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Top 14 Medical Coding Trainees Get Job Offers

One of the top 14 medical coding training graduates, Darren Dave Alfonso (2nd from right), with (from left) HIMAP exec. dir. Jemain Diaz de Rivera, HIMAP board trustee and TeleDevelopment COO Judy Bay Whisenhunt, HIMAP board member Evelyn Abat of MiraMed, and DICT digitalPH program manager Emmy Lou Delfin in Ortigas Center, Pasig on April 13.

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MANILA, 17 April 2018 — The top 14 trainees of a joint government-business training program for medical coders already have jobs waiting in the wings.

The earlier assurances came even as they are about to obtain their official certification as United States-certified medical coders. Once they pass the test, the training graduates get certification from the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC).

The training program is a partnership of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), the Healthcare Information Management Association of the Philippines (HIMAP), and TeleDevelopment Services (TDS).

The trainees had their graduation ceremony and mini job fair at the TeleDevelopment office in Ortigas Center, Pasig on April 13. The five-week medical coding training ran from March 5 to April 9.

Specifically, at least four local companies offering healthcare information services interviewed them with possible job offers. These include MiraMed, Conduent, Change Healthcare, and eData Services, while Microsourcing had an exhibit display.

Additionally, the participating companies also interviewed the remaining 14 of the top 28 training candidates.

Medical Coding Opportunities

Judy Bay Whisenhunt, COO of TeleDevelopment and member of the HIMAP board of trustee, encouraged the graduates to take advantage of these career opportunities. “Always take advantage of these opportunities,” Whisenhunt said. “Think about your goals in life.”

Whisenhunt added: “This will change your life. When you get there, tell us your success stories.”

HIMAP board member Evelyn Abat of MiraMed said the world has looked up to the Philippines as a destination of choice for healthcare information management.

Abat said graduates from medically allied courses have the skills and technical know-how to excel in the healthcare sector. Interestingly, among those who garnered the highest scores were not even nurses or from medically allied professions.

She said medical coding is important not just to diagnose diseases via alphanumeric codes, but to correct billing for reimbursement and insurance.

Coding for Development

The DICT supports medical coding and healthcare information management in its advocacy for both industry and countryside development.

Moreover, the present government has even amended its key performance indicators (KPIs) regarding the number of information technology (IT) graduates.

Emmy Lou Delfin, DICT’s digitalPH program manager, revealed that the new KPI would now be the number of hired graduates.

Meanwhile, she encouraged the coding training graduates especially the non-nurses to consider their experience as advantage of a lifetime.

Even for those not in medically alllied professions, they have proven to turn it around to their advantage, Delfin said.

For more information, kindly contact TDS. You can look for Elju Ramos or Vince Legaria at (02) 631-8230 loc. 110 or mobile 0917 802-8615. Also, you can email, or visit the Facebook page Medical Coder ng Bayan-TeleDevelopment.

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Hello there, bunny holers! How are you this fine Saturday morning? It’s an action packed weekend here. I’ve got some favourite friends coming to visit and we’re also celebrating Australian Mother’s Day, UK style. There will be cake and lots of it.

Anyhoo, here has been so much linky goodness around the interwebs of late and I can’t wait to share my favourite finds with you. Let’s hop to it, shall we?

Today is National Apple Pie Day! Why not celebrate with the Ultimate Homemade Apple PieIf you fancy something a bit different, maybe these Mini Apple Pies, Apple Pie Cookies or these Apple Pie Pancakes will tickle your fancy!

This week I’ve been hanging out with some of my most favourite friends. Living in different hemispheres, we’re lucky for us, our friendship does not depend on being together and this post about why long distance BFFs are actually the best  sums it all up rather nicely!

I married an IT person which proved to be very handy once I got me a blog! That said, as a teacher, I have to agree that people who marry teachers end up the happiest.

My mum is really hot on saving water (excuse the pun) so I’m going to take a leaf out of her book and check out these 30 ways to save water at home because it’s good for my budget and good for the planet too. Win, win!

This time next weekend, I’ll be getting ready to fly home and I’m already feeling a bit antsy about the flight. I’ll have to check out these tips for nervous flyers. I’ll be returning to winter in Australia which let’s face it, temperature wise is about the same as UK spring. Check out these 15 coats for winter 2017  – I’ve got number 2 which is super light for travelling but super toasty to wear.

One of my things to do on my list of  101 things in 1001 days V2 is to read 101 books. I bought two away with me and have read only two pages but I hope to pick up my reading routine where I left off once I get home. If you’re wondering what to read next, check out these 13 books to put on your must read list.

I’m still fan girling all over The Minimalists and have attempted to minimise mum’s shed, garage and garden while I’m in situ. All this clearing out has made me ask mum, and myself, what would happen if you just let go?

I’m itching to go on a road trip and I’d love to retrace my steps way out west. Reading about a road trip to The Warrambungles brought back so many happy memories, plus best place name ever. Just think if I’d never gone to The Warrambungles, I would never have scored the recipe for Liz’s Sticky Date Pudding!

I find so many lovely links down the rabbit hole each week, I’m going to start to re-share some of my favourites because they’re just too good to miss! Last week, I loved Robyna’s tips on how to slow fashionErika’s recipe for Bacon Wrapped Mini Meatloaves and I enjoyed revisiting Alcatraz, the inescapable prison with Kat. I love seeing the world without having to leave the living room!

I’ve had so much fun dog-sharing my mum’s Yorkshire Terrier, Calvin AKA The Great Calvino. I think anyone who has had a pet will agree that the relationship between owners and pets is always a conditional one.

So what’s new in your world? Are you a fan of apple pie? What profession did you/would you marry? Have you got a winter coat? Do you reading too? Have you got a book recommendation to add to the list? Have you got a pet, and if so, what have you got?  Tell me all the things!

Every Saturday morning, we will open up the rabbit hole link up for bloggers to add their link list posts or even just their favourite post (if you are not of the link list kind) for the week. Please link only one post. This makes it fair for everyone and allows more posts to be read. Talking of reading, do try and pop along to say howdee to some of  the other lovely linkers and my awesome co-hosts. This week, you can link up here or bob on over and say hello to Paula at  The Geeky ShopaholicJess at Confident Life and Shari at Good Food WeekIt doesn’t matter where you add your link because it will appear on all four blogs, as if by magic!  The link up will stay open until midnight the following Monday.

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Nothing is going as planned and here’s why that’s okay

Well, today isn’t going quite as planned but nothing in our life ever rally does and that’s okay.

The boys got off to school okay but I was too tired to go walking. Emmett had another nightmare and I ended up on the couch, barely getting any sleep.

My Mom was going to hangout with Gavin, so Lizze and I could go to Chipotle for lunch but Lizze isn’t feeling well. Even if she was, Gavin’s not in a good place today and sending him anywhere would be irresponsible for a couple of reasons. He’s being very difficult and has been having meltdowns since he finished his IVIG infusion.

The poor kid is really stressed out and we’re beating our heads into the wall trying to understand why.

Lizze is laying down so she can hopefully feel better by the time the kids are home from school. I’m going to have to hit the store to pick up a cake, then drop it off before picking the boys up.

I don’t know where we’ll go from there because that’s as far as I’ve gotten.

I have no idea if Lizze is going to feel better or if Gavin is ever going to settle down. Elliott just learned that his best friend, who he was told was returning to the school after leaving a couple years ago, apparently isn’t returning now. I have no idea how he’s going to be feeling but I’m guessing it’s not good.

Emmett is likely to just ride the emotional roller coaster.

I still have one raccoon left in my attic, my watch stopped working and brakes on the car are still having major problems.

All that said, my family is together and under the same roof. There was a time where that wasn’t the case and I learned all about what really matters. The suns out, weather is beautiful and everyone is as healthy as they can be.

In my book, that makes for a pretty good day, regardless of what doesn’t quite go as planned. ☺

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Recently I asked Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, to be a guest on my podcast, Tell Us a Story. I followed that up by asking ex-prime minister of New Zealand Helen Clark, and a few weeks prior it was Liam Malone, 2016 men’s 400-metre Paralympics gold medalist.

What’s so special about that, you might ask? I connected with them through the power of LinkedIn. So far, two of them have said yes, and I await the last response with bated breath.

When I met with Kevin Roberts, ex-global CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi at my local Rotary Club luncheon, I knew I’d have to act. He was the main speaker and, guess what, I sent a connection directly after thanking him for a great speech. As the director of my company, I am being social and gaining something from it. My question to you is this: Are you?

Taking part and being active online isn’t just about finding the time to tweet your lunch contents or what you’re doing this weekend, although some CEOs do. It’s about being available and approachable to your customers, to your team and to anyone else on the periphery who might want to get in touch.

Earlier this year, Jeff Kirwan, the president and CEO of fashion giant Gap, received a letter from a young girl about the type of clothing on offer for children in the brand’s stores.

Here’s what she wrote:

Dear Gap,

My name is Alice Jacob and I am almost 5½ years old. I like cool shirts like Superman and Batman shirts and race car shirts, too. All your girl shirts are pink and princesses and stuff like that. The boys’ shirts are really cool. They have Superman, Batman, rock-and-roll and sports.

What about girls who like those things like me, and my friend Olivia? Can you make some cool girls’ shirts please? Or, can you make a no boys’ or girls’ section – only a kids’ section?

As Jeff himself had a young daughter who particularly liked all things dinosaur, he immediately associated with Alice and wrote her a letter back. His response was: “You are right. I think we can do a better job offering even more choices that appeal to everyone. I’ve talked with our designers and we’re going to work on even more fun stuff that I think you’ll like.”

Alice, even at a very young age, understood that her favourite store could do better, and she let them know. Jeff took that communication seriously. It would have been easy to toss it aside, but instead he listened to her feedback and realised that Gap could do better, and put the wheels in motion.

While Alice wrote an old-fashioned letter, the story hit the headlines, and the internet went crazy for it, and both Gap and Alice – and girls everywhere – were winners. Who doesn’t love
a feel-good story shared online?

Being active online (or in written form), whether you are being yourself with idle chit-chat, taking part in a serious discussion, confessing to something, or stopping the flow of something else, you’re visible, vulnerable and approachable, all at the same time.

If the idea of this sort of exposure makes beads of sweat form on your brow, there might be a problem within your company that needs fixing before you can venture online with confidence – otherwise you could be ducking for cover pretty quickly.

Most companies won’t have that problem, though, and I’d encourage you to learn about the various platforms and what they can do for you, your reputation, your career, and your future because I’d hate for you to miss out on opportunities.

Go back to the start of this article. How else would I have been able to reach out to those three very famous individuals and ask them to be a guest? Would you know Helen Clark’s email address or mobile number; or how about the CEO of Microsoft? And yes, you’ll recall Microsoft owns LinkedIn, which is extremely convenient.

Allocate some time to get your online profile up to date. Fill in all the blank spaces, spend time on the all-important summary, and reach out to those you want to work with/spend time with/employ/mentor, et cetera – whatever it may be.

Give them the option to look at your profile and say, ‘Yes, why not’ to your connection request. Then the rest is up to you.


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It’s not rare to see an executive who works 80 hours per week. They’re often tired and unhealthy and their relationships may be strained. While they’ve traded sleep, diet, relationships and exercise for work, they still may be underperforming. That’s because workaholics don’t always equate to workplace productivity.

While we all have times when we have to put in extra hours for one reason or another, if your team is consistently working long hours, they’re likely to be harming your business rather than enhancing it.

Pac executive’s recent Workplace Productivity survey of 1,385 Australians found that employees who consistently work more than 50 hours per week are more likely to be miserable at work, and less likely to be as productive as other employees.

While there’s nothing better than a motivated employee, working too many hours and not creating boundaries between our work and personal life isn’t necessarily the right thing for our business.

3 reasons why workaholics aren’t necessarily good for productivity

1. Workaholics can create team disharmony

Workaholics don’t always make the best teammates. They may hog all the great projects; refuse to delegate thereby failing to improve team capability; they often don’t share information; and are usually hungry for personal verses team credit.

Workaholics are more likely to send emails late at night to their weary colleagues. They can create unrealistic expectations on others, particularly if they are in positions of power. Because they are usually tired, they often don’t pick up on social cues and cultural considerations required when communicating with others.

As leaders we need to encourage our employees to have balance. Clear key performance indicators around the number of hours worked, measures related to improving the capabilities of other team members, and building team relationships may be necessary for certain employees.

2. Leadership is impacted

Are your leaders’ inspirations to their teams or are they cautionary tales about what happens when you are married to the job? Are they attracting top talent, or sending them away in droves?

Pac executive’s Workplace Productivity research found that employees who were happy at work are 23% more likely to be productive and have productive habits. Unfortunately, we also found that employees who earned $300,000 per year or more were among the most likely cohort to report being miserable at work.

These days, an essential part of our EVP (Employee Value Proposition) comes down to an employee’s ability to balance work with their personal needs.

Managers who have balance in their life can provide a better example to employees than those who are workaholics. They also tend to be more relatable and encourage higher levels of employee retention.

3. Low energy and poor health

Workaholics are less likely to eat well, get enough exercise and appropriate sleep. All 3 factors impact on personal productivity.

They are also less likely to take breaks, which impacts on the quality of their outputs. Our bodies and minds move from a high-energy state to a low-energy state in 90 to 120-minute cycles. Without reasonable breaks focus drops, problem-solving abilities decline and relationship-building skills are impacted.

Health and wellbeing programs are now expected by top talent entering medium to large organisations. Appropriate benefits programs can encourage employees to be productive by exercising frequently, taking appropriate breaks, eating well, sleeping and taking adequate downtime.

Tips on dealing with workaholics and workplace productivity

  1. Encourage them to create personal boundaries by designating time for their families and personal life (eg family night);
  2. Make sure they put physical boundaries in place by getting time away from their desk and the office (eg lunch away from desk); and
  3. Encourage cognitive boundaries so employees can ‘switch off’ when work pulls our attention away from our personal time (e.g exercise).

If you’re a workaholic, there is hope for you. Introduce a new habit—such as regular exercise—each week to create more time and space for creative thinking. As well as the personal benefits you may find that your employees will learn from your example and produce better work as an outcome.

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Seriously, Stop Pretending You Ate That

Spring Diet Week

We see you out there on social media, posing with your comically huge burgers, your face-size cookies and pizza slices the size of your thigh gap. That cookie might be a millimeter from your lips, but you honestly want us to believe that buttery carb made it into your stomach?

The anonymous person behind the new Instagram account You Did Not Eat That sure as hell doesn’t. She’s fed up with the staged photos of  bloggers in bikinis claiming to wolf down gigantic ice cream cones or five-course brunches and so, one regram at a time, set out to play good-natured whistleblower on all those taking photos as though they haven’t denied themselves refined sugar for the last decade. (But, she acknowledges, some people really do eat what they Instagram. It’s caftan season after all.)

She spoke to the Cut about her role as bullshit detector, how she got blocked by Cupcakes and Cashmere, and the formula for Instagram gold (bracelets plus macarons plus Paris).

All right, so, who are you? What’s your name?
Hah, I can’t tell you that. It’s not for any creepy reason; I don’t want it to ever feel like there’s a big, nasty finger pointing at someone. It’s fun just to kind of be “the royal we.”

[Are there] more than one of you scouting Instagram?
Officially it’s just me — for now, but I’ve got lots of friends that are out there helping. A lot of the followers are tagging me everywhere, and we call them our “street team.”

Tell me a little bit about why you started the Instagram account. It’s so funny.
I’ve worked in media and fashion for almost ten years. I feel like blogs have certainly changed everything, you know, in the lifestyle people are presenting — it’s just spiraled into the absurd. All these girls who wear the most expensive outfit that they have — probably borrowed or gifted. They troll the West Village or Venice, or somewhere, [buying] “chic” lashings from different pastry shops, taking pictures in their Valentino Rockstud Stilettos. Ughhh! I call it The Emperor’s New Clothes syndrome: Everybody just says, Oh my God, you look amazing. But nobody’s really actually saying, Get real. And we should.

Was there one specific staging that got you —
That got me all fired up? A month ago I saw dozens of bloggers swarming a dessert table, taking pictures and spending five minutes merchandizing the sunglasses next to the macarons. Then they walked away and nothing was eaten. It was so contrived! When you see something so often and you know that there’s a group of people who are kind of rolling their eyes about it, it’s just — it’s time to say something. Frankly, I was shocked when I went onto Instagram and the name was available. It’s just gotten so silly and formulaic.
What’s the formula?
People buy a box of macarons, or doughnuts, or an ice cream. They photograph it in front of some big landmark, like the Eiffel Tower — the trip to Paris is to take pictures across from Ladurée — and there’s always a very calculated stack of rings and bracelets, maybe a French bulldog, and it’s like, Boom, I’ve got a successful Instagram post! I understand why they’re doing it, because it works. They’re getting thousands of likes, but we’re not buying it.

It’s definitely tapping into some weird relationship people have with food and luxury. What do you think that is? Does this count as thin-shaming?
This is not me making some huge social commentary about what size somebody is and what they’re eating. This is more like, Come on, we see the formula. Let’s lift the curtain here on Oz. If you’re a size zero, and you’re frolicking in a tiny bikini on the beach, you probably did not eat the doughnuts that you posed with the sunglasses. It’s just presenting this curated life that’s beautiful and perfect and totally unrealistic. More power to you for rocking that! You look awesome! Don’t lie about how you got there! It’s fine.

What makes for the most offensive kind of shot?
I love this question so much. I think, for me, like the lap shots are pretty bad — like a pink frosted doughnut in front of an eight-inch thigh gap is really, really hard to stomach. The other is the aerial table shot, because, l’m thinking of the other two people there that probably want to eat, while you tweak the lighting, and arrange your fringe bag. Just eat! Let them eat.

What kind of comments are you getting?
Every time I have a comment that comes up, I kind of brace myself for somebody that’s gonna be mad. The meanest comment that I’ve gotten so far is, somebody wrote: “I’m pretty sure this account is run by a fat ass.”

Has anybody written back to defend themselves?
I’ve had a couple people be like, “Yes I did eat this.” Like @EliottWestVillage wrote me and said: “I did eat that and I run my ass off so that I can.” And I’m like, “Okay, fair enough! Totally awesome.” I want people to know that it’s fun and done in good spirit. It’s not meant to be mean and hurtful. So many people are in on the joke. There are a lot of bloggers whom I will tease or post about, and they get right in on it. Eva Chen was in on it. So was Emily Weiss — she tagged me in a photo. People can laugh about this and be a part of it.

Some people can’t though. Haven’t you been blocked by a few accounts?
@SincerelyJules, she was the first one. Then Emily Schuman from Cupcakes and Cashmere. If you’re gonna get so upset that I teased you about holding a six-pack of Ladurée in front of the Eiffel Tower with a neon fur wristlet, come on! I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings, but people take themselves so seriously — I mean, this is fashion blogging.

What is the most common food you see posted on Instagram — macarons or doughnuts?
Doughnuts are trending. Emily Weiss tagged a photo of a beauty shoot with doughnuts in it, and I swear since then it has been like doughnut, doughnut, doughnut. Just make sure it’s pink and frosted and has perfect sprinkles. [Editor’s note: The Cut has also posted beauty products with doughnuts to Instagram, but for the record, we ate them all.]

What is the antidote to the “I ate this” Instagram? How can we stop this?!
I’ve seen some awesome videos of people eating. There’s one of Man Repeller chowing a cupcake. If people want to start the trend of eating videos, more power. But more so, I want people to get away from the formula — you know, take your pictures of your beautiful peonies, but please don’t throw in some macarons. Please.

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New London - Despite a committee recommendation that the city not participate in a land value tax pilot program, twice as many people spoke in favor of the program as against it during a three-hour hearing Monday at City Hall.

"Large and small cities are the future. If we're ready to step up to build a resilient city, we should do this,'' said Art Costa, a member of the Land Value Tax Committee and one of 16 people who spoke in favor of the new program.

"It's not a silver bullet,'' he said. "Our problem is systematic and only a systematic solution will fix it."

The Land Value Tax Committee, appointed by the City Council with oversight by the state Office of Policy and Management, spent three months researching and reviewing four possible models for the city to adopt a new tax system based on assessing land rather than buildings.

In a 5-to-4 vote last month the committee opted to stay with the status quo.

A land value tax, or LVT, is supposed to shift the tax burden to the land and not penalize property owners for improving their buildings. Supporters believe the system would help reduce blight and encourage development of brownfields and vacant lots, in part because improvements to the physical condition of buildings would not lead directly to higher taxes.

William Cornish, who lives in the city and owns property downtown, was one of seven who spoke against the proposal. Others included Adam Wronowski of Cross Sound Ferry, Murray Renshaw, a local businessman, and an assessor from Windham whose parents live in New London.

Cornish argued that the city does not need a new taxing program to get rid of blight and attract economic development; it needs to address the dozen to 20 buildings in the city with absentee landlords who have let their buildings fall apart.

"You can't tax us into development if there's no customers,'' he said. "You need to put teeth into a blight ordinance.''

LVT, he said, shifts the tax burden so that less people pay the most taxes.

"It's social engineering,'' he said. "It doesn't belong in New London and it doesn't belong in America."

Those who spoke in favor of it included David Bingham of Salem, a representative of the Southeastern Connecticut Sierra Club. He praised the new tax program as a way to encourage dense development in the city and curb sprawl.

"This is an opportunity for New London to do something big,'' he said. "We want New London to prosper. We don't want thousands fleeing the city."

The City Council is expected to vote on the proposal at a future meeting. If the program is adopted, New London would be the only municipality in the state with land based taxes.

A minority report by the committee has recommended the city implement a pilot program only in a portion of downtown. It also recommended a program to educate the public on the impact of land-value taxation.

But the majority report said large apartment buildings, larger shopping centers and car dealerships would be impacted negatively by LVT.

"Under a majority of the LVT models, the top 250 properties whose taxes would increase are already being put toward uses (commercial or otherwise) that seem to maximize the properties,'' the report states. "The effect of having their taxes increase in order to implement LVT seemed counter-productive."

The committee determined that the city has too many unique parcels and businesses to benefit from any impact that LVT may have.

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First off, gentle readers, let me hope that y'all had a blessed Easter! Moving on … I recently watched a documentary about the ravages of World War I after Hitler was defeated.

The devastation in Poland, Germany, the UK and all of the eastern block countries was almost unbelievable to look back at.

There were so many displaced families and children left with no parents and in some cases no siblings to cling to. As a result they had to cling to one another.

I saw film after film of children as young as 3 and 4 bunched up with kids of all ages going through one rubbish pile after another looking for food.

It was heartbreaking to realize what devastation man can inflict on his fellow man. For sure those children were free range children in the most difficult of times.

My brother and I were raised to be outside doing something with the neighbor kids so mom could do whatever it was she needed to do. We had no smart phones to fragment our little minds, just a good dog and lots of imagination and energy to get us through the day.

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Of course we were required to come in and eat and maybe even take a nap, if necessary. Ranch and farm kids today are, in my opinion, free range kids as they are usually required to be doing something productive around the home place, in the field or on the range.

Our children always WANTED to be going a'horseback or doing something that made them feel as if they were doing something constructive for the good of the whole.

Of course, being children they needed time to be kids and do their own thing and that was part of their development. What a delight and pure joy they both turned out to be and now with families of their own and maybe grandkids in the future. Man, am I getting old!

It seems everywhere I look today the kids of all ages are peering into the little box with thumbs a'blazing. I know, I know, my grandkids are no different.

However, I think that so many families are fragmented these days that the "smart phone" is the pacifier for way too many kids. They get bullied on social media, the fear of rejection is always present for so many and too much of the time they are not prepared to deal with "their lives" in a responsible way.

Drugs, alcohol and lack of respect of, not only of themselves, but others is apparent at times. Kids need to be kids and want to be productive and active in the right way that produces the best results later in life.

A major factor, in this old cowboy's opinion, is that not enough ADULTS are setting the right example. I know it must be a real struggle for single moms and dads to not only provide a soft place for their children to come to, but feel needed, respected, and above all loved!

That will be all the time I have today for my little sermon from the ONO. Above all, remember time passes so fast those little ones will be gone and that empty nest gets bigger and bigger.

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Cross-party support for inquiry and parliamentary debate after newly-published documents reveal government knew of health risk of mandatory chemical dip

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A former environment minister and more than a dozen MPs from across the political spectrum have backed calls for an inquiry and parliamentary debate into whether farmers were misled over the use of a dangerous chemical.

At least 500 farmers across the UK were left with debilitating health problems after using organophosphate-based (OP) chemicals to protect their sheep against parasites, under the government’s compulsory dipping programme which ran up until 1992.

Last week the Guardian revealed the then-government was privately warning of the dangers of exposure to even low doses of the chemical and criticising the safety measures offered by manufacturers, yet publicly criticising farmers who refused to use the chemical.

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham called it a “major scandal” and demanded a Hillsborough-style disclosure of what was known, by whom and when. He has now been backed by MPs from the Liberal Democrats, Labour, Conservatives and Democratic Unionist Party, as well as a number of peers.

The list of supporting MPs includes former environment minister Michael Meacher who said he wanted a fully independent inquiry led by a judge or senior lawyer, and four members of the environment, food and rural affairs select committee.

Labour MP Jessica Morden said that if re-elected she would apply for a parliamentary debate on organophosphates and sheep dips, which would have to be addressed by a government minister.

Legal experts have also responded to the revelations by suggesting a number of farmers may have valid compensation claims.

“The fact that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) was aware as far back as 1991 of the health risks associated with organophosphate use is shocking, particularly given that such knowledge has been denied for decades,” said Gene Matthews, a partner at the law firm Leigh Day.

“Had this HSE evidence been released shortly after it was written those individuals allegedly affected by OPs would have had an increased chance of holding the government, and the relevant companies, to account for the harm they claimed to have suffered,” he added.

The difficulty in directly linking chronic ill health and the use of OP chemicals has seen previous legal claims fail. The only successful court settlement in the UK was brought by a farm worker John Amos Hill in 1997. He won a compensation claim against his employer after suffering chronic ill health after using OPs, having not been given adequate warnings of the health risks of using the chemical or protective clothing.

A Sheep Dip Sufferers Support Group has recently been set up by Lancashire farmer Tom Rigby to help campaign for recognition for victims still alive today, many of whom have to pay for private treatment because the NHS does not officially recognise OP poisoning as a medical condition.

The full list of supporting MPs and peers calling for an inquiry or debate includes: Andy Burnham, Jamie Reed, Jessica Morden, Edward Leigh, Margaret Ritchie, Jim Shannon, Russell Brown, John Thurso, Lindsay Hoyle, Roger Williams, Neil Parish, Mary Glindon, Jesse Norman, Andrew George, Michael Meacher, Margaret Mar and Paul Tyler.


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Obituary: Wilbur Wayne Richardson

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Dec. 19, 1930 ~ June 22, 2018

Lifetime Meeker resident, Wilbur Wayne Richardson, died on Friday, June 22, 2018, at his home in Meeker, Colo. He was 87.

A celebration of Wilbur’s life will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, July 6, 2018, at the Meeker Town Park.

Wilbur Wayne Richardson was born the son of Marion L. and Jessie I. (Edwards) Richardson on Dec. 19, 1930, in Rifle, Colo. He spent his childhood and attended country schools in Meeker.  When Wilbur was in the sixth grade, he and his family moved out to the dairy farm where they resided for many years.

During the Korean Conflict, Wilbur honorably served his country with the United States Army. Following his military discharge, Wilbur returned to Meeker and married the love of his life, Lois Richardson, on June 3, 1956, at the Meeker United Methodist Church.  To this union, four children were born: Rod, Tiger, Twila and LaDonna. Wilbur and Lois celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary this year.

Wilbur found work as a radio dispatcher and later as the undersheriff of Rio Blanco County for nine years. He also managed the local feed store for a number of years. In 1970, Wilbur accepted a job with Rio Blanco County as a heavy equipment operator. He retired with 27 years of service.

Wilbur was a volunteer fireman with the Meeker Volunteer Fire Department for over 25 years.  He made a point to make every fire call he possibly could.

Wilbur relished his time outdoors fishing, hunting and camping. He was a strong believer and felt closest to God in the outdoors. He also loved dancing with Lois. Whether two stepping or jitterbugging at a banquet or street dance in Meeker, or square dancing around the region, they were easily recognized by almost everyone.  Wilbur and Lois were inducted into the Colorado West Area Square Dancing Hall of Fame in August 2011.  He received the Golden Dancers Certificate, which is awarded to a square dancer who is still dancing at the age of 80.  Above all, he was a devoted husband and loving father and grandfather.

Wilbur is survived by his wife, Lois Richardson of Meeker; two sons, Rod Richardson and wife Leslee of Gillette, Wyo., and Tiger Richardson and wife Shona of Meeker; two daughters, Twila Morris and husband Gerald of Meeker and LaDonna Eubanks and husband Torrance of Boulder, Colo.; and four sisters: Marge Bicknell of Kalispell, Mont., Ilene George and husband Tom of Winnemucca, Nev., Janet Carroll of Meeker, Colo., and Jean Lockhart and husband Sam of Eckert, Colo. Wilbur is further survived by 23 grandchildren, 24-½ great-grandchildren and one great great-grandchild.

Wilbur was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Charles Richardson; two sisters, Francis Richardson and Helen Lugenbeel; one grandson, Cody Morris; and one great-grandson, Mason Nunn.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made in Wilbur’s memory to the Wilbur Richardson Memorial Fund in care of Mountain Valley Bank, P.O. Box 718, Meeker, Colo., 81641.  All funds will be donated to the Meeker Volunteer Fire Department.

Editor’s Note: This is an updated version of the obituary which ran last week, submitted by the family.


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DETROIT (AP) — On another fruitless night for their power play, the Washington Capitals needed scoring from some unlikely sources.

Michal Kempny and Travis Boyd scored in the third period, and the Capitals snapped their three-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday night. Kempny's winner came with 3:52 remaining. It was his fifth goal of the season, and Boyd scored his fourth.

"Through the first two, it was a slow and sloppy game," Boyd said. "We came together here in between the second and the third and just said if we put together 20 good minutes here, we could walk away with the win. We were able to do that."

Tom Wilson also scored for the Capitals, who improved to 9-0-2 in their last 11 games against Detroit. Anthony Mantha and Filip Hronek scored for the Red Wings.

The Capitals trailed 2-1 heading into the final period, but Boyd tied it off a pass from Alex Ovechkin. Goalie Jimmy Howard nearly made the save sliding from right to left, but the puck made it through.

Kempny's winner came on a wrist shot from the blue line that sailed through traffic and past Howard. The shot appeared to take a deflection off Detroit's Tyler Bertuzzi, who was trying to pressure Kempny.

"We felt like our forwards were really fighting hard to get to the front of the net, and we didn't deliver enough pucks there. That was the message in between the second and third," Capitals coach Todd Reirden said. "We were able to convert on that after."

The Capitals won the Stanley Cup last season on the strength of a dynamic power play, but that unit is now 1 for 31 over the past 10 games after four more empty opportunities Sunday. Detroit wasn't any better, though. The Red Wings were 0 for 3 and were unable to convert after T.J. Oshie took a penalty with 2:47 left in regulation.

Detroit is 1 for 20 on the power play in its past eight games.

"When you get a power play, everyone gets excited because you've got a chance to change the game," Mantha said. "When you don't do anything, it takes away all of your momentum."

Washington opened the scoring when Wilson scored after a scramble in front of the net. Evgeny Kuznetsov was able to control the puck and made a slick pass to Wilson, who scored from a sharp angle.

Mantha, in his second game back from a broken hand, was impressive throughout the first, and he tied the game with an unassisted goal with 5:52 left in the period. Mantha stole the puck at the Washington blue line, skated in and beat goalie Braden Holtby with a backhander between the pads.

Hronek put the Red Wings ahead in the second when he redirected a nice pass from Dylan Larkin past Holtby.

"For us to win games against a team like that, you either have to play mistake-free hockey, score a lot of goals or win the special teams battles," Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said. "We didn't do that tonight. Our kill was outstanding, but the power play isn't good enough."

NOTES: Wilson, who began the season on a lengthy suspension for a hit during the preseason, now has 12 goals in 22 games. His career high is 14. ... Detroit was without F Michael Rasmussen. Blashill said he has a lower-body injury and will likely miss at least one more game.

Capitals: Host Philadelphia on Tuesday night.

Red Wings: Host Montreal on Tuesday night.

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Bahra University to accept AIEEE from session 2013-14

Bahra University has announced that it will enroll students who will pass AIEEE test for admissions to its engineering courses. Chairman of the Rayat Bahra group Gurvinder Singh Bahra said that Govt., has proposed to instruct private universities for admitting students to engineering courses through AIEEE for session starting 2013-14, Bahra University would adopt the move the forth coming session, in 2012-13 academic year.

Gurvinder Singh said that for the forth coming academic session, Bahra University would prefer the students who come through the merit of AIEEE test. However, while doing so we would also have to abide by the directive of Himachal government to give admission to maximum Himachal students.

He said that Bahra University has already fixed criteria of at least 60 percent in 10+2 marks for admissions in engineering courses. He also said Bahra University has managed to get maximum package for its MBA students. While all the MBA students of the university have been placed, a student has got a starting package of Rs 18 lakh per annum.

Bahra University is trying to develop academic models in collaboration with industry in the region. Our endeavour is to equip students with technical and academic skills as per the requirements of the industry. For this the university has already signed memorandum of understanding with leading corporate of the country in automobile, pharma and IT industry.

The results of the move have already been illustrated in the preference being given by corporate sectors to the students of Rayat Bahra group of institutes, he said. The group has been also ranked at top in terms of placements by the Punjab Technical University.

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The film would be competing with action films from various countries including Spain, China, Russia and Germany.

Nagarjuna Akkineni's younger son Akhil Akkineni starrer Hello received mixed reviews and turned out to be a box office dud. But the film has managed to get a rare honor. According to reports, it has been nominated at the 17th Taurus World Stunt Awards 2018 under the Best Action in a Foreign Film category.

The festival began on May 12 in Los Angeles and the results would be declared on May 18. Hello would be competing with action films from various countries including Spain, China, Russia and Germany, we hear from sources.

Hello is an action entertainer with oodles of stunt sequences that have been choreographed by Hollywood stunt director Bob Brown, who had worked in films such as XXX: Return of Xander Cage, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.

The film, which has been directed by Vikram K Kumar, has been bankrolled by Nagarjuna under his banner Annapurna Studios. The film has Akhil Akkineni playing the male lead with director Priyadarshan’s daughter Kalyani making her acting debut as heroine.

Anup Rubens had composed music for this venture with PS Vinod cranking the camera and Pawin Pudi editing it. Those in the supporting roles in Hello are Jagapati Babu, Ramya Krishna, Ajay, Satya Krishnan, Anish Kuruvilla, Vennela Kishore and Posani Krishna Murali. The film hit the silver screens on December 22 last year.

According to trade reports, Hello managed to gross Rs 25.05 crore worldwide within four days of its release, with a distributor share of Rs 14.38 crore. The collections from Telugu states Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in four days were approximately Rs 15.75 crore with a share of Rs 10.1 crore. On completion, the film collected a share of Rs17 to 20 crores share approximately.

Recently,  Akhil Akkineni’s third film went on to the floors with the official Pooja.  Directed by Venky Atluri, the film is touted to be a romantic entertainer. The untitled film will be bankrolled by BVSN Prasad under his banner Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra.

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Ancient Sparta: The First Self-Conscious Ethnostate? Part 1: Educating Citizen Soldiers

If in Athens we have ethnopolitical aspects, insofar as the democracy was tempered by Hellenic virtue, in Sparta we have a State wholly dedicated to systematic organization of the society according to a biopolitical ideal. Sparta’s mixed system of government and fiercely communitarian and hierarchical customs were supposed to have been created by the semi-legendary […]

Ancient Athens: A Spirited and Nativist Democracy

  The Persian Empire was driven by a certain logic, certain feedback loops pertaining to domestic conditions and foreign relations, which led to that great state’s steady expansion.[1] The waves of this expansion were finally dashed on the rocks of Greek freedom, embodied in the city-states of Athens and Sparta. Athens and Sparta themselves were […]

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A recent study has revealed that there has been recurrent mating between dogs and wolves throughout Eurasia: The international study showed that around 60 per cent of Eurasian grey wolf genomes carried small blocks of the DNA of domestic dogs, suggesting that wolves cross-bred with dogs in past generations. The results suggest that wolf-dog hybridisation […]

Greek Biopolitics and Its Unfortunate Demise in Western Thinking

Mika Ojakangas, On the Origins of Greek Biopolitics: A Reinterpretation of the History of Biopower London and New York: Routledge, 2016 Mika Ojakangas is a professor of political theory, teaching at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. He has written a succinct and fairly comprehensive overview of ancient Greek thought on population policies and eugenics, […]

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In his Politics, Aristotle observes that diversity resulting from immigration without assimilation was a frequent cause of civil war and breakdown of civic solidarity within the Greek city-states. In this brief article, I would like to highlight how diversity in the use of foreign mercenaries and changes in the population were a frequent tool exploited […]


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E3 2018 Schedule: All Press Conference Times and Dates

June is here, which means E3 2018 is fast approaching. It’s certainly the most exciting time of the year for gaming news from all the major publishers and developers. Held in the Los Angeles Convention Center, the event begins Saturday, June 9th with the press conferences and continues through Tuesday, June 12th. Like last year, the weekend kicks off with EA’s “EA Play” event on Saturday. Press conferences conclude with Nintendo’s on Tuesday.

The E3 2018 schedule of events is as follows:

Saturday, June 9th

  • Electronic Arts, 11am PT

Sunday, June 10th

  • Microsoft, 1pm PT
  • Bethesda, 6:30 PT
  • Devolver Digital, 8pm PT

Monday, June 11th

  • Square Enix, 10am PT
  • Ubisoft, 1pm PT
  • PC Gaming Show, 3pm PT
  • Sony, 6pm PT

Tuesday, June 12th

  • Nintendo, 9am PT

We’ll continue to keep the site updated with the latest E3 news and coverage that comes out of the conferences. For now, all we can do is speculate on what major announcements will come out of the event!


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Do Atheists Lack Belief in God?

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Some atheists think they escape the burden of proof by claiming they lack belief rather than have a belief there is no God.  Yes, there is a difference between non-belief and unbelief, but there is no refuge here for the atheist.

Atheists no longer believe there is no God, apparently. Instead, they merely lack belief in the divine. They are not un-believers. They are simply non-believers. And non-belief is not a claim, so it requires no defense.

This, atheists think, makes their job easier by relieving them of any responsibility to provide evidence for their view, er…their non-view. After all, no one is obliged to give evidence for the non-existence of fairies. Thus, atheism secures the inside lane as the default view for reasonable people. Or so atheists claim.

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If I were an atheist, I would never take this route. I’d fear people would think I was cheating with words, betraying weakness, not strength. This, as it turns out, is exactly what’s happening. Yes, there is a difference between non-belief and unbelief, but there is no refuge here for the atheist.

For example, if you asked me which rugby team was the best in England, I wouldn’t know where to start. Since I have no interest in the question and no information on the issue, I cannot form a belief one way or another. Because I have no beliefs about the quality of rugby competition in the U.K., I am truly a non-believer regarding the question. I am neutral.

This is not the case with atheists. It’s true, atheists have no belief in God, but they are not neutral on this question. If they were, they wouldn’t be writing books or accepting invitations for debates. No one debates about non-beliefs. There would be nothing to talk about.

For an atheist to enter a debate, he has to take a position. If he takes a position, he asserts a belief. And when he asserts a belief, he makes a claim. When he advances an argument, presumably he believes the conclusion that flows from his own reasoning. Theists say there is a God, and atheists argue they are wrong. This is not neutrality…

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In his column at Essence, Paul "Modern Day Matchmaker" Carrick Brunson tells you what not to do the first time you spend time with someone. The movies are a no-no, and so are funerals (although most people probably could have guessed that one).

The Club

A cool venue, good music, and an opportunity to check out his rhythm… The club sounds like the ideal spot for a first date. Not! Clubs are fraught with trouble: loud music you have to scream over and no experiential learning other than getting an inkling on how he will move between the sheets. Clubs are bad first-date ideas.

An Overnighter

On a first date, no matter how much you “connected,” the bottom line is you still don’t know each other. Therefore, spending the night is unsafe and statistically the best way not to get a second date. Here are some other words to describe what I think of an overnight first date: asinine, brainless, dimwitted, doltish, dumb, foolish, half-baked, idiotic, ill-advised, imbecilic, inane, irresponsible, ludicrous, mindless, nonsensical, pointless, senseless, unintelligent, chancy, erratic, hazardous, perilous, precarious, risky, shaky, slippery, and treacherous. I think I made my opinion clear.

A Family Function

I recall when one client told me her date took her to his family reunion and everyone asked when they were getting married. (#fail) No reunions, cousin’s cookouts, visits to Big Mama’s house, and Lord, please, no funerals. Yes, I’ve heard of first dates happening here.

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Church blames fatigue for redress failure

“Attention dropped off unless there was a four-letter word involved: P-E-L-L. Any other case study didn’t get the coverage. Fatigue has been wrought.”

The Catholic Church says governments see no urgency in establishing child abuse redress schemes as interest wanes after the royal commission.

Turnbull caught by Hobson’s Joyce

“One way or another, Barnaby’s cactus. It’s just a matter of when.”

As Barnaby Joyce clings to the Nationals leadership, his Coalition colleagues watch and wait for further fallout from his indiscretions.

Morrison’s pursuit of Trump economics

“The IMF suggested the tax cuts would provide a near-term sugar hit to the US economy. Then, a few years from now, about 2022, would come a sugar crash, as the US government was forced to deal with the Trump deficit. ”

All the evidence suggests Treasurer Scott Morrison’s zeal to adopt Trump-style corporate tax cuts will not deliver increased investment and wage rises, but could create huge budget deficits in the future.

The failures of Closing the Gap

“The difference difference in life expectancy for Indigenous people is 10 years. The target was to close that gap by 2031. The report admits that this critical target is not going to be met; in fact, in the past 10 years, they cannot even claim a one-year improvement in the difference.”

Inside Protect Victoria

While Protect Victoria promotes itself as a non-political and non-racist group, its biased portrayal of crime is increasing fear and making it a recruitment hub for far-right radicals.

Continuing wars within wars in Syria

Benjamin Netanyahu facing corruption claims; North Korea in Winter Olympics charm offensive; Harry Harris the new ambassador to Australia.

Omar J. Sakr
Representation and diversity

“As a marginalised poet beginning to have some small measure of success, I’m not supposed to talk about this. I am supposed to take what is given, speak as wound, as tragic past come good, and if I should succeed, treat it as the accidental byproduct of a system that took pity on me, never something I had a hand in making.”

Paul Bongiorno
Joyce ruins Turnbull’s turnaround

“It will take quite some work to restore credibility to the Nationals as the “family values” party. If the party room sticks by Joyce, they are endorsing his hypocrisy – nowhere more on show than in his support of the “No” case on marriage equality. He spoke at an Australian Christian Lobby rally about the need to give children the stability of a committed, heterosexual relationship.”

Holy owned subsidiaries

Archbishop Anthony Fisher must have been exhausted from all the fire and fury he recently poured down on the head of wretched LGBTQI sinners. But he’s picked himself up from the floor of the pulpit to tear off an epistle to Fairfax Media in response to the story about the billions of dollars of loot in the vaults of the Catholic Church in Australia.

Letters & Editorial

Barnaby rubble

When it’s all over, Barnaby Joyce’s clearest contribution to Australian public life will likely be a rule that says ministers cannot have sex with their staff. The second most senior member of this government – the deputy prime minister – is a politician whose talents add up to a total of nothing.

Foreign interference and the TPP

A major function of the proposed new national security legislation on “espionage and foreign interference” is to “introduce new offences relating to foreign interference with Australia’s …

Dissenters and media under attack

George Orwell’s Big Brother would have been proud: “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.” The government’s National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage …

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Christopher Hitchens: The lost interview

Writer Christopher Hitchens first met Peter Wilmoth in 1989, covering the Romanian revolution. In 2010, two weeks before Hitchens was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer, the pair caught up for lunch in Sydney. Hitchens died 18 months later, and the tape of that conversation was missing until now. “I know I get very oppressed by the way that every day is more and more subtracted out of less and less.”

‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’

As a fading diva in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, Annette Bening reminds the reviewer of why he fell in love with film in the first place.

My grandmother’s death

“As a child, my grandmother played tennis, ate kangaroo tail soup and drove a pony and sulky. As a young woman, she imported fine English china and Venetian glass. She was one of the few female automobile drivers in the 1930s, and still drove in her 80s, transporting ‘the old people’ and delivering Meals on Wheels.”

Grilled rib eye

“The most frequent question I get from friends and diners is how to cook a piece of steak. There’s no foolproof recipe or technique. You have to be responsive to the cut, because there are so many variables – how long it’s been aged, the cut, the heat of the barbecue itself.”

Phú Quoc, Vietnam

Vietnam’s efforts to attract tourists to its rapidly multiplying resorts on Phú Quoc, in the Gulf of Thailand, risk making the island a victim of its own success.

Access to medicinal cannabis

Although medicinal cannabis is now legal in Australia, under tight controls, the science of its risks and benefits is still not settled and doctors are reluctant to prescribe it.

Ice queen: Kailani Craine, 19, figure skater

Kailani Craine on her love of ice skating, making it to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics and always being asked about Tonya Harding.

Jim Crace
The Melody

Eleanor Limprecht
The Passengers

Candice Fox
Redemption Point

The Quiz

1. Kigali is the capital of which African nation?
2. Is language controlled by the left or right hemisphere of the brain?
3. Who composed the one-movement orchestral piece Boléro? (Bonus point for naming the composer’s nationality.)
4. Orang-utans are native to which two countries?
5. Name the lord mayor of Melbourne who recently resigned amid sexual harassment allegations?
6. Which teams became BBL07 and WBBL03 champions this month?
7. Quercus suber is commonly known as … oak?
8. Nicole Kidman has won three Logie Awards for her work in two television series with place names in their titles. Name them.
9. The Battle of Old Baldy took place during which war?
10. What does pulchritudinous mean?

“Ms Campion was the only person interviewed for the role because she had the skills and experience and she was well known, of course.”

Matt CanavanThe minister for resources and northern Australia explains why Barnaby Joyce’s partner was chosen to work in his office. The senator was more convincing when he was just blaming his mum for stuff.

“It’s definitely not good for business.”

Reshan MuthukrishnaThe owner of a Rockdale physiotherapy clinic in front of which former Comanchero bikie chief Mahmoud “Mick” Hawi was murdered reflects on the incident. Hawi was shot at least six times.

“I honestly think he may have a brain tumour. He’s always been insufferable.”

D’arcy WretzkyThe Smashing Pumpkins bassist reflects on frontman Billy Corgan ahead of a reunion tour. She’s not a neurologist, but she’s not wrong either.

“The NSW ICAC is much better at destroying people’s lives than it is at uncovering real criminality.”

Tony AbbottThe former prime minister resists calls for a federal anti-corruption body. If you can’t corruptly influence mining leases and family business opportunities, what’s left to live for?

“The president along with the entire administration take domestic violence very seriously.”

Sarah Huckabee SandersThe White House press secretary defends Trump aide Rob Porter. According to two former wives, Porter takes domestic violence particularly seriously.

“He got expelled for disciplinary reasons, I don’t know the specifics.”

Scott IsraelThe Broward County sheriff identifies the gunman in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, the 18th US school shooting this year. At least 17 people were killed.


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Has the government of Sierra Leone lost its sense of purpose?

14 August 2012

When a government finds itself in such desperate political situation, as to tell its citizens living abroad that their homeland is foreign to them – simply because they exercise their right to criticise the government, then you know that it is time for them to quit office.

And moreover, when an elected government that is supposedly managing the affairs of one of the poorest nations in the world, could find time and space to embroil in idle public chatter, then you know they have lost their sense of purpose.

Time and again, we are reminded about the historical origin of and conditions that led to the war in Sierra Leone – the stifling and curtailing of civil liberties, which many believe to have been one of the most catastrophic human engineered disasters to have happened in  global contemporary history.

And the government of president Koroma is not only tempting fate, but is busy re-engineering  those very social, political and economic conditions once again.

General and presidential elections are weeks away, and already there is growing political frenzy and schizophrenia, developing in the corridors and boardroom of State House in Freetown.

The government is now resorting to issuing threats and warnings to its political opponents.

In a press release issued yesterday, responding to political discussions taking place on a worldwide web public forum among citizens of Sierra Leone living abroad, the government went as far as to say that; Sierra Leone as “a foreign sovereign nation, its leaders and people” is under attack.

The government is now calling on the country’s Political Parties Registration Commission to act; presumably to purge or expel the country’s main opposition party – the Sierra Leone Peoples Party from contesting the forthcoming elections.

Just weeks ago, a major political row broke up in the country, when the Chairman of the National Electoral Commission – Ms. Christiana Thorpe, unilaterally and unlawfully decided to increase the nomination fees for the coming elections, by as much as a thousand percent.

That faulty decision, many in Sierra Leone believe to have been politically induced by senior cabinet members of the government – including the president.

The purpose of such a cynical move, they say is to make it impossible for cash strapped opposition political parties to field candidates for the presidential, parliamentary and local elections, taking place next November.

But it is now understood that the president is once again leaning on the Electoral Commissioner to rescind her decision, and instead to take her proposal for an increase in elections nomination fees to parliament for discussion.

Critics say that with the government’s overall majority in parliament, this is just a delaying strategy and an administrative manoeuvre to get parliament’s ratification, as an afterthought.

The Electoral Commissioner herself has in the last couple of months received a massive pay rise from the president, which critics regard as a pay-off in line with the president’s cash for votes policy.

And two weeks ago, the government used its majority to pass a new law in parliament, without any prior consultation with the public and civil society groups, empowering private citizens to carry and use guns.

It is believed that this legislation will give senior members of the ruling APC party and ministers, the carte blanche to arm themselves with government issued pistols, during the elections in November.

But this latest political row, sparked by discussions taking place on an academic internet chat forum, is regarded by the opposition political parties as another step too far, in the government’s drive to cower and muzzle its opponents.

Published below are the government’s letter of complaint to the country’s Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC), and the contents of email correspondence by members of the opposition SLPP, which have attracted the ire and wrath of the government:

10th August 2012

REF: MPPAD10/08/12-01

9th Floor, Youyi Building, Brookfields, Freetown, Sierra Leone

The Chairman

Political Parties Registration Commission

Tower Hill, Freetown

Dear Sir:

On 20th July 2012, the Hon. Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Chief Sam Sumana and by extension, the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone H.E. Ernest Bai Koroma, the Government and people of Sierra Leone became TARGETS OF A DIATRIBE, published on The New People, an SLPP online publication, entitled “Two Peas in a Pod, Ernest and Sam Sumana”.

The foregoing diatribe was carefully orchestrated and executed by SLPP in Sierra Leone and SLPP North America (SLPP-NA) aided by a foreign Information Communications Technologies (ICTs) outfit; specifically by Texas A&M University (TAMU) LISTSERV at LISTSERVE.TAMU.EDU.

Evidently, TAMU LISTSERV was utilized to create a sub listserv, SLPPNA@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU, which is different from Leonenet@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU by one Dr. PK Muana, who is said to be an Associate Professor of TAMU.

The latter is a scholarly/social forum where Sierra Leoneans worldwide interact, express and exchange views and ideas etc., whereas the former has been surreptitiously created, locked in the shadow of the latter, purposely to serve as a vehicle to aid an opposition to discuss, plan and execute the diatribe herein against a foreign sovereign nation, its leaders and people.

Let it be known that The Government and people of Sierra Leone take great exception to such undue direct or indirect utilization of Information Technologies (ITs) of a foreign university of a foreign country by the SLPP to aid their stratagems of orchestrating negative, politically motivated propaganda materials that are replete with baseless and unfounded allegations, falsehoods and malicious content from malcontent conspirators with the intention to diminish our laudable development progress, our rebranding efforts, our good governance initiatives, as well as to degrade the unblemished reputation of our President, and above all to create an unleveled playing field tilted towards the course of the opposition in Sierra Leone.

Licked E-mail exchanges on Tuesday, 24th July 2012 between SLPP in Sierra Leone and SLPP-NA clearly show that the SLPP indeed utilized TAMU scholarly/social forum to orchestrate stratagems to lie and to bring the leadership of Sierra Leone in disrepute.

Mr. John Oponjo Benjamin, the Chairman of SLPP, Mr. Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sie, the Secretary General of SLPP and Mr. Sheku Kallon and Dr. PK Muana both of SLPP-NA amongst many others have all logged into TAMU LISTSERV, one time or the other, for the purpose of conspiracy to fabricate lies and to use malcontent and disgruntled foreign business operatives to tarnish the good reputation of our country, leaders as well as to interfere with our elections process.

Mr. Benjamin wrote to SLPPNA@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU, “From: Sierra Leone People’s Party in North America [mail to: SLPPNA@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU] On Behalf Of a Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 4:23 PM

To: SLPPNA@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU. Subject: Fwd: [Leonenet] Mark Heiligman’s Sanity and Business Activities at a Glance. ‘As APC goes on the offensive, Sheku needs some help. Abubakarr is trying, and keep trying Abdulai.’” To which Mr. Kallon to SLPPNA@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU as follows:

 “On 25 Jul 2012, at 00:07, Sheku M Kallon Jnr skallon@COMCAST.NET wrote: ‘I’ll respond very late tonight or right before starting the work day tomorrow with a follow up amidst threads of email exchanges and phone exchanges I had with Mark Milligan, Sam Susana’s latest attempt to get away with this by calling a lawyer friend of his to make a character vow on his behalf and more. Trust me on this one Chairman, these guys have been busted and even the APC official line is to distant themselves from Sumana and I heard Sumana is threatening to spill more beans if they fire him. Dombolo don for don nah APC. You choose this you lose, you choose that you lose is the only option left for the APC. Checkmate and there is more coming. Ah lie PK?’”

 From: Sierra Leone People’s Party in North America [mailto:SLPPNA@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU] On Behalf Of Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sie. Sent: Wednesday, ‘July 25, 2012 2:08 AM.

To: SLPPNA@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU. Subject: Re: [Leonenet] Mark Heiligman’s Sanity and Business Activities at a Glance. Sheku please send me the name of the Lawyer friend of Sam Sumana as he has scheduled a Press Conference for 11.00 AM this morning in a last ditch attempt to exonerate himself’”.

Above, is an excerpt of clearly established pattern of how the SLPP is knowingly utilizing TAMU forum to contravene the electoral laws of Sierra Leone probably unbeknown to TAMU, in which case, the SLPP stands to be accused of stealing LISTSERV from TAMU through Dr. PK Muana.

Dr. PK Muana was on Saturday, the 4th of August 2012 on a late-night talk show; “Monologue” hosted by Mr. Tam Mbayo, spewing libellous diatribe content of his discussions with SLPP Sierra Leone operatives on TAMU LISTSERV against our leaders from the comfort of his Apartment in the USA.

Specifically, by the use of TAMU LISTSERV, the SLPP is in violation of Chapter IV, Section 19 (1) of the Political Parties Act which states that: The source of funds of a political party shall be limited to contributions or donations, whether in cash or in kind, of persons who are entitled to be registered as voters in Sierra Leone. Both Dr. PK Muana and TAMU, an individual and an entity respectively, who/that are herein contributors or donors in kind to SLPP, are not or cannot be registered voters or voters in Sierra Leone.

Based on facts herein and that the creation and hosting of a listserv is very expensive, be it known that the SLPP is utilizing a foreign communications outfit, thus a recipient of donation/contribution from non-registered to vote person/entity for electioneering purpose. In view of the foregoing, we trust that due diligence and unfettered attention will be implored in looking into our complaint.

Yours faithfully,

Signed: Karamoh Kabba

Director of Political and Public Affairs

For the Minister of Political and Public Affairs

  1. The Independent Media Commission (IMC)
  2. National Electoral Commission (NEC)
  3. The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP)
  4. The All Peoples Congress (APC)
  5. The United Democratic Movement (UDM)
  6. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
  7. The People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC)
  8. Revolutionary United Front Party (RUFP)
  9. People’s Democratic Party (PDP)
  10. The Texas A&M University (TAMU)
  11. The United Nations Integrated Peace-Building in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL)
  12. The Embassy of the United States Of America
  13. The High Commission, United Kingdom
  14. The European Union
  15. The Fourth Estate

Sierra Leone Telegraph Editor’s Note:

Democracy in Sierra Leone is still very fragile, after it was suspended over thirty years ago by an APC government as well as ten years of civil war.

Since 2001, costly efforts and massive investments have been expended by the international community to return Sierra Leone once again to a democracy. But all of that is continuously being threatened by politicians, caught up in the belief that the seat of power is theirs to keep for a lifetime.

Once again, it is stupefyingly clearly and regrettably obvious that a responsible elected government could find time to embroil itself in such petty and destabilising behaviour, simply trying to wreck any chance of the country’s main opposition political party seriously taking on the ruling APC at the pools in November 2012.

Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world, despite the abundance of vast mineral wealth. Poverty is widespread and growing, with average income per capita not exceeding $1 a day.

There are 80 young children dying everyday for lack of proper and adequate health care. Corruption in high places is one of the highest in the world.

Yet government could find time to embroil itself in petty political squabbles.

And indeed, when a government finds itself in such desperate political situation, as to tell its citizens living abroad that their homeland is foreign to them – simply because they exercise their civil liberty and right to criticise the government, then you know that it is time for them to quit office.

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Places to visit in Japan

Over the years, Japan has turned from an uninteresting country into one every one of us craves to visit at least once in their lives. These being said, the reason for which it is ought to be taken into consideration as your forthcoming holiday destination shouldn’t be even discussed about! It is all logical, so make sure you stick with us and keep reading to discover the insights of the most beautiful places to visit in Japan:

One of the must seen places out there in Japan is undoubtedly the Harajuku (especially in the winter time). Here, you can easily find the latest trends in fashion, food and accessories. In this case, you don’t have to get separate destinations for your family – it all goes in one place. If you are looking for a modality to enrich your gastronomy knowledge, it is the best place where to do so! Another one of the places to visit in Japan is Tokyo, the busy capital that threatens most of all. Here, Shinkuju is the number one place to visit regardless of age. Here, you will find the three categories of components, offices, shopping and nightlife.

Apparently, you can spend all of your time in there, since you get the shopping and the crazy nightlife in only one place. Still, if you wish to leave Japan with your knowledge a little bit enriched with some history of this majestic place, Osaka and Kyoto are two regions that will make your stay a lot more pleasant and relaxing. The last two are known for their traditional background and low polluted percent that will surely give you a new feeling and smell of the crazy Japan.

These being said, if you are looking forward to heading to Japan it would be a pity to miss the tourists attraction mentioned above. Not a single visitor in Japan should leave without seeing them, so make sure to add them to your itinerary – they definitely worth it! Believe it or not, but Japan is a way of living, so make sure to stick to it at least the period of time you manage to live there! All you need to do is to keep an eye on the most beautiful places to visit in Japan such as the ones mentioned above, and voila – you are ready to go! Did you manage to get your package done, before it is too late?

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Group Slams Bank Bailout as Homeowners Remain at Risk

March 18, 2008

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition released a statement slamming the Fed for bailing out banks while failing to address predatory lending allegations and leaving scores of homeowners at risk of foreclosure.

“Last week the Federal Reserve approved $230 billion in financial assistance to banks, including a $30 billion loan directed to investment bank Bear Stearns,” the statement said.

“Those are the first major actions to bail out several large banks for irresponsible lending practices that have predisposed millions of families to foreclosure, destabilized the US economy and global markets, and now are exposing the Federal government to billions of dollars worth of risky assets.”

The group said that while banks and mortgage lenders are being rescued, homeowners have yet to receive any “meaningful assistance,” noting that current efforts like repayment plans do little more than delay the problem.

“It’s frustrating to see working families ignored, while billions of dollars begin to flow to bail out the institutions that caused the problem,” said NCRC President & CEO John Taylor.

“The Administration is not concerned with the moral hazard of encouraging financial institutions to pursue reckless and irresponsible behavior that endangers the American taxpayer and economy,” said Taylor. “But they are completely ready to punish working families using ‘moral hazard’ as the excuse.”

Taylor added that the Fed has acknowledged predatory lending as a widespread problem but has failed to address past abuses that have left homeowners in unsustainable loans.

The NCRC has proposed an initiative called Homeowners Emergency Loan Program or HELP Now, a plan to purchase loans from securitized pools at a steep discount and apply the discount to the outstanding loan amounts to facilitate loan modifications and/or a refinance.

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The Two Bobs episode 41 for Monday, November 13, 2017:

  • What are The Bobs drinking?
  • In an act of desperation Robert found an iPhone X at a local store and traded in his iPhone 8 Plus. By the way, The Bobs love their iPhone Xs.
    • How did Robert find an iPhone X at a time when they’re almost as hard to find as a politically correct Donald Trump tweet? He used Rob used the same web site to nab a pair of AirPods some months back too.
  • Daylight Savings Time, which was invented by the devil to fuck with peoples’ minds, is the worst.
  • Rob’s wife Kellie received a rather alarming voicemail from the “IRS” threatening to call the cops if she didn’t call them back. Fuck these scam artists. The Bobs are determined to get one on the show at some point.
  • It’s no secret that The Bobs love all pizza but there are times when a frozen pizza gets stuck in the mix. Not all frozen pizza-inspired dishes are created equal and The Bobs talk about the 12 best according to some random asshole on the internet. You’re welcome, world!
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