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Welcome to the first article in our new series exploring Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen…

Welcome to the first article in our new series exploring Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen – an upcoming fantasy MMORPG from independent developers Visionary Realms, Inc. Over the next few months, we’ll be digging into the much-hyped crowdfunded title through interviews, fan feedback, and a breakdown of the many unique features that have its backers so excited.

Hot off the heels of a seven-figure funding acquisition, the game is making steady progress through its alpha despite the tragic passing of iconic industry figure and CCO Brad McQuaid. Brad McQuaid was the brilliant mind behind the much beloved MMO Everquest; his vision for a challenging, social MMO that would breathe new life in the genre lives on.

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is considered as a modernized spiritual successor to classic MMOs and takes place in a completely non-instanced, lore-rich world. Without further ado, here are the features that make us most excited to see this long-awaited title come to fruition.

Depth of Storytelling and Lore

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen takes place on Terminus, a world formed through the shipwrecked fragments of dying planets. It hosts the surviving members of a multitude of races who were brought to Terminus by their revered Pantheons. Already, this fusing of sci-fi and fantasy would be a compelling mix, but through the storytelling of Pantheon’s resident lorekeeper Justin Gerhart, Pantheon promises a depth of narrative and lore rare in fresh IPs.

Terminus is a mysterious hybrid world compiled of broken fragments of other weird and wonderful civilizations and the gods that they worshiped. The setting provides untold options for exploration, adventure, hidden discoveries, and storytelling. Players will find lost worlds and discover them anew as new alliances, wars and events shape the world around them.

It features classic fantasy races, creative re-imaginings (check out their gnomes), as well as completely new additions such as the Archai and Dark Myr.

True PvE (Climates)

While Pantheon will contain PvP elements, it is PvE-centric to its very core. However, in Terminus, the fantastical beasts and insidious foes will be far from the only environmental threat. Visionary Realms have taken the E in PvE very seriously – the environments in Terminus will be a constant deadly threat that requires in-depth planning and tactics to traverse.

Pantheon’s diverse “climates” are not merely aesthetic, they are as lethal as any beast. From extreme heat to extreme cold, adventurers will need to plan-ahead if they hope to cross perilous terrain unscathed. How each character responds and interacts with these environments is incredibly individualistic. While climates like thunderstorms provide serious threats, move-invalidation, or incapacitation for some characters, others can use them to deploy new lightning-based abilities and supercharge others.

Tactical PvE (Atmospheres)

“Atmospheres”, including total darkness or magic silencing fog, can be found surrounding mystical sites and powerful foes. Just as with climates, atmospheres will force adventurers to plan-ahead if they hope to survive. A simple torch will not suffice in these darkest of dark places, players will need to source rare artefacts, enchanted loot, or spells if they hope to even make it through.

The world itself is designed to be as challenging as possible. While soloing the game will be possible, these climates and atmospheres force players to work together just to survive in these new inhospitable lands. In Pantheon, the environment is the storyteller, the challenge, and the king. And yet Pantheon embodies an ethos of “great risk leading to great reward”; legendary discoveries await those who dare brave the elements and embrace Terminus’s many dangers.

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The NPC Disposition System

Non-playable characters in games across all genres tend to be somewhat predictable in their actions. It is a constant reminder to players that they are in an artificial world. Thanks to Pantheon’s NPC Disposition system, their characters will be dynamic, evolving and ever-changing. They will spawn with different personalities and behaviours that will fundamentally change player strategy.

NPCs take dispositions including the Craven, the Opportunist, the Alarmist, the Bully, the Protector, or the Strategist. These personality traits will define how NPCs interact with players and each other. The Alarmist, for example may rush for reinforcements as soon as they see an enemy. NPCs with other dispositions might flee completely or fight to their final breaths. Some will target vulnerable classes like healers forcing players to adapt their typical group strategies. A predictable world is a boring world, and a predictable world Terminus is not.

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There is so much about Pantheon that gets MMO hearts thumping: from the mostly climbable world to the environment-led nuanced storytelling of the Perception system to the admirable focus on social gameplay. We will be digging into these features and attributes in subsequent dedicated articles in this series, so stay-tuned to our articles page for lots more Pantheon content on the horizon.

We want to provide a special shout-out to some passionate content creators and Pantheon hype-fans extraordinaire whose brilliant synopses of Pantheon content were highly useful for the creation of this series. For great video content on Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, be sure to check out the channels of The Nathan NAPALM, BazgrimTV, and PantheonPlus. is committed to bringing you all the freshest, funniest, and most insightful MMO news. If you enjoyed this content, why not share it with your community? And make sure that you never miss our updates and exclusive giveaways by following and favouriting us on InstagramTwitter, and Facebook.

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West Coast Soccer Association Alumni Update

Greg Norris - San Diego State University

West Coast Soccer Association Alumni Update

The West Coast Soccer Assocation is proud to announce that former college club player, Greg Norris, was voted Man of the Match Honors for the San Diego State Varisty program for his performance vs Oregon State over the weekend.

Greg Norris was selected as Man of the Match on Thursday after scoring his first goal in an Aztec uniform to level the contest at 2-2 in the 85th minute. The redshirt sophomore midfielder checked in for the final 14 minutes of the match, but still led the team with three shots on goal.

Greg first started his SDSU playing with the San Diego State Club program.  He helped the Mens team to they first WCSA National Showcase Championship in Reno Nevada in 2015. He also won 2015 Cal South Adult Player of the Year that season.  We wish the best with his continued soccer career.

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Learning BSV > Advanced Bluespec >

Mutually Exclusive Rules

Can you assume that the rule guards (conditions) are always mutually exclusive with one-at-a-time semantics?

The short answer is that the guards of BSV rules are almost always NOT all mutually exclusive.  Thinking of our clocked semantics, at each clock cycle many rules might be available for execution (that is, their explicit and implicit guards might be satisfied).  Some of these rules are independent of each other, so the scheduler can allow all of them to fire, since none will interfere with any other.  Some rules, however, are mutually incompatible; so if more than one is available, the scheduler will have to arbitrate between them.

But that is all about clocked semantics.  What if  you are concerned with one-at-a-time semantics?

In term rewriting semantics (TRS), each step is a separate ball game.  Each rule is either available or it isn't, and in general many rules are available at each step.  Whether they are independent of each other or whether they conflict, is irrelevant, because you're only going to choose one of them anyway. TRS says that a nondeterministic choice is made among the available rules, and just one of them is selected for execution; that is then the end of that step and the whole thing repeats.

One theoretical ideal says that a design is considered functionally correct (though maybe with inadequate performance) if it gives the specified result under ANY nondeterministic choice.  There are of course variants of this:
1.  Correct answer under any choice (as above) -- sometimes called demonic nondeterminism.
2.  Correct answer under some choice -- sometimes called angelic nondeterminism.
3.  Correct answer under any strongly fair choice -- in which any continuously available rule will always eventually be selected.
4.  Correct answer under any weakly fair choice -- a stronger requirement, in which any continually (rather than continuously) available rule will always eventually be selected.

But in fact we do deviate from this ideal.  This is partly because we use our knowledge of the actual scheduling to avoid unnecessary logic, and partly because performance cannot in practice be separated from functional correctness.  Sometimes, for example, it is necessary to ensure that data will be accepted in every clock cycle, for otherwise it is lost.  So let me tell you what our scheduler actually does; and I'll try to tell the story from the TRS viewpoint.

1.  From time to time the scheduler scans all the rules in a predetermined order (the "urgency" order), to see which are available.  Each of them gets marked YES, NO or MAYBE.  A rule gets a YES if its conditions (explicit and implicit) are satisfied, and if it hasn't been pre-empted by a rule earlier in the ordering with which it "conflicts".  The definition of conflict is pragmatic -- to assist efficient implementation in electronics.  A rule gets a MAYBE if its availability depends on a rule already selected but not yet executed.

2.  When this scan has finished (or, equivalently because of our conflict definition, earlier as the results of the first scan become available), the rules are scanned again in another predetermined order (the "execution" or "earliness" order).  The YES rules are executed. Actually from the formal point of view it's probably best to think of this as the atomic selection and execution of the rule -- that is, you do the test again.  But our pragmatic definitions are such that if the rule got a YES on the first scan we know it will still be available in the second scan, so we don't actually need to do the test again.  (The dual isn't true -- a rule which got a NO might actually have become available when it's reached in the second scan.  But the NOs are not considered further -- this slight lack of optimality saves a considerable amount of logic.)  The MAYBEs are tested again, and executed if available.

Note that there's an equivalent formulation of all this that avoids the MAYBE tag.  If for a given rule you can't produce a YES/NO answer during the first scan you hold the first scan up and get on with the second scan until enough information is available to continue with the first.  (This situation arises when one rule loads a wire which needs to be read to determine the availability of a second rule.)  In this way the two crucial moments in a rule's life during these scans (its selection and its execution) can be shown as nodes on a single dependency graph (we call it the "Jacob Graph").

3.  When both scans have finished, a number of implicit rules are executed, which do things like unloading the wires (and committing the writes to ConfigRegs and esoteric things like that).

Then steps 1, 2 and 3 repeat.  You can consider steps 2 and possibly 3 as implementing the TRS -- step 1 can be thought of as a kind of oracle influencing the non-deterministic choices in step 2.

An electronic implementation will model all three steps in a single clock cycle.  Things are a bit more complex when there are multiple clock domains -- but I suggest we leave that for the time being!


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Wild Running by Jen & Sim Benson – fully updated 2nd edition.

Wild Running is the first UK guidebook for those who love to run and who dream of exploring Britain’s spectacular mountains, forests and coastal trails. Since the publication of the first edition in 2014 we have been busy seeking out more of Britain’s best trails and the second edition, fully updated and with 150 brand new routes – and 50 of the best from the original book – is available now.

Featuring 200 hand-picked runs, chosen for great running terrain and sensational beauty, this book is the ultimate guide for those looking to break free from the gym and the streets. Stunning photography and engaging writing charting the history of each run, route and place make this must have guide for runners and explorers alike.

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Now that a very small handful of men have suffered some consequences for their sexually-assaultive behavior, we’re apparently heading into a witch hunt and on the cusp of a full-blown sex panic. No one is going to have sex any more, at least, not the way we have been or want to or like to. No one’s going to get to joke anymore, and all the men have to be worried that anything they say can be misconstrued, and they’ll get in trouble even though they didn’t mean anything bad by it. They are worried that they’re going to have to monitor their behavior, that they’re going to have to think before they speak, that they’re going to feel constrained in word and deed.

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Book Review: Awaking (The naturals #1) by Madeline Freeman

(The naturals #1)
Madeline Freeman
Pub September 21st 2013
by Createspace

Morgan Abbey's life is about to change. Just weeks before the beginning of her senior year, a mysterious stranger approaches Morgan with information that turns her world on end: First, the psychic ability she believes she has just been pretending to have since middle school might actually be real. Second, her mother, who disappeared abruptly and completely almost a decade ago, might still be alive. Morgan finds herself drawn into a centuries-old struggle involving a shadowy group with incredible powers. The Veneret have quietly coexisted alongside the common people of the world for centuries. Now they believe it is time for them to reclaim their former positions of power-and that Morgan is the key to their victory. Every victory comes at a price-but is it one that Morgan will be willing to pay?

The Way I See It

Awaking was a fun and interesting read I was completely immersed in the story and could not wait to find out what was going to happen next. The first thing that drew me to this series is that GAW-JESS cover!! Wow just look at it! Its all like, mysterious and hiding something truly amazing. The concept of this story is unlike anything else I’ve ever read and now sadly, I’m hooked. My life will not be complete until I see where Morgan(our main girl) ends up.

A-wkward, Morgan has never quite fit in. Life has caused her an unbelievable amount of emotional pain. Being outcasted by those that are supposed to be your friends and family hurts more than a million cuts.
W-atched, unbeknownst to Morgan many have been keeping tabs on her. Some want to protect her others want to abuse the power she holds. Unaware of all the details no one knows who has set out to do what.
A-llies, Ris has been Morgan’s truest friend for as long as she can remember and has stood by her side regardless. Throughout this story Morgan will find friends she never knew she had.
K-indred, Morgan is introduced to a world where people like her are a plenty but they are in hiding. Morgan is the key to unite everyone and restore order to people who posses the powers she does. They have been waiting for her for a long time.
I-ndecisive, Morgan knows who her friends are but something deep within her keeps crying out to be with the one person who is forbidden. Not wanting to hurt anyone she ignores these feelings until a single careless act crumbles her resolve.
N-ews, Morgans mother has been missing for years, the person she is supposed to trust to guide her drops a bomb that can no longer be ignored. The shocking reality will cause a turmoil that will take interference to keep Morgan out of harms way.
G-ames, the lines have been drawn a war is coming. Morgan knows who she is but she is still unaware of how to fight and how to live up to the prophecy that has claimed her to be the one.

Exhilarating the ending was shocking and revealing. I guessed a few of the things that transpired but was completely floored by most. The writing had an easy flow and had me turning the pages quickly to find out what happens next. This almost falls into the mystery category because the reader is kept in the dark about so many things but when the light switch flips its like a tidal wave of reveals. Awaking contains all of the classic characteristics of YA down to the snark and self doubt. Like I mentioned earlier this story’s concept is something I’ve never heard of but enjoyed very much. The naturals are far and few between but with Morgan near she seems to have the ability to draw everyone out of their personal confines. I am definitely looking forward to finding out what happens in this wonderful world Freeman has created.

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She has basically raised herself but she has a good head on her shoulders and is a hard worker. Struggling to overcome the handicaps that society has placed on her hasn’t been easy but she continues to flourish and be a good person. I LOVED the family dynamic she has with her dad this maybe the first YA novel I’ve read where the father has been amazing and has a loving relationship with his daughter. I’m used to reading about all the downfalls of the parents and how they don’t understand the protagonists plight. In Awaking Morgan has a light but very loving and understanding relationship with her father. It was a breath of fresh air for me and made me like Morgan even more. There are a lot of things I really liked about Morgan but perhaps my favorite is her willingness to do the right thing, not the easiest, but def the right thing to do. She fights tooth and nail against an injustice she feels very strongly about and I think that is the very reason she is the one. Morgan is my girl and I’ll be cheering for her throughout till the end!!

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3.5 House Party, Captivating Stranger, Daily Grind, Special Talent, Fedora, Unused Energy, The Common, Private Office, Masked Watchers, Unplanned Kiss, Battle drawn Stars!! I cant wait to see what becomes of these characters that are full of intrigue and mystery! For a fun and different fantasy YA pick up this Series!!!

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Madeline Freeman lives in the metro-Detroit area with her husband, her daughter, and her cats. In the time she should spend doing housework, she rewatches Fringe. She also loves anything to do with astronomy, outer space, plate tectonics, and dinosaurs, and secretly hopes her daughter will become an astronomer or a paleontologist.

  1. Paranormal is my first love. This one sounds like I might enjoy it. The way describe Morgan makes me think I'd like her. I also like the idea of her having a good relationship with her Dad. Not enough of that going around.

  2. This sounds delightful and I love the cover. So glad you enjoyed it Ria. I posted my Acrostic Poem review of Some Like It Wild. Stop stop and check it out..It doesn't even come close to your greatness..but was fun.

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high-chair-s.gifAs Calvin’s six-month birthday approaches, so does his first taste of solid food. The little guy is ready; he apparently tried to nab one of his playmate’s bowls of cereal today!

In preparation for this new adventure we’ve procured a terriffic little bowl, a funky set of spoons (one for him to get the hang of utensils and one for us to actually feed him with), a cool cup from his Bobo (from which he is already sipping water) and…

…a hip high chair. (For the price tag I think we will have to continue to refer to it as his ‘haute chaise.’)

He is enjoying the elevated view, and being able to join us for dinner at the dining table. He can use the chair with its feeding tray or pulled up to the table to eat alongside us. (Thanks for the cool dude duds, GL&co!) And it can accomodate him until he graduates from university and beyond. Amortise that!

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Mandukya Upanishad, Class 59

In these verses, Gowdapadha refutes dvaida vadhi who is explaining the creation with the law of karma.  He says karma and sareeram are cause and effect.  Gowdapadha took six different options and showed that none of them will work.  So, with the theory of karma, the creation can’t be explained.  In Vedanta we only accept the law of karma temporarily to explain creation and once the person is ready to accept higher level, we negate this theory.

Having refuted the six options, Gowdpadha comes to another topic in 22nd verse where he pointed out, not only the creation of the whole universe can’t be logically explained, but also any single object’s creation can’t be explained.  Any ordinary object in the world, even the creation of that object can’t be explained.  Taking the pot, you can’t prove the origination of the pot.

  1. Pot can’t be created out of pot
  2. Pot can’t be created out of non-pot (any other object)
  3. Pot can’t be created out of a mixture of pot and non-pot
  4. An existent pot can’t originate
  5. A nonexistent pot can’t originate
  6. A mixture of existent and nonexistent pot can’t originate.

Whether you take the macro cosmic creation or the micro cosmic creation, no creation can be proven.

In the 23rd verse, Gowdapadha considers three more options:

  1. From beginning-less karma, a body can’t be born because there is no beginning-less karma
  2. From beginning-less body, a karma can’t be born because there is no beginning-less sareeram
  3. Without a cause, body and karma can’t be born naturally born.  That which does not have aadhi does not have aadhi; meaning that which does not have karanam does not have origination.

Causeless origination is not possible.  All the three options are ruled.  Ultimately the conclusion is you can’t logically establish a creation.  Therefore, there is no creation; there is no world.  There is only Brahman.  The real meaning of advaidam is kariya karana vilakshanam.

Verse 24

In previous verses Gowdapadha refuted the Sankya philosophers and dvaida philosophers; both of the philosophers are asthika philosophers – accepting veda pramanam.  Until now Gowdapadha refuted asthika philosophers; from now on he takes on nasthika philosophers; these philosophers don’t believe veda pramanam; they accept experience.

  1. Charuvaka Madham; materialistic
  2. Jaina madhama; founded by Rishaba Devaha; later revived by Varthamana Mahaveera and others; jinaha meaning conquering sense organs. The one who follows this philosophy are called jains
  3. A group of four madhams which are budhism or bowdha madham originated by Buddha.  Lord Ashoka asked the scholars to compile the Buddhist teaching

Here Gowdabdha takes up on refuting Buddhism from verse 24 to verse 28.  The four branches are:

  1. Sowthranthika madham:  This philosopher says that there is an external world different from the observer, the subject.  The external world is different from the observer and is real; this real distinct external world is proved by prathyaksha pramanam; therefore, this philosophy presented in a nutshell presented as bahya prathyaksha vadhinaha.
  2. Vaibashika madham:  Close to first one and they also say there is an external world; it exists separate from the observer; the external world is real; This distinct real external world is proved by inference or reasoning.  This philosophy presented in a nutshell presented as bahyana anumana vadhinaha
  3. Yogachara madham:  There is no independent real external world at all separate from the subject.  Just there is no real dream world, separate from the observer, individual.  This philosopher can be defined as Bahyartha abava vadhinaha.  External is only an appearance
  4. Madhyamika madham:  This is similar to the third one; they also so there is no external at all; There is no subject observer also.  Sarvartha abava vadhinaha.  Soonya vadhinaha.

The first two are called hinayana bowdha madham and the last two are called mahayana bowdha madham.

Of the four, the third on yogachara madham is closer to vedanta.  He also says that there is a subject which is real, the object is unreal.  We also say the subject, the observer is also real.  This subject is the observer the consciousness principle or vigyana swaroopam; we advantin also say that the subject, the observer is consciousness principle.

Similarities between yogachara and vedantins:  Both say world is mithya; observer alone is sathyam; sathyam the observer is chaithanyam;

The difference is yogachara syas that the consciousness is the temporary one having a fleeting existence and this consciousness comes and goes as a flow.  For him the subject is not a single eternal consciousness, the subject is a flow of temporary consciousness; In advaidam there is no flow of consciousness, but it is one and eternal.

Gowdapdha will talk about the similarities and thereafter he will discuss the differences.  First, he joins yogachara madham to refute the first two; later on, he refutes yogachara madham.

The first two, heenayana madham, are refuted by yogachara madham. 24th verse is the presentation of heenayana madham which consists of 1 and 2 or sowthranthika and vaibashika madham.

Every experience or knowledge we get, should have a corresponding external object.  In the absence of external object, you can’t have variety of experiences.  In dream, you don’t have varieties of knowledge.  In waking you do have varieties of knowledge.  Every knowledge, therefore, presupposes an external world.  Every knowledge proves an existence of external object.  Every cognition is associated with corresponding, relevant external object.  Different knowledge is not possible without external objects.  If you don’t accept plurality of external objects, you can’t explain plurality of our experiences.

Second reasoning he gives, that we have varieties of emotions like pleasure, pain etc.  If I should have these emotions, every one of them must be caused by some external objects.  If the body feels heat that heat experience must have been caused by some external cause. Therefore, external world is there, it is different from me and it is real.


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In 1973, the company changed its name to ‘German Cosmetics Co., Ltd.’, and it was during this time that various world standard skin care products have been developed by the company.

With its continuous and rapid growth the company expanded largely in 1989 and has once again changed its name to ‘Advance Cosmetics Co., Ltd.’.  In the year 2000 ‘Advance Cosmetics Co., Ltd.’ has launched ‘Ziiit Brand’ with its pilot acne care product ‘Ziiit Away’ following with many other skin care products in acne care category. Since then a wider range of skin care products, both facial and body, such as acne cure, sunscreen, wash gel, whitening, multi-vitamin serum, blemish cure, pearl creme, etc. have been developed.

Until today, the company has gradually expands commercially into Indo China region countries both in finished goods export and OEM. Recently the first international brand has been located in Vietnam under the name  ‘Advance Cosmetics Vietnam’.  Furthermore, countless plans for future expansion is ongoing for ‘Advance Cosmetics Co., Ltd.’.

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On a quest for the highest quality since its very beginnings, Alexis Lichine & Co places its expertise at the service of its partner vintners, to create wines that are tailored to the tastes of wine lovers everywhere. Today, this tradition continues thanks to our close work with our producers. They are chosen for the quality of their wines, their appellation and their choice of an integrated farming approach.

Following in the footsteps of Mr Lichine, our team of oenologists works throughout the year with our partner vintners, from pruning the vines to picking the grapes, together ensuring the growth of the highest quality grapes. The choices of vineyard methods, such as nipping off buds, pruning, disease prevention, leaf management and even the harvest date, are made together, to meet everyone’s criteria and objectives.

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Media Release: Azzurri Communications wins award for Reward and Benefits

AZZURRI Communications won the ‘Award for Reward and Benefits’ at last night’s Personnel Today awards, following the implementation of their flexible benefits scheme, ‘The Benefits Network’, in conjunction with Thomsons Online Benefits.

Says a spokesperson: “The Personnel Today awards are one of the most prestigious events in the HR calendar, and set out to recognise businesses that have made an impact with their people policies, successfully managing change, and delivering great bottom-line results.

“Azzurri Communications was founded in 2000 and is a leading managed-services company, delivering flexible voice, data and mobile communications. The company has grown rapidly over the last ten years, partly through the acquisition of 16 companies, and as a consequence had a lack of unity.

“From a benefits perspective, bringing together so many companies resulted in an inefficient and confusing assortment of benefit entitlements and providers. Azzurri appointed Thomsons Online Benefits to harmonise their employee benefits, including 17 pension schemes, and to create a unified benefit brand to satisfy their key business objectives.”

These were to:

- Install equality by introducing a harmonised benefits scheme post acquisitions;
– Improve employee engagement and increase retention;
– Reduce administrative inefficiencies and costs, reduce benefit premiums and increase salary sacrifice;
– Create an accessible communications strategy for office based and non office based workers;
– Offer a competitive package.

This required a flexible online benefits system that could be easily communicated to all sectors of the workforce with easy access and engaging offerings.

Thomsons Online Benefits created a flexible benefits scheme informed largely by results of a survey undertaken to assess employee needs, and feedback from the employee representative forum ‘Voice of Azzurri’.

The introduction of the Benefits Network has delivered impressive business benefits to Azzurri including:

- Improved employee engagement, reduce staff turnover and attract new employees; – Improved employee perception – 89 per cent of employees now think Azzurri is an excellent place to work (previously 56 per cent before scheme implementation);
-Reduced sickness absence from an average of seven per cent to two per cent, a saving equivalent to 38 ‘man days’ per year or £20k;
-Reduced staff turnover – it is down from 28 per cent to 8.9 per cent which represents a saving of £1.3million per year in recruitment, training and time. Reduce administration of existing benefit schemes saving approx £100k pa;
-Reduced the number of pension schemes from 17 to one saved £35k pa in premiums, plus £15k pa savings on advisers’ fees.
– Increased use of salary sacrifice bringing a saving of £45k pa

Noel McGonigle, HR director at Azzurri, who on the night was also shortlisted for HR Director of the Year, and the HR Team of the Year awards, comments: “We are absolutely delighted to have won this award, which really cements the outstanding success of the introduction of the Benefits Network.

“By working closely in partnership with Thomsons Online Benefits, we have delivered a scheme which works at all levels – for our employees, for our HR team and for the business. It is testament to the hard work put in by ourselves and Thomsons and we look forward to continuing to develop it.”

About Thomsons Online Benefits:

Formed in 2000, Thomsons Online Benefits aims to help businesses get the maximum benefit from their employee reward schemes. Using a unique blend of consultancy and technology, Thomsons creates Intelligent Reward™ solutions with schemes such as flexible benefits and salary sacrifice, amongst others. This approach removes the administration and communication headaches often associated with running such schemes.

Thomsons has won 26 awards and attracted a prestigious portfolio of clients, thanks to a combination of innovation and quality. Thomsons Online Benefits currently services clients globally from their offices in the UK, Asia and the USA. Thomsons Online Benefits Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

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High: 0.0006 Low: 0.0004
Volume: 178,445,215 Market Cap: 0M
Year High: 0.0041 Year Low: 0.0001
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Targets Six months: 0.0011    One year: 0.0015
Supports Support1: 0.0004   Support2: 0.0003
Resistances Resistance1: 0.0009    Resistance2: 0.0012
Pivot Point 0.0005
Moving Averages MA(5): 0.0005      MA(20): 0.0006

MA(100): 0.0008  -1     MA(250): 0.0005
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Stochastic Oscillator %K(14,3): 30.000      %D(3): 30.000
RSI RSI(14): 38.044
52-Week High: 0.0041  Low: 0.0001  Change(%): 167
Average Volume(K) 3-Month: 21269782  10-Days: 23663564
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Price and moving averages has closed below its Short term moving average. Short term moving average is below its mid-term; and below long term moving averages. From the relationship between price and moving averages; we can see that: this stock is BEARISH in short-term; and BEARISH in mid-long term.
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Bollinger Bands has closed above bottom band by 13.7%; Bollinger Bands are 61% narrower than normal.The narrow width of the bands suggests low volatility as compared to NUUU's normal range. The bands have been in this narrow range for 2 bars. This is often a sign that a market may be about to initiate a new trend.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Be Saints!

This "new" book is not exactly new, since it's  US edition of a book originally published in the UK. It's Be Saints! An Invitation from Pope Benedict XVI.

Originally published by the Catholic Truth Society, it is now available through Ignatius Press in the US and Canada.  Ann Kissane Engelhart created the paintings to accompany excerpts from Pope Benedict's talk to youth at the "Big Assembly" during his visit to England in 2010.

Here's the Ignatius Press page for the book.

And you can purchase it through any Catholic bookseller (I hope) - here's the link for Aquinas and More.

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New Restaurants on tap for Scenic 30A

An old classic and a new eatery are open in South Watlon

Seagrove Village Market and the Surfing Deer – both in Seagrove at the intersection of County Road 395 and Scenic 30A – are ready for hungry locals, vacationers and foodies alike. The Hartley Restaurant Group are behind both eateries.

The venerable Seagrove Village Market as been a South Walton staple for generations. The restaurant closed last year and moved about 50 yards north to the corner of County Road 395 and Grove Avenue in Old Seagrove. Check out the website and menus here.

Open for lunch and dinner, the Seagrove Village Market will still over the classics that folks have come to love over the years. Burgers and the grouper sandwiches will still be available, as will the Po-Boys, which include grouper, shrimp, oyster, Andouille and shrimp and a new comer – hot chicken.

Shrimp tacos, salads, fried seafood baskets and desserts are ready too.

The Hartley Group also added the Surfing Deer in the old V Seagrove location. You can visit their website page here. The Surfing Deer is only open for dinner.

They will have oysters, crispy calamari, cheddar-jalapeno corn pancakes and other appetizers.

The main courses include: local Gulf fish, stout coffee braised short ribs, shrimp and grits and red curry mussels. Sides, soups, salads and much more is ready for you at the Surfing Deer.

Just Sold in Abacos on Scenic 30A

Property Description

This amazing fully furnished two-floor condo has Gulf views and will be an ideal vacation rental and beach retreat. Located across the street from the Ed Walline Beach Access and next door to all the shops, restaurants and entertainment at Gulf Place, Abacos is perfectly located on Scenic 30A. A local rental management company estimates the condo can do $39,045 in Gross Rental Income a year.

The top floor of this condo is all about living and entertaining. The open kitchen has stainless appliances, marble counter tops and a breakfast bar. The dining area leads into the living room, which has a balcony with Gulf views. This corner condo also has plenty of windows that run along the side of the building letting in lots of sunlight. There is a locked, owners closet next to the front door. A half bathroom rounds out the top floor of this unit.

Heading downstairs there are three bedrooms with two full bathrooms. This floor also has an entry/exit door that leads out to the second floor of the complex for easy access. The master bedroom has an ample walk-in closet, a tiered ceiling, and comfortable furniture. The master bathroom has dual sinks and a tub and shower combo. Down the hallway there are two more bedrooms – one with a queen bed and the other with twin beds. The condo also has a full-sized washer and dryer. The two guest bedrooms have access to a private balcony as well. Abacos also has a private pool. All room dimensions and square footage are approximate and should be verified by the buyer.

For more information, call Christina Meinen at 850.974.9704 or Andy Meinen at 850.419.4777.  Andy and Christina are Realtors, who specialize in listing and selling real estate along 30A, Destin and Sandestin, as well as Seacrest Beach, Rosemary Beach, Alys Beach, WaterColor and WaterSound.

Just Listed in Seacrest Beach, FL

This amazing three-story furnished vacation home has excellent Gulf views and is in the much sought after Seacrest Beach community along Scenic 30A.

This four-bedroom – plus loft and office – home is a great vacation rental with a gross rental income for 2012 of $43,235 and projected to reach $50,000 by the end of the year. Rental rates have been raised and the home is projected to gross $59,073.75 in 2013 by 360 Blue Properties. The home can sleep 14 guests.

The first master bedroom and bathroom are on the first floor, along with the kitchen, living and dining areas. The second floor has a bedroom and a bunk room, as well as an entertainment room with a pullout sleeper queen sofa. The third floor has a office/bonus room with great Gulf views and the second master bedroom.

Owners and guests have access to Seacrest Beach’s 12,000-foot lagoon pool, deeded beach access, and a convenient tram service. Seacrest Beach is also ideally located between Alys Beach and Rosemary Beach so you’re close to shopping and dining, all within walking distance. All room dimensions and square footage are approximate and should be verified by the buyer.

Call Andy Meinen at 850.419.4777 or Christina Meinen at 850.974.9704 for more information.

Just Sold in Rosemary Beach, FL

This home on the southside of Rosemary Beach just sold – great location, 3rd row back from the Gulf!

The market continues to move along Scenic 30A.

For more information, call Christina Meinen at 850.974.9704 or Andy Meinen at 850.419.4777.

Property Details

The corner lot upon which this Rosemary Beach home sits fronts a small park and is adjacent to a pedestrian boardwalk leading to the beach. The main house features three elevator-accessible floors while the three-story carriage house includes a two-car garage with private exterior parking for two additional vehicles.

The carriage house features a sleeping loft which doubles as the home’s sixth bedroom. The garage contains a washer and dryer for guests staying in the carriage house. Stainless steel kitchen appliances, American walnut hardwood floors, gorgeous stone floors in the baths and granite counters throughout are among some of its features.

Rosemary Beach offers amenities that include swimming at four pools, kayaking, biking, tennis and shopping.


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We are BACK, people!!

Sorry about the small lil' hiatus, but The Academy is back in the swing o' things. Doin' things how we do 'em, we had to show some quick love to Chile's own, Gabriela Barros. She repped Chile in the Miss Universe pageant in 2004, and popped up in the international version of Maxim magazine in August 2006. We definitely dig her, and hope y'all do too. Salute!!

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I especially liked this bit:

" In any case, adding bound information [...] reduces the scheme to vacuity. Frieden pulls these terms from [out of the air], and they seem to have no independent significance whatsoever. They are simply whatever he needs to get the equation he wants at the end of the variational problem "

It's the same with Dick's work. It all sounds impressive, until you try to find justifications for the things he pulls out of the air, such as unknowable data and frequent appeals to the magical powers of the subconscious. In both cases, "I do this because it gives me what I want" seem to be the only real justification.

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Saturday, February 05, 2011

Three Sixty Residences condos in San Jose for rent

When the real estate market boomed a few years ago in Bay Area, many developers started to convert apartment complexes to condominiums. The high demand for real estate in Silicon Valley meant that selling condos was more profitable than renting them as apartments. Just to name a few, in 2006 the developers converted and put to bubbling real estate market - 176 condos in Cupertino Villas - 880 E Fremont Ave, Sunnyvale; 332 condos in Sierra Crest Villas - 610 Teatree Court, San Jose; 135 condos in Alta Mar Villas - 3695 Stevenson Blvd, Fremont; 248 condos in Baywood Villas - 3190 Red Cedar Terrace, Fremont; and 200 units in Crossroads - 450 Dempsey Rd, Milpitas.
In real estate, a condominium conversion or condo conversion is the process of entitling an income property or other lands currently held under one title to convert from sole ownership of the entire property into individually sold units as condominiums
As the market for real estate has slowed so has the conversion trend. Now we started to see the reverse trend - converting condos into apartments building. Two years ago 121 condominiums in Skyline At Tamien Station development went to the market as rental condos for up to five years. The current rent for condo in Skyline At Tamien starts from $1,600 to $4,200.

360 Residences for rent

And now another San Jose downtown high-rise condo development failed to attract the buyer interest that developers had hoped. The brand new condos in 360 Residences are available for rent and most likely will seriously affect rental prices in downtown San Jose. Three Sixty Residences conversion does not necessarily mean the other high rise projects like Axis or Plant 51 will convert to rental apartment complexes, but it definitely leaves a bad impression for potential homebuyers in San Jose downtown.

Anonymous said...

I'm so glad that I haven't bought a condo in 360 :)

Anonymous said...

I also wanted to buy, but was scared by ridiculous HOA fees in 360

Homeless said...

How big was HOA in 360 Residences?

Realtor said...

360 Residences HOA was around $650 to $700

Homeless said...

Ouch, that is pretty high. I wonder what the rent would be in this apartment

Anonymous said...

rent started at $1855 for a 1 bed/1 bath 815 square feet (May 2011 price)


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January 04, 2012

I Enjoy A Bit Of Drama

I have to admit, there are times when I do enjoy a little bit of drama. Uh, drama-tized stories, that is the drama I enjoy to hear. It all began like this...
I was convicted about what little time I put into my bible reading. I have tried for many years trying to read the bible from front to back with this bible program and that program and would not complete my goal.

In prayer I said, "Lord, I recognize my scripture reading is only developed in the church service when Pastor reads the scripture text and I and the congregation followed in our bibles. Yet, I say I love you and spend very little time getting to know what You have to say in Your Word."

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I made a commitment that I would not read any literature until I have met my goal in reading the bible through. I began to read and I could not get enough reading in. If I had to do some work around the house I still wanted to finish my reading because I was learning so much about the Lord, I would even spend hours into the night trying to read more that I invested in bible cd's from Greenbacks Dollar Store.

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The first time I finished reading the bible through was on Easter Sunday Morning, I thought, "I did it! Now what?" I looked at my children, smiled, and said, "I am going to do it again!"
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The readers in my bible cd's had strong accents and made the listening so interesting that I still listen to them when I am in the car. The Internet has made it so convenient to find sites that I do not have to stop with a few cd's as before, but now I can listen to as many books as I want. On my sidebar you will see the scripture reading site Bible Gateway, listen for yourself to the bible readers, I think you will enjoy it. I have a few links to chapters I think you might enjoy listening to the dramatized version, just click on the links under the artwork.

             Moses and The Crossing of The Red Sea

                                                                                The Shepherd Boy, David
My bible reading was such a benefit to me, little did I know that I would face the toughest trials in my life and I was going to need the strength from the Lord I was reading so much about. And see me through, He did.

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Training our Daughters to be Hypocrites

When I was growing up women and girls were taught that they can and should do anything a man could do. Society had just previously been enslaving women to be servants and “baby machines” while men did what they wanted, but now we women were free.

Yeah, right! Free to be the slaves of an employer instead of serving those we love at home.

The expression used for a woman who choose to stay home with her children was “barefoot and pregnant” and yes that was intended to taint the idea of being a stay at home wife and mother.

Even those women who still desired to be stay at home wives and mothers were strongly encouraged to get a college education and career first, just in case they needed “something to fall back on.”

The Hypocrisy of Feminism (Sorry post no longer exists)

When I actually do tell people what I’ll be doing, I feel the awkward silence. If they know me well, they’ll launch into the, “Isn’t that wasting your talent?” Well, is it? Is it wasting my talent if I put it to use efficiently operating a household, working out of love for my husband and children? Is it a waste if I see the efforts of my hard work benefiting those that I love most? Or would it be better if I poured out the best hours of my day for people I don’t know?

I find it especially ironic that the people who shout about how boring, repetitive,and stifling staying at home is, are the same people that would praise the woman who goes to work in an office, confined in a cubicle doing data entry all day. I worked for two summers in an office, and let me tell you the work is REPETITIVE. It’s not just offices either–factory workers, grocery store clerks, bus drivers–you name it, chances are it’s repetitive work. That’s just the way an industrialized society works: we practice division of labor in order to do things more efficiently. The fact that working at home is repetitive says absolutely nothing about its value!

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How come people are extremely skeptical that a mother can teach her five children at home all at once, yet they put all faith in one teacher being able to simultaneously control and educate 30 unrelated and diverse children in the public school system? It is too much of an undertaking for that “poor” mother, yet no one questions the standard classroom size of the public school system?

How come being a nanny is a perfectly fine job for a woman, but being a mother (even though the jobs are basically the same) is not fulfilling and a waste of talent?

I thought of this a few days ago, when a young woman was telling my family how wonderful it was to get to stay home and watch her sister’s children as their nanny. She talked of the peace, calm, and utter joy she had being at home with the little one, and this made me wonder why it’s okay to watch children and enjoy it, as long as it isn’t their own mother.

Very thought provoking!

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Saturday, September 19, 2020

Driver's Seat

 Cats and Dogs. Cats and Dogs. Cats and Dogs. Cats and dogs.

That's all you really need to know.

I was cleaning my car inside and out.
And look who took advantage. I had to clean again after his dusty prints were everywhere.  Worth it.

She can't hide from me.

Day on a bench swing overlooking the lake.

Treat time.

Bed Sophie.

Shep looks good by a lake in a park.

Song by: Sniff 'n the Tears

Raybeard said...

One of them seems always to have a disarming wide grin on his face - and the other doesn't.

uptonking said...

Love the song. Don't they make our lives complete? Thanks for sharing this glimpse into yours...

anne marie in philly said...

I sang "cats and dogs" to "driver's seat". cause it fits.

"only ONE treat, dad?" - sophie thought balloon

"can I help you clean the car, dad?" - shep thought balloon

Ur-spo said...

cats and dogs comfort us always


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Comments: Down up down, cold warm cold

We're warming up a bit over here, too - down to 12 inches of snowpack, currently. Over 43 inches of snow so far this season.

Yes, moving is a major chore, and it sounds like you have a lot of stuff. Would you consider moving to Coven Nord downsizing, upsizing or about the same?

Posted by Scoakat on 25 February, 2021 at 9:18 PM

It's called sorting and packing for a year in advance ...

Posted by Debster on 25 February, 2021 at 10:04 PM

I'm not that sure either (& I'm the one with the garden & hobbies,) but we're only moving a few miles, so will be able to drop back and get another trolley and suitcase load to take back on the train or bus if necessary.

It's all right for people what can drive. We've lived inner city the past forty years, so haven't needed to because train & buses. Now we'll be more outer city, carefully relocated for trains and buses. And a GARDEN!!!! Squeeee!

Posted by Sharon on 26 February, 2021 at 1:47 AM

The thought of moving house after so many moves over the last forty years filled me with dread. We've lived at or current address for over eighteen years and I can't forsee us moving but perhaps it will happen one day.

Posted by delcatto on 26 February, 2021 at 2:58 PM

Scoakat - financially it's downsizing. Space wise it's upsizing (very slightly, in pure square metre-age), even before we build on, but the layout is so appalling there is a lot less usuable space than at Coven Sud. A traditional 30m long, 5m wide stone house with a corridor running along it both upstairs and downstairs.

Debster - that was our plan, and then along came covid. We intended to do 3 weeks down south and one week up north for 3 years, but, with the hidden work that we discovered that needed doing, it's probably just as well how it's turned out.

Sharon - grief that sounds a big challenge! Don't you know someone who could drive a hired van for you? Enjoy the new garden!

delcatto - that's what we thought, and then all the building started, aeroplane flightpath changes happened, and traffic grew exponentially. Plus all the old people around dying and new ones moving in who have completely different attitudes to noise, light at night, and much less consideration for others. And don't mention the barking dogs and sweary owners. Not how we wanted to spend our retirement.

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Monday, April 04, 2016

Reader's Diary #1290- Don McLellan: The Green Honda

Ever get hung up on a technical detail in a story that distracts from what otherwise might be a fine plot?

In Don McLellan's "The Green Honda" that technical detail involves an illegal police scanner. The owner, a man named Archie, likes to eavesdrop on stakeouts and drug busts. The problematic distraction is the inconsistent description of the audio. Sometimes, we're told, there is atmospheric interference and what is happening is unintelligible. Yet, later we're told that the technology (of microphones attached to officers' lapels) was so refined that "Archie could discern the pounding of a heart or a constable slurping coffee, every burp, every groan, every sigh."

Which is it?

Not really important to the plot, which involves a man taking life into his own hands, but nonetheless it's a short enough story that the unreliable/ super high quality audio problem was hard to look past.

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Sunday, January 25, 2015

Je suis Charlie or Je suis Hypocrite?

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Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
January 22, 2015

In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, social media was filled with predictable tag lines, hashtags, and memes. It was the result of a general public who had briefly tuned in to current events or the fact that there was a country outside of their own expressing “sympathy and solidarity” with the victims of the terrorist attack. All this proved, however, was that the culture creation machine was well at work at producing feel good messages and that a simple Tweet was quite enough to make the majority of people contented that they had done their patriotic duty.

Critical thinking? Not necessary.

Within hours of the attacks, social media was flooded with “I stand with Free Speech” and “Je suis Charlie.” Americans, unaware of anything that happens outside of their own borders (or within) were happy to retweet and share familiar sounding memes while the French were happy to indulge themselves in the fantasy that they are a free people.

Yet with French President Francois Hollande’s speeches extolling the virtues of free speech and expression, the reality of the matter is that the “Je suis Charlie” meme should have carried the tagline “Je suis Hypocrite.”

The French government and French society in general is by no means a society of free expression. While Christianity and Islam are regular targets of derision and attack by magazines like Charlie Hebdo, other religions are considered more equal in such utopias.

For instance, in 2009, an 80-year-old columnist for Charlie Hebdo was actually put on trial on charges of “inciting racial hatred” for making a joke that then-President Sarkozy’s son was converting to Judaism for financial gain. For all the talk of standing with free speech, the gentlemen making the joke found himself standing quite alone.

Indeed, even the act of “denying the holocaust” is a punishable thought crime in France. While the suggestion that the Nazi regime did not inflict unspeakable crimes against Jewish people is anti-historical in and of itself, a nation of true free speech would not punish the expression of the thought by criminal proceedings.

It is also illegal to sell “Nazi paraphernalia” on the Internet in the free country of France.

But the uber-PC speech censorship is not only silencing any criticism or insults against Jews and Judaism. Last year, Bob Dylan was “formally investigated” after making comments that were allegedly “inciting racial hatred.”

Dylan’s comments were relatively simple. He had said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, that “If you got a slave master or [Ku Klux] Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that. That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood."

Dylan’s remarks were largely addressing the issue of how race and racial tension can hold a nation back and linger long after the perceived wrong has taken place. In France, however, where everyone stands with free speech, his statements warranted prosecution.

Even Brigitte Bardot was not immune to the PC police when she stated that Muslims were destroying the country by “imposing their ways” upon the French people. Bardot was fined and convicted of inciting racial hatred.

Of course, the fact that the policy of unfettered immigration is destroying French culture is undeniable. However, in France, as in many other police states, you are only free to question and hurl insults at pre-selected targets.

Note also that French comedian, Dieudonné , in the midst of all the “I Stand With Free Speech” hysteria, made the mistake of believing that there was such a thing as Free Speech. In a Facebook post, he stated, “Tonight, as far as I’m concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly.” He was promptly arrested.

We have yet to see the prevalence of “Je suis Dieudonné” anywhere in Western society and social media outlets.

In fact, as of January 15, it has been reported that the French government has opened nearly 54 criminal cases for “condoning terrorism” and it subsequently “ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism.”

Even the president of France himself, Francois Hollande, has demonstrated high levels of hypocrisy in terms of the question of free speech and expression. After giving the tired nods to his country’s resolve to continue to support and promote freedom of speech and expression (Americans should be familiar with these types of speeches), Hollande stated that many of these third world “Muslim” countries, particularly the ones experiencing protests, riots, and violence as a result of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, were reacting in such a way because they simply do not understand the concept of free speech and expression.

"I'm thinking of countries where sometimes they don't understand what freedom of expression is because they have been deprived of it,” he said.

Yet nearly in the same breath, Hollande stated that those individuals who engaged in their freedom of expression to burn the French flag as a form of protest should be punished. When asked about the protesters who burned the flags, he responded, "They have to be punished. Because when it happens in France, it's intolerable – but it is also intolerable abroad."

Of course, in the aftermath of a tragedy, particularly one that the entire Western population was forced to witness on virtually every television channel, there comes the paranoia regarding future terrorist attacks, rampant militarism, fearmongering, the promotion of a greater police state, and, of course, the social media memes and hashtags commemorating the dead people and the dead values of their nation.

Millions of French people hashtagging #JeSuisCharlie and “I stand with Free Speech” was nothing more than an insulting joke being played upon a public that has been subjected to a relentless police state and surveillance apparatus, the use of its people as cannon fodder for NATO imperialism, and the total eradication of whatever concept of true free speech and expression France may once have laid claim to.

But, of course, Americans should not look down on the French for their hypocritical government, lack of freedom, and lagging economy. And they don’t.

In fact, they find solidarity with them. They find solidarity because their television sets and the personalities on their screens tell them to do so.

After all, America is also hated “for our freedoms” and hated because we are such an “exceptional people.” Americans are glad that the French have finally re-animated their militarist spirit and are once again willing to traipse around the globe, slaughtering innocent men, women, and children for the good of international banks, corporations, and geopolitical interests.

In the meantime, a few more Tweets of “I stand with Free Speech” and “Je suis Charlie” will erase the memory of Charlie Hebdo and all theinconsistencies of the official story out of the minds of the Americans and the French. That is, until the incident is needed to drum up support for war or further police state measures waiting to be put into place. Then the Western public will be asked to stand with Charlie in the Middle East, or Africa, or even Russia.

They can stand with Free Speech in these far off places as well. Just so long as they do not do so at home.

Recently from Brandon Turbeville:

Israel Bombs Syria, Kills Top Iranian General and Top Hezbollah Commander
15 Signs The Charlie Hebdo Attack Was A False Flag
6 Points To Consider When Analyzing The Charlie Hebdo Attacks

Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor's Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius -- The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria. Turbeville has published over 300 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville's podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at)

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Monday, March 5, 2018

Ohio Gov Candidate Dennis Kucinich Education Platform Reveals Scam Of Charter Schools

Brandon Turbeville
Edge Canopy
March 3, 2018

In early February, Ohio Governor Candidate Dennis Kucinich announced his campaign platform point regarding education in Ohio and, more specifically, the issue of charter schools. That announcement drew a great deal of support and criticism as one might expect, but it also brought with it a lot of confusion.

Kucinich’s plan would essentially force charter schools under the control of the local school boards and local governments and restrict government money paid to charter schools. Reactions to his plan have ranged from jubilant to hostile, with the latter generally perceiving that his plan is effectively eliminating school choice and private schools as an option to parents seeking to protect their children from the horror show of the American public school system. No doubt, some supporters of the plan probably believe the same thing.

However, this is where confusion is coming into play in regards to the charter school issue. First, it is important to point out that Charter schools and Private schools are two different things. Private schools are what most people think about whenever they hear the term “school choice.” These schools are sometimes religious in orientation, sometimes based on science, specific studies, or any number of other elements of focus. But they are all run privately by organizations, churches, businesses, or simply by parents. Some are for-profit and some are non-profit but they all fund themselves through tuition, donations, or charity. In other words, private schools fund themselves via the private sector. Clearly, it is important to keep the private school alive in order to provide another option in addition to homeschooling for parents who want to avoid the nightmare of American public schools that exists in every state across the nation. But there is a distinct difference between the private school system and the charter school system.

Charter schools are schools essentially created and developed by corporations for the benefit of corporations and thus function outside of the “public” realm. Most of them have a narrow focus that has come to be known as the “school to work” pipeline, training children for specific jobs as opposed to a general understanding of basic skills such as math, reading, science, and social studies etc. that they will need throughout their lives. However, despite these schools being the product of private industry and functioning outside of the public sphere, they still receive massive amounts of taxpayer money.

Under normal circumstances, receiving public money would cause the school to fall under the "public" purview, but the charter system sees the corporate school receiving massive taxpayer contributions with no accountability to those very taxpayers. This is essentially taxation without representation. It is also corporate welfare.

How The Charter School System Works

It is rare to find a campaign website that accurately describes any contentious issue but Dennis Kucnich’s campaign website does provide an excellent summary of how Charter Schools work. The example provided below comes from Ohio but the charter school system operates in the same general way across the country. The website states:
A for-profit management company sets up a charter school or schools, appoints the board, and secures a sponsor. Then the for-profit management company executes a contract with the charter school board (that it appointed) which generally lets the for-profit management company retain the physical assets of the school and control up to 97% of the money the board receives for the education of the children. Under this situation the charter board has no control of the school.
When a public school student enrolls in the charter school, the charter school receives a guaranteed amount of money- approximately $6,000 per student. This results in a corresponding deduction from the educational budget of the local public school district. Once the state-ordered, for-profit charter school deduction is made, public school districts lose thousands of dollars in funding for each student who enrolls in the for-profit charter.
All funds can be used by the charter school to purchase slick advertisements, enticing parents to enroll their children in the charter school.All the while, the proprietors of for-profit charter schools contribute tens of thousands of dollars to the political campaigns of state politicians who created this system, maintain it, and promote it.
Each year about a billion dollars intended to fund neighborhood public schools goes instead to charter operations, many of which are under for-profit management.
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How have public schools been forced to make up the difference? (1) Asking taxpayers of the local school district for an additional levy, increasing local property taxes or (2) reducing educational programs, staffing, and other resources or (3) a combination of both.
The beneficiaries of this system are (1) the operators of for-profit charters and (2) state public officials who receive a continuous flow of campaign funds whose source is, inevitably, public funds intended for public education. This is a monstrously corrupt system because it takes money from public school children and gives it to for-profit charter management companies who then contribute money to politicians to keep public tax dollars flowing their way.
For example, since the year 2000, the owner of ECOT (Educational Classroom of Tomorrow) donated at least $1.4 million dollars to Ohio public officials. ECOT has had the highest dropout rate of any school in Ohio. Prior to its recent implosion, ECOT, which at one point enrolled nearly 12,000 students, was scheduled to receive about $87.7 million this year from the state funding program. Last year ECOT obtained $104.3 million from the state.
This year, Fiscal 2018, Columbus Public Schools will lose almost $l50 million dollars (that's million) to the Charter School industry. In neighboring Madison County, in just one year, ECOT plus two other online schools took more than $725,000 from four Madison County schools.
Elsewhere, according to data from the Ohio Department of Education, Cleveland public schools will lose more than $129 million this year to charter schools. Cincinnati, more than $51 million. Toledo, more than $71 million. Dayton, more than $54 million. Youngstown, almost $19 million. Akron, more than $27 million.
So essentially, taxpayers are forced to subsidize a private industry’s “school to work” program while public schools are forced to watch the money that would otherwise have been going to them be siphoned off to charter operations. All this while the public school systems operates with crumbling infrastructure and shortages of necessary educational tools and equipment.

But left-leaning Kucinich is not the only person opposed to Charter Schools. There are those who are typically considered right-leaning who oppose the idea as well. Charlotte Iserbyt, who once served in the Reagan Administration and who authored the now famous “The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America,” book, has staunchly opposed Charter schools.

“With our schools and our children successfully dumbed-down, “they” . . . . can count on public outcry for “change” in how schools are operated, as well as parental acceptance of charter schools,” she writes. “Parents will accept any solution to the tragic situation facing their children today -- including charter schools with unelected representation. But how many realize that the purpose of charter schools is not academic, but to establish a replacement structure that will focus on training for the workforce (or more simply put: limited learning for lifelong labor)?”

She continues by writing,
All government (taxpayer-supported) entities including those at local, county, state, and federal levels are managed by elected, repeat elected, not appointed boards, officials. If enough voters are unhappy with elected officials’ decisions, they can vote them out of office to be replaced by citizens who hopefully will represent their wishes.
(On the other hand, the regional appointive system of governance is being used with charter schools. The appointive system does not allow voters -- who pay the taxes that support public-funded charter schools -- to remove persons whose decisions do not represent the majority of voters. Charter schools are “taxation without representation” and the concept should undergo a constitutional challenge in the courts.)
Iserbyt correctly argues that the charter school system is a move toward the old Soviet idea of "rule by council" as opposed to rule by democratically elected citizens, directly responsible to the electorate.

One should now ask, why would two individuals who are very different – one from the left and one from the right – agree on an issue such as this? Corporate schooling exists solely for the benefit of the corporations that back it. Corporate schooling is not beneficial to the child or his/her community and it only works to the benefit of the corporations who want workers smart enough to do their jobs but not smart enough to question why those jobs are being done. The same goes for those in power on the governmental level who have long benefited from a population becoming increasingly less intelligent, discerning, and able to understand what is going on in the world around them.

Corporate America would like to keep the confusion between a charter school and a private school so as to muddy the waters whenever the issue is raised. What is clear, however, is that the charter schools system is a trojan horse to destroy not only public education but eventually all other forms of education as well.

Brandon Turbevillearticle archive here – is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies,Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria,and The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President. Turbeville has published over 1,000 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville’s podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at)

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Being part of children’s nursery life has a significant impact on their experience and education. We welcome parents and carers to become really involved in our nursery. We regularly invite parents and carers to attend ‘stay and play’ sessions which allows them opportunities to observe the work we do and the activities we provide. The parents can participate in the activity and offer their knowledge on different cultural backgrounds. We also provide activities for children to complete at home with their families.

We have daily informal discussions with parents and carers about their child’s development and general welfare, and offer advice where necessary. Parents and carers are invited to view and discuss the their child’s developmental records half termly. These discussions help create future learning outcomes to support their development.

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We believe that children and families benefit from being involved in the local community as it gives them first hand experiences of their local environment. We have arranged visits to local bookshops, care homes, library, post office. We also invite relevant residents and partnerships in to the nursery such as Guide Dogs, family pets and local residents to participate in seasonal activities, such as Santa’s Grotto.

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We often call on advice and support from different agencies such as speech and language therapist, educational psychologists and local health visitors, when a child or parent requires additional support or advice.