A government brings happiness to masses by Good governance(GG). As babu, I wish to make people happy by GG. Its free without favor. Feel happy in enhancing the social, political,and economic status of anyone in anyway. We all leaders. A leader is one who moves public opinion in the direction he or she wants it to move in.
If u can't be a pencil to write anyone's happines, then try atleast to be a nice rubber to erase someone's sorrows.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
What is Personal Social Responsibility (PSR)?
Personal social responsibility may appear to be a new concept in relation to corporate social responsibility, but it is a concept as old as The Golden Rule -- do unto others as you would have done to you. PSR expands on this by promoting a proactive stance towards positively influencing and affecting the people and environments around you
How Does an Individual Become Socially Responsible
Being socially responsible in one's personal life everyday can be as difficult as sticking to a diet. To be a truly socially responsible individual not only requires participating in socially responsible activities like recycling, volunteering and mentoring, but to actually make it a lifestyle. Only through a commitment to embrace and embed social responsibility into your personal value and belief system can you truly become socially responsible in all you do.
Embracing PSR means doing your part to help the environment, volunteering your time to those in need, mentoring our youth, and being conscientious and courteous in all you do. Each of the speakers below is a champion for the one of these aspects of personal social responsibility.
Drawing from a unique set of experiences, each of APB's speakers on PSR are passionate about helping individuals realize the importance of living responsibly. Whether you need a speaker to inspire you to take the next step, or to help you motivate your community, we have a speaker who can provide you with the resources and tools you will need to have an open and honest discussion about what steps you need to take to be considered socially responsible.
In its first decision after taking charge, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on announced the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe black money, mostly stashed abroad. The decision was taken in the first meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Modi. Addressing a media conference after the Cabinet meeting law and telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the SIT will have retired Supreme Court judge MB Shah as its head. The government is working on a plan to provide a one-time opportunity to those who have black money abroad to pay taxes and repatriate their stash even as finance minister Arun Jaitley unveiled a raft of stringent measures in the Budget to crack down on offenders. He is likely to announce this facility when he introduces a comprehensive legislation to curb black money in this session of Parliament. The severity of punishments proposed may prompt those with unaccounted money to come clean. Inadequate disclosure or evasion related to foreign assets will be punishable by jail terms up to 10 years.
Violation of the Foreign Exchange Management Act may result in imprisonment up to five years. In addition to jail time, penalty will be levied at 300% of the tax due for concealing income and assets. Black money in foreign accounts will be non-compoundable and offenders will not be permitted to approach the Settlement Commission. "Tracking down and bringing back the wealth which legitimately belongs to the country is our abiding commitment," Jaitley said. His tough talk will give help blunt criticism that the government has been dragging its feet on the issue of black money. A separate bill will be brought to deal with domestic black money, primarily through benami transactions in real estate. It will allow for confiscation of benami property and provide for prosecution, blocking a major avenue for generation of black money. The Finance Bill also includes a proposal to prohibit payment or receipt of cash advances of Rs 20,000 or more for purchase of immovable property.
Formation of SIT at the very outset and budget proposals for curbing national and international black money is indicating the intentions of the government. Government is committed and adhering to fight blackmoney issue as promised in Loksabha election. This is a good sign for our country. This proved our country is moving in right direction to treat this cancereous diseases as expected.
Delhi Elecetion Result 67 out of 70 made AAP ruling party in Delhi assembly. In this election, three main parties contested- Congress, BJP and AAP. First two are national parties while third is two and and half year old.
Now all are saying that AAP has won. And Congress and BJP have lost. No, this is not true at all. In this all three contestants have won in some ways. This election has a result of Win-Win situation for all three.
AAP has won, we all know. How Congress won? We need to understand it. Actually Congress was confused after the consecutive defeat after Lok Sabha what to do. BJP's continuous win blocked the way of congress- and forced it to stop. After Delhi election result, BJP's speed will decelerate and congress will move from standstill.
Congress being a national party, this change in situation is a big win. Delhi defeat has converted the stopped party into a moving one all over the conuntry. This boosted morale of party nationwide. Hence, loosing a small state election has boosted the party nationwide. We can compare the outcome of a national party with a local party. Loss and gain, the net result is gain.
Now question is how BJP has won. Yes,it is. Delhi is not a full state. It is basically a super elevated Municipal corporation. AAP contested and won this election focusing on Urban Good Governance.
The 3 seats out of 70 has sent a shocking ripple to BJP all over the country. Now they are bound to correct and rectify for next coming elections of Bhiar etc.
By loosing Delhi, BJP will take all coorective measure in Bihar and others. This means by lossing Delhi it has improved the future prospect in Bihar and others. In net this defeat will remove many mistakes done after Loksabha election. Particularly arrogance and overconfidence will evaporate. This loss will heavily compensate in future. This defeat is positive for BJP taken in right spirit. Every crisis is an opportunity.
Moreover we can not compare a local party with a national party on one indication of winning seats.
In a democracy the people are supreme and all authorities, whether President or Prime Minister of India, other ministers, judges, legislators, bureaucrats, police, army and so on are servants of the people. Since the people are the masters and judges their servants, the people have a right to criticise judges just as a master has the right to criticise his servant. Ref: http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/satyam-bruyat/contempt-law-threatens-freedom/?utm_source=Popup&utm_medium=Old&utm_campaign=TOIHP
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The controversy over donations by dubious entities to the Aam Aadmi Party shows up both the murkiness of election financing in India as well as the double standards of the major political parties.
The facts of the case are probably too well known by now to bear repetition. What has been established is that four companies, which donated a combined Rs 2 crore to AAP, apparently gave fictitious addresses and have little to show by way of revenue.
We would not have known of these donations in the first place if AAP had not put a list of all its donors — even those who donate a sum of Re 1 — on its party website. This radical move by AAP has made the party’s funding transparent, but it has not been replicated by anyone else.
Obviously, in this instance, the move to greater transparency has boomeranged on AAP since it had not done adequate checks on its big donors, something expected of a party that purports to be an example of probity. But more than that, this incident shows the lacunae in election financing regulation in India and the duplicity of all major parties, particularly Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress.
A brief history of election financing regulation in India would show that it’s been largely ineffective. The link between black money, about which the BJP government seems so vexed, and political funding had been noted very early on by both the Santhanam Committee (1964) and the Wanchoo Committee (1971). In between these two reports, PM Indira Gandhi banned corporate donations to political parties which, according to her detractors, was aimed more at her political rivals than a cleanup of the system.
Subsequent government panels, such as the Dinesh Goswami Committee and Indrajit Gupta Committee, recommended partial state funding of elections and the establishment of a separate election fund. While the latter has remained a non-starter, limited state funding in the form of allocation of free airtime on state-owned television and radio networks was put in place in 1998.
The two most significant developments in election financing occurred via a court judgment in 1996 and a legislative amendment in 2003. In 1996, the Supreme Court in the Common Cause judgment ordered all political parties to file income tax returns. This would not have happened without a court order since, prior to the ruling, no political party had ever submitted their accounts.
The other development was a legislation passed by the National Democratic Alliance government making corporate and individual contributions to a political party fully tax deductible under relevant sections of the Income Tax Act. It also made it compulsory for parties to submit to the Election Commission a list of donations of Rs 20,000 and above.
While these measures introduced some accountability to election financing, there are far too many escape routes for parties. One of the most important gaps in the law is that, unlike countries such as the US, parties do not have to report small contributions. This potentially means that a contributor can remain anonymous by donating any number of times an amount below Rs 20,000. Indeed, till the 2009 general elections, the trend was that the bulk of donations to BJP and Congress was below Rs 20,000, meaning that a host of donors remained anonymous. This trend, has, however changed.
According to figures compiled by the Association for Democratic Reforms, for the 2013-14 financial year, 90% of donations to national parties were from business houses. These numbers did not include BJP because it had not submitted its list of donors to EC by the prescribed deadline. This has led to worries about the hold of corporate groups on political parties.
The Bahujan Samaj Party is the only exception since it claims to have got no donations over Rs 20,000. This means that we are in the dark about the identity of BSP’s donors.
While election financing remains a grey area, campaign spending is even murkier. Though the cap on campaign expenditure has over the years been raised substantially, it is accepted that most election candidates spend well over the limit. Loopholes in the Representation of the People Act allow a political party and its supporters to spend on election campaigns without it contributing to a candidate’s spending limit. Besides, even candidates admit privately that they under-report their spending.
Revelations about dubious donations to AAP have rightfully ignited a debate about election financing. But that should not detract from AAP’s efforts to make its finances open to the public. All other parties still have much to hide despite having been forced by the courts and civil society groups to reveal their accounts.
It is no accident that BJP, which is locked in a tight contest with AAP in the Delhi polls, has had the most to say about the illegality of the donations to AAP. At the same time it has had very little to say about the myriad problems afflicting election financing. That the common voter is on the side of transparency is evident from the fact that there has been a spike in contributions to AAP, much of it in small amounts, despite the donation controversy.
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Tenants could get more time to prepare for their housing court cases, thanks to a ruling late last month by a Brooklyn judge giving Housing Court–not the state legislature–the right to stay evictions for more than 10 days.
Last July, Housing Court judge Bernadette Bayne adjourned eviction proceedings against 70-year-old tenant Patricia Menkin for nearly a month, after she asked for time to find a lawyer. The landlord, Carlton Associates, appealed the adjournment, pointing to a 1997 state law that said a housing court postponement can’t take more than 10 days, unless both the tenant and landlord agree to it.
In his February 26 ruling backing Judge Bayne’s postponement, Supreme Court justice Reynold Mason argued that courts have the power to set their own calendars without interference from legislative bodies. Sarcastically dismissing the landlord’s “prayer for relief,” he sharply questioned whether the state legislature has the power to dictate the rules of Housing Court, arguing that the courts “are not puppets of the Legislature, they are an independent branch of government.”
Ironically, by the time Judge Mason ruled on the postponement, Menkin had reached an agreement to repay the back rent she owed. With her Legal Aid attorney, she went back before Judge Bayne and reached a settlement with the landlord in August, according to Diane Lutwak, the attorney in charge of Legal Aid’s Office for the Aging in Brooklyn.
Meryl Wenig, the landlord’s lawyer, couldn’t be reached for comment, but she recently told the New York Law Journal that she planned to appeal Judge Mason’s ruling to the Appellate Division, Second Department. If Judge Mason’s ruling stands, it will be a big help to tenants who often scramble for time in Housing Court, said Legal Services housing law coordinator Sandy Russo and other observers.
Tenants often need more than 10 days before their final eviction hearing to either get a lawyer or put together the money they owe. Most Legal Aid and Legal Services offices only take new clients once every two weeks, or even less often. Getting money through emergency government rent programs like Jiggetts or private anti-eviction funds takes weeks or months. It can also take weeks to build the paper trail that tenants often need to challenge their landlord’s versions of rent disputes, tenant advocates and lawyers said.
“Given the severity of eviction cases–it is about people losing their homes–it makes all the more sense that the courts should be cautious,” said Russo.
Some property owners disagree. Tenants who owe back rent have plenty of time to avoid evictions, countered Dan Margulies, president of the Community Housing Improvement Project, a landlords’ organization, pointing out that between the first eviction notice and the ultimate date in court, at least a month or two passes. He added he expects that Judge Mason’s ruling will be reversed on appeal, since it “breaks a statute. That’s a huge step–it’s very unusual for that to stand up on appeal.”
Only time will tell who wins the appeal, but tenant lawyers stand firm that postponements in housing court must be an option: “When it comes to poor people,” said Russo, “there’s an atmosphere of a rush to judgment.”


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On May 1st, the Arizona Senate Higher Education committee held a hearing on the university “stimulus plan.” The idea is to have the state borrow $1.4 billion to build new buildings on the state’s three public universities. Governor Napolitano, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and Arizona State University President Michael Crow all spoke in favor. One thematic message: this borrowing can more than pay for itself by increasing the percentage of Arizona workers with a college degree.
Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman stole the show, noting that ASU students have a high per capita beer consumption rate, providing an economic stimulus to Tempe.
Hallman’s observation however might help to explain graduation rates. Don’t get me wrong- I drank my share of beer as an undergraduate. Someone else’s too. Nevertheless, I managed to graduate in 4 years, something 73 percent of ASU students fail to do. Education Trust rated Arizona State University against 7 similar peer institutions and found Arizona State had the lowest 6-year graduation rate of the bunch.
If we did need additional graduates, more focus on absurdly low graduation rates could do the trick. A fraction of the eighty million dollars a year in debt service would pay for a tremendous amount of financial aid, tutoring, and even the additional course offerings that some students might need to graduate on time. I’ve yet to hear the sad story of the student who dropped out for lack of fancy new facilities.
However, it is far from obvious that the state “needs” additional college graduates, given that many graduates currently work in jobs which do not require degrees.
This begs the question: do Arizona universities need new buildings, or new priorities?

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Cereal crops can quickly become susceptible to broadleaf weed escapes during crop establishment, making CALLISTO® pre-emergent herbicide a valuable addition to many wheat and barley programs.
A new label extension now includes oats and triticale in the list of registered crops, along with an updated use pattern.
Readily tank mixable with specialist knockdown herbicides, CALLISTO® offers extended in-crop residual action to manage multiple germinations until such time that growers or contractors can make a foliar application.
“The big advantage, and feedback we’ve had from growers, has been that logistical piece in that they can put it out with their pre-emergent grass weed herbicide and their knockdown products,” Syngenta Technical Services Lead James Considine said.
James Considine, Syngenta Technical Services Lead.
“They're not having to rush back to that paddock and get those broadleaf weeds under control so early, when CALLISTO® is really taking the pressure off that post emergent application.”
CALLISTO® pre-emergent herbicide is a Group 27, 4-hydroxyphenyl-pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) inhibitor, forms a layer in the soil where it is readily absorbed by the roots of emerging broadleaf weeds disrupting photosynthesis.
Mr Considine said weeds that emerge through this treated soil appear bleached, making CALLISTO®effective and highly visual, enabling advisors to achieve demonstrable results. Depending on the farmer’s cropping system, he said it made a lot of sense to use CALLISTO® pre-emergent rather than a HPPD inhibitor as a post-emergent spray.
“We don't see a lot, if any residual activity, with those foliar HPPD sprays so that's a real benefit of getting CALLISTO® into our programs, we're able to get control of multiple germinations, and we know a number of those key broadleaf weeds will have multiple germinations throughout that season,” Mr Considine said.
CALLISTO® pre-emergent herbicide was first registered for use in wheat and barley, incorporated by sowing (IBS). Registration has now been extended to oat and triticale crops. CALLISTO® controls weeds with confirmed resistance to other modes of action including Indian hedge mustard, wild radish, wild turnip, capeweed, fleabane, prickly lettuce and sow thistle. It also controls volunteer chickpeas, volunteer faba beans, volunteer field peas, volunteer vetch, volunteer lentils, lesser loosestrife, serradella, shepherd’s purse and sub clover, as well as double gee at the higher label rate.
Like with any IBS pre-emergent herbicides, weeds might still emerge in the furrow, which Mr Considine said can be effectively managed with economical post-emergent herbicide application.
“What we've commonly seen in commercial jobs, and at Syngenta Learning Centres, is something as simple as MCPA LVE is a quite economical option to tidy up those weeds in the furrow,” he said.
The updated CALLISTO® label also allows for a split application – IBS and post sowing, pre-emergence – which Mr Considine said provided added flexibility for advisors and growers to manage weeds in the furrow.
Using CALLISTO® pre-em herbicide
With long in-season residual activity, CALLISTO® is highly advantageous in knifepoint, press wheel sowing systems.
Applied to the soil no more than three days prior to sowing, CALLISTO® is absorbed by the roots of broadleaf weeds. Soon after germination, photosynthesis rapidly brings on telltale bleaching.
Mr Considine said CALLISTO® was a highly economical choice, with the choice of a 100ml and 200ml/ha use rate.
He said the higher rate offered residual out to eight weeks, equivalent to $1.97/ha, per week of control.
“Growers have been really excited about being able to get some residual broadleaf weed control in their cereal crops, and putting that product in with their pre-emergent grass herbicides, like BOXER GOLD®” he said.
“From a compatibility perspective, CALLISTO® has an excellent profile there, we've done a range of our own internal testing, and then the past two seasons we've obviously had a lot of in field testing with growers using it with knockdowns such as GRAMOXONE® 360 Pro and Kelpie 550 glyphosate.
“On a commercial scale, we've had excellent results with a range of grass pre-emergent products that you'd commonly use including our own BOXER GOLD® pre-emergent grass weed herbicide.”
Mr Considine urged growers and advisors to conduct their own side-by-side trials to see the benefits for themselves.
“The results are something you really have to see for yourself, giving growers considerable benefits when it comes to logistics at a busy time of year,” he said.
“Speak to your local Syngenta representative to learn more about CALLISTO®.”
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BY GARY MAY
Hollywood filmmakers have been producing their movies in Canada for years, usually because production costs are lower. The practice has become so common, in fact, that for some movie-goers, the game of “spot the location” has become just as enjoyable as the flick itself.
My wife and I recently turned on the TV and watched one of the worst movies we’ve ever seen. But we kept watching. Why? Because despite the bad acting, the implausible plot and the whole ridiculous scenario, we enjoyed spotting the locations where various scenes were shot — close to our Leamington home and many featuring our area’s beautiful waterfront.
The movie, released in 2003, was called Love Wine
, and was about a young woman who inherited a winery from her aunt and uncle who drowned in a boating accident. She soon learned that in order to keep the winery, she must continue the family tradition of making love in a vat of grapes. We won’t ruin the ending for you.
We can say, however, that while the film itself was a giant yawn, it was still fun identifying and shouting out the locations. There was the farewell kiss at the Leamington airstrip, for instance. There were beautiful sunset shots over the waters of Lake Erie, a blue heron gliding gracefully over the surface, and views from/and of, the Jiimaan car ferry that links Pelee Island to the mainland at Kingsville and Leamington.
There were unending views of the vineyards that are such an important part of the economy of not only the island, but the north shore of Lake Erie throughout Essex and Kent counties. And to add to the wine theme, we spotted the ruins of the Vin Villa winery on Pelee Island that was Canada’s first commercial wine-making operation when it began in the 1850s. Finally, we caught glimpses of the modern-day Pelee Island Winery’s island Pavilion and park.
James Cagney in Captains of the Clouds
Ontario’s many waterfront communities have captured starring roles in plenty of feature-length films over the years. In fact, the first movie to be made entirely on location in Canada, Captains of the Clouds
, featured generous doses of the province’s waterways. Produced in 1942, Captains was a wartime story aimed at boosting public support in the United States for the war effort. It starred James Cagney as an airman.
Besides the airbase shots done in Trenton, Mountain View at Picton and Ottawa’s Uplands, the producers of Captains
headed deep into Northern Ontario to shoot scenes at Rabbit Lake in the Temagami region. Some were shot at Matabitchuan Lodge, a hunting camp on the northeast end of the lake, where the Sand Dam separates Rabbit and Ross lakes. The lodge is still operating today and displays several props from the nearly 70-year-old movie.
hit the screen, movie-makers have scoured the province in search of pretty waterfront locations, quaint villages, bustling cities, massive forests and raging rivers to act as the locations or backdrops for their works. One of the most-filmed locations are the Niagara Falls, which are probably Ontario’s most widely recognized natural feature.
It all began in 1953, when director Henry Hathaway brought Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten to town to make the film noir thriller, Niagara
. Critics consider Niagara
one of Monroe’s finest performances, in which she plays the just-married wife of a mentally unbalanced man.
The Falls were visited again in 1980 by director Richard Lester for the filming of Superman II
, starring Christopher Reeve, Canadian-born Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman. Those crowd scenes were shot in some of Niagara’s most heavily travelled tourist areas.
Fifteen years later, Canadian Bacon
was also shot at Niagara Falls — Ontario and New York. It was a political spoof about a hapless U.S. president, played by Alan Alda, who decided to start a war with Canada to improve his dismal approval ratings. It also starred the late Canadian funnyman John Candy as Sheriff Bud Boomer, as well as Rhea Pearlman of Cheers
The 1996 The Long Kiss Goodbye
was also filmed with a significant Niagara Falls backdrop. Starring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson, it told the story of a woman’s fight to regain her memory.
Niagara Falls a filming favourite
Here’s a trivia question: What Johnny Depp movie features a world-ending waterfall you might think was entirely computer generated? Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
, was released in 2006 and became the second-largest grossing film in the Pirates
franchise. And no, the waterfall wasn’t entirely a computer image. A film crew went to Niagara Falls and shot the cataracts, then used the footage to create that world-ending scene where the ship goes over the falls.
Many Ontario locations were chosen not because of their worldwide appeal, but because they looked pretty much like any typical American location. Such was the case when producers went to the City of Welland to make a scene for the campy holiday classic, A Christmas Story
You’ll have to be eagle-eyed to spot the location, however. Several Ontario spots were used in the film to replicate Indiana during the 1940s. Welland was chosen for one of the film’s funniest scenes.
Remember the “Oh Fudge” scene, when Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) blurts out the “F” word in front of his father? It was shot on a road that parallels the Welland Canal. Look carefully, and you might be able to make out the stern of a ship called the Oakglen, which was a grain carrier back in the ’80s.
Not far away in another part of the Niagara Peninsula, the 2000 film, The Skulls
, starring Canadian Joshua Jackson, featured rowing scenes filmed at the world-famous Henley Island in Port Dalhousie. The Port’s iconic lighthouse appeared in another scene. The film is about a secret elitist college fraternity at a New England university.
Much of Stephen King’s The Dead Zone
was filmed at Niagara-on-the-Lake and took advantage of the Lake Ontario/Niagara River waterfront town’s charming Victorian main street and Old Courthouse Theatre. A key scene in the supernatural political thriller, starring Christopher Walken, featured a gazebo that was specially built for the film. The gazebo remains in place to this day and has become a favourite tourist spot, elegantly overlooking the water.
Port Perry on the Trent-Severn Waterway has shown up in at least three films. In 2004, the town served as Mooseport, Maine, in Welcome to Mooseport
, which starred Gene Hackman as a former U.S. president. It appeared briefly as a town in Missouri in Killshot
, a 2009 film based on an Elmore Leonard novel. It was also featured in Fly Away Home
, made in 1996, about local inventor Bill Lishman’s experiment with imprinting geese to alter their migration routes.
Remember Meatballs? The camp's still there
was one of the earliest blockbuster hits produced in Canada. And while it was considered risqué in its 1979 era, the film, which marked Bill Murray’s first movie performance, seems pretty tame by the current standards of films aimed at adolescent boys.
was filmed at Camp White Pine, on Hurricane Lake, as well as other Haliburton-area locations, and launched the directing career of Ivan Reitman. It followed the foibles of camp counsellor Tripper Harrison (Murray) at the cut-rate Camp North Star and co-starred Chris Makepeace.
Produced during the summer of 1978, Meatballs
used campers and staff as extras and even secondary actors. The real Camp White Pine is still going strong today on the lovely shores of Hurricane Lake. Among the real-life camp alumni are best-selling Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
In the same northern Muskoka/Haliburton area, Away From Her
was filmed in 2006 at Lake of Bays. It starred Canadian Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie, who played a woman with Alzheimer’s.
Cheaper By the Dozen II
was made in 2005 on Stoney Lake at Burleigh Falls in the Kawartha Lakes, and starred Hilary Duff, Steve Martin and Canadian Eugene Levy.
The Time Traveler’s Wife
was a 2009 romantic drama about a Chicago librarian with a gene that caused him to travel in time. But in actual fact, he wasn’t travelling in Chicago at all. Sometimes he was travelling around Chalk Lake, in Ontario’s Skugog Township. The film starred Rachel McAdams.
In the Northern Ontario town of Kirkland Lake in 1989, Termini Station
was made by director Allan King. It starred Canadian Colleen Dewhurst as a hard-drinking, hard-living woman desperate for one last fling at life, as well as fellow Canadian Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables
) and Gordon Clapp.
Speaking of P.E.I.’s most famous Anne, the Anne of Green Gables
films made widespread use of various Ontario locations to sub for island communities. Scenes from both Anne
films showing the “Lake of Shining Waters” were filmed near Bruce’s Mill at Gormley, north of Toronto. The bridge shown in the films is gone now, but the rebuilt one is identical to the one in the film. In one scene made at the site, Anne nearly drowned while pretending to be The Lily Maid.
Meanwhile, the famed Windermere House resort on the shining waters of Muskoka’s Lake Rosseau, near Bracebridge, was used to represent the White Sands Hotel in the first Anne
Disney Studios’ 1985 One Magic Christmas
did quite a bit of filming in the Georgian Bay-side communities of Collingwood, Meaford and Owen Sound. These charming communities helped to tell the story of an angel who showed a mother the true meaning of Christmas.
Blue Water Bridge, Sarnia made famous
Director Ron Howard went to the Hamilton waterfront to make Cinderella Man
in 2005. Starring Russell Crowe as a washed-up boxer who makes a comeback in the 1930s, Howard filmed scenes of dockworkers on the boardwalk of a gritty Hamilton Harbour pier.
Another trivia question: How many people know that the Blue Water Bridge isn’t really in Sarnia? In fact, it starts out in the village of Point Edward, which is surrounded on three sides by Sarnia. And it’s appeared in several feature films.
Look for the bridge in the 1994 Renaissance Man
, starring a down-on-his-luck ad executive played by Danny DeVito. You can also see it in the 2000 Bless the Child, in which Kim Basinger is a reluctant mother and Jimmy Smits an FBI agent.
And Michael Moore, whose films have been a thorn in the side of all sorts of comfortable people in the United States, chose the bridge’s adjacent waterfront City of Sarnia for two of his semi-documentaries, the anti-gun film, Bowling for Columbine
in 2002, and his 2007 send-up of American medical insurance, Sicko
starred Denis Leary as a thief who took Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey hostage. At one point in the 1994 film, a boat sailed off across Lake Ontario, off Cherry Beach. The lake, in this case, subbed for New York’s Long Island Sound.
Toronto is, of course, no stranger to Hollywood feature films, but it rarely appears as itself. Instead, it’s a favourite place to stand in for Chicago, a similar-sized lakefront city. That’s the case in the 2002 hit, My Big Fat Greek Wedding
. Take a look at the bridge that John Corbett and Nia Vardalos strolled to during a romantic evening walk and you might just recognize Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, a popular tourist destination on the shores of Lake Ontario.
And speaking of Toronto, the CN Tower has often been seen in films, sometimes with Lake Ontario spread out below it. Probably the tower’s most dramatic appearance came in 1979 in the action movie, Highpoint
, starring Canadian Christopher Plummer. Plummer’s character did a stunning nose-dive off the tower.
The charming Victorian lakeside community of Port Hope is a popular spot for making television programs and commercials, but it has also seen its share of feature films. One film was Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
, which, set in the 1940s, included a scene in a vintage soda fountain diner. The real diner is in Port Hope. Another film with Port Hope locations was Orphan
, produced in 2009 and telling the story about a not-so-innocent little girl.
Spot Galt's historic buildings, river in several films
One community that’s been oft-filmed is set some distance away from the big lakes, but perched picturesquely on the banks of the Grand River. Cambridge has proved to be a popular location for film crews, especially since 2000, when Denzel Washington came to town to film scenes for John Q
. The film told the story of a desperate dad who took a hospital hostage, after his son was denied critical medical treatment because he didn’t have insurance.
Then in 2002, Canadians Paul Gross and the late Leslie Nielson starred in the Canadian comedy, Men With Brooms
. The Southworks Outlet Mall was used for several scenes.
In the same year, The Inlaws
, starring Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks, came to town, as did Big Spender, about a prisoner who nurtured a sick horse back to health. Big Spender
starred Canadian actor Graham Greene.
In 2003, Disney filmed Cold Creek Manor
at Cruickston Park, just outside the city. The movie was a psychological thriller about a city couple who moved to the country to open a B&B.
Cambridge has preserved many fine heritage buildings in its downtown areas as well as its beautiful residential neighbourhoods. It was just the place to attract the makers of Saint Ralph
. Set in 1951, Saint Ralph chronicled the story of a boy and his naive search for the miracle that could help save his mother. It filmed using several city locations, including the Main Street Bridge and Queen’s Square.
, with Whoopi Goldberg, used Cambridge locations when it was filmed in 2006. Scenes included a large basket floating down the Grand River at the Parkhill Road Bridge, as well as the Mill Race Park area. The film was about an African-American baby lost by his parents in a boating accident.
Meanwhile, a Windsor man has plans to continue the tradition of made-in-Ontario films. Jim Shaban of NAFTC Studios says he plans to build a 50,000-square-foot sound studio in the city.
“We’re already in discussions with film production companies to bring projects here,” said Shaban. “We know there are a great many more out there that just need a financial nudge.”
Location spotters can hardly wait. Hopefully, it won’t be long before Ontario’s waterfront communities are again featured on the silver screen.
MyNewWaterfrontHome.com — December 2010

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It has been argued that between 1890 and 1937, urban planning in Central Europe suffered from a “lack of creativity.” The key in designing urban models was the ability of architects to critically evaluate and adapt imported models to local circumstances. The high level of interconnectedness within the profession was decisive: the exchange of knowledge through associations, study travels, congresses, exhibitions, journals and finally, architectural and urban planning competitions. Although the frequency of contacts decreased, these networks survived the ruptures of World War I. Zagreb, undergoing a radical transformation from a provincial administrative center of the Habsburg Empire into the leading economic center of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, is an instructive example of the continuity of exchange of urban planning models. In 1930, the city launched an international competition for the Zagreb master plan. It served as a platform for knowledge exchange, but also raised questions about expertise and authority. Who was qualified to sit on those boards and to take decisions? The Zagreb master plan eventually combined German urban practices, in particular the idea of “Siedlung,” with Miljutin’s linear city concept. This result had a formative impact on the development of Croatian urban planning well beyond World War II.


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Bombing at Iraqi military base kills 33
Updated 12:03 am, Wednesday, November 7, 2012
A suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives detonated the vehicle near an Iraqi military base as soldiers changed shifts north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 33 people and wounding 56, according to authorities.
The blast struck around midday as troops were leaving the base in Taji, 12 miles north of the capital, police said. Twenty-two soldiers were among the dead, and several vehicles were damaged, they said.
The casualty toll was high because the attacker blew up the car while large numbers of soldiers were walking to and from a parking area for waiting minibuses that take them to work, officials said.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility, though suicide car bombings are a favorite tactic of Sunni militant groups such as al Qaeda.
Insurgents frequently target members of the country's security forces in an effort to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government. Although violence has ebbed in Iraq since the height of the insurgency, attacks still occur frequently.
Officials said many of the wounded were soldiers. They warned the death toll could rise further because several of the injuries were serious.
Hospital officials confirmed the casualties. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity.


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Seminar designed to emphasize community engagement and enhance mutual understanding between law enforcement and the Muslim community
(MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 9/23/14) — On Wednesday, September 24, the Minnesota Muslim community will host a day-long seminar for law enforcement personnel titled “Muslims, Somalis and Law Enforcement in Minnesota: Building Effective Relationships.” The seminar will emphasize community engagement and the enhancement of mutual understanding between law enforcement and the Muslim community.
The first annual POST-accredited seminar is organized by 15 Muslim community organizations, in collaboration with law enforcement officers statewide.
WHAT: Muslims, Somalis and Law Enforcement in Minnesota: Building Effective Relationships
WHEN: Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 9:00 am to 3:30 pm
WHERE: St. Paul, Minnesota
“This seminar has been prepared to meet the unique needs of the law enforcement community in our state and will feature officers and community experts as presenters throughout the day,” said CAIR-MN Countering Islamophobia Coordinator Amber Michel.
She said the program will also feature a panel of Muslim police officers and a networking lunch with Minnesota Muslim community leaders.
The training will present factual and thorough information about Islam, Muslims and the Somali community; present specific strategies for building effective relationships with the Muslim and Somali communities; provide participants with techniques for practical application of these strategies in the law enforcement setting; and facilitate positive classroom discussion that enhances understanding.
This seminar is approved for 6 Continuing Education Credits (POST Course Number: 10382-0001). Registration cost is $50 per person. Limited scholarships are available. A light breakfast and buffet lunch will be provided.
The seminar is open to all law enforcement officers, crime prevention specialists, administrative and support staff in government and law enforcement departments, investigators, community outreach personnel, and any related positions.
Individuals interested in registering can visit: www.mnpolicetraining.net or call 612-206-3360.
This event is a joint initiative of Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center, the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN), EngageMN, Islamic Center of Minnesota, Islamic Civic Society of America, Islamic Resource Group, Jaafari Islamic Center, Masjid An-Nur, Minnesota Dawah Institute, Northwest Islamic Community Center, Sisters Need a Place, Somali Action Alliance, and Somali Resources & Associates.
On Sunday, CAIR-MN hosted its quarterly Muslim Community Leadership Briefing with 50 Minnesota Muslim leaders of organizations and mosques. The guest speaker was the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota.
CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
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CONTACT: CAIR-MN Countering Islamophobia Coordinator Amber Michel, 612-206-3360, email@example.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, firstname.lastname@example.org

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Pregnant Kristen Bell's House Of Lies... as she hides baby bump behind bag while shooting TV drama
Clever camera angles and computer trickery are all well and good.
But who needs that when a bag will do. Pregnant Kristen Bell was spotted on the set of her TV show this week, hiding her growing baby bump behind a bag as she filmed scenes for House Of Lies with co-star Don Cheadle.
Unless producers are planning on writing a pregnancy story line into the script, they will no doubt be relying on such props to hide the actress's real-life changing shape.
Bumping along nicely: Kristen Bell, who recently announced she is pregnant, was spotted filming for her Showtime drama House Of Lies on Tuesday in Los Angeles
Kristen, 32, who plays a promiscuous go-getting management consultant in the Showtime series, was filming scenes for the second season in Los Angeles on Tuesday, which premieres in January.
She looked lovely in her business-like dress while toting her handbag prop, which she artfully used to conceal her bump.
Kristen and fiance Dax Shepard, 37, recently confirmed they were expecting their first child together.
Speaking on the Jay Leno show last week, Dax confirmed the news, saying: 'It's true.'
He also revealed that his mother is extremely excited about becoming a grandparent.
'My mom is probably the most excited. It's an unhealthy thing - I don't recommend it - but she has a Google alert on my name, so if I do anything, she finds out about it, basically.'
Using her props wisely: The actress,32, covered her bump with a large bag as she filmed with co-star Don Cheadle
The pair, who recently starred together in the film Hit and Run, began dating in 2007 and have been engaged for almost three years.
'They’re so excited - they’re both ecstatic,' a friend tells America's People magazine. 'They can’t wait to become parents,'
'Kristen had a little bit of morning sickness early on but she just started shooting the second season of House of Lies and is feeling great now.'
The couple had revealed their hopes to start a family earlier this year.
She means business: Bell, who plays a go-getting management consultant, looked fantastic in her business attire, which she teamed with high heels
They had previously said they would not marry until same-sex marriage is legal in their home state of California.
In February, the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star said: 'The reason we're not rushing to get married is because I don't feel appropriate taking advantage of a right that's denied to my [gay and lesbian] friends.
'That's why we've been so hesitant. Dax and I have talked about it a lot, and this issue is very important to both of us. We're just standing up for what we believe in.'
Bell told Larry King in August that she was comfortable with having children before saying I do.
'[It] doesn’t really bother us,' she said.
Expectant couple: The actress and comedian Dax Shepard, pictured in August, have been dating since 2007
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Flood has been a legend in the world of producing for the best part of thirty years. Having produced some of the alternative rock world's most dynamic and groundbreaking acts - Warpaint, Smashing Pumpkins, PJ Harvey, Soulwax, Nine Inch Nails - he sat down with Chris and Tim to talk about some of the pivotal moments in his illustrious career.
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Fresh calls for developers to start on Pinebanks after fire
PUBLISHED: 10:51 18 July 2014 | UPDATED: 10:51 18 July 2014
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Fresh calls have been made for developers to start work on Thorpe St Andrew’s Pinebanks site after a devastating fire ripped through former sports and social club.
Empty since 2008 and plans for homes
Pinebanks was formerly a Norwich Union sports centre, where dozens of sports clubs were based.
In February, 2008 members were informed by Norwich Union that the site would be shutting, and more than 30 sport societies were left searching for a new home.
In December 2009 it emerged that Jersey-based Berliet Ltd had purchased the site from Norwich Union, but the company said at the time it had no firm plans and the site might not be developed for five years.
Local residents and councillors warned that any development would need to include sports facilities and in May 2012, developer Ocubis revealed some initial plans.
However, they did not come before Broadland District Council’s planning committee until early 2013.
Councillors voted against the plans that time, saying they were unhappy that the Victorian Pinebanks house was to be demolished and about the low level of affordable housing on the site.
Revised plans for 231 homes at Pinebanks, alongside 71 homes at the nearby Griffin Lane site which is also being developed by Ocubis, were approved in June last year.
The plans were for the original Pinebanks house to be retained, 30pc of affordable housing across the two sites and £3.5m to be paid by the developers for various community benefits, including £1.7m for a new sports hall at Thorpe St Andrew School, as part of a “sports hub” intended to replace some of the lost sports facilities from Pinebanks.
Other benefits included £140,000 for a skate park at Dussindale Recreation Ground, cricket facilities and to bring disused football pitches back into use, and £400,000 for a new community centre on the Griffin Lane site.
The blaze in the early hours of yesterday morning destroyed most of the original part of the Victorian villa and at its height 66 firefighters battled to keep it from spreading to other parts of the building.
Now families living near to the site, between Yarmouth Road, School Lane and White Farm Lane, have called for development to be started to avoid any further incidents at the derelict property.
In November residents spoke of their fears after hordes of people trying to enter an illegal rave at Pinebanks threatened to overwhelm police before hurling bottles and vandalising police cars.
The fire, which could be seen from as far away as Whitlingham, has heightened concerns for the safety of the area.
A spokesman for Ocubis Ltd, development managers for site owner Berliet Ltd, said: “Having been alerted to this devastating fire by our security contractors, who attended site only last week to provide additional boarding-up to windows and doors that had recently been used for the unlawful entry to our buildings, we instructed them to be on-site assisting the fire and rescue services.
“As soon as the fire and rescue services have assessed the remainder of the buildings we will take all necessary steps to make them safe.
“In order to do so, it is likely that we will have to undertake some controlled demolition on the advice of the local authority building control and fire brigade.”
The contractor, Attleborough-based Anglian Demolition and Asbestos, finished boarding up the site last Friday.
Lee Storer, managing director of Anglian Demolition, said: “Glass had been put in all round on the ground floor so we took security measures such as boarding up, making sure gates had new locks on them and making a visual inspection of the site.
“It isn’t safe at all now and we would recommend the chimneys and old tower need to come down very soon.”
Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service sent crews from across Norfolk after the alarm was first raised at 1.26am yesterday. They left the scene last night at 10.30pm and were expected to return this morning.
Incident commander Greg Preston said: “When we arrived we found a well-developed fire in the old part of the building, with flames going through the roof and spreading quickly because of the timber construction.
“Our initial actions were to prevent the fire spreading to the other parts of the building and to make sure there was nobody in the building, because it’s not unusual to get rough sleepers in empty buildings.”
There has been extensive damage to the old part of the building, but about 70pc of the venue was saved.
Mr Preston added: “It’s too early for our investigators to go in but when we get to a point where the building is safe to do so we will investigate further.” Raymond Howard, who lives in School Lane with his wife Betty, first raised the alarm after spotting the fire in the early hours.
The 80-year-old said: “We were going to bed quite late last night and I looked out the window and flames were coming out of the top of the building. It just went up in seconds.
“It was a massive fire, with flames up to 80 to 100 feet, and you just don’t know about it spreading.
“It was scary because it’s in the middle of all of the trees. Imagine if the whole lot had caught light.
“What a shame, they were the two buildings they were going to rebuild.”
Mr Howard said there was frequent instances of vandalism at the site and added: “They want to get on with it – it’s a nightmare. It used to be beautiful. It used to be one of the best spots and kept immaculately.”
Thorpe St Andrew Town Mayor John Ward, who lives on nearby White Farm Lane, said: “Most of the people on my road see development as something that’s inevitable.
“The feeling is that the plans presented are the best we are likely to get and we look forward to it being developed. It’s disappointing it’s been left for so long with nothing being done. It’s just an open invitation to vandalism.”


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EVERYONE makes mistakes. Even those in leadership positions. Even those who should know better. Though mistakes may lack intrinsic value in and of themselves, learning from mistakes and learning to take responsibility for mistakes helps prevent subsequent blunders.
During the most recent elections process, the Honor Committee made a mistake. They wanted to include a referendum on the spring ballot allowing students to vote on whether seriousness should be eliminated from evaluating cheating cases during jury trials. The Committee submitted their referendum to Student Council prior to last week's election, but the Committee did not pass the resolution in question within two weeks of the election date.
The Committee's constitution dictates a minimum two-week period between passing a resolution in Committee and sending that resolution to the student body as a referendum. The required two-week window allows the Committee time to educate the University community about the referendum before voting commences. The Committee's referendum did not appear on the ballot last week, as per their own constitutional constraints.
Though a frustrating way to end months of debate, the Committee then should have acknowledged their mistake and focused their energy on ensuring that the resolution does reach the ballot in the fall. Instead, Committee members lobbied Council leaders to set up a special election to accommodate the last-minute referendum.
Council observes its own set of election rules, however -- its constitution requires that referenda appear, at the latest, in the election directly following submission. Asking Council to hold a special election to decide the Committee's referendum meant asking Council to act in opposition to their constitution -- an unacceptable precedent.
Rather than accepting Council's decision not to hold a special election, the Committee opted to circumvent the restrictions of Council's elections process. On Sunday, the Committee created a by-law that allows Committee-administered elections in the case of referenda. The Committee could not convince Council to disregard its constitutional constraints by holding a special election, so Committee members decided to take over, violating their own constitution in the process.
According to the Committee's constitution, all honor elections fall under the Student Council elections process. Therefore, "referendum elections" -- so-called in the Committee's constitution -- fall into the broader elections category. Council has administered referendum elections, along with candidate elections, for the past 30 years. Shifting the locus of power for referendum elections away from Council is a significant change in the Committee's interpretation of its constitution.
Under this new bylaw, the Committee can bring a referendum to the student body whenever they deem it crucial to do so. Achieving sufficient voter turn-out -- which is difficult enough to do during the bi-yearly Council elections -- will pose a problem for the Committee, as will many other intricacies of overseeing an elections process. Without access to the Student Council elections Web site and other resources, the Committee will be faced with developing its own voting procedure during the two weeks following spring break. The referendum election is now scheduled for April 3-7, allowing little more than two weeks to educate students about the referendum.
The Committee has jumped the gun in its drive to see this referendum go to the student body before the end of the semester. If the issue of removing seriousness from cheating cases is as crucial as the Committee believes, it should be easy to revive it in time for Council's fall elections. The extra time also would allow the Committee to ensure thorough and wide-spread education on the referendum. The honor code affects more than just the students on central Grounds. Educating 18,000 students from 10 different schools in two weeks is too imposing a task, even for a group of highly-competent honor educators.
This bylaw change -- questionably constitutional, at best -- signifies a rejection by the Committee of Council's election protocol. What might happen if the University Judiciary Committee also decided it needed power over its own elections? What if the student body was asked to vote on referenda, however crucial, each month of the academic year? Yes, this carries the concept of running independent elections to an extreme. But it's a consequence that must be considered.
The haste the Committee has shown in attempting to put this referendum to a vote remains troublesome. The in-coming Committee members should re-evaluate the bylaw to determine if it is, in fact, in violation of the Committee's constitution.


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MUSIC OF THE CARIBBEAN AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!
This original Calypso "dotted linedance" will inspire you to move with the rhythm of your circumstance while you are sheltered in place- and beyond!
Friends joined us for an impromptu dance party and percussion jam (directed by Marcus Santos) @ Soundcheck Studios in Pembroke, MA., while we shot some video footage for our new promo.
Our first summer back east we performed Sundays on the deck at Scarlet Oak Tavern in Hingham. Beautiful days at the Sunday "Tropical Brunch." Thanks Kenny & crew
A soulful rendition of Stevie Nicks "Leather and Lace". Calling on her folk / pop roots, Nancy delivers an unplugged and moving version of this classic song.
This is the live version of our cover of the classic CSN "Southern Cross". Programmed and recorded at Tom and Nancy's studio Admagination Creative Studios, it feature intriguing verses performed to a calypso beat.


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As August passes and we move into the Fall months, now is the time to make plans to protect yourself from all the health issues that come along with the Flu Season.
August is National Immunization Awareness Month. Along with your flu shots, older adults need to think about protection from other illnesses that pose serious health threats like Pneumococcal Disease.
Take a moment to learn more from this informative CDC article, used with permission.
Older Adults Can Get Added Protection Against Pneumococcal Disease This Flu Season
Each year in the United States, about 18,000 adults 65 years or older die and thousands more end up in the hospital because of infections caused by pneumococcal bacteria. Since the 1980s, older adults have been recommended to get the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23, Pneumovax®23), which protects against blood and certain other pneumococcal infections. CDC now recommends that adults 65 years or older also receive the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13, Prevnar-13®), which provides added protection against pneumonia caused by pneumococcal bacteria. Getting both vaccines offers the best protection we have available against pneumococcal disease.
Pneumococcal disease is an infection caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria. Pneumococcal bacteria spreads from person-to-person through coughing and sneezing. People sometimes have the bacteria in their nose and throat without feeling sick, but can still spread it to other people.
When pneumococcal bacteria spread from the nose and throat to ears or sinuses, it generally causes mild illness. When the bacteria spread into other parts of the body, it leads to severe health problems such as infections of the lungs (pneumonia), blood (bacteremia), and lining of the brain and spinal cord (meningitis). These illnesses can lead to a disability like deafness, brain damage or loss of arms or legs. These illnesses can also be life-threatening.
Pneumococcal Disease Can Be Deadly
- Pneumococcal pneumonia kills about 1 out of 20 adults who get it.
- Pneumococcal bacteremia kills about 1 out of 6 people who get it.
- Pneumococcal meningitis kills about 1 out of 6 people who get it.
People with certain health conditions or who are taking medications that weaken the body’s immune system are at increased risk for complications from pneumococcal disease. This is why CDC recommends that these adults (19 years or older) get pneumococcal vaccination as well.
Having the flu increases your chances of getting pneumococcal disease. You can help protect yourself from both illnesses by getting your flu and pneumococcal vaccines. “Thousands of older adults die and many more are hospitalized from pneumococcal disease every year, but many adults aren’t aware that there are vaccines that can prevent it,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director for CDC. “A lot of adults get their flu vaccine this time of year, which is a great time to get pneumococcal and other vaccines as well.”
Pneumococcal vaccines may be available at private doctor offices, public or community health clinics or pharmacies. Check with your doctor or pharmacist or use the http://vaccine.healthmap.org to help find places that provide pneumococcal vaccines near you.
Most private health insurance covers pneumococcal vaccines. Check with your insurance provider for details on whether there is any cost to you and for a list of in-network vaccine providers. Medicare Part B covers the cost of both pneumococcal vaccines (when administered at least 1 year apart).
Talk to your health care professional to make sure you are up-to-date on flu and pneumococcal vaccination, as well as other vaccines that may be recommended for you based on your age, health condition, job, lifestyle or other factors. For more information, visit: www.cdc.gov/features/adult-pneumococcal/.

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A Consumer Reports customer satisfaction survey puts the Chevrolet Volt at the top of its list, showing a whopping 93% of those polled saying they would “definitely” buy this car again if given the chance.
CR however released the results of their survey with this caveat: at the time when the survey was taken the Volt was only available in a few states, and had only been purchased by a few thousand customers. The car has only been in car dealer showrooms for one year, since December, 2010.
The Volt is a plug-in car, requiring electricity from an outside source to recharge its battery. Chevy says customers can expect to be able to drive about 40 miles on one charge, and for trips requiring longer drives there is a gasoline engine as a back-up.


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Title: Zodiac Lady
Cat: ME AI 3048, ME.AI 3048
Format: MP3, FLAC, WMA
FLAC size: 1439 mb | MP3 size: 1861 mb | WMA size: 1872 mb
|NBLP 7069||Roberta Kelly||Zodiac Lady (LP, Album)||Casablanca||NBLP 7069||US||1977|
|50.351||Roberta Kelly||Zodiac Lady (LP, Album)||Oasis||50.351||France||1977|
|LP-41027||Roberta Kelly||Zodiac Lady (LP, Album)||Teen Internacional||LP-41027||Ecuador||1978|
|LPUS 058||Roberta Kelly||Zodiac Lady (LP, Album)||RCA||LPUS 058||Uruguay||1977|
|AI 50.029||Roberta Kelly||Zodiac Lady (8-Trk, Album)||Durium||AI 50.029||Italy||1977|
- Producer, Concept By, Written-By – G. Moroder, P. Bellotte
Very similar to Roberta Kelly - Zodiac Lady, this version has two differencies in cassette: larger Durium logo on cassette, Dolby System written on the right on both labels.
Track B2 misspèelled "Sanburst" on artwork
Made in Italy
- Rights Society: S.I.A.E.
- Published By – Durium Edizioni Musicali
Roberta Kelly - Medley,Zodiac,Love Signs,Funky Stardust. This Side One Of Roberta Kelly's 1977 Zodiacs Lady. Roberta Kelly - Zodiac Lady 1977. To favorites 0 Download album. Listen album. Roberta Kelly. Songs in album Roberta Kelly - Zodiac Lady 1977. Roberta Kelly - Zodiacs. Roberta Kelly - Love Sign. Roberta Kelly - Funky Stardust. Roberta Kelly - I'm Sagittarius. Roberta Kelly - Sunburst. Roberta Kelly - Moondreaming. Zodiac - The Karaoke Universe. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией. Roberta Kelly born November 23, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, United States is an American disco and urban contemporary gospel singer who scored three hits on the US Billboard Hot Dance MusicClub Play chart between 1976 and 1978. Her most successful US hit single, Trouble-Maker, spent two weeks at No. From 1975 until 1983, she also performed as a backing vocalist with Thelma Houston and on a number of Donna Summer albums. Roberta Kelly born on November 23, 1942 is an African American singer-songwriter. She scored her largest hits with the songs Love Power, Trouble-Maker, spent two weeks at 1 on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart, Zodiacs, Love Sign, Funky Stardust, and a Disco version of My Sweet Lord which peaked at 9 on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart. Prior to releases in the U. through composer Giorgio Moroder's Oasis record label, Kelly recorded, during the 1970s, a single in Germany entitled Kung Fu Is Back Ag read more. Paula Silver. ROBERTA KELLY ZODIAC LADY ALBUM MEDLEY . Album by Roberta Kelly. was sampled in. Title on front cover: Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte present: Roberta Kelly Zodiac Lady Title on spine & labels: Zodiac Lady. Printed on back cover: Recorded In MusicLand Studios Munich. Many thanks to: Thor Baldursson, Geoff Bastow, Madeline Bell, Mats Bjoerklund, Frank Dietz, Keith Forsey, Sue Glover, Lee Harper, Les Hurdle, Sunny Leslie, Elmar Lewis, Dino Solera, Bobby Stern. Zodiac Lady is a music album by Roberta Kelly released in 1977. Zodiac Lady is ranked 84,787th in the overall chart, 7,930th in the 1970s, and 807th in the year 1977. Roberta Kelly - Zodiac Lady, LP, Album, Promo, Vinyl Condition: Used. Time left: 4h 51m 30s Ships to: Worldwide


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January 3, 2012
Apple accused of starving French reseller of hot stock On The Register, Anna Leach reports on the conflict. ” A throttling of Apple deliveries, particularly reduced shipments of the iPad 2 and Macbook Air, cost the store a 30 per cent fall in revenue in quarter three this year, eBizcuss CEO Francois Prudent told Le Figaro,” she writes. What’s your opinion?
Sony cuts Tablet S price by $100 On ZDNet, Ricardo Bilton reports on the pricing change. “That’s a pretty big change, but probably not the most significant differential if you weren’t so keen on the device to begin with. Still, if you’ve had your eye on the Sony tablet, a $100 price cut is probably all the reason you need to invest in one.” he writes. What’s your opinion?
New Year, new CEOs at major technology companies On The VAR Guy, the author looks at exec changes. “The first IT trend of the New Year: Many high-tech companies enter 2012 with new or recently named CEOs (examples include AMD, Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard and IBM). Plus, a lengthy list of prominent CEOs (representing Cisco Systems, Dell, Microsoft, Oracle and Research in Motion) are under pressure to boost sales, profits and channel partner success. Here’s what channel partners should expect,” he writes. What’s your opinion?

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Jersey proposes to extend economic substance regime to partnerships
The EU Code of Conduct Group (Business Taxation) (CCG) originally white-listed Jersey on the basis of its current economic substance legislation, which came into effect in January 2019. However, the CCG has widened the scope of its economic substance requirements. In its report to the Council of European Finance Ministers (ECOFIN) in November 2020, the CCG stated that partnerships must also be included within the scope of the legislation.
Consultation on the proposal ends on 1 March 2021. The period allowed is unusually short because the CCG insists that the amended economic substance legislation must be in effect by 1 July this year. However, a six-month extension to the July 2021 deadline commencement date is to be provided for pre-existing partnerships.
The CCG's amended economic substance requirement also applies to Anguilla, Barbados, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
The government and Revenue Jersey are now working closely with the other Crown Dependencies' tax authorities on the necessary changes to the rules, which will follow the already established approach for companies as closely as possible. Nevertheless, the consultation notes that ‘the Government of Jersey is aware that partnerships are fundamentally different to companies and that the partners may be drawn from a much wider range of circumstances.’
The main difference is that the economic substance regime for companies is determined by tax residence, but there is no international concept of tax residence for partnerships. The Crown Dependencies are therefore proposing that the new rules should apply only to partnerships that are managed and controlled within the jurisdiction. They are also proposing exemptions for partnerships that are fund vehicles, are comprised solely of individual partners or are wholly domestic.
Jersey will also hold a further consultation on streamlining the administration of partnership taxation. However, these changes will not have a practical effect on most partnerships until the filing of 2022 returns in 2023.
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Bar 44 features an impressive location on the top floor of Grosvenor House. The views of the city are incredible--almost as fabulous as the champagne list. Bar 44 is where you come to celebrate a special event with champagne and friends.
The swanky lounge also boasts innovative cocktails that will make your taste buds swirl with delight. The mixologists at Bar 44 have been called some of the best in the city. The unique circular bar ensures that everyone gets a great seat and first-class service.
For one month out of the year, Dubai hosts the largest and most spectacular shopping festival and... Read more

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry 'set to be offered seven-figure Spotify megadeal for exclusive podcasts' following Michelle Obama's project with streaming service
- Prince Harry, 35, and Meghan Markle, 39, reportedly set to be offered 'megadeal'
- Spotify insider said Duchess could 'name her price' and 'money was no object'
- Follows soaring success of Michelle Obama's podcast on the streaming service
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are reportedly set to be offered a seven figure deal to produce podcasts for Spotify.
Prince Harry, 35, and Meghan Markle, 39, who are currently living in their $14 million mansion in Santa Barbara, having officially stepped back from royal duty seeking financial independence in March.
The streaming giant, which is worth £22bn, are hoping to sign the royal couple following the success of The Michelle Obama podcast, which launched last month, and has been a huge ratings hit.
Sources told the Mirror that money is 'no object' for Spotify and Meghan would be able to 'more or less name her price'.
Prince Harry, 35, and Meghan Markle, 39, are reportedly set to be offered a seven figure deal to produce podcasts for Spotify (They are pictured on Zoom call last month)
An insider said: 'The Duke and Duchess have been on their hit list for a while and a detailed proposal is set to be presented to Meghan's US agent in a matter of weeks.'
Rumors of Harry and Meghan seeking to gain a foothold in Hollywood have run rampant ever since the couple announced their plans to quit as senior royals, seek financial independence and move to North America in January.
The couple, who are breaking away from the monarchy to earn their own money in the US, have had to ditch using Sussex Royal as their brand name.
The Sussexes already have some experience in podcasts and radio appearances.
Sources said money is 'no object' for Spotify and Meghan will be able to more or less name her price'. Meghan is pictured during a visit to Brixton's Reprezent 107.3 FM in 2018
The couple's second ever engagement as a couple was a visit to Reprezent 107.3 FM in Brixton, a 24-hour underground music station.
Meanwhile in 2017, Prince Harry guest edited BBC Radio 4's Today show, while has a starring role in a new Netflix documentary Rising Phoenix, which was released on Wednesday.
And this week Meghan took part in an online chat with Gloria Steinem hosted by Makers Women, to discuss feminism, oppression and the importance of voting in the upcoming US election.
The news that the couple may start a podcast comes after reports emerged Prince Harry and Meghan are quietly shopping a top secret project to network executives as they settle into their new life in Hollywood.
Harry also has experience in TV and radio. In 2017, the father-of-one guest edited BBC Radio 4's Today show (pictured)
Sources told Variety that the former royal couple began pitching their idea to 'numerous' media companies back in June, around the time that they purchased a sprawling estate in Santa Barbara.
Very few details are known about the project, including the concept behind it and whether it would be a TV series or some other format.
However, one source with knowledge of the idea said Harry and Meghan intend to serve as joint producers on the venture should it get picked up.
The decision to work in podcasts would be another move reminiscent of former US president Barack Obama and his lawyer wife Michelle.
Earlier this week Meghan took part in an online chat with Gloria Steinem hosted by Makers Women, to discuss feminism, oppression and the importance of voting in the upcoming US election
In January, sources confirmed the couple had discussed their plans with the former US president and his wife and wanted to mimic the way they had managed to build a successful, but dignified, life for themselves after the White House.
Since leaving the White House, the Obamas have earned a small fortune by selling rights to their autobiographies and setting up their own production company, which has bagged a lucrative deal with Netflix.
A source said: ‘They have found huge commercial success without actually looking like they are getting their hands dirty, to put it bluntly, and retaining their popularity.
‘In fact it is fair to say that their star has soared since leaving the White House, particularly Michelle’s, and this is something Meghan admires very, very much.’
The move would be reminiscent of Michelle Obama, who has also launched a podcast on Spotify. It focused on meaningful relationships and debuted on July 29
After stepping down as senior members of the Firm in March, the couple signed with New York-based Harry Walker Agency in June, which represents the Obamas and the Clintons.
Finding Freedom co-author Omid Scobie also claimed the couple have big plans for the next few years, and are basing their working model on the Obamas.
He said their plans were 'not too dissimilar' from what the former president created after leaving the White House and setting up Higher Ground production company.
He pointed to the Obama's multiyear production deal with Netflix to produce films and documentaries covering topics like race, class and civil rights.
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