better mobility, wider range.”
Barnes & Noble Education stocks rose 1.7% on Wednesday. The partnership with Fanatics was announced ahead of Monday’s opening, and the stock is up about 12% this week.


Less than 24 hours after the capital came under terrorist attack, and despite continued disruption to the Tube network, many people made clear they would not let their lives be affected.
Sonia Crosby, station manager at Reading, Berkshire, said passengers were in "resilient" mood.
She said: "People are wanting to get back to normal. It won't stop anyone going back to work and that's what makes Great Britain great really.
"Yesterday there was confusion, today there is resilience, and our aim is to get people moving again and get some normality back."
Network Rail said the vast majority of its services were running normally, with the exception of the east coast mainline GNER services to King's Cross which were stopping at Peterborough.
But they said they hoped to have a limited service up and running by lunchtime.
As rush hour got started, a Network Rail spokesman estimated the number of passengers was at 60% of normal.
"A lot of people do seem to have taken the day off," he said.
On the streets of the capital, there were extra high-visibility patrols as police sought to reassure the public, including in areas with large Muslim populations.
Commuters arriving at King's Cross remained defiant and determined to carry on as normal.
The station was far quieter than normal but by 7am the area was beginning to fill up as travellers started arriving in the capital.
William Austin, who lives near Royston, Hertfordshire, said: "You have to carry on. I have meetings to go to today and there's work to be done.
"People of my generation have grown up with the IRA threat and we've seen all sorts of bombings down the years.
"You just have to get on with life. The City will be up and running again today and these people won't have any effect."
Police with sniffer dogs were patrolling the concourse at King's Cross.
Shops and cafes began to open as normal at around 7am.
Although Londoners were returning to the capital's public transport, they admitted they were slightly nervous after yesterday's outrages.
There was a heavy police presence on Tube lines with officers patrolling platforms at many stations. Many commuters said that the city was unusually quiet for a Friday morning.
Finance officer Liesl Richter, 19, from Walthamstow, was walking to work in Whitechapel and said: "I've taken the Tube this morning which was fine for me but I was a little bit wary getting on.
"But I am going to work and I will be using the Tube to go back home tonight and life goes on but it is very quiet for a Friday morning."
Staff nurse Duncan Njoroge, 29, from Forest Gate, was going to work at the Royal London Hospital.
"I have caught the bus from Forest Gate and I was quite nervous about getting on board when I saw it approaching," he said.
"But I have to come to work and I have no choice but to use the bus so life goes on."
Andrew Thompson, 29, who lives in central London, was making his daily journey from King's Cross to Cambridge.
"I make the journey every day and I have to be at work today so I've got to go," said Mr Thompson, a history lecturer at Cambridge University.
"King's Cross is very quiet this morning. There would normally be four or five times the number of people here that there are.
"But I'm not worried about travelling at all.
"I travelled on the Underground this morning and it took me a little bit longer because of various closures but nothing too bad."
Mr Thompson, who works at Queens' College, added: "It's unbelievable how they've got the transport system up and working again pretty much as normal."Reuse content


This story starts with a myth. It is the myth that the Muslim world is uniformly dedicated to making many (too many) babies, and that this has gone on for centuries.
This mythology also has its very own Bible: “Factors Affecting Muslim Natality,” by Dudley Kirk, an American professor of Population Studies. Published in 1965, this study embodied, scientifically speaking, the notion of a demography unique to Muslim countries that won’t transition to a family model with two children, as it did in the Western world.
Kirk’s theories have influenced this debate in a lasting way. Thirty years later, they were still inspiring Samuel Huntington in his work “The Clash of Civilizations,” where he presents his theory of an eternal conflict between the West and Islam. The demographic threat plays a central role in his thesis.
However, today Kirk’s point of view has been spectacularly disproved by science. In recent decades, the Muslim world has experienced a demographic transition that was as acute as it was late: in 30 years, the number of children per woman has dropped by more than 50%. In Iran, the drop represents 75%; in North Africa it is 70%. Once you realize that it took Europe two centuries to go from 5 to 2 children per woman, you can appreciate the severity of this collapse in birth rates.
These numbers are known, but not absorbed within the public discourse. In late 2011, the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank close the Republican party, published a study on the declining fertility rates in the Muslim world, describing the phenomena as “strangely unnoticed.” On March 12, an editorial in the New York Times picked up, again, the “scoop:” that the crowd of “hundreds of millions of young people with little to do” is destined to dry up. The West will not be overwhelmed after all.
Youssef Courbage, Arab world specialist at the Institut national d’études démographiques (INED) in Paris, scoffs: “These people are inventing the wheel! We have been documenting the phenomena for a quarter century now. Especially in North Africa, which has been a trailblazer in the demographic transitions among Arab countries.” Today, many countries have dropped well below the population replacement rate: in Lebanon, there are 1.6 children per woman. That is slightly more than Switzerland (1.49), but less than France (2.02).
A worldwide phenomenon
But the Muslim world is not limited to the Middle East and North Africa. It includes countries like Niger (7 children per woman) and Bosnia (1.3), each at different extremes of the fertility spectrum. In addition, the late and brutal demographic transition is not unique to Muslim countries: Vietnam, Brazil and Thailand have had similar changes. We should really ask ourselves whether there is any sense at all in talking about fertility rates in “Muslim counties?”
For Courbage, who is French-Lebanese, the answer is clearly no, unless it is to “deconstruct the cliché.”
“Of the three major monotheistic religions, all of which encourage fertility, Islam is the one that encourages procreation the least,” he explains. The factor that explains different fertility rates around the world continues to be, not religion, but education levels. In addition, there are other political and sociological factors that differ from country to country, and which the examples below illustrate.
In short, a demographic Homo Islamicus does not exist. And instead of clashing civilizations, the world is headed towards demographic convergence. That, at least, is the thesis advanced by Courbage in a book he wrote with three others in response to Huntington.
The future? In all countries – although to different degrees and at different rates – fertility rates are dropping. At what rate will they stabilize, if they stabilize? Most developed countries flutter around the replacement rate (2.1). Is humanity fated to converge around 2.1 children per woman?
Iran: the Mullah’s Little Pills
If there is one example that totally disproves the idea of a cultural link between Islam and high fertility, it is Iran. Under the secular Shah, Iranian women had an average of seven children each. Today, they no longer have the right to walk around without a veil but they have fewer children (1.8) than French women.
The collapse did, in fact, start with the arrival of the Mullahs in the beginning of the 1980s. The Mullahs decided on a “pragmatic” policy, explains Youssef Courbage. Contraception, which had been practiced traditionally in the form of the withdrawal method, was “strongly encouraged and abortions tolerated.”
Iranian women are also generally very well educated and extremely active in the professional world, including in supervisory roles. Taken together, that means they think twice before having children. And that reexamination of the “traditional” family might be an omen for the country’s future. “As a demographer, I wouldn’t put money on the Iranian regime’s survival. I don’t know when it will be, but a new revolution is inevitable.”
Israel and Palestine: the fertility of conflict
Behind the supposed religious reasons for fertility, there is often a political motor, like the “cradle war” in the Middle East.
Until the second Intifada, Palestinians had a very high fertility rate in spite of having one of the highest education and urbanization levels in the Arab world. You could say they had a “combat” fertility, since it is true that Yasser Arafat asked families to have 12 children: “two for themselves and 10 for the struggle.” During the first Intifada, fertility in the Gaza strip increased to a peak of 8.76 children per woman.
But after the second Intifada, things changed, and the pro-fertility propaganda stopped having any effect on Palestinian women. At the same time fertility rates were rising among Jewish women in Israel, who were also actively encouraged to procreate. In 2005, for the first time the fertility among Palestinian women in East Jerusalem (3.94) dropped below the fertility rate for Jewish women (3.95). Today, the birthrate among Palestinian women in the West Bank is 3.8, in Gaza it is 4.9 and among Jewish Israelis it is 3, while in the Jewish colonies in the West Bank the fertility rate approaches 6 children per woman.
Courbage explains that these changes are due to the increased poverty among Palestinians, especially since the second Intifada as well as to changes in mentality. “Palestinian women are becoming more individualistic, while we have seen an increasingly family-centered ideology among Israeli Jews,” Courbage says.
North Africa: the Demographic Spring?
After a brutal, and unexpected, drop in the 1980s, we expected to see the fertility rate in North Africa drop under the replacement rate. But here we have a “new surprise,” write Zahia Ouadah-Bedidi, Jacques Vallin et Ibtihel Bouchoucha in a recent article: Not only have none of the North African countries dropped below the replacement rate, but in Algeria the fertility rate has risen from 2.2 to 2.9 in 10 years, while in neighboring Tunisia it has stabilized around the ideal rate of 2.1. And even if, in Morocco and Libya fertility rates continue to drop, the study’s authors suggest that the region may have a “unique demographic transition pattern.”
What makes these countries unique, they clarify, is that the reduction in the number of children has been largely supported by an increase in the median age for marriage. The average Libyan woman marries at 33, while in Tunisia and Algeria women get married, on average, at 30. These trends, according to Zahia Ouadah-Bedidi, are the result of the convergence of “new aspirations” among women and “material constraints” that prevent young couples from moving in together.
Will the Arab Spring push young people to break the taboo of sex outside of marriage? Or will it have the opposite effect, as an Islamic revival pushes women back inside the kitchen? An increase in veiled heads and beards on the streets can go hand-in-hand with increasing secularization of minds, Youssef Courbage says. He does not believe in the “North African exception,” and expects the countries in the region to follow the Southern European model.
There are clearly differences in birth rates between regions and individual countries, but they can be attributed to many factors. What is certain, though, is that a “muslim fertility rate” does not exist.


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Students and employees in the Santa Ana Unified School District will be required to take weekly Covid-19 tests under a plan the board approved unanimously this week.
Parents in the district also can take the free tests, which will be charged to insurance companies and the government.
Santa Ana Unified is believed to be the first district in Orange County to offer the tests on campuses. Other school districts with similar programs include Los Angeles Unified and Long Beach Unified.
“We’re hoping to get it started as soon as possible and we’re looking at early September as our target,” district spokesman Fermin Leal said Wednesday.
On Tuesday night, the School Board voted 5-0 to approve what Board President Rigo Rodriguez called “a no cost” deal for testing services from Diagnostic Laboratory Science, Inc., a Torrance-based company.
Sara Nazir, the district’s risk management director, told board members that on-campus testing will help to slow the spread of the virus.
“This is something to be proud of,” she said.
As of Tuesday, the district had 751 students and more than 100 staff members on quarantine because they are sick or recently have been exposed to someone with the virus, Nazir said. The district has 51 confirmed COVID19 cases among its approximate 44,000 students and 6,000 employees.
The agreement with the lab calls for testing to be conducted Monday through Friday at the district’s 56 locations. The plan is to roll out the testing, starting with administrators and classified employees in the first week, high school students and faculty in the second week, intermediate school students and faculty in the third week, and elementary students and faculty in the fourth week. The weekly testing will be done on site so students and employees can stay on campus.
Everybody who is tested will be offered either nasal, oral or saliva tests, Leal said.
Everyone connected to the district also will be asked to sign a consent form, regardless of their vaccination status. Families that decline testing will be provided off-campus education alternatives such as the district’s new online school, the Santa Ana Virtual Academy, or independent study.
An online portal will be created for all testing results and notifications. For those who test positive, the program will include telehealth follow-ups with physicians, said Eric Morgan, co-founder of the company.
Across Orange County, most school districts are reporting positive cases among both students and staff in the weeks since schools resumed with on-campus education. The Delta variant of COVID-19, which currently is accounting for most new cases, is infecting younger people.
State and county health officials are advising students and school employees to wear face masks on campus, a rule that, in California, is a state requirement for students and teachers when they are indoors. Health experts also advise schools to maintain social distancing as much as possible, although the six-feet of separation mandated last year is no longer a requirement because most schools would not have been able to open for in-person learning if desks had to be kept six feet apart.
Santa Ana Unified is Orange County’s second biggest school district, and serves a community that’s been hit hard during the pandemic. While most school districts in Orange County returned to in-person instruction or hybrid teaching during the last academic year, Santa Ana Unified remained online. The district resumed in-person teaching for all its students on Aug. 17.


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A film festival dedicated strictly to wildlife conservation films kicks off its eighth year in New York City later this week. Over the course of ten days, the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival will screen over 100 documentary films from around the world, many of which are world premieres.
The films will be screened at the Cinema Village Theater, which is located at 12th Street and University Place. The festival, which was founded by Christopher Gervais, claims it is the only film festival dedicated to wildlife conservation films. The event will include panel discussions and Q&A sessions from film producers and scientists from Australia, Europe, and Africa. Networking sessions, field trips, and a wildlife photography exhibit are some of the other features on offer this year.
The WCFF has partnered with conservation organizations such as Wildlife Alliance and WildAid, as well as Cinema Village Theater and ArtTour International Magazine. Aside from this month’s film festival in New York City, the WCFF also hosts a three-month-long conservation exhibition in Dali, China which showcases films and a wildlife photography exhibition.
For those that are interested in attending, there is an opening reception on October 18 at the Marlton Hotel at East 8th Street and 5th Avenue. With so much on offer, the difficult part is trying to figure which films/events to attend. An all access film festival pass is available for $375, while individual passes are also available. More information on tickets and a schedule of the films and speakers can be found here.


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In this second edition of Beginning Theory, the variety of approaches, theorists, and technical language is lucidly and expertly unraveled and explained, and allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles have been grasped. Expanded and updated from the original edition first published in 1995, Peter Barry has incorporated all of the recent developments in literary theory, adding two new chapters covering the emergent Eco-criticism and the re-emerging Narratology.
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News & Reviews: Qualcomm
Jul 01, 2020
When you hear the word Qualcomm, you would usually think of their chipsets for smartphones. Well, the company just decided to make some for smartwatches too and it's been a long overdue. Today, the company isn't introducing one but two new smartwatch chipsets - the Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100+.
Jun 29, 2020
If you're a Xiaomi fan or a smartphone tech enthusiast, you should probably notice by now that Xiaomi flagships are getting pricier than usual. Although they are still relatively affordable than most premium phones, the year 2021 could very well change that as according to a report from South Korea, 2021 Xiaomi flagships are not the exception.
Jun 25, 2020
The flagships from Samsung with Exynos chipset series have always caught in comparison with the variants that come with Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset series. Sadly, the ones with Exynos chipsets were always defeated in the battles due to weaker performance. By being determined to win for once, the Korean tech giant has raised the efforts into research and development for a new K-Chip series.
Qualcomm reveals their latest Snapdragon 690 5G chipset with 4K HDR video and 120Hz refresh rate supportJun 17, 2020
With 5G technology picking back up its feet to the tech world, Qualcomm was secretly working on a new chipset all this while. Introducing the Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 5G chipset, it will be the first 600-series that is integrated with 5G technology.
Jun 05, 2020
At the end of this year, we will be getting the next flagship chipset from Qualcomm. Apart from being excited about the chipset, there is also something else that would excite you even more and it's a smartphone feature that we've been waiting for quite some time. It is rumoured that smartphones that pack both Snapdragon 875 chipset and in-display front-facing camera are already in the works.
May 27, 2020
At the beginning of the year, we saw the news that OPPO will be manufacturing chipsets to be used on their own devices. The process of making a chipset takes a long time and great effort, so it might have to be a while before OPPO's chipset gets to meet the world. However, it is said that the company is now speeding up the process because of the US sanctions that happened between the US and Huawei.
May 06, 2020
We know how you all love the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset series and we just got some juicy news. According to sources, the company is expected to release their next-gen flagship chipset - the Snapdragon 875. If the rumours are true, this unannounced chipset will be much stronger than we think compared with the current SD 865 chipset.
Apr 28, 2020
As smartphone features continue to improve exponentially throughout the years, it has come to our attention that many companies are attempting to integrate a faster-charging technology for devices. So far, we have seen Android companies in pursuing this such as OPPO, vivo, Huawei, Samsung and more but the super nice ones (like around 40W) are mostly seen on premium phones. For Qualcomm, they aim to change that with a new Quick Charge 3+ technology.
Mar 26, 2020
Thinking about buying a Bluetooth earphone with active noise cancelling? Hold on, it's best to sit on the idea for now because you might be able to buy one that's relatively cheaper soon. Qualcomm has announced two new Bluetooth audio chipsets that are meant for true wireless earphones (TWS) catered for those who want more affordable options.
Mar 05, 2020
There were reports spotted on mydrivers.com, stating that Qualcomm might be thinking of putting a limit on how cheap a smartphone equipped with the Snapdragon 865 with 5G can be priced at. While not much has been confirmed, it seems that the lowest a smartphone with the chipset can be priced at is around USD430(~RM1788).


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The LSO and law schools must do better to combat anti-Black racism, group says
A group of students and alumni of Ontario law schools have written a letter saying the profession, and specifically the Law Society of Ontario, “must do better” to combat anti-Black racism.
More than 450 students signed a letter, addressed to the law society, saying “recent actions of certain LSO benchers have actively undermined inclusion and represent a continued failure to even acknowledge the existence of anti-Black racism within the profession.” Teodora Pasca, one of the students who organized the letter, says that the letter is set to be distributed to LSO benchers. The benchers will meet publicly later this week.
The students criticized the repeal of the statement of principles requirement, unclear plans for a law firm inclusion index, and a failed attempt to block consultation with outside groups from the law society’s Equity and Indigenous Affairs Committee.
Temitope Ajibode, Co-Chair of the Black Law Students’ Association at University of Toronto, says that while students are not yet licensees, the LSO’s actions have early impacts on their careers.
“I found out about a lot of the LSO issues very early on in my first year. As a Black student who was eventually going to be in the profession, I think the way that I received that information was with a lot of apprehension. People think that we're in an oasis while we're in school — when we don't really have to worry about that, for now. But a lot of us do: We have summer jobs, we do internships, we volunteer,” says Ajibode.
“These issues that affect legal professionals — though obviously they affect them at a much larger scale — they do still have their real impact for us while we're students. We're also thinking about our careers after we graduate.”
Rebecca Barclay Nguinambaye, President of the Black Law Students’ Association at U of T, says the group has been working on several large-scale initiatives and has written other letters to the LSO about keeping up with deadlines laid out in its reports on challenges faced by racialized licensees. Nguinambaye says that previous letters have been met with “paper shuffling.” This letter, however, has been picked up by the wider law student community as well.
“One thing we want to see through the letters and ongoing campaigning is that we want the law society to realize that statements aren't enough. We need to see more action . . . . What pressure they put on firms will ultimately push the legal profession — internally at each individual firm — to really take more seriously their own policies. So that really has to start from the top,” says Nguinambaye.
“I would encourage all lawyers to read the ‘working together for change’ document again. That's a document from 2016. And I think it's important to see. . . . a realistic outlook of what actually has changed.”
Maggie Arai, another student organizer, says that the actions of the LSO and the culture in law schools are closely tied, and that the students are also advocating for change internally.
“The law schools have a large responsibility: To understand that the people who are going to be lawyers, who are entering the legal profession, [should] have an understanding of what systemic racism is,” says Arai. “Law schools also need to take responsibility for the fact that . . . the LSO didn't just land there. They were voted in by lawyers, and all those lawyers, or the majority of them went through our law schools.”


Radio Mirchi celebrates its first anniversary this month and listeners are in for some big surprises.
Radio Mirchi UAE celebrates a year on air
ABU DHABI // Radio Mirchi is celebrating its first anniversary this month by dishing out prizes to listeners, including yacht cruises and rides in helicopters and hot-air balloons.
Fans can enter a series of contests as part of Lovebhari Farvari (love-filled February).
This week, three listeners won a besuro ki toli (tuneless bunch) contest. The unmelodious winners were flown to Mumbai to attend yesterday's Mirchi Music Awards, one of the biggest events in the Bollywood music industry.
Launched on February 1 last year and catering to a south-Asian audience, the Hindi and English station is owned by The National's parent company, Abu Dhabi Media.
During its first year, it launched the UAE listeners' choice award for the year's best Bollywood song, and organised events and concerts. The next is on March 8, when leading Bollywood composers and singers will perform in Dubai.
The station was rewarded for its efforts when it was named Best Radio Station in the UAE at the 5th Masala Awards in November.
"This level of success in only a year is something to be immensely proud of and we look forward to many more achievements in the year to come," said Abdul Rahman Awadh Al Harthi, the executive director of the Abu Dhabi radio network.
Radio Michi is on 97.3FM Abu Dhabi, 88.8FM Dubai and Northern Emirates and 95.6FM Al Ain.


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Ingram Industries Inc. of Nashville, Tennessee, and Pine Bluff Sand and Gravel Co. of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, announced today they have entered into an agreement for Ingram to sell its Ingram Materials LLC subsidiary to Pine Bluff. Ingram Materials is one of the nation’s premier producers of fine aggregate used by the construction industry for concrete, asphalt and masonry projects in Middle Tennessee, Western Kentucky and Northern Alabama. Ingram Materials operates three sand dredges on the Ohio River in Paducah, Kentucky, and has distribution facilities in Nashville, Clarksville and New Johnsonville, Tennessee; Paducah, Kentucky; and Decatur and Florence, Alabama. The Ingram Materials business was first established in 1927 by other owners who called it the Ohio River Sand Company. A successor to this business, called the Cumberland River Sand and Gravel Company, was purchased by the Ingram family in 1962 and renamed Ingram Materials. At that time, the business included a large sand yard facility on the east bank of the Cumberland River, visible from downtown Nashville. Ingram Materials relocated its operations to its current Nashville location at Visco Drive in 1997 – to make room for Nashville’s then-new NFL stadium built for the Tennessee Titans. Orrin Ingram, President and CEO of Ingram Industries Inc
Coming off of a strong second quarter for cargo tonnage, the Port of Redwood City's tonnage for all commodities in the first half of fiscal year 2013/2014 reached 829,681 metric tons, an increase of 24 percent over the same period last year. Imported sand and aggregates from British Columbia accounted for 642,480 MT, more than 77% of the tonnage for the first half of the fiscal year. This was nearly a 45% increase in the amount from the same period last fiscal year.
TBS International Limited has taken delivery of the M.V. Kibishio Maru, which it had previously agreed to acquire, thereby expanding its controlled fleet to 32 vessels. The M.V. Kibishio Maru, renamed the M.V. Aztec Maiden, is a 19,777 dwt multipurpose tweendecker that was built in 1984. TBS agreed on December 29, 2005 to acquire the M.V. Kibishio Maru for $8.1 million. It was delivered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on May 2, 2006. The acquisition of the M.V
Great Eastern Shipping Company sai has contracted to buy a modern Supramax dry bulk carrier. The 2001 built ship, of about 52,179 dwt. is expected to join the company's fleet during Q3 FY 2007-08. The rationale behind the purchase of this ship is to consolidate on the dry bulk segment and to participate in the increasing opportunities arising out of strong global commodity demand. The company's current fleet of 46 ships with an average age of 12.2 years aggregates to 3.22 mn dwt
In related recent announcements Ultrapetrol (Bahamas) says it intends to offer secured Notes, & has completed the sale of 7 barges. Ultrapetrol (Bahamas) an industrial transportation company serving marine transportation needs in three markets (River Business, Offshore Supply Business and Ocean Business), announced today its intention to offer to sell, subject to market and other conditions, $200.0 million aggregate principal amount of its senior secured notes due 2021.
Ultrapetrol (Bahamas) Limited an industrial transportation company serving marine transportation needs in three markets (River Business, Offshore Supply Business and Ocean Business), announced today the closing of its previously announced sale of $25 million in aggregate principal amount of its 8.875% First Preferred Ship Mortgage Notes due 2021 (the "Add-On Notes"), which were offered as an add-on to its outstanding $200 million aggregate principal amount of 8
The Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited (G E Shipping) has signed a contract to buy a 1,47,092 dwt, modern (double hull) Suezmax crude tanker. The 2000 built ship is expected to join the Company's fleet during the second quarter of FY 2007-08. The decision to induct the said vessel is with the objective of modernizing the tanker tonnage and to enhance the Suezmax fleet. The company's current fleet of 46 ships with an average age of 12.2 years aggregating 3
GulfMark Offshore, Inc. called for redemption all of its $130,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 8.75% Senior Notes due 2008 that remain outstanding on the redemption date,August 23, 2004. The redemption price is 102.917% of the principal amount of the Notes, or $1,029.17 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, plus interest accrued and unpaid to the redemption date. On July 2, 2004 the Company commenced a tender offer and consent
Intelsat S.A. announced that its subsidiary, Intelsat (Luxembourg) S.A. intends to offer $1,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2021. Intelsat Luxembourg's obligations under the notes will be guaranteed by Intelsat S.A. The net proceeds from the sale of the notes are expected to be used by Intelsat Luxembourg to redeem $915,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 11½/12½% Senior PIK Election Notes due 2017 (the "2017 PIK
Adani Ports & SEZ Ltd, India’s largest port developer and part of Adani Group, today announced financial results for the quarter and half year ended September 30, 2014. The company reported a 67.7 per cent rise in consolidated net profit at $ 95.6 million for quarter ended September 30, helped by strong cargo growth volume. The company’s net profit in the corresponding period of the last fiscal stood at $ 56.97 million, APSEZ said in a filing to the BSE.
Arktis Radiation Detectors was selected to supply radiation portal monitors and mobile detection systems to the Belgian Government, for use at the Port of Antwerp. Under the contract, which has been let by the Belgium Ministry of Finance
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SYDNEY (October 26, 2018): University of Queensland researchers said that they have developed new breast cancer pathology guidelines that will give patients a better chance of fighting the major disease.
The team which developed the guidelines specifically investigated metaplastic breast carcinomas (MBC), a rare but aggressive form of breast cancer, said the university’s Amy McCart Reed. The World Health Organization (WHO) will also incorporate the guidelines into the fifth edition of its major “Blue book” and “Classification of Tumours of the Breast” from next year, said the university.
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Divine - 85% Dark Chocolate Bar - 3.5 oz. (100 g)
Divine 85% Dark Chocolate Bar is pure dark chocolate which melts in the mouth unlocking deep flavor notes of red berries. Suitable for vegetarians. Free from artificial flavorings, colorings and preservatives. Fairtrade cocoa mass, Fairtrade cocoa butter, Fairtrade sugar, Fairtrade cocoa powder, Emulsifier: soya lecithin (non GM), Fairtrade vanilla.
Choosing Divine as your chocolate treat is a delicious way of playing your part in a more equitable trading partnership. Divine is the only Fairtrade chocolate company which is 45% owned by the farmers. While Fairtrade ensures farmers receive a better deal for their cocoa and additional income to invest in their community, company ownership gives farmers a share of Divine's profits and a stronger voice in the cocoa industry. That’s good business!
The History of Cocoa
Theobroma cacao, or as it is more commonly known, cocoa is indigenous to the Amazon Basin and tropical areas of South and Central America and was first cultivated there over 2000 years ago. It formed the basis of fascinating rituals and social systems throughout the "New World." The Mayans believed cocoa to be the food of the gods and it was one of their most important sacred plants. Cocoa also served as currency: you could buy a slave for 100 nibs (cocoa beans), a rabbit for four nibs, or the favours of a women for ten nibs.
Cocoa was first introduced to Europe in the fifteenth century by Christopher Columbus who brought some back to Spain after his travels in the "New World." It was heavily taxed and therefore remained a drink exclusive to the upper classes. The Spanish kept the secrets of cocoa to themselves for over a century and when Francis Drake captured Spanish galleons at sea, his crew threw the sacks of cocoa beans overboard, thinking them useless.
In Britain a wealthy "cafe society" grew up around the luxurious chocolate houses, where the Jacobean landed gentry met to drink hot chocolate. In 1828 Coenraad van Houten, a Dutchman, invented the cocoa press which extracted the cocoa powder from the cocoa butter. The powder made a smoother drink and the butter, when combined with more cocoa powder and sugar, made the first chocolate.
This revolutionised the cocoa industry. Cadbury's invested in the machine and is credited with producing the first chocolate bar in 1842. They made chocolate an affordable treat. What had been an exclusive pastime for the upper classes became a mass market product in the form of bars and boxes of chocolates with flavoured centres. In fact, throughout the 19th Century enterprising Quakers attempted to turn poorer working class people away from "Dutch" gin to the "more nourishing and healthy alternative" of chocolate and cocoa. In 1875 Daniel Peters, a Swiss man, added Henri Nestles condensed milk to chocolate and the two men are accredited with the invention of milk chocolate.
The expansion in consumption, combined with the labour shortages due to short life expectancy on Brazilian cocoa plantations, led to the gradual expansion of production, into the Caribbean and mainland Africa by the late 1870s.
Divine Chocolate Frequently Asked Questions
What do the Kuapa farmers get out of their relationship with Divine?
Divine is made with cocoa bought from Kuapa Kokoo at the Fair Trade price of $1600/tonne. In addition, Kuapa Kokoo receives a $150 per tonne Fair Trade social premium that is invested into community projects such as building schools, providing clean drinking water, mobile medical clinics and women's income generations projects. When the world cocoa prices goes above the $1600 per tonne Fair Trade price, they pay the world price, plus the $150 per tonne social premium. Additionally, a percentage of Divine's gross sales goes towards producer support and development which Kuapa Kokoo spends on farmer education, and helping to maintain the values and vision of the cooperative as it grows, especially its commitment to democracy. And as owners the farmers of Kuapa Kokoo receive a percentage of dividend distribution when the company declares a profit. In the UK, Divine Chocolate was able to distribute dividends for the first time in 2007. Divine in the US looks forward to the day when they can follow the lead of our sister company in the UK. Of equally important but less tangible value, their ownership stake in Divine gives farmers a seat at the table of global trade. Their brand is their voice is the marketplace and allows them to tell their story to consumers and retailers alike.
Is Divine suitable for vegetarians?
All Divine Chocolate bars are suitable for vegetarians.
Could Divine be made more healthy?
Divine chocolate is made with the best of everything - top quality cocoa, natural cocoa butter and vanilla - and that is what makes it so good and delicious. Any attempt to reduce the fat or sugar or replace ingredients with synthetic alternatives would mean creating an inferior product that fewer people would enjoy. Divine's aim is to make the best chocolate containing only natural ingredients that most people can enjoy as a treat, as part of a balanced diet.
Is Divine nut-free?
None of the Divine products can be guaranteed totally nut-free as the factory where they are made handles nuts.
Is Divine organic?
At present, there is no national program for organic certification of cocoa in Ghana. Cocoa is very prone to disease which can quickly spread and wipe out huge areas of cocoa production. This in turn would seriously endanger the livelihoods of thousands of small-scale cocoa farmers and threatened the larger Ghanaian economy. Until enough testing of organically approved pesticides have been completed in Ghana, introducing organic production is too risky. It is worth noting that Divine Chocolate is natural product, made with real cocoa butter and real vanilla, Fair Trade sugar and lecithin from GM-free soya.
Is Divine gluten-free?
None of the ingredients in Divine contain gluten. However, the bars are produced in a factory which does produce items that contain gluten. Divine Chocolate therefore can not certify that our products are gluten-free.
Is Divine Kosher?
Divine Chocolate bars and coins are certified by Triangle-K.
Is Divine only available from the USA?
No - Divine is growing around the world! You can buy Divine in the UK, across Scandinavia and the Netherlands.
Why isn't Divine made in Ghana?
Divine Chocolate's mission is to improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers in West Africa. By creating a chocolate brand with significant ownership by farmers, they have created a way for farmers to access the market at the highest point of the value chain and to receive significant financial benefit. Manufacturing in Ghana would not deliver the same benefits to farmers and would introduce additional financial, logistical and environmental challenges for bringing their chocolate to the market in Europe and in the USA.
How is Divine reducing its environmental impact?
As a responsible company Divine is conscious of its environmental impact, and they are committed to doing their best to continuously make improvements to reduce it. Divine Chocolate doesn't use airfreight at any stage of their supply chain, and keep up to date with best practice regarding all the materials they use. Divine Chocolate's packaging is reviewed annually, and while ensuring their products are all kept protected and delicious, they want to make sure they look lovely and irresistible with as little packaging as possible. Latest developments include keeping their Easter Egg packaging to a minimum with no plastic, using cornstarch trays inside their chocolate boxes, and most recently, removing the cellophane wrapper from the Divine Advent Calendars.
What is happening in Ghana to ensure environmental conservation in cocoa farming?
Twin, the NGO that helped to set up Divine, is working with its trading partners in Africa and Latin America, many of whom grow tree crops in tropical rainforests, to help them find ways to adapt to and mitigate the impact of climate change. Many of these producers are having to cope with increasingly erratic rainfall patterns that are effecting productivity. With support from Twin and local and international experts, these cooperatives are beginning to identify new or rediscover old production practices that can help them adapt to climatic change. In cocoa, for example, farmers can plant more shade trees in order to improve moisture conservation and increase biodiversity. Such tree planting projects are a 'carbon sink' and can therefore potentially attract payments from carbon offsetting schemes, which can help fund these important adaptation initiatives and even generate additional income for farmers.
The Divine Story
The story starts in 1879 when Tetteh Quarshie first brought cocoa to Ghana from Equatorial Guinea. Since then, Ghanaian cocoa has developed a global reputation for its quality and its taste. Today it is one of the country's main exports. Ghana is the second largest exporter of cocoa in the world. Most of the cocoa is grown by small-scale family farmers on 4-5 acres of land. Cocoa farming is a precarious business. The trees are vulnerable to various diseases and pests and although chocolate is one of the world's favorite treats, the cocoa price often dips below the level at which it pays enough for cocoa small-scale farmers to survive.
In the early 1990's, the cocoa market in Ghana become partially liberalized, allowing for the formation of licensed buying companies to purchase cocoa beans from farmers and sell them to Cocoa Marketing Company that would continue to be the single exporter of Ghana cocoa. A number of farmers, including a visionary farmer representative on the Ghana Cocoa Board, Nana Frimpong Abrebrese, came to realize that they had the opportunity to organize farmers in an industry where their voices were not being heard and set up a licensed buying company that would be run by farmers and for their benefit. These farmers pooled resources to set up Kuapa Kokoo, a farmers' co-op, which would trade its own cocoa, and thus manage the selling process more efficiently than the government cocoa agents. Kuapa Kokoo - which means good cocoa growers - has a mission to empower farmers in their efforts to gain a dignified livelihood, to increase women's participation in all of Kuapa's activities, and to develop environmentally friendly cultivation of cocoa.
Kuapa Kokoo quickly developed a reputation for being fair and honest. In Ghana, the cocoa scale and control of the scale is tremendously important. A cocoa farmer can easily be robbed by unscrupulous clerks that rigged the scales to cheat farmers out of the full value of their crop. Kuapa Kokoo put power over the scales in the hands of farmers by making sure that each village had its own scale and its own elected clerk or village recorder. Further, through its commitment to Fair Trade and sale of cocoa to the Fair Trade market, Kuapa Kokoo was able to return greater benefits to cocoa farmers. Its membership quickly grew. In 1997, at their annual general meeting, the farmers of Kuapa Kokoo voted to set up a chocolate company of their own in order to return even more benefits to cocoa farmers. And with investment from The Body Shop and Twin Trading, and support from Comic Relief and Christian Aid, Divine Chocolate was born.
Divine Chocolate is today a leading Fair Trade brand in the UK and a pioneer in the world of socially responsible enterprise. The success of Divine means that farmers have a secure source of Fair Trade income that continues to grow year on year. Kuapa Kokoo has invested its Fair Trade income in building schools, sinking wells for clean drinking water to villages, providing mobile medical clinics for farmers in remote growing regions, and fostering women's income generation projects to help women earn additional income for their families when the cocoa season is over. The farmers' ownership stake in Divine Chocolate means that Kuapa Kokoo has a meaningful input into decisions about how Divine is produced and sold. In addition, Kuapa Kokoo receives a share in the profits from their ownership shares and in 2007 celebrated the first distribution of dividends from Divine in the UK. To further its mission and further increase benefits for cocoa farmers, Divine Chocolate launched a US company to expand into $13 billion American market. In 2006, Divine Chocolate Inc opened in Washington DC to bring fantastic Fair Trade chocolate to US consumers. The farmers of Kuapa Kokoo own one-third of Divine Chocolate in the US. Additional investment is provided by Divine Chocolate Ltd. in the UK, Lutheran World Relief, Oikocredit, and SERRV International.

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As previously reported, Hulk Hogan may have been written off of TNA television during the tapings for next week’s edition of Impact Wrestling, which were filmed on Thursday night in Little Rock, Arkansas.
For those who missed it, the main event angle for next week’s show will see Hulk Hogan respond to the ultimatum given to him by Dixie Carter on this week’s live Impact Wrestling broadcast. Hogan ultimately “quits the company,” with Dixie on her knees begging him to stay as the show goes off the air.
According to one source, this could be an attempt by TNA to simply swerve the audience, as Hogan, whose contract is up next Tuesday, may have already signed a new deal with the company. This could be TNA’s way of milking the real-life drama going on right now in the company, with so many contracts expiring and name-talent parting ways with the promotion.
If Hogan has re-signed, the feeling is that running this angle would seem very real, due to the aforementioned situation with so many high-profile talents leaving due to the inability to come to terms with the company on new agreements.
If a new deal between Hogan and TNA has not been reached, then the angle shot on Thursday’s television tapings will in fact be Hogan’s swansong.


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Three WWE games appear to have been delisted, with WWE 2K18, WWE 2K19, and WWE 2K20 all having been removed from the Microsoft Store.
At the moment, WWE 2K22 seems to be the only WWE game available on the Microsoft Store, with WWE 2K18, WWE 2K19, and WWE 2K20 having been delisted.
Three WWE games have been delisted
2K Games doesn’t seem to have commented on the delistings so far, but as far as we can tell, WWE 2K18, WWE 2K19, and WWE 2K20 were all delisted around the end of June or the beginning of July. As PC Gamer points out, these games have been delisted from Steam as well (along with WWE 2K17, which was delisted from the Xbox Store in 2019) and the only WWE games available for purchase there are WWE 2K22 and WWE Battlegrounds.
WWE 2K18’s servers closed in 2019, and it now has six discontinued achievements. WWE 2K19’S online services were closed in 2020, while WWE 2K20’s servers closed in 2021, and both games have three discontinued achievements each. We don’t yet know the WWE team’s reason for delisting these games, but it seems you will no longer be able to buy and own them digitally on Xbox (physical versions should still be available). What do you think of the sudden delisting of these three games? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!


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Thanks for all the PMs.....Think I have found what I was looking for:-)
I am currently looking for a place to stalk roebucks the next years for a good price.
I have plenty of roebuck hunting areas here in Denmark with heads around100 CiC and sometimes a bronze medal. I will not spend time and money for going to a place just like the outside of my own door - if you understand? I am a hunter and I know that sometimes you get the luck and find the big bucks. The important issue for me is to know that medal heads are produced in the area and can been found……no wild goose hunt!
I am planning 3-7 days stalking and if I get the super luck - I can bag1-2 medal heads pr. year. This could be combined with e.g. pigeon shooting or crow shooting which I am very interested in. Time is whenever the roebucks are seen. I will prefer late season so the antlers are well colored.
I have been hunting for the last 25 years and will say I am well known to hunting and can hunt on my own. If you have areas where deer control are requested I could be interested in this as well if the price is ok. Good medalbucks can be found here as well!
Looking forward to hear suggestions etc.

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Speaking after he had unveiled proposals for a 5 per cent cut in electricity charges next year - worth pounds 15 to the average household, Mr McCarthy, director general of Ofgem, said: "I am perfectly reconciled to the fact that one of the fourteen companies will take this to the Competition Commission and I am unfazed by that."
The regulator is proposing a one-off cut next April of 25-30 per cent in electricity distribution charges which make up a third of the average domestic bill. In each of the following four years distribution charges will be reduced by a further 3 per cent in real terms.
Share prices of some electricity companies fell back heavily. Shares in United Utilities, which owns Norweb, retreated 7 per cent to close at 740p while shares in Hyder, which owns Swalec, also ended the day 7 per cent lower at 550p. Scottish and Southern Energy was another loser, its shares falling 15.5p or 3 per cent to close at 540p.
Mr McCarthy will not fix final price controls until November but he had a tough message for shareholders in electricity companies, saying: "Distribution is not and should not be a high-risk, high return business."
The price curbs will require the electricity companies to cut operating costs by 7-8 per cent a year and set a cost of capital for the industry of 4.2-4.5 per cent. This is lower even than that set for the water industry by Ian Byatt of Ofwat in his price review last month.
Hyder, one of the companies hardest hit by the water price cuts, said it would press Mr McCarthy for an outcome which was "deliverable" and which struck the right balance between shareholders and customers.
Norweb described the proposed price reductions as "extremely demanding" and said they would require further discussion with the regulator.
Although distribution charges - the amount companies levy to maintain their local network of wires - will fall by 25-30 per cent next year under the new formula, the regulator will allow 9 per cent of that to be passed on to each company's supply business. However, Ofgem officials expect that the cost transfer will have to be absorbed by the companies rather than passed on to consumers, since electricity supply is now a competitive market.
British Gas, which has signed up more than one million electricity customers, described Ofgem's proposals as "excellent news". The reduction in distribution charges will have to be reflected in the amount BG pays to use local wires networks.
There has been speculation that the new price controls will prompt a wave of mergers among distribution businesses seeking efficiency gains. But Mr McCarthy said he would recommend referring any such merger to the Competition Commission. According to Ofgem's calculations, distribution mergers produce pounds 10m-pounds 12.5m of cost savings, which would need to be reflected in a further cut in bills.
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The mechanics of metal fatigue
Is the same as
The right of all to be able to bend to the wind’s bless’d
Aim. For some it is about to be fired
With the sulpture of being in the iron or fired
Too long for the metal to break into pieces like
Gun-metal and fire can do.
For the wind can do what no one can see, namely
Open the door to the face of it. Being then and there
The ones who will be then and thine the rent
And full monty addressed time for all.
In other words, the naked truth is that none
Shall be the one to be fruitful unless they
Are able to have sex with each other and that does not happen
Unless then and there is the same as here and now.
Copyright B E Saunders 2016


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The song Gelupu Otami from the film Lakshmi's NTR(2019) released on 27 Apr 2019 with a duration of 06 minutes and 43 seconds. Gelupu Otami is picturized on P Vijay Kumar. The lyrics of Gelupu Otami are by Sri Mani. It has been sung by Shweta Mohan. The music has been composed by Kalyani Malik.
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