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"Honestly, he had no influence on the game."
Onomah has struggled to make an impact since moving to Hillsborough at the end of August. The England Under-21 international, who spent last season on loan at Aston Villa, has made just seven starts and two substitute appearances.
"That was his chance but you must take it when you have the chance," added Luhukay.
Wednesdayites called for Luhukay's dismissal in the wake of their seventh defeat in the last 10 matches.
It looked as if the Owls were going to secure a first away win for more than two months when Matias punished Joe Rodon for a defensive error after 63 minutes.
But Bersant Celina stepped up off the bench and played an instrumental part in Swansea's remarkable comeback as the attacking midfielder scored one goal and created another to heap more pressure on Luhukay.
Defeat leaves Wednesday in 18th position, just five points above the relegation zone.
Luhukay, who walked out on a post-match radio interview after he was questioned about his future, said: "It is unbelievable that we gave the one goal lead so easily away. I'm completely frustrated and it was not necessary. We had the control.
"I am so angry because the players are showing no proof of what we are doing. It is not the first time we have gone one or two nil in front and in three or four minutes we give the game completely away. It is painful."
Seven people were sentenced on Wednesday by the Nicosia criminal court to between eight months and five years in prison after being found guilty for human trafficking in connection with attempted sham marriages.
The case was brought to light in March 2016, police said, when three women, nationals of a European country, were located locked in a Nicosia apartment following a police raid.
It emerged that the three women were victims of human trafficking. They told police they arrived in Cyprus after receiving promises by some people they would find employment with high salaries. After arriving in Cyprus, the people escorting them locked them in an apartment with the aim of forcing them to enter into sham marriages with third-country nationals.
A 52-year-old man was sentenced to eight months in prison, a 28-year-old man to one year, three persons aged 26,27, and 28 to two years, a 37-year-old woman to four years and a 49-year-old woman to five years.
Last Tuesday morning I heard on CyBC radio that the ’58 year old man’ so described by the CM was a lawyer and the lady radio presenter on Trito radio was perplexed as to why ‘he’ was only sentenced to eight months and the rest got much heavier custodial sentences.
She ended up challenging the lawyers body to come clean and issue a public announcement.I shouted “wishful thinking”.
We all know that is not going to happen ,don’t we.
Laughable sentences for the scum. Are police on the take?
They came over from the North.
Don’t ask questions you know the answer to!
It is not the police’s job to determine sentences. Prosecution normally ask for the sentences and the judge decides. However in the south the system is not exactly clean for as member of the EU, is it?
The system is unique on the island of Venus.
New life is again being touted for the long-maligned former Ballarat Orphanage in Ballarat, with a bid to create a childcare centre on the site. An eyesore in Ballarat’s major entryway, the main Victoria Street street-facing building known as the toddler’s block, transformed into facility for 84 children. Plans were lodged by developer Bentley Property Group to City of Ballarat this week. It’s a significant step forward for one of Ballarat’s largest infill sites, where development has been slowed by heritage concerns. One of the distinctive brickwork entry porticos on the Victoria Street face will be removed but will still remain as an entry, while an eastern section of the building is to be demolished and replaced with a rectangular wood and glass extension. Under the plan, a new internal courtyard and garden will be created in the centre of the toddler’s block building, as well as another small courtyard place space attached to a room for eight babies. Bentley Property Group director Andrew Ferguson said the new proposal hoped to be sensitive to the heritage value of the building. “With the City of Ballarat’s guidance we are pleased to have lodged an application to redevelop the current vacant Toddlers Block with what is a respectful adaptive reuse,” he said. “We wanted to ensure the Heritage values of the building are saved while still ensuring a state of the art/industry leading Child Care Centre to be created.” Current plans show a car park with twenty car spaces abutting the Victoria Street edge, with space for four bicycles. The existing and new parts of the building will total 879 square metres, with the play spaces measuring 1478 square metres. A number of non-essential internal walls, used to create offices for former Damascus College staff, will also be removed under the proposal. A separate plan to develop a Ryan’s IGA at 200 Victoria Street was lodged with council at the end of April. Under the plan the former Damascus school building would be incorporated into a new shopping precinct, equipped with four separate retail spaces. A new 109-space car park with access from both Victoria and Stawell streets will also be constructed if the project receives approval. READ MORE Shopping revival planned for school building at orphanage site The new planning application comes as works began on the sites of two of Ballarat’s most controversial medium density builds at the end of October, as City of Ballarat continues an ambitious focus on infill development. Visible preparatory works had started on the former orphanage site, while works to clear the former Anglican school site on St Paul's Way in readiness for development also began. A ‘high priority’ of City of Ballarat’s passed planning scheme amendment in October was the preparation of a compact city plan, which states they will ‘encourage 50 per cent of future housing development to occur in established neighbourhoods’.
New life is again being touted for the long-maligned former Ballarat Orphanage in Ballarat, with a bid to create a childcare centre on the site.
An eyesore in Ballarat’s major entryway, the main Victoria Street street-facing building known as the toddler’s block, transformed into facility for 84 children.
Plans were lodged by developer Bentley Property Group to City of Ballarat this week. It’s a significant step forward for one of Ballarat’s largest infill sites, where development has been slowed by heritage concerns.
One of the distinctive brickwork entry porticos on the Victoria Street face will be removed but will still remain as an entry, while an eastern section of the building is to be demolished and replaced with a rectangular wood and glass extension.
Under the plan, a new internal courtyard and garden will be created in the centre of the toddler’s block building, as well as another small courtyard place space attached to a room for eight babies.
Bentley Property Group director Andrew Ferguson said the new proposal hoped to be sensitive to the heritage value of the building.
“With the City of Ballarat’s guidance we are pleased to have lodged an application to redevelop the current vacant Toddlers Block with what is a respectful adaptive reuse,” he said.
Current plans show a car park with twenty car spaces abutting the Victoria Street edge, with space for four bicycles.
The existing and new parts of the building will total 879 square metres, with the play spaces measuring 1478 square metres.
A number of non-essential internal walls, used to create offices for former Damascus College staff, will also be removed under the proposal.
A separate plan to develop a Ryan’s IGA at 200 Victoria Street was lodged with council at the end of April.
Under the plan the former Damascus school building would be incorporated into a new shopping precinct, equipped with four separate retail spaces.
A new 109-space car park with access from both Victoria and Stawell streets will also be constructed if the project receives approval.
The new planning application comes as works began on the sites of two of Ballarat’s most controversial medium density builds at the end of October, as City of Ballarat continues an ambitious focus on infill development.
Visible preparatory works had started on the former orphanage site, while works to clear the former Anglican school site on St Paul's Way in readiness for development also began.
A ‘high priority’ of City of Ballarat’s passed planning scheme amendment in October was the preparation of a compact city plan, which states they will ‘encourage 50 per cent of future housing development to occur in established neighbourhoods’.
It's a big moment for Bitcoin. The digital currency has gotten an official nod from the overseer of U.S. currency in the form of a primer out of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Senior economist François R. Velde wrote an elegant critique of the four-year-old currency, explaining its mechanics, limitations, and prospects for success, ultimately deeming it a "remarkable conceptual and technical achievement, which may well be used by existing financial institutions." If this were Economic Mean Girls, this is the part of the movie where Lindsay 'Bitcoin' Lohan gets friended by the powerful, popular crowd.
Velde starts out by laying out the numbers. Producing a bitcoin "at current levels of difficulty requires a machine worth about $3,000 and about a dollar’s worth of electricity per day," meaning the cost of producing one bitcoin, taking into account the machine's depreciation over five years, is about $2.50. While the estimate seems to discount the steadily rising cost of higher-powered machines that are necessary for more complex hashing -- and the pools of machines necessary for mining -- with Bitcoins currently valued at 100 times that, you can see why companies offering 'mining' equipment are doing such good business.
Velde points out that there is $1,200 billion circulating in U.S. currency compared to $1 billion in Bitcoin (when he authored the December 2013 paper). Thanks to a recent price surge to over $250, the market cap for the nearly 12 million Bitcoin in existence is now well over $3 billion, but even given that, Bitcoin is a "relatively small phenomenon," as Velde puts it. "But it has been growing," he writes. "[T]he value of a bitcoin has increased tenfold since early 2013."
"So far, the uses of bitcoin as a medium of exchange appear limited, particularly if one excludes illegal activities," notes Velde. "It has been used as a means to transfer funds outside of traditional and regulated channels and, presumably, as a speculative investment opportunity."
For those who have pondered what bitcoin actually is -- currency vs. stock vs. money -- Velde has an answer. It's a fiduciary currency, he writes, explaining it has no intrinsic value meaning it's "inherently fragile," deriving value only from "exchange either from government fiat or from the belief that they may be accepted by someone else." That's much like the no-longer-gold-backed U.S. dollar, say many Bitcoin believers.
So is it viable as a currency people would actually want to use for anything beyond Silk Road 2.0, asks Velde. While Bitcoin attempts to act like cash online, there are "costs."
"One prominent cost is the loss of anonymity," he writes. One of the biggest myths around bitcoin is that it is "anonymous." While it is has been useful for getting your fix online because a purchase with it entails far less personal information than using a credit card or Paypal account, the currency's security is predicated on the fact that everything is traceable. So you only remain anonymous if you never tie a purchase to your identity.
"Possession of the virtual currency must be linked to the unique identifier of the wallet," writes Velde. "Admittedly, there is no limit on the number of wallets one can own and there are ways to make the wallet hard to trace back to its owner, but these require additional efforts."
The other cost is speed. While small transactions with Bitcoin are usually processed immediately, larger ones take longer because they must be confirmed by miners and that only happens when the transactions are included in the block chain which happens about every ten minutes. "For large amounts it is customary to wait for six blocks, or one hour," writes Velde. That is long but for those of us who have had Paypal freeze a transaction for five days (as it did when I tried to send a large amount to a new person as a security deposit on my apartment) or when a bank refuses to send a wire transfer at all, it does not seem like that long a delay.
"Why this delay to complete bitcoin transactions?" writes Velde. "It is rooted in the decentralized nature of the bitcoin network (and its reliance on a sort of majority voting), which is both its most ambitious feature and its main vulnerability."
Velde is most critical of the governance structure of Bitcoin. The code is deployed by a group of five core developers -- who are loosely empowered with the responsibility for deciding when Bitcoin is "broken" -- with a larger body of Bitcoin users and miners deciding on changes to be made.
"Although some of the enthusiasm for bitcoin is driven by a distrust of state-issued currency," writes Velde, "it is hard to imagine a world where the main currency is based on an extremely complex code understood by only a few and controlled by even fewer, without accountability, arbitration, or recourse."
It works for the governance of the Internet -- Hi, ICANN! -- so perhaps it can work for Bitcoin too.
Velde also dispels the notion that Bitcoin fulfills the Hayekian concept of denationalization of money. While Bitcoin is indeed stateless, it "is not issued by a private enterprise operating in a competitive environment, disciplined by the market to maintain the stable value of its currency," as economist Friedrich Hayek imagined, but is instead issued automatically at a predictable rate. Austrian economists everywhere will surely collectively issue a sigh of relief at having that straightened out.
"Some of bitcoin’s features make it less convenient than existing currencies and payment systems, particularly for those who have no strong desire to avoid them in the first place," writes Velde.
In other words, if you're not trying to evade trade sanctions or the DEA and you're not a philosophical convert, what's the point?
If it does catch on, Velde predicts it's unlikely to remain free of government intervention, "if only because the governance of the bitcoin code and network is opaque and vulnerable." Beyond the Fed, Bitcoin is already getting scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators with some, like New York's state financial regulator hinting at intervention plans. The Senate Homeland Security Committee, meanwhile, plans on holding hearings on Bitcoin within the month, according to Time.
Velde ultimately gives Bitcoin a thumbs up: "[I]t represents a remarkable conceptual and technical achievement, which may well be used by existing financial institutions (which could issue their own bitcoins) or even by governments themselves."
No 'burn book' for Bitcoin.
Disclosure: Author owns Bitcoin that remain from her week of living on them.
jump on U.S.-based programmers that have already been let into the market.
the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in 1996.
reaching more than 15 percent of the cable-subscriber base.
What they want varies from company to company.
analog access by Sept. 1.
aggressive: It wants access to analog now.
didn't happen when Canadian cable TV launched its last package of Canadian/U.S.
demands, Stursberg said, "I presume that they'll stick to their rules."
industry, rather than the four newcomers, could bear the brunt of consumer complaints.
Kim Davis, the county clerk for Rowan County in Kentucky.
When Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk Kim Davis refused to issue marriage licenses following the 2015 Supreme Court Decision legalizing gay marriage, she cited “God’s authority” and became a hero to right-wingers, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and then-candidate, now Kentucky governor Matt Bevin, who said: “Without any question I support her.” When Davis was later arrested for refusing to comply with a court order to issue licenses, Bevin even tweeted about visiting the clerk in jail.
Now, after a string of court losses, the time is approaching for her to pay more than $220,000 in attorneys’ fees awarded to plaintiffs who sued Davis and the state of Kentucky over the clerk’s “protest.” These days, Bevin is no longer unquestionably supporting Davis. Instead, the governor’s lawyers have argued in federal court that Davis should pay up, personally if need be.
Every minute of every hour of every day, vast quantities of people are moving around the world by air. More than 3 billion people and 50 million metric tons of cargo were transported by air last year.
Long term demand is for 38,050 airplanes valued at US$5.6 trillion in the next 20 years. This is a very high growth industry.
John QuirkJoin us at our next NZSA event to hear from a panel of aviation industry software leaders who are at the forefront of this growing sector. The panel discussion, hosted by John Quirk, Director at Howard & Company, will include Mark McCaughan, CEO - merlot.aero, Simon Mitchell, Head of Product - Matchbyte, and Martin Grant, Chief Innovation Officer - Private Flight.
The Dead Space sci-fi horror games have nothing to do with the Mass Effect sci-fi shooter/adventure games, other than that they're published by the same giant corporation, EA. But now they're ever-so-slightly crossing over.
EA is letting people who have a Mass Effect 3 save file unlock special Mass Effect N7 armor in next month's Dead Space 3. We're checking with EA about whether the unlock works across platforms, if, say, you played ME3 on PC and will play DS3 on PS3.
UPDATE: An EA rep confirms that this is platform-specific. You'd have to be playing Dead Space 3 on the same console (Xbox 360 or PS3) as you played Mass Effect 3.
Mass Effect armor is also unlockable in Final Fantasy XIII-2. Everybody's wearing it!
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this program by some unscrupulous elements.
than 10 working days from today.
Only,).Which has been insured in a Security Company.
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The Euro Millones Lottery Program internet draw is held once in a year an is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.
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Please let me know whether this is the true agency or not.
I would also inform you that he has never visited any web sites.
as part of our promotional draws.
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hi i have just received a letter saying i have won the international lotto by loteria primitiva they are asking for bank details to pay money into my account is this a total scam .If so i think this is a cruel joke .
online Sweepstakes International program held on 4th APRIL 2006.
subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. match 6 .
booklet representative office in Africa as indicated in your play coupon.
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
abuse of this program. Please be warned.
officer by phone and fax.

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