Have a great culture and beliefs.
Great commitment in insure the sustainability of safety, health and management.
This is good company with multi national working together. Company follow their company standard and implemented well to their employee. This is one good company can refer to other professional engineer.
I started to work with Technip as a Proposal Secretary and during my first 4 years, I learnt about Engineering Services proposal coordination works, basic costing and was the focal point for Client & discipline for any proposal related matters. In 2012, I had a change of position and became a Secretary to Chief Operating Officer, Onshore Offshore Asia Pacific. It was a total new experience to me with the daily management of calendar, meetings arrangement, corporate profiles, tight business datelines and slides presentation for any upcoming Corporate meetings.
Both my experiences in Technip have made me understand how a Company operates and it makes me realize that every single contribution be it a small or big one, would give an impact to an organization.
The challenge i faced during my time in Technip was the short and tight dateline be it in a Proposal section or the COO's office and everything was going ahead in a very fast manner.
Productive and fun place with billard table.
Work was enjoyable as the atmosphere created was family. There was always updates on the IT for the latest issues. Management was very open and opportunities were given to improve oneself.
Promoted to positions of increased responsibility given strong people and project management skills.
Dynamic and motivated professional with a proven record obuilding relationships, managing events project. Adaptable and transformational personal with an ability to work independently, creating effective presentations, and developing opportunities that further establish organizational goals.
1. Workplace are good and the Company applied for flexible working hours.
2. Medical benefits are superb and dependents are also within coverage.
3. During the critical / stressful time, the colleague are working together and works as a team in order to achieve the target.
4. Be part / involved in department Team Building.
5. Been Expose / learn to a new thing as education of daily basis job needed.
TechnipFMC is a big company in industry oil and gas.I am working in TechnipFMC since 2012 and now still present. Have many employees with a good experience in oil and gas.
- Gain knowledge as client.
- gain communication among all colleagues.
Productive and fun workplace with ping pong table and provide weekly badminton training on outside company.
- Productive and fun workplace with ping pong table and provide weekly badminton training on outside company.
- Multi task job, have a chance to improve our skills individual and knowledge's.
It is a good place to work and build up expertise and good in career growth for Oil&Gas Engineering consultant expert.
Workplace is very good and conducive.
my first workplace after i finished my study. develop my knowledge in manufacturing. strict rule that made me to be more disciplined. improve my experience in conducting machines.
During my employment with Technip is a great opportunity for me specially that I am working with a very challenging project as a Senior Electrical Designer. The working environment is very comfortable although my employment is only on a contractual basis while working with a multinational project team. I was able to share my experience which is applicable to the project and able to gain additional knowledge since it's my first time to work on a Floating LNG FPSO vessel.
one of the biggest key player in world's energy industry company that believe their people are the key of the company succesful.
this company inculcate self dependent environment work culture whereby all staff should used their strong potential in order to complete the task given, quality and safety is the upmost matter consent and the management had open mind as long it within company policies .
dart, table tennis and etc is provided for staffs to enjoy and relax during non working hours. The most enjoyable part of the job is i get to learn a lot of things in Camp Management without being afraid to ask because everyone is team oriented. Challenges in this job is to constantly monitor and advise service providers/Camp Manager to complete their task within the stipulated time given. The company also provides a good healthcare for the employee.
The company had been established for a long time in Malaysia hence they have a pool of great Senior Engineers that are very helpful and willing to help the juniors. However you'll have a very small room or none at all for career advancement.
It is a good company except for long working hour which is 10 hours per day for 6 days a week. It provide a great working environment and facilities to the staff.
Due to low oil price, the company was unable to secure new projects. There have been many rounds of MSS (mandatory separation scheme). Many staff had been laid off due to redundancy. Lack of sense of belonging and job security.
Very organized company with clear vision and I have enjoyed working with Technip. Schedule driven Organization It will be best place to work if they improve work life Balance.
In essence, a transparent and open form of communication addresses the employee's need to feel that what they have to say has value. It is what makes employees feel that they belong in the organization. Work then becomes meaningful because the employees know that what they contribute affects the organization that they are affiliated with.
Recognition for Hard Work Rewards are necessary to encourage certain behaviors in persons.
Work-Life Balance There has to be some sort of balance between work and personal life.
What interview questions do they ask at TechnipFMC?
How did you feel about telling people you worked at TechnipFMC?
How does someone get hired at TechnipFMC? What are the steps along the way?
What is the TechnipFMC employee discount?


Growing up in Brazil I used to eat this cake a lot. I loved making it when I became a teenager (because it is extremely easy to make) and now I love making it for my kids. In Brazil the cake looks a lot more orange inside than making it here in the US. I don't know what changes, but I still love the taste. And the chocolate icing makes it all the better. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE American Carrot Cake, but for me, it is a totally different cake.
I am not one to disguise my veggies, I believe kids should know how they look and learn how to eat them that way. But that doesn't mean I disapprove other people doing it. Moms have to do whatever it takes to get their kids to eat veggies, and if it is hiding them in baked goods so be it. If you are looking for recipes with hidden veggies, this one is perfect for you. You will be happy to know there's a full pound of carrots in here. That's right! And there's no way kids can tell that's what is in it.
This recipe is part of a challenge I participated in a group of mom bloggers on Instagram. The challenge was to make a healthy Halloween treat that did not contain refined sugars. I used coconut sugar for the first time for this recipe and was pleasantly surprised by the results.
Preheat the oven to 400 F. Place all ingredients in the blender starting with the wet ingredients. Blend it until smooth and place it in a greased baking pan. This cake looks beautiful in bundt form. But you can use a 9x13 or cupcakes as well. Bake it for 30 mins. Time and/or temperature has to be adjusted for cupcakes. When I made these they were ready in 15-20 minutes.
Place all ingredients in a pan and stir it until it to boils for a couple of minutes. The icing will be ready when you tilt the pan and the icing separates from the bottom of the pan. Place on top of cooled cake and add sprinkles if desired.


Churchill Downs Incorporated owns and operates world-renowned horse racing venues throughout the United States. Churchill Downs' racetracks in Florida, Illinois, Kentucky and Louisiana host many of North America's most prestigious races, including the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks, Arlington Million, Princess Rooney Handicap and Louisiana Derby. Churchill Downs racetracks have hosted seven Breeders' Cup World Championships. Churchill Downs also owns off-track betting facilities and has interests in various advance-deposit wagering, television production, telecommunications and racing services companies, including a 50% interest in the national cable and satellite network HorseRacing TV(TM), that support the company's network of simulcasting and racing operations.
The company announced today that the transaction has been completed to take over management for the Pennsylvania casino.
The company announced it has completed the $407 million purchase of ownership interests of Midwest Gaming Holdings, the parent company of Rivers Casino in Illinois.
From 7 October, Sky Racing World's North American advance depositing wagering partners will offer simulcast wagering on harness racing from Australia every Sunday and Monday night.
EZmoney is an ACH transfer system used to place wagers with Churchill Downs participants. Money is transferred through ACH and held in a Churchill Downs account for use in online or telephone wagers.
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In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee goes to put a tiara around her neck and says, "I always love finding new ways to wear diamonds." Although I was only five at the time when I saw the film on TV, I felt the same way. As a young girl I became obsessed with jewelry that I could wear multiple ways. Maybe it was the trips with my grandmother to Woolworth's where I would find diamante tiaras and figure out that I could wear them as a bib. I would also find sparkly trims that I would then rig into long necklaces, double as chokers, reinvent as sashes and drape into my hair- transforming me from a shy five-year-old into a princess from a far away land.
She was right. The blue velvet that held the necklace lifted to reveal many various lengths of pins –The necklace turned into a feminine, understated tiara—I was in heaven! I found that the shorter and longer pins turn all of the florets of the necklace into individual hair combs, originally designed to be worn scattered throughout upswept hair. I was now ecstatic realizing that when there are pins, there are brooches-my favorite versatile jewel. These brooches could be attached individually or worn in groups– on a sweater or a jacket–or use the largest flower on the waistline of a dress or the plunging deep-v on the back of a gown. They also could be worn on the straps of tank tops or, for this year's big trend, in the middle of grosgrain fabric as a choker.
I was transported to the kid back at Woolworth's who couldn't wait to play dress up and the young girl singing along with "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend". But unlike Lorelei Lee, I'd wear the necklace as the tiara.


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Aouf Abdul Rahman Youssef (born 24 November 1960) is an Iraqi sprinter. He competed in the men's 200 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

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Olympic athletes of Iraq
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Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Asian Games silver medalists for Iraq
Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Asian Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Asian Games
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5 ways Nigerian developers can prepare for and secure foreign gigs
by Titilola Oludimu | Jun 14, 2018
Technology is transforming every facet of the human life including how we work. In the wake of the fourth industrial revolution,artificial intelligence (AI) is making work processes more efficient and replacing humans in the workplace.
Suggested Read: Robots and Artificial Intelligence will take your job
This was one of the topics discussed on the first panel session at Techpoint Inspired 2018 held on May 29. The panel session themed " Smart Work: The Future of Work in Nigeria" involved conversations around the changing models of work and work structures.
These changes have given rise to a work structure where temporary positions are prevalent and organisations contract freelancers for short-term engagement. This arrangement is often referred to as a gig economy.
A 2017 "Freelancing in America" study revealed that about 50% of millennial workers in America are already freelancing and this trend is already catching on in Nigeria.
Many Nigerian programmers, graphics designers and writers now work as freelancers, sourcing jobs from both local and international freelance websites. While it might be a bit easy to get local jobs, their foreign counterparts are not so easy to come by.
Speaking on securing foreign gigs as a Nigerian developer on the Smart Work panel at Techpoint Inspired, Prosper Otemuyiwa, Software Engineer and Developer Advocate, advised developers to join developer communities and contribute to open source projects.
Following up on the conversation, Techpoint reached out to Prosper and a couple of other Nigerians developers that work with foreign brands. They collectively suggested the following ways Nigerian developers can prepare for and secure foreign gigs.
Master the trade
There's no doubt that getting any programming job will require a good grasp of software development. To get a foreign gig, the first step is to hone your skills since you'd have to prove what you're capable of before a job would be given to you.
"When you have the fundamental knowledge of a language or framework, spend more time on playing with algorithms, data, structures, and building actual (side) projects," says Chris Nwamba, Software Developer and Developer Advocate popularly known as Codebeast.
It also helps to keep abreast of international standards for web and app development, and specific standards for certain countries of interest.
"Be aware of certain things, for example, it is best not to use a Nigerian hosting provider for international projects for accessibility," says Ismail Olasunkanmi, Web Developer at Dream Mesh Limited
Put yourself out there
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Getting international jobs cannot be done in isolation, you have to be visible to get job offers. Ayomide Aregbede, a freelance software developer based in Akure for example, got his first international gig after he joined a developers Slack channel back in 2015 and he has been working with international brands ever since.
In addition to joining developer groups, Prosper advises Nigerian developers to contribute to open source frameworks like Laravel and React as it will provide them the opportunity to learn and network with engineers in different parts of the world.
"The more significant your impact is on an open source software (OSS), the more developers get to know you and your abilities. So eight out of ten times, one or two developers are already having a conversation of how they would like you to join their team full time, because they have seen how knowledgeable or dedicated you are to building and maintaining software," he advises.
In addition, follow and interact with developers from all over the world on social media and attend international meetups and conferences if you can.
The most obvious way to secure a foreign job is to apply for one. Many Nigerian developers who work with foreign brands today including Prosper and Christian got their first gigs by applying.
These days, there are hundreds of online job boards like Github and Stack Overflow Jobs where software developers can get freelance jobs. These platforms will give you the opportunity to build networks who could eventually stand in as your referees for other projects.
When applying, preparing a well-designed resume that highlights your core strengths and interesting projects you worked on or led would increase your chances of being hired.
Build soft skills
Your unmatched technical skill is only a minute prerequisite for landing a foreign gig. It would be majorly determined by the soft skills you possess. Sometimes, the hiring company could be less focused on hiring someone with core technical skills and more on someone that possesses certains soft skills required to execute the job.
In more cases than not, your communication skills will be used to judge your performance at interviews because communication determines the success of a remote team.
Even after securing the project, other soft skills including discipline, self motivation, decisiveness and conflict resolution will determine success or failure.
According to Christian, this is why some organisations require you to work with them for a few weeks of probation before you are hired. "Don't get it twisted, it's easy to tell when you're faking it," he adds.
Prepare for numerous rejection emails
As you already know, nothing good comes easy. So getting to work for a foreign brand would not come easily. Your applications will be rejected numerous times and your project could be rejected as in the case of Abiodun.
"The main challenge is with the freelance platforms we work with (e.g Upwork). Many Asians (especially indians) frustrate Nigerian developers and might even reject the project in the long run," he laments.
Ayomide Aregbede on the other hand has had to forfeit numerous visa sponsorships because he's a Nigerian.
"I've had visa sponsorships and lost them the moment I mentioned being a Nigerian. The Visa application process scares them away".
In spite of the rejections, you would need to keep developing your skills by working on personal projects, contributing to open source frameworks and re-applying until you get your big break.
Titilola Oludimu
I'm always open to new experiences.

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Adam Hills signs exclusive C4 deal
...including a new series of The Last Leg
Adam Hills has signed an exclusive year-long deal to develop ideas with Channel 4.
The contract includes a new series of The Last Leg, the late night show that ran daily during Channel 4's Paralympics coverage.
Fellow comic Josh Widdecombe and sports reported Alex Brooker will return for the new season, which will air in 2013 following a Christmas special.
Entertainment commissioning editor Syeda Irtizaali said: 'We knew The Last Leg was something special and we were in no doubt we wanted to keep the show's spirit of open and frank debate alive.
'We are working on a number of great ideas that will help push the show forward from its paralympic origins into a broad, intelligent and entertaining series. I'm hugely looking forward to working again with Adam, Alex and Josh.'
Hills said: 'The Paralympics is one of my favourite events in the world. When Channel 4 offered me the chance to cover it with The Last Leg, I jumped at it. It's not often you get the chance to do something you absolutely love, that people seem to connect with.
'I thought The Last Leg was going to be an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I'm over the moon to think that we can do it all again. '
Under the deal, Channel 4 will also be showing a stand-up special of Hills live in concert recorded at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End.
Hills is a TV star in his native Australia, where he hosted the music panel show Spicks and Specks, and his own chat show In Gordon Street Tonight.
The last comic to sign a similar exclusive deal with Channel 4 was Micky Flanagan, who has piloted several shows although none have yet come to fruition. However he was a team camptain on the advertising-based panel show The Mad Bad Ad Show.
E4 signs 'first look' deal with Wall Of Comedy
Samson Kayo to play a dictator/talk show host
Sarah Keyworth to go on a Celebrity Coach Trip
Rob Beckett to host E4 social media show
Dead Pixels gets a second series
Joe Lycett turns political interviewer?
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Rhod Gilbert: The Book Of John
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Kettering Lighthouse
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Q: createERFilterNM1 - optimal settings I'm using the Scene Text Detection features of OpenCV and have some troubles finding the optimal parameters for createERFilterNM1. Here is what the doc states:

C++: Ptr createERFilterNM1(const Ptr&
  cb, int thresholdDelta=1, float minArea=0.00025, float maxArea=0.13,
  float minProbability=0.4, bool nonMaxSuppression=true, float
  minProbabilityDiff=0.1 ) Parameters:

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*cb – Callback with the classifier. Default classifier can be implicitly load with function loadClassifierNM1(), e.g. from file in
  samples/cpp/trained_classifierNM1.xml

*thresholdDelta – Threshold step in subsequent thresholds when extracting the component tree

*minArea – The minimum area (% of image size) allowed for retreived ER's

*maxArea – The maximum area (% of image size) allowed for retreived ER's

*minProbability – The minimum probability P(er|character) allowed for retreived ER's

*nonMaxSuppression – Whenever non-maximum suppression is done over the branch probabilities

*minProbabilityDiff – The minimum probability difference between local maxima and local minima ERs

The default values are not the same as in the example. So I wonder what the optimal settings are.
Would it be possible to optimize the settings when I know the fontsize of the to-detect-text? Maybe by setting the max/minArea to the size of a letter? I also don't understand what the minProbabilityDiff means.

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But I and some friends did sum camping and well... sum riding too this past weekend. As you know, rained a bit on Saturday, so didn't get out till after 2pm on the bikes. Also didn't get to hike up to Pinnacle or Table Rock though, next time!!
View of Table Rock in the distance from Caesars Head SP.
Ever camp-fired one of these babies before??!!
Good time. Next trip, further from home, little more into BF NC, but it was fun. The highlight of the trip was Justin getting pulled over for a blatant violation and getting a WARNING. Glad he didn't get a ticket as he pulled over to wait for me to re-strap my helmet.
Test out the camping gear, test out the bikes (forks reinstalled Wed night for a Thur departure after the forks were serviced and the gas leak on the gas tank leak was recently fixed), etc.
Hopefully more riding on each day, maybe get closer to 300 miles each day. I have to watch it, my passenger needs to stretch her legs every so often.
It was only blatant if you saw it.... if a tree falls in a forest.... ahh heck... ok, yah, it was blatant, and I was happy to receive my verbal warning :spank .
My supply of camping gear was sort of a mess from having not gone in a while... next time it'll be sorted a little better too.


The Crop Trust's Executive Director speaks to the Indian Economic Times on the importance on global seed crop diversity and conservation.
MUMBAI: With the twin challenges of population growth and climate change, there is a need to conserve native seeds from the world over that will help in achieving food security, a top Crop Trust executive has said.
"In order to achieve zero hunger and food security, there is a need to ensure the long-term conservation and use of crop diversity worldwide. Natural diversity can be used as building blocks of agriculture or raw material to improve crop through traditional breeding in time of need," Crop Trust Executive Director Marie Haga told PTI here.
Crop Trust is an international organisation working to safeguard crop diversity.
Haga said there has already been a tremendous amount of indigenous varieties lost in many parts of the world.
India has lost 90 per cent of rice varieties since 1900, China has lost 90 per cent of rice varieties since 1950, Mexico has lost 80 per cent of corn varieties since 1900.
In the USA, 90 per cent of fruit and vegetable varieties have been lost since 1900, according to Crop Trust.
"We are concerned about preserving them as one of them might have traits that can be utilised in future that can resist heat and climate among other things," she said.
The conservation of diversity is also essential as it can bring farmers more and better options in the future, to be more competitive and secure, she said.
"India is conscious about the importance of crop diversity and has very good gene banks compared to many other countries. The awareness level is also very good," Haga said.
Globally, there are more than 1,700 gene banks holding collections of food crops for safekeeping, yet many of these are vulnerable, exposed not only to natural catastrophes and war, but also to avoidable disasters, like lack of funding or poor management, Haga said.
Something as mundane as a poorly functioning freezer can ruin an entire collection, she said, adding that the loss of a crop variety is as irreversible as the extinction of a dinosaur, animal or any form of life.
It was the recognition of the vulnerability of the world's gene banks that sparked the idea of establishing a Global Seed Vault to serve as a backup storage facility, she said.
"The purpose of the Vault is to store duplicates (backups) of seed samples from the world's crop collections. It will secure, for centuries, millions of seeds representing every important crop variety available in the world today. It is the final back up," she said.
The Global Seed Vault Deep is halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, deep inside a mountain on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago.
This seed storage facility is built to stand the test of time and the challenge of natural or man-made disasters, Haga added.
The samples stored in Svalbard archipelago are voluntary and owned by the contributing countries, she said.
"With so many natural disasters and wars going on in many countries, we want more and more nations to contribute to the back up seed storage," she said.
Haga said India has made contribution to this back up storage, however, it needs to increase its share in order to help in the global collection.


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As Hans-Thies Lehmann states, live performance has the capacity to 'uncover depth underneath the terror of the surface' and to provide '[a] moment of hesitation, of faltering, reflective pausing' (2016). Indeed, Transylvanian-Hungarian playwright and theatre maker András Visky is fascinated by locations, encounters and stories that connote a degree of incompleteness and fragmentation, and this paper argues that Visky's plays invite a critical re-examination of history whilst offering a framework for repositioning personal experience and memory in performance. In the wake of Adorno's claim that representing historical trauma by aesthetic means is one of the most complex moral and aesthetic questions of our time, Visky proposes the concept of 'barrack dramaturgy' to address captivity as a state of being in which we are 'dislocated from our bodies', and through which we are invited to explore the potential for participatory understanding (2014). Endorsing Freddie Rokem's view that 'theatre can seduce us to believe that it is possible for the actor to become a witness' (2000), Visky speaks with utmost authority on the topic of history as political volatility, and braids the past with the present through processes of theatrical imagination. In a juxtaposition of Visky's Hungarian texts and my English translations of his key plays, this paper also reflects on the creative space available to translators, and makes a case for translations needing to be developed with and for their originals, in full knowledge of the source and receiving cultures, but also with a view to their stage potential. Arguing for stage translations that incorporate hypothetical concepts for a future mise-en-scène (cf. Bassnett, 1998), the paper charts further opportunities for 'witnessing' and 'reflective pausing' as encoded in the translation journey, and situates the translator as a key collaborator in the performance making process.


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Q. What is the Friends of Schuyler Park?
A. It is a non-profit organization whose goal is to raise funds for initially the construction of Schuyler Park, and ultimately play a vital role in its maintenance, upkeep and upgrades. It's non-profit, 501 C3 status will enable the Friends to receive contributions, and business and other donors can receive a tax break from their donations.
Q. Will my taxes increase because of this project?
A. No. Initial money has come from the park and recreation funds in each town. Annual funding will continue to come from these same accounts, as well as funds raised through the Friends of Schuyler Park.
Q. Where is the money coming from for this project?
A. Both the towns of Northumberland and Saratoga have park and recreation funds that have accrued over the years through park fees that are attached to new building lots in each town. These monies are now being used to bring Schuyler Park to fruition. Increased recreational space is part of each town's master plan and both towns have been working towards this goal for many years.
Q. What is the time frame for this project?
A. While we have a master plan for the site, it will definitely be completed in phases. The first phase was work behind the scenes for over a year, completing the master plan and conducting the necessary and required studies. In September 2008, approximately 7.5 acres of the site began being cleared, with trees being cut and removed and the ground being leveled. The majority of the work was completed in 2009 with our offical opening in the spring of 2010. In 2012 the park introduced our playground and the Ryan Rossley Pavilion. In late 2014 the baseball field was expanded to a regulation size little league field. This phase was completed in the spring of 2015 with the installation of the irrigation system, infield mix and sod. In 2019 the west side pavilion was completed. Other portions of the project will be phased in after that as time and funds allow.
Q. How big is the park?
A. Saratoga Builders donated approximately 27 acres of land adjacent to Route 29 and Louden Road in the Town of Saratoga. Of that total, approximately half of the land will remain as is and be used for passive recreation, hiking, etc. Approximately 6.3 acres will be used for active recreation/ball fields, with the balance supporting driveways, parking, a playground and pavilion area, basketball courts, concessions stands/restrooms, and a maintenance building.


Miss Ginger makes: the pattern and spelling mistakes..
the pattern and spelling mistakes..
After your lovely comments about my dress and top here is the pattern i used. Young Fashion...mmmm should I have used it? ha ha. But i think my fabric choice was better! ohhhh!
flowers on blue with shite polka dots..................!
it took me a while to change it as i couldnt stop laughing! weirdly before i did change it i sold two metres and now i have i haven't sold anymore. Maybe i should change it back.
Oh I do like a good typo.
Oh so funny! You should pop a deliberate typo in every once in a while, just to check if we're awake - brilliant!


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Indian woman with no money for Covid not allowed to take flight
PTI / Updated: Jan 6, 2021, 06:00 IST
REPRESENTATIONAL PHOTO: The woman is currently staying in a recruitment shelter in Saudi
She was set to fly after being held hostage by employer in Saudi for 11 months
#Bundi (Rajasthan)
A 40-year-old woman, who was set to fly back to India after allegedly being held hostage by her employer in Saudi Arabia, has claimed that she was not allowed to board the flight as she could not pay the money for the mandatory coronavirus test.
Reena Gehlodh, hailing from Madhya Pradesh, had appealed for help in a video message in November, following which the Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia had intervened and made arrangements for her return. In two audio messages, the woman, who is currently staying in a recruitment shelter in Al-Qassim in Saudi Arabia, has claimed that she was taken for a coronavirus test on Monday evening by the shelter personnel who demanded 850 Riyal (around Rs 17, 000) for the test before her departure on January 5.
The Congress' Bundi district vice president, Charmesh Sharma, said the woman had sent the messages to him as he had earlier approached authorities to seek help for her following her appeal. "On Monday evening, at around 6 o'clock, I was taken to a Covid test centre where I was asked to pay 850 Riyal for the Covid test before departure by flight.
"When I expressed inability to pay the Covid test charges, I was informed that my departure for home in India would not be possible and that I would have to work for a month more to raise the money for the Covid test," Reena says in the messages.
The woman has been in staying in Saudi Arabia for 11 months on a work visa. On November 15-16 last year, she had posted a video online in which she alleged that she had been held captive and harassed by her employer. PTI


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Q: click event that fires when dragging an item (Firefox) When I click on an item I can edit the field thanks to bootstrap-editable.
When I drag and drop the item I am able to change the position of the item thanks to jquery.ui.sortable.
Using Google Chrome everything works fine.
By using Firefox 15.0.1 I have the following issue.
After I move the item, it appears the popup to edit the field.
I suppose this event is due to the event propagation.
I tried to fix it but with no success…
Here is my piece code:
    onSortReceive: function (e, ui) {
        this.$(ui.item[0]).trigger('drop', this.options.taskType);
        // TODO just on firefox there is a issue related to bootstrap-editable
        // it shows the popup even if there is e.stopPropagation() here
        // the only way to fix this issue is to re-render the view
        e.stopPropagation(); // it makes no difference
        this.render(); // it fix the problem
                       // but I want to avoid to re-render the view
    },

For the full code you can go on:
https://github.com/antonioJs/CoCoTask/pull/21/files
For the working version you can go on:
http://computerone.altervista.org/CoCoTask/ (the problem is just with firefox)
Any idea how to fix the problem?
Thanks

A: Okay, here is one working way i found. In your taskItem.js replace onRender with following code:
    onRender: function () {
        var sortInAction = false;
        this.$el.find('label').mouseup(function(e) {
          sortInAction = 'absolute' === $(e.target).closest('li').css('position');
        }).click(function(e) {
            if (sortInAction)
              e.stopImmediatePropagation();
        }).editable({
            type: 'textarea',
            name: 'task-name',
            validate: this.editTaskName,
            template: '<textarea rows="3"></textarea>'
        });
    },

Hope it helps.

A: You should e.preventDefault() mouseup event, not sortreceive jquery.ui event. Maybe something like this would work (not tested):
'mouseup li': 'liMouseUp'

/* ... */

liMouseUp: function(e) {
    if ($(e.target).is('.ui-draggable-dragging')) {
        e.preventDefault();
    }
}


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Which Tech Giant Companies Are Taking the Lead In Silicon Valley
by Heather Armiger
Silicon Valley is known around the world as the hub of the tech universe. Located in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, the region is home to hundreds of tech companies, both big and small. But the ten biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley are true giants, employing thousands of employees and taking in billions of dollars in revenue each year. These are the behemoths of the tech world, and they dominate the industry in a variety of ways.
Apple is the biggest company in the world, period. And it's based in Silicon Valley. Apple is best known for its Mac computers, iPhones, iPads, and other devices. It has a market cap of $2.2 trillion and more than 140,000 employees. It's also one of the most valuable brands in the world.
Alphabet is the parent company of Google and is the second-largest tech company in the world. It has a market cap of $1.3 trillion and more than 118,000 employees. It is best known for its search engine, Android operating system, Google Ads, and other products. It's also the world's most valuable brand.
Microsoft has a market cap of $1.2 trillion and more than 144,000 employees. It's best known for its Windows operating system, Office Suite, Xbox gaming console, and other products. Microsoft has been a leader in the technology industry for decades and continues to innovate with new products and solutions. They also have a commitment to providing customer service and support to their users. It has been a major contributor to the growth of the tech industry and is a key driver of innovation today.
Facebook has a market cap of $812 billion and more than 55,000 employees. It's best known for its social media platform, Oculus virtual reality headset, and other products.
His now infamous founder, Mark Zuckerberg, created the Metaverse, a fictional universe accessible by the use of virtual reality and augmented reality headsets.
Amazon has a market cap of $811 billion and more than 876,000 employees. It's best known for its e-commerce platform, Alexa digital assistant, and other products. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, Amazon has grown to become a global leader in e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. With over 150 million active customers, Amazon is one of the most influential companies in the world. Join IviBet login and get lucky.
6. Intel
Intel has a market cap of $213 billion and more than 105,000 employees. Intel has had a major influence on the development of the personal computer industry, from the development of the first personal computer in the 1970s to the development of the Internet of Things (IoT). Intel has developed a wide range of technologies for use in the home, business, and industrial settings, from the development of the original PC to the development of high-powered server and cloud computing solutions. Intel is also involved in the research and development of new technologies, such as quantum computing.
7. Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems has a market cap of $203 billion and more than 73,000 employees. It designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment and related software and services. Cisco's core products include routers, switches, wireless access points, firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and other network infrastructure solutions. It also offers unified communications, collaboration, and data center solutions to businesses, government agencies, and other organizations. Cisco's strategy is to provide customers with the most comprehensive range of products and solutions to meet their needs.
8. Oracle
Oracle has a market cap of $192 billion and more than 136,000 employees. It's best known for its database software, cloud computing services, and other products. Oracle has a wide range of products, from enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) software to cloud computing solutions and web applications. Oracle also has a strong presence in the database market with its popular Oracle Database product. Oracle's products and services are designed to help organizations reduce costs, increase productivity, and improve customer service.
9. Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a market cap of $30 billion and more than 50,000 employees. It is a global technology company that provides industry-leading products, services, and solutions to help businesses and organizations succeed. HPE is a leader in the enterprise technology space, consistently ranked among the top three in the industry. In 2020, HPE was recognized by Gartner as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking and was named a leader in the IDC MarketScape for cloud-native application platforms.
10. VMware
VMware has a market cap of $50 billion and more than 24,000 employees. It's best known for its virtualization software, cloud computing services, and other products. VMware's software allows businesses to create virtual machines on physical hardware, allowing for more efficient use of resources and reducing the need for additional hardware purchases.
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Jagan is a lovable hypocrite. His aggressive piousness, combined with his need to brag about his detachment from the material world, make it hard to take him seriously. However, this provides a useful contrast in his relationship to Mali. Nothing in the novel is more certain than his love for his son. Although Jagan can be overbearing, stubborn, insufferable, and oblivious, he truly wants Mali to be happy. He supports Mali in all of the endeavors that do not cause him to compromise his own beliefs, and is willing to let Mali learn from his own mistakes, rather than bailing him out of trouble and sparing him harsh lessons.
Jagan does not find true peace until he stops caring what others think of him. This is evidenced by the fact that he is finally willing to retreat to the grove, where he will truly be alone and unobserved. Mali represents the younger generation of India's men at the time of the novel's setting. He is ambitious but can be callus to those who will not help him. When Jagan tries to interest him in India's traditions, he sneers. He is willing to rob his father to escape to America, but stays in contact with him, knowing that Jagan will suffer if he does not.
It is not clear whether Mali believes everything he says, or whether he occasionally mistreats Jagan to punish him for his role in his mother's death, so he is not an entirely unsympathetic character. At the end, rather than listen to Jagan's counsel, Mali retreats into drunkenness and criminality, showing that for Narayan, the younger generation has much to learn from the more stoic, traditional views of their predecessors. Grace When Grace appears, she seems to be the vivacious passion that has been lacking in Jagan's household. She is energetic, kind, and determined to be a proper daughter in law to Jagan.
Her attempts at assimilating herself into his life are well- intentioned and sincere, as opposed to Mali's ingratiating efforts, which he undertakes solely for his own gain. But Grace is also a tormented figure. When it becomes clear that Jagan will not support the business venture, she admits that Mali lured her to India with the promise to marry her—a marriage that never took place. She is not blameless, however. Grace was more interested in the business venture that she let on, and her time spent in India therefore is of little benefit to her.
She represents the difficulties of assimilation between eastern and western cultures. The cousin essentially functions in The Vendor of Sweets as everyone's sidekick. He seems to share the goodwill and confidence of everyone in town. He is the provider of gossip and always has a sympathetic ear. He helps Jagan plan and ponder, without incurring the wrath of anyone else in the story. Ultimately, the cousin is a device used to provide information that Jagan and Mali cannot learn without his expertise, similar to the role of a chorus in a Greek play.


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Time for PM who cares, Mulcair says in unveiling measures to help native women
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SASKATOON — NDP Leader Tom Mulcair unveiled new measures Monday aimed at curbing violence against aboriginal women as he promised to undo what he called an "underlying attitude of racism" that he says has prevented a national inquiry into the issue.
Mulcair made his pitch in Saskatchewan, a province with one of the highest rates of violence against women, where he said he would repair the federal government's relationship with indigenous women.
"Now I say this to every mother, to every daughter, to every sister, that it's time you had a prime minister who cares," Mulcair said in Saskatoon.
Mulcair committed to restore a shelter enhancement program scrapped by the Conservative government, saying it would have sufficient funding to ensure no woman in need is turned away from a shelter.
He also vowed to work with women's groups, indigenous peoples, communities and organizations to create a national action plan to end violence against women and girls, with dedicated funding and benchmarks for progress.
That's on top of Mulcair's previous commitment to call an inquiry into the nearly 1,200 aboriginal women who have vanished or been murdered since 1980. He said he would launch the inquiry within his first 100 days in office.
"If there still hasn't been an inquiry today, to this date, on murdered and missing indigenous women in Canada, it's because of an underlying attitude of racism," he later added.
"We're going to change that attitude."
Campaigning in Ottawa, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said his government has implemented a series of initiatives to improve safety for aboriginal women, including giving police more investigative tools and providing more money for prevention services.
"We also brought in a series of criminal justice reforms to make sure there are serious penalties for those who commit violence against women, obviously commit violence more generally," Harper said.
"Also, we're making use of the existing 40 studies to figure out what additional action we should take, so we're taking a whole range of actions across the spectrum."
A report in January from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an arm of the Organization of American States, said aboriginal women in Canada are murdered or disappear at a rate four times higher than their representation in the population.
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If your organization is in the financial sector, the chances are high that you're aware of the regulatory requirements and risks around money laundering and terrorism financing.
In the U.S. alone, penalties for failure to comply have been levied in terms of millions and sometimes billions of dollars. But what about other industries? What sort of risks are there and what measures are needed to address them?
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recently produced a report entitled "Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures: United States – Mutual Evaluation Report." It provides comprehensive insights (263 pages worth) into the scope and scale of money laundering—estimated as being in the hundreds of billions of dollars globally—as well as its complexity. The report refers to the very large numbers of regulatory authorities involved in anti-money laundering (AML) measures. It points out that the financial sector bears most of the burden in terms of regulations and the general robustness of "the systems and processes for implementing preventive measures, including for on-boarding customers, transaction monitoring and reporting suspicious transactions." This is the aspect of AML that first comes to mind for many people: financial institutions having to "know their customer" and monitor and report on deposits over $10K.
For both individuals and organizations holding large amounts of illicit funds, (e.g., drug cartels and corrupt politicians), laundering money through financial institutions would seem to be a pretty obvious thing to do. But most criminals now know that this is relatively easy to detect and so, in response, they are turning to a tremendous number of alternative—and often highly creative—ways to "legitimize" funds.
Laundering techniques include everything from "smurfing" funds into small instruments like money orders, processing funds through heavily cash-based businesses such as parking lots, car washes and casinos, and using large amounts of cash for casino gambling. All of these are commonly used methods to turn large sums of cash into something that can be claimed to be legitimately generated. Real estate or luxury goods (e.g., yacht) purchases and sales offer another relatively easy way to turn bad money into apparently good. Then there are more complex schemes, with carefully structured shell companies and trusts—usually based offshore.
Trade-based money laundering includes a whole range of variant schemes in which the fraudulent movement of funds can be disguised by artificially inflating, or deflating, the value of goods and services that are invoiced. And the list of potential laundering schemes goes on.
For almost any organization involved in international trade, trade-based money laundering (TBML) needs particular consideration from a risk and compliance perspective. The Global Financial Integrity organization has reported research that shows that TBML is by far the most common method of laundering money internationally, particularly for drug cartels, and involves more than a trillion dollars globally. Much of this takes place through over or under invoicing for goods and services.
How directly your organization could be used within such schemes depends on multiple factors—but the risk is very real that your organization is involved somehow.
How much effort should risk and compliance managers, as well as auditors, put into the risks of money laundering and into AML measures? One response, for those in less regulated industries at least, could be to simply ignore the risks and assume that regulatory authorities are too busy to spend time looking at your organization.
Apart from the risks of penalties from regulatory authorities, which may or may not be that great, there is arguably a bigger picture issue to be considered: Criminal activities and the associated multiple ways of laundering of funds undermine the integrity of business and financial and social structures around the world (not to mention the associated risks of reputation damage and exposure to loss).
There are several good reasons why it is worth thinking about the likelihood that your organization's customers, or vendors or business partners are somehow using your organization to facilitate the money laundering process.


This internship will provide exposure to the Forest Service, and provide advance training in the application of outreach principles and practices. Assignments are designed to provide training in partnership and community development for which the unit is responsible. Intern will assist higher-graded specialists in projects of limited difficulty to become familiar with laws, policies, and regulations in the targeted specialized series. Intern will receives formal and on-the job training in planning, organizing, and executing information, external relations, public involvement, and environmental education activities on the unit, to develop experience in various phases of public affairs, partnerships, and volunteer services. Under close supervision the intern will organize meetings to bring partners together to help develop a shared natural resource vision; actively seek out opportunities for the Forest Service to integrate more fully into the community, and coordinate events and activities to promote the outdoors to young people of all backgrounds and experiences. The program will begin in early 2019, and continue full-time for 52 weeks with potential for extension.
Work with local volunteers and non-profit groups to engage in community development activities and delivery of conservation education, recreation and natural resource programs and activities.
Establish and maintain lists of interested Forest Service stakeholders for the purpose of partnership efforts and event planning.
Work with non-profit groups and forest leadership to assist in grants and agreement opportunities.
Assignments are designed to provide training in partnership and community development functions for which the unit is responsible. Assist higher-graded specialists in projects of limited difficulty to become familiar with laws, policies, and regulations in the targeted specialized series.
Receives formal and on-the job training in planning, organizing, and executing information, external relations, public involvement, and environmental education activities on the unit, to develop experience in various phases of public affairs, partnerships, and volunteer services.
Organizes volunteer events on the unit to introduce the community to the work that the Forest Service conducts and to develop future land stewards.
Process applications and conduct site visits to inform reports and proposals.
Use a variety of communications tools to share information with the public regarding the Forest Service.
Under close supervision prepares information releases for various internal and external audiences including social media accounts, press, and for local schools concerning the mission, programs, and activities of the Forest Service. Drafts pamphlets, brochures, booklets, etc., and as directed, arranges for printing.
Prepares audio-visual programs, according to instructions, for both specific presentations and for broad repeated use.
Basic knowledge of written and oral communication principles, techniques and methods; analytical methods; and interpersonal relations practices in order to apply the skill to recurring and precedent assignments.
Communications skills sufficient to explain and gather information.
Skill sufficient for writing and editing news, feature, and quasi-technical articles.
Work is reviewed in progress and on completion for technical accuracy and conformance to instruction.
Ability to perform duties in an office setting, as well as, field assignments which may result in exposure to hazards associated with foot travel to remote forested area.
Experience working on projects which entail interpreting laws, regulations, policies or procedures under the guidance of others.
Demonstrated ability to acquire in-depth knowledge and understanding of laws and government policies.
Interpersonal communication, public speaking and/or customer service experience with an emphasis on partnership and stakeholder engagement.
Prior to starting this position, a government security background clearance will be required.
If interested, please apply by sending your resume and cover letter to Greening Youth Foundation at cljacques@gyfoundation.org.


The 1st Workshop on Proof Theory and its Applications, organised under the auspices of The Proof Society, will bring together researchers on proof theory and its applications. The aim of the meeting is to reflect on the mission of The Proof Society, through a series of invited and contributed talks, as well as panel discussions.
To register and submit an abstract please download the linked registration form and follow the instructions given there.
No fees will be involved.
For accommodation we suggest to consult the information of the Visit Ghent website.
For any question regarding the event you can contact the organizing committee at David.FernandezDuque@UGent.be or Andreas.Weiermann@ugent.be.
Once you reach the station, you can take Tram Line 1 towards the city center (centrum).
If you are traveling internationally by train, you will get a better price (and an assured place) by buying your ticket in advance.
If you are flying to Brussels Airport, there is a train station in the airport and you can buy a ticket to Ghent on the spot.
Some trams in Ghent announce the stops, and some do not.
"Genk" with a "k" is a different city entirely; do not go to Genk by mistake!


Graduate and Life Sciences Education, Faculty of Medicine in partnership with the Basic Science Departments and Institutes in the Faculty will award five annual Undergraduate Teaching Awards in Life Sciences in four categories. The purpose of these awards is to honour outstanding and sustained contributions by faculty members to undergraduate Arts and Science teaching and the undergraduate experience in Life Sciences. The awards carry a cash value of $1,000 each and will be presented at the Faculty of Medicine Annual Education Achievement Celebration.
This award is for sustained excellence in teaching, coordination and/or development of undergraduate lecture or seminar courses in Arts and Science offered by the Basic Science Departments in the Faculty of Medicine.
This award is for sustained excellence in the teaching, coordination and/or development of laboratory based instruction in formal Arts and Science life sciences laboratory courses.
This award is for sustained excellence, mentorship and innovative methods that link undergraduate teaching to experiential research opportunities such as research project courses, summer student research projects or equivalent programs.
Eligibility extends to all faculty members who hold full time appointments in Basic Science Departments or Institutes in the Faculty of Medicine and teach in life sciences undergraduate courses and/or research projects in Arts and Science.
Candidates for these awards must be nominated by a student, a former student, or another faculty member through a Departmental/Institute Undergraduate Program office; self‐nominations are not accepted. A previous winner may be nominated for an Undergraduate Teaching Award in Life Sciences in any category only after a period of five (5) years.
Nominees' files will be reviewed and winners recommended to the Interim Vice Dean, Graduate and Life Sciences Education by a panel of selected undergraduate students and faculty members.


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Q: Mocking Axios in React Hooks using react-hooks-testing-library Trying to mock GET request to API but always get

Timeout - Async callback was not invoked within the 10000ms timeout specified by jest.setTimeout.

even though I increased the timeout it still throws error.
Hook
export default function apiCaller() {
  const [rawApiData, setRawApiData] = useState({});
  const [errorMsg, setErrorMsg] = useState('');

  const callApi = async (inputValue) => {
    try {
      const apiData= await axios.get(
        `https://cloud.iexapis.com/stable/stock/market/batch?types=chart&symbols=${inputValue}&range=3m&token=lalaccf0`
      );
      setRawApiData(apiData);
    } catch (err) {
      setErrorMsg(
        'Error occured!! ' +
          (Boolean(err.response) ? err.response.data : err.message)
      );
    }
  };

  return { rawApiData, callApi, errorMsg };
}

Axios mock
export default {
  get: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ data: {} }),
};

Test
import { renderHook, act } from 'react-hooks-testing-library';
import apiCaller from '../components/stock-chart/stockApiCaller';
import axios from 'axios';
jest.mock('axios');

it('should set error properly when api call is unsuccessfull because of bad data', async () => {

      axios.get.mockResolvedValueOnce({ data: { test: '123' } });
      const { result, waitForNextUpdate } = renderHook(() => apiCaller());

      act(() => result.current.callApi('fb/tsla'));
      await waitForNextUpdate();

      expect(result.current.rawApiData.data.test)
        .toBe(123)
    }, 10000);

A: I finally got the issue resolved. There is new way to write act() i.e. async act(). Please find below the updated version of test which works fine.
it('should set rawData properly when api call is successfull because of', async () => {
  axios.get.mockResolvedValueOnce({ data: { test: '123' } });
  const { result, waitForNextUpdate } = renderHook(() => apiCaller());
  await act(async () => {
    result.current.callApi('fb/tsla');
    await waitForNextUpdate();
  });
  expect(result.current.rawApiData.data.test).toBe('123');
});

Update react to 16.9.0-alpha.0
https://github.com/facebook/react/releases/tag/v16.9.0-alpha.0


Donate – Early Learning Coalition of Marion County, Inc.
Your gift allows the Early Learning Coalition to continue supporting and administering programs to nurture the young children and those who care for them in Marion County. We are a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. All contributions to the Early Learning Coalition are tax deductible. You will receive an email confirmation once your information has successfully been submitted and will have the opportunity to make your donation in memoriam of someone special.
There are several projects and programs throughout the year where volunteers are needed, and always greatly appreciated.


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Younes Shalaby () né le  à Mansourah et mort le , est un acteur égyptien.

Liste sélectives de ses films

Amir El Zalam  2002
Kalil Mina Al-Hob Kathir Mina Al-Unf   1995
Al-Regala Fi Khatar   1993
 Mister Dollar 1993
 Stop  1992
 Al-Asta Mahrous  1990
Al-raqissa wa-l-siyasi 1990

Principales pièces théâtrales
 Madraset Al-Mushaghibin
 Al-Eyel Kebret

Séries

Notes

Liens externes

Naissance en mai 1941
Acteur égyptien de cinéma
Décès en novembre 2007
Décès à 66 ans
Naissance à Mansourah (Égypte)


Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity has a Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Program.
The program serves any homeowner at risk of or in mortgage foreclosure including homeowners who are delinquent on property taxes or in tax forfeiture. MFPP also services homeowners who are delinquent on homeowner association dues or facing association foreclosures.
Lutheran Social Service has HUD-approved advisors. What do they say they can do for you?
Reduce stress by explaining your rights and options. Explain what to expect from your mortgage company. Protect you from scams. Recommend a specific plan for bringing your mortgage current. Help you reach a 'soft landing' after foreclosure.
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You're missing a big piece of this story. Starting under HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros and continuing through the Bush Administration, the government mandated that a large portion of government-back mortgages be given to low-income families and minority families. This was a big driver in getting people into loans they could not afford. Please address this in your discussion and don't place all of the blame on "evil lenders".
I recall a PBS Newshour piece on this topic from July 26 2011, using census data to demonstrate the trend.
"In 2009, white households had a median net worth of just over $113,000. Compare that to $6,300 for Latinos, and not quite $5,700 for African-Americans.
I am curious why more homeowners of all races did not do their own due diligence pertaining to the in's and out's of acquiring a mortgage loan. Our family recently purchased a home two years ago, and we went into the bank knowing the basics of lending, a range of what rates we would qualify for, and kept up our research through the whole process, in order to NOT be taken advantage of.
These were simple internet and library research, and personal advise. I do believe there were many that were targeted for predatory lending, but there were also many more people who, liked what they heard, even if it sounded too good to be true, in order to get a quick loan. We definitely live in a "I want it all, and I want it now" world.
@KerriMPR also check out @MNHOC for information about free foreclosure reviews and foreclosure prevention counseling.
@KerriMPR I work @CommunityNHS; strongly recommend homebuyer education and/or free counseling to be prepared + protected consumers.
To what extent were credit unions involved in selling fraudulent mortgages? Should people prefer getting mortgages from Credit Unions?
I have been trying to get a modification through US Bank. Sent in 98 pages and after 3 months and no action on my file was told that I was not elidgible for a modification because I had $200 at the end of the month… this with them having lost some of my budget information. I am now refiling my forms again since this is my 'only' option because my loan is held as a security… do I have any other options?
Justin – Our guest, Jim Carr says that HUD did promote more loaning to minorities and low-income people but didnt promote bad loans. But he says that HUD did not regulate the bad products well enough.
"Facing an enthusiastic crowd at the National Association of Realtors' annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Clinton launched the National Partners in Homeownership, a private-public cooperative with one goal: raising the numbers of homeowners across America…all were asked to pull together in a partnership made up of 65 top national organizations and 131 smaller groups,…it was unheard of for regulatos to team up this closely with those they were charged with policing…Fueled by dubious industry practices supported by many in Congress and unchecked by most of the regulators charged with oversight of the lending process, the homeownership drive helped to plunge the nation into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression." from Reckless Endangerment by Gretchen Morgenson.
My reaction to the pregnant CEO is 'so what?' Women have been working and raising children since women have been having children. The difference is that this woman will have access to assistance well beyond what other working women have. So, with a good, well-paid nanny, what is the big deal?
It's just a house, walk away. I did not buy more house i could afford at the time. I was not a victim of predatory lending. I got a fixed FHA loan. Now because i have that FHA loan i qualify for no assistance. The banks created the bubble that now makes my house worth 47% of what i paid for it. It'll be 10+ years before i can sell it, and 20+ years before its worth what i paid for it, if ever. FHA has their insurance so they don't care, yet they created this mess. We are slaves to the plutocracy. The medical plutocrats raped me on the other end. $10,000 in medical bills and growing, and that's with insurance left me no choice but to just abandon my home. Wish i would have done it years ago, when the value hit 80% of what i paid. You can rebuild your credit and buy a new home in less time then it'll take to recoup the loss by waiting for the market to "rebound" because it probably won't in our life times. I just wish i could bulldoze the house after moving out, leave nothing but rubble for the vultures.
Our elected shills should have made the banks reduce the underwater portions of ALL our mortgages that were overinflated because of the bankers greed caused bubble, but the electorate are not our shills, they are the banks shills. That's the true problem, everything else is just rhetoric to get morons to vote for idiots.


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Deep in the iron belt of northern Minnesota, where boys are raised to be manly men and hockey is holy, Brandon Larcom grew up figure skating. From the moment he first stepped onto the ice at the age of 3, he had dreamed of becoming the next Wayne Gretzky, but a skull deficiency kept him out of contact sports.
"I'm the only male figure skater up there, and my dad's the town sheriff, and my brother pitches for the high school baseball team. It sounds like a movie," says Larcom, now 30, talking on the phone from the Toyota Sports Center rink in Los Angeles, where he coaches figure skating and hockey. "Growing up straight in a dominantly homophobic and homosexual sport was hard for me and for them," he adds. "I remember my family defending my sexuality before I even understood what sexuality meant."
"I remember being constantly asked, 'Oh, you're a figure skater now? So you're gay?'"
At 12, Larcom went to live and train as a pairs skater in Tampa, Fla. Despite being thousands of miles from home, he encountered the same stereotypes. Once, a girlfriend, a fellow skater, dumped him because her friends teased her about dating a male figure skater. Hockey players called him "fag," "gay," "homo" and "queer."
"I'd be holding my skating partner's hand [while practicing on the ice], and I'd want to go faster and stronger to prove I could beat them," Larcom says about the hockey players. "I thought, You're playing with sticks, but I have this girl who I can lift and throw. You try to look like you're Goliath."
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Larcom went on to train as a member of Team USA and, in 2001, he won the junior national pairs skating championship. "I didn't want people to know about it," he concedes. "Something that I spent more time doing than anything else, sacrificing my family and friends - I wasn't proud to say I was national champion."
It's no surprise why. The common assumption that male figure skaters are gay - and the latent and often blatant hostility behind it - is the sport's deep and dirty secret. It colors the attitudes and actions of skaters, coaches, judges, officials and even the fans.
France's Florent Amodio celebrates on the podium after winning the gold medal during Men's Figure Skating during the European Figure Skating Championships in Bern, Jan. 29, 2011. Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images
That sniggering stereotype has been prevalent for decades, even though few elite skaters have come out publicly, and only one, Rudy Galindo, came out during his Olympic-eligible career. This closet door is locked tight because skaters - gay and straight - know that so many of the people judging them, from judges to sponsors to TV viewers, want the female skaters to be "pretty ladies," and the men to be, well, men.
And that's not how life, on or off the ice, works. Britain's John Curry, known for bringing ballet to the ice, came out in 1976, the same year he won Olympic gold and the world figure skating championships (he died of an AIDS-related heart attack in 1994). Canadian figure skater Matthew Hall came out in 1992. Canadian champion Brian Orser was publicly outed by an ex-boyfriend in a palimony suit in 1998. By the time U.S. champion Johnny Weir came out after competing in the 2010 Vancouver games, it seemed more like a formality. And Brian Boitano, the 1988 Olympic gold medalist, never intended to reveal his sexual orientation until President Obama appointed him, along with openly gay tennis legend Billie Jean King and openly gay ice hockey Olympian Caitlin Cahow, to the American Olympic delegation for the Sochi games. Obama's move was a provocative reproach to Russia's new anti-gay law propaganda law that looms over what's set to be the most expensive Olympics in history.
Obama's defiant gesture is laudable and paradoxical, because it highlights the irony that there are no openly gay skaters on the U.S. Olympic team.
Weir, the two-time Olympic figure skater and three-time U.S. champion who retired last fall, defied this prejudice and solidified his place as figure skating's gay darling by showing, not telling. He wore a crown of red roses and hugged a heart-shaped pillow in the Olympic rink's "kiss and cry" area, and donned a costume lined in fox fur as well as a pink and black body suit. But he didn't come out publicly until he was done competing. In his 2011 book, Welcome to My World, he
American Doug Mattis won the 1985 national junior men's title, and held his own at top-level international competitions. He came out in 1992. At the 1994 U.S. Open Pro Figure Skating Championships, he emulated Tonya Harding and Peggy Fleming before stripping off his long-sleeved black shirt to finish his artistic program in a shiny sleeveless vest.
"Back in my day, me and my compatriots were actively told to keep [being gay] a secret," says Mattis, who went on to have a successful professional skating and coaching career. "Skating officials said it was in our best interest. The reasons why were never fully defined.... Some posed it as, Skating's reputation has a hard enough time being accepted by the public anyway. We want to increase our marketability, so boys, butch it up."
The stereotypes trap male and female skaters. "We're stuck in the 1950s with these beautiful housewives on ice," Kirk says. "We have to act a certain way. Our hair and makeup have to look a certain way. And the guys have to be regal and dapper. They can't wear too many sparkles. We have to be Ken and Barbie, but the reality is that Ken is dating Ken and Barbie doesn't always want to look like Barbie, or at least act like Barbie."
'They Want to Wear Sparkly Costumes'
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, figure skating prospered in Europe as an elite gentleman's sport. It wasn't until the 1920s and 1930s that the feminization of skating began to take hold with the arrival of young Sonja Henie, an ice skating queen turned film star. The daughter of a wealthy Norwegian businessman, Henie was groomed for the spotlight. After winning the children's figure skating championship of Oslo at the age of 8, she went on to win three Olympic gold medals (1928, 1932, 1936) and 10 consecutive World Championships. In 1936, Henie went pro, taking her adorable dimples and blonde hair to Hollywood. Her first film, One in a Million, opened in 1936 and was a hit. Over the next decade her many movies, featuring toe picks, elaborate costumes and romantic storylines, brought figure skating to the masses.
Rudy Galindo skates his routine at the National Figure Skating Championships at the San Jose Arena in San Jose, Calif., Jan. 18, 1996. Galindo won first place. Glenn Cratty /Allsport/Getty Images
Henie's film spectacles introduced the sparkles and feathers that began to make skating more attractive to young girls. As men left the rink to fight in World War II, the gender balance of the sport shifted. Young girls who grew up watching Henie begged their mothers for lessons. By the time the men returned home, the popular perception of figure skating had changed: "It was no longer seen as something appropriate for men to do," says Mary Louise Adams, professor of sports sociology at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario and author of Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport.
Efforts to protect (and project) the macho reputation of male skaters have been under way for decades, and skating clubs and organizations tried to lure boys by playing up the masculinity of the sport and virility of its athletes. Of course, the irony is obvious today. "Lots of boys sign up for skating because they want to wear sparkly costumes," says Adams. "Then they find out when they get older, 'Let's try to keep the sparkle down, because that's feminine and then they'll think you're gay.' And of course, they're saying that to some boys who are gay."
It is impossible to say exactly how many elite figure skaters are gay, since so few have come out publicly. Former figure skater and judge Jon Jackson wrote in a 2006 piece for The Advocate, "at least seven of the 14 male Olympic figure skating medalists from the past 20 years are known in certain circles to be interested in other men. In fact, in at least five countries the entire men's singles figure skating team is made up of gay men (albeit some 'teams' are exactly one man)." That same year, figure skating expert Lorrie Kim wrote, "Unofficial insider estimates range from 25 percent to nearly 50 percent. But unbelievably, in 2006, Galindo remains the only top-level skater to have come out while Olympic-eligible."
"Everyone in skating understands the legacy that male figure skaters have grown up with," says Kim, who for many years ran Rainbow Ice, a popular website for gay issues in figure skating. "Closeted skaters will police other closeted skaters and try to keep them in the closet because of that shared sense of risk.... This can be puzzling to people who live in the real world, who don't understand how hard it can be."
Figure skating's peak of popularity -- from the 1980s to the early 2000s, with household names like Scott Hamilton, Nancy Kerrigan, Paul Wylie, Kristi Yamaguchi and Michelle Kwan -- is long over. Fan interest started to wane in the aftermath of the overexposed Kerrigan-Harding saga, in which Harding's ex-husband clubbed Kerrigan in the leg right before the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, then again following a judging scandal at the 2002 winter games in Salt Lake City, which exposed the many rigged competitions and political agendas within the sport. As a result, the International Skating Union replaced its audience-friendly 6.0 scoring system with an anonymous, points-based alternative that fans still struggle to understand. "The purpose of the new judging system is to hide everything," says renowned figure skater Dick Button, the two-time Olympic gold medalist, five-time world champion and seven-time U.S. Champion. As he writes in his new book, Push Dick's Button, "the names of the judges with their real marks are kept in a safe in Lausanne and only the general secretary and a notary can see them, if requested by the Technical Committees." Then, in advance of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Skate Canada launched a campaign to curtail the sport's dwindling audience - by manning up. At the time, television viewership in Canada had dropped more than 30 percent from the 1990s to the 2000s as big international stars like Stojko and Kurt Browning retired. To combat this decline, Skate Canada urged officials and athletes to emphasize "the danger, speed, risk and difficulty" of figure skating. The alleged goal, according to critics, was to attract the "hockey crowd."
Skate Canada's attempt to de-sparkle figure skating enraged gay rights groups. The organization denied that its campaign favored masculinity over artistry while Stojko, the two-time Silver Olympic medalist known for his athletic style, famously spoke out in favor of the macho and masculine aesthetic. "They've got to really showcase that male skating is really about masculinity, strength and power," he told ABC News at the time. "It's not that the male skating has to totally obliterate the gay guys that are skating and the gay public that's watching it," he added. "You have to find a balance to male skating.... You've got to stick with male skating and strength and the meat and potatoes."
Timothy Goebel, the 2002 Olympic bronze medalist, agrees. "I'd like to see progress. People doing harder stuff and going faster - that's the whole Olympics theme. Not prettier outfits and more theatrical." Goebel was the first figure skater to land a quadruple Salchow in competition as well as three quadruple jumps in a single program.
The media's treatment of Weir, who somewhat controversially took sixth place at the Vancouver games (fans thought he deserved a higher finish), underscored the unspoken tensions around sexual orientation in men's figure skating. While Evan Lysacek was often portrayed as the athlete, Weir was the artist - "ornate," "unapologetic" and "flamboyant" (code for "gay"). Broadcasters made derogatory comments about Weir's skating and costumes, questioned his gender and wondered if his flamboyant image might damage the sport. In 2010, after representing the U.S. in Vancouver, he was left off of the post-Olympics Stars on Ice skating tour, although he finished first in an online poll asking fans who they wanted to see in the tour. Reports quickly surfaced that he was excluded for being "not family friendly" enough.
"Johnny was extremely effeminate, and that certainly did him no favors within U.S. Figure Skating," says Goebel, who today sits on the Strategic Planning Committee for USFS and on the board of Skating Club of New York. "Johnny was an over-the-top personality and it rubbed a lot of officials the wrong way."
Fassbender of Germany, right, and Zamponi of France compete in the figure skating event during the Gay Games VIII in Cologne, Germany, Aug. 2, 2010. Some 10,000 gays and lesbians competed in 35 kinds of sport during the 8-day event, which aims to promote self-confidence in homosexual communities around the world, the organizer said on its website. Thomas Peter/Reuters
'Wearing My Straight Clothes'
Like most top figure skaters, Jennifer Kirk spent her childhood, teenage and young adult years in the competitive skating world. Born in Newton, Mass., she trained with famed coaches Evy and Mary Scotvold at the Skating Club of Boston and, later, Richard Callaghan and Frank Carroll. "Growing up as a young girl in the sport, all my guy friends were gay," she says. "There was a lot of acceptance in the community, but at a higher level, when you go to the nationals, you see people who are really comfortable in your local rink suddenly putting on airs to seem more heterosexual."
Kirk dated skaters who were either "out of the closet or out on the down low," she says. "To see so many of my friends struggle with this issue.... " she trails off. "One friend said, 'I'm wearing my straight clothes today, when we went to a competition.'"
There is a profound difference between being out at one's local skating club - among friends, family and coaches - and being out to the international media. "Many gay skaters are out everywhere but the press or publicly," says Adams. "There are openly gay people in skating, and this wouldn't be news to anybody who's involved in skating... As a sport, the national governing bodies like USFS and Skate Canada, they are still closeted."
Unpacking exactly why figure skating, as an institution, is closeted - and why insiders deny it - is a complicated task. "You have a culture that's almost entirely about very fem girls, and since it's a grassroots sport, the politics reflect whatever neighborhood the rinks are in," says Kim. "That can get extremely conservative - conservative in the way that makes other countries wonder what's in the American water."
This is a sport that's largely run by former skaters who grew up in the system and "have more traditional views," Goebel says.
"The governing body of judges and officials can control your career with results, and ultimately funding," says Dave Lease, host and editor of The Skating Lesson, which he co-founded with Kirk. "Whether that fear is rational or irrational, it exists," he says, adding almost as an afterthought, "It's a sport, but it's also a game."
"Everybody knows what the judges are expecting," explains Goebel. "Classical, conservative music. Nothing edgy. Nothing new. The same types of choreography and the same program set-up... If you go to [the World Championships] with some crazy outfit and music, it probably won't be well-received."
The perceived risk of coming out at the elite level in figure skating is endemic.
"With any judged sport, there's some level of subjectivity," says Lindsey Green, an Olympic sports writer whose work has appeared in New York magazine and Deadspin. "The issue with figure skating is the judge/athlete environment and relationship is completely uncontrolled and chaotic... There is no other sport where the judge holds so much power outside of the arena, and the relationship with the athletes and coaches can seemingly affect the overall outcome of the competition. Figure skating judges offer input on costumes, personal life, hair and makeup, music choice. With so much interaction, impartiality becomes increasingly challenging."
While Mattis disagrees, arguing that "a lot of judges and officials in power now are former skaters from my era, so let's just say that there are gay people on both sides of the bang boards at the ice rink," he says the biggest unknown, when it comes to coming out or not, is how marketable one will be. "If you hit it big and become a big star in skating, is Madison Ave. going to want to avoid you if you're an out gay skater? That unknown is what drives most of the fear. Am I hurting my appeal? If I'm an out gay male, does Speed Stick want me in their commercial?"
Companies look for the most charismatic and least controversial people to market their brands, and skaters know it. "USFS does, too," says Larcom.
'You're Messing with the Wrong Gay People... '
In the 2014 Official U.S. Figure Skating Rulebook, the nondiscrimination policy protects against discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion, age, gender or national origin."
"Something is missing!" blurted Hudson Taylor, founder and executive director of Athlete Ally, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending homophobia and transphobia in sports, as soon as he read the clause. "If you put yourself into the shoes of a closeted athlete, there is something said in the omission of sexual orientation in [figure skating's] nondiscrimination policy."
Last fall, in response to Russia's increasingly hostile anti-gay environment, the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) added sexual orientation to its non-discrimination policy. Yet the International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not include sexual orientation in its policy. Does USFS have plans to update its rulebook?
"Yes," Reichert said by email. "U.S. Figure Skating has a zero-tolerance policy regarding all forms of abuse or harassment."
"Everybody should be able to participate in sports regardless of sexual orientation," says Jimmie Santee, executive director of the Professional Skaters Association, which provides education and accreditation for competitive and recreational skating coaches. In 2012, the association expanded the definition of its family membership. "We have traditional families and partners in our sport. We felt very strongly that they should be afforded the same rights."
"Today, there is more room for gay men but almost no room for effeminacy," says Adams.
That attitude - and its resulting effect on the hyper-feminization of female skaters - is written into the USFS rulebook. In ice dance, "clothing must be modest, dignified and appropriate for athletic competitions, not garish or theatrical in design." Men in ice dance cannot wear sleeveless costumes; women must wear skirts, and while the skirts can have slits, "ladies dress must not give the effect of excessive nudity." In singles, men can wear trousers (not tights) and women can wear skirts, trousers and tights - but try finding a female figure skater competing at the elite level in something other than nude tights and a leotard of some kind. (Women are strictly referred to as "ladies"; the word women only appears once in the USFS rulebook.)
The message is clear: When competing, being gay may not hurt you, but being straight helps.
Unlike the USFS, the Ice Skating Institute (ISI), which is dedicated to recreational skating (i.e. it's for skaters who aren't trying to become the next Kwan), includes sexual orientation in its non-discrimination policy. In 2006, at a rink in Berkeley, Calif., award-winning amateur figure skaters Johnny Manzon-Santos and Alan Lessik were training for their first appearance as a same-sex pairs couple at the Gay Games later that year. Suddenly, a manager demanded that they get off the ice, even though there were male-female pairs skating at the same time.
"We really got pissed," Manzon-Santos says. "I remember we told each other, They're messing with the wrong gay people."
He and Lessik sued the rink, and won, and one of the many results was that the ISI expanded its nondiscrimination policy.
"We started to push USFS to have them adopt that kind of pledge... but we didn't get as far and the momentum petered out. It's an evergreen issue," Manzon-Santos says. "And this is the dream: to have the IOC agree to include a non-discrimination clause, too."
'This Isn't 40 Years Ago... '
Not everyone within figure skating's ranks believes the sport is closeted. Savoie says he never felt pressured by the figure skating world to keep quiet about his sexual orientation while competing. And Bridel and Mattis say there are now more skaters coming out to friends and coaches, and even some officials are openly gay. "As I mingle with judges and officials, they really don't care [about sexual orientation]," says Mattis. "But they don't realize that when they're being protective of their skaters, there is a homophobic bent."
David Baden, who has represented skaters for more than 20 years at the sports agency IMG and who used to be the marketing director for Stars on Ice, says he has never known sexual orientation "to be an issue or a problem... At this stage in our society, if an athlete comes out to represent their country and deliver the goods, I can't believe that any of these issues, whether their sexual orientation or color of skin or religion - why is that even a factor? This isn't 40 years ago."
Asked whether he was surprised that there are no openly gay figure skaters competing in Sochi, Baden replied, "Honestly, I've never thought about it."
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Spray Park given green light by council
Jacqueline Gold-Irwin
Hanna Town Council voted 5-2 in favour of the Spay Park at their May 14 meeting.
The meeting began with several public presentations from individuals both for and against the park.
The first woman spoke against the park noting that the park had a shortfall at the last meeting.
Councillor Kyle Olsen noted that the committee had managed to cover off the shortfall by volunteer work and donated supplies.
"The committee has done a really good job," the woman conceded.
"They've worked their butts off."
That said, she noted "people in Hanna are hurting."
"To spend $100,000 on a Spray Park is more than we can take," she added.
"Wait a few more years until we're out of this hurt and give us a chance to get back to where we're good."
Ken Hansen spoke in favour of the park noting that he didn't want to see the momentum built by the committee go to waste.
"A lot of fundraising has been done," he said, adding he felt the park would be "well utilized."
Sammi-Jo Lee, a Spray Park Committee member, also spoke in favour of the project noting that a lot of time and research had gone into the project.
"We didn't come to the town asking for $400,000 in cash," she noted.
"We took the time to host an open house."
"We are born and raised Hanna families who want to grow the town," she added.
Lee noted currently the pool hours "don't work with working parent schedules" and have not enough public swim time during the week for those who don't get off work until later in the day.
"All my generation hears is how important it is to buy local," she said.
But with the pool not opening until 1 p.m. on weekends, and children often getting up long before then, often families are already on the road heading to other communities with spray parks, and taking their hard earned money with them.
Lee said rather than spending $500 outside of the community she felt a spray park, with more flexible hours, would keep young families in the community, as well as their cash.
"We pride ourselves on being worth the drive, but we have to make sure we are worth the stay," she said.
Barb Burgemeister also spoke on the park, noting she was not in favour of it currently because of the economic climate in the community.
"I feel it shouldn't have to come out of the Town budget or our taxes."
Councillors Gerald Campion and Sandra Beaudoin asked for a recorded vote on the motion to approve the park.
CAO Kim Neill noted the Special Areas was waiting on the Towns decision before dealing with their own vote at their next board meeting.
"I think they are supportive," Neill added.
Both Campion and Beaudoin voted against the park, but ultimately council approved the motion to contribute $100,000 towards the capital cost, as well as the land the park and access building will be located at across from the Elks Outdoor Rink as well as assuming ownership and operation of the park once it was constructed.
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