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A South African TV star, Shamiso Mosaka was forcefully removed from a plane for her unruly behaviour
According to officials, the flight was delayed by 90 minutes because Mosaka reportedly refused to follow safety regulations, causing the pilot to intervene and delay the departure, despite the engines already running.
Mosaka, who boasts over 140,000 Instagram followers and is a presenter on MTV Base South Africa, documented the incident on Instagram Live. In the video, she can be seen engaging with police officers who ask her to leave the flight, but she insists on being booked onto another flight before complying, a request denied by the airline crew.
The influencer’s supporters have rallied behind her on social media, with many sharing the video and expressing solidarity with Mosaka.
In response to claims of racial profiling made by Mosaka, CemAir’s Chief Financial Officer Laura van der Molen stated that there was no such discrimination involved. Van der Molen clarified that Mosaka was removed from the flight because she refused to follow the airline’s regulations.

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MN Expert Sees Growing Movement to Honor American Indians
Friday, November 15, 2019
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments this week about a controversial name change involving a Minneapolis lake. The change was made to better reflect American Indian history, and one local historian says more of these actions can be expected.
The name change – from Lake Calhoun to its original Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska – is one of several recent examples of an iconic place or building considered for re-naming in honor of Native Americans. University of Minnesota history professor David Chang, who studies indigenous people, says getting influential leaders to listen has been a turning point.
"The drive originally comes from, and still foundationally comes from, the American Indian community,” says Chang. “But has been joined by many other folks who are very sympathetic to the goal of having names better reflect the land."
Following a petition, the state Department of Natural Resources last year decided on the name change.
Supporters of the change felt naming the lake for 1800s politician John C. Calhoun was offensive because of his policies towards American Indians. But a group opposed to the change says the agency overstepped its power, and is asking the court to intervene.
Chang says the decision in Minneapolis is significant because the lake is the largest in the city and has a notable legacy. On a national scale, he says efforts to rename Mount McKinley to Mount Denali – which trace back to the 1970s – eventually paid off and had a huge impact on the movement.
"And it took until 2015, but then, that did officially become renamed as Denali,” says Chang. “So, I would say that that is both literally and figuratively a high point in renaming."
There's also been a recent movement to rename a mountain inside Yellowstone National Park.
In Minnesota, the state historical society is seeking input on renaming Fort Snelling. And during the 2017 State Capitol renovation, some of the artwork depicting American Indians was updated.
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COMPANY NEWS;OFFICEMAX SETTLES LAWSUIT AGAINST ITS FORMER PARENT
Published: March 16, 1996
Officemax Inc. said yesterday that it had settled its lawsuit against its former parent, the Kmart Corporation, and would not have to reimburse the discount retailer $3.7 million for a debt payment. Kmart contended that the amount was Officemax's share of a payment due the holder of Kmart's real estate bonds for a shopping center in Manchester, Conn., where Officemax is a tenant. But Officemax sued Kmart earlier this month, saying the company was obligated to repay the debt because it failed to maintain an investment grade rating on its senior debt and not as a result of any action by Officemax. Officemax, based in Shaker Heights, Ohio, said Kmart had agreed to reimburse it for attorneys' fees and expenses incurred in filing its lawsuit.

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Costco Makes Mask Policy Stricter
Costco Wholesale Corp. (COST) has now made it mandatory for all employees and customers to wear face masks or face shields, starting from Monday.
The members-only warehouse chain has required masks in stores since May 4, although customers who could not wear face masks due to a medical condition, including those with breathing issues from emphysema and asthma, were exempt from that rule. But, from now on everyone will be required to wear a mask.
“If a member has a medical condition that prevents them from wearing a mask, they must wear a face shield at Costco,” Chief Executive Craig Jelinek said in a letter to members.
The new rules will apply to all but children under 2.
“This updated policy may seem inconvenient to some, however we believe the added safety is worth any inconvenience,” Jelinek said. “Our goal is to continue to provide a safe shopping environment for our members and guests, and to provide a safe work environment for our employees.”
Earlier this week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention further endorsed its face-mask recommendation after studies found that masks protect the wearer too.
In a scientific brief published Tuesday, the CDC said that while “masks are primarily intended to reduce the emission of virus-laden droplets,” they “also help reduce inhalation of these droplets by the wearer.”
The announcement comes as the country continues to face a spike in COVID cases. The U.S. recorded 153,861 new cases in the last 24 hours, which is the worst daily toll in the country since the pandemic began. With this, the country’s total number of COVID-19 infections has increased to over 10.6 million.
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Do you have any tips on knitting lace with 100% silk? I've found a lovely laceweight 100% silk from Schaefer yarns called Andrea. It's the colorway called Clara Barton, in blues and greens, just beautiful. I'd love to knit a lacy scarf or shawl. I've done only a little lace knitting and no knitting or lace knitting with silk. Do you have any tips for patterns and handling, such as how to treat it, wash it after knitting? I guess I wouldn't block. Thanks very much for any help.
Hi Keith, I knit with silk a LOT. In fact, I happen to have a shawl I recently knitted using Schaefer Andrea. It is the beautiful Bobble Lace Flowers. If you look around my online design gallery, you'll also see that there are lot of items that I knitted in silk.
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Silk is a slippery fiber. For slippery fibers, some knitters prefer using less-slippery needles such as wood, bamboo, plastic/teflon-coated metal needles, etc. I personally use metal needles most of the time, just because that is what I am used to (and I like my stitches to move along the needles easily without the drag of wood, etc.) So test out a sample with various types of needles if you have them and see what you are most comfortable with.
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IN THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COURT OF NIGERIA
IN THE LAGOS JUDICIAL DIVISION
HOLDEN AT LAGOS
BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP, HON. JUSTICE IKECHI GERALD NWENEKA
Date: 22nd June 2020 SUIT NO. NICN/LA/598/2018
OVERLAND AIRWAYS LIMITED … CLAIMANT
1. ENGR. ELISHA IBRAHIM … DEFENDANTS
2. SAMUEL YARO
3. THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE
4. THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, AIR WING
1. By notice of preliminary objection dated 12th March 2019 and filed on 15th March 2019, brought pursuant to Section 254[C] of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 [as amended], Sections 7 and 54 of the National Industrial Court Act, 2006, Order II Rule 1 of the National Industrial Court Practice Direction, 2012 and inherent powers of the Court, the Defendants prayed the Court as follows:
a. An order of the Court dismissing the entire complaint of the Respondent.
b. A declaration of the Court declining jurisdiction of the entire action.
c. And for such further or other orders as the Honourable Court will deem fit to make in the circumstances.
There are two grounds for the objection, to wit:
a. The complaint of the Claimant is statute barred.
b. The suit did not comply with Section 2 of the Public Officers Protection Act, 2004.
2. The preliminary objection is supported with 22 paragraphs affidavit deposed to by the 1st Defendant and attached to the affidavit are three documents. The first document is email correspondence between the 1st Defendant and the Claimant which was not referred to in the affidavit and was not marked. The second document is WhatsApp messages marked as Exhibit NP2. The third document is the training bond, marked as Exhibit NP3. In compliance with the Rules of the Court, the Defendants filed a written address dated 12th March 2019.
In response, the Claimant filed a counter affidavit dated 1st August 2019 and sworn to by Mr. Solomon Kwabe, a litigation officer in the Claimant’s Solicitors’ chambers and a written address of same date.
Arguing the application on 3rd June 2020, Mr. Anthony Iyeye, learned counsel for the Defendants relied on the affidavit in support of the application, attached exhibits and adopted the written address as his argument in support of the application and urged the Court to dismiss the suit. Mr. Toye Latilo, learned counsel for the Claimant, equally relied on all the paragraphs of the counter affidavit and adopted the written address as his argument in opposition to the preliminary objection and urged the Court to dismiss it.
3. In their written address, the Defendants raised one issue for determination, that is:
“Whether the complaint of the Respondent is not statute barred?”
Learned counsel submitted that for this Court to have jurisdiction, the cause of action must not be statute barred. Referring to Section 2 of the Public Officers Protection Act, he argued that a public officer cannot be sued outside the specified period of three months. Counsel noted that in determining whether an action is statute barred regard should be had to the writ of summons and statement of claim to ascertain when the cause of action arose and relate it to when the action was filed. If the time on the writ of summons is beyond the period allowed by the Limitation law, then the action is statute barred. He relied on the cases of Egbe v. Adefarasin  1 NWLR [Pt. 3] 549 and Alhaji v. Egbe  1 NWLR [Pt. 16] 361 at 623. He explained that paragraph 24 of the statement of facts shows that the 1st Defendant resigned from the Claimant to join the 3rd and 4th Defendants on 17th April 2016, while the complaint was filed on 29th November 2018.
He contended that the issue whether the action is statute barred touches on the jurisdiction of the Court; and a mathematical computation of the date the 1st Defendant resigned and the date when the action was filed reveals that it is more than the prescribed three months. Relying on Fred Egbe v. Abubakar Alhaji & Ors.  3 SCNJ 41, he submitted that where a Defendant raises a plea of protection under the Public Officers Protection Act, there is no basis for prying into the conduct of the Defendant which gave rise to the action; as the issue before the Court is whether the action is maintainable. He concluded that since the action was not commenced within the stipulated period, it is stale and unmaintainable. The Court was urged to dismiss the suit.
4. Learned counsel for the Claimant also submitted one issue for determination, to wit:
“Considering the reliefs and facts contained in the Statement of Facts of the Claimant/Respondent in this suit, whether the provisions of the Public Officers Protection Act are applicable to this case?”
Arguing this issue, counsel submitted that the law is now well established that the limitation laws, such as the provisions of Section 2[a] of the Public Officers Protection Act, are not provisions of blanket applicability. It was argued that for the provision to apply, the Court must be satisfied that the facts and reliefs in the suit come within the limited scope of Section 2 of the Act. The conditions to be satisfied are: one, that the action must relate to an act done in pursuance or execution of any Act or law; two, the action must relate to the execution of any public duty or authority; and thirdly, the action must be in respect of any alleged neglect or default in the execution of any such Act, law, duty or authority. He relied on the cases of Awolola v. Governor of Ekiti State & Ors.  LPELR-46346[SC] and Oyo State Board of Internal Revenue v. UI  LPELR-22151[CA].
Counsel also submitted that applying the above authorities to the facts of this case, the provision of Section 2[a] of the Public Officers Protection Act does not apply to this case in that the reliefs against the 1st Defendant are for breach of the training bond and employment contract and he was not a public officer at the time the cause of action accrued. Counsel noted that the case against the 3rd and 4th Defendants is for unlawful interference and inducement of breach of contract. He contended that there is nothing in the statement of facts suggestive that the acts complained of in this suit relate to any of the conditions in Section 2[a] of the Public Officers Protection Act. He also argued that there is no law which gives the 3rd and 4th Defendants power to interfere with the contract of employment of any employee. He cited a host of authorities including Tajudeen v. FIRS  LPELR-43856[CA] and Hassan v. Aliyu  17 NWLR [Pt. 1223] 547 at 591 to the effect that where a public officer acts outside the scope of his authority or without a semblance of legal justification, he cannot claim the protection of the Public Officers Protection Act.
It was further submitted that the Public Officers Protection Act does not apply to cases of contract. He relied on Wema Securities and Finance Plc v. Nigeria Agricultural Insurance Corp.  16 NWLR [Pt. 1484] 93 at 138 and Roe Limited v. UNN  LPELR-43855[SC] 21-22 amongst others; and urged the Court to discountenance the arguments contained in the Defendants’ written address and all the decisions relied on by the Defendants as they are distinguishable from this case.
In concluding, learned counsel submitted that it is not sufficient to allege that the Applicants are public officers, they must go further to establish that the acts complained of in this suit relate to execution of an Act, law, public duty or authority. He argued that the Applicants have not discharged this burden in their objection and urged the Court to dismiss the application.
5. Before considering the merits of the application, let me deal with one preliminary issue. It is important that learned counsel appearing in this Court familiarize themselves with the Rules of the National Industrial Court. The preliminary objection is brought pursuant to Section 254[C] of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 [as amended], Sections 7 and 54 of the National Industrial Court Act, 2006 and Order II Rule 1 of the National Industrial Court Practice Direction, 2012. In the written address in support of the application, learned counsel substituted the National Industrial Court Practice Direction, 2012 with the National Industrial Court Rules, 2007. The National Industrial Court Practice Direction, 2012 and the National Industrial Court Rules, 2007 were repealed by Order 1 Rule 1 of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria [Civil Procedure] Rules, 2017, and cannot be the basis for bringing this application.
6. I have considered the processes filed by the parties and, in my respectful view, the issue for determination in this application is:
“Whether this suit as constituted is statute barred?”
The preliminary objection is predicated on Section 2[a] of the Public Officers Protection Act, CAP. P41, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 which provides thus:
“Where any action, prosecution, or other proceeding is commenced against any person for any act done in pursuance or execution or intended execution of any Act or Law or of any public duty or authority, or in respect of any alleged neglect or default in the execution of any such Act, Law, duty or authority, the following provisions shall have effect –
[a] the action, prosecution, or proceeding shall not lie or be instituted unless it is commenced within three months next after the act, neglect or default complained of, or in case of continuance of damage or injury, within three months next after the ceasing thereof:
Provided that if the action, prosecution, or proceeding be at the instance of any person for cause arising while such person was a convict prisoner, it may be commenced within three months after the discharge of such person from prison;”
7. It is the law, as rightly argued by learned counsel for the Defendants, that where a statute provides for institution of an action within a specified time, an action commenced after the prescribed period is said to be statute barred. See Osun State Government v. Dalami Nigeria Limited  3 SC [Pt. 1] 131 at 145 and National Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission & Ors. v. Ajibola Johnson  2 NWLR [Pt. 1656] 247 at 270. The Public Officers Protection Act is one of such statutes. Section 2[a] of the Act provides that an action shall not lie against any person for an act done in pursuance or execution or intended execution of any Act or Law or of any public duty or authority, or in respect of any alleged neglect or default in the execution of any such Act, law, duty or authority unless it is brought within three months of accrual of the cause of action. This provision has been applied in a plethora of cases, some of which have been cited by learned counsel for the parties. See also Elijah Adebiyi & Ors. v. National Institute of Public Information & Ors.  LPELR-22628[CA] 16-18.
The settled judicial opinion is that for Section 2[a] of the Public Officers Protection Act to avail a public officer, two conditions must exist, and these are:
a. The person against whom the action is brought must be a public officer or a person acting in execution of public duties within the meaning of the Act; and
b. The act complained of must be done in pursuance or execution of any law, public duty or authority, or in respect of any alleged neglect or default in execution of any such Act, law, duty or authority.
See the case of Awolola v. Governor of Ekiti State & Ors. [supra] at pages 22-23.
8. Looking at the claims before the Court, the first relief is for a declaration that the 1st Defendant can only validly terminate the employment contract with the Claimant by giving the Claimant three months’ notice or three months’ salary in lieu of notice and that the 1st Defendant breached the employment contract when he failed to give the Claimant three months required notice or three months’ salary in lieu of notice. The second relief is for a declaration that the 1st and 2nd Defendants breached the training bond agreement dated the 29th June 2015 between the Claimant and the 1st Defendant. The third relief seeks a declaration that the 3rd Defendant wrongfully induced the 1st Defendant to breach his employment agreement and training bond agreement by failing to carry out the necessary due diligence before employing the 1st Defendant and encouraged the 1st Defendant to breach the said agreement which practice constitutes an unfair labour practice. Reliefs 4, 5 and 6 seek various orders arising from reliefs 1 to 3.
Given the above claims, it is plain to me that, although the 1st, 3rd and 4th Defendants are public officers, the act complained of was not done in pursuance or execution of any law, public duty or authority, or in respect of any alleged neglect or default in the execution of any such Act, law, duty or authority. From the statement of facts, it is clear that the 1st Defendant was offered employment by the Claimant by letter dated 29th June 2015 in furtherance of which he executed a training bond of the same date. This fact was admitted in the joint statement of defence filed on behalf of the 1st, 3rd and 4th Defendants and the affidavit in support of the preliminary objection. The action against the 1st Defendant is for breach of contract and against the 3rd and 4th Defendants for inducing a breach of contract.
Consequently, I find as a fact that the 1st, 3rd and 4th Defendants were not acting in pursuance or execution of any law, public duty or authority in respect of the acts complained of in this suit. Also, for a public officer to take advantage of the Public Officers Protection Act, he must show that he acted in good faith. See Awolola v. Governor of Ekiti State & Ors. [supra] at page 26. Undoubtedly, a party who flagrantly breaches a contract which he voluntarily entered into and has taken benefit thereof cannot be said to have acted in good faith.
9. In addition, where the subject matter of the suit is a contract, the position of the Courts is that the performance or breach of a contract which a public officer or authority has the power but not the duty to make is not within the protection of the Act. In other words, in determining the statutory provision on limitation of action against a public officer or authority in an action brought upon contract, the nature of the contract must be considered. If the contract in issue is one which the parties have freely agreed to the terms of their relationship, the provision of the limitation period will not apply, unless expressly incorporated into the contract. See Elijah Adebiyi & Ors. v. National Institute of Public Information & Ors. [supra]. See also the cases of Osun State Government v. Dalami Nigeria Limited [supra] at page 147 and National Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission & Ors. v. Ajibola Johnson [supra] at page 270.
There is no gainsaying that this action involves a breach of contract by the 1st Defendant and inducement of a breach of contract by the 3rd and 4th Defendants. The terms of the contract between the Claimant and the 1st Defendant were mutually agreed and executed by both parties, taking it outside the ambit of the Public Officers Protection Act.
10. An application succeeds or fails on the strength of the affidavit in support. The affidavit is the evidence in support of the reliefs sought. It is the foundation and pillar upon which the reliefs rest. The argument of counsel merely reinforces the evidence but can never take the place of evidence. See United Bank for Africa Plc v. Osula  LPELR-7176[CA] 13-14 and Hydro-Tech Nigeria Ltd. & Anor. v. Leadway Assurance Co. Ltd & Ors.  LPELR-40146[CA] at page 40. There is nothing in the affidavit in support of the notice of preliminary objection or the statement of facts bringing this case within the provisions of the Public Officers Protection Act. In the circumstance, I agree with learned counsel for the Claimant that the Defendants have not discharged the burden thrust on them to prove that this suit falls within the ambit of the Public Officers Protection Act.
Accordingly, I hold that this action is not statute barred and this Court has jurisdiction to entertain it. Consequently, the notice of preliminary objection lacks merit and it is hereby dismissed.
I make no order as to costs.
Ruling is entered accordingly.
IKECHI GERALD NWENEKA
Attendance: Claimant is represented by Miss Enen Eshiet, Legal Officer, the Defendants are absent
Appearances: Toye Latilo Esq. with Michael Akinleye Esq. for the Claimant
Anthony Iyeye Esq. for the 1st, 3rd and 4th Defendants


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Bush's Budget Proposal Would Cut Medicare Spending
Tuesday, February 5, 2008; 12:00 AM
MONDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- President Bush's new budget proposal would cut $196 billion over five years from both Medicare and Medicaid -- programs that provide health care to millions of poor and elderly, federal officials announced Monday.
The proposed cuts are part of a plan to stop Medicare from running out of money in little more than a decade, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Mike Leavitt told reporters during a press conference. He said the savings would help keep premiums affordable, maintain the Medicare/Medicaid system, and balance the current Medicare budget.
"The Medicare portion of the budget should be viewed as a stark warning," Leavitt said. "Medicare on its current course is 11 years from going broke. Americans have become numbed to entitlement warnings as a repeated cycle of alarms and inaction," he said.
But President Bush and Leavitt are sure to face a Congressional showdown over the budget proposals.
"This administration ought to know that five years' worth of Medicare and Medicaid cuts totaling $200 billion are dead on arrival with me and with most of the Congress," Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told theAssociated Press.
Not every agency would lose funds in the new budget: The cash-strapped U.S. Food and Drug Administration would receive a nearly 6 percent boost in financing, much of which would go to programs that oversee food safety, agency officials said.
All of these announcements stem from the $3.1 trillion 2009 budget proposal announced by the Bush administration Monday.
According to Leavitt, the majority of the Medicare cuts would come from reductions to fees paid to hospitals, nursing homes and hospices.
Medicare makes up 56 percent of the $737 billion HHS budget, Leavitt said. Cuts in the Medicare budget will become the norm until Medicare itself changes, he said. "We can keep our national commitment, but to do this we need to change our management of Medicare," Leavitt said.
Under the president's plan, the annual growth of Medicare spending would slow to 5 percent instead of the 7 percent currently projected. Similarly, spending growth would slow from 7.3 percent to 7 percent for Medicaid.
Medicare is an inefficient system and needs to be changed, Leavitt charged. Changing the system means putting more responsibility into the hands of consumers, enabling them to make their own health-care decisions, he said.
"If consumers were allowed to make the decisions in an efficient market, through electronic medical records, through quality measures, through cost comparisons and choices and incentives, their decisions would be far more precise and wise," he said. "It would produce better health, and at a lower cost."


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Formalities For Private Plane Owners: General: When coming to Turkey, international air routes should he followed. Private planes may stay for up to three months in Turkey with tourist status, but for longer periods permission should be obtained from;
The General Directorate of Customs (Gümrükler Genel Müdürlüğü), Ulus Ankara, Tel: (312) 3103880,3103818,Fax: (312) 311 1346 The airports of Ankara, Adana, İstanbul, İzmir, Antalya, Trabzon and Dalaman have ties for private planes. It is also possible to hire planes and helicopters in Turkey
DAY1: Arrive to Turkey - Istanbul / Canakkale - Troy: Morning at 09:00am Arrival in Istanbul Ataturk Airport, our tour guide meet and assist-transfer to Canakkale. Pass by ferry from Eceabat on Dardanelles to Canakkale. Then proceed for city sightseeing tour and also visit the ancient Troy and Trojan Horse. Transfer to hotel and buffet dinner at hotel. (D)
DAY 2: Canakkale / Izmir: Breakfast will be served at hotel, then transfer to city Izmir, C/ in to hotel. Follows free time, sightseeings of Lovely and 3rd biggest city in modern Turkey's of Izmir where will be visit Coffees, Shops, Magasines, Big Mall's. Stay at our Hotel in Izmir (B,L)
DAY 3: Kusadasi / Ephesus - Pamukkale: Breakfast will be served at hotel, then transfer to Selcuk town where visit great city of Ephesus. Visit interesting place like House of Virgin Marry in Ephesus. Lunch will be served at local restaurant then transfer to Pamukkale where we have Check in and buffet dinner will be served. You can use hotel facilities as foc natural thermal pool etc. (B,L,D)
DAY 4: Pamukkale / Konya: Breakfast will be served at hotel then proceed for sightseeing of the region. Visit interesting places like Hierapolis and Thermal Terraces. Then depart to Konya and visit Mevlana Mousoleum. Arrive and C/ in our hotel. Free at own leisure. (B,L,D)
DAY 5: Konya / Cappadocia: After breakfast then proceed for Cappadocia. (3 hrs drive time. Upon arrival we have sightseeing of the region like Zelve Open Air Museum, Uchisar Hill, Pasabag Fairychimneys and Kaymakli Underground City, Cavusin broken church and Potterymakers shops near Avanos. Transfer back to hotel. (B,L,D)
DAY 6: Cappadocia / Ankara: Follows breakfast depart to Ankara. Upon arrival in Ankara, we have visit to Anatolian Civilization Museum and Ataturk Mousoleum. Lunch will be served at local restaurant. Transfer to hotel. (B,L,D)
DAY 7: Ankara to/ Istanbul: Follows breakfast we have depart to Istanbul (5 hrs drive time). Upon arrival in Istanbul, we have an unique experince that our group will pass from Asian to Europe in 3 minutes. (One continent to another one). Before c/in to hotel we have a sightseeings to Golden Horn, City Wall, Pierre loti hill follows transfer to hotel. ON (B,L)
DAY 8: Istanbul: Full day visit in istanbul. Follows breakfasts we have Bosphorus cruises on private boat then transfer to Old city where visits to the Sultanahmed Blue Mosque, Hipodrome, and Topkapi Palace and famous Grand Covered Bazaar. Transfer to the hotel. (B,L)
DAY 9: Istanbul: Breakfast at hotel and Group/your own Free and leisure time in Istanbul. (B)
DAY 10: Istanbul transfer to Airport Flight to Home: Breakfast will be served at the hotel Leave from rooms and baggages down, We keep babbages Storage room near Reception area. Then Given free time untill transfer (5:00pm) to airport for departure back home. Arrive to Airport. End of our services and Goodbye. (B)
Our price included, hotel accommodation as 10 Days - 9 Nights in 3/4 stars range hotel, guidance, open buffet breakfasts mentioned meal plan in tour text, coach A/C confortable transportations, entrance fees in sites included.
International flights, beverages during meals, Minibar, Laundry, Phone etc Hotel expences, Visas, Gratuities for guide and driver, personal expenses, all other services not mentioned in the Included section.

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There is a noticeable shift in the social-economic profile of the people who live immediately outside the city centre. This has been partially brought about by the increased acceptability of living in the very centre.
Pokey flats above town centre shops (where they existed) have given way to spacious ‘lofts' and similar high specification, highly desirable apartments, frequently converted from office blocks. What these city centre homes lack are basic but by no means essential amenities: private gardens, views of open countryside, car parking. This omission is more than compensated for by the convenience of the proximity to the theatre, the railway station and a wide array of restaurants. The outcome is that city centre homes are now commanding a premium, pushing essential workers (cinema ushers, station porters, restaurant waiters) one step further out.
The effect can clearly be seen in Ipswich; houses 500 metres from the shopping core have become ‘rented accommodation' with short term tenants whose basic need is simply a bed for the night but have a tendency to forget to put the bin out, don't prune the roses and display previously used furniture in the front garden.
This is the first step towards these houses becoming less desirable for ordinary families who in turn move to the suburbs, typically on to the new developments. Unless there is local authority intervention the houses become modern day slums, unfit for human habitation. When this happened between the wars it led to ‘slum clearance', hence the doughnut. A core of expensive property in the centre is surrounded by cleared land, bomb sites as they were called in the 50s and 60s; today it is previously developed or Brownfield land.
The phenomena hit the northern cities in the mid 1960s. Liverpool in particular became a doughnut, a functioning centre with shops and leisure facilities surrounded by acres of cleared housing and the rebuilding programme coughing and stumbling. To a certain extent it was noticeable in Ipswich, the terraced housing north of Crown Street condemned as unfit for human habitation, the Potteries swept away under a slum clearance programme (and in this case a new college built on the site) and the housing on the Mount (St Matthew's) giving way to the Civic Centre.
So what is to be done? How can we stop Norwich Road, St Helen's Street and Burrell Road becoming run down, unloved and deprived?


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Text consists of the cover and pages 298-307 of Donaldson's dissertation, titled "A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology of Mind / The Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities / December 1987".
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Windows Server 2012 R2 introduces a number deep changes to the way that AD FS works, which means that as practitioners, we need to look for solutions to problems in new, unexpected places. For instance, in the old world, if AD FS was completely unresponsive, the first place I would look after AD FS itself would be IIS. In AD FS 2012 R2, IIS doesn’t play a role. Requests are still served by the HTTP.SYS kernel driver but we interact with it using NETSH HTTP, which connects to the driver via the User Mode HTTP Server API. IIS and other familiar components would also interact with this API previously, but they provided a friendlier layer of abstraction between an administrator and the API. Interacting with HTTP.SYS using NETSH HTTP brings a learning curve with it, particularly when it comes to understanding what is and is not controlled here. Also, there is no GUI and the security that HTTP.SYS enforces is stricter than the abstracted layer that IIS has historically opened up. This web server architecture change and other new differences add to the difficulty of tracking down problems when things don’t work as expected, as detailed in this post.


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The Influencers: Dr Megan Woods
It was a pleasure to announce the establishment of the Greater Christchurch Claims Resolution Service (GCCRS).
After the release of the report of my Independent Ministerial Advisor into EQC earlier in the year, it was clear that more needed to be done to help people who have been waiting for their claims to be resolved. We’ve set this up in order to give homeowners a free to access, impartial pathway to settle their claims. It will provide independent case management to bring together fast tracked claims handling, specialist engineering support, psychosocial support and legal expertise to help resolve claims.
GCCRS will operate on a ‘no wrong door’ basis. Anyone with an unresolved claim can call or come to the new office on Cashel Street and settlement support brokers will tailor the approach to suit each individual situation. Claimants will have one person in charge of their claim who will drive it along for them – they won’t need to call up and speak to a different person all the time. They will know who is responsible for settling their claim. I’ve also asked EQC and Southern Response to develop new processes to ensure a streamlined, cross-agency resolution process and I’m inviting private insurers to join this scheme too.
In the first two days, 50 people had already got in touch with the service. We know there are so many people out there who want to have their houses fixed and get on with their lives and GCCRS will allow them to do just that.


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Summersville Lake sure is pretty! But you know what? It’s even more magical below!
Dubbed “The Little Bahamas of The East,” the lake is amazing to explore, because it’s the cleanest, clearest freshwater lake east of the Mississippi River. Swim alongside the fish through boulder gardens and underwater caves.
Explore this aquatic underworld:


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An unmanned Predator drone of the type operating along the Afhanistan-Pakistan border. Photograph: Rex Features/Sipa Press
Both are legally prohibited but speciously justified by the White House. The difference? Obama's policy kills innocent bystanders
January 21, 2012
By June 2004, it was confirmed that the US was using torture at secret detention sites and at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was in that month that piles of "torture memos" were released to the public. Torture did not officially end until President Obama took office in January 2009.
A similar story is emerging with respect to targeted killing. The Obama administration has produced its own infamous memo; like many of the torture memos, it was written by lawyers in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel. It concerns something that many consider worse than torture: the memo apparently seeks to justify "targeted killing".
Calls have gone out for the release of the memo, but there really is no need. We did need to see the torture memos, but not because anyone with legal expertise on the subject would be enlightened by the analysis – torture is absolutely prohibited. The legal analysis could only be specious. Rather, prior to mid 2004, the use of torture, rendition and secret detention were only rumored. The fact of the memos gave credence to speculation.
In the case of targeted killing, the world can see what is happening. The memo need not be published to confirm the fact. And, as with torture, the memo will not contain a persuasive legal argument respecting the fundamental human rights and humanitarian law at issue.
"Targeted killing" is the killing of certain individuals away from battle zones using military means, including missiles, bombs and commando raids. The missiles and bombs are often delivered by drone aircraft. Given the munitions, it is the rare attack that spares the lives of bystanders – over 2,200 persons are estimated to have been killed in the three years of the Obama administration in Pakistan alone. We have no estimates for deaths in Yemen or Somalia, the other scenes of relentless attacks.
"Targeted killing" has become the euphemism du jour. Remember "harsh interrogation"? The conduct discussed in the killing memo was once simply referred to as assassination.
More and more people are pushing back against the policy. They are reacting, no doubt, to the fact that President Obama has authorized many times the killings that President Bush did. Obama apparently authorized the killing of an American in Yemen, and he is now engaged in the building of drone bases to continue the campaign of assassination. Greg Miller of the Washington Post notes that "no president has ever relied so extensively on the secret killing of individuals to advance the nation's security goals."
In 2001, the US ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, stated on Israeli television in connection with Israeli targeted killing of suspected terrorists:
"The United States government is very clearly on the record as against targeted assassinations. They are extrajudicial killings, and we do not support that."
The US did not support such killing for fundamental reasons of law and morality. Fundamental principles of law protect the human right to life and due process of law. Unlike torture, which is never permitted, states are permitted to allow designated authorities to carry out the use of lethal force in certain limited situations. In situations of armed conflict hostilities, lawful combatants will not be prosecuted for killing that complies with international humanitarian law. Today, under the international legal definition of armed conflict, the United States is involved in such hostilities in one country only: Afghanistan.
Beyond Afghanistan, any use of lethal force by designated authorities of the United States must follow the normal human rights limits on peacetime resort to lethal force. Authorities may engage in lethal force when necessary to save a human life immediately, if there is no alternative. In other cases, an attempt to arrest is required, followed by a fair trial within a reasonable period.
These restrictive international legal rules on killing are derived from moral principle, just as the rules against torture are. Torture and targeted killing have more in common, however. Neither is an effective means toward the ends sought by those who employ them: torture is an unreliable means of information gathering; targeted killing is ineffective on dealing with the challenge of non-state actor terrorist or militant groups.
But even if there was any data at all about assassination having a long-term positive impact on suppressing terrorism – which there is not – the data would not change the law and morality against it. Indeed, the president criticized the assassination of a nuclear scientist in Tehran. Drone attacks outside of armed conflict zones are committing the same wrong – though usually more bystanders are killed than was the case in Iran.
President Barack Obama's 3 January 2011 letter introducing his national security strategy for the coming decade states that America's overriding goals are "security", "prosperity" and a "just and sustainable international order where the rights and responsibilities of nations and peoples are upheld, especially the fundamental rights of every human being." Impressive, even inspiring – but for the fact that the president's campaign of assassination is denying many hundreds of individuals their right to life. The security strategy looks set to dramatically ramp up the number and deployment of attack drones from new permanent bases around the world.
Neither torture nor targeted killing will accomplish the goal of a "just and sustainable international order where the rights and responsibilities of nations and peoples are upheld". Human rights advocates, legal scholars, religious leaders, occupiers and voters are again pushing back against a practice carried out in our names that must end.