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Diverse groups including women, as well as groups identified on the basis of ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, physical ability or attributes make up only about 20% of the workforce. Negative stereotypes, lack of suitable opportunities and infrastructure and unavailability of resources perpetuates low inclusion. Efforts towards inclusion ensure that minority communities are not excluded from progress. Also, research clearly demonstrates the abundant social and economic benefits of diversity inclusion.
The Foundation’s efforts towards inclusion started in 2010. Special skill development training program for people with disabilities with accessible centres and sign-language trainers was initiated.
While the efforts to support people with disabilities gain meaningful employment opportunities continue, from 2018, the foundation also started offering scholarships and mentorship to women pursuing careers in sciences.
of PwD in the workforce, with only 1% out of 5 million youth with disability currently employed.
Due to poor policy implementation, despite the Government mandate of 3%, the current employment of PwD is
less than 1%
Alignment with UN SDGs
All our work in the area of inclusion aligns with the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:
SDG 4: Quality Education
SDG 5: Gender Equality
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
The project aims to support young, academically bright girls, especially from rural India and low socio-economic backgrounds, to pursue a career in science by offering them financial support to cover their graduation expenses in some of India’s premier science institutions. In addition, Sashakt links the scholars with senior women scientists to mentor them at every stage. The scholarship covers all three years of study for B.Sc. degree in the best colleges in the country.

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Recently, Facebook user are being affected by a new virus named “Facebook Photo Alart” through email posing as photo alerts from social Network. This email comes to users personal mail account from Facebooka (look exactly like facebook ).when they are tagged in a photo.
However, they redirect the victim to a site which is for infecting personal Computer by malicious program and few seconds later the link will redirect user to Facebookone more time.
Need to provide extra concentration on emails come facebook and clarify that you have been tagged in a photograph. Graham Cluley of the british Interner Security firm Sophos quoted it on telegraph as warning.
Many users may not have realized that they are infected by emails as Facebookis misspelled as “Faceboook” or something looks exactly like facebook to make illusion on user’s eyes.

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December 18, 2020: Panic makers and creatures of the night – film fans and filmmakers alike – gather for a week-long onslaught of thrills, chills and kills at Kansas City’s annual horror hangout – Panic Fest.
Panic Fest, now in its 8th year, is a renowned horror, thriller, sci-fi movie festival hosted at Screenland Armour in collaboration with DownrightCreepy.com. Recently named one of the 25 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the world in 2020 by Movie Maker, Panic Fest has made its name on premiering huge hits like “What We Do in the Shadows” and cult favorites like Elijah Woods’ “Maniac” remake. Panic Fest is also a Fangoria Approved fest, giving it a certain level of prestige that genre aficionados will appreciate.
The latest, greatest, and grizzly genre offerings. Up-and-coming auteurs of the arcane and unknown. Audiences will gasp and be amazed and appalled. Panic Fest is the pinnacle of genre festivals featuring over 70+ films and we are proud to bring you our short film showcase and feature film announcements along with some special guest appearances and podcasts!
FEATURE FILM LINEUP: panicfilmfest.com/schedule
After Midnight (Guest TBA); Artik; Beyond the Woods (with Brayden DeMorest-Purdy and Nina Werewka); Blood on Her Name; Blood Quantum; The Cleansing Hour; Color Out of Space; The Dare; December Vol. 1 (with AJ Bowen and Dominic Saxl); Disappearance at Clifton Hill; Eat Brains Love (with Rodman Flender); Extra Ordinary; Evil Dead 4K (Hosted by Film Society KC); Frozen 10th Anniversary (with Adam Green and Joe Lynch Movie Crypt Podcast Live); Greenlight; Hardware (NC-17) (with Joe Lynch and Nightmare Junkhead); James Vs His Future Self; Kindred Spirits (Guest TBA); The Lodge; A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio; The New End; The Other Lamb; The Perished (with Paddy Murphy and Joe Lynch); Puppet Killer (with Lisa Ovies); Porno; The Room; Rock, Paper and Scissors; Rot (with Beth Crudele); Scare Package (with Aaron B. Koontz); Sea Fever; The Soul Conductor (with Mikhail Kurbatov); Swallow; The Swerve (with Dean Kapsalis and Tommy Minnix); Two Heads Creek; Uncle Peckerhead (World Premiere – with Matthew John Lawrence); VFW (Hosted by Fangoria); VHYes (Hosted by Forever Bogus and Magnetic Magic Rentals); The Vice Guide to Bigfoot (Zachary Lamplugh and Brain Emond); To Your Last Death (with Jim Cirile)
SHORT FILM SHOWCASE PROGRAMMING: panicfilmfest.com/shorts
PREVIEW NIGHT BLOCK (Jan 23)
Allergic Overreaction; Black Mass; Best Friends Forever; She Must Vanish; The Unseen; Merger
SHORT FILM SHOWCASE BLOCK #1 (Jan 25)
Night of the Shooter; Let Me Play; Hellevate; Night Crawl; See You On the Other Side; Amber; Pepper; Imagine a World; Feeder
SHORT FILM SHOWCASE BLOCK #2 (Jan 25)
Lane 9; Go Back; Killer Confidence; Haunting of Pottersfield; Swipe; Night Owls; Here There Be Tygers; Hotel; Pathosis
SHORT FILM SHOWCASE BLOCK #3 (Jan 25)
Conspiracy Cruise; Safe States; Momma Don’t Go; Buffalo & Trout; Daughter of Dismay; A Noise That Carries; Mateo; The Burden; The Animator
Adam Green (Hatchet Franchise, Frozen); Joe Lynch (Mayhem, Point Blank Remake); AJ Bowen (You’re Next, Frontier, Deathcember); Rebekah McKendry (All the Creatures Were Stirring); John Pata (Dead Weight, Gags the Clown, Pity); Rodman Flender (Director Eat Brains Love); and many more – over 100 filmmakers and special guests!
– The Movie Crypt Live (Fangoria with special guests)
– Nightmare University (Fangoria with AJ Bowen)
– Generation Why Podcast + Crimelines (with Gangland Wire podcast)
– Cult Podcast (true crime comedy)
– Nightmare Junkhead (90’s Nightmare with Joe Lynch)
Tickets are on sale now: panicfilmfest.com/tickets
“Without a doubt one of the best genre film festivals that caters to both the horror and filmmaker crowd. One of the best experiences I’ve had. If you submit to this one make it your number one priority to attend!” Al Lougher – The Dollmaker (Short Film)
“A fantastic experience. A great line-up of features and shorts that has a little bit of something for everyone. The venue is one of the best to see your film play in, and the community of film lovers that came out to see the film was just spectacular. I highly recommend you attend/submit/follow Panic Fest. This fest is a true gem!” Sam Vinal – Chickens (Short Film)
ABOUT SCREENLAND ARMOUR: Historic Screenland Armour, in the heart of North Kansas City, is where Panic Fest calls home. It might not be a haunted house, but it is a local treasure that screens new releases and classics all year round. Local and national beer. Grilled cheese galore. And lots, and lots of gore. Screenland and Panic Fest. A match made in Heaven. Or Hell.
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FILM FREEWAY: https://filmfreeway.com/PanicFest

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Wedding favors cause bomb scare
DENVER, COLORADO- A TSA agent watching an X-ray machine spotted wax and fuses inside a checked bag at Denver International Airport and the terminal was evacuated as the bomb squad investigated the bag.
It turned out to be wedding favors from a bride and groom who's names started with T. The bottles were labeled TNT.
The TSA says while the wax and fuses were on bottles that said TNT, it was bath salts inside.
The evacuation lasted 20-minutes.
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0900-1900 | 29th November 2019 | Constitution Club of India, New Delhi
INDIA ECONOMIC FORUM
Why some economists find it difficult to comprehend economic policy?
The grammar of economics dictates that the policy be either ‘left of center’ or ‘right of center’ so does the grammar of development. Neither allow for explaining out of box thinking, disruption or even plain common sense. In the run up to 2014 elections in a conversation with Mr Modi, I told him that it is difficult for textbook economists to understand his policies through the prism of ‘isms.’ His policy eschews ‘isms’ and looks at each issue from the prism of ‘inclusivity.’ Inclusive Economics and Inclusive Governance are the essence of Prime Minister Modi’s economic policy and a few economists are tying themselves in knots trying to understand this.
The biggest challenge being faced by the Indian economy is that of a confused narrative being spun by Indian economists taking pot-shots from foreign shores. The same economists whose contributions to the present slowdown are well documented. This, however, does not justify the homily-based growth bravado, which is equally counterproductive. Yes, we are facing a slowdown and no, it is not the end of the world as we know it.
Naysayers spurn doomsday prophesies with great alacrity in the hope of self-fulfilment. Yeasayers are not able to talk convincingly about what is going on or able to articulate plans that are underway to beat the slowdown.
Articulating a knowledge-based authoritative narrative on the strength of experience is the need of the hour.
Rising yet again to this patriotic duty, SKOCH Group is organising the ‘India Economic Forum’ on 29th November 2019 at Constitution Club of India. The objective of the Forum is to use the vast intellectual wisdom available within India to put the Indian economy in perspective.
The ‘India Economic Forum’ will deep dive into the macroeconomic essentials of growth and employment; completing tax reforms by rationalising personal income tax and GST; assess the state of state finances and the impact of new terms of reference for the 15th Finance Commission.
There are schemes that have performed brilliantly well and are changing the rural economic and development landscape. The Forum will take note of, and learn from, successful schemes such as Ayushman Bharat, Swachh Bharat, Ujjwala Yojana, as well as the Rural Transformation which is underway. It would also recommend ways to scale these further, converge more schemes and undertake drastic digital re-engineering on services delivery. It would try to highlight initiatives such as Aspirational Districts whose good performance and impact may be hiding in plain sight.
Top social scientists and economists bat together for a prosperous India
Completing Tax Reforms
Who Should Attend?
- Economic Editors
- Banking & Financial Professionals
- Public affairs and development professionals
- Foreign trade representatives
- Government affairs professionals

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Evil Disney cartoon villain “Reichstag” Ron DeSantis has the #1 non-fiction book on Amazon and other bestseller lists right now, which is ironic considering he wants to ban most of the books in America.
Welcome, my friends, to the Republican Publishing Racket that never ends!
The “RPR” (just to save space, go with it) is a longtime money laundering service for Russian-funneled blood money to the RNC provided by huge publishers HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster and their smaller imprints.
The RPR has been chugging along without anyone stopping it for YEARS.
The RNC and the GOP are using campaign funds to falsely boost book sales, which then rockets those books to the top of bestseller lists.
In just one example from 2021, Texas Senator and permanent Trump toilet/bidet Ted Cruz had his staff spend $154,000 of his supporters’ donations on copies of his book, “One Vote Away,” and an additional $18,000 to promote it via Facebook ads reading “Buy my new book!” and “Order it here” over photos of Cruz.
Both actions increased sales of “One Vote Away,” which in turn allegedly triggered illegal royalty payments to Cruz that have never been investigated.
Seems really bad, Ted.
Here’s the RPR’s vicious cycle:
- Sign the shittiest people to multi-book deals (ex: Mike Pence, Josh Hawley, Jared Kushner, Matt Gaetz. MATT GAETZ HAS A BOOK DEAL AND I DON’T. More on that in a sec.)
- Quickly churn out a ghostwritten pile of propaganda that no trees ever should’ve died for, and which quite often reveals a major piece of Trump info that could’ve saved lives and/or put him in prison. But their book sales!
- Despite always getting awful reviews, the books rocket to the top of all of the Bestsellers lists because the RNC bought them all up.
- Repeat ad nauseam, because that Russian-funneled blood money isn’t going to clean itself, Ronna!
Of course, almost no one actually reads these books except the poor critics assigned to review them.
I like to imagine them sharing a nice padded room with the ghostwriters (once they’ve unfurled themselves from the fetal position under their desks, that is).
They’re then used as props to sign at GOP photo ops and tuck into donor gifts bags, destined to sit on ignored shelves next to the unread Bill O’Reilly and John Grisham books, doomed to collect dust.
Meanwhile, your intrepid contributor continues to struggle for a book deal of mine own.
Come on now, Dear Reader, which would you prefer to see on your nightstand: Jared Kushner’s unreadable “soulless” doorstop of crap, or a cool rock & roll love story inspired by the Dave Grohl, aka the best rock star-meets-fan story EVER?
I know you would.
Sadly, no one seems to get a book deal from a tweet like they used to back in the pre-Trump Twitter era.
Meanwhile, Reichstag Ron held a book signing event but wouldn’t let any Trumpers in.
Which is actually something I might also have to do if I ever get a book deal, but that’s a story for another time.
LMFAO, Ron DeSantis is such a snowflake he won't even let people wearing trump shirts into his event.
What a fucking punk ass.pic.twitter.com/dBqu8FWhK2
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Iran to set up office to tackle U.S. sanctions impacts
Iranian Economy Ministry plans to establish an “anti-sanctions management room” in a bid to counter U.S. embargoes against Iran, the chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s Economic Commission said on Wednesday.
The members of commission held a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday attended by the economic minister and banking officials, Mohammad Reza Pour Ebrahimi was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency.
“The formation of anti-sanctions management room in the Economy Ministry is aimed at monitoring the Americans’ measures in the banking sector and moves to strengthen its banking system,’’ Pour Ebrahimi said.
The Iranian lawmaker declined to elaborate on the plan, saying that some strategies to counter U.S. sanctions on Iranian banks are confidential.
Earlier in November, Washington re-imposed sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, banking sectors and its international financial transactions.
The move was followed the U.S. President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from Iran’s international nuclear deal clinched in 2015.
U.S. administration has vowed to exert more pressures on Iran, seeking to make the Islamic republic “change its behaviour’’ in the region.
Tehran has dismissed U.S. sanctions’ pressures, urging that it will continue its “constructive role” concerning regional policies.


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Final Fantasy producer Yoshinori Kitase has confirmed that Final Fantasy Versus XIII is now in full development.
The PS3 exclusive was announced back at E3 in 2006, however despite people clamouring for a release date, the title has always taken a back seat to the Final Fantasy XIII and XIII – 2 games, until now.
Final Fantasy XIII – 2 is just about complete now, which according to Kitase means the team has turned its focus to Versus.
“For Type-0 and Versus XIII we are giving 100% to development,” Kitase said at a recent fan event for Final Fantasy XIII-2.
We already know that Versus won’t be making an appearance at the Tokyo Game Show this week, but at least we know it will be making one eventually.


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Debuting on this volume 5 compilation are singers Harry Belafonte, Al Martino and Brook Benton among others.
The Best of Solid Gold - Volume 6
The best pop, rock and slow jams of the 80's on three discs.
The Best of Bandstand - Volume 4
Relive a time when music was the way of life, legends were made, and their songs celebrated, with The Best of Bandstand Volume 4.
The Best of Solid Gold - Volume 5
Once again we’ve been able to produce a three CD set for the Best of Solid Gold Volume 5 – and that means great value for you.
The Best of Bandstand - Volume 3
A contemporary take on vintage songs... While the cover has changed the music in this double CD compilation remains vintage Bandstand and there is something for everyone.
The Best of Bandstand - Volume 2
Every Saturday evening you listen to the Saturday Bandstand. Following the phenomenal success of Volume 1, 702 is proud to present ‘The Best of Bandstand - Volume 2'.
The Best of Solid Gold Volume 4
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The Best of Solid Gold Volume 3
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In 1985, South Africa was on the brink of a state of emergency.
Yet one brave radio station pulled off a historical event which captured the imagination of a troubled nation.
Mothers Day Concert At The Zoo
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The rise in food prices associated with increased exports
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman links the growth of prices in Ukraine for products with increasing exports, however, expects improvement in prices in 2018.
“Now I do not see any prerequisites to that something will grow. We had an increase in (prices – ed.) on vegetables, fruits, because the country did not harvest enough”, – quotes its words Agency Interfax-Ukraine.
The Prime Minister noted that this position is shared by experts in this field.
“Why have prices risen? Because we have become a country that exports, started our food to sell abroad, and there to sell for hard currency,” – said Groisman.
He also added that it is important to increase production of agricultural products.
“I’m in 2018, the prices look more optimistic than it was in 2017”, – said Groisman.
In addition, according to him, the rise in pork prices is African swine fever.
“But now we see on live weight – I am constantly analyzing – there is a decrease in prices, for example, pork is the season of October-November,” – said the Prime Minister.
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On Sunday, June 6, 2010, BART
construction crews will need to shut down one of the tracks at Balboa Park Station,
which may result in delays of up to 10 minutes in both directions. In addition,
customers heading east and getting off at any station on the Dublin/Pleasanton
line will need to transfer at 24th Street/Mission Station because trains going
to and from Dublin/Pleasanton will operate only as far as 24th Street/Mission Street
Station on that day.
On Saturday and Sunday,
June 12-13, there will be a two-day closure of the Downtown Seattle Transit
Tunnel for engineering work. Sound Transit will be providing a free bus bridge
between Westlake Station and the SODO Station for light rail passengers during
the tunnel closure. All Metro tunnel bus routes will use surface streets that
CTA President Richard L.
Rodriguez and Chicago Transit Board Chairman Terry Peterson said the agency opened
a new entrance to the Red Line's Cermak-Chinatown station. Located
approximately one block north of Cermak on Archer Avenue, the new entrance will
serve as the primary access point for customers while the main entrance to the
station on the north side of Cermak is reconstructed and made accessible. The
south entrance on Cermak also will be closed to customers beginning June 4 at
Axion International received
its first two purchase orders for railroad crossties made out of Recycled
Structural Composite (RSC) from Moroccan National Railway Company (ONCF). ONCF
operates more than 1,100 miles of track throughout Morocco and carried more
than 29 million passengers last year.
The State of Alaska has
approved herbicide spraying along the Alaska Railroad tracks for the first time
in decades, but tribal and environmental groups from Eklutna to Seward are
asking the state to reverse its decision, the Anchorage Daily News reports.
Calling it the right thing
to do, Teamsters Canada applauds the announcement from the Conservative
government of Stephen Harper to put the clamps on railways flouting safety
CSX Corporation has
obtained its first LEED® green building certification from the U.S. Green
Business Council. The LEED® certified building is a newly constructed
22,500-square-foot division headquarters in Florence, S.C., which includes 32
offices, a large conference room, a fitness center and a dispatch center.
The chairman of the
Surface Transportation Board said Canadian National Railway will have to stick
to the terms of his agency's original decision on its acquisition of the
EJ&E Railway, including funding a rail overpass in Lynwood, Ill., Northwest
Indiana Times reports.
Based on a successful
three-month trial run, strong customer satisfaction and solid system
performance, Amtrak is making free Wi-Fi a standard service offering for every
passenger traveling on its high-speed Acela Express trains operating between
Washington, D.C., and Boston and is moving forward with plans to expand it to
The State of Pennsylvania
has signed off on the final environmental cleanup of the former Lancaster
Brickyard dump that's destined to be the new location for Norfolk Southern's
rail yard, the Intelligencer Journal reports.


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Unanswered: processadmin role
I'm trying to allow my developers the ability to modify/execute their jobs and dts packages in production....without giving away the security farm so to speak.
Is the processadmin role a possibility?
BOL and the net only seems to say this role allows user to "manage process"...duh.
Your thoughts and advice would be great appreciated.
The processadmin server role conveys the ability to kill a process (SPID) in SQL Server. Can't say as I would be comfy with a lot of people with that ability, myself.
In order to create/delete jobs, they will need access to the msdb database (by default all users do), and permissions on the following stored procedures, which also default to public:
If I give them this kind of access in msdb, won't it give them job and dts access to all databases?
Jobs and DTS packages are stored only in the msdb database, so yes. That's just the way the system is set up. If their user ids can access all databases, you would have had that, anyway. I am not sure if a user can try to specify a different user to run a job.


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Miscellaneous Photos, Postcards & Calendar Images
Photos found online from random sources, posted on Facebook or contributed directly to this page (credit given where applicable).
Due to the large number of images, the Photo Gallery pages may take extra time to load. Viewing of these pages on a phone is NOT recommended.
You can also visit the Places Then & Now page for a list of places 'then and now' that might come in handy when trying to figure out what area of town some of the photos & postcards are from.

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Living Wage Foundation’s annual celebration of the Living Wage movement begins on Monday 6 November. The focus this year is supporting workers through the cost of living crisis, which follows the release of improved real Living Wage rates a fortnight ago.
People’s Health Trust works closely with the Living Wage Foundation because we understand the significance of a decent income to health and wellbeing. While the cost of food and energy remain high, it has never been more important to support low paid workers through the ongoing cost of living crisis that has left many people worse off than they were a year ago.
As well as immediate financial concerns that millions face, many people experience long term health implications as a result of low pay. People who are unemployed, underemployed or on the lowest incomes are more likely to have worse physical or mental health as a direct result. Existing inequalities in life expectancy are also affected: the gap between some of the most disadvantaged and most affluent areas in England is over nine years in England, over seven years in Wales and over 13 in Scotland. Decent income can help reduce these imbalances and help more people live longer, healthier lives.
Insufficient income and its effects on health are not shared equally. Living Wage Foundation research shows that minority ethnic workers are disproportionately paid the lowest wages in the UK while recent research from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) found that the number of minority ethnic workers in insecure jobs more than doubled between 2011 and 2022.
An estimated two million women in the UK are paid below the real Living Wage – almost 25 per cent more than male counterparts. They are also more likely to be employed on zero-hour contracts or other precarious work - 13 per cent compared to nine per cent of men, Living Wage Foundation found.
Through the growth of the Living Wage movement, over 460,000 people each year are supported through pay uplifts. In the third sector, 14.1 per cent of workers are currently not paid enough to live, down from 26.2 per cent in 2017, but there is still some way to go. In 2015, People’s Health Trust became a founding member of the Living Wage Funders scheme which recognises the link between low pay in the third sector and how small voluntary and charity organisations are funded. Through the scheme, we support all of the projects we fund to ensure their staff are paid the real Living Wage.
The Trust currently funds Make it Happen Birkenhead and supports the project to pay its staff the current rate of the Living Wage. Project members support one another through craft and gardening sessions designed to improve community engagement, and the project also brings people together to influence the local council’s regeneration work.
Amy Butterworth, CEO at Make it Happen Birkenhead said: “Organisations that provide the real Living Wage believe in better opportunities for everyone and are committed to their duty of care. Being part of the Living Wage movement and paying a fair wage supports a better quality of life and wellbeing for employees and sets an example for other organisations to show that together we can tackle the problem of low pay.”
The Trust also helps to fund Living Wage Places, a programme that supports areas, towns, cities or regions to embed the real Living Wage across a number of local employers and institutions. With our support, Living Wage Places are growing in Salford, Cardiff, Southwark, Birmingham, Islington, Greater Manchester, Sunderland, Newcastle, Norwich, and the Royal Docks in Newham.
Research from Living Wage Employers shows that 75 per cent of employers can transition to the real Living Wage with little or no disruption and 94 per cent of businesses experience positive effects among staff and customers as a result. The Living Wage Places network supported 42,000 pay rises for employees in 2022.
Living Wage Week takes place from 6 November to 12 November. For a full list of online and in-person events and to see how you can get involved, please visit Living Wage Foundation’s website.


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If you are looking for the destination of your pre-wedding shoot, I know that Delhi is the first place that pops up in your mind. It is just a few hours away and has got amazing sites to get those perfect couple shots that you want. But the question is—where in Delhi? Because there are so many different locations with different settings and different budgets to choose from.
LBB and WedMeGood are telling us about the best places in Delhi for the perfect pre-wedding shoot that you have been dreaming of. Just click on the names provided below, browse these great locations through Google Maps and choose what suits you best!
Located Sector 27C, Faridabad, they are an outdoor shooting studio with an extensive catalogue of facilities provided and a myriad of backgrounds and props to choose from. Whether you want a royal setting, an outdoor picnic, a gangster-style shoot or just something funky, name it and you’ll get it here.
They also provide makeup and dressing room even for outdoor shoots and ensure the most comfortable environment for their clients. Check them out here.
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Tikli Bottom is a Lutyens style Indian-haveli-turned guesthouse situated 50 kms off Delhi in Gurugram, Haryana. The guesthouse itself is very beautiful, for a photoshoot as well as a stay-over. It has expansive lawns and a swimming pool with a backdrop of gorgeous architecture. Not just that, it has the best of nature. In this place, you would find an enchanting blend of an English country yard, an Indian haveli, a fun pool and the best of nature—giving you some timeless clicks to cherish forever.
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This entire area is adorned with beautiful, colourful murals. The murals here are well-conceptualised, which adds character to your photoshoot, depending on what your backdrop is about.
It is a public property so you don’t even have to pay or seek permission for the venue.
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The roseate is one of the most beautiful places one can find in Delhi. This luxury hotel has a landscape of refreshing greenery mixing with tranquil water bodies that sprawl throughout the area, with gorgeous architecture in the background. Indoors are equally beautiful and lavishly decorated.
Though it is quite expensive, you’ll never come back disappointed. It accepts booking for pre-wedding shoots online and through the phone.
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At HKV, you have lakes and gardens and a fort—all of which looks amazing in pictures. The ruins of the stone fort and its by-lanes give a timeless vibe to your pictures. You can play with the angles, the poses and take your time without worrying about the cost of venue. You can also use the beautiful deer park behind it if you are quite enough.
Picture Courtesy: The Wed Cafe – by Rajesh Luthra
At CP, you have the serene British architecture that looks modern yet classy. The place has different vibes during day time and night time. With some extra efforts, you can turn a casual photoshoot into a themed shoot because nothing would seem out of place at CP. You won’t find a lot of crowd at the place and the environment is also very comfortable, you just need to figure out what hours and what day.
Of all the ITC hotels, the ITC Grand Bharat Hotel situated in Gurgaon is the most royal you would have ever seen. It looks like a huge palace straight out of a Rajput legend. Whether you click a shot by the pool, inside the public areas, right outside the main complex or keep the palace as a distant background, the royal vibe would come popping up from every grain of your pictures. The grandeur of this place is larger than life, though it comes with a cost—after all, it’s ITC Grand Bharat.
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Though unlikely it might sound, but this place is perfect for an old-school romantic photoshoot. The old models of maharaja-style trains and engines kept there amidst lush greenery provide the perfect background for a vintage photoshoot that would have otherwise burnt a hole in your pocket.
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If you want to be pampered throughout the shoot with nothing to worry about, this is the place to go. The Picture Destination not only has a number of backdrops and themes to choose from, they also provide a make-up artist at hand for flawless touch-ups, a stylist to make sure your clothes are always on point and the entire environment that makes you feel like a diva.
If you are hunting for a last minute photoshoot, this is the place to go!
This place has huge pools and lush landscapes sprawling over acres, lined with exotic golf homes. It provides the perfect setting for a classy, fairy-tale like photoshoot that against a luxurious background. It is perfect for videos as well.
It is situated in Manesar, half an hour from Gurgaon.
Content Courtesy: LBB and WedMeGood
Have more locations to add to the list? Drop in your suggestions in the comments section below!
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Who is Peter Bergman?
Peter Michael Bergman was born on 11 June 1953, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, and is an actor, best known for his portrayal of the character Jack Abbott in the show “The Young and the Restless”, a role which he has been playing since 1989. He’s also played the character Dr. Cliff Warner in “All My Children”.
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The Riches of Peter Bergman
Peter’s net worth that is over $10 million, earned through a successful career in acting. He’s been in the entertainment industry since 1979, mainly working on television projects.
Early Life and Career Beginnings
Peter’s father was a US Navy officer, and like many military families, they moved around a lot, leading him to eventually take up his high school education in Camp Springs, Maryland, at Crossland Senior High School. After matriculating from high school, he began pursuing acting projects, determined to find a career in the field.
He initially auditioned for the role of Dr. Jeff Martin in the show “All My Children”, which led to one of his first and most notable roles as Dr. Cliff Warner, a character he played from 1979 to 1989.
The soap opera actually ran for 41 years on ABC, and was at one point one of the most recorded television shows in the US. During the early years of its run, it was defined as a show that departed from societal norms, and so was at the top for most of the 1980s and early1990s. The show was later cancelled due to dwindling ratings. During his time with the show, his character married Taylor Miller’s character four times, with their fourth marriage intact by the time they left the show.
The Young and the Restless
While portraying a doctor on television, he became a part of a Vicks Formula 44 advertising campaign during the late 1980s, in which he had to declare that he is not an official doctor, due to a rule which banned people from portraying doctors in commercials without a disclaimer. After leaving “All My Children”, he was then cast as Jack Abbott in the soap “The Young and the Restless”. The soap is set in a fictionalized Genoa City, Wisconsin and initially focused on two core families, the working class Foster family, and the wealthy Brooks family.
Due to departures and recasts, many of the original characters were written out with the exception of Jill Foster. More families were also introduced including the Abbotts, the Barber-Winters, Newmans, and Williamses. The show boasts having the longest rivalry on any American soap opera. Over the course of its run, it has won 10 Daytime Emmy Awards and is the current highest rated daytime drama in the US. It is a sister show to “The Bold and the Beautiful”.
While working on “The Young and the Restless”, Peter also took on other acting projects. In 1991, he appeared in the television movie of Danielle Steel’s “Palamino” based on the novel of the same name. Six years later, he portrayed his character Jack Abbott while making a guest appearance in “The Nanny”, which gained a bit of attention as he shared an on-screen kiss with Pamela Anderson.
He also reprised his role in two episodes of “The Bold and the Beautiful”. The soap is known for having several characters cross to and from “The Young and the Restless”. It is set in Los Angeles and follows the Forrester family as they manage a fashion house business. The show is also successful, winning 31 Daytime Emmy Awards during its run, including three Outstanding Drama Series from 2009 to 2011. It is the youngest airing daytime soap in the US.
One of Bergman’s last known other projects is a guest role in “The King of Queens” ,in which he portrayed Jack Abbott once more. The show aired on CBS and starred Kevin James and Carrie Heffernan.
Bergman married actress Christine Ebersole in 1976, but they stayed together only until 1981, when they divorced. She is known for her work in the musical “42nd Street” which won her a Tony Award, and her appearance in “Grey Gardens”, which earned her a second Tony.
Four years after the divorce, he married Mariellen Bergman – they have two children together.
He mentioned once that he is a big fan of Disney animated movies, particularly “The Little Mermaid” and “Frozen”. He’s spent most of his time as Jack Abbott and has expressed his love for playing the character, though in recent years he has not gained any guest roles as the character.

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Just how much can an investor make by investing in the senior living market? We will examine the industry average returns, the returns from public companies, public REIT’s and private companies. (This set of comments is NOT legal or investing advice and it is not an offer to sell anything. It is simply a look at what returns an investor may earn by putting money into the senior living market.)
The average return over the period from 2004 through 2015 was 14.7%. This chart from the National Investment Center and the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries tells the story. The returns shown are “total returns” which came to 14.7% for the 10-year period ending in Q1, 2015. How many investments do you have that are earning that kind of return? Certainly there are some investors who are doing this well investing in senior living.
But how do you earn this average? And what goes into this average?
The returns include investments reported to NCREIF; they are self-reported so there are publicly traded senior living companies and REIT’s and various forms of private ownership in this set of numbers. Let’s look at returns for some[i] of the public companies, public REIT’s and some private deals to get a deeper understanding.
In the US market there are a few publicly traded senior living companies.[ii]
Company Primary Type Market Cap $Millions
- Brookdale Senior Living BKD Assisted Living $3,300
- Capital Senior Living CSU Assisted Living $548
- Five Star Quality FVE Assisted Living $99
- Ensign Group ENSG Skilled Nursing $1,030
- Kindred Healthcare KND Skilled Nursing $1,010
- National Healthcare NHC Skilled Nursing $946
- Genesis Healthcare GEN Skilled Nursing $290
- Diversicare Health DVCR Skilled Nursing $52
- AdCare Health Systems ADK Skilled Nursing $39
So what returns do these companies provide? Let’s image you bought into each of these companies 5 years ago. Here is what you would see:
Certainly if one had purchased Capital Senior Living or Ensign Group life would be good. But only 2 of the 9 companies beat the numbers reported by NIC/NCREIF of 13.5%[iii]. This analysis may be unfair, but the numbers are the numbers. As an investor the message here is to be very, very careful about what you buy. One can earn solid returns over 9%/year IF the right companies are selected.
Let us look at the publicly traded REIT’s.
There is only one of the 13 REIT’s that has a negative implied return. If you choose one of the top 7 you will do better than 12% per year! So if you are looking for a place to earn 12% here are companies to consider. And not surprisingly, institutional investors know this. The next chart is pulled from StockRover:
So exactly how is the return for the industry averaging over 14% for 10 years and 13.5% over the past 5 years? There must be many companies we are not seeing in the data examined so far. They must be private companies.
NIC says the senior housing market is between $250 and $270 Billion in size. Stock Rover shows the size of the public senior’s REIT market as $164 Billion and the publicly traded companies at $23 Billion. This implies the private senior living market is between $86 and $106 billion in size. So the private market must be doing better that 13.5% annual returns on average in order for the NIC/NCREIF numbers to be correct. So backing into the number by weighting the returns by the economic values for REIT’s and publicly traded companies give us this view[iv]:
Private companies are earning 23%. Well, maybe not quite. They need to raise money and there are fees involved. Those costs may well approach 6% so the investor in a private firm should be able to earn 17%. And there is data that supports this. As this is being written, there are four private equity firms out raising money and each is promising the investors a preferred return of 8% to 9% and an IRR (internal rate of return) of 15%. From this top-down analysis it appears that private investors are earning better than the 15%.
An investor in the senior living market can reasonably expect these returns:
- Public Companies — 4% to 20% with careful selection
- Public REIT’s — 2.5% to 18% (buying a dollar weighted basket of all of them has returned 10% per year over the past 5 years)
- Private Companies — 15%-17% or more
Senior living does offer solid returns!
[i] The list of companies is not exhaustive. It is meant to give examples to understand typical returns for each type of investment only.
[ii] All data from Yahoo Finance, June 15, 2016
[iii] The 13.5% is an estimate from the graph reported for the 5-year period ending in 2015 from NIC/NCREIF.
[iv] The 13.5% is an estimate from the graph reported for the 5-year period ending in 2015 from NIC/NCREIF. All other numbers are calculations from the tables used above.


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In a few weeks to come, upcoming artist Samuel Yaw Mensah popularly known in the showbiz as Eyoh will be dropping a new banger titled”Odo pa” which features Dwayne Cecil, produced and mixed by Jeri Beatz and Possigee respectively.
Speaking to Eyoh on Theblackmedia Tv he said, the surprise feature on this tune is Dwayne ,and these two heavyweights artists will rock the Ghana music industry with it.
The tema based artist who start with R2bees,Yaa Pono and Co, is ready to rock the industry with his latest banger.
According to Eyoh,who featured Dr cyme on his previous track titled “only one” produced by mog beat, he believes the “odo pa”is a banger,so everyone should expect the track next month.
Finally, Eyoh, edged all his fans in Ghana and it surroundings to support the ‘Odo pa’ track and expect big things from him and his management .


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Scotty Replacement Rod Holder Screw is the replacement thumb screw for all Scotty Baitcasters and Fly Rod Holders. The Scotty Replacement Rod Holder Screw simply installs into the side of Scotty Baitcasters and Fly Rod Holders and allows those rod holders to adjust. Secures the top portion of Scotty baitcasters and fly rod holders to their base.
|Length:||2.19 in / 5.56 cm|
Perfect for my rigging needs.
Does what it is intended for. Superior to the all plastic tpye. One possible improvement would be an eyelet to hook a strap through to prevent loss.

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Martindale CM55 AC Clamp Meter
The Martindale CM55 AC Clamp Meter is a new pocket sized high performance AC Clamp meter measuring AC current, AC/DC voltage and resistance with continuity test. The compact rugged design enables accurate and reliable current measurement down to 10mA resolution without the need to break into the circuit.
Features include a thumbwheel for single handed operation, auto ranging for ease of use, auto power off, low battery indicator and a hold function useful for when working in areas with restricted access.
The CM55 is supplied with Martindale TL16 test leads, soft carry case, alkaline batteries and manual. All Martindale clamp meters come with a 2 year warranty.
The CM55 has a CATIII 600V safety rating and is the ideal tool for residential and commercial electricians.


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Ancient rocky residences
Two thousand two hundred years ago work began on an extensive series of cave monuments in Maharashtra, India. Over a period of hundreds of years, thirty one monuments were hewn piece by piece from the rock face.
Then, some speculate around the year 1000AD, they fell in to disuse. Dense jungle grew around, hiding the caves away from human eyes.
(more pics after jump…)
Continue reading… “The Ajanta Caves – Ancient Temples Carved from Rock”

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9 News Australia published this video item, entitled “Baird tells ICAC Berejiklian should have disclosed secret relationship | 9 News Australia” – below is their description.
Former NSW premier Mike Baird has told the corruption inquiry into Gladys Berejiklian he was “incredulous” when her secret relationship with Daryl Maguire was exposed.9 News Australia YouTube Channel
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You may be wondering why what you think about senior pets is important. The answer is, caring for senior pets is important and our job at the Elderly Pet Organization is to make sure people understand the importance of caring for senior pets. We can’t try to change the way people think about senior pets until we know what people like you think of them now.
People love puppies and kittens, and millions of people rush out every year to adopt a new pet. Senior pets (cats and small dogs over age 7, and large dogs over age 6) are often overlooked because some people have misconceptions about senior pets.
At the Elderly Pet Organization our goal is to break down those barriers and clarify those misconceptions so that senior pets are just as desirable as younger pets.
We’re sending this survey to you to gauge how you feel about senior pets. We are in the process of developing a national outreach campaign and your feedback will really help us gauge how some people feel about senior pets and will help us craft our message appropriately.
As a special thank you, we will send you a free gift just for participating. If you are one of the first 10 survey responses we receive, you will qualify to receive a free dog or cat bed.
Please take a few moments to complete your questionnaire, and if you are so inclined, I hope you will also spare a few dollars to help us reach more people and educate them about the importance of caring for our senior pets.

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- An alternative to pills and capsules to support the process of falling asleep, or dietary supplement in liquid form Melatonin LEK-AM + B6.Drink a serving of the product before going to bed and let melatonin work.
Water, glucose-fructose syrup, acidity regulator citric acid, thickening agent: xanthan gum, preservative: potassium sorbate, vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), melatonin.
The content of the ingredients in 5 ml (recommended daily intake): Melatonin - 1 mg, vitamin B6 - 1,4mg (100% of the reference intakes).
Liquid Melatonin LEK-AM + B6 is a food supplement designed specifically for people who have difficulty falling asleep. Melatonin, if adopted shortly before going to bed, in an amount of 1 mg, helps shorten the time required to fall asleep. In addition, business travelers will appreciate its ability to alleviate the symptoms associated with the change of time zone. In addition to supporting the process of falling asleep, the product has a positive effect on the proper functioning of the nervous system. He is responsible for vitamin B6. It also supports psychological functions and reduces fatigue and tiredness.
Dietary supplement Melatonin LEK-AM + B6 fluid for people with problems sleeping, and also for people who want to take care of the proper functioning of the nervous system. The preparation for adults.
Food supplements should not be used as a substitute for a varied diet and a healthy lifestyle. Keep out of reach of children, at room temperature.
Do not use in case of hypersensitivity to any component of the supplement.
The recommended daily dose for adults: 5 ml (one teaspoon). Take just before bedtime. Shake before use. Measured portion of the fluid must be diluted before drinking in 5 ml of water, juice or tea. Do not exceed recommended servings for consumption during the day.
Net volume: 120ml.

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Philip Wells appears as 'The Fire Poet' in theatres and churches, pubs and castles, prisons, hospitals and schools, and has been praised by the Evening Standard as 'the foremost performance poet in England'. He has published two collections of adult poetry. Daddy Island is his first children's book and has proved to be extremely popular. Niki Daly has been illustrating and writing children's books for over twenty years. He has a long list of awards to his name including the prestigious 1995 New York Times Certificate of Excellence for Why the Sun and Moon Live in the Sky. Niki lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
PreS-K-A little boy finds that he can imagine he is anything in the world as long as he is with his father. In well-calculated verse, he fantasizes about being a crab, a bird, a snail, sand, and more: "I am a rock on Daddy Island/I can stay very very still./Still as a mountain, still as a hill./Strong and steady, steady and still./I am a rock and I'm stiller than still." The brush, ink, and watercolor illustrations evoke a dreamy, nostalgic feeling. A small, monochromatic illustration on the left shows the pair as they interact in the "real" world, while on the facing page the youngster's imaginary world is in full color. The story highlights a special relationship in which an adult is the springboard from which a child can leap into unbridled possibilities. A delightful selection to share one-on-one or with a group.-Linda M. Kenton, San Rafael Public Library, CA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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Mozilla Thimble is a new web-based code editor, part of the company’s recently unveiled “Webmakers” project. Thimble is designed to give novice webmakers an easy-to-use online tool to quickly build and share webpages.
You can check out Thimble over at the new Mozilla Thimble website. Keep in mind that Mozilla hasn’t formally launched Thimble; the company is still testing, fixing bugs and iterating the app.
Thimble is slightly different than other online code editors you may have tried, putting the emphasis on teaching HTML to newcomers rather than catering to advanced users. Thimble offers side-by-side code editor and code output panels which help new users see immediate results. Type an <h1> and you’ll immediately see a headline. The instant feedback is not only helpful for spotting and fixing errors, but encouraging for those just starting out since you can see what you’ve created right away.
Thimble is very purposefully not aimed at veteran HTML junkies, but for those just learning how to write HTML — which is the focus of the Webmakers project — Thimble is one of the friendliest, easiest-to-use code editors we’ve seen.
Thimble can also load pre-made project templates to help users get started with some content that’s ready to build on. Currently the featured projects section of the Thimble homepage is still awaiting content, but among the coming projects is a tutorial on editing and creating your own Tumblr theme, as well as others from Mozilla’s various Webmaker partners.
To help new users get their Thimble-created projects on the web Mozilla has also bundled a publishing function directly into the editor. Once you’ve got your Thimble page looking the way you’d like it, just hit the “Publish” button and Thimble will output and host your page, offering up a URL to share with friends and another to edit your page if there’s something you need to change.
Mozilla has kicked off a new effort to do something that’s very near and dear to Webmonkey’s heart — helping people create cool stuff on the web. Mozilla Webmaker, as the new initiative is known, wants to create “a new generation of webmakers, and a more web literate world.”
Mark Surman, Mozilla’s Executive Director, calls web literacy “the world’s second language,” and goes on to say Mozilla believes web literacy is “a vital 21st century skill — as important as reading, writing and arithmetic.”
To help bring that literacy to more people around the world Mozilla’s Webmaker will offer a variety of different things to try, each aimed at different interests:
1) Tools. Authoring tools and software, designed and built with our community. From supercharging web video with Popcorn, to remixing with Hackasaurus, to making your own web pages with Thimble.
2) Projects. Practical starter projects, how-tos and recipes, designed to help people at all levels make something amazing with the web. From tweaking your blog template to building apps that change the world.
3) Community. Bringing people with diverse skills and backgrounds together. Teachers, filmmakers, journalists, youth. From web ninjas to newbies. All making and learning together at events, meet-ups and hack jams everywhere.
Webmaker isn’t just Mozilla, either; the company has partnered with the likes of Tumblr, Creative Commons, Code for America, and dozens of others.
To get things started, Mozilla will kick off what it calls a “Summer Code Party” on June 23. And yes, it sounds a lot like Google’s Summer of Code, but with a focus on building the open web. Head over to the Webmaker site to search for something near you or start your own event.
For more info about Summer Code Party and other aspects of the Webmaker initiative head over to the new site, or check out the intro video below.
[Update: Several readers have asked about Thimble, mentioned in the Mozilla quote above. A Mozilla spokeperson tells Webmonkey, “Mozilla Thimble is the name of a web app we’re building that provides a live side-by-side code editor for webmakers — code on the left, live preview on the right.” Thimble will also provide error checking and code tips find and fix mistakes quickly. Mozilla says the goal is to “give webmakers a tool to build and share web pages and also allows them to load in our pre-made project templates with guided content.” Mozilla Thimble will launch as a beta in early June, in time for the Summer Code Party campaign.]
A coalition of 30 technology companies hopes to turn the web into a competitive platform for building mobile applications. They have launched a Core Mobile Web Platform (coremob) community group through the W3C to provide a venue for collaborating on next-generation mobile web standards.
Facebook and Mozilla are among the leading members of the group. In an announcement today, Facebook discussed its motivations for participating. The social networking company says users who access Facebook through the mobile website outnumber the collective audience of all Facebook’s native mobile applications.
Facebook consequently wants to ensure its mobile website matches the quality of the experience users get from the native applications. In order to make that possible, open web standards will have to evolve to offer tighter device integration.
Mozilla is also working through W3C to turn the APIs into open standards so they can be supported by other browser vendors. The coremob community group will provide a means for mobile web stakeholders to discuss their technical requirements and help shape the emerging standards.
Facebook also announced the release of Ringmark, a test suite for evaluating the capabilities of mobile web browsers. The tests will help developers make informed decisions about what features they can safely use in various mobile web environments. Facebook hopes such information will help developers contend with the highly fragmented mobile web browser landscape.
The Core Mobile Web Platform community group has announced Ringmark, a test suite for evaluating the capabilities of mobile Web browsers.
The tests consist of two separate “rings” which represent sets of standard web features. The inner ring focuses on fundamentals like support for HTML video, native JSON parsing, CSS animation, and the Canvas element. The second ring includes a broader feature set, such as fullscreen support, touch events, and the device orientation APIs. I ran the test suite on an iPhone 4S, which passed all of the tests in the first ring and 229 of the 306 tests in the second ring.
In addition to Mozilla and Facebook, the coremob community group also includes major mobile network operators, hardware manufacturers, mobile platform vendors, and other web companies. The lineup includes AT&T, Verizon, Samsung, HTC, Nokia, Intel, Microsoft, Opera, Adobe, Netflix, Zynga, Sencha, among others. Conspicuously absent from the list: Apple and Google.
This article originally appeared on Ars Technica, Wired’s sister site for in-depth technology news.
Mozilla announced today that it has partnered with mobile network operator Telefónica to deliver a complete mobile operating system built around standards-based web technologies. They plan to bring the platform to market later this year on a prototype device that they are developing in collaboration with Qualcomm.
The new operating system, which is called the Open Web Devices (OWD) platform, is based on Mozilla’s Boot2Gecko project. Mozilla launched B2G last year with the aim of building a Linux-based mobile computing environment with an application stack that runs entirely in Gecko, the HTML rendering engine that is used in the Firefox web browser.
According to a statement from Mozilla, Telefónica was already evaluating the feasibility of creating its own web-centric mobile platform when the B2G project was first announced. Telefónica subsequently decided to bring its ideas to B2G and join Mozilla in a cooperative development effort.
Their initial target is to produce devices with smartphone-like capabilities that can be built inexpensively and sold at the price of a common feature phone. Telefónica believes that the unique advantages of a platform built around web technologies will potentially reduce development and production costs, enabling the company to make devices that are a good fit for regions where smartphones have historically been too expensive for widespread adoption.
“From our experience in Latin America we know that a huge part of the market is not being catered for by current smartphones,” said Telefónica Digital product development director Carlos Domingo in a statement. “With new open web devices we will be able to offer a smartphone experience at the right price point for these customers.”
Mozilla has been working with the W3C to turn its new APIs into open standards with the hope that the technology will be embraced by other browser vendors. In today’s announcement, Mozilla revealed that it plans to take this effort one step further by turning the whole OWD platform into an open standard.
“Because of this initiative’s commitment to openness, this reference implementation will be submitted for standardization to W3C,” Mozilla told us in an e-mail. “The objective is that there are no proprietary APIs within the device architecture, making phones developed using it the only truly open devices on the market.”
The initial OWD prototype device will be built around a Qualcomm chipset, but the exact specifications have not yet been disclosed. In light of the focus on low cost, it’s likely that the specs will be modest. Mozilla contends that OWD is lighter than some other mobile platforms because its simple HTML-on-Linux architecture eliminates the need for a lot of the intermediate layers that would otherwise be necessary.
It does seems clear, however, that the extensive use of HTML will help accelerate OWD development and vastly simplify the sort of customizations that mobile network operators typically make. Mozilla was able to get its B2G home screen interface up and running very quickly due to the strengths of HTML as an environment for creating interactive user experiences.
Another question that is left unanswered is which handset manufacturer will actually build the launch device for Telefónica. A number of rumors that have circulated over the past few days suggest that LG will be involved in building the first handset based on the B2G project. It’s possible that LG is involved, but that hasn’t been confirmed yet.
This article originally appeared on Ars Technica, Wired’s sister site for in-depth technology news.
Mozilla has unveiled a new distributed online identity system dubbed Mozilla Persona. The new Persona project is Mozilla’s latest effort to tackle online identity management by shifting the focus from individual websites to the web browser.
Mozilla has been playing with the idea of a browser-based identity manager for quite some time. In 2010 the company launched its Account Manager project, though it failed to gain much traction and was later scrapped.
More recently Mozilla has been working on Browser ID, a similar effort to move the process of managing passwords and online identities to the browser, rather than relying on any particular website’s login process. The Browser ID project offers developers a means of creating a browser-based login system for their sites. The code is available through GitHub and while using it is considerably simpler than similar efforts like OAuth, Browser ID has yet to catch on with many sites.
Mozilla Persona will build on Browser ID’s foundation (Browser ID will continue to be the name of the developer-facing aspect of the protocol), but add in more end user features like “an identity dashboard.” As with Browser ID, Persona will face a chicken and egg problem — why bother supporting Persona when few people are using it, and why bother using it when so few sites support it?
Thus far, aside from the proposed dashboard, Mozilla’s goals for Persona are only vaguely outlined. The closest Mozilla comes to giving it a concrete definition is to say that Persona will consist of “a collection of components and experiences we’re designing to manage the whole of a user’s online identity.”
If you’ve got ideas or opinions about what Persona ought to offer, you can let Mozilla know your thoughts via the mailing list or through Twitter using the #browserid or #mozpersona hash-tags.
For those wondering about the old Personas, the toolbar background images that can be applied to Firefox, fear not, they remain available and Mozilla is already on the hunt for a more fitting name.


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A declaring declared that the Justice Department was outlawing the former president’s possession of “his very own governmental documents,” a stance up in arms with the Presidential Records Act.
Former President Donald J. Trump’s lawful group on Wednesday strongly restored its promote an independent arbiter to evaluate records the F.B.I. confiscated in its Aug. 8 search of his Florida house, informing a federal judge that he had simply possessed “his very own governmental documents.”
In an 18-page filing, Mr. Trump’s lawyers recommended that by undertaking what they referred to as an “extraordinary, unneeded as well as legitimately in need of support raid” on Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s home and also club in Hand Coastline, Fla., the Justice Department was “criminalizing a former head of state’s possession of individual and presidential records in a safe and secure setup.”
Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee listening to the demand, signaled over the weekend break that she was inclined to designate an outside specialist, called a special master, in the case, yet intended to first learn through the Justice Division, which challenged Mr. Trump’s demand in a prolonged filing Tuesday evening.
A hearing is set up for Thursday in Federal District Court in West Palm Coastline.
The characterization by Mr. Trump’s lawful team that governmental records from the Trump management were his own records encountered the Presidential Records Act of 1978. It makes clear that the federal government, not a president or previous head of state, owns White House submits produced during his time in workplace. (If Mr. Trump also had files created by various other firms as well as departments, those have actually never ever been comprehended to be owned by presidents.).
Mr. Trump’s lawyers argued that the Presidential Records Act has no enforcement device, recommending that the federal government had no basis to take the documents Mr. Trump took to Mar-a-Lago and also did not return even after duplicated requests by the National Archives and also a subpoena from the Justice Division.
” The law exhorts a previous president to user interface with the archivist to guarantee the preservation of presidential records, yet it does not require the previous president to take any kind of particular actions with respect to those records,” the legal representatives composed.
The brief dismissed the fact that a magistrate judge who released the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago had done so out the basis of the Presidential Records Act, yet on various other legislations versus hiding government records. Those include the Espionage Act, which outlaws the unauthorized retention of possibly dangerous as well as carefully held national-security secrets.
While the Espionage Act was composed before the category system was developed and also does not describe the classification condition of such information, Mr. Trump has actually asserted that he had a standing order to declassify any records he required to his residence.
No significant proof has arised to suggest that any such order existed, and the federal government’s declaring on Tuesday noted that Mr. Trump’s lawyers never ever made such an assertion prior to the search. That included when Mr. Trump’s attorneys personally passed on delicate records in response to a subpoena in June.
In the special master instance, consisting of in Wednesday’s filing, Mr. Trump’s lawyers once again stopped short of claiming that he had actually declassified all the files; lying in court filings can lead to expert sanctions for legal representatives. Certainly, Mr. Trump’s lawyers rather claimed they thought “that it would certainly be appropriate for the special master to have a supersecret” clearance.
Three of Mr. Trump’s lawyers– Lindsey Halligan, James Trusty and M. Evan Corcoran– were listed on the declaring. The lawyer Mr. Trump employed this week, Christopher M. Kise, a former Florida solicitor general, was not.
Mr. Trump’s declaring also made extra specific disagreements for selecting a special master despite the fact that his request was so belated that the F.B.I. had already evaluated all the papers it took from Mar-a-Lago. The debates included propositions for rules that would control the job of the unique master.
While previous filings had actually argued just that the special master can screen anything based on executive opportunity– private internal considerations in the executive branch– the brand-new filing likewise stated material possibly based on attorney-client privilege must also be kept from investigators. (The F.B.I. has stated it is already doing so.).
However just as the Justice Division used its short on Tuesday to surpass the slim issue of a special master to disclose brand-new details about Mr. Trump’s handling of delicate documents, the former president’s own filing at times appeared geared as much at public relations as legal arguments.
The filing began the very same day Mr. Trump lashed out concerning a photograph the Justice Department consisted of in its submission, an evidentiary photo the F.B.I. had actually taken of numerous folders classified “Supersecret” and also “Secret,” arrayed on a carpeting. The bureau was logging what was inside among the boxes an included, labeled Box 2A, prior to taking it out of Mr. Trump’s personal office at Mar-a-Lago, where the bureau had found it.
Evidently stung by the possibility that people would be confused right into assuming he had “sloppily” maintained the documents on the flooring, Mr. Trump proclaimed that they had instead been kept in “cartons.”.
In its declaring, the Justice Division had described the various ways that Mr. Trump and also his legal representatives prevented attempts by the government to obtain the files he had actually taken with him to Mar-a-Lago after he left the White House in January 2021.
Beginning in Might 2021, the National Archives, later signed up with by federal prosecutors, repetitively looked for to recoup the missing records, consisting of some marked as highly classified. Yet while Mr. Trump allowed the archives to retrieve 15 boxes in January after eight months of applications, as well as while his agents returned extra in June after a grand court subpoena while declaring there were none left, he was still holding onto more.
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By definition, a Sadist is one who receives sexual gratification from causing pain and degradation to another.
That’s me to a T.
I only play with those who understand what it means, those who are willing to indulge my devious desires.
Any masochist who seeks me out knows that if they trespass, I will gladly shatter them and walk away, leaving them for someone else to put back together.
Yet the cowboy and the pretty boy have given themselves to me. They have agreed to play by my rules and there is only one: THERE ARE NO RULES.
I have warned them. I’m not looking for companionship or love. I don’t want to be their friend, their confidante, or their lover. I’m in it for pleasure only. In the form of pain.
I am ruthless.
I am a Sadist.
And I make no excuses for it.
THIS WAS MY SAFE HAVEN.
This was where I fit in.
This was the one place I could go where I didn’t get wary eyes pinning me in place, curious as to whether I was going to do some serious damage.
I was used to those looks, the ones from strangers who weren’t sure what to do with the man who didn’t buy his clothes off the rack because even the big-and-tall store didn’t know how to outfit six foot eight inches, two hundred eighty pounds of solid muscle.
No, here in the club, I was the giant with a sadistic streak a mile wide, a Dominant every masochist hoped would look his or her way. I was the king in this particular realm, the man who wielded all the power.
And just like every other time I was in the club, I gauged the submissive pool, wondering which of these eager fuck toys would become my plaything for the evening. I would bring at least one to tears tonight, of that I had no doubt. It was my mission, my goal in life. I wanted to break them, to hear them beg and plead, tears streaming down their faces as I brutalized them the way they fantasized about.
Some people craved sugar. I craved doling out pain.
While they were prancing around in an attempt to catch my attention, I was trying to figure out which submissive could handle me. Even if only for a few minutes. Which one I wouldn’t cause irreparable damage.
I had yet to meet the one who could endure the darkest side of me. I figured one day I would find him, but I wasn’t holding my breath.
I turned to see a sweet little fluff of a girl with wild eyes and glossy lips, weighing in at a buck five soaking wet. I knew without asking what she wanted from me. This one wanted a firm hand, someone to smack her ass and make her beg for mercy while she giggled and pleaded for more. If I had to guess, she’d heard about me, knew the pain I ached to bestow, and she hoped to experience it for herself.
I knew her type. She was too soft, too sweet. No way would she allow me to have my way with her, to treat her like a piece of furniture, to manhandle her before I breached her virgin ass with my nine-inch cock. Hell, her ass wasn’t even as big as my fucking hand. I would likely fracture her if I attempted to spank her the way I needed.
She couldn’t handle me on her best fucking day.
Those big eyes peered up at me full of hopeful anticipation. She wanted the big, bad Sadist to toss her around a little, then pull her close and shower her with praise and attention.
I was not that man.
“Sorry, sweetheart. Not in this lifetime.” I shooed her away with a flick of my hand, dashing that hope in an instant. She wasn’t my type.
Not only did I want a man, I needed a man. One with power and stamina, hide as tough as leather, an ass made to be plowed, a throat strong enough to take the brutal pounding of my cock.
A scene caught my eye and I sauntered over, crossing my arms over my chest as I stared over the heads of the other bystanders. I couldn’t see the submissive’s face because he was facing away from me, his hands cuffed above his head, legs spread, ankles chained to hooks in the floor. Long limbs, thick muscle, juicy ass.
It was the tattoo blazed across his back that caught my attention. A dragon rose up along his spine, wide body curling over his shoulder blade, the head disappearing on his other side, lying over his chest.
I knew this because it was a tattoo I’d seen before.
Recently, in fact.
I watched as the baby Dom laid the flogger tails across the submissive’s broad shoulders, hitting hard enough to thud but not nearly hard enough to leave a mark. The submissive’s body was rigid, but not from shock or pain.
“What’s your color, sub?” the baby Dom questioned.
Sadist Rule One: Colors are for kindergartners.
“Green, Sir,” the submissive said with a bored monotone that would’ve been obvious to an infant.
“You want more?” the baby Dom asked.
Sadist Rule Two: Don’t ask what they want.
“Yes, Sir,” he replied, no inflection in his tone.
The baby Dom swung the tails again and again, over the man’s ass, the backs of his thighs. There was no power in his swing, no effort to inflict pain whatsoever. It was the equivalent of a fucking massage.
“Tell me when you’ve had enough,” the baby Dom told the submissive.
Who the hell was this asshole and where did he think he was? This submissive wasn’t here to play Twenty Questions. Dominants didn’t ask permission, they set up the structure beforehand, had a plan and an end goal. A good Dominant didn’t ask them what they wanted. A good Dominant merely gave it to them because that was what they needed.
After a few more swings, the baby Dom turned and I noticed he was covered in sweat. He’d been at this a while from the looks of it. His eyes met mine and I instantly recognized the respect there. I got it everywhere I went. Not because of my size, either. I’d earned it. And I’d come to expect it.
“Master Zeke,” he said, grabbing a bottle of water while he clearly took a break.
Sadist Rule Three: A submissive should not wear out the Dom.
Yeah. Fine. I just made that one up.
I nodded to the sweaty baby Dom, but my eyes shifted back to the submissive. I could envision myself standing behind him with my whip, applying the stinging burn from the knotted ends that would have him jerking and twitching, his cock so hard he could hardly breathe from the need to come.
That thirty-five-tail deerskin flogger the baby Dom wielded was the equivalent of a feather as far as this particular masochist was concerned. An attentive Dominant would’ve known that.
I glanced back at the baby Dom, who was clearly out of sorts, unsure what to do to make this submissive beg.
“Hit him harder,” I said, the deep rumble of my voice causing several heads to turn my way.
“What?” The baby Dom appeared confused. “I’ve been at it for thirty minutes. He’s not in the right mindset.”
Mindset, my ass. That was a Dom’s excuse as to how he’d fucked up a scene.
“You’re not hittin’ him hard enough.” I turned my attention back to the restrained man. “He’s not a goddamn toddler. Hit him harder.”
The baby Dom clearly didn’t like that I was correcting him. Not that I gave a fuck. It was a Dominant’s responsibility to see to the needs of his submissive. This fucker was failing in every respect.
“Think you can do better?” the baby Dom taunted.
I jerked my gaze over and cocked an eyebrow. This time, his tone lacked any respect whatsoever. Normally, I would shrug it off, but there was something about this situation that didn’t sit right with me.
“I don’t think I can. I know.” The crowd parted as I moved forward. When the baby Dom held out his little toy, I chuckled. “Your five-and-dime toy’s useless.”
The baby Dom huffed, then turned to walk away.
“Uh-uh,” I snarled. “You stay and watch.” I leaned in closer to him, keeping my voice low so no one else could hear. “And don’t you ever disrespect me again. Understood?”
The baby Dom’s eyes widened, but he managed a jerky nod.
“Good.” I turned my back to him and focused my attention on the masochist.
Wanting to get a feel for the submissive’s state of mind, I walked over and pressed myself against his back, leaning down and putting my mouth close to his ear.
“Tell me what you need, pretty boy.”
The pretty boy’s head shifted only slightly. “Pain, Zeke. I need pain.”
“Do you want me to deliver it? And remember, I don’t provide aftercare. I’ll ensure you fly, but I won’t bring you down after.”
“Yes,” he said on a breathless moan. “Yes, Zeke. I want you to deliver it.”
“Tell me your safe word.”
“I trust you to use it should you need it.”
He nodded and I stepped back, allowing my gaze to run the length of his naked form as I retrieved the whip I had attached to my belt.
It was time to show the pussy Dom exactly how to handle a masochist.
And it was time to show this squirrelly pretty boy exactly what it meant to submit to me.
The question was…
Could the pretty boy handle it?
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And That’s How I Spell "Ireland"
Searching for the Origins
"What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Everybody knows that quote from "Romeo and Juliet" by the Englishman, Shakespeare. But if a "wild Irish rose" were the flower in question, the remarkably verbal inhabitants of Ireland would enthusiastically and lengthily debate word derivations and alternative spellings before countenancing alternative terms. Ireland has long been inhabited by philologists who exhibit creativity in the spelling of proper nouns. On the supposition that each of you hopes to experience the forty shades of green in "Ireland, Mother Ireland," and want to know something about its name, I offer my (disputable) explanation of the island’s ancient and modern names.*
Earliest Names of Ireland
One of the earliest names for Ireland was Scotia, arguably after Scota, a Pharaoh’s daughter in the days of Moses. Scotia married Niul, a Gael (alternative spelling, Gaedhal). Some say the Gaels got their name because Niul was a Gaedhal (alternative spelling, Gaodhal. Something was -- literally -- lost in the translation.). The Gaels migrated from Egypt to Crete to Spain (according to some historians.) The leader, Milesius (alt. Miled), who was also married to a Pharaoh’s daughter named Scota (a descendant of the aforementioned bride of Niul, some say) died in Spain.
The Gaels Arrive in Ireland
The Gaels left Spain for Ireland (then called Eirinn by some tomes; see last sentence in this paragaffe, er, paragraph) under the leadership of Milesius’ eight sons, but five sons perished in a dreadful storm. (Three sons survived but we only read about two: Eber (alt. Heber, Iver) and Eremon (yes, we have no alternatives!) and one deceased son. (More about this later.)
About 1000 B.C. Eber (Heber, etc.) defeated a De Danann army led by Queen Eire near the mouth of the Boyne. (Eire, Eirinn -- you got it, right? We’ll get back to the naming of the island pretty soon.) Well, Eber got the southern half of the Emerald Isle and Eremon the northern half. The northeast corner was accorded to the children of the lost brother, Ir, and the southwest corner to a cousin, Lughaid, the son of Ith. (Ith this really important? "Corner" is pretty imprecise, but it’s all I got! OK, you don’t need to remember the part about Ith but keep the name "Ir" in mind.)
A History of the Name
In the sixth century B.C., the poet Orpheus referred to Ireland as "Ierna," a name also used also by Aristotle. Ireland was termed "Ogygia" by Plutarch. Caesar used the name "Hibernia," which was derived from Ivernia, the name of a people located in the south of the island. Remember, the Milesian conqueror mentioned above, Eber, (Heber. Iver -- ah, what’s in a name?) was king of the southern half of the island. And while Tacitus and Pliny and Caesar used "Hibernia" for the whole island, the poet Egesippus called it "Scotia"; Pomponius Mela (first century A.D.) called it "Iuverni" (alt. Ivernia and Hibernia, if you drop h’s); and Solinus (circa 200 A.D.) favored "Juverna." (Remember your old Latin alphabet? The Romans didn’t always have a "j." I guess they got one before Solinus started writing.)
What About the Scots?
Meanwhile, some references say, the Milesians "came to be known as Scots" (alt. Scoti, Scotii after Scota I -or Scota II, or both Scotas. Rather, Scotae. The feminine plural would be Scotae in Latin. I know a little bit about Latin myself!) I can’t tell you if the inhabitants thought up this Scots or Scoti sobriquet themselves. The Latin and Roman historians would have voted for "Hibernians" or "Ebernians" or "Juvenals." (alt. Juveniles? They didn’t think much of Irish cultural achievements at the time.)
More About Scotland
Now here it gets tricky. Scotland had been called "Alba," but beginning about the third century A.D., the Scots ( I had to stick with one spelling or we’d be at this all evening) began to colonize Alba (later known as Scotia). Eventually all the kings of Alba were Scotic (not according to Scottish history, of course) and the Scotic people got dominion over all or the main part of the country (depending on whose book you read) and Alba began to be called Scotia Minor. (Obviously SOME people were calling Ireland "Scotia Major" at this point. I’m not telling you Who!) Anyway, the party of the first part, Scotia, became "Eire" and Alba became "Scotia." ( I don’t have a clue when "Scotia Major" became the operant title and frankly, Scarlett (Scarllet, Scarlet), I don’t give . . . Give it a rest, OK?) (Image by Wighson, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
So, where did "Eire" come from in? Some believe unshakably, vehemently that its "own inhabitants" had dubbed it "Eire" --hence, Eire, Eireland. Remember the de Danann Queen Eire?(Why didn’t they call themselves Eire-men, then?) And since other so-called "historians" said they called themselves "Scots" ( after -- ah, let’s not go there again), why didn’t they call the island "Scot-land"?.
The Modern Name and Spelling
This brings us approximately to the seventh century, (There’s only one paragraph after this. Hang in there!) at which time the term "Ireland" seems to have been used by the northerners. (No one has recorded what the northeastern corner folks styled themselves.) There are those who say that the modern name, "Ireland," could possibly be traced to Ir, the poor unfortunate who drowned and whose family named the northern half or northeastern corner (who knows?) after him. (See para. 3 if you have to.) Of course, some dispute this and maintain the northern half (or corner) was not Ir-land but Irlanda. (Don’t ask what the southerners or southeast corner folks called themselves. Enough is enough!)
Better than A Song
There’s a ditty written by a homesick Irish-American titled, "And That’s How I Spell Ireland.") American tourists request it in pubs and taverns all over Ireland (alt. Irland, Eire, Erin, etc., etc.). I could have taken the easy way out and talked about that musical bit of sentimentalia and the other "Irish" songs penned by homesick immigrants. But I persisted in my scholarly pursuits and now you have these fascinating facts about the prior names of Ireland. (Or not, depending on your sources.)
©2006 Patricia Doherty Hinnebusch
* Most of this information is from The Story of the Irish Race by Seumas MacManus. In keeping with the ancient tradition, old Seumus himself spells proper names differently from one chapter to the other.
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Mumbai: Saif Ali Khan and his long-time girlfriend Kareena Kapoor might walk the walkway after the release of Saif’s home production “Agent Vinod”. Otherwise shy Saif, dropped cues about his wedding plans at a current promotional event.
He said that the wedding date would be announced after his home production “Agent Vinod” is completed. The actor is allegedly preparation to settle down with Kareena next year. Obviously, even the movie is scheduled to be released on February 10, 2012.
The 41-year-old actor, who walked as a show-stopper for designer Mandira Wirk at the ongoing Blenders Pride fashion tour, was wearing a black, stylish Band Gala suit with matching shoes.
Saif said “He also revealed his wedding outfit. Since I belong to Bhopal, I will definitely wear an achka.”
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