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Tribes Lead the Efforts to Implement UN Declaration
Indian Law 12/17/11 by Robert T. Coulter
Robert T. Coulter*
It has been just a year since President Obama announced the Administration's support for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and promised action to implement at least some of those rights. Across the country, tribal governments are seizing the Declaration and using it creatively to protect their lands and resources, and especially their rights to cultural and sacred sites.
For example, the Navajo Nation has used the Declaration in its efforts to protect the San Francisco Peaks, and the Seneca Nation has pointed out Article 37 ("Indigenous peoples have the right to the recognition, observance and enforcement of treaties") in its efforts to resolve a 60-year occupation of Seneca territory by the New York State Thruway that violates the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua.
Not surprisingly, other Indian and Alaska Native nations are using the Declaration to seek changes in federal laws and regulations, re-establish tribal jurisdiction to address violence against Native women and other crimes, regain control over Native lands and resources, and promote economic development.
The President and Interior Department officials have repeatedly pledged to consult with tribes about measures to implement the Declaration and protect the rights it proclaims. In response to this much-needed opportunity, tribes have reportedly made more requests for consultations than the Administration has been able to meet. This failure to meet the calls for consultation is disappointing, but the determination of tribes to use the Declaration and seek changes in federal laws, regulations, and practices is great news. At the urging of a number of Indian nations, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) asked the President last summer to appoint a Commission to develop recommendations and a plan of action for putting the Declaration into effect. At the Tribal Nations Conference hosted by President Obama earlier this month, tribal leaders repeatedly called for federal action to recognize or re-affirm the major rights in the Declaration, especially the rights of self-determination and jurisdiction over tribal lands, treaty rights, and rights to sacred sites, to name a few.
The federal government's response to tribes has been positive but not nearly enough. Very recently, the Interior Department proposed new regulations to reduce the impediments to leasing certain tribal lands, with the intention of supporting self-determination and economic development. The Department also instituted a new policy concerning consultations with tribes. But the Interior Department's own plans for implementing the Declaration have not been revealed, and the promised consultations with tribes about how the Department will implement the Declaration have not begun. NCAI's proposal for a Commission has not been answered so far as we know. That proposal deserves a positive response.
The President this month also appointed an Indian Trust Reform Commission with the task of evaluating the Interior Department's trust management. This Commission of respected and well-qualified Indian leaders is arguably a step toward implementing the Declaration, but it merely calls for study and recommendations rather than concrete action or change. The President did issue an Executive Order on Indian and Alaska Native Education and Tribal Colleges and Universities, which will hopefully implement aspects of the Declaration.
Apart from these small steps, virtually nothing has been done to change the actual functioning and activities of the Interior Department, the Justice Department, and other federal departments and agencies that have such a great impact in Indian Country. Practically all the problems, abuses, and inadequacies of the past continue today.
Obviously, tribes want to see real, concrete changes in federal laws, regulations, and policies – changes that will improve the lives of their citizens or members and assure the well-being of each tribe or nation. It is going to take a strong, national campaign by tribes to get serious, concrete changes made. Tribes will need to come together behind specific proposals for changes in administrative regulations and policies and for corrective legislation.
The UN Declaration is a very useful guide for what changes are necessary. It contains dozens upon dozens of rights covering nearly every conceivable topic. Tribes are studying these detailed provisions, making strategies, and deciding what changes are most important – what elements of the Declaration to implement first.
In order to see how the Declaration can be used to address the major concerns that tribes face, one must bore in and look closely at the details of the Declaration. For example, a top concern almost everywhere is environmentally safe and sustainable economic development. The Declaration contains many provisions that could help tribes to gain real control of their lands and resources and overcome some of the worst barriers to development in Indian Country. The provisions in the Declaration that acknowledge tribes' rights to self-governance, to manage their own lands and resources, and to protect their subsistence economic activities, and that prohibit discrimination against tribes and their members, will all contribute to creating a positive climate for business, investment, and economic development in Indian Country. A number of important proposals for changing federal law to give tribes a fair chance for development have been drafted by the Indian Law Resource Center with the support of the Indian Land Tenure Foundation. These are available on our website atwww.indianlaw.org.
Another top priority is the protection and restoration of tribal governmental jurisdiction in order to increase the ability of tribes to prosper and survive, and especially to increase tribes' ability to deal with the problem of violence against Native women. The UN Declaration contains more than 15 articles spelling out and protecting many aspects of tribal self-government and jurisdiction. These detailed provisions, along with the Administration's support for them, could stop excessive interference and change the way the federal government deals with tribal governments. This could give tribal governments a greater chance for success and increase safety in all Native communities.
Treaty rights is another top priority for many tribes, and the Declaration contains remarkable and ground-breaking principles about Indian treaties. Article 37 provides that tribes "have the right to the recognition, observance and enforcement of treaties," and Article 40 says that disputes that tribes have with countries about treaties or other matters must be resolved through just and fair procedures. Implementation of these articles would mark a very important change for tribes, many of whom are not able to enforce their treaty rights because of the limitations in present law.
The protection of and access to sacred sites is yet another set of issues often raised by tribes. The Declaration acknowledges that tribes have "the right to maintain, protect, and have access in privacy to their religious and cultural sites; the right to the use and control of their ceremonial objects; and the right to the repatriation of their human remains." These provisions call for serious changes in federal law and policy. In July, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation and the Cortina Band of Wintun Indians used the Declaration to successfully negotiate a cultural easement on a municipal park in California. The easement, which will be permanently associated with the park, allowed the tribes to cancel the construction of bathrooms on a sacred site, and to relocate and resize a planned new parking lot so that visitor traffic will be diverted from sacred sites.
My colleagues and I are preparing a series of articles to be published in the coming months that will look more closely at these elements of the Declaration and possible proposals for putting them into effect. In the meantime, further information and materials about the Declaration and what tribes can do to implement it are available through our website atwww.indianlaw.org.
*Robert T. Coulter is Executive Director of the Indian Law Resource Center. He is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and has more than 30 years of experience in the field of Indian law.
For more information contact: Ginny Underwood, Communications Director, 405-229-7210, gunderwood@indianlaw.org .
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A widely known problem is that students today have – supposedly – problems to read: are unwilling, only printed on exams and subsequently the reeding they need for proceeding. My personal experience suggest something different: if students have space: literally by way of sufficient "quality location", time and mental space, not being pestered by problem-solving urgency, allowed to foster critical thinking (as Robert Cox outlines it in the piece from 1981: Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory; in: Millennium – Journal of International Studies 1981; 10; 126-155 DOI: 10.1177/03058298810100020501) most of them would love reading more, more widely, critically working with texts.
However, if politicians educate teachers who then educate students and then these students become politicians, educating teachers who then educate students who then become politicians … … … – it is quite natural that after going a couple of times around, policy documents and texts books look very much alike, nit even reaching the intellectual level of A Little Bit of Everything for Dummies.
It reminds me that at some stage "Communications", issued by the European Commission had not been allowed to be longer than 20 pages – politicians are not reading longer documents … the paradox then and there: instead of producing one document with 30 pages, two documents with twenty pages each had been produced … , and so forth and so forth … at least the printing press being extensively used. The crux of "maths": making two documents out of one 30-page document dos not mean having two 15-pages docs. because additional space is needed for the cross-references and the like. though we end up with something like 30 divided by 2 = 20+20 = 60, or in short: 30 divided by 2 equals 40. There is a German term "Milchmaedchen-Rechnung", literally "calculation made by a dairymaid", meaning fallacy, naive. Perhaps it should be changed, the new term being Commissioner- or Politician-Calculation.
May be it is still better then producing one document that is so much simplification of everything that it requires a guideline to show the reader the way through (though to sweet) nothingness.
In any case, please, never blame students for what lecturers and politicians do to them.
Some voluntarily, some lazily, some being forced .., and some still resisting.


South Africa's Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said on Sunday it had agreed to take a new wage offer from mining company Sibanye Gold.
"We as AMCU accept Sibanye Gold's new wage offer as voted for unanimously … by our members today," AMCU said on its official Twitter account.
Sibanye Gold (JSE: SGL AND NYSE: SBGL) entered into discussions with the leadership of AMCU on April 6, as a result of which AMCU agreed to suspend any industrial action at Sibanye's operations, while engagement continued with its leadership and other representative unions.
"As previously stated, management at Sibanye is committed to ensuring that the interests of all stakeholders are considered and protected, and that the viability and sustainability of our business is maintained. We will continue to engage constructively with AMCU leadership in an attempt to ensure a favourable outcome for all stakeholders", said Sibanye CEO, Neal Froneman.


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How can we feed 9 billion people while reducing agriculture's environmental footprint?
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Sustainable Development is emerging as the defining challenge of our generation, and it will critically require a new kind of interaction between policy and research. The Sustainable Development Forum, a series of talks by leaders in academia and in policy, will attempt to map the research agenda for sustainable development following the Rio +20 conference. What will sustainable development entail? What are the most crucial questions we need to be asking? How should academia go about searching for answers that will actually inform real action and policy changes?


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Pig farmers embrace One Health Day principles
Pig farmers will reaffirm their commitment to use antimicrobials
"Every day, U.S. pig farmers work diligently to ensure their animal's health and well-being while embracing environmental stewardship to mutually benefit all," said National Pork Board President Steve Rommereim, a pig farmer from Alcester, South Dakota. "One Health Day is a good opportunity to share with the public that we are committed to using antibiotics responsibly and to doing our part to reduce the risk of antimicrobial resistance." (Courtesy of National Pork Board)
DES MOINES, Iowa — In celebration of global One Health Day on Nov. 3, America's pig farmers will reaffirm their commitment to use antimicrobials responsibly as they do their part to reduce antibiotic resistance. This action supports producers' core values of continuous improvement and doing what's right for the health of people, pigs and the planet.
"Every day, U.S. pig farmers work diligently to ensure their animal's health and well-being while embracing environmental stewardship to mutually benefit all," said National Pork Board President Steve Rommereim, a pig farmer from Alcester, South Dakota. "One Health Day is a good opportunity to share with the public that we are committed to using antibiotics responsibly and to doing our part to reduce the risk of antimicrobial resistance."
One Health Day (#OneHealthDay) goals include drawing attention to the One Health Global Initiative (#OneHealth), which is a collaborative effort to cultivate the connection between people, animals, plants and their shared environment to achieve the best health outcomes for all. A specific example within pork production is the focus on responsible antibiotic use among animal, human and environmental health disciplines and institutions to minimize antimicrobial resistance.
"There is no single factor driving antimicrobial resistance; it is a complex issue with human, animal and environmental health all contributing to the outcome," said the National Pork Board's Heather Fowler, DVM, Pork Checkoff director of producer and public health. That's why a transdisciplinary approach like One Health is essential to ensure optimal health well into the future."
As part of the third annual One Health Day, Fowler will present the keynote lecture at the 2018 Iowa One Health Symposium on Nov. 3, at Iowa State University. The daylong event will bring together veterinary, medical and public health students and related professionals to discuss how the One Health approach can drive positive change across all sectors.
Fowler points to the pork industry's embrace of One Health's tenets as a major reason for her career path that's led her to the National Pork Board.
"It was certainly a driving force behind my interest as a public health veterinarian to seek out proactive organizations, such as the National Pork Board, that take their responsibility to heart to meet important issues such as antimicrobial resistance head-on."
In keeping with their ongoing path of continuous improvement, U.S. pig farmers have allocated about $6.5 million of Checkoff funds to research related to antibiotic studies since 2000. In 2018 alone, the Pork Checkoff funded nearly $400,000 across multiple research areas to evaluate antibiotic alternatives and other methods to minimize on-farm antibiotic use.
The Pork Quality Assurance® Plus certification program, now approaching its third decade, is another example of the pork industry's long-term commitment to antibiotic stewardship while maximizing animal health and well-being. The National Pork Board also continues to collaborate with the U.S. Center for Disease Control's Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Challenge (#AMRChallenge). The yearlong effort provides an avenue for governments, private industries and non-governmental organizations worldwide to make formal commitments that further the progress against antimicrobial resistance.
"It's in everyone's best interests to maintain the effectiveness of antimicrobials because they are extremely valuable tools," Rommereim said. "Pig farmers are committed to raising healthy hogs and to supplying safe, nutritious, affordable pork for U.S. and global consumers. We're all in this together."
One Health Day helps broaden the discussion and shares pig farmers' message with the public.
"You don't have to be a health professional to participate or make an impact," Fowler added. "Pork producers implement One Health practices every day as they make production decisions on their farms and work to make a positive impact on the health of people, pigs and the planet."
The National Pork Board has responsibility for Checkoff-funded research, promotion and consumer information projects and for communicating with pork producers and the public. Through a legislative national Pork Checkoff, pork producers invest $0.40 for each $100 value of hogs sold. Importers of pork products contribute a like amount, based on a formula. The Pork Checkoff funds national and state programs in advertising, consumer information, retail and foodservice marketing, export market promotion, production improvement, science and technology, swine health, pork safety and sustainability and environmental management. For information on Checkoff-funded programs, pork producers can call the Pork Checkoff Service Center at (800) 456-7675 or check the Internet at pork.org.
— The National Pork Board
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Dip each ice cream ball into eggs and then breadcrumb mixture. Freeze until hard.
Dip banana slices into eggs and then breadcrumb mixture. Place on a tray in a single layer.
Deep fry crumbed banana slices in batches until golden and crisp. Drain on absorbent paper.
Deep fry crumbed ice cream balls until golden and crisp. Drain on absorbent paper.
Serve deep fried ice cream and bananas with sauce.


Tuesday, April 24, 7:30 p.m. at Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road.
Also, the senior division winners of the chapter's George N. Avery Award at this year's science fair will make a presentation on their project "Evaluation of the Biodiversity Present within the Lichen Community of the Florida Everglades Ecosystem".
May 22 meeting: Invasive Exotic Organisms and the Ecology of Invasion. Dr. Robert Doren, Everglades Restoration Program.
Sunday, April 22: Pinecrest, Loop Road. We will explore a hammock adjacent to property owned by chapter members and after lunch visit nearby prairie, pineland or hammock areas. Meet: 8:30 a.m. at the old gas station in Pinecrest (left side of road).
Saturday, May 26: Hillsboro Pineland in northwest Broward County. This pineland was burned a year ago, so we will see the new growth of the last year, as well as the more northern species that are not found in Dade.
Upcoming meeting: Tuesday, April 24 on Big Pine Key (note the date change!). Keys Butterflies, Alana Edwards, North American Butterfly Association. Location: Methodist Church across Key Deer Boulevard from Winn Dixie.
Alana Edwards is a recent graduate of the Environmental Sciences Masters Program from Florida Atlantic University. She will discuss the plants that can be used to attract butterflies to a Florida Keys garden, emphasizing Lower Keys specialties such as the Florida Leafwing and the Florida Duskywing. The plant ID workshop begins at 7 PM and the meeting follows at 7:30.
There will be a butterfly watching walk on prior to meeting. Meet at Blue Hole at noon to see Lower Keys specialties.
Spring plant sale at Fairchild Tropical Garden, April 28. Open 8- 9:30 a.m. for FTG members, 9:30 - 4:30 p.m. for the public. DCFNPS will participate.
FNPS annual conference, May 10-13, Palm Harbor (Pinellas Co.). Members should have received the conference brochure and registration in March. Besides all the usual wonderful field trips and programs (including the conference theme presentations: "Biodiversity and Development: Striking the Balance"), the conference also includes a special series for homeowners and trade show (plants, gifts and garden items, educational exhibits) on Saturday. The home landscaping sessions may also be attended under a separate registration, and the trade show is free to everyone. Tell your friends! Call 305-255-6404 or 866-356-2848 if you need registration forms for the FNPS conference or the Homeowner Conference.
Native Plant Day at Castellow Hammock on March 24 was an unqualified success, thanks to the volunteers, speakers, raffle donors, vendors, park staff, Mother Nature, and the local media which carried our publicity. Several hundred attended, coming from as far as the Keys, Naples, and Boca Raton, and compliments are still coming in.
The 2001-2001 DCFNPS board was elected at the March meeting. Returning members are Carrie Cleland (President), Carol Farber (Secretary), Sam Dawson (Treasurer), Keith Bradley (now "past president"), Tony Koop (now Vice President), Bob Mihm, and Karsten Rist. We welcome new board members Manny Pomares, Jerry Russo and Lynka Woodbury and thank retiring board members Alma Dean and Lee Massey for their service over the past two years.
New FNPS (state office) phone number: 561-562-1598. This is also the fax number. Amy Mott, the new FNPS Administrative Services contractor, will help you with whatever you need. But remember that she is not a full-time employee, so please leave a message and be patient.
Native Plant Workshop. 3rd Tuesdays (April 17) at Bill Sadowski Park, 1/2 mile west of Old Cutler Road on SW 176 Street. Call Steve Woodmansee at 305-247-6547 or Roger Hammer at 305-242-7688 or more information.
Baynanza. Events, concerts, field trips and volunteer activities throughout April and early May. (or call 305-372-6760). "Bay Bash" 2001 at The Deering Estate at Cutler, April 21-22. Environmental exhibits (including DCFNPS), recreation, tropical food, arts and crafts. Regular park entrance ($7 adults, $3 children under 16). Baynanza Bay Cleanup (Apr.21) volunteers enter Bay Bash free in their official t-shirts. Also try out a trip to Elliot Key (Apr. 29), Wildlife Weekend at the Museum of Science (Apr. 28-29), Earth Day in Little Havana (Apr. 28), Field Day and Weed Toss at Cape Florida (Apr.22) and lots more. Home Chemical Collection, May 5, 8:30 - 4:00, at MDCC North, MDCC South and the collection center at 8831 NW 58 St.
Miami Blue Chapter of the North American Butterfly Association: Monday, May 7. Social time at 7:30 p.m., program at 8 p.m.. Doc Thomas House, 5530 Sunset Dr. (Tropical Audubon Society). Note: The April meeting was canceled. Please reconfirm the schedule and topic with Robert Kelley 305-666-9246, RKelley@math.miami.edu.
GreenSweep Volunteer Workdays in the Keys. Sponsored by The Nature Conservancy: May 5, scout camps on West Summerland Key. Call 305-289-9060 for details.
The Deering Estate at Cutler Lecture Series. Thursdays, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Admission $5. Call 305-235-1668, ext. 242 to reconfirm this schedule. April 12: Miami-Dade County's Prohibited Plant Species Ordinance (Joy Klein, DERM); April 19: Why Nature Needs a Helping Hand — the Importance of Preservation and Restoration (Sandra Vardaman, Martin Co. Env. Lands Program); April 26: Restoration of South Florida's Native Plant Heritage (George Gann, Institute for Regional Conservation).
Key West Botanical Garden restoration plan community workshop, Monday, April 23, 1-5 PM. Help develop the vision of the Garden in 2006. RSVP by April 11 to Carolann Sharkley, 305-296-1504 or kwbgs@aol.com.
Miami-Dade Park and Recreation Dept Natural Areas Management Volunteer Work Days and Walks. 9 a.m. to noon. Please call 305-257-0933 for details. Workdays: April 14-Hattie Bauer Hammock, formerly Orchid Jungle (SW 267 Street and SW 157 Avenue).
From the December, 1999, issue of Conservation Biology, the Journal of the Society for Conservation Biology.


The Cherokee Grey Wolf 23MK is a rear living one slide out couples coach. You enter the 23MK in the back, when you step inside to your left is the sofa, then you have the u-shape dinette slideout across from the slide is the full kitchen, with a single bowl sink, 3 burner cooktop and 6 cu ft Refer. The bathroom is located in the center of the 23MK with a glass corner shower, foot flush toilet and plenty and space. In the Master bedroom you will see a queen walk around bed and wardrobes on each side.On the outside of the 23MK this grey wolf has a power awning with LED lights, outside speakers, front power jack and more.


Can You Trademark a Flag, Or Use the US Flag in Your Mark?
Yes, you can trademark a flag.
A significant feature of the flag was changed.
However, if the flag is simply a true and accurate representation of the flag of the United States, or of any state, municipality, or foreign nation, then the Trademark Office will reject your trademark application.
To trademark a flag, you must use that flag as a logo to identify your business as the originator of a line of goods or services and prove to the Trademark Office that the design of the flag is distinct enough to represent a single company's products or services. If the flag is similar enough to another existing trademark, the Trademark Office will reject it. Successfully trademarking a flag will not prevent the flag from being utilized by other individuals, but will prevent competitors from using it to sell or promote similar types of products or services.
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I've never visited Kimberley. It's probably the biggest town in South Africa's Northern Cape province (and I have no relatives living in that province). I would not mind visiting this South African town though, the town has a very rich history.
The town was founded in 1871 when diamonds were discovered on a nearby farm named Vooruitzicht (owned by the De Beers brothers). The town was also known as New Rush before it was renamed to Kimberley (after then British Secretary of State for the Colonies Lord Kimberley).
The town was incorporated into the Cape Colony in 1880.
Kimberley is nicknamed the Diamond City.
The De Beers Consolidated Mines, organized by Cecil Rhodes, assumed control of the diamond fields in 1888, and its headquarters are still in the city.
Today Kimberley is the capital of the Northern Cape province in South Africa and has a population of +/- 167,000.
From mid-July 1871 to 1914, 50,000 miners dug the now famous Big Hole (then called the Kimberley Mine) in the town with picks and shovels yielding 2,722 kilograms of diamonds. The hole has a surface of 17hectares (42 acres) and is 463 meters wide. It was excavated to a depth of 240 meters, but then partially infilled with debris reducing its depth to about 215m. Since then it has accumulated water to a depth of 40 meters, leaving only 175 meters visible.
During the 2nd Anglo Boer War the town was under siege by the Boers (the siege ended in 1900). The British had built a concentration camp outside the town by that time to house Boer women and children.
The town's municipality is known as the Sol Plaatjie Municipality. It's named after a founding member of the South African National Congress (which was later became the African National Congress, which is current ruling party in South Africa). A statue of Sol Plaatje was unveiled early in 2010 in the town by current South African president Jacob Zuma.
The Pioneers of Aviation Museum is in Kimberley. In 1913 South Africa's first flying school opened at Kimberley and started training the pilots of the South African Aviation Corps which later became the South African Air Force (the 2nd oldest Air Force in the world).
Kimberley houses the Miners' Memorial (built in honor of Kimberley's miners), the Honoured Dead Memorial (built to commemorate those that died defending the city in the siege in the 2nd Anglo Boer War), the Concentration Camp memorial (built in rememberance of those who were interned at the concentration camp in the 2nd Anglo Boer War) and many other memorials.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other members of Facebook board have been sued by a shareholder who for 'unfair enrichment and wasting corporate assets'.
In a complaint filed on Friday night in Delaware Chancery Court, Ernesto Espinoza said the board was "essentially free to grant itself whatever amount of compensation it chooses" under Facebook Inc's 2012 equity incentive plan, which also covers its employees, officers as well as consultants.
Espinoza alleged that Facebook reimbursed its non-employee directors an average of $461,000 in stock last year, which happens to surpass peer companies such as Amazon.com and Disney by as much as 43%. The existing equity incentive plan annually limits on directors pay to 2.5 million shares. Facebook's Monday closing price of $63 per share would means that the board annually awards directors $157 million in stock each. The lawsuit does not challenge that such large sums will be rewarded.
Espinoza is hoping that shareholders might be able to recover the excess amount of compensation that Facebook directors are enjoying by placing a limit on money to the board of directors.
Facebook spokesperson Genevieve Grdina said in an email : "The lawsuit is without merit and we will defend ourselves vigorously."
Among the other defendants is Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg whose compensation reached $16.15 million in 2013, according to the filing. Forbes Magazine said on Monday "She is worth $999 million".
Mark Zuckerberg made $653,165 in 2013 alone, according to the regulatory filing; Forbes reported his net worth to be $27.7 billion.
Espinoza previously played an offended party in a 2010 shareholder case in Delaware against Hewlett Packard which revolved over its handling of the resignation of CEO Mark Hurd over his relationship with a former contractor.


The most awaited slate/tablet by Google, the Google Pixel Slate is available for pre-orders on Amazon. The Google Pixel Slate is a premium device with lots of fantastic features and specs that make this device worthy of its fame and curiosity. This slate may arrive on Amazon during Christmas, and the gift from Google-Santa will be an excellent deal for the awaited festival. This device brings in some tight features that deliver you quality and helps you out with almost every work there is.
This device is expected to make fantastic entry with its stylish, sleek and premium look that will mark this product from Google as one of their beautiful devices. The features of this device might strongly rank it the purchase of the year. Let's see what makes it so cool.
The Google Pixel Slate can be called a powerhouse of a device with up to 16GB RAM and up to 256GB storage. It is by far the strongest device from the brand as far as performance is considered. It gives a terrific performance while you multitask and also lets you store all your minor and important files together because it has more than enough room for everyone. It houses up to 4.2 GHz Intel Core i7 processor and Android OS. It has a quick response and doesn't bog you down with glitches or lags. It has the capacity of handling your heavy-duty task according to this spec.
The look is the best part about this 2-in-1 slate. It is sleek, slim and weighs just 1.6lbs. It looks premium with its black metal finish and narrow bezels. The device is ergonomic to hold with its curved smooth edges. The display spans around 12.3-inch which provides you with ample screen space to work with or watch something. The display delivers 3000 x 2000 pixel resolution, called the Molecular Display giving 6 million pixels for display. It is best for your binge watch or even watching some videos while traveling.
Along with the display, it also has dual-front facing speakers which has dynamic audio levels and does not disturb the sound quality at all. It is powered with a lithium-ion battery required. This battery will give you a good run while using the device. As far as the features are concerned, it delivers mind-blowing display properties which points in the entertainment direction, so this naturally is the best for watching movies or videos. It beautifully supports almost every app and software. It is versatile being the best slate for entertainment plus provides the support to install collaborative apps like Google sheets and docs.
The slate comes with a keyboard and stylus (digital pen) that you will have to purchase separately. This device is highly anticipated on Amazon, and with the functioning, it offers it can be said that it will see huge sales. The highest configuration model (Core i7) of Google Pixel Slate is a bit pricey – starts from around $1,599 but is worth every penny you pay. This powerful device with impressive display properties is ready to fill your arsenal of personal devices.


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The Bayfield Moose Duvet Sets features a duvet cover with bands of woven moose and geometric stripes. The handsome tailored plaid bedskirt combines the colors found in the duvet cover and the pillow shams are black pin stripe accented with the bedskirt plaid. Predominate colors in this bedding ensemble are Brown, Tan, Red, White and Black. A single plaid accent pillow rounds out the set.


Morelia gets water from Lago de Cointzio, controlled by the (dam) Presa de Cointzio. It's a (relatively) peaceful bikeride from El Terreno, mostly by bike path!
In April the lake looked like a field of soybeans as we coasted into the valley. In August the water lilies aren't as thick - but they are blooming!
The lake is beautiful, but we enjoy it as an excuse for a great bike ride - hard uphill, sweet downhill, then into the conifers - so many that the air is full of sweet sap smell.
Apparently the water supply is running out and perhaps there isn't a plan for where Morelia's water will come from next. We can't tell you more since our Spanish is bad and local journalism is thin. But we will dig some more swales and hope for the best.


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Alberta flooding claims at least 3 lives
Three bodies have been discovered in a river near High River, Alta., during the province's worst flooding in decades, say the RCMP. Officers have only recovered two of the bodies, with the third located in a spot too dangerous to reach.
At least 100,000 Albertans displaced, large areas of Calgary's downtown evacuated
CBC News · Posted: Jun 21, 2013 5:43 AM MT | Last Updated: June 22, 2013
The best in Calgarians
Calgary's Kijiji site shows hundreds of listings for flood assistance 5:16
Three bodies have been discovered in a river near High River, Alta., during the province's worst flooding in decades, say the RCMP.
Floodwaters have caused massive disruptions in Calgary, as well as several other southern Alberta communities, including Canmore and High River.
"We did locate two people — one adult male and one adult female. Both have been recovered from the water," RCMP Sgt. Patricia Neely told CBC's Ian Hanomansing Friday evening.
"We have also located what is believed to be a third adult; however, due to the dangerous surroundings around this person, we have not yet been able to recover that person."
The identities of the victims have not been released.
As Albertans faced more rain Friday, the downpour has left hundreds of homes semi-submerged, lifted railroad tracks and inundated the Calgary Stampede grounds.
At least 100,000 Albertans, including about 75,000 Calgarians, have been forced out of their homes and large areas of Calgary's downtown core were being evacuated Friday afternoon.
Map: See which Calgary neighbourhoods are affected
See: Flood areas before and after
Live updates: The latest from CBC reporters, Alberta officials
See: Your photos of southern Alberta floods
List: Alberta emergency contacts
Earlier Friday, four people were feared dead from the floods in High River, believed to be one of the areas hardest hit by the flooding.
Two men were seen floating apparently lifeless in Highwood River, but it's not clear that those were the bodies that have been recovered.
A woman and her camper were swept away in the Longview area of Highwood River. She has not been seen since.
A third man was seen falling from a canoe on the Highwood River, and it is unclear if he was able to get back into his canoe or make it to shore.
It is unclear if any of these are the bodies discovered in the late afternoon Friday by the RCMP, though police have said the woman remains unaccounted for. High River is about 60 kilometres south of Calgary.
'It's unbelievable'
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi is urging Calgarians to stay away from the downtown core, where about 350,000 people typically work. Only a small fraction of them were at work Friday, as employees were asked to take a family day and offices were closed ahead of the expected flooding.
"No one could even imagine it," Calgary resident Russ Doherty said Friday. "It's unbelievable. We were here ... till nine or 10 last night ... but we had no expectation that it was going to get that high. Pretty amazing."
Sections of the main north-south link through Calgary, the Deerfoot Trail, were shut down Friday, adding to the city's transportation troubles.
Calgarians are being asked to limit water use. While the water is still safe to drink, people should refrain from using laundry machines and dishwashers.
Officials have asked people in downtown Calgary buildings without power to consider leaving, said emergency management director Bruce Burrell. Most buildings in the downtown core appear to be without power, said CBC's Terry Reith from Calgary.
A central Calgary emergency family shelter was forced to relocate its 85 residents, including 45 children. The Inn from the Cold shelter lost electricity during the flooding.
Calgary Zoo finds flood-safe homes for animals
Most animals at the Calgary Zoo have been moved to higher ground to temporarily escape the city's rising floodwaters.
Zoo officials relocated the facility's pot-bellied pigs to the city's animal shelter and two zebras to the Devonian Wildlife Conservation Centre.
While all the animals are currently safe in their temporary new homes, the zoo is preparing its lions, tigers and other exotic carnivores for transfer — possibly to prisoner holding cells at the courthouse.
The zoo remains temporarily closed.
Of the displaced Albertans, almost all have found shelter with friends and relatives, officials said. The city has facilities for 2,500, but only 1,500 people are being sheltered currently, and there's no plan to expand the number of shelters.
Strangers open homes to Calgary flood victims on Kijiji
Many people are arriving at the centres, receiving the information they need and then relocating to stay with family or friends.
Mass evacuations throughout Alberta
The flooding has resulted in mass evacuations throughout Calgary and southern areas of the province.
Banff issued evacuation orders for the Rocky Mountain Housing Co-operative Phase 2 after deeming it unsafe. Organizers of the inaugural Banff Marathon, scheduled for Sunday, cancelled the event.
Lethbridge and Medicine Hat declared a state of emergency Friday afternoon.
In Medicine Hat, residents in low-lying areas were told to leave their homes along the river. The mandatory evacuation is expected to include about 3,800 homes and 10,000 residents.
Edmonton and the town of Devon declared a flood watch, which is the lowest level of flood-related warning, early Friday evening. Water levels in the North Saskatchewan River could rise by 3½ metres.
First responders' efforts praised
"We're going to get through it, but we're not through it yet," said Alberta Premier Alison Redford to CBC's Ian Hanomansing.
She said the primary concern is making sure people are safe and then rebuilding after the flood's damage.
Earlier, the premier said she had spoken with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who "offered to work closely with us and provide any possible support," she said.
Harper arrived in Calgary to tour the flooded areas with Redford at 3 p.m. ET.
Harper joins Redford for 'first-hand look' at flooding
Nenshi seemed clearly relieved at the help the city has been getting from the provincial and federal governments, which included air support from the Forces to rescue 31 people stranded on rooftops overnight.
The Forces sent as many as 1,300 soldiers to southern Alberta for help with search and rescue, humanitarian aid, and moving people back into their homes.
Edmonton police sent 100 officers to help with transportation and security issues during the evacuations.
High River looks 'like a lake'
In High River, officials were "about to start the door-to-door operation," Wildrose Party Leader Danielle Smith said Friday afternoon.
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"We've got a number of search and rescue helicopters in town," she told CBC's Rosemary Barton.
Search officials were going to go door-to-door to make sure they had identified people in need of assistance, Smith said, noting that there are a lot of senior citizens in High River.
The next step would be recovery, Smith said. The lengthy list of tasks include making sure the water and sewage systems are working, along with gas and electricity.
"And then they'll start the hard process of getting people back into the town, but it's going to take a number of days before we can get to that point," she said.
Smith said on Thursday, it was "like a lake" in High River. "It was unbelievable to see how much water had spread over the town."
She said about three-quarters of the town had been "massively impacted" by water damage, saying some homes would need to be condemned.
"When you have this amount of damage, we're not talking in terms of weeks or months," Smith said. "This is probably going to take two to three years before everybody is able to get back in their homes and also have all of the repairs done so we can get everything back to normal."
Recovery efforts already planned
Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths echoed Redford's assurances to Albertans that emergency management efforts are underway.
"I want you to know that we are keenly aware that now we are managing a crisis situation," Griffiths said. "But we are also planning for the future already."
When the water subsides and it's time to clean up the debris and rebuild, he said, Albertans will be doing that as quickly as possible.
The city's Scotiabank Saddledome and the Stampede grounds were flooded as of mid-afternoon. However, the mayor said the grounds would be ready for Calgary's annual Stampede, which is scheduled to run July 5-14.
"You know what? We're Calgarians," said Nenshi. "We'll make it work."
The swollen Bow and Elbow rivers carried water fast and furious overnight through Calgary and towns such as Canmore, High River, Black Diamond and Turner Valley.
Both rivers were believed to have crested in the Calgary area by about 6 a.m. MT.
While not as intense as Thursday, more rain was forecast for Friday, with an additional 15-30 mm possible, said CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland.
"The greatest amounts were expected west of Calgary and just north of Canmore, and an additional five to 10 mm tonight through Saturday morning," he said. "Showers also remain in the forecast this weekend."
By Saturday, the heaviest rainfall should be over, said CBC's meteorologist Ross Hull.
But neighbouring provinces Saskatchewan and B.C. are bracing for spillover from the floods.
"I urge all British Columbians who live in areas vulnerable to flooding to be prepared and have a plan," said B.C. Premier Christy Clark in a statement.
Evacuations ordered in Elk Valley, mudslides hit near Kaslo
Saskatchewan River expected to flood
The Mission Creek flow rate has dropped, but evacuation alerts in the Southeast are in place.
Meanwhile, the Water Security Agency is warning Saskatchewan residents of upcoming flooding along the South Saskatchewan River, which is predicted to peak on Monday.
The evacuation process for Cumberland House, Sask., where the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers meet has already begun.
You can find information from the City of Calgary here.
Reception centres
Reception centres are located at Southland Leisure Centre and Acadia Recreation Complex.
People should bring identification, prescription medications and other critical personal items with them.
Calgary Transit and Access Calgary are on standby to help residents who cannot leave on their own.
Those requiring assistance are asked to identify themselves to emergency responders going door to door.
Red Cross contact
The City of Calgary says people unable to reach family members who live in areas that have been evacuated can contact the Red Cross in Calgary by phone at 1-866-696-6484.
People with general or donation inquiries are asked to visit the Red Cross website at redcross.ca/donate
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Oppose Aid to Palestinian Terrorists
|In National, Legislation
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Members of the United States Senate have introduced resolution 171 (2019-2020) entitled, "A resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding restoring United States bilateral assistance to the West Bank and Gaza."
This dangerous resolution calls upon the President to spend over $300 million to Palestinians after the Palestinian Authority refused to hold themselves accountable for terrorist attacks against Americans.
Last year, the U.S. Congress passed and the President signed into law, the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act which required the Palestinian Authority to submit to the jurisdiction of U.S. courts if they choose to take aid from the United States government and an act of terrorism is committed against a U.S. citizen.
Instead of choosing to receive U.S. aid and stop incitement to terror, end the indoctrination of Palestinian youths with hate-filled textbooks, and cease payments to the families of terrorists, all of which has the potential to cause the loss of American lives due to Palestinian terrorism, the Palestinian Authority chose not to receive American foreign aid and instead to continue supporting terrorism.
The Senators who introduced this resolution seem to believe that it is unfair to make the Palestinian Authority choose between U.S. aid and justice for American victims of Palestinian terrorism. Instead, they have chosen to continue the status quo of supporting incitement to terrorism that could result in the loss of American lives.
Oppose this dangerous resolution and make it clear that U.S. aid should not be given to regimes that refuse to rein in terrorism and risk American lives.
Take Action and Oppose this Dangerous Resolution!
Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] (Introduced 04/11/2019)
Committees:
Senate – Foreign Relations
Latest Action:
Senate – 04/11/2019 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (All Actions)
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Q: NDepend - Several .NET assemblies have the name {MyAssembly} but they are different I've just started using NDepend and am trying to analyse a solution.
This warning appears when I add the solution's assemblies and it will not load any assemblies with the warning:

Cant' load the assembly {MyAssembly}: Several .NET assemblies have the name {MyAssembly} but they are different: ...list of the .dlls in the project which contain this assembly

What could be causing this? I am using a common AssemblyInfo.cs file as well as the standard one to set some common attributes but there are no conflicts between these attributes.

A: David, the error is that in the set of input folders you provided in your NDepend project, NDepend found several different occurences of {MyAssembly.dll}. Meaning for example you have a {MyAssembly v1.0.1} file and a {MyAssembly v1.0.2} file.
Apparently this is something you were not aware of, so NDepend did a good job at exhibiting a flaw.
In the Project Property > Code to Analyze panel, hover the assembly {MyAssembly} with the mouse. In the tooltip that appears, you'll see several paths to different occurence of the different {MyAssembly.dll} files.

A: I had one project in my solution (the tests project) which was not set to build and referenced many of the other assemblies. Even when deselecting this assembly from NDepend it still threw the error.

A: I have seen this occur when I have two versions of a solution in the same parent directory on my machine.
-root
-- solutiona
-- solutionb

My NDepend project was attached to the solution in the solutiona directory. However, NDepend was scanning starting at root, and finding dlls in both solutiona and solutionb. I moved one copy out of root, and was able to proceed.
I am using NDepend 4.1.0.6871. This behavior may not happen with newer releases.

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Thank God for Mom and Dad For Sticking Two Together
My favorite of Spike Lee's movies is Crooklyn, his autobiographical sketch of his siblings and him growing up in a huge Brooklyn brownstone in the early 70s, during the months before and after his mother's death. The story is told from the perspective of the one girl among the five kids, and Spike's sister and one of his brothers helped him write the script; perhaps their input was what makes the film lose the simplistic feel of Spike's other films, which even at their evocative best tend to feel like cartoons. The intro credits sequence very clearly portrays the 70s as a lost age of childhood freedom, where kids played and invented their own games on the street, among and engaged with each other, alive:
The central character, Troy, is interesting in a way filmmakers are often unwilling to make their female leads- susceptible to unkindness and liable to lie to her parents or about her brothers or her neighbors, willing to steal from the corner store for no good reason, angry and difficult while also imaginative and curious, for whom the loss of a mother feels all the deeper because of her own faltering, uncertain and changing self.
The world these kids inhabit, for all its minor dangers and major heartbreaks, was in some ways a remarkable one: one of the quirks of later 20th century America was that lower middle-class black families like the Lees often owned (and their quite poor tenants often lived in) some of the very most beautiful housing in the country; the house that Crooklyn is filmed in, for example, is now an absurdly fancy bed and breakfast:
Even if Lee's production team chose an exaggeratedly beautiful home for the shooting, it's not totally implausible that his childhood home looked more or less like this; my wife and I lived once in an apartment in Crown Heights that, while poorly heated, mouse infested, and badly maintained, still had all the impressive plaster molding and carved wood details that has made tens of thousands of these houses fetch millions of dollars apiece over the last two decades. As a friend of mine who worked for Habitat for Humanity remarked, early 20th century American urban architecture is often beautiful and well-built on a mass production scale, despite a century of neglect, thanks to the "infinity guys" getting off the boat every day from Europe with impressive artisanship and a willingness to accept low pay.
As economic autobiography, the film is perhaps a little stretched; while Troy's friends refer to her family in the film as rich, they are clearly struggling with five kids on her mother's teacher's salary and her father's starving artist routine as a jazz musician unwilling to compromise to make a living. In real life, Bill Lee, Spike's dad, was a fairly accomplished jazz bassist and studio musician who cut albums with Bob Dylan, among others, and was probably bringing home a fair amount of dough, albeit intermittently. I don't doubt that the strained marriage the film portrays, though, between the blissed-out and somewhat useless Dashiki-clad father and the mother, painfully and angrily trying to manage and pay for their giant house and family, is true enough to the Lee kids' remembrance.
One of the most insidious presuppositions of the post-Freudian era has been that only the happiest families can make for happy childhoods, that "sticking two together," (in the words of Outkast) is only worth it when kids are spared scenes of anger and recrimination between their parents. But, as Crooklyn makes clear, the pleasures and mysteries of childhood are enabled by family life but find their focal point largely outside the home; Troy's mother is a lighthouse for her, allowing her to venture forth bravely while knowing she can return home. Was the life of open discovery that Lee portrays, in which the block you live on is a world unto itself, a commons of kids free to make their own growing up, dependent also on a black marriage rate that still had a long way to fall?
Ta Nehisi Coates, like Spike Lee, had many siblings, a teacher mother and an artistic and quasi-bohemian father (an independent publisher rather than a musician), but unlike Spike Lee did not grow up with his parents married. Coates seems to share Lee's nostalgia for the lost world of his childhood (this is the major theme of Coates's, quite decent first book) while increasingly pressing this nostalgia into the service of sometimes comically inopportune racial grievance; here, for example, is a passage describing gentrification from his newest book:
To me, hundreds of thousands of black homeowners selling their places for hundreds of thousands of dollars each and moving to the burbs does not look like raping and lynching, but that may just be my failure of vision. As Crooklyn makes clear, the lost world of the 70s and 80s seems to seize almost every artist who grew up then, white and black, with a driving nostalgia, aware as we are that, for all their cossetted spoiling, our own kids are deprived of much of the freedom from supervision that meant so much to us, and aware even more of our own imaginative horizons shrinking with age. The decline of black affluence over that same period is a real phenomenon, worthy of concern in of itself, and there is no doubt that there is loss implicit in gentrification quite apart from the transfer of wealth; but we're all, white and black, rich and poor, struggling with no longer knowing how to grow up.
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My parents nearly divorced in the 1970s. I narrowly missed spending the rest of my childhood in poverty in the rural South.
Spike Lee was angry with his father for years because soon after his mother died, his father moved a white Jewish woman into the home and married her shortly thereafter. A few years ago in a fit of cognitive dissonance, Spike Lee put his Upper East Side townhome up for sale for $32 million then started ranting about gentrification in Brooklyn. His rant led to the vandalizing of his Brooklyn family home where his father, step-mother, and half-brother still live and the white long-time neighbor experienced even worse damage than the Lees. Apparently Spike took his UES townhome off the market.
Last year Ta-Nehisi Coates purchased a Brooklyn brownstone through an LLC. He was shocked when the real estate media named him as the buyer and he refused to move into the home for fear of his family's safety. The purchase and sale price for the brownstone was $2.1 million, so a small loss when the real estate commission, legal fees, etc. are considered.
Interesting, I'd heard some of this story but not all. Something I found interesting was that he portrays his father fairly positively in Crooklyn, despite already being estranged from his dad- but I suppose his brothers and sister might have had some influence on that. It's in contrast to The Squid and the Whale, where the writer/director is completely merciless to the character of his father, despite apparently still being quite close to him and the dad's help in making the movie.
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Past Perfect, Future Tense
The Indian community, which has been an integral part of the territory, gears up for 1997
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HONG Kong's links with the subcontinent, India in particular, have a strange history. While it was Indian opium that led to the first Opium War between Chinese imperial forces and the Royal British Navy, resulting in Britain seizing Hong Kong, the man who decided to annex Hong Kong, Captain Charles Elliot, was the son of a one-time governor of Madras, Hugh Elliot.
Charles Elliot spent most of his early adult life in India, first with his father and later as a sub-lieutenant serving the Royal Navy, stationed in Calcutta. That would explain the presence of a company of sepoys on board the HMS Sulphur, one of the British squadrons sent by Elliot—who was by then the British plenipotentiary in charge of trade with China—to hoist the British flag at what is now known as Possession Point on Hong Kong island more than 150 years ago in January 1841. Elliot, says Nigel Cameron in his Illustrated History of Hong Kong, had especially requested warships from India to accompany him when he arrived in China in 1835, six years before the British seized Hong Kong in 1841.
"We had traders coming to Canton (now Ghangzhou) even before Elliot's arrival. Some records show that there was private trading in opium, tea, cotton and a number of other goods between the two countries and that these traders did have an outpost in Hong Kong," says K.B. Rathi, who himself carries on that trading tradition as the Hong Kong representative of Birla Enterprises. He came to Hong Kong 36 years ago and has since then been looking after the Birla interests there.
That initial population of Indian traders, militia and later the core of the territory's police force grew into a 35,000-strong community just before World War II. The British, wary of the local Chinese population's political loyal-ties, relied mostly on two Indian infantry battalions, the 2/14 Punjabis and the 5/7 Rajputs, to defend Hong Kong against the Japanese onslaught.
"We now have a community of around 25,000 people, mostly traders, shop-owners and some industrialists," Rathi estimates. According to him, nearly 10 per cent of Hong Kong's external trade is generated by Indian traders and industrialists. "Some of us also have manufacturing plants in China, making watches and jewellery. Others are into metals trading and even printing," he says.
And now, with the British leaving, the former protectors are protesting that they are being left unprotected. At the root of their unhappiness, says a third generation Hong Kong-born Indian, Raj Sital, who now heads the Indian General Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, is a document that Britain created initially to allay the very fears being expressed now. Says he: "Britain gave us what is called the British Dependent Territory Citizen (BDTC) status, a piece of paper that says we are entitled to British citizenship for 50 years from the date the status was granted. It is not transferable to our children and now the British are asking us to surrender the BDTC status for what is known as a British National Overseas passport."
The British National Overseas passport, or BNO as it is more commonly known, gives the right of visa-free entry to over 80 countries that have reciprocal arrangements with Britain, but carries no right of abode in any, even in Britain.
"It is similar to the British Citizen passport that was issued to Indians in Kenya and Uganda and in other Commonwealth countries where for whatever reason Commonwealth citizens were not given indigenous nationality," Sital explains. Neither document confers the right to live in Britain or in any other territory and has no value except for travellers.
What worries people like Sital, who have a stake in Hong Kong and for whom India could well be a foreign country, is that the Chinese nationality laws that will come into effect on July 1, 1997, the day of the takeover, specifically exclude any non-ethnic Chinese from becoming Chinese nationals. "The law says that you would have to be born into a Chinese lineage to be a Chinese national," he points out. That law will make more than 7,000 people of Indian descent stateless.
"Of the 25,000 people, around 18,000 hold on to their Indian citizenship, or are nationals of some other country," he notes. "The rest can technically fall back on the BNO passports, but that does not give them any civic rights or the right of abode anywhere." India, in recent years, has given assurances to non-resident nationals like Sital that they would be welcomed back if the political outlook in Hong Kong changes for the worse. But as Sital adds: "Political assurances have been given, but these do not include immediate citizenship. The same assurance was given by British Prime Minister John Major...that Britain would not close its doors on the minorities in Hong Kong if the situation changes here. But that is not what we want. We want to be treated equally here in Hong Kong where we were born, where we live and where we hold a major economic stake."
There are, however, some signs that China may accommodate the minorities. For the first time since the nationality debate started, China has conceded that it may have to change the nationality laws. This followed a delegation to Beijing by the Indian General Chamber of Commerce in late March. Says Sital: "We have been lobbying Beijing for the past five years and every year we send a delegation. This time, Lu Ping, the head of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, finally agreed that the nationality law has to be changed to accommodate the minorities. But still, there is nothing concrete."
A senior vice-president of a Hong Kong conglomerate with strong links with China, who did not want to be named, said that at the bottom of the issue is the need of all Hong Kong residents for a form of insurance to cover a period of uncertainty. "You buy life-insurance not because you want to die, but because there is a possibility that you will die and leave your family in need," said this executive, who is also a third generation Indian. "People really do not want to leave. Look at what happened when Singapore offered 50,000 places for families, only 4,000 went."
Similarly, when Britain offered a British nationality scheme for 50,000 other similarly qualified persons, not many took up the offer of a full British citizenship. "Most of the Indians here have no love for politics, we are here to make money and by doing that we help this economy," he adds. "But we are not being treated well by all parties. Make the offer, tell us that they care about us, that's all that will be needed."
There is another category of Indians: those who came to Hong Kong in the past five years since the Indian economy opened up. Anand Trivedi manages the Credit Lyonnais India Subcontinent Fund. "Being relatively new to the scene here, the debate over the citizenship issue does not concern me. I also have no personal benchmark to judge the changes that may take place after the takeover. But as far as the Fund is concerned, we have an option to move to Singapore and that option will be seriously considered," says Trivedi, who came to Hong Kong in 1994 armed with an MBA from Columbia University, US.
Mayank Mehta, managing director of R.B. Diamond Sales, a member of the Indian-held giant Rosy Blue group in Belgium, is also new to Hong Kong. "We now plan to open a subsidiary in Thailand as a safeguard against the uncertainties in Hong Kong," he says. "Although we are optimistic about its future, we need to have a fall-back," he adds.
His apprehensions are echoed by another diamond dealer, Ashish Jain, marketing director of Alma Diamonds (HK). Jain says the market in Hong Kong has become uncertain because of the worries over 1997. "We also have a problem of getting trained Indian employees to work for us because of visa restrictions being imposed by the Hong Kong government. They want us to hire locally, but locals do not have the expertise we get from our Indian employees," he complains. Alma Diamonds also plans to strengthen its Bangkok office to meet any eventualities. In fact, Jain's difficulties in getting visas reflects the vulnerability of Indians working as petty shopkeepers and migrant labour. Come July 1997, they are afraid of being pushed out by the waves of poor Chinese expected to come in search of a better livelihood.
"We remember well how the North Vietnamese pushed us out of Saigon despite assuring us initially that our property and business would be protected," Sharbudeen, a small-time Indian businessman who came to Hong Kong from Vietnam in 1976, was quoted as saying by the London-based Gemini News Service in a recent article. The Chinese, he believes, will probably make it difficult for poorer Indians to stay on while at the same time wooing rich businessmen, whose capital and commercial contacts they need.
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Serious Sam 3: BFE Review
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You can say what you want about Croteam's Serious Sam games, but you can't ever say that they don't achieve their goals. Colossal in scope and supported by gorgeous engines, the Serious Sam games have always devoted themselves to the old-school arcade mould.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is no different - there's no regenerating health, no third-person cover mechanics; just you, your arsenal and the 500 enemies between you and...the next 500 enemies. If you're a fan of wholesale cartoon slaughter then look no further - this is the game for you.
Even if you aren't a fan of such peculiar pleasures then Serious Sam 3 remains an amazing experience, provided you play it in short bursts. Make use of the 16-player co-op support and push the difficulty up to the extreme levels and you'll only heighten the heady rush of alien genocide.
Holes start to appear in the format when it's played in longer sittings, though, especially if you're gunning in singleplayer. Battle fatigue can set in quickly, reducing the game to a numb grind that's new to the series and which shows up mainly due to the lack of Croteam's usual humour. The draining experience of such wide-scale death-dealing isn't a huge issue in itself, but the loss of Sam's standard wit and pizazz? That's a major fumble for a game that's sold itself on its irreverence and personality.
That's not to say that Serious Sam 3 isn't funny, because it is, but where there used to be dozens of easter eggs hidden in every level, there's now only a couple of one-liners. Like Duke Nukem before him, Sam now thinks that the occasional swear or muttered innuendo is a suitable replacement for a clever practical joke. Acolytes of the series will think differently, however - where are the +1 health pills which, when grabbed, unleash swarms of yodelling, miniature enemies? These types of spectacles are a lot rarer than they were in previous games.
The action remains the same at least; there's little sophistication to the screaming, headless masses of suicide bombers and charging alien bulls, but the scale compensates. There's only a handful of new enemies for you to test your mettle against, but that issue is mitigated by the originality of the old line-up. Where else will you find giant gold scorpion men with miniguns for arms?
While the enemies themselves are fun to fight, however, the same isn't entirely true of the levels in which Sam fights them. The chronology of the franchise is far too complex to explain, but it's suffice to say that Serious Sam 3 is a prequel to the original game and sees Sam fighting through the ruins of Cairo in search of a time travel device. This means that the alien worlds and ancient temples that once helped the series stand out from the crowd have been swapped for grey city streets and piles of rubble.
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Jelly Jam, The: Profit
Despite the fact that the trio known as The Jelly Jam have spent much of their career earning their paychecks in progressive acts such as Dream Theater, King's X, and the Dixie Dregs, John Myung, Ty Tabor, and Rod Morgenstein have mostly decided to go in the complete opposite direction when they get together every few years to resurrect this band. Sure, the musicality of the three players is always there, but with Profit the band once again show how adept they are at crafting catchy pop hooks and housing with within an alternative/modern rock framework that owes as much to The Beatles, The Raspberries, and Cheap Trick as it does to Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Stone Temple Pilots. Basically a concept album telling the story of The Prophet who goes on a journey to save the world, the CD contains 12 tracks that range from moody rockers to quirky uptempo power pop, the prog virtuosity that all three members are capable of simmering underneath as they go for a more ensemble sound rather than show off.
Highlights include the catchy "Care", the hard rocking "Stop", the brooding "Water", the Middle Eastern/prog tinged "Perfect Lines (Flyin')", the grunge laden guitar romp of "Mr. Man", the heavy grooves of "Memphis", to the more introspective guitar & bass excursion "Permanent Hold". Tabor's vocals and guitar work are stellar as always, but it's Morgentstein who really impresses here with a vast array of rhythms and textures, giving each song plenty of life no matter the tone or tempo, and he works so well alongside the ever dependable Myung. Though much of the album is a bit mellower and moodier than past Jelly Jam affairs, there's no denying the quality of the material that's on display here, which is another great example of the talents of all involved. If you haven't yet discovered The Jelly Jam, this is as good a place as any to start your journey.
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O Código Administrativo de 1936 foi um diploma legal regulador da estrutura e funcionamento das autarquias locais de Portugal. Foi aprovado pelo Decreto-Lei n.º 27424, 31 de Dezembro de 1936 e posteriormente alterado e republicado pelo Decreto-Lei n.º 31095, de 31 de Dezembro de 1940, razão pela qual o diploma é por vezes referido como o Código Administrativo de 1940 ou por Código Administrativo de 1936-1940. O diploma traduz a estruturação político-administrativa resultante da aprovação da Constituição Portuguesa de 1933 e vigorou durante todo o período do Estado Novo nunca tendo sido formalmente revogado. Encontra-se quase totalmente derrogado pela legislação autárquica produzia na vigência da Constituição Portuguesa de 1976, mas alguns dos seus preceitos ainda têm aplicação.

Administração local de Portugal
Fundações em Portugal em 1936

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If you've got Microsoft Excel (or just about any other popular spreadsheet program) running on your computer, you can use its FV function to forecast the future value of your 401(k) account.
This little pretty complicated, I grant you. But suppose you want to calculate the future value of a 401(k) account that's already got $10,000 in it and to which you're contributing $200-a-month. Further suppose that you want to know the account balance—its future value—in 25 years and that you expect to earn 10% annual interest.
The function returns the value 385936.13—roughly $386,000 dollars.
A handful of things to note: To convert the 10% annual interest to a monthly interest rate, the formula divides the annual interest rate by 12. Similarly, to convert the 25-year term to a term in months, the formula multiplies 25 by 12.
Also, notice that the monthly payment and initial present values show as negative amounts because they represent cash outflows. And the function returns the future value amount as a positive value because it reflects a cash inflow the investor ultimately receives.
That 0 at the end of the function is the type-of-annuity switch. If you set the type-of-annuity switch to 1, Excel assumes payments occur at the beginning of the period (month in this case), following the annuity due convention. If you set the annuity switch to 0 or you omit the argument, Excel assumes payments occur at the end of the period following the ordinary annuity convention.
You've probably heard about the Nebraska meatpackers who won the largest lottery jackpot in the United States last week. One winner replied "I've been retired for about four days now" when asked what he would do with his winnings. His response did not surprise me; I'm sure my reaction would be similar!
What does surprise me is that many Americans believe that they cannot retire comfortably unless they win the lottery. A survey by the Consumer Federation of America shows that 27% of Americans believe that their best chance to gain $500,000 in their lifetime is to win a sweepstakes or lottery.
1. Start early! If you started saving $100 a month beginning at age 18, you would have over $500,000 by age 65. The power of compounding is great, and the earlier you start saving, the greater the benefit.
2. Have a plan. The best way to ensure that you will have a comfortable retirement is to plan how much you will need to retire. You can't reach your destination if you don't know where you're going.
3. Participate in company sponsored retirement plans. Many companies offer matching contributions to your 401K or other retirement plan contributions. This is free money – take it!
4. Invest in a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds, that fits your goals and risk tolerance. Studies show that your investment return is determined primarily by the allocation of your assets, not the individual investment selections you make.
5. Keep your costs down. Invest in no-load, low cost mutual funds (or other investments). Lowering the expenses in your portfolio by just 1% can equate to 20% more money in your portfolio after 20 years.
Although winning a large lottery certainly can't hurt, following the steps above should send you well on your way to a comfortable retirement.


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Olivia Newton-John's Family Share Words of Love for the Late Star
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Members of Olivia Newton-John's family are sharing heartfelt tributes for the late star, who passed away earlier this week from breast cancer.
In a post on Instagram, husband John Easterling described the Grease actress and singer as the "most courageous woman" he has ever known:
"Our love for each other transcends our understanding," he captioned a photo of the two of them smiling.
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"Every day we expressed our gratitude for this love that could be so deep, so real, so natural. We never had to 'work' on it. We were in awe of this great mystery and accepted the experience of our love as past, present and forever."
He goes on to describe Olivia as a "healer" whose "bandwith for genuinely caring for people, for nature and all creatures almost eclipses what is humanly possible."
"Even now as her soul soars, the pain and holes in my heart are healed with the joy of her love and the light that shines forward."
John, who married Olivia in 2008, ends his message by thanking friends and fans for the "vast ocean of love and support" that has been shared with his family since her passing.
Earlier, Olivia's daughter from a previous marriage, Chloe Lattanzi, also shared some beautiful words of love:
"You are my lighthouse mama. My safe place. My heart space. It has been my honour and continues to be my honour to be your baby and best friend. You are an angel on earth and everyone touched by you has been blessed. I love you forever my life giver, my teacher, my mama."
(Feature Image Credit: Chloe Lattanzi and Olivia Newton-John, photo by Bryan Steffy/WireImage via Getty Images)
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The TV category has been considered a hobby for Apple since they released the original Apple TV some years back. That's all about to change with the launch of the new Apple TV. For its first ever advertising campaign we leveraged its product truth as a disruption to the category. With Siri, the App Store and everything else Apple that you love now finally available on your TV, it's clear that the future of television has finally arrived. The color bar test pattern became our brand identity and we updated the colors to those from the Apple color logo. You can see it became an important part of every piece of the work.
Color Bars Outdoor
The color bars continued out in the world with a two phase outdoor campaign. The first two weeks were color bars only. In phase two we began introducing many of the properties in surprising ways breaking through the color bars
Phase one outdoor
Phase two outdoor
Pre Roll and digital banners
The campaign continued in various media buys online. One being pre roll ads that would run on Hulu and other online content providers. There were 6 total executions that showed various types of content available on Apple TV. We found a unique way to make the color bars feel part of the content. A few examples are below.