Indoor air quality can often be worse than outdoor air but it does not have to be that way. Air Quality Control can help improve the standard of your indoor air in Miami Beach or Weston. You can improve the quality of your indoor air by understanding and controlling common air pollutants. This process is what we mean we talk about air quality control.
Air quality control is important because it affects your health, the health of your loved ones and the health of all inhabitants of a specific indoor space or area. Exposure to air pollutants often have immediate effects such as eye irritation as well as nose and throat irritation. Other possible health conditions can include headaches, dizziness and fatigue. Longer term health issues could result respiratory and even heart problems.
Often the symptoms that result from exposure to air pollutants are similar to those related to colds and it is not always easy to determine the cause of the symptoms. It may well be a good thing to have a professional inspect and if needed clean the ducts of your AC system.
Air duct cleaning is an important part of air quality control. Other aspects of air quality control include source control and improved ventilation. If your ducts are not clean many of the pollutants that collect inside your ducts become airborne and circulate in the air that you breathe.
Air duct cleaning involves removing dust, dirt, mold, debris and dander from your ducts. This will definitely go long way to improving the air quality inside your home or building. It will also help your HVAC system to operate more efficiently. This will extend the useful life of your AC system and reduce your energy bills.
Air duct sealing is also a good idea is that will help prevent pollutants from entering your ducts through holes and gaps that develop over years.


Asthma disproportionately affects rural minority children and is the leading reason for all school absences in our nation. Breathe Easy Mississippi is a multi-level intervention designed to improve long term control of asthma in youth. Breathe Easy Mississippi components include: 1) Home Visits by asthma counselors to identify asthma triggers and remediate the child's environment, and 2) School Based Curriculum (Asthma Education) to promote ideal asthma management knowledge and foster more effective relationships between children, parents, healthcare professionals and paraprofessionals. Breathe Easy Mississippi will be implemented in a total of six schools that make up the entire elementary school district in Sunflower County, Mississippi. More specifically, BEM aims to address individual and family factors through asthma education and provision of resources, environmental factors in the home through assessment and remediation, and social and institutional factors through school-based education, campaigns, and asthma action planning. Each of these intervention components are proven to address asthma risks. The scope of this program's impact will be measureable at the individual, family, institutional, and population level.
Campbell, Christian Rashad, "Breathe Easy Mississippi" (2017). Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.). 160.


Marina Blue Nursery proudly announces the arrival of new gorgeous baby girl Jasmine!
Jasmine's head, full torso and limbs are made of soft vinyl.
Jasmine has full arms and full legs as well as full vinyl torsoover a cloth body that is inside..
I took many pictures outdoors and some indoors in natural light only but different times of the day to give the best idea how the baby looks in reality.
Jasmine has a doe suede body inside of a full vinyl torso. Her body and limbs were weighted with tiny glass beads and fiber fill of the highest quality to feel and weight like a real baby. I never use sand in my babies!
Jasmine wears size Newborn and it will be fun to buy real baby clothes for her.
Jasmine has a magnetic pacifier and a magnetic hair bow.
Jasmine's hair has been both painted and ultra micro rooted, only 1-2 hair straws at a time with the highest professional quality premium straight Dark Brown mohair from Susan Nagel.
It is absolutely the best mohair I have ever used for my babies!
Jasmine's Eyes are Mouth Blown Crystal Eyes from Lauscha, Germany. Colour is Midnight Blue.
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The Daily Les, 9/9
Topic: The Daily Les
Today, Les Kinsolving did his best to play interference for Scott McClellan, attmpting to cut off another reporter's Katrina-related question with a Gannonesque query about same-sex marriage.
That's not the way Kinsolving tells it, of course:
WorldNetDaily unintentionally got in the middle of a verbal match today between White House press secretary Scott McClellan and ABC reporter Jessica Yellin, persistently trying to ask a question after being called on by the Bush spokesman.
Yellin, not satisfied with a response to her last question, badgered McClellan for more information about federal debit cards for Katrina evacuees as he tried to listen to WND's question, which had to be started repeatedly, each time at a higher volume to be heard.
Posted by Terry K. at 10:50 PM EDT
Good Wages Are Racist?
Topic: CNSNews.com
A Sept. 9 CNSNews.com article by Susan Jones plays the race card to support President Bush's executive order to rescind the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires the government to pay prevailing local wages to construction workers, in hurricane-damaged areas.
After quoting House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi saying that the Davis-Bacon Act sprang from the Great Depression - "at a time when scurrilous employers were taking advantage of the desperation of American workers to care for their families," Jones writes:
But according to a report by the Cato Institute, Congress passed the Davis-Bacon Act in 1931 to benefit white-only unions at the expense of non-unionized black workers.
According to the Cato report, "Davis-Bacon was designed explicitly to keep black construction workers from working on Depression-era public works projects."
Those discriminatory effects continue today, the report says - "by favoring disproportionately white, skilled and unionized construction workers over disproportionately black, unskilled and non-unionized construction workers."
Here is the report Jones is quoting.
Posted by Terry K. at 3:37 PM EDT
WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein has penned another article about Yasser Arafat's purported homosexuality, joining the other two he has written this week.
Is an obsession with homosexual behavior a prerequisite for employment at WND?
Defending Michael Brown
Topic: Media Research Center
Most conservatives, even as they have rushed to the defense of President Bush, have been loath to defend Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael Brown for his slow response to Hurricane Katrina. Until now.
NewsBusters has rushed in to fill the void. A Sept. 9 post by Dustin Hawkins takes issue with a Time magazine piece on Brown:
While accusing Brown of both padding his resume and having no emergency management expience prior to becoming FEMA head, TIME simply doesn't acknowledge his work as having "served as FEMA's Deputy Director and the agency's General Counsel. Shortly after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Mr. Brown served on the President's Consequence Management Principal's Committee, which acted as the White House's policy coordination group for the federal domestic response to the attacks." Nor does TIME mention his handling of some 150+ handling of other declared disasters and emergencies prior to Hurricane Katrina and the job he did.
Les Kinsolving uses this day's White House press briefing to recite conservative talking points about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who will be visiting the U.S. next week. In his polemic-slash-question, Kinsolving claimed that Ahmadinejad "was identified by five former U.S. hostages as one of their captors and interrogators in '79, and there's the assassination of a Kurdish leader in Austria in 1989 as well as recruitment of suicide bombers."
But that may be more speculation than hard fact. Both CNN and the BBC point out that known leaders of the 1979 taking of hostages at the American embassy in Tehran claim that Ahmadinejad wasn't involved.
Presidential Threat Double Standard Alert
Topic: Newsmax
In a Sept. 8 NewsMax piece noting that the Secret Service is declining to say whether it's investigating Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's threat to punch President Bush, NewsMax references Jesse Helms:
The agency took a tougher stance on Senatorial threats in 1994, when then-North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms joked that President Clinton "had better watch out if he comes down here. He better have a bodyguard."
But NewsMax leaves out the context of what else was going on in 1994, or why "some pundits" were "complaining that Helms had committed treason." (Actually, it was only one pundit, The Baltimore Sun's Roger Simon.)
At the same time he made that remark, Helms had also reaffirmed an earlier statement that everyone in the armed forces believed that Clinton was unfit to be commander in chief, undermining respect for authority and, Simon claimed, giving aid and comfort to our enemies. (Imagine the conservative firestorm if anyone said that about President Bush today.) A man had recently sprayed the White House with semi-automatic bullets. And the nation was marking the 31st anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
NewsMax apparently wasn't bothered by Helms' statement -- if not secretly wished for something to happen to Clinton that would required bodyguards -- but it's worried that a female senator might pop Bush in the kisser (which NewsMax called a "much more explicit threat" than Helms') is worthy of a full-on investigation.
And, as an added bonus, the article references a incident in which, during a visit to hurricane-stricken Louisiana by Vice President Dick Cheney, a man said "Go f - - k yourself, Mr. Vice President." NewsMax called it an example of the "rising tide of hostility towards the Bush White House where normal boundaries of criticism have fallen by the wayside." But NewsMax failed to note that 1) the heckler was using the very same expletive that Cheney himself used against Sen. Patrick Leahy (an insult NewsMax had no apparent problem with) and 2) NewsMax helped obliterate some of those boundaries on criticism of the executive branch with its continuous attacks on the Clinton White House.
Updated: Friday, September 9, 2005 12:31 PM EDT
New Article: WorldNetDaily's Junk Journalism
Its founder and editor is a thief. Its reporters obediently do the bidding of conservative groups. Is this any way to run a news organization? Read more.
Posted by Terry K. at 1:52 AM EDT
WND Finally Gets It Right
It took a good year, but WorldNetDaily finally wrote an article about Sandy Berger and the classified documents that got almost all of the facts right.
For once, WND notes that Berger took copies of classified documents, not originals (though the headline still claims that he was "stealing classified documents"), and there's no mention of the unproven claim that Berger stuffed documents in his socks.
WND's Man in Jerusalem
WorldNetDaily's Jerusalem bureau chief, Aaron Klein, has served a helping of articles in recent days that showcase his own strangely biased viewpoint:
-- Two articles on claims that Hurricane Katrina was a punishment from God for President Bush's support of the evacuation of Jews from Gaza.
-- Two articles on speculation that Yasser Arafat died of AIDS.
UPDATE: The idea that Arafat died of AIDS has been a minor obssesion of Klein's; he was reporting on it last November, as ConWebWatch noted. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that the medical report on Arafat's death "dispels a rumor that he may have died of AIDS."
Updated: Thursday, September 8, 2005 4:47 PM EDT
Shocker: Les Kinsolving asks a somewhat normal question, about two Navy helicopter pilots who rescued 110 people, including two who are blind, were reprimanded by a Navy commander because they were supposed to devote themselves entirely to supply.
But Kinsolving leads his WorldNetDaily article with the question he apparently wished he had asked, about "the homosexual parade held on New Orleans' Bourbon Street last week" and "plans to hold the annual Southern Decadence festival in New Orleans despite the city's trauma."
Factually Deficient Clinton-Bashing at NewsMax
As much as NewsMax has written about the Clintons, you'd think it would be able to get basic facts correct. But no -- a Sept. 6 article contains several factual errors and unsupported assertions.
NewsMax's troubles begin with the first five words of the article: "2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton." While Hillary is certinly a possible, if not likely, candidate, she is not a declared candidate, which makes NewsMax's assertion factually incorrect.
NewsMax then botches the name of the FEMA director in the Clinton administration; it's James Lee Witt, not James D. Witt. To be fair, it was wrong in the Village Voice article NewsMax is basing its item on, but 30 seconds on Google would have provided a quick fact-check. (NewsMax did get the name right in a Sept. 7 piece bashing Witt.)
Having screwed up basic facts, NewsMax moves right along to baseless assertions:
Though Sen. Clinton touted former FEMA director Witt's experience, she made no mention of Raymond 'Buddy' Young, whom her husband appointed to the post of Southwest Regional FEMA Director in 1993.
Mr. Young, a former Arkansas state trooper, won the promotion after heading up efforts to discredit other state troopers whose allegations fueled the Troopergate scandal.
NewsMax offers no evidence to back up this assertion; in fact, this is the first time NewsMax has made this accusation. Young's name appears in only one previous story in NewsMax's archive, a passing mention in a September 1999 article attempting to prove the existence of Bill Clinton's purported black love child.
Additionally, the Arkansas state troopers pushing "Troopergate" were discredited not only by Young -- according to Conason and Lyons' "The Hunting of the President," the lead "Troopergate" troopers, L.D. Brown and Larry Patterson, were mad that Young got a federal job and they didn't -- but by the troopers themselves. As ConWebWatch (and the Conason-Lyons book) noted, the troopers backpedaled from many of their salacious allegations about Clinton when placed under oath.
Meaningless Poll Alert
NewsMax is begging people to take part in yet another meaningless, biased opt-in poll.
'Terri's Story'
WorldNetDaily is publishing a book on the Terri Schiavo case, written by WND news editor Diana Lynne. A Sept. 7 promo piece quotes WND's Joseph Farah calling the book "the powerful, insightful and definitive story" about the case. Somehow we doubt that, especially the "definitive" part.
Reason #1 to doubt it: The promo piece calls her "Terri Schindler-Schiavo," the name Terri's parents insisted on using and which WND used in much of its coverage.
Reason #2 to doubt it: Lynne and WND have a documented history of heavily biased reporting on the Schiavo case, playing up the allegations of Terri's parents and demonizing Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, while not giving him a chance to respond to those charges. And WND was so eager to smear Michael Schiavo that it eagerly promoted a bogus story that made him look bad.
Reason #3 to doubt it: Lynne's "whole Terri Schiavo story" was a lot less whole before ConWebWatch insisted on a little fairness.
Lynne might surprise us by offering a balanced account in her book; she did make an attempt at fairness in her WND "whole story" after ConWebWatch's letter. But somehow, sadly, we suspect it will be as distorted and slanted as the rest of WND's Schiavo coverage.
UPDATE: The detailed blurb at the WND Books website seems to confirm those suspicions; it appears that anyone who didn't support Terri's parents in keeping Terri alive will be targeted. Lynne also purports to answer the question, "What would Terri have told us if she could speak?"
Updated: Wednesday, September 7, 2005 12:37 PM EDT
More Junk Journalism At WND
In yet another example of gross journalistic imbalance at WorldNetDaily, Ron Strom has penned a fourth article on the man who is accusing Allstate Insurance of firing him for writing an anti-gay column. Strom's Sept. 6 article touts a letter written on behalf of the man by several congressmen.
The article, like the three preceding ones also written by Strom, follow the Terri Schiavo template, playing up the man's accusations through cozy connections with his attorney -- who also served as a attorney for Schaivo's parents -- while downplaying or ignoring completely anything Allstate has to say.
To continue the count we began with Strom's first story: Of the 91 paragraphs Strom has written over four articles about this case, only six are devoted to Allstate's response, and all of them are buried at the end of their respective articles. The rest all advance the man's case.
If you wonder why ConWebWatch exists, this is why: to expose junk journalism like this.
Updated: Tuesday, September 6, 2005 10:35 PM EDT
Today's White House briefing question from Les Kinsolving regards a suggestion by Sen. Mary Landrieu that she might punch President Bush if he criticized local response efforts to Hurricane Katrina:
KINSOLVING: Since both punching and threatening to punch the president is a felony, might Landrieu's qualifying words likely saved her from arrest and prosecution? And what was the president's reaction?
No word on whether Kinsolving supports prosecuting Ann Coulter on the same charge for writing in 1998 that the debate over the Monica Lewinsky scandal should have focused on "whether to impeach or assassinate" President Clinton. After all, assassination trumps punching, doesn't it?

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Dianne Hayter, Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
The Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
September 7, 1949(1949-09-07)
Labour Peer
Trevelyan College
Dianne Hayter, Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (born 7 September 1949) is a British politician and Labour member of the House of Lords who has served as a member of the Labour Party National Executive Committee since 1998 representing the Socialist Societies. She was Chair of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2008.
2 Labour Party
4 Peerage
Daughter of Flt Lt Alec Bristow Hayter (d 1972), and Nancy Evans (d 1959). She was educated at Trevelyan College, Durham University where she studied Social and Public Administration (BA).[1] Educated University of London (PhD 2004).
She has also been the General Secretary of the Fabian Society 1976-1982, Chief Executive of the European Parliamentary Labour Party 1990-1996, and has written Fabian Tract no. 451—The Labour Party: Crisis and Prospects (September 1977), Fightback—Labour's traditional right in the 1970s and 1980s (2005), and Men Who Made Labour—Celebrating the Centenary of the Parliamentary Labour Party (2006) (with Lord Haworth).
She is a board member of a number of organisations, including the Financial Reporting Council's Board of Actuarial Standards, the Determinations Panel of The Pensions Regulator, the Surveying Ombudsman Service, and the Insolvency Practices Council. She is chair of the Legal Services Consumer Panel. She was formerly vice chairman of the Financial Services Authority Consumer Panel and chair of the Consumer Panel of the Bar Standards Board.[2]
Peerage
On 22 June 2010, she was created a life peer as Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town, of Kentish Town in the London Borough of Camden, and was introduced in the House of Lords the same day.[3]
Dianne Hayter lives in Kentish Town, London with her husband, Professor (Anthony) David Caplin (married 1994).[4]
The Labour Party: crisis and prospects (Fabian Soc.), 1977;
(contrib.) Labour in the Eighties, 1980;
(contrib.) Prime Minister Portillo and Other Things that Never Happened, 2003;
Fightback: Labour's Traditional Right in the 80s, 2005;
(ed jtly with Lord Haworth) Men Who Made Labour, 2006;
(contrib.) From the Workhouse to Welfare, 2009.
^ Voice for the People, Durham University, http://www.dur.ac.uk/durham.first/autumn09/voiceforthepeople/, retrieved 2009-12-13
^ Consumer Panel, Bar Standards Board, http://www.barstandardsboard.rroom.net/about/consumerpanel/, retrieved 2008-06-22
^ Today in the Lords
^ Once they were revolutionaries, Camden New Journal, 4 November 2005, http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/110305/r110305_04.htm, retrieved 2008-06-22
Labour Party profile
National Consumer Council profile
Fightback!: Labour's Traditional Right in the 1970s and 1980s, Dianne Hayter, 2005, ISBN 0-7190-7271-9
Name Hayter, Dianne
Place of birth Hanover
Labour Party (UK) politicians
People from Kentish Town
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Diane Holland


Everything is awesome with regards to the newest proposal to repurpose the McBride Viaduct on Erie's East Side. The latest proposal will see the structure torn down, but will save money by building a replica in its place, made entirely out of Legos. "This is really the only way to keep everyone happy," a City Hall spokesman said. "We still get to tear something down. That's a big plus for us. Also, we throw the East Side a bone so no one can say we don't give them anything." It will still cost 2.3 million to demolish the 70 year old structure. To save the structure would have cost an additional few hundred thousand dollars. The life size Lego replica will only cost $50,000, a fee the city is more than willing to accept. "The Legos themselves are only a portion of the cost," the spokesman said. "Legos are cheap. Most of the expense comes in the superglue to lock each piece together. We couldn't just snap them together and have people walking over it. We're not idiots." Next on the docket for new construction will be to discuss plans to build the new Liberty Park Amphitheater out of Lincoln Logs or an Erector Set.
"Legos are Cheap". Any parent or Nerd such as myself would argue otherwise. Now if they were talking MegaBlocks that would be a different story.


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EUROPEAN COMMISSION DAILY NEWS – 04 DECEMBER
EUROPEAN COMMISSION DAILY NEWS - 04 DECEMBER
Climate Action: Commissioner Arias Cañete ahead of the Lima climate
Ahead of the UN climate change conference on 1-12 December in Lima, Peru, Miguel Arias Cañete, Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, is coming to the Commission's press room today; his intervention can be watched live on EBS. See press release and fact sheet with further information.
Research: Boost in R&D investments vital to keep EU companies at global forefront
Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, today presents the 2014 edition of the industrial R&D investment scoreboard. R&D investment by companies based in the EU grew by 2.6% in 2013, despite the unfavourable economic conditions. Commissioner Moedas said: "That is good news, but more is needed to keep up with our competitors. With public resources limited, attracting private R&D investment is even more essential." The sector with the highest R&D investment in Europe is the automobile industry, with Volkswagen leading the global ranking for the second year in a row. See press release and fact sheet are available online. The press conference will be broadcase live on EBS.
EU-Syria: €180 million to deal with crisis and spill-over in Lebanon and Jordan
The European Commission today adopted a package worth €180 million to deal with the effects of the Syrian crisis in the country itself, as well as in Lebanon and Jordan, who are currently hosting around 1.1 million and 630,000 refugees respectively. This package deals with the longer-term development needs of the refugees and internally displaced persons. It addresses in particular the education of children and young adults, in line with the UNICEF-sponsored "No Lost Generation" Initiative as well as measures to improve the resilience of the refugees as well as the communities hosting them through economic development activities. Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn stated: "The EU stands by the Syrian people who need all the help they can get in this terrible crisis, as well as the Lebanese and Jordanian people who are under huge pressure in hosting such a high number of refugees. With these funds, 2.5 million children in the region will be given a chance to receive education and to prepare themselves for the time when peace is restored and their skills will be needed to rebuild Syria. I had the opportunity to discuss these matters with the Prime Minister of Lebanon during his visit to Brussels earlier this week." Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission said: "Today, the EU cannot simply watch the suffering of Syrian people without acting. We are ready and willing to bring a continued support to the people of Syria and to the neighbouring countries hosting Syrian refugees. It is time for things to change. We are determined to play our role to the full and bring a lasting political solution to this regional crisis". See press release.
Antitrust: Commission sends Statement of Objections to Pometon for suspected participation in a steel abrasives cartel
The European Commission has informed Pometon S.p.A. that it suspects the company of having colluded with competitors on the pricing of steel abrasives in the European Economic Area (EEA), in breach of EU antitrust rules. Steel abrasives are loose steel particles used for cleaning or enhancing metal surfaces in the steel, automotive, metallurgy and petrochemical industries. The sending of a Statement of Objections does not prejudge the outcome of the investigation. The full press release can be found here.
Mergers: Commission approves the creation of several joint ventures between Santander and Peugeot
The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of joint control over several newly created joint ventures by Santander Consumer Finance, S.A., ("SCF") of Spain and Banque PSA Finance S.A. ("Banque PSA") of France. SCF is the consumer finance arm of the Santander Group. Banque PSA, a subsidiary of Peugeot Group, offers loans and leases related to motor vehicles produced by Peugeot. The joint ventures will offer automotive financing solutions as well as related services, such as insurance, in several EU Member States and in Switzerland. The Commission assessed in particular an overlap in the companies' activities for motor vehicle lending in Spain. The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would raise no competition concerns, given the moderate position of the companies on this market and the presence of other strong players that exercise competitive constraint on the merged entity. The transaction was examined under the normal merger review procedure. More information will be available on the competition website, in the Commission's public case register under the case number M.7369.
Mergers: Commission clears acquisition of Samancor by Anglo American and BHP Billiton.
The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of Samancor of South Africa, Australia and Switzerland by Anglo American of the United Kingdom and BHP Billiton of the United Kingdom and Australia. Anglo American and BHP Billiton are two global diversified mining groups producing iron ore, coal, aluminium, manganese and nickel, copper, petroleum and other natural resources. Samancor produces manganese ore and manganese alloys from production sites in South Africa and Australia. While both BHP Billiton and Anglo American are already shareholders in Samancor, the latter is currently solely controlled by BHP Billiton. Through the proposed transaction, Anglo American will acquire additional voting rights in Samancor, so that Samancor will be jointly controlled by BHP Billiton and Anglo American. The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would not raise competition concerns, in particular because there are no overlaps between the companies' activities, except for activities of the parent companies which are outside the scope of the joint venture. The transaction was examined under the simplified merger review procedure. More information is available on the Commission's competition website, in the public case register under the case number M.7399.
Mergers: Commission clears acquisition of remaining shares in domestic appliances producer BSH by Robert Bosch
The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of the remaining shares in BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH by its shareholder Robert Bosch GmbH, both of Germany. BSH produces domestic electric appliances such as stoves, refrigerators and dish washers. Robert Bosch is a supplier active, among others, in the following fields: the automotive industry, consumer goods such as power and gardening tools and energy and building technology. The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would not raise competition concerns, because prior to the present transaction Robert Bosch had already joint control over BSH together with Siemens AG. The transaction was examined under the simplified merger review procedure. More information is available on the Commission's competition website, in the public case register under the case number M.7425.
Eurostat: Record number of air passenger transport in 2013
In 2013, 842 million passengers travelled by air in the EU28, a rise of 1.7% compared with 2012. Looking back over a longer period, air passenger transport fell to 753 million passengers in 2009 following the financial crisis. Since then it has steadily risen. In 2013, intra-EU transport represented 43.3% of total air passenger transport in the EU28, followed by extra-EU transport (38.6%), while national transport accounted for fewer than 1 in every 5 passengers (18.1%). See press release.
Commissioner Andriukaitis welcomes provisional political agreement on GMO cultivation
In a statement on the provisional political agreement on the cultivation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) agreed yesterday by the European Parliament and the Council, Commissioner Andriukaitis said: "I am glad to announce that yesterday evening the European Parliament and the Council have reached a provisional political agreement on the draft legislation on GMO cultivation. The proposal, still subject to confirmation by Coreper and by the plenary of the European Parliament, will give Member States the possibility to restrict or prohibit the cultivation of GMOs on their territory, without affecting the EU risk assessment. The agreement, if confirmed, would meet Member States' consistent calls since 2009, to have the final say on whether or not GMOs can be cultivated on their territory, in order to better take into account their national context and, above all, the views of their citizens." Read the full statement.
Commissioner Hogan at the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development meeting
Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan gave a speech yesterday at European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development meeting (COMAGRI) for the first time after his hearing. Commissioner, in front of MEP's, gave an overview of his simplification agenda, of the state of play regarding market stabilisation measures and of the enormous opportunities on the world market for European product, on the progress of the various Rural Development programmes and the importance of addressing shortcomings in the food chain
EU supports Bosnia and Herzegovina's integration path
On Friday 5 December, Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission and Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations will visit Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the visit they will meet leaders of BiH institutions, leaders of the political parties and members of the civil society to discuss reforms and the EU integration process of the country. "After the recent elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there is now an opportunity for the country to start moving again on the reform track in order to respond to the expectations of the people and proceed on its EU path. During the visit we will engage with the new leadership of the country to understand if there is political will to launch a process that will get the country back on track. If the new leadership of BiH is ready to engage on a reform agenda, the EU is also ready to engage," said HRVP Federica Mogherini ahead of the travel to Sarajevo. Commissioner Hahn added: "We are visiting the country to reiterate the EU's support to Bosnia and Herzegovina's integration path and reaffirm our commitment to advance the country's EU perspective. At the same time, Bosnia's elected leaders must now deliver, in the interest of their citizens – especially on economic reforms."


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Philippine network marketers are getting excited about the new and upcoming launch of The Limitless company of Johnny Bodegas. Explainer videos are available online, and networkers are discovering how the compensation and payout plan of The Limitless is so much different from other MLM companies they've tried.
It's inspiring to see how Johnny Bodegas has evolved from SWA Ultimate, to UNO Premier, and now to The Limitless.
You'll enjoy the part of the video where he talks about how The Limitless Innovations Marketing Ventures, Inc (TLIMVI) (BDO 003720070853 - St Ignatius Katipunan Branch) will push more financial benefits to its members/distributors.
Johnny Bodegas shares in his video his thoughts regarding Network Marketing company safety nets, including an "Oo nga ano" moment regarding the 10% withholding tax that some companies deduct from the payout.
Johnny mentions in his video about how the system of getting just 4 referrals, and teaching those 4 people how to get their own 4 referrals, can help people become millionnaires. He also stressed how important it is to secure your position early, especially since the company is quite new.
We're happy to hear that their company will provide both online and live training for the distributors, as well as online marketing materials that will help explain things for you.
What we're missing, though, is the key online marketing success ingredient that's quite ubiquitous in the campaigns of Jan Sacdalan and Aina Sacdalan. Then again, it's still early days which means we'll probably see that innovative online marketing tool in the future.
In the coming days, we'll be searching for more information regarding the products that will be sold. Of course, we realize that a lot of Pinoys will be focused on the earning aspect of the business and how quickly they can gain a significant chunk of extra income that will hopefully turn into a life-changing money source in the future.
Congratulations to the team of Johnny Bodegas for the eye-catching website design and graphics which will attract the attention of a lot of Filipino network marketers, and the excellent use of video marketing.
We're looking forward to seeing more Filipinos make effective use of Facebook Marketing Tutorials because the time has come for taking massive action daily!
Remember: Invest in yourself before others will invest in you.


Last week I tackled television's worst portrayals of gamers. This week, it's time to take a look at the medium's best, counting down from 10.
It's popular to point out how un-revolutionary Seinfeld feels today. Its impact on the TV comedy landscape was so instantaneous, its imitatable aspects so immediately apparent ("Pop-culture references? All of the characters can be selfish jerks??") that it felt like The American Sitcom went to bed as Family Ties and woke up as Seinfeld mere hours later. It can be easy to forget just how much of what we take for granted now was birthed by Jerry Seinfeld's offbeat ode to NYC malcontents -- so of course, Seinfeld pioneered pop culture's now booming retro game affection.
In many ways, Jason Alexander's George Costanza was the "worst" of the show's proudly-awful main cast: Detached urban-coastal myopia was their shared sin, but George lacked Jerry's wit/talent, Elaine's semblance of struggle or Kramer's otherworldliness -- George was only a jerk.
But even jerks have their humanity, and it's somehow fitting that one of the few times he got a genuinely (if still pathetically small-scale) sympathetic "quest" to undertake it was about preserving a childhood memory... of video games.
George's rediscovery of an ancient Frogger arcade cabinet that still held his high-score, and subsequent attempts to acquire and protect it, were an endearing window into how he became the "grown-up" that he is; with the hilarious live-action recreation of the game as the icing on the cake.
As I've delved into elsewhere, Acclaim and Haim Saban's brand-X Captain N wasn't exactly good television. Just about everything in Stivi Peskosky's kid game guru was panderifically chintzy, right down to a character named "Arcade" who exclusive raved about console games.
Still, revisiting Video Power gave me a renewed affection for the erstwhile Johnny Arcade, who in retrospect feels like an unusually successful attempt at positivity as marketing: The idea of Johnny as the equivalent of an MTV VJ (the position nearest to godhood in 80s pop-culture) but for games was as cynical as these things get, but the idea that a kid whose passion was video games could also occupy the zone between "bully" and "teacher's pet" that defined the Heroic Ideal of that TV youth heroes (see also: Simpson, Bartholomew J) in an age when most of pop culture was still content with the sun-deprived friendless-loser archetype? Good on you, Johnny Arcade.


This opera coat of yellow and pale blue silk satin, black silk velvet, turquoise silk satin with gold and silver filé crocheted overlay, and silver filé trapunto half-belt and trim was interpreted by the illustrator George Lepape, whose album Les choses de Paul Poiret was exhibited at the Galerie Barbazanges, a commercial gallery on the premises of Poiret's couture house. The charming renderings of Lepape in Les choses de Paul Poiret (and later in the Gazette du bon ton) conveyed a contextual reality to Poiret's exquisite creations. Comparing extant costumes to their representation, however, often reveals that accuracy was sometimes sacrificed for dramatic intention. Nevertheless, Lepape's subtle stylistic elisions and exaggerations imbue Poiret's fashions with a beauty less seductively conveyed by the harsher documentary evidence of photography.


At Yavneh Academy, Judaic education includes more than classroom study of traditional texts.
The All-School Retreats, held on-campus in the Fall, and at a campsite, in the Spring, providing opportunities to share Shabbat together.
Events celebrating Israeli Independence Day - Made possible in part through a generous grant from Avi Chai Foundation, Yavneh hosts a series of events to celebrate Israeli Independence Day, including a barbecue and picnic, as well as community events co-hosted with Dallas area congregations.
Events celebrating Chanukah and Purim, including speakers, celebration, and other programming that are open to the community.
A series of activities celebrating Sukkot, including a special movie, games, elective lectures.


Marking the fifth chapter in the CR7 series, the &Cut To Brilliance' Nike Mercurial Victory VI Ronaldo AG-Pro football boots are designed for use on artificial grass surfaces.
Nike CR7 Chapter 5: Cut To BrillianceOn 6 July, 2009, 24-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo arrived in Madrid to join his new team. Already a three-time Premier League and Champions League winner, CR7 was about to take his game to even greater heights at the Bernabeu. The Chapter 5: Cut to Brilliance Nike Mercurial acknowledges Ronaldo's transformation from rough diamond to a player ready to shine on the biggest stage.Constructed from synthetic, the Nike Mercurial Victory VI DF football boots feature embossed ridges on the upper, while the Dynamic Fit collar provides added lockdown for a secure fit. A perforated sockliner and synthetic top cloth inside the boot mirrors your natural foot shape to reduce stud pressure. A full-length compressed TPU outsole with conical and chevron shaped studs ensure superior traction on artificial grass surfaces.


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Mall set to become recreational/tourism complex
COLUMBUS — A southern Indiana city council is spending more than $4 million for a shopping mall that it plans to convert into a community recreational and sports tourism complex.
The Columbus City Council last week voted to approve the funding for the purchase of the Fair Oaks Mall in a transaction scheduled to close Dec. 14.
The Republic reports the city is partnering with Columbus Regional Hospital and the Heritage Fund/The Community Foundation of Bartholomew County on the purchase. The hospital will contribute nearly $1.4 million and the Heritage Fund will provide $450,000.
Mayor Jim Lienhoop said the city needs to hire a consultant to develop an overall master plan for the mall.
City Councilman Tom Dell says the redeveloped mall could help attract people to live in the community.


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Liberty Bank Named a Hartford Courant Top Workplace for the Ninth Consecutive Year
by Liberty Bank | Sep 24, 2020
On September 24, it was announced that Liberty Bank is named a Hartford Courant Top Workplace for the ninth consecutive year, as voted on by its teammates through an anonymous survey held in the spring of 2020. Liberty began participating in this employee engagement initiative in 2012.
Each year, more than 600 area companies are invited to participate. In 2020, Liberty Bank was one of 48 companies and organizations in Greater Hartford and Central Connecticut to achieve this high honor. Due to the pandemic, the annual Top Workplaces celebration was held in a virtual setting on Thursday, September 24. Winners in small, medium and large employer categories were announced amongst 500 plus attendees.
"At Liberty, we aim to best serve the unique needs of our customers and communities. This includes developing and cultivating a talented, diverse group of industry leading teammates who provide extraordinary customer service. The Top Workplace Award reaffirms this commitment and is always one of our proudest achievements because it's voted on by our teammates. This award also demonstrates our team's commitment to Connecticut and to being a trusted financial and community partner throughout our region," stated David W. Glidden, Liberty Bank President and CEO.
"Liberty Bank operates from a position of strength, talent, and opportunity. Despite the current challenges we are all facing, our team continues to focus on the wellbeing of our customers while driving meaningful change in our communities. I am proud to work alongside the most dedicated and passionate teammates and cannot thank them enough for this outstanding accomplishment. As Connecticut's oldest bank, we look forward to building the community bank of the future with our remarkable, growing team for the next 195+ years."
This year marked the tenth Hartford Courant Top Workplaces special report on the best companies to work for in Connecticut.
Established in 1825, Liberty Bank is Connecticut's oldest bank, with over $6 billion in assets and 60 banking offices throughout the central, eastern, western and shoreline areas of the state. As a full-service financial institution, Liberty offers consumer and commercial banking, home mortgages, insurance, and investment services. Named 'Top Workplace' by the Hartford Courant for nine consecutive years, Liberty maintains a longstanding commitment to superior personal service and unparalleled community involvement. Visit www.liberty-bank.com.


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Happy little trees: Bob Ross's first career was in the Air Force
By Bethaney Phillips
Before he was teaching folks how to paint beautiful landscape sceneries, the late artist Bob Ross served in the U.S. Air Force. In fact, it was where he gained his…
Bob Ross got these 5 qualities from the Air Force
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Bob Ross might be one of the last names you'd think of when considering all the celebrities that have served. The videos of him "painting a happy little bush in the corner right there" exude calmness and tranquility — exactly the opposite of wh…
10 awesome celebrities who served in the military
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There are many famous people who served in the United States Military. Some were drafted, some had the choice between jail or service, and some felt the call and volunteered.
From World War II to 9/11 and beyond, these celebrities served their…


Mobilegeddon might impact 44% of Fortune 500 websites. 60% of online traffic now comes from mobile and Google wants users to have a good experience. Simply put a site must be not only be accessible from a mobile device, it must be easy to use, otherwise it will be downgraded in smartphone search results.
A site's text must be readable text without the user having to make a lot of touch adjustments on the mobile device. Additionally, mobile sites need easy-to-use tap targets and other features. The algorithm only affects smartphones' search results.
The Mobilegeddon update is Google's way of keeping their service relevant as it faces competition from native mobile apps and other search engines. Currently search accounts for 43% of smartphone traffic.
To score well on Google's speed and mobile user experience tests often requires changes to a website's graphics, code, and server settings. Most web designers are not up to this complex task. A team effort is usually needed. Google gives you the tools to measure and explain your results.
To test your site you can use the following link https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/.
Making your site mobile friendly is more important than SEO optimization at the moment, because there are so many mobile users.
"This update is really about Google's vision of what the web should be-using its search results as a lever to move everyone in the direction it wants them to go," says Danny Sullivan, the founding editor of Search Engine Land, in an interview with Wired. "If you're searching for something on Home Depot, you probably still want that... even if it means double-tapping on your screen or stretching the page a bit more with your fingers so that you can see it."
Please check out this helpful post from SearchEngineLand.
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Q: IE7 div oddity I have a menu which works perfectly in every browser except IE7 and I need a fresh pair of eyes because I can't seem to find the cause for this problem.
In the menu, there are items which have flags to the left seen here (edited to remove client's name):

And this is what it looks like in IE7:

In IE7, I think the divs are fighting, thus the flag div sits on top of the div to the right and gets forced down, creating a break in the menu.
To better explain, here is the code for the menu (made of a styled unordered list):

WORLDWIDE

Worldwide Map

Plants & Yards

 Canada

        (English)

Europe

        (Multi-language)

UK

            (English)

France

            (Français)

Deutschland

            (Deutsch)

España

            (Español)

Nederland

            (Nederlands)

 Mexicana

        (español)

And the CSS code:
.menu {
    position: relative;
    /*  left: auto;
    right: auto;
*/  top: 143px;
 #top: 135px; /* Fix for IE 7 only */
    width: 100%;
    height:28px;
    z-index:100000;
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    background-color: #669900;
    border-top-width: 1px;
    border-right-width: 1px;
    border-bottom-width: 1px;
    border-top-style: solid;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-bottom-style: solid;
    border-top-color: #000;
    border-right-color: #000;
    border-bottom-color: #000;
    border-left-color: #000;
}
/* remove all the bullets, borders and padding from the default list styling */
.menu ul {
    padding:0;
    margin:0;
    list-style-type:none;
}
/* float the list to make it horizontal and a relative positon so that you can control the dropdown menu positon */
.menu li {
    float:left;
    position:relative;
    left: 0px;
    top: 0px;
    #padding: 0px;
    #margin: 0px;
}
/* style the links for the top level */
.menu a, .menu a:visited {
    display:block;
    font-size:14px;
    text-decoration:none;
    color:#ffffff;
    height:28px;
    padding-left:10px;
    padding-right:10px;
    font-weight:bold;
    background-color: #669900;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    line-height: 26px;
    border-top-width: 0px;
    border-right-width: 0;
    border-bottom-width: 0px;
    border-left-width: 1px;
    border-top-style: solid;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-bottom-style: solid;
    border-left-style: solid;
    border-top-color: #333333;
    border-right-color: #333333;
    border-bottom-color: #333333;
    border-left-color: #333333;
    text-shadow: 0px 1px 1px #000;
}
/* style the top level hover */
.menu a:hover, .menu ul ul a:hover {
    color:#FFFFFF;
    background-color: #000000;
}
.menu :hover > a, .menu ul ul :hover > a {
    color:#FFFFFF;
    background-color: #000000;
}
.menu_flag_link {
    font-size: 11px;
    position: relative;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    #margin-left: 20px;/* Fix for IE 7 only */
    #left: -20px;/* Fix for IE 7 only */
    #top: 0px;/* Fix for IE 7 only */
}
.language {
    font-size: 10px;
    line-height: 10px;
    margin-left: 20px;
    #margin-left: 0px;/* Fix for IE 7 only */
}
.language_nomargin {
    font-size: 10px;
    line-height: 10px;
}
.menu_flag_holder {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    width: 180px;
    position: relative;
}
.menu_flag {
    position: relative;
    padding: 0px;
    left: 10px;
    top: 5px;
    margin-top: 0px;
    margin-right: 15px;
    #margin-right: 35px;/* Fix for IE 7 only */
    margin-bottom: 0px;
    margin-left: 0px;
    float: left;
    #width: 16px;/* Fix for IE 7 only */
    z-index: 100;
    #clear: both;
}
.menu_flag_2line {
    position: relative;
    padding: 0px;
    left: 10px;
    top: 5px;
    margin-top: 0px;
    margin-right: 15px;
    #margin-right: 7px;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
    #margin-bottom: 0px;
    margin-left: 0px;
    float: left;
    #width: 16px;/* Fix for IE 7 only */
    z-index: 100;
}
/* ---------------------------------------2-------------------------------------------------*/
/* style the second level background */
.menu ul ul a.drop, .menu ul ul a.drop:visited {
    background-color: #669900;
    background-image: url(../images/arrow.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 130px center;
}
/* style the second level hover */
.menu ul ul a.drop:hover {
    background-color: #000000;
    background-image: url(../images/arrow.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 130px center;
}
.menu ul ul :hover > a.drop {
    background-color: #000000;
    background-image: url(../images/arrow.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 130px center;
}
/* style the second level links */
.menu ul ul a, .menu ul ul a:visited {
    color:#FFFFFF;
    height:auto;
    line-height:normal;
    padding:5px 10px;
    width:160px;
    border-width:0 1px 1px 1px;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-weight: normal;
}
/* yet another hack for IE5.5 */
* html .menu ul ul a, * html .menu ul ul a:visited {
    width:161px;
    w\idth:160px;
}
/* hide the sub levels and give them a positon absolute so that they take up no room */
.menu ul ul {
    visibility:hidden;
    position:absolute;
    height:0;
    top:28px;
    left:0;
    width:182px;
    border-top:1px solid #000000;
}
/* another hack for IE5.5 */
* html .menu ul ul {
    top:30px;
    t\op:31px;
}
/* make the second level visible when hover on first level list OR link */
.menu ul li:hover ul, .menu ul a:hover ul {
    visibility:visible;
}
/* ---------------------------------------3-------------------------------------------------*/
/* style the third level background */
.menu ul ul ul a, .menu ul ul ul a:visited {
    background-color: #669900;
}
/* style the third level hover */
.menu ul ul ul a:hover {
    background:#000000;
}
/* position the third level flyout menu */
.menu ul ul ul {
    left:181px;
    top:-1px;
    width:182px;
}
/* position the third level flyout menu for a left flyout */
.menu ul ul ul.left {
    left:-181px;
}
/* style the table so that it takes no ppart in the layout - required for IE to work */
.menu table {
    position:absolute;
    top:0;
    left:0;
    border-collapse:collapse;
}
/* keep the third level hidden when you hover on first level list OR link */
.menu ul :hover ul ul {
    visibility:hidden;
}
/* make the third level visible when you hover over second level list OR link */
.menu ul :hover ul :hover ul {
    visibility:visible;
}
/* ---------------------------------------4-------------------------------------------------*/

/* position the fourth level flyout menu */
.menu ul ul ul ul {
    left:181px;
    top:-1px;
    width:182px;
}
/* position the fourth level flyout menu for a left flyout */
.menu ul ul ul ul.left {
    left:-181px;
}
/* keep the fourth level hidden when you hover on second level list OR link */
.menu ul :hover ul :hover ul ul {
    visibility:hidden;
}
/* make the fourth level visible when you hover over third level list OR link */
.menu ul :hover ul :hover ul :hover ul {
    visibility:visible;
}

Tuberias

        (español/português)

The problem seems to be with the classes ".menu_flag_2line", ".menu_flag" and ".menu_flag_link"
I am completely stumped, anyone have a suggestion?

A: need to wrap the 2 divs in a positioned element for IE7 to play nice:
ul.left li {position:relative; float:left; width:100%;}

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CGGC won the Special Contribution Award from Laos State Power Corporation.
On 14 November, 2015, Laos State Power Corporation held a solemn completion-ceremony at Houay Lamphan Gnai Hydropower Station in Laos. CGGC won the Special Contribution Award from Laos State Power Corporation by virtue of its first-class constructing performance and strong contracting capacity. The ceremony was attended by Somsavat Lengsavad, Vice Premier of Laos, Zhao Wenyu, Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Embassy of China in Laos, Canmani Intela, Minister of Energy and Mineral Ministry of Laos, four provincial leaders from the south of Laos, directors of Laos State Power Corporation, related directors of CGGC NO. 2 Company and CGGC International Lao Branch.
CGGC NO. 2 Company, on behalf of the EPC Contractor, expressed their sincere appreciation to Vice Premier of Laos, Energy and Mineral Ministry and social communities that have been caring about, supporting and helping CGGC for a long time. CGGC has been in contract to build Houay Lamphan Gnai Hydropower Station, Rural Electrified Project in the North, Xesalalong Irrigation Project, Rural Electrified Project in the South and Nanjian Hydropower Station and other projects in recent years in Laos which is one of the most important overseas markets of CGGC. Sticking to the cooperative philosophy of "fairness, honest and win-win", CGGC keeps good partnership with all sectors in Laos and greatly, boosts the sustainable development of Lao economy and builds up good international image of Chinese enterprises in Laos.
Canmani Intela, Minister of Energy and Mineral in Laos, and Khamphoui Betawang, Governor of Sekong, highly praised CGGC for its performance on the Houay Lamphan Gnai Hydropower Station. They said that the Station upon its completion was so meaningful to Lao's progress towards industrialization and modernization. This project has made great contribution to the social and economic development of Laos.
At the ceremony, Canmani Intela issued the trophy and honorary credential of Special Contribution Award from Laos State Power Corporation to CGGC; Sisavath Thiravong, manager of Laos State Power Corporation, issued the Hand-over Certificate and individual honorary credentials of the Station to CGGC Project Management Department of Houay Lamphan Gnai Hydropower Stations.
Under common witness, Somsavat Lengsavad, Vice Premier of Laos, cut the ribbon in person for the completion of Houay Lamphan Gnai Hydropower Station in Laos, rang the lucky bell that symbolized good luck and flied colored balloons. The completion ceremony ended in complete success.
Houay Lamphan Gnai Hydropower Station is the first project on EPC basis executed by CGGC in Laos. With installation capacity of 88MW, highest water level of 820 mm, largest storage capacity of 141 million m3 and maxi height of the rockfill dam with clay core wall of 75.6m, it is the largest hydropower station in south Laos. As the first international EPC project of CGGC No. 2 Company, Project Department sticked to the management concept of "One Country, One Policy; One Point, One Policy" under the management guidance of "prioritized design, advanced plan, professionalized construction and labor localization", worked hard and bravely faced difficulties, and thus had successfully solved many technical problems including scheme change of 560 m pothole, relocation of quarry due to geological changes and optimization of open conduit. The Department had also overcome many obstacles including construction in primitive rain forest, language differences, customs clearance of device and resource organizations. It is handed over after commissioning on 3 September 2015, 66 days ahead of the contract deadline, which built a good corporate image in Laos.


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Q: How to create a grouped boxplot in R? I want to merge the three datasets grouped and obtain a graph with only two boxes, 1 for A and 1 for B. Can you suggest how to get that?
I'm tryng to create a grouped boxplot in R. I have 2 groups: A and B, in each group I have 3 subgroups with 5 measurements each.
The following is the way that I constructed the boxplot, but if someone has a better, shorter or easy way to do, I'll appreciate
A1 <- c(1,2,9,6,4)
A2 <- c(5,1,9,2,3)
A3 <- c(1,2,3,4,5)
B1 <- c(2,4,6,8,10)
B2 <- c(0,3,6,9,12)
B3 <- c(1,1,2,8,7)

DF <- data.frame(A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3)

boxplot(DF, col = rainbow(3, s = 0.5))
axis(side = 1, at = c(2,5), labels = c("A","B"))
legend("topleft", fill = rainbow(3, s = 0.5), legend = c(1,2,3), horiz = T)

How can I group correctly (joint) the boxes in A and B, and fix the axis title to simple A and B as I tryed?
I'd like something like

A: You should use ggplot2
ggplot() +
  geom_boxplot(data = df, mapping = aes(col_name, value, fill=index))  +
  theme( axis.text.x = element_blank()) +
  geom_segment(data=hline1, mapping=aes(x=1, y=-0.5, xend=3, yend=-0.5), size=2) +
  annotate("text", x = 2, y = -1, label = "A") +
  geom_segment(data=hline1, mapping=aes(x=4, y=-0.5, xend=6, yend=-0.5), size=2) +
  annotate("text", x = 5, y = -1, label = "B")

A: Using base R, I think @r2evans solution is the best. However, an easier fix to the code in the question is by using the option xaxt="n":
boxplot(DF, col = rainbow(3, s = 0.5), at = c(1:3,5:7), xaxt = "n")
axis(side = 1, at = c(2,6), labels = c("A","B"))
legend("topleft", fill = rainbow(3, s = 0.5), legend = c(1,2,3), horiz = T)

This adds more flexibility in formatting the axis.

A: It's easier to group them like this when data is in a long format vice wide. Starting with your vectors:
DF2 <- data.frame(
  x = c(c(A1, A2, A3), c(B1, B2, B3)),
  y = rep(c("A", "B"), each = 15),
  z = rep(rep(1:3, each=5), 2),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)
str(DF2)
# 'data.frame': 30 obs. of  3 variables:
#  $ x: num  1 2 9 6 4 5 1 9 2 3 ...
#  $ y: chr  "A" "A" "A" "A" ...
#  $ z: int  1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 ...

cols <- rainbow(3, s = 0.5)
boxplot(x ~ z + y, data = DF2,
        at = c(1:3, 5:7), col = cols,
        names = c("", "A", "", "", "B", ""), xaxs = FALSE)
legend("topleft", fill = cols, legend = c(1,2,3), horiz = T)

The use of at manually controls the placement, so the "visual grouping" is not very robust. (You can control the spacing between them with width and/or boxwex.)

You might also choose ggplot2:
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(DF2, aes(y, x, fill=factor(z))) +
  geom_boxplot()


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Entrepreneur, environmentalist and plant based diet advocate. Peter spends his free time supporting New Zealand and African flora and fauna on a wide range of projects, often supporting projects that are less attractive to corporate donors.
Compassionate environmentalist, who strongly believes a plant based diet offers the answers we need for better health and a sustainable future. Founder of The naked veggie educational online platform.
From implementing Cray Research Supercomputers, Big Data, Cloud Computing and starting and running a strategic IT company, Mosaic, Inc. for ten years, Gwyn Whittaker has been on the forefront of mission solutions and enabling competitive advantage. Her technical background and partnership in the Intelligence Community has spanned 35 years. While still active in this space, Gwyn also has become a leader in the world of plant-based nutrition. Her restaurant, GreenFare Organic Café in Herndon, VA, doubles as a health and education center, with lectures and movies, and a monthly program, called Kickstart, that has graduated almost 600 people, including three dozen medical professionals.
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Australia's newest weed
All that glitters is not gold when it comes to Australia's newest weed. The previously unrecorded species of clover, found during TERN's survey of Australia's alpine region, has just been identified as Golden Clover. Native to Europe and never found in Australia before, find out how Trifolium aureum was spotted and what the discovery may mean for our native ecosystems.
On the afternoon of 10 October 2018, Neville Walsh of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria made a startling discovery. Working with plant samples collected during TERN's ecosystem survey of Australia's alpine region, Neville had just identified Australia's newest weed species: Golden Clover (Trifolium aureum).
"It's quite rare to make new discoveries for Australia," says Neville. "We'd be lucky to record new 'national' species once a year. The great majority of new weed species are ones that 'jump the fence' from horticulture, but Golden Clover seems to have sprung from nowhere!"
Anna Monro of Parks Australia's Biodiversity Science Section and a co-compiler of the Australian Plant Census says "In the last five years, only 15 weedy plant species have been newly recorded in our Census for the Victorian flora but T. aureum is the only legume."
Native to eastern and central Europe, Golden Clover is not known to occur elsewhere in Australia except where it was found by TERN on Victoria's Dargo High Plains south-west of Mt Hotham in January 2018.
Australia's newest weed species: Golden Clover (Trifolium aureum) (image courtesy of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria)
Systematic surveys spot 'slow-burn' species
While the discovery of Golden Clover in Australia is significant, it does not necessarily indicate the species is a recent introduction.
"My feeling is that the species is unlikely to be a new arrival and more likely to have been a 'slow burn' in the area, perhaps not brilliantly adapted to the Dargo Plains conditions and not able to spread extensively," says Neville.
Dr Greg Guerin, an ecologist at the University of Adelaide with considerable expertise in Australian weed species, agrees with Neville and says that similarities to other clover species could have led to Golden Clover being overlooked in the past.
"The discovery is the result of the systematic monitoring of all species at TERN's monitoring sites, followed up with retention and formal identification of voucher specimens," says Greg.
"The identification of this new species reinforces the value of the TERN AusPlots methodology for the surveillance of Australia's ecosystems."
Native to eastern and central Europe, Golden Clover is not known to occur elsewhere in Australia except where it was found by TERN on Victoria's Dargo High Plains south-west of Mt Hotham in January 2018 (click here to view the site's complete panorama image)
Implications for native biodiversity unknown
Some of Golden Clover's closest relatives (Trifolium campestre and T. dubium) are common in Australia but rarely considered seriously invasive in native vegetation. Moreover, Golden Clover is established as an introduced species elsewhere, including Japan and North America, where it is not considered problematic.
"That said, the specimen I received had abundant seed, so recruitment is certainly possible," says Neville. "And, maybe with changing climate, progeny might be able to survive more successfully under warmer climate scenarios."
Greg says that the potential impacts of Golden Clover on Australian native plant diversity are unknown.
"In Australia, many exotic herbs can co-exist in grasslands with natives, but some species are problematic and cause declines in native species diversity or abundance. It isn't clear at this stage whether the species is a long-term but infrequent resident, or one that is likely to expand its range and cause problems.
It's not known how common Golden Clover is in the Australian alps, but surveys at the TERN ecosystem surveillance alpine plots this summer by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria staff are expected to determine if the population is large enough to be of concern to native vegetation.
Future repeat TERN surveys will also detect any significant increases in frequency or abundance of the species, a finding that could trigger more targeted monitoring or management. So watch this space for more updates on our golden interloper from Europe.
FAIR data collected from TERN's network of over 580 ecosystem surveillance plots is recorded and made publicly available through TERN's AEKOS data portal. Soil and plant samples are made available in the TERN Ecosystem Sample Library and also contributed to the CSIRO National Soil Archive and regional herbaria.
For more information on TERN's Ecosystem Surveillance capability click here or contact Associate Professor Ben Sparrow.
This afternoon #RBGVScience Neville Walsh determined an unknown species of yellow-flowered clover from Victoria's high country as Trifolium aureum. Collected during a @TERN_Aus survey, it is native to Europe. VicFlora updated today https://t.co/1wxuTAp6Mu #plants pic.twitter.com/pRv32yeI9m
— Frank Udovicic (@FrankUdovicic) October 10, 2018


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Egrets Group Breaks Ground on Conroe Medical Building
by Realty News Report May 11, 2021
HOUSTON – (Realty News Report) – Egrets Group has broken ground on a medical office building, a 53,000-square-foot structure in Conroe.
Located at 3786 FM 1488, the three-story building will house a variety of medical offices, including primary care, imaging, a podiatrist, dermatology, physical therapy, sports medicine and pain management.
The Conroe area has seen significant residential growth, including the 2,000-acre Woodland Hills community by the Howard Hughes Corp.
Along with the medical facility, Egrets Group is also developing an adjacent retail center with approximately 10,000 square feet that will include an urgent care and nail spa.
"This is unique because we are partnering with the physicians who will office there to jointly own and build the facility," said Irfan Abji, Principal at Egrets Group.
Collectively, the physicians will be operating as Magnolia Medical Specialists.
"The FM 1488 corridor is growing rapidly, with more households and more businesses opening at an unprecedented pace," Abji said. "Because of this, there is enhanced need to bring a variety of medical services to the area, so people don't have to travel into The Woodlands or Houston for quality care."
Abji estimates it should take a year to complete the medical office building. E Contractors, another company owned by Abji, will be the general contractor for the project.
To continue its expansion beyond construction, Abji and his wife Alejandra Cobas-Abji founded Egrets Group, a vertically integrated development company. The company is complemented by E Contractors, the couple's construction operations, which has completed more than 350 projects, many in the public sector across the greater Houston area. Egrets Group intends to continue development across the region by bringing more vertical projects, including medical offices, to key locations around the greater Houston metropolis.
Last year, E Contractors ranked at No. 162 on Inc. Magazine's list of the 5,000 Fastest Growing Companies in Texas.
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New iOS Update Gets Apple Accused of Anti Competitiveness
Zia Muhammad
app developers, apple, apps, iOS, news, Technology
We are living in a world of monopolies. Amazon has a monopoly over the eCommerce industry, Apple and Google have a duopoly over the smartphone operating system industry, and giants like Facebook have monopolies over social media.
This is a problem because of the fact that it leads to companies no longer needing to innovate in order to remain relevant in a particular economy, so it is important that the big players in tech incorporate policies that are meant to encourage competition so that innovation can be derived from this competition all in all.
App developers are the first to suffer whenever a company tries to stifle competition, and, according to TheInformation, it is a group of app developers that first raised concerns about the latest version of iOS, stating that it was anti competitive in a letter that they sent to the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook.
The complaints have arisen around new restrictions that Apple has placed on how apps can use the data they gather regarding user locations and other similar forms of data. Apple is trying to make it so that app developers gain access to less of this data, which it claims it is doing in order to boost user privacy and protect consumer interests.
The change that has occurred is that users will no longer be prompted to always allow access to their location when they first open an app. Instead, they will be able to choose between allowing an app to access their location while they are using said app, allowing access just one single time and not allowing an app access to their location data. In order to always allow an app access to their location users will have to go to settings which makes it much less likely that they are going to do so.
Also read: Apple Loyalty plunges 15 percent in 2019
App developers have claimed that this will make it difficult for them to access data that they need in order to develop further smooth services and products.
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Scarred – Joanne Macgregor
This review first appeared on Women24
Scarred will hook you from the very first sentence and pull you right through to the end, mercilessly. If you thought about doing anything else with your time or, God forbid, sleeping, after starting this novel, I wish you the best of luck: I was utterly unable to.
I was a bit tentative going in to this young adult romance when I read the blurb. A teenager, scarred physically and emotionally by trauma, tries to move on with her life. I expected something angsty that prodded at all the dark, uncomfortable, places. Don't get me wrong, there are teary bits (hell, there are bits that had me blabbing my eyes out), but the overall tone of this story is uplifting and hopeful.
It is told mostly from the point of view of 17-year-old Sloan Munster as she starts life at a new school. Initially, you're only given hints as to why.
"I am dead sick of hiding out like some wanted criminal, so I guess that means it's time to face the world," she says on page one. "It's been nine months since someone pressed ctrl-alt-delete on my life, it's time to reboot."
You are kept guessing about the details as Sloan struggles to come to terms with them herself and to face everything she's been through.
South African author, Joanne Macgregor is a counselling psychologist, and she certainly brings her knowledge of the human mind to this story. She has experience working with victims of trauma that makes Sloan not only a believable protagonist, but someone who is complex, multi-dimensional and just about ready to step off the page. Bad things have happened to Sloan, but she never comes across as a victim. She is a strong female lead character, feisty and funny, the whole way.
Sloan has been at her new school for barely a minute when she comes face-to-face with the gorgeous romantic interest, Luke. They already have a shared history: they competed against each other as swimmers and both harboured secret crushes. Now he seems to hate her, but she – and we – have no idea why. Not until the plot thickens, that is.
Part of the story is told from Luke's point of view, but Macgregor cleverly keeps his statements vague and ambiguous. You are offered insight into his thoughts without them giving away too many secrets. One thing I really enjoyed about Luke was how nice he is. He's not only a hunk, but a kind and gentle person who you feel deserves happiness.
While the plot revolves around Sloan and Luke, Macgregor creates a convincing world creatively showcasing the multiple challenges of being a teen in this day and age, building up to a nail-biting climax where there's much more at stake than the hearts of the two protagonists.
If I had one criticism of Scarred, it would be that at times it is too predictable. But ultimately, isn't guessing right a special kind of satisfaction?
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Q: Position of a Substring in NSString How I can get the position/Index of a substring within an NSString?
I am finding the location in the following way.
NSRange range = [string rangeOfString:searchKeyword];
NSLog (@"match found at index:%u", range.location);

This returns index:2147483647  when searchKeyword is a substring within string.
How i can get the index value like 20 or 5 like that?

A: 2147483647 is the same thing as NSNotFound, which means the string you searched for (searchKeyword) wasn't found.
NSRange range = [string rangeOfString:searchKeyword];
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}

A: NSString *searchKeyword = @"your string";

NSRange rangeOfYourString = [string rangeOfString:searchKeyword];

if(rangeOfYourString.location == NSNotFound)
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else{
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NSString *subString = [string substringToIndex:rangeOfYourString.location];

may this will help you....


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I never noticed reloading stuff there before... powder, primers, bullets, brass, tools, etc.
Saw a post on another forum about a guy buying powder on gunbroker so I was just looking around and saw lots of primers for sale. I put in low bid a 5k lot of sm pistol primers and won it. It's either the deal of the month for me or a learning experience!
Anyone else ever buy reloading stuff on gunbroker?
So how'd it work out? I haven't checked Gunbroker for components in my shopping but I will do that before I buy some.


This is the third book of the Grayson Trilogy. Again, the author is very honest in the beginning of the book that you must read the trilogy in order as she does not summarize the first or second book in the third book. Hey, it's a trilogy that how it is supposed to be read.
So, I picked up this book last night to start to read a few chapters, but I COULD NOT put it down, and I finished the whole book into the late night hours. So, if this review does not make sense, I apologize, because I am currently suffering from a book hangover. Okay, lady, just get to the review, already! Alright, alright, stop screaming at me! Voices, do I hear voices?
So, in book number three, we are back with Grayson and Trent on Melton Manor continuing on with their romance and daily lives. Suddenly, Trent and Cavendish are summoned to their work headquarters. Trent and Cavendish return to the Manor with two agents. The two agents are interested in Grayson's past life and mysterious item they received addressed to Grayson that was sent to corporate headquarters in her name.
With the trouble from book two still brewing, something bad is about to happen, but will Grayson and Trent be able to survive it?
Thicker Than Water is the perfect ending to this trilogy. It was full of twists, turns, surprises, and answers! I admit, I cried at the end of this book as it was such an emotionally charged book.
If you remember the ending of the TV show, Friends, you were sorry to see it end but you knew it was okay because all is as it should be. That is how this book was for me.
This is one of my all time favorite trilogies and I highly recommend it.


When Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn outperformed expectations in the UK's recent general election, he upended the country's political culture and energised a generation of young supporters.
But his achievement also sparked a wave of optimism among activists in Mexico, who are starting to hope that they might soon have a friend in 10 Downing Street.
Britain's Conservative government has forged close ties with Mexico's Nieto administration, which has been tainted by corruption scandals, worsening violence and accusations of spying on journalists and activists.
And while Theresa May has sought to appease Donald Trump, who has threatened and offended Mexico at every opportunity, Corbyn has become an unlikely source of inspiration for Mexican activists.
Corbyn, whose wife, Laura Álvarez, is Mexican, often speaks at solidarity events organised by London's Mexican community. He has, in parliament, condemned Mexico's media censorship and human rights abuses, and led demonstrations against Nieto's state visit in 2015 while the British government was signing controversial oil deals.
Corbyn also wrote to Mexico's ambassador to express "deep concern" over the disappearance of 43 students abducted by police officers in southern Mexico in 2014.
Omar García, who escaped on the night his classmates from the Ayotzinapa college were attacked, met Corbyn and his wife while touring Europe last year to raise awareness about the situation in Mexico.
Corbyn has close personal ties to Latin America. His second wife, Claudia Bracchitta, was exiled from Chile when Augusto Pinochet seized power in a military coup. Corbyn led attempts to extradite the former dictator to face trial in Spain after he was arrested in London in 1998.
Corbyn met Álvarez, his third wife, after her niece was abducted in West Sussex in 1999. He reportedly helped the family to contact the police and spoke at fundraisers before the missing girl was located in 2003.
Álvarez worked as a human rights lawyer before moving to England and now runs a small fair-trade coffee business. She kept a low profile throughout the last election but if Corbyn becomes the next prime minister, she would be the first foreign spouse to inhabit 10 Downing.
Étienne von Bertrab, an academic at University College London, met Corbyn and Álvarez through the local activist group Justice Mexico Now.
Corbyn also has links to Mexico's political opposition. Last Christmas he met Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Mexican left's perennial presidential candidate, who narrowly lost two presidential elections and will stand again next year. In a low-key encounter, the silver-haired pair posed for photos beside ancient Toltec ruins in López Obrador's home state of Tabasco.
Although wildly popular on the left, both men have faced skepticism from centrists and accusations from the right that they would introduce Venezuelan-style socialism to their respective countries.
Caballero sees some similarities between them, but after meeting Corbyn several times and canvassing for Labour in the last election, she believes he is a more effective campaigner.


Thanks George. John J. is a different soldier. In further research I've discovered that all three of these brothers survived the war. It appears that they were recruited by Crabtree, a Confederate recruiter sent to this area from Arkansas, and enlisted at Thomasville in August 1862. Do you know if this would match the history of Pindall's Sharpshooters? Here's what's engraved on James M. Downing's headstone: Pvt. Co. A, 9th MO SS-CSA.
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For the fast food restaurant chain, see Arctic Circle Restaurants.
A sign along the Dalton Highway marking the location of the Arctic Circle in Alaska.
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At Arctic Circle we are dedicated to the creation of spot-on brand and communication strategies and outstanding design solutions, for all of our clients, against the backdrop of a strong and focused methodology.
At Arctic Circle we understand the importance of developing all embracing brand solutions that are innovative and up-to-date, in order to gives clients and their brands the edge into today's highly competitive contemporary markets.
The Arctic Circle is the invisible circle of latitude on the earth's surface at 66°33' north, marking the southern limit of the area where the sun does not rise on the winter solstice or set on the summer solstice - a geographic ring crowning the globe.
The Arctic Circle is also the outermost parallel circle counted from the North Pole where we cannot see the sun rise over the horizon in the winter solstice.
At the Arctic Circle, the Polarday reaches its climax around June 21 (see Midnight Sun) when the solar orb is so high that at no point does it drop below the horizon.


Clase AB en modo push-pull.
Válvulas EL34 x 8, 5687 x 2, 6922 x 4.
The amplifier is a push-pull Class AB mono power amplifier with two pairs shunt-wounded EL34 output power tubes per channel. It uses little global feedback. Signal goes first to the 6922 dual triode acted as input stage, then to the 6922 dual triodes acted as double drive stage. The 5687 drive the EL34 output tubes which are transformer-coupled to the load (In this case, the speaker.).
The Consonance Opera's are a terrific deal and look and sound much like the expensive audio jewelry you see at the best salons. Audiophiles should work for top sound and a bit of tube rolling and cable matching brings out the best from the Opera's. Wonderful metal work and facilities compliment exceptional sound from such a modestly priced pair of monoblocks. The mids and highs are elegant and detailed with the kind of sound you can take home to mother. The bass is good enough to satisfy and entertain unless you have only had a diet of solid-state sound your entire life. More powerful sounding than you would expect from 75-watts per channel indicating excellent design and R&D. I liked the Opera's and enjoyed many hours of beautiful, sweet music with them. I predict that you will, too.


(NBC News) A Chicago public school teacher is accused of enlisting the help of a friend to beat one of her 9-year-old students with belts, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the student's mother Thursday.
Asia Gaines filed the suit against the Chicago Board of Education; her son's homeroom teacher, Kristen Haynes; and Haynes' childhood friend, Juanita Tyler.
The suit alleges that Haynes, 50, invited Tyler, 56, to George W. Tilton Elementary School "for the purpose of corporally punishing" Gaines' son, identified only as JC, on Sept. 20, 2018.


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Kidney Transplant Horrors Revisited
Filed under: Fact or Fiction?, Fraud and Deception, You Decide
[Editor's note: Sounds a bit like You've Got to be Kidneying from Snopes.com. If you read down to the bottom of that link, you'll find a hauntingly similar story that was reported in May of 1998. Perhaps it's been a slow news week in New Delhi.]
Indian Police Probe Transplant Ring
by Sam Dolnick
New Delhi (AP) — Police said they were raiding hospitals and guest houses Monday as part of their investigation into an illegal transplant racket that allegedly removed kidneys from up to 500 poor laborers and sold their organs to wealthy clients.
Police suspect that dozens of doctors were involved in the kidney racket, which had a waiting list of some 40 people hailing from at least five countries.
The scam, centered in Gurgaon – a posh suburb of New Delhi – used luxury cars outfitted with blood-testing machines to test donors on the fly as well as sophisticated surgical equipment hidden inside a residential neighborhood.
The sprawling investigation is ongoing and police are raiding hospitals' offices and guest houses, Gurgaon Police Commissioner Mohinder Lal told reporters in Gurgaon on Monday.
The primary suspects, who police said have been tied to organ transplant rackets in the past, have apparently fled the country, Lal said.
"We suspect around 400 or 500 kidney transplants were done by these doctors over the last nine years," Lal told reporters last week.
There long have been reports of poor Indians illegally selling their kidneys, but the transplant racket in Gurgaon, which was busted Thursday following a tip from a victim, is one of the most extensive to come to light.
Accounts varied on whether the laborers were aware they were selling their kidneys or whether doctors removed them without their consent. Under Indian law, the sale of human organs is illegal under any circumstances, though organ donations are allowed.
Mohd Salim, a man who lost his kidney, said the scam began when a stranger approached him to offer him work.
"I was taken to a room with gunmen," Salim told the NDTV television news channel. "They tested my blood, gave me an injection, and I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I had pain in my lower abdomen and I was told that my kidney had been removed."
He didn't say if he was paid, but the Hindustan Times newspaper reported that those who were paid for their organs earned $1,250.
The kidney ring had a waiting list of dozens of people from India, the United States and Greece, according to the Hindustan Times. Several patients waiting for a transplant were at the facilities when police raided them Friday, but they were allowed to return to their countries without being held for questioning.
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Every year when it gets to this time I start to think about what it is that I can buy for the people in my life for Xmas that has some meaning behind it! Every thing that I purchase I put lots of thought and effort into and I also like to try and find some gifts that are not just from me to the person in my life that is important to me but can also assist in supporting people who may not be in the same fortunate place that I am in in terms of being able to even afford to buy presents and be thinking about it!
For a number of years we have been sponsoring a child through World Vision http://www.worldvision.com.au and have purchased extra things each year to help communities in developing countries have better lives; whether it be buying a goat, a well, some books for students attending school or even extra payments to support other families that need our help and then giving those extra things as gifts to people in our life. That way hopefully they will get some satisfaction that they are receiving something that is making a difference in the lives of people who are more in need of some of the staples that we take for granted than we are.
It is always funny that for most of us that have the luxury of living in nice houses and drive nice cars and really are able to survive from week to week, that the I hear many of us (me included sometimes) complaining about what we don't have and what we want. Xmas time is a time of year to stop and think about just how lucky we really are and all the good things that we do have in our lives and that this truly is the lucky country. Yes we are seeing utility bills going up and things are more expensive than ever but we usually are able to have 3 meals a day, are not living on the streets having to look through rubbish bins to get enough food to survive and we have roofs over our heads.
Reflection is an amazing thing and looking back on the past year it certainly has had its challenges attached to it but all in all it has been an amazingly great year on lots of levels and I am truly grateful for all of the wonderful things that this year has sent my way. I am able to go to work every day to earn a good living, I have a wonderful partner and a fabulous family and extended family who are all fabulous, caring, loving people, I have a roof over my head, am able to head off on holidays 2 or 3 times a year and dine out in some amazing restaurant when the mood takes me. This all adds up to an amazing year and the continuation of a blessed life that gives me hope for the future for those people that I love and adore.
And then there are those that are not as fortunate as I am and who for whatever reason do struggle with the hand they have been dealt. This is not a space with which to judge as who really knows the reasons behind the misfortune of another human being – whether it be an addiction, homelessness, ill health, mental illness or a myriad of other issues that can inflect pain and suffering on people and make day to day living a tough ask.
That is why 2 new websites that are offering some great Xmas gift suggestions are something that I recommend you have a look at and support if the urge so takes you. The lovely Liz who I work with sent an email around at work last week highlighting these 2 amazing sustainable gift sites with one being from Africa and one being a joint site that encompasses gifts from Africa and also the US. Both offer some very different options in terms of gifts but what they have in common is the desire to help make a difference for the people that they are selling their wares for.
Your purchase of a fashionABLE scarf creates sustainable business in Africa. We are committed to long-term solutions to fighting poverty, and our main focus is creating opportunities for vulnerable women. That means that your purchase of a scarf creates jobs, so that the women are not dependent upon charity, but instead are a vital part of a developing economy.
So our strategy is two-fold. We work with women to help them start small business cooperatives, and we partner with and require manufacturers to also employ women with fair wages & fair hiring practices.
If you head to the website you will see some beautiful hand made scarfs and leather products and you will also be able to learn about the women involved and read the stories of how this website has assisted to begin to lift them out of poverty, empower them, give them a sense of purpose again and to make a real difference in their lives.
Again on this site you can read about those employed by the Giving Keys and how much working in this environment has assisted them to get from the streets into accommodation to help create a better life. They fashion amazing jewelry and each piece is different to any other piece and you know when you purchase from them that you are making a difference to someone else's life.
Of course these days with the internet there are many other sites built around giving, sharing stories and making a difference and the three in this blog post are really just the tip of the iceberg but for me are 3 really strong sites that can really make a difference and are making a difference in the lives of the people that they set out to assist.
So as we get closer to Xmas, perhaps you can stop and think about how amazing this life we lead is and that you too can make a difference in the lives of those who may not be as fortunate as you are by purchasing your gifts that will not impact you, the person who you are buying for but other people and communities that could use our assistance.
Dressing up or dressing down – what's your excuse?