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Over the past year, however, internatiοnal cοncern has spread over a series of incidents that have further undermined cοnfidence in Hοng Kοng’s rights landscape, including the de facto expulsiοn of a British journalist after he hosted a speech by an independence activist at a press club.
The mοve against Chu adds to a list of other demοcrats who have been banned frοm cοntesting electiοns, fuelling fears of tightening pοlitical “red lines” by Beijing that cοuld deny Hοng Kοng’s disaffected yοung people any mainstream pοlitical careers beyοnd street prοtest.
In a statement, a gοvernment spοkesman said late οn Sunday that the gοvernment “agrees to and suppοrts the decisiοn” to ban Chu. It also denied there had been “any pοlitical censοrship, restrictiοn of the freedom of speech οr deprivatiοn of the right to stand fοr electiοns”.
Hοng Kοng authοrities say “self-determinatiοn”, οr seeking greater autοnomy frοm China, violates the city’s mini-cοnstitutiοn, the Basic Law, which states that Hοng Kοng is an inalienable part of China.
Mastercard is ready to use Blockchain technology to improve its services and processes. According to newly published patent filings, the company is analyzing blockchain technology for keeping track of consumer payments.
Mastercard explains that it is possible to use blockchain technology and record ‘point-to-point’ transactions’ as they are processed. This would simplify the process used to register orders and how they are monitored.
The patent application says that it is possible to provide more services to entities. Moreover, these new services are more secure and transparent than other systems.
However, these patent filings are not related with cryptocurrencies. Back in July, we wrote at UseTheBitcoin that Mastercard CEO called virtual currencies ‘junk.’ Ajay Banga said that cryptocurrencies cannot be considered a medium of exchange since their price fluctuates widely.
Seth Eisen, Mastercard’s senior vice president, said that some customers prefer using virtual currencies for anonymity and security.
The document explains that while blockchain currencies can secure payer’s information, the security may be limited for payees. This happens due to the current limitations of blockchain systems.
Other companies such as American Express are implementing different blockchain solutions to improve their products. American Express would be using Hyperledger technology in order to power its loyalty rewards program.
Mike Johnston, Democratic candidate for Governor, was in Akron last Monday, March 12. Johnston made stops in several other towns in northeastern Colorado during the day. While in Akron, he spent time with Tab Odell and Tammy Webster to discuss the family owned business. Johnston said it was a good story to learn about the business and what they had been through. Shown above, left to right are, Tammy Webster, Mike Johnston and Tab Odell.
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Thinking it is cold and missing the summer!! I colored these sunflowers last summer and waited till I found a background that suited my fancy. Here is What I came up with. Also playing with a new camera.... the flowers aren't this bright in real life!
Tommorow I am going to a morning stamp camp and then in the afternoon a road trip with a couple of crafty friends!
I hope you have a nice weekend and thanks for stopping by!
I love your coloring...and can see why you waited for the frame! it really sits the flowers off. Beautiful! Hope you had a great day out with the girls.
lovely sunflower coloring! The cards are adorable, Ginny!
THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!!
Therese “Patricia” Okoumou, who said she climbed the statue to protest Trump’s immigration policies, faces up to 18 months in prison.
A New York woman who scaled the Statue of Liberty to protest the Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy was found guilty of three misdemeanor counts on Monday ― but said she’d do it all again if given the chance.
Therese “Patricia” Okoumou faces up to 18 months in federal prison after being found guilty of trespassing, interference with government agency functions and disorderly conduct following the July 4th stunt along the iconic statue’s base. She will be sentenced on March 5, ABC 7 News reported.
Okoumu pleaded not guilty to the charges before Federal Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein. She said she was motivated to take a public stand on behalf of immigrant children who were separated from their families and detained at the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this year.
“Unfortunately, as long as our children are being placed in cages my moral values call for me to do something about it,” Okoumou testified in Manhattan Federal Court on Monday, according to the New York Daily News.
Therese "Patricia" Okoumou, who was arrested for climbing the Statue of Liberty in July, was convicted on Monday of trespassing, interference with government agency functions and disorderly conduct.
Prosecutors argued that she put not only herself at risk, but first responders as well.
New York City's Liberty Island was evacuated after Okoumu climbed up onto the Statue of Liberty's base on the Fourth of July to protest the Trump Administration’s immigration policy.
“Our laws sometimes lack morality and this is the perfect example of that,” she said.
Therese “Patricia” Okoumou was represented on Monday in part by attorney Michael Avenatii.
She was echoed by another one of her attorneys, Michael Avenatti, who’s perhaps best known for representing adult film star Stormy Daniels in a lawsuit against President Donald Trump.
Deported Parents Make Desperate, Last-Ditch Effort To Reunite With Separated Kids In U.S.
Established in 2000 by the Boyd family, Skydive Spaceland is a three-generation family drop zone business specializing in innovative, constantly refined skydiving education. The first Skydive Spaceland location opened just south of Houston, Texas in 2000, and quickly grew into one of the busiest skydiving centers in the world as well as host to the world’s largest skydiving competition, the United States Parachute Association National Skydiving Championships.
Skydive Spaceland-Florida took the place of Skydive Air Adventures in Clewiston, Fla., in 2013, and Skydive Spaceland-Atlanta opened for business in May 2015. Skydive Spaceland acquired Skydive Dallas in April 2016 and began operating there as Skydive Spaceland Dallas.
If you are looking to skydive for the first time (tandem skydiving) in the Atlanta, Birmingham, or Chattanooga areas, bring it on over here! Our facility and staff stand ready to give you the freefalling time of your life whether you’re looking to fly by yourself, bring a couple of friends, or throw down a big skydiving party or corporate retreat/team-building event. Our aircraft will allow up to 11 tandem skydivers to jump from the same flight. We are open every day but Christmas, operating from 8 am to 6 pm on Mondays, Thursdays & Fridays; and 7:30 am to sunset or later on weekends.
Skydive Spaceland-Atlanta serves Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina parachutists in the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Chattanooga areas. However, we also routinely host skydivers from around the world. One of the reasons jumpers come here for freefall and parachute training is because we are a busy drop zone, allowing our customers to get their basic skydiving A license in as little as a week. Another is that our program is, quite simply, one of the biggest and the best. Last year, Skydive Spaceland-Houston graduated more than twice as many skydivers to their basic (A) license than any other skydiving school in the United States. We’ve had friends visit us from as far away as Germany and Australia solely to learn to skydive with us.
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Its actually simpler than Post Builder. Procs & Calls goes into the service layer, or you can create new layers for each functions and UDE if you want to keep this modular/cleaner. Siemens also added a Definition File and UDE Editors which make that even easier to manage than PB.
Pan, F; Draayer, JP; Guo, L; Pan, F , Liaoning Normal Univ, Dept Phys, Dalian 116029, Peoples R China.
Abstract The nuclear mean field plus stare-dependent pairing problem is studied by using the Bethe ansatz method. It is shown that the Hamiltonian can be expanded in terms of generators of the infinite-dimensional Lie algebra <(SU(2))over cap> without central extension. Exact solutions for excited energies and the corresponding eigenstates of the nuclear pairing problem are derived through the Bethe ansatz equations.
Corresponding Author Pan, F , Liaoning Normal Univ, Dept Phys, Dalian 116029, Peoples R China.
GB/T 7714 Pan, F,Draayer, JP,Guo, L,et al. Exact solutions for the mean field plus state-dependent pairing Hamiltonian[J]. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL,2000,33(8):1597-1602.
APA Pan, F,Draayer, JP,Guo, L,&Pan, F , Liaoning Normal Univ, Dept Phys, Dalian 116029, Peoples R China..(2000).Exact solutions for the mean field plus state-dependent pairing Hamiltonian.JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL,33(8),1597-1602.
MLA Pan, F,et al."Exact solutions for the mean field plus state-dependent pairing Hamiltonian".JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL 33.8(2000):1597-1602.
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In addition to a multi city presence, BE also launched a special roll out of five murals for the My Morning Jacket album release in the Summer of 2015. The artwork in each city was created by various artists, with each of their own individual interpretation of the band’s album cover aptly titled the Waterfall. This unique project took place in Chicago, Nashville, New York, Los Angeles and Louisville. Chris Chappell, artist of the Louisville mural location actually earned the top spot with his work earning bragging rights as the winner of Louisville Mural of the year! Beautify Earth was proud to have worked in collaboration with all of the artists on this multi city, album release initiative.
This project shows what’s possible when a great companies and musicians come together for a common cause.
To bring the freedom of dance to many. To inspire love in living. To empower communities, beautify, and create smiles.
Jeremy Pingul, a travelling BE ambassador and entrepreneur of eco-friendly garments, started his beautification journey in San Cristobal.
Having lived and painted in a number of cities across the country, Noah Neighbor now works to develop the Seattle art scene.
Geoclub is an official University of Florida student organization, run by undergraduate students in the Department of Geological Sciences, for anyone with an interest in Earth Science.
Activities: Geoclub provide invaluable undergraduate volunteer support for various departmental outreach activities in collaboration with the Geoscience Ambassadors program. We organize several departmental social events throughout the academic year including the Fall Chili Cook-off, Winter Formal and End-of-Year Awards Event. These social events are integral to the development of community between undergraduates, graduates, postdocs, and faculty, that contribute to the highly collaborative atmosphere in the department.
As it becomes increasingly plausible President Trump could win re-election in 2020, some in the mainstream media have taken aim at what he is doing to position himself for the race and casting it in negative terms.
Vanity Fair had two such pieces up Wednesday. One, headlined, “Trump’s Next Campaign May Be Even Crazier Than The First,” by Tina Nguyen, argues Trump won the 2016 election “despite being a shambling jalopy of a campaign,” because “Trump’s schtick was new and the moment was right,” and that we better beware what he will do now that neither is the case.
The other, headlined, “Pence is Not Stupid: As Trump Sinks, GOP Insiders See A Shadow Campaign Taking Shape,” by David Drucker, attempts to paint Vice President Mike Pence’s work on behalf of Republican congressional candidates as an undercover plot to position Pence to move forward if President Trump falters in any way.
Nguyen’s theory is that Trump, who bested 17 Republicans to gain the GOP nomination, then defeated the most well-funded, best-connected and, according to former President Obama “best prepared” candidate of all time – a woman, no less, at the height of the identity politics craze – had an easy run in 2016 compared to what he will face in 2020.
“Trump’s campaign had two big things going for it … a feckless group of establishment primary challengers in a year when the conservative base was ready to revolt, and a widely loathed Democratic opponent in Hillary Clinton,” Nguyen wrote.
Now, he has “slashed corporate taxes and presides over a booming economy, both factors that have helped him and his affiliated super PACs raise over $73 million in 2017 alone.” Trump raised $43 million last year, four times what President Obama raised during his first two years in office, Nguyen tells us.
This is critical because “political lightning rarely strikes twice,” Nguyen wrote, apparently unaware the last three presidents have served two terms.
And while he’s at it, he needs to keep a close eye on Pence. All that running around the country campaigning and fundraising for Republican candidates that the vice president does may not be all in the name of … electing more Republicans to Congress and helping his boss have a successful next two years.
Drucker seemed to hold out hope Trump’s presidency could still crash and burn and to suspect Pence is readying himself for these eventualities.
This “buzz about Pence’s political aspirations has become something of a parlor game in Washington,” and much of what Pence has done can be put down to typical fundraising and election activity. Pence’s operatives say everything they do has the blessing of Trump and his campaign.
Joe and I are now the proud owners of two weeks off (hurrah!) - I will still be blogging away merrily though, no fear good people (unless you want a rest from me of course?!). The week running up to a holiday for me is both exciting and stressful because I am trying to get everything done so I can switch off and try not to worry for 14 whole days and another part of me is all 'come on Friday!' and throwing caution to the wind! But it is here, the day, Friday! Let's round up what has been happening this week shall we?
Costas peach and lemonade on ice...oh my! Heavenly goodness in a plastic cup with a straw!
A full on health overhaul. It is happening. Yesterday I was working from home and got up and went to the gym for 6.30am. I felt buzzing and ready for the day. I have really sorted the nutrition this week too; I've increased my protein intake and reduced the carbs down a notch. The biggest thing for me is not having things like cereal bars that are full of sugar right before bed just because I have a cup of tea (I need training that tea can be drunk without a companion!). Instead of that I am just drinking water and ending the day with a good protein shake made with water to feed and help heal the body over night.
Teaching Joe about Twitter. He is running his bands Twitter Page now so go and follow and check it out if you fancy. You can also find them on Sound Cloud. I love their song 'Into the Air'.
Lots of skincare samples in my magazines...let's face it, I can't afford them so it is nice to have a little insight into how young I could be looking!
Seeing Joe get all soppy over all the cats on the cats protection website. From someone who, not so long ago, didn't want to go near any animals he is doing pretty well.
(Am I allowed to say our new hoover?) Our new hoover. Every darn hoover I have ever owned has been beyond rubbish, I would have more success sucking up the dust through a straw (?!). As an early wedding present my mum and dad brought us a ruddy awesome hoover that we got all excited about as we pushed it around the just hoovered lounge and it picked up loads of floor junk! I know I am officially needing more to do in my life when I spend an evening saying to Joe 'just look at that carpet! It's amazing...there's hoover lines on the floor...I can't wait to do the whole house'...help me.
A girly movie night. It is not often that I force Joe to watch a film that I really like that I don't think he will, in fact, I don't believe I have ever done that, but I am feeling a 'Notebook' night coming on. I adore that film and may have to throw it out there as an option this weekend. Maybe I can balance it out with some guitar hero Metallica afterwards.
Don Schaeffer’s great trumpet method catalogue is being re-released through qPress as part of a joint venture with the great publisher Pro Art Publications. These duets have been out of print for decades, and I am thrilled to help get them back into circulation.
These duets are published for all treble clef brass instruments, ideally trumpet, french horn, or baritone in TC.
Unless you’re mega rich or working in a full time job, funding your small business idea can be a real headache. For me and other budding mumpreneurs – and I’m thinking of full time mums with children at home under 5 – this can be make or break.
Now, I’m not saying I’m some sort of expert. I’m just a mum who took her dream a step forward to become a reality. Charlie Moo’s is a bit like my third child, growing around my family life, through customer feedback, the likes and dislikes of my children and my finances.
So how did I get started?
Well, as crazy as it sounds, my initial idea came about while I was pregnant with Megan. Charlie had not long turned one and I’d been enjoying motherhood but was in need of brain stimulation. So what was my plan? I bought £56.65 of wooden fillers from a shopkeeping friend and sold them at school fêtes and village carnivals. ‘Daddy Moo’ and Charlie would come along and help me set up and then come back to help me pack up.
I was actually selling products at a carnival 2 weeks before my due date! Once Megan was born, in August 2008, I started working on my website. Well, what else do you do at 3am, when you’re up breastfeeding?
So now I had a website (www.charliemoos.co.uk) to start selling, but this kind of thing doesn’t happen over night! So I needed to keep doing local events. I’d take Megan with me, as newborns tend to sleep most of the day, and Charlie and Daddy Moo would enjoy some time together. But I still needed more money to invest in things like branding and my business identity.
In January last year, I replied to a media request from Take a Break magazine. It was all about people who’d changed careers after having children. Perfect for me! And I was paid £150, but more importantly national media coverage for Charlie Moo’s.
So, by now, I had a product, which was selling reasonably well; I had a website and a brand, but I needed to take it one step further.
So, I joined the Prince’s Trust Business Mentor Scheme – a four day intensive course by the end of which I’d gained a fabulous business mentor and support for 2 years. I also qualified for a £200 ‘will it work’ grant.
As Megan and Charlie Moo’s speed towards their second birthday I still haven’t needed to look for more investment. Sometimes I have to wait to pursue new ideas, as Charlie Moo’s funds itself, which I’m really proud of! I’ve not risked my family’s finances or taken out loans or anything.
Joanne Dewberry runs Charlie Moo (party bags, gifts and toys) from her home in rural Dorset. She also started Networking Mummies (Dorset) with Laura Morris of Rentabuggy.co.uk.
I know how fab is she!
This should really inspire others to take those first steps! Well done Joanne.
A jpourney of a thousand miles begins with a single step…indeedy!
Thank you everyone 🙂 Sometimes you just have to believe and be patient and it will all work out.
What a great story! Well done you I love hearing of mum’s doing what they do best and also being able to spend more time with their children!

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