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Know Your Fellow Parishioner: The Schramm Family
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St Damien Parish Know Your Fellow Parishioner January 18, 2020	 January 17, 2020
Joan and Bill Schramm have learned a lot from their two sons. The most important lesson, according to Bill, is that "Life does not need to be perfect to be wonderful."
Billy, 27, and Patrick, 25, were born to Joan and Bill with similarly severe mental and physical disabilities. They also were born with strikingly joyful and generous spirits that they share openly with St. Damien parish and the Ocean City community at large. "Billy and Patrick are apostles of Christ just by virtue of being themselves," their father explained. That means their parents have the unique blessing of being chaperones to apostles.
"We learned early that the boys like to be out and about," Joan said, as she and her husband recounted a wide range of activities that fill the calendar. Both sons volunteer at the assisted living community, Wesley By the Bay, where they help to set up events and where Billy helps to deliver mail to residents. They volunteer at the Ocean City Library book sales. They are volunteer gardeners at the Absecon Lighthouse in Atlantic City. They groom horses. Patrick volunteers at a farm in Tuckahoe. When the brothers are not volunteering, you might see them walking or biking with their father on the boardwalk or swimming at the municipal aquatic center or taking in a concert at the library.
Bill and Joan have learned to appreciate the positive impact that their sons have on other people's lives. "They have a gift," Bill said. "The way they smile. The way they love life." It is not unheard of for Joan and Bill to discover someone has anonymously paid their restaurant bill or, even once, their hotel bill as a grateful response to the purity of heart that Billy and Patrick demonstrate to those around them. The brothers' gusto for life moves others to focus on the positive aspects of life.
The Schramms arranged their lives so that one parent would always be at home with their sons. When the boys were small, Joan stayed home while Bill pursued his career in numerous financial management positions at General Electric. As the boys grew older, the parents switched roles. Joan is now a consultant working for KPMG, an international accounting firm, and Bill is home. Until two-and-a-half years ago, the family lived in Haddon Heights. When their small Ocean City summer house was destroyed in Hurricane Sandy, they decided to build a larger house and make it their year-round residence. Moving to Ocean City was a leap of faith. "This is a senior community, so as a special-needs family we weren't sure what to expect," Bill reflected. "But things have worked out really well. The parish and the community are so welcoming and inclusive. We have a full life."
That full life includes attending mass frequently, on Sundays and weekday afternoons. "The boys love church," Bill said. In addition, Patrick, who otherwise has no interest in television, watches Mass and the saying of the Rosary on EWTN. "He will sit on the couch, get out his rosary, and not move," his father explained. "It is a sixth sense. He sees something we don't see." Joan and Bill are grateful that they had both been raised in families with strong Catholic faith traditions. "Faith offers you a different perspective on life," Bill said. "It gives you strength when you need it," Joan added.
The Schramms will sometimes participate in mass from the choir loft when it is unoccupied. One day when they entered the choir loft they realized musicians were up there. "We were invited to join in, so we did," Bill said. Just as the homily was ending, Patrick decided to clap his hands. The sound was picked up by the live microphone, setting off a burst of applause from the rest of the congregation. That is infectious joy.


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Are you always seeking out things to do throughout Washington? The month of September has some of the year's biggest happenings including one of the largest state fairs in the world. Check out these Top 6 things to do this September.
What: The Washington State Fair is one of the top ten largest fairs in the world. This annual event features delicious food, wild rides, live entertainment, and fun for the whole family. This year's concert lineup – included in event admission – features names such as Smash Mouth (9/8), Alan Jackson (9/17), Gavin DeGraw (9/21), and Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy (9/23). You won't want to miss the fun!
Cost: Regular price admission is $12.50 for adults and $9.00 for students (ages 6-18) and seniors (ages 62+). Kids 5 and under are free. Early bird discounts are available through select retailers. Parking is $10 during the week and $15 on the weekends.
What: The Wooden Boat Festival features more than 300 wooden vessels, hundreds of indoor and outdoor demonstrations, a who's who of wooden boat experts and thousands of wooden boat enthusiasts. There's something to do, someone to meet, or a boat to board at every turn. Also included this year is lively music, Washington inspired cuisine, and local spirits. This event is guaranteed to be fun for the whole family!
Cost: One-day tickets are $17.00 and Multi-day tickets (Fri-Sun) are $35.00. Discounted ticket rates are available at the gate for seniors 65+, students, and active military personnel with ID.
What: Celebrating its 50th year, the Mukilteo Lighthouse Festival features a grand parade, fireworks, Battle of the Bands, children's activities, live entertainment, local artisans, foods from around the globe including Mukilteo's own famous Salmon Bake, and a children's fishing derby (open to ages 5-14 years old).
Cost: Entry to the festival is free! Some activities such as the children's bounce houses and rides, however, require the purchase of tickets.
What: Do you love Italian food? Then you won't want to miss this three-day Italian Street Fair in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood. This year's event brings together the best in Italian cuisine, local spirits, children's activities, merchandise booths, and three nights of live music and dancing. You won't want to miss it!
Cost: Entry to the festival is free.
What: The Skagit River Salmon Festival is back to celebrate the Skagit River and the return of salmon. This free, family event will be located at Waterfront Park, surrounded by breathtaking views of Mount Baker and Padilla Bay. This year features live entertainment, artisan wares, 'Hunters of the Sky' Raptor shows, great food, and so much more.
Cost: Entry to the festival is free!
What: Fremont Oktoberfest is a fall tradition in Seattle and has been hailed as one of the top 10 places in the world to celebrate Oktoberfest! This event takes over more than half of Seattle's Fremont neighborhood, featuring fun for the whole family, including the four-legged variety. Things to do include Dogtoberfest, a Texas Chainsaw Pumpkin Carving Contest, a 5K run on Sunday, and Sunday of all ages day.
Cost: General admission tickets are $25.00, grand admission tickets are $30.00, festival only admission is $20.00, Fremont brew crew admission is $50.00 (limited quality available), and Alpine Climb 5K registration is $25.00 if purchased before September 23rd. Kids are free on Sunday.
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"Americans recognize that science is critical to improving our quality of life, and when science is ignored or politically corrupted, it's the American people who suffer," said physicist Lewis Branscomb. (Photo: Eric Vance/USEPA/cc/flickr)
Trump Issues Media Blackout at Multiple Federal Agencies
Moves come amid growing concern that Trump and his appointees will suppress scientific innovation and research to advance their own ideological agenda
Lauren McCauley
Though the majority of President Donald Trump's controversial cabinet nominations have not yet been confirmed, his so-called "beachhead" teams have arrived at their respective agencies, carrying out orders that make clear that the "War on Science" has begun.
On Tuesday, BuzzFeed broke the news that scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are no longer allowed to share information about taxpayer-funded research with the public.
In an email sent Monday and obtained by the news outlet, Sharon Drumm, chief of staff for the USDA's primary in-house research arm, the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), told the department: "Starting immediately and until further notice, ARS will not release any public-facing documents...This includes, but is not limited to, news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds, and social media content."
As BuzzFeed noted,
Though some Agricultural Research Service work touches on sensitive subjects like pesticides and genetically modified food, its research is generally less politically charged than that conducted by other agencies, especially those focused on understanding climate change, such as the Environmental Protection Agency. But under the Obama administration, the Agriculture Department funneled research money into finding ways of cutting down the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from cows.
At the same time, Trump surrogate Myron Ebell, a climate change denier who has led the transition for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has confirmed reports that the new administration has ordered a "freeze" on grants and contracts at the agency—a move that the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) warns "could seriously impede the agency's work...protect[ing] our health and the environment from pollution."
In a press statement, Andrew Rosenberg, director of the Center for Science and Democracy at UCS, condemned the moves, describing the as "equally short-sighted and destructive."
"These actions don't just threaten scientists—they threaten everyone in the country who breathes air, drinks water, and eats food," said Rosenberg. "These agency scientists carry out research in support of policies that protect our health and safety and help farmers, and it makes no sense to put up walls between them and the public, or unilaterally halt the work they do."
"That the administration has moved so quickly to clamp down on scientists shows that the Trump administration is more focused on lifting rules on polluters than keeping our air and water clean," he added.
But that's not all. It has become apparent that the Trump administration has also ordered a media blackout at the EPA, as well as at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
According to an internal EPA memo obtained by the Huffington Post, specific prohibitions include banning press releases, blog updates, new website content, or posts to the agency's social media accounts, while all external communications and speaking engagements must be approved by the president's "Beach Team."
On Tuesday, the Huffington Post reported speaking to officials from several other agencies who confirmed that a similar communication lockdown had been instituted.
HuffPost's Sam Stein and Kate Sheppard report:
Officials at sub-agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services, for example, have been told not to send "any correspondence to public officials" according to a memo shared with HuffPost. Instead, they have been asked to refer questions to agency leadership until the leadership has had time to meet with incoming White House staff about the new administration's policies and objectives, according to a congressional official who was also informed of the communications freeze.
An official with the National Institutes of Health told HuffPost after the initial publication of this piece that an email had been sent to the directors of NIH institutes and centers providing guidance from HHS on how to handle new or pending regulation, policy or guidance.
"The HHS guidance instructs HHS Operating Divisions to hold on publishing new rules or guidance in the Federal Register or other public forums and discussing them with public officials until the Administration has had an opportunity to review them," the official said.
During his press briefing Tuesday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said he needed to look further into the matter to offer a comment.
The clampdown comes amid growing concern that Trump and his appointees will suppress scientific innovation and research to advance their own ideological agenda.
More than 5,500 scientists have signed on to an open letter, sent to Trump in the days following his election, warning against the dangers of allowing "political or corporate influence" to override scientific fact.
"Americans recognize that science is critical to improving our quality of life, and when science is ignored or politically corrupted, it's the American people who suffer," said physicist Lewis Branscomb, professor at the University of California, San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, who served as vice president and chief scientist at IBM and as director of the National Bureau of Standards under President Richard Nixon.
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I Don't Know What To Do With The Shade Room
The comments section of the gossip site has become a pop culture institution -- and a fascinating glimpse into the toxicity of celebrity and Internet culture.
Zeba Blay
Senior Culture Writer, HuffPost
09/30/2020 12:00pm EDT | Updated October 1, 2020
President Barack Obama recorded a special message Tuesday for The Shade Room, highlighting the gossip site's enormous influence.
The Shade Room
I don't know what to do with The Shade Room.
The celebrity news website and its wildly popular Instagram page (currently at over 20 million followers and counting) has, since its founding by Nigerian American entrepreneur Angelica Nwandu in 2014, become an institution in the world of Black gossip. It is a part of the Black lexicon and the Black zeitgeist, mentioned in rap songs and TV shows. With a hodgepodge of posts including celebrity news, memes, politics and inspirational messages, The Shade Room has cemented itself as a constantly evolving archive of Black pop culture.
That's what makes The Shade Room so intensely intriguing and addictive. It is relentless with content generation, adept at locking onto stories as they develop (a running joke is that The Shade Room seems to repost celebrity Instagram posts before the celebrities have even posted them). And it is powerful enough to not only follow the gossip but also to become the catalyst for it. On any given day, you'll see Black celebrities, influencers and reality television stars like Teyana Taylor, B. Simone and Nene Leakes "step into The Shade Room" to refute, clap back or cut up in the comments with thousands of other followers. These comments from celebs usually get screencapped and made into their own posts, forming a never-ending, self-referential loop of tea.
In a March 2019 profile for Marie Claire, Nwandu contended that she doesn't think of The Shade Room as purely a gossip site but more of a cultural archive. "I think our site is about the culture," she said, "All the things that make black culture beautiful." To some extent, Nwandu is correct in that The Shade Room does provide a kind of snapshot of Blackness that, while not definitive, is most definitely key. But with the beauty, obviously, comes some of the ugliness.
The comments section on The Shade Room can be regarded as a fascinating, telling and ultimately disturbing microcosm of ideas and attitudes. It is the major draw for so many Shade Room followers (or "roommates"), but it is also undeniably the locus of several forms of online toxicity, often steeped in sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bullying and body-shaming. For every "#TSRPositiveImages" post celebrating the work of Black entrepreneurs, philanthropists and others, there are posts that seem strategically designed to bring out the worst of the internet — posts that with implicit "shade" set up cultural figures including Lizzo, Billy Porter, Lori Harvey and Reginae Carter to be proverbially fed to the wolves.
When rapper Tory Lanez released a 17-song album with several songs largely refuting accusations around him shooting Megan Thee Stallion this summer, The Shade Room made dozens of posts platforming and breaking down each song, line for line. In the comments on these posts, there were those who came to Megan's defense, but there were also those who eagerly took the opportunity to bash her, question her and praise Lanez for sharing his "side of the story."
Then there were the countless posts and reposts about Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union's daughter Zaya Wade, who at 12 years old came out as transgender in February. While Wade and Union made a point to celebrate and affirm Zaya's gender identity, posts on The Shade Room about Zaya, a child, consistently garner vitriol, hate and criticism. The sense that the editors and reporters behind The Shade Room are willing to set up a child for harassment in the name of clicks and views (most of the money reportedly comes from ad revenue) is unsettling.
There have, apparently, been efforts made to mitigate and challenge some of the rhetoric in the comments section in response to these kinds of stories, with Nwandu telling Marie Claire that around 2015 she and her team made the decision to create a more balanced, positive atmosphere on the site and on Instagram. "There was a time when I would go on the Shade Room and I would just feel, like, ugh. I remember thinking, If I feel like this, what am I putting out to the people who are reading this? They may be feeling like this too if they come on here every day and consume what we're giving."
So, it seems as if there is an awareness. But what else is being done? What else should be done when it comes to this kind of content? The potential for breeding toxicity is not isolated to The Shade Room, of course. It is a problem that comes up constantly in the world of gossip, especially internet gossip, on sites and Instagram pages like Baller Alert, Bossip and World Star Hip Hop. And it's definitely not just a Black gossip thing either. In June, popular blog Lainey Gossip came forward to apologize for a history of racist, homophobic and fatphobic celebrity coverage about people including Jada Pinkett Smith and Janet Jackson, who was the target of one post headlined "Worst Ghetto Tits."
Gossip, as a concept, is fraught. It isn't exactly positive. It isn't meant to be. Half of the glee that people feel when they engage with these sites is the baser instincts of being a human: pettiness, cattiness, judgment, shade. The conceit of gossip, what needs to happen in order for it to "work," is to cement the idea that people on the internet are not actual human beings. We're all guilty of falling into this trap. It's easy to become tangled in it when so much of celebrity culture is predicated around fantasy, abstraction and escape.
Again, aside from simply unfollowing The Shade Room and sites like it, it's hard to know what to do with all this. Where do we draw the line between creating spaces where people are free to express themselves but also ensuring those spaces don't allow for or implicitly encourage toxicity, bullying, etc.? This has become the great conundrum of the internet in general: Major social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have consistently come under scrutiny for their ability to platform hate speech, "fake news" and harassment.
There's this thing people do when it comes to toxic online comments or trolling, this thing where they dismiss them as irrelevant. "That's just a sad person, they're saying that online but they would never say this stuff in real life." Sure, they may not say it, but often they still feel it. And these feelings live in the real world. I refuse to believe that the toxicity we see on the internet doesn't have, however small, real-life implications. These people in the comments are real people, after all, with real lives and communities. Normalizing or dismissing their behavior online is tantamount to ultimately normalizing and dismissing these behaviors in the real world. The Shade Room has an implicit understanding of this, which makes its tendency to lean into negativity, even when it makes the attempt to balance it with "positive" posts, so frustrating.
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama recorded a special message for The Shade Room, encouraging followers to get out and vote. "Hey roommates, Barack Obama here, coming to you from The Shade Room," he said, a statement both surreal and highly emblematic of The Shade Room's power and influence. That's why, ultimately, it's hard to simply chalk up the comments and the tactically shady posts as just part of a game we're all playing. What would it look like if more of an effort were made to challenge and disrupt the toxicity? What would it look like if there were more pushback, discussion and unpacking? Unfollowing is a tactic, yes, but I question how productive it ultimately is, what it means not to challenge and hopefully push such an integral part of online culture to evolve? And what does it say about us when we don't look away?
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Denver Colfax Marathon: Runner from Eritrea…
Denver Colfax Marathon: Runner from Eritrea breaks half marathon record
Runners listen to the singing of the National Anthem before the start of the 10th annual Colfax Marathon which started and ended in City Park in Denver, Colorado on May 17, 2015.
By John Meyer | jmeyer@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2015 at 7:08 a.m. | UPDATED: February 8, 2017 at 11:36 p.m.
Patrick Rizzo knew early in the Colfax Marathon's half marathon event that it wasn't going to be his day. As it turned out, he lost more than the race. He lost his course record, too.
Hais Welday of Eritrea, who came to Denver a week ago, won the race in one hour, 6 minutes, 44 seconds to break the record Rizzo set in 2012 by a minute and 25 seconds.
Rizzo, who ran the Los Angeles Marathon (2:21:54) two months ago in 90-degree temperatures, still hasn't completely recovered from that race and a subsequent bout of giardia that caused him to lose 10 pounds. He finished second Sunday in 1:09:36.
"At about 5K, I knew I was struggling a little bit more than I really should be for a half marathon," said Rizzo, 31, a resident of Colorado Springs. "I knew my fitness was going to inhibit me. I'm not out of shape, but I'm not race ready."
Welday, 25, saw Rizzo early but dropped him easily.
"There was somebody there, there is good guy that was going with me for three miles," Welday said. "After that I am going alone."
PHOTOS: 10th Annual Colfax Marathon runs through Denver
Even winners humbled — Nicole Chyr won the women's marathon for the fourth time in five years but it "felt awful." The Highlands Ranch runner finished in 3 hours, 2 minutes, 4 seconds.
"My legs blew up on me at mile 20, worse than any marathon in a while," Chyr said. "The marathon is just a humbling event. You forget how tough it really is. You hit that 20-mile mark and it is just mental at that point."
Ramon Paredes-Becerra, a 20-year-old from Chihuahua, Mexico, won the men's marathon in 2:36:13.
Olympian going strong — Nuta Olaru, a 2004 Olympian for Romania who has lived in Longmont since 2006, is still running strong at age 44. Olaru finished second in the masters division at the Boston Marathon last month and she won the women's half marathon easily Sunday in 1:22:46.
"First mile there was some girls near me," said Olaru, who became a U.S. citizen in 2011. "But after that I pushed by myself."
Kristin Louderback of Highlands Ranch, who won the Cherry Creek Sneak 10-miler last month, was second in 1:24:23.
"I stuck with her for the first mile or two, and then she pulled away," Louderback said. "You have to be smart and realize the talent that's here and kind of run your own race. She's in a different class, that's for sure."
John Meyer: jmeyer@denverpost.com or twitter.com/johnmeyer
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Queen's Gallery - Palace of Holyroodhouse Tickets with Audio Guide
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Enjoy some royally-fantastic exhibitions from the Royal Collection at Queen's Gallery with an informative audio guide.
Sign up for a fun and educational tour of the Queen's Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse
With ever-changing art exhibitions on display, you'll have plenty to see
Enjoy exhibitions like Eastern Encounters and Victoria & Albert, on display until 2021
Gain insight on the complicated dynamic between British Monarchy and the subcontinent of India
Make use of your informative audio guide to learn more about the Royal Collection
An Art Spy Family Activity bag will come in handy if you're traveling with children
Check out and buy some precious items at the Gallery Shop, inspired by the Royal Collection and Palaces
Visit The Queen's official residence in Scotland, the Palace of Holyroodhouse for a fun, educative experience. At the Queen's Gallery, you will view one of the changing art exhibitions from the Royal Collection while learning about them from the handy audio guide. Along with this, learn about the prestigious order of the Thistle (and more). The changing exhibitions feature old master paintings, rare furniture, and decorative images and arts from many photograph collections.
Enjoy the exhibition of Eastern Encounters (3 Apr-13 Sep 2020), boasting some of South Asia's finest paintings and manuscripts. Gain insight into the shared history of the British Monarchy and the colorful subcontinent of India from this exhibition. Visit the Gallery Shop before leaving that gives you the chance to shop for exclusive gifts inspired by the royal palaces and the Royal Collection's finest artwork!
Entry into Queen's Gallery
The audio guide tour lasts about 1 hr
Visitors and their belongings are subject to security checks before entering
You are not allowed to eat or drink in the Gallery. However, refreshments are available to purchase from the Café at the Palace in the Courtyard
The Art Spy Family Activity bag is designed for children aged between 5-11yrs. You can pick up a bag at the entrance of the exhibition for free
Apr-Oct: Thur-Mon: 9:30 AM- 6:00 PM (last entry at 5:00 PM)
Nov-Mar: Thur-Mon: 9:30 AM- 4:30 PM (last entry at 3:30 PM)
Eastern Encounters: Four Centuries of Paintings and Manuscripts from the Indian Subcontinent (23 Jul 2020 – 31 Jan 2021)
Victoria & Albert: Our Lives in Watercolour (5 Mar – 5 Sept 2021)
Gallery closed
1 Feb – 4 Mar 2021
25 & 26 Dec 2020
Discounted Tickets
Ages 0-4yrs go free. Ages 5-17yrs, students, and senior citizens aged 60yrs and up enjoy reduced ticket pricing (carry a valid photo ID)
Strict Cancellation Policy
Cannot be canceled, amended or rescheduled
Your voucher will be emailed to you instantly
Please display the voucher on your mobile phone with a valid photo ID at the attraction
If you have purchased reduced-priced tickets, please carry your valid photo ID proof for verification
Ticket Redemption Point
You can redeem the tickets directly at the entrance of the attraction: The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse (The Royal Mile, Edinburgh EH8 8DX, United Kingdom)
Get Directions to the Redemption Point
Closest bus stops are Abbeyhill Crescent and Scottish Parliament
Both bus stops are about 2-minutes from the Palace
This ticket is valid for the time and date selected during checkout
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First IT Chapter Two Trailer Debuts The Adult Losers' Club
Corey Chichizola
May. 9. 2019 4:07 PM
It's no secret that the horror genre has been in a renaissance during the last few years. Rather than stale franchises or torture porn, filmmakers have been bringing unique and terrifying new additions to theaters, and making a ton of money in the process. Andy Muschietti's IT was certainly no exception, as the iconic miniseries was adapted for the silver screen.
Given the first film's success, IT Chapter Two was an inevitability, and Andy Muschietti assembled a fantastic adult cast to continue the story in the sequel. Details about IT's follow-up has been kept under wraps, but now the first trailer has arrived. Check it out-- you'll float too.
Does anyone else have chills? Pennywise the dancing clown is back, and he might be even more menacing than the last time we saw him. This first trailer is largely focused on one terrifying sequence starring an adult Bev (Jessica Chastain), but we're also shown glimpses of the rest of the adult Losers' club, as well as the terrifying villain himself.
In the trailer, Beverly Marsh comes back to her childhood home, and the site her trauma as a girl in order to fulfill her oath with the rest of the Losers' Club. She's let in by a sweet old lady, and the two discuss the town of Derry, and Bev's return. But things start to take a turn quickly, the moment the little old lady mentions that her father used to be in the circus.
The scene plays out with tons of tension, and the audience is privy to more information that Jessica Chastain's character is. We watch in horror as she's talked by Pennywise's latest disguise, before eventually being attacked. Let's just hope that Bev gets out there alive.
Jessica Chastain is joined by a stunning cast of adult actors, who are shown in brief clips throughout the first IT Chapter Two trailer. James McAvoy is playing Losers' Club leader Bill Denbrough, who is shown sharing some tender moments with his childhood crush, Bev. Bill Hader is playing Richie Tozier, taking on the mantle from Stranger Things standout Finn Wolfhard. Also featured are Mike (Isaiah Mustafa ), Eddie (James Ransone), and Stan (Andy Bean).
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Personally, I think this first IT Chapter Two trailer is super effective. By largely focusing on one sequence, the trailer fails to accidentally spoil the film's contents. And while the sequel's tone is made crystal clear, just about anything could happen when it arrives in theaters.
IT Chapter Two will arrive in theaters on September 6, 2019. In the meantime, check out our 2019 release list to plan your next trip to the movies.
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The Delta Cos. will occupy 38,000 square feet of office space at Cypress Waters.
The Delta Cos. will remain in place until July 2018, when the Cypress Waters office building is completed.
The Cypress Waters development has just landed the first tenant in its first lakeside office building. The Delta Cos., a Dallas-based physician and healthcare staffing firm, will be leaving its current space at the 226,911-square-foot office building called Four Hickory Centre in Farmers Branch. The company plans to occupy 38,000 square feet in the five-story Cypress Waters office building at 3100 Olympus Blvd. on North Lake. The 1,000-acre Cypress Waters development is spread across Dallas, Coppell, and Irving.
The new HQ will be positioned to overlook The Sound, a centerpiece of the development featuring retail space. The company plans to make the move in July 2018, once construction of the building is complete. A representative for the company said the staffing company has experienced a lot of growth and is expecting this to continue, making the move necessary.
A view of The Sound at the 1,000-acre Cypress Waters development.
The Delta Cos., which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, was named to Forbes' list of Best Professional Recruiting Firms this year. Steve Wentz, Randy Cooper, and Wills Bauer of Cushman and Wakefield represented the tenant in the move.


These statistics are part of the collection "Tax relief statistics".
For some of the main tax reliefs, this table provides estimates of the revenue costs (£50 million or above) for the six year period between the 2013 to 2014 tax year and the 2018 to 2019 tax year. The figures for 2018 to 2019 are in all cases forecasts from previous years' actual data.
31 January 2019 The bulletin and tables have been updated to include 2018 to 2019 forecasts as well as the latest available outturns and forecast data for historical years.
23 January 2018 The tables have been updated to include the latest available estimates for reliefs.
30 December 2016 The bulletin and table have been updated to include the latest available data.
31 December 2015 The table has been updated with the latest data following the Autumn Statement.
7 January 2015 Updated 31 December 2014 - latest data now available.
9 April 2014 The data for VCT and EIS has been corrected. The figures had previously been transposed: EIS figures are shown for VCT and vice-versa.
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Gyan: Now very difficult for Ghana to qualify to 2018 World Cup
Evans Gyamera-Antwi
Goal Ghana
Ghana v Congo
The Black Stars captain says they were poor against Congo in the World Cup qualifying in Kumasi on Friday
Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has admitted that the Black Stars were poor against Congo in the 2018 Fifa World Cup qualifier that ended in a 1-1 draw at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi on Friday.
After picking just a point from two games, Ghana were hoping to snatch their first victory in the qualifiers to close the gap in Group E where Uganda and Egypt are ahead.
Bifouma Thievy's scored the opening goal for Congo before Thomas Teye Partey grabbed the equaliser late in the game for Kwesi Appiah's men.
''It's difficult. Honestly it's very difficult [for us to qualify now]. Things didn't go well as expected and we didn't play the way we expected to play like tactically and mentally. I didn't know what went wrong but I will say the desire wasn't there today and we were a bit poor,'' Gyan said.
''It's one of those days that things happen wrongly. Nobody is to be blamed here but it's one of those days that nothing gets well on the field. I don't know what went wrong but I think it's one of those days,'' he added.
Gyan was substituted in the second half after picking up an injury and says he cannot confirm if he will miss or not the return leg against Congo on Tuesday.
"I don't know [if I can make the trip] but I will go for a scan on Saturday because I'm feeling a bit of pain in my groin. I think I over-stretched so the scan is going determine whether I can play or not.''
Gyan is Ghana's most capped and all-time topscorer with 51 goals in 106 appearances.


Ready or not, here it is. Tax Day is upon us – the giant alarm clock that is annually wound and set for the entire nation is poised to go off; its striking terror in those who have yet to visit their tax preparer, or boot up the online tax preparation du jour. Whether you're the giant-trash-bag-full-of-receipts kind of filer, or the labeled-files-for-everything variety, filing your taxes can be exhausting. "Money is a major source of stress on people, and what tax season does is shine a great big spotlight on the issue," says Michael McKee, a Cleveland Clinic psychologist and president of the U.S. branch of the International Stress Management Association for the WebMD website. "Money takes center stage at tax time, even if you might have been able to push it to the wings the rest of the year."
Considering that about 75% of Americans find money to be a major cause of stress, the anxiety felt during the process of filing is real, and it's widespread. In fact, April 15th is thought to be the most stressful day of the year, second only to days when massive tornados or other natural disasters strike. Considering that with stress comes the "taxing" side effects of loss of sleep, raised blood pressure, increased irritability, an increase of poor health habits (stress-induced doughnuts and a cigarette, anyone?) and an impaired immune system; nationally, we're a walking wreck on 4/15. In fact, the tension even rampantly rides close to home, as you're more likely to get in a car accident on this day.
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Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid's sons were sentenced to jail for drug use and dealing. Britt Reid, 22 years old, was sentenced to 8 to 23 months in prison plus 5 years probation for drug use and carrying a handgun without license. Aside from testing positive for drugs, Britt pointed a handgun at another driver following a dispute. On the other hand 24-year old Garett Reid was sentenced to 2 to 23 months in jail plus 1 year probation for drug use and dealing. He tested positive for heroin and ran a red light on January 30, hitting another car during the incident. Andy Reid and his wife, Tammy, were in court but refused to comment.
Eagles players went about their practice routine Thursday without Reid, the first time the coach missed practice in his nine seasons with the franchise. He took a 5-week leave from the Eagles during the offseason to take care of his sons' ordeal. He declines to comment on his sons' drug and legal problems but assures that he will not resign from the team. Players say the coach truly loved his children and wanted to be there to support them despite the problems.
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According to the Yabloko leader, the leadership is now creating a police state, which will not be able to exist without Stalin's principles of control. This is why only the dismantling of this system can improve the situation.
Investigators find tax police documents related to YUKOS case.
The spokeswoman for the Prosecutor General's Office, Natalia Vishnyakova, told journalists on Wednesday that some of the documents included a scheme of fund transfers through the administrative territorial entity in the town of Lesnoi.
Two methods are usually put forward to bring the shadow economy out into the open: the stick and the carrot.
Russian parties that will be competing in the upcoming State Duma elections are running out of their official campaign funds, Interfax quoted Central Elections Commission officials as saying.
The Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled as unconstitutional one part of the law that restricts media coverage of election campaigns, and in doing so, gave journalists more room to do their jobs, critics of the law said.
"You are The Oligarchs and This is Election Season."
Igor Yurgens, executive director of the business lobbying group the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs:...the Kremlin "had to find a new threat to mobilize the masses to vote for Putin and his party in the Duma, and they found one in the oligarchs."
Lawmakers and political scientists move to "topple Putin"
According to the leader of the Yabloko party, this system has "transformed our people's court into the Basmannyi court", authorizing unlawful searches and questioning of Duma deputies, defence counsels and priests.
Sergei Mitrokhin, deputy leader of the Yabloko faction: "In losing Voloshin, the presidential administration is losing its most balanced force and policies."
If strong lobbyist factions - primarily those supported by some of Russia's oligarchs - carve out a voice for themselves, the Kremlin will have a much more difficult time managing the Duma. A strong showing by the liberal Yabloko faction (which has received financial support from Khodorkovsky) could interfere with the Kremlin's plans.
On Saturday and Sunday, many political parties and public organizations issued statements and appeals related to the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Many appealed to the President to meet with representatives of the political and business elite and tell them where he stands on these events.
Khodorkovsky, one of the so-called oligarchs who made vast fortunes in the privatization of former state-run businesses after the the Soviet Union broke up, has openly supported political parties that are opposing Putin's in December elections to the Duma, the Russian Parliament.
After the self-exile of Boris Berezovsky and fellow media tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky, no other oligarch has lost his liberty or any of his assets, despite the fact that most of them are signally sleazier and none has done half as much as Mr. Khodorkovsky to rehabilitate Russian business in the eyes of the international community.
Saturday's arrest at gunpoint of oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky risks undoing Putin's efforts during three years in power to drag up the sagging economy and create a strong political system into which investors would happily pour money.
German researcher Elizabet Noel-Neuman has described a phenomenon she called "the spiral of silence." On controversial issues, people tend to fall in with majority views rather than working out an opinion of their own; they are even less inclined to side with minority opinions.
According to Melnikov, "The Office of the Public Prosecutor General will do all they can to prevent barristers from visting Khodorkovsky."
Putin reacts to "YUKOS case"
"There won't be any meetings or any bargaining over the activities of the law and enforcement agencies, unless they breached Russian law," Mayak radio quoted Putin as saying.
Detention of the head of YUKOS represents an act of intimidation against large-scale business. This statement was made to RBC by Vyacheslav Erokhin, chief analyst at the Center for Economic and Political Research EPIcenter.
"The people acting against Khodorkovsky and YUKOS don't think that they are bound by the law," said Melnikov.
The Russian Democratic Party YABLOKO and the Union of Right-Wing Forces Party express their deep concern over the detention of the head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Novosibirsk.
Yesterday, it became clear that President Putin's era of liberal reforms was almost certainly over.
Faced by Saturday's arrest of Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky, even those who have known Putin for years appear to be at a loss.
Investigators from the Prosecutor-General's Office and the Federal Security Service (FSB) on 23 October conducted a raid of the offices of a public-relations firm that is doing campaign work for the Yabloko party, Russian media reported.
Police snatched Russia's richest man, YUKOS oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, from his jet in Siberia on Saturday and hauled him before a Moscow court, charged with massive fraud and tax evasion.
"The Prosecutor-General's Office and the Federal Security Service have confiscated documents and electronic information media, linked to the election campaign and owned by the Yabloko party." This comes from a statement issued by the party leader Grigory Yavlinsky. The document notes that the agency was carrying out political consultative work for the Yabloko election campaign.
The criminal probe into Yukos is seen in Russia as a politically motivated warning to chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky, identified by Forbes magazine as Russia's richest man, to stay out of politics. Khodorkovsky has openly supported parties in opposition to the Kremlin and has denounced the probe.
"On unlawful withdrawal of the documents in property of the YABLOKO party"
Shell could lose its licences to drill for oil in Russia, after an investigation by the country's ministry of natural resources - responsible for the ecology and exploitation of vast oil and gas fields - said it had reason to file a number of complaints.
The relentless tax investigation into Yukos veered openly into politics for the first time Thursday as prosecutors raided a public relations agency hired by the Yukos-funded liberal Yabloko party, detaining two of the party's deputies and confiscating five computer servers.
Grigory Yavlinsky: "...The problems that our political activity attempts to resolve are at least twice as old as we are. We are dealing with problems that have existed in Russia for ages."
"When a new partner appears the world arena, problems always occur: there is always some inferiority complex, there are always problems with existing market proportions, money flows and the system of current personal relations - this problem should somehow be transformed and changed. I think this is just a matter of time," said Lukin.
In a speech at the opening of the exhibition YABLOKO leader Grigory Yavlinsky confirmed the intention of the party to adhere to the political path it had chosen 10 years ago, with compliance to democratic values and liberties. According to the party leader, YABLOKO will remain in opposition to the authorities until the government "resolves three tasks: the creation of a free civil society in Russia, the building of a competitive market economy and the provision of social rights and guarantees for all Russian citizens."
On Tuesday celebrations began in the Central Museum of Modern History of Russia, Moscow, where an exhibition was held on the history of the party's creation and development.
The Prosecutor General's Office on Thursday searched the office of the Yabloko party's campaigner, the Agency for Strategic Communications (ASK).
With "managed democracy" on the rise, the authorities are not so concerned about election results as they are about presenting a facade of decorum.
Sergei Mitrokhin, deputy head of the State Duma's Yabloko faction, said that a group of detectives who are conducting a search in the Strategic Communications Agency's office are not allowing him to leave the building.
The SPS positions itself as a party of the successful, who, according to Berezovsky, have not being idle during recent years, and have instead gathered wealth. YABLOKO has a different electorate.
European Union chooses Grigory Yavlinsky! Your vote counts!
Grigory Yavlinsky was nominated in the category "non-European Union citizens" for his "efforts to strengthen the democratization and modernisation of Russian society."
A party that fails to get its federal list registered can try to win single-mandate seats -- if its candidates are registered by Wednesday evening. If 12 or more of a party's members get elected, they can form a faction in the new Duma, saving the group from political extinction.
The pre-recording of debates deprives them of any sense, violates the constitutional right of citizens to obtain information and contradicts the letter of the law "On Guarantees of Franchise".
In reference to the European Union's demand that Russia should raise its low domestic gas and electricity prices to world levels if it wants to join the World Trade Organisation, the Russian president retorted: "That is impossible. We would cause the whole Russian economy to collapse."
The founder of scientific socialism used to say: "History repeats itself twice: first as a tragedy, and then as farce." For the sixth or 56th time, history repeats itself as unbelievable marasm.
Yabloko also voted against the bill because it said the government intentionally underestimated revenues by $7 billion, a view that is gaining adherents in the private sector.
On Friday, the State Duma's deputies are to review the draft address to the management of two leading state-run television networks, Channel One, and Rossia, with the request to broadcast election debates live.
Two days after the country's top two national television stations let it be understood that they would broadcast taped versions of the upcoming State Duma election debates, they backpedaled Thursday.
SPS, YABLOKO Leaders Tangle on Issue of "Liberal Empire"
"If we raise the living standard of our 40 million citizens who are living below the poverty line, if we restore the independent mass media and an independent judiciary, then Russia will become the center of gravity within the CIS without creating an empire," Yavlinskii said.
For the first time in history, lawmakers in the State Duma have passed the government's draft budget in a second reading without changing a word.
In a surprise decision, Russia's Constitutional Court has agreed to hear four different appeals against the new legislation brought by three journalists and more than 100 State Duma deputies.
Until the Election the Duma Will Not Allow the Next Generation to Get into Formation.
Alexei Arbatov: The General Staff has drawn the following conclusion: the deferral of military service should be abolished to ensure that everyone is recruited to the army.
The more principles a person has in life, the more obstacles and problems there are in his life and the more strength he needs not to break down.
Thus, Russian education will once be again militarized as it was during the Soviet era.
In the present law "On Education", basic military training is possible only in the event of willingness and consent from students and their parents, which contradicts the law "On Military Duty and Military Service" stipulating mandatory basic military training in high schools and training colleges.
"Informally members of the Central Electoral Commission praised us for the high quality and rapid collection of signatures, said Mitrokhin. - This is the best answer to all those who have tried to show that our party allegedly had problems with its regional branches."
The vote was 338-42. Only two liberal parties, Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces, opposed the law, which must go through two more readings before it is passed.
Russia took a step back toward its Soviet past Friday by giving preliminary approval to a law making military training mandatory in all elementary schools.
Roll-call voting in the State Duma "For the adoption of the Federal Law "On Introduction of Amendments into the Part 2 of the Tax Code of the RF" (depriving academic organisations of privileges on property tax)", October 8, 2003.
President Vladimir Putin, in interviews given to foreign journalists just before and after his recent trip to the United States, offered his most detailed comments to date on the ongoing Yukos saga and, more broadly, on the relationship between the state and business.
According to the NAPP, if the Duma elections had been held in September, the United Russia party would have won the most seats (185), followed by the CPRF (135 seats). YABLOKO and the LDPR would have won 21 seats each. The SPS would have won 22 seats. Other parties and independent candidates would have won 66 seats in single-mandate districts. Based on September polls, voter turnout would have been 69.2%.
Defying the Kremlin's stance, and the government's strong disapproval, State Duma deputies have passed a draft law on parliamentary inquiries.
According to Yavlinsky, the present economic situation demonstrates "the need to legitimatise privatisation".
Commenting on the idea of Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the Yabloko party, to declare an amnesty on privatisation, Putin noted that it was necessary to translate this idea into reality correctly from legal and political points of view, something which is hard to do.
"The responsibility for the civil war in the centre of the Russian capital and fatalities should be borne by the leaders with their overweening ambition in both the executive and legislative authorities at the time."
However, on the eve of elections, the Duma will hardly risk stirring up the past, the more as not all faction leaders showed up at the memorial functions held in front of the White House.
Yavlinsky was also concerned about the dependency of the Russian economy on the "pipe", "The impulse from the raw-materials sector does not spread to other sectors. We don't have an independent judiciary, independent parliament or mass media, civil control over secret services, and now are witnessing a merger between business and the authorities. This system restricts our economic growth and should be dismantled."
Mikhail Amosov: "In the past few months I have really been wondering if some kind of censorship has been introduced on local TV channels. It was tacit consent; they put all their efforts to promote one candidate and ignored the others."
Arbatov said that it was evident from the statements that as in the past the US and NATO are considered to represent the main threat to Russia.
The Monitoring Council for the election campaign is not functioning yet, but some political parties are on the verge of recalling their representatives from this structure.
Alexei Arbatov (Yabloko), deputy chairman of the Duma Defense Committee, says this document is far too controversial to be regarded as a military doctrine.
The opinions of Presidential Advisor Andrei Illarionov and YABLOKO's leader Grigory Yavlinsky clashed at the meeting of the Open Forum club.
Yavlinsky, YABLOKO leader: Now we are seeing powerful and considerable inflows of hard currency into the country in the raw material sector. But there has been no impetus from the raw material sector to other economic sectors.
The weekly magazines Kommersant Vlast and Tverskaya 13 were both served with warnings this week after they published articles about the Moscow mayoral election.
Getting just 15.9 percent of the votes cast in the first round, narrowly ahead of "Against All Candidates," Markova can only win Sunday if she garners the support of all the defeated first-round candidates and breaks through voter apathy that led to a turnout of just 29 percent.
It looks as if the government does not plan to do anything to eliminate extreme poverty, even though 20 per cent of the population are only just surviving.
What is most alarming, Professor Rzhanitsina says that the government has no intention of combatting so-called "economic poverty," which means that as before, many of the people living below the poverty line are employed, most of them in the public sector.
Twelve years after the Soviet Union's collapse most Russians have become strikingly - and, some say, ominously - disillusioned about democracy's most basic right.


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Yahoo goes after younger, mobile users with reported Hulu bid
CEO Mayer tries to refresh Yahoo with strong video acquisition
By Sharon Gaudin
Senior Writer, Computerworld |
With Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer taking steps to transform the company back into a top-tier player, reports are out that Yahoo is in talks to buy Hulu for as much as $800 million.
Yahoo bid between $600 million and $800 million for Hulu, a video site known for streaming TV shows and movies, according to All Things D.
Neither Yahoo nor Hulu have responded to requests for comment. If the reports are accurate, though, Yahoo could be on an acquisition spree.
These latest reports come on the heels of Yahoo's announcement earlier this month that it would acquire blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion. In March, Yahoo said it would buy Summly, a London-based company that developed an app for condensing information, making it easily and quickly readable on mobile devices. The purchase was of special note since Summly was owned by Nick D'Aloisio, a 17-year-old high school student.
Mayer, who is still in her first year as Yahoo's CEO, has said that taking advantage of the burgeoning mobile market is part of her plan to rebuild the company, which was once an online pioneer but has since faded to become a B-level player in the Internet market.
In January, Mayer said mobile products are "incredibly important to our strategy." To that end, Yahoo recently acquired the mobile recommendations app Stamped and the video chat broadcasting app OnTheAir.
Buying the privately held Hulu, which is a considerable player in the online video market, would be a smart move, according to Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group.
"This finally gets Yahoo into the high-growth video content game," Olds said. "As entertainment delivery and consumption patterns change, having a video delivery platform is a key piece to being a player in this burgeoning market. This could turn Yahoo into a destination site for folks who want to consume their entertainment over the Web, either in the living room or on any other device."
Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with ZK Research, noted that Yahoo has almost no video presence, and Hulu could give the company a platform and an audience.
"Obviously it's not YouTube, but it may be the best video platform out there for sale," Kerravala said. "Yahoo needs to become appealing to the younger, mobile generation. There's just nothing about legacy Yahoo that is."
Kerravala also noted that since Yahoo should have deeper pockets than Hulu, Yahoo could bring new functionality and new features to Hulu.
Both Kerravala and Olds said Mayer is working hard to turn the company around, and one of the first orders of business seems to be rounding out the company's portfolio with a series of acquisitions.
Those acquisitions are aimed squarely at a younger, more mobile user base.
Mayer, who was a top executive at Google, arrived at Yahoo last summer with the mandate to return the company around and create excitement around the brand.
Earlier this year, she kicked off the revamp with a new look for Yahoo's homepage.
This article, Yahoo goes after younger, mobile users with reported Hulu bid, was originally published at Computerworld.com.
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Misadventures is the full-length debut album by pop punk/hardcore band Such Gold. The album was released on August 14, 2012 through Razor and Tie Records. The album was praised by critics and fans a like and is a major stepping stone for the upcoming band, and it was a more mature album compared to the band's previous releases; Pedestals, Stand Tall, and the split with Into It Over It. The album was released on 12" records, compact discs, as well as digital download, and the first single "Storyteller" was also released on a 7" inch record, with the B-side being "Locked Out of the Magic Theater." To promote the album the band went on a headlining tour with Mixtapes and Citizen.

Track listing

Personnel
Such Gold
 Devan Bentley - drums
 Skylar Sarkis - guitar/vocals
 Ben Kotin - vocals
 Nate Derby - guitar
 Devon Hubbard - bass/vocals

References

2012 albums
Such Gold albums
Razor & Tie albums


FreshArrival » Blog Archive » LEGO Johnny Five.
One day when I was a kid, my mother told me she had accidentally taped over the Betamax copy of Short Circut we had. I loved that movie and was completely devastated. Many years later I found out that my dad had intentionally taped over it because he thought it was ridiculous how often I watched it. He was probably right, I bet I watched it 100 times.
Johnny Five may have been once forcibly ripped from my life, but now he is back! And he's made of LEGOs!
This walking talking LEGO version of Johnny Five was created after a dimensional study of the real Johnny Five. The site has a parts list and even movies of Johnny in action. Too bad you can't buy him.
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Last week, the top six global winners were announced for the International Space Apps Challenge. The top six challenges were chosen from the 29 finalists chosen from over 100 submitted solutions at 25 participating locations. But here's the thing, there were so many incredible ideas submitted to the Space Apps Challenge that it is almost easy to overlook some of the challenges that were not highlighted through the global judging process.
Let me give you an example that I've been sharing with others when they ask about the innovation that happened at the event.


JOHANNESBURG. – South Africa's anti-corruption watchdog said on Thursday that it was investigating Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, a close ally of President Cyril Ramaphosa, for allegedly abusing his powers during his time as finance minister.
The watchdog said it was looking into allegations that Gordhan wrongly approved an early retirement package for a senior tax official at the South African Revenue Service (SARS) in 2010, before allowing him to be re-employed at the agency on a contract basis.
Public Enterprises Ministry spokesman Adrian Lackay said on Thursday that Gordhan was not able to comment because he had made a submission on the investigation to a separate judicial inquiry into state corruption headed by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo and was not allowed to disclose that submission.
Gordhan has said in the past that the early retirement of tax official Ivan Pillay was entirely above board.
The Public Protector, an organisation mandated by the constitution to uphold standards in public office, said the investigation into Gordhan had started in 2016 but had now reached a stage where it was ready to conduct interviews.
"It has been alleged that the minister approved Pillay's retirement and bought off his pension balance irregularly and later allowed him to be re-employed by the South African Revenue Service," Segalwe added.
In an opinion piece in a South African newspaper last month, Gordhan said his efforts to clean up corruption in state-owned companies faced "dangerous" resistance which threatened the country's sovereignty.
Gordhan has some powerful enemies in the ruling African National Congress and has been criticized by the radical Economic Freedom Fighters party as the power behind the throne.
Ramaphosa has said Gordhan needs to be applauded for the actions he has taken as public enterprises minister.
Judge Zondo is leading an inquiry into claims of influence-peddling against former president Jacob Zuma.


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The Susan B. Anthony Institute is excited to announce that it has received a grant from the Rochester Area Community Foundation's (RACF) LGBT Giving Circle. This year is the inaugural grantmaking year for the Giving Circle. The group, who created and developed the LGBT Fund for Greater Rochester this year, was able to distribute $8,750 in grants to local organizations who are making a difference in the lives of LGBTQ individuals in the Rochester area. Grants were presented at an evening reception hosted by the Rochester Contemporary Art Center.
SBAI will use the $2,000 grant to support, sustain, and expand LGBTQI Awareness Month programming in the month of April at the University of Rochester. SBAI initiated LGBTQI Awareness Month in April 2011 and serves as the lead organizer across the University. The month features educational lectures, activism opportunities, the Out in Reel film and discussion series, and networking opportunities for students, staff, and faculty. Last year, SBAI expanded on the events of the inaugural year by introducing the annual Rainbow Lecture – the first and only lecture at the University dedicated to exploring LGBTQI issues from a scholarly perspective.
ImageOut ($2,000): Founded in 1993, this annual festival in October showcases LGBT arts and cultural experiences through film, creative works, and artists. This grant supports operating expenses for the 2013 season.
Rochester Gay Men's Chorus ($1,500): This year the group celebrates 30 years of creating social change through the choral arts by using music to create acceptance of social diversity. This grant provides support for the group's 30th anniversary concert season.
Temple Sinai ($1,250): Opened in 1959, this continually evolving temple in Brighton strives to affirm its ethical and social responsibilities to the community, nation and world. The grant supports the continuation of LGBTQ outreach workshops.
Volunteer Legal Services of Monroe County($2,000): More than 1,500 volunteer attorneys donate their time to assist low-income residents who face non-criminal legal problems. The grant supports services provided to impoverished transgender people for legal name and gender changes.
All grant recipients, including SBAI, agree to keep grant money in the community; to form connections across organizations, associations, agencies, and institutions in the community; and to address a need, population, or issue that has been underserved or underfunded. According to RACF, the LGBT Giving Circle is constituted by 32 households and more than 50 individuals. This year, contributions from members were split between grantmaking for the year and endowment for future need. To learn more, visit the LGBT Giving Circle online.
SBAI is honored to be a grant recipient, and excited to honor the legacy of Susan B. Anthony by ensuring that justice and human rights are served through administration, policy, education, and activism around LGBTQI issues. The grant will help SBAI contribute to a community that feels safe, engaged, and empowered. LGBTQI Awareness Month serves an important need of the University of Rochester community by sharing LGBTQI related research, stories, and knowledge. The month-long series of events helps to start and influence important conversations and ideas, and SBAI is excited to continue expanding it with the help of this grant. Many thank you's to the LGBT Giving Circle!
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Thanks to all who attended the 2017 Educational Conference: REACH OUT: Caring for Self and Others held at Lankenau Hospital. We hope you found the program engaging inspiring. Thank you to all the speakers who shared their time and expertise with us.
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Icelantic's Winter on the Rocks: Mac Miller & Jauz at Red Rocks Amphitheatre
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The Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller became a hit on the underground rap scene with his first album, "Blue Slide Park," which amazingly then went on to top the US Billboard 200 – the first independently distributed album to do so since Tha Dogg Pound in 1995! Miller will now be supporting his most recent album, "The Divine Feminine". As for producer Jauz, he'll be treating us to what he's best known for – a diverse blend of genres all blended together to make the perfect danceable mix. Known for originals such as "Feel the Volume" and remixes including "Hella Hoes," get ready for an incredible high-energy dance experience!
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Home prices hold their own, but just barely
by Kelvin | Apr 3, 2008 | Real Estate in Singapore | 0 comments
Business Times – 02 Apr 2008
Analysts expect at least one quarterly dip this year
By KALPANA RASHIWALA
(SINGAPORE) Despite the quieter market, home prices continued to edge up in the first quarter, although at a slower pace, latest flash estimates show. The quarter-on-quarter rate of increase in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's price index for private homes decelerated to 4.2 per cent in Q1 this year, after a 6.8 per cent gain in Q4 2007.
Some property consultants are now factoring in declines for at least one of the remaining three quarters of this year, as the full impact of the US economic slowdown bites into the local property market.
URA's flash estimate also showed that regional sub-indices for non-landed private home prices posted smaller gains all-round in Q1 this year than they did in Q4 2007. However, the 4.8 per cent increase in the Outside Central Region (OCR) in Q1 outpaced gains of 4.4 per cent in the Core Central Region (CCR) and 3.9 per cent in the Rest of Central Region (RCR) – for the first time in four years.
Jones Lang LaSalle said prices are steady in the CCR, supported by deep-pocketed investors, but may be peaking in the RCR, while demand continues to be strong in the OCR as en bloc sellers pick up replacement homes in the suburbs, where prices are relatively more attractive.
In the public housing segment, the Housing & Development Board's flash estimate shows that the HDB resale flat price index rose 3.4 per cent in Q1 over the preceding quarter, again slower than the 5.7 per cent increase posted in Q4 last year.
Knight Frank director (consultancy and research) Nicholas Mak said that in a worst-case scenario – assuming the Singapore economy contracts in the coming months – URA's overall price index for private homes could post a full-year increase of zero to 5 per cent.
This factors in one quarter of decline, to the tune of 0.5 to 2.5 per cent, possibly towards the end of the year. Any decline in the index would be the first since Q1 2004, Mr Mak added.
Mr Mak's best-case scenario is for a 10-15 per cent full-year gain in the index, with increases in all four quarters.
URA's private home price index rose 31.2 per cent in 2007.
Colliers International's director for research and consultancy Tay Huey Ying too said that the Singapore property market is likely to experience the full impact of the US economic slowdown by Q3 or Q4 this year.
In a worst-case scenario, URA's private home price index may rise 8 to 10 per cent for the whole of this year, with possibly a decline in the fourth quarter of not more than 4 per cent, Ms Tay said.
In a best-case scenario – if the US enters a mild recession and recovers by the year-end and Singapore's GDP growth rate is at the higher end of the MTI's forecast of 4 to 6 per cent – the full-year increase in URA's index could be 12-15 per cent.
For the next quarter, CB Richard Ellis is predicting a marginal rise in the index, of about one to 2 per cent from the Q1 level. It estimates that developers sold about 700-1,000 private homes in Q1, less than the 1,449 units they sold in Q4 last year.
Observers said that price gains in the OCR may have come from the secondary market, from completed developments like The Clearwater and Aquarius by the Park in the Bedok Reservoir area. The fact that a new launch in the area, Waterfront Waves, sold for an average price of about $800 psf could have encouraged the trend.
In the western part of Singapore, units sold at The Lakeshore and LakeHolmz in the Boon Lay vicinity may also have helped boost the sub-index for non-landed homes in the OCR, analysts suggest.
Knight Frank's Mr Mak said that the 4.4 per cent gain in the CCR during Q1 was the lowest rate of increase in the past seven quarters.
As for the HDB resale price index, ERA Singapore assistant vice-president Eugene Lim predicts a full-year increase of not more than 10 per cent, compared with a 17.5 per cent jump in 2007.
Some demand may be taken away from the resale market because of a higher supply of new flats coming onstream, so resale prices may increase at a more measured pace in the coming months.
The HDB said in its release yesterday that the total planned Build-To-Order (BTO) supply of 6,100 new flats for Jan-Sept 2008 will surpass the annual BTO flat supply in 2007 (6,000 units) and 2006 (2,400 units).
HDB's records show that in February 2008, about a quarter of resale flats were transacted at prices not exceeding $10,000 above market valuation.
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Stoneware 16 piece set including four dinner plates 28cm/11inch, four side plates 21cm/8.3inch, four bowls 16.5cm/6.5inch and four mugs 400ml/14floz, the classic soft white glaze is hand applied to create an attractive contrast between matt and shine on the bowls and mugs. Dishwasher and microwave safe, this set is perfect for casual entertaining and easily combined with other accent pieces in the collection.
This ED Ellen DeGeneres Crafted By Royal Doulton 16 Piece Soft White Glaze Dinner Set is the perfect addition to any home.


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package kjkrol.voronoidiagram;

import javafx.geometry.Point2D;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.Arrays;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

/**
 * @author Karol Krol
 */
public class RegionTest {

    private static final double DELTA = 0.0001;

    @Test
    public void normalRegionTest() {
        final NormalRegion region = NormalRegion.builder().center(new Point2D(3, -1)).build();
        region.refresh(-3.0);
        final Parabola parabola = Parabola.builder().a(1.0).b(-2.0).c(-1.0).build();
        final Point2D[] points = region.findIntersection(parabola)
                .orElseThrow(() -> new AssertionError("Intersection not found."));
        assertEquals(-1.0, points[0].getX(), DELTA);
        assertEquals(2.0, points[0].getY(), DELTA);
        assertEquals(1.6666666666666667, points[1].getX(), DELTA);
        assertEquals(-1.5555555555555554, points[1].getY(), DELTA);
    }

    @Test
    public void verticalRegionTest() {
        final Region region = VerticalRegion.builder().xValue(0.0).build();
        final Parabola parabola = Parabola.formalDefinitionBuilder()
                .focusPoint(new Point2D(3, -1))
                .horizontalLine(-3.0)
                .build();
        final Point2D[] points = region.findIntersection(parabola)
                .orElseThrow(() -> new AssertionError("Intersection not found."));
        assertEquals(new Point2D(0, 0.25), points[0]);
    }

    @Test
    public void horizontalRegionTest() {
        final Region region = HorizontalRegion.builder().yValue(-1.0).build();
        final Parabola parabola = Parabola.formalDefinitionBuilder()
                .focusPoint(new Point2D(3, -1))
                .horizontalLine(-3.0)
                .build();
        final Point2D[] points = region.findIntersection(parabola)
                .orElseThrow(() -> new AssertionError("Intersection not found."));
        assertEquals(new Point2D(1.0, -1.0), points[0]);
        assertEquals(new Point2D(5.0, -1.0), points[1]);
    }

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


As the weekend comes to a close, it's good to know that we have survived some record-breaking temperatures.
At Bismarck Municipal Airport, the thermometer read 104 degrees. The last time it was that high was 1978. Minot was up to 105 breaking a 121-year-old record for heat. Dickenson also broke a 2015 record of 102 degrees when it went to 104.
The kicker though was how windy it was. It got up to 25 miles an hour at one point which made it feel like you were in a blow dryer. I was at Lake Isabel yesterday and as soon as I got out of the lake I was immediately dry. That's pretty crazy.
We are done with the extreme heat at least until the end of this week with temperatures dropping to 50's overnight and 70's and 80's through Tuesday.
I understand how crazy the weather is here, but like the fact that it breaks every day and we've been starting off the day's cool. This is the only place I remember that does that. It just makes it easier to bear.


Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's, is often considered the founder of the athletic data revolution. In 2003, Michael Lewis wrote a book on how Beane transformed the low-budget A's titled Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game.
We at SquadFusion have also written on the site before about how underdogs in football and basketball can strategize with data by finding what is unconventional and outwitting their stronger opponent.
What Beane did so remarkably was identify how players could contribute to the team by using analytical and evidence-based methods, transforming the Oakland A's from underdog into a contender for the World Series. To increase his team's offensive performance, Beane studied his players' on-base and slugging percentages, which were more unconventional but cheaper to obtain than traditional markers of success such as speed and contact.
Today, entire professional leagues have institutionalized many of Beane's techniques as well as adopting emerging technologies that allows for more advanced data collection, analysis, and visualization.
The Atlantic recently published an article sponsored by IBM with the tagline "Moneyball statistics are hard. Data visualization makes them easy." The end goal according to IBM spokesperson John Kent is to "make something that is so visually intuitive that it needs no explanation." IBM is partners with both NBA and the NFL, helping them collect, analyze, and distribute data to optimize athletic performance and understanding of the game.
The National Football League placed tracking sensors in the footballs used for the 2016 preseason as well as Thursday night games. Sensors and receivers throughout NFL stadiums, footballs, and player gear track location as well as throwing speeds, velocity, and acceleration.
The National Basketball Association has been using SportVU since 2009 to gather data on players through cameras in roof beams. The data collected is unconventional and not found on box scores, such as how many times a player touches the ball per shot.
The good that data can bring to sports includes better team strategy, player performance, and medical care. The trackers and cameras used by the NFL and NBA are also used by numerous other soccer, basketball, college football leagues. The information technology brings is transforming our understanding of athletics and will only continue to spread to every field.


1½cm (¾in) fresh ginger, chopped.
Heat the oven to 220ºC (gas mark 7).
Mix the salt, garlic, ginger, chillies, oil and vinegar in a small food processor (or pestle and mortar), to form a dryish paste.
Rub this all over the top of the piece of pork, making sure it gets in between the scored fat.
Place the pork skin-side up in a large, lidded casserole. Roast (uncovered) for 30 minutes.
Remove from oven and reduce the heat to 150ºC (gas mark 2).
After 5-7 hours of cooking, increase the heat to 220ºC (gas mark 7), remove the lid and cook for 30 minutes, or until the skin is nicely coloured. Check occasionally to make sure that the apples and liquid don't dry out. Add a little water or cider if needed. Remove any fat from the top of the sauce with a spoon.
Check the seasoning of the sauce. Remove the pork to a warm dish and pour the sauce and apples around it. Serve in thick slices with the juices.
Once the pork is cooked, remove the skin and any fat and return them to the hot oven until crisp, for crackling.
After rubbing with spices, the meat can be refrigerated (uncovered) for up to 6 hours before cooking.


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SOUTH Miles Km NORTH Miles Km
Carcross 66 106 Whitehorse 119 173
Mukluk Annies 152 246 Denali 867 1402
Watson Lake 323 531 Haines Junction 211 340
Muncho Lake 500 854 Haines 362 584
Ft. Nelson 653 1098 Tok 540 820
Dawson Creek 964 1552 Dawson City 446 720
Skagway is connected to the Yukon Territory, Canada, and the contiguous 48 states via the Klondike Highway, which is paved, maintained year round, and rated for overweight trucks.
If you are traveling by car or a RV, you'll join the growing number of visitors who travel the Alaska Highway each year. Skagway is only 112 miles south from the Alaska Highway, via the South Klondike Highway.
This modern two-lane highway is an easy drive, and passes through the historic community of Carcross – gas, food and other visitor services available – and past the ruins of the Venus Mine on Windy Arm of Tagish Lake. The lakes of the Yukon and British Columbia that you'll pass along the way are the headwaters of the great Yukon River. Near the summit of the Klondike Highway Pass you'll encounter a scene that resembles a moonscape more than any earthly vista. Ancient, twisted trees cling to rocks polished smooth by prehistoric glaciers, or crumbled by years of erosion. Myriad waterfalls, several glaciers and glimpses of the White Pass Railway and White Pass Trail are among the highlights of the drive from the summit to seaside Skagway.
Skagway is the northern terminus of the Alaska's Marine Highway System. A fleet of car carrying vessels serves all of Southeast Alaska. Northbound travelers can access the system at Bellingham, Washington and Prince Rupert, British Columbia; southbound travelers usually embark at Skagway or Haines. Each vessel has an observation lounge, food service and a solarium where camping is allowed free of charge. Mainline vessels also feature stateroom accommodations.
The Skagway Small Boat Harbor is a full service marina with moorage for pleasure and commercial vessels up to 150 ft. Transient moorage is on a space available, first come, first served basis. There is a waiting list for annual moorage.
Harbor amenities include seasonal potable water on all docks and seasonal restrooms and showers. There is a pump-out facility for holding tanks, and garbage receptacles at each ramp. 20 amp power is available at all docks.
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A little while back Grandy(Grant's father) took Grant, Bella and Ollie in the Vintage Car Rally. This is something they have been sharing together, the past couple of years. I think it's a lovely tradition in the making and I hope they'll continue to enjoy it for years to come and that when they are older they'll be able to say 'remember when Grandy used to take us in the vintage car rally..' The vintage car belonged to Pop(Grant's Grandfather).
The children giggle with excitement when Grandy beeps the crazy horn. When I asked Ollie about the Rally he said his favourite thing was the afternoon tea! They have a soup stop and loads of home made cakes and slices.
My favourite thing-besides waving them goodbye as I prepare for a day of 'me time' or 'me and Lulu time' was discovering this beautiful Vintage Quilt draped over the back seat of the car.
I love the quilt! How gorgeous is it! I love the higgledy piggledy shapes.
What's the outside of the car look like?!
How wonderful for the kids to experience the vintage car rally with their Grandy like that! They'll have the most lovely memories in years to come. The quilt is great too!
What a special quilt, I love the red and white floral print.