Farmers want 100% compensation - Real Estate India

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PUNE: Affected?farmers?and city-based organizations have opposed the state government-appointed committee?s recommendation of four per cent TDR as compensation for land acquired for biodiversity parks (BDP).

?The BDP reservation and compensation for reservation should be 100%. The state government?s committee on BDP has suggested four per cent TDR for land acquisition. This is injustice to farmers whose land will be acquired. We will organize a BDP-affected farmers? conference and file a public interest litigation in the?Bombay High Court,? said Ujwal Keskar, former corporator and founder of city-based Pune Janhit Aghadi.

The six-member committee headed by K B Jain, dean, faculty of doctoral studies, centre for environmental planning and technology, Ahmedabad, has strongly recommended that the BDP reservation, though not a zone as recommended by the?Pune Municipal Corporation?(PMC), on the hills, forest and other green areas in these villages should stay. The committee has suggested four per cent TDR for those whose land will be acquired for the BDP.

A group of farmers whose land will be acquired for the BDP have also expressed unhappiness over the state government?s committee report recommendation and demanded 100 % compensation. Farmers have also demanded that the state government should be clearer on the concept of ?committed development? and do a comprehensive review of the ongoing constructions in BDP.

The PMC had recommended BDP zoning on 978.54 hectares spread across seven hills. The committee recommended that 73 hectares proposed under BDP zone be deleted and included in residential zone to honour ?committed development?.

Thus, the expert committee has proposed to provide a relief to the developers and land owners on these 73 hectares where layouts for construction activity had already been sanctioned. ?The reservation would finally have the area of 905.54 hectares, on the exclusion of 73 hectares on which the development permission should be honoured,? the report said.

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How to remove algae from your inground swimming pool

James Atlas

James Atlas, an 18-year veteran of the swimming pool industry, is the owner and co-principal of Platinum Poolcare Ltd., a residential swimming pool construction, renovation and maintenance company with service to several commercial aquatic properties including the Bulls, Bears and White Sox training facilities.

Platinum Poolcare Owner James Atlas came to the pool industry after three years of options trading after college, cashing in his chips to work with father Ronald Atlas, owner of Paragon Pools, a commercial pool construction and design company. An entrepreneur at heart, Atlas quickly started up an off?shoot company, Fountain Technologies, through which he designed and constructed water features for luxury residential and commercial properties.

When his brother took over that company, Atlas founded Pool Watch, a management company servicing recreational pools with lifeguard staffing, facility openings, closings and general maintenance. He sold Fountain Technologies and Pool Watch in 1994 and 1995.

Looking to broaden his skill set in the pool servicing industry, Atlas went back to his family pool business, working as a project estimator for multi-million-dollar waterparks, competition pools, high-rise pools, and other large-scale projects.

After a few years, Atlas began receiving consistent inquiries from residential property owners interested in pool construction and servicing. With his father?s blessing, Atlas took the reigns on those new accounts and formed a new company called Platinum Aquatech.

Again looking to go off on his own, Atlas teamed up with Terry Smith, owner of Poolcare Aquatech, another partner company with Ronald Atlas which focused on the service and maintenance. The two companies merged, with Terry and James owning a fifty-fifty share in 2007, effectively becoming Platinum Poolcare Aquatech, Ltd.

Company Background

Platinum Poolcare Aquatech, Ltd., founded in 2007, and resulting from a merger of Platinum Aquatech, Ltd. (luxury swimming pool construction) and Poolcare Aquatech, Ltd.(service, repairs, renovations of swimming pools and spas), specializes in all aspects of pool design, construction and renovation with added focus on specialty aquatic features such as waterfalls, lazy rivers, rock water applications, statuary and other luxury waterscape amenities. The company also provides installation and maintenance services for its customers.

Platinum Poolcare has raised the standards of excellence in residential and commercial pools, spa and waterscape design and construction. We have a combined half-century of experience in building, servicing, maintaining, and renovating award-winning and nationally-recognized gunite pools throughout the greater Chicago area and other Midwest states.

Based in Wheeling, Ill., the company?s headquarters spans 10,000 square-feet of warehouse and office space with 46 trucks, 130 employees during peak season, and one of the industry?s largest onsite replacement parts inventory for quick fixes.

Platinum Poolcare has repeatedly graced the cover of various industry magazines, and has earned hundreds of awards for its designs. The company belongs to the prestigious, invitation-only Aquatech Society for professional pool builders.

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Maria Sharapova and Sasha Vujacic End Engagement - US Weekly.

Maria Sharapova never made it down the aisle.

During the tennis player's post-match news conference at the U.S. Open August 31, the 25-year-old -- who had just beat Mallory Burdette, 6-1, 6-1 -- revealed she and professional basketball player Sasha Vujacic quietly ended their engagement several months ago.

PHOTOS: Hollywood's broken engagements

"It's been since the end of spring," Sharapova told reporters (via E! News). "I was waiting for someone to actually ask me that question."

In October 2010, former Los Angeles Lakers forward Vujacic, 28, popped the question with an engagement ring valued at $250,000. Sharapova, 25, said little about their relationship in the years after Vujacic proposed.

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"I have never really been the person to announce things. I never announced when we were together or never announced we were engaged," she explained August 31. "I never have in any of my previous relationships, as well."

The decision to split from Vujacic was "challenging," Sharapova added.

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"It was a really nice period of time for both of us, but our career schedules just made it extremely difficult to see each other with the traveling and especially his career move to Turkey. But we have a tremendous amount of respect for each other," the Russian beauty said. "I still would love to call him as a friend. We spent really great years together."

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S. Africa demands answers on murder charges for miners

South Africa's justice minister demanded Friday that prosecutors explain why 270 miners have been charged with murdering 34 colleagues shot dead by police in a move widely denounced by legal experts.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) charged the workers on Thursday, based on a rule used by the former apartheid regime, for the shooting two weeks ago at the Lonmin platinum mine that shocked the world.

"There is no doubt that the NPA's decision has induced a sense of shock, panic and confusion within the members of the community and the general South African public," said Justice Minister Jeff Radebe.

"It is therefore incumbent upon me to seek clarity on the basis upon which such a decision is taken," he said.

Radebe has demanded a report from the national director of public prosecutions to explain the rationale behind Thursday's decision over the August 16 shooting, the worst day of police violence in South Africa since the end of white-minority apartheid rule in 1994.

Police claimed self-defence in the shooting, after an escalating standoff between rival unions had already killed 10 people including two police officers during an increasingly bitter strike over pay at Lonmin's Marikana mine.

NPA spokesman Frank Lesenyego told the media it was normal procedure to charge those arrested during a confrontation with police when fatalities resulted.

No police officer has been charged.

Radebe's comments come on the eve of funerals Saturday for many of the workers killed at the Marikana mine, which lies outside Rustenburg, northwest of Johannesburg, and remains shut after the failure of talks to end the strike.

"My view is that this decision to prosecute (the miners) is premature, it's outrageous actually," said Stephen Tuson, an attorney at the Wits Law Clinic in Johannesburg.

The apartheid era common purpose rule which prosecutors are apparently basing their decision on would be hard to prove, the legal experts said.

"There's nothing unconstitutional or irregular or unfair about the rule, it's a necessary rule in crowd violence situations," said Tuson.

But "it's the application in this particular case which is suspect. It was clearly the wrong decision, it's inflammatory, it's provocative. There's no evidence to support it."

Constitutional law expert Pierre De Vos said there was no basis for charges under a 1956 apartheid incitement act or the common purpose doctrine which has its roots in British colonial law. Both were used during the apartheid regime.

"Unless what we saw on our TV screens never happened or unless the NPA is hiding shocking and bizarre conspiracy theory-type evidence from us that places the events we saw on television in an entirely different light, there could be no possible valid reason," he wrote on his blog.

A columnist in the online edition of The New Age newspaper, whose owners are linked to the ruling ANC, said the charges were a desperate move but also a concession "that the way the apartheid government applied laws to deal with opponents deserves to be emulated".

Meanwhile, talks between Lonmin and workers and unions seeking a "peace accord" have been postponed to Monday after two days of government mediated negotiations failed to broker a deal at Marikana.

"We can't say that we are happy with the progress so far. The employer has not made any wage offer, all they want is for the workers to simply return to work," said Zolani Bodlani, a representative of the workers.

The striking miners want a wage increase from 4,000 rand a month to 12,500 rand (1,181 euros, $1,477).

Lonmin, the world's number three platinum producer, says the workers already earn around 10,000 rand when bonuses and other compensation are included.

"We have no faith in the talks, they are just a distraction to make Lonmin appear as if they are doing something," Joseph Mathunjwa, leader of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union told reporters.

"There is no tangible offer that the employer has made to try and address the cause of the strike, which is the issue of the wages."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/africa-seeks-answers-murder-charge-miners-001945408.html

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US 'scales down' military exercise with Israel

The United States has significantly scaled down a planned joint military exercise with Israel most likely because of disagreements on how to deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions, Time magazine has reported on its website.

Citing "well-placed sources in both countries", the magazine said Washington was slashing by more than two-thirds the number of US troops going to Israel, and reducing the number and potency of missile interception systems that will be used in the exercise dubbed Austere Challenge 12, which is scheduled for October.

Instead of approximately 5,000 US troops, the Pentagon will send between 1,200 and 1,500. Patriot anti-missile systems will arrive in Israel as planned, but the crews to operate them will not, according to the report.

Instead of two Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense warships, the new plan calls for sending just one, and even the remaining vessel is listed as a "maybe", the report said.

Basically what the Americans are saying is, "We don't trust you," a senior Israeli military official is quoted by Time as saying.

Time said the official explanation was budget restrictions. But the reductions coincided with growing tensions between the administrations of President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Israel's threats to launch an airstrike on Iran over its nuclear program.

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Florida Writer Tim Dorsey Speaks at Library

Published: Friday, August 31, 2012 at 2:34 a.m.

Last Modified: Friday, August 31, 2012 at 2:34 a.m.

Author Tim Dorsey will speak and sign books today at the Lakeland Public Library, 100 Lake Morton Drive. The Tampa author will read selections from his latest book, "Pineapple Grenade." He will also talk about writing, his career, and the role of Florida's history, nature and geography in his work. The event begins at 1 p.m., and is free.

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LES DUDEK PERFORMS?at Ybor Cigar and Spirits in Lakeland in 2003. Dudek will be in concert at The Music Ranch this weekend. Opening act is The Music Ranch Band.

LEDGER PHOTO (2003)

TODAY

FAMILY FITNESS AND FUN AT THE FOUNTAIN

is a free event taking place at the downtown fountain in Central Park, Winter Haven. Professional wellness instructors from the YMCA will lead fitness exercises for all levels from 9 to 11 a.m.

A FREE FAMILY FUN WORKSHOP

will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Polk Museum of Art, 800 E. Palmetto St., Lakeland. The theme is "Create Your Own Invisible Elephant."

"BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD"

screens at the Polk Theatre, 121 S. Florida Ave., Lakeland, at 7:30 p.m. today and 2 p.m. Sunday. For once, believe the hype. Since taking Sundance and Cannes by storm, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" had been a cause c?l?bre in film circles, one of those films lionized by filmmakers and critics but next to no one has actually seen. The film sprang out of nowhere, with a 6-year-old lead actress and a novice leading man who was hired from behind the counter of a New Orleans bakery. Rated PG-13; for thematic material including child imperilment, some disturbing images, language and brief sensuality. Reviewed by Colin Covert of The Star Tribune (Minneapolis). Admission is $7 adults, $5 students/seniors.

A SPORTSCARD SHOW

presented by Wally's World of Sportscards and Memorabilia will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Quality Inn, 4645 N. Socrum Loop Road, Lakeland. Free admission.

DISNEY ON ICE "ROCKIN' EVER AFTER"

is performed at the Arena, The Lakeland Center, 701 W. Lime St. Show times are 3:30, 7:30 p.m., with admission $15 to $38; at the box office.

LES DUDEK

can be heard in concert at The Music Ranch, 1920 Banana Road, Lakeland. Opening act is The Music Ranch Band. Music begins at 8 p.m. Admission is $20; call 863-815-2293.

THE LAKELAND FLYING TIGERS

take on Tampa in a 6 p.m. game at Joker Marchant Stadium, 2301 Lakeland Hills Blvd., Lakeland. Admission is $7 box seats, $6 reserved; age 55 and older and children 14 and younger get $1 off.

SUNDAY

THE LAKELAND FLYING TIGERS

also have a Sunday game against Tampa, this one at 11 a.m. Tickets are $6 box seats, $5 reserved; age 55 and older and children 14 and younger get $1 off.

Source: http://www.theledger.com/article/20120831/news/120839892

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