The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) met this morning to conclude its work for the session, by taking action on all pending drafts before it, including four draft resolutions relating to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), five on the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, one on special political missions, another on atomic radiation and a draft decision on the Committee's programme of work.
YUSRA KHAN (Indonesia) introduced four draft resolutions concerning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) — "L.12" through "L.15". He said that the texts reaffirmed fundamental principles and positions regarding the Palestine refugees, and reflected the strong support of the international community for the Agency and its mandate, pending a just solution to the refugees' plight. In addition to reaffirming the right of return of the Palestinians and the provision of essential education, health, relief and other services, the drafts also emphasized the necessity of UNRWA's work and its vital contribution to stability in the region. The international donor community was urged to increase support to the Agency, and ensure continued assistance to the Palestinian community.
The first of the four drafts, "L.12", on assistance to Palestine refugees, reaffirmed core principles regarding the refugees and UNRWA, and stressed the imperative of resolving the Palestine refugee problem. The second draft, "L.13", reaffirmed the rights of persons displaced by the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities to return to their homes. The third, "l.14", addressed the difficulties faced by UNRWA during the reporting period and reaffirmed that the Agency's functioning remained essential for the well-being and human development of the Palestine refugees. The final draft in that series, "L.15", reaffirmed the refugees' rights to properties and their revenues. He hoped that they would once again receive overwhelming support from Member States.
OSCAR LEÓN GONZÁLEZ (Cuba) introduced the five draft resolutions concerning the Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices, "L.16" through "L.20", saying that that the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, had deteriorated as Israel continued its illegal policies and measures in a deliberate manner, particularly in terms of the intensification of its unlawful settlement campaign. The draft resolutions to be considered by the Fourth Committee addressed those violations. The first emphasized the need to bring a complete end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967. The draft also renewed the Special Committee's mandate. The second draft resolution reaffirmed the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and the third underscored the detrimental impacts of the illegal Israeli settlement policies and activities. The fourth draft focused on the wide range of Israeli practices violating the human rights of the Palestinian people, and demanded that the occupying Power cease all such practices. The last resolution concerned the occupied Syrian Golan. Cuba hoped that Member States would give their strong support to those important texts.
Draft resolution "L.12" on Assistance to Palestine Refugees was approved by a recorded vote of 165 in favour to 2 against (Cameroon, Israel), with 6 abstentions (Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, South Sudan, United States, Vanuatu).
By its provisions, the General Assembly would call upon all donors to continue to strengthen their efforts to meet the anticipated needs of the Agency, including with regard to increased expenditures arising from the serious socioeconomic and humanitarian situation and instability in the region, particularly in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and those needs mentioned in recent emergency appeals and in the regional crisis response plans to address the situation of Palestine refugees in Syria, as well as those who had fled to countries in the region.
Draft resolution "L.13" on Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities was approved by a recorded vote of 162 in favour to 6 against (Cameroon, Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Palau, United States), with 5 abstentions (Nauru, Panama, Papua New Guinea, South Sudan, Vanuatu).
By its terms, the General Assembly would endorse the efforts of UNRWA's Commissioner-General to continue to provide humanitarian assistance, as far as practicable, on an emergency basis, and as a temporary measure, to persons in the area who are currently displaced and in serious need of continued assistance as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities.
Draft resolution "L.14" on Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East was approved by a recorded vote of 164 in favour to 6 against (Cameroon, Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Palau, United States), with 3 abstentions (Papua New Guinea, South Sudan, Vanuatu).
By its provisions, the General Assembly would call upon Israel to, among others, cease obstructing the movement and access of the Agency's staff, vehicles and supplies, and to cease the levying of taxes, extra fees and charges, which affect the Agency's operations detrimentally.
The Assembly would urge all States, the specialized agencies and non-governmental organizations to urgently increase their contributions to the Agency in order to address the persistent, growing and serious financial constraints and underfunding, especially with respect to the Agency's regular budget deficit, noting that financial shortfalls have been exacerbated by the current humanitarian situation and instability on the ground that have resulted in rising expenditures.
It would encourage the Agency to provide increased assistance, in accordance with its mandate, to affected Palestine refugees in Syria, as well as those who had fled to neighbouring countries, and call on donors to urgently ensure sustained support to the Agency in that regard.
By the terms of draft resolution "L.15" on Palestine refugees' properties and revenues, the General Assembly would urge the Palestinian and Israeli sides, as agreed between them, to deal with the important issue of Palestine refugees' properties and their revenues within the framework of the final status negotiations of the Middle East peace process.
That text was approved by a recorded vote of 163 in favour to 7 against (Cameroon, Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Nauru, Palau, United States), with 3 abstentions (Papua New Guinea, South Sudan, Vanuatu).
The Committee then proceeded to take recorded votes on the five draft resolutions relating to the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories.
Draft resolution "L.16", on the work of the Special Committee was approved by a recorded vote of 88 in favour to 8 against (Australia, Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Nauru, Palau, Panama, United States), with 73 abstentions.
By its terms, the General Assembly, gravely concerned about the continued detrimental impact of ongoing unlawful Israeli practices and measures in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, would request the Special Committee continue its effort to investigate Israeli violations of the Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967.
Draft resolution "L.17", on the Applicability of the Geneva Convention to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories was approved by a recorded vote of 160 in favour to 6 against (Canada, Federated States of Israel, Nauru, Palau, United States), with 5 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, South Sudan, Vanuatu).
That draft would have the General Assembly demandthat Israel accept the de jure requirements and comply scrupulously with the provisions of the 1949 Geneva Convention, and call upon all High Contracting Parties to the Convention to exert all efforts to ensure respect for its provisions by Israel, the occupying Power.
By a recorded vote of 158 in favour to 6 against (Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Nauru, Palau, United States), with 8 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, Honduras, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Vanuatu), the Committee approved "L.18" on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan.
According to that text, the General Assembly would reiterate its demand for the immediate and complete cessation of all Israeli settlement activities in all of the occupied territories. Furthermore, it would call for the prevention of all acts of violence, destruction, harassment and provocation by Israeli settlers, especially against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including historic and religious sites, and agricultural lands.
Then, the draft resolution on Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, "L.19", was approved by a recorded vote of 156 in favour to 8 against (Australia, Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Nauru, Palau, Panama, United States), with 7 abstentions (Cameroon, Honduras, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Vanuatu).
The General Assembly, by that text, would demand that Israel, the occupying Power, cease the construction of the wall, dismantle the structure and make reparation for all damage caused by its construction, which has gravely impacted the human rights and the socioeconomic living conditions of the Palestinian people. It would also demand that Israel cease its prolonged closures and economic and movement restrictions – amounting to a blockade on the Gaza Strip – and allow for sustained and regular movement of persons and goods for the long overdue reconstruction in the Gaza Strip.
The Committee then turned to draft resolution "L.20" on the occupied Syrian Golan, approving it by a recorded vote of 159 in favour to 1 against (Israel), with 11 abstentions, by which the Assembly would call on Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with Security Council resolution 497 (1981), in which the Council decided Israel's imposition of its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan was null and void and without international legal effect. The Assembly would also call on Israel to desist from imposing Israeli citizenship and Israeli identity cards on the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan, and discontinue its repressive measures against the population of the Golan.
Speaking in explanation of vote after the votes, the representative of Lithuania, on behalf of the European Union, said that the Union had not expressed a legal qualification regarding the term "forced displacement" used in a number of resolutions.
Also speaking in explanation of vote after vote, the representative of Iran said that his country had voted in favor of all the resolutions under agenda item 52, concerning the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices, in order to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. Iran continued to emphasize their inalienable rights, and believed that resolution of the Palestinian crisis was achievable only if those rights were fully restored. Due to lack of attention to root causes, the conflict had remained unsolved for six decades. A durable peace was only possible through the end of the occupation of the Palestinian Territory by the Israeli regime and the return of all Palestinian refugees to their homeland.
RIYAD MANSOUR, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine, said that today's votes were a resounding reaffirmation of the rights of the Palestinian peoples, including the refugees, and the quest for a just and lasting solution. The Fourth Committee's actions today exemplified the role that the United Nations could and must play in upholding international law and safeguarding human rights. It also illustrated the tangible difference that could be made through multilateral diplomacy.
Palestine, he said, urged Member States to support UNRWA's vital work, including at the 3 December pledging conference. Today's resolutions reaffirmed the international consensus regarding the illegality of the gross systematic violations perpetrated by the Israeli regime and called for a complete cessation of those grave breaches, which were "sabotaging the small opportunity that remained for realizing the two-State solution for peace". Those who truly supported the cause of peace must be firm in the demand for human rights.
BASHAR JA'AFARI (Syria) thanked the delegations for their support of those series of draft resolutions, including the one on the occupied Syrian Golan. Once again, Member States had sent a clear-cut message to Israel, the occupying Authority, to terminate its occupation of all Arab territories and to cease its violations of human rights and international law. The majority voting today in support of the draft resolution on the occupied Syrian Golan indicated that Israel's attempts to annex the Syrian Golan were null and void and had no legal effect. It was not a secret that Israel's violation of international law was manifold and dangerous. After occupying the Syrian Golan in 1977, it had established absurd laws, in a dangerous and provocative stance, reminiscent of Europe at the beginning of the Second World War. Only Israel had voted against the resolution on the Syrian Golan, which showed how it and its rulers and politicians paid no heed to international law. The "law of the jungle" must not replace international law, he cautioned.
BENJAMIN SHARONI (Israel) said that it took a lot of audacity from the Syrian representative to criticize Israel, considering Syria was responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Mr. JA'AFARI (Syria) advised the representative of Israel to continue playing with his phone instead of talking politics, since he did not seem to understand the provisions of the United Nations Charter. Israel had annexed the Syrian Golan and the Security Council had condemned that annexation. But this Israeli representative had not yet been born and, therefore, did not remember or understand that resolution. That decision by the Israeli occupying Authority reminded the international community of the unjust decisions taken by Hitler on the eve of the Second World War. Hitler's Nazi policies such as annexing territories by force and other criminal violent actions were seen in the occupied territories today. According to an old Arab proverb, "it was better to hide during a catastrophe". It was better for the Israeli delegate to hide after the meeting and play with his phone instead of making himself a source of laughter and irony.
Mr. SHARONI (Israel) said that his experience in diplomacy might be slight, but it did not take a long time to see that war crimes were being conducted on a daily basis. Syria's cynical statements were a desperate attempt to distract attention from a regime that had zero credibility. It did not care for the people of its own country or the Middle East. Assad and his cronies could not fool anyone.
CATERINA VENTURA (Canada) said that her delegation regretted Syria's comments making a connection between Israel and the Nazi era. Canada expressed concern about such statements.
WALTER MILLER (United States) said that his delegation also regretted the characterization made about Israel connecting it to Nazi Germany.
HENDRIK SELLE (Germany) said that while his country had voted in favour of the resolution on the occupied Syrian Golan, it rejected the comparisons made by the Syrian delegate, which displayed "a stunning lack of historical insight".
IHAB HAMED (Syria), responding to the representatives of the United States, Canada and Germany, stated that he reaffirmed the advice to Israel to respect the United Nations resolutions and to end its occupation of the Arab territories. If Israel's violations of human rights ceased, then Syria would not need to make the comparisons it had made. Then such exchanges in this room would be unnecessary and there would be no need for repeated United Nations resolutions.
The Committee then approved a draft decision, submitted by its Bureau, on the proposed programme of work for the sixty-ninth session (document A/C.4/68/L.10).
Committee Chairman CARLOS GARCÍA GONZÁLEZ (El Salvador), concluding the session, noted that the Committee had approved a total of 26 draft resolutions and two draft decisions. The work of Fourth Committee was "mainly political", and, as agreed among the members, "this character should be retained and strengthened".
At the same time, the Committee covered other important issues related to the Secretariat's work, such as public information, outer space and atomic radiation.
The agenda items provided opportunities to consider the issues in depth and with the flexible working methods adopted by the Committee in recent years.
He reviewed the debates and action on subsequent drafts on decolonization, information, peaceful uses of outer space, effects of atomic radiation, and peacekeeping. Concerning the latter, he said many issues raised would be considered in greater detail during the 2014 session of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations. The Fourth Committee also considered assistance in mine action, and undertook a comprehensive review of special political missions, on its docket for the first time this year. It also considered matters related to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices. And, it approved its proposed programme of work for the sixty-ninth session.


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Micar Innovation (Micar21) received award: "Investor of the year 2018" Success Startup.
Micar Innovation (Micar21) received award: "Investor of the year 2018" Success Startup - InvestBulgaria Agency part of Bulgarian Ministry of Economy.
Deputy Minister of Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Bulgaria Mr. Borisov handed award: "Investor of the year 2018" Success Startup to Dimitar Dimitrov
InvestBulgaria Agency (IBA) is a government organization, established to attract investment to Bulgaria, to assist project set-up and to ensure successful project development resulting in new jobs, exports and know-how transfer for the Bulgarian economy. We help potential and existing investors explore the investment opportunities in Bulgaria and carry out greenfield investment projects in the country. Our agency reports directly to the Bulgarian Ministry of Economy. As a government institution, we have direct access to all Bulgarian government and local institutions to facilitate the entry and development of your business in the country.
Micar Innovation is a drug discovery factory. The company has found a niche where it is able to create a large societal impact by improving the quality of life through new blockbuster drug molecules for a large class of diseases. Micar Innovation focuses on non-clinical Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) in preclinical R&D and Hit-to-Lead (H2L) achievements in areas such as neuroscience, oncology, cardio-vascularity, dermatology, rare diseases. Micar21 is our drug discovery platform for small molecule drug candidates. The business model is based on licensing our intellectual property to commercial partners and on the creation new spin out companies.
Micar Innovation (Micar21) received the Excellence in Innovation label 2018 Bulgaria
The Excellence in Innovation label of the Applied Research and Communications Fund. The label is provided for the use of enterprises that have successfully passed the evaluation by the ARC Fund and jury experts within the framework of the Innovative Enterprise of the year Contest. Criteria for evaluation to grant the label use include high quality and originality of innovations, impacts on national and world markets, environment and society, efficiency of the business model.
The President of the Republic of Bulgaria Mr. Rumen Radev handed Excellence in Innovation label to Filip Fratev.
Source: Applied Research and Communications Fund
Micar Innovation (Micar21) is the winner of а prestigious award for Innovative startup enterprise of the year 2018
The National Competition "Innovative Enterprise of the Year" annually awards Bulgarian enterprises with successfully implemented innovative products, processes, services and practices on the Bulgarian and world markets.
Тhe 14th edition of the competition "Innovative Enterprise of the Year – 2018" took place during the National Innovation Forum on 6 December 2018.
The Forum with the participation of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria Mr. Rumen Radev features the award ceremony of the Innovative Enterprise of the Year 2018 national contest..
For Innovative New Startup Enterprise, Micar Innovation (Micar21) was awarded an honorary certificate.
Source: Enterprise Europe Network
About Innovative Enterprise of the Year – 2018 - more information: Innovative Enterprise of the Year – 2018
"European CIDIC Award"
Micar Innovation (Micar21) has been awarded a "European CIDIC Award"
We are delighted to introduce DEAC (Diplomatic, Economic, Academic and Cultural) days concept organised during each bi-annual presidency of the Council of the EU which is currently BULGARIA.
The CIDIC jury, composed of its board of directors, professors of the Vrij Universiteit Brussel (VUB), representatives of the Bulgarian Embassy in Brussels, is pleased to inform that Micar Innovation (Micar21) has been awarded a "European CIDIC Award".
This Award has handed over at the BCCI during our DEAC days in Sofia and you are cordially invited to collect yours during the ceremony followed by a reception organised by the Belgian Ambassador in his residence on TUESDAY 24th APRIL 2018 from 16:30
About CIDIC: CIDIC is the European Centre of Economic Diplomacy and addresses the Diplomatic, Economic, Academic and Cultural world. CIDIC facilitates meetings between the actors of these worlds to promote, in an informal way, privileged relationships. CIDIC fosters improved awareness and common activities among decision-makers in these different spheres through DEAC Missions (Diplomatic-Economic-Academic-Cultural) to the countries presiding the Council of the European Union on a rotating basis, thematic conferences and receptions. CIDIC is supported by UNICA (Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe), the Brussels Diplomatic Academy, the Diplomatic World Magazine and the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Baron Ernest de Laminne de Bex ( President) - more information: www.cidic.be
Best Biotech Startup of the year 2017 in CEE
Micar Innovation (Micar21) named Best Biotech Startup of the year 2017 in CEE - Bulgaria National Winners
On the 4th edition of the Central European Startup Awards finals, competition that includes national finalists from 10 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Micar Innovation (Micar21) was named Best Biotech Startup of the year in CEE - Bulgaria National Winners.
The Central European Startup Awards launched in 2014 and covers currently 10 countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia). The initiative has become the region's largest startup festival, spotlighting the best entrepreneurs and investors across the region. The CESA have been steadily growing in popularity, with last year's event receiving over 800 nominations.

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Finding a new apartment isn't always easy. But before you start pounding the pavement, use the free resources widely available on the web to help get you started. You can do the majority of your research online and then go on-site to check out the apartment. We do recommend touring the apartment in person before you sign a lease. But learning more about the neighborhood and researching price ranges can help you narrow your search even more.
Here are five free tools to make your apartment search a (frugal) breeze.
While some people enjoy driving, others prefer to walk to the grocery store, work or the park. It's greener and less costly than driving or riding the bus. If this is important to you, go to Walk Score, enter in the address of an apartment that you are considering and see how pedestrian-friendly it is. It will give the apartment a score out of 100 and list grocery stores, restaurants, shops, schools, parks and more. It will even show the distance of these businesses from the apartment.
If you're searching for apartments, this is almost a one-stop shop on the web. Here you can view photos and detailed listings of apartments. You'll also find information on metro areas, cities and even neighborhoods. And, for information on apartment living, hunting, and moving, the Moving Center on this site offers some excellent articles.
This tool is helpful if you want to find out how reasonable the price of the apartment is for the neighborhood. If you find that the apartment you're considering is charging more than most apartments in the area, then think about what makes it better than the others. And, if you can't find the answer, maybe searching other places is a good idea. But, if you think the amenities and the apartment features are worth it, then this isn't as much of a concern.
This is for the wary customer. You don't want to rent an apartment in an area where you don't like the shops or restaurants. Yelp offers maps and reviews to help you decide if you like or frequent the types of businesses near the apartment that you are considering. It will save you time and money in the end when you don't have to commute farther to shop and dine.
This site is great for research on the neighborhood level. Not only can you get stats on neighborhoods, you can also find the best neighborhoods for college students, families, urban sophisticates, etc. in a specific city. You can also put in a neighborhood that you know you like and find one that is comparable in another city.
All of these resources on the web are free, so try them out before spending the day driving around the city wasting your gas or tiring your feet on the streets. And, it pays to do a little research first before spending a lot of money and time on an apartment that you'll end up not hating down the road.
What are some of your favorite resources for achieving a frugal move?
Ashley is a freelance writer who contributes to ApartmentGuide.com and lives in the Atlanta area. She enjoys finding new ways to save and live frugally while enjoying life.
I would add craigslist as well to that list. That is how I ended up finding my apartment and is usually the best starting place to begin your search.
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Thank you for posting this! Just today, we buckled down and looked at lots of apartments. We need to move by the end of september, so we need all the help we can get.
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Fantastic list!! Thank you for cluing me into these resources. The NYC real estate/rental market is tough enough as it is; these are seriously helpful. Rentometer and Walk Score are particularly useful. Thank you!
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Great article! Finding an apartment can be such a pain. I actually found this website that I love called Rent Jungle. It's a free apartment search engine that takes the listings from the major apartment sites and puts them on one results page. So instead of checking the dozens of apartments sites out there, you can get all the information at one place. It also has some neat features like one that lets you see if you're paying too much in rent and another that lets you check out market trends in your area. Here's the link if you want to check it out!
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We're excited to be partnering with Department of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco for SF-IM Summit 2011, aka "New Tools for the Public Good" On Saturday, March 5, 2011, from 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
The theme of SF-IM is using social media and other emerging technologies for the public good. Sessions will feature opportunities for discussion and hands-on learning. Importantly, the focus of SF-IM is on peer-to-peer learning and conversation, not tech-talk and PowerPoints. SF-IM's programming is ideal for anyone interested the public possibilities of the emerging media technologies, and is suitable for a wide range of abilities, from beginner to advanced.
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What Should a Web Site Cost?
Aspiration was delighted to accept Network for Good's invitation to speak in their "Nonprofit 911" free training series, on the topic of "What Should a Web Site Cost?".
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The California Endowment invited Aspiration down to Los Angeles to participate in a panel discussion on Social Media, Social Justice. The event was a wide-ranging dialog on how nonprofit organizations and campaigns can employ social media strategies to support social justice work and build healthy communities.
Gunner joined Chris Rabb of Afro-Netizen and Jessy Tolkan of Energy Action Coalition on the panel, which was moderated by Sloane Berrent of Causecast.
A video of the Q&A part of the event is available on the California Endowment web site.
Matt Garcia joins Aspiration as Community Manager for our Social Source Commons platform. Matt will maintain the SSC blog, engage users to learn how we can enhance the system to better serve their needs, and oversee community outreach for the project, working with the rest of the team to make SSC a more valuable resource for those looking for nonprofit software.
As anyone familiar with our work knows, Aspiration is passionate about delivering high-quality technology events to a broad range of social change communities and sectors. But we're usually so busy designing and facilitating the agendas that we rarely enjoy the opportunity to step back and reflect on either our methodology or the specific learnings and outcomes from the events themselves.


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By John Powell May 1, 2019 May 1, 2019 Featured Articles / Film's and TV / News
If you go down in the woods this May, you're sure of a big surprise. The Ranger is making the forest frightful on Shudder this month. Also debuting is the Night Shifter, V/H/S/2 and more of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs.
SHUDDER ORIGINAL MOVIES
THE RANGER (2018) — available Thursday, May 9
Director: Jenn Wexler, Cast: Chloë Levine, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden
A group of punk teens on the run from the police head to the woods only to be terrorized.
(Also available on Shudder Canada and Shudder UK)
THE NIGHT SHIFTER (2018) — available Thursday, May 23
Director: Dennison Ramalho, Cast: Daniel de Oliveira, Fabiula Nascimento, Bianca Comparato
Stênio works the graveyard shift at the morgue of a vast, violent city. He toils all night but he's never alone for Stênio can talk to the dead.
THE LAST DRIVE-IN WITH JOE BOB BRIGGS series — Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. PT
Proving once again that "the drive-in will never die," iconic horror host and exploitation movie aficionado Joe Bob Briggs is back with four more episodes of his Shudder Original series, hosting weekly Friday night double features streaming live exclusively on Shudder.
(Most titles available live on Shudder Canada; select titles also available on demand on Shudder UK )
Bad Dreams (1984, Andrew Fleming)
The only survivor from a cult mass suicide awakens from a 13-year coma to realize that the cult leader is killing everyone around her. Starring: Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch.
( Also available on Shudder Canada )
Doomsday (2008, Neil Marshall)
The deadly Reaper Virus erupts threatens the city of London and an elite fighting unit has 48 hours to find a cure in a devastated zone controlled by murderous, cannibalistic gangs. Starring: Rhona Mitra, Malcolm McDowell, MyAnna Buring, Alexander Siddig, Sean Pertwee.
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A 16-year-old takes up with a charming and deadly young man in this suspense-thriller. Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Wahlberg, Alyssa Milano, William Petersen, Amy Brenneman.
The Other (1972, Robert Mulligan)
In 1935 Connecticut farm country, two twin ten-year-olds appear to be the source of mysterious fatal accidents. Starring: Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, John Ritter.
Predestination (2015, Peter Spierig)
A Temporal Agent is sent on an intricate series of time-travel adventures designed to ensure the continuation of his law enforcement career for all eternity. Starring: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor.
Bloody Birthday (1981, Ed Hunt)
Three evil children embark on a killing spree to celebrate their tenth birthdays. Starring: Julie Brown, Lori Lethin, Billy Jayne, Elizabeth Hoy.
V/H/S/2 (2013, Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sanchez, Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingward)
From the innovative minds that brought you V/H/S comes V/H/S/2, an all-new anthology of dread, madness and gore. Starring: Devon Brookshire, Kelsy Abbott.
V/H/S: Viral (2014, Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop, Todd Lincoln, Aaron Moorhead, Marcel
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This third installment of the groundbreaking V/H/S series brings horror to a twisted new level. Starring: Natalia Ferreiro, Stephen Caudill, Greyson Chadwick, Emmy Argo, Amanda Baker, Jawed El Berni.
White God (2014, Kornél Mundruczó)
Unwanted, unloved and so-called "unfit" dogs rise up under a new leader, a one-time house-pet who has learned all too well from his journey through the streets that man is not always dog's best friend. Starring: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horváth.
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100 Bloody Acres (2013, Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes)
In this Aussie horror comedy, three friends are kidnapped by brothers who want to turn them into fertilizer. Starring: Damon Herriman, Angus Sampson, Anna McGahan.
Effects (1980, Dusty Nelson)
A group of filmmakers gather in Pittsburgh to make a slasher but as filming begins and "accidents" happen, it's clear that something isn't right. Starring: Joseph Pilato, Debra Gordon, John Harrison, Tom Savini.
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I love cooking, but I don't have a lot of cookbooks. Usually, I prefer internet as a source of inspiration instead of spending 20-30 euros for a collection of recipes, most of which I never come around recreating. With Super Natural Cooking by Heidi Swanson it was a different story altogether. I first discovered her wonderful blog and loved virtually any recipe I tried. From there, it was only one step to buying Heidi's book that is chock-full not only with gorgeous pictures and tasty dishes, but also a ton of useful information on healthy cooking. Till then, I had only a very blurred idea about what "Healthy cooking" was about, and considered health food stores as the reign of people wearing Birkenstock sandals throughout the year (WITH socks, if the weather conditions should require it) and feeding their children sugar-free dusty muesli for breakfast. After reading Super Natural Cooking, the things have changed. I'm no more afraid of buying whole grains and flours, trying different kinds of browns sugars (and yes, they ARE all different!) and turn to the book and to the blog anytime I need inspiration or am in doubt about some "healthy" stuff.
The following recipe for Gingery Shortbread is from Heidi's book, though there are variations to it on her blog, too. I changed the original recipe a bit, using buckwheat flour instead of the amaranth one, and adjusting baking time and temperature as i was dieing to try my new shortbread pan and figured that freezing the dough inside the pan and then putting it straight into hot oven, as instructed, would do the ceramic pan no good.
Was I satisfied with the results? Well, given the fact that I've never had any shortbread before, this one was delicious, with a hot spiciness from the ginger and a tenderness from the butter that I've never met in a cookie :) I will definitively try all the variations of the recipe (rosemary and pine nuts seem so good!), hoping that a less chunky dough (due to minced candied ginger) will result in a more defined pattern.
Mix flours, salt and ground ginger in a small bowl. In a larger bowl, cream butter with sugar, then add the dry ingredients and the minced ginger and mix until just combined and crumbly. Gather together and wrap tightly into cling film, refrigerate for 20 min.
Preheat oven to 160 ° C. Spay the shortbread pan with non-stick spray and pat the dough into the pan. Prick entire surface with a fork and bake for about 25-30 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes before releasing the gingerbread from the pan. Eat.
Alternatively, you can roll the dough and cut cookies out of it. In this case, I would follow Heidi's suggestion to freeze the cut cookies for 10 minutes before baking, and reduce the baking time to about 10-15 minutes, depending on the size of the cookies.
What's hot on a Wednesday?
Yes, it's that time of the week again. Following Loobylu's thread here it comes again – what's hot and what's not on a Wednesday?
- Kimmi dolls – have just discovered these gorgeous Japanese wooden dolls last week. Still cannot decide about to whom of them to give a shelter on my library shelf.
- A Skorpion in the bathtub - these are the disadvantages of living out in the "wild"
- an Italian tv-format adapted from the Spanish Médico de familia - went on air yesterday, only 2 weeks after I have first discovered this beautiful a bit naïve but good-hearted piece of Italian cinematography. And I have just started loving all of them!
What is hot or not at your place this week?


This weekend, the Espíritu de Montjuïc event on the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit launched the 2019 season of series by Peter Auto. This year, no fewer than six meetings and eight grids are on the calendar.
In 2004, Peter Auto introduced Classic Endurance Racing as a support grid for the Le Mans Series meetings. It's come a long way since then! Fifteen years later CER has been transformed into one of the leading grids at Peter Auto events and it has been an inspiration for several more! Since its creation, six other grids have followed the trail it has blazed each one celebrating an era and a theme associated with endurance racing: exceptional cars in The Greatest's Trophy, GTs from the 1960s in Sixties' Endurance, Porsche 911s in the 2.0L Cup, the Francorchamps 24 Hours from the halcyon era of touring car racing in the Heritage Touring Cup, prototypes from the 1980s in Group C Racing and now supercars from the 1990s-2000s in Endurance Racing Legends.
Other notable cars present at the Catalonian event that have not been seen racing for a long time were a Ferrari 250 GTO (1962), a 3.8-litre low-drag lightweight E-Type Jaguar (1963), an Alfa Romeo T33/TT3 (1972), a Lotus Esprit (1979), a Lola T600 (1981) and a Sauber C8 Kouros (1986). And there will be more next month at Spa-Classic starting with a Jaguar XJS/R entered for the Heritage Touring Cup. More proof, as if it were needed, that historic racing isn't static and that the events are in a state of perpetual renewal.
Do not miss the highlights of Espíritu de Montjuïc which will be shown in an on-line programme hosted by Mylène Dorange at 20:00 this coming Tuesday on the Peter Auto YouTube channel.
Espíritu de Montjuïc: last information!


Sister Missionaries react to the news that new sisters can enter the mission field at the age of 19. Saturday morning session of general conference Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012.
SALT LAKE CITY — Oct. 6, 2012, was the day Tanner Poulton's life changed.
Tanner was looking forward to his turn to serve as a full-time missionary for the church. From the time he was a little boy he knew it wasn't if he was going on a mission, but when. For him, he was still at least 18 months away, since he wouldn't turn 19 — the minimum age for young Mormon men to serve as missionaries — until January 2014.
Meanwhile, there was plenty of time to enjoy his senior year of high school and maybe a little college before he had to start thinking about filling out his missionary application.
Then everything changed in an instant.
Tanner sort of missed the next part — the minimum age for service was also being lowered for young LDS women from 21 to 19 — because of the flood of feelings he was experiencing.
Today, with the 183rd Semiannual General Conference of the church set to open this weekend, exactly one year after President Monson's historic announcement, Tanner is an 18-year-old serving in the Philippines as Elder Poulton, one of thousands of younger-than-ever missionaries, both male and female, who have flooded the mission fields in response to what they felt was a prophet's call.
The numbers, Elder Evans said during an exclusive Deseret News interview, bear that out.
Those numbers have grown across the board.
Which is about what LDS Missionary Department officials expected.
The dramatic increase in the number of LDS missionaries called and sent into service during the past year has had significant impacts on Utah area colleges and universities, businesses, and even college sports teams.
But nowhere has the impact been more keenly felt other than, perhaps, in the individual lives of the new missionaries, than in the Missionary Department itself. Existing missionary training facilities were inadequate to house, feed and train so many new missionaries at one time.
The existing number of church missions — 347 around the globe at the time of the announcement — could not accommodate the expected surge. Even the Missionary Department staff was insufficient to review, analyze and respond to the sudden flood of new missionary applications that began just days after last October's conference ended.
"The Lord has promised that revelation would come line upon line and precept upon precept," Elder Evans said. "The implication is that when one revelation is given, the next revelation is needed.
Which is exactly what they did in sometimes-miraculous ways.
For example, part of the answer to the MTC space issue came during a meeting on the matter when someone asked if the Missionary Department would be interested in training missionaries who were being sent to Spanish-speaking missions at the church-owned Benemerito de las Americas High School near Mexico City.
During the ensuing weeks leading up to First Presidency's approval of the suggestion, Elder Evans learned that Benemerito had been created under President David O. McKay during a period when the educational resource was desperately needed. And while it has continued to be a valuable educational tool for Latter-day Saints in Mexico, the time of great need for the facility had passed. On several occasions church leaders had agonized over what to do with the school, but each time they considered possibilities, they felt they needed to wait.
As it turned out, "we could not have designed a better MTC" than the Benemerito facility, he said.
"The great abundance of missionaries has caused us to think through our training model at the MTCs," Elder Evans added. "We reduced training times by 30 percent, and we're learning a lot from that. And we're looking for better ways to train. Maybe we can begin earlier. Maybe we could devise a mission-long language-training program so you don't have this spike of intense language learning at the MTC that kind of levels off for the rest of your mission.
"To be able to define where the missions should be and then to get in place the structure for them, to find mission homes and apartments and so on, has been one of the really great miracles," he said, calling it a "labor of love" as the Missionary Department worked closely with general, area and local church authorities to determine where new missions and missionaries could be useful and productive.
In that process, he said, "we didn't plan for the peak, we planned for what we think is going to be needed after the peak, which we don't think will ever be at the 58,000 level again.
Elder Evans said church officials have worked their way through all of the challenges and logistical issues based on the simple assumption that more missionaries meant more of everything associated with missionaries.
It isn't that the percentages of medical and visa issues have increased, he added. It's just that there are more of them because there are more missionaries.
Having so many more young sister missionaries (Sisters were 12-13 percent of our missionary force; now they are 24-25 percent) has stimulated changes in mission organization and leadership, including the creation of a new calling for sisters: sister training leader.
Hillary Bowler, a recently returned missionary from the Pennsylvania Philadelphia Mission, agreed. She spent the last five months of her mission serving as a sister training leader, and she said having sisters as leaders and in the mission leadership council is already making a difference.
"We went from 18 sisters in the mission when I first came out to about 60 now," she said. "The elders who serve as district and zone leaders are great, but there are certain things that it is just difficult for sisters to talk to them about. I think it really makes a difference to a young sister to have an older, more experienced sister to talk to and receive training from."
Bowler said she is also excited about what this will mean for future ward and stake councils. "Fast forward 20 years," she said. "If I'm a Relief Society president, I'll know a lot better how to work with a bishop after serving in our mission leadership council."
Church leaders are also pleased with what they are seeing from the 18-year-old elders and 19-year-old sisters.
When asked if there were issues related to the immaturity of the newer missionaries, he balked at the use of the word.
The new technology, referenced by Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles during the June mission presidents seminar and the Work of Salvation church-wide broadcast, will include mini tablet devices with Internet access and special software that will allow missionaries and ward mission leaders to interact digitally and to share schedules, appointments, goals and reports.
Elder Evans said the new technology will be launched in 30 missions between now and January, with worldwide implementation expected during the last half of 2014.
"This is a huge change in missionary work," he said. "But we believe that missionaries need to communicate the way the world is communicating. Much of our proselyting model really hearkens back to the 1800s, and we need to be brought into the 21st century.


Stony Brook University hosted a day-long Quantum Immersion Workshop in the Wang Center Theater on Monday.
Very few researchers that were interviewed thought their experiences of sexual harassment were important to share because it was not vital to their data and findings.
Stony Brook University freshmen and other outside guests filed their way into the Island Federal Credit Union Arena to listen to a Q&A between President Stanley and U.S.


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University of Tulsa hosts presidential debate watch party
Students gathered at the University of Tulsa to watch the first Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
TULSA -- Students gathered at the University of Tulsa to watch the first Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
It total, more than 30 students filled the lecture hall, hoping to hear about changes for the country.
"For people my age, this is the most important debate of our life for sure this debate is going to show how my career as a mechanical engineer," said Gann Swan, a mechanical engineer senior at TU.
"Millennials really don't like Trump by and large. In fact in some polls, he's pulling in third place behind not only Hillary Clinton but Gary Johnson," said Matt Hindman, an assistant professor of political science. "They're luke-warm about Hillary."
Students who turned out for the event say being well informed is important. "It's really important for us to know exactly what's going on and how the current political issues might affect our future."
Others at the watch party voiced the importance of appealing to millennials. "This is probably the last election in which millennials will not be the most sot out group of voters," said Hindman.


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We are happy to report that Corporate Kids, who we've partnered with for the past two years, will be providing childcare again at The Summit!
Childcare is open for children ages 0-10, and the cost is $75 per child for the entirety of the event. Childcare will be available throughout The Summit on Wednesday, June 12, 12:00pm-8:30pm; Thursday, June 13, 8:00am-8:30pm; and Friday, June 14, 8:00am-5:00pm.
The children will be cared for by fully-insured workers and will be engaged in various age-appropriate activities throughout the day in a room just off the main hall, close to where the forums are taking place. Parents will be able to check in on their children throughout the day if necessary, and the children will join their parents for all meals in the ballroom.
We also provide private space for nursing or pumping for mothers who desire it, as well as a refrigerator for pumped milk.
If you are interested in childcare, nursing space, or both, please fill out the form below and you will receive more information.


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La Shani McDonald, of Clyde Fenton Primary School, has been recognised for her compassion, integrity and kindness at a ceremony for the Fred Hollows Humanity Award at Parliament House in Darwin, today. La Shani was nominated by her teacher, Angela Everett, for her reliability and strong, inspiring leadership. "La Shani is a school leader and performs her duties with the highest degree of integrity and reliability," Ms Everett said. "She is a fabulous role model, always showing compassion and kindness to her peers and younger members of both her home and school communities. "She is recognised by her peers as a leader because they know she is consistently fair and is looked up to as a nurturing little Indigenous mother, who teachers others right from wrong." The Humanity Award is a national initiative of The Fred Hollows Foundation that acknowledges Year Six students who follow in Fred's footsteps by demonstrating humanitarian values towards others. Founding Director of The Fred Hollows Foundation, Gabi Hollows and NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner presented 20 students from across the territory with their certificates before announcing Ashlin Bucklar, of Stuart Park Primary School, as the 2019 NT Junior Ambassador to The Foundation. Founding Director Gabi Hollows said the Award highlights inspirational students making a positive difference in their communities. "Fred would have been incredibly proud of the contribution these students are making to society, no matter how big or small their actions," Gabi Hollows said. "To all of this year's Humanity Award recipients and to the 2019 Northern Territory Junior Ambassador to The Foundation, I offer my warmest congratulations and my heartfelt thanks." As a Junior Ambassador to The Fred Hollows Foundation, Ashlin Bucklar will allocate $5000 to one of The Foundation's programs to end avoidable blindness. This gift is possible through the generous donation by the award's charity partner Specsavers. Ashlin chose to support The Foundation's program work in Kenya, which works towards increasing eye health services to restore sight to 150,000 people. The Fred Hollows Humanity Award will return to the Northern Territory in 2020. To learn more about the award visit www.hollows.org/humanityaward While you're with us, you can now receive updates straight to your inbox each Friday at 6am from the Katherine Times. To make sure you're up to date with all the news, sign up here.
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Clyde Fenton student recognised for leadership
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Founding director, Gabi Hollows and Chief Minister Michael Gunner with La Shani McDonald.
La Shani McDonald, of Clyde Fenton Primary School, has been recognised for her compassion, integrity and kindness at a ceremony for the Fred Hollows Humanity Award at Parliament House in Darwin, today.
La Shani was nominated by her teacher, Angela Everett, for her reliability and strong, inspiring leadership.
"La Shani is a school leader and performs her duties with the highest degree of integrity and reliability," Ms Everett said.
"She is a fabulous role model, always showing compassion and kindness to her peers and younger members of both her home and school communities.
"She is recognised by her peers as a leader because they know she is consistently fair and is looked up to as a nurturing little Indigenous mother, who teachers others right from wrong."
The Humanity Award is a national initiative of The Fred Hollows Foundation that acknowledges Year Six students who follow in Fred's footsteps by demonstrating humanitarian values towards others.
Founding Director of The Fred Hollows Foundation, Gabi Hollows and NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner presented 20 students from across the territory with their certificates before announcing Ashlin Bucklar, of Stuart Park Primary School, as the 2019 NT Junior Ambassador to The Foundation.
Founding Director Gabi Hollows said the Award highlights inspirational students making a positive difference in their communities.
"Fred would have been incredibly proud of the contribution these students are making to society, no matter how big or small their actions," Gabi Hollows said.
"To all of this year's Humanity Award recipients and to the 2019 Northern Territory Junior Ambassador to The Foundation, I offer my warmest congratulations and my heartfelt thanks."
As a Junior Ambassador to The Fred Hollows Foundation, Ashlin Bucklar will allocate $5000 to one of The Foundation's programs to end avoidable blindness. This gift is possible through the generous donation by the award's charity partner Specsavers.
Ashlin chose to support The Foundation's program work in Kenya, which works towards increasing eye health services to restore sight to 150,000 people.
The Fred Hollows Humanity Award will return to the Northern Territory in 2020. To learn more about the award visit www.hollows.org/humanityaward
While you're with us, you can now receive updates straight to your inbox each Friday at 6am from the Katherine Times. To make sure you're up to date with all the news, sign up here.
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Foxtons built a travel time search using isochrones to show users where they could live using commute time. They also include other ways of search such as drawing a search area by hand, using geolocation or exploring the nearby area using radius. Foxtons used the TravelTime Search API to build their search tool, try it here.
A typical property search asks the visitor where they'd like to live, but this search keeps the end results open. As the search format is different Foxtons guide users through the process with questions every step of the way. The first stage asks the user to enter their place of work so that the app can identify the best locations to live.
The next stage allows the user to enter their work location. We've added iGeolise HQ in the box to discover where would be best to start the search. It also has a place to enter the maximum possible commute time. This will change the size of the area the user wants to search in. They can also pick from public transport, cycling or driving.
At this point, the visitor can either add another commute for someone else living in the house or add up to 5 shapes. Adding an extra shape would mean the properties shown are within reach for 2+ commutes.
On the left-hand side, they show the isochrone shape. For public transport shapes, it's common to see islands around the main shape. These are locations that are reachable by fast transport routes, however, it may not be possible to reach the places in between in the allocated time.
The isochrone map example above shows how the shape can change when adding another location to commute to.
Take a look at our isochrone resource page for articles on how to build your own isochrone or using our free isochrone map generator tool.


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New! Michelle Tea's new memoir How To Grow Up
Michelle Tea—poet, novelist, memoirist, and scrappy queer icon—has a new memoir! It's called How To Grow Up and is written as a series of interconnected essays that chronicle Tea's long, meandering path towards something like Read Adulthood.
Tea is the much-celebrated author of such classics as The Chelsea Whistle, Valencia, Rent Girl, and The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, as well as the founder of seminal queer literary tour Sister Spit. In this new memoir, she may have traded her by-the-seat-of-her-pants punk life for a more "normal" day-to-day, but don't worry—the messy, funny, wholly relatable Michelle Tea hasn't gone anywhere! She's just exploring new ways of doing things now that she is in her 40s, married to her wife Dashiell, and a new parent.
How To Grow Up is darkly funny, poignant, and inspiring without veering into cheesy self-help territory. Tea shares advice and insights about relationships, breakups, money, the merits of taking the long and winding path to adulthood, and feminism. "When feminism felt like it was bumming out my reality, it was time to redefine what a feminist was," she writes in the chapter "I'm So Vain." Similar to Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, How To Grow Up embraces contradictions: You can obsess over wrinkle creams and cry at the sight of a beautiful purse and still be a feminist, obviously. Sometimes you just have to grow up a little bit to realize that fact.—Dina Gachman at Bustle
Bonus: Check out this life advice conversation between Tea and queer comics artist & Sister Spit performer Nicole Georges (whose graphic coming-of-age memoir, Calling Dr. Laura, is always in stock here).


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This is a interesting Venus Production release. Only nine Songs are giving to the Elvis fan, with four previously released recordings, but five new ones to us.
"On A Jet to the Promised Land" starts with take one of 'Promised Land'. It's a short version, which runs only 2:32, in great sound. At the beginning we hear Elvis struggling with the mic and changing the lyrics at the end. The whole thing sounds more like fun than a real recording. Elvis is lauging and talking while James Burton is playing the first break. A interesting version. Great to have the first take.
The first take of 'There's a Honky Tonk Angel' was released before on Essential Elvis Vol. 5. Here the sound is not as strong as on the Essential CD, but more clear, which is good and gives another feeling in my point of view. The second take is a false start and pretty short, but new to our ears. It sound like Elvis is a little bit too far in the background while the guitar is very clear on the left channel. Take three is also new and sounds very good. But Elvis is unable to end the song without messing it up. Still, a great song and a great take.
'My Boy' has always been one of my favourites by Elvis. I think take one is better than the master and the other takes. Here we have take one and two, already released on the FTD release Good Times. We know that Elvis was tired of singing the song in the studio, but enjoyed performing it on stage. At take one you can hear that he sung it like on stage. Take two and three bored him. I think the sound on the Good Times FTD is better. Again, here it seems that Elvis is a little bit too far away in the mix.
Take one of 'Love Song Of The Year'! I waited quite a while for an outtake of this song – and I got a very good one! It's quite similar to the master, but the sound is very good – almost like an undubbed version of the master – and it's interesting hearing Elvis finding the way into the song.
Take four of 'Your Love's Been A Long Time Coming' is, in my point of view, better than the master take. This take is not new, since it was released on Essential Elvis Vol. 5 some years ago. The studio talk is different before the song starts. We hear the announcement "take 4", and Elvis singing the line "A Litle Less Conversation", then he wants to talk with David (Briggs) and then suddenly the band beginns to play. However, the sound here is not as good as on Essential Elvis vol. 5.
Also one of my favourites is 'Thinking About You'. Here we have take three, which sound very good and shows us Elvis hard working on a track he enjoyed. In my point of view this take is better than take four – released on Essential Elvis Vol. 5 and the master (take 8). This take has already been release on Made In Memphis by FTD.
I'm a very huge fan of Elvis' 70s recordings, and since FTD has not yet released a Promised Land CD with outtakes and stuff, I appreciate every new outtake from this December session of 1973. But is it necessary to release a CD with only five new tracks and a total running time of only 30:46!?


Island Fitness Lead Trainer Loretta Stanton is convinced "Variety is the key to keeping our bodies and minds from becoming bored and on autopilot."
So many people wonder why they plateau in fitness or weight loss after about a month of doing the same eating and exercise routines. Stanton says, "Our bodies adapt to exercises within about six weeks of doing that exercise." For better results, she recommends "Changing your exercise routine will keep your body alert."
Most health specialists agree with her and insist that varying exercise workouts help prevent overuse injuries, boredom, and hitting a wall in fitness goals.
If you're wondering about your own fitness challenges, form when working out, or just need help shifting your methods, consider working with IF staff members trained as specialists in Ortho-Kinetics.
There's no outrunning a poor diet!


Paris, France, June 3rd, 2015 – Firmenich proudly announces that Nathalie Lorson was named "Perfumer of the year" in both Italy and France this year.
"On behalf of the Fine Fragrance team, I extend my deepest congratulations to Nathalie who inspires us every day with her restless, inquisitive and imaginative spirit", says Olivier de Lisle, Senior Vice President Fine Fragrance. "We are all extremely proud of Nathalie for receiving not one but two such prestigious awards!" he adds.
Most recently in Paris, Cosmétique Mag honored Nathalie Lorson by officially nominating her "Perfumer of the Year" in France and awarding her the Cosmétique Mag Oscar. This award recognizes a talented career spanning over 35 years, her outstanding passion and her numerous creations.
Also, in Milan Nathalie was honored by Accademia del Profumo with the title "Perfumer of the year" for her creation Black Opium. Soon after its launch, the product reached the leading position in the market place as the most successful launch in 2014 in Italy.
Nathalie likes to compare herself to a gold digger: "I am a gold digger looking for nuggets. We find lots of gold dust, but not many gold nuggets!" Black Opium was certainly one", shares Nathalie.
Based on an original idea by Nathalie and co-created with Marie Salamagne, Honorine Blanc and Olivier Cresp, Black Opium received the Fifi award for "best Prestige Fragrance" in France, Germany and the UK this year!
Nathalie Lorson joined Firmenich in 2000 with a rich experience, starting off with Roure and then IFF. Very fast, brands such as Jil Sander, Lalique, Gucci, Armani, Zadig & Voltaire, Paul Smith, Balmain, Boucheron, Mauboussin, Givenchy adopted Nathalie's signature. Her most remarkable creations include Lalique Encre Noire, Flora by Gucci et Gucci Première and more recently Boucheron Place Vendôme (with Olivier Cresp), Versace Eros for Women (with Alberto Morillas & Olivier Cresp) and Azzaro for Her (with Fabrice Pellegrin) to be launched next September. Her endless commitment to creation combined with an incredible energy allows her to involve herself in many regions such as South America, Middle East or Asia extending there the number of her signatures.
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by Hans Nicholas Jong 14 January 2020
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Indonesia's fires burned mostly abandoned and degraded land, not forests
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Our fires weren't as bad as in the Amazon, Indonesian officials claim
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has attempted to downplay the scale of its land and forest fires this year by saying things weren't as bad as in the Amazon or…
Paper and fast fashion fan the flames burning Indonesia's peat: Report
by Hans Nicholas Jong 9 December 2019
JAKARTA — The toxic haze that swept across large swaths of Southeast Asia this year from forest and land fires in Indonesia could become a common phenomenon if two of…
Indonesian officials charged in $1.6m bribes-for-permits scheme
JAKARTA — Anti-corruption investigators in Indonesia have charged two government officials for allegedly taking $1.6 million in bribes to grant permits for oil palm plantations spanning just over half the…
South Korea funding coal plants overseas that would be banned at home
by Hans Nicholas Jong 27 November 2019
JAKARTA — A quick scan of social media trending topics in Southeast Asia reveals K-pop to be the flavor of the moment. But the highly polished and cannily choreographed girl…
Indonesia fires emitted double the carbon of Amazon fires, research shows
JAKARTA — Fires from land and forest fires across Indonesia this year have pumped at least 708 million tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — almost double the emissions…
Indonesian politician at heart of permit scandal dies ahead of graft trial
JAKARTA — Darwan Ali, an Indonesian politician at the center of a palm oil licensing scandal and charged in a separate corruption case, died on Nov. 18 before he could…
Indonesian fire expert awarded for exposing destruction by plantation firms
JAKARTA — Indonesian forensics expert Bambang Hero Saharjo has been awarded a top environmental prize for his work in delivering justice against oil palm plantations accused of allowing fires on…
FSC report on palm giant Korindo lists litany of violations, even with redactions
JAKARTA — The Forest Stewardship Council has released a batch of heavily redacted reports into its probe of violations by a palm oil company operating in Indonesia, after it was…
Makers of Oreos, KitKats among brands linked to Indonesia forest fires
by Hans Nicholas Jong 6 November 2019
JAKARTA — The makers of Oreo cookies and KitKat chocolate bars are among the companies getting some of their palm oil from producers linked to the fires that have razed…


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Sooooo excited for today's recipe!
Now, let's talk caramelized onions. Are they needed? I guess not, but come on, they are awesome!!! I left some plain, some rolled in green onions, and some rolled in caramelized onions. 100% of the feedback went to the ones with caramelized onions. They were just the most flavourful. Plus, they look really pretty! Honestly, you know I say you can leave things out and what not when it comes to my recipes, but I feel the onions add so much! If you make one giant cheese ball, covering it in caramelized onions will be super easy. I had no issues rolling the balls in the onions. Just remember to let the onions cool down first, and roll the cheese balls before refrigerating so they are a bit tacky. Otherwise the onions won't have anything to stick on to!
You can cook the mushrooms and beef in a separate pan from the onions at the same time to cut down on time!
If using caramelized onions, set a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Add butter and once hot and bubbling, add onions. Cook, stirring often, until beginning to colour. Add sugar and salt. Keep cooking, stirring often, until caramelized to your liking. Remove from heat.
Add beef and mushrooms to pan. Cook until meat is browned and cooked through. Drain excess grease. Season with salt and pepper.
Measure out one tablespoon-sized portions and roll into balls. Roll in onions until coated. Place into refrigerator until ready to serve over crackers.
Even if I don't win, these mushroom and beef cheese balls are a winner in my books. Definitely showing up this holiday season (might have to compete with my aunt and her cheese ball recipe!) Feel free to make the recipe vegetarian, because I know I am sure going to give it a shot. And any ground meat will work; I just happened to have ground beef on hand.
Great tips here, thank you! And holy cow. These look amazing!
Um, brilliant! I would stand right beside the appetizer table at any cocktail party just so I could snack on these all night long.
These look fantastic and a big YES to the caramelized onions. Good luck in the competition!
Tis the season to start collecting some tasty appetizer recipes - this one is must try!
The caramelized onions on these look amazing!! Such a great appetizer!
Can you say cocktail party?!!


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Article by Doug Esse, MA, MSW, LCSW.
I would like to posit that the reason is to build bridges. We incarnated here to be bridge builders from the old paradigm to a new one. This is one of the hardest jobs that any human has undertaken because it requires us to learn to live with tension in so many areas of our lives! And we humans don't like tension!
All humans strive to find equilibrium, and this is especially so in the psychological and spiritual realms. We desire and long to enjoy psychological and spiritual peace within and stability, without. But for us, Bridge Builders, that is often not our common experience, at least at the surface level. We learn, often through great struggle, that our lot incarnated to experience and hold the tension between worlds that most others do not know even exist.
We often come from the conventional world as children but no longer find that home base because we know and see too much. At the same time, we don't know what the future world will look like since it is in the process of becoming. Some of us have been called (or signed up…) to be "Truthers." These sisters and brothers seem to be on the frontlines of a kind of battle for Truth that is in alignment with cosmic law. Others feel more drawn to hold the place of light-bearers in a spiritual sense. Their focus is more spiritually based that endeavors to bring planetary enlightenment to our collective consciousness. To all of you who find yourselves on that spectrum of awakening before the sleeping giant of humanity awakens, we honor you and we know your struggles. For we are you, too.
This article is a brief invitation to all of us to bring into focus what Bridge Builders are and why we incarnated here at this time of the Great Shifting. My hope is that you are inspired to keep doing what you feel called to do while holding in the forefront of your mind the idea that our community must hold ourselves to a high standard wherein we attempt with all our might to do what we do from the seat of Love, our heart center. We are called to embody the notion of unity, which is distinctly not uniformity. Uniformity entails a controlling ethos that demands sameness of thought, viewpoint, and practice. Unity, on the other hand, is diversity overcome by love! Yes, we Bridge Builders are a diverse lot with differing backgrounds, opinions, narratives, and pathways that got us here in our awakening states.
But what we all have in common is that we have started the awakening process earlier than the rest so that we can help all of our other-selves bridge the gap from the old paradigm to a new one; a new world that will unfold in yet unknown ways except that it will blossom to the degree that our collective spirit manages the tension between the unveiling of great Shadow and meeting that with acceptance and ultimately forgiveness.
Our job as Bridge Builders is really hard because it requires us to first make the internal journey into our individual shadowlands and reconcile them with our own light. We must learn to stop projecting our shadow elsewhere, especially onto other Bridge Builders, who like us, are mixed bags of complexity. How often do we see ourselves throwing shade onto others which in reality is our own shadow which we haven't fully accepted and forgiven? It is a psychological truism that what I find most frustrating and irritating in others is in part what I don't like about myself but won't admit it. How often do we need to label and judge others as ego-driven, money-makers, cult-leaders, disinfo trolls? While it is true that some of those opportunists exist and have infiltrated the community, we need to be very careful at the pointing of fingers. Why? Because if we don't learn how to love those "enemies" now, then how are we going to help the rest of humanity move towards transformation once they learn of the great negativities that have gone on in the shadow recesses of our collective? We have to learn and practice our ascension now as if it has already happening to us so that we can exemplify what transformed people look like. We need people who haven't thrown away conventional models and religions with the bathwater because the great mass of people will be coming from that world and will slowly assimilate new paradigms that in some cases enhance previous knowledge and in other cases replaces it. We must be conversant with the conventional world so that we can meet our other-selves with normalization, which assuages anxiety, and then guidance across the bridges that honors their journey. But who has built those bridges that people will cross? We did!
For this reason, I have listed below some invitations for all of us that can help us be the most effective and transformative Bridge Builders. This is imperative to do because we have chosen this moment, this small segment of time to incarnate and help manifest humanity's optimal timeline. The Logos has no body now but ours. Look at your hands, your feet, your image in the mirror. We are it, so we must shine. But we will only shine with our truth if and only if we have brought our light of acceptance and forgiveness inside our own shadows first.
1) Develop a meditative practice that silences the mind long enough to know for yourselves what the spaces between thoughts feels like. Those spaces of no-thought are actually the felt-experiences of very spirit of the Infinite Creator, Itself. It is our spirit since we are the Infinite Creator bearing the responsibility (honor/duty, as the Law of One says it) of creating new life and self-expression into creation. A meditation practice is the primary starting point because without the experience of inner spaciousness and silence, we will not transform negativity but instead be agents of its transmission. As Bridge Builders, that is not why we chose now to incarnate and awaken. Remember the sage advice written by Paul of Tarsus in a letter he wrote to the rambunctious community in Corinth: "If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal" (1Cor 13:1). We could modernize this statement to something like this: If I can say all the right things, learn all the hidden truths, uncover new technology, speak to the world about what is going on behind the scenes, and even the channel disincarnate beings, but do not have love, then I am only a resounding gong and a clanging symbol.
2) With the mental and spiritual spaciousness that ongoing practices of meditation gives us, then we must learn the art of walking in liminal space. Liminal space is that place of knowing and not-knowing, simultaneously. It is the place of both-and, rather than either-or. It is the energetic nexus between the old room that we have forever left and the new room that has yet to reveal itself fully. It is often not a comfortable place and most people either run back to the old room (conventional paradigms) and redecorate, thus prolonging growth and transformation, or run too quickly into addictions and distractions that promise to assuage the anxiety that the tension of liminal-space dwelling produces. But Bridge-Builders are liminal-space dwellers and we build our bridges in that valley. That's our gift to humanity.
3) When we have made a home in liminal space, able to hold paradoxes together, able to allow other people to be both blind and clear seeing at the same time because we know how blind, foolish, and wise we, too, are, then we start to enter into the higher energetics of forgiveness. Until and unless we can accept and forgive our own brokenness, we will not be able to do this with the collective, and we will not fully live our vocations as Bridge Builders. Friends, this is the hardest part of our job because it requires great courage and honesty. Yet, the fruit of honesty and self-examination is to become bearers of the light of forgiveness; crystalized instruments of the Logos, Itself, so that we can become the leaven that catalyzes the ascension of our entire collective. That is how important it is that we learn how to live in liminal space, and not need to project our shadow, not need to judge or name call or approach other's belief systems with quick dismissal. Liminal-space living allows for your own belief system (which is a necessary foundation) that is open to the experience and truth of other systems which on the surface may contradict your own. We can do this because one of the hallmarks of someone who lives in liminal space is depth. And when we go deep in one place, we find the river below that sources truth to all belief systems. Forgiveness entails seeing and granting the reality of unity to all of creation, which as we discussed above, is defined as diversity overcome by love.
4) Finally, and most simply, if whatever meditation practice that you are doing and whatever role you are playing— Truther, teacher, alliance member, bearer of light and love— and it is bringing you to a place of more love, then trust it and continue. If, on the other hand, you find yourself more judgmental, angry, fearful, and dry, then ask the Divine Creator with sincerity for a new practice or lens to view life that allows for greater heart-energy activation in your own life. You may need to put the pause button on for a moment to allow for inner rebalancing and equilibrium. In these moments, trust that the pause is life-giving and surrender into the process by giving yourself permission to rest. When you dip back into the Bridge-Making world, you'll be able to set aside that which hindered you and adopt that which enriches and leads you to love more. Let love be your metric in discernment.
We, my fellow Bridge Builders, are on the cusp of a new world and we are mid-wives to its birth. Our community is quite diverse as evident in our roles, backgrounds, ethnicities, "reality-bubbles," and stories. We have a whole lot in common, though, and that commonality is much more evident on the other side of the veil of our current 3rd Density planetary situation. On the other side of the veil, it is really apparent that we are a team and chose this time to incarnate in order to build bridges from the conventional world to the new world. If you are reading this, then you are a part of the awakening community and have likely felt your heart stirred as preincarnational memories begin to rise to the surface from the deep mind. Where to start? Start right where you are and watch yourself as you engage with others in our community who see things differently than you. What are your reactions? We will know when we are building bridges well when we can allow others to be just as much complex as we know ourselves to be; paradoxical and sometimes contradictory. When faced with the bad, we will know that the best critique of the bad is the practice of the better. We will honor our fellow Bridge-Builder's vocations even if we don't understand them fully or completely agree with their expressions.
This honor and duty to be Bridge Builders is heavy, I admit. But it is also very joyful not only because you and I have a front row seat at the cosmic show, but we are also the actors on the stage!! And lastly, the payoff to being a Bridge Builder is second to none since the catalyst of living and loving in liminal space can most efficiently blast us through into the enjoyment of experiencing radiant intimacy with all things. That's enlightenment which radiates a kind of joy and love that the sleeping masses will gravitate towards in their blurry-eyed stumble across the bridges that we built.
So, what are we to do? Is there a plan? I feel isolated and overpowered by the cabal matrix.
I know that feeling. But when I feel that way, I realize that I've lost perspective and am not living from my place of connectedness to source that is way more powerful than the cabal Matrix. Unplug from that info for a bit and find a meditation practice that allows you to enjoy beauty again in the simple things.
I agree with the importance of daily meditation practice. This is something the Confederation emphasizes heavily. It seems to me that people want to focus on all kinds of external things, especially the worldly drama, but they don't want to go within. Ra says that meditation helps to strengthen our will and faith. And those two things will be very important for graduation from third density. Ra says that strong will and faith are required to cross the boundary between third and fourth. If you think you can do that without cultivating a daily meditation practice, best of luck to you.
Oh my goodness…thank you for this blog post. My life is now finally making sense. My worldview was poked through again this week and I have been led here. My heart and story say I am a bridge builder but beyond that, I have much to learn. I have been learning about collective consciousness for the past few years as well as energy and healing. Just these past few days, I was introduced to Corey Goode and David Wilcocks. I have been trying to reconcile all of that with my Christian roots. I am a Spiritual Director and healer and am in the midst of healing myself from chronic illness. I am also a mother and wife. I have felt called to help heal "my people: – Christians in a more evolved community where we go to church. I would say we are progressive and we hold the tension pretty well between liberal and conservative Christianity but would not be comfortable at all with the Disclosure worldview or whatever to call it. I have been holding so much tension with all that I am learning and seeing and have felt so alone, only sharing parts of what I know with various people. My husband is no where close to any of this but knowing I chose this makes me feel better. I feel like I am home here just after reading this article. I am going to gobble up this information and then see what happens. I am grateful, relieved, sad and at peace. I guess my next steps are to read through this website. I look forward to connecting with other bridge builders…thank you!!


Higher education minister Naledi Pandor is currently one of the targets of an informal campaign to remove politicians, who have long reached retirement age, from public office.
Because she is in her 70s, she is considered by those who are agitating for a much younger parliament, to be unsuitable for re-election.
"Dedela abanye - give space to others," is a cry coming mostly from lobbyists who say our National Assembly is no home for those who were already in politics when we first held our first democratic election in 1994.
Whereas the demand for a much younger, dynamic and energetic National Assembly is understandable, Pandor is proving that age should not be the only determining factor as to whether one is suitable for public office or not.
There are many ministers, and MPs from across the political spectrum, who are much younger than her but who do not display the kind of energy and creativity she brings to her demanding portfolio of higher education.
Her announcement this week that the Department of Higher Education and Training has allocated close to a billion rand to the National Student Financial Aid (NSFAS) with the view to settle historic debt owed by 52,000 students to universities demonstrates just this point.
Since taking over the portfolio last year, the minister has worked tirelessly to find solutions to the many financial problems facing our universities.
A number of our tertiary institutions are finding it hard to keep their doors open due to being owed millions of rand by students who simply can't afford to pay.
This has led to instability as universities try to retrieve the money by financially excluding those students who are in arrears. The students react by embarking on disruptive strike action.
The allocation announced by Pandor will not resolve the funding problems in our public universities, but it will go a long way in solving the historical debt issue while giving government more time to look for a long-lasting solution.
We do not know if President Cyril Ramaphosa, if he is returned to office after May 8, would still choose Pandor as his higher education minister. But what is clear is that if she is to be excluded, it should not be on the basis of her age but performance.