"International Law in Domestic Courts: A Global Perspective"
The conditions of globalisation have sparked considerable speculation about the internationalisation of domestic law, often with particular reference to domestic public law. One significant effect is that the rate of recourse to public international law by domestic courts is increasing around the world and is likely to continue to do so. It thus deserves attention by both domestic and international lawyers and would benefit from mutual understanding. From a global perspective, however, the development is distinctly patchy. The panel will substantiate this claim, examine how and why it is so and reflect on the drivers of continuing change. In doing so, it will contrast the position in Australia, the USA and the UK with that in selected countries elsewhere.
The seminar will consider public international law as a principle of statutory construction in domestic courts in the USA, UK and Australia, by examining limitations on the authority of States to exercise jurisdiction in circumstances affecting the interests of other States. Reference will be made to US cases such as Hoffman-La Roche v. Empagram, 542 U.S. 155 (2004) and Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 133 S.Ct 1659 (2013) and to cases on State immunity in the UK and Hong Kong courts.
"Arthur Watts Public International Law Seminar Series sponsored by Volterra Fietta: Public International Law in Domestic Courts"


Everyone, I've thought up 5 subway cars we should consider making. Immediately.
We can fix this, you guys!
Just your every day lonely blue dinosaur adventure.
A story of my brief and not so wonderful stint as the lead role.
A short story about my first days after graduating fromcollege.
Before _______, We Had ________.
What I grew up with.
This happens way too often for my liking.
I like TV shows. I made them some cards.
Is your local girl scout troop actually an elite death squad?
Second Lunch is what Jesus would probably read if he were real or alive.


text:
The supermarket giants look to combine to create 'more competitive and more resilient business'
J Sainsbury plc and Walmart Inc announce they have agreed terms in relation to a proposed combination of Sainsbury's and Asda Group Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Walmart, to create an enlarged business.
A statement released by Sainsbury's says the combined business will "create a dynamic new player in UK retail with an outstanding breadth of products, delivered through multiple channels."
The chain points out that the retail sector is going through "significant and rapid change, as customer shopping habits continue to evolve", which it says has led to increased competition across grocery, general merchandise and clothing, as customers seek ever greater value, choice and convenience.
It says bringing the two supermarkets together will result in a "more competitive and more resilient business that will be better able to invest in price, quality, range and the technology to create more flexible ways for customers to shop."
The statement outlines the key highlights of the potential merger, stating the combination will:
Create one of the UK's leading grocery, general merchandise and clothing retail groups, with combined revenues of c.£51 billion for 2017
Maintain both the Sainsbury's and Asda brands and enable them to sharpen their distinctive customer propositions and attract new customers
Combine a complementary network of more than 2,800 Sainsbury's, Asda and Argos stores and several of the UK's most visited retail websites, to create greater choice for customers through more store formats and channels, with a combined 47 million customer transactions per week
Enable investment in areas that will benefit customers the most: price, quality, range and creating more flexible ways to shop in stores and through digital channels, across Sainsbury's, Asda and Argos. Expect to lower prices by c.10 per cent on many of the products customers buy regularly
Generate net EBITDA synergies, post investments in price, across the enlarged group of at least £500 million. These synergies are comprised largely of buying benefits, opening Argos in Asda stores and operational efficiencies. There are no planned Sainsbury's or Asda store closures as a result of the Combination
Deliver benefits to the Combined Business through a close relationship with Walmart, both as a strategic partner and long-term shareholder, allowing the business to share knowledge and technology developments between Walmart, Sainsbury's and Asda
Offer more opportunities for over 330,000 employees at all levels within the enlarged group, drawing on the shared values and heritage of both businesses
Create significant opportunities for suppliers to develop differentiated product ranges, become more streamlined and to grow their businesses as the Combined Business grows
Deliver substantial value creation for shareholders of Sainsbury's, through double digit EPS accretion and low double digit ROIC by the second full financial year post-completion
Reduce Sainsbury's lease-adjusted leverage, benefiting from Asda's high freehold property ownership and pension-free balance sheet, protecting the interests of hundreds of thousands of Sainsbury's and Asda pension holders
Be highly cash generative, enabling a faster de-leveraging profile. The Combined Business is expected to have an investment grade credit profile on completion
COMBINATION BUSINESS
The stores say the merger will result in Walmart holding 42 per cent of the issued share capital of the Combined Business and receiving £2.975 billion of cash (subject to customary completion adjustments), valuing Asda at approximately £7.3 billion on a debt-free, cash-free and pension-free basis. At the time of completion of the Combination, Walmart will not hold more than 29.9 per cent of the total voting rights in the Combined Business.
If the Combination goes ahead, Walmart will be a long-term shareholder and partner. Upon completion, two Walmart representatives will join the Board of the Combined Business as non-executive directors. The Combined Business will be chaired by the Sainsbury's Chairman and led by the Sainsbury's CEO and CFO. Asda will continue to be run from Leeds with its own CEO, who will join the Group Operating Board of the Combined Business.
Commenting on the Combination, David Tyler, chairman of Sainsbury's, said: "We believe that the combination of Sainsbury's and Asda will create substantial value for our shareholders and will be excellent news for our customers and our colleagues. As one of the largest employers in the country, the combined business will become an even greater contributor to the British economy. The proposal will bring together two of the most experienced and talented management teams in retail at a time when the industry is undergoing rapid change. We welcome Walmart as a significant shareholder and look forward to working closely with them."
Judith McKenna, president and chief executive officer of Walmart International, said: "This proposed merger represents a unique and bold opportunity, consistent with our strategy of looking for new ways to drive international growth. Asda became part of Walmart nearly 20 years ago, and it is a great business and an important part of our portfolio, acting as a source of best practices, new ideas and talent for Walmart businesses around the world. We believe this combination will create a dynamic new retail player better positioned for even more success in a fast-changing and competitive UK market. It will unlock value for both customers and shareholders, but, at the same time, it's the colleagues at Asda who make the difference, and this merger will provide them with broader opportunities within the retail group. We are very much looking forward to working closely with Sainsbury's to deliver the benefits of the combined business."
Roger Burnley, Chief Executive Officer of Asda, said: "The combination of Asda and Sainsbury's into a single retailing group will be great news for Asda customers, allowing us to deliver even lower prices in store and even greater choice. Asda will continue to be Asda, but by coming together with Sainsbury's, supported by Walmart, we can further accelerate our existing strategy and make our offer even more compelling and competitive.
"From my six years with Asda and ten years with Sainsbury's, I know first hand that both organisations are fortunate to employ some of the most talented and customer-focused colleagues in this market and I am excited by the opportunity of the two coming together."

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


This Wednesday the Seeing The Word team met for our own visio divina session, and we happened to use The Crucifixion Reflection Guide. It's always a privilege to hear others speak of their spirituality, to have them say what they see in the Illumination and describe how they feel our group prayer intersects with their daily lives.
In the midst of this, I sometimes feel myself drifting away from the prayer experience of Seeing The Word and towards something much more self-focused, much more vain. "What clever insight can I draw from this Illumination? What is the best thing I can share with this group?" Asked in the right way, those questions are not too far off the right track. But I have to be careful not to make visio divina about proving my spiritual worth.
I have found a similar experience in all of my prayer, whether in a group or alone. Either I am focusing on how I appear to the group, or I am focusing on "praying the right way".
The Contemplation step of visio divina is about quieting our minds. It's a reminder, and an opportunity, to just be with God. Here we are invited to let go of our insights, our concerns, our fears, our worries, our efforts, and just rest in God. This, to me, is perhaps the most important part of the prayer experience.


The site Blog-fussball.de's front page was last entered by gilturl 19-1-2011. The source was comprised of 26 characters, of which 32 are code, leaving an organic character count of 178. The total specialized word count on the Blog-fussball.de home page is 185. We calculated that number of unique words is 125. We extracted 30 top keywords, leaving 196% above the threshold. Total Phrases above the threshold was 2430.


text:
PALM SPRINGS LIVING – PLaces to work and live
Indio: Resurgence as the Heart of the Valley
Indio, the "City of Festivals," welcomes the future of business and manufacturing while preserving the past...
Indian Wells Celebrates Change and What Remains the Same
Indian Wells, well known for its travel amenities, luxury spas, and numerous events, is doing even...
La Quinta: Savor Its New Dining, Shopping, Art and Entertainment
December 18, 2019, by Erika ByrdLa Quinta is in the midst of a renovation to condense a few lanes and remove...
Cathedral City: Rising Ever Higher
What were once mere glimmers of ideas are now meeting hammer and nail, mortar and brick...
Coachella: Reaching the Summit
There is new energy and excitement in Coachella as the city transforms into an epicenter for...
New pioneers like the cannabis industry are currently making things happen in Desert Hot Springs where...
Remembering the Past to Plan the Future
Throughout its history, Rancho Mirage has refined itself through attention to detail, high expectations for quality...
Palm Desert: A Wave of Refreshing Progress
Dynamic development and ideas propel Palm Desert downtown forward as the plans for a reimagined and...
Moving to Palm Springs?
Moving to Palm Springs? The city continues to add enhancements, which keeps its reputation intact as...
The Palm Springs iHub, an incubator for tech, energy and healthcare, has transformed Subeca into a...
A Place to Innovate
For 100 years and counting, big thinkers like Nellie Coffman and her Desert Inn have come...
Why Greater Palm Springs?
A small-town vibe, 360 days of sunshine, and plenty of big-city amenities have made relocating to...
John Healy: Vision 2019
"The desert offers a lifestyle like none other," John Healy says. That's a motto he shares...
Michele Finney: Vision 2019
Providing increased access to care with additional physicians in the valley is a priority for Michele...
Dr. Scott Aaronson: Vision 2019
Since Dr. Scott Aaronson first opened his general plastic surgery practice in 1984, interest in cosmetic...
Joshua Cartter, DDS: Vision 2019
Joshua Cartter says Desert Dental Specialty Group is the only valley practice to offer these 3...
Kenneth Churchill: Vision 2019
West Coast Cannabis Club has big plans, including a house line of cannabis products and cannabis...
Jeff L. Grubbe: Vision 2019
Tribal chairman Jeff L. Grubbe, who is the public face of the Agua Caliente Band of...
Timothy Jochen, M.D.
Contour Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery Center is one of the desert's most well-established medical institutions with...
Purchase | View Digital
Search Articles and Pages
Dr. Jake Zhu: Vision 2019
Dr. Jake Zhu, the new dean at CSUSB Palm Desert Campus, has a passion for higher...
Palm Springs Life enlisted the research firm DataJoe to assess the retirement residences with care options...
Particular Matter
Geographic information system data from CVEP provides businesses far greater detail than that available from counties...
Remarkable Results
After seven years, the Palm Springs iHub has helped more than 70 startups in the technology...
The Ways and Means to Go Far
The Coachella Valley Economic Partnership has no doubt that Greater Palm Springs can duplicate in California...
Eek, a Mouse!
Opening this fall, Coachella Valley Economic Partnership's Palm Desert Digital iHub will host a cybersecurity program...
A Good Word for Disruption
One of the exciting challenges of operating the Palm Springs iHub is identifying the locally created...
Logistical Dream
Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport in Thermal falls within a four-hour drive of major metropolitan markets such...
The Finish Line: Fred Bell
Fred Bell. partner and chief operating officer of Nobell Energy Solutions. I also have a nonprofit...
With acres of scenic and protected open space, it's no wonder Desert Hot Springs is one...
What You Should Know About City of Coachella
Thanks to the continuing success of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the city of...
What You Should Know About Indio
In the past decade, Indio has gone from the depths of recession to a travel destination...
Indian Wells is a favorite among desert travelers, enticing guests with a wide array of resorts,...
City Officials are reaching out to business owners and developers to get their feedback on what...


text:
Black Listed Entertainment TV & Film
Spike Lee to Produce Michael Jackson Flick
This August will be the 25th anniversary of the release of Michael Jackson's classic album "Bad." The album, which included the tracks "Smooth Criminal" and "Man in the Mirror," will be honored with a documentary being produced by the famed filmmaker Spike Lee. Depicting his work and personal life through old footage, the movie is expected to appeal to fans and non-enthusiasts alike. "We had complete access to the vaults of Michael Jackson. … He wrote 60 demos for the `Bad' record. Only 11 made it. So we got to hear a lot of that stuff too, so it was just a great experience."
Slated in tandem with the re-release of the album on Sept. 18th (with additional tracks), the movie will star a gamut of celebrities from Kanye West to Cheryl Crow. "We really divided it into two things: Artists today who were influenced by Michael and then people who worked side by side – musicians, songwriters, technicians, engineers, people at the label, who were all committed to Michael, to the follow-up to the biggest record of all time, which still is 'Thriller'."
In addition to the film, Lee's annual birthday tribute to Jackson is scheduled for Aug. 25 at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
In this article:bad, documentary, King of Pop, michael jackson, Spike Lee, thriller
EBONY Throwback: 7 Epic Black Music Battles
Documentary "This One's for the Ladies" Is an Intimate Look at Black Male Exotic Dancers [TRAILER]
Netflix Celebrates Clarence Avant in 'The Black Godfather' Documentary [VIDEO]
Metta World Peace Talks 'Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story' Documentary


The kids might have left home, the financial stressors may have released a little and suddenly you have more time on your hands. What to do? These 6 bloggers decided to get up and go, sharing their adventures with the world along the way. The internet is an abundance of information when it comes to 50+ travel bloggers. These are our favourite 6.
Inka Piegsa-Quischotte is an inspiration to all baby boomers who want to get out of their comfort zone and experience life on the road. Born in Germany, Inka spent the beginning of her adult life as an international attorney in the UK and Spain. At some point, she realised that she'd been travelling all over the world for work and seeing absolutely nothing. She sacked the job, sold her house and moved to Turkey. Inka, also known as Glamour Granny, has been travelling ever since. This blog doesn't only offer beautiful writing and inspiring images, but is filled witha perfect combination of luxury, wellness and adventure. A highly recommended read!
We fell in love with this blog when we saw their post about empty nesters and their dogs. Featuring heart-melting pictures of Suzanne and Craig with their furry friend Rocco, we knew immediately that this blog was for us! Launching their blog just over 3 years ago, Suzanne has established a beautiful and popular blog about their adventures throughout the United States and the rest of the world. As Suzanne says, she started the blog because she wanted to "bring together a global community of people who don't plan to spend this valuable time in life sitting on the couch!" We couldn't agree more! Adventures of Empty Nesters also features a restaurants and food section, especially for foodie travellers!
In 2010, Kristin Henning and Tom Bartel sold all of their possessions, their home, their business and have been travelling the world since. If that doesn't sound like a dream come true, a few minutes perusing their blog with convince you otherwise. The countries they've visited span six continents, with almost all of Europe covered extensively. The aim of this blog is to give all older travellers the tools and advice they need to travel in a way that works for them. As they say, 'we provide content geared for mature, active, and inquisitive travellers.' With a strong emphasis on history, the blog also offers plenty of tips in terms of packing, gear and photography.
This incredible website is geared toward over 50s who are interested in international volunteer and travel opportunities. This is probably the most adventurous of the blogs chosen here, but is definitely not without its pragmatism. A useful resource for all over 50 travellers looking for volunteer work, the blog includes lists of organisations which offer 50+ volunteer opportunities, considerations regarding health and safety and, most excitingly, a blog detailing the experiences of various 50+ volunteers all over the world. Empowering stories from Nepal to Alaska are posted to the blog twice a month and if they aren't that push you need to pack up and try something new, they'll certainly be a pleasure to enjoy with a cup of tea at home.
Irene S. Levine is in what she calls the 'second act' of her life. She's always been torn between her two passions: psychology and travel writing. After act 1 as a psychologist, she's embarked on a fulfilling journey as a freelance travel writer. Irene's blog offers sections on cruises, food & wine, hotels & spas and even book tips for travellers. More Time to Travel is award-winning and favours luxury travel. From National Parks in the US to vineyards in the south of France, you'll find an abundance of inspirational material on this website.
Jim Ferri, Editor of Never Stop Traveling, has literally never stopped traveling. That makes him an excellent spokesperson for the topic, but the blog is also backed up by a number of contributors who add diversity to the site. The blog features many interesting articles about history, from the monasteries of Meteora to the imperial past of Vienna. There is also an entire section dedicated to cruises for those who want to explore the world by sea.


Semi-Automatic Saw Polishing Machines - Semi Auto Saw Polishing Machine - HMT MachineTools, Inc.
Gerling Polishing Machines offer semi-automatic handling of the work pieces (loading, turning, and unloading) and can be optionally fitted with an industrial touchscreen PC interface, and/or an integrated installation for cleaning and drying (drawer principle). After completion, the saw bodies can proceed immediately to laser marking or any other work or marking process.
For visual assistance, our multimedia gallery provides videos of Gerling Polishing Machines in action.


text:
Shorter Hurricane Alphabet for '96
New probes, called dropwindsondes, give forecasters a better take on where storms will turn and increase forecasting accuracy
By Robert C. Cowen Special to The Christian Science Monitor
There's good news for hurricane forecasters. They soon should get a better take on where these powerful storms will track.
Beginning this year, aircraft will drop probes, called dropwindsondes, into a hurricane and the surrounding atmosphere. The probes measure winds, air pressure, temperature, and humidity between the aircraft altitude and the sea surface. Their data give an unprecedented view of the wind field in which the storm is embedded. Using these data, computer forecasting programs then can better project where those external winds will steer the storm.
As hurricane Bertha, the first Atlantic hurricane of the season, tears through the Caribbean, forecasters should have plenty of storms to work with this year. Hurricane forecaster William Gray at Colorado State University in Fort Collins says he expects "about an average hurricane season" from June 1 to Nov. 30. Dr. Gray's forecast, issued June 6, calls for 10 tropical storms strong enough to be named, including 6 hurricanes, 2 of which will be major storms. Last year there were 19 named storms in the second most active season on record. Gray's forecast will be updated Aug. 7 when the most active part of the Atlantic hurricane season usually begins.
Gray uses a statistical forecast method that takes account of several factors influencing Atlantic hurricanes. They include such influences as the direction of global stratospheric winds, West African rainfall, sea-level air pressures in the Caribbean and off West Africa, and the presence or absence of El Nio warm-water conditions in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
Robert Burpee, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Hurricane Center in Miami, calls the new hurricane forecasting technology "a major breakthrough in hurricane forecasting." He notes that the accuracy in forecasting for the Atlantic and eastern Pacific regions for which he is responsible has improved at an average rate of 1 percent a year for the past couple of decades. Tests of the new forecasting scheme using dropwindsonde data show it can bring, at one stroke, as much improvement as has been accumulated over the past 20 years, he says. That means that Dr. Burpee's team expects to cut errors by 16 percent to 30 percent for storm track forecasts made 12 to 60 hours in advance.
That would be a badly needed accuracy gain. Hurricane meteorologists take pride in the fact that, as storm surveillance and forecasting have improved, hurricane-related fatalities have gone down as a result of timely warnings. But NOAA administrator James Baker points out that, even though the fatality rate has dropped, hurricane damage costs are shooting up. He notes that, in the United States alone, more than half (129 million) of the population now lives within 50 miles of the coast. He adds that this means that an increasing share of the country's population is becoming exposed to hurricane danger along the coasts of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. The same can be said for other areas of the Gulf and Caribbean undergoing extensive development.
Robert Sheets, Burpee's predecessor at the National Hurricane Center, has estimated that population has grown by 3 to 4 percent a year in hurricane-prone areas. That growth rate could overwhelm the relatively slow improvements in forecasting accuracy.
In a paper published in the May Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Burpee and several colleagues warn: "Unless the rate of forecast improvements can be accelerated, the downward trend of hurricane casualties is not likely to continue."
This is the kind of accuracy gain that Burpee thinks his team now has in hand. He explained during an interview that realizing that gain is, for him, a personal crusade. After working 18 years researching the new observing scheme, he says, "I'm very emotionally involved [in seeing] it transitioned into practice."
He says the practical payoff could be substantial. Warnings currently are issued 18 to 24 hours before hurricane landfall for a coastline zone averaging 555 kilometers (344 miles). That's no longer enough lead time for orderly evacuation of some the now intensively developed coastal regions. It also overwarns a large area to allow for forecast errors. The actual path of damaging winds and storm surges for a given storm is usually less than 185 km (115 miles). If forecasters sharpen their storm track projections and reduce the overwarned zone, that would cut down congestion as people evacuate a smaller area more likely to be in real danger. Improved forecast accuracy could also lead to more confident longer-range forecasts so that warnings could be issued earlier. That would allow more evacuation time.
Burpee says that economic savings could also be substantial. Preparation costs can run about $346,000 per kilometer of coastline warned, based on a recent estimate, he says. He estimates that, if the new forecasting scheme using the dropwindsonde data lets forecasters narrow their warning zone by only 5 percent, the average savings in local storm preparation costs could run to 80 times the added cost of getting the dropwindsonde data.
NOAA will gather those data with its own aircraft fleet, including a new jet airplane. They will complement the "hurricane hunter" reconnaissance missions flown by the US Air Force. The new data may also give meteorologists insight into what Burpee calls the other "big uncertainty" in his forecasts - storm intensity. He explains that "we have very little skill in intensity forecasting ... basically because we don't understand the physics."
Sudden changes in hurricane intensity can take forecasters by surprise. For example, Hurricane Opal intensified explosively and accelerated toward the Florida panhandle last October. Burpee notes that this happened at night when people were sleeping. It was hard to get public attention for the new danger which forecasters hadn't anticipated.
The probes and the aircraft instruments will give new information on how a hurricane interacts with its atmospheric and sea-surface environment. This may help elucidate the physical processes involved in hurricane evolution.
Tropical storm Amanda forecast to become hurricane today
Hurricane forecast: Three to six 'major' storms could emerge this year
As Bermuda braces for Gonzalo, underwater glider studies hurricane impact


text:
380 F. 2d 372 - Campbell Soup Company v. National Labor Relations Board
380 F2d 372 Campbell Soup Company v. National Labor Relations Board
CAMPBELL SOUP COMPANY, Petitioner,
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent.
George E. Seay, Dallas, Tex., Robert McWhirter, Paris, Tex., McWhirter & Braswell, Paris, Tex., Malone, Seay & Gwinn, Dallas, Tex., of counsel, for petitioner.
Marcel Mallet-Prevost, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Frank H. Itkin, Atty., Arnold Ordman, Gen. Counsel, Dominick L. Manoli, Associate Gen. Counsel, Nancy M. Sherman, Atty., N.L.R.B., Washington, D. C., for respondent.
Before BELL, GODBOLD, and DYER, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
This case comes to us on the petition of Campbell Soup Company to set aside the Board's order, and on the cross petition of the Board to enforce the order.
Campbell asserts that it was denied procedural due process in several respects by the Trial Examiner. We find no merit in these contentions. There is also ample support in the record considered as a whole to support the findings that Campbell violated § 8(a) (1) of the Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 158(a) (1), by interrogating and threatening employees with regard to their union activity. The portion of the order relating to these violations will be enforced.
The order deals, in addition, with a company rule relating to the distribution of written or printed material in the plant and on company property, and with another rule governing the unauthorized solicitation for contributions, memberships or sales during company working hours. The Board concluded that these rules were overbroad in the area of union activity to the extent that they prohibited distribution or solicitation during a particular employee's non-working time, and in parts of the plant set aside for breaks, lunchrooms or rest rooms. Both rules were held invalid. Cf. Republic Aviation Corp. v. N.L.R.B., 1945, 324 U.S. 793, 65 S.Ct. 982, 89 L.Ed. 1372; Brewton Fashions, Inc. v. N.L. R.B., 5 Cir., 1966, 361 F.2d 8; N.L.R.B. v. Mira-Pak, Inc., 5 Cir., 1965, 354 F.2d 525; N.L.R.B. v. Southwire Company, 5 Cir., 1965, 352 F.2d 346; N.L.R.B. v. Plant City Steel Corporation, 5 Cir., 1964, 331 F.2d 511; N.L.R.B. v. Linda Jo Shoe Company, 5 Cir., 1962, 307 F.2d 355; and N.L.R.B. v. Walton Manufacturing Company, 5 Cir., 1961, 289 F.2d 177.
The rule relating to the distribution of written or printed material here is not a model of clarity but, nevertheless, it does not prohibit employees, on non-working time, from distributing material in behalf of a labor organization in non-working areas of the plant. This was the concern of the Board and is the proscription set out in the Board order with respect to the distribution rule. It follows that the part of the order which relates to this rule will not be enforced.
The other rule provides that there may be no "* * * Unauthorized solicitation for contributions, memberships or sales during Company working hours." This rule is vague and indefinite. It may reasonably be interpreted to mean that there may be no solicitation whatever during company working hours. An employee, as Campbell concedes, has the right to solicit his fellow employees during their non-working time even though the solicitation is during company working hours. Campbell asserts that the rule has not been otherwise applied but we cannot say that the Board's finding is without support. The order provides that Campbell may not prohibit its employees, during nonworking time, from soliciting their fellow employees to join a labor organization. To avoid vagueness in the order itself, we construe the non-working time language of this paragraph of the order as applying to the employee doing the soliciting and to the employee being solicited and, as such, it will be enforced.
Enforced in part; denied and set aside in part.


text:
New energy, water laws to impact TID
An energy bill that was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown this month will take him one step closer to achieving two of three of his "ambitious" clean energy, clean air and pollution reduction goals for California before his proposed 2030 deadline.
His proposition, which he discussed during his annual address, included increasing the amount of energy derived from renewable sources from 33 percent to 50 percent, reducing current petroleum use in cars and trucks by up to 50 percent, and doubling the energy efficiency of existing buildings.
"Many legislators took that as an opening and rushed to announce sweeping energy legislation, but in the end after a highly political session, only SB 350 was the major energy bill to make it to the governor's desk," said Turlock Irrigation District Legislative Analyst Josh Weimer.
During a legislative update that was presented to the TID Board of Directors on Tuesday, Weimer said that Senate Bill 350, introduced by Senate President pro Tempore Kevin De Len (D-Los Angeles) and known as the Clean Energy and Pollution and Reduction Act of 2015, quickly became the landmark bill of the 2015 Legislative Session.
"California is laying the groundwork for a healthier and sustainable future for all our families," said De Len. "We are showing the world through innovation how we can transition and increase access to renewable energy while cleaning up the air we breathe, especially in our most polluted communities."
After months of lobbying, Weimer said that the provision to reduce petroleum use in cars and trucks by up to 50 percent was ultimately removed, which effectively transformed SB 350 into just an energy bill. Brown signed the bill into law earlier this month.
SB 350 was just one of 2,768 bills that were introduced during the 2015 Legislative Session, which ended on Sept. 11. Of those 2,768 bills, TID staff actively tracked over 250 bills. Brown had until Oct. 11 to either sign or veto each bill, and ultimately 40 bills were signed that have some level of impact on TID.
Concerning water legislation, Brown signed into law SB 13, which was introduced by Senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) and AB 617, which was introduced by Assemblymember Henry Perea (D-Fresno). Both bills aimed to make clear certain Sustainable Groundwater Management Act Procedures following its adoption last year.
"None of the bills that were passed changed TID's SGMA compliance strategy, but what they did do was provide additional clarification," said Director of External Affairs Michelle Reimers. "You all know how fast SGMA was passed last session and there was a lot of clarification that needed to be done."
Additionally, Reimers said that two companion bills that were signed into law will streamline the groundwater adjudication process.
"With SGMA people realized that groundwater adjudication was going to become more popular and currently the legal process for adjudication takes 15 to 20 years," said Reimers. "That time frame doesn't mesh with some of the state mandates for SGMA."
To address this issue, Pavley introduced SB 226, which was signed into law on Oct. 9. This legislation provides an "expedited, more efficient method for determining the rights of opposing parties to pump groundwater from a shared aquifer."
"Making groundwater settlements easier to achieve is an essential ingredient for ensuring that the Groundwater Management Act works as planned," said Pavley. "Among other things, the law requires that each high- and medium-priority basin be run on a sustainable basis."
SB 226 was paired with Assembly Bill 1390, which was introduced by Assemblymember Luis Alejo (D-Salinas) as a bipartisan measure that will also streamline and provide new efficiency to the groundwater adjudication rights process. Along with SB 226, AB 1390 was signed into law on Oct. 9.
"Streamlining the process for how groundwater rights are adjudicated in court was daunting," said Alejo. "But through countless meetings with the Governor's office, farmers, water districts and numerous other stakeholders, we were finally able to address the vexing process for how groundwater rights are determined in a fair and bipartisan way."
Both Weimer and Reimers touched on two-year legislation that will get taken up at the beginning of the 2016 Legislative Session.
For water, these include AB 647, which would recognize groundwater recharge as a beneficial use, AB 1201, which would require the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to address predation with a scientific method and a plan, and AB 1242, which would require the state board to consider groundwater impacts and avoid or mitigate those impacts before adopting water quality objectives.
Two-year energy legislation includes SB 32, which would set an overarching climate pollution target of 80 percent reductions under 1990 levels by 2050, AB 1330, which stated that all utilities would have to meet a 2 percent annual reduction in energy use every year starting in 2025, and SB 550, which would effectively double a Publicly Owned Utility's net metering cap.


This is my second Annual Report as Independent Chair, and as I did last year, I have already shared my Independent Chair's Accountability Report with the Council, Health and Police Chiefs and the Executive Board. The Annual Report provides a rigorous and transparent assessment of the performance and effectiveness of partnership working to safeguard and promote the wellbeing of children and young people in Birmingham. Although there is recognition that there is still much more to be done, there is a clear commitment from all organisations to drive forward the requisite improvements in our safeguarding arrangements.
The report is also submitted to the Chief Executive and Leader of Birmingham City Council, the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner and the Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board.
I hope you find this report useful, interesting and most of all, encouraging as to the progress being made.
Click on the image below to read the Annual Report 2017/18.


text:
Help Secure More Houston Greenspace
Elvis Asks for Your Support! By: Tina Sabuco, Abundance Retreat
Hi! My name is Elvis. I love my home in Houston. I mostly love visiting Houston's beautiful parks, walking with my parents and brothers in the wide open spaces. It's a grand adventure to chase butterflies in the tall grasses of Terry Hershey Park and to marvel at the fish, turtles and egrets as we kayak Buffalo Bayou. My favorite past time is to nap in the sun along the banks of White Oak Bayou with my brothers. This is me along the bayou's banks last Spring.
But I and my pup friends wish we had more green spaces in Houston to enjoy, and that my parents and their friends had more safe places to bike. Here's where you can help. There is an opportunity on the table today for Houston to fully embrace our bayous as a valuable asset for the City; expand and improve our park space; and transform Houston for generations to come. Parks By You is an initiative that seeks to connect 7 bayous across Houston with green spaces and trails, as well as improve existing local parks. This initiative will add 2000 acres of green space along the bayous all over Houston and bring the total walking/running/biking/playing trails along the bayous to over 150 miles. This system will connect one end of Houston to the other, will connect neighborhoods, and will connect people and pups – all by connecting our bayous.
The total cost connecting the 7 Houston bayous is $205 million. $105 million will come from state, federal and private sector funds. $100 million will come from a proposed $166 million bond initiative known as Proposition B on the November 6 ballot. The other $66M of the bond proposal has been allocated to improving local community parks. In total, that's a $271 million to transform Houston's future – today. Notably, this will require NO tax rate increase.
The benefits to this proposal are many, including: helping with flood control; replacing cars with bikes by connecting one end of the city to the other through a system of safe and beautiful trails; promoting a healthier and more active lifestyle for we pups, our parents, and children; and helping make Houston a greener city. Most importantly, it makes Houston a better place to live, and a more attractive place for businesses and workers who may want to come here. With an annual return on investment of over $70 million per year, Parks By You will more than pay for itself in a few short years.
1.Vote for Proposition B on the November 6 ballot
2.Spread the word to your family, friends and co-workers
3.Get involved – Parks by You needs volunteers!
For more information or to get involved, please visit www.ParksbyYou.org.
Elvis is the pup child of Shellye Arnold and Tina Sabuco. Shellye and Tina are the proprietresses of Abundance Retreat, pet friendly lodging in Wimberley, and also ask for your support for Proposition B. For more information, please see www.AbundanceRetreat.com or call 512-517-0742.
PreviousMeadowlake Pet Resort Starts Canine Fitness Program
NextMiniature Schnauzer Rescue: Makayla Ready For Adoption!
New Doggie Daycare School Bus
Support Houston's City Shelter BARC With A Holiday Donation
Cougars Helping Puppies
Lone Star Pet Lodges Now Offering Pet Waste Removal Service


text:
1970 Italy: The Borghese Coup
by Justin Ames
In December 1970 there was an attempt to impose on Italy the 'authoritarian solution'. It was a strange coup d'état, so subtle and secretive that when it failed many denied, as they still do, that it had even taken place. Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, the architect of the coup, is one of the most controversial figures of Italian post-war history.
Called the Black Prince because of both his illustrious ancestors, who included popes and cardinals, and his extremist political ideology, Junio Valerio Scipione Ghezzo Marcantonio Maria Borghese was born into an old Sienese noble family in Rome on June 6, 1906. After his parents divorced, he spent his childhood following his diplomat father around to postings in China, Egypt, Spain, France and England. He was educated in London and then at the Royal Naval Academy in Livorno, from which he graduated in 1929. In September 1931, he married Daria Wassilievna, a Russian countess, in Florence; they had four children.
During the Second World War, Borghese commanded the infamous Decima Flottiglia MAS, a body of assault troops which was responsible for raids on the British fleet in Alexandria and which, after 1943, was savage in its treatment of Italian partisans. Borghese was later tried as a war criminal and sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment. On his (very early) release, he became President of the neo-Fascist party, the Movimento Sociale Italiano, before founding the Fronte Nazionale, a pseudo-military organization to 'build a dam against red terror'.
Coming in the aftermath of the Piazza Fontana bombing, and the subsequent polarization of society, the coup itself was not entirely unexpected. 1970 had witnessed reforms which, insufficient to satisfy any but the most moderate on the left, were however adequate to unnerve the traditionalists on the right: regional government had been introduced in the spring, and in May, the Statuto dei Lavoratori, a workers' charter, guaranteed various workplace rights. Most importantly, days before the Borghese coup, the bill legalizing divorce (which had been passed in November 1969) became law. The coup took place on the night of 7 December 1970 (it was known as 'Tora Tora,' in memory of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on the same date in 1941). Borghese had prepared a proclamation to read to the Italian public:
Offer free Airbnb housing to Greece's health workers during Coronavirus
"Italians, the hoped-for political change, the long awaited coup d'état, has taken place. The political formula which has been used by governments for 25 years and has carried Italy to the brink of economic and moral ruin, has finally been abandoned… The armed forces, the forces of order, the most competent and representative men of the nation are with us and we can reassure you that the most dangerous adversaries – those who wanted to sell our homeland to the foreigner – have been rendered inoffensive… We raise the glorious tricolor, and invite you to shout with us our irrepressible hymn of love: Italia! Italia! Viva l'Italia!"
Two hundred Forest Guards left their Cittaducale base in the northeast of Rome and made for the city center in a convoy armed with sub-machine guns and handcuffs. Members and former members of a parachute regiment remained at their base under the command of Sandro Saccucci (later to become a deputy for the MSI) awaiting orders. Across the country, other groups were ready for action in Lombardy, Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria and Calabria. The Ministry of the Interior was occupied, and a stash of arms removed (counterfeit weapons were later found in their place). Suddenly, however, just as the Guards were about to enter the state television studios (RAI), they were met by two unknown men, who ordered them to retreat. The operation was called off, with the bizarre explanation that it was raining too heavily.
The abortive coup was quickly dismissed as nothing more than the work of crackpot eccentrics, 'a jolly get-together among old comrades' according to General Vito Miceli, head of SID (the secret services) and another future MSI parliamentarian. The idea that there had been an attempted coup was ridiculed, indeed there was barely any evidence, bar those counterfeit weapons at the Ministry of the Interior, to suggest that it had even taken place. Gradually, however, the seriousness of the coup attempt became clear. General Miceli, it was revealed, had known about the coup well in advance, as had the army Chief of Staff, who was ready to provide additional weapons.
What to do in November? The Editors for CovertAction Magazine Weigh In
Indeed, within months another subversive organization, Wind Rose, had been created by veterans of Borghese's abortive coup. It was an alliance of senior army and intelligence officers hoping, again, to take over the reins of government. 'The objective,' proclaimed one of their early manifestos, 'is to fight against the political, unionist and government braggarts, and against all those who cooperate and sustain the chameleons of this putrid democracy.' Borghese died in exile (under strange circumstances), in Spain, in 1974, the same year in which Miceli was arrested for his part in that other, related organization, Wind Rose. Those who had taken part in the Borghese coup were accused of 'armed insurrection against the state,' but by 1984 all had been acquitted on appeal. As ever in Italy, there was not one conviction following the crime.
PKK on Turkey coup: No democracy in 'fascist'…
Three major factors in Turkey's failed coup
An Eloquent Silence: The West does not respond to Turkish…
THE COUP D'ÉTAT WAS AGAINST KEMALISTS
PKK asking for formation of "democratic bloc" in
Selahattin Demirtas opposing coup attempt in Turkey
SOURCEthevelvetrocket.com
Borghese Coup


saray15 . JenellaAngel. SportyBoy. MadinaSexyGirl.
LatinLips4UUrStellaCatLindzLovexSweetyCumTsx .ChrisSexySexySexyHotChristyAllisaBellaNewLuccyx .MadinaSexyGirlELLIInvincibleSensualMOCHAKatDeville .NOLIMITSMESSYChrisSexySexyUrStellaCatNOLIMITSMESSY .sw33tBARBIEDiabollaMandyCavalliAdaDorells .ChocolateBrown1DiabollaangelliquiLuccyx .KyaraDanteFineEstherFOXYYQUEENKENNYBUSTAMANTE .PLAYmyCOCKxxAnnSwayValerieCruzChocolateBrown1 .X0XPervertWifeLineaAsperaLindzLoveBobbyAndEvelyne .gaticahotsexySexyHotChristyLATYNCOUPLEHOTxWILDc0upleTSx .JEANNPAULHOTSaianParkerAdeleGorgeousxxMonicaKruger .
blondeslutxtcVERONIKASEXYTSKatDevilleAlishaGrande .giganticcockmarAmazinggarottaaTheHottestMiaFOXYYQUEEN .NOLIMITSMESSYSportyBoyFineEsthergaticahotsexy .ChilliPeperssw33tBARBIEChrisSexySexyDIRTYlilSecreTS .xWILDc0upleTSxAdamVBillyPassionXAdaDorells .KatDevilleMadinaSexyGirlSichoihongX0XPervertWife .DOLLFANTASYLCANDYLATYNCOUPLEHOTHannaNeedLove .SexyHotChristyVERONIKASEXYTSSichoihongKENNYBUSTAMANTE .MissynaHottSexyHotChristyMichellesensualeMadinaSexyGirl .KyaraDante0AngelNoble0NOLIMITSMESSYRamboMickael .AichinaSexyxWILDc0upleTSxDEXTERandJOSEPHKyaraDante .


On one hand our campaign exploits product packaging as an untapped channel on which to make use of product placement.
The use of product placement is known to be as effective as huge advertising campaigns. The industry has however become aware that the recent saturation of product placement in films and tv programmes has been detrimental to its effectiveness.
Using a new medium will revitalise the use of product placement and possibly result in the effectiveness which achieved 80% sales increase when the tactics were first used on films.
In this case, such effectiveness will establish wind farms as an integral part of the British rural landscape.
Unlike product placement, the subtle graphic changes to the products packaging will benefit both parties. Careful choice of products and an unintrusive representation of wind farms will promote wind farms as well as associating the product to renewable energy.


1. The Viking Sky was sailing off the Norwegian coast when it got caught in a "bomb cyclone" and three out of four of its engines blew out.
2. The cruise ship was stranded and 1,300 people were trapped on board.
3. It was, and this is an understatement, terrifying.
5. To give you an idea of how bad it was, this boat was anchored in the same area as the cruise ship. It was basically falling over.
6. Here's a video when passengers realized something was very very wrong.
7. Things started flying off shelves.
8. Windows and glass started to break.
9. A door blew off and suddenly water started pouring in.
10. I would have (metaphorically) died.
11. Water was literally flowing under people's feet!
12. These videos taken by LGBT warrior legend, Alexus Sheppard, show just how crazy it got.
13. The ship was TILTED. Stuff was flying.
14. A lady got hit in the head with the ceiling.
15. And everyone had nothing they could do but just wait.
16. People were just sleeping all over the place.
19. These pictures were taken by crew members and posted in a cruise workers Facebook group.
23. While all of this was going on, the crew was doing everything they could.
24. Some people were emergency airlifted off the boat. This video shows how scary the ocean was.
25. "We need off this ship!"
Still on #vikingsky more than 15 hours after the initial mayday call! We need off this ship!
27. Eventually, the winds subsided and the boat was able to be pulled into port by tugboats.
28. The good people of the Norwegian Red Cross were waiting for them: "Many need a hand to hold, a shoulder to lean on, someone to talk to."
30. Especially this man in his robe.
31. And just in case you're wondering, here's why people went on that cruise in the first place.


text:
Joint Commission ranks 620 hospitals as top performers on quality measures
Maureen McKinney
In a news conference announcing the Joint Commission's latest list of top performers in quality and safety, President Dr. Mark Chassin contrasted his organization's list with others that assign individual quality ratings or letter grades to hospitals.
Chassin called such efforts "misguided" because, he argued, hospitals' performance in one area has not been shown to correlate with performance in another. "Hospitals are good at some things and not others," he said.
The Joint Commission recognized 620 hospitals (PDF) as top performers, up 53% from 405 hospitals last year. The designation is based on hospitals' performance during 2011 across 45 accountability measures in areas such as pneumonia care, heart-failure care and inpatient psychiatric services.
To make the list, hospitals had to receive a composite score of 95% or above on all of the accountability measures it reported to the Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based organization. Additionally, top-performing hospitals needed to meet or exceed the 95% performance mark on each of the accountability measures they reported.
"A 95% score means a hospital provided an evidence-based practice 95 times out of 100 opportunities to provide the practice," the Joint Commission said in its annual report on quality and safety. "Each accountability measure represents an evidence-based practice—for example, giving aspirin at arrival for heart-attack patients, giving antibiotics one hour before surgery and providing a home management plan for children with asthma."
Approximately 18% of the 3,300 hospitals that submit data to the Joint Commission achieved the top-performer designation for performance in 2011, the Joint Commission said in the report. And 244 hospitals made the list both last year and this year. Another 583 hospitals fell short of the 95% threshold on just one measure, the organization said.
"These hospitals are leading the way in quality improvement, as American hospitals continue to make strides," Chassin said in the report.
Overall performance on accountability measures has improved since 2002, when the organization began collecting such data, the Joint Commission said. For instance, performance on a heart-attack-care composite measure has increased to 98.5% in 2011, up from 88.6% in 2002. And performance on a composite measure of pneumonia care is 96.2% for 2011, up from 72.4% in 2002.
As it did last year, the report sparked questions about notable hospitals, such as the Cleveland (Ohio) Clinic and Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, that were missing from the top-performers list. Chassin says their absence may be due to quality reporting burdens and other obstacles faced by large academic medical centers.
"I think we'll see more academic medical centers stepping up to the plate," he said. "I would hope and expect that we would see some of them on the list next year."


It also features a series of stained glass windows that are considered the largest in the world.
The games feature a series of levels based in Atlantis.
It features a regular weekly series of modified and late model stock car racing.
The game featured a series of nine levels, each divided into five sections.
His career thereafter featured a series of multiple victory claims.
What you wind up with is a graph featuring a series of peaks and valleys.
The building features a series of paired windows on both the classroom and gym sections.
It features a series of silent film clips showing people not being active.
In 2010 the trip will featured a series of New York schools.
A breakdown is an instrumental form that features a series of breaks, each played by a different instrument.


text:
Q: Failed to process JAR [jar:jndi:/localhost/ttsvr/WEB-INF/lib/activation.jar!/null] for TLD files I'm deploying a ToolTwist application to a production server using FIP, and get the following error in catalina.out when I start the server.

INFO: Deploying web application directory ttsvr 06/07/2012 3:51:02 PM
  org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig tldScanJar
  WARNING: Failed to process JAR [jar:jndi:/localhost/ttsvr/WEB-INF/lib/activation.jar!/null] for TLD files
  java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
          at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
          at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(File.java:1704)
          at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1792)
          at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1828)
          at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.URLJarFile$1.run(URLJarFile.java:204)
          at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
          ...

It's a warning rather than an error, and the application seems to run fine, but it displays the full stack trace on every jar file and puts 3,700 lines in the log file.
The jar files do exists, and have the correct file permissions. I've tried deleting jar files, checked server.xml and web.xml. The application has run before on other servers.
I'm using Tomcat 7.0.12, java 1.7, and ToolTwist V8.

A: This error can occur if the tomcat/temp directory goes missing.
I'm not sure how you're copying the files to your production server, but possibly it's not creating empty directories.

A: Answer was really helpful. Silly error but yea adding temp directory inside tomcat resolved the issue

A: I have tried unzipping the jar file that was reported in the logs and unzipping processes showed me that a certain file within the jar was corrupted. Fixing corrupted file solved all other issues.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
SnookBall – A Sport That Lets You Play Billiards with Your Feet
By Sumitra onNovember 3rd, 2014 Category: News
SnookBall is a combination of snooker and football – it's crazy fun because you actually get to kick the balls into pockets instead of using a cue stick. The sport is played on a giant billiards table that multiple players can walk on. All the rules are the same as snooker, except that you use your feet instead of a cue and the balls are replaced by footballs.
The wacky sport is the brainchild of a couple of French entrepreneurs – Aurélien and Samuel – who are well known for their weird ideas. It is generally a two player game, but the table can accommodate up to four players. All the footballs retain the look of standard billiards balls, but are obviously larger and lighter. The white striker ball is slightly heavier than the rest, just to make the game more interesting.
Goanna Pulling – Playing Tug of War with Your Neck
By Spooky onFebruary 4th, 2014 Category: Events
If you're as ignorant as I am, you're probably scratching your head and asking yourself "what the heck is a goanna?" It's a lizard species, but don't worry, no animals are hurt in the unusual sport known as goanna pulling.
Goanna Pulling is basically tug of war with a bizarre twist – instead of their hands, competitors must use their heads to pull each other over the line and win the game. The rules are pretty simple: two people go (literally) head to head on the goanna pulling pad. They get down on all four, with their bellies touching the board and their heads held high. This position makes participants look a lot like goanna lizards, hence the name of the game, in case you were wondering. The two opponents each place their palms behind a white line traced on the board, and a referee puts a large leather belt around their heads. As soon as he give the signal, the two contestants must use their upper body strength -their neck muscles especially – to pull the other guy past the line and win the game.
Blo-Ball – Air Hockey Played with Your Mouth
By Sumitra onMarch 5th, 2012 Category: Funny, Videos
What could make a game like ping pong more interesting? Abandon the paddles and blow the ball across, of course! And that's exactly what Blo-Ball is all about. The game is a mix of air hockey and ping pong, with players crouching on either side of a six-foot long table. In a bizarre display of lung-power, they take turns in blowing the ball across to their opponents. Rails on either side of the table keep the ball from falling off ever-so-often, and the height is adjustable to accommodate player heights. It can be played singles or doubles, and the first sider to blow 11 points, is the winner. As fun as the game sounds, it does seem incredibly tiring.
Ultimate Tazer Ball – The Sport That Lets You Taze Your Opponents
By Sumitra onFebruary 22nd, 2012 Category: Events, News
If you've read or watched the Harry Potter series, you'd know that Quidditch has Bludgers that are hurled at opponents to make them lose control of the ball. While this could be fatal in real life, no one's ever thought much of it since it's only make-believe. But what if there really was a sport where players were armed with weapons to cause serious injuries to their opponents? That, my friends, is exactly what Ultimate Tazer Ball is all about. The weird sport actually allows players to use stun guns on members of the opposing team.
I watched a few short videos of the sport being played, and in my opinion, there's nothing fascinating about it beyond the use of the stun guns. The ball used by the players is actually pretty huge, like a beachball, which makes it look like grown men running behind a kid's toy and trying to stun each other in the process. Menacing expressions are adopted, which I'm guessing is to provide the audience with some entertainment while in reality, nothing much is going on. But again, that's just my opinion, so let me tell you the rules of the game, and then I'll let you be the judge.
Groin Ball – Fun to Watch, Painful to Play
By Sumitra onDecember 21st, 2011 Category: Funny, Videos
Groin Ball is a crazy game that supposedly originated in Japan, is played by men, and obviously involves the hitting of testicles.
Curious to know how the game is played? Well, we'll tell you. Two teams involved in a game of Groin Ball each consist of two players – a ball thrower and a target player. The target players of each team face each other, holding on to the other's shoulders. Their feet need to be shoulder-width apart, all through the game. A supply of tennis balls is provided to each of the throwers, who have to hurl them between the legs of the target players, aiming of course, at the groin. The balls hit the ground and then bounce up to smash into the groin of the opposing target player.
Doglegs – Japanese Pro-Wrestling for the Disabled
By Sumitra onDecember 16th, 2011 Category: Events, Videos
Physical disabilities have never stopped the resilient from pursuing their passion for sports. And wrestlers are not to be left behind. The Doglegs wrestling group founded in Japan gives the disabled an opportunity to fight, although it has been called a 'freak show' by some critics.
Unlike other sports for the disabled, Doglegs seems more oriented towards the entertainment value provided to audiences, rather than an actual skill or sportsmanship. Co-founder Yukinori Kitajima says that anyone can become a wrestler, provided they interest the spectators. For this, a special individuality is required out of each of them. ET, for instance, one of the popular wrestlers of the group, makes a scary face, which is his special attack. He suffers from cerebral palsy. The names adopted by the members of Doglegs are just as entertaining as their antics. Hard Rock, No Sympathy and Welfare Power are just a few of the wrestler's names. No Sympathy, perhaps being the most apt of them all, since the fights are brutally real. It's quite common that the wrestlers suffer injuries, spilling blood, splitting their eye, and more. Read More »
Bossaball – Volleyball Meets Football on a Trampoline
By Sumitra onDecember 16th, 2011 Category: Events, Pics
There is no dearth of bizarre sports in this world, new ones are probably being invented everyday. One of the latest additions to the series is Bossaball. Sounds like baseball? Well, it's nothing like that. Bossaball is in fact, a cross between volleyball, football and Brazilian capoeira, and it's played on a trampoline.
Bossaball is a sport fast gaining popularity on the beaches of Andalusia. The concept of the game was first developed between 2002 and 2004, by Filip Eyckmans, a Belgian living in Andalusia. It was first introduced in Belgium and then Netherlands, before it was brought to Spain. Bossaball consists of two teams of three to five people, who toss the ball across a net, similar to volleyball. However, the players are all on trampolines. This lets them jump at least 12 ft into the air, allowing them better access to spike the ball. The ball can be touched with any part of the body. You can even double-touch a ball with your hands or your head. Only one player of a team is allowed on the trampoline at once. The others play on the ground.
Hockern – Germany Reinvents Sitting as an Extreme Sport
By Sumitra onDecember 14th, 2011 Category: Pics
Hockern is a game from Germany that can be classified under bizarre sports. Bizarre, because it involves a lot of things at once – sitting, dancing, spinning, and it's hard to tell what it is exactly.
A typical Hockern player would do something like this: sit on a specially designed stool called the Sporthocker, twirl it in the air, do a handstand, and then swiftly sit on it once again. The game was introduced three years ago by a couple of young German entrepreneurs who head the company Salzig Sporthocker. Of course, there are rules to this seemingly haphazard sport. No move is actually considered a move, unless it ends with the player sitting down on the stool. So basically, its a lot of gymnastics at the end of which the gymnast sits down. Some of the common moves from players include spinning the stool on the floor and then balancing on it, tossing it in the air and quickly sitting on it where ever it lands, or simply having a friend slide the stool over to you across the floor and sitting on it as soon as it reaches you.
You Think Football Is Too Easy? Try Footdoubleball
By Spooky onOctober 13th, 2011 Category: Funny, Videos
Invented by a group of Ukrainian students who apparently thought regular football wasn't exciting enough, footdoubleball is a wacky sport played with two balls of different color, at the same time.
Footdoubleball isn't exactly new, since it was first played in 2007, but it's definitely new to many people in western European countries, and especially North America, where regular football (soccer) isn't as popular as in other parts of the world. Most of the rules that apply in a game of football are also obeyed in footdoubleball, but there are certain alterations and additions supposed to make the game "more dynamic and dramatic". The most notable difference between the two sports is that footdoubleball is played with two balls (of different color) at the same time. At the start of the match each team is awarded one of the balls, and goalkeepers have to kick off the game from the corners of the keeper's area. That's when it starts getting really confusing. Each team tries to attack with one ball and defend its goal from the other team at the same time. If one team manages to steal the ball from the other team it can attack with both, and goalkeepers often find themselves in situations where they have to parry two strikes at the same time.
Chessboxing – The Thinking Person's Contact Sport
By Spooky onJune 14th, 2011 Category: Funny, Videos
Chessboxing is a very unique sport that consists of alternating rounds of boxing and chess, allowing players to win either by knockout or check mate.
You probably think it's a joke, but those who actually practice chessboxing take it very seriously. In order to be a world class chess-boxer, one must have extensive boxing experience and be at least a Class A strength chess player. The basic idea in chessboxing is to combine the top combat sport with the number one thinking sport into a hybrid that requires competitors to give it their best both physically and mentally.
The history of chessboxing can be traced back to 1992, when French cartoonist Enki Bilal created The Nikopol Trilogy, a comic book that depicted a futuristic world where men boxed on a chessboard floor. The concept inspired Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh to create chessboxing and organize the first world championship, in 2003. Since then, the sport he been constantly gaining popularity and new members from all walks of life join every year.
Cycle Ball – When Cycling Met Football
By Spooky onFebruary 10th, 2011 Category: Funny, Videos
Cycle Ball is a niche sport that combines football and cycling in a unique way. It's been around for over a century, but it's still regarded as an unusual sport, especially in America.
Also known as "radball", Cycle Ball was invented in 1893, by a German-American named Nicholas Edward Kaufmann, and steadily gained popularity around Europe. The first Cycle Ball championship was held in 1929, and the sport even reached far lands like Japan, but it never really caught on in the US. You'd think Yanks don't fancy weird sports played on a bike, but how do you explain the increasing popularity of Bike Polo, or Unicycle Basketball?
Cycle Ball is played by two teams made up of two players riding around a basketball field and trying to shoot a ball through their opponents' goal, using their heads, or the front wheels of the bikes. It may sound strange, but it's a pretty simple and fun game to play. A match consists of two seven-minute halves, in which players must keep their feet off the ground to avoid a free-kick, and try to score more goals than their adversaries. While defending the goal, one of the players is allowed to use hands, but you'd be surprised how hard the ball is usually struck in one of these games, so using hands doesn't help much if the ball is well directed.
Headis – Table Tennis Played with the Head
By Spooky onSeptember 20th, 2010 Category: Events, Pics
A hybrid of football and table tennis, headis is a fun, easy-to-play sport that's becoming more and more popular with each passing day.
As you probably already guessed, headis is pretty similar to table tennis, only you have to hit the ball with your head. All you need to play headis is a regular tennis table and a special rubber ball with special bouncing properties, and that is probably the main reason why the sport is played by more people every day.
Headis was invented in 2006, by René Wegner, a sports science student at the University of Saarbruecker, in Germany. Because the football field was occupied, Wegner started hitting a football back and forth on a tennis table, with a fellow student. That's when he got the idea for a new sport that soon spread throughout Germany.
While it may seem very similar to table tennis, headis is actually more comparable to badminton. Since players have to get behind and underneath the ball, they workout all parts of the body, at all times.
Russia's Big Stone River - A Little Known Natural Wonder


Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Monetary economics, Macro-finance.
I am a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College. I gained my PhD in economics from the European University Institute in Florence and have worked as a consultant for the Bank of England and as a professor at the University of Warwick. My specialisation is macroeconomics; my main research interest is in economic policy. I am involved in editing several economics journals.


Bonnie Martin gently handles Missouri Foxtrotter Lita at her farm.
The way Barnesville's Bonnie Martin teaches horsemanship is, "more a philosophy than a technique," she says.
Watching Martin and her apprentice Kacie Eicholtz, putting a couple of relaxed but alert mares through their paces, it's easy to believe her version of natural horsemanship does work. The horses are Missouri Foxtrotters, a gaited breed similar to Tennessee Walkers. Eicholtz's ride was so smooth the Gordon State College student's head did not bounce up and down at all but stayed level.
So interesting. I love to see animals being treated with gentleness and respect. I have seen the "robot horses" she describes at places that rent them by the hour to anyone who has the cash. It ruins them for life. Her methods are inspiring.


Our highly respected private client team has a wealth of technical expertise in creating private trust companies, or PTCs for short. Our personal approach inspires confidence, our clients trust us to protect and nurture their wealth.
We are seeing a growing trend in the use of private trust company structures by clients and their advisers who are seeking to maintain flexibility and mitigate against loss of control.
Growth has been evidenced within Hawksford with a number of new private trust company structures being established over the past two years and several enquiries relating to the migration of structures from British Virgin Islands (BVI) or Cayman Islands to Jersey.
Hawksford was recently approached by an adviser acting on behalf of a Middle Eastern family who had an existing fiduciary structure administered through the BVI. The structure held assets, including real estate, land, investment portfolios and works of art.
A Private Trust Company is a privately owned company incorporated specifically to act as trustee of one or more family trusts. Like any other company, a private trust company is run by its board of directors, who will be charged to make trustee decisions.
Whilst run by the board of directors, private trust companies (and the underlying trusts for which they act as trustee) are usually administered by a professional trustee who is experienced in carrying out trust and corporate administration but with the added benefit of maintaining flexibility and mitigating against loss of control.
The board of directors of the private trust company generally include family members who can ensure that the wishes of the founder of the trust (often the patriarch and/or matriarch of the family) are given proper consideration and to enable them to become familiar with, and participate in, decisions affecting the family assets.
These assets may include the family business interests and the private trust company can be used to provide the next generation with training and instruction for their future role in the business. In circumstances where it is impractical or undesirable for family members to be in direct control of the private trust company, trusted advisers of the settlor can be appointed to the board. In most cases, at least one member of the management team of the Jersey regulated company providing the administration services would also be a director of the private trust company.
An often overlooked but important benefit of a private trust company is the ability of the private trust company to react quickly to changing circumstances. This is particularly relevant where a family trust owns the shares of an active trading company. Decisions often need to be taken quickly and the board of a private trust company will often be more familiar with the transactions of the underlying company than a corporate trustee, and therefore more capable of reacting quickly to changing circumstances.


text:
Certified Hypnotherapist
Corbally, Limerick
About Clem
Chocolate Addiction
Contact Clem
Celtic Hypnosis
Ready To Take Back Control?
Hi. I'm Clem Kelleher, a hypnotherapist based in Limerick and a certified member of the National Guild of Hypnotists.
What makes Celtic Hypnosis different?
Others talk about it, but we'll show you.
Clem has been helping people for over a decade to overcome problems such as anxiety, panic attacks, depression, stop smoking, phobias, eating disorders, self-esteem, concentration, study and learning difficulties and confidence issues.
How Celtic Hypnosis Can Help
Clem Kelleher is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Psychologist based in Limerick City. He is a certified member of the National Guild of Hypnotists, he has an MSc. in Psychology from the University of Derby, UK, and an MSc. in Strategic Quality Management from the University of Limerick.
Hypnotherapy Testimonials
Hypnotherapy Treatments
About Clem Kelleher
Hypnotherapy FAQs
clem@celtichypnosis.com
© Celtic Hypnosis 2023
Website by Design Locker
We use cookies to improve your online experience & analyse how our site is performing.


text:
Anderlecht – Bayern Munich
Anderlecht hosts Bayern Munich in a match from Group B of the UEFA Champions League.
Anderlecht are the obvious underdog in this group. The Belgian champion didn't win a single point in its matches so far, suffering four defeats so far. The most terrible thing is that Anderlecht didn't score a single goal in the competition so far. Their goal difference from the first four rounds is 0:15, which is really a terrible achievement.
Now they will have another tough test against Bayern Munich.
Bayern are currently second in the group with 9 points won, trailing on 3 points behind the leader PSG. Bayern still have some chances for the first place in the group, but for that they are going to need some help from Celtic, too. They also have a direct clash against PSG in the last round of the group stage.
Bayern Munich are improving constantly since Carlo Ancelotti was sacked and replaced by the club legend Jupp Heynckes. Heynckes is doing a great job so far, using his rich experience for stabilizing the club. Since his appointment at the Allianz Arena, Bayern is winning all of the time – not just in Germany, but in Europe as well. Despite some problems they had in the beginning of the season, the Bavarians remain a huge favourite for winning the trophy. Especially with the last manager who led them to the cup in 2013.
It's hard to think that Anderlecht can match with Bayern's power. After all, we are talking about a club who can't even a score a goal in the competition this season. We expect to see Bayern back at their best, because the process there is good at the moment. As for Anderlecht, they still have two chances left to play for their name and reputation.
Borussia M'gladbach – Borussia Dortmund
Tottenham Hotspur – Brentford
Napoli hosts Real Sociedad
Napoli – Roma
Deportivo Alaves – Valencia
©Copyright Today Bets
This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience and adapted services of your interest. Find out more and how to opt out in our Privacy and Cookie Policy.Accept


Trying to start a health kick can lead to mixed emotions. You may be chasing a healthier, better you for physical and mental reasons, or it may even be for aesthetic reasons. However, you might be then suddenly be hit with the "life is too short, I'll start again tomorrow" mindset.
Easter is the perfect time to snap out of that mindset. Consider a health-boosting retreat. Not only will this help to improve your fitness; you will also find that you have a new, much improved, healthy relationship with food. With summer around the corner, you can have yourself looking and feeling better than ever, making for the perfect holiday snaps as well as the best memories.
The food we eat has more of an impact on our brain than we may realise. No single food acts as a proven antidepressant. A share-sized bar of chocolate and a packet of crisps may give us instant gratification, but maintaining stable blood sugar via regular nutrition will help us to feel better most days.
Vitamin- and mineral-rich food, such as fruits, legumes, fresh fish, nuts and vegetables have been linked with a lower risk of depression. Additionally, a healthy and proper diet helps to improve our overall general wellbeing. This is often through increased energy, an improved sleep pattern and more stable moods.
Of course, a healthy diet is important, but so is a balanced diet. It's important to realise that treats are perfectly acceptable in moderation. With supermarket shelves brimming with chocolate eggs and Easter bunnies, use this opportunity to let go of guilt around food and it will make for a much better mindset. Feel confident that your body can handle the occasional Easter treat, and you deserve to enjoy it.
With the last point in mind, also take Easter as an opportunity to stop using exercise as a punishment for what you've eaten, but instead more of a celebration of what your body is capable of.
It's important to be mindful of what you eat, but don't punish yourself with a run, hating every second, just because you indulged in an Easter egg. If you do wish to counterbalance the extra calorie intake, do it in a way that you enjoy.
With summer approaching, the blue skies and gentle breeze of spring make the perfect opportunity for a gentle stroll. Depending on size, an Easter egg can take an hour or so of walking to burn off.
If you do wish to escape from the temptation of those delicious Easter bunnies, hot cross buns and lamb roasts, consider a Portugal health retreat. Portugal, Spain and other countries in the Mediterranean offer pleasantly warm temperatures during Easter time, making it easier for you to find an enchanting destination for a late spring health retreat.
With summer around the corner, now is the ideal time to boost your health in time for those long-awaited holidays as well as other plans you may have. A healthy lifestyle can lead to a healthy mind and a much-improved way of living.


shabby chic bird cage shabby chic collection metal treasure embellishments bird cages shabby chic birdcage wallpaper.
shabby chic bird cage shabby chic daybed shabby chic daybed shelf bird cage tiny tree love it all shabby chic daybed shabby chic bird cage lamp.
shabby chic bird cage incredible and distressed shabby chic bird cage candle holder or home decor shabby chic birdcage planter.
shabby chic bird cage bird cage 1 shabby chic bird cage ideas.
shabby chic bird cage vintage french shabby chic birdcage shabby chic birdcage wallpaper.
shabby chic bird cage shabby chic bird cage studio cutout stock photo shabby chic birdcage the range.
shabby chic bird cage shabby chic birdcage planter.
shabby chic bird cage day personalised wedding invitations or evening vintage shabby chic birdcage coral vintage personalised shabby chic birdcage wallpaper.
shabby chic bird cage a shabby chic bird cage with candles and moss inside and a bold floral arrangement on top shabby chic bird cage lamp.
shabby chic bird cage event prop hire medium white shabby chic birdcage shabby chic bird cages for sale.
shabby chic bird cage ornate wire bird cages shabby chic bird cage ideas.
shabby chic bird cage shabby chic bird cage note rack ideas shabby chic bird cage stand.
shabby chic bird cage vintage wallpaper diamond bird cage shabby chic bird cage stand.
shabby chic bird cage birdcage card holder wedding card holders unique birdcage card holder shabby chic birdcage wedding gift box shabby chic birdcage planter.
shabby chic bird cage distressed metal wooden bird cage light blues colors shabby chic home decor shabby chic bird cage stand.
shabby chic bird cage sumptuous design wedding bird cage decoration ideas wedding shabby chic bird cage lamp.
shabby chic bird cage shabby chic birdcage by belle shop shabby chic bird cage lamp.
shabby chic bird cage bird cages be for birds use an antique cage for floral arrangements or candles shabby chic bird cages pinterest.
shabby chic bird cage shabby chic bird cage planter shabby chic bird cage ideas.
shabby chic bird cage ivory shabby chic bird cage reception decoration shabby chic bird cages for sale.
shabby chic bird cage a shabby chic bird cage with lush white and blush shabby chic bird cage lamp.
shabby chic bird cage shabby chic hanging bird cage birdcage for decoration shabby chic bird cages for sale.
shabby chic bird cage shabby chic bird cage hanging decoration decorative vintage wicker cages for sale shabby chic bird cage shabby chic bird cages pinterest.
shabby chic bird cage birdcage shabby chic 1 shabby chic birdcage wallpaper.
shabby chic bird cage closed how to decorate a shabby chic birdcage shabby chic bird cages for sale.
shabby chic bird cage shabby chic birdcage google search shabby chic bird cage stand.


Bose RoomMatch Utility loudspeakers bring the award-winning sound quality of RoomMatch arrays to smaller 2-way point-source designs. By using the same Bose EMB2 compression driver for consistent mid/high sonic character.
RoomMatch Utility loudspeakers are intended for high-quality foreground music, under-balcony, zone-fill and vocal-range floor monitor applications. All models feature high-quality plywood construction suitable for the highest aesthetic requirements. They will install easily with either horizontal or vertical mounting.
Bose Professional MB subwoofers are designed to provide low-frequency extension to Bose mid/high and full-range point-source loudspeakers.
If you are looking to buy or have installed the Bose Point Source Sound Reinforcement loudspeakers as part of your professional audio installation, then please get in touch with Old Barn Audio. Either call on 01892 752246, email us or please fill in the Enquiry Form.


We all know that twin head cows are treated as auspicious and lucky from the ancient times but it is extremely very rare to see the twin head cow. In same way twin head conch has same powers of twin head cow. It is extremely very very rare to see the twin conch. Picture which i have shown is extremely very very rarest auspicious and lucky twin head conch collection from indian ocean. By daily doing pujas with this twin head out place will have very good flow of high level positive energy and no any black magic or evil eyes will effect us and our life will full of happiness with very good health and wealth.


SXSW Eco + AJ+ Video: Could This Device Bring Clean Water to Everyone?
Home » SXSW News Feed » SXSW Eco + AJ+ Video: Could This Device Bring Clean Water to Everyone?
SXSW Eco has partnered with AJ+ to create short editorial videos highlighting some of the incredible participants you can find at SXSW Eco 2015. Watch this video on an incredible open sourced project by Elequa, who will be presenting their ideas this October at SXSW Eco.


text:
Ru 7th
HOSEA JAFFE PDF
A History of Africa (African History Archive) [Hosea Jaffe] on *FREE * shipping on qualifying offers. Spanning more than two thousand years of. Spanning more than two thousand years of African history, from the African Iron Age to the collapse of colonialism and the beginnings of independence, Hosea. Editorial Reviews. Review. `[Jaffe's] views are indeed stimulating and should reopen a A History of Africa (African History Archive) – Kindle edition by Hosea Jaffe. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.
Author: Fenrisida Nijin
Uploader: JoJoll
This document supplements the material we published in Revolutionary History Vol. It fills gaps in our knowledge of one of the important movements in South Africa, and jzffe it illustrates vividly the importance of collecting systematically the recollections and experiences of participants in struggles and making them available to future generations of workers and scholars.
Hsoea the near future we will be adding a further collection of documents from the history of Trotskyism in South Africa to this site, which space did not permit us jaffd publish in the journal. In response to this and as one who had been directly and actively involved in the organisation from toI hope to shed some light on the movement which I believe made a significant imprint on the liberation struggle.
This article will attempt to trace its origins within the context of both national and international developments at the time and assess the parts played by some of those active in it. I take as my starting point the year with Nazi Germany on the retreat following the decisive battle of Stalingrad.
The Smuts regime now hoseaa confident enough to abandon the placatory stance towards the non-Whites that it was driven to earlier: The Coloured Advisory Council, it was stated, was to be merely what its name implied namely to advise the government of the legitimate needs of the Coloured people.
But the era of collaboration had passed. No longer were hossea people prepared to have their destinies decided by the government stooges who were appointed to serve on the council.
From that meeting was born the Anti-Coloured Affairs Council, which later became the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department hosfa Anti-CAD, when the diagnosis advanced by the sponsors of the conference could iaffe longer be denied by the government. Probably for the first time it gave the continent of Africa an organisation with a clear political programme. The ten-point programme encapsulated the minimum demands for participation in a democratic society.
It included among others: The full franchise, free education to the age of 16, freedom of speech, press, movement, the right to own land with a new division of the land as a first requisite of a new democratic parliamentpenal reform and hksea rights of workers to organise themselves.
All those who accepted those minimum demands without reservation could become part of the NEUM. Non-collaboration — the refusal to participate in or work the instruments of their own oppression, became a cardinal feature of the movement. This principle of non-collaboration distinguished it from what had gone before: Coupled with this there was the weapon of the boycott.
The tacit belief of the leadership of the NEUM was that the way towards Socialism lay via the national movement. What infuriated a voluble section of those who regarded themselves as Hosew, was that the NEUM leadership never publicly jzffe these views.
It drew forth fierce hoses from members of the Forum Club, a Trotskyist political forum in Cape Town. The leadership of the NEUM were convinced that in their organisational structure they had found the secret weapon that would unite the oppressed and in time draw into it support from the Whites, thus creating the foundations of a decent democratic society for all regardless of so-called race, colour and creed.
The structure was considered to be invulnerable to the attacks of the state machine. In brief the pamphlet put forward a novel view of setting about the task of organising the masses. The Building of Unity propounded the view that the mass of the people was already organised in a multitude of organisations. All that needed to be done, therefore, was for those organisations to be politicised, accept the ten-point programme and become part of the movement.
Membership lay only through joining one of the affiliated organisations.
Hosea Jaffe (Author of A History of Africa)
Membership on an individual basis javfe disallowed since it was regarded as an attempt to by-pass involvement in the politicisation of the rank and ajffe. Thus it was believed that it would be impossible for the state to ban the movement because of its diverse composition. The reasoning was almost poetic in its conception.
The inescapable stumbling block to unity lay in the divisions among the non-White communities. This had been achieved over the generations by a policy of divide and rule through which the rulers had created almost hosda schisms among the population groups. The major section, the Africans, was still subject to tribal separateness, and ancient hates were kept alive despite the efforts of the Congress movement, established in and the All African Convention, established in the mid-thirties, to strive to break down the barriers.
The Coloureds were jatfe bought off by allowing them limited voting rights, and freedom from the kind hisea legislation that bound the Africans such as the pass laws, and the right hlsea buy and sell property as well as giving the Coloured pupil more than double the amount of money in the educational system as compared with the African child.
To keep the Coloureds in the White kitchen they were reminded that they had white blood that flowed in their veins. The Indians on the other hand were enjoined not to associate with the other two groups as they, the Indians, came from a civilisation stretching back for a thousand years, etc.
To combat these divisions among the population groups the NEUM instituted the federal structure consisting of Three Pillars aimed at eventually uniting the three groups: The hope was that when the ideas of unity became generally accepted, the Three Pillars would wither away and there would be only the Unity movement.
This was the situation when I formally entered the movement in It had ousted the softly, softly approach to social control issues of Haffe United Party of General Smuts. The clarion call of Apartheid by the Malanites found the majority of the White population rapturously responsive. The stage was set for a direct and systematic assault on the last remaining rights of the non-Whites. The NEUM responded with the weapon of the boycott. The New Era Fellowship was the organisation where we began to learn our politics – learnt the nature of Capitalist Imperialism; how the media misrepresented the socialist world by labelling it as Russian Imperialism; why the ruling class hoseea henceforth called the Herrenvolk — used Apartheid as a form of social control; why it was that sometimes it was possible to succeed when one challenged the government through the legal system, showing how the rule of law operated in South Africa.
An attempt was even made to run study groups to teach the basics of Marxism, but which was discontinued for fear of hoosea infiltration by the security police. The early fifties was a period of enormous intellectual ferment. Pieterse co-wrote about the French Revolution. To us jafce the best brains among the Whites accepted the ideas of maffe NEUM, a substantial number of the White group would indubitably follow and a South African nation would emerge purged of the evils of race, colour and creed.
The naffe split in the movement began to show as early aswhen I. We were told that the NEF was too advanced for young Africans. Its establishment was done secretively without the participation or knowledge of the rest of the movement. Goolam Gool and his sister Jane supported Tabata. Bosea needed a more elementary grounding in the ideas of the movement. We could hardly refuse the request despite a suspicion that Tabata wished to create his own power base. Mr Tabata declared the analysis static and undialectical.
The two foremost ideologues in the movement were locking horns. My differences are not personal, they are political! The words sent a chill through all those present at the meeting.
BT137 600E DATASHEET PDF
Oral history interview with Hosea Jaffe [Part 1 of 3] | UCT Libraries Digital Collections
Things in the movement would never be the same again. The rift soon became a chasm and people who before had been friends now became enemies; meetings were disrupted, once leading to the shameful situation where the police were summoned to eject SOYANS from a meeting called by the Local Co-ordinating Unity Committee at the Banqueting Hall in Ohsea Town for fear that there might be physical violence.
This background of the situation is important so that one can get a clearer understanding of the role of the person whom the Tabata faction regarded as the arch-villain namely Hosea Jaffe. Jaffeism was the choice invective hurled by the disciples of Mr Tabata.
Jaffe declined to follow suit and made the NEF his kindergarten. His views were definitive on all questions; his pronouncements became part of Movement lore. I recall some of the more striking ones to reveal their nature and range. Not all have stood the test of time.
As evidence he cited the fact that during the Nazi invasion of the USSR they were obliged to make use of the collective jafve organisation, which was historically irreversible. One could skip the bourgeois stage and go straight to socialism. It was fallacious to speak of multi-racialism, which was a contradiction in terms. All these categories are artificial. From the time Jaffe expressed this in it became customary to speak of so-called Coloureds, so-called Africans, etc. Very soon it became the established form in the broad liberation movement, and reached its apotheosis in the late eighties when even De Klerk was compelled to accept non-racialism as the prescription for a future South Africa.
It was classic economic reductionism. Thus for example the reason for the Spanish dancing hosfa a very small space was attributed to the restricted land area of the Iberian peninsula.
Even staunch Jaffeists found this hard to swallow, but no-one openly contested this notion. Human society was part of nature. Society consisted of social classes between which there were irreconcilable differences. Collaboration thus was a breach of natural law.
Non-collaboration, thus was an irrefutable principle. But attitudes of kindness, fair play, loyalty, honesty, etc could not by definition be principles, and were simply sentimental notions.
Tabata now hoaea sway in the All African Convention.
Oral history interview with Hosea Jaffe [Part 1 of 3]
Point seven in the ten point programme became a major source of conflict. It stood for the right to buy and sell land with the added rider that a new division of the land should be the first task of a Democratic jatfe. This was interpreted by Tabata as meaning that any redivision of the land could take place only after the achievement of democratic rights. This we jacfe as a pro-middle class step.
Jaffe cited the French revolution where the peasants had seized the manorial estates, during the uprising and thereafter were granted title deeds. Jaffe monitored the Hungarian uprising of It was characterised as anti-Socialist.
The Movement gave the Soviet intervention its complete support. Jaffe became the undisputed ideologist of the movement. There were seminars on philosophy, Imperialism and Culture to which he made significant contributions. Kies murmured occasionally but ineffectually, especially after his banning and expulsion from the teaching profession in The split with Tabata deepened. But the screws of oppression were being tightened by the Herrenvolk so that it became almost impossible to recruit new cadres into the movement.
In the Torch ceased to be published. The NEF closed shop soon afterwards. Prior to the banning of Ben Kies in Jaffe had kept his views on the three pillar federal structure of the movement relatively low-key. His first tactic was linguistic:
Most 10 Related
MAHAYANA MAHAPARINIRVANA SUTRA PDF
1000 KIKUYU PROVERBS PDF
FOOLS BY NJABULO NDEBELE PDF
MADNESS MARYA HORNBACHER PDF
BIOCONJUGATE TECHNIQUES BY GREG HERMANSON PDF
CASTROL HONILO 981 PDF
CORNELIUS CARDEW TREATISE HANDBOOK PDF
EMEX SPINOSA PDF
LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT BY VINOD SOPLE PDF
HINDU RASHTRA DARSHAN PDF
MALLACOOTA MAP PDF
EFFETI CUCINE PDF


Goodman Derrick Partner, John Wright attended a conference in Penang, Malaysia in August 2013 run by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) on the subject of "Arbitration: Tapping Asia's Growth".
The conference, which attracted over three hundred delegates, was opened by a keynote speech from the Chief Justice of Singapore, The Right Honourable Mr Sundaresh Menon. Over two days papers were delivered by a number of eminent speakers, including a session entitled "Inside Judges' Minds" moderated by a former Judge of the Court of Appeal of Malaysia and featuring presentations from four sitting Judges from various jurisdictions.
John gave a paper on Dispute Boards on which he shared the platform with Pierre Genton, a very experienced Dispute Board Member who is currently sitting on Dispute Board Panels on projects such as the Panama Canal. In making his presentation John drew on his current and recent experience sitting on a number of Dispute Boards in Africa and Central Europe. The presentations by John and Pierre brought about a lively discussion with a number of questions from the audience.
The conference closed with a black tie dinner during the course of which John, in his capacity as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the CIArb, thanked the organisers and all the attendees for what was undoubtedly a highly successful and superbly organised conference.
John has long been named as a leading construction lawyer in Chambers Directory, which has noted his "experience and considerable gravitas in major dispute resolution" and his "innate sense of good judgement".
John is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and of the Dispute Board Federation and sits as an arbitrator, adjudicator, mediator and Dispute Board Member, as well as advising construction clients on the whole range of domestic and international disputes for employers, contractors and professionals.
John also sits as an arbitrator and acts as counsel in international commercial arbitrations in such fields as commodities, banking, technology and energy.
In December 2009 he was appointed as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, being elected Chair of the Board in 2011. In 2012 he took office as Co-Chair of the International Construction Projects section of the International Bar Association.