u. “Aplalu menyuapiku, tapi terlebih dahulu dihaluskannya makanan tersebut setelah itu ia berikan padaku”, pengemis itu melanjutkan perkataannya. Abubakar RA tidak dapat menahan air matanya, lalu ia menangis sambil berkata kepada pengemis itu, “Aku memang bukan orang yang biasa datang padamu. Aku adalah salah seorang dari sahabatnya, orang yang mulia itu telah tiada. Ia adalah Muhammad Rasulullah SAW”.Seketika itu juga pengemis itu pun menangis mendengar penjelasan Abubakar RA, dan kemudian berkata, …. ” Pengemis Yahudi buta tersebut akhirnya bersyahadat di hadapan Abubakar RA saat itu juga dan sejak hari itu dia menjadi muslim. Selawat ke atas baginda SAW…”
pemerkosaan agenda melayu
saya ada jumpa ramai orang india yang golongan pertengahan yang bergaul dengan melayu. saya tanya dia kenape dia tak suka duduk area batu caves, kelang yang majoriti penduduk dia orang india. macam orang melayu suka duduk area melayu, senang nak buat kenduri kendara atau kematian.
Orang India ni cakap dia takut duduk berjiran dengan orang India sebab banyak mulut, kuat dengki, kuat jaja cerita orang. dia kata dia adalah orang india yang tak boleh duduk dengan kaum dia. kawan saya ni india yang rajin pergi kuil dan selalu jadi leader bawak kavadi masa Thaipusam.
Bila baca pendapat dia ada tiga jenis golongan india. satu India tak suka duduk kawasan masyarakat India dan lebih suka duduk kawasan Melayu. satu lagi India yang tak suka duduk dengan Melayu dan suka dengan masyarakat china yang cakap english pergi ke Church. ada satu lagi India tak suka Melayu, tak suka China, duduk sesama diorang dan selalunya suka bergaduh, dan kurang didikan..
Ada orang India peguam yang berjaya, contoh peguam diorang masuk Islam jadi peguam terkenal ambik staff orang Melayu. India yang tak suka pergi church, pergi kuil masuk Islam, kahwin perempuan Melayu. adat orang melayu kalau dapat satu menantu mualaf china atau India akan cuba bantu menantu ni dari segi wang ringgit atau harta, tanah bagi kat menantu ni supaya dia boleh berdikari dan menjadi satu tanggungjawab besar bagi pak mertua untuk bantu menantu mualaf supaya tak balik ke agama asal.
Sebab orang India yang terpinggir tidak boleh mengharap kepada orang India sendiri serta tidak boleh mengharap kepada kerajaan-kerajaan negeri Pakatan –
baca ‘Kg Buah Pala: Pagar makan padi (timbalan ketua menteri Pulau Pinang keturunan India itu hanya menurut kata Tokong sahaja, dan bodohnya bercadang untuk membentuk Indraf-DAP untuk melawan pengaruh Hindraf)
maka mereka mahu tak mahu terpaksa berserah kepada harapan Perdana Menteri Najib ‘Nambikei’ Razak akan menepati janjinya.
Sangatlah benar kata-kata ini Helen. Tapi golongan “I am not Indian, I’m Malaysian”, tak pernah nak mengakuinya. Terutamanya yang ikut blog you ni..
BETUL SESANGAT tu Helen. Kaum India pula mesti bersatu untuk memperjuangkan hak mereka secara positif. Zaman nak berdemonstari dan merusuh dah patut ditinggalkan.
Some perspectives. By the way, I am an Indian and English educated.
Bottom line is people have a choice. I have been in libraries where the only one who is making noise are the young chiko Indians.
As to getting help, I have been rejected by all of AK’s companies only to be accepted by a Chinese billionaires company and at ok position.
I won’t consider myself successful but a survivor.
The lessons I learnt from life is this.
The first thing to solve is the emo. People will offend you, will make fun about your colour, will treat you differently, will not call you for Interview but you cannot get emo. You must always always stay calm.
Number 2, mix with the Chinese and learn to carry balls. That is the requirement to survive. The Chines have all the networks and resources and most important, they have the influencing power. Learning to mix and adept to them means to learn their language and once again, never get emo.
Number 3, be suspicious of Indians. Period. I’ll give you an example. I was working in a MOF Govt project and the client side project head was an Indian and the consultant to the client was an Indian. Both these fellas were making it extremely difficult to close the project because they do not understand a thing. If the races were reversed and the head of the project was Chinese and the consultant was Chinese, and me Chinese (hypothetically), die die at least there will be some kind of practical route out.
As to the “poor estate Indians”, well I can say – if you want to fight you can fight. I also was super ostracised but i resolved not to be a nuisance and to fight until I die, if I have to. You have to man up and never admit defeat.
Re. This is very true. But you are lucky since you have a good education background to back you up. But the poor are full of anger, hatred and sadness that not only cloud their judgement but also perception and action. Majority of this group are in the destitute areas where social problems is the norm. They have to be relocated to other areas far away from the inherent threat and malaise.
Re. As to the “poor estate Indians”
I do hope the government will come up with an Agropolitan project something to the tune of Felda, for the benefits of the Indian community.
Re. be suspicious of Indians. Period
This applies to “I am not Indian actually” group mostly. I have dealt with them before. Even the tea lady at office last time asked me to look for a job for her husband as driver but with specific request “asal bukan India”.
I hope you can contribute to your community in whatever way you can. One good step is, if you know any vacancy no matter how big or small do give and promote it within your own community.
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Very perceptive insight from you.
That’s why I try to highlight the Indian problems using objective data and unemotional stats.
I had hoped that my not being an Indian male can blunt the anger, hatred, sadness and animosity that attends these issues but it is a Sisyphean task ‘cos there are so many armchair critics and detractors.
What I see is that the Indian poor are voiceless because nobody can hear or see them.
A common complaint about where the NEP was hijacked is the diversion of resources to the undeserving, a good example being Shahrizat’s “


Virden, i, but sending money to someone carrying Maggio’s baggage could spread the splatter of his self-soiling on a contributor.
The Judicial Commission indicated in its release Monday that it was investigating Maggio before news of his comments appeared on Blue Hog Report and then here. Maggio has not yet denied the comments in any way. His consultant’s departure is at least circumstantial indication that excuses, rather than a denial, will be the best he has to offer. Or perhaps he’s awaiting a commission appearance to make a sworn statement under oath that somebody used all the details of his personal life and intimate knowledge of confidential proceedings in Faulkner County to post on a site for LSU, which also happens to be a school attended by a Maggio daughter.
Maggio has made a poor judgment call here. But it’s not his first. And speaking of secrecy: some questions are in order for why no record appears in Faulkner County circuit court records for Maggio’s divorce. There’s little legal precedent for the sealing of entire divorce cases from initial pleading to final decree. Hearings can at times be closed, but specific reasons are generally required — such as protection of children’s interests — for closing any portions of records or testimony. Did Maggio just pull a string with a friend on the Faulkner Circuit bench? I’ve put that question to the judge I’ve been told sealed the record. No response yet. Maggio’s persistence with the campaign only invites an even more searching look at his record.
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Pub is ideally situated for us transport enthusiasts as it is halfway between the bus and rail stations (which are only 100 yards apart). I certainly intend to go back � though since it�s 25 years since I was last in Macclesfield, I�m not sure when that will be !
This looked rather closed to me yesterday?
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to pick him up for the one-and-a-half-hour ride to Kfar Hasidim. The car drove through the entrance of the village and stopped at the nondescript house on Rechov Hameyasdim where George’s niece Erella lived with her husband, Mordechai. He hadn’t seen her for 40 years.
“A surprise?” He wasn’t sure if he liked the idea of a surprise.
“Rebbe, do you remember me?” he asked.
George looked carefully at her.
There was dead silence, besides Sheindel’s muffled sobs. George looked around the hall. Everyone was looking at him. He looked down at his hands, and then at the floor. Slowly he got to his feet.
He paused for a few seconds. You could have heard a pin drop. Then George whispered, slowly, deliberately, “It’s time. I’m ready. I’m coming home. I’m ready. I’m coming home,” and he sat down.
There was a moment of silence, and suddenly the hall erupted in applause. Everyone rose to their feet and applauded. It went on and on, as George made his way through the hall and shook everyone’s hand, smiling broadly. The Yabloner Rebbe had returned to Kfar Hasidim, and now he was going to move back.
George flew back to Los Angeles to wrap up his affairs and prepare for the move to Israel. But sorting everything out took him longer than expected. Although he had wanted to finish his master’s at CSUN, , and that he would have to make the move to Israel before he became too old. Over the next couple of years George visited Israel for extended periods, until, in November 1981, he gave away his last few possessions and flew off to Israel to settle there for good. He had just turned 86.
Very few people knew about his return to Israel, and truthfully, few would have cared. The pioneering challenges of Palestine in the 1920s and ’30s were a distant memory, replaced by the flourishing and vibrant State of Israel. The Yabloner Rebbe was a relic of the difficult past best left forgotten, of interest to no one outside his own family and the residents of Kfar Hasidim.
Even Kfar Hasidim had changed substantially since those early days, with the addition of a new ultra-Orthodox neighborhood—Kfar Hasidim Bet—home to an internationally renowned yeshiva, ironically of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian persuasion. But the lack of interest in his return to Israel didn’t bother the Rebbe at all. He was not interested in attracting attention to himself. After more than four decades living under a pseudonym in Los Angeles, any publicity would only have dredged up unnecessary attention, and potentially unpleasant stories and dormant resentments.
Here lies Grand Rabbi Yechezkel Taub, the ‘Rebbe of Yablona,’ son of Grand Rabbi Yaakov Taub. Last scion of the dynasty that began with Grand Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, disciple of the ‘Seer of Lublin’ … in 5685 he led his Hasidim up to Eretz Yisrael where he redeemed the lands of Harbaj, Harchieh and Sheikh Abreik. Founder of Nachalat Yaakov, later known as Kfar Hasidim.
His remarkable trajectory from revered Polish Hasidic leader, to Zionist pioneer, to reviled failure, to war refugee, to shipyard worker, to successful real-estate developer, to bankrupcy, to geriatric college student, and back to his roots as a revered Hasidic Rebbe, is surely one of the most astonishing Jewish stories of the modern era.
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Editor's Note: Wet Apple Media states that candidate Amy Igloi-Matsuno has paid for all services to this date, and has supplied a photocopy of a $5,075 check as proof.
This week’s campaign filings foFred Chang and and challenger Amy Igloi-Matsuno show a considerable funding disparity between the two candidates.
The most recent reports show that Chang has raised $7,886 and spent $4,144.
Matsuno reported raising $19,290 and spending $11,563.
Of this, $6,950 is from individual contributors.
Igloi-Matsuno herself, along with her husband, have contributed $9,700 — the largest share of the campaign chest.
By law, $4,700 of this money can be characterized as a loan, and can be paid back by future campaign contributions.
The remainder cannot be paid back to Igloi-Matsuno directly, although money she collects can be used to run for the same office in future elections.
Igloi-Matsuno said that she was comfortable contributing to the campaign and was not bothered by what could be perceived as the lack of a level playing field.
She said that Chang could even things up by contributing his own money to his campaign.
“I’m not going to apologize for using my own money for the campaign,” she said. “Fred can use his own money for his campaign if he wants.”
Chang said he had no intention to do so, adding, “I’m not sure that a campaign for Port Orchard City Council should cost this much.”
Chang said Igloi-Matsuno has “outspent me on signs three-to-one.”
He also mentioned a bill* from Wet Apple Media, wondering if it would be paid, or reversed as an “in-kind” contribution.
Wet Apple is owned by Port Orchard Mayor Lary Coppola and his wife Dee Coppola, although the mayor is not currently involved in the company’s operation.
The mayor has repeatedly declared neutrality in the race, while Dee Coppola is listed on Igloi-Matsuno’s Web site as a supporter.
The mayor, however, has stated the company intends to bill Igloi-Matsuno in full, and expects the bills will be paid.
The second contested city council race also has a wide financial disparity, although on a smaller scale.
Incumbent Carolyn Powers, who intended to spend less than $5,000 on her campaign, crossed that threshold last month.
Powers said she received contributions that exceeded that amount, and then submitted reports from data she had kept since the beginning of the campaign.
Her opponent, challenger Cindy Lucarelli, claims to have spent around $2,000 on her campaign, but is not required to file any reports as long as she spends less than $5,000.
Lucarelli does not expect to raise or spend much more.
“My campaign is very different than other candidates,” she said. “I do most of the work myself.”
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Begbies Traynor’s Red Flag Alert shows a 21 per cent decrease in firms in the region facing ‘critical’ financial issues between the third and fourth quarters of 2012.
Construction firms showed a 13 per cent decrease.
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If that weren't enough, Arnold Schwarzenegger is, as I write this, close to declaring his candidacy. Indeed, he's already given the power of attorney to one of his advisers to file for him in case he is away promoting "T3" during the brief filing period for the special election.
The danger is obvious: This is how extremists win. This is how majority rule is subverted. In the usual general election between a Republican and a Democrat, you can't win with 30 percent or 35 percent. In this election, that number could constitute a plurality.
Is this how a democracy is supposed to work? Could our founding mothers and fathers have established a worse system?
There is no history, since past efforts to recall governors have never gotten this far. There is no precedent.
But the language of the California constitution hardly compels the risky process that everyone up to now has been taking for granted.
But the governorship is different.
If the governor cannot for any reason fulfill his duties, the. Indeed, some would argue that the most important job of the lieutenant governor, in this as in many states, is to be there. Just in case.
So, too, at the federal level. If the president is impeached and convicted, the vice president assumes the office. We don't hold a new election.
Interpreting the California constitution this way preserves the results of the last election and respects the democratic system.
So why haven't you read more about this before? I didn't make it up. It's been in the air, sort of.
There's always time for a sequel, after all.


dogs yap at me. The couple is gracious.
I write about how Safeway helps John purchase a Tommy Gate lift for his truck so he can still be mobile. The manager at Safeway tells me John often shops for elderly folks at the Senior Center, an act that touches her.
I hear his mother, who is in a nursing home, leaves the state. I wonder about his wife. They have no children. I feel I should go visit her. I don't. I don't go to the funeral.
More school stories. More community stories.
I write about a woman who had a bone marrow transplant. The person who laid out the page switches paragraphs, which makes the story illogical, confusing. I call the woman and apologize.
I write about Dallon Oberg and his bee hives. I meet his wife and son. They show me their plants. They show me an art studio. They show me white fireweed honey. Dallon takes me out and walks me into the bees. They don't sting me. Later they point out pollen droppings on my vehicle. The bees always drop it as they fly, Gloria, his wife, tells me.
Later in the year, I type in his obituary and then lock myself in my room and cry. I don't know why his unexpected death affects me so strongly. Maybe because I don't know many dead people.
I do more on schools, war, fires, arts, etc.
More community news. More fires (dry summer). Single dads, melodramas, the past drug life of a pastor.
I interview a 16-year-old former drug user who is a special ed student. She tells me her partying friends don't want anything to do with her because she no longer parties. And the non-partying crowd doesn't want anything to do with her because they don't trust her. She tells me she has no friends. She tells me she home-schools to avoid friction. She tells me she has family problems.
She tells me she works two jobs to help pay for vet bills for her dog Niki, who had a seizure and has liver problems. She tells me about her poodle that also has seizures. She tells me how she gets teased about owning epileptic dogs. "But they're special," she says. "They've been through a hard time, just like me."
She tells me she wants to stay off drugs, finish school (she made straight As the previous semester), go to college. "I want to be something important. I do," she says. "I want to have my family look back on me and say ‘she did it.' I want to make them happy." I cry in the interview. It is the only interview I ever cry in.
Months later I learn she is pregnant, no longer working, and living with an abusive man. My stomach sours.
More fires. Summer activities.
I interview a Russian immigrant, an artist who fled from Russia because, in part, he was locked in a mental hospital for creating religious icons. His wife, also an artist, tells me about childbirth in Russia. Home birthing is not allowed. Medication is given whether the patient wants it or not. "They just say, ‘Shut up. It's not your business. You don't pay for it, so just shut up,'" she explains. They wouldn't let her bathe. They wouldn't let her husband visit.
I interview a woman who quit her job to take up flying, then crashed her plane along the Yukon River. She tells me she had to float her plane up the Yukon to get it repaired. But first, she tells me, she had to dismantle it. She tells me the worst of the trip was being on her period without pads or tampons. But she tells me I can't print that. I don't.
More of the same. People and community. It's always the same, yet always different.
I take pictures at the first Picker's Retreat Bluegrass festival in Eagle River. People dance in the mud. I eat a wonderful tasting vegi-burger. I run into friends. I watch a couple dance on a truck bed in the parking lot. Only the moonlight illuminates them from behind. It is midnight.
I stand watching their silhouettes for at least a half hour. A band, practicing for their turn on stage, plays for them. A band member hands me a beer. "They dance good, don't they?" he asks.
"Yes." I take the beer and drink it. It feels good to be in the parking lot with the dancing silhouettes and the practicing band. I thoroughly enjoy myself.
Mikhail Gorbachev and conservative hard-liners have it out in Russia. I interview the Russian artist who told me about childbirth in Russia. She tells me she's sad, but understands what has happened. "When Gorbachev first opened freedom and the like, he discussed problem, illnesses and so on," she says. But things got worse. "He became unpopular because the economics were getting worse." She tells me Gorbachev only made cosmetic improvements. She is very upset. She is very worried about her family and friends. Her voice seems weak. She tells me she wants her homeland to change for the better, but that won't be without costs, without battles.
I interview a foster mom and her three foster children. Two, she tells me, will soon be reunited with their abusive mother. "T." She confides she's not sure the move is in the children's best interest. She cries when she talks about it. She's adopting the third child, a boy who ran away from his abusive home when he was 12 years old, three years prior.
He tells me wants to be a bartender. He tells me he knows the job well as his mother and various aunts worked in bars and often took him with them. But, he tells me, if he can't be a bartender, he can't be a bartender.
"Whatever happens, happens," he says. "I'm not just going to perfectly plan my life because I don't know if it will happen that way or not. What goes, goes."
He tells me he's not religious, but that he feels God has a plan for his life. He tells me he's no different than any other child. "I've been in like six or seven foster homes," he says. "But being in foster care doesn't change anything. You're still a normal person. It's not so weird."
He would really like


45 years old. Life decisions. What would you do?
I am Canadian, living in S. Korea and recently married on paper, but saving for an actual wedding (she is Korean). We have no kids, but want them soon. I’m currently teaching English. Most of which is private lessons(quite lucrative). I have a Kinesiology degree and no other credentials aside from teaching English for 12 years.
I’m trying to decide what the best move would be for my family. Being that I’m 45 the idea of pension/retirement is on my mind constantly.
These are my options as I see it right now.
2. Return to Canada to earn my Education degree (considering programs that range between 10 to 18 months. I have found 5 worth considering).
3. Going the alternate route of attaining a teaching license. Teach-now seems to suit me best.
The first option scares me as it’s a competitive market and pretty risky as Korea has a declining birthrate. But the rewards could be great. Even at my age I’m in pretty high demand to teach private lessons to kids from K-6 grade.
Option 2 is what I want to do in my heart, but it’s expensive and really doesn’t put us in a great situation to start a family. Plus, my wife will have to apply for permanent residency and wait months for a work permit while I’m studying. Then when finished…possibly be on a sub list for years. Although, my hometown is screaming for teachers and a few of my friends are teachers and administrators there. So, I will have a leg up. Also, the pension upon retirement would be great. Although, it won’t be all that much as I won’t have the years to contribute. Roughly 25k/yr if I’m lucky. Going this route my wife will have to find some sort of work as well…not sure what her prospects will be.
Option 3 would be the easiest in the short term. I could do the program while still working so won’t cut into our savings. She is interested in it too and she graduated from a US university so we would both get our teaching credential at the same time. We could use our savings for a wedding and get our lives started. My concern here is that we won’t be able to save enough for retirement. And how competitive would we be for potential jobs at international schools? We would both be going the primary route. Although I may be able to teach higher grades if I’m teaching phys ed. And could possibly do some coaching. And how likely is it that we would both find positions in the same school….especially as I get older(she’s 12 years younger than me)? Must be tough to find work after 60.
Probably worth noting that if we do decide on option 3….then that would pretty much preclude us from ever moving back to Canada as they don’t recognize the licensure that goes along with teach-now. I don’t feel the need to move back, but with aging parents I may want to at some point.
Number 1 or 2. Which would depend on the family situation in Canada vs South Korea. Where would you get the best support if you get married and have kids.
Of your three options, option 1 is the strongest, because its a plan you can start immediately and all the success factors are either connected or directly under your ability to control them. You can start this now. Youre married you can own/rent property, the most ready solution if your going to start a family soon is a shophouse. Teach on the ground floor, and live on the second floor. All you need to start is a business license. You can have the move and everything set up by the end of March. As you grow you can hire staff and a manager and step away from the day to day business if you want.
Next would be option 3, but you dont need to spend the coin and time on Teach Now, you can simply take some exams and apply for effective lifetime provisional entry grade) credentials though the State of MA. This greatly lowers the entry barrier and financial costs. Once you have those credentials you can peddle them on the circuit and locally and see hat interest you generate. One of the major issues your going to face is that the general forum and IE consensus is 2 years of post credentialing experience in DE before meeting the bar of entering IE. Youre not going to find a whole lot of interest in a primary IT who isnt an NES with no experience or a PHE IT with no experience ESOL doesnt count in IE). You will have to be very open and flexible with locations and generally wont find interest above lower third tier ISs, and its going to take you five years before your back up to the level of coin your making now, working youre way up in IE.
Option 2 is the worst. It has the most extraneous factors outside your control. Youre looking at about 2 years of being a student, how are you going to support your spouse while your a student, other than exhausting your savings just living, and thats on top of the tuition costs. You would be better off financially if thats what you want to do earning a Masters degree through UPe in education to meet the CAN academic preparation at the same time get the MA Provisional credential while youre getting to work and setting yourself up with recent KS/K12 classroom experience in SK. You may have to do something to transition that to CAN but the deficiencies (mainly the online degree) would likely be minor.
Your other main issue is a lot of it depends on hat angles you have available to you in CAN, youve said you have friends in leadership and teaching back in CAN but have you made contact with any of these people and will they offer you a job, unless you really want to be on a substitute/supply/relief rolls for a long time, not the greatest way to build retirement.
Youre not limited to just doing one of these, theres nothing keeping you from planning for all three at different stages of your life.
Also, I think coupling the Education Cert with the Kinesiology degree may only allow you to qualify as a PE teacher, and they are ten a penny.


Turning to your judicial career, when did you decide to become a judge and why did you decide to apply?
The course work was done in the summer of 2003 and 2004 and the thesis was delayed until 2005 because at the same time I was in effect working to become Chief Justice – only so many extracurricular activities could be undertaken. I thought going back to school, so long as I could keep my work up, would be intellectually reinvigorating. Ifyou get stale. I was lucky that I had the AG office, I had the practice of law, which was very varied, my Superior Court work for six years, Chancery for six years, and I had been at the Supreme Court for three years, and the opportunity came up. I said, well this cannot be missed: I needed to do this to keep my mind moving and keep it fluid and keep my interest in legal theory – not just processing cases. So how did you find going back to academia?
If you were not a lawyer and judge what would you be?I probably would have tried the Foreign Service, and if that had been unsuccessful, I would probably have gone into the military. I never had a chance to do anything besides law, now, it is the only thing I am competent to do!


President Jacob Zuma’ss expected to deepen tensions between him and his deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa, ahead of the ANC’s 2017 elective conferenceRamaphosa and other senior ANC leaders – including ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe – were unhappy with Zuma’s decision to remove Nene.
The decision to remove Nene is seen by some within the ANC-led alliance as move by Zuma to neutralise Ramaphosa and to consolidate his power before the party’s next leader is elected.
ANC insiders believe Zuma wants to anoint his ex- as a ANC president in 2017 and the country’s leader in 2019.
Zuma himself has said he believed the country was ready for a woman president. He has privately told those close to him that he did not want Ramaphosa to replace him as ANC president.
Three ANC leaders who asked to remain anonymous told the M&G this week that Zuma did not even take the party’s top six officials into his confidence regarding the decision to remove Nene.
“It’s not like the president is forced to inform the [ANC] top six about his decision to reshuffle the Cabinet. It’s his prerogative. But it is expected that he would raise it with the officials as a matter of courtesy,” said an ANC leader based at Luthuli House.
Another senior ANC official told the M&G that Nene’s removal was intended as a warning to Ramaphosa.
It is a very “loud message” directed at Ramaphosa, said the official, “that the same could happen to him if he dares raise his head”.
As ANC deputy president, Ramaphosa also heads the party’s deployment committee, which is responsible for placing officials and politicians in key positions within the state.
Ramaphosa worked closely with Nene in trying to turn around the cash-strapped SAA and to toe the line of fiscal discipline against rampant state spending.
He is believed to have given Nene his blessing when the then finance minister turned down a proposal from the SAA board to restructure a fleet transaction with Airbus.
Nene’g the SAA board’s proposal to restructure the Airbus deal would leave the airline in a materially worse financial position and unable to meet commitments as they became due.
In September Nene rejected SAA’s application for a R5-billion bailout. According to reliable sources, Nene wanted a new board and a seasoned chief executive with the skills to steer SAA in a new direction before he would be willing to give the airline more money.
ANC and government sources said Zumardial relationship that was developing between Ramaphosa and Nene.
Zuma supporters said on Thursday that they believe Ramaphosa and Nene had been plotting to remove SAA’s controversial chairperson, Dudu Myeni, a close ally of Zuma’s, to further their own personal interests.
They cited as an example the supplier relationship between Bidvest and SAA. Before becoming deputy president Ramaphosa served as the chairperson of Bidvest, in which his Shanduka vehicle also held shares. Ramaphosa divested himself from various business interests when he took up the deputy presidency.
Attempts by the M&G to contact Mantashe, ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa and Ramaphosa’s spokesperson for comment were unsuccessful.
Nicholas Mazia, s defended Myeni, said he found it interesting that Ramaphosa never said anything publicly about the SAA shenanigans.
“If things get in tatters and the deputy president is not saying anything, we get worried. He has not given direction on this matter,” said Mazia.
Satawu, a vocal Zuma supporter, released a statement last week calling for the president to take action and move SAA under his wing.
Zuma supporters have also complained about Nene’s continued relationship with former ministers Pravin Gordhan and Trevor Manuel, who had also been seen to be dragging their heels on projects Zuma considered important, including the upgrading of his Nkandla homestead.
The push for a woman president also enjoys support from the party’s women’s and youth leagues and the so-called premier league, which consists of the North West, Mpumalanga and Free State premiers.
Nene’s removal was apparently not the end of the current Cabinet reshuffle, with insiders saying other ministers face the chopping block.
Ministers who may find themselves ousted from their jobs includee, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies, Communications Minister Faith Muthambi and Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson.
Meanwhile, the ANC’s left-wing partners have warned Zuma of the consequences of removing left-leaning leaders, including Nzimande, from his Cabinet.
A number of communist ministers may have grounds to fear that they may be targeted because of the growingin the ANC.
Communist leaders in Zuma’s executive include Nzimande, who also serves asas well as Davies, Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana, Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi, Deputy Public Works Minister Jeremy Cronin and Deputy Minister in the Presidency Buti Manamela.
Both the SACP and Cosatu have made it clear that they will support Ramaphosa to succeed Zuma.
The ANC Youth League and some senior ANC leaders have called for Nzimande’s head in the wake of the #FeesMustFall student protests.


Citizens of Brooksville and Freed Communities were startled Sunday afternoon by the appearance of a huge balloon soaring among the clouds over their heads.  Dr. Wright and other men who were on Leading creek, got close enough to the balloon to converse with the occupants.  The name of the balloon was the Miss Sophia, and the two occupants names were Afman and McCullough both of St. Louis.  They had started in a race with another balloon from Indianapolis, Ind., Friday morning.  They stopped for the night at Solmon Haullp's, near Lough.  The balloon was from there shipped to McFarlan from whence it was shipped back home Monday.


Description--story about leaving room for every kind of love. From the Hardcover edition.
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co's perspective…"thou"u'r's interesting to note is the common words used: "love", "care", and "dear"e'sWas she saying that she has forgiven him??What was Moore's "love"th "love" is "think". In fact, "think", "O", and "!"'s important here is that the use of both "love" and "think"n't"O" or "!
So, why am I surprised by this?ns?Wn's at the time?Did s?Is this story meant as a warning?


Enea Bastianini (Avintia Esponsorama) and Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) both progressed through Q1 at the Octo Grand Prix of San Marino with the Italian rookie the fastest rider in the session, thanks to a 1:31.876, leaving him with a 0.153 cushion over the eight-time Champion.
Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda Idemitsu) was unfortunate to miss out as a crash cost him dearly while he was on a hot lap and looked to threaten the top two. Hopes that Valentino Rossi would progress dissipated quickly after the Petronas SRT rider hit the deck once again in Misano, and the Doctor will line up 23rd on the grid. It’s not been a good weekend for the KTMs, with Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) compounding their misery with a late crash.
Next up is the battle for pole in Q2, make sure you stay tuned.


Hi Pohjanvuori
With these two posts of yours, you come across as the definitive authority, on the subject of End Time Prophesy.
Is it based in 1948, with us being the Generation to see it all happen?
A prohet I am definitely not! :0) Which is why I enjoy reading texts by “people-in-the-know”. Like this recent fellow here, who said EU will become 10 kings. Where does he get his intel? I’m curious! So if You know, do tell! :0)))
Time will Tell, just keep watching .Jesus Bless Israel is Gods Time Clock.
Ten EU foreign ministers have spelt out radical suggestions to use the eurozone debt crisis as a springboard towards closer integration, including.
Very interesting why not AAAA 17 ministers, 3>>>> maybe 7>> But the number was 10!


I am agnostic and my fiancee is catholic. We are getting married in the catholic church because it is very important to his family. We were told that we need to meet with the deacon before we can make the date "official" in their book. Then we have to go to 4-6 counseling sessions with a "peer couple".
What should I expect during these sessions? I''m very nervous because although my fiancee accepts my religious beliefs I''m worried about what kinds of questions I will be asked during these sesssions. Are they going to flat out ask me if I believe in God, etc? Could this hurt us in possibly getting married in the church?
i haven''t actually done this yet - i will have to before i get married as well - but i asked several of my friends about it that went to them. i am a non-practicing catholic and df is agnostic so i was fearing the worst as well.
i''ve heard of a few different formats - one is the peer couple approach, another is continued one-on-one mtgs with the deacon/priest who will be officiating, and another is a weekend long retreat where you "get it over with" all at once.
everyone i have talked to said you take compatibility tests and do things like list what you love/hate about each other and then discuss it all. You also talk about raising your children in a religion and family planning. Also some peer couples talk about adjusting to married life the first year. Things like that. None of it sounded insufferable to me and was right on par with some other experinences I had attending Catholic schools for 12 years but it seems like an annoying extra step to deal with right before you get married. One of my sister''s friends and her boyfriend walked out with a strong recommendation that they engage in serious pre-marital counseling before getting married though - which they did not do and the priest still married them. They are very happily married 8 years later
we are in a similar boat- i am practicing catholic and fi is agnostic.
i am nervous as well, but from everything i''ve heard it is fairly harmless,
one thing i''ve heard about the pre-cana classes is that it''s easier to do it in one shot (a full day saturday from 9-3 or so) rather than the weekly sessions. in my diocese these one days fill up quickly,
i am interested to hear from anyone who''s been through this with one/other of the folks being a non-religious person
(i am panicking that the priest will say, why are you always in church alone, or something.)
i did the saturday class. i can tell you the details, but i think that all churches/priests approach these classes differently.
Date: 12/27/2006 7:54:40 AM
I did as well. I agree, I think it depends on the church. It mainly is a chance for you to discuss things like family, finances and whose responsabilities will be what after marriage - so if you haven''t already, you''ll get a chance to go over those topics. In my opinion, it was pretty painless, and we had an opportunity to interact with other engaged couples as well.
Another reason why you might have the sessions one on one, is so your priest can get a chance to know you and your FI - they usually do this so that when the homily comes, they can say wonderful things about the two of you


\item[] \textbf{Train track property:} $h_{ts}$ is a local isometry on each edge for all $s \le t \in \reals$.
\item[] \textbf{Semiflow property:} $h_{ut} \composed h_{ts} = h_{us}$ for all $s \le t \le u\in \reals$, and $h_{ss} \colon G_s \to G_s$ is the identity for all $s \in \reals$.
Our first definition of the axis bundle is:
\item[Definition (1): Fold lines.] \quad $\A_\phi$ is the union of the images of all fold lines
$\gamma \colon \reals \to \X_r$ such that $\gamma(t)$ converges in $\overline\X_r$ to $\TphiMinus$ as $t \to -\infinity$ and to $\TphiPlus$ as $t \to +\infinity$.
Notice that, just from the format of this definition, the axis bundle $\A_\phi$ has the desired naturality feature, because the collection of fold lines in $\X_r$ is invariant under the action of $\Out(F_r)$, and the points $\TphiMinus, \TphiPlus \in \partial\X_r$ depend naturally on $\phi$.
The construction of $\phi$-periodic fold lines is given in detail in the beginning of Section~\ref{SectionFoldLines}, drawing on well known ideas reviewed in Section~\ref{SectionPaths}. Here is an outline of the construction.
Recall that every fully irreducible $\phi \in \Out(F_r)$ is represented by an \emph{affine train track map}, a homotopy equivalence $g \colon G \to G$ of a marked graph such that $g$ takes vertices to vertices, $g$ induces the outer automorphism $\phi$ on $\F_r \approx \pi_1(G)$, and there exists $\lambda>1$ so that the restriction of each iterate $g^i$ to the interior of each edge locally stretches the metric by the factor $\lambda^i$ (\cite{BestvinaHandel:tt}, and see Section~\ref{SectionTrainTracks}). The number $\lambda=\lambda(\phi)$ is independent of $g$ and is called the \emph{expansion factor} of $\phi$. Let $G_i = \frac{1}{\lambda^i} G \cdot \phi^i$ be renormalized marked graphs representing the orbit of $G$ under powers of $\phi$. For integers $i \le j$ the iterate $g^{j-i} \colon G \to G$ of the map $g$ induces a marking preserving homotopy equivalence $g_{ji} \colon G_i \to G_j$, and these maps satisfy the semiflow property, which is just a fancy way of saying that the following diagram commutes:
\cdots \ar[r] & G_i \ar[r]^{g_{i+1,i}} \ar@/_2pc/[rrrr]^{g_{ji}} & G_{i+1} \ar[r] & \cdots \ar[r] & G_{j-1} \ar[r]^{g_{j,j-1}} & G_j \ar[r] & \cdots
Moreover, the definition of train track maps and the renormalization of $G_i$ together imply that $g_{ji}$ satisfies the above train track property. Now one uses Stallings method of folds to factor the map $g_{1,0} \colon G_0 \to G_1$ as a product of fold maps, and then one interpolates each fold map continuously to obtain a path in $\X_r$ from $G_0$ to $G_1$. Concatenating the $\phi^i$ translates of this path for all $i \in \Z$, one obtains a $\phi$-periodic fold line in $\X_r$. Source--sink dynamics on compact subsets of outer space \BookZero\ implies that in $\overline\X_r$ this fold line converges in the negative direction to $\TMinus$ and in the positive direction to $\TPlus$. This shows that the point of $\X_r$ represented by $G$ satisfies Definition~(1) of $\A_\phi$.
Notice that we do \emph{not} claim that $\A_\phi$ is the union of all $\phi$-periodic fold lines. In fact, we do not even claim that $\A_\phi$ is the union of all $\phi^i$-periodic fold lines over all $i \ge 1$. See Section~\ref{SectionTTversusWTT} for an example of $G \in \A_\phi$ that does lie on any $\phi^i$-periodic fold line for any iterate~$\phi^i$. In particular, such a $G$ is not the domain of a train track representative of any iterate~$\phi^i$, nor is $G$ the domain of a \emph{nonsimplicial train track representative}\footnote{also called an ``efficient representative'' in an unpublished preprint of T.~White and in \cite{LosLustig:axes}.} of any iterate, a map that satisfies the definition of a train track representative except that it is not required to take vertices to vertices.
\subparagraph{An analogy with \Teichmuller\ geodesics.} Fold lines can also be motivated by an analogy with \Teichmuller\ geodesics, as follows. Recall that if $S$ is a closed oriented surface of genus $\ge 2$, each oriented geodesic $\gamma$ in the \Teichmuller\ space $\Teich(S)$ has the following essentially unique description. Choosing a unit speed parameterization $t \mapsto \sigma_t$ of $\gamma$, there is a transverse pair of measured foliations $\fol_-,\fol_+$ with transverse measures denoted $\abs{dy}$, $\abs{dx}$, respectively, such that for each $t \in \reals$ the singular Euclidean metric $ds_t = \sqrt{(e^t \abs{dx})^2 + (e^{-t} \abs{dy})^2}$ agrees with the conformal structure~$\sigma_t$. If $\abs{dx}$, $\abs{dy}$ are normalized so that $\int_S \abs{dx} \cdot \abs{dy}=1$ then the pair $\fol_-,\fol_+$ depends up to joint isotopy only on the parameterization of $\gamma$. Also, in Thurston's boundary $\partial\Teich(S)=\PMF(S)$, the projective measured foliation space, the pair of points that is represented by $\fol_-,\fol_+$ depends only on $\gamma$ as an oriented geodesic in $\Teich(S)$. Notice that the identity map on $S$ underlies a system of maps $\sigma_s \mapsto \sigma_t$ that satisfies the semiflow property. Consider now the renormalized metric $ds'_t=e^{-t} ds_t = \sqrt{(\abs{dx})^2 + (e^{-2t} \abs{dy})^2}$, also in agreement with the conformal structure~$\sigma_t$. For each leaf $L$ of $\fol_-$ and each $t \le u \in \reals$, the restrictions to $L$ of the metric $ds'_t$ and the metric $ds'_u$ are in agreement, because each agrees with the restriction of the transverse measure $\abs{dx}$. To put it another way, each of the maps $\sigma_t \mapsto \sigma_u$ restricts to a local isometry on each leaf $L$ of $\fol_-$, with respect to the metrics $ds'_t$ and $ds'_u$. Thus we have demonstrated an analogy with the maps $G_s \mapsto G_t$ in the definition of a fold line, each of which restricts to a local isometry on each edge of $G_s$.
An even stronger analogy between \Teichmuller\ geodesics and fold lines will be used below to motivate Definition~(2).
\paragraph{Laminations, trees, and $\LambdaMinus$ isometries.} Thurston compactified \Teichmuller\ space with projective classes of measured laminations \cite{FLP}. Skora proved a duality theorem between $\reals$-trees and measured foliations, which provides an alternative description of the boundary of \Teichmuller\ space in terms of $\reals$-trees \cite{Skora:splittings}. The boundary of outer space $\partial\X_r$ is described solely in terms of $\reals$-trees, no general theory of measured laminations having so far arisen.
However, in \BookZero\ Bestv


Several prominent Mac-centric websites and blogs are reporting that Wi-Fi connectivity bug affecting the iPad is preventing Apple from releasing iOS 4.2, the update to the mobile operating system powering its wildly popular iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices.
According to a posting on the MacStories website, developers who got their hands on the Gold Master release of the app have had trouble making and sustaining a Wi-Fi connections with their iPads.
"Wi-Fi issues came up with the (Gold Master) build Apple released on Nov. 1," according to today's post on MacStories. "-Fi issues."
"This will delay the rumored Nov. 12y," it added.
Apprted iPad Wi-Fi glitch or the timeline for the eventual release of iOS 4.2.
Other blogs and Apple-tracking websites and bulletin boards including MacRumors have offered conflicting reports with some posters claiming they've had no troubles with the Gold Master release and others reiterating the faltering connectivity issue.
"I've never had problems with WiFi and my iPad," a poster identified as "lozpop" wrote on the MacRumors forum. "Ironically, since I've installed the 4.2 Golden Master, WiFi is clearly having problems."
Another poster, calling himself "Don Kosak" wrote, "Hmmm, no problems so far. The apps I'm testing both heavily use the Internet connection."
While Apple itself never set a specific release date for iOS 4.2, several sources, including one identified by MacStories as an "unnamed AT&T source," said they were told the update would be released at 10 a.m. PT today.
When Apple CEO Steve Jobs first detailed the new features that would be included in the iOS 4.2 release in September, he said it was "all about the iPad," promising to bring multitasking features to the iPad and wireless printing functionality, via AirPrint, that would allow users to print from any printer remotely.
But this week's release of the Mac OS X 10.6.5 update didn't include AirPrint, setting off rampant speculation that it would not be included in today's expected release of iOS 4.2.
For now, Apple fans are left to wait, wonder and commiserate over what an iPad Wi-Fi flaw they say is keeping them from establishing a connection.
Basically, ," MacStories reports. "This seems to be the most common problem among users, although some can’t simply use Safari at all. The bug has been reported to Apple, and they apparently decided to delay the release of iOS 4.2 to fix the bug."


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Explosive automotive software report
Leslah Garland 11 November 2021
According to an automotive software report by Felix Domke, the Stuttgart-based Daimler Group is more deeply involved in the diesel emissions scandal than was previously known.
This has been revealed in a report that Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) recently presented to the public in detail. In it, the automotive software expert Felix Domke documented a total of eight previously unknown defeat devices in a Mercedes-Benz Euro 6 E-Class diesel car on behalf of a US law firm. In DUH’s view, these clearly illegal so-called “defeat devices” reduce the effective purification of exhaust gases by the SCR catalytic converter. The result: the actual nitrogen oxide emissions on the road are up to 500% above the legally prescribed limit value. Until now, Daimler AG has always denied using illegal defeat devices in diesel cars sold in Germany and Europe.
“The expert report by Felix Domke finally proves that Daimler is guilty. It shows us for the first time how the company succeeds in complying with the legal limits in the test laboratory, while literally flooding our cities with harmful nitrogen oxides during real road use. ents,” says Jürgen Resch, DUH’s national director: “We demand from the new federal government that all diesel vehicles with defeat devices in the exhaust gas purification system are either decommissioned or repaired via an official recall at the expense of the manufacturers, as is the case in the USA. The World Health Organisation recently called for the nitrogen dioxide limit to be lowered from an annual average of 40 to 10 µg/m3. To do this, all illegal diesel exhaust sources must be targeted – action must finally be taken.”
“The car manufacturers’ claims that driving conditions lead to high pollutant emissions on the road are taken to the point of absurdity in this regard,” explains the environment and transport expert Axel Friedrich. “It is to be hoped that the courts will also stop believing the car manufacturers’ nonsensical claims and finally help car owners assert their rights.”
“From a legal point of view, the factual situation is clear,” comments Glenn Phillips, managing partner of the international law firm Milberg which commissioned the expert report. “The investigation concludes that the Daimler Group has installed a large number of unauthorised defeat devices that clearly violate applicable law. Affected consumers are now obviously entitled to damages, after all, they have been sold a defective vehicle for which they paid the full purchase price. Legally, this can be considered fraud – committed consumers. Mercedes drivers should check to determine if their diesel vehicle is affected.”


Okay, who's been writing this stuff?
I was sorting through my laptop recently, looking for a story I am getting urges to complete. I found a whole slew of stories and articles I either don't remember writing or don't remember finishing. I also found a couple pieces of a couple novels that I don't recall writing. One of the stories, a short-short titled "Passing Through," that takes place at a Civil War reenactment, was surprisingly good.
I wonder if what I do is related to hypergraphia, the compulsive urge to write.--write anything. If maybe it gets to a point where I can't not write, and I do it in my sleep. I've been known to both sleepwalk and carry on intelligent conversations in my sleep, so it's possible. And writing is my escape valve, how I process other stesses and strains in my life. So, some part takes hypnotic control, and the words appear.


OSCE Criticizes Uzbek Campaign
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Europe's main rights watchdog chided Uzbekistan on Tuesday over its upcoming presidential election and said it would not send a full team of observers due to visa delays.
President Islam Kabe re-elected in, and official media never criticize the president.
"The political process in the Republic of Uzbekistan does not seem conducive to meaningful and effective competition,".
"This is partly because of the de facto suppression of most opposition forces and independent civil society, as well as lack of critical media," it t would not send a full-scale mission to the vote because its monitors could not gets visas on time. It said it would send a limited observation mission instead.
The ODIHR decided not to observe the State Duma elections last month after not getting Russian visas on time.
Rights campaigners have accused Karimov of cracking down on basic freedoms, but the Uzbek leader has denied widespread human rights violationKarimov has pledged to bring more democracy if re-elected.
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The ODIHR said it had sent an assessment mission to Uzbekistan that met Uzbek officials.
"The [mission] also met some representatives of civil society who alleged that regional governors as well as other election officials will make sure that the incumbent candidate is re-elected," it said.
"They expressed their concern that everything will be calm on election day, but that there would be no transparent and accountable tabulation of the votes."


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Why in the world would you do that? Again, this is just another form of starvation. Not only are you likely going to become very bloated and constipated, if you’re not eating any fat then you aren’t even absorbing the vitamins from all those veggies. Not to mention only eating raw veggies is super hard to digest, which again will likely lead to breakouts.
No. Just, no. I hate meal replacement shakes. They’re usually full of processed ingredients, vegetable oils, soy and denatured/inorganic protein.
Don’t get me wrong, I did a detox for my wedding too. But whatever happened to safe detox methods? What happened to actually eating food and not starving ourselves?!
So today, I’m here to tell you all about s-a-f-e ways to detox that are actually WAY more effective than any starvation or meal replacement plan could ever hope to be.
healthy fats – organic butter, coconut oil, olive oil, avocados, etc.
So basically, it’s how I eat already, just amped up a bit. It’s also essentially the outline of all of my programs and meal plans.
 but clears the skin as well!
I’ll also be taking doTERRA’s Zendocrine softgels.  These bind to toxins and flush them out of the body. It’s also rich in antioxidants and will help remove heavy metals from my system. It promotes.
Step 3: Lemon essential oil in water every morning.
You may already know about squeezing lemon into your morning water, but I love to add 1-2 drops of lemon essential oil. This stimulates the liver and promotes detoxification, which boosts energy and helps clear skin.
Starting in January I’m hosting a group detox that can improve skin, help heal the gut, boost energy and just make you feel awesome overall. Registration ends January 15th. If you sign up in December, I’ll also send you a bottle of wild orange for free! It’. Check out the detox HERE.
Fill your tub with water, use one of THESE to remove chlorine.
Add 1 cup of bentonite clay (found HERE).
Add 1 cup of lavender Epsom salt (found HERE).
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 seriously feel like I’ve taken a sleeping pill after I apply Serenity to the bottom of my feet. It’s a blend of You apply it to the bottom of your feet because it’s the most porous part of your body, meaning the oils immediately penetrate the bloodstream. Within twenty minutes, the oils have been introduced to every cell in your body and you’re already asleep. Sound asleep.
I am the lightest sleeper, if Scott rolls over it wakes me up. Since I’ve started using Serenity, not only do I pass out way sooner, I sleep through the night. That’s a miracle for me.
DO NOT ingest these oils from any brand other than doTERRA. That is not what I’m suggesting, you could get sick. Most brands add fillers and their oils are not organic, pure or even safe. Only doTERRA’s oils can be ingested. So don’t go chug your bottle of peppermint or anything.


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The hotel is next door to the famous Pirates Show and about 15 minutes from the water parks. More information on what to do at the resort can be found in our Magaluf guide.
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We have 9 traveller reviews for the HSM Atlantic Park Hotel (aka Don Manolo).
The hotel rooms are spotlessly clean with the maid coming in every day. I would definitely recommend upgrading to AI as doesn't cost too much and thenat the hotel before going out on the strip.
I would recommend this hotel. I went with my partner in July 2007 and I am going to book again this summer!!!
All inclusive was a very good option to take free bar till midnight, then head off up to the strip for all the Magaluf night life!!!
Evening entertainment good, a lot of older couples and families with children most nights but it was good!!!
All in all a very enjoyable holiday and can't wait to go again!!!
We were a party of about 18 people including children and couples staying at Atlantic Park for 14 days, and it is one of the best hotels we have stayed in..
Paul from Sheffield, March 10, 2008 7:38 PM
Stayed july 2007. Food OK, pool very clean, bar staff not too friendly (ie: spaniard with curly hair + glasses). Childrens and staff fantastic. One named billy was magic.
Sorry but would not go again.
Ann Welsh from Chester, September 14, 2007 9:30 AM
However on our last visit it was open to 18-30s and we had an horrific two weeks and have not stayed there for 2 years.
Last year we went to have a look and(the photo is now incorrect as the outside of the hotel,pool etc is totally different). There hasn't been a shop in the hotel for at least 7 years.
We are now considering staying there again but I gather the prices have increased somewhat.
The staff were a bit "offish" especially behind the bar but I guess it doesn't really matter because the only contact you have with them is when ordering a drink! The manager did slightly unsettle us, when reminding us constantly that the hotel was like "big brother" and they are always watching us. However after close inspection the showers were camera free!!
Entertainment was very child based, i.e. silly adults prancing about with no shame whatsoever. Worth missing although you have to sit there if you want to make the most of the open bar that’s on till midnight.
The hotel is about 5-8 mins from the main strip so you have the convenience without the noise/vomit that arises every morning in peak season.
However come the end of our stay we actually received our first compliment which was along the lines of "thanks very much boys for being so well behaved" your welcome!
Ken Mr Croll from Hull, July 29, 2007 5:06 PM
Spent a week in July.
Excellent hotel, clean and tidy, good food, nice pool, friendly staff (all), nightlife and beach close by, also water park and pirate show.
Excellent place to holiday .
I went with my partner and my child, very friendly staff no probs with hotel food nice . Nice pools very clean friendly atmospher. All in all a great holiday


Blacksburg, Va. – VTLS Inc. signed eight contracts for the Virtua ILS – Integrated Library Systems in the past month. The company says that additional contracts are being negotiated. Of the eight contracts signed, five libraries are located in the United States and Canada, and three are outside North America.
The Roanoke Higher Education Center chose one of the smaller versions of Virtua ILS, consisting of a five-user license. The Center also opted to take advantage of the system hosting service offered by VTLS. This service provides Virtua ILS software components, required server hardware, comprehensive system management, software support and hardware maintenance.
“Considering the unique access challenges that face the Roanoke Higher Education Center Library, providing library services to faculty and students who are not physically on the originating campus of their courses, Virtua is the best and only solution for us. We are excited about the endless possibilities the Chameleon iPortal will offer our patrons,” said Carla James-Collins, director of the Roanoke Higher Education Center Library.
Dr. Vinod Chachra, president of VTLS Inc. remarked, “Last year VTLS demonstrated that Virtua could handle a library system with more than 140 million bibliographic records. This year, with the Roanoke Higher Education Center, we are pleased to be able to offer the same power and sophistication to small libraries at extremely cost effective prices.”
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which previously used the VTLS classic system, has also signed an agreement to upgrade their system to Virtua and take advantage of the system hosting services offered by VTLS. Their new system is slated to go live this spring.
VTLS Inc. signed three new licenses for Virtua in Nunavut, Canada's newest northern territory. Nunavut Public Library Services (NPLS), which serve the largest and most geographically dispersed jurisdiction in North America, purchased a Virtua license. The library previously used the MultiLIS system. Three other Canadian sites, previously sharing a single Virtua license, have purchased two new independent licenses in order to allow each library to have its own Virtua system. These libraries are Nunavut Arctic College, Nunavut Department of Justice, and the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut. These three sites along with the NPLS are among the first libraries to provide support in the native Inuktitut language. Virtua’s Unicode™ implementation with full support of the Inuktitut syllabic character set enables residents and other native speakers to access information in their own language. Virtua ILS is the only library automation system currently featuring full Inuktitut character support.
“We are hoping with the new system to provide Web access to a locally controlled catalog to serve both the community libraries and our off-site patrons,” says a staff member of NPLS. “From a public standpoint, we’re looking forward not only to the Chameleon iPortal being available to the general public and the community libraries, but also to the possibility of getting our largest public library in Iqaluit into online circulation, which has been impossible with our old system due to telecommunication difficulties.”
Three international libraries also selected Virtua in January. The African Development Bank, located in the Ivory Coast, selected the Virtua ILS with an installation by June 2002. Established in 1964, the African Development Bank is dedicated to combating poverty and mobilizing resources towards the economic and social progress of its regional member countries. Also, the Library at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) has completed their upgrade to Virtua. UPM has a book collection of about 400,000 volumes, about 6,300 serial titles, as well as a collection of maps, sound recordings, microforms, videotapes, slides, computer files and other research material. UPM uses Virtua's cataloging, acquisitions, circulation, serials control, reserve room control and online public access catalogue. Established in 1931, UPM recently celebrated its 70th anniversary. In 1980, The University of New England (UNE) in Armidale, Australia, became VTLS' first international customer. Now, UNE has gone live with Virtua ILS with a 64-user license to serve over 23,000 patrons and catalog over 397,000 bibliographic records.
“VTLS and UNE have worked together for more than 20 years. It is heart warming to have long standing customers like UNE, after an open and competitive process, reselect VTLS as their supplier of automation systems” said Jack Bazuzi, Vice President of International Operations.
VTLS Inc. signed eight contracts for the Virtua Integrated Library Systems in the past month. The company says that additional contracts are being negotiated. Of the eight contracts signed, five libraries are located in the United States and Canada, and three are outside North America.


“You’re a hockey player for how many years?” Foligno said.
The King Clancy Award is selected by a panel of hockey writers and broadcasters. The Messier award is selected by the man himself, Mark Messier, who captained three NHL franchises (Edmonton, Vancouver and New York) and won six Stanley Cups.
Messier gets input from across the league, but he alone selects the winner. Foligno’s is the 10th name on the trophy.
Foligno and his wife, Janelle, gave $1 million to children’s hospitals in Columbus and Boston to research congenital heart defects. His daughter, Milana, was born with a defect and has undergone multiple procedures.
“Losing your mother at a young age isugh,” Foligno said. “But I think it helped me appreciate the struggle Milana went through, and will continue to go through.
“Hockey is not just ‘drop the puck and see who wins,’ ” Davidson said. “Nicky has been a great example of leadership for us. He’s a great example to the other guys in our room, and he’s a great guy to emulate for all our young fans in Columbus.


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I was having tea with my host family and telling them about my interest in travel photography. My host uncle brought up that there was recently a photograph taken by a tourist in a nearby village that won a presitigous photo competition. “What was the photo of?” I asked.
Upon hearing that a woman simultaneously feeds her baby and a feral deer from her bosum, i thought:
To my surprise, my host mom had a different take on it:
Let’s take a closer look at the side-by-side comparison:
Unexpected reaction? Yes sir.
You’re blog is hilarious! How long are you in India for? And exactly where are you?? I may be in Mumbai to visit a friend who is doing NGO work in Dharavi this spring!
This blog is so good. Also, the deer you imagined is terrifying.
Was the deer standing in the picture?


water), algae and other food within the sea, and a place to land comfortably.
Do visit! CA is so complex. The state has taken actions in various places with restrictions etc because of the drought, while some places have springs or early winter snows with everyone hoping for the best! And in knowing the importance of all the food for the USA coming from southern CA!
LikeLiked by 1 person </s> Yes, this small mammal may be passing by your neighborhood too.
It’s a very common wild animal; some people will love this house mouse. (Or is it a rat?) I was not taken with any love for it. I thought it should be shy and at least out of my sight! But no, right out there for all to see.
Are you sure it’s a mouse. It looks more like a rat. Rats are about that size and bigger. The tail of a mouse is thin but a rat has a big tail like in your pic. Both carry dangerous diseases but the rat is more deadly because it eats through metal and concrete and breeds 100s at a time.
Thank you. Spur of the moment shot as I thought, what the heck is that critter doing there!?!
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A small reflection:
It’s been a full and vibrant spring. But strangely, the one sort of hum-drum constant has been my running route.
For the past couple of months, I’ve run the same loop. I leave home in the dark, pulling on my gloves and trudging slowly toward the lake. I pick up speed on the gravel path along Lake Michigan, mostly because that’s where I can see the sun is beginning to rise- and I’m convinced that I only run well in the dark. This is not really a psychological or vampire-ish thing; the more I think about it, I’m sure it has everything to do with hills. Part of the reason that hills are so fantastic to run is because they’re deceptive: when you’re mid-way up a steep incline, you’re not sure how much farther you have to go and you don’t care. All you’re concerned with is finding something to focus on besides the hill, your burning calves, or your labored, emphysemic-sounding breathing. If these chaotic mind games work, and they usually do, you’ll climb up and coast down great distances without realizing it. You can also use hills to pre-plan a run the way I did in Seattle. This usually played out something like, “I’ll start with the hill by Baskin Robbins, then do the hill with the yellow house, Michael Jackson hill, Wedgewood Alehouse hill, and then down the hill with the big St. Bernard.” To check off the hills one-by-one was satisfying. And to reach the top of these hills and stare out at the sun rising over the Cascades was very nice. Obviously.
As far as I’m concerned, then, a really long hill is far less daunting than a long, straight sidewalk that probably ends somewhere near Kenosha. And so if I have to run that long, straight sidewalk, I’d like to do it when it’s so dark I can only see a block or two in front of me. Snow storms have the same effect, as do scratchy contact lenses.
After the lakefront path ends, I run north on Sheridan below the white-lightning glow of Northwestern’s street lamps. Then I run past the light house, past the Baha’i temple, west on Lake Avenue and south west-ish on Green Bay Road. Some of the stretches are prettier than others, and none of them have hills. It’s okay. What’s more than okay, and what I wanted to write about anyway, is that I now have two pseudo-friends on my route. The first is an older gentleman who cleans up the Walgreens parking lot very early every morning. Given that I pass him on the last leg of my long run and, accordingly, at the moment when my hair is frizziest and my jacket most covered in sweat, it is a real and bewildering perk that this man seems happy to see me. I cannot tell you how much I look forward to his greeting. I am also friendly with the man who delivers the Chicago Tribune on Asbury at about 5:30 am. He has a kind smile and speaks with a thick Spanish accent, and- this is pathetic- for three mornings in a row, no matter that the same thing happened the day prior, as we neared each other I heard him say, “I’m sorry,” and I smiled and called out, “No problem! Hi!” and ran on. And for three mornings in a row, after I passed him and the sleepy fog in my mind began to clear


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I don't normally post on Sunday, but this seemed especially worthy. Brenda Drake is holding a blogfest with the cooperation of Natalie Fischer, Literary Agent. The prizes are AGENT critiques—20 pages, 10 pages...query...good stuff...And you can post today or tomorrow, so there is still time if you want to play (though it is only for finished manuscripts). Anyway, here is my entry...(finalists will be posted at Brenda's blog Thursday if I have my facts straight...) So this will serve Sunday and Monday, if you don't mind...
There were men and machines knocking things around and churning up dust. Nobody had been in the building besides daring kids and teens since about six months after I died. The pranksters at Halloween, or on a dare in summertime, sort of broke the monotony, but I hadn't come out for anyone since the séance where they had bothered to find out my name. "Helen Bixby!
Fabulous. (And I don't bring any spam!
Great voice!I feel very sad for her - "Helen Bixby" - dead for so long and yet not quite, caught forever at such an awkward age too. And if I remember being 15 - it was truly a most confused time for me!Lovely!
Thank so much everyone!I appreciate you reading!My Sunday is a bit chaotic, so I am not here, much, but I definitely appreciate the feedback!
What an easy going ghost!I love her voice here "but if all your blank spaces were filled, you'd notice too" and "still, I never minded visitors." I like her!
Poor Helen...although for me, I'd feel like 60 years was 560 years with no one around!
Wow!Loved the reference to Orwell - made me laugh out loud. There is great voice here - good luck!
Great premise and voice so far. I'd read on!
Oh, man--You guys are so nice!I'm so sorry I've been absent today. The day job is killing me--and I mean completely--never came up for air. I will totally take all suggestions seriously. This is from 3rd draft, and DONE to me is typically somewhere between 7 and 15, so I know it needs a little somethin somethin...but it is the general idea, so I appreciate you guys being so great!
Fan. Tas. Tic. Love it!


The actress and mother of two says she began her fitness journey after she realized that she had "lost" herself
Published on January 8, 2021 11:41 AM
Rachael Harris. Photo: Leslie Alejandro
In an exclusive interview, the actress discusses the finalization of her divorce from violinist Christian Hebel, what it's like to co-parent their two sons, Henry, 4, and Otto, 2, and her decision to work with Tom Ellis' trainer, Paolo Mascitti.
The Lucifer actress. Leslie Alejandro
"Ig," Harris continues. "I just said, 'You know what? F--- it. I'm going to hire a trainer.' "
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"[Owner Sharon Phillips] is the reason that I am able to stick to this eating plan," says Harris. "I have one or two of them in the evening, which is when I want to be face down in a bowl of M&M's."
The actress is also dedicated to her daily workouts and loves working with Mascitti because she trusts him to guide her.
Eventually, Harris worked through her guilt by "reframing it."
Now, Harris feels healthy in both body and spirit.
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The VEC awarded the winner, Calgary resident Steven Shi, a free, customized trip to Vancouver during Vancouver Startup Week this coming fall. During the trip, Shi, an electrical engineer and power grid operator, will learn about the tech industry and join the premier celebration of our technology community. Shi was excited to learn about the opportunities in Vancouver, where technology is helping to transform the slow-changing energy industry, and spawn a local boom in Clean Tech.
An internship at Apple deeply impressed and influenced Shi’s work style. He now designs software on the side of his day job, and thinks about the front end of products, as much as the back.
You can learn more about the VEC’s current talent attraction contest (deadline tomorrow, April 29) on their facebook page. The winner’s trip to Vancouver will include airfare and accommodations, a VIP ticket to Techvibes Techfest, a private tour of the Microsoft Development Centre and more.


Akind comment. This conference was organised by MECO, a Muslim reformist group friendly towards Ahmadis. Those speaking at the conference represented a similarity of views, chiefly (1) rejecting the later, fiqh-type interpretations of Islam which contradict the letter or the spirit of the Quran, (2) emphasising the tolerance taught by Islam both within its own ranks and towards non-Muslims, (3) opposing the turning of Islam into a political ideology, and (4) opposing the trend that Muslims must cut themselves off from wider society in the West into separate enclaves.
Of course the people and the groups attending are not in complete agreement on all issues, but they agree in accepting the authority of the Quran.
We had taken along some of our literature, which we presented as gifts to many of the people.
I just read your speech. It is concise and lucid speech. I hope you won’t mind if I read it verbatim in some gathering on human rights in Islam.
Rashid, I will be only too pleased if you read it to any gathering wherever you wish.