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Local coupon site pulls concealed carry permit deal
CHANDLER, Ariz. -- Just days after a promotion was launched involving Deal Chicken and Desert Valley Firearms, the online coupon site has pulled the plug.
Desert Valley Firearms offered a $39 handgun safety training course that was big step toward getting a concealed handgun permit through the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Owner Dale Roddy said he received calls and emails from Deal Chicken on Tuesday informing him the deal was off.
"They told me basically the culture is changing."
Living Social cancelled the same deal on Dec. 14, the day of the Connecticut school shooting.
Roddy believes that simply means Deal Chicken and Living Social feared backlash after the Sandy Hook school shooting and the increasing talk of tighter gun control, including a possible ban on assault weapons and extended ammunition clips.
"I'm just trying to teach people responsible use of handguns," he said. "That's what we're preaching, nothing more. How to follow the laws. Learn what works and doesn't work."
Roddy said firearms dealers have been unfairly attacked since the school shootings and some callers opposed to guns have been filled with venom.
"One lady calling from Connecticut called me a merchant of death," he said. "Anybody who knows me knows that I am not. It takes a toll emotionally and I understand what the families in Connecticut feel like. I lost two family members to gunfire. The reality is that the anti-gun movement puts a panic into the public and they want more guns, bullets, everything. It achieves the opposite of what they're trying to do."
Roddy said he will take a loss, but he will keep offering the $39 course which usually carries a price tag of $100 without Deal Chicken and Living Social "until the end of time if it helps train people how to be safe with handguns."
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Rep. Paul Ryan, known for his sweeping budget proposals and passion for economics, was born on Jan. 29, 1970, to Paul Ryan Sr. and Betty Ryan. The vice presidential candidate and running mate to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney described Janesville -- the Wisconsin town where he grew up and where he, his wife and their children now live -- in his speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention.
Ryan lost his father early: At age 16, he discovered Paul Sr. dead of a heart attack. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Miami University in Ohio, in 1992. Ryan married Janna Little in 2000, and they have three children: a daughter, Liza, and two sons, Charlie and Sam.
After college, Ryan went to work on (and near) Capitol Hill, and during that era of his life, Jack Kemp became a mentor. When Ryan returned to Wisconsin, he briefly worked for his relatives’ construction business and then ran for office. He was first elected to his seat in Congress in 1998, at age 28.
As an up-and-coming influence among the House GOP, Ryan penned a 2010 book – “Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders” – with fellow Republican Congressmen Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy. In 2011, Ryan delivered the Republicans’ official response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.
Now chairman of the House Budget Committee, his budget proposals have become his calling card on the national stage. He’s called for a focus on national debt, an overhaul of entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, and major changes to the tax code, among other things.
Romney announced Ryan as his running mate in August 2012.
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Bowyer combines humor, serious racing in sports car debut
Sports car rookie holds his own against experienced drivers
You could call Clint Bowyer the clown price of the Rolex 24 -- but for one thing.
Yes, Bowyer had the media center in stitches after his first stint in the AF Waltrip Ferrari 458. On the track, however, in his first sports car competition, Bowyer showed some serious speed, as he and teammates Rob Kauffman, Michael Waltrip and Rui Aguas finished eighth in the GT classification and 16th overall in GRAND-AM's most prestigious race.
Bowyer may downplay his own contribution, but don't kid yourself. He won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event last June at Sonoma Raceway with a near-perfect drive. On Saturday and Sunday at Daytona International Speedway, Bowyer held his own against some of the world's most talented and experienced sports car drivers.
But that didn't mean he couldn't lighten the mood of reporters facing a long night of race coverage.
Bowyer paid a visit to the media center after his first stint on the track. That was at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, four hours into the race.
"What time is it anyway--7:30?" Bowyer asked. "We're almost to halfway, right? Who came up with the idea of a 24-hour race anyway?"
Herb Branham, NASCAR's managing director of communications for GRAND-AM Road Racing, informed Bowyer that the vision for the Rolex 24 came from NASCAR founder Bill France Sr.
"That's pretty cool then!" Bowyer replied.
If NASCAR had a statistical category for "saves," Bowyer would be the early-season leader.
Bowyer also had issues trying to understand the Italian engineers on his team radio. The AF Waltrip team is a collaboration between Michael Waltrip Racing and an AF Corse organization, based in Italy, that has raced to considerable international acclaim..
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Extent and content of the programme
Master of Science in Engineering and of Education (CL), Study programme for batch Autumn 09
Last edit: 26/02/2013
Approved: 26/02/2013
The program Master of Science in Engineering and of Education (CL) is established at KTH and is given in cooperation with the Stockholm University (Teacher Training). The programme gives the student two degrees on the second level, a Master of Science in Engineering from KTH with one of the subject-combinations mathematics/physics, mathematics/computer science and mathematics/chemistry, and a teaching degree from SU with the corresponding specialisations.
The programme consists of 300 higher education credits and is normally divided into 5 years/10 terms.
The programme has three subject-combinations; mathematics/physics, mathematics/computer science and mathematics/chemistry, where the first year of the programme is common to all combinations. Choice of subject-combination is done at the time of application to the programme.
The programme is given mainly in Swedish, but courses in English can occur during the programme. Usage of English course literature may occur during the entire programme.
The programme combines pedagogy, communication and teaching with the Master of Science in Engineering’s ability to assimilate new knowledge and solve problems. This prepares the student for the work market in school as well as in knowledge companies and industry. The programme gives competencies to work as a teacher, especially within high schools and adult education institutions. Also, the Master of Science in Engineering’s work area and carrier path stands open.
The programme consists of the following parts:
Around 180 higher education credits mathematics and physics, computer science or chemistry including subject didactics corresponding to 30 higher education credits within the respective subject-combination.
45 higher education credits in the general education area (pedagogy, didactics, special-pedagogy, child- and youth-science)
Around 35 higher education credits in interdisciplinary courses in relation to technology, communication and learning.
A smaller allocation of about 10 higher education credits for further subject specialisation or studies within the complementing areas, for example, project management
An interdisciplinary degree project within the area technology and learning, about 30 higher education credits.
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By: Dan MeadeProvided by WorldNow
General Motors has unveiled the production version of the Chevrolet Volt, giving the world its first look at the highly anticipated plug-in hybrid.
Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of GM, spoke of the unveiling of the Volt as a landmark in the history of GM, which is currently celebrating its hundredth."
Designing the Look and Feel of the Volt
The Volt, which promises to carry an electric charge for 40 miles before switching to its gasoline/E85-powered engine, provided unique design challenges to GM. To lengthen the effectiveness of the battery's charge, the aerodynamics of the Volt played a large role in its overall design and appearance.
GM's design teams spent hundreds of hours testing the Volt in wind tunnels to minimize the amount of power that would be needed to fight off wind resistance. The Volt's rounded and flush front fascia, tapered corners and grille were designed to enable air to move easily around the car. The sharp rear edges and carefully designed spoiler allow air to flow off the car quickly, and an aggressive rake on the windshield and back glass help reduce turbulence and drag.
GM has not spent all of its time designing the exterior of the Volt. Built to comfortably seat four, some of the technological features that can be found inside the Volt are:
How the Volt is Powered
The Chevrolet Volt is powered by more than 220 lithium-ion cells inside of its 16-kWh lithium-ion electric battery. Once the battery's initial charge is depleted after 40 miles, the gasoline/E85 engine kicks in and recharges the battery, allowing the Volt to travel for several hundred miles before it needs to be plugged in again to be recharged.
If you are wondering why the Volt has been engineered to carry an electric charge that will last for 40 miles, the answer is rather simple. Based on GM's research, the average commute between home and work for most Americans is 40 miles. Therefore, with the exception of the occasional longer drive, most Volt owners would only rarely use the gasoline/E85 engine of the car, making trips to the gas station few and far between.
The Chevrolet Volt can be plugged into a standard household 120 volt outlet or use a 240 volt outlet to be charged. The battery can be charged in about eight hours at 120 volts or in less than three hours at 240 volts, meaning that if you were to return home from work with an "empty" battery and plugged the Volt in overnight, it would be fully charged by morning.
By GM's estimates, a full charge of 40 miles will cost about 80 cents per day (at a rate of10 cents per kWh) - meaning that a day's worth of driving a Volt will be less expensive than a cup of coffee. Spread out over the course of a year, charging the Volt daily will consume less electricity than the average home's refrigerator and freezer units.
The Volt will deliver the equivalent of 150 horsepower, 273 lb-ft. (370 Nm) of instant torque, and a top speed of 100 miles per hour. Because it is powered by electricity and not by a traditional gasoline engine, combined with the use of special sound-deadening materials, the Volt will be an extremely quiet vehicle to drive.
Production of the Volt is scheduled to begin late 2010 at GM's Detroit-Hamtramck manufacturing facility. Pricing has not yet been announced.
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Criminal past surrounds 18-year-old killed in pawnshop
A criminal past surrounds the 18-year-old shot and killed by a Las Vegas pawnshop employee. Video by ktnv.comvideo
One man was killed in a shooting at a pawn shop in northwest Las Vegas on Wednesday morning. Video by ktnv.comvideo
One person was killed during a shooting in an attempted robbery at a pawn shop in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Video by ktnv.comvideo
Followup to pawn shop shootout in Centennial Hills Video by ktnv.comvideo
Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) - A criminal past surrounds the 18-year-old shot and killed by a Las Vegas pawnshop employee.
Police believe Jhalon Glass had plans to rob the northwest valley store at gunpoint, and this wasn't his first run in with the law.
Documents show Glass was arrested on grand larceny and burglary charges in July.
An arrest report for that incident alleges Glass stole an employee's personal cell phone at a sales kiosk inside the Fashion Show Mall. It also alleges that he shoplifted from the Hollister store.
In the report, the teen explains that he did not have any money and he wanted to get money to buy food.
The Clark County District Attorney's Office says he was also due in court on January 9th, 2012, for pending charges of receiving stolen property and possession of marijuana. Those charges stem from a November arrest in North Las Vegas.
According to the DA's office, Glass had a juvenile record as well.
There's nothing on his record that trumps the crime police say he attempted to carry out Wednesday.
Investigators allege Glass had a gun as he walked into the Cash America SuperPawn Store, near Durango and Elkhorn.
He was met with a store clerk who wasn't taking any chances, reportedly pulling out a gun and firing. Police say the clerk and Glass exchanged gunfire, but the clerk was not hit.
At least two other customers were also in the store although they were not harmed.
Neighbors on Timothy Court in North Las Vegas recall Glass and his family moving out of their rental home a couple of weeks ago.
While they haven't seen Glass in weeks, numerous neighbors say Glass has left his mark on their cul-de-sac. Those neighbors point to the many skid marks from donuts they remember Glass doing in his car.
"It just caused smoke, and it was kind of obnoxious. I tried to talk to him about it once, and it was a little bit of a confrontation," said neighbor Luke Langley.
Luke Langley viewed Glass as a nuisance at times, but he didn't look at the 18-year-old as a dangerous criminal.
He says Glass's mother tried to watch after her son and even apologized for what he was doing in his car.
"She said he might have had a bit too much to drink," added Langley. "[She said] he does that from time to time."
Across town, in a gated community near Flamingo and Durango, neighbors say Glass often spent time at his grandmother's.
"I never saw any problem while he was here, other than someone being 18," said neighbor Anthony Liso. "Whenever I saw him, it was hello, how are you? Great family, and it's terrible."
Family members inside a home in that gated community did not want to comment.
"I've been in Vegas since 1973. Nothing surprises me about Las Vegas anymore. With the unemployment and the housing I think people are on edge, ready to blow up."
Liso said the teen always appeared to be surrounded by a supportive family.
Investigators continue to investigate the shooting that ended in Glass' death.
The Clark County Coroner's Office says Glass died from gunshot wounds to his head and chest. Police say they do not anticipate recommending charges against the Clerk who killed the 18-year-old.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KTSF by Lynne Ku)
In the past month, there has been ten pedestrian-involved accidents in San Francisco’s Richmond District, according to Keith Sanford, Captain of Richmond Station of SFPD. The latest incident happened just last week when an elderly person was hit by a car crossing the street in the early morning. Police and The Richmond District Police Advisory Board announced today a pedestrian safety campaign to raise awareness in the community regarding the rules of the road.
David Lee, the chairman of The Richmond District Police Advisory Board, says: ” Cars are going too fast. People need to slow down. Pedestrian need to be smart when they are crossing the street. They need to watch both ways. They can’t assume anything.”
According to the traffic law, the fine for a pedestrian crossing the street at a red light is $108.00. A pedestrian must return to the curb or stand on the median when a light is yellow or the red hand is flashing. For the motorist, the fine for not waiting for a pedestrian who is in a crosswalk is $146.00.
More information (according to The Richmond District Police Advisory Board):
- Rule #1: Assume Nothing. You never know what a person driving, cycling or walking near you is going to do.
- For Motorists: Pedestrians Go First
- For Pedestrian: Wait for Green Light
- For Cyclists: Cycles Are Vehicles
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Valentine's Day is traditionally a day in which people express their love to one another by presenting gifts, such as cards, candy, flowers and other symbols of love. The spirit of love continues today with even young children exchanging valentine's cards with their fellow classmates.
Ever wonder how much candy Americans consume in a year or how much revenue dating services pull in each year? Here's a look at some fun facts, as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau and the United States Department of Agriculture:
Candy
1,317Number of U.S. manufacturing establishments that produced chocolate and cocoa products in 2008, employing 38,369 people. California led the nation in the number of chocolate and cocoa manufacturing establishments, with 146, followed by Pennsylvania, with 115.
422Number of U.S. establishments that manufactured non-chocolate confectionary products in 2008. These establishments employed 16,860 people. California led the nation in this category, with
$12.2 billionTotal value of shipments in 2008 for firms producing chocolate and cocoa products. Non-chocolate confectionery product manufacturing, meanwhile, was a $7.1 billion industry.
24.3 poundsPer capita consumption of candy by Americans in 2009.
Flowers
$359 millionThe combined wholesale value of domestically produced cut flowers in 2009 for all flower-producing operations with $100,000 or more in sales. Among states, California was the leading producer, alone accounting for about three-quarters of this amount ($269 million).
$18 millionThe combined wholesale value of domestically produced cut roses in 2009 for all operations with $100,000 or more in sales.
18,509The number of florists nationwide in 2008. These businesses employed 89,741 people.
"Please Be Mine"
2.1 millionThe number of marriages that took place in the United States in 2009. That breaks down to nearly 5,800 a day.
108,150The number of marriages performed in Nevada during 2009. So many couples tie the knot in the Silver State that it ranked fifth nationally in marriages, even though its total population that year among states was 35th. (California ranked first in marriages.)
28.2 and 26.1 years Median age at first marriage in 2010 for men and women, respectively.
54.1%The overall percentage of adults who reported being married.69%Percentage of people 15 years and older in 2010.
Looking for Love
393The number of dating service establishments nationwide as of 2007. These establishments, which include Internet dating services, employed 3,125 people and pulled in $927 million in revenue.
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By the editors of The Daily Dog From The Dog Daily
Q: I've seen owners dancing with their dogs, doing some really cool moves. I'm not interested in competitions for this, but I would still like to train my dog to dance with me. Any tips?
A: Dog dancing, also known as musical canine freestyle, mixes dog obedience and tricks with creativity, costumes and more. You and your dog can, of course, skip the visual flash associated with competitions and just focus on the basics.
According to Kyra Sundance, author of Do More With Your Dog, every breed of dog can excel at dancing. However, some of the top dogs have been border collies, golden retrievers, poodles and various mixed breeds, she says.
To begin, Sundance advises that you select a short musical piece of about one to two minutes that reflects your dog's energy and pace. High-energy pups would do better with a very up-tempo song, while a lower-energy dog would do better with slower music. "Choreograph a routine and break it into pieces of two or three moves," she suggests. "Train these pieces as a sequence." your dog learns to greet guests in this manner, with paws on one arm, the individual will feel welcomed -- not threatened.
For the dance move, it's best to start on your knees at dog level. Raise one arm and lure your dog's head upward with a treat held by the opposite hand. Your dog might put its paws on your arm by itself, or you may have to do some gentle coaxing with your hands. Once your dog is in the desired position, provide a food treat. Repeat this a few times while using the verbal cue "Paws up." When your dog gets the knack of this, stand up and repeat the exercise just as before. Voila! Your dog is in dance partner position.
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Buckner-Webb honored as Idaho Mother of the Year
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 7:09 PM
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If the Los Angeles Clippers want home court advantage in the playoffs, things will need to change in a hurry. Los Angeles has lost four of its last seven games heading into Wednesday's matchup against the visiting Philadelphia 76ers, who appear determined to end the season on a strong note. The Clippers dropped into fifth place in the Western Conference after losing 116-101 at Sacramento on Tuesday.Of course, Philadelphia would love to have the Clippers' problems. Instead, the team is left answering questions about center Andrew Bynum, who decided earlier this week to have season-ending surgery on both of his ailing knees. Bynum's announcement means the talented center will go the entire season without playing a single game for the Sixers, who acquired him during the offseason as part of a blockbuster four-team trade.TV: 10:30 p.m. ET, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, Prime Ticket (Los Angeles)ABOUT THE 76ERS (26-40): Philadelphia has won three of its last four games, including a 101-100 victory over Portland on Monday, hours after Bynum's announcement. Bynum will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season, so the Sixers need to decide if they want to offer the 25-year-old injury risk a new contract after paying him $16.9 million this season. Philadelphia closes out the season with 12 of its final 16 games on the road, where the Sixers have lost 13 in a row since Jan. 1.ABOUT THE CLIPPERS (46-22): Los Angeles has won four of its last six games against the Sixers, and the Clippers cruised to a 107-90 win on Feb. 11. Point guard Chris Paul had 21 points and 11 assists in the first matchup, but he's coming off a dismal game against Sacramento. Paul missed eight of his 10 shots and had 11 points in 44 minutes against the Kings, who made 14 shots from beyond the arc. The Clippers have allowed at least 100 points in four of their last seven games. "Our defense has slipped a lot and that's why we've been losing games," Paul said.BUZZER BEATERS1. Clippers G Chauncey Billups left Tuesday's game against the Kings with an apparent groin injury, and it's unclear if he'll be available against the Sixers.2. Philadelphia has lost 22 of its last 25 road games and is 6-23 away from home.3. Los Angeles is 10-2 at home against opponents from the Eastern Conference.PREDICTION: Clippers 106, 76ers 95
Preview: 76ers at Clippers
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Kumarakom a scenic villagelocated at the bank of Vembanad Lake is one of the mostfavored holidaying destinations in Kerala. It is highly acclaimed for itsscenic natural beauty, enchanting backwater destination, lush green paddyfields, water bird sanctuary etc that adds to the beauty of its surrounding.Among the entire attractions, backwater and the water bird sanctuary are themajor attraction of Kumarakom tourpackages. The scenic village is visited all the year round by one and allespecially by the nature lovers, families and honeymoon couples. Beside theseKumarakom is also famous for its elegant resorts and hotels that offer worldclass accommodation facilities and experience the authentic Kumarakomlifestyle. Stay in the exotic resorts and hotelsin Kumarakomand enjoy the commanding view and scenic beauty of nature. Trulythe architectural elegance of the Kumarakomresorts and hotels and their perfect setting amidst the beauty of natureoffers a wonderful holidaying experience.
Highlight of Kumarakom Tour Packages
Major Tour Packages
How to Reach Kumarakom?
Kumarakombeauty is unparallel and can hardly be described with world. This is the reasonwhy scores of tourists from all the nook and corner of the world visit toKumarakom to enjoy holidays amidst the beauty of nature or for a memorablebackwater cruise. This village is well connected by Air, Road and Railwaysystem that have made easy accessibility of Kumarakom in Kerala.
By Air
Cochin International Airport is the nearestairport to Kumarakom located just 70 km away.
By Rail
Kottayamrailway station in nearest to Kumarakom and is well linked to all the railwaysstation of cities and states of India.
By Road
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The Kunigal Stud Farm bred Cassandra proved too good for the opposition in the Gr 3 Golconda Juvenile
Million, the highlight of Sunday’s (Feb 10) Hyderabad races. The Tejano-Cup of Gold three-year old filly
Cassandra who had impressed when finishing second best to Palazzio’s Sun at Bangalore, left the field
standing inside the final furlong to win pulling up from Reconnect who had won a richly endowed three-year old race last month.
Reconnect who had two wins to back his claims and the last one over the highly rated Vijayrath, was the
obvious favourite to win the race but Cassandra was supported by those who had noticed the potential of
the daughter of Tejano at Bangalore where she found the six furlong sharp when finishing second to
Palazzio’s Sun. The fact that Rimpuche who had finished third on that occasion, subsequently recorded
a smashing win at Bangalore in maidens’ company, surely enhanced the value of Cassandra’s performance.
Costa Mesa settled down to lead the field as the starter dispatched the contestants for the seven
furlong trip, followed by Common Knowledge, Reconnect, Cassandra, Lady Patricia, Stroke of Luck and Vijay Samrat who raced at the wrong end from start to finish, not improving at any stage of the race. Stroke of Luck who was sluggish at the gates quickly improved to run third but failed to sustain and dropped out of contention by the time the runners approached the final bend.
Common Knowledge led the field into the straight with Chris Hayes on Cassandra quickly pushing his mount to get the rails run while Reconnect was picking up speed on the outside of these two horses. The three were in a line till Cassandra went ahead inside the final 200 metres and kept increasing the lead, allowing the jockey the luxury of celebrating the victory throwing his fist in the air 50 metres before the winning post. Reconnect failed to live up to the expectations of his last run and petered out to be a tame second while Common Knowledge ran on to finish third. The other runners in the fray were simply left behind, unable to match strides with the three horses that pulled away on turning for home. The winner clocked a smart time of one minute 25.73 seconds. The victory of Cassandra was a big celebratory moment for young trainer Suleiman Attaollahi who was leading in his first graded race winner. Irish professional Chris Hayes, who has created a fine impression as a jockey of immense potential, had also reason to be elated by this success as he had narrowly failed to win the Indian Derby on Noble Prince.
Tejano has not been given many coverings in recent times after the induction of Burden of Proof and Brave Act as stallions at the Kunigal Stud Farm. However, Tejano has done reasonably well within the limited opportunities that he has been getting of late. His progeny seems to have taken a special liking for the Hyderabad Race Track, with Astrologica in the past winning the Gr 1 Golconda Derby and Adolfito claiming the Gr 1 President of India Gold Cup. Another Tejano progeny Auxiliary has had a bagful of victories to her credit including the beating of Onnu Onnu Onnu recently. The last named has won over 32 races at Hyderabad and is one of the best sprinters seen atthis centre for a long time along with Coral Gables.
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October 1,
Aland Mizell with the University of Texas at Dallas school of social science, President of the MCI
The Rise of a New Ottoman Empire: The Trap of Interfaith Dialogue
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After the collapse of the communism, Fethullah Gülen, the spiritual leader of the Nur movement in Turkey, ordered his group to immigrate to the newly independent Central Asian countries. Gülen compared his followers to being today’s “sahaba,” the term referring to the journey from Mecca to Medina called the Hegira in the year 622, a journey that also marked the foundation of the Islamic State. After that relocation, Muhammad set up an Islamic State and instated his rules, for example forbidding usury and gambling. He implemented his own legal rules and system of government after gaining economic and military power and then conquered his birth place, Mecca, the center of a new religion. Until then Muhammad ordered his follower to cooperate with the Jews, never confronting them because he knew that the Jews were more powerful than his followers at that time. During that time Muslims even faced Jerusalem for prayers; however, after Muhammad’s followers conquered Mecca, they began facing Mecca. For both Muhammad and Gülen building a new Muslim community was a precursor to the Islamic state, and both men merged their religious views with the political goal of following the law of the Qur’an and not “natural” or human law in the Islamic state.
In 1991, the collapse of the Soviet Union gave Gülen an opportunity to gain a base among the Turkic states that desperately needed social, economic, and religious help. Also, Gülen wanted to counter Iran’s Shia religion in Central Asia, to make an economic investment, and to build a bridge between the Turkic states and Turkey.
However, after 9/11 Gülen saw another opportunity to expand his empire beyond the ocean to convert the infidels to Islam and to set up his dream Ottoman Empire, bringing it back again. Tauted for his claim to establish ecumentical peace, he sponsors Interfaith Dialogue, non-government organizations (NGO’s), schools, cultural centers, conferences, his own newspaper, civic and cultural events, among many other strategies, using them as a platform that promotes his ultraconservative Islmaic agenda in the U.S. However, 9/11 helped Gülen in a tremendous way to teach about Islam because suddenly the words “peace” and “tolerance” were in vogue and popular. Many Americans naively do not recognize the fact that as well as being a religion, Islam is a political, social, and economic sytem that rules all aspects of life. Today Gülen believes that since the Ottoman Empire ruled the world for many centuries with peace, he wants to bring it back again. By creating big lobbies, Gülen moves toward his utimate goal of dictating American and Western social, political, and economic policies. He has recruited thousands of teachers and millions of students while raising billions of dollars in economic support.
Further, Gülen and his followers know how to manipulate the American democratic laws for their advantage. He believes that the best way to defeat the enemy is to use the enemy’s wepaon against the enemy. Today the enemy’s weapon is democratic rule of law. They are taking advantage of it using it against America and foresee a time when, like many Muslims in Europe, they can demand Islamic laws and regulations be operative in the U.S. For example, already some communities in the America. have pressured cities to change their noise ordinances to allow for prayer calls. Interestingly, in his own country he was jailed for seven months and then banned from Turkey in the 1980’s for secretly teaching Islam to students. Then again in 1998 the Supreme Court charged him with undermining the secular Turkish state and seeking to establish an Islamic one. Consequently, he left Turkey for the United States supposedly for health care, but remains there today, operating his worldwide organization.
9-11 became a world-wide wake-up call. While the media focuses on Ahmedinejad or Osama Bin Ladin, and the radical Al Qaeda movement, a more deadly movement operates behind closed doors to secretly infiltrate the highest government positions in many countries, including the United States of America. The goal is to establish a single Islamic regime. As an example of this outward gesture with a secret agenda, Gülen gave an Iftar, the meal celebrating the culmination of the Ramadan season, on Capital Hill under the platform of tolerance and peace. Even they invited Hollywood actors and actresses to attend. Will Gülen or his follower Prime Minister Erdogan give a Christmas party at the parliament in Ankara or could he give an Easter dinner at the parliament with parliamentarians supporting this Christian celebration. The answer is a resounding, “No.”
Today many Turks are more anti-American than ever. A thinking person should ask that if Gülen-- an Islamic educator, writer, and founder of the worldwide Nur movement that began in Turkey-- does not have a political agenda, then why did he open so many schools in the world. Why are interfaith dialogues held in the West? Shouldn’t they be held where the root of troubles, oppression, and injustice are? One of the most important characteristics of the American society is to be tolerant toward others and to respect one another. The most crucial pillar of the American Constitution is individual rights, an inalienable right. Any one who has been to America knows that there are mosques, synagogues, temples, churches, and chapels, so every devotee is free to worship as they wish. America is not like Turkey where the individual has limited forums to express freely his true thoughts and concerns because of oppressive regimes and where the Turkish government imprisons the individual in his own conscience, rather than allowing open worship. It is a fact that a Christian, Armenian, Kurds or Jew in Turkey has never been a first class citizen; instead, they certainly suffer discrimination. Still many Christians cannot even build their own church to freely worship, and a few months ago three Christians were tortured and killed by the Turkish nationalists. Yet, Gülen use the Dialogues as a ploy to show the American people that Turks are reconciling with Christians, Jews, Armenians, or Kurds. Shouldn’t interfaith dialogues be held in Turkey, not in the U.S.? Today there are many Christians converting to Islam. How many of them are being killed by Christians because of their conversion? How many of them are being threatened or required to hide their faith to save their life or the lives of their families? However, many Muslims who convert to Christianity still can’t freely or publicly confess their faith because if they do, their lives are in danger. Therefore, interfaith dialogues are urgently needed where the injustice is rampant, not in the U.S. Yet, the American system not only allows these evangelical meetings but also embraces them in its political correctness as an open-minded, tolerant, and even intellectual act. Sadly, the eager American obliviously works with Gülen to accomplish his goal of eradicating openness and tolerance when he has a critical mass in the U.S. and establishes Sharia law.
Furthermore, when Pope Benedict visited Turkey, millions of the Turks did not want him to visit their country, and some 25,000 took to the streets because the Pope quoted Manuel II Paleologus, a Byzantine emperor, in his 1391 passage about the Ottoman Empire before the fall of Constantinople to the Muslim Ottomans, a statement that he later apologized profusely for quoting. “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached” (“Dialogue Held With A Certain Persian, the Worthy Mouterizes, in Anakara of Galatia). Giving Benedict a cold shoulder, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the foreign minister, Abdullah Gul—both Gulen’s students-- left to attend a NATO conference during the papal visit, but at the last minute greeted the Pope at the airport before leaving Turkey.
As another indication of it not being the West that needs tolerance and dialogues, last year when 41-year-old Abdul Rahman, a post-Taliban Afghan, converted to Christianity, he barely escaped the death penalty that traditionally Islamic law decrees for apostasy. In considering this penalty, any thinking inquirer must ask, “Is this kind of behavior or attitude an integral component of America or the West or only a historical behavior that goes back to Islam’s pre-modern era?” While it is true that much killing has been done in the name of Christianity, primarily during the Crusades, in modern America that same inquirer would find it difficult to find even one case today. Yet, Interfaith Dialogue has become an increasingly more practiced initiative within the American and Western society, especially after 9/11. Ironically, many Muslims have taken advantage of the tragedy and are being very active. Many will agree that interfaith dialogues have an important role in building peace within a society and in creating a window for everyone to exercise their right to express their faith without any threat. The interesting phenomenon, however, is that interfaith dialogues are happening in the U.S. and in the West but never in the Muslim nations. Again the intelligent inquirer must ask who needs toleration and then the real question of what is the underlying purpose of these initiatives in the U.S.
As mentioned, Gülen’s ultimate aim is to set up a theocratic new Ottoman Empire, as those researching his organization now demonstrate. He runs part of his activities in the open as legal companies, institutions and foundations but others clandestinely under cover. Gülen set up an organization or NGO as a tax free organization funded by the American tax payers to promote his ideology in America. He uses methods such as consultative committees composed of his followers, continent Imams (North America), country Imams (the U.S), state Imams (for example, Pennsylvania, the headquarters), and finally city imams (Washington, D.C.). Covering the country like a web with these companies, schools, cultural centers, interfaith institutions, public and private organizations, and universities, his organization is structured hierarchically like the armed forces. For his fundamental clandestine activity, Fethullah’s group picks the bright students from poor families, takes them into its isik eviler, meaning house of light, with 5-6 inmates and educates them as well as trains them as Nurcu militants. Each house and classroom comes under the regional imam, who supervises the work of the house imam, usually the oldest and most senior in maturity. Today Gülen sends thousands of Turkish students abroad, mostly to the U.S. and West for post graduate studies. Most of them have scholarships, and once they come to the U.S., he urges them to marry American citizens, so they can stay in the country. However, when you ask Gülen missionaries about this work, none of them will tell you the truth, or they will admit that they are spreading Islam, but Gülen has instructed them not to tell the truth as part of their training on secrecy. He teaches his followers to know the truth but not to tell the truth, having them memorize Said Nursi’s principle: “It is your obligation to know the truth, but it is not good for you to tell the truth every time, everywhere, or everything that you do.” As part of his secrecy and caution, Gülen teaches his students to lie because Islam legitimizes lying for certain reasons. If you are at war, Islam permits you to lie to defeat the enemy, so he believes that since they are at war with non-Muslims, until they defeat the enemies, they should not reveal their secrets and can even lie. If this clandestine global ideology for ruling the world became known, it would be alarming to all citizens, because infiltration becomes more dangerous than invasion since it goes undetected until it is too late.
Gülen’s movement began in a small Turkish town in the 1950’s with about a dozen students but has expanded into a present-day estimate of over 10 millions followers and in more than fifty-five countries, including the rapidly growing initiative in the United States. Gülen presents himself as a representative of peace through education, and yet under his modernist robe he is a devout Turkic Islamist. His charisma entices young intellectuals into his inner circle where they are indoctrinated with his philosophy in numerous countries with the purpose of advancing the goal of establishing a worldwide Islamic state and eradicating secular governance.
An abbreviated rubric indicates a few ways that Muslim missionaries are using NGOs as a platform as well as the American taxpayer’s money to convert people to Islam and secretly to gain the power bring the theocracy system of government.
Rubric for Interfaith Dialogue Trap in the U.S.
1999
Rumi Foundations Established to target academia
Working with many distinguished universities and professors all over North America like Seyyed H. Nasr of George Washington, Sydney Griffith of CAU, Esposito of Georgetown, Maria Dakake of GMU.” Gülen is the honorary president.
April 19-20, 2005
John Hopkins University: The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Turkey's Journalists and Writers Foundation
"Islam, Secularism and Democracy: The Turkish Experience”. Guild establish by Gülen; Ongoing discussion
November. 12-13, 2005
The Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious
Tolerance at Rice University and A. D. Bruce Religion Center University of Houston
Conference on “Islam in the Contemporary World: The Fethullah Gülen Movement in
Thought and Practice.”
Niagara Foundation's International Symposium "The Chicago Interfaith Gathering
towards Interreligious Dialogue in the New Millennium: Finding Common
Ground.” This Foundation is a branch of Interfaith Dialogues and as such holds
regularly scheduled activities related to Gulen’s mission.
October 3, 2005
Washington Post article “As the Holy Month Begins, Followers of a Turkish Leader Interpret Islam and Holiday for Themselves”
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The Whirling Dervishes tour the US .
An event for his students to read from the Qur’an and to hand out copies of his books.
2000
Rain Drop Foundation A non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to presenting, perpetuating, transmitting and promoting Turkish and Turkish American arts and culture to diverse audiences and to providing a center to enhance community programs. They are financed by Gulen’s movement.
2001
“Light Millennium formally incorporated in 2001 in New York as a tax-deductible, not-for-profit organization. conferences Since January 2000, L.M. has been gathering the Turkish American culture together, as well as aiming to convince a global community via encouraging everyone to publish their ideas through website from ways of life including: reducing television programs, special screenings and organizing exhibitions, poetry events in general cultural events, and also conferences.
The organization is led by Bircan Ünver, who is against any kind of discrimination in religion, ideology, culture, and nationality; and puts all effort for embracing all ideas globally.” This is a publication company.
Zaman newspaper Gulen’s newspaper first published in Turkey, but now published in the US as well as in numerous other countries.
The Fountain Magazine Gulen’s magazine
Herkul Organization his web page in audio; he is reaching through his voice to his followers.
Ant Stores, Inc. online, mail order bookstore Ant Stores operates as a division of The Light Inc located in New Jersey. The business sells “a variety of different languages of books, mainly focused on providing a platform for objective expressions of those belief systems, values, perspectives, practices and traditions that have shaped the lives of billions of people in the world for centuries.”
Light Publishers, based Somerset, New Jersey The Light Publishers is designed to combat the picture of Islam as the religion of 9/11.
The Pearls of Wisdom site Proposes to answer the basic questions of humanity. “This site has been prepared mainly based on the works of Bediuzzaman, Said Nursi and Mr. Fethullah Gülen.
Elite Media A 24-hour online magazine service. It provides a list of all of Gulen’s magazines.
Fethullah Gülen Website combines comprehensive information about his life, his writings, and his activities.
This Way to Truth website Offers the viewer the opportunity to “Discover Islam,” discussing theological issues and topics.
Intercultural Dialogue Platform “an initiative from Turkey to build a peaceful world through interfaith cooperation.”
Journalist and Writers Foundation Related to FG but under a different name, so the purpose is the same in advancing his activities.
Abant Platform Organized by FG for writers and journalists. The recently went to The Hague to petition the EU to accept Turkey as a member. They use their voices to affect policy.
Dialog with Central Asia
The Intercultural Dialog Platform “steps in the media” To show that love and tolerance bring peace. This forum offers quotations from FG about how the meetings will bring harmony.
April 29-30. 2005
The International Conference of Islam. University of West Madison “Islam and Dialogue.” Gulen’s speech to the US based conference is included on the site.
Blackwell Synergy Synergy publishes journals and articles devoted to the study of Islam.
2005
“Bridges for Peace –Turkish Schools Opening to the World". Explains the role of Gulen’s schools around the world. Turkish Schools Pioneering Turkey
Turkish immigrants to the U.S. 30,000 including many master and doctoral level students and PhDs. (probably impossible to have a count on the actual number of Gulen’s followers).
Ulker, Turka Cola Turkish businesses in America, among others Houses or dormitories Gulen’s operations to teach his theology
March 21, 2004
“A Small School Run by Turks Takes the Stage” New York Times article
2006, 2007
Iftar dinners with Congressmen to celebrate Ramadan Co-Sponsored by Senators and Representatives and The Rumi Foundation
Since 1991
Charter Schools Unknown number of Turkish schools out of the 2,700 in the U.S. since 1991 with 700,000 in 36 states and the District of Columbia
Only a few examples: Arkansas’s Maumelle's Academics Plus fired the non-Muslim staff and teachers for some grades; Fulton Science Academy in Alpharetta, Georgia; Friendship Edison Public Charter School, Champaign Campus, Washington D.C, pairs with Turkish schools in Istanbul and the principle received an expense paid trip to Istanbul; Turkey-Run Elementary School in Marshall, Indiana; Charter schools are supported in part by taxes but have no accountability except to their own board
Hollywood Icons Chevy-Chase used to market Turco-Cola, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt attended to Iftar at Capitol Hill in DC, following the pattern in Turkey to use celebrities to promote their agenda
You Tube via
Video Arsivi
Mary Project
Dinners in homes to attract candidates for Islam with the lure that Mary is mentioned in the Qur’an numerous times and thus Gulen’s followers have a commonality with Catholics.
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The figure of Lenin, often misunderstood by history and widely abused by political systems, is used as an emblematic figure, embodying human contradictions, confusion and doubts.
Artists work on Lenin’s figure, making it theirs, using it to express their personal vision of today’s world, feeding their creative process with their own experiences, extracted from their own lives and artistic careers.
There is no moral or political intent in this project. The purpose is to challenge preconceived concepts and ideological language to create a living force full of human energy.
Encounters and artistic fusion
The core of the project is the collaboration between artists from the post-communist culture and others from the west: “The fusion of various experiences, extracted from life or theatrical careers, makes the explosion of creativity reflected in the dynamics of the play” (Semolina Tomic - project leader).
The encounter and collaboration between different cultures aims to develop a space for reflection, a “temporary zone” that recognises and accepts diversity as a value for artistic and creative expression.
A strong experience (by Semolina Tomic)
"All this investigation has been a very strong experience and I will in some way go on with it, it will not end in one show: I hope I can work more on it and I would also like to collect all these experiences (meetings and interviews with the people I have met) in a book.
The experience of meeting the people and of knowing what they think nowadays is very interesting and strong.
Most young people do not want to know about the past, even if it existed just 15 years ago, they just want to forget about it.
People between 30 and 50 years old are searching for some kind of identity, they do not feel comfortable with governments with a dark past.
People older than 50 sometimes miss the old time of communism – this depends on the country they live in.“
Art overcoming prejudice (by Semolina Tomic)
„Due to the political and economic situation of the Balkans, where the war is still very present in the civil society’s memory, it has been shown that the exchange of experiences between Croatian actors who had never worked with Serbian actors functioned without damages and generated a very special experience, since the actors overcame their prejudices and were able to share the theatrical experience without any problem.
The mixing of contrasts, characters and nationalities fomented an intense experience, very rich in propositions, which stimulated the workshops’ development to a great creativity range that defined the principles from which the new creation would be alimented.“
A historical paradox (by Semolina Tomic)
„Communism is dead.
In East European countries nowadays, even to quote this ideology is politically incorrect. In Western European countries, communist parties have reformed themselves, some have changed their name, and the majority have accepted the rules of free trade and the capitalist system’s game.
Some have come to the conclusion that Communism, especially Stalin’s version, was worse than Nazism (Stalin killed millions of people, overshadowing Hitler’s atrocities).
Lenin died in 1924. Everything that has made history since ... is very far from the Marxist ideology that he held. More so, his successors used his image as a symbol for Communism, when what Lenin proposed originally was very different from what they put into practice.
With the changes in the Eastern European political systems, after being an integral part of people’s daily lives, with statues even in the smallest villages, they disappeared completely. For example, in Hungary, all the country's statues were gathered and a “Museum of Terror” was created in Andrasi Boulevard in Budapest. In other places the statues were sold to rich countries like Norway.
Therefore we find ourselves faced with a historical paradox, or a sort of collective ignorance as far as the facts about the Communist systems and the basic differences between the original ideological purposes and its applications in Stalin’s government. Lenin’s image was used as “the” Communist symbol after his death for seventy years, and after communism’s fall in the East as a negative symbol, a totem for evil and suffering of all these countries. We actually forget that Lenin’s objectives, his Communist ideology in its essential form, were positive, humanitarian and constructive, integrated and integrative by other political systems like democracy, which nowadays reigns and is considered “correct”.
The Russian Revolution in 1917, gave a jolt to Russian society, as well as a new vision of the world amidst all the humanity of the twentieth century, compared to the 1789 French Revolution.
The sense of freedom and creativity that took place in the following 15 years (until the arrival of Stalin’s regime), gave birth to the most fruitful vanguard in theatre arts, architecture, cinema and poetry: the constructivism in the architecture of Melnikov, Vesnin, Lessitsky or in Malevich’s supremacist studios, Meyerhold’s theatrical experiments, the scenes from Popova, Maiakovski’s poetry, Dziga Vertov’s and Rotchenko’s cinema, to mention only a few examples. Artistic disciplines fused, creating new forms of expression and interacting with the whole of Europe’s scene of the time, the Bauhaus School, Stijl School in Holland, Italian’s futurism or the painting experimentation in France.
For this reason, Lenin, or rather his iconography or “iconoclast”, is proposed again in the frame of a critical project about a prospective vision with different points of view. An image that is reflected over and over again in the time and space of Eastern European culture as well as in the collective imagery of Western culture.
Lenin, just like any other historical figure, embodies humanity’s contradictions, confusions and doubts. Lenin is an interface of past, present and future times. He is a “medium” where we can analyse and reinterpret the world through.
I would like to talk about subtle things, things that are nearly invisible and at the same time strongly noticeable, daily situations, like waking up and making breakfast (but what breakfast?), or the way to buy bread or go to work.
I would also like to talk about culture and education, the ways and methods to realise them in a Communist system and compare them to today’s system.
I am not interested in morality, the good and the bad - I don’t want to look for justifications in the systems to make facts worthless.
I am aware that it is a delicate and risky subject, even 15 years after this massive change has happened and I want to treat it with all my sensibility, intelligence and respect.
The work is inspired by the roots of my most anxious questions about life, about people and how the world is going. The world with all its contradictions never ceases to inspire me.
The first time I stopped to think and I seriously asked myself 'what is really happening?' I was 13 years old and I had just met two Hungarian boys at my friend’s house.
I was born in Osijek, North Croatia, only 100 kilometres from the Hungarian border. These two kids were in a state of shock because they had just escaped their country, running while the Eastern bloc soldiers were shooting at them. They ran and ran without looking back. One of their friends had been killed so they just ran forwards. The just wanted to get to Paris.
I started to understand how things worked. I realised that Eastern bloc Communism controlled lives down to the smallest detail and that options for the people with a free spirit didn’t exist.
This really scared me, even though in the socialist system where I was born and educated, former Yugoslavia, life was very different.
In 1989, the Eastern bloc wall fell and in 1990 we started noticing the beginning of conflicts in the Balkans and the entrance of wild and fast capitalism.
What has happened in the last 15 years, with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the death of Communism and the Balkan’s ethnic war?
Most parts of Russia and Eastern Europe has been privatised. What now reigns is wealth plunderers and speculation, the Mafia, prostitution, corruption and nationalism… The first millions are earned, ex KGB agents turn into state presidents, the Mafia’s godfathers use their business influence to buy positions in parliament, in the police force and in the army. Their children get sent to Oxford.
Most people’s lives don’t make any SENSE any more, because everything has changed. Generations of parents and grandparents who knew the Communist system educate their children with their old rules. Children born in the 1990s grow up only knowing the wild capitalist system.
A year and two months ago, I met Ludomir Wegrzecki. He is Polish and comes from Warsaw.
He speaks Spanish, English and Italian. In the 1980s he lived in Spain for a few years. He also escaped. He is nearly 40 years old.
His face is full of scars and he owns two pitbull dogs.
Both of us come from the punk movement and everything that it means.
Ludomir is a noble Polish; as you enter Warsaw’s cemetery, the first grave with a sculpted head on a nice stone is Ludomir’s great, great, great grandfather, who was Warsaw’s mayor.
In February 2004 I went to visit Ludomir. He showed me Warsaw, Radom and Llodz.
I already knew Poznan, I was performing there in 1996 and 1998 in the Malta Theatre Festival.
Ludomir would talk to me, talk to me about so many different things…
Surviving is very difficult. He knows Warsaw well. His small details, his history, his past and present.
He transmits it with intensity, and all this made me realise that I felt the drive to create, basing my self on my own reflections on the subject that always moves me: a show in Poland with Polish people.
And that was the beginning of my research on Lenin is mine.“
WHAT DOES THE PROJECT INCLUDE?
The project consists of two parts: a research phase and a working residency.
The research phase, carried out through workshops and investigative visits, focuses on Lenin’s statues, which were found in many cities and villages in the Eastern Bloc (and were removed after the Soviet Union fell). One of the aims of the research is to find the exact places where statues once stood, and to understand what they represented for people. The artists visit the cities and collect graphic, video and sound material, including interviews with local people.
During the second phase, a working residency in an Eastern country, artists work together on the material collected, developing the final performance to be presented in the season 2006-2007 in Barcelona. The final result is a “physical theatre multimedia show” with mobile scenography.
The artists involved belong to different fields: they are actors, dancers, singers, musicians, film makers, multimedia creators, architects and playwrights.
HOW IS THE PROJECT FINANCED?
Project was supported by: Government of Catalonia; Department of Culture and Mass Media, Barcelona; Institute of Culture; City Council of Barcelona, AdriAntic – Rehearsal Studio of L'Antic Teatre – L'Espai de Creació; Hangar – Visual Arts Production Centre, Barcelona; L'Estruch – Centre for Arts Development, Sabadell; Ca n0Oliveras – City Council of Martorell
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Langues:
Catalan, Anglais, Français, Allemand, Espagnol
Catégories artistiques & culturelles:
danse
Type d'organisation:
Organisations artistiques, culturelles et médiatiques
Type de soutien:
Subventions de mobilité, Soutien organisationnel, Subventions de projets, Parrainage
Taggé comme:barcelona, contemporary, culture, dance, danse, danza, europe, juan carlos, lanonima, lanonima imperial, modern dance, spain
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Hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis Dutch type (AbetaPP 693): decreased plasma amyloid-beta 42 concentrationMarjolijn Bornebroek
Department of Neurology K5Q, Leiden University Medical Center, P O Box 9600, 2300 RC, Leiden, The Netherlands
Neurobiol Dis 14:619-23. 2003..Therefore it is suggested that the Dutch AbetaPP693 mutation located within the Abeta coding region of the AbetaPP gene has a different effect not only on clinical and pathological expression but also on Abeta processing...
Subcortical lacunar lesions: an MR imaging finding in patients with cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathyRivka van den Boom
Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, C2S, The Netherlands
Radiology 224:791-6. 2002....
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Developing in Nature Medicine.
"Cancer cells inside the body live in a very complex environment or neighborhood. Where the tumor cell resides and who its neighbors are influence its response and resistance to therapy," said senior author Peter S. Nelson, M.D., a member of the Hutchinson Center's Human Biology Division.
Nelson.
major clinical reason that chemotherapy ultimately fails in the face of advanced cancer, Nelson said, is because the doses necessary to thoroughly wipe out the cancer would also be lethal to the patient. "In the laboratory we can 'cure'.
," said Nelson, who serves as principal investigator of the Pacific Northwest Prostate Cancer SPORE, a federally funded, multi-institution research consortium led by the Hutchinson Center.
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At high school, played for Jim Kennedy at Varmdo Gymnasium in Stockholm. Played the Swedish Bankboken Tour during summer from 2011-2004. Placed first in the Orresta GK stop on the Bankboken Tour in 2004.
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Women?s Wilson Hope 11-pc Golf Club Set ? Right HandPosted on Wednesday, 23rd June 2010 in Golf Club Sets
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While Americans are looking for spare change, the Chinese are emptying their pockets. The world’s most populated country now has a growing middle class. It used to be that only the rich jetsetters of China could afford luxury American brands, but now the tides are slowly turning. As their currency maintains it’s weight and per capita income rises, so does the buying power of the one of the most influential markets in the world.
Just last weekend, the consulting firm A.T. Kearney revealed their ninth annual study on markets with the greatest potential for retail development (GRDI). While India and Russia dominated results in 2009, this year China was considered number one in terms of propensity for market expansion.
Hana Ben-Shabat, a partner at Kearney that worked on the study, told WWD, since the yuan has appreciated against the dollar, “the purchasing power of the Chinese consumer is really going to increase. If you’re sourcing there, prices are going to go up, but selling to the Chinese is going to become easier.”
While some companies have already established success stories in China, such as Nike, others have realized that it takes some research to make it in their market. American Apparel, a brand admired for a simple, hip look and lack of labels, was unrecognizable to the Chinese, a group of consumers that enjoy brand-happy products such as Coach and Louis Vuitton.
CEO of American Apparel, Dov Charney told WWD, “They [Chinese consumers] are looking for the Rolls Royce right now… They are not looking to buy the Volvo.”
While some companies, like Levis and Gap, do well internationally… it’s not the case for most middle-class American brands. Gap’s sister company, J.Crew has no plans of expansion. However, their recent partnership with Net-a-porter, made their products available in 170 countries, a huge leap for the U.S. based brand.
Levi Strauss, which had very successful campaigns in China, has decided to launch a new brand aimed specifically at their Chinese consumer.
Christopher Tang, a professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management, brought up an important factor in China’s economy – the wage gap. Middle class shopping to the Chinese is not comparable to their American counterparts. He told WWD, “For those who have disposable income, they go for the high-end brands. For those who are more price-sensitive, they go for the local brands.” He went on to say, “The middle range price for the U.S. market is still expensive in China.”
Paul Marciano, CEO of Guess, summed it up well, “It’s a country where it requires us to be very cautious, to go not as fast as you can but as carefully as you can.”
With 92 percent of retailers hoping to expand beyond their borders, this study couldn’t come at a more relevant time. As American brands slowly lose their nationality and China’s population grows, it’s not a jump to say China could start wearing us…more than we do.
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Donovan set for weekend return to LA training camp
CARSON, Calif. — Landon Donovan's stay with Everton will end one week earlier than originally scheduled.
LA Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said Tuesday that his team's captain will return to Los Angeles on Sunday, the day after Everton's FA Cup fixture against Blackpool.
"Donovan comes back Sunday," Arena said. "He will be with us for a bit in Tucson before he heads out with the national team."
Loaned out to Everton for the second time in three years, Donovan was scheduled to remain with the Toffees until Feb. 25, which would allow him to play in the club's match against Liverpool. Instead of playing the Merseyside Derby, though, Donovan will be with the Galaxy for a Desert Diamond Cup match.
The Galaxy leave for Tucson, Ariz., next week and will play three matches against MLS competition as part of the Desert Diamond Cup. The club will play New England (Feb. 22), Real Salt Lake (Feb. 25) and New York (Feb. 29) in the desert before playing another match on March 3 – either a consolation game or the final. The United States national team will play at Italy on Feb. 29, meaning Donovan could be available for the first two games in Tucson and possibly the last match as well.
On March 7, the Galaxy will visit Toronto FC in a CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal match before returning home to start the season against Real Salt Lake on March 10.
READ: Quest for CCL title begins in Toronto on March 7
Luis Bueno covers the LA Galaxy for MLSsoccer.com and can be reached by email at [email protected]
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The Lafayette Society for the Performing Arts will be trying something different with the opening of its new season show “Arsenic and Old Lace” next week with a picnic before each show.
“For the first time, Lafayette Society for Performing Arts is having picnic theater. It’s a phrase we coined and we compare the concept to that of Chastain Park” Amphitheatre in Atlanta, said LSPA board director Debby Baker.
Tables will be setup in the LSPA Black Box Theater and doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for patrons to bring in picnic suppers and beverages of choice. They will have until 7:15 p.m. to finish their meals and asked to have all food, utensils and drinks should be stored away before the show starts at 7:30 p.m. to not distract the actors.
“We think this will offer an opportunity for our guests to enjoy a meal while visiting with each other before the play begins,” Baker said. “We haven’t done this before, but it sounded like fun, so we’re going to try it.”
Ticket prices for the picnic theater are still the same - $15 for adults and $10 for students. There will be limited seating because of the tables, so reservations are required.
Picnic time will be available before each performance of the show, which runs Oct. 4 to 6, 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m., and Oct.7 at 2:30 p.m.
Reservations may be made by calling LSPA at 706-882-9909 or going by the LSPA office at 214 Bull St.
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An informational/educational meeting is planned for Saturday afternoon to give residents an opportunity to meet with the authors and sponsors of HB 1117, which made changes in the laws governing regional sewer districts.
The meeting will start at 1 p.m. at the Life Gate Church recreation hall, located at 2525 N 900W, just west of Shipshewana.
State senators, representatives and candidates are expected to be in attendance. They will be on hand to explain the bill and to answer questions.
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Jared Leto Gossip
Jared Leto
Man-Purse vs Injections
Two men, not so tough call. First - Jared Leto a week ago at the Australia VMAs. As I said at the time, Jared worked the straight iron and appears to have taken over from Kate Bosworth in emaciation. I’m told from Aussie gossips that among all the celebrities in attendance including Nicole Richie, Good Charlotte, and Fergie it was Jared Leto and 30 Seconds to Mars who were the most demanding, the most outrageous divas. Full Story
Perennially Pinned Pupils caught on tape
Only a matter of time. Lindsay Lohan allegedly caught on videotape snorting cocaine, pulling a baggie out of her pocket and shoving her finger up a friend’s nose before hoovering some for herself. The tape, taken one night a few weeks ago at Teddy’s, has been sold to the News of the World by one of her friends with explicit details about the Lilo lifestyle and drugstyle including a blackbook list of flings and lovers.
La Lohan preggers???
As you know, Lindsay was admitted to the hospital on Monday as a result of an asthma attack. Interestingly enough, I"m hearing this was actually an asthma attack. And not a new bout of "exhaustion" which, as you all know now, is Hollywood code for "supervised starvation diet." Anyway, while she was in the hospital, a friend or handler was photographed delivering a bag full of goodies to her room, including junk food and a home pregnancy test. Full Story
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BaddieBey or Sasha Fierce?
Beyonce is on Instagram.
What?
It’s big news, ok?
It’s why her Tumblr became such an obsession. You would understand if you’re familiar with her Tumblr. Because Beyonce doesn’t f-ck around. When Beyonce does something, it will be better than everyone else, whatever it is. Or, in this case, BaddieBey will be better...
Hey Instagram, it’s me, Bey.
And there it is...
Bey in glasses bigging up her President.
Bey’s handwriting in perfectly proportionate marker on a lined pad pissing off Republicans.
Doesn’t it seem like Beyonce has a pro-quality photo at the ready at every opportunity? And the turnaround time involved in making this happen is quick without compromising her excellent standard?
Like, she must not only have a studio built into their home, I wonder if the photographers and makeup artists and hair people aren’t just on call but are required to LIVE IN, like a nanny or a housekeeper, so that she can have her picture taken, you know, for her Tumblr or her Instagram, whenever she wants, as soon as she wants. Which wouldn’t be impossible for the Beys and the Mimis of the world. I just don’t understand why B’s sh-t always ends up so deluxe and Mimi sh-t always looks like it’s happening in a stairwell.
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The and here. I will continue to defend any attempt to make Tonto not a completely racist cartoon, and based on what we’ve seen so far, he isn’t as terrible as he could be. There’s no way to make the word “kemosabe” work without sounding silly—it’s been destroyed by too much cultural parodying—but Tonto scans as pretty harmless, culturally speaking. He could be better (there’s an awful lot of mystical native bullsh*t going on), but he could be a helluva lot worse for sure. At least Tonto is less offensive than Joseph on Hell on Wheels.
I can already hear the complaints about Tonto talking to Silver, but, um, I talk to horses pretty much exactly like that, so I can’t judge. What horses, in my experience, don’t do is 1) talk back, 2) stand around in trees wearing cowboy hats and 3) bring people back from the dead. Silver is some kind of psychic Lazarus horse now and I got a good laugh out of that insane tree shot.
I’m superstitious about horse magic (white horses—like Silver—take the dead into the spirit world) but guys, the horse doesn’t actually have to be magic (see also: mystical native bullsh*t). But at least we weren’t subjected to a “hi-ho Silver, away” (yet).
I also laughed at the establishing shot of Armie Hammer as the Ranger, perched atop a towering burial scaffold which is in turn perched atop a towering rock formation. How did that even get up there? It defies logic to the extent that I was stuck thinking about that for several seconds instead of paying attention to the trailer. There is a lot of inexplicable stuff in this trailer, including that ludicrous train sequence at the end, and an odd disparity in tone between Hammer’s fairly serious take on the Ranger and Depp’s more tongue-in-cheek Tonto. That could spell more trouble than anything, if this movie can’t present a clear and concise vision of what audiences can expect in theaters next summer.
But you know what? It’s going to work. Back in June, when reports of budget woes leaked, I said I wasn’t willing to bet against Verbinski, because he’s pulled this type of rabbit out of a hat before. Based on this solid marketing strategy—let everyone get over Johnny Depp as Tonto before unpacking the story and introducing Armie Hammer as the Ranger—and what is, at this point, a wide open July 4 weekend opening, I can see this working. Especially with Hammer becoming the focus of the advertising. He’s believable as that stoic, heroic Old Westy guy. If Shia LaBoeuf could sell three Transformers movies in which his most dynamic co-star was a Camaro, I won’t be surprised to see audiences eating up Hammer as backed by Depp.
In the gossip world, everyone seems pretty well done with Johnny Depp. I expect The Lone Ranger to prove general audiences don’t share the same opinion.
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Pattinson in a Porsche
Jacek says it’s a Boxster. Since Jacek and I aren’t having an Ultimate Sacrifice, he always says he’ll get a Cayman one day. A Cayman is cheaper than a child.
Robert Pattinson can afford several Caymans by now, I think?
Here he is in LA driving around in a Porsche. Laura just ripped her shirt off.
The photo caption from the agency on these images says:
Robert Pattinson leaving Kristen Stewart's house in Los Angeles, California.
Needless to say, the Twi-Hards are rubbing themselves with glee.
But these are the only 2 photos available (1 shot zoomed in close). And I don’t see a house. Confusing. Were they at her house and the photogs watched him leave? You can photograph any location that’s viewable from a public place.
Or was he spotted around the neighbourhood?
A mystery.
And a buffet!
As I always say, gossip is a buffet. “Robsten Shippsters” (am I saying that right?) will no doubt run with it as part of their ongoing fantasy that Bella and Edward are coming right off the pages.
Others will remain skeptical and demand a sex tape.
Some might attribute it to sales. Given that the Twilight Nation wants so badly to believe it, and everyone has to make money somehow, especially in this economy, the magazines and the agencies will tell the story that sells the best.
Self service, choose your own smut.
As for the hate mail…
Beyond calling me a “c-nt rat” and a bitch, according to Twi-Hards, I suck because I’m Chinese.
Now comes another explanation courtesy of Jillian K. Jillian K thinks I’m gay. This must be the only plausible reason I don’t lose my sh-t over the story about a girl who can do nothing else but faint and cry and pine over a boy vampire.
Lainey,
I want to like you, I really do but I dont get your trash talk about Twilight! I mean Twilight has brought nothing but MONEY to your town. Why wouldnt you as a resident hope to run into Rob Pattinson? Unless you are a lesbian? I mean he is the hottest guy in the U.S.A. So try talking trash about something else. The Twilight Saga book have sold more than Harry Potter, must mean something. I know gossip is your thing but talk sh-t about something else, something worth talking sh-t about. As for Nikki Reed, she is one hot bitch so I watched your effing back. Same with Kstew, sure she could take you down.
Trying to like you, but losing the fight the more you trash talk the Twilight cast.
Photos from INFdaily.com
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Enjoying unsurpassed views over Lake Windermere, the Belsfield Hotel is probably the most iconic building in the area, familiar to everyone who has ever visited Bowness.
As well as the great food and wines you would expect from a hotel of this quality, guests also have a heated indoor swimming pool and sauna on site and access to 6 acres of beautiful gardens (including its own putting green for some sneaky extra practice).
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LAKE PLACID - It's been 16 years since Vermonter Rusty DeWees started his down-home comedy character "The Logger," and 10 or 11 years since that yokel clomped his way over to the New York side of Lake Champlain.
The Logger fits in with the populace over here, and he'll return to the Lake Placid Center for the Arts on Friday March 1 and Saturday, March 2
"That area of the world reminds me of where I grew up in Stowe (Vt.) because, even though Lake Placid and Saranac Lake have more people than Stowe, now it still seems more down-home than Stowe does," DeWees said in a recent phone interview.
He also talked about changes to his act - more jokes and more songs - and how hard he works for his target audience: locals.
FYI, he rates his show "SC" for "some cussin'."
Lake Placid News: Sixteen years - how has it changed over that time?
Who: Rusty DeWees, "The Logger"
When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 2
Where: Lake Placid Center of the Arts, 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid
How much: $21
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Rusty Dewees: When I first started, it was more just stories. In other words, stories where the joke payoff was less frequent, so it'd be more like 'A Prairie ...' - not like I'm comparing myself to him, but I guess I am - 'Prairie Home Companion' stories. Now, there are some of those, but there's more of a stand-up-comedic tone to it where there's more jokes. There's more opportunity to laugh. ...
The other main change to the show is, especially since I've been to Lake Placid, I learned the guitar. I'm 52 now. I took it up when my father went in the nursing home five, seven, eight years ago, and then I got pretty good at it, so now I'll do about a 25-minute music set that includes, you know, humor, but there's some music. I do a couple songs that are kind of good. People kind of tap the toe.
LPN: Logging itself isn't what it used to be back in the old days. It's so much more mechanized now: There's like a handful of guys in the woods with big machinery. How's the characature of a logger, of a lumberjack, different with all this high-tech mechanization?
RD: First of all, that's a good question; it brings up a pretty interesting answer, I think. The first shows, when people saw the show, they would look up at me on stage, and many of them would go, 'That guy is a real logger every day, and he just gets up on stage and does some stories.' But now I'm an entertainer, and people know that. And again, going from just two hours of stories - rural-type, old Adirondack-y stories - and to more comedy-type jokes takes it away from it being so characterized as just rural, real, real rural humor. More of the jokes are jokes that are more general, in other words.
LPN: So the authenticity isn't such a big deal?
RD: No, it is, and here's the second part, and that's why the question was a better question than you might even have thought. ...
I speak in benevolence of the working-class person. That is to say, if you come to the show, when you walk into the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, the first person you'll see is me, standing behind my merchandise table, selling to you, meeting you, talking to your 13-year-old son who is a fan of mine, talking to your grandma whom you've brought in a wheelchair, opening the door to let her in. You'll see me after the show running down the aisle to stand at my merchandise table to meet the folks, to chat with 'em. If they want me to come out to their car and sign a boot they go out there, I'll go out there. Onstage you'll see me sweat and move. Backstage you'll see the same green, beat-up duffle bag that I brought my beat-up jeans and boots in for the last 16 years. ...
So I'm not up there showing up 10 minutes before the show, and my people have everything all set up. ...
So the loggers in the woods, even though they're not on the ground as much, they're still freakin' beatin' it up. The Logger's stories and jokes might not be about chainsaws as much, but my character and who I am as Rusty DeWees, I approach my business from a working-class physicality and mentality.
So I have not changed. In fact, with all the new technology, with the new media and everything, I'm keeping up with that as much as I can, but I'm also going back to the old-fashioned way even more. In other words, I feel if I can connect with every Vermonter and up-upstate New Yorker - and what does that mean connect? It means going to the Boy Scout Eagles club freakin' banquet when they ask me to go. It's all about connection, this show. People don't necessarily come to my Logger show anymore because they think I'm the funniest guy in town; many of 'em come to it now because they know me. And that's working-class, logger-type work, as applied to the business of show. ...
Thank God there's tourists in Lake Placid and Saranac Lake and in Stowe, where I grew up. People go, 'Well, you know, if you're doin' it in March, it'd be better if you did it three weeks before because that's when a lot of the ice skatin's goin' on; that's when the big ski season, Presidents week,' and I say, 'I'm not trying to really market to the tourists, necessarily. I'm marketing to the locals.' Even though I know a lot of the locals work at the restaurants and can't come to see me, I'm doing it for the guys that are plowing, the women that are making the beds in the thing, or whatever job they're doing. I'm doing it for the locals.
I mean, I hope some tourists come; don't get me wrong.
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State takes over AMBER Alert program: Subscribers will get free email updates with registration
By Zach Markovic,
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Published: Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:13 PM CST
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced Tuesday it will begin handling AMBER Alert functions in Texas previously performed by
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The system has two components, the flyer creation system and the email notification system. Law enforcement, media and the public will need to set up new accounts on the DPS website to continue using this system. Starting today, the flyers that subscribers have been receiving will have a different look since they will be distributed by DPS instead of by
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The flyer creation component allows local law enforcement to create their own flyers for abducted children in their area, which are then distributed through the email notification portion of the system. This is especially helpful in areas that do not have regional AMBER Alert plans.
Subscribers to the email notification system receive AMBER Alerts issued by Texas law enforcement agencies and DPS at no cost by registering with a valid email address and zip code. Alert flyers will contain victim, suspect and vehicle information that is made available by law enforcement.
Public registration for the new email notification system can be accessed through
, and law enforcement account requests can be found at
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This notification system is just one of the ways DPS informs the media and the public about state-issued alerts. The other methods DPS uses for notification on state-issued alerts will remain the same, such as emails to the media and electronic road signs. For a list of state AMBER Alert Network partners, see
.
Texas joined the nation in observing National AMBER Alert Awareness Day on Jan. 13.. 13 marked the 17-year anniversary of Amber Hagerman's abduction, which the U.S. Department of Justice has designated as National AMBER Alert Awareness Day.
The Texas AMBER Alert Program was established by Gov. Rick Perry in Aug.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which was added as a state partner in 2005, provides notification to the public through wireless carriers, content providers and major retailers.
AMBER Alert
Activation of the Texas AMBER Alert Network involves resources from the following groups:
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· Office of the Governor
· National Weather Service
· Texas Department of Transportation
· Local, state and federal law enforcement
· Media
· Texas Association of Broadcasters
· Independent Bankers Association of Texas
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Facebook prank leaves Burnley salesman paying the price (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Facebook prank leaves Burnley salesman paying the price
10:40am Thursday 24th January 2013 in News
A BURNLEY man is paying the price for an internet prank by a friend – but it’s all for a good cause.
When Callum Krzysik, 23, left his office computer unattended, work colleague Jordan Dean noticed he had left his Facebook page logged in.
Mr Dean promptly changed Mr Krzysik’s profile status to an offer to donate money to charity every time a friend liked or shared the status.
It read: “For every ‘like’ this status gets I will donate £1 to the most popular charity asked for, every share will get £2! Feeling charitable me! You’ve only got until mid-night tonight when I stop count-ing the likes and shares.”
Instead of ignoring the practical joke, Mr Krzysik, from Lowerhouse, decided to face the music and stay true to ‘his word’.
The salesman, who works at Motorpoint in Rosegrove Lane, has now pledged to run through the streets of Burnley on Good Friday wearing only a mankini to help raise his target of £1,012.
He said: “I felt like I couldn’t really say no. I had to honour it. I thought I would feel bad if I didn’t do after people started suggesting charities that they’d like me to help. I watched some videos that were posted up and they moved me, so I’ll be doing the run as part of Lowerhouse Cricket Club’s charity day.”
The martial art enthus-iast and ex-Royal Marines trainee says his five-mile run doesn’t faze him.
He will be donating the money to Manchester Children’s Hospital’s critical care unit and Make-A-Wish Foundation UK.
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Has work started on tennis facility?
By Rawle Welch
Kaieteur News
January 23, 2007
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It seems as though work to restore the National Sports Commission (NSC) Centre formerly known as the Non Pariel Tennis Courts has finally begun, judging from the improved state which was witnessed Sunday when Kaieteur Sport paid a visit to the facility.
We witnessed the grass that had overtaken the courts and its perimeter was trimmed which gave us a sense of guarded optimism.
If this is the case then the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport must be commended for springing into action immediately after an article appeared in this newspaper asking the question of whether or not this Centre will suffer the same fate as D'Urban Park and many other sports facilities which had suffered from neglect over the years.
With the Government's allocation of $100 million towards the development of sports and arts, one will hope that those entrusted with the responsibility to develop sports, would release a sizeable portion of those funds towards the resuscitation and maintenance of such facilities.
This is not to say that the field of arts does not need a similar amount of assistance, but one will have to search real hard to find another area of endeavour that can match the advertisement and glory sports usually brings to a country, especially when it produces world class athletes.
Just recently, Guyana despite the lack of a top-class football stadium saw its footballers produce a string of stirring performances in the Digicel Caribbean Cup against some countries that already have state of the art facilities. Some of those countries included The Netherlands Antilles, Grenada, Guadeloupe and Suriname just to name a few.
One just have to look at Trinidad and Tobago as an example, the Government is currently about to transform the Queens Park Savannah into a multi-sports complex and that is in addition to the five (5) stadiums that they already possess.
An argument could be made that it is an unfair comparison because Trinidad is an oil-rich nation that also produces natural gas, but on the other hand if this country is serious about the development of sports, then partnerships between the Government and the private sector could be forged that could ease the burden on one party or the other.
There is so much that Government can offer, starting with offering incentives which will encourage those entities to invest in such ventures. We have seen many examples of what sports can do for a country, tourism can be developed; poverty could be alleviated through its success and many other positive spin-offs could be derived.
Look at what some Caribbean countries have been able to achieve because of the success of a few athletes.
It had a trickle down effect and many examples come readily to mind, like Jamaica's Don Quarrie, who won the 200 metres at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and Hasely Crawford, who captured the gold medal in the 100 metres at the same Games.
After their performances, the Caribbean became the focus of many international scouts and athletes like T&T's- Ato Boldon, St. Kitts- Kim Collins, Bahamas'-Tonique Williams-Darling and more recently Jamaican world record holder Asafa Powell, have all emerged and brought glory and recognition to their respective countries.
But, most importantly, the foundation that was laid by those famous athletes prompted their Governments to see the need to invest heavily in sports and they have ultimately reaped the rewards. We now have world class athletes competing in countries like Jamaica and Trinidad just to name a few and that is due in part to two primary reasons.
They have athletes that are well established on the world stage thus commanding the respect and secondly they have built facilities that compare with many on the international scene.
We saw Trinidad host the Youth World Cup football tournament in 2001, a sure testimony to their commitment to sports.
It is time we as a nation truly understand the benefits of promoting sports and start to treat it as one of the vehicles in which we can use to drive us up the right side of the economic road.
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Suizas
Three soft Corn Tortillas dipped in Mild Tomato Sauce with your choice
of filling: Beef, Chicken or Cheese and Melted Cheese on top.
Enchiladas Mixtas
One of each of the above Enchilada dishes with your choice of filling:
Beef, Chicken or Cheese.
Enchiladas Verdes
Three soft Corn Tortillas dipped in Green Hot Tomato and Jalapeño
sauce filled with your choice of: Beef, Chicken or Cheese and Melted Cheese
on top.
Steak Taco Salad
Two cup shaped crispy Flour Tortillas, filed with chunks of Steak, Lettuce,
Guacamole, Cheese and our Cream.
Chimichanga
Soft Grilled Flour Tortillas with a Spread of Beans and filled with your
choice of Beef, Chinken or Cheese covered with a Mild Tomato Sauce. Melted
Cheese and Guacamole n top and a dash of Sour Cream.
Burritos
Three grilled Flour Tortillas stuffed with your choice of Beef, Chicken
or Cheese.
Quesadillas
Grilled Corn or FlourTortillas filled with Melted Chihuahua Cheese
Specialties of the House
All of the following dishes are served with Rice,
Beans and either Corn or Flour Tortillas.
Carne Asada
Skirt Steak done to your taste, served with one Quesadilla & Grilled
Green Onions
Mexican Pepper Steak
Chunks of Steak covered with Onion, Tomato and green Pepper
Banderillas
Marinated chunks of Beef broiled to your taste on skewers along with chunks
of Onion, Tomato and Green Pepper served in its own juices.
Steak Ranchero
Skirt Steak broiled in Mild Tomato Sauce
Las Piñatas Special
Broiled Skirt Steak served with melted Cheese on top, one Chile Relleno
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Chiles Rellenos
Imported Poblano Green Pepper stuffed with Chihuahua Cheese and topped
with Tomato Sauce and a dash of Sour Cream.
Pollo en Mole
Half Chicken smothered in our own Mole Sauce, served with Melted Chihuahua
Cheese on top and a dash of Sour Cream.
Pollo Ranchero
Half chicken smothered in Mild Ranchero Sauce, served with Melted Chihuahua
Cheese on top and a dash of Sour Cream.
Pollo Norteño
Half Chicken cooked in Red Hot Sauce, melted Chihuahua cheese on top.
Pollo in Salsa Verde
Half Chicken cooked in Hot Green Tomato and Jalapeño Sauce, Melted
Cheese on Top.
Milanesa
Breaded Tenderloin, Fried Potatoes, Tortillas, Rice and Beans.
Caldo de Pollo
Homemade Chicken Soup covered with Fresh Vegetables.
Fajitas Vegetarianas
Fresh Vegetables Cooked Fajita Style
Caldo de Camaron
Shrimp Soup cooked with Fresh Vegetables and Mild Peppers.
Fajitas de Carne
Grilled chunks of Steak, Onions, Green Pepper or Poblano Pepper, Tomato
and side of Guacamole, Sour Cream & Pico de Gallo.
Fajitas de Pollo
Same as above but cooked with Chicken.
Fajitas de Camaron
Same as above but cooked with Shrimp.
Huachinango al Mojo de Ajo
Fresh whole Red Snaper sautéed in Fresh Garlic Sauce
Huachinango al la Veracruzana
Fresh whole Red Snaper sautéed and topped with Veracruz Style Tomato
Sauce
Camarones a la Plancha
Butterfly Shrimp sautéed in Fresh Garlic Sauce
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A dozen times, then disappears, not a trace left behind
The thrower turns and walks away
A change of mind, another start a brand new day
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By ELLIOT HARRIS
Staff Writer
The College of Administration and Business and the Ruston-Lincoln Parish Chamber of Commerce joined forces to host the 2004 Annual Ruston-Lincoln Parish Business Awards.
Tech President Dr. Dan Reneau served as master of ceremonies at the awards breakfast, held Tuesday in the Student Center, Main Floor. The breakfast recognized area businesses with awards presented by Ruston Mayor Dan Hollingsworth to the business of the year, small business of the year and young business person of the year.
Dr. Shirley Reagan, dean of the College of Administration and Business and a member of the Chamber Board of Directors, spoke positively of the involvement of Hollingsworth and Reneau.
"We feel the participation of these leaders shows the importance of businesses to the community and the university," Reagan said.
The business of the year award, recognizing a company with over 25 employees, was given to D&H Wholesale/The Medical Connection, owned by David Trussell.
The small business of the year award, honoring a company with 25 employees or fewer, went to The Beehive Jewelry Company, owned by Amy and Brent Bernard.
The young business person of the year award, recognizing someone under 40, went to Steve Davison, owner of Squire Creek. A co-winner of the award was Neil Keen, owner of The Frothy Monkey.
"I'm very honored," Keen said. "It's nice to be recognized for work that has been put into the community."
Criteria for the awards included the impact the business or person has made on the community, evidence of generosity to the community, leadership with the community by the business and or its employees and innovative thinking and entrepreneurship.
Chamber Chairman-elect Don Kessler said Reagan came up with the idea of an awards breakfast.
"With 'economic development' being the buzz word for the past couple of years, she wanted to recognize the synergies between Tech and the Lincoln Parish business community," Kessler said in a press release.
Kessler said he was excited to have the cooperation of Tech and the Ruston Chamber of Commerce.
"There are so many resources at Tech that can help the enterprising of any small business person," he said.
The breakfast was followed by a three-hour workshop presented by Louisiana entrepreneur and Fortune 500 business consultant Gregory P. Young.
"He's really fascinating," Reagan said. "He's very informative, humorous and motivating at the same time."
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NEW YORK --Los Angeles-based designer Gregory Parkinson showed his fall 2013 collection in a presentation format during New York Fashion Week, at the bohemian chic NoMad Hotel not far from the Flatiron District. Looking at the clothes set up in the hotel’s Beaux Arts-style salon, it was easy to imagine the mannequins coming to life and sipping Champagne with fancy guests.
The look: Tea-length skirts worn with cropped blouses or camisoles, and dresses with evening jackets, all in the loveliest layers and tiers of hand-dyed lace in saturated hues of plum, teal, pink, navy blue and black.
The inspiration: Romance, ease and handcraft, as is always the case with Parkinson. Because the designer is well known for making resort clothes, he wanted to show something more dressed up, he said, before adding that, of course, any of the skirts could be worn to dinner at the beach with a tank top and sandals. Yes, please.
The verdict: It’s a pleasure to watch a designer who knows himself and his customer well enough to approach each season with laser-like precision. Well done.
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Many sunscreens do not block UVA radiation and people may be exposed to a high level of UVA without realizing it. To limit unrealistic claims about the level of protection offered, the EU revised the UVA guidelines for sunscreens. Now, the requirement is that UVA must be at least 1/3 of the SPF. For example, if the UVA protection is SPF 5 and the UVB protection is SPF 30, the overall SPF allowed to be displayed on the product can only 15, despite the fact that the UVB protection is actually much higher. While the FDA is reportedly working on a UVA rating system, currently in the US there are no UVA requirements. The image above shows the sunscreen ingredients approved by the FDA. Avobenzone, Ecamaule, and Zinc Oxide are the only three ingredients to fully protect against UVA rays. Zinc Oxide is the only natural ingredient approved by the FDA.
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Stephen Clark
Photo: Jamie Rector
The J. Paul Getty Trust is the world's richest art institution with an estimated endowment of $5.5 billion. It operates the Getty Conservation Institute, Getty Foundation, J. Paul Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute, all based in Los Angeles. Its properties include the Richard Meier-designed Getty Center, which opened in 1997 and the Getty Villa in Malibu on the renovated site of the original J. Paul Getty Museum. The original museum was founded by the oil baron J. Paul Getty in 1954 and its collection included Greek and Roman antiquities, 18th-century French furniture and European paintings.
THE QUICK BIO
Stephen Clark, 53, joined the Getty Trust in 2008 as vice president and general counsel after 14 years in the law department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City where he became deputy GC in 2002. Clark started working at MoMA in an entry-level position after graduating from Hamilton College with an English degree in 1981. "I worked every kind of low-paid job at the start, including the information desk and the operations department," he said. He eventually crossed the street to become assistant director of the American Craft Museum from 1986 to 1987 but was already thinking about the next phase of his career. "Law school was always something in the back of my mind even though I really liked working at the museum," said Clark. "My father was a lawyer and the idea of being a lawyer always appealed to me." He decided to enroll at Fordham University School of Law in 1987, graduating in 1990. He had a clerkship lined up with New York U.S. District Judge Inzer Wyatt after graduation, but when Wyatt died during Clark's final year of law school, Clark joined the New York office of the firm then known as Brown & Wood instead. "I worked with a great trial lawyer, Russel H. "Cap" Beatie, who gave me the chance to work on a broad range of issues, including product liability, securities and land use. It was an interesting variety, which continued when I left Brown & Wood to continue working with Cap at a small firm called Beatie, King & Abate."
In 1993, Clark got married his wife had children from a previous marriage and decided it was time for more work-life balance. He turned back to MoMA, whose general counsel, Beverly Wolff, was looking to bring an attorney into the department. "Even though I liked what I was doing at the firm, I wanted to be able to spend time with the children." He started work in 1994 as a legal generalist at MoMA, eventually building experience in governance, contract, labor and employment issues as well as art-specific matters including provenance, title and copyright issues. Before leaving MoMA for the Getty, Clark served as president of the Museum Association of New York, participated on several New York Bar Association committees and began writing and speaking on issues connected to the museum world, particularly WWII-era art provenance. He's also developed expertise on the surprising variety of legal issues tied to the contemporary art world alone. For example, conceptual works require their own certifications of ownership and creative rights and artwork featuring nudity or other controversial physical or message elements always almost require legal review. The mere scale of an exhibit can also require legal involvement with regard to structural, zoning, transportation and related issues, Clark says, noting last year's installation of Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass, an installation involving a 360-ton boulder at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
In-house attorneys at museums are a relatively small club because only the largest tend to have their own law departments. "We are all on a first-name basis," he said, and in New York, most would get together for brown bag lunches on a regular basis.
About the only job that could have drawn Clark away from MoMA was the Getty, he said. "There's so much variety here; I have the opportunity to do something different every day." His experience at MoMA fit the immediate needs of the Getty. Clark was recruited by James Wood, the former Art Institute of Chicago chief brought in after provenance and governance controversies led to the resignation of former Getty president and CEO Barry Munitz in 2006. Munitz had come under fire related to provenance issues in the Getty's museum collections and expense and severance controversies that led to an investigation by the California attorney general's office. Later that year, the AG concluded that Munitz "violated his legal duty" when he used Getty Trust employees to "run his personal errands" and concluded that Getty trustees had improperly used charitable funds to pay travel expenses for Munitz's wife and buy gifts of artwork for retiring board members. Wood died suddenly in June 2010, and Clark now reports to his successor, James Cuno, who like Wood joined the Getty from the Art Institute.
INSIDE AND OUTSIDE COUNSEL
The Getty has two other attorneys working on staff Maureen Whalen, a former Disney intellectual property attorney, handles IP issues at the Getty Trust as assistant general counsel. "We do a lot of publishing books, online materials, images and scholarly material and Maureen's a leading authority on metadata (data that describes other data)." Assistant general counsel Kimberly Wong, former senior vice president and GC of American Golf Corp., handles employment issues, reviews contracts and works with Getty's facilities and security departments. "One thing I really value is problem-solving ability," Clark said.
The Getty's accelerating emphasis on the digital humanities, Clark says, is one major initiative his department is working on, and for the first time, the trust is starting to raise outside funds. "We are fortunate to have substantial assets, but we also have big ambitions and it's essential for people to support our programs locally, nationally and internationally, in order to sustain the level of excellence the Getty has achieved in conservation, education, research, exhibitions and publications," he said.
The Getty Trust's primary outside counsel is Munger, Tolles & Olson. "They've done great work in the past to help us sort out various governance matters and have also helped to resolve issues about the provenance of certain antiquities. The MTO lawyers, particularly Ronald Olson and Luis Li, understand the Getty's institutional needs.
"Art institutions are a little quirky. When we talk to Luis about a problem, our first focus is on the right thing to do. We exist for the benefit of the public, so it's important to think that through and not simply focus on narrow legal issues."
Clark says he's cut the Getty's legal budget "a lot" since he arrived, in part because the legal issues linked to Getty's past troubles with governance and provenance have been resolved. "Every dollar we spend on outside counsel is a dollar we can't spend on acquisitions, education or public programs," he said. "I'm perfectly willing to pay the going rate for high-quality work, but our outside counsel understand that their bills must be reasonable and appropriate." As for his role and the role of museum counsel going forward, "Legal issues were peripheral for a long time in museums, but now they're central," said Clark, referring to the range of governance, provenance and intellectual property matters that now face institutions like the Getty Trust.
"Lawyers need to be involved in the decision making and operation of these institutions." He doesn't discount the creature comforts either. "It's wonderful to be able to work with smart, interesting people at MoMA and the Getty, and a joy to be at the Getty Center, which is such a beautiful place. I see the gardens, smell the jasmine in the air and watch the sun setting over the Pacific in the evening," he added. "And I can walk the galleries after they're closed."
EXTRACURRICULAR
An avid cyclist, Clark sometimes rides with Cuno on weekends and sometimes rides to and from work. His wife, Karen, owned an antique gallery in New York before moving to Los Angeles, and their children are also involved in the arts daughter Zaza, 28, is a painter; son Wiley, 24, manages a decorative art dealers' co-op in Manhattan. Son John, 16, a high school student, is a foil fencer and fly fisherman in his spare time. Most recent movies were Lincoln and Django, Unchained, and Clark adds that he's been reading P.G. Wodehouse lately with John and has recently finished Robert Caro's most recent volume on Lyndon Johnson, as well as Bernard Bailyn's The Barbarous Years. Clark enjoys skiing and hiking in the mountains of California, and works with the Getty's volunteer team on trail restoration in local state parks.
This article originally appeared in The Recorder.
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Starting on Jan. 1, the Internal Revenue Service will penalize businesses that fail to comply with a law that governs the reporting of payments made by credit card.
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"To be successful, students early on must learn the skills of legal analysis, research and writing that will be used throughout their careers. One of the most effective ways to learn is by doing; Drake students develop these skills from weekly assignments and small group meetings. Law students improve their skills each week. And not surprisingly, some students are unaccustomed to the benefits frequent feedback provides. However, the rewards come later when the value of their work is realized. Students return for the second year of law school with great confidence in their legal abilities after putting their research and writing skills to use in their summer positions. They find that their skills are far superior to those of students in less intensive programs and that they are able to impress their employers with those skills."
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Research project
Investigator:
Anna Maria Baumgartner
Abstract:.
The first step of the research project will be to elaborate in detail the relevant antitrust law provisions, which includes a precise examination of the main legal sources – the Commission Regulation (EC) No 772/2004 on the application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty to categories of technology transfer agreements ("Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation") as enacted by the European Union and the Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property published by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. In addition, the investigator will analyze complementary material and corresponding case law. Subsequently, the investigator will conduct a legal comparison of both sets of rules including their scope, basic principles, and typical antitrust issues.
In the EU and the U.S., technology transfer agreements are considered to be pro-competitive as they usually improve economic efficiency and reduce duplication of research and development, strengthen the incentive for the initial research, and foster diffusion and product market competition. Despite this general compliance, a comparative study will point out the differences between the relevant antitrust law provisions. Considering the expiration of the EU Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation on April 30, 2014, the objective is not only to underline the aspects that need to be taken into account when drafting a technology transfer agreement, but also to present new ideas and provide suggestions for future improvements of the EU Technology Transfer Block Exemption
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Professor Jonathan Torres Ficachi began his legal career in Mexico where he is a member of the Barra Mexicana Colegio de Abogados, A.C. He is experienced in Mexican Law, with a focus in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Foreign Investment, Contracts, Civil and Commercial Litigation, and Amparo (Mexican Constitutional Procedure).
During his ten years of legal practice, Professor Torres Ficachi has worked for three of the most prominent boutique law firms in Mexico City: Lagos Carrillo Abogados, S.C., Aguilar-Karam Abogados, S.C., and Sánchez Medal Abogados, S.C. Throughout his professional practice in Mexico, he has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in civil and commercial court proceedings, including appearances before Appellate Courts, Circuit Courts, and the Mexican Supreme Court. He represented one of the largest commercial malls in Latin America, Centro Comercial Santa Fe, Mexico City, where he negotiated, drafted, and formalized its commercial contracts. He has also represented the world’s leading yeast producer in all corporate, contractual, and commercial matters.
Professor Torres Ficachi obtained his law degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana, followed by a Specialization in Constitutional Law, with Highest Honors, from the Universidad Panamericana, and a Masters in Law from Whittier Law School. He currently teaches Spanish for Lawyers at Whittier Law School.
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AMR Seeks To Change Retiree Benefit Plans
In an adversary proceeding in New York bankruptcy court, AMR sued a committee of retired employees, arguing that it can unilaterally modify their health and welfare benefits because it has not promised to provide the plan participants with the benefits for life, and...
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Skadden Reps Valeant In $345M Jannsen Unit Buy
In the deal, two Valeant subsidiaries — Valeant Pharmaceuticals North America and Valeant International (Barbados) SRL — will pick up Janssen’s Ortho Dermatologics division and its prescription acne medication brands Retin-A Micro and Renova, as well as the foot fungus drug Ertaczo, according to a statement from Valeant.
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The legislators, including Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., said the highway bill, which passed through Congress in June and was signed into law by President Barack Obama in July, improperly tapped into funding set aside for the Abandoned Mine Land Trust...
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Assuming the mayor took just one ticket to each of the other events, and did not get extra tickets, he received about $12,000 in courtside Lakers seats, and tickets to 11 Dodger games worth up to $5,500.
Those Dodger seats could present an additional ethics problem because the team is involved in a project with Metro, where Villaraigosa is a vice chairman. Because of past scandals, Metro has strict rules against board members taking gifts from entities that have dealings with Metro.
Villaraigosa also got a ticket worth at least $1,250 to attend Plácido Domingo's 40th anniversary show at the Los Angeles Opera, and wangled a ticket to the American Idol finale, the scalper price of which — tickets were not publicly sold — hit $5,000. He took many tickets of lesser value, including one to a Mary J. Blige concert at as much as $90 and a Smokey Robinson concert at the Greek Theatre, which cost up to $80. (For a complete list of the mayor's tickets, see the Weekly's news blog, The Informer, at laweekly.com.)
Villaraigosa and his legal advisers are defending the freebies by arguing that the mayor is exempt from gift limitations, and has acted within his rights, because he attended events to conduct "official business."
If that view prevails before the City Ethics Commission, Villaraigosa could upend one of the key anticorruption laws on the books in L.A. The state and city prohibit elected officials from taking more than $420 in gifts annually from any single source. In L.A., politicians are also banned from taking more than $100 in gifts annually from anyone who does business with the city.
Villaraigosa's five-year ticket spree is being closely watched by other elected officials because of the proactive method he used to gain free entry to at least some of the events. For example, he got great seats to a Beyoncé concert by cranking out a "proclamation" at the 11th hour, which praised the singer for her good citizenship.
A dozen political advisers and lawyers contacted by the Weekly declined to comment, most of them unwilling to publicly criticize a sitting politician. But legal counsel to one national elected official called Villaraigosa's seeking out of events at which to present a scroll or briefly speak at a microphone "pretty clever." He got into a 2008 Lakers Playoff game, for example, by arranging to hold a press conference on-site at which he said the 2011 All-Star game was coming to L.A.
Critics say that if the City Ethics Commission merely slaps Villaraigosa's wrist, politicians up and down California will copy him, printing up scrolls and devising on-site "press conferences" to claim that they, too, are conducting "official" or "ceremonial" duties.
Cressman, of Common Cause, calls the mayor's behavior shameful. He says that if the ethics commission finds no wrongdoing, "it's a terrible precedent. It's opening a new loophole. I can't recall any state officials using this 'ceremonial' function as an excuse for not reporting" gifts.
But the commission is no longer Villaraigosa's only concern. The L.A. District Attorney's Office said this week it will review the commission's findings for possible illegalities.
Although mayoral aides have repeatedly insisted that Villaraigosa did not break city or state anticorruption laws, one emerging legal argument from the mayor's team appears somewhat unusual.
Attorney Walter Moore, who has filed an ethics complaint against Villaraigosa over the freebies, says he is being told by people close to the issue that the mayor's attorneys are privately citing the opinion issued to Hahn in 2004 by the City Ethics Commission concerning whether Hahn could spend funds he raised to buy tickets to the Grammys. In the detailed response to Hahn, the commission described the mayor as the city's "business ambassador and chief marketer."
Moore believes Villaraigosa is trying to parlay that language to argue after the fact that if he conducts any duties at events, he can legally obtain scads of free tickets and not report them. "I gather that's the argument," says Moore, who calls it "woefully misplaced."
He scoffs, "If you read the Municipal Code, it does not contain a calligraphy defense" — referring to Villaraigosa's practice of churning out fancy scrolls to use as entry.
The mayor's office did not respond to several requests made by the Weekly, seeking comment.
One thing is certain: The mayor can't claim ignorance of the rules. As a former California Assembly speaker, Villaraigosa became intimately familiar with the gift laws, including requirements that elected officials must ask for a legal ruling from the Fair Political Practices Commission — or in this case, the City Ethics Commission — before trying anything questionable.
In fact, in 1999, Villaraigosa authored Assembly Bill 1630 to weaken rules that require politicians to find out from the FPPC the legality of their actions before committing them. Villaraigosa's bill died in committee because the FPPC fought it. The existing law usually requires a politician to obtain a written opinion two to three weeks in advance of the questionable action. Villaraigosa's bill would have let politicians get an oral opinion five days in advance.
Asked about Villaraigosa's five years of undisclosed free tickets, FPPC Executive Director Roman Porter says, "There is no record of the mayor having asked for advice on this issue."
As the Weekly has previously reported, Villaraigosa has been light on policy and heavy on self-promotion as mayor. He employs a personal staff of 173 — Hahn had 121, Riordan 114 — some of whom focus on getting his face on the nightly news.
The Weekly's September 2008 cover story, "The All About Me Mayor," illustrated how Villaraigosa devotes his touted "16-hour workdays" almost entirely to self-promotional activities, ceremonial events, awards, luncheons, banquets, photo ops and media interviews — including a sizable chunk of "gap time" used to drive around to attend the activities.
Based on documents obtained under the California Public Records Act, this paper found that Villaraigosa spends only 11 percent of his time on core city business, such as learning about policy issues, signing legislation, or meeting with department heads, community leaders or his chief of staff.
Two decades ago, similar behavior in the waning days of Tom Bradley's administration brought that popular mayor strong criticism. The aging Bradley had begun to spend a great deal of time at ribbon cuttings, banquets and other ceremonial events. But in those days, L.A. had a weaker mayoral system than it does now, so Bradley had fewer real powers than Villaraigosa enjoys.
This mayor has been given a measure of political cover for his approach to the job by the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times, whose editorials have argued that his devotion to ceremonial and self-promotional activities is good for L.A.
Yet it was a Times newsman, Willon, who determined that the mayor uses his largely ceremonial position to justify a lavish lifestyle financed on somebody else's dime. Willon spent months reviewing thousands of photographs of Villaraigosa at sporting and cultural events, and pored over five years of his personal schedule.
— Clarissa Wei also contributed to this report
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Mickey’s Been Layin’ Low…
Grunt. When he spends his time blogging on car designs and the LA Times, I can at least ignore him…
Surely some Academy members are viscerally averse to watching gay sex. (They have genes too.)
Mickey is proposing an interesting theory of sexual attraction, even were we, for the sake of argument, to accept genetic determination of sexual preference. For Mickey, our genes apparently designate not sexual attraction but sexual repulsion. Heterosexual members of the Academy must find homosexual relations repellant; this is why they like girls (and don’t doubt that we’re only talking about the men here). Heterosexuals like Mickey aren’t attracted by women so much as they are repelled by men, and the idea of man-on-man sex.
This has the nifty side effect of allowing Mickey to believe that it’s not his fault that he’s disgusted by homosexuals; it’s genetic.
And then:
You knew there would be an anti-homophobic guilt trip somewhere in this process.
While I’m inclined to doubt that the “heterosexual” gene plays much of a role in Mickey’s development, it appears that the narcissism gene is coming through strong and clear. The whole point of this evil Hollywood plot, after all, has been to make Mickey feel guilty (and, really, to look stupid, given his predictions about Brokeback’s success). Surely, no one could be interested in the story for any reason other than to make insecure guys like Mickey feel guilty and uncomfortable.
And, last but not least, Mickey apes the Apuzzo line:.
Worst. Blogger. Ever. When you can’t improve on Jason Apuzzo, it’s time to hang ‘em up.
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New technologies have enormous potential to help older people live independently by countering problems with mobility, health and loneliness. Governments and other agencies are putting tremendous efforts into helping older people to go online, but an important challenge is that those who become regular and confident technology users face barriers in continuing to use them as they age.
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The ‘Sus-IT (Sustaining Information Technology use by older people to promote autonomy and independence)’ project is working to overcome this. It is being led by Professor Leela Damodaran as Principal Investigator and Wendy Olphert as Lead Co-investigator, working alongside Dr Colin Machin and colleagues from the Department of Computer Science, and seven other universities – Anglia Ruskin, Middlesex, Dundee, Lincoln, Nottingham Trent, Northumbria and Surrey.
The project is being funded by the New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) Programme. The NDA is a seven year multidisciplinary research initiative with the ultimate aim of improving the quality of life of older people. The programme is the largest and most ambitious research programme on ageing ever mounted in the UK.
“Sus-IT has far-reaching ramifications for our society and economy,” Professor Damodaran explains. “Fundamentally it is about gaining a better understanding of how older people can participate actively in our e-society and helping them to achieve this; to do nothing would mean letting a large section of our population become more and more socially isolated and financially disadvantaged.”
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1.1. Indexing conventions usually prescribe that the most specific term be assigned to the material being cataloged. The choice of terms also depends on the use of the collections, the degree of available information, the relationship of the material being cataloged to the rest of the institution's holdings, staff expertise, and whether the catalog record represents a single item or a group of items. Decisions about the level of specificity should also take into account the needs of a growing manual file or local automated database and the possibility of contributing records to a multi-institutional database, or other modes of record distribution.
1.2. If uncertain of a specific physical process, assign a broader term. Although terms are available for use when a process is recognized, one should not feel compelled to try to identify every process as specifically as possible in every case. Example: When a color photographic print process cannot be easily identified, PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS--COLOR may suffice.
1.3. In accordance with conventional subject indexing practice, a narrower term and its broader term should not both occur in a record for a single item. However, for a group, it may be appropriate to assign both broader and narrower terms. Example: An aquatint is indexed with: AQUATINTS. The additional broader term INTAGLIO PRINTS would be superfluous.
Example: A group that contains mostly cyanotypes, but also has a scattering of many other photo processes, may be indexed with: CYANOTYPES and the broader term PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS.
1.4. Conventional indexing rules prescribe use of the broader term when more than three of its narrower terms would be headings in the catalog record. The desire for access to examples of specific media and genre in a group may call for deviation from this practice and use of all the terms. When, however, the specific aspects are considered too numerous to index separately, either in a group or single item, the practice of using the broader term should be followed.
Example: A group containing a photographer's work includes mostly platinum prints but also has a few cyanotypes and tintypes. Each type is indexed because it is important to highlight them all in the context of the institution's holdings.
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What led to the success of Ammon and his brethren in their efforts to bring the Lamanites to a knowledge of the truth? What do you learn from Ammon and Aaron’s approach to missionary work?
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What doctrines did Ammon and Aaron teach to King Lamoni and his father? (See Alma 18:34–39; 22:7–14.)
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What sacrifices was Lamoni’s father willing to make to know God? (See Alma 22:15, 17–18.) What can you learn from his example?
As you study Alma 17–22, look for accounts of people who received blessings after they endured trials. Ponder the blessings that you have received as you have endured trials faithfully.
Suggestion for Family Discussion
Display a few different instruments or tools. Ask family members to explain how each instrument (or tool) is used. Then read Alma 17:1–9 and point out that we, like the sons of Mosiah, can be “instrument[s] in the hands of God” as we share the gospel with others. Emphasize that the Lord will help us as we strive to be instruments in His hands.
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Woe to them who are at ease in Zion—Israel will be plagued with desolation.
1 Woe to them that are at
2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
3 Ye that put
4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves
6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 ¶Therefore now shall they go
8 The Lord God hath
9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain tenShall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned
13 Ye which
14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
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Overcome, Overcame
- Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome: Gen. 49:19 .
- we are well able to overcome it: Num. 13:30 .
- I have overcome the world: John 16:33 .
- Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good: Rom. 12:21 .
- of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage: 2 Pet. 2:19 .
- because ye have overcome the wicked one: 1 Jn. 2:13 .
- born of God overcometh the world: 1 Jn. 5:4 .
- To him that overcometh will I give to eat: Rev. 2:7 .
- he that overcometh … to him will I give power: Rev. 2:26 .
- He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment: Rev. 3:5 .
- To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me: Rev. 3:21 .
- the beast … shall overcome them: Rev. 11:7 .
- they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb: Rev. 12:11 .
- He that overcometh shall inherit all things: Rev. 21:7 .
- the enemy shall not overcome: D&C 38:9 .
- I have overcome the world: D&C 50:41 .
- through faith they shall overcome: D&C 61:9 .
- He that is faithful … shall overcome the world: D&C 63:47 .
- I will that ye should overcome the world: D&C 64:2 .
- sufferings of those with whom he made war and overcame: D&C 76:30 .
- who overcome by faith, and are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise: D&C 76:53 .
- they shall overcome all things: D&C 76:60 .
- I have overcome and have trodden the wine-press alone: D&C 76:107 .
- Lamb of God hath overcome: D&C 88:106 .
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ATHENS Abry Jones career at Georgia is over because of his ankle injury, head coach Mark Richt revealed on his radio show Monday night.
There was some hope that Jones, the defensive end from Warner-Robins, could return for the postseason. But Richt, who had declined to say much about Jones recently, confirmed the worst-case scenario.
Hes done for his senior year, and hes not gonna play again for Georgia, Richt said.
Richt brought up Jones injury himself, when he was talking about this past weekends news that senior receiver Marlon Brown is also done because of an ACL injury.
Its just sad that those guys senior year ended prematurely because theyre great guys, Richt said. I still think theyll have great careers in the NFL. But its just sad for them, sad for Georgia.
Jones had 17 tackles and no sacks in seven games this season. He struggled with the ankle injury the last few games. He finishes his college career with 106 tackles and five sacks.
Brown feeling positive
Browns career may be over, but his roommate said the receiver is keeping a bright outlook.
You wouldnt know the difference in the way he was acting before, and after. Hes laughing, and smiling and joking around still, said senior receiver Rantavious Wooten, who rooms with Brown. Still, its affecting him, because of the situation. So the guys around him are just keeping his spirits up, keeping his head up, keeping him positive.
Wooten said he wasnt sure if Browns injury would mean much more of a role for himself, because he can only play one receiver spot, flanker.
But redshirt freshman Justin Scott-Wesley, who has just one catch this year, said he expected his own role to increase. Richt has said that as well.
When guys go down, guys have to step up. So I guess its my time to step up.
More injury updates
Guard Chris Burnette (shoulder) and outside linebacker Chase Vasser (shoulder sprain) did not practice on Monday. Their status for Saturdays game against Auburn remains in question.
Fullback Merritt Hall, who missed most of the past two games with an ankle injury, was off the official injury report. Richt said he didnt know if Hall would be able to play, but if he did that he anticipated a pretty even split of snaps with Zander Ogletree.
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Thanks, Lee. This is exactly what I needed!
I’m glad it helped.
Lee: Where have I been all your life? LOL This is exactly what I needed for my current wip that takes place in a small town in the North Carolina mountains about human trafficking but included four murders. There is so much information on this site it’s overwhelming. Thank you so much!!
Thanks, Lee. Very informative. My WIP is set in a town of 25,000, so it’s easy for me to visualize the situation you show on a slightly larger scale. I’ll be a regular reader here from now on.
Lee,
You consistently hit the issue smack on the head. I love this.
My current WIP is set in a Minnesota town with a population of 3,500. There’s a police chief, 4 full time officers and two part-time people, a civilian dispatcher just out of high school. The pictures were really helpful. My grandad was a police officer, but in Tampa, FL, which is anything but small. I’ve been guessing what the physical location would look like. Thanks for the great visuals!
Yup. My WIP has at least a few scenes in a small town police department and this looks exactly like the one I visited in CT. Thanks for some of the details I may have missed. BTW, the fictional town in my book is one town over from a fictional Springfield.
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In an essay for this week’s New Statesman, Jon Cruddas MP attacks the “new orthodoxy” on immigration and welfare recipients” which has emerged since the election.
In a joint article with Jonathan Rutherford, professor of cultural studies at Middlesex University, Cruddas writes:
“Where in these current debates are issues of political economy? Where is the deep analysis of power and structural inequality? Indeed, where are the hope and generosity, the optimism and warmth, the search for a different world? Why are we retreating into a sour, kiss-up, kick-down politics? …
“The whirlwind of globalisation has destroyed working-class communities. In the most deprived areas, a culture of shame and failure has taken root. Children grow up expecting nothing, and so give nothing in return. People fear that their identity and way of life are under threat; in consequence, they fear the stranger. This fear then spreads outwards to the wider population, like ripples across a pond.”
Directly addressing the arguments about immigration and welfare, Cruddas and Rutherford write:
article concludes by arguing that the “new covenant between Labour and the people” would be for an ethic of reciprocity, an ethical economy that secures capital and employment in localities, and for liberty.
Left Foot Forward outlined on Monday how a number of Labour leadership candidates were talking tough on immigration. Andy Burnham expanded on his views in yesterday’s Telegraph:
Those roots have made Mr Burnham more critical than his rivals of Labour’s failure to understand worries about immigration. denies that he is trying to outflank the Con-Lib Government on the Right. “Some solutions naturally belong to the Left – rebuilding social housing and looking at the minimum wage … I would [also] look at benefits for new arrivals. Repatriating child benefit to the country of origin is [wrong]. The man in the street says it can’t be right to send money back home to a child who isn’t here.”
Mr Burnham also advocates getting much tougher on some British claimants. If people refused to work after receiving personalised help, would he withdraw benefits?
“Ultimately. There would have to be rigour in the system. I’d pull back slightly from a draconian no-benefits [rule], but they’d have to take on board the positive opportunities put to them”
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kbvt3
April 17, 2010 - 3:58pm
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I had read about that the Group 8 veterans were now eligible again to receive VA healthcare. I encouraged my brother to enroll. He's been laid off from his previous jobs for several months. Last week he received a letter of denial. The letter said no Group 8 veterans were being accepted. Was this a short lived policy from Obama, a change made with Obamacare, or a mistake?
Where do I find an answer to my question?
skbj94
October 17, 2010 - 10:20pm
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Hi. I just joined the Legion .I have a question about the VA medical .I was turned down about two years ago. My older brother just signed up and got accepted and his card is on the way .We both where in the Army during Vietnam but didn't go to Vietnam..So why did he get accepted and i did not. Can you tell me what if anything I can do to get a medical card. Thanks for your time Scott K Abbott.. PS i just found this what is Group 8 ?????????
lake989
November 11, 2010 - 11:54am
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I was drafted in 1969 and went into the Marines. Lucky to get orders cut and not serve in Vietnam. But I got pinned for my corporal stripes, sprayed some MJ fields the Gunny found on base that burned my skin. Several other "things" and the VA gave me 2 SC problems and O Comp. Got my VA permanent SC (Purple and White Card) and stayed in VA hospital a couple times with Meds before 1982. Moved from area and never heard you would be dropped if you did not sign up again in early 1990s. Signed up at age 64 (2009) and was told I was "now" a Group 8 with NO Service Connected rating for anything. Today I have a total hip replacement thanks to pinning as a corporal....complaint in my Medical Records. Thought I had a good chance to get some medical care so doubt very few will see help in Group 8. Scrapbook full of medical records and nowhere to go. I even had a VA Doc letter recommending disability in 1981. But many worse off than I.
Good Luck
profrlklein
January 6, 2011 - 3:54pm
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My recommendation to all veterans is not believe any of the propaganda from the Dept of Veterans Affairs. The VA blatantly lies to us (veterans) and to those who purport to help up.
A prime example: The VA has continously and blatantly lied to me about my disability claim for over 454 days (15 months). In fact they have even lied to my Senators and Congressman, who did nothing but parrot back the VA lies.
Two of the VA's major lies were: (1) conveniently missing medical records one month, miraculously found the next, but conveniently missing a different set of medical records; and (2) promising me and my Congressman that my claim would be expedited since they had everything they needed, and the very next day they tell me that more information is needed on something that was reportedly adjudicated.
Lesson Learned: Never believe the VA, they will lie to you.
jakers487
January 17, 2011 - 9:31am
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I think they lied tome when i enlisted 1968. They said I would never lose my venerans benifits. I have been trying to get medical benefits for over two years. they tell me my pension is too much money to get anything. Thanks VA.
guardfar41
February 18, 2011 - 9:31am
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As a veteran, you would think an ID would be issused to identify you as a Vet. instead of having to carry around a DD 214.
HarleyRider55
May 7, 2011 - 1:48pm
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I agree we need a ID card. Even though we are "Group 8" they can surely find a way to issue us a card that differentiates us from those they deem eligable for medical attention. Lots of restaurants, stores, etc are now giving discounts to vets, Lowes wants a picture ID for a veteran's 10% discount. My son is stationed at Ft Bragg, with an ID card I wouldn't have to go thru the screening line to visit. Today I sent a fax to to one of the congressmen on the House Committee of Veteran Affairs asking for them to consider issuing us one. Maybe if enough of us write/fax them they'll consider it. Google that committee to find the information.
fedupvet
March 17, 2011 - 2:59pm
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I agree, the VA will lie to you. I filed a claim in August 2001. I am still dealing with the VA. They told me they couldnt find records. Then after I filed an appeal, then I was told by the VA by mail, that I did not show any signs of kidney disease at my enlistment and they even had by blood pressure readings. Hello, I was only 19, I guess I didn't show any signs of kidney disease. Every time I would file a claim or an appeal I would be notified by mail that my appeal could take up to 10 years. They do not want to take care of you. I am sorry but its true they lie. If you get them in a corner then they will tell you that a certain form was never mailed to them so they will reset your filing time. I have contacted my Congressman, he did nothing. My VA doctor after viewing my civilian medical records call me to go in for a Agent Orange exam. I did and was told by the Agent Orange Doctor after the exam I had accute exposure but it was not related to my medical conditions. I give up !
AB9WGJohn
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My ship, USS Brush DD745, was in Vietnam several times from 1964 through 1967. Duty included gun fire support activities in close to shore Vietnamese waters including "Brown Water areas" affected by Agent Orange
sprayings.
Does anyone have any information as to how to get our ship on the official approved list for claims.
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Senate Bill No. 337
(By Senator Minard)
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[Introduced January 18, 2012; referred to the Committee on Banking and Insurance; and then to the Committee on Government Organization.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §31A-2-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Banking; authorizing the Commissioner of Banking to establish relationships or contracts with the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry, or other entities designated by the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry, to collect and maintain records related to criminal background investigations and fingerprinting for persons subject to this subsection; providing that the Commissioner of Banking may use the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry, or its designated vendor, as a channeling agent for requesting information from and distributing information to the Department of Justice or any governmental agency; providing that the Commissioner of Banking may use the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry as a channeling agent for requesting and distributing information to and from any source so directed by the Commissioner; authorizing the Commissioner of Banking to conduct examinations of third-party providers of information technology services to financial institutions; creating a special revenue account to be known as the Consumer Education Fund, which may be expended by the commissioner to promote consumer awareness and understanding of issues related to residential mortgage lending; providing that ten percent of all civil administrative penalties collected by the Division of Banking during each fiscal year shall be deposited into that account, which may be invested and retain all earnings and interest; and providing that at the end of each fiscal year, any remaining balance less than $500,000, including accrued interest, shall remain in the account and that any balance exceeding $500,000 shall revert to the General Revenue Fund.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §31A-2-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. DIVISION OF BANKING.
§31A-2-4. Jurisdiction of commissioner; powers, etc., of division transferred to commissioner; powers and duties of commissioner.
(a) Subject to the powers vested in the board by article three of this chapter, the commissioner has supervision and jurisdiction over state banks, regulated consumer lenders, residential mortgage lenders and brokers licensed pursuant to article seventeen, chapter thirty-one of this code, credit unions and all other persons now or hereafter made subject to his or her supervision or jurisdiction. All powers, duties, rights and privileges vested in the division are hereby vested in the commissioner. He or she shall be the chief executive officer of the Division of Banking and is responsible for the division's organization, services and personnel and for the orderly and efficient administration, enforcement and execution of the provisions of this chapter and all laws vesting authority or powers in or prescribing duties or functions for the division or the commissioner.
(b) The commissioner shall:
(1) Maintain an office for the division and there keep a complete record of all the division's transactions, of the financial conditions of all financial institutions and records of the activities of other persons as the commissioner considers important. Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, heretofore or hereafter enacted, the records relating to the financial condition of any financial institution and any information contained in the records shall be confidential for the use of the commissioner and authorized personnel of the Division of Banking. No person shall divulge any information contained in any records except as authorized in this subdivision in response to a valid subpoena or subpoena duces tecum issued pursuant to law in a criminal proceeding or in a civil enforcement action brought by the state or federal regulatory authorities. Subpoenas shall first be directed to the commissioner, who shall authorize disclosure of relevant records and information from the records for good cause, upon imposing terms and conditions considered necessary to protect the confidential nature of the records, the financial integrity of the financial institution or the person to which the records relate and the legitimate privacy interests of any individual named in the records. Conformity with federal procedures shall be sought where the institution maintains federal deposit insurance. The commissioner has and may exercise reasonable discretion as to the time, manner and extent the other records in his or her office and the information contained in the records are available for public examination;
(2) Require all financial institutions to comply with all the provisions of this chapter and other applicable laws, or any rule promulgated or order issued thereunder;
(3) Investigate all alleged violations of this chapter and all other laws which he or she is required to enforce and of any rule promulgated or order issued thereunder; and
(4) Require a criminal background investigation, including requiring fingerprints for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation or any governmental agency or entity authorized to receive such information for a state, national or international criminal history check, of each: (A) Applicant seeking approval to charter and/or control a state bank, state credit union or a foreign bank state agency or representative office; (B) applicant seeking a license to engage in the business of money transmission, currency exchange or other activity regulated under article two, chapter thirty-two-a of this code; (C) applicant subject to the commissioner's supervision seeking a license to engage in the business of regulated consumer lending, mortgage lending or brokering; and (D) Division of Banking Financial Institutions regulatory employee applicant: Provided, That where the applicant is a company or entity already subject to supervision and regulation by the Federal Reserve Board or other federal bank, thrift or credit union regulator, or is a direct or indirect subsidiary of a company or entity subject to the supervision and regulation, or where the applicant is a company subject to the supervision and regulation of the federal Securities and Exchange Commission whose stock is publicly traded on a registered exchange or through the National Association of Securities Dealers automated quotation system, or the applicant is a direct or indirect subsidiary of such a company, the investigation into criminal background is not required. The provisions of this subdivision are not applicable to applicants seeking interim bank charters organized solely for the purpose of facilitating the acquisition of another bank pursuant to section five, article four of this chapter: Provided, however, That where a nonexempt applicant under this subdivision is not a natural person, the principals of the applicant are subject to the requirements of this subdivision. As used in this subdivision, the term "principals" means the chief executive officer, regardless of title, managing partner if a partnership, members of the organizing group if no chief executive officer has yet been appointed, trustee or other person controlling the conduct of the affairs of a licensee. A person controlling ten percent or more of the stock of any corporate applicant shall be considered to be a principal under this provision. The commissioner may establish relationships or contracts with the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry or other entities designated by the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry to collect and maintain records related to criminal background investigations and fingerprints of persons subject to this subsection.
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(B) To reduce the points of contact which the commissioner may have to maintain, the commissioner may use the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry as a channeling agent for requesting and distributing information to and from any source so directed by the commissioner.
(c) In addition to all other authority and powers vested in the commissioner by provisions of this chapter and other applicable laws, the commissioner may:
(1) Provide for the organization of the division and the procedures and practices of the division and implement the procedures and practices by the promulgation of rules and forms as appropriate and the rules shall be promulgated in accordance with article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code;
(2) Employ, direct, discipline, discharge and establish qualifications and duties for all personnel for the division, including, but not limited to, examiners, assistant examiners, conservators and receivers, establish the amount and condition of bonds for the personnel he or she considers appropriate and pay the premiums on the bonds and, if he or she elects, have all personnel subject to and under the classified service of the state personnel division;
(3) Cooperate with organizations, agencies, committees and other representatives of financial institutions of the state in connection with schools, seminars, conferences and other meetings to improve the responsibilities, services and stability of the financial institutions;
(4) In addition to the examinations required by section six of this article, inspect, examine and audit the books, records, accounts and papers of all financial institutions and any third-party vendor providing information technology services to financial institutions at such times as circumstances in his or her opinion may warrant;
(5) Call for and require any data, reports and information from financial institutions under his or her jurisdiction, at such times and in such form, content and detail considered necessary by him or her in the faithful discharge of his or her duties and responsibilities in the supervision of the financial institutions;
(6) Subject to the powers vested in the board by article three of this chapter, supervise the location, organization, practices and procedures of financial institutions and, without limitation on the general powers of supervision of financial institutions, require financial institutions to:
(A) Maintain their accounts consistent with rules prescribed by the commissioner and in accordance with generally accepted accounting practices;
(B) Observe methods and standards which he or she may prescribe for determining the value of various types of assets;
(C) Charge off the whole or any part of an asset which at the time of his or her action could not lawfully be acquired;
(D) Write down an asset to its market value;
(E) Record or file writings creating or evidencing liens or other interests in property;
(F) Obtain financial statements from prospective and existing borrowers;
(G) Obtain insurance against damage and loss to real estate and personal property taken as security;
(H) Maintain adequate insurance against other risks as he or she may determine to be necessary and appropriate for the protection of depositors and the public;
(I) Maintain an adequate fidelity bond or bonds on its officers and employees;
(J) Take other action that in his or her judgment is required of the institution in order to maintain its stability, integrity and security as required by law and all rules promulgated by him or her; and
(K) Verify any or all asset or liability accounts;
(7) Subject to the powers vested in the board by article three of this chapter, receive from any person or persons and consider any request, petition or application relating to the organization, location, conduct, services, policies and procedures of any financial institution and to act on the request, petition or application in accordance with any provisions of law applicable thereto;
(8) In connection with the investigations required by subdivision (3), subsection (b) of this section, issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum, administer oaths, examine persons under oath, and hold and conduct hearings. Any subpoenas or subpoenas duces tecum shall be issued, served and enforced in the manner provided in section one, article five, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code. Any person appearing and testifying at a hearing may be accompanied by an attorney employed by him or her;
(9) Issue declaratory rulings in accordance with the provisions of section one, article four, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code;
(10) Study and survey the location, size and services of financial institutions, the geographic, industrial, economic and population factors affecting the agricultural, commercial and social life of the state and the needs for reducing, expanding or otherwise modifying the services and facilities of financial institutions in the various parts of the state and compile and keep current data thereon to aid and guide him or her in the administration of the duties of his or her office;
(11) Implement all of the provisions of this chapter, except the provisions of article three of this chapter, and all other laws which he or she is empowered to administer and enforce by the promulgation of rules in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code;
(12) Implement the provisions of chapter forty-six-a of this code applicable to consumer loans and consumer credit sales by the promulgation of rules in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code as long as the rules do not conflict with any rules promulgated by the state's Attorney General;
(13) Foster and encourage a working relationship between the Division of Banking and financial institutions, credit, consumer, mercantile and other commercial and finance groups and interests in the state in order to make current appraisals of the quality, stability and availability of the services and facilities of financial institutions;
(14) Provide to financial institutions and the public copies of the West Virginia statutes relating to financial institutions, suggested drafts of bylaws commonly used by financial institutions and any other forms and printed materials found by him or her to be helpful to financial institutions, their shareholders, depositors and patrons and make reasonable charges for the copies;
(15) Delegate the powers and duties of his or her office, other than the powers and duties excepted in this subdivision, to qualified division personnel who shall act under the direction and supervision of the commissioner and for whose acts he or she is responsible, but the commissioner may delegate to the deputy commissioner of banking and to no other division personnel the following powers, duties and responsibilities, all of which are hereby granted to and vested in the commissioner and for all of which the commissioner also is responsible. The commissioner shall:
(A) Order any person to cease violating any provision or provisions of this chapter or other applicable law or any rule promulgated or order issued thereunder;
(B) Order any person to cease engaging in any unsound practice or procedure which may detrimentally affect any financial institution or depositor of the financial institution;
(C) Revoke the certificate of authority, permit or license of any financial institution except a banking institution in accordance with the provisions of section thirteen of this article; and
(D) Accept an assurance in writing that the person will not in the future engage in the conduct alleged by the commissioner to be unlawful, which could be subject to an order under the provisions of this chapter. This assurance of voluntary compliance shall not be considered an admission of violation for any purpose, except that if a person giving the assurance fails to comply with its terms, the assurance is prima facie evidence that prior to this assurance the person engaged in conduct described in the assurance;
(16) Seek and obtain civil administrative penalties against any person who violates this chapter, the rules issued pursuant to this chapter, or any orders lawfully entered by the commissioner or board of banking and financial institutions in an amount not more than $5,000 per day for each violation: Provided, That all of the pertinent provisions of article five, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code shall apply to any assessment of a penalty under this subsection;
(17) Receive from state banking institutions applications to change the locations of their principal offices and to approve or disapprove these applications;
(18) Expend funds in order to promote consumer awareness and understanding of issues related to residential mortgage lending. In furtherance of this duty, there is established in the State Treasury a special revenue account to be known as the Consumer Education Fund, which shall be administered by the Commissioner of Banking. Ten percent of all civil administrative penalties collected by the Division of Banking during each fiscal year shall be deposited into the fund and may be expended by the commissioner to promote consumer awareness and understanding of issues related to residential mortgage lending. The account shall be a special revenue account, and may be invested and retain all earnings and interest. Any remaining balance less than $500,000, including accrued interest, in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall not revert to the General Revenue Fund, but shall remain in the account. Any balance which exceeds $500,000 as of June 30, 2012, and each year thereafter, shall revert to the General Revenue Fund; and
(19) Take other action as he or she may consider necessary to enforce and administer the provisions of this chapter, except the provisions of article three of this chapter, and all other laws which he or she is empowered to administer and enforce and apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for appropriate orders, writs, processes and remedies.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to amend current law which limits the commissioner's ability to collect information pertaining to criminal background checks and fingerprinting for officers and principals of financial institutions to the West Virginia State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to allow the commissioner to also utilize the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System as a channeling agent for requesting and distributing such information. It also provides that the Commissioner of Banking's authority to conduct examinations of financial institutions extends to third-party vendors that provide information technology services to those financial institutions. It also creates a special revenue fund to be administered by the Commissioner of Banking consisting of ten percent of all civil administrative penalties collected by the Division of Banking from regulated financial institutions during each fiscal year for use in the promotion of consumer awareness and understanding of issues related to residential mortgage lending.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.)
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Senate Bill No. 442
(By Senators Beach and Kessler (Mr. President))
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[Introduced January 27, 2012; referred to the Committee on Government Organization; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §11A-1-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to phasing in, over a four-year period, an increased assessment of real property resulting from property assessments that exceed the previous year’s assessment by fifty percent or more., except for the taxes described in subsection (c) of this section, may be paid in two installments. The first installment shall be is payable on September 1 of the year for which the assessment is made and shall become becomes delinquent on October 1; the second installment shall be is payable on the first day of the following March and shall become becomes delinquent on April 1. Taxes paid on or before the date when they are payable, including both first and second installments, shall be are subject to a discount of two and one-half percent. If taxes are not paid on or before the date on which they become delinquent, including both first and second installments, interest at the rate of nine percent per annum shall be are the same methods utilized for timely filing and payment with such sheriff. Nothing contained in this subsection (b) shall prohibit prohibits the sheriff from establishing additional methods of payment in accordance with the provisions of section eight-a of this article.
(c) All assessments on real property which exceed the previous year’s assessment by fifty percent or more, and which are not attributable to improvements to the property, are to be phased in equal amounts over a four-year period.
(d) The Tax Commissioner shall propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code to implement subsection (c) of this section.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide for the phased in of an increase in assessment on real property over a four-year period when the current assessment of the property exceeds the value of the previous year’s assessment by fifty percent or more.
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1.Citation and commencement.
3.Approval by Secretary of State of secure accommodation in a community home.
4.Placement of a child aged under 13 in secure accommodation in a community home.
5.Child to whom section 25 of the Act shall not apply.
6.Detained and remanded children to whom section 25 of the Act shall have effect subject to modifications.
7.Children to whom section 25 of the Act shall apply and have effect subject to modifications.
9.Duty to give information of placement in community homes.
10.Maximum period in secure accommodation without court authority.
11.Maximum initial period of authorisation by a court.
12.Further periods of authorisation by a court.
13.Maximum periods of authorisation by court for remanded children.
14.Duty to inform parents and others in relation to children in secure accommodation in a community home.
15.Appointment of persons to review placement in secure accommodation in a community home.
16.Review of placement in secure accommodation in a community home.
17.Records to be kept in respect of a child in secure accommodation in a community home.
18.Voluntary homes and registered children’s homes not to be used for restricting liberty.
19.Revocation of Secure Accommodation (No. 2) Regulations 1983.
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(1) A council that proposes to grant a lease, licence or other estate in respect of community land under section 47A in order to allow a filming project to be carried out on community land:(a) that is critical habitat (as defined in section 36A (1)), or(b) that is directly affected by a recovery plan or threat abatement plan, as referred to in section 36B (2), or(c) that is declared to be an area of cultural significance under section 36D (1) because of the presence on the land of any item that the council considers to be of Aboriginal significance,must, in addition to complying with section 47A, notify or advertise the proposal in the manner prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.(2) Despite section 47A (2), a council that is of the opinion that a filming project proposed to be carried out under a lease, licence or other estate granted under section 47A will have a minor impact on the environment and on public amenity may state in the notice of the proposal required by section 47A (2) that submissions in writing may be made to the council concerning the proposal within a period, not less than 7 days, specified in the notice.(3) Regulations may be made for or with respect to guidelines that must be taken into consideration by councils in determining whether to grant a lease, licence or other estate in respect of community land in order to allow a filming project to be carried out on the land.
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