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Madoff does not pass Go
Scott Jagow Mar 12, 2009
https://www.marketplace.org/2009/03/12/madoff-does-not-pass-go/
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Bernie Madoff is headed straight for jail after pleading guilty today to the mother of all Ponzi schemes. In revoking bail, the judge said of Madoff, "he has incentive to flee, he has the means to flee, and thus he presents the risk of flight." Madoff apologized: "I cannot adequately express how sorry I am for what I have done. I am deeply sorry and ashamed." No matter how sorry he is, when gets to prison, he won't have a warm reception.
Bloomberg looks at what awaits Madoff in prison:
"Madoff isn't going to be real popular," said Larry Levine, who served 10 years in federal prisons for securities fraud and narcotics trafficking and now advises convicts on surviving time behind bars. "All the guys there will have wives or parents who are losing their homes or their jobs or who can't send money to them anymore. Everybody's going to be blaming Bernie."
And of course, his victims couldn't care less. Dealbook obtained a letter sent to court by victim Robert B. Sharpiro:
"The truth is we were raped and he should be treated no differently than any rapist."
"I hope he is incarcerated with other rapists, not fellow scam artists that can laugh about the frauds they perpetrated," (Shapiro) wrote to DealBook in an e-mail message.
It's doubtful Madoff will be put in with rapists. He may wind up at a federal prison in NY or NJ, low-security, mostly white-collar criminals. But Madoff won't be able to hide from his sins. Bloomberg quotes forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz:
"In the beginning, he will be besieged by mail that will be threatening and accusatory. There will be people trying to scam him and people who think he's hiding money. There will be inmates asking for money, and you don't want them to disbelieve you when you say you don't have it."
Obviously, Madoff must be pretty good at convincing people. Tonight on Marketplace, we'll look at some of the mysteries surrounding this case, most importantly where is his money?
The New York Times says:
It remains unclear where the billions of dollars that his victims lost has gone, and whether those victims will ever see any meaningful restitution. Prosecutors have said the government is seeking $170 billion in forfeited assets from Mr. Madoff, apparently representing all the money that ran through Madoff accounts traceable to the crimes. A court-appointed trustee liquidating Mr. Madoff's business has so far only been able to identify about $1 billion in assets to satisfy claims.
1/170th of the money. That's absurd. The problem is that Madoff doesn't have to say anything. He pled guilty, but there is no plea agreement that might entail cooperation with the government. As Marketplace Host Kai Ryssdal said at our morning meeting today, "We may never know the answers."
And for the victims, that is perhaps the most frustrating part of any crime.
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Q: Android emulator fails to start when using scale (Win7 x64) My configuration is this:

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*Windows 7 x64

*Eclipse Helios x64

*JDK x64

*Android SDK r06

When I try to start an emulator from Eclipse (Android SDK setup application) with the scale parameter it just fails. Second Command Prompt screen (which I think is actually a Java app) shows some exception but it closes itself right after. This is very annoying because without the scale, WVGA emulator does not fit on my laptop's screen. Any idea how to fix this?
And when I try to start an emulator from Command Prompt with the scale, it works.

A: You might be able to see the error log, doing it this way :
open command line window
use "cd c:/.../android-sdk/tools" with your own path
start an emulator instance from here, use the command "emulator -avd nameofyourAVD -scale 0.5" (actually you can choose a number between 0.1 and 3 which will be the factor for scaling (like in Eclipse)
Hit "Enter" and copy-past the error log here if there is one...

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Emotional scenes in Limerick estate as mural is unveiled to remember Brooklyn Colbert
Event organiser Jamie Daly with Wayne Colbert and Sonya Alymer, parents of the late Brooklyn Colbert, with the mural, entitled 'Forever 11' | PICTURE: Brendan Gleeson
THERE were emotional scenes at the weekend as a mural was unveiled in memory of a young boy who sadly died last year.
Forever 11, an eight-foot by eight foot mural, depicts a smiling painting of well-loved Ballynanty boy Brooklyn Colbert, who was aged just 11.
Designed by artists Lukasz Milawski and Joe Kennedy, it was unveiled as part of a winter wonderland event in Delmege Park, Moyross which was organised by community activist Jamie Daly and his family.
"It's great, it's really nice. This is a lovely thing from the community for us. It just shows how well loved Brooklyn was in Limerick. He was an amazing young boy, he was loved, he touched everyone," said his father Wayne as he unveiled the mural with Sonya Alymer, Brooklyn's mother.
"I'm really proud they did this for us," he added.
Graffiti artists Lukasz and Joe spent four weeks of their own spare time designing the mural of Brooklyn, as well as other murals, depicting the Polar Express train, which was the theme of the wonderland in the middle of the neighbourhood.
Lukasz said he hopes the family find it special.
"I put lots of work into it, plenty of detail in it. I think it shows happiness, a time when Brooklyn was happy," said the artist.
Joe added: "I think the family will be very happy and delighted to see spray paint artists doing a mural for them. Especially guys from a graffiti background like us."
It wasn't the first time Joe had linked up with Jamie for an event like this.
"Last year I did an event with Jamie, and he got onto me again. We have called this year's event Project Believe.
"We want kids to believe in themselves, and believe in what they can achieve when they come together for an event like we did," he said.
"We want kids to believe and use their skills," he added.
At the unveiling of the mural in Moyross were local school principal Tiernan O'Neill, City TD Maurice Quinlivan, plus local councillors Sharon Benson and Frankie Daly.
Addressing the crowd, Jamie said: "Tonight we are going to make a memory which will never leave. Something which will always be part of Moyross, Delmege and Brooklyn's family.
"Brooklyn was a young lad. I knew what he was about – he believed. This just shows as communities, we are not alone," he added.
Also at Saturday's event, Santa Claus paid a visit, while selection boxes were given out to local youngsters, as the days ticked down towards Christmas Day.

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Q: How to get Storage Size of Applications programmatically in iPhone I want to get the Storage Sizes of each Applications in iPhone through objective C.
Any one help to get like this....

A: Assuming you are developing for a jailbroken device (if not then it is impossible to access the applications on the device), the SpringBoard should have predefined methods for accessing the metadata of all the applications installed. If you look at headers of SBApplication.h then there are methods for getting the metadata.

A:     NSString *folderPath = "give application path here"

Example: NSString *folderPath =@"/private/var/mobile/Applications/2B63FD7F-2082-415D-A00C-F07C4BE281AA/Example.app";
    NSArray *filesArray = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] subpathsOfDirectoryAtPath:folderPath error:nil];

    NSEnumerator *filesEnumerator = [filesArray objectEnumerator];
    NSString *fileName;
    unsigned long long int fileSize = 0;

    while (fileName = [filesEnumerator nextObject])

    {
        NSDictionary *fileDictionary = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileAttributesAtPath:[folderPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:fileName] traverseLink:YES];

        NSLog(@" fileDictionary   %@",fileDictionary);

        fileSize += [fileDictionary fileSize];
    }

    NSLog(@" App Name and App size: %@ : %lld", folderPath,fileSize);

if you want to find all applications size, take all applications path in array, and write for loop statement for folder path
   NSArray *applicationsPath="Here array contain all applications path"
   for (int i=0; i<applicationPath.count; i++)
   {
    NSString *folderPath = [applicationPath objectAtIndex:i]

    NSArray *filesArray = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] subpathsOfDirectoryAtPath:folderPath error:nil];

    NSEnumerator *filesEnumerator = [filesArray objectEnumerator];
    NSString *fileName;
    unsigned long long int fileSize = 0;

    while (fileName = [filesEnumerator nextObject])

    {
        NSDictionary *fileDictionary = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileAttributesAtPath:[folderPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:fileName] traverseLink:YES];

        NSLog(@" fileDictionary   %@",fileDictionary);

        fileSize += [fileDictionary fileSize];
    }

    NSLog(@" App Name and App size: %@ : %lld", folderPath,fileSize);
   }

A: Unless the device is jailbroken, you will be unable to access each Application's folder programmatically.
This is because each iOS application operates in a sandboxed environment, meaning your application can ONLY access assets within this directory. If the device is jailbroken, this requirement is removed and you are granted full access to the device's disk.


As a storyteller, one expects to be the conduit between subject and audience, not the one affected. However, in the nine years I have worked as a filmmaker and documentarian in the nonprofit world, creating over 45 short films, the people I encountered and the communities I worked with began to have a surprising and profound impact on my approach to telling story. At first, it's natural to assume that coming to these national and international organizations means shining a light on the problems people face in order to help them. Over time, it became clear to me that, as a storyteller, I wield privilege and power each time I enter a new space, meet a new person, and work to translate their story on film. With that power, comes a responsibility that wasn't immediately obvious.
While it might seem strange now to work in the nonprofit world and not discuss ethics in storytelling, it was truthfully something people didn't talk about. After all, we were simply using story to help people. What harm could there be in that? Fortunately, ignorance is not bliss for long, and time and experience began to reveal the many ways in which my approach to storytelling (albeit with good intentions) did in fact put the people I was filming at risk, or failed to give them the dignified platform they truly deserved. It wasn't an immediate shift but rather a series of "ah-ha" moments and challenging conversations that made me realize the subtle ways I was approaching story incorrectly. For example, most of my work involved using a translator during interviews and filming. For years, I would simply allow one of the nonprofit staff members to translate for me during interviews and simply use their succinct translation in the final film. While this might not seem like an unethical practice, having someone on staff who is concerned with communicating the mission of the organization in a presentable way, made it possible to translate a person's voice for our agenda rather than maintaining the purity of each word the interviewee said. It wasn't until I had an interview translated by an outside source for a project that I realized what I thought we had captured was not at all what the interviewee had said. I knew then, in order to honor the voice of the interviewee, I had to make sure we were providing the best possible translation in the field and in the edit.
As a result, I started to gravitate toward viewing myself as a "story-catcher" as opposed to a story-teller. I realized it wasn't my job to tell people's stories, but rather to listen to, receive, and release their story in the most dignifying way possible. My goal was no longer to communicate a specific message through story, but to arrive at the story in a way that would make the person who shared it feel proud to see themselves represented on film.
I learned another great lesson from this mother that day. At the time, she and I lived only 10 minutes away from each other. I lived in a poor neighborhood and was struggling to put food on the table as a working artist. I didn't have other people depending on me, but somehow I saw my own story in her struggle. This made me wonder: What drives story? Is it pity? Is it hardship? Is it sadness? Or am I finding what I see in her that I also understand in myself? What are the things in her that make her human that I, someone in a different circumstance, can totally relate to and understand?
That thought process changed my entire approach to storytelling. I began to look for the universal truths of our human existence — our struggles, our relationships, our hopes — and find ways to tell story through that shared lens. I no longer sought stories with the simple aim of causing pity ("Here, this person is sad, has had a hard life, look how we've helped them, and therefore 'Yay! They're no longer sad.'") Instead I sought the things in them that I could relate to and understand. I realized, if I am able to connect to this person, then other people are going to be able to connect to them as well. That shift in my approach changed the values by which I prepare or approach filmmaking and what ultimately led me to be part of the community committed to Ethical Storytelling.
At its core, Ethical Storytelling is simply a framework and a mindset where you allow pure human values to drive the way that you tell story.
We often overcomplicate storytelling or put stories in a box, especially in the nonprofit world, because the places and the circumstances we grew up in can be so vastly different than the places in which we are working. The temptation is to focus our stories on those differences to produce empathy. Sadly, this approach creates a barrier, this chasm between the viewer and the person whose story is being told. If we approach story from the question, "What makes this individual human and what needs do they have that are the same needs we have?" and find ways to capture that story we can attempt to bridge the chasm and create connection and empathy. Visually, circumstantially, we'll always be divided by what we don't understand. However, if we understand what it means to be human, to have certain needs, desires, struggles, and if we can find a way to highlight that understanding and camaraderie, we'll be bridging that gap in a much tighter, long-lasting way than if we try to drive connection with pity.
There are a lot of ways we can break Ethical Storytelling down – What story do you tell? Whose story do you tell? Is telling this story going to affect a person's life in a positive or a negative way? Through a commitment to integrity and dignity, we begin to ask ourselves as storytellers: Are we telling the story of the nonprofit or are we telling the story of people? Are we finding ways to allow that story to drive what we do or are we trying to drive the story? Ethical Storytelling requires the active involvement of the people we're filming in the development of their own story, and allowing them to have a voice in how their story is told.
Ethical Storytelling applies whether you're taking a still photo, writing an essay, or filming. The way that you approach it matters, and how you do it, how you tell it matters.
Heidi Burkey is a documentary director committed to capturing stories that draw audiences beyond life's closed doors. She recently directed a six-part documentary series called, The Pitch, which aired on AT&T's The Audience Network in February, 2018. In 2016, Heidi worked as a Producer for Fusion's Digital Documentary team. During her tenure, she produced a 30 minute Primetime Special that aired on Fusion TV and five documentary short films that collectively garnered over 400K views on Fusion's YouTube channel and over 4.5M views on Fusion's Facebook page. During her previous work with the nonprofit, DTJ, she produced, directed and edited over 45 international documentary shorts advocating for social change on behalf of children. In 2015, Heidi's debut feature documentary, Jedi Junior High, was distributed on Digital HD and On Demand by Mar Vista Entertainment and is currently available for streaming on Netflix.


Days after the release of his headline-grabbing Kamikaze album, Eminem takes on his critics in the video for the album cut "Fall".
The clip opens with Em driving around with Royce Da 5'9, as alerts chime on his phone from critics of his 2017 album Revival. From there, he exits the vehicle, throws his phone to the floor and is chased by demons that emerge from the tech devices in the form of black smoke.
Em takes shots at Joe Budden and Tyler the Creator, as well as Charlamagne Da God and new age critic DJ Akademiks.
"You wanted Shady? You got it!" he declares.


I try to create exceptionally made and finished wooden pieces using ethically and sensitively sourced wood and design principles displaying simplicity and an abiding reverence for traditional methods of construction.Since I love spending time outdoors, especially in wooded areas with old growth timber, I have always used wood as my medium. I love taking something that was once a growing, living thing and changing it into something of beauty for human use. I especially like exposing the grain and knots of wood, the marks of how the living tree adapted to its environment. I believe in reusing our natural resources and make every effort in my craft to use reclaimed wood and other metals, which has been all that I have worked with for the past several years. I love the patina of old reclaimed wood, especially heart pine and oak. I tear out this wood piece by piece from old buildings that are being demolished or are falling down due to neglect. I love taking antique wood which is over a hundred years old and repurposing it to give it life for another hundred years. It is old growth heartwood and is as solid as the history it represents.
I have recently moved my woodshop to accommodate a growing number of tools and to provide a secure drying environment for cut wood, such as walnut, which takes three months to dry. My shop is full of woodworking tools that I have accumulated over the years. The process of acquiring a collection was a slow and steady one. I do have many hand tools, lathes, sanders, chisels, hand planers, hand saws, and clamps, but what I really enjoy using are power tools. Some that I have collected over the years include a planer, a joiner, a band saw, a table saw, a biscuit joiner, a drill press, a reciprocating saw, a skill saw, several routers, lathes, orbital sanders, belt sanders, drills (110v and 18v), and an assortment of attachments and homemade jigs. This does seem to be a never-ending process. Lately, my tools of choice have included such 'low tech' items as a hammer and a nail-puller, as these are the implements needed to salvage usable antique wood from old warehouses, barns, and houses, and remove the rusty nails which give the wood such beautiful character markings. Although I like the feel of hand planing and hand sanding and will usually do the final sanding on a project by hand, I prefer the sound of power tools and the quickness with which I can remove stock. When multiple parts are called for in a design, I will make jigs to insure accuracy without sacrificing speed. I always hand wax and buff the finishes of my pieces to ensure a good hand, the name woodcrafters give to the way a piece of wood feels to the touch.
I usually do not like to work from existing plans. I prefer to do rough sketches and then use proportional sizes based on simple geometry to create designs. Whenever possible, I start out with rough sawn, salvaged wood, plane it down to size and go from there. Nearly all of my early work with wood was self-taught and featured the liberal use of trial and error. Even though I have read many magazines and articles and have taken several seminars and classes, I will still usually fall back on techniques that I have used and feel comfortable with. I prefer clean lines and simple designs that have good proportions to overly complicated pieces. My goal is to keep my projects simple, yet elegant. Simplicity is deceiving, however; I have found that the hours of effort put into a work of art oftentimes are not reflected in the finished piece's look of simplicity. In fact, it seems the simpler a piece is, the more work I must actually put into it because there are fewer design elements and the few that there are must be elegant and proportional.
Born in 1956, I am a proud army brat who grew up all over the world. I knew that I would always make things, as my earliest experiences are of putting things together. After graduating from high school and serving in the US Coast Guard, where I did more traveling and learning about the world, I moved back to Aberdeen, Mississippi, my family's home for many generations. Here I attended college and worked in a family business. I later found an artistic home at the Penland School of the Arts at Penland, North Carolina, where I took formal classes in furniture making and design and studied traditional wood crafting. I crafted one-of-a-kind furniture for many years, but have recently changed the scale of my work to the very small, to jewelry, which to me is a much more personal, wearable experience with wood and other natural elements than that provided by furniture. I have been an exhibiting member of the Mississippi Craftsmen's Guild since 2008, and my works have been displayed in art festivals all across the country via Let It Be Yours Jewelry Company.


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Narrated by: Richard Poe
Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence.
By Angus Simpson on 17-06-2019
By: Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse is a landmark work of English fiction. Virginia Woolf explores perception and meaning in some of the most beautiful prose ever written, minutely detailing the characters thoughts and impressions. This unabridged version is read by Juliet Stevenson.
Swann's Way
By: Marcel Proust
Narrated by: Neville Jason
Swann's Way is the first of seven volumes in Remembrance of Things Past. It sets the scene with the narrator's memories being famously provoked by the taste of that little cake, the madeleine, accompanied by a cup of lime-flowered tea. It is an unmatched portrait of fin-de-siècle France.
A very long masterpiece
By Mr on 19-03-2018
The Adventures of Augie March
By: Saul Bellow
Narrated by: Tom Parker
Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny. He tests out a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each as too limiting - until he tangles with the glamorous perfectionist Thea.
The Iliad of Homer
By: Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Elizabeth Vandiver
For thousands of years, Homer's ancient epic poem the Iliad has enchanted readers from around the world. When you join Professor Vandiver for this lecture series on the Iliad, you'll come to understand what has enthralled and gripped so many people.Her compelling 12-lecture look at this literary masterpiece -whether it's the work of many authors or the "vision" of a single blind poet - makes it vividly clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Iliad remains not only among the greatest adventure stories ever told but also one of the most compelling meditations on the human condition ever written.
HELPS!
By Captain on 11-10-2019
By: Edward Said
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism Said claimed a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture."
By Jarad McMahon on 02-04-2017
By: J M Coetzee
Narrated by: Jack Klaff
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours, he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding.
By: Dante Alighieri
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
One of the greatest works in literature, Dante's story-poem is an allegory that represents mankind as it exposes itself, by its merits or demerits, to the rewards or the punishments of justice. A single listen will reveal Dante's visual imagination and uncanny power to make the spiritual visible.
By Robyn on 22-02-2019
Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Concentrating on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former spooks unhappy with Kennedy's presidency, and Nicholas Branch, a CIA archivist trying to make sense of or draw inferences from the mass of information after the assassination, Libra presents an apologetically provocative picture of America.
By: Umberto Eco
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s. The Name of the Rose is a thrilling story enriched with period detail and laced with tongue-in-cheek allusions to fictional characters, the most striking of which is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, who displays many characteristics of Sherlock Holmes.
I found the narrators pacing a little fast.
By Matthew M on 29-05-2015
Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1
By: Jeff VanderMeer
Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilisation. This is the twelfth expedition. Their group is made up of four women: An anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
Narrator is perfect
By Michael John Beggs on 15-01-2015
Cat's Cradle
By: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrated by: Tony Roberts
Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat's Cradle is one of this century's most important works...and Vonnegut at his very best.
Authentic.
By Lesia Sinyagovska on 06-04-2016
Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill.
This is the story of his absurd life - a life that is going well enough until a chemical spill from a rail car releases an Airborne Toxic Event, and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear: his own mortality.
White Noise is an effortless combination of social satire and metaphysical dilemma in which Don DeLillo exposes our rampant consumerism, media saturation and novelty intellectualism. It captures the particular strangeness of life lived when the fear of death cannot be denied, repressed or obscured and ponders the role of the family in a time when the very meaning of our existence is under threat.
©2016 Don DeLillo (P)2016 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
Mao II
Without Remorse
Patriot Games
the narrator did a great job with tone and inclination. I liked this reading and wpuld gladly listen to others.
Dont be put off by the other reviews!
This had been on my to-read list for a while but I wasnt sure why - the previous reviews put me off trying it but glad I did. I really enjoyed the book, the details & charachters made it such a real story, always enjoy books that prompt you on the meaning of things. The narrator, yes I understand the reviews but once you get used to the voice, I actually think ut suits the story very well. Narrator was good at different charachters which many narrators cant pull off, esp female ones!
J. A. Mulligan
Great novel, terrible reading
Don Delillo is my favourite living writer. I love this book, but it is 15 years since I read it, so I thought that I would use my Audible credit to remain myself of the genius contained within. It is close to unlistenable. The narrator reads as if he is reading the instructions to a kitchen utensil. He also sounds so much older than Jack Gladney is supposed to be. So disappointing, but the book is still a classic.
Test you thinking and perception
Intriguing... Insightful and a paradigm shifting novel. Fascinating tone and description that takes you on a literary journey.
classical DeLillo... deep consideration and care for describing human anxieties, interesting plot and elegantly structured


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EU States start exiting the Energy Charter Treaty whilst African signatories increase
African Climate News | 21 October 2022
The Netherlands became the latest EU country to recently announce it would withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). Last week, Spain announced it would exit the treaty, and Poland is also in the process of withdrawal. There are concerns that the ECT locks signatory countries into unsustainable climate policies at the risk of litigation from oil and gas investors. Proposed draft amendments to alleviate this risk are considered insufficient and unclear. At the same time, African countries are increasingly becoming signatories to the ECT potentially tying the hands of government to freely design their climate policies.
Last week, France announced its intention to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). This follows a statement by the Netherlands on 18 October 2022, that it would withdraw from the Treaty (ECT). Spain also recently announced it would exit the treaty, and Poland is in the process of withdrawal. Italy withdrew in 2016. In response to a query of whether these countries were organising a mass withdrawal of the EU from the Charter, the spokesperson stated that there was no formal coordination at present but that "there are all sorts of conversations going on."
The ECT is a multilateral treaty for energy co-operation, that entered into force in 1998. One of its main objectives is to protect investors in the energy sector, in particular transnational companies operating in coal, oil and gas extraction, from the political risks involved in investing in a foreign country. It expressly requires host countries to ensure such investments "enjoy the most constant protection and security". If a government policy change has the effect of curtailing such projects, it is obliged to compensate the investor for its future loss of earnings. It also allows for private arbitrations between investors and member states. The Treaty further has a sunset clause which holds parties liable for two decades after leaving. One potential way of avoiding this clause is for parties to leave the treaty en-masse and to enter into an agreement that excludes investor-state disputes between such states, and which is partly why there is such interest in a mass exit from the treaty.
The agreement has more than 50 countries as signatories. They are mostly EU countries, but in recent years, The Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal and Eswatini have all signed the ECT and are preparing for their accession. The ECT Secretariat has also invited Burundi, Eswatini and Mauritania to become signatories.
The treaty has been criticised as presenting an obstacle in the development of national low carbon polices, and for actively disincentivising national governments from enhancing their ambition under the Paris Agreement, who fear litigation and consequential financial loss under the ECT. For example the Netherlands is a party to two lawsuits under the treaty brought by coal fired power plant operators who are suing the government for lost profits as a result of national plans to phase out coal. Spain and Italy have also been embroiled in similar litigation, with a UK oil company Rockhopper recently winning a £210m award in a case against the Italian government for banning offshore drilling in its territorial waters.
Draft Amendments have been made to the ECT which are due to be approved at the Energy Charter Conference on 22 November this year. There is however no certainty that this will take place, with the EU reportedly in a tug of war on whether to do so. The amendments introduce a flexibility mechanism that enables Contracting Parties (at their own election) to exclude investment protections for fossil fuels in their territories based on their climate and energy goals. For example, the EU and the UK have opted to have a carve out of ECT protection for new fossil fuel investments after August 2023, and for existing fossil fuel investments within 10 years of the amendment coming into force.
An analysis by IISD, however, found that even with these reforms, the revised ECT would still leave new and existing fossil fuel investments in at least 20 contracting parties protected indefinitely. They also found that the 10 year protection for existing EU and UK investments was too long, an issue aggravated by the fact there is no certainty of when the fossil fuel carve outs will enter into force. Their view is that the amendments also still leave many core provisions of the Treaty open to interpretation and debate.
Commenting on the ECT, Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, Executive Director of IISD Europe and Senior Director of IISD's Economic Law and Policy Program, stated that "[w]e are staring down a climate crisis that requires decisive, ambitious, and targeted action, not piecemeal reforms of problematic treaties. The ECT was never designed for our climate challenge, and trying to retrofit it now around that goal just won't be enough."
While most African signatories are still in the process of accession, the commercial and environmental sensibility of acceding to a treaty, the climate related amendments to which are unclear and uncertain to come into operation, which has a 20 year sunset clause that makes the treaty difficult to leave, and which potentially can tie government's hands in crafting climate policies and protections, remains in question.
source: African Climate News
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"We've got to step it up today and make it a really sick show".
Neck Deep have promised that they'll play one of their best shows ever as they prepare to headline The Lock Up stage at Reading & Leeds Festival, and described the honour as a "dream". Watch our video interview with the band above.
The Wrexham band, who released third album 'The Peace And The Panic' earlier this month, spoke to NME as they gear up for their biggest appearance at Reading and Leeds to date.
Guitarist Fil Thorpe-Evans said: "It's definitely a big deal for us because we've played it before a few years ago and we were middle of the bill kind of thing, and the following year we came back and did really early on the main stage.
They also opened up on the chance to play their new album to a festival crowd for one of the first times ever.


The SA Black Ice Clown is a cross between a black & white A. ocellaris and a "Snowflake" clown. These clowns have white areas outlined in black and a deep orange color. The ocellaris ranges from the edge of the habitat of the Percula in Northern Australia, through the Indonesian archipelago, all the way up to Thailand and the Philippines and to Southern Japan. The black ocellaris variant is found in Northern Australia from Darwin towards the West. They can grow up to 3.5 inches and are territorial, but quiet within their territory and are less aggressive than the Percula.


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The Government of Botswana  often abbreviated as GOB, is the union government created by the constitution of Botswana having the executive, parliament, and the judiciary. The Seat of the Government is located in Gaborone, Botswana. The government is led by the president (currently Mokgweetsi Masisi).

Executive
This section defines the executive branch including the President, Vice President, and Cabinet.

The President
The President is the chief executive of the state. The President is elected president by members of the National Assembly. These members state on the ballot who they would support for President if elected, and after election to the National Assembly vote for whomever they indicated they would elect as President. The President has the following requirements: (a) is a citizen of Botswana by birth or descent; (b) has attained the age of 30 years; and (c) is qualified to be elected as a Member of the National Assembly. The Presidents term is limited up to 10 years, or however long the President holds office in the National Assembly.

The executive power of Botswana resides solely in the President. The President is also the commander of the armed forces. The president also has the power to pardon a person convicted of a crime.

The Vice President

The Vice President is chosen by the President from among the members of the National Assembly. The Vice President takes over for the President when the President is unable to fulfill his duties either because of illness, death, or other reasons.The Vice President is second-in-command to the President and carries out the missions of the President.The current vice-president is Slumber Tsogwane.

The Cabinet

This Cabinet is composed of the President, the Vice President and no more than six ministers who are appointed by the President from the National Assembly. The Ministers in the Cabinet are responsible for advising the President with respect to policy of the government.

Parliament
This section describes both the National Assembly as well as the Ntlo ya Dikgosi which together create the Parliament of Botswana.

National Assembly

The Parliament consists of the President and National Assembly. The president is a voting member of the National Assembly. There are an additional 57 elected members of the National Assembly. There is also a speaker of the Assembly who is elected by the members of the Assembly, but does not necessarily have to be a member of the assembly themselves. There is also a deputy speaker elected by the Assembly.

In order for a person to be eligible to be a member of the Assembly they must: be a citizen of Botswana, be 18 years old, is registered to vote, and is able to speak and read in English. There are many conditions that disqualify a member from eligibility, most of these dealing with allegiance to other countries.

Botswana is divided into the number of constituencies that they have members of parliament so that each district sends one member to the Assembly. People in Botswana are eligible to vote if they are: 18, a citizen, and have resided in Botswana for 12 consecutive months.

Ntlo ya Dikgosi

In addition to a parliament, Botswana also has a Ntlo ya Dikgosi. The Ntlo ya Dikgosi acts as an advisory body to the Parliament of Botswana. This body consists of 33-35 members. In order to be eligible to be a member one must be 21 years old and a citizen. There are similar disqualifying conditions for this body as there are for the National Assembly. The member is appointed for 5 year terms. No member may participate in party politics, and many members are tribal chiefs. This body possesses no legislative power, including approval or veto power, rather they advise the Parliament on bills and measures. A power the body does have is to summon members of the government to appear before it.

Local government
Local government is administered by nine district councils and five town councils. District commissioners have executive authority and are appointed by the central government and assisted by elected and nominated district councilors and district development committees. There has been ongoing debate about the political, social, and economic marginalization of the San (Bushmen). The government's policies for remote area dwellers continue to spark controversy and may be revised in response to domestic and donor concerns.

Judicature
This section describes the varying parts of the judiciary in Botswana including the High Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Judicial Service Commission.

High Court
The High Court of Botswana acts as the supreme legal source, in which the court possesses unlimited original jurisdiction to hear any cases. The court has a Chief Judge as well as a number of other judges, in which the number is determined by the Parliament. The Chief Justice is appointed by the President, as well as all of the other Justices but these can be advised to the President by the Parliament. In order to be qualified to be a judge on this court one must have either been a judge, been an attorney, been a law professor with a law degree, or been a Chief Magistrate. Appointments to this court are until the person reaches the age of 70. The only other reason a judge would leave the high court is if the Parliament decides the person is no longer able to properly perform their duties.

The High Court has authority to interpret the constitution. If there is disagreement on any interpretation, that disagreement is settled by the High Court.

Court of Appeals
The Court of Appeals has the right to hear any case in Botswana in which one party has appealed the decision found. This court consists of a President of the Court of appeals, a number of other judges, and the entirety of the High Court. Like the High Court, the President is appointed by the President as are the other judges, with the advice of Parliament. In order to be qualified a person must have been either a judge, attorney, or law professor. As is with the High Court a person is appointed until the age of 70, barring Parliament does not find them incapable during their tenure.

Judicial Service Commission
The Judicial Service Commission is created to help advise the President on judicial nominations. It consists of the Chief Justice, the President of the Court of Appeals, the Attorney-General, the Chairman of the Public Service Commission, a member of the Law Society nominated by the Law Society, and a person of integrity and experience who is not a legal practitioner appointed by the President.

Politics of Botswana
Politics of Botswana takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Botswana is both head of state and head of government, and of a  multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Parliament of Botswana. In part because the party system has been dominated by the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which has never lost power since the country gained independence. The Economist Intelligence Unit has rated Botswana as a "flawed democracy."

Foreign relations

International organizations
ACP, AfDB, C, ECA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, ISO, ITU, NAM, OAU, OPCW, SACU, SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, WT.

References

External links
 Official website

Government of Botswana

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Qalilu (, also Romanized as Qalīlū) is a village in Bakeshluchay Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 239, in 65 families.

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Populated places in Urmia County


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France Mon Amour
The decolonization of many countries has been bloody, brutal and irrational, due to the obstinacy of the powers to want to perennizar themselves in the occupied territory and to continue operating to the population and the natural resources. In World War II, Great Britain recruited soldiers of its colonies to part that to the native ones was considered them like citizens of second, like for example to the Indians (inhabitants of India, do not say Hindu, because they are those that profess Hinduism) and France to the Algerians, to those who in spite of them to have helped to release Paris of the Nazis dealt, them with inferiority and never they even considered for the indemnifications and/or retirements. Many died waiting for that recognition. One calculates that about 200 thousand Algerian soldiers were under the command of the French Armed Forces. Whereas other countries retired of their colonies, some " honorablemente" , France empecin and had catastrophic defeats in Indochina and Algeria. It had to retire without honor nor glory and worse still with the image completely notched by the vandalism, the generalized torture and the indiscriminate slaughters realised by its troops of occupation.
After a revolt of the Algerian independentistas forces by which 50 and 100 French or pieds-noirs died between (Colonising), in retaliation the French assassinated 50 thousand Algerians in Setif, in 1945. Altogether, in the long war of independence 1.5 million Algerian civilians died, in addition, the Gauls destroyed 8,000 villages. Although the French ambassador in Algiers said that the massacre of Setif was one " tragedy inexcusable" , the Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, demanded that Paris admits its responsibility. The French agent chief executive, Nicholas Sarkozy, only limited themselves to criticize the past colonial of his country in Algeria and asked not to pause in that past and to watch the future.
In her the importance of the assertive procedures is indicated to treat psychological disorders of type and people who present/display inhibition, and includes the exercises that must be put in practice in this procedure which is enunciated in brief form next. 1. – The use to express the feelings. 2. – The use of the face expression.
3. – The practice to express an opposite opinion when it is of discord. 4. – The practice of the use of the first person. 5. – The practice to accept praises. – Lauge and Laurubowsvi (1976), Identify four basic elements for the assertive training.
a) To teach to people to differentiate between aggression and assertiveness, and the lack of assertiveness and educated being. b) To help the people to identify and to accept its personal rights as much as the other. c) To reduce the cognitive and affective obstacles, to be able to act assertively. (Ex: Irrational thoughts, feelings of fault, rage or excessive anxiety). d) To develop assertive abilities through active methods of practice. – Rich and Schroeder (1976), raise that diverse forms of training in assertiveness exist, between which they are: Constructive hierarchic presentation of situations of stimuli, moldeamientos, critics, game of rolls, test of rolls, retort of answers, practice of answers, allocation of tasks for the home, training in the vocal and postural analysis, exhortation, exaggeration of rolls, instructions, external reinforcing and autorreforzamiento. – Perez, E. (1985) considered that since does not exist a common package of training and in term of functionality, the training procedures can be classified in some of the following categories: 1. – Operations of acquisition of answers. Following the cause that produces the lack of assertiveness, it is recommended to use the procedure of lack of inhibition of the inhibited assertive answers, training in discrimination or learnings of new answers for intense emotional and cognitive situations, absence of ability to detect situations that respectively require effective answers or deficiency in the individual behavioural repertoire.
The importance of these acts resides in its frequency, and in which the majority is related to basic aspects, like the survival or the care of the health. When we are conscious of the intention that are behind they, we obtained excellent benefits; among others: 1. – The results are normally better. 2. – We are more conscious of possible potential dangers or boicots to which we do.
3. – It is easier to avoid the sadness or the boredom that sometimes produces the routine to us. 4. – It gives an opportunity Us to reconsider our intention in more excellent aspects. Evidently, if we were able to improve what we do every day, our life will improve. For that reason the intentionality is so important. We are going to put a small example practical: I am preparing the weekly menu for house. If I know clearly when beginning that my intention is that the meals more are balanced and healthy, surely plates will be happened to me that reunite those characteristics.
I am doing if it with haste simply because that he is more comfortable to have the thought menu beforehand, and is only a task more, it is possible that the first options that is happened to me are not most healthful, but those that I like more or easiest to prepare. Of the quality of the intention that we put in which we do depends the quality on the result. We also see another habitual example (unless some of my readers has made vote of abstention), but pleasanter: our intention when we make the love. Behind the reasons obvious to have an intimate encounter with our pair, while we prepared ourselves, we can define an intention clearly; for example, that is in addition a union concerning soul, and a synchronization energetics. The then encounter becomes an instrument to reinforce the union of the pair, and so it becomes more important and rather more interesting.


I hear what people are thinking sometimes. I connect to people when I'm asleep. When I'm dancing I feel (it's hard to explain) complete. My Energy is together connected to the higher Energy where I can make anything possible. Then I know my past, present and future in one.


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Home Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection Swartout Valley Lodge front parking lot, Big Pines Recreation Camp
Swartout Valley Lodge front parking lot, Big Pines Recreation Camp
Title Swartout Valley Lodge front parking lot, Big Pines Recreation Camp
Photographer Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID Herman J Schultheis Collection
Location/Accession N-008-966.2 8x10
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.; Herman J. Schultheis was born in Aachen, Germany in 1900, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1920s after obtaining a Ph.D. in mechanical and electrical engineering. He married Ethel Wisloh in 1936, and the pair moved to Los Angeles the following year. He worked in the film industry from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, most notably on the animated features Fantasia and Pinocchio. His detailed notebook, documenting the special effects for Fantasia, is the subject of a 14-minute short-subject included on the film's DVD. In 1949, he started employment with Librascope as a patent engineer. Schultheis was an avid amateur photographer who traveled the world with his cameras. It was on one of these photographic exhibitions in 1955 that he disappeared in the jungles of Guatemala. His remains were discovered 18 months later. The digitized portion of this collection represents the images Schultheis took of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities after he relocated to the area in 1937.
Historical Data Big Pines Recreation Camp (elevation 6,862) was developed in 1923 by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Department of Parks and Recreation. It became a year-round resort with crowds of up to 10,000 on many weekends. Big Pines is located four miles west of Wrightwood in the Angeles National Forest. In 1940 Los Angeles County transferred the land to the U.S. Forest Service. Big Pines continues to be a popular recreation area, with three ski resorts, campgrounds and Jackson Lake. The Swartout Valley Lodge opened March 1927 at Big Pines Camp, and contained a store, restaurant, soda fountain, and post office. In later years, the lodge housed offices of the U.S. Forest Service, until 1987 when an arson fire destroyed the building.
Description Cars pack the front parking lot of the Swartout Valley Lodge nestled in the grassy hills. A corner of the Big Pines Recreation Camp bridge is visible on the left. The towers of this bridge mark the highest point on the San Andreas fault at 6862 feet. Only one tower remains because one was taken out when Highway 2 was widened.
Subject Swartout Valley Lodge (Big Pines, Calif.).
Mountain resorts--California--Big Pines Camp.
Camps--California--Big Pines Camp.
Parking lots--California--Big Pines Camp.
Automobiles--California--Big Pines Camp.
Towers--California--Big Pines Camp.
Signs and signboards--California--Big Pines Camp.
Pines--California--Big Pines Camp.
Lost architecture--California--Big Pines Camp.
Mountains--California, Southern.
Big Pines Camp (Calif.).
Angeles Crest Highway (Calif.).
Schultheis Collection photographs.


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Youth With Diabetes Face Life-Long Issues. Part 1
Oct 29, 2020 11:25 AM By Cheryl Alkon
More young people are being diagnosed with diabetes than ever before, according to the 2020 National Diabetes Statistics Report, a publication from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And that means more young people with diabetes are at risk for developing complications at a younger age. And these are serious complications, like vision and kidney problems. A large study found that a significant percentage of those diagnosed under age 20 were at risk, or already had, such complications.
In 2015, about 193,000 children and adolescents were diagnosed with diabetes, up from 187,000 diagnosed in 2009, said Robert Gabbay, MD, PhD, in an interview with Medical Daily. Dr. Gabbay is the chief scientific and medical officer for the American Diabetes Association.
The surprising news is that the increase is not just in type 1 diabetes, which was once even called "juvenile diabetes," but type 2, which has historically been seen in adults and not kids and teens.
"The trend we're seeing in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in young people is a growing clinical and public health concern," said Dr. Gabbay.
The big change has occurred with type 2 diabetes, once known as "adult-onset diabetes." In 2018 alone, 23,000 people under age 20 were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, according to the 2020 statistics report. Obesity is a common denominator among this group.
These figures date to 2014, when 5,758 children and teens aged 10 to 19 were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, according to the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth study. The SEARCH study began in 2000 and will continue through at least 2020.
The study has followed more than 27,000 participants, including 1,746 young people diagnosed before the age of 20 with type 1 diabetes, and 272 diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
SEARCH found that those with type 2 diabetes diagnosed under age 20 are more likely to develop signs of kidney, nerve and eye disease, compared to people with type 1 who are the same age, said Dr. Gabbay.
"Researchers have examined many factors, including glucose control, body mass index, waist-to-height ratio and blood pressure, but there were no specific indications as to why people with type 2 developed more complications than those with type 1. By about age 21, roughly 75 percent of the participants with type 2 had at least one complication from diabetes or were at high risk for a complication," he said.
A review of research from the SEARCH study from 2003 to October 2020, is available at https://www.searchfordiabetes.org/dsp_GenCitationsMain.cfm] .
In 2014, the SEARCH study reported increases of type 2 diabetes among black, white and Hispanic children, but not among Asian-Pacific Islander and American Indian children.
At that time, the SEARCH study authors speculated that the uptick in type 2 diabetes may result from "minority population growth, obesity, exposure to diabetes in utero and perhaps endocrine-disrupting chemicals." A 2014 New York Times article, reporting on the SEARCH study's findings that year, noted that type 2 diabetes "is thought to be brought on by a genetic predisposition to poor insulin action and secretion, often exacerbated by obesity and inactivity."
Type 2 Diabetes and Earlier Complications
Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body doesn't use insulin efficiently. Insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas, helps the body process nutrition from food. Without the right amount of insulin, the body can't get the nutrition it needs and instead converts food to extra sugar, or glucose, that spills into the bloodstream. Higher-than-normal blood glucose levels can lead to both short- and long-term health issues or complications. For people living with type 2 diabetes at younger ages, such complications may develop earlier in life.
Unlike type 1 diabetes -- an unpreventable autoimmune condition that occurs when the body attacks the pancreas cells that produce insulin -- type 2 diabetes is often linked to weight gain. Excess weight causes the body to use the insulin it makes less efficiently. Type 2 can often be controlled through diet and exercise; with less weight on the body, insulin operation is more likely to normalize.
"Obesity in youth is the primary contributor to the development of insulin resistance," Karl Nadolsky, DO, told Medical Daily. Dr. Nadolsky is a spokesperson for the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and a clinical endocrinologist at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Mich.
"When adolescents with obesity develop type 2 diabetes, this insulin resistance is worse than for their peers with obesity without diabetes, making it more difficult to treat with hopes of further remission."
Click here for Part 2: Children and Type 2 Diabetes: Fixing the Problem
Cheryl Alkon is a seasoned health and medical writer based in Massachusetts. She is the author of Balancing Pregnancy With Pre-Existing Diabetes: Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby.


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Hamas Denies Forming New Government in Gaza
April 20, 2019 Blog, News
Hamas' chief in Gaza Yahya Al-Sinwar. (Photo: via AJE)
Hamas has denied that it had formed a new government or administrative committee in the Gaza Strip, in response to Fatah's formation of a new government in Ramallah.
In a statement, Hamas' chief in Gaza Yahya Al-Sinwar said:
"Commenting on the false news reported by different mass media, we stress that there has been no new government or administrative committee."
New government for the West Bank-based Palestinian authority was sworn in Saturday, led by a veteran peace negotiator and harsh critic of Gaza's Hamas rulers. pic.twitter.com/1qpl7dREIM
— ANews (@anewscomtr) April 14, 2019
However, the statement confirmed some rotation among the officials in Gaza's ministries, noting that this happened for the sake of facilitating government services offered to Palestinian citizens.
Palestinian media reported that Hamas had formed a new administrative committee in response to the formation of a new government in the occupied West Bank, which is dominated by Fatah members.
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Israel Bans Palestinian Minister from Traveling to Jordan
May 2, 2019 Blog, News
Israeli restrictions on Palestinians traveling outside the occupied territories have prevented the Minister of Women's Affairs from going to Jordan to attend a conference. Dr. Amal Hamad was due to participate in the Euro-Mediterranean Conference […]
Israeli Minister: 'We Are Ready to Occupy Gaza'
January 16, 2019 Blog, News
Israel's Minister of Internal Security said on Monday that plans to occupy the Gaza Strip are on the table for the Cabinet to consider, Quds Net News has reported. However, Gilad Erdan told Israeli military radio that […]
Palestinian Youth Succumbs to Wounds in Gaza
March 24, 2019 Blog, News
A 24-year-old Palestinian succumbed to his wounds, on Sunday morning, that he had sustained during Saturday's night protests, also known as "Night Confusion," east of Beit Hanoun, in the northern besieged Gaza Strip. Israeli forces […]
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What is the difference if they did or didn't form a new government? A dictatorship is what they have no matter which way you look at it. The people have no choice, they can't get rid of Hamas anyway.48


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Home Gossip Tia Torres, her Husband, and their Children! Age, Net Worth, and Married...
Tia Torres, her Husband, and their Children! Age, Net Worth, and Married Life Wiki
Coming from a broken home, an animal activist turned reality star Tia Torres had little to no idea of what it meant to have a happy family. With two daughters and adopted twins in the picture, she finally had a family she could call her own.
The California native is best known for starring in the Animal Planet series Pit Bulls & Parolees — a show about the Villalobos Rescue Center employees (mostly paroled felons) who along with Tia and her kids rehabilitate abused and abandoned dogs. Her animal activism – both on and off the screen – has made her one of the fan favorites among the viewers of the network, Animal Planet.
To help our viewers get more acquainted with Tia, we have compiled a list of wikis on her including her age, birthday, and net worth. Further, we have delved into her married life with her husband and her present relationship with her father, daughters, and two other kids.
1. Tia Torres Wiki-Like Bio: Age, Birthday & Father
Born on 11 June 1960 in California, Tia shares her birthday with the likes of actor Shia LaBeouf and rapper Kodak Black. After her parents' divorce, her father married her stepmother, who she calls "mom."
The Pit Bulls & Parolees, age 52, credits her mother for instilling the love for animals in her. Because she came from a broken home, she found solace in caring for animals at an early age and treated them like her own family.
2. Animal Rescue Expertise Helps Tia Torres Amass Respectable Net Worth
At age 17, the 52-year-old reality star ran away from her home with a plethora of pets including an Angora goat, two Arabian horses, and a Catahoula Leopard Dog-Cougar in tow.
After a few years of struggling with homelessness and poverty, she joined the Army and became a truck driver. Later, she became a youth gang counselor.
However, realizing her true calling in animal activism, she reverted to animal rescue. After a chance meeting – which involved her daughters taking a liking to a pit bull about to be put in a kennel – at a Los Angeles Shelter, she was inspired to start an animal rescue center called Villalobos Rescue Center.
Her past occupation dealing with troubled youths and parolees and her love for pit bulls would eventually give birth to the reality show Pit Bulls & Parolees.
Despite showing hesitations after being approached by the TV producers early on, she took up on their offer after donations for her program began to run dry. Pit Bulls & Parolees is in its 9th season.
As for her net worth, the California native has a fortune of more than $300 thousand.
3. Twice Married, Tia Torres Has a History Of Picking Troubled Men As Husbands
At present, Tia is married to a one-time felon and a tattoo artist named Aren Marcus Jackson. It was Aren's suggestion that sprouted the idea of Pit Bulls & Parolees.
Her husband, Aren is a convicted felon who was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment following a shootout involving him and the Orange County Sheriff's deputies. Five years after connecting with him as pen-pals, she married Aren – who was out on parole – on the Halloween of 2006.
The 52-year-old reality star was rumored to have been previously married to her oldest daughter's biological father. Her mysterious rumored ex-husband was a gangbanger, who was shot in front of his mother's house but had survived the incident. However, he died after years of battle with paralysis.
4. Tia Torres Has 4 Kids: 2 Daughters & "Adopted" Twins
The oldest of Tia's two daughters, Tania had a tough upbringing. From losing her father to gang violence to seeing her mother struggle to raise her kids and keep the finances of Villalobos Rescue Center afloat, she went through a lot. In December of 2013, she married a guy named Perry.
Her sister – Mariah – is the most likely to follow in their mother's footsteps. At age just 8, she spoke at the LA City Commission conference about the wickedness of dogfighting. Besides animal activism, Mariah aspires to pursue a degree in criminal psychology.
On to their "adopted" siblings — Kanani and Keli'i were friends with Mariah before they began working for Tia. As the twins' life at home grew hard, they frequented her house and started helping her on various projects.
Soon they became the latest addition to the Villalobos Rescue Center family. The twins provide much-needed humor on the show with their antics.
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It's been a brutal year for Kedrick Hawthorne. The 19-year-old father of three spent the first part of the year in jail awaiting trial on a home invasion and aggravated battery charge.
He told anyone who would listen that it wasn't him, but police and prosecutors weren't buying it.
Hawthorne didn't have $10,000 for bail, and spent five months behind bars while his case moved through court. In April, a judge found him not guilty. He was free go back to his family, free to convince his bosses at Steak n' Shake on Illinois 173 that he should get his job back and free to tell everyone that he was innocent all along. He got his job back and started saving money.
The water overtook the rental home where Hawthorne lives with his three children — Ashyia, 2, Mariah, 1, and Kedrick Jr., 5 months — and girlfriend Amy Shields. They were the first family that sheriff's deputies evacuated from the neighborhood.
Hawthorne lives, for now, at the Red Cross Shelter set up at Harlem High School. On Wednesday, he was one of about a dozen that were staying there. His mother, Laura Hoglund, offered to take the children to stay with her for a while, because the change is shocking, particularly with Ashyia.
"She just walks around like this," Hoglund says, dropping her head, slumping her shoulders and hugging herself with her arms like a very shy child would.
Hawthorne said he's tried to talk to Ashyia about it. He tells her that the family is just going to be here for a while and they'll be going home soon. But, honestly, he doesn't know when that will be.
And he's not sure what he'll find when he gets there.


Ida Taylor was born near Nyukuwarta in Mangala country to the north of the Martu homelands. With her family, she walked around the northern Great Sandy Desert and travelled west to Anna Plains station.
She lived in the desert until late childhood, when she moved into La Grange mission at Bidyadanga with her family. She went to school at La Grange and Broome before going to work on Anna Plains station.
Her second husband is fellow artist Mukki Taylor. The couple live in Parnngurr where they have raised three children, two of whom are also artists. Ida paints the country around Wirnpa, particularly Pirrinkarra, Japurlka, Wirrlkurlja, and Majamajajarntijarra yintas all of which are permanent water sources and personally significant places.


Marc Jacobs Beauty announces the unveiling of www.marcjacobsbeauty.com, the brand's e-commerce website designed to offer an immersive experience into the world of Marc Jacobs Beauty. Featuring over 150 products in the Marc Jacobs Beauty collection, the dot-com beauty destination also provides exclusive access to limited edition product offerings.
To celebrate the launch, marcjacobsbeauty.com is offering five limited-edition neutral shades of intensely opaque and glossy Enamored Hi-Shine Nail Lacquers for sale, as the exclusive destination. The chic, wardrobe staple nail colors debuted at the Marc Jacobs Fall '14 fashion runway, and are inspired by the iconic actress and new face of Marc Jacobs Beauty, Jessica Lange.
ABOUT MARC JACOBS BEAUTY:Marc Jacobs Beauty is a synergistic collaboration between the designer and KENDO, the LVMH incubator of new beauty brands. As with his fashion, Marc's rule-breaking creativity is at the heart of his makeup vision. For Marc, it's about the spirit of youth, confidence and experimentation. He inspires you to push the boundaries and create your own style. So indulge in the impeccably exquisite textures, take liberties with provocative shades, and play with daring designs. Marc redefines beauty as imperfectly perfect. "I see beauty in many things and I am attracted to all sorts of imperfection, to style, to confidence or experimentation. It's unexpected and surprises you." Inspiration stems from the spirit of "the girl" and her makeup ritual. "I think the idea of transforming into this person you want to be, is a lot of fun...it's the idea of a young woman enjoying creating her look, getting ready for her night out, or her night after her night out."


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It's Confirmed: Formula E Needs More Night Races
Elizabeth Blackstock
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Formula E finally got the chance to kick off its seventh season this weekend with the 2021 Diriyah ePrix in Saudi Arabia, and it proved something that folks have been wondering about for a while: FE night races are awesome.
This doubleheader was the first time the series put on a race under the lights, since the previous concerns about sustainable lighting have finally been solved. And it was wonderful. The series knows how to put on a show, and with the pre-race light show, where certain parts of the track were lit up as drivers were introduced, was a hell of a lot of fun. Drivers developed one-off glow-in-the-dark helmets. And, in typical Formula E fashion, drivers got a little wild. The cover of darkness only made things all the more intense.
During the first race, Mercedes racer Nyck de Vries led every lap from pole position to take the first win of the season—despite having less power than his competition throughout much of the race. But de Vries showed the power of regenerative braking, managing to dance to the end despite two safety cars.
Mercedes was forced to start on the back foot for race two. During practice, Edoardo Mortara, driving a Mercedes powertrain, suffered from an overall braking failure, which sent him heavily into the wall. He was taken to the hospital and declared fine, but all Mercedes powertrains were pulled from the track during qualifying until the cause of Mortara's issue was determined. The FIA gave all Mercedes drivers permission to race, but they had to start from the back. Mortara didn't take part; his team was unable to finish repairing the car in time for the event.
Instead, Envision Virgin Racing driver Robin Frijns landed on pole position, although he was quickly usurped by Jaguar Racing's Sam Bird. The race was red flagged with just under three minutes left as a result of Tom Blomqvist, Maxi Guenther, Sebastien Buemi, and Mitch Evans all running off the track. As a result, Bird took the victory. He's won a race in every single season of FE.
But above all else, there was something extra special about seeing an FE race take place under the lights.


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Státní fond pro zúrodnění půdy byl státním fondem, který existoval v letech 1970–2006.

Byl založen zákonem č. 77/1969 Sb. a zrušen byl zákonem č. 94/2005. Cílem činnosti fondu bylo zvýšení péče o půdu a její úrodnost. Právním nástupcem fondu se stala Česká republika, zastoupená Ministerstvem zemědělství.

Zaniklé úřady České republiky
Státní fondy České republiky
Organizace založené roku 1970
Organizace zaniklé roku 2006