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As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment – the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Former cop Brian O’Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they’ve blown across many…
Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.
When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle’s wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes ‘the Punisher’ — a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.
Bond takes on a North Korean leader who undergoes DNA replacement procedures that allow him to assume different identities. American agent, Jinx Johnson assists Bond in his attempt to thwart…
It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved…
A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000 – and a bloody past – suddenly finds himself under attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras.
Once Upon a Deadpool
A kidnapped Fred Savage is forced to endure Deadpool’s PG-13 rendition of Deadpool 2 as a Princess Bride-esque story that’s full of magic, wonder & zero F’s.
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
After being held in a coma-like state for fifteen years, vampire Selene learns that she has a fourteen-year-old vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter named Nissa, and when she finds her, they must…
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
The Hollywood version of the popular video game series “Wing Commander”. Unlike other video games to feature film transitions, series creator Chris Roberts was heavily involved in the film’s creation….
American Outlaws
When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back…
Genre: Action, Western
Trailer: Avengers: Infinity War
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What’s on – 2019-08-16
Schedules / By legsadmin / Leave a Comment
4 LEGS Radio is on air between 8am and 5.30pm this week and here’s a summary of What’s On:
There’s more great music on The Breakfast show, interviews with Lambourn fete winners, and we meet someone who’s helped organise Lambourn festival events for almost 25 years. We look ahead to one of the last big flat racing festivals of the summer and chat with 2 boys looking to make it big in the world of professional football. There’s also an interview with one of the youngest guests on 4 LEGS Radio happens to be this year’s Lambourn Carnival Queen. We’ll also find out from an expert how to exercise and eat healthily and chat with someone about a project to build a visual, oral and aural record of our villages. All this and to finish off with a Friday Fizz with talk on Coffee Shops, Cyclists and some live music from the lead singer of a 60’s band.
8am – 10am The Pete Brady Breakfast Show
Join Pete Brady for another 2 hours of great music starting at 8 including a feature on The Police and Sting at 9. Other artists guaranteed to brighten the start of your day inside, no matter what’s happening with the weather outside, include Meghan Trainer, Lionel Richie, Tina Turner, Barry White, Queen, Simply Red, Elton John and many more.
DON’T MISS IT!
10am – 11am Yabber Yabber with Chris Capel
Join Chris for an hour of music and local event information. He’ll also be playing interviews from some of the individuals that helped and took part at last weekend’s Lambourn Fete and announcing the winners of each of the categories .
11am – 12 noon This Week with Penny
This Week with Penny’s guest is Louise Wilkin, Chair of Lambourn Carnival Committee who has been helping to organise the carnival and festival events in Lambourn for nearly 25 years and will be telling us all about the plans for this year’s events over the Bank Holiday Weekend.
12noon – 12.30pm The Downland Racing Show with Pat Murphy
Join Pat Murphy for a rundown of some of the key races taking place over the weekend at Newbury and Newmarket. Plus he’ll be previewing the prestigious Ebor meeting at York which starts on Wednesday 22nd August.
12.30pm – 1.30pm Knock Knock with Suzi Cairns
Another chance to listen to Suzi’s interview with her youngest guest so far in the series Alissia Mooney. Discover the Lambourn Valley through the eyes of an 8 year old and restore your confidence in the future. Alissia also happens to be this year’s Lambourn Carnival Queen
1.30pm – 2.30pm 4 LEGS Local Sports Show with Chris Capel
Hear all the latest local football, golf and cricket news. Plus Chris will be interviewing 2 young boys Charlie Barlow (pic) and Finn Corcoran who play for Swindon Town F.C. They’ll be sharing how they got selected, the commitment needed by both them and their parents, what it’s actually like playing for a local professional football team and their future aspirations in the world of football.
2pm – 4.30pm Face2Face with Pat Heslop and Tim Forrester.
On Face2Face this week Pat and Tim have two guests with very different stories. Firstly they welcome Hayley Kirby (pic) who runs her own business called The Good Place UK. Hayley recently ran a popular Eat4Health course in partnership with Lambourn Surgery and is an expert in personal training and healthy living. She seeks to promote ‘being well’ and wants to spread the message that this is an attainable goal for us all.
Secondly, they look forward to chatting to David Willets, who is going to tell us all about the inaugural Heritage Open Day at St Mary’s Church, Shaw cum Donnington on September 21 . This is all part of an ambitious community based project being launched to build a living visual, aural and oral experience and record of the villages.
4.30 – 5.30pm Fizzy Friday with Jonny Welch
Jonny will be joined by his sidekick ‘biscuit’ and they’ll be talking cyclists, coffee shops and ‘Desert Island Dicks’ Plus there’ll be live music from Jamie the lead singer of the band The Zoots.
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Wednesday deals: Sony Xperia 10 Plus for $279, Android Auto receiver $70 off, more
- Feb. 26th 2020 9:13 am PT
Wednesday’s best deals include Sony’s Xperia 10 Plus at $279, $70 off a 7-inch Android Auto receiver, and the Anker SoundCore Bluetooth Speaker for $21. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break.
Sony’s Xperia 10 Plus at $279
B&H currently offers the Sony Xperia 10 Plus 64GB GSM Unlocked Android Smartphone for $279. Down from $380, today’s offer beats our previous mention by $1 and marks a new all-time low. Centered around a 6.5-inch HD display, Sony features a dual rear camera array comprised of 8 and 12MP sensors. Everything comes powered by a Snapdragon 1.8GHz octa-core processor and includes 64GB of onboard storage. If that’s not enough, a microSD card slot allows for easy expansion. Learn more in our hands-on coverage. More details below.
$70 off Sony 7-inch Android Auto Receiver
Best Buy’s official eBay storefront offers the Sony XAV-AX3000 7-inch CarPlay + Android Auto Receiver for $330. Also available directly from Best Buy. Typically selling for $400, today’s offer matches our previous mention from the beginning of year for the all-time low. Featuring a 7-inch touchscreen display, Sony’s CarPlay and Android Auto receiver is a must-have upgrade to your ride. It notably makes keeping an eye on directions, music playback, and more a breeze while commuting.
Anker SoundCore Bluetooth Speaker $21
Anker Direct via Amazon is currently offering its Anker SoundCore Portable Bluetooth Speaker for $21. Usually selling for $28, today’s offer saves you 25% and matches the Amazon all-time low. Anker’s SoundCore rocks a 12W output that powers the dual neodymium drivers as well as a digital signal processor that offers “pounding bass and zero distortion at any volume.” It gets up to 24 hours of playback per charge and even features IPX5 water-resistance.
Google Nest Wifi system is $217
ProElectronics Distributing via Rakuten is offering two nodes of 802.11ac Google Nest Wifi for $217. That’s $52+ off the going rate found at retailers like Amazon and beats the lowest price we have previously tracked for this combo by $7. This 2-node Google Nest Wifi system ushers a 802.11ac mesh network into your home that can span up to 3,800-square feet. One of its most notable features is that it can handle up to 200 connected devices at once. This makes it a great solution for those looking to expand their smart home over time. Once set up speeds can reach 2.2Gb/s. The secondary node also works as a Google Assistant speaker. Peek at our hands-on review to learn more.
Sony’s top-tier ANC Headphones are $230
Altatac via Rakuten is offering the Sony ANC Wireless Headphones (WH1000XM3) for $230. That’s $118 off the going rate found at retailers like Amazon and is within $21 of the lowest price we have tracked. When it comes to ANC headphones, Sony is known for making some of the best out there. Out of its entire lineup, this pair has been heralded time and time again as the best it sells. Standout features include direct Alexa and Assistant integration, USB-C charging, 30-hour battery life, and more. Peruse our hands-on review to read our thoughts.
Best trade-in deals
9to5Google also keeps tabs on all the best trade-in deals on Google Pixel, Samsung Galaxy, iPhone, and more every month. Be sure to check out this month’s best trade-in deals when you decide it’s time to upgrade your device. Or simply head over to our trade-in partner directly if you want to recycle, trade, or sell your used devices for cash and support 9to5Google along the way!
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9to5Toys Lunch Break
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Chicago defense attorney's 'Trials & Triumph' board game helps teens with police interactions
By Justyna Syska
CHICAGO -- Trials & Triumph' is a board game that teaches teens and adults how to safely interact with police created by Chicago criminal defense attorney April Preyar.
"Parents don't realize the power of a veteran cop sitting and grilling their 15- or 16-year-old child. And so, the purpose of the game is to teach teens and adults how to interact safely with police, how to avoid the criminal justice system all together and how to make it home safely," she said.
The game is similar to board games many grew up playing as children, such as 'Monopoly' and 'Life'.
"The best part is because it's interactive, it forces players who normally would have their heads in their cell phones to actually have a conversation with one another," said Preyar.
The game uses real life scenarios that were taken from the news or from cases Preyar has worked on.
"There are 54 different scenarios and they are all police contacts," she explained.
Derrick Spencer is the parents of two teenagers and plays the game with his family regularly.
"They were real situations that can occur and to be able to discuss that with them in a safe environment is great for us" he said.
According to Preyar, kids retain information better when playing, and after only 20 minutes they can walk away with lessons they'll remember for life.
"I hope to end false confessions. I hope to end police involved killings on the side of the road. I hope to decrease the number of arrests all together between 17-year-olds and 25-year-olds and I think that the more the game spreads, the more people play it even one time, that those are very realistic goals," said Preyar.
To purchase 'Trials & Triumph' visit www.justusjunkie.store
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Up Close with Bill Ritter
Timeline: Snow develops near NYC overnight as cold air filters in behind Zeta
Hurricane tracker: Parts of the Tri-State area could see some snow on the backside of the storm
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Zeta is now a post-tropical storm, rapidly moving northeast after crashing ashore in Louisiana as a powerful Category 2 hurricane.
The storm pushed northwest of Atlanta Thursday, spreading strong winds into the Carolinas and southern Virginia.
The Tri-State region is now preparing for remnants of the storm to mix with a wintry air mass that has already dumped snow in other parts of the country.
As those two systems merge, it will be a powerhouse of a storm along the East Coast.
RELATED | School closings, delays, and early dismissals for the Tri-State area
Heavy rain will move through the Northeast Thursday night as Zeta races out ahead of cold air that will filter in, prompting an AccuWeather Alert for Friday.
Timeline of what to expect
Northern parts of New York and higher elevations may see several inches of accumulating snow by Friday morning depending on the track of the storm.
The heaviest rain will be from NYC to Hartford to Boston around 7 p.m. where some gusty winds are also possible.
Watch for street flooding overnight and make sure to keep storm drains clear.
The cold air will filter in behind Zeta, and snow could develop overnight for parts of the Northeast and New England.
It is possible that some snow showers could pop up across New York in the Capital, Central New York, Mohawk Valley, North Country, and Western New York regions.
Temperatures will range from the low-20s to the low-40s with winds out of the north at 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph in the Capital and Mid-Hudson regions and 30 mph in New York City and Long Island regions.
Morning rain will end as snow to areas north and west of the city, making for a blustery and chilly Friday.
There is a chance of snow showers in the Capital, Central New York, Finger Lakes, Mohawk Valley, North Country, Southern Tier, and Western New York regions, with amounts of up to a half-inch possible.
This includes the suburbs of NYC which could also see snowflakes on Friday morning. Orange County could see up to an inch of snow by mid-morning.
Lee Goldberg says there could be a trace or coatings on colder surfaces in places like Morris and West Milford, Mahwah, parts of Rockland, northern parts of Westchester and Fairfield over into Putnam County.
NYC could even see a few wet snowflakes.
Temperatures will range in the mid-30s to the low-50s, and winds will generally be out of the north at 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph in the Capital Region and 40 mph in the NYC and Long Island regions.
Friday night will see the coldest temperatures in the Tri-State since May 9, with a temperature of 34 in NYC.
There are no current watches or warnings issued for the weather event, but this could change as the system moves closer overnight.
Cuomo's warning
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is urging New Yorkers to use caution as the system could create hazardous travel conditions.
"New Yorkers are well accustomed to intense October storms and this one has the potential to deliver a mixed medley of cold rain, wind and snow across much of the state," Cuomo said. "Our state emergency response assets are prepared to assist our local partners if needed. I am asking all travelers to review seasonal safety tips and slow down on our roadways during this storm."
The Department of Transportation is already prepared to respond if need be.
Threat to the Gulf
Zeta sped across the Southeast on Thursday, leaving a trail of damage and more than 2.6 million homes and businesses without power in Atlanta and beyond after pounding New Orleans with winds and water that splintered homes and were blamed for at least three deaths.
A Category 2 hurricane when it hit the southeastern Louisiana coast Wednesday, Zeta was still a tropical storm late Thursday morning with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph) about 100 miles (155 kilometers) northeast of Asheville, North Carolina - unusual even in a region accustomed to hurricanes and their aftermath.
Officials said life-threatening conditions would last into the day, with Zeta crossing the mid-Atlantic states as a tropical storm before moving offshore around Delaware and southern New Jersey.
Zeta had top sustained winds of 110 as a Category 2 hurricane and was the 27th named storm of a historically busy Atlantic hurricane season - with over a month left before it ends.
Storm destruction
Four people died in Alabama and Georgia when trees fell on homes, authorities said. The dead included two people pinned to their bed when a tree crashed through, Gwinnett County fire officials said.
In Mississippi, Leslie Richardson, 58, drowned when he was trapped in rising seawater in Biloxi after taking video of the raging storm, Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer said. Richardson and another man exited a floating car and desperately clung to a tree before his strength "just gave out," Switzer said.
A 55-year-old man was electrocuted by a downed power line in New Orleans, a Louisiana coroner said.
Damage from Zeta extended far inland. More than 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of the coast, Mayor Sheldon Day of Thomasville, Alabama, said hundreds of fallen trees blocked roads and crashed into houses, with canopies at some gas stations blown over.
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Stay with AccuWeather and Eyewitness News for continuing updates.
(Some information from the Associated Press.)
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What to Know in Washington: Democrats Get GOP Ire on Health Push
May 13, 2019 7:06 AM By Zachary Sherwood
Republicans are warning House Democratic leaders they’ll sink legislation that would address rising drug prices if they pair it with measures to bolster Obamacare.
House leaders plan a vote this week on legislation combining seven bills that together are designed to bring more low-cost generic drugs to the market, ban short-term insurance policies Democrats deride as “junk” plans, and restore funds for Obamacare programs cut by the Trump administration.
The drug-pricing bills bundled into the package have support from members of both parties, but the ones bolstering the Affordable Care Act are generally backed only by Democrats.
“Those bills all die in the Senate,” Kevin Brady (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said. “If Democrats want to get something done on drug pricing, they have to work with Republicans.”
On of the bills, the CREATES Act, has been among the most-popular drug pricing measures proposed in recent years. In 2018, 30 senators and 25 congressmen, split evenly among Republicans and Democrats, sponsored the bill. This year, Republicans and Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee agreed to slight tweaks to the measure and unanimously approved it.
By combining the measures, House Democrats aren’t letting Republicans choose the parts of their health agenda they’ll support.
But the maneuver makes it “impossible for the bills to be signed into law” because the White House won’t back the Democrats’ legislation bolstering Obamacare, said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a close ally of President Donald Trump. Alex Ruoff has more.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Trump was joined by HHS Secretary Alex Azar to announce plans for lowering drug prices at the White House on May 11, 2018
Trump Drug Pricing Plans: The Congressional fight comes a year after Trump stood up in the White House Rose Garden and promised that drug prices would go down.
Since that promise, the administration has proposed at least five major regulatory changes, the Food and Drug Administration approved record numbers of generic drugs, and federal lawmakers introduced at least 10 bills aimed at drug patents, price hikes, drug discounts, or transparency.
The results? Some drug list prices have gone down — particularly for generic drugs. And list price increases for brand drugs are smaller now than they were a year ago. Drug companies and insurers have also made voluntary changes that will lessen costs for some consumers. But it’s not the first time drug makers have held back on price hikes or launched voluntary programs to ease patients’ financial burdens, said Robin Feldman, who researches pharmaceutical economics and wrote the book “Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes.” And the trend isn’t guaranteed to continue if government policy changes don’t become final. Read more from Jacquie Lee.
Happening on the Hill
Subpoena for Trump’s Tax Returns: House Democrats issued two subpoenas to compel Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig to release Trump’s tax returns, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) said on Friday. The move is Neal’s latest attempt to obtain six years of the president’s personal and business tax information after Mnuchin rejected his initial request on May 6. Neal gave Mnuchin and Rettig until this Friday to turn over the documents.
The subpoenas set up what could be one of the biggest legal showdowns between the Trump administration and a Congress intent on investigating the president. Trump broke with 40 years of presidential campaign tradition in refusing to release his tax returns. That has led some Democrats to speculate that he has ties to foreign businesses or cheated on his taxes. Read more from Laura Davison and Andrew Harris.
Nadler Offers to Resume Talks With Barr: House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) offered to resume negotiating with Attorney General William Barr on releasing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report to Congress two days after his panel voted to hold Barr in contempt. Nadler noted that the House has yet to act on his committee’s resolution to hold Barr in contempt of Congress.
“The committee stands ready to resume the accommodation process to attempt to reach a compromise,” Nadler wrote Friday in a letter to Barr. There is “ample time for further negotiations if the department has any interest” before the House will vote, he said. Read more from Steven T. Dennis.
Trump, Barr and Biden Allegations: Trump said it would be “an appropriate thing” to speak to Barr about allegations involving Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son over the son’s business interests in Ukraine. “Certainly it is a very big issue and we’ll see what happens,” the president said in an interview with Politico that was published on Friday night. “Certainly, it would be an appropriate thing to speak about. But I have not done that as of yet,” Trump told Politico.
It would be highly unusual for a president to request an investigation into a political opponent. According to the Mueller report, Trump, met with then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the Oval Office in October 2017 and “asked him to ‘take [a] look’ at investigating” Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival in 2016. Read more from John Harney.
Pompeo Pushes Russia Meeting to Talk Iran
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a surprise visit to Brussels today as European Union foreign ministers meet to discuss ways to salvage the landmark Iran nuclear accord that Washington has abandoned.
Pompeo scrapped plans for a brief trip to Moscow, according to a person familiar with his change of plans, and lands in the Belgian capital as his 28 EU counterparts gather. No plans had been set — yet — for meetings with Trump’s top envoy.
The U.K., France and Germany — the three EU signatories to the 2015 nuclear agreement — are struggling to hold the accord in place after Iran last week gave them a 60-day ultimatum to throw the regime in Tehran an economic lifeline. The treaty is on life support a year after the U.S. pulled out of it and piled on fresh sanctions against Iran.
Pompeo still plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi tomorrow. Read more from Patrick Donahue, Jonathan Stearns and Nick Wadhams.
Earlier: Pompeo Set To Meet Putin as Trump Again Seeks Better Russia Ties
Meanwhile, Iranian officials rebuffed Trump’s suggestion that they call him to try to defuse frictions as the U.S. ratcheted up its actions against Tehran. Several top Iranian aides and lawmakers predicted yesterday that the current tensions wouldn’t lead to war, calling the U.S. deployment of an aircraft carrier, warship, bomber jets and missile defenses to the Middle East a propaganda stunt, Golnar Motevalli reports.
Venezuela Opposition Seeks Contact With U.S.: Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido told an emissary to meet with U.S. military officials in a bid to establish “direct” cooperation, a signal he’s warming to the idea of intervention by force after months of failed attempts to topple President Nicolas Maduro. Guaido told supporters during a rally in Caracas on Saturday that he’s sending his envoy in Washington, Carlos Vecchio, to meet immediately with Florida-based Southern Command, which oversees U.S. military activity in Latin America an d the Caribbean, “to be able to establish a direct and far-reaching relationship in terms of cooperation.” Read more from Ezra Fieser and Andrew Rosati.
Trumpville’ Site Chosen in Golan Heights: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a location has been identified for the new Golan Heights community to be named after Trump. Netanyahu said he will ask the cabinet to approve it once his next government is formed. A name for the new community has not been announced. Read more from Alisa Odenheimer.
Assange Rape Probe Reopened: Swedish prosecutors will reopen a probe into rape allegations against Julian Assange, a move that may wreak havoc with U.S. attempts to extradite the WikiLeaks founder. Authorities want to question Assange over a nine-year-old rape allegation, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Eva-Marie Persson said today in Stockholm. She said there was still probable cause to suspect the crime occurred, although the investigation had been shelved while Assange hid in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The decision to discontinue the investigation was not motivated by a lack of evidence, but by circumstances, she said. Read more from Kaye Wiggins and Niclas Rolander.
What Else to Know Today
China Trade Talks: The emerging stalemate in U.S.-China trade negotiations reflects a breakdown in trust and widening differences that are unlikely to be resolved soon. At the center of the dispute is an earlier deadlock over how and when to remove existing American tariffs that provoked Beijing to threaten to quit the talks, according to people briefed on recent discussions.
Both the U.S. and China tried to project calm since the latest round of discussions ended on Friday and said that they plan to continue negotiations in the hopes of avoiding a tumble in markets and broader economic damage. But that facade masks fundamental divisions, with U.S. officials increasingly convinced that hardliners in Beijing are winning the internal debate on reforms.
Trump continues to weigh in on the state of negotiations, saying the U.S. was “right where we want to be.” In the meantime, Chinese state media blamed the U.S. for the impasse and talked up its economic resilience, with the People’s Daily saying in a front-page commentary that the U.S. should take full responsibility for the setbacks because it went back on its word and imposed more levies. Read more from Shawn Donnan.
Shelton Considered for Fed Board: The White House is considering conservative economist Judy Shelton to fill one of the two vacancies on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors that Trump has struggled to fill.
Shelton has been contacted by the White House regarding the position, according to two people familiar with the matter who described the outreach on condition of anonymity. She declined a request for comment, but on Saturday responded “Thank you, sir” to a tweet from Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), saying she’d be a “great pick” for the central bank.
Shelton, who’s served as an informal adviser to Trump, holds a Ph.D. in business administration with an emphasis on finance and international economics from the University of Utah. She’s currently U.S. executive director for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and previously worked for the Sound Money Project, which was founded to promote awareness about monetary stability and financial privacy. Read more from Saleha Mohsin, Jennifer Jacobs and Margaret Talev.
Biden Pulls Ahead: Just weeks after announcing his presidential run, Biden led the Democratic pack in the key South Carolina race, attracting support from 46% of likely party primary voters in a state poll released yesterday. Biden had more than triple the support of his nearest rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who attracted 15% of those surveyed, according to Charleston’s Post and Courier newspaper, which conducted the poll with Change Research. Read more from Ben Brody.
Cost of Carbon-Neutrality: Democrats from Capitol Hill to the presidential campaign trail see climate change as a winning political issue, and they’re competing to outdo one another with ambitious plans to halt the rise in planet-warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere over as small as a 10-year period. But is that even possible? Nobody thinks the shift will be easy in large part because emissions are still on the rise, according to the Global Carbon Project, which collaborates with climate groups worldwide on research to quantify greenhouse gases. Global emissions were estimated to have risen 2.7% in 2018 from a year earlier, and 2.5% in the U.S., the group found. Read more from Ari Natter.
Trouble for Gateway: Gateway, the stalled New York City-area rail tunnel, has been called the most crucial infrastructure project in the nation. But the Trump administration ranks the tunnel near the bottom of 37 rated projects vying for federal mass-transit grants and loans. The Transportation Department says New Jersey and New York are relying too much on U.S. taxpayers and uncertain state money for the proposed $12.7 billion commuter link under the Hudson River. Similar issues haven’t hindered transit projects elsewhere, a review of federal project ratings shows. Read more from Elise Young and Mark Niquette.
State Health Effort: Blue states like Connecticut and Washington aren’t waiting for the federal government to reform health care, opting instead to move ahead with proposals to set up state-sponsored coverage. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) is scheduled to sign legislation today that would create a public option set up by the state government. Connecticut could soon follow with its own plan, but it faces stiff opposition from the insurance industry. Read more from Sara Hansard.
July 4th Celebration Moves Ahead: Trump is going full steam ahead on a plan to revamp the traditional Fourth of July celebration in Washington into a more partisan, Trump-focused event, according to the Washington Post. The newspaper, citing administration officials including Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, reported Friday that Trump wants to move the fireworks event from its current location on the National Mall and intends to address the nation from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Trump has been receiving “regular briefings on the effort in the Oval Office.” Read more from Ros Krasny.
To contact the reporter on this story: Zachary Sherwood in Washington at zsherwood@bgov.com
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Loren Duggan at lduggan@bgov.com; Giuseppe Macri at gmacri@bgov.com
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Bluefield Solar Buying U.K. Sun-Power Farms for $83 Million
(Bloomberg) — Bluefield Solar Income Fund Ltd., listed in
London, said it’s buying three sun-power plants in the U.K. for
54 million pounds ($83.2 million).
The fund has entered agreements to buy a 6.5-megawatt
facility in Somerset, a 12.5-megawatt facility in Wiltshire and
a 29-megawatt plant in Oxfordshire, it said in an e-mailed
statement. Bluefield is funding the acquisitions with part of
the 131 million pounds it raised in November, it said.
Bluefield, backed by CCLA Investment Management Ltd.,
raised 130 million pounds through an initial share sale in 2013
to buy U.K. solar parks.
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Norway Invests in Green Africa Power to Fund Renewables
(Bloomberg) — Green Africa Power LLP today received 300
million kroner ($40.6 million) in aid from the Norwegian
government.
The money will be used to fund renewable energy projects in
African markets where it’s most needed, Vivian Nicoli, a partner
at Eiser Infrastructure Partners LLP, an adviser to GAP, said in
an e-mailed statement. GAP provides long-term loans to privately
owned clean-power projects in Africa and it expects to start
investing in the first quarter.
The U.K. Department for International Development and the
Department of Energy and Climate Change also have invested in
GAP, taking its total funding to 121 million pounds ($189
million), according to the statement.
Alex Devine, Dylan Griffiths
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Volkswagen Owners Want Payback Over Pollution-Control Cheating
(Bloomberg) — John Decker bought his 2013 Volkswagen Jetta
diesel thinking he was doing his part to improve the environment
and reduce his carbon footprint.
Now that the German automaker has admitted its claims about
the model’s performance were false, he just wants the company to
buy it back from him.
“I feel completely deceived by Volkswagen,” Decker, of
Sacramento, California, said in an interview. “I’m extremely
upset about it. I feel defrauded.”
Decker is in good company: 482,000 Audi and Volkswagen cars
sold in recent years came with software that turns on full
pollution controls only when the car is undergoing emissions
testing. At other times, the cars pollute 10 times to 40 times
the legal limits.
The U.S. Justice Department, the Environmental Protection
Agency and regulators in California are all investigating.
Eventually, the cars may be recalled and cash settlements — or
a buyback like Decker wants — may be negotiated. Volkswagen has
suspended sales of the affected models in the meantime.
Edmunds.com, which operates an online car-buying guide, is
advising Volkswagen owners to hold onto theirs for now — if for
no other reason than they’re likely to get lower prices in a
sale or a trade-in at a dealer. Owners who bought diesels for
their environmental benefits may feel a moral objection to
driving them until there’s an emission fix, said Jessica
Caldwell, the website’s director of industry analysis.
EPA Recalls
“The good news for these owners is that there is no
imminent safety threat in driving these vehicles,” Caldwell
said. “But until Volkswagen reveals a plan for how they will
either buy back the cars or fix them so that they truly meet
emissions standards, all affected owners will have to wait and
see.”
The affected vehicles are diesel-powered versions of some
of VW’s most popular U.S. cars: the Beetle, the Jetta, the Golf
and the Passat for model years 2009-2015. The Audi A3 is also
part of the investigation.
The cars haven’t been recalled, but the EPA has the power
and expects to invoke it, according to agency spokeswoman Liz
Purchia. Vehicle owners will get notices after Volkswagen and
Audi have developed a way to fix the cars’ emissions controls,
Purchia said.
“Determinations regarding potential penalties and other
remedies will be assessed as part of the investigation EPA has
opened in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice,”
A fix that improves the emissions may reduce on-the-road
performance, said Bill Visnic, an independent auto analyst in
Weirton, West Virginia. It would be very difficult for
Volkswagen to add new pollution-control equipment to the
existing engines, so the only way to fix it may be to cut
horsepower and fuel economy performance to lower the pollution
output once the software is eliminated, he said.
That would diminish one of the primary selling points of
the vehicles.
Decker, a photographer, said he was impressed with the
performance of his Jetta TDI sportwagon, especially compared to
other cars that are environmentally friendly, such as the Toyota
Motor Corp. hybrid Prius.
Sporty Drive
“I settled on the Volkswagen because it was fun and sporty
to drive and the Prius was doggy and slow and wasn’t very
powerful,” Decker said. “It was definitely a consideration to
get a vehicle that was fun to drive and good for the environment
was what I thought I was buying into.”
Decker wants Volkswagen to compensate him for the purchase.
He said he has been in contact with the law firm of Hagens
Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP in Seattle, which announced Sept. 18
that it was filing a federal lawsuit against Volkswagen. The
firm estimates that some consumers paid as much as $7,000 more
for a diesel model.
Consumer Compensation
“I don’t want my car anymore, frankly,” Decker said. “I’d
like Volkswagen to buy it back from me. I really don’t want it.
I don’t want to drive it. I don’t want anything to do with
Volkswagen.”
The primary goal of environmental regulators will be to
clean up emissions. It remains to be seen what kind of
compensation consumers will get. Websites like
VolkswagenOwnersClub.com were abuzz with members asking how they
could join class-action lawsuits and whether emission fixes
would harm their cars’ performance.
All U.S. states follow either federal or California rules
on limiting tailpipe pollution, said Paul Miller, deputy
director of the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use
Management, an organization that helps set policy for New York,
New Jersey, Massachusetts and five other states.
State Regulators
Regulators probably won’t order cars off the road since
that would punish the drivers, who didn’t do anything wrong, he
“I think what they’re pursuing based on what I’ve seen is a
swift requirement that VW go back at no cost and fix the
software defeat device that they put into the cars,” Miller
In some cases where regulators have determined cars don’t
meet safety or other standards, car owners get cash. Last year,
Ford Motor Co. offered $200 to $1,050 in rebates to 200,000
consumers for inflated fuel-economy claims.
In a recent safety-related recall, the Transportation
Department went even further, forcing Fiat Chrysler to buy back
defective Jeeps. It’s not clear whether the EPA has the same
authority, but with potential fines of as much as $18 billion,
the automaker may be willing to negotiate a settlement.
“We at Volkswagen will do everything that must be done in
order to re-establish the trust that so many people have placed
in us,” VW Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn said on
Saturday. Jeannine Ginivan, a spokeswoman at the company’s North
American headquarters in Herndon, Virginia, declined to comment
beyond Winterkorn’s statement.
Then there are civil lawsuits.
“This is as big a thing as I’ve seen on the legal landscape
in a long time,” said Robert A. Clifford, a Chicago lawyer who
has filed a lawsuit on behalf of VW owners.
Value Loss
While it’s too early to say how VW diesel owners would be
compensated, possibilities include payment for a vehicle’s loss
of value, punitive damages for the company’s intentional
misconduct and even money for people’s emotional distress,
according to Clifford, a partner with Clifford Law Offices.
“This is one of those cases where the creative juices of
the organized bar are going to come out in full display,” he
Consumers who own cars that aren’t doing what they’re
intended to do will expect compensation, said Mark Rechtin,
Consumer Reports autos editor.
Loyal Customers
“If you get fewer horsepower, or the fuel economy is what
you’d get in a cheaper gasoline version of the same car, what’s
the damage to your wallet?” Rechtin said.
Even though Volkswagen has admitted it fooled the EPA’s
tests, some loyal customers say they remain skeptical about the
findings.
“I think it’s too early to throw Volkswagen under the bus,”
Perry Meade, a Volkswagen collector from Greenfield, Indiana,
said in an interview.
Among the almost 100 Volkswagens Meade has owned in the
last 25 years is a Jetta diesel with about 300,000 miles on it,
he said. While that car was built before the alleged fraud began
in 2009, he said he is considering buying a new one.
“They better not quit selling diesels here,” he said. “I
will be upset.”
Meade, whose City of First Volkswagen Club in Kokomo,
Indiana, is holding an Oktoberfest “cruise-in” Sept. 25, said he
wouldn’t mind if emission fixes harmed performance on diesel
models.
“I’m fine with losing a little bit of horsepower to have
the longevity and reliability of a good power plant,” he said.
To contact the reporters on this story:
Jeff Plungis in Washington at
jplungis@bloomberg.net;
Alan Levin in Washington at
alevin24@bloomberg.net;
Alison Vekshin in San Francisco at
avekshin@bloomberg.net
Jon Morgan at
jmorgan97@bloomberg.net
Michael B. Marois
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Production is a process of combining various material inputs and immaterial inputs (plans, know-how) in order to make something for consumption (output).
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market production.
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Distribution: Distribution is the final stage of production, which occurs after your movie has been edited, and is ready for viewing.
Film Production is created in 5 phases: development, pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution. Each phase has a different purpose, with the overarching goal to get to the next one, and ultimately on to distribution. Each stage varies in length, and different roles suit different stages.
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Production cost is important to the supply side of the market. Sellers base supply decisions on the cost of production. In that production cost generally increases as more of a good is production, the supply price also tends to rise with the quantity supplied.
Companies can determine the growth stage by analyzing sales and profit trends. … As a company takes market share away from its competitors, it may be able to increase prices and generate profit growth. Higher volumes usually mean lower unit costs, which mean higher profits.
The production flowchart shows how you intend to manufacture your product as stages, the equipment and tools you have planned to use and quality control checks. … However, the flow chart displays your planning to ensure that these checks are written into the making sequence.
As variable input use is extended beyond Xm, the marginal product beyond point M is negative. It is irrational to increase the input level for obtaining lower total product. Thus, Stage III is also called irrational stage of production.
Stage one is the period of most growth in a company’s production. In this period, each additional variable input will produce more products. This signifies an increasing marginal return; the investment on the variable input outweighs the cost of producing an additional product at an increasing rate.
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Thank you for your passion in supporting whistleblowers in the EU. This petition has now ended. Take a look at other campaigns that could be of interest to you here. www.wemove.eu
To the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament
We urge you to protect whistleblowers in the EU by agreeing to a directive which includes:
the right to seek advice from a trade union and NGOs,
the right to be represented by a trade union
the right to contact law enforcement directly
safe disclosure to journalists
safeguards for existing national whistleblower laws; and
a broad whistleblower definition, with no extra test on how the reported information was acquired
It is thanks to whistleblowers that the public found out about scandals like Lux-Leaks, the Panama and Paradise papers on tax evasion, Dieselgate on environment, as well as many scandals involving food safety, health and elderly care.
The fight for a strong protection for whistleblowers in the EU has been going on for many years. Trade unions and civil society have worked together with the European Parliament, demanding that the European Commission should act. After long and persistent lobbying and campaigning we finally got the European Commission to propose a directive on whistleblower protection in April 2018. While it marked a good starting point for discussions, improvements were clearly necessary. The European Parliament has improved the text and it is now up to their negotiations with the Council and Commission to agree on a good final text [1] which should include the following:
the right to contact law enforcement directly. Whistleblowers must be able to report directly to law enforcement agencies and competent authorities without risking losing protection. Not allowing it could lead to destruction of evidence and cover-ups when those responsible are alerted by internal reports. This means that the so called mandatory internal reporting in the directive must be deleted.
safe disclosure to journalists. Ensuring that whistleblowers safely can turn to journalists strengthens investigative journalism and is good for democracy.
safeguards for existing national whistleblower laws. This means adding a “non-regression clause”, a clause which guarantees that the directive cannot be used as an excuse to worsen already existing whistleblower protection laws and procedures.
a broad whistleblower definition, covering the likes of Antoine Deltour, LuxLeaks. This means that there should not be any extra test on how the information was acquired.
We’ve been fighting for years to gain strong protections for whistleblowers in the EU. After long and persistent campaigning, together let’s tell the EU to secure strong protections for whistleblowers.
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I am a victim of lack of transparency in Society
I have been an internal whistleblower in the Canadian government because dozens of civil servants saw my role as ombudswoman in the department of health as an opportunity to unload their sense of guilt because they had not blown the whistle when they knew they should. Later, as one of the directors of the Canadian whistleblower association, I saw the suffering that people experience when they are caught between guilt towards the public and fear of reprisal. Whistleblowers are the imune system of society and have to be protected.
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We need a law that will secure genuine protections for whistleblowers and not merely pay lip service to the idea.
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Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
A survey of straw use and tail biting in Swedish pig farms rearing undocked pigs
Torun Wallgren ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3205-26921,
Rebecka Westin1 &
Stefan Gunnarsson1
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica volume 58, Article number: 84 (2016) Cite this article
Tail biting is a common problem in intensive pig farming, affecting both welfare and production. Although routine tail docking is banned within the EU, it remains a common practice to prevent tail biting. Straw as environmental enrichment has been proposed as an alternative to tail docking, but its effectiveness against tail biting and function in manure handling systems have to be considered. The aim of the study was to survey how pigs with intact tails are raised and how tail biting is handled in Sweden, where tail docking is banned through national legislation. The study emphasises straw usage and its association with tail biting pigs and problems in the manure handling system. The expectation is that this information could be conveyed to the rest of the EU to reduce the need for tail docking.
In a telephone survey of randomly selected Swedish pig farmers (46 nursery and 43 finishing pig units) with at least 50 sows or 300 finishing places, it was found that straw was used by 98% of the farmers. The median daily straw ration provided was 29 g/pig for nursery and 50 g/pig for finishing pigs in systems with partly slatted flooring. The reported prevalence of tail biting was 1.6% at slaughter. The majority of farmers reported that they never had manure handling problems caused by straw (56% of nursery units and 81% of finishing pig units). A proportion of farmers (37%) also provided with additional material apart from straw on some occasions, which may have affected tail biting prevalence and manure handling problems.
Swedish farmers rear undocked pigs without large problems with tail biting. Straw is the main manipulable material used, and additional manipulable material is used to various extents. The low incidence of straw obstructing the manure handling systems implies that it is indeed possible to use straw in partly slatted flooring systems, reducing the need for tail docking. The impact of using additional manipulable material is unknown and requires more investigation to separate the impact of such material from the impact of straw.
Tail biting is a common problem in pig production, affecting animal health and welfare, as well as production and profitability [1–4]. In housing systems where pigs have no or limited access to manipulable material, exploratory behaviour can be redirected towards tails, and tail biting may occur [2, 5]. This behaviour can lead to the development of lesions and cause infections so severe that subjected pigs must be prior to slaughter [6, 7]. Reduced welfare caused by tail biting is hence not only attributed to the bitten pig but also to the biting pig, as the behaviour may arise when behavioural needs are unfulfilled [8].
The cause of tail biting is multifactorial, and outbreaks often affect several pigs in the same batch [4, 9]. Identification of specific factors triggering tail biting can be difficult, as triggering factors may differ between outbreaks both within and between farms [4]. However, outbreaks often seem to be associated with housing or management changes such as a new shipment of feed, inadequate indoor climate, season, disease outbreaks or lack of rooting material [1, 3, 9, 10].
Previous studies have shown that providing manipulable material such as straw to growing pigs reduces the incidence of tail biting [2]. Few studies have investigated the amount of straw needed to reduce tail biting. One study showed that pigs provided with more than 100 g straw/pig per day spent less than 5% of their time in redirected behaviours (nibbling another pig; ear- or tail-biting) [11]. Another study suggested that a straw ration exceeding 400 g/pig per day was required to meet the pigs’ need to explore and to reduce oral manipulation of pen mates to a minimum [2]. It is possible that there is a difference between a straw ration that fulfils the pigs’ behavioural need and a straw ration that keeps oral manipulation, such as tail biting behaviour, at an acceptable level.
The EU Council Directive 2008/120/EC, which establishes minimum standards for the protection of pigs, states that “pigs must have permanent access to a sufficient quantity of material to enable proper investigation and manipulation activities, such as straw, hay, wood, sawdust, mushroom compost, peat or a mixture of such […]”. However, the EU directive does not offer any guidance as to how the manipulable materials should be provided to the pigs (i.e., how much or how frequently) and a large variation can therefore be expected. Furthermore, knowledge of how much straw is needed to fulfil the legislative requirements concerning proper investigation or manipulation activities is limited.
Routine tail docking is banned within the EU according to The EU Council Directive 2008/120/EC. Still, over 90% of pigs in the EU are tail docked, especially pigs raised on slatted flooring [12]. Sweden, as well as Finland and Lithuania, is an exception; 100% of the pigs are reared with intact tails due to a total ban on tail docking by national legislation [12, 13].
In addition, the space allowance in Swedish pig farms is higher compared to the minimum requirements of the EU directive. For example, the space requirements per nursery pig of 20 kg live weight (LW) are 0.32 m2 in Sweden compared to 0.20 m2 according to the EU legislation. For a finishing pig of 110 kg LW, the space requirement is 1.02 m2 in Sweden and 0.65 m2 according to the EU legislation [11, 13]. The maximum amount of slatted floor is weight dependent in Sweden. Maximum amount of slatted flooring range from 32 to 25% for pigs between 20 and 110 kg, e.g. 32% for 20 kg LW pigs and 25% for 110 kg LW, while there is no ban on fully slatted floors for growing pigs in the EU. The maximum widths of slat openings are 14 mm for nursery pigs (9–25 kg LW) and 18 mm for finishing pigs (>25 kg LW); the minimum slat widths are 50 mm for nursery and 80 mm for finishing pigs according to both Swedish and EU legislation [13, 14].
Swedish pig farmers may possess valuable information regarding the rearing of undocked pigs and how to use straw in partly slatted flooring systems. As far as we know, this information has not yet been systematically documented in Sweden. The expectation is that this information could be conveyed to the rest of the EU to reduce the need for tail docking.
The aim of this study was to describe the main management factors in rearing undocked pigs in Sweden and how tail biting is handled. The study emphasises straw usage and how straw is associated with bitten pigs and problems in the manure handling systems.
Farmers and data records
A telephone survey of commercial pig farmers in Sweden was conducted from July to November 2014. Their contact information was supplied in January 2014 by the Swedish Board of Agriculture. To be included on the contact list, farms had to have at minimum 50 sows or 300 finishing pig places. The farms were categorised as nursery farms (keeping nursery pigs approximately 5–12 weeks of age; 10–30 kg LW), finishing pig farms (keeping growing pigs from approximately 12 weeks of age until slaughter around 6 months of age; 30–120 kg LW) or integrated farms keeping both nursery and finishing pigs. The final contact list consisted of 747 nursery farms, 892 finishing pig farms and 4618 integrated farms. Farmers were called in a random order generated by a computer.
All telephone calls were conducted by a single person according to the randomised list. The farmers were informed of the purpose of the survey and told it was being conducted on behalf of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Participation was voluntary, and reasons for not participating were recorded. Each farmer not answering the phone was called a maximum of three times before being excluded as “unable to reach”.
The survey consisted of two general questions, 60 questions (35 multiple-choice, 25 open-ended) related to nursery pigs and 28 questions (29 multiple-choice, 29 open-ended) related to finishing pigs. Farmers with integrated farms answered questions concerning nursery and finishing pigs separately. The complete survey is presented in the Additional file 1, and the layout of the survey was as follows:
General questions—e.g. type of production (conventional or organic) and breed.
Production information—number of pig places and growth rate.
Tail biting—e.g. occurrence of bites (frequency, amount), suspected causes.
Straw usage—e.g. species, ration, frequency of straw and/or other manipulable material provision.
Pen conformation—e.g. pen size, type of flooring.
Feeding system—e.g. type of feed, feeding system.
Manure handling—e.g. type of manure handling system, occurrence of problems related to straw usage.
Calculation of straw usage
A majority of farmers (72%) reported straw usage as the number of bales used in a week or in a year combined with bale weight. The amount of straw provided per pig/day in kg could hence be calculated according to the following equations:
$$\begin{aligned} &\frac{{\left( {\frac{{{\text{straw usage per week}} ({\text{kg}})}}{\text{number of nursery piglet places in the herd}}} \right)}}{7} \\ &\quad = {\text{straw ration}}/{\text{nursery pig per day (kg)}} \end{aligned}$$
$$\begin{aligned} &\frac{{\left( {\frac{{{\text{straw usage per week }}({\text{kg}})* 52\;{\text{weeks}}}}{\text{number of produced finishing pigs per year}}} \right)}}{{99^{a}}} \\ &\quad = {\text{straw ration}}/{\text{finishing pig per day (kg)}}\end{aligned}$$
According to the Swedish national herd monitoring database (PigWin Slakt), the average number of days (a) in the finishing pig unit for rearing a finishing pig was 99 days in Sweden in 2014 [15].
Integrated farms were divided into nursery and finishing units. The survey contained no information regarding the number of batches or pens per unit. Thus, to acquire a relevant estimation of straw use, the calculations of straw use were based on the total number of nursery pig places or finishing pigs produced per year.
The information obtained in the survey was recorded in Microsoft Excel and transferred to SAS software ver. 9.4 (SAS Inst. Inc., Cary, NC, USA) for statistical analysis. Descriptive statistics were calculated and presented as frequencies, and mean and median values. Because data were not normally distributed, median values were preferred over mean values.
Outcomes from the questions in the survey were classified as either continuous (e.g., straw usage), ordinal (possible to rank; e.g., frequency of tail biting estimated by the farmer) or categorical (not possible to rank, e.g., strategies for avoiding outbreaks of tail biting). Categorical data were solely presented as frequencies and median/mean when feasible.
Correlations between continuous and ordinal outcomes were analysed with Spearman’s rank correlation, as the data were not normally distributed. Correlations were calculated for variables where there was information about both parts of the investigated correlations, namely:
Straw ration and frequency of problems in the manure handling systems (including and excluding deep litter systems).
Frequency of tail biting and affected pens/outbreak, percentage of bitten pigs/batch at slaughter, number of slaughtered pigs per year and straw ration.
Response rate and general information about participating farms
A total of 139 farmers were called. Out of these farmers, 60 participated in the survey (43% response rate); 28 (20%) could not be reached; six (4%) did not have the time to participate; six (4%) were unwilling to participate and 38 (28%) did not have pigs anymore or did not have pigs according to the inclusion criteria of the study. The participating farmers included 29 integrated farms, indicating that in total, 46 farmers answered the nursery pig part of the survey and 43 farmers answered the finishing pig questions. Seven of the participating farms produced organic pigs. One survey was excluded because it was incomplete due to technical problems.
Detailed information about participating farms is found in Table 1. The breeds used were Landrace (L)*Yorkshire(Y)*Hampshire crosses (35), L*Y*Duroc-crosses (24), L sows (3), Y sows (3), LY sows (2), and Linderödsvin (Swedish native breed) (1). Eight farmers kept several breeds within the same farm.
Table 1 General information of participating pig farms, reported by farmers
Occurrence of bitten pigs and suspected causes
Bitten pigs were reported in 50% of the nurseries and 88% of the finishing pig units. In affected nursery units (n = 23), 78.3% of farmers observed bitten pigs less than two times/year, 17.4% 3–6 times/year and 4.3% at least every month (tail-biting frequency). In affected finishing pig units (n = 38), 21% observed bitten pigs less than two times/year, 37% 3–6 times/year, 34% at least every month and 8% every week (tail-biting frequency).
Farmers reported observing bitten pigs in on average 1.6 pens (median 1, range 1–5) during the last tail biting outbreak in nursery units and in on average 1.5 pens (median 1, range 1–4) in finishing pig units. The finishing pig units had on average 1.6% bitten pigs in each batch at slaughter (range 0.1–6.5%). The number of affected pens per outbreak was positively correlated to the tail-biting frequency (r = 0.33, P = 0.04, n = 38) in finishing pig units. The tail-biting frequency was also positively correlated to the percentage of bitten pigs (r = 0.55, P < 0.001, n = 38) and to the number of slaughtered pigs/year of the farm (r = 0.32, P = 0.05, n = 38), in finishing pig units.
The most commonly reported causes attributed to tail biting outbreaks by farmers were stocking density in nursery farms and stocking density and salt deficiency in finishing pig units (Table 2).
Table 2 Suspected causes for tail biting in Swedish pig farms, reported by farmers
Prevention of outbreaks and treatment of bitten pigs
All farmers except in one nursery and two finishing pig units (95%) reported that they took measures to prevent outbreaks after observing bitten pigs. The most common preventive action reported to mitigate an ongoing outbreak was to identify and separate the biting pig (Table 3). Bitten pigs were treated with antibiotics in 76% of the nurseries and 92% of the finishing pig units, while one farmer provided analgesia (Table 4). Farmers in two nursery (4.3%) and four (9.3%) finishing pig units reported that they would have wanted to dock tails if it were legal in Sweden.
Table 3 Measures for preventing tail biting outbreaks after observed tail wounds in Swedish pig farms, reported by farmers
Table 4 Treatments of tail bitten pigs in Swedish pig farms, reported by farmers
Usage of straw and other manipulable materials
All farmers except two (in one nursery and one finishing pig unit), i.e., 99%, stated that they provided pigs with straw (Table 5). These two farmers reported using sawdust or wood shavings instead, as they believed that straw made pens slippery and caused blockages in the manure handling system. Among farmers that used straw, chopped straw was used in 77% (n = 44) of nursery and 74% (n = 42) of finishing pig units. Straw was the only manipulable material used in 60.9% (n = 46) of nursery and 67.4% (n = 43) of finishing pig units, while the remaining farmers provided additional manipulable material. Usage of additional manipulable material was used to keep pens dry (11), when moving piglets into the nursery unit (3), when it was hot outside (2), to create a light environment (2) and when there was not enough straw (1) in nursery units. In finishing pig units, additional material was used when moving pigs into the finishing unit (7), if pens were wet/dirty (4), to create a light environment (1), to provide enrichment to the pigs (1), when there was not enough straw (1) and because additional straw would cause blockages in the manure handling system (1). Each farmer could give several reasons for using additional material, which is why the number of answers exceeds the number of respondents. Hence, straw was commonly the only provided manipulable material; additional manipulable material was mainly used at special occasions.
Table 5 Type of manipulable materials used in Swedish pig farms, reported by farmers
The calculated daily straw rations in systems with partly slatted floorings were median 35 g/pig per day for nursery pigs and 50 g/pig per day for finishing pigs (Table 6). Six nursery and four finishing pig units had deep litter systems, which are very straw intensive. When farms with deep litter systems were excluded, the median straw ratio decreased (Table 6).
Table 6 Straw ration and straw length of provided straw in Swedish pig farms
A proportion of farmers (24%) reported that they would like to increase the straw ration unless it was limited by other factors. The most commonly reported limiting factor preventing farmers from increasing straw rations was that it was thought to block the manure handling system (Table 7).
Table 7 Reported limitations to increase straw rations in Swedish pig farms, reported by farmers
Objects other than manipulable materials were provided in 13% (n = 46) of the nursery and 16% (n = 43) of the finishing pig units. These other objects were balls (2), rope (3), silage/hay (1), newspapers (1), sacks (6), chains (1), wood logs (5) and salt stones (5). However, in 69% of the units, pigs had access to the additional objects only when bitten pigs had been observed to prevent tail biting and fighting between pigs at certain occasions, such as when pig groups were mixed.
The majority of farmers provided new straw daily (76% of nursery and 83% of finishing pig units) (Table 8). Straw was distributed evenly on the pen floor (41% of nursery and 38% of finishing pig units) or in a pile on the pen floor (59% of nursery and 62% of finishing pig units).
Table 8 Frequencies of new straw allocation in Swedish pig farms, reported by farmers
The ration of manipulable material was modified by farmers depending on the health status in the pen in 35% (n = 46) of the nursery and 33% (n = 42) of the finishing pig units. Some nursery units were given more straw if pigs seemed cold or dirty (5), switched to wood shavings when pigs were sick (7) or switched to peat when pigs had diarrhoea (3). One farmer reported providing less straw when pigs were sick. In finishing pig units, straw rations were increased when bitten pigs were observed (9), when pigs had diarrhoea or it was wet in the pen (3) or when the animals were sick (2). One farmer decreased the ration if it was hot outside. Farmers could give several reasons for altering the manipulable material ration, which is why the amount of answers exceeds the number of responding farmers.
Straw usage and tail biting
In finishing pig units, the reported occurrence of bitten pigs had a negative rank correlation with deep straw systems (r = −0.42, P < 0.01, n = 38) compared to systems that had partly slatted flooring, and there was a negative rank correlation between size of straw ration and tail-biting frequency (r = −0.32, P < 0.05, n = 37). In nursery units, the coefficient of correlation between reported tail-biting frequency and straw ration was r = −0.328 (P < 0.01, n = 38).
Manure handling systems
The most common manure handling system reported was rope/cable and arm scrapers (Table 9). When asked how frequently straw caused blockages or other problems with the manure handling system, 56% nursery and 81% finishing pig units had never experienced problems in the manure handling system caused by straw. No farmer reported problems in manure handling more often than once a month. There was a negative rank correlation between frequency of manure handling problems and straw ration in nursery units (r = −0.44, P = 0.02, n = 28), but not in finishing pig units (r = 0.16, P = 0.35, n = 35). When farms with deep straw bedding were excluded, there was no correlation in nursery units (r = −0.33, P = 0.12, n = 22), but a tendency was found in finishing pig units (r = 0.31, P = 0.09, n = 31).
Table 9 Frequencies of problems caused by straw in manure handling systems used, reported by Swedish pig farmers
Response rate and farmer self-reporting
According to the Swedish agricultural statistical compilation 2016 [16], there were 1228 pig businesses in Sweden in 2015, meaning that 5% of Swedish pig farms are included in this study. All farmers were called in a randomised order. The vast majority of reached farmers that fit into the inclusion criteria (84%) wanted to participate in the study, which indicates that we have a representative sample of Swedish farmers.
The results from this study are based on farmers answering questions and reporting about how pigs with intact tails are reared. Self-reporting of routines and how often bitten pigs are seen is not exact. Farmers report their perceptions, but reality may differ for different reasons such as the farmer not being aware of the true prevalence of tail biting outbreaks and reporting only detected outbreaks. The aim of this study was to investigate how undocked pigs are reared, how farmers handle bitten pigs, how straw is managed and how its use is linked to tail biting and manure handling problems. Due to the nature of the aims, a survey in which farmers report their experiences gives more information in this stage than a controlled on-farm study would. The fact that farmers reported similarly (e.g., similar causes of tail biting outbreaks, similar frequency of tail biting outbreaks) indicates that the results are reliable. Furthermore, the results of this study are in accordance with those of previous studies (e.g., number of bitten pigs/batch and that tail biting increases with increased age), which also indicates that the results from this study are reliable. However, the results of this study should be considered for what they are: farmers’ opinions and not absolute facts.
In the present study, suspected causes of tail biting varied between farms and pig age groups (nursery or finishing pigs), which is in accordance with previous studies concluding that different production systems have different risks for developing tail biting [9, 10]. Previous findings show that pigs with permanent access to straw are mainly exposed to climatic risk factors for tail biting (e.g., temperature and air humidity), whereas pigs with restricted access to manipulable material were mainly exposed to the risk factor “strawless system” [10].
In the present study, farmers suggested stocking density as the main risk factor in nursery units and feed composition/feed equipment as the main risk factor in finishing pig units and did not suggest factors related to the housing climate, which have also previously been considered less important [10]. This finding is partly in accordance with a survey showing that pig farmers in The Netherlands (rearing docked pigs) consider stocking density to be the main risk factor for tail biting, along with stable climate [17]. Stocking density has been considered to be one of the most common risks associated with tail biting in pigs reared in partly slatted systems with straw, as seen in previous studies [12]. Although the maximum stocking density in Sweden is lower than specified in the EU directive, stocking density was considered the most common cause of tail biting outbreaks in nursery pig units in this study and was also highly ranked in finishing pig units. It has been shown that tail biting significantly increases when the feeding space decreases in nursery units [4] and as the pen facilities remain unchanged, the stocking density will increase in the pens, decreasing feeding space per pig. Therefore, increased stocking density is associated with an increase in other pen-related risk factors. Stocking density and not only provision of additional manipulable material may be an important preventive factor for rearing undocked pigs with low incidences of tail biting.
Only one nursery farmer thought that observed tail biting outbreaks were caused by boredom. This result could indicate that farmers are satisfied with the provided straw ration and outcome. Dutch farmers report similar a prevalence of problems with tail biting (approximately 50% have tail biting problems, ranging from 1 to 6% in docked pigs) but consider provision of manipulable material to be less efficient than docking for preventing tail biting [17]. The manipulable materials used in the Dutch non-organic farms were mainly objects such as chains and ropes, while straw, sawdust or wood shavings were used by only 2–3% of participating farms. Similarly, in a survey of Finnish farmers rearing undocked pigs, manipulable material was considered less important than feeding space, animal health and indoor climate [18], but there was no information about what type of manipulable material was provided daily to the pigs in that study.
It is difficult to evaluate and compare the percentage of bitten pigs between countries and studies due to the different scoring criteria used. A review comparing the prevalence of tail biting from different sources found a wide range both within and between countries depending on data source [19]. This variation may partially be attributed to differences in definition, as definitions range from swollen tails to tissue loss [19, 20]. In this survey, the “bitten” was not defined in the protocol or by surveyed farmers. According to finishing pig farmers, the percentage of bitten pigs was on average 1.6% at slaughter, which is in agreement with tail biting recorded by National Food Agency standards in two Swedish abattoirs (1.5–1.9%) [20]. In addition, the finding that tail biting increases with age is in agreement with the findings of previous studies [3, 21]. We therefore argue that the farmers’ definition of bitten was similar to that used by the National Food Agency: “evident biting damage” or “at least half the tail missing” [22]. According to this definition, only severely bitten pigs were recorded; milder tail lesions without blood that are not easy to detect when looking at the pig from outside the pen were excluded from this study. Both abattoir and farmer scoring may therefore be under-reporting tail lesions compared to a scoring scheme that includes a swollen tail or superficial scratches as the lower limit for bitten [20, 23]. However, according to Swedish regulations, pigs with swollen tails or unhealed tail wounds are not allowed to be transported to the abattoir, which is why these types of injuries might not appear in slaughterhouse data even if the criteria were altered. Also, less severe wounds may be of less importance when investigating the current aim (i.e. how pigs with intact tails are reared and managed). Tail docking is conducted to reduce the problems with injured pigs and carcass losses due to more severe tail wounds. Hence, the lack of information about tail lesions that are less severe than those reported at the abattoir is of less importance for investigating whether or not it is possible to rear pigs with intact tails although less severe wounds may also affect the production and welfare of the pigs [e.g. 12].
All participating farmers reported providing access to manipulable material; of these farmers, 99% provided straw in various amounts. The wide usage of straw in this study indicates that straw usage is considered feasible and functional under commercial conditions in Sweden.
Permanent access to straw has previously been defined as the permanent presence of more than one litre of unsoiled straw in the pen before new straw allocation [2]. Permanent straw access was achieved at 80–290 g straw/pig per day for 30–80 kg LW pigs at a stocking density of 0.7 m2 per pig according to a Danish study [2]. According to this definition, many Swedish farmers do not provide permanent access, as the reported median straw ration was 29 g/pig per day for nurseries and 50 g/pig per day in partly slatted flooring systems.
In this study, however, all calculations regarding daily ration were based only upon the amount of straw, even though 37% of the farmers also provided additional material to various extents. Therefore, the actual ration of accessible manipulable material may be underestimated here. A more detailed analysis of the other manipulable material was not possible because the survey did not request further information on this matter. When developing the survey and collecting experiences from researchers and the Swedish trade organisation for pigs, the wide use of additional material was not foreseen. However, it was shown that provision of additional material was common only during certain periods of time, such as when pigs are newly moved into the stable or due to poor pen hygiene, while straw was given on a daily basis. Additional material may therefore have been of less importance in preventing tail biting outbreaks on participating farms.
If the provided additional material is of high value for the pig, it may affect tail biting behaviour. High-value materials that stimulate pig exploratory behaviour are destructible, manipulable, changeable and complex [7]. Furthermore, the most used objects during the first 24 h after presentation are odorous, deformable, rootable, unattached and chewable according to previous studies [24]. The most used objects 5 days after presentation are ingestible, destructible, contained (e.g., straw provided in a box as opposed to directly on the floor as in this study), particulate and rootable [24]. In this study, sawdust and wood shavings were the most commonly provided complements to straw and they may possess the previously identified characteristics. Additionally, the pigs’ usage of sawdust or wood shavings is reduced when they are combined with another material with greater manipulative value [25], and both chopped and long straw are used more than sawdust [24]. The effect of adding sawdust or wood shavings to straw is therefore limited, and the usage of additional material along with the straw could be considered to have a limited effect on tail biting behaviour.
Straw length has, however, been suggested to affect its investigative value for the pigs, as reduced straw length decreases the diversity of behaviours [26]. The majority of farmers in this study used chopped straw, with a mean length of 5 cm in nursery and 6.5 cm in finishing pig units. This straw is considerably longer and therefore possibly of higher value than the chopped straw of 1–4 cm used in the previously mentioned study [26]. The straw on Swedish farms may still be long enough to be of high investigative value to the pigs and seems efficient in preventing tail biting behaviour.
The amount of straw needed to reduce the prevalence of tail biting behaviour by satisfying the need to explore has previously been determined to be approximately 400 g straw/pig per day for 30–80 kg LW pigs and 400 g/pig per day for what the author describes as nursery-finishing pigs [2, 11]. Again, this ration is far greater than most of the straw rations reported in this study (median 45–53 g/pig per day). However, the reported rates of bitten pigs at slaughter (average 1.6% at slaughter) and tail biting were low, and no bitten pigs were ever seen in 50% of the nursery and 12% of the finishing pig units. Furthermore, the number of affected pens during an outbreak was reported to be low in both nursery and finishing pig units (on average 1 pen/outbreak), indicating that few pigs are affected in each outbreak and thus that the environment is overall sufficient. The use of additional material along with straw and its effect on tail biting was not assessed in this study.
Straw usage and manure handling
Straw provision in pig pens has been suggested to cause blockage of the slatted floor and to cause obstructions in the manure handling system [6, 27]. However, chopped straw reduces the need for manual cleaning of the pen compared to long straw [25]. Previous studies have shown that provision of large amounts of straw in partly slatted farrowing pens does not cause blockage of slats if straw chop length is adjusted to the type and design of the slatted flooring [28]. The results of this study show that the frequencies of reported problems in the manure handling system were low. The majority of farmers (76%) provided chopped straw, which could explain the low frequency of problems caused by straw in manure handling systems.
The main reported restriction on increasing the straw ration was that straw was thought to cause blockages in the manure handling system or the slatted floor, although most farmers reported never having experienced these problems. This finding implies that the argument that straw would be unusable with current manure handling systems is not correct and shows a gap in knowledge where future research is needed. Straw could also be used in fully slatted flooring systems given that the pigs can make use of the straw before it passes through the slats.
It is reasonable to believe that the pipe diameter of the manure handling systems has an impact on the frequency of obstruction. Pipe diameter is not regulated in the EU Directive or in the Swedish national legislation and could therefore not be assessed in this study, but it could be an interesting area of new research.
This study surveyed straw usage and tail biting on Swedish pig farms. All interviewed farmers reported supplying pigs with manipulable material. The majority of farmers (99%) used straw in various amounts, and 37% also supplied other materials along with the straw (e.g., wood shavings) on certain occasions. Even though the straw rations were restricted (approx. 50 g/pig per day), the percentage of bitten pigs at slaughter (1.6%) and the tail-biting frequency were low (twice yearly in nursery units and 3–6 times/year in finishing pig units). Straw was commonly provided daily, but the farmers reported limited problems in the manure handling systems. We conclude that tail biting can be prevented by straw access in undocked pig populations and that daily straw usage is possible in commercial pig production.
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TW carried out the analyses and completed the manuscript. RW planned the project, participated in the analyses and commented on the manuscript. SG applied for funding, planned the project, took part in the analyses and commented on the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The authors thank Beth Young for help with designing the questionnaire and Karin Olsson and Barbro Mattsson at Svenska Pig (currently Farm and Animal Health) for commenting on the questionnaire. We also thank Karin Olsson for performing the telephone interviews and data recording. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for valuable comments on the manuscript.
Availability of data and material
The survey from which this data set is built upon is available in the Additional file 1 to this paper. The datasets generated and analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
The study was a telephone survey and therefore no animals were used in this study, no ethical approval was needed. All participation was voluntary which is why the need for ethics approval was waived.
This study was conducted within the FareWellDock project. FareWellDock is funded by the European Health and Welfare ERA-net (ANIHWA) and the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas).
Department of Animal Environment and Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO-Box 234, 532 23, Skara, Sweden
Torun Wallgren, Rebecka Westin & Stefan Gunnarsson
Torun Wallgren
Rebecka Westin
Stefan Gunnarsson
Correspondence to Torun Wallgren.
Additional file
Additional file 1.
A survey of straw use and tail biting in Swedish pig farms rearing undocked pigs.
Wallgren, T., Westin, R. & Gunnarsson, S. A survey of straw use and tail biting in Swedish pig farms rearing undocked pigs. Acta Vet Scand 58, 84 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13028-016-0266-8
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When Margot Robbie Met Ellen: Shorts And An Ex-President Made For An Interesting Honeymoon
By Holly Williams in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 15 January 2018
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Margot Robbie has just delivered what is perhaps the most hilarious 'When I met Ellen' story ever told during her appearance on 'The Ellen Show' last week. On the other hand, it's safe to say that her husband Tom Ackerley found the whole thing less amusing.
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The 'I, Tonya' star and her new husband were on a delayed honeymoon following the completion of her movie. After four days spent on a remote island in Tahiti without electricity or even mirrors, they ended the week with a stay at a luxury hotel.
It also happened to be raining when they arrived, and bearing in mind that they 'look disgusting because [they] haven't seen [their] own reflections in four days', they wanted to do something together to relax and not have to worry about themselves, and so they decided to go for a session at the nearby gym.
'We get changed to go to the gym and Tom puts on these shorts that are like his oldest gym shorts and they're tiny', Margot reveals to the audience on 'The Ellen Degeneres Show', 'They're really short and there's nothing underneath. So he gets on his bicycle to ride there and I was like, 'Whoa! Babe, you cannot wear those shorts! I can see everything!' And he was like, 'Oh, come on. Who are we gonna run into?'
After agreeing that they were unlikely to bump into anyone they knew, they continued towards the gym only to find some very unexpected work-out buddies inside. 'We walk into the gym and running on a treadmill is Ellen and then on the treadmill next to her is Portia', she continues.
'Tom's face has just gone white and you're like, 'Hi!' and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, Ellen! So lovely to meet you'... and then you're like, 'Have you met Obama?' Standing next to them is former President Barack Obama. I'm not kidding. In a gym that is tiny.'
According to Ellen, Obama was in the area writing his new book and had been working out with Ellen and her wife Portia de Rossi for the last week. It's a shame no-one told Tom before he opted for short-shorts for a stretching class.
'It was a very confined space and we then had to do this whole stretching class but Tom meanwhile is trying to not reveal anything', Margot says. 'This gym instructor keeps saying to Tom, 'Tom, lunge! Lunge, you're not lunging!' And Tom's trying to lunge cross-legged and Obama's stepping over his legs to put his weights back. The whole thing was so absurd, it was hilarious.'
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Welcome back to another episode of The Real Housewives of Dallas. The episode kicks off with a scene at the Westcott residence. Kameron Westcott is preparing her daughter, Hilton, for her first sleepaway camp, one that she’s apparently been on a waiting list for since she was 18 months old. To commemorate the event Kameron gifts Hilton with a custom-ordered trunk for her to take along. When asked why she needs the trunk, Hilton explains that she must fit everything that she takes to camp inside of it, instead of bringing multiple suitcases like her mother does when traveling.
D’Andra Simmons is given a second chance to meet with Stephanie Hollman’s husband, Travis, to discuss the financial crisis her business is experiencing. Luckily there were no hair emergencies this time that prohibited them from getting down to the nitty-gritty. After listening to D’Andra Simmons’ predicament regarding the cash flow issues, Travis is direct with D’Andra and advises her to get rid of everything that’s not making money, including employees and her office. It’s apparent that this is not the advice D’Andra wants to hear.
Kary Brittingham has a heart to heart with her oldest daughter over coffee. Kary admits that she has major insecurities due to not having a career and relying on her husbands over the years for financial stability. She pleads with her daughter to always have her own career so she’s never dependent upon a man.
Back at the Hollman house, Travis and Stephanie discuss the meeting between him and D’Andra Simmons. Travis tells Stephanie that D’Andra has some tough decisions ahead of her but he’s not so sure she will actually make the decisions she needs to make. The conversation changes gears and Stephanie tells Travis that she is feeling better now that the Mexico trip is behind her but that she feels like she can’t do anything right in her friendship with Kameron. Travis applies that same no-nonsense approach that he uses in business when helping Stephanie navigate the drama between her and Kameron. He tells Stephanie that she needs to let Kameron know that she’s “not all that and a bag of tricks” to which Stephanie quickly corrects him and lets him know that “chips” is the word he was looking for.
Cut to the first of many wedding-related festivities honoring bride-to-be LeeAnne Locken. During this episode, the ladies attend a Moulin Rouge-themed lingerie shower co-hosted by Stephanie and housewife from season’s past, Cary Deuber. All of the ladies, minus D’Andra, are in attendance including Tiffany Hendra from season one. Wow. Now that’s a blast from the past. While many of the ladies dress the part and really embrace the lingerie theme, Kameron shows up wearing something that could very well be mistaken for a full-body swimsuit from the 1800s.
Brandi Redmond and LeeAnne have a heart-to-heart and Brandi apologizes for the way things went down in Mexico and says she feels bad that LeeAnne thinks she hates her. According to Brandi she definitely would not be there looking like a prostitute for someone she hated. Pretty valid point, in my opinion. The two then bond over living in mobile homes, but Brandi’s quick to point out that she only had a single wide in comparison to Leeanne’s double.
While the ladies are sipping champagne in their lingerie at 1 pm on a Wednesday, D’Andra Simmons is back at the office talking with her husband Jeremy about the next steps for her struggling company. Jeremy seems to agree with Travis that it is time to close up shop and start working from inside their home in an effort to cut overhead expenses.
D’Andra expresses her frustrations at having to start all over at the age of 50 and ultimately blames her mother for the position she now finds herself in. According to D’Andra it was her mother who convinced her to quit her job in Washington and come work for her in Dallas. She was promised a successful company and instead received a big fat lemon. She says that if she were her mother that she would have extreme guilt about that, but it appears that Mama Dee still doesn’t give a dog’s rip.
Back at the lingerie shower, Stephanie pulls Kameron aside to discuss their friendship and how she’s feeling. She explains that she feels like Kameron’s always looking for things to be angry with her about. She refers to Kameron’s passive-aggressive toast and how she basically insinuated that Stephanie hasn’t been a good friend to her or taken the time to get to know her. Kameron doubles down and claims those were facts and that she was offended that Stephanie kept leaving their room the entire time and chose to confide in Kary instead of her regarding her deep personal issues.
Stephanie explains that she didn’t feel comfortable pouring her heart out to someone who accused her of not being a good friend. The “trash” comment rears it’s ugly head yet again and Stephanie admits that word is not only a trigger for Brandi but her as well. The mere mention of the word “trash” sets Kameron off. She tells Stephanie that was between her and Brandi and she’s already apologized for it and demands that Stephanie not bring that up anymore. She then accuses Stephanie of attacking her and storms off from the table.
Stephanie is left at the table in tears. Stephanie admits to feeling defeated and humiliated after the argument and explains that although she wants to be Kameron’s friend, she refuses to be her bitch. After all, Kameron’s not all that and a bag of tricks. Travis says so.
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Home Construction A Kuwaiti-owned company, Agility, sign an investment contract worth about $340m
A Kuwaiti-owned company, Agility, sign an investment contract worth about $340m
The Kuwaiti company, Agility, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary S2 for the management and development of lands and real estate has signed an agreement with the Public Authority for Housing Welfare – governmental – to develop warehouses and workers accommodation on an area of 1.2 million square meters in Sabah Al-Ahmad Residential City, according to the Agility statement published on the Kuwaiti Stock Exchange website Today.
According to today’s statement, the investment period is 30 years, with a value of about 104 million Kuwaiti dinars ($ 339.9 million).
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Composer Rob Fetters writes original soundtrack for Newport Aquarium “Otter” commercial.
Newport Aquarium’s latest TV spot for Asian Small Clawed Otters features an original composition by Rob Fetters, a guitar wizard and composer who has toured with likes of Kiss and the Cincinnati Pops.
“We wanted music that expressed the essence of an otter – playful and fun, yet smooth – and a piece that could mimic the movement and flow of an otter,” said Director Greg Newberry. “Bringing Rob Fetters on board to create an original composition for the spot gave us exactly what we were looking for, and moreover, brings the otters to life.”
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Elmore Resigns, Holliday to Name Replacement
by Stephanie Crosby
Longtime Jefferson County School Board member Ann Elmore resigned her position last night, citing personal reasons. She’d been a member of the board for 16 years, and retired immediately, instead of in December as she’d planned.
State Education Commissioner Terry Holliday now will appoint a replacement. Spokesperson Lisa Gross says they’ll move quickly once they receive official notice of Elmore’s resignation.
“The statute gives us about 90 days to complete the process,” says Gross, “but we try to expedite it because it’s always a good idea to move forward with these kinds of activities so that school boards can have their full contingent when they’re trying to make decisions.”
Gross says they’ll take applications for two weeks from people interested in filling the position, then make a selection from there.
One person – Attica Scott – has filed to run for Elmore’s seat in the November election.
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By Berenice, Thursday 9 March 2017
Whether you are a ‘Brexiteer’ or a ‘Remainer’, there’s no getting away from the fact that the UK is on the cusp of historic change. Whether positive or negative (we can’t yet know for certain), Brexit will have a significant impact on UK politics and economics, and on the future of the hospitality industry. At the Arena Savoy lecture on Monday 20 March, an exclusive Brexit panel will consider and debate the challenges and opportunities that the hospitality industry could encounter, from an operational, legal and financial perspective.
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Jason Myers, CEO, Busaba Eathai
Jason Myers leads the award-winning restaurant group Busaba Eathai, the UK leading Thai casual dining brand. He has extensive UK and global F&B experience. He has worked in international markets as Jumeirah Restaurants managing director; oversaw all Caprice brands and Noodle House; and was VP of Jumeirah Hotels F&B worldwide, where he was credited for the strategic creation of Jumeirah’s pioneering stand-alone restaurant group RnB.
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Ufi Ibrahim, Chief Executive, British Hospitality Association (BHA)
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More children die of unsafe water than war
A Nile River boat in Jinja Town, Uganda (AN/John Heilprin)
By John Heilprin
(Arête News) — Children under the age of five living in conflict-prone nations are far more likely on average to die from illnesses due to unsafe water and sanitation than from war or violence, UNICEF reported.
Hundreds of millions of youth are at risk of contracting those illnesses, the United Nations agency said, because more countries suffer from conflicts than at any time in the past 30 years. Poor water conditions cause malnutrition and preventable diseases such as diarrhea, typhoid, cholera and polio.
The 24-page report, entitled “Water Under Fire,” coincided with the U.N.’s World Water Day on March 22. It is based on data from 16 nations: Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
“The odds are already stacked against children living through prolonged conflicts – with many unable to reach a safe water source,” said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore. “The reality is that there are more children who die from lack of access to safe water than by bullets.”
About 4 billion people – more than half the world’s 7.6 billion population – suffer water shortages for at least a month out of every year, according to another new U.N. report from a different agency, U.N. Water.
Meantime, the United States consumes the most water, typically 7,800 liters a day on an average per capita basis. Rounding out the top 10 water-consuming nations are Portugal, Spain, Italy, Tunisia, Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Switzerland, which has a per capita use of 4,200 liters a day.
Whoever you are, wherever you are – water is your human right. Yet, 2.1 billion people live without safe water in their homes. More on Friday's #WorldWaterDay: https://t.co/sJNyOO6L9P pic.twitter.com/jcBguNeTKC
— United Nations (@UN) March 22, 2019
Threats to access
Fore said the challenges facing conflict-ridden nations are made worse when armed forces attacked and destroyed the means to provide clean water and sanitation. “Deliberate attacks on water and sanitation are attacks on vulnerable children,” she said. “Water is a basic right. It is a necessity for life.”
UNICEF said it provided 35.3 million people with access to safe water for drinking, cooking and personal hygiene last year.
Some 85,700 children younger than 15 are dying each year of diarrhea linked to unsafe water, poor sanitation and unclean facilities — more than two and a half times the 30,900 children under 15 who are killed each year in conflicts — based on World Health Organization data and estimates for the 16 nations from 2014 to 2016.
Another 72,000 children younger than five are dying each year from similar illnesses linked to unclean facilities — 21 times the 3,400 children of similar ages that are killed annually in war-related violence.
Average mortality estimates were higher for diarrhea than for violence among children under the age of 15 in all nations studied except Libya, Iraq and Syria. The same was true for children under the age of five in all nations studied except Libya and Syria.
It's as deadly as a bullet.
It's as deadly as a bomb.
And you use it every day.
Can you guess what it is? #WorldWaterDay pic.twitter.com/reKOuDQBPp
— UNICEF (@UNICEF) March 22, 2019
Water shortages
Water scarcity has become an increasing hindrance to sustainable development, according to U.N.-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif, a former city council mayor for Penang Island, Malaysia, whose organization deals with the global shift towards urbanization. Climate change is a major factor in that trend.
By 2030, six-in-10 people in the world were expected to live in urban areas. More than 90 per cent of the growth was predicted to occur in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, according to U.N.-Habitat.
The number of urban dwellers living with seasonal water shortages has grown from almost 500 million people in 2000 to an estimated 1.9 billion in 2050, Sharif said in a message for World Water Day.
“The situation is worse in slums where basic water and sanitation needs are barely met,” she said.
About 844 million people around the world lacked access to safe water, according to Water.org, a U.S.-based aid organization that works to improve drinking water and sanitation in developing countries.
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Banished Journalist Laura Loomer Rakes in Big League Fundraising Cash for Congressional Run
Loomer is raising money that shows she is a legitimate U.S. House candidate in Florida.
Shane Trejo
When banished journalist Laura Loomer announced she was running for Congress as a Republican in Florida’s 21st U.S. House district, her campaign was immediately laughed off by fake news commentators and establishment GOP hacks.
After her the announcement of her initial fundraising numbers, they are laughing no longer. Loomer is raking in money that makes her a legitimate Congressional contender in next year’s election.
Her campaign made the announcement on Tuesday that she had raised over $154,000 in only 60 days of fundraising. She received third quarter donations from 2,314 individuals throughout the country, demonstrating her broad and diverse donor base, with the average donation being $66.
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The press release issued by Loomer’s campaign noted that socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has only raised $59,000 in her first two quarters while serving as a Congresswoman. Loomer’s potential opponent in next year’s general election, Democratic incumbent Lois Frankel, raised $107,000 despite being a political veteran.
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The success of Loomer’s campaign is showing that there is massive grassroots support behind the journalist, and she is being cancelled by social media because of her effectiveness.
“I’m humbled at the outpouring of support for my campaign,” Loomer said. “Despite the radical left, big tech tyrants and the fake-news media doing everything they can to hinder my campaign, this early showing puts career politician Lois Frankel and the do-nothing Democrats in congress on notice that no seat is safe and that I’m running to win. I look forward to continuing to travel the district and learning the concerns of the voters.”
“Laura is proving that she is a serious candidate and committed to flipping this seat and building the resources necessary to expose just how out of touch with the district Lois Frankel has become. I believe this will be one of the most watched congressional races for 2020 and will be a bellwether for regaining the House,” said Karen Giorno, who served as the Trump presidential campaign’s 2016 Florida state director and now works as chief strategist for the Loomer campaign.
Loomer, who has been a contributor to Big League Politics, was kicked off Twitter last year:
Investigative journalist Laura Loomer has been permanently suspended from Twitter, she confirmed in a conversation Wednesday evening with Big League Politics.
Loomer had more than 200,000 followers on the platform, making her a force to be reckoned with in a medium populated by dullard NPC’s with blue check marks next to their names.
Loomer said that she was banned for a tweet she wrote criticizing Sharia law for oppressing women and men around the world.
Loomer was thrown off of Facebook’s platform in 2018 as well:
A conservative journalist and Big League Politics contributor was banned from Facebook on Sunday in the midst of a purge of prominent right-wing figures by Silicon Valley tech giants.
“Laura Loomer has been unpublished for repeatedly posting things that don’t comply with Facebook Terms,” the site informed Loomer. “Please review Facebook Community Standards to learn more about our policies.”
When fascist tech giants silence users, they never give a concrete reason, only a vague “violation of terms” excuse.
With the success of her campaign, Loomer is showing that Big Tech cannot unperson a dissident using their monopoly power. She will be able to use her fundraising dollars to get the word out about crucial issues as she continues her march to Congress.
New York Young Republicans Call for Order After Chaos at the Capitol
Order Must be Restored
Jose Nino
On January 6, 2020 the New York Young Republican Club issued a statement calling for an instant restoration of law and order after protests escalated at the United States Capitol.
The protests were originally in support of President Donald Trump and his efforts to challenge the results of an election marked by massive irregularities. Several protesters pushed the envelope by breaking into the Capitol and interrupting the Senate and House of Representatives proceedings.
The Republican organization issued the following statement on the incident:
The New York Young Republican Club consistently condemned lawlessness and disorder throughout 2020 perpetrated by Radical Left BLM and Antifa activists. We called out the Fake News Media and Democrat politicians who inculcated a culture of acceptance for “mostly peaceful protestors” who violated private property rights and destroyed livelihoods.
Today, what we see at the United States Capitol the result of American elites permitting general malaise to foment tangible destruction. We unequivocally condemn the interruption of Senate and House of Representatives proceedings. Anyone who breached the Capitol should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law because destruction and vandalism of property cannot be permitted by any actor.
We are the party of Law and Order, and we expect citizens all to operate in accordance with these standards.
U.S. policymakers will have to take a long hard look in the mirror. The lack of leadership has created a vicious cycle of radicalization that is increasingly getting out of control. Such developments could put America’s political system on the ropes if not addressed properly.
On the Republican side, there must be a clean break during the 2022 primaries, where the overwhelming majority of incumbents should face nationalist challengers. The current leadership has clearly failed and must be replaced.
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Legal threat over anti-capitalist guidance for schools in England
Campaigners have threatened the government with legal action over new guidance that tells schools not to use resources from organisations that have expressed a desire to end capitalism.
In a pre-action letter, the Coalition of Anti-Racist Educators (Care) and Black Educators Alliance (BEA) said the guidance would prevent teachers from using material from groups including Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion, limiting anti-racism teaching.
In guidance issued last week for school leaders and teachers in England, the Department for Education (DfE) categorised anti-capitalism as an “extreme political stance” and equated it with opposition to freedom of speech, antisemitism and endorsement of illegal activity.
The guidance also states that schools should not “under any circumstances” work with or use material from groups that do not “condemn illegal activities done in their name or in support of their cause” or promote “victim narratives that are harmful to British society”.
Care and BEA said the guidance would prevent young people from engaging with teaching about racism, discouraging the use of material produced by Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion, the charity Inquest “or another campaigning organisation that seeks to draw attention to the disproportionate impact of state violence (including against Black men).”
The letter says that as it is unclear what “victim narratives” means, schools could be discouraged from using resources produced by organisations that campaign for rights for minority groups.
The groups have began to fundraise to proceed with a judicial review if the department refuses to withdraw the guidance.
Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the Labour MP for Streatham, said: “I support this legal challenge. Freedom of speech and an educated population are two fundamental pillars of democracy. We cannot move forward as a society without respecting them both.
“These guidelines are a deeply worrying erosion of these two principles by an authoritarian Conservative government that has lost all credibility among the young.”
A spokesperson for Care said: “This guidance will have a chilling effect in the classrooms. Our schools are filled with inquisitive young people and we should be doing everything necessary to ensure they are given all the tools and information to have rich discussions on topics such as inequality.
“This guidance prevents that by restricting access to materials and no-platforming organisations that don’t curry favour with the government.”
Rachel Harger, a solicitor at Bindmans, said: “The guidance, which was published without consultation or warning, is a clear statement of the secretary of state’s own political preferences and the ban on the use of teaching materials related to leftwing or political groups is clearly unlawful, serious and far-reaching.
“The guidance constitutes an assault on the common law right to freedom of speech, freedom of religious belief, and has a disproportionate impact on protected groups such as the black and trans community.”
The DfE has been contacted for comment.
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Of All the Opulent Hairstyles on Bridgerton, I Can't Stop Thinking About Eloise's
If the idea of watching beautiful people navigate love affairs, attend lavish parties, and tempt scandal appeals to you, then you’ll love Netflix’s new series Bridgerton. Set to hit the streaming service on Dec. 25, the period piece takes place in 19th century high-society London and is based on Julia Quinn’s eight-book series. It follows the powerful and affluent Bridgerton family and its seven children as the oldest daughter, Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor), makes her debut into society.
As if the bespoke costumes weren’t enough to look at, the show is loaded with over-the-top, extravagant hairstyles and wigs. While every character has their own distinct style, the second Bridgerton daughter, Eloise (played by Claudia Jessie), stands out in contrast to the rest of the women on the show with both her appearance and her ideals.
Eloise, unlike her older sister, Daphne, wants more from life than to become a wife and a mother, and she makes that very clear from the start. She’s a lone feminist, and that’s evident not just in her thoughts and opinions but her appearance as well. While the rest of the women wear feminine updos adorned in bows, feathers, and jewels, Eloise has a modern, shaggy haircut that she wears down and free with fringe bangs. It’s a style that wouldn’t look too out of place even in the 21st century but is striking for the time.
She doesn’t care to abide by societal rules and beauty standards and instead focuses her attention on her own passions. “Eloise is scholarly, intelligent, and curious — she has no patience to be girly,” the costume designer Ellen Mirojnick told POPSUGAR. “She has a straightforward, buttoned-up style that errs on being a bit masculine. ” Her hair is always a bit messy and ever so slightly out of place — because she can’t bother herself with wasting hours on pampering — making her stick out among all of the prim-and-proper hairstyles, and women, that surround her.
For Eloise, hair is about more than just looking good — it’s an act of rebellion. Eloise is way ahead of her time, but she’s the glimpse into 2021 that the era needed.
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Deed from Ethan Kimball, 20 June 1842
Ethan Kimball by
, Attorney, Deed for property in
Hancock Co.
Formed from Pike Co., 1825. Described in 1837 as predominantly prairie and “deficient in timber.” Early settlers came mainly from mid-Atlantic and southern states. Population in 1835 about 3,200; in 1840 about 9,900; and in 1844 at least 15,000. Carthage ...
, IL, to JS, 20 June 1842; unidentified handwriting; Deed Book K, pp. 329–330, Hancock County Recorder’s Office; microfilm at Family History Library.
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<E[than] Kimball To J Smith>
<Recorded 27th June 1842>
<S. W ¼ 25. 5 <7> N. 7 <8> W.>
<SE ¼ 26. 7 N. 8 W.>
<NE ¼ 35. 7 N. 8 W.>
This Indenture made, and entered into, This Twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred forty-two, between Ethan Kimball of the county of
County located in central Vermont, bounded by Connecticut River to east. Incorporated 1781. Population in 1830 about 27,000. Joseph Smith Sr. and his brother John traveled through county visiting relatives and preaching. JS purchased property in 1842 and ...
and state of
Area served as early thoroughfare for traveling Indian tribes. French explored area, 1609, and erected fort on island in Lake Champlain, 1666. First settled by Massachusetts emigrants, 1724. Claimed by British colonies of New York and New Hampshire, but during...
of the one part, and Joseph Smith of the county of
Became part of Northwest Territory of U.S., 1787. Admitted as state, 1818. Population in 1840 about 480,000. Population in 1845 about 660,000. Plentiful, inexpensive land attracted settlers from northern and southern states. Following expulsion from Missouri...
aforesaid, of the other part Witnesseth, that the said Ethan Kimball for and in consideration of the sum of Fifteen hundred dollars, to him in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby grant, bargain, sell, convey, and confirm unto the said Joseph Smith his heirs and assigns forever, all that tract or parcel of land, situate and being in the county of
in the state of
, viz: The South West quarter of section (25) Twenty five in Township (7) Seven North of Range (8) <Eight> West containing one hundred and sixty acres. also the South East quarter of section (26) Twenty six in Township No (7) Seven North of Range (8) Eight West containing One hundred and sixty acres. also The North East quarter of section No (35) Thirty five Township and Range aforesaid containing one hundred and sixty acres and containing in the whole four hundred and <Eight> acres be the same more or less: Together with all and singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining To Have and To Hold the above described premises unto the said Joseph Smith his heirs and assigns forever. And the said Ethan Kimball his heirs and assigns, the aforesaid premises, unto the said Joseph Smith his heirs and assigns, against the claim or claims of all and every person whomsoever, do and will warrant and forever defend by these presents
In Testimony Whereof the said Ethan Kimball [p. 329]
Ethan Kimball To J Smith
Recorded 27th June 1842
S. W ¼ 25. 7 N. 8 W.
SE ¼ 26. 7 N. 8 W.
NE ¼ 35. 7 N. 8 W.
, viz: The South West quarter of section (25) Twenty five in Township (7) Seven North of Range (8) Eight West containing one hundred and sixty acres. also the South East quarter of section (26) Twenty six in Township No (7) Seven North of Range (8) Eight West containing One hundred and sixty acres. also The North East quarter of section No (35) Thirty five Township and Range aforesaid containing one hundred and sixty acres and containing in the whole four hundred and Eight acres be the same more or less: Together with all and singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining To Have and To Hold the above described premises unto the said Joseph Smith his heirs and assigns forever. And the said Ethan Kimball his heirs and assigns, the aforesaid premises, unto the said Joseph Smith his heirs and assigns, against the claim or claims of all and every person whomsoever, do and will warrant and forever defend by these presents
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The Helen & Jim Show: The signing of the Labour-Alliance coalition agreement (above) ushered in a period of frenetic promise-keeping by the new government. Not everyone, however, was impressed. By the winter of 2000 the business community was threatening Clark and Anderton with a full-scale investment strike.
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FROM: Prolewatch Public Relations
RE: The Government’s First 100 Days
Gidday Heather,
Here’s the cut-down version of our assessment of the Government’s first 100 days that you asked for.
So far so good, we reckon. Even Phil Goff’s mob admits that Helen’s doing brilliantly, and as for the bleeding heart liberals and the arty-farty types – well – who needs Ecstasy when you’ve got a progressive woman Prime Minister! No, as far as the mood on the street’s concerned, you can tell Helen that Labour’s got it sussed.
We’re a bit worried about Jim though. What the hell was all that BS on Holmes about! Jeez, he made that Aussie journo sound intelligent – and that’s not an easy thing to do! Old Jimbo’s going to have to watch himself. Rhetoric’s fine in opposition, but when you’re in government people expect you to know the answers.
To be fair though, it’s not just Jim who’s got people worried, the whole Alliance has a big question mark hanging over it these days. People are saying: "What’s the point of having two left-wing parties? Why doesn’t the Alliance just get back together with Labour?" It’s a fair question. We foresee all kinds of difficulties for Jim and his team as the next election rolls around. Who should they compete with – your lot or the Greens? Jim’s a shrewd bugger, but he might have met his match with this problem.
Still, it’s an ill-wind etc. If Jim has led the Alliance into a dead-end, Laila Harré might be just the gal to lead them out of it. She’s young, smart, politically very savvy – and people are beginning to notice.
Her work with Margaret Wilson on the Employment Relations Bill got all the union heavies into a right old tizzy. Seems she actually forced them to do some thinking – not a pretty sight!
The bosses have noticed her too. They keep asking Matt McCarten: "Is she really as Hard-Left as people say?" To which Matt replies: "Well, she’s hard, and she’s left – and that’s a much more dangerous combination!"
Speaking of the bosses, you’re going to have to keep an eye on them over the next few months. Our spies in the Employers Federation tell us that they’ve never seen their members so rarked up. Re-nationalising ACC was bad enough, but Margaret and Laila’s Employment Relations Bill has driven them into a cold fury.
Don’t underestimate them, Heather. Labour, the Alliance, and the Greens might command a majority in Parliament, but the bosses still rule in the workplace, and all those pen-pushers in the bureaucracy sing from the New Right’s song-sheet – not yours.
And whatever else you do, never mistake silence for compliance. Plots are being hatched and plans are being laid, and none of them are designed to do Helen and Jim any good.
Check out One Network News - you’ll catch our drift. Coverage of the Employment Relations Bill is inter-spliced with scary footage of scuffles on the picket lines and monster trade union marches. Michael Cullen’s Super Scheme is trashed by a couple of workers from a roading gang.
Helen might have picked a fight with the wrong people when she let fly at TVNZ. Getting rid of Roseanne Meo was all very well, but Marian Hobbs will have to take a few more scalps before that lot settles down.
Still, they’ll keep. Right now Kiwis are just enjoying the novelty of a Government that actually keeps its promises. Enjoy what remains of the honeymoon – but don’t forget: it’ll be the Coalition’s last 100 days – not its first - that keeps it in power.
This essay was originally published in The Dominion of Friday, 17 March 2000.
Posted by Chris Trotter at 14:40
Labels: Labour-Alliance Coalition Government 1999-2002
Tauhei Notts said...
Your wonderful book details how just ten weeks after that essay was published that the employers and manufacturers had put the subtle pressure on Michael Cullen. It was a mighty reminder to the government of who really runs the country.
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Hardman Awards for Native Plant Research
The Hardman Foundation Inc. is a private foundation that maintained a small grant program in key universities of the west coast for aspects of native plant conservation. In 1994, the foundation made an endowment to Oregon State University to support graduate student research concerning the native plants of Oregon.
The purpose of the endowment is to support "careful botanical research for the sake of preservation and expansion of native plants and vegetation."
Research projects in systematic botany that contribute to understanding of evolutionary development or regional native plant variation within species or species complexes and studies of flowering plants considered choice or rare, or that are depleted in range and need study, or require propagation for enrichment of the native range and for use in botanical gardens or other suitable preserves will be favored.
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With the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow amongst various senior MPs to have been accused of bullying more junior staff in Parliament, the limelight is finally being shone on workplace bullying. A “culture of fear” exists in many industries, and bullying certainly isn’t confined to school playgrounds.
Shouting at colleagues isn’t acceptable in any working environment, and it’s not something to be taken lightly: being bullied can leave a victim feeling intimidated, terrified and even suffering from PTSD. If you’re being bullied by someone more senior than you at work, it can be hard to know how to deal with it in a way that won’t put your job at risk, but it’s imperative not to suffer in silence and there are ways you can effectively tackle the problem.
Oade believes it’s essential to handle an incident of bullying at the time of the attack. Doing so is of course nerve-wracking, but it can help the target retain control and throw the issue back to the bully, while demonstrating that the target is in charge of how they act under pressure.
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“As soon as a target demonstrates that they are in charge of what they say or do, even in a small way, the evolving bullying dynamic alters in their favour, sometimes sufficiently for that encounter, sometimes sufficiently to stop the bullying completely,” Oade explains. Workplace bullying is about power, and this is how the bullying dynamic is established.
Recognise what the bully is trying to achieve. “A skilled bully uses specific behaviour which they believe will put the target onto the back foot, retain them control of the interaction, and create a bullying dynamic between the two of them,” Oade explains. But you need to realise you have much more influence at the time of an attack than you think.
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It’s also important to note that most of what a bully says is untrue. “Most bullying remarks do contain an element of truth but only an element wrapped up in a fabric of lies, slander and deceit,” explains Oade. You don’t need to defend yourself or justify your actions – put the issues back onto the bully and hold them accountable for what they just said.
You may be wondering what Oade means by “put the issues back to the bully.” Essentially, this means countering bullying remarks (which are likely to be inaccurate or slanderous allegations about your work, character or commitment) by taking the spotlight off you and putting it on the bully by asking them to justify what they have said.
For kids who love robotics, this toy is indeed a treat. It comes with 978 bricks made from a mechanical transmission structure to ensure effective movement and action. It can be remotely controlled by the Mi Robot Builder app via Bluetooth. By simply dragging and dropping complex command codes to the robot from the connected smartphone, kids can command the robot in three different control settings joystick, gyroscope and route control and can also create their own set of instructions for the robot to follow.
When you live in the comfort of your home country, living around the people you’ve known all your life, you can sometimes be stuck and never really realize it. Moving away showed me just how stuck in life I was and opened my eyes to a bigger picture.
Adapting to a new lifestyle showed me a different side to life. For example, Norwegian life revolves around the cold winters and it was nothing I had ever really experienced before. It took a while to get used to the -20 degree temperatures but experiencing extremes like that and making them part of my everyday life taught me to adapt to something outside of my comfort zone. I will never complain about the cold again – in fact I’ve learned to embrace and make the most of it!
The culture can be very different from your own even if it doesn’t seem like it from the outside. TheNorwegian culture is deep-rooted in nature, its language and its mindset. When I moved to this country full of beautiful fjords, mountains and lakes, with the opportunity to see the amazing Northern Lights whenever I stepped out of my front door, it wasn’t just the sheer natural wonder of the country but the way in which Norwegians embrace it and make it an intrinsic part of their lives.
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Best horror films of all time
By Cheryl McCollum on October 27, 2018 in Entertainment, News 1
Happy Halloween!! To celebrate, Rotten Tomatoes summoned the 150 best-reviewed horror films of all time. Here are the top10-reviewed films. 10. The Night of the Hunter (1955) stars Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters and is a cult classic. Harry Powell… (Continue Reading)
The right modem for your TDS plan
By Cheryl McCollum on October 27, 2018 in News 8
As TDS broadband speeds increase, a new modem that’s compatible with TDS products will make a world of difference. Looking for the right modem for your plan? TDS is now using DOCSIS 3 and DOCSIS 3.1 modems. DOCSIS stands for… (Continue Reading)
Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas is here
By Missy Kellor on October 25, 2018 in Entertainment, News 0
Get ready, Hallmark movie fans—Christmas movies are here! This year Hallmark has made a record 36 new movies, airing on both Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Twenty-two of the new movies will air on Hallmark and 14 will… (Continue Reading)
Don’t stress over Halloween costumes with these 7 DIY ideas
By HelloTDS on October 25, 2018 in Entertainment, News 0
Don’t get spooked by the Halloween costume frenzy! Coming up with ideas, shopping for the perfect accessories, and finally getting ready are all part of the fun of dressing up on Halloween—unless they aren’t. Not a Halloween fan? Didn’t have… (Continue Reading)
Fort Collins named 4th Best City to Raise a Family
Fort Collins, Colorado has received another top 10 award for being an amazing place to live. Livability ranked the growing Colorado community as the fourth Best City to Raise a Family in the country. Affordable daycare, quality of schools, number… (Continue Reading)
Mountain bike trails worthy of a visit
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Steer clear of vehicle history report scams
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TDS User Guides, How-To Videos
By Cheryl McCollum on October 16, 2018 in Community, News, Technology 0
To enhance our customer’s TV viewing experience, TDS has produced several user guides to help our customers navigate our products. On our website, we have user guides and quick reference guides on Catch TV including an introduction to MyDVR, using… (Continue Reading)
National Cyber Security Awareness tips to stay safe online
By HelloTDS on October 12, 2018 in News, Technology 0
This month marks the 15th year of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM)—an annual initiative designed to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity and provide resources to help Americans stay safe online. Cybersecurity is a broad term used to describe… (Continue Reading)
MLB Network to offer Free Post Season Oct. 3-10
By Cheryl McCollum on October 2, 2018 in Entertainment, News 0
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Remainers PANIC over new Boris Johnson plan – Brexit outcry as UK holds firm against EU
Negotiations on a post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and EU began in March, with just nine months to come to terms on a comprehensive agreement before the transition period deadline of December 31 – a date the UK refused to extend. But six months later, little progress has been made, with both sides refusing to give ground on a number of red lines, most notably fisheries, state aid and Brussels’ level playing field rules and regulations. Mr Johnson is now also pressing ahead with the Government’s Internal Market Bill, which has sparked fury throughout the EU, Brussels warning the UK to scrap the plan before the end of this month as a threat of legal action continues to loom.
The proposed legislation would look to override key elements of the Withdrawal Agreement the Prime Minister came to terms on with the EU and subsequently, break international law.
Downing Street is insisting the Internal Market Bill is needed to protect the Northern Ireland peace process if Britain is unable to secure a deal with the EU.
Mr Johnson’s spokesman said the Government is proposing “limited clarifications” to the law to ensure ministers can preserve the gains of the Good Friday Agreement in the event of no deal outcome between the two sides.
But Best for Britain, the campaign group established in April 2017 to stop Brexit and continue the UK’s membership of the EU, has launched a scathing attack against the Prime Minister and the Internal Market Bill.
Naomi Smith, CEO at Best for Britain, told Express.co.uk any deal agreed with the EU “will be significantly less comprehensive than what was promised”.
She said: “Since the deal struck last autumn, the Prime Minister and his negotiating team have, it seems, at every opportunity in talks ceded UK gains and rowed back on that deal.
“The political declaration was the political basis for a strong future relationship, if not the legal one – and Johnson has torn that to pieces with the Internal Market Bill.
“Put simply, right now Britain and the EU are looking at an extremely low-level deal or no deal at all. Yet the circumstances have changed – not least because of Covid-19 – and the comprehensive deal that all Tory MPs promised as part of their manifesto at the last election is now needed more than ever.
“There have been some positive noises made about the chances of a deal this week, but the simple truth is that even that deal will be significantly less comprehensive than what was promised.
“Instead of getting anything like the Canada FTA, we’ve sought the lowest common denominator and ended up without the key benefits of a good deal.”
Ms Smith claims both Remainers and Brexiteers will be left asking what has happened to the comprehensive FTA that was promised by the Prime Minister when he entered into negotiations with the EU last year.
She warned coupled with the ongoing damaging financial impact from the coronavirus pandemic, the rising probability of a no-deal Brexit means the threat to Britain has become “substantial”, warning Mr Johnson to settle any differences with the EU.
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The Best for Britain CEO said: “On both sides of the fence, plenty of people will be wondering what happened to the comprehensive trade deal that Johnson promised last year.
“Best for Britain’s polling and focus groups show that those who voted Conservative at the last election, and voted to leave in 2016, expect the PM to keep his promise on delivering a comprehensive deal.
“And because COVID was unexpected, they’re happy to give him more time to negotiate it – the British people are pragmatic not dogmatic.
“Brexit has happened – we now need to complete the transition with as little damage as possible.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that, without a comprehensive trade deal, Britain will suffer – there are warnings of customs chaos, the prices of imports are going to rise and even basic foodstuffs are going to get more expensive.
“Coupled with the impact of coronavirus and a depressed global economy, the threat to Britain is substantial, and all sides will want the UK to make every effort to boost our recovery.
“Squabbles and blame games help no one – Britain and the EU need to sort their relationship urgently and the overwhelming feeling is that the Prime Minister needs to step up to the mark, in difficult circumstances, and do his job.”
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G/O Media is the publisher of the web’s most original media brands, including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, Deadspin, Jezebel, Jalopnik, The Root, The Onion and The A.V. Club, and reaches 100 million unique visitors a month—more than one-third of all Americans. We connect with the young, diverse audiences that are shaping our future. Through fearless journalism, provoking comedy, and high-impact storytelling, we elevate the stories and issues our readers and viewers are passionate about.
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G/O Media is looking for a talented and well-versed Creative Director to join our team. Reporting to the VP, Marketing, the Creative Director will be responsible for the day-to-day creative output of the entire award-winning Studio team. This position will be responsible for the creative process, including ideation, video production, working in client revisions and doing what it takes to create world class content for our brand partners.
You will collaborate with client services, creative teams, UX, strategy, and tech teams to develop custom/branded content for all publishers within the G/O portfolio. The work will include branding development, key visual design, video pre-production, art direction, social media asset design, and interactive feature pages on our respective sites and much more. We’re looking for a conceptual thinker, visual designer, communicator and problem solver who wants to have their hands in several things at once, with focus on brand design and innovation. A strong point of view of brand identity and creative development will be your key to success.
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Leads break-through brand expressions, campaign creative, and digital forward design
Creates world-class creative for G/O Media's publications and marketing campaigns
Partners with cross-functional teams to plan, concept and design compelling content
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Home Actors Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa arrested and sent to judicial custody
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Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa have been sent to judicial custody till December 4
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Indian actress and comedian Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa have been arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau in the ongoing drugs case in Bollywood and have been sent to judicial custody till December 4, 2020. The NCB had raided the residence of the couple in Mumbai and had found about 86 grams of marijuana. Although possession of up to 1000 grams of marijuana is considered as a small quantity but they could be fined or jailed for up to six months.
The agency has also revealed that the couple confessed to have consumed marijuana. Haarsh was arrested on November 22, 2020 and the couple was soon produced before the magistrate court. The couple then filed bail pleas and has argued that since they do not have any criminal antecedents, there is no question of them absconding.
Bharti, Haarsh along with the drug peddlers were produced in the court. The arrest of the couple was confirmed by Sameer Wankhede, the zonal NCB director and added that their staff members are also being questioned.
Bharti Singh is reportedly lodged at the Byculla’s women’s prison which is the same place where Rhea Chakraborty was lodged. Husband Haarsh is lodged at Taloja Jail. Bharti is a well-known comedian who has made a mark in the TV industry and has also participated in a number of shows.
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Part 3
altogether novel, occasion for ascertaining the power of dratòrical song, Many causes at this moment conspire to fill the public heart with sympathy for the cause of Poland ; let Malibran give half-a-dozen evenings to the reconstruction of a nation. Suppose that, with a few assistants, she got up a night or two of patriotic lyricism. Moore, and Campbell, and Procter, would aid her, if she wanted aid : something like interlude might easily be got up by the Poles themselves to give her relief'; but neither on poets, nor musicians, nor coadjutors, would we have her depend. Divine music, and the true voice which always raises superhuman feelings in the human heart, are enough : liberal teaching would go by lightning. We would ask no charity : the gift is to be done by sympathy, and not by money;—and perhaps we are less interested in the particular success of the Polish cause than in the universal triumph of genius, of which this would be the proof and the example.
Malibran we recollect on her coming out was coldly received, almost contemned; generally termed an imitator,—the only sign of approbation arose from the supposed nearness of the imitation of Pasta. This was at the King's Theatre, when we remember in her first character she introduced an extraneous song; for this crime she was nearly thrown back. At the little Haymarket Theatre her one or two songs, introduced without reference to anything on earth, fill the house and serve London for talk. How is this? Who is changed ? Malibran or the public? Mademoiselle, at that time, was only seventeen, and may be supposed to have improved; but the public is an old and an incorrigible jade: we fear there is but little good in her.
DE BOURRIENNE's MADNESS.—They who read the Memoirs of Bourrienne with interest, and in this country that number was not small, will learn with regret that a late visit to one of the lunatic institutions of France revealed the melancholy form of the poor ex-secretary of the mighty 'ex-emperor. What a termination to a tortuous career! What a mystery is the brain! Read the Memoirs of Bourrienne, and say who appeared to have a cooler head, a more worldly view of life, a more exact appreciation of character and of events than the author; and yet all of a sudden the mental structure totters and down it comes with a crash, involving all it reaches in eternal confusion, irremediable ruin. De Bourrienne is only one of very many whose intellects have sunk under the intensity of the Napoleon era. But the remarkable feature of mental disease of this character is, that the cord snaps on the instant. Compare Bourrienne's Memoirs, just finished previous to this melancholy event, from end to end, the close is as collected as the beginning; there is neither flagging in vigour of thought nor in fulness of information, and yet no sooner was the work done than the machine stopped. The brain is material, but the intellect follows none of the laws of matter; it does not decay, it disappears and leaves its place vacant. “Il ne faut qu'un léger accident, qu’un atôme déplacé pour te faire périr, pour te ravir cette intelligence, dont tu parais si fier. One of the best works that has lately appeared in Europe on the awful subject of mental disease is that of Dr. Uwins; he gives himself up not to theories little less wild than the hallucinations of his patients, but to observing and recording the phenomena that present themselves in the cases that come before him. Can anything be more eloquent than this description of a state of active-nullity,
a polition deada and a power of thought spinning away without balance weighte, or guide ?" I have asked patients. sometimes their motives for Iefusing to speak, and the answers I receive are various. In one in stance I was struck with the affecting account a patient gave of his feels ings. It seemed, he told me, " As if I could and could not, or as if da would and would not, in such a strange way, that though silence was the result of the conflict, I felt in a manner guilt connect itself with my silence. Well may we exclaim with Hamlet, “What a piece of work
ľa :: The insanity of the great men of France is not of the suicidal charace: ter; suicide is more common in France than in England, but it is fara less mad.' - Intensity of occupation and anxiety in France may be abruptly stopped at the gate of the Maison des Fous, but it is rarely teran minated by the rázor. - In that country they have their Junots and their De Bourriennés, in this we have our Castlcreaghs and our Romillys. Looking at the tragical fates of so many of the prime movers in events T during the last fifty years of European politics, the moralist may“ be tempted to say, the paths of glory lead but to the premature grave, or to a still darker abode, the cell of the lunatic. But let uo mistake be made, the deaths of the illustrious obscure make no noise. Perhaps mores men have fallen victims to the fox-chase than have thrown themselves into the Curtian gulf of politics. While Whitbread was sacrificing him self to his Majesty's opposition, his Majesty's brother, the Duke of Kent, was catching his death of cold in snipe-shooting. Lord Althorp will survive the tremendous labours of the last session, while news comes that the wealthy Sir Harry Goodricke has just died of otter-hunting.. .151
- READING AND WRITING. There has been a good deal of controversy this month among the public writers on the value of such portion of literary education as is included in the arts of reading and writing among the poorer and Jaborious classes of the people. All the dispus tants appear to have, overlooked the real nature of these accomplishda ments. In themselves they are strictly mechanical. Learning to read is no more in-itself than learning to play the flute, and does not indeed require intellectual capacities of so high an order. To read, is simply to connect a sound with a sign. To write is still more mechanical ; iti is the art of making very simple signs which it has been agreed upon shall represent a certain number of sounds. The mental processes em-ft ployed in acquiring and practising these arts are of a very mean kindua No sound human being was ever found incapable of them. But they are instruments of stupendous power, and it is the uses to which they may? be applied that has caused so much confusion respecting them. Under the old and clumsy methods of instruction, these arts were so slowly and painfully acquired, that, incidentally, numerous ideas were collected which contribute still more to complicate the notions attached to the subject, But in the midst of other improvements, the mode of commu- a nicating a knowledge of these arts in the least possible time has been discovered. By the Lancasterian and other methods of teaching, the 11 art alone is acquired, and in the least possible time, so that the incidentals addition of a few ideas is lost. If then a boy, immorally educated, is taught also reading and writing, he is in nothing, or by very little, raised in a intellectual cultivation, while two powerful iustrumexts are put into his a ;* Sittaa odo mi
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handsisu Thus the child sofria pickpocket or a burglar will probablyotet neither pickpocket-nors burglarzı, he will probably be a begging letter writer,ia forger, for an embezzlers If, on the other hand, a child be morally educated, these instruments of power will, according to his moral impresa sions, ebe turned to use.on Like call power, however, they expose the posi Sossore "to temptation, and the greater the pressure of this force, the greatéri ought to be the moral and guiding power. A servant ungifted: with the noble art of reading manuscript will not open letters or pry into secret papers--they tell him nothing. But if he can so read, then some : sense of right and wrong, and the habit of moral conduct, is necessary to strengthen him against the temptation of curiosity. This is a small case of very universal application. But while a temptation is afforded on the one hand to do evil, there is also presented the means of instruction ; the taste: for reading is not an unbalanced good: it depends in part on the books read; the chance, however, perhaps is in favour of a wholesomeresults from these considerations, it is manifest enough that literary education is so far from being a substitute for a moral one, that, on the other hand, it demands that a higher moral power should be exerted in order to steady and direct the progress of the human vessel.s Reading and writing are like a too powerful steam-engine in a small and weakly.r boatise the helm is disobeyed, and the timbers are shaken to pieces. The helm, in these cases, is instruction, moral and religious. I.5 our X: ..::
? Soins I DANGEROUS DOCTRINES OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.-The newspapers tell us that the censorship at St. Petersburgh has prohibited the importation into Russia of the “ Arabian Nights' Entertainments, si lately translated into German by Professor Habicht. What are the revolutionary principles of the “ Arabian Nights ?” How can the politics of Bagdad affect those of St. Petersburgh? Where is the libel on the Holy Alliance? Is it in the story of Sinbad the Sailor ? And is despo tiem typified by the Old Man of the Sea, who would ride on Sinbad's shoulders, and would not be thrown, and who, the more Sinbad struggled to get him off, stuck in his knees the harder, kicked with his heels, and so, aggravated the inconvenience of his mere weight, that the oppression became intolerable? Or, perhaps, arbitrary power sees its likeness in the fisherman and the giant who rose out of the iron pot, and threatened to put can immediate end to the existence of him, the being who had been?" the unconscious cause of erecting him into a great power. Is it a supposed that the people will take the hint of cajoling the giant into the pot again, and once more cast him to the bottom of the sea, there to remain for ever? 19b1" , "67"
. .. "8*? $arga as MEDICAL CORPORATIONS. -The licentiates of the College of Physi10 cians have petitioned the House of Commons against the privileges of the College. The petition occupies a column of the morning papers, and is signed by a great number of the most distinguished medical names in London, whom the public, that knows little about these matters, will be surprised to hear are not in the enjoyment of all the honours, as avell as most of its profits. Surely nothing can be more absurd than that as distinction should exist in the profession, turning neither upon skill, knowledge, practice, or fame, but on the fact of being educated at one of two Universities, where, in truth, medicine is not taught! But, then, is it more absurd than a good many other things in the same profes
sion? Is it more absurd than that two men shall receive precisely the same education at the same schools, and that one shall be called a physician, and charge a guinea for a visit, while the other is entitled to no fee at all, but lives by vending the drugs in his shop, and is called apothecary, &c. The first has a direct interest in protracting the patient's complaint, and the other in overwhelming him with noxious medicaments. Surely these things might be better managed ? It will, however, not be much improved by the licentiates being admitted to all the privileges of the College, which, however, is a step to reform, and in the right direction. The only thing to be regretted is, that it is not general enough. In this, however, as in other matters, a general reform is hardly to be expected from within. When the public mind is more fully enlightened on the great subject of education, embracing the medical as well as other departments, the true and philosophical reform will come from without.
EDITORIAL AUTOCRACY.—The business of an Editor is necessarily á despotism : it admits no participation, no hesitation, no deliberation. I will it 80—is the rule in all well-conducted publications. The reason is plain: discussion once allowed between Editor and penman on the subjects that come under the surveillance of the press, it would be an endless and continual source of embarrassment. Thus an Editor becomes undisputed sovereign of a certain territory of opinion, and is in a great measure irresponsible : altogether so to his subjects, that is to say, his readers, who have no means of calling him to account: their only remedy is that of quitting his kingdom and changing their allegiance, a process he does not feel, for it generally happens that where he loses one subject he gains another. Sometimes his brother sovereigns of the neighbouring kingdoms of opinion presume to find fault with the manner in which he rules his subjects; but then the discussion is always carried on as between sovereign and sovereign, power and power. Now, we all know the effect of irresponsible power on the human heart: it is not, therefore surprising, that Editors should be much influenced in their characters and dispositions by the circumstances in which they are placed ; and it is incumbent on all writers, who deal with the signs of the times, to warn them of the dangers incident to the high places in which they maintain their supreme control, The Press pretty nearly governs the world, so we are much concerned as to who governs the Press. And when the stamp is annihilated, it is probable that the Press will become still more gigantically powerful, and Editors still more numerous. The faults Editors are likely to fall into, curiously resemble those of other despots who rule not opinions, but deeds; and that by the application of police and armies. The Editor feels he must not be argued with, consequently he becomes conceited; by finding his opinion always prevail, he begins to fancy it is by its excellence, and not by the nature of his office. Having a good deal in his hands, he is, of course, liable to the approach of flatterers and parasites, who, for the sake of small advantages, puff up this conceit to the most extravagant pitch. To differ with an Editor, is simply to excite astonishment as to where you have lived-evidently out of the atmosphere of his domain. An Éditor must necessarily avoid society, for the same reason as Kings and Emperors; the rules of society would impose the necessity of listening to remarks conceived in a tone of freedom--this is disagreeable to the despotic ear: besides, an Emperor might find himself vis-a-vis some gentleman whose brother he had sent to Siberia or Gehenna, the day before. This grieves the Imperial heart; so an Editor may get seated side by side with some criminal whom he had that morning punished with the critical knout, or the paragraphical cat-o'-nine tails : this is disturbing to that tranquillity that ought always to reign in the bosom of an Editor. In the amusements even of despots, the vicious effects of irresponsible power may be detected: the appetite comes to revel in wanton cruelty : so it is with Editors under a fit of bile or ennui—they take to stinging individuals with pointed pens, they will crush a poor fellow under the weight of a tremendous column of matter, simply for pastime, and because he happened at the moment to pass across the mental retina. The intolerance of Editors is remark, able: Paul could not bear that any of his subjects should wear a round hát, and he had their coat flaps cut according to his fancy; the alternative was the knout or Siberia. So it is with every man in the editorial territory; he must be exactly of their mind, and the slighter the differénce the greater the heresy. It will be found that an Editor-despot sometimes will publish an ukase, ordaining the establishment of the most liberal opinions; but the opinions must be neither more nor less liberal than the editorial standard, or the heretic must expect to be immediately sacrificed to the moral Moloch. Sometimes an Editor does not know himself what opinion to be of the duty of others is not therefore the less clear they must vacillate as he vacillates ; if he shakes his head thev must do the same; if he stumbles they must also make a false step, and what is of the highest importance, they must maintain, as he does himself, that his course has always been straightforward, that he has never hesitated, that he was prompt, decisive, and clear from the first. It is one of the first rules of the editorial court, that an Editor cannot be inconsistent. It often happens that very arbitrary monarchs think themselves the most humane and benevolent beings in the world : it is one of the evils of their situation : the truths we have here told the Autocrats of the Press they are probably ignorant of, and some, we dare say, of the most intolerant of them all are little aware of the tyrants they are become. But being now warned, they will set a watch upon themselves,
The Lion's Mouth.
ALIENA NEGOTIA CENTUM." - Horat.
PARLIAMENTARY REPORTERS.
To the Editor of the New Monthly Magazine. SIR, The quarrel between Mr. O'Connell and the Parliamentary reporters produced, among many other paragraphs on the subject in the newspapers, the following in the leading article of “ The Times," of Monday, the 29th of July :
* There is one other consideration connected with this matter which must not be concealed, and which, if not kept carefully in view, will inevitably lead to the most prejudicial results, both as regards Parliament. and as regards the public; it is this:---that part of the press of this country which consists of the reporters was at one time filled by persons of
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or phenomenon, than is required to depict an abstract idea in gesture ;” and adds, with much truth: “This only shows that where higher faculties are present, they are able to display themselves in gesture as well as in speech.” With this we entirely agree. Where intellect exists it can manifest itself either by speech or gesture and where it does not exist, mere consentience may associate (as in apes, dogs, and learned pigs) definite articulate sounds, as well as definite gestures, with particular motions.
Mr. Romanes affirms that “the higher animals unquestionably do understand the meaning of words." This is ambiguous. If we employ the word “understand” in a loose and popular sense, every one would admit the truth of what he says, but not if we use it in its human sense. Therein, as we have shown,* the ideas of "existence” and “truth” are latent, and if animals understood words in that human sense of the term “understand,” they would certainly be able to converse, at least in gesture. Such anecdotes as those of terrier dogs holding food on their muzzle till the words “Paid for” are uttered, or collie dogs being roused by hearing “Cow in the potatoes,” are easy enough to understand on the very principle which we have just quoted Mr. Romanes as admitting.f As we are told, "numberless other anecdotes of the same kind might be quoted,” but their value is far from being in proportion to their number. The mere titles of such books as Watson's “Reasoning Power in Animals,” and
Mennier's “Les Animaux Perfectibles," afford us reason to regard their contents with grave suspicion. Mr. Chambers, Professor Bain, and the late Mr. G. H. Lewes agree as to this tendency to exaggeration, declaring it to be “nearly as impossible to acquire a knowledge of animals from anecdotes, as it would be to obtain a knowledge of human nature from the narratives of parental fondness and friendly partiality,” and affirming that the researches of various eminent writers on animal intelligence have been “biassed” by a secret desire to establish the identity of animal and human nature !
This "secret desire” goes further still, as Mr. Darwin himself has shown by naïvely declaring : * “It always pleases me to exalt plants in the organic scale !”
Mr. Romanes thinks it difficult to overrate the significance of this power which animals have of associating actions with sounds. “The more,” he tells us, t “my opponents maintain the fundamental nature of the connection between speech and thought, the greater becomes the importance of the consideration that the higher animals are able in so surprising a degree to participate with ourselves in the understanding of words. From the analogy of the growing child we well know that the understanding of words precedes the utterance of them, and therefore that the condition to the attainment of conceptual ideation is given in this higher product of receptual ideation. Surely, then, the fact that not a few among the lower animals (especially elephants, dogs, and monkeys) demonstrably share
* See“ Life and Letters," vol. iii. p. 333. † p. 126.
with the human infant this higher excellence of receptual capacity, is a fact of the largest significance. For it proves at least that these animals share with an infant those qualities of mind, which in the latter are immediately destined to serve as the vehicle for elevating ideation from the receptual to the conceptual sphere : the faculty of understanding words in so considerable a degree brings us to the very borders of the faculty of using words with an intelligent appreciation of their meaning.”
But Mr. Romanes's opponents who agree with us, by no means maintain the "fundamental nature of the connection between speech and thought,” in Mr. Romanes's sense, which is, the dependence of thought on speech. They maintain, indeed, the “ fundamental” necessity of the presence of “thought” in whoever uses either words or gestures to express ideas, but they deny the existence of any fundamental connection between thought and articulate utterance. Not only, indeed, do they deny this, but they affirm that there is a fundamental severance between thought and many articulate utterances ; such as those of parrots, jackdaws, and abnormal human beings, such as talking idiots. They also deny, on the grounds previously stated, * the presence of “thought” in that associative, consentient apprehension of words which we meet with in dogs and
* Because the facts can be well explained by the mere existence of associations between feelings and emotions, and because were brutes thoughtful as to such words, their thoughtfulness would be displayed in other, less equivocal, modes, such as no one (save such persons as the anonymous narrator of the beforecited tale of the cockatoo) pretends they do display it in.
various other animals. To say, therefore, that brutes "participate with ourselves in the understanding of words” is a false—because ambiguous, and therefore misleading—assertion. We might as truly say that a cat walking over the keys of a piano "participates" with the skilled pianist in “a power of eliciting musical sounds by instrumental agency”! To assert that “participation” which Mr. Romanes asserts, is, once more, to beg the very question his work is professedly devoted to prove.
We deny the existence of any real analogy between brutes and the growing child, beyond that which necessarily follows from their common "animality," the existence of which we, of course, affirm as strongly as Mr. Romanes does, and the consequences of which we pointed out in our introductory chapter. Words are understood by a child before it speaks, because it already possesses intellect, and the use of significant oral expressions normally and naturally follows. But brutes which are physically able to articulate, do not utter words which they may have associated with antecedent sensuous affections as significant expressions, just because they have no veritable understanding power before, during, or after, hearing the words in question.
Therefore we altogether deny the consequence which (as we have just seen) Mr. Romanes draws-namely, that “the condition to the attainment of conceptual ideation is given in this highest product of receptual ideation." A psychical power of sensuous, consentient apprehension is, of course, in us, a necessary antecedent condition for the attainment of conceptual ideation ; just as is a power of sensation, a sufficient integrity of nervous
structure, a sufficient supply of healthy, nutritious blood, and life itself. But neither in life, nor healthy blood, nor an unimpaired nervous system, nor sensitivity, and consentient apprehension, is "given” the “condition to the attainment of conceptual ideation,” unless an intellectual nature is already present. Elephants, dogs, and monkeys do not “demonstrably share with the human infant” its powers of apprehension. For it is impossible to “demonstrate” that the infant has not already that intellectual nature, the presence of which soon becomes undeniable. Neither can any one “demonstrate” that the infant's merely receptual powers are not modified by the latent presence of a truly intellectual nature. Mr. Romanes tells us that the power of “understanding words” to the extent that dogs, elephants, and apes understand them, “brings us to the very borders of the faculty of using words with an intelligent appreciation of their meaning.” But this is quite a mistake. Words, apart from their intellectual employment, are merely bodily movements of parts accessory to respiration, accompanied by sound. There is, then, no à priori reason why a dog, were it physically capable of articulation,* should not use words to denote its “ feelings," instead of wagging or stiffening its tail as the case may be. Did it so articulate, the careless observer would be very apt to interpret its words as declarations of facts, instead of being (as on the hypothesis they would be) nothing but signs of feelings. Mr. Romanes himself says, “If these animals were able to articulate,
* And it is by no means absolutely certain it is not so capable. ť pp. 127, 128.
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its reference to psychical as well as physical processes. It tends to give rise to a persuasion that psychical acts, which our own minds show us to be different in nature, are themselves fundamentally similar, because there may be a similarity in the physical processes which accompany both.
Mr. Romanes makes * the great distinction between recepts and concepts to consist in the former being "received," while, he tells us, the latter "require to be conceived." But in forming recepts as well as concepts, we need to be active agents as well as passive recipients. In both cases the psychical entity energizes and evolves something new, according to the nature of the entity which acts. A merely sensitive psychical entity, or Soul, † can (it is admitted on all hands) evolve recepts as a consequence of receiving due sensuous stimuli. A rational Soul can (it is admitted on all hands) also evolve concepts as a consequence of receiving due intellectual stimuli. It evolves in either case active, psychical states, which existed potentially before stimulation, but, of course, not actually. So much must be universally admitted. We, of course, further contend that a merely sensitive psychical entity, such as the soul, or principle of individuation of an amaba, an ant, or an ape, cannot by any stimulation be made to evolve an intellectual product.
Mr. Romanes proceeds to ask, ş “To what level of
'ideation' can recepts attain without the aid of concepts ? ... How far can mind travel without the aid of language ?” He then applies himself to answer this question by relating various anecdotes of animals.
In considering the value of such relations, we should ever remember to what very curious lengths instinct may go in insects, and how numerous and complex are the responsive actions which may take place even in ourselves in the absence of consciousness.* We should recollect how we every now and then have experienced a sort of “malaise," which has been relieved by finding something which was missing from its place, although we were not conscious of the cause of the malaise (the absence of the object) till the shock experienced on our having automatically found it, has called our attention to the matter. We ourselves have frequently experienced this when one of the many objects we habitually carry in our pockets has been unconsciously transferred from one to another. We can, as every one knows, do many things automatically and without consciousness, which we often perform with full consciousness. This fact makes it probable that similar actions may take place in animals, and another fact is also very significant: this is the notorious circumstance that persons deprived of one of their senses often have their remaining senses made more acute. It is also commonly affirmed that some savages, who have little intellectual activity, have much keener powers of seeing, hearing, and, perhaps, even smelling, than we have. How much greater, more acute, more complex, and more far-reaching, then, may
* See “ On Truth,” pp. 183–200.
not be the sensitive powers of creatures whose whole being is entirely given up to sensitivity, without its being interfered with by any intellectual activity! It should surely cause us little wonder if we found them doing many things altogether beyond our power under such conditions to effect. That thirsty dogs should run into hollows,* that an elephant should blow on the ground beyond an object it wished to drive towards him, that a bear should similarly draw near a piece of floating bread by pawing the water, or that dogs, "accustomed to tidal rivers or to swimming in the sea,” should feel and automatically allow for currents, need occasion no surprise whatever. Such actions are surely just such as we might confidently anticipate would take place under the given circumstances.
Mr, Darwin is quoted † as having written about a bitch of his, which, on hearing the words, “ Hi, hi, where is it ? ” rushed and looked about, even up into trees, He is also quoted as having asked, “Now, do not these actions clearly show that she had in her mind a general idea that some animal is to be discovered and hunted ? " To this we reply, No doubt the hearing of such words uttered, as we are told, “in an eager voice,” excited the dog's emotions, and raised phantasmata (images) in its consentience—awoke reminiscences of before-experienced groups of smells, sounds, colours, and motions, and relations of various kinds between them but this is very different from a “general idea." In other words, imaginary recepts were aroused in the dog, but not percepts, and, therefore, no such thing as a mental * p. 51.
† p. 52.
conception. Mr. Romanes quotes from Mr. Belt an anecdote concerning ants in South America which learnt to tunnel under the rails of a tramway. But such facts need surprise no one who remembers some of the more wonderful actions of ordinary insects nearer home. No doubt these burrowing ants were well-accustomed to make tunnels, and had instinctively made them again and again on the occurrence of other obstacles to surface progression. To say, as Mr. Romanes says, “ Clearly, the insects must have appreciated the nature" of the obstacles, “and correctly reasoned out the only way by which they could be avoided,” is not a little absurd. If they could really appreciate a “nature," and truly “reason out” a way to avoid injuries, we should quickly have such plainly and distressingly inconvenient evidence of their rationality, that there would be no need to go so far as to South America to find an instance of it.
With respect to the fear which wolves have of traps and their detection of man by the sense of smell, the following remark is cited* from Leroy : “In this case the wolf can only have an abstract idea of danger—the precise nature of the trap laid for him being unknown.” That the wolf has a fear of man, no one can doubt, and it is highly probable that his sense of smell would lead him to abstain from taking a bait. This would be enough to account for the fact cited, without crediting the animal with “an abstract idea of danger,” to credit it with which is to credit it with an intellect such as man has. Mr. Romanes also tells us that Leroy "well
* p. 53.
observes, ‘Animals, like ourselves, are forced to make abstractions. A dog which has lost its master, runs towards a group of men, by virtue of a general abstract idea, which represents to him the qualities possessed in common with these men by his master.” But the dog runs towards the men because the sense-impressions it has received from them raise pleasurable feelings of anticipation and of the completion of a sensuous harmony unconsciously craved.* There is no more need for an act of abstraction in this case than there is in the case of a stag which “doubles” on its own footsteps, and sometimes practises before retiring to rest “the artifices which he would have employed to throw out the dogs, if he were pursued by them.” Such actions are clearly “instinctive proceedings.” Mr. Romanes adds,t “It is remarkable enough that an animal should seek to confuse its trail by such devices, even when it knows that the hounds are actually in pursuit; but it is still more so when the devices are resorted to in order to confuse imaginary hounds which may possibly be on the scent." The fact would be curious indeed if, as the words quoted seem intended to imply, the stag consciously employed such devices as a consequence of thinking that hounds might be on its scent, and formed an intention to deceive them accordingly. There is not, however, the slightest need to adopt so absurd a notion. The action is sufficiently accounted for by instinct. It is done instinctively, as a dog instinctively turns round and
* For further detail as to instances of precisely the same kind, see “ On Truth," p. 350.
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the late President took with him an American leather valise, containing a large amount of money. Did you see that?”
“De veras — no," Estebán answered. “The light in the little house was but a small lamp by which I could scarcely see to shave the President. Such a thing there may have been, but I did not see it. No. Also in the room was a young lady — a señorita of much beauty — that I could see even in so small a light. But the money, señor, or the thing in which it was carried — that I did not see.”
The comandante and other officers gave testimony that they had been awakened and alarmed by the noise of a pistol-shot in the Hotel de los Estranjeros. Hurrying thither to protect the peace and dignity of the republic, they found a man lying dead, with a pistol clutched in his hand. Beside him was a young woman, weeping sorely. Señor Goodwin was also in the room when they entered it. But of the valise of money they saw nothing.
Madame Timotca Ortiz, the proprietress of the hotel in which the game of Fox-in-the-Morning had been played out, told of the coming of the two guests to her house.
“To my house they came," said she -"one señor, not quite old, and one señorita of sufficient hand
someness. They desired not to eat or to drink not even of my aguardiente, which is the best. To their rooms they ascended — Numero Nuere and Numero Diez. Later came Señor Goodwin, who ascended to speak with them. Then I heard a great noise like that of a canon, and they said that the pobre Presidente had shot himself. Está bueno. I saw nothing of money or of the thing you call relix that you say he carried it in.”
Colonel Falcon soon came to the reasonable conclusion that if anyone in Coralio could furnish a clue to the vanished money, Frank Goodwin must be the man. But the wise secretary pursued a different course in seeking information from the American. Goodwin was a powerful friend to the new administration, and one who was not to be carelessly dealt with in respect to either his honesty or his courage. Even the private secretary of His Excellency hesitated to have this rubber prince and mahogany baron haled before him as a common citizen of Anchuria. So he sent Goodwin a flowery epistle, each word-petal dripping with honey, requesting the favour of an interview. Goodwin replied with an invitation to dinner at his own house.
Before the hour named the American walked over to the Casa Morena, and greeted his guest frankly and friendly. Then the two strolled, in the cool of the afternoon, to Goodwin's home in the environs.
The American left Colonel Falcon in a big, cool, shadowed room with a floor of inlaid and polished woods that any millionaire in the States would have envied, excusing himself for a few minutes. He crossed a patio, shaded with deftly arranged awnings and plants, and entered a long room looking upon the sea in the opposite wing of the house. The broad jalousies were opened wide, and the ocean breeze flowed in through the room, an invisible current of coolness and health. Goodwin's wife sat near one of the windows, making a water-color sketch of the afternoon seascape.
Here was a woman who looked to be happy. And more — she looked to be content. Had a poet been inspired to pen just similes concerning her favour, he would have likened her full, clear eyes, with their white-encircled, gray irises, to moonflowers. With none of the goddesses whose traditional charms have become coldly classic would the discerning rhymester have compared her. She was purely Paradisaic, not Olympian. If you can imagine Eve, after the eviction, beguiling the flaming warriors and serenely re-entering the Garden, you will have her. Just so
human, and still so harmonious with Eden seemed Mrs. Goodwin.
When her husband entered she looked up, and her lips curved and parted; her eyelids fluttered twice or thrice — a movement remindful (Poesy forgive us !) of the tail-wagging of a faithful dog - and a little ripple went through her like the commotion set up in a weeping willow by a puff of wind. Thus she ever acknowledged his coming, were it twenty times a day. If they who sometimes sat over their wine in Coralio, reshaping old, diverting stories of the madcap career of Isabel Guilbert, could have seen the wife of Frank Goodwin that afternoon in the estimable aura of her happy wifehood, they might have disbelieved, or have agreed to forget, those graphic annals of the life of the one for whom their president gave up his country and his honour.
"I have brought a guest to dinner,” said Goodwin. “One Colonel Falcon, from San Mateo. He is come on government business. I do not think you will care to see him, so I prescribe for you one of those convenient and indisputable feminine headaches.".
“He has come to inquire about the lost money, has he not?” asked Mrs. Goodwin, going on with her sketch.
“A good guess !" acknowledged Goodwin. "He
has been holding an inquisition among the natives for three days. I am next on his list of witnesses, but as he feels shy about dragging one of Uncle Sam's subjects before him, he consents to give it the outward appearance of a social function. He will apply the torture over my own wine and provender.”
“Has he found anyone who saw the valise of money?”
“Not a soul. Even Madama Ortiz, whose eyes are 90 sharp for the sight of a revenue official, does not remember that there was any baggage.”
Mrs. Goodwin laid down her brush and sighed.
“I am so sorry, Frank,” she said, “that they are giving you so much trouble about the money. But we can't let them know about it, can we?”
“Not without doing our intelligence a great injustice," said Goodwin, with a smile and a shrug that he had picked up from the natives. “Americano, though I am, they would have me in the calaboza in half an hour if they knew we had appropriated that valise. No; we must appear as ignorant about the money as the other ignoramuses in Coralio.”
“Do you think that this man they have sent suspects you?” she asked, with a little pucker of her brows.
“He'd better not," said the American, carelessly.
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USS Halsey returns home after seven months at sea. [9][10] Daily Politis writes that the military has signed an agreement to procure small arms.
[49] The Gazelles were delivered in a three-tone desert camouflage consisting of light sand, dark sand and drab-olive tones - this camouflage has been retained to the present day. Bright red danger markings were applied to the rotor tips and to the end of the tail boom.[56]. The types of cookies used on this website can be classified into one of three categories: You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser’s “Help” option on how to do this). Armor in Cyprus – Evolution and Action. script.setAttribute("onerror", "setNptTechAdblockerCookie(true);"); The order from Israel was for 'eight unmanned … [6] All male visitors to the island of military age (16 and over) who have a father of Cypriot extraction are required to obtain an exit visa from a Defence Ministry office. Small numbers of other armored vehicles (including re-engined Marmon Herrington Mk-IV F armored cars)[29] and artillery guns from the pre-war period also continued in service until the economic revival of the Cyprus Republic in the mid-1980s. Taken in conjunction, all these might point to a trajectory to rearm and upgrade defence capabilities amid growing Turkish bravado in the eastern Mediterranean. As for the defence minister’s assertion about Cyprus eyeing the US armaments market, one should probably wait before taking that cheque to the bank. The Cypriot Mi-35 helicopters were initially equipped for the deployment of fixed-mount 30mm heavy cannon, and a capacity for 80mm (3.1 inch) S-8 rockets in AP and HE-FRAG configurations, as well as for anti-tank missiles in the 9K114 and 9M120 versions.
“These are markets that need to be assessed in order that we boost our own operational capability,” he said. However, if you are still looking for more information, then feel free to contact us via email at [email protected]. The Cyprus National Guard has since 2016 aimed to move towards semi-professionalization (Efthymiou, S. 2016). The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. Джебеян Рубен Генрихович. Country: Cyprus. Since Kyrenia in the north of the island was not expected to present much armed resistance to the coup, many forces which were stationed there to fend off a threatened Turkish invasion were sent to Nicosia on 15 and 16 July to enforce the coup in the Capital. Discussions of an expansion come amid a surge in U.S. use of Greek ports and military bases. Greece currently maintains a garrison in the Republic of Cyprus under the designation Hellenic Force in Cyprus (ELDYK), but this is not officially part of the Cyprus military and mostly takes orders from Greece's GEEF. It would be run with the help of reservists and permanent personnel. The tanks in question were already old when they were acquired from Greece in 1996. Doureios. Our View: How will people respect the law when MPs don’t? These supplies included 4 unidentified armoured vehicles, and 130 ZIL heavy trucks, along with sufficient number of crates to fill 36 Bedford trucks. Defence officials could not be reached for comment on Thursday. This force consists of air, land, sea and special forces elements, and is highly integrated with its first and second line reserves, as well as supporting civilian agencies and paramilitary forces. In late 2018, the Cyprus Government purchased 24 Nora B-52 self-propelled 155mm heavy field howitzers from Serbia, along with 8 BOV M16 Milosh MRAPs / Light Armoured Vehicles and an unspecified number of options to purchase additional systems for both types. [24] A lack of spare parts meant that by the time of the 1974 military coup against Archbishop Makarios, the National Guard was experiencing severe technical difficulties with its T-34 tanks.
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Businesses brace for harsh restrictions
Tyson Fedor CTV News Calgary Video Journalist
@CTV_TysonFedor Contact
Published Tuesday, November 24, 2020 4:53PM MST Last Updated Tuesday, November 24, 2020 7:24PM MST
CALGARY -- The Alberta Government plans to unleash a set of new restrictive measures, and businesses say they are prepared.
“Businesses have been preparing for this for probably four weeks,” said Trolley 5 brewpub owner Ernie Tsu.
But the restaurant industry is expected to take a hit.
“There are still literal lives on the line, especially financially, as we round the corner to Christmas,” said Tsu.
For local bookstore owner Susan Hare, co-owner of Owl’s Nest Books, she says some form of lockdown is something she supports, if it makes her customers happy, and less anxious heading into a busy holiday season.
“During the last lockdown we were very busy doing curbside pickups and home deliveries around the city,” said Hare.
Hare says these last few weeks have been her busiest for this time of year ever, due to the looming threat of some sort of shutdown in December.
“The timing is less than ideal but I think it is a necessary measure and necessary response to what’s going on,” said Mike Holden, vice-president of policy and chief economist at the Business Council of Alberta.
With temporary time limited measures set to expire on Thursday, pressure has been building on Jason Kenney’s government to expand those measures.
'Out of touch'
The premier has been self-isolating for two weeks, but one political scientist says new measures set for Tuesday cries desperation.
“Jason Kenney has been out of touch for most of the time that these case numbers were spiking,” said Lori Williams of Mount Royal University.
The province says that small businesses looking for financial support can apply for a second payment from the Small and Medium Enterprise Relaunch Grant.
Businesses that have experienced a 40 per cent revenue loss will qualify for the grant, lowering the threshold from the existing 50 per cent.
The incentive will be available to impacted businesses retroactive to March.
Ottawa has also announced financial relief for businesses looking to pay rent.
“Applications opened for the newly launched Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“If you own a small business, you could get up to 65 per cent of your business’s rent covered. This goes directly to you and not through landlords.”
For those jurisdictions facing lockdowns, Trudeau says the federal government is adding an additional 25 per cent to businesses to help cover commercial rent.
“To help with another big expense for businesses – payroll – the Wage Subsidy has also been extended until June of next year,” he said.
Calgary small businesses say the timing is less than ideal, but many still recognize the need for increased restrictions as COVID-19 numbers skyrocket
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Positivity rate 'quite low' one month into Alberta’s international travel pilot program
Brenna Rose CTV News Calgary Video Journalist
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CALGARY -- Over 10,000 people enrolled in Alberta’s international travel pilot program in its first month of operation, in an effort to get people travelling as safely as possible.
The province isn’t releasing specifics about how many people participating have tested positive for COVID-19 either on their first or second test, but Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw says the positivity rate has been ‘quite low.’
The government said it will release more data once more people have completed the pilot.
The initiative is a joint partnership between Alberta and the federal government and is currently only offered for those entering Canada by air through the Calgary International Airport and by land at the Coutts, Alta. border crossing in southern Alberta.
Travellers - Canadian citizens, permanent residents or foreign nationals who are allowed to enter the country - are eligible to potentially forgo a mandatory 14 day quarantine if they have no COVID-19 symptoms, are swabbed upon entry into the country and quarantine until the results come back.
If those results are negative they can leave quarantine but must monitor symptoms daily by filling out a survey, follow health guidelines, stay within Alberta for two weeks and get a second swab within six to seven days of returning.
The program is voluntary and travellers can also opt to quarantine for two weeks instead of taking part.
The option to potentially avoid a two week quarantine was one of the reasons why Vern Mathison says he decided to book a trip to see his daughter in the United States, who he hadn’t seen since the start of the pandemic.
"There’s no way I could afford to take two weeks off and be isolated," Mathison told CTV News.
The only slight hiccup he experienced was a slight delay at the airport because of a ‘technical issue.’
Mathison says he received both of his negative test results within the slated 48 hour time frame.
The passenger who sat next to him on the plane got the first result within 26 hours but is still waiting for the second result more than a week after being swabbed.
Infectious disease experts warn the study doesn’t indicate how many people test positive after seven days.
"About half the people are going to develop symptoms within the first five days of acquiring their infection. When you get out to seven days it's about 80 per cent and it drops more slowly after that," said Dr. Daniel Gregson, with the U of C Cumming School of Medicine.
More Albertans travelling?
The pilot is being billed by Alberta premier Jason Kenney as an "an important step in Alberta’s recovery plan" that will allow those "who need to travel for work to have a safe path to a shorter quarantine".
It’s not clear at this point if there’s been any impact on the number of passengers flying out of YYC to international destinations.
A spokesperson for Calgary based WestJet told CTV News bookings were ‘encouraging’ following the initial announcement and the company saw ‘ double-digit per cent increases,’ but cautioned it was still early and the airline is only flying around 25 per cent of the 2019 schedule.
Calgary International Airport didn’t see major changes to the November airline schedule, according to communications and media relations manager Reid Fiest, other than ‘typical’ sun-destination routes.
The pilot program is slated to expand to the Edmonton International Airport in 2021.
A pilot program out of Calgary International Airport has tested 10,000 people for COVID-19 in its first month.
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Edmonton Dog Life
Foods to Avoid Feeding your Dog
Nothing can be better than having a pet, especially a dog. After all, a dog is a man’s best friend.
Bringing a dog into your home and lives is absolutely amazing but it is also a matter of great responsibility.
Not only will you have to be its friend and play with it but you will also have to be its parent and take care of the dog’s health so that it stays happy and healthy.
A dog’s diet is a very important factor that you will have to monitor at all times if you want it to remain healthy and avoid those trips to the vet.
New dog owners often worry about what to feed their dog and what not to. So, we have made his chart that have the five most dangerous food items that must be kept away from your dog.
While we humans love to devour macadamia nuts as snacks and often use it on various recipes it is not a friendly meal for your dog and as a matter of fact, you are going to have to keep these far away from the dog’s reach.
Macadamia nuts have proven to be extremely poisonous for dogs and are very bad for their system. These nuts belong to the protease family and ones devoured by dogs it will cause lethargy, fever, vomiting and make it difficult for them to even walk.
This is a very popular item in almost every kitchen and is widely used in salads and several other recipes. However, if you have a dog at your place you might want to keep any food that has avocados away from your dog.
Avocados are very toxic to dogs. They contain a substance in them known as persin which doesn’t favor the dog’s digestive system and can cause severe diarrhea and vomiting.
Onions don’t suit dog’s digestive system at all. As a matter of fact, any food that has onions in them, raw or cooked, must be avoided at all times for your dogs.
Onions contain thiosulphate which is very poisonous for the dogs. If consumes in larger quantity it might even cause death.
Chocolates tend to have methylxanthines in their composition which is what affects the dog. Methylxanthine is very poisonous for the dogs and causes an adverse effect on the dog’s metabolism and can cause a deadly effect on their health.
Grapes and Raisins
Yes, vets strictly suggest that this fruit should be avoided at all times for the dogs. Grapes and dried grapes (raisins) are both equally poisonous for the dog and can cause damage to the kidneys completely.
So, if you have a bowl of fruit laying around the house with grapes on them then make sure you keep in a place away from the dog.
The way to having a happy dog at all time is to look after their health and as the owner, it is your job to observe that your dog doesn’t eat anything that will cause a negative impact on their health. This list will help you to know which items you must avoid your dog’s food diet.
Jeremy grew up in in a house full of dogs, a cat and even rabbits. He recently decided to share his advice and opinions on his very own pet blog
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Posted on April 26, 2019 Uncategorized
CA voter trends + Schools and Communities First polling + Policy from CDT-endorsed legislators
CALIFORNIA POLITICS
California Voter Trends
Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau released estimates that showed population gains in Riverside-San Bernardino (more than 50,000) and Sacramento (nearly 25,000), and slight population loss in Los Angeles (over 7,000). This is a forecast for the 2020 Census that will result in redistricting in 2021 that could favor the Inland Empire and be detrimental to Los Angeles. In related news, the Sacramento Bee developed a map of the growth in “no party preference” voter registration since 2016, which shows the greatest growth is in historically Republican counties where our partner regional tables and groups are active.
The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) analyzed census data and determined that California Latinx voter turnout increased 74% (!!) from 2014 to 2018, which translated to an additional 1.6 million votes.
Schools and Communities First Ballot Initiative
The Public Policy Institute of California’s new “Californians and Education” poll found that a majority of state residents (56%) and likely voters (54%) would approve of the Schools and Communities First 2020 ballot measure, led by CDT partner Million Voters Project. The measure would close the commercial property tax loophole in Proposition 13 and restore $11 billion a year for schools, community colleges and other vital community services.
The Los Angeles Times profiles Stockton’s universal basic income pilot, led by CDT ally Mayor Michael Tubbs and Sukhi Samra, head of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration.
Legislation from our endorsed elected officials:
The two formerly competing bills on police deadly use of force — one led by CDT-endorsed Assemblymember Shirley Weber and supported by community groups, the other led by Senator Ana Caballero and supported by law enforcement — are now linked to raise the legal standard of for officer use of deadly force and advocate for more policy guidance and training for officers.
Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo introduced legislation (AB 1753) to protect immigrants seeking legal help from fraudulent or incompetent individuals who are selling their services.
Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove is sponsoring legislation (AB 241, 242 and 243) that “requires medical professionals, judges and peace offers to complete training that helps workers unpack how internal beliefs affect their work.”
CDT ally California Civic Engagement Project (CCEP) at USC partnered with the Public Policy Institute of California and USC on a new study of how the Voter’s Choice Act (VCA) — which allowed counties to adopt a new voting model of mailing ballots to all registered voters and replacing traditional polling places — affected voter turnout in the 2018 election. They found a 3% increase in voter turnout between 2014 and 2018 in the five participating counties — Madera, Napa, Nevada, Sacramento and San Mateo — compared to other counties. Additionally, “for young voters, Latinos, and Asian Americans, gains in turnout were generally also steeper in the counties that adopted the VCA than in counties that did not.” CCEP also partnered with the Center for Social Innovation on a VCA research brief series, the first of which looks at the considerations on implementation. Los Angeles County is adopting VCA in 2020.
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Roddy Piper Confronts Vince Russo About WCW Snub and Owen Hart Tragedy
Roddy Piper is flying under the radar in the podcast world as the wrestling icon continues to deliver some fascinating interviews with wrestling personalities. The latest with Vince Russo is a classic as the interview takes a very strange turn at the end of the first part.
Piper has actually been doing podcasts long before PodcastOne.com picked up his broadcast. He was a bit of an innovator here, as he was with Piper’s Pit. Piper’s podcasts can be hit or miss as sometimes Piper goes off on some wild tangents, yet with that said there are some real gems including a recent interview with his former bodyguard Bob Orton, Jr. Piper’s newest broadcast with Vince Russo is fascinating simply for the fact that the interview turns into an awkward confrontation at the end of part 1.
Seeing Vince Russo booked on Piper’s broadcast was an immediate attention grabber. Piper has been outspoken on Russo and has often criticized the former WWE, WCW, and TNA booker in media interviews. Russo is doing the rounds to promote his website Pyroandballyhoo.com so a stop on Piper’s podcast made sense. Russo has also done Jim Ross’ podcast and while Ross has been critical of Russo in the past, it was a very respectful interview. While Piper was respectful, he had some issues with Russo and he certainly wasn’t shying away from them.
The first was Piper questioning Russo on the decision to send Owen Hart down from the rafters in the harness which ultimately led to Hart’s tragic passing. Piper called Russo out for making him do it and said that Russo should have known better. Russo said that Owen didn’t have a problem with it and that Owen had a problem with one angle, he spoke up, and the angle was changed. Piper wasn’t buying it and explained why Owen likely remained silent, yet had hesitations. It’s an interesting exchange here and while Piper is probably my all-time favorite heel, I think his argument was a little tough here as how is Russo to know what Owen is thinking? Regardless, I think both sides had good points which regardless of the debate, we still lost a great man.
The second and most fascinating debate took place at the end of the interview. Piper told Russo that he was going to tell him why he always had a problem with Russo. Piper said that on Russo’s first night in WCW as head booker, Russo never approached him or introduced himself. Piper said that as a legend, Russo should have went out of his way to at least say hello. Piper also pointed out that Russo’s partner Ed Ferrara did say hello and felt that Russo disrespected him and the other legends he blew off.
Russo’s defense was ignorance. Russo said that while he can’t tell Piper what he was thinking at the time, he said that as an outsider he wasn’t aware of wrestling traditions like saying hello, shaking hands, etc. Russo said that he was only the head writer and not the boss. He also said that he and Ed were so excited to work with Piper, that Ed just got there first.
Here is where things got interesting. Piper said that Russo’s ignorance is not an excuse. Piper practically laughed when Russo said he was just the head writer, not the boss. Piper also went on to tell Russo that back in the territorial days it was common for a promoter or new boss to ignore the talent in some kind of a power issue and send his head writer to address the boys, ala Ed Ferrara. Piper also said that Russo should have known to say hello or introduce himself whether it was a wrestling tradition or not. Piper said that if he walked into a locker room back in his day and saw Lou Thesz, he’d make it a point to say hello. He said that he says hello to everyone on independent shows even now.
Russo then tried a different excuse. Russo said that he may have been intimidated by Piper. Russo said that he watched Piper in the 1980s and Piper was such a big star to him, that he may have been intimidated. He said that by him not saying hello, it was actually out of respect and a little intimidation and he apologized numerous times for the snafu.
The exchange was fascinating and revealed a lot about Russo’s ego at the time and why there was probably so much dissention when he became head booker in WCW. I don’t buy either of his excuses. Russo had worked in the wrestling business for years by the point he got to WCW and I highly doubt he was intimidated of Piper. If that was truly the case, he shouldn’t be running a wrestling company. The ignorance excuse also doesn’t hold water because Russo had been in plenty of WWE dressing rooms for many years before WCW and I am sure that on his way up he shook everyone’s hand. It’s probably the first rule anyone teaches someone new to a pro wrestling locker room. I don’t buy it.
The entire two-part interview is fascinating and Piper also calls him out in part 2 for booking “crash TV.” It’s a little awkward at times but this may be one of the most entertaining podcast interviews of the year thus far. I’d highly recommend it.
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What WWE WrestleMania 32 Could Have Looked Like with Zero Injuries
By Nic Negrepontis
WWE WrestleMania is without a doubt the biggest event in the professional wrestling world. So when it comes around every year, the biggest names roll out and deliver the biggest matches in front of the biggest crowds.
Unfortunately, this year, the biggest names are all injured! The likes of John Cena, Randy Orton, Sting, Seth Rollins, Daniel Bryan, Cesaro, Sheamus, Nikki Bella, Tyson Kidd, Sin Cara and Wade Barrett will probably not be there due to injury. It is an insane number of injuries as you could probably put a WrestleMania card together with those names alone and now the WWE are frantically trying to put the WrestleMania puzzle back together without them to deliver the best show possible.
(As long as they don’t put Braun Strowman in a single’s match, I’ll consider that a good show)
But what could the best possible WrestleMania 32 look like, disregarding all of the injuries?
Well let’s all get sad for what could have been, because this is it.
The Undertaker vs John Cena
The Undertaker’s final match should have been the main-event of WrestleMania and it should have been against the biggest possible name and that’s John Cena. Unfortunately, unless Cena makes one of his trademark spectacular recoveries, this isn’t going to happen. This would be the perfect way to close The Undertaker’s career, but unfortunately we might never get to see these two in the ring together at WrestleMania.
WWE World Heavyweight Championship Triple Threat Match
Seth Rollins (c) vs Roman Reigns vs Dean Ambrose
This one books itself. The Shield triple threat may not have been the path they were going to take, but it’s certainly the most interesting title match possible. It’s a match three years in the making and Seth’s title run should have culminated where it all started. Reigns would probably be the victor, but the spectacle of these three truly becoming the faces of the WWE going forward would have been cemented here.
No Holds Barred Match
Brock Lesnar vs Randy Orton
Lesnar seems set to take on either Bray Wyatt or Braun Strowman at WrestleMania which just doesn’t feel big enough. Wyatt and Lesnar would be an underwhelming match and Strowman is certainly not ready for a single’s WrestleMania match. Orton and Lesnar are two names that haven’t crossed paths since Lesnar returned and we all know that these two could put on one hell of a match. Throw in the No Holds Barred stipulation, which Orton has mastered, and they could steal the show.
Triple H vs Bray Wyatt
This could work in a number of ways. The first way being with Bray and the Wyatt’s turning face and going after The Authority and you can set that up by having The Authority cost Bray a match in order to protect their champion, Seth Rollins. From there, Bray and his brothers can hunt Triple H and the rest of The Authority right through to WrestleMania. You could also turn The Authority face, but that would be tricky with Rollins coming into WrestleMania as a heel champion. Other matches that could work in this slot are Sting versus Bray Wyatt, Cesaro versus Triple H or a match involving Chris Jericho. It just goes to show how much depth is in the WWE roster right now without injuries.
WWE Tag Team Championship Match
The New Day (c) vs Enzo Amore and Colin Cassidy
This one could definitely still go ahead and is unaffected by injuries. You’d set this up by having The New Day defeat The Usos, The Social Outcasts and The Dudley Boyz in a fatal 4-way match at Fast Lane. They can come out the next night and gloat about having defeated every team on the roster before being interrupted by Enzo and Cass. The thought of these two teams going at it on the microphone is worth the price of admission alone. The New Day deserves a big match at WrestleMania and they deserve an awesome entrance too.
AJ Styles vs Daniel Bryan
Does anything even need to be said about this match? I didn’t think so.
WWE Divas Championship Triple Threat Match
Charlotte (c) vs Sasha Banks vs Becky Lynch
This one is also unchanged and it’s probably the match that will benefit most from the injuries. These three talented women will probably be given much more time on the real WrestleMania card than they would be on this stacked card. This is also far and away the best possible women’s match they could do at this year’s WrestleMania and Charlotte must drop the title to either Sasha or Becky. 2016 will be a cornerstone year for the women’s division.
Intercontinental Championship Match
Kevin Owens (c) vs Sami Zayn
Zayn eliminates Owens from the Rumble and instead of returning to NXT, becomes a full-time part of the Raw roster, hunting his former best friend who put him on the injured list for so long. They should have a match at Fast Lane with Owens retaining one way or another, culminating in a WrestleMania rematch. In this non-injured universe, Owens never dropped the title to Ambrose and has held it since Night of Champions.
Pre-Show:
United States Championship Fatal 4-Way Match
Kalisto (c) vs Sheamus vs Dolph Ziggler vs Neville
This would be a good way to warm the crowd up and a showcase for Kalisto as champion. Kalisto should retain in order to build him as a credible champion and this can be the start of Neville turning heel, giving him some more relevancy.
Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal
In the same vein as last year, have an NXT superstar earn the right to be in the match and have that be Samoa Joe. This should also serve as a farewell for Mark Henry who should be in the final three of this match, before being eliminated by a heel Samoa Joe. Cesaro, however, should win and become a two time winner. This should be the beginning of Cesaro being launched to the top.
Unfortunately, the WrestleMania card will not looking anything like this, but hopefully they still deliver a great show.
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Detail of central entrance doorway, former India Tyre Factory, Inchinnan.
Description Detail of central entrance doorway, former India Tyre Factory, Inchinnan.
Copy of A 74204 CN
Scope and Content Detail of central doorway of north façade, India Tyre Factory, Greenock Road, Inchinnan, Renfrewshire The India Tyre Company employed Wallis, Gilbert & Partners to design their offices at Inchinnan, across the River Clyde from Clydebank. The design of these offices, opened in 1930, was modelled on the architects' pioneering Firestone Factory in London. This shows the main entrance to the offices between an impressive pair of giant columns. The original range of offices was 15 bays long divided by columns like those seen here, with green, gold and red tiled bases and capitals. The doors have fine metalwork screens over the windows, and the doorway is surrounded by green, red and gold tiling to match the columns. An extra five bays in the same style were added at each end in c.1955. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Inchinnan, Greenock Road, Former India Tyre Factory
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The Basics /
Vaping /
3 Things to Know Before You Buy That CBD Vape Oil
Published by Ed Weinberg at January 24, 2019
CBD vape oils are becoming more popular but do we know what products we can trust? Image Credit: By MsMaria on shutterstock
The medical cannabis market has experienced a boom recently, filled with revelations on the health benefits of cannabidiol (CBD) — the major nonpsychoactive component of the cannabis plant — in treating a host of mental and physical ailments. This has led to a growing number of people investigating their CBD options, and many have settled on the vaping method.
CBD oil vaping has many advantages over other methods of administration, including increased bioavailability (the proportion which enters circulation when introduced to the body, and is able to have an active effect) and a shorter list of ingredients.
But the hard part comes in choosing one of the many brands on offer. Here, we go into three points that are often overlooked in the search.
Check the Purity of the CBD Oil
Any discussion of CBD vape oil should start with a disclaimer on vaping itself: we’re still in the method’s wild west. In the past year, public health warnings were raised on the risks of CBD vaping, with complaints ranging from headaches, nausea and seizures to hallucinations, loss of consciousness and rapid heartbeat. The good news then, first — most if not all of these issues can be traced back to the poor regulation of the vaping market, and the prevalence of adulterants in vaping products sold by even the most legitimate of retailers.
The bad news? There’s still disagreement on what makes a good CBD vape juice. One of the most suspect ingredients is propylene glycol (PG), a common additive in vape oils that makes for the satisfying cloud when you exhale (it’s also used in fog machines). The vaping oils that carry the substance often repeat the line about food-grade PG long being ruled safe by the US Food and Drug Administration(FDA) and Health Canada — the reasoning being that a substance safe to ingest must be safe to vape.
But there is increasing evidence that PG can cause irritation and damage to people’s lungs when heated. At higher temperatures, it turns into a known carcinogen.
Then, is that good news? There are an increasing number of high quality CBD e-liquids with fewer additives coming to market.
Only Purchase From Trustworthy Suppliers
Just look on the label, right? Not for 70 percent of CBD products— and 90 percent of CBD vape oils — tested in a 2017 study . Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed 84 CBD products for concentration of CBD and the presence of THC (the psychoactive chemical in cannabis). They found that only 31% of the products tested contained, within an acceptable margin of error, the amount of CBD advertised on the label, while 26 percent contained less CBD than the label specified and 43 percent contained more.
THC, present in 21 percent of the products tested, adds another variable. This is the part of cannabis responsible for the “high,” and it can have adverse effects on some of the conditions that CBD is indicated for. THC raises the anxiety of some users, and can contribute to problems with sleeping. In addition, it can cause cognitive impairment and positive results in drug tests.
These labeling issues are a side effect of the lack of regulation on CBD products in the US at a federal level. This lack of oversight opens the door for unscrupulous CBD sellers, who may misrepresent the benefits of CBD and its ability to treat, cure, or prevent a particular disease.
So, how do you know that what you’re buying does what it says on the tin? One way to suss out a reputable company is to search for their product in reviews on the internet — where you might find lab results declaring the product free of contaminants. Then head to their website, and look for the telltale markings of a real company, with accountability. Do they list a phone number? Reach out to them and see if they can answer your questions.
Another thing that reputable companies will shy away from is making claims about the effect of CBD products on medical conditions — which is a violation of FDA guidelines. While CBD has been shown to have beneficial effects on a wide array of conditions, it has not yet been approved as a treatment by the highest regulatory body in the US. A trustworthy label should reflect that status.
The Dosage Dilemma
You’ve found a CBD vape oil that actually contains the amount of CBD it says — but how much should that be?
This requires a bit of math. First, find out much vape oil your vape pen cartridge holds (many clock in at 1.5ml). Then check the amount of CBD contained in the cartridge amount. Most of the time this works out to one full pen-load, taken periodically through the day, to get to your daily dosage.
One of the good things about vaping is the quick onset of effect, so you can trial differing dosages and see which works best for you. Start with a low dose and adjust upwards, being careful to monitor yourself for effect. When you achieve a noticeable effect on anxiety, pain, or other symptoms you’re taking CBD for, you’ve arrived.
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On February 7, 2019, the now former FDA Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, filed a complaint seeking a No Tobacco Sales Order (NTSO) for a Walgreens location in Miami, FL. A primary concern expressed in Dr. Gottlieb’s statement is that Walgreens–a health-and-wellness-minded business–has racked up almost 1800 violations for selling any tobacco product to minors since 2010. While all retailers have the power to prevent illegal sales to minors, and should have comprehensive training programs in place for their employees, Walgreens is being singled out due to its standing as the second largest pharmacy in the U.S.; second only to CVS, which chose to discontinue sales of all tobacco products, including low-risk products such as vapor and smokeless tobacco products in 2014.
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The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit consumer organization with an all-volunteer board of directors and a grassroots membership of more than 250,000 individuals from all walks of life. We are dedicated to ensuring the availability of low-risk alternatives to smoking, and to providing the public with honest information about safer nicotine and tobacco products. Since our founding in 2009, we have educated the public and increased awareness about the benefits of low-risk alternatives to smoking, including vapor products and smokeless tobacco. We advocate for responsible policies designed to improve public health by recognizing that smoke-free nicotine-containing products are inherently safer than smoking. We believe that harm reduction is a necessary strategy to substantially reduce the disease and early death attributed to smoking.
Pursuant to our mission, CASAA is publicly stating our support for Walgreens and all other retailers that choose to sell low-risk, smoke-free alternatives to combustible tobacco products, including vapor products and smokeless tobacco. We believe that Walgreens has an opportunity to strike a balance between promoting safer alternatives to combustible tobacco to people who smoke while, at the same time, implementing common sense–yet robust–age verification protocols at the point of sale.
According to a recent study examining smoking cessation efficacy published in the New England Journal of Medicine, people who use vapor products in combination with smoking cessation counseling are twice as likely to stop smoking completely compared to those who use nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in combination with counseling. Similarly, researchers from the School of Population Health at The University of Queensland studying smokeless tobacco state that switching to a smoke-free product “can realise substantial health gains,” and that switching completely to smokeless tobacco “could produce a net benefit to health at the population level if it is adopted in sufficient numbers.” We believe that prominently featuring smoke-free tobacco and nicotine products to people who smoke supports Walgreens’ goal of promoting the health and well-being of the customers and communities it serves.
Many people who currently smoke, or used to smoke, live in areas where, due to socioeconomic factors, there is a lack of specialty vapor or tobacco retailers that carry these low-risk products. With over 9,500 stores across the United States, Walgreens has the ability to provide these safer alternatives to people who may otherwise not have access.
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Casual Game Insider is now available on Apple, Amazon, and BlackBerry marketplaces, making it the only U.S. board gaming magazine to be distributed on modern mobile devices.
TUCSON, Arizona – October 17, 2013 – Casual Game Insider magazine has become the first and only U.S. board gaming magazine to be distributed on modern mobile devices. The publisher has partnered with PixelMags, Inc., to deliver content to Apple Newsstand, Amazon Appstore, and BlackBerry Newsstand marketplaces. Supported devices include iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle Fire, BlackBerry smartphones, and Android devices connected to the Amazon Appstore.
In the Apple and Amazon marketplaces, individual issues and 1-year subscription packages are available as in-app purchases. In addition, Casual Game Insider is available in BlackBerry Newsstand and PixelMags’ Readr® app for iOS, both of which allow access to unlimited reading of thousands of magazines for a flat monthly fee. Support for Google Play is forthcoming, and individual PDFs and PDF subscriptions are available for sale on the publisher’s website for all other platforms.
“We are very excited to launch our digital editions of Casual Game Insider alongside our print edition,” remarked Chris James, editor-in-chief and program director. “We hope that our expansion into digital markets will allow us to reach many more readers, including more international audiences and those who simply prefer to read digitally. Our digital editions will also give us the opportunity to provide richer content, such as clickable links and embedded videos.”
Casual Game Insider is the board game industry's only magazine that focuses on casual tabletop games that are easy to learn, quick to play, and are accessible to everyone. The magazine features news, reviews, and many interesting articles related to casual gaming, and the print edition is shipped quarterly to over 2,000 board game retailers and hundreds of paid subscribers.
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The officers of the CBA Regional Office in Katowice have detained three individuals. The investigation pertains to the issuance of inaccurate invoices, which resulted in the depletion of tax receivables in the amount of 10 million PLN.
The CBA officers, jointly with the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Białystok, have been investigating into the issuance of inaccurate invoices and VAT extortion. Three men from the Pomeranian Voivodeship have been detained for this case, who acted as shell presidents of the boards of the economic entities involved in the practice.
The fiscal frauds took place in 2017. The investigators’ findings indicate that the companies dealing in metal products issued invoices which did not reflect actual economic events. The activities of the suspects resulted in the exposure of the State Treasury to a PLN 10 million VAT loss.
In the prosecutor’s office, the detainees have faced charges of attestation of an untruth in VAT invoices, participation in tax fraud, and money laundering.
The prosecutor has applied non-custodial preventive measures against the detainees.
So far, in the course of the investigation, charges have been presented against 8 individuals. The case is in progress.
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Clorox Healthcare Enhancements to Bleach Germicidal Disinfectants Announced
In the fight against healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs), today’s healthcare facilities need proven solutions to kill a broad range of infection-causing pathogens, from deadly hospital pathogens like Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) to new threats posed by emerging viral pathogens.
To ensure its disinfectants continue to meet the highest standards of efficacy, Clorox Healthcare voluntarily tested two of its leading ready-to-use bleach disinfectants using updated U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommended standards, which raise the bar for sporicidal disinfectant efficacy.
February 28th, 2017 Clorox Healthcare announced that Clorox Healthcare® Bleach Germicidal Wipes and Clorox Healthcare® Bleach Germicidal Cleaners are now EPA-registered to kill C. difficile spores in three minutes, tested in the presence of a three-part organic soil load,[1] and have gained new disinfection claims for emerging viral pathogens including SARS-associated Coronavirus (SARS-CoV), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-associated Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and other common causes of HAIs.
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http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2017/02/clorox-healthcare-announces-enhancements-to-bleach-germicidal-disinfectants.aspx
“At Clorox Healthcare, we are dedicated to safeguarding patient environments and continuously strive to ensure our surface disinfectants meet the needs of the ever-changing healthcare environment,” says Lynda Lurie, Director – Marketing, Clorox Healthcare. “We made these changes proactively so that healthcare professionals can be prepared for whatever comes through their doors, wherever care is delivered.”
The new testing standards create a higher challenge for sporicidal disinfectant efficacy. Through voluntary testing, Clorox Healthcare Bleach Germicidal disinfectants have been able to maintain, and in some cases improve, contact times, killing 99.9999 percent of C. difficile spores – the EPA’s required threshold for efficacy – within three minutes, even in the presence of the three-part organic soil load.
[1] Follow special instructions for cleaning prior to disinfection.
[2] Assiri, A, et al. “Hospital Outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus.” N Engl J Med 2013; 369:407-416. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1306742#t=article.
[3] Chowell, G, et al. “Transmission Characteristics of MERS and SARS in the Healthcare Setting: a Comparative Study.” BMC Medicine 2015;13:210. https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-015-0450-0.
[4] “List of Pathogens.” World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/csr/research-and-development/list_of_pathogens/en/. (Accessed Feb. 8, 2017).
[5] Otter, JA et al. “Transmission of SARS and MERS Coronaviruses and Influenza Virus in Healthcare Settings: the Possible Role of Dry Surface Contamination.” J. Hosp. Infect. 2016, 92 (3), 235–250.
[6] “Influenza (Flu) Viruses.” U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/index.htm. (Accessed Feb. 8, 2017).
[7] Saint, S, et al. “Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States: A National Study Assessing Preventive Practices Used and Perceptions of Practice Evidence.” Infect. Con¬trol Hosp. Epidemiol. 2015;36.8:969–971.
[8] “Hospital Value-Based Purchasing.” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/hos¬pital-value-based-purchasing. (Accessed Feb. 8, 2017).
[9] “Guidance for the Efficacy Evaluation of Products with Sporicidal Claims Against Clostridium difficile (June 2014).” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-registration/guidance-efficacy-evaluation-products-sporicidal-claims-against-clostridium#main-content. (Accessed Feb. 8, 2017).
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Jindal’s Moon Shot: An Astronomical Disaster
A little over a year ago, The Wall Street Journal published a story extolling Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s ambitious plans for education reform, labeling Jindal’s sweeping set of proposals his “moon shot.” The term “moon shot” was intended as a compliment toward Jindal and a slight dig at Newt Gingrich, who was then in the midst of his failed campaign for President and who had just declared his support for a colony on the moon. The Journal was being purposely cheeky. Quoting (bold mine):
Newt Gingrich wants the U.S. to return to the moon, but as challenges go he has nothing on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s school reform plans.
Mr. Jindal wants to create America’s largest school voucher program, broadest parental choice system, and toughest teacher accountability regime—all in one legislative session. Any one of those would be a big win, but all three could make the state the first to effectively dismantle a public education monopoly.
At the time, I noted on my website, in a post titled “Bobby Jindal Is Mooning Louisiana,” that the comparisons between Gingrich’s moon colony and Jindal’s education reform initiative unwittingly reinforced an essential truth: Both plans were irrational, untested, grandiose, and absurd. The Wall Street Journal didn’t get it: As Governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal effectively controls the legislature, the speakership, the president of the Senate, and committee membership. It wouldn’t be a “big win” for him to pass through his education “reform” initiative “all in one legislative session;” its passage was a foregone conclusion, and the hype was nothing more than manufactured publicity. “America’s largest school voucher program, broadest parental choice system, and toughest teacher accountability regime” were Jindal’s own disingenuous talking points shamelessly republished under the masthead and with the imprimatur of a once-respected newspaper now owned and controlled by the same man who owns and controls Fox News.
In only two short years, Bobby Jindal has gone from being one of the most popular governors in the country to one of the least popular. According to the most recent PPP poll, Jindal is approved by only 37% of Louisiana voters, plummeting more than 20 points since 2010. The conventional wisdom is that Jindal has damaged himself by spending so much time away from Louisiana, and this, no doubt, is also the explanation that Jindal and his allies must offer in defense of his record, credibility, and relevance. Louisiana voters, the logic goes, only disapprove of Bobby Jindal because they love him so much and just wish he was around more often.
As much as I hate to disabuse Jindal’s defenders of this, the truth is: Jindal’s standing has plummeted in Louisiana because he has spent his years as Governor promoting and pushing through a litany of disastrous and hugely unpopular policies, cynically and cavalierly using Louisiana as the testing grounds for controversial far-right legislation, much of which was cooked up behind the closed doors of powerful conservative lobbying organizations and right-wing think tanks: Privatizing prisons and hospitals, attempting to eliminate state income and business taxes with an exorbitantly high and regressive sales tax, refusing billions in federal funding for health care, high-speed rail, unemployment insurance, and a string of much-needed infrastructure projects. Governor Jindal is no longer popular because Louisiana voters simply want to see him govern more; he’s unpopular because they believe he’s not good at governing. He’s a partisan conservative media personality, more comfortable with being an archetype than in being an effective leader.
Put another way, it’s not that Louisiana voters wish Jindal would be in Baton Rouge more often; it’s that they are finally, collectively realizing a fundamental truth about the Governor they had once deemed their “Boy Wonder”: Bobby Jindal has always cared more about his national political future than his record in Louisiana.
If you require any more proof, then simply review his record on education reform, his “moon shot.”
When running for President, Mitt Romney elevated Jindal as his “point man” on education reform, and recently, Texas State Senator Dan Patrick, in announcing his intention to introduce school voucher legislation, suggested that Texas should be guided by Jindal’s program in Louisiana.
Bobby Jindal’s “bold” and “ambitious” school reform initiatives, to put it kindly, have been a series of embarrassing, unmitigated disasters:
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dwh@me.com says:
paragraph beginning with As much as I hate…sentence beginning on 6th line before paragraph’s end: Jindal is no longer popular not….
keep up the great work, look forward to meeting you someday, dwhunt.
Lamar White, Jr says:
Thanks. I made the correction 🙂 Cheers.
Wouldn’t it technically put his reforms at far left since the federal government will be running the district school boards? I mean we were trying to get it out of STATE control.
Do you think that at this point Bobby Jindal will have to hope for a job swap with Diaper Dave? At this point, Piyush has shown all his cards and the citizens of Louisiana are not buying his schtick. If he looses a challenge to the selectively reviled yet moderate Sen.Landrieu his only savior will be Jim Demint at the AEI. It will be like a rat jumping on a sinking ship.
gritsngumbo says:
Jim Demented is at the Heritage Foundation not the AEI.
My bad. Jindal delirium.
bucktownpirate says:
Reblogged this on The Daily Kingfish and commented:
How can something be a signature achievement if you didn’t actually achieve it? #Jindal #MisEducated
I must be a zealot because I subscribe to every criticism of BJ (or PJ) I read. Just an observation: In the dozens of articulate and inarticulate criticisms I’ve read and heard, no one has used the words “stewardship” or “carpetbagger.” My greatest beef with the guv is that he has squandered much of what was good about my adopted state, starting with the Stelly Plan and continuing through LSU, environmental legislation, BESE, and any semblance of transparency, good manners, and regard for the constitution in his governing style. And what other name than carpetbagger fits the overpaid, unqualified, opportunistic minions he’s recruited from TFA, the Broad Institute, the Jed Bush administration, and any other bastion of 1%-er greed. We moan about brain drain, then import these water carriers to draw paychecks and pass out press releases.
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What happened at the LC trustee meeting on feb. 25?
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23-Year-Old Teacher Arrested For Inappropriate Relationship With Student
Eric Italia | Nov 15, 2017 11:00 am
Katherine Ross Ridenhour, a 23-year-old teacher at Cox Mill High School, has been accused of having an inappropriate sexual consensual relationship with a student.
Ridenhour, of Concord, has been charged with two counts of indecent liberties with a student. According to Concord police, the 23-year-old was engaged in a relationship with a 17-year-old male student.
According to the Concord Police Department, they launched an investigation after they were notified of a “potential inappropriate consensual relationship” between a student and teacher at Cox Mill High School.
#BreakingNews Sources tell me @ConcordNCPolice have charged Cox Mill HS teacher, Katherine Ross Ridenhour, w/ indecent liberties w/ student. @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/ftHH1V8uwq
— Allison Latos (@AllisonWSOC9) November 15, 2017
Ridenhour was charged with two counts of indecent liberties with a student and taken to the Cabarrus County Magistrate where she received a written promise to appear in court.
This is the latest in teacher/student sex scandals this year. Tenessee teacher Janet Smothers was arrested. Former nutrition teacher LaToya Parker was also arrested for a relationship with a student. Florida teacher Caroline Lawson was charged with sexual assault. 26-year-old Allyson Moran was also arrested.
According to local media outlets, Cabarrus County Schools officials have not said if Ridenhour is still employed in the district.
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The end of a 135 year long monetary history?
September 23rd, 2010 – The Norwegian National Bank wants to follow its counterpart in Sweden and stop a 135 year old tradition issuing 50-øre-pieces.
Photo: Norwegian National Bank.
Since the Norwegian government changed its silver standard to gold standard by law of June 6. 1873, Norwegians have used the monetary units “krone” and “øre”. Ever since 1874/5 100 øre have been equal to 1 krone, and 1 krone was (not any more) equal to 0,40323 g of pure gold. The idea of a change from silver- to gold standard resulted in a Scandinavian monetary union agreement in 1875, and Denmark and Sweden changed their “speciesdaler” and “riksdaler” to “krone” and “krona”. The Norwegian speciedaler was equal to 4 kroner, and the Scandinavian governments hoped that this early “Euro”-cooperation would make it possible to use one land’s currency in the whole of Scandinavia.
Because of the continuous inflation during the last 50 years silver was abandoned for cheaper metals (copper and nickel). The last silver 50-øre was made in 1919 under the regime of king Haakon VII, only 14 years after the Norwegian independence from Sweden. In 1974 the 1-øre and 2-øre were not legal tenders anymore, and in 1984 the 5-øre expired as well. 25-øre and 10-øre went out of production in 1982 and 1991, though 50-øre is still in use. The current 50-øre is a 3,6 g cupper coin (97% Cu, 2,5% Zn, 0,5% Sn) which illustrates the royal Norwegian crown and a mythological portrait taken from an early medieval stave church in Urnes.
In 2009 the privately owned coin factory “Det Norske Myntverket” made 9,9 millions 50-øre coins for the Norwegian National Bank (“Norges bank”). In a letter of August 23, 2010 to the Ministry of Trade and Industry among others, the National Bank asks for comments on a hearing on evaluation of the need of 50-øre in Norwegian trade. The bank wants to stop buying 50-øre coins from Det Norske Myntverket, because they believe that these small copper coins are worth too little considering Norwegian prices. It is further stated that too many 50-øre coins are hoarded in private homes and is of no practical use. 50 øre is equal to 0,07 euro and 0,08 US dollars (September 2010). The bank’s closing date for submissions is October 15. 2010, and maybe the Norwegian government will follow Sweden which already abandoned the 50 öre on October 30. 2009.
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New Self Care Products For A New YouWe all make promises to take better care of ourselves, especially at the start of the new year. Lifestyle expert Nekia Nichelle has some things she says will help your mind, body and skin in 2021.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot Wants To Reopen Restaurants And Bars ‘As Quickly As Possible’ To Reduce Risk Of Underground Parties
by Todd Feurer, CBS Chicago web producerBy CBS 2 Chicago Staff January 14, 2021 at 6:27 pm
Filed Under:Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Restrictions, Indoor Dining, JB Pritzker, Lori Lightfoot
CHICAGO (CBS) — Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday said Chicago restaurants and bars need to be allowed to reopen “as quickly as possible” not just to help those businesses survive, but also to cut down on instances of private parties where people don’t take proper precautions against COVID-19.
Under the state’s virus mitigation plan, Chicago’s restaurants and bars were forced to halt indoor service in late October. While Gov. JB Pritzker has said some regions of the state can begin rolling back some COVID-19 restrictions starting Friday if they meet certain virus thresholds, reopening of indoor dining wouldn’t happen until each region moves back at least three more phases, and Chicago is not yet on track to begin easing restrictions.
Thursday morning, Lightfoot said she plans to have a conversation with Gov. JB Pritzker about how to begin rolling back virus mitigation efforts ASAP.
“I want to get our restaurants and bars reopened as quickly as possible,” she said.
Alfonso Jose Castillo, owner of Americanos, said his business will not survive if things continue as they are.
“We’re built to have people sitting inside, so if you take that away I don’t know how we’l manage,” he said.
Castillo said his community showed up big over the summer when to-go margaritas and outdoor dining kept them alive. But as soon as the temperatures dropped and the indoor dining ban took effect at the end of October, the outlook turned bleak.
Lightfoot noted the restaurant industry is highly regulated and would be “one of the safer places” for people to visit as state restrictions start to ease.
“They’ve gone above and beyond to put in mitigation controls inside of the restaurants,” Lightfoot said. “I feel very strongly that we are very close to a point when we should be talking about opening up our bars and restaurants.”
Restaurant group B. Hospitality Co., which includes B. Hospitality Co.The Bristol, Formento’s, Nonna’s, Swift & Sons and Cold Storage released the following statement regarding Lightfoot’s remarks:
The employees and ownership of B. Hospitality Co restaurants including The Bristol, Formentos, Nonnas, Swift and Sons, and Cold Storage are thankful the mayor is considering opening restaurants to indoor dining once again. It must be stated there is little to no open source data to the public on the % attributed directly to restaurants in causing COVID infections. Kane County, IL is the only one documenting and that rate is 1.4% of the total infections in that county are attributed to restaurants. For all we know the preponderance of the City of Chicago infections would likely come from the same Kane County figures where the majority of infections are due to nursing homes, assisted living and hospital interactions.
We as a restaurant group have added filters, UVC sterilizing wands, sanitizer for tables, PPE and followed all guidance when available by The City of Chicago. It is the opinion of our company and several other restaurants to reopen to a minimum of 25% and preferably 40% to begin with on January 29th as we so believe in our mitigations to keep people safe, both staff and guests. It is also the request of the entire industry for government on a city level to hand down further policy, or better practices to ensure each restaurant is following guidelines fully so as to avoid ever shutting down again. The government will have had a year come this March to figure out through the Department of Health next steps in preventing COVID with ACTIVE RESTAURANTS that are open and functioning fully seated, or at some high degree of seating inventory (75-100%). It is our request to prevent further shutdowns ever again transpiring knowing those better practices from CDPH are coming down from above to restaurants soon. The costs far outweigh COVID infections as a pandora’s box is opened in the pain my employees feel with unemployment, depression, and all of the life threatening consequences that despair involves such as abuse, drugs and alcohol to cope with job reduction or loss. These statistics are yet to be flushed out in the open arena. Having had the conversations I’ve had with tough and inspiring restaurant folk that I know and love, its worse than COVID in the amount of destroyed or ended lives. Mayor Lightfoot, do the right thing and allow restaurants to be the entertainment people need in a dark world, through a dark winter, and done safely. Open restaurants January 29th to indoor dining again.
Castilo said he is anxious for the opportunity to show that his restaurant can reopen safely.
“I’m just glad we’re moving in that direction,” he said.
However, public health experts repeatedly have said bars and restaurants are among the riskiest places for catching the virus because eating and drinking require people to remove their masks for extended periods of time.
But the mayor said the ban on indoor dining and bar service has resulted in people engaging in risky behavior in private, holding underground parties at hotels, businesses, and elsewhere, without wearing masks or keeping a safe distance from other people to limit the spread of the virus.
She said reopening bars and restaurants would give people somewhere to go unwind where business owners can enforce the proper precautions.
“If we have people and give them an outlet for entertainment in the restaurant space, in the bar space, we have much more of an opportunity, in my view, to be able to regulate and control that environment,” Lightfoot said. “People are engaging in risky behavior that is not only putting themselves at risk, but putting their families, their co-workers, and other ones at risk. Let’s bring it out of the shadows. Let’s allow them to have some recreation in restaurants, in bars, where we can actually work with responsible owners and managers to regulate and protect people from COVID-19.”
Four of the state’s 11 regions — all outside of the Chicago area — currently are on track to move from Tier 3 to Tier 2 of the state’s COVID-19 mitigation plan on Friday, but that rollback would not allow for indoor dining.
Indoor dining and bar service would not be allowed in any region until they meet the requirements to lift Tier 3, Tier 2, and Tier 1 mitigations, and return to Phase 4 of the state’s Restore Illinois reopening plan.
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Yard Sharing Gains Ground In Rogers Park
By Staff in Food on Jun 13, 2014 4:30PM
Photo courtesy of Let's Go Chicago
When you moved into your home, did you look out across your backyard and imagine grilling for all your friends on your hypothetical grill? Lazy afternoons on your hypothetical hammock? Rowdy games of badminton, where you’d finally show the world your hypothetical mad skillz? If you’ve failed to actualize and your lawn has become a treacherous Jumanji-scape from disuse, it might be time to consider sacrificing your yard to a higher purpose.
Last year, one backyard in Rogers Park produced over 1,000 pounds of produce. That yard is part of Rogers Park Yard Sharing Network, a project that connects capable gardeners with homeowners who don’t use their yards.
The yard sharing network started small, in 2011. A neighbor of LETS GO Chicago, a youth-led garden program headquartered in Rogers Park, offered up his unused lawn, and program leaders saw a unique opportunity to bring some benefits of an agricultural infrastructure to a neighborhood with no available land.
“We love Rogers Park, but it’s one of the most compact neighborhoods and we have almost no vacant land,” said program leader Molly Costello, “There is still underutilized land, but it might be on private property.”
In 2012, after the success of the lawn sharing network’s pilot garden, LETS GO Chicago members went door-to-door in Rogers Park in search of homeowners willing to volunteer their lawns. “Plenty of people were like, ‘uh, no, that’s my yard,’” Costello said, but they did find four more homeowners interested in re-appropriating their lawns.
Now the network includes seven front and backyards, which are maintained by volunteers. Costello has high hopes for urban farming as a small solution to Chicago’s food crisis, but she has also enjoyed the sense of community that gardening has built in one of Chicago’s most diverse neighborhoods.
“In a backyard garden a few weeks ago, there was a gap in the fence where people can see in, and a woman connected with a church down the street came in. She was pointing at the plots and herself, saying, ‘me, me.’” The woman was Tanzanian and she spoke very little English, so her daughter came in and told Costello that her mother wanted a plot. “There are barriers, like language, that might keep people out of gardening projects elsewhere,” Costello said.
The program has a sliding, “pay what you can” fee for using plots, and startup and maintenance costs don’t fall to homeowners unless they want to donate. LETS GO Chicago provides a 10-page toolkit for people interested in starting yard sharing networks in other neighborhoods, including links to land use agreements and scripts for going door-to-door.
A solution to the food crisis, a community-building tool, and a salve for your yard shame? Sign me up.
By Lauren Larson.
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We Want The Airwaves: Bears News And Notes
By Rob Winn in News on Sep 19, 2014 4:15PM
It's been quite a week for the NFL, but the Bears have largely been able to avoid the controversy and the league's response to it. Then came Brandon Marshall's press conference Thursday, which featured a lengthy monologue, victim blaming and ramblings about everything from rape to extortion. The Bears will never admit it, but this distraction was unnecessary and unwanted. WSCR-AM afternoon host Dan Bernstein even cited a source within the organization claiming, "The team was dismayed by Marshall's press conference and feel mislead. They advised him not to speak, but he insisted. He said he wouldn't speak long, and would be contrite about his past. They really didn't want him to speak, fearing this would happen." As for on-the-field activities, here is what's rumbling after the team's impressive victory Sunday night against the 49ers.
The list of walking wounded grew significantly Sunday. While wide receivers Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery played against the 49ers despite being hobbled, Marshall was held out of practice Thursday and Jeffery had limited participation. Other Bears who did not practice include center Roberto Garza, left guard Matt Slauson, and defensive linemen Jared Allen, Jeremiah Ratliff and Trevor Scott. Safety Chris Conte, who came out of last Sunday's game after an impressive interception, was limited in practice, which points to him playing Sunday. As for the rest of the players, they will most likely be game-time decisions after the team flies to New York to face the Jets.
Ups And Downs With Jay
Cutler bounced back in impressive fashion against the 49ers, after a lackluster Week 1. Down 17 in the waning moments of the first half, he took a major hit and led his team for important touchdown before the half. He came to play in the second half, throwing precision passes and capitalizing on mistakes. Many called his game a signature win, whatever that means, but if he can have more games like last week, the Bears should stay in contention for the NFC North crown. Especially since the Packers and Lions are far from perfect.
Defensive Bounce Back
The much-maligned Bears defense turned in their best performance in arguably two years against the 49ers. Cornerback Kyle Fuller had a coming out party, with two impressive interceptions, and the defensive line created consistent pressure. The question is, can they keep it up? The depth of the line will be tested with Jeremiah Ratliff suffering from a concussion. Ratliff has played well since coming to the Bears last year and is a key component to stopping the run. The Bears also lost cornerback Charles "Peanut" Tillman for the year with a triceps tear. Tillman has been a cornerstone of this team for over a decade and his veteran presence will be missed. If the defense hopes to play at the same level they did against the 49ers, young players and backups will have to step up and fill the holes.
The Bears head to New York to face a Jets team that may not be impressive on paper, but gave the Packers all they could handle at Lambeau Field in Week 2. While their secondary is a question mark, Rex Ryan's defense can still pressure the quarterback and cause confusion. If the Bears of Week 2 show up, they should cruise to a victory. But if the team we saw against the Bills gets off the bus, look out.
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Pennsylvania is an important swing state for one reason and one reason only: It’s the difference between a tight win and a landslide. I know what you’re thinking. Am I openly predicting President Trump is going to be reelected? Yes. Why? Because the polls are wrong and biased. Mainstream media is wrong and biased. And I can see with my own eyes the excitement level for President Trump is exponentially higher than any excitement, if you can call it that, for Joe Biden.
There is, of course, the cheating factor, but I am hopeful the radical left has put more of their eggs in the post-election revolution basket rather than the steal-it-for-Joe basket. They can practically smell the local businesses burning already and they need a Trump win in order to drive the masses (at least what they hope will be the masses) to revolt. That’s not to say they support President Trump for the sake of revolution. They’re just not willing to bend over backwards for someone like Joe Biden who represents the systemic racism they use as their predicate for existence.
As I’ve said for months, the best chance this nation has for recovery from both coronavirus lockdowns and radical progressive rioting is for President Trump and the GOP to win big. A close win won’t do be as effective. In fact, a close win will likely do more damage in the short term as it will give the Neo-Marxists the fuel they need to get even more sane Democrats out on the streets.
Beneath it all, Pennsylvania is the key. It represents 20 electoral votes, and by my count that’s the difference between breaking the real magic number of 300 electoral votes to give it “landslide” labeling and just squeaking past the necessary 270 to win. This is why the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s endorsement is so huge. It doesn’t matter whether people in Pennsylvania read the endorsement or not. The fact that those who haven’t voted yet are hearing from a respected local publication that they’re breaking from tradition and making an endorsement will resonate.
This is bigger than the NY Times endorsing Joe Biden or even the NY Post endorsing Donald Trump. Both were expected and the people yawned. But the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette doesn’t make presidential endorsements. The last time they did was 1972.
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This newspaper has not supported a Republican for president since 1972. But we believe President Trump, for all his faults, is the better choice this year.
Via @pgopinions https://t.co/dZYEQp3pGY
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (@PittsburghPG) November 1, 2020
“He gets things done,” the editorial board said. That’s not just a generic message, either. Pittsburgh is a city known for getting things done and Pennsylvania is a state that relies on those people to keep their antiquated economy afloat. Perhaps more importantly, President Trump wasn’t expected to compete well in Pennsylvania until the last month. Early polling showed “Scranton Kid” Biden with a commanding lead. But since the debates and the fracking flip-flops Biden and Kamala Harris have made, the polls have tightened. Add in Hunter Biden and all Pennsylvania needed in order to vote red again was a little push.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette just supplied that push, and state Democrats are worried.
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Here’s my map. I know it will be critiqued to oblivion by people much smarter than me (“you think Trump will win Michigan!?!?!?”) but I’ll leave it here and let you all pick at it until you’re heart’s content.
Pennsylvania is the difference between a close win for President Trump and a 300+ electoral vote landslide. That will be important post-election when the task of dealing with revolting domestic terrorists comes to the forefront.
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The General Assembly body dealing with UN administrative and budgetary matters (Fifth Committee) had discussed and approved the budget this afternoon before the plenary voted on the financial plan, with 168 casting their ballots in favour, two against (Israel, United States) and no abstentions.
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John Stoutenburgh Swedish mysteries, or, Hero of the mines Volume 2
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John Stoutenburgh The history of England, from the earliest times to the death of George II. By Dr. Goldsmith. The second edi... Volume 1
transcribed: Goldsmiths England 11/13/1804 11/27/1804
John Stoutenburgh Midnight weddings Volume 2
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John Stoutenburgh The farmer's boy Volume 2
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John Stoutenburgh The vale of Conway Volume 2
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transcribed: Sicilian Romance Ann Ward Radcliffe 1/7/1805 1/10/1805
John Stoutenburgh The natural daughter. With portraits of the Leadenhead family. A novel. By Mrs. Robinson, Author of Poems, ... Volume 2
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John Stoutenburgh Juvenile indiscretions. A novel. In two volumes. By the author of Anna, or the Welch heiress. ... Volume 2
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John Stoutenburgh The fugitive of the forest Volume 2
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John Stoutenburgh The friend of women
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John Stoutenburgh Henrietta Bellmann; or the New Family Picture, Volume 2
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John Stoutenburgh A simple story. In four volumes. By Mrs. Inchbald. Volume 2
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John Stoutenburgh Hermsprong; or, man as he is not. A novel. In three volumes. By the author of Man as he is. Volume 2
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John Stoutenburgh The false friend Volume 2
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John Stoutenburgh Two Friends Volume 2
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John Stoutenburgh The white knight, or, The monastery of Morne Volume 2
John Stoutenburgh The minstrel; or, The progress of genius. In two books. With some other poems.
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John Stoutenburgh Transactions for which no related book has been identified.
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John Stoutenburgh The young philosopher Volume 2
transcribed: Yong Philosophers 5/6/1805 5/20/1805
transcribed: Ethelinde 5/20/1805 5/20/1805
John Stoutenburgh Agnes de-Courci. A domestic tale. In four volumes. By Mrs. Bennett. Volume 2
transcribed: Agnes 5/20/1805 6/1/1805
John Stoutenburgh Distrest virtue; or, the history of Miss Harriet Nelson. In which is included the unhappy story of Miss Car... Volume 2
transcribed: Distressed Virtue 6/1/1805 6/3/1805
transcribed: Citizens Daughter 6/3/1805 6/10/1805
John Stoutenburgh The beggar girl and her benefactors. In three volumes. By Mrs. Bennett, author of Welch Heiress, Juvenile i... Volume 2
transcribed: Beggar Girl 6/10/1805 6/20/1805
John Stoutenburgh The Grecian history Volume 1
transcribed: Goldsmiths Greece 12/23/1805 1/11/1806
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IPL 2020: Ben Stokes Confirms Availability Despite Coronavirus Scare
by Jr. Staff
Ben Stokes (Credits - IPL)
Unperturbed by the novel coronovirus, premier England all-rounder Ben Stokes has confirmed his availability for IPL 2020. Though Stokes ha confirmed his availability, the clouds of uncertainty still hover over the lucrative tournament, as it can well be called off after a 21-day lockdown was imposed on the country.
The 21-day lockdown means the IPL, which was deferred to get underway from April 15, is unlikely to get underway from its rescheduled date.
My next competitive cricket will be IPL: Ben Stokes
Ben Stokes (Credits: IPL)
Ben Stokes, who was brought by Rajasthan Royals, ahead of the previous edition said that the IPL will be the next tournament he will be participating in. Before Stokes, England opener Tom Banton had confirmed his presence for the tournament. Banton will ply his trade for Kolkata Knight Riders.
“At the moment my next competitive cricket is going to be in the IPL,” Stokes told BBC.
Cannot take three weeks off before IPL: Ben Stokes
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Stokes is not letting it lose before IPL amid uncertainties. He wants to be in a position where he is physically fit to play the tournament. “That hasn’t changed yet so I have to think I will be playing on April 20,” Stokes said.
“I have to get my head round that I am playing even though in the back of my mind I know I am probably not. I have to build up and get myself physically in a position that if it does happen I am good to go.
“I cannot take three weeks off and expect the body to be ready for April 20 because it doesn’t work like that. It might happen and if it does I don’t want to be behind.
“There will be a lot of advice given to us and if it was an option to go we will have to take the sensible one.”
Tom Banton
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Resilient flooring’s share keeps climbing
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 from Floor Covering Weekly
By Kacey Perinelli
In 2020, the flooring world experienced a global pandemic, the reinstatement of tariffs on Chinese-made vinyl flooring and supply chain issues. Despite all of this, sales in the resilient category could have increased by more than 7.6 percent during the first nine months of 2020, according to Catalina Research. With its continuously improving visuals, ease of install and hygienic properties, resilient flooring is poised to continue this trajectory in 2021.
Navigating the “new normal”
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed behaviors of people around the world. Here in the U.S., it has led to increases in work from home, online shopping and emphasis on cleanliness, to name a few. Although no one knows for sure which behaviors will continue past the pandemic’s end or for how long, it is evident that some changes are here to stay.
“Obviously, COVID-19 has affected shopping behaviors with online shopping becoming much more commonplace for what were primarily in-person shopping like groceries and concierge shopping services like Instacart. Many specialty retail flooring showrooms are closed or appointment only resulting in a more personalized experience between specialty retailers and consumers,” noted Russ Rogg, president of Metroflor Corporation. Rogg said while things will reopen post-pandemic, the convenience of online shopping and the personal attention consumers receive during a showroom appointment are likely to increase in importance.
Mannington Mills’ vice president, strategic development, David Sheehan, said that though there is promise of change once vaccines are available, there is still no clear understanding of what that means for a return to normalcy. However, migration from urban areas and indications of a strong remodel business into 2021 bode well for retailers, he said. “The good news is that business has continued, and we’ve seen a strong recovery in residential. Retailers have adjusted based upon their local conditions,” such as operating by appointment or requiring masks, Sheehan said, adding he expects this to continue in 2021.
“There is little doubt the pandemic will have a lasting change on our behaviors but to what extent those changes remain permanent is anyone’s guess. It’s likely a pendulum that has been forced to swing to an extreme,” shared Chris O’Connor, chief executive officer for Congoleum. O’Connor noted as the world gets somewhat back to normal, he anticipates “a greater reliance on remote and flexible work arrangements, online shopping behavior and business travel.”
However, some expect that as restrictions ease, consumers will be eager to go back to shopping in person. “Some protocols will probably remain but for the most part, the desire to return to business as normal is deeply held especially when it comes to human contact and relationships. Consumers miss being free to shop in a retail setting where they can touch and feel the products before they decide what to purchase,” noted Barron Frith, president of CFL North America. Because of this, he said, retail displays will be important in a post-COVID market.
One positive change this year was the increased emphasis on and acceptance of digital tools by retailers. While navigating the pandemic, many retailers were forced to embrace a digital way of doing things in order to stay in business, a trend that is expected to continue for both retailers and manufacturers alike.
“Digital is the biggest trend that has significantly accelerated. Whether its related to delivering inspiration or the actual product, consumers have become very comfortable with researching and ordering product over the web,” said MSI president Raj Shah.
Online purchases have increased during the course of the pandemic, agreed Wellmade’s vice president of sales and marketing, Dick Quinlan. “Much of this has been driven by the ‘stay at home’ workforce mounting home renovation projects. Wellmade has made substantial investments to support online sales as we believe the trend will continue into 2021 and beyond,” he noted.
Echoed Ana Torrence, hard surface category manager with Engineered Floors, “Consumers have been forced to shop online and the trend will continue to grow as more digital tools become available to improve the online shopping experience when it comes to flooring.” However, she said there will be those who will prefer to return to in store shopping when it is available again.
Added director of sales for Swiff-Train Company Cole Hood, “Dealers are investing in digital and virtual marketing and sales more than ever to capture the consumer that would have normally shopped in person. Planning and execution had to be more precise and efficient to limit the amount of face-to-face time and contact with customers from selections all the way through the install.” Innovations that came from necessity will likely remain in place into the future, he added.
Agreed Karndean Designflooring’s director of marketing, Jenne Ross, “This pandemic emphasized how important a digital presence is for specialty flooring retailers, from offering virtual consultations to updating customers on showroom hours or appointment availability. Expanding and strengthening their digital footprint will continue to boost traffic and sales even after life returns to normal.”
Novalis is also investing in the digital frontier. Explained Kimberly Hill, director of marketing and creative design for the company, “We are looking to make any and all changes needed in order to meet our customers where they are. As we have seen the world of consumers swing heavily to online shopping, we too are making changes and spending more of those marketing dollars on digital assets.” A new visualizer on the NovaFloor website helps customers see how a product will look in their home. “In addition, we will be launching a major update to our website, we are also creating more photography and videography than ever before along with inspirational digital assets like look-books,” Hill shared.
“It’s encouraging to know that, even under unforeseen circumstances, our industry can live up to its name to both endure and succeed.”
— Jenne Ross, Karndean Designflooring
Vinyl thrives
As we move into the new year, resilient flooring is poised to continue its success in the market. Innovations in rigid core, print technology and in resilient flooring’s cleanability all make it a top contender for post-pandemic installs.
Going forward, said Ed Sanchez, vice president of product management for resilient with Mohawk, consumers might be wary of having installers in the home, giving DIY-friendly options in resilient flooring an edge. Also top of mind, he noted, will be “being able to keep flooring clean … [this plus] waterproof capability and ease of install all make resilient a perfect product as we look at it through the lens of the pandemic.” To be able to accomplish all these performance benefits without sacrificing the look of the product is another of resilient’s positives, Sanchez added.
Advancements in technology are also propelling the category forward. Noted Jamann Stepp, vice president hard surfaces, The Dixie Group (TDG), digital printing is one example. “We’ll be introducing a digital print SPC called Trucor 3DP.” There are other digital print products in the market, Stepp noted, and said in TDG’s digital print SPC there will be 30-plus planks before a pattern repeat. This helps create more realism than what can be achieved with a PVC film, he said.
And resilient’s capabilities, such as waterproof performance, will continue to resonate with consumers. “In hard surfaces, waterproof rigid core products will remain in high-demand and Shaw has invested heavily in bringing more domestic SPC production online to support this growing category. Similarly, we’re evaluating our global supply chains to ensure we maintain a robust portfolio of both domestic and sourced offerings,” explained Drew Hash, vice president of category and channel management, Shaw Residential.
“There is no shortage of innovation in this category,” asserted Brian Parker, AHF Products’ director, product management, adding, “Resilient continues to evolve in terms of realistic looks, of course, but also in terms of features and benefits, whether that means durability, ease of installation or waterproofing. Given today’s focus on cleanability, attributes such as anti-microbial capabilities will become even more important to the residential and light commercial customer.”
MSI’s Shah expects SPC will continue to grow exponentially. “Despite all of the growth rigid core LVT has seen the past few years it still has not matured. With SPC becoming an option, consumers continue to see that they can have their dream floor at an affordable total installed price. Due to this we will continue to see SPC disproportionately grow,” he predicted.
Said Eli Shuat, president, Republic Floor, “The steady increase in the resilient segment means that America has embraced this segment and wants more of it. Many have chosen to join us in the resilient arena as they have come to appreciate the ease and simplicity involved.”
Biophilic design, which has been gaining traction for years, is also increasing in popularity due to the pandemic and stay at home orders. “The pandemic will accelerate the focus on biophilic design in all spaces for 2021 because it’s proven to have the ability to reduce stress and anxiety for inhabitants of the space,” said Michel Vermette, president and CEO at Armstrong Flooring.
Keeping resilient top of mind for biophilic design spaces is all about marketing, explained Tami Stahl, Beauflor’s senior marketing manager. “There has to be a focus on the advancements that have been made in resilient manufacturing to enhance the emboss and textures that really help to make resilient flooring mimic nature. Also, focusing on and marketing the recycle and sustainability story of resilient products to educate the RSA and end user who may hold untrue beliefs.”
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March 2020 Edition of Forward March Veterans' Newsletter
Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs sent this bulletin at 03/16/2020 05:48 PM EDT
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To advocate with purpose and passion for Florida veterans and link them to superior services, benefits and support.
From Executive Director Danny Burgess:
Welcome to a special COVID-19 edition of the Forward March veterans’ newsletter. The safety and welfare of our veterans is our top priority. As a result, the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have taken many steps over the past few weeks to help protect our population. These steps, and more, can be found in our newsletter and on our website at www.FloridaVets.org. You may also follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for the latest information on how we’re preventing the spread of COVID-19. Please share with your friends and family.
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Visitor Access to State Veterans’ Homes Suspended
TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs has announced additional steps to combat the spread of COVID-19 in the state of Florida.
Effective March 11, 2020, FDVA is restricting visitor access to its State Veterans’ Nursing Homes and Domiciliary until further notice, with the exception of essential visitors, such as family members of those residents undergoing end-of-life care. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has also temporarily restricted access to their nursing and community living center facilities to only essential visitors until further notice.
VA Medical Centers and Outpatient Clinics Open with Enhanced Screening
All VA Medical Centers in Florida are implementing enhanced screening protocols at their facilities. VA Outpatient Clinics are also implementing enhanced screening protocols. Please plan to arrive at the facility well in advance of your appointment to allow additional time for the screening process.
Veterans who are concerned they may have symptoms of Coronavirus (COVID-19) are encouraged to contact the VISN 8 Clinical Contact Center at 1-877-741-3400 (toll free). Clinical staff provide 24/7 virtual care and support, including nurse advice and triage. The service is available at no cost to veterans enrolled for care in the VA Sunshine Healthcare Network (VISN 8).
Florida’s National Cemeteries Open for Burial and Visitation
All U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemeteries are open for burial and visitation by the public. Florida has nine National Cemeteries. To schedule a burial, please call 800-535-1117, option 1. In light of concerns regarding COVID-19, some families may prefer to proceed with direct interment of their loved ones and postpone the formal committal services to a later date. Cemetery administrators will work to accommodate these preferences. In addition, cemetery personnel will be discouraged from handshaking and any unnecessary physical contact to minimize the potential transmission of germs and viruses until the pandemic conditions are under control.
Health Department Launches New COVID-19 Dashboard
TALLAHASSEE -- In the state’s ongoing efforts to provide transparency and clarity regarding COVID-19, the Florida Department of Health announced March 16 the launch of a new COVID-19 Case Dashboard. To keep Florida residents and visitors safe, informed and aware about the status of the virus, this dashboard will be updated twice daily.
VA Suspends Travel Board Hearings
The Board of Veterans’ Appeals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs) is suspending Travel Boards until May 1, 2020, due to COVID-19 response efforts. The Board will work with veterans and veteran service organizations and representatives to continue video hearings and provide virtual hearings where possible.
Health Department Provides COVID-19 Guidance
The Florida Department of Health is working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor the current outbreak of COVID-19 and is working to ensure the most up-to-date CDC guidance is disseminated to the public. Please visit their COVID-19 webpage at www.FloridaHealth.gov/COVID-19. This remains the best and most up-to-date resource for information and guidance regarding COVID-19 in Florida.
Health Department Opens COVID-7 Hotline
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All Vet Centers in Florida, which provide readjustment counseling and outreach services to veterans and families, are open and implementing enhanced screening protocols. At this time, veterans may appear in person or opt in advance for an optional phone consultation. There are 25 Vet Centers operated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Florida.
Many veteran-related events scheduled for the months of March and April have been cancelled or postponed. Consult your local news for specific closures and announcements.
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Corgi Capers: The First Chapters
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To kick off the Corgi-Versary Celebration, I’m offering the first chapters of the novel for free–right here on my blog. I hope you enjoy! If you’d like to read more, check out the links at the end of this post.
A Princess’ Premonition
In the little Pennsylvania town of Stoney Brook, at the end of a rocky road, was a place where the crickets chirped just a little louder. A place where the summer grass smelled just a little sweeter. A place called Pickwick Farm. Pickwick Farm was home to two people, twelve chickens, two goats, three sheep, a horse, and six dogs.
Six corgis, to be exact.
On this cool August morning, one of the dogs, Owl, was already awake. He patrolled the farm faithfully by the side of his favorite Person, Farmer Pickwick.
“We’ve got to make sure the farm is in order,” Farmer Pickwick told Owl. “We’ll have some special visitors today.”
Owl barked twice and twirled around in the dewy grass.
Inside the small farmhouse, four sleeping puppies and their mother heard Owl’s excited barks. They yelped and jumped up all at once. Their warm comforter became a tangle of paws and ears.
Sparkles, their mother, stretched and turned over. “Go back to sleep, puppies,” she yawned.
The largest puppy plopped down next to her, cuddling on the comforter. “Good boy, One,” Sparkles said. One, the first to be born, was the largest and most obedient puppy.
Two, the second to be born, stretched out next to his brother. Sparkles nuzzled them while she kept an eye on the other puppies scuffling near the kitchen sink.
“Three and Four,” Sparkles called. “Back to sleep!”
Four, the smallest of the puppies and the only female, was tugging on one of Three’s tall ears. She wagged her tail and bit down hard. Three yelped and skittered back to the comforter to cuddle next to his brothers. Four’s ears darted back, and she ran in frustrated circles near the stove.
“I want to play, play, play!” she yelped.
But Sparkles and the other puppies ignored Four. Before long she sulked back to the comforter to talk to her favorite brother.
“Three, Three, Three!” she cried.
“Go back to sleep,” Three said.
Three fought drooping eyelids. “Why?”
“I have a feeling about today.”
“What kind of feeling?”
“Like something special’s going to happen. And I dreamed a strange word.”
Three’s eyes popped open. “What word?” he asked, his tail wagging.
“Princess,” Four said. “What does it mean?”
Three wanted very much to discuss Four’s new word, but he had to be quiet: footsteps echoed on the stairs.
“Shhhh,” Sparkles whispered. “Here come our People.”
“I said the word was princess,” Four pouted. “What does it mean? Tell me, tell me, tell me!”
But before Three could answer, Grandma Pickwick appeared at the kitchen door. The puppies ran over to greet her, their tails wagging and their ears pressed happily back against their heads. And in the excitement, even Four forgot all about her strange new word.
~ ONE ~
A Lucky Break
Adam Hollinger was the last boy left at practice. Again. Patrick, Coach Harris’ son, sat next to him in the shade under the bleachers. The two were covered in dust from the field. A clay-red skid mark stained Patrick’s pants from his slide into third. The boys’ Lancaster Reds baseball hats were lined with sweat from the morning’s practice. While Coach Harris spoke on his cell phone, the boys read the newest edition of The Adventures of Logan Zephyr and the Stellar Squadron. This volume was titled Logan and the Sapphire Kingdom.
“This is the coolest part,” Patrick said, turning the page. He had already read the comic five times. He practically knew it by heart.
“Why?” Adam asked.
“It’s where Logan Zephyr finds a space dog.”
“A space dog? Cool!” Adam smiled, looking at the green puppy with three tails and two antennas.
“Wouldn’t it be cool to have a space dog as a pet?” Patrick asked.
“It’d be cool to have any dog,” Adam sighed. “My parents have been promising me a dog for over a year now.”
“Why don’t you get one, then?”
“Dad doesn’t really want one. He’s always busy with his architecture business. Mom says it’s hard for him to be working for himself. He’s always either in his office or meeting with clients. Every time I mention a dog, Dad changes the subject. Besides, my parents don’t think Courtney’s responsible enough.”
Patrick laughed. “I don’t think your sister’s responsible enough, either!”
Patrick had known Adam long enough to see Courtney’s bad attitude worsen since she started middle school.
“I think my mom would like a dog, though,” Adam said. “She had one when she was a kid. If we could only convince Dad…”
“Speaking of your mom,” Patrick said. “Where do you think she is?”
Adam shrugged. “I don’t think she’s ever been on time.”
A tall shadow blocked the sunlight, and the boys looked up to see Coach Harris standing over them. He had finished his phone conversation.
“Well, boys.” He sounded disappointed. “That was Bryce’s mother. I found out why Bryce wasn’t at practice today.”
“What happened, Dad?” Patrick asked.
“Last night Bryce was skateboarding. He fell and broke his wrist. His doctor told him he won’t be able to pitch for the rest of the season.”
“He’s going to miss Autumn League?” Adam asked.
Autumn League was the post-season travel league made up of the best players in each region. The biggest honor for players Adam’s age was to be selected for the all-star team.
Coach Harris sighed.
“He was our secret weapon,” Patrick sighed. “He could strike out anyone!”
“Our games start in just a week,” Adam added. “What’ll we do?”
“The only thing we can do. We’ll find someone else on the team who can pitch.” Coach got a little sparkle in his eye. “While we’re here waiting, let’s give your arm a try, Adam.”
Adam’s ears turned bright red, something they did when he was embarrassed or nervous. “Me? Pitch?” He was an outfielder. He’d always been an outfielder.
“Sure, why not?” Coach insisted. He was halfway to the field, catcher’s mitt already on his hand.
Adam shuffled out from under the bleachers. He pulled on his red cap and gave Patrick his comic book. “I guess I’ll have to finish reading this later.”
“You can borrow it,” said Patrick. “I’d give just about anything — even my limited edition Logan Zephyr comic — to see you try to pitch!”
I hope you enjoyed this sneak peek at Corgi Capers. If you’d like to read more, you can purchase the book at the following locations:
Direct from the publisherAmazon (it’s also available for Kindle)
Autographed copy
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Summer 1942, Winter 2010: An Exchange
Posted By Michael O'Meara On September 26, 2011 @ 12:19 am In North American New Right | 13 Comments
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In the Summer of 1942 — while the Germans were at the peak of their powers, totally unaware of the approaching fire storm that would turn their native land into an inferno — the philosopher Martin Heidegger wrote (for a forth-coming lecture course at Freiberg) the following lines, which I take from the English translation known as Hölderlin’s Hymn “The Ister”:[1]
“The Anglo-Saxon world of Americanism” — Heidegger noted in an aside to his nationalist/ontological examination of his beloved Hölderlin — “has resolved to annihilate Europe, that is, the homeland, and that means: [it has resolved to annihilate] the commencement of the Western world.”
In annihilating the commencement (the origins or breakout of European being) – and thus in annihilating the people whose blood flowed in American veins — New World Europeans, unknowingly, destroyed the essence of their own being — by disowning their origins – denigrating the source of their life-form, denying themselves, thus, the possibility of a future.
“Whatever has commencement is indestructible.”
Americans destined their self-destruction by warring on their commencement – by severing the root of their being.
But Europe — this unique synergy of blood and spirit — cannot be killed, for her essence, Heidegger tells us, is the “commencement” — the original — the enowning — the perpetual grounding and re-asserting of being.
Europe thus always inevitably rises again and again — like she and her bull from under the waters, which sweep over her, as she undauntedly plunges into what is coming.
Her last stand is consequently always her first stand — another commencement — as she advances to her origins — enowning the uncorrupted being of her beginning – as she authenticates herself in the fullness of a future which enables her to begin over and over.
The opposite holds as well.
America’s annihilation of her commencement revealed her own inherent lack of commencement.
From the start, her project was to reject her European origins — to disown the being that made her who she was — as her Low Church settlers pursued the metaphor of Two Worlds, Old and New.
For Heidegger, America’s “entry into this planetary war is not [her] entry into history; rather, it is already, the ultimate American act of American ahistoricality and self-devastation.”
For having emerged, immaculately conceived, from the jeremiad of her Puritan Errand, America defined herself in rejection of her past, in rejection of her origins, in rejection of her most fundamental ontological ground — as she looked westward, toward the evening sun and the ever-expanding frontier of her rootless, fleeting future, mythically legitimated in the name of an ‘American Dream’ conjured up from the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
Americans, the preeminent rational, rootless, uniform homo oeconomics, never bothered looking ahead because they never looked back. Past and future, root and branch – all pulled up and cut down.
No memory, no past, no meaning.
In the name of progress — which Friedrick Engels imagined as a ‘cruel chariot riding over mounds of broken bodies’ – American being is dissolved in her hurly-burly advance toward the blackening abyss.
Yet however it is spun, it was from Europe’s womb that Americans entered the world and only in affirming the European being of their Motherland and Fatherhood was there the possibility of taking root in their “New” World – without succumbing to the barbarians and fellaheen outside the Mother-soil and Father-Culture.
Instead, America’s founders set out to reject their mother. They called her Egyptian or Babylonian — and took their identity – as the ‘elect’, the ‘chosen’, the ‘light to nations’ — from the desert nomads of the Old Testament — alien to the great forests of our Northern lands — envious of our blue-eye, fair-hair girls – repelled by the great-vaulted heights of our Gothic Cathedrals.
The abandonment of their original and only being set Americans up as the perpetual fixers of world-improvement — ideological champions of consummate meaninglessness – nihilism’s first great ‘nation’.
While Heidegger was preparing his lecture, tens of thousands of tanks, trucks, and artillery pieces started making their way from Detroit to Murmansk, and then to the Germans’ Eastern front.
A short time later, the fires began to fall from the sky — the fires bearing the curse of Cromwell and the scorched-earth convictions of Sherman — the fires that turned German families into cinders, along with their great churches, their palatial museums, their densely packed, sparkling-clean working-class quarters, their ancient libraries and cutting-edge laboratories.
The forest that took a thousand years to become itself perishes in a night of phosphorous flames.
It would be a long time — it hasn’t come yet — before the Germans — the People of the Center — the center of Europe’s being — rise again from the rubble, this time more spiritual than material.
Heidegger could know little of the apocalyptic storm that was about to destroy his Europe.
But did he at least suspect that the Führer had blundered Germany into a war she could not win? That not just Germany, but the Europe opposing the Anglo-American forces of Mammon would also be destroyed?
“The concealed spirit of the commencement in the West will not even have the look of contempt for this trial of self-devastation without commencement, but will await its stellar hour from out of the releasement and tranquility that belong to the commencement.”
An awakened, recommencing Europe promises, thus, to repudiate America’s betrayal of herself — America, this foolish European idea steeped in Enlightenment hubris, which is to be forgotten (as a family skeleton), once Europe reasserts herself.
In 1942, though, Heidegger did not know that Europeans, even Germans, would soon betray themselves to the Americans, as the Churchills, Adenauers, Blums — Europe’s lickspittle — rose to the top of the postwar Yankee pyramid designed to crush every idea of nation, culture, and destiny.
That’s Europe’s tragedy.
Once Europe awakes – it will one day – she will re-affirm and re-assert herself – no longer distracted by America’s glitter and tinsel, no longer intimidated by her hydrogen bomb and guided missiles – seeing clearly, at last, that this entertainment worthy of Hollywood conceals an immense emptiness — her endless exercises in consummate meaninglessness.
Incapable therefore of beginning again, having denied herself a commencement, the bad idea that America has become is likely, in the coming age of fire and steel, to disintegrate into her disparate parts.
At that moment, white Americans will be called on, as New World Europeans, to assert their “right” to a homeland in North America — so that there, they will have a place at last to be who they are.
If they should succeed in this seemingly unrealizable fortune, they will found the American nation(s) for the first time – not as the universal simulacrum Masons and deists concocted in 1776 — but as the blood-pulse of Europe’s American destiny.
“We only half-think what is historical in history, that is, we do not think it at all, if we calculate history and its magnitude in terms of the length . . . of what has been, rather than awaiting that which is coming and futural.”
Commencement, as such, is “that which is coming and futural” — that which is the “historical in history” — that which goes very far back and is carried forward into every distant, unfolding future – like Pickett’s failed infantry charge at Gettysburg that Faulkner tells us is to be tried again and again until it succeeds.
“We stand at the beginning of historicality proper, that is, of action in the realm of the essential, only when we are able to wait for what is to be destined of one’s own.”
“One’s own” — this assertion of ourselves — Heidegger contends, will only come if we defy conformity, convention, and unnatural conditioning to realize the European being, whose destiny is ours alone.
At that moment, if we should succeed in standing upright, in the way our ancestors did, we will reach ahead and beyond to what is begun through every futuristic affirmation of who we European-Americans are.
This reaching, though, will be no ‘actionless or thoughtless letting things come and go . . . [but] a standing that has already leapt ahead, a standing within what is indestructible (to whose neighborhood desolation belongs, like a valley to a mountain).”
For desolation there will be — in this struggle awaiting our kind – in this destined future defiantly holding out a greatness that does not break as it bends in the storm — a greatness certain to come with the founding of a European nation in North America – a greatness I often fear that we no longer have in ourselves and that needs thus to be evoked in the fiery warrior rites that once commemorated the ancient Aryan sky gods, however far away or fictitious they have become.
1. Martin Heidegger, Hölderlin’s Hymn ‘The Ister’, trans W. McNeill and J. Davis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), p. 54ff.
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On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed sweeping health care reform legislation that provides access to quality, affordable health coverage for a majority of the 8 million uninsured in California, including 81 percent of African Americans and 60 percent of Latinos and Asians and Pacific Islanders who are currently uninsured.
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Congregation Beth Emeth Food Allergy Policy
Approved August 8, 2017
The purpose of this document is to articulate a synagogue-wide policy on food allergy management. The intent is to provide synagogue staff, congregants and guests with clear information about the foods allowed in the building so people with allergies, as well as their parents and guardians, may make informed decisions.
This policy applies to all synagogue-sponsored events but does not apply to renters and other outside groups that use our facilities.
We strive to make reasonable accommodations for congregants and guests with food allergies. Certain areas of the building, such as the Religious School wing, are designated as high-allergy-awareness areas. We will make our best efforts to make this wing a nut-free zone. Our goal is to provide a welcoming environment, but it is not possible to provide a completely allergen-free setting. Our objective is to offer adequate and accurate information to enable visitors to ensure the safety of themselves and their loved ones.
Synagogue members and guests with food allergies should always take the precautions necessary to safeguard their health, including always carrying required medications (e.g., EpiPen) and notifying staff and event organizers in advance of requested food accommodations.
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Policy for Synagogue-Sponsored Events
For CBE-sponsored events, foods labeled as containing common allergens, for example, tree nuts, peanuts or nut oils or extracts, will not be served. CBE-sponsored groups purchasing food (meals or snacks) for CBE-sponsored events should make their best efforts to arrange for foods that do not contain tree nuts or peanuts, including nut oils or extracts. Where possible, staff and event organizers will strive to ensure that food provided at events does not contain trace amounts of peanuts or tree nuts and was not produced on machinery that also processes products containing peanuts or tree nuts. CBE-sponsored groups include, but are not limited to, Sisterhood, Brotherhood, BESTY and all synagogue committees hosting events or meetings.
Publicity for any CBE-sponsored events should indicate whether or not food will be served. Where packaged snacks are served, packages/labels should be available for review. Congregants and guests with food allergies are encouraged to contact event sponsors to request special food accommodations.
When food is available at CBE events, the organizers will provide allergy-friendly options, such as gluten- and nut-free choices.
While CBE is unable to assume responsibility for ensuring that homemade food or baked goods are nut-free, we urge congregants to refrain from bringing items containing nuts into the synagogue. All homemade items must be marked as homemade. All items that are brought into the building and contain nuts or nut extracts must be conspicuously labeled as such.
Policy for Congregation Beth Emeth Religious School
Additional policies are in place for the Religious School. These policies are in addition to the synagogue-wide policy and do not replace it. Specific questions regarding Religious School allergy policies should be referred to the Director of Lifelong Learning.
The Religious School may make additional accommodations to the published policies to further ensure the safety of students with specific food allergies. Parents of such students are encouraged to be in touch with the Director of Lifelong Learning to discuss specific additional accommodations that may be needed.
Staff and teachers working in the Religious School may not bring nuts or nut products into the school spaces or consume them there.
Policy for Congregation Beth Emeth Business Office
Staff working in the business office may bring and consume nuts for personal use in their private offices only. Synagogue members and guests should notify staff of food allergies prior to meeting in their private offices, so that reasonable precautions can be taken to accommodate individuals with allergies.
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Geraldo Rivera Supports Impeachment: Losing Made Trump ‘Crazy’
The anti-Trump bias at Fox News strikes again!
Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera declared on Tuesday night that he supports the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Rivera responded to news that Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney said she would support impeaching Trump for inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol last week.
“A loyal friend, hounded without mercy by Democrats intent on destroying him from Day 1,” Rivera tweeted, seemingly attempting to explain Trump’s mindset. “Then he lost the election. It made him crazy or revealed a dysfunction I had refused to see. He then unleashed a mob to make war on their own government. 5 to their doom. @LizCheney is right.”
A loyal friend, hounded without mercy by Democrats intent on destroying him from Day 1. Then he lost the election. It made him crazy or revealed a dysfunction I had refused to see.
He then unleashed a mob to make war on their own government. 5 to their doom. @LizCheney is right
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) January 13, 2021
Rivera has spent the past few weeks condemning Trump and his allies.
During an interview on “The Story,” Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum kicked things off by claiming that it’s a “pervasive belief” among Republicans that Joe Biden didn’t win the Nov. 3 presidential election.
Then, in an equally condescending tone, network contributor Geraldo Rivera declared that Trump supporters who believe there was widespread voter fraud in the election are listening to “propaganda.”
MacCallum said, “The Atlanta Journal-Constitution did a piece where the reporter said not one person on the Republican side believes Joe Biden won this race. That is a pervasive belief out there. What do you say to all that.”
Rivera said, “It’s a belief, Martha, based on propaganda. We’ve heard nothing but whining and complaining. What about the courts? Don’t we have courts for a reason in this country? Every court that reviewed this matter decided against the Republicans, against President Trump. The high court of the United States, including three Trump-appointed Associate Justices, have ruled against or declined to take these cases. At what point do we say okay, Basta, enough. It’s pathetic this has been dragged so long.”
Fox's @marthamaccallum says it's a "pervasive belief," among Republicans, that Biden didn't really win the election. "But it's a belief based on propaganda!" @GeraldoRivera exclaims. pic.twitter.com/kNeL0sjZMI
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 5, 2021
Rivera, once a steadfast ally of Trump, has been going after the president a lot lately
Last month, Rivera took to Twitter to declare that he’s fed up with Trump’s unwillingness to accept the results of the Nov. 3 election.
Rivera admitted that he defended Trump for four years from what he called “leftist creeps” but added that the president has behaved “like an entitled frat boy” since the election.
Fox News has abandoned its conservative base and gone all-in for Biden.
Fox News hosts Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy shot down President Trump’s claims of mass voter fraud Monday and said the president should concede.
Fox News stunned many when they published a new poll claiming that 42 percent of voters say history will remember President Trump as “one of the worst presidents ever.”
Host Jedediah Bila also recently created a firestorm when she said Trump has a “responsibility” to concede the election to Biden.
President Trump put Fox News on notice last week when he strongly suggested he may start a new media company to take down Fox News.
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Trump moving fast to shore up immigration campaign promises
by W. James Antle III | Washington Examiner | Published on June 29, 2020
President Trump is racing to fulfill immigration-related campaign promises as he enters a tough reelection fight against Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
Trump’s most memorable promise from the 2016 race was his pledge to build a wall along the United States’s border with Mexico. The administration is touting 200 miles of recently completed border security fencing, on track to reach about 450 miles by the end of the year.
“We’ll have 500 miles just a little bit after the end of the year,” Trump said during his Fox News town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Thursday night.
Trump also extended his executive order temporarily suspending most immigration during a period of high unemployment following the coronavirus lockdowns, expanding it to include many of the guest-worker programs immigration hawks were disappointed to see exempted when the first version of the edict was handed down back in April.
“It seems to me that curtailing the issuance of work visas at a time of massive unemployment is a matter of common sense,” said Jerry Kammer, author of the new book Losing Control: How A Left-Right Coalition Blocked Immigration Reform and Provoked the Backlash That Elected Trump. “But, of course, the immigration lobby’s hunger for foreign workers is insatiable. At times like this, it’s unconscionable.”
“President Trump has repeatedly promised that he would put American workers first, and to his credit, he did just that,” said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, in a statement. Stein had been critical of the order before it covered more nonimmigrant temporary workers, but the FAIR told the Washington Examiner it was now “mostly satisfied” with it.
Trump won the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and then the general election in part because he vowed to break with the last two presidents of both parties, who were in favor of offering legal status to most illegal immigrants in the U.S. and expanding immigration more generally. He was advised on the issue by restrictionists such as Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon, and Stephen Miller and later endorsed legislation sponsored by Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia that would reduce legal immigration levels.
The president has been under fire from Democrats and immigrant rights activists for his record on this issue the entire time he has been in office. But the Trump White House is not uniformly populated by immigration hardliners, and he hasn’t always satisfied immigration hawks either.
Syndicated conservative columnist Ann Coulter famously backed Trump over his tough immigration stance but has spent most of the last four years criticizing him for not completing the border wall or overhauling the system and for breaking with Sessions. The In Trump We Trust author has said she is undecided on whether to vote for Trump this November.
Kammer, a senior research fellow at the restrictionist Center for Immigration Studies, noted that “Trump, who campaigned on a pledge to make E-Verify mandatory, has now backed away from that commitment.” Sen. Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican and Trump nemesis, this week touted the system for preventing employers from hiring illegal immigrants.
The Trump campaign is highlighting the president’s immigration record under the banner of “Promises Made, Promises Kept,” citing an 84% reduction in apprehensions along the southern border. Arrests tend to track the number of people trying to enter. “While Joe Biden campaigns on open borders, President Trump is keeping his promise to protect the safety and health of Americans by securing our Southern Borders,” said Trump campaign spokeswoman Abigail Marone in a statement.
“The Biden people — and he’s controlled totally by the radical left, as you understand. He’s not controlling it; they’re controlling him,” Trump said at a border security roundtable discussion in Yuma, Arizona, on Tuesday. “They want open borders. They want criminal sanctuaries. They want everything that doesn’t work.”
Trump has fallen behind Biden in his race for a second term. He trails the former vice president by 9.6 points in the RealClearPolitics national polling average and is also down in both the Fox News and New York Times/Siena College battleground state polls. Returning to the immigration issue is potentially one way to fire up his base and win back wavering supporters.
“If my speeches ever get a little off,” Trump said during his first campaign, “I just go: ‘We will build a wall!’ You know, if it gets a little boring, if I see people starting to sort of maybe thinking about leaving — I can sort of tell the audience — I just say, ‘We will build the wall,’ and they go nuts.”
Trump has held steady among Hispanic voters but has lost ground with white people. While college-educated suburbanites tend to be turned off by his immigration rhetoric, showing he has kept his promises could attract more of the working class.
Read the full article: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-moving-fast-to-shore-up-immigration-campaign-promises
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September 28, #92, “What Would Be the Economic Consequences of our Direct Participation in the War?”
October 5, #93, “Social Planning Versus Individual Initiative Under Free Enterprise”
October 12, #94, “Can Democracy Survive Under Present Economic Conditions?”
October 19, #95, “Would a Mediated Peace Be Desirable Under Present Circumstances?”
October 26, #96, “Should the Federal Government Regulate Labor Unions?”
November 2, #97, “What Would Inflation Mean to You?”
November 9, #98, “Can Government Control Prices Through Legislation?”
November 23, #99, “Can and Should Monetary Inflation Be Avoided?”
November 30, #100, “Should Labor Have the Right to Strike During the Defense Emergency?”
December 7, #101, “Can There Be a Substantial Reduction in Non-Defense Expenditures of the Federal Government?”
December 21, #102, “Is a Collective Economy Compatible with Economic Freedom?”
December 28, #103, “To What Extent Should We Suspend Our Free Institutions While We Are at War?”
January 24, #104, “Just What Is Democracy?”
January 11, #105, “What Happens to Civil Liberties Druing Times of War?”
January 18, #106, “Women's Role in War”
January 25, #107, “Can Wars Be Ended Under Private Capitalism?”
February 1, #108, “How Much Economic Equality Is Attainable?”
February 8, #109, “After the War -- What?”
February 15, #110, “Is a Closed Shop a Democratic Institution?”
February 22, #111, “Social Justice and Economic Reconstruction”
March 1, #112, “Has the Profit System Handicapped America's War Production?”
March 8, #113, “Is Industry Making Too Much Money Out of This War?”
March 15, #114, “Who Will Pay the Cost of This War -- And How?”
March 22, #115, “What Would Socialism Mean to America?”
March 29, #116, “Has America Gone Soft?”
April 5, #117, “South America -- Frontier of the Future”
April 12, #118, “How Can the War Effort Be Improved?”
April 19, #119, “Why Is Japan Fighting?”
April 26, #120, “Is Revolution Likely in Occupied Europe?”
May 3, #121, “President Roosevelt's Seven-Point Anti-Inflation Program”
May 17, #122, “The Road We Are Traveling”
May 24, #123, “What Can Be Done Now to Improve War Morale?”
May 31, #124, “Maintenance of Membership”
June 7, #125, “Is Democratic Socialism Possible?”
June 14, #126, “Would a Sales Tax Benefit the War Effort?”
June 21, #127, “Is War Destroying Free Enterprise?”
June 28, #128, “Post-War Problems in the Western Hemisphere”
July 5, #129, “Should a Congressman Be Defeated for Re-Election Because of this Pre-Pearl Harbor Attitude Toward America's Participation in the War?”
July 12, #130, “The Problems of Lasting Peace”
August 30, #131, “Your Next Year's Taxes”
September 6, #132, “Are the Four Freedoms Enough?”
September 13, #133, “News, Censorship and Morale”
September 20, #134, “Should the Draft Age Be Lowered to 18?”
September 27, #135, “Should the People Have a Greater Voice in the Conduct of the War?”
October 4, #136, “How Can America Best Solve Its Manpower Problem?”
October 11, #137, “Would A Supreme Command of the United Nations Be Desirable?”
October 18, #138, “Is a Second Front Practical at This Time?”
October 25, #139, “Would a Planned Economy Destroy Our Two Party System?”
November 1, #140, “Is Civilian Morale Retarding Victory?”
November 8, #141, “What Kind of an America Are We Fighting For?”
November 14, #142, “Is Our Silver Policy Sound?”
November 22, #143, “Should the Government Accept Responsibility for Full Post-War Employment?”
November 29, #144, “Would Immediate Freedom for India Hasten or Retard Victory?”
December 6, #145, “Is the $25,000 Salary Limitation Justifiable?”
December 13, #146, “Should Congress Assume Greater Responsibility in Domestic Affairs and Planning for Peace?”
December 20, #147, “Is Washington Over-Regulating War Industry?”
December 27, #148, “What Is the War Doing to Our Colleges?”
January 3, #149, “Must Civilians Be Drafted for War Work?”
January 10, #150, “Can the People Have a Voice in Rationing?”
January 17, #151, “How Can We Solve the Shipping Crisis?”
January 24, #152, “Would Freedom From Want Create a Better World?”
January 31, #153, “What Should Be Done With Conquered Germany?”
February 7, #154, “What Should Be Done with Conquered Japan?”
February 14, #155, “Does the Profit System Penalize the Worker?”
February 21, #156, “What Is Free Enterprise?”
February 28, #157, “Should the Present Draft Laws Be Revised?”
March 7, #158, “Is Business Making Too Much Money Out of the War?”
March 14, #159, “What Should Be Done About Last Year's Income Tax Assessment?”
March 21, #160, “Can Free Enterprise Carry the Post-War Load?”
March 28, #161, “Can Our Manpower Problem Be Solved Through Voluntary Cooperation?”
April 4, #162, “What Kind of an America Are We Fighting For?”
April 11, #163, “What Would Thomas Jefferson Do Today?”
April 18, #164, “Should American Youth Support the Re-Establishment After War of Competitive Enterprise As Our Dominant Economic System?”
April 25, #165, “From Cradle to the Grave”
May 2, #166, “Will There Be Enough Food?”
May 9, #167, “Should Collective Bargaining Include Factory Foremen?”
May 16, #168, “Canada and the United States in the Post-War World”
May 23, #169, “What Stands in the Way of Higher Wages?”
May 30, #170, “Can We Hope for Effective Revolt in Occupied Europe?”
June 6, #171, “The Place of the Government in Post-War Prosperity”
June 13, #172, “Is Time on Japan's Side?”
June 20, #173, “Can We Head Off Serious Inflation?”
June 27, #174, “Does Modern Education Equip for Freedom?”
July 4, #175, “The Home Front in Relation to the Military Front”
July 11, #176, “Is Our Peace Planning Concrete and Realistic?”
September 5, #177, “Is Our Foreign Policy Winning Us Friends Abroad?”
September 12, #178, “Is an International Police Force Practical?”
September 19, #179, “Would a Military Alliance with Great Britain Contribute to a More Lasting Peace?”
September 26, #180, “Do We Understand Russia?”
October 3, #181, “Where Are Post-War Jobs Coming From?, Part 1”
October 10, #182, “Where Are Post-War Jobs Coming From?, Part 2”
October 17, #183, “The Future of the Liberal Arts College”
October 24, #184, “Does Any National Emergency Justify a Fourth Term?”
October 31, #185, “What Kind of America Do the Boys Want to Come Home To?”
November 7, #186, “What Is This Thing Called Capitalism?”
November 14, #187, “Does Congress' Desire for Re-Election Penalize Good Government?”
November 21, #188, “Where Are Post-War Jobs Coming From?, Part 3”
November 28, #189, “Oil -- Today and Tomorrow”
December 5, #190, “Should American Internationalism Involve Military Alliances?'
December 12, #191, “Where's the Money Coming From for Post-War Rehabilitation?”
December 19, #192, “What Part Should Congress Play in Determing Our Post-War Commitments Abroad?”
December 26, #193, “Can We Look Forward to a Better World?”
January 9, #194, “Who Can Best Provide Post-War Jobs -- Private Industry or Government?”
January 16, #195, “What Economic Advantages Can America Expect from This War?”
January 30, #197, “Do We Need an Economic Bill of Rights”
#198, “Does Private Capitalism Breed Monopoly?”
#199, “How Are We Doing on the Diplomatic Front?”
#200, “What Price Social Security?”
#201, “Is America Moving Toward Fascism?”
#202, “The Role of Russia in the Post-War World”
#203, “Is American Democracy Threatened from Within?”
#204, “What Should Be Done with Defeated Germany?”
#205, “How Long Will the War Last?”
#206, “How Long Will the Public Debt Affect the Private Citizen in Post-War America?”
#207, “America's Post-War Miliary Policy”
#208, “Will Present Limitations of Business Profit Handicap Post-War Jobs?”
#209, “What is Fascism?”
#210, “Should America Re-examine Its Faith?”
#211, “Is There Any Substitute for Military Alliances?”
#212, “The Freedoms for Which We Fight”
#213, “What Kind of Post-war American Does Young America Want?”
#214, “Mobilizing for Abundance in the Post-War World”
#215, “Has America an Economic Future in the Orient?”
#216, “Should White Collar Wages Be Allowed to Rise?”
#217, “How Much Help Can Our Invasion Forces Expect from the Underground in Fortress Europe?”
#218, “Should Federal Social Security Be Abolished?”
#219, “Can German Morale Withstand Another Major Defeat?”
#220, “Will the Wagner Act Help or Hinder Post-war Employment?”
#221, “Will the Corporation Tax Handicap Post-war Employment?”
#222, “What Voice Should Labor Have in Management?”
#223, “Would the Continuation of Present Income Taxes Handicap Post-war Recovery?”
#224, “Should Organized Labor Take Sides Politically?”
#225, “Is the Fourth Term a Major Campaign Issue?”
#226, “How Long Should Government Economic Controls Continue After the War?”
#227, “Is Bureaucracy a Menace to Democracy?”
#228, “Are We Making Friends Abroad?”
#229, “Should Congress Ratify the Bretton Woods Conference Agreement?”
#230, “How Can We Guard Against Post-war Depression?”
#231, “Are Our Political Parties Becoming Class Conscious?”
#232, “Can Small Nations Have an Effective Voice in the Peace?”
#233, “Is Congress Assuming Its Reconversion Responsibilities?”
#234, “How Would a Change in Administration Affect the War Effort?”
#235, “What Will Our Votes Mean This November?”
#236, “Can the Peace Be Won Without Roosevelt?”
#237, “Are Communism and Fascism Campaign Issues?”
#238, “Roosevelt or Dewey?”
#239, “Will Germany Crack Before Spring?”
#240, “Does Internationalism Mean Imperialism?”
#241, “Foreign Trade and Full Employment?”
#242, “What Is Full Employment?”
#243, “Will Russia Fight Japan?”
#244, “Should America Have Compulsory Military Training After the War?”
#245, “Should the United States Change Its Basis of Treaty Ratification?”
#246, “What Do We Mean By Democracy?”
#247, “The World of Tomorrow”
#248, “What Is British Policy in the Mediterranean?”
#249, “Is American Still the Land of Opportunity?”
#250, “What Is the Future of Social Security?”
#251, “Is Dumbarton Oaks Our Best Chance for Peace?”
#252, “Would Wage Incentives Help Us Solve the Manpower Crisis?”
#253, “Should Government Guarantee Sixty Million Jobs?”
#254, “Does Congress Need Modernization?”
#255, “What Is the Place of Foreign Trade in American Prosperity?
#256, “Do Pressure Groups Threaten American Democracy?”
#257, “Will Monopolies Create Post-war Problems?”
#258, “How Can Government Best Help Business?”
#259, “What Is Labor's Part in Post-War Adjustments?”
#260, “What Is Management's Role in Post-war Adjustments?”
#261, “What Economic Claim Has the Individual Upon Society?”
#262, “How Can Peace Be Assured in Asia?”
#263, “Foreign Trade and Domestic Prosperity?”
#264, “What Is the Meaning of Bretton Woods?”
#265, “What Are the Problems of a Guaranteed Annual Wage?”
#266, “Should Foremen Be Unionized?”
#267, “Let's Examine the Post-war Slogans”
#268, “What Will Happen to Post-war Wages?”
#269, “Does the Wagner Act Threaten Post-war Prosperity?”
#270, “What Is the Future of the New Deal?”
#271, “What Is Behind the British Election?”
#272, “Has the American Form of Government Outlived Its Usefulness?”
#273, “Should the Little Steel Formula Be Scrapped Now?”
#274, “Can China Unite?”
#275, “Does Economic Security Endanger Personal Liberty?”
#276, “What Is America's Role in World Economic Stabilization?”
#277, “Can We Realize Full Employment?”
#278, “Is Government Economic Planning Compatible With Democracy?”
#279, “The Future of Labor Unions in Postwar America”
#281, “Has the American Educational System Been a Success?”
#282, “Could Civilization Survive Another World War?”
#283, “What Are the Possibilities for Democracy in Japan?”
#284, “What Does the British Labor Victory Mean to America?”
#285, “How Much Bureaucracy Must We Have?”
#286, “Should Congress Adopt the Murray Full Employment Bill?”
September 30, #287, “Would Increased Wages Mean Increased Prices?”
October 7, #288, “Should Price Ceilings Be Maintained?”
October 14, #289, “Is Industry-Wide Collective Bargaining Against the Public Interest?”
October 21, #290, “What Is Wrong With Labor-Management Relations?”
October 28, #291, “Would Free Trade Increase Our Domestic Prosperity?”
November 4, #292, “Has Victory Advanced the Cause of World Democracy?”
November 11, #293, “What Is Congress's Role in Establishing a Labor Policy?”
November 18, #294, “Should Congress Pass the 65 Cents an Hour Minimum Wage Law?”
November 25, #295, “Should the United States Subsidize British Socialism?”
December 2, #296, “How Would a 30% Wage Increase Affect the Public Interest?”
December 9, #297, “Which Way America?”
December 16, #298, “What Is Labor's Stake in Profits?”
December 23, #299, “Will Victory Create a Better World?”
December 30, #300, “Do Cartels Threaten International Peace?”
January 6, #301, “Does Price Control Mean Fewer Jobs?”
January 13, #302, “Is Crime an Economic Problem?”
January 20, #303, “What Has Gone Wrong With Collective Bargaining?”
January 27, #304, “What Are the Rights of Labor?”
February 3, #305, “What Are the Rights of Management?”
February 10, #306, “What Are the Rights of the Public in Wage Disputes?”
February 17, #307, “Will Socialism Solve Britain's Economic Crisis?”
February 24, #308, “Can We Avoid Serious Inflation?”
March 3, #309, “Does Economic Security Contradict Individual Freedom?”
March 10, #310, “What Is the Significance of the Minimum Wage?”
March 17, #311, “Is Monopoly Still an Economic Problem?”
March 24, #312, “Does the Right to Strike Infringe the Right to Work?”
March 31, #313, “Is Big Business Too Big?”
April 7, #314, “Why Does Russia Want Iranian Oil?”
April 16, #315, “What Is the Role of the Liberal Tradition in Human Progress?”
April 23, #316, “Should Foremen Join Labor Unions?”
April 30, #317, “Should Price Control Be Continued?”
May 7, #318, “Is Russia Moving Toward Political Democracy?”
May 14, #319, “Has the War Strengthened American Democracy?”
May 21, #320, “Does the Industrial Progress of the South Require Increased Unionization of Labor?”
May 28, #321, “Have Post-war Strikes Been Against the Public Interest?”
June 4, #322, “Should We Have National Compulsory Health Insurance?”
June 11, #323, “Should We Extend the Draft?”
June 18, #324, “Should the Wagner Act Be Amended?”
June 25, #325, “Is the Franco Regime a Threat to Peace?”
July 2, #326, “Is Russia a Threat to Peace?”
July 9, #327, “Is Socialism Working in England?”
July 16, #328, “Would Wage Incentives Promote Industrial Peace?”
July 23, #329, “What Should Be Our National Labor Policy?”
August 6, #331, “What Is Holding Up Production?”
August 13, #332, “How Can We Maintain a High Level of Employment?”
August 20, #333, “Can Competition Hold Prices in Line?”
August 27, #334, “What Is the Answer to the Housing Shortage?”
September 3, #335, “What Is Holding Up New Housing?”
September 10, #336, “Is Collective Bargaining Out of Balance?”
September 22, #337, “Must We Have Boom and Bust?”
September 29, #338, “Can Industry Offer a Guaranteed Annual Wage?”
October 6, #339, “What Is Socialism?”
October 13, #340, “What Are the Economic Issues of the Election?”
October 20, #341, “Is There a Threat to Freedom of Speech on the Air?”
October 27, #342, “What Do We Mean By Un-American Activities?”
November 3, #343, “Will 1947 Bring Industrial Peace?”
November 10, #344, “Would Socialism Benefit Canada?”
November 17, #345, “How Can Labor Get Higher Real Wages?”
November 24, #346, “Should the Closed Shop Be Outlawed?”
December 1, #347, “What Should Be Done About Rent Ceilings?”
December 8, #348, “What Is the Future of Trade Unionism?”
December 15, #349, “Are High Personal Taxes a Threat to Our National Welfare?”
December 29, #350, “Would a General Wage Increase Now Benefit the Country?”
December 29, #351, “Do Present Profits Justify a Wage Increase?”
January 5, #352, “Farm Prices and Prosperity”
January 12, #353, “Is Our Economic Policy in the Far East Sound?”
January 19, #354, “What Is Labor's Stake in Capitalism?”
January 26, #355, “What Is Capitalism?”
February 2, #356, “What Are the Issues of Portal-to-Portal Pay?”
February 9, #357, “Do We Need New Labor Legislation?”
February 16, #358, “Are High Personal Income Taxes Handicapping Prosperity?”
February 23, #359, “What Is Liberalism?”
March 2, #360, “How Can Capitalism Better Serve to Worker?”
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‘Page Eight’ review
Posted August 26, 2011 by David Lewis Filed under
‘Isn’t the temptation of heroism coming a little late in your career?’ MI5 officer Johnny Worricker is asked by one of his colleagues – and the dilemma of whether to serve the interests of one’s country, one’s loved ones or one’s superiors lies at the heart of David Hare’s one-off spy thriller, which despite being set long after the cessation of the Cold War retains a distinct chilliness.
Bill Nighy stars as Worricker, a jaded intelligence analyst who is entrusted with a potentially lethal secret by his best friend, Director-General of MI5, Benedict Barron (Michael Gambon): a file containing proof that Prime Minister Alec Beasley (Ralph Fiennes) was aware of American evidence of terrorist threats to the UK but suppressed the information from parliament.
When Barron dies, Johnny is the only person who can expose the truth – but at what cost? Can he use his knowledge to help his beautiful neighbour Nancy Pierpan (Rachel Weisz) to establish the truth about a family tragedy that haunts her, or will he be dismissed, discredited and disgraced?
There’s a frostiness about Page Eight that never quite warms up. At first, it’s coolly stylish with some magnificent one-liners (Johnny asks his artist daughter, ‘Why do you want to piss on life before you’ve lived it?’) but a feel that is mostly unemotional and oddly inconsequential. Nighy is believably world-worn, Weisz tender and vulnerable, while Gambon supplies the same charmingly avuncular wiliness that he brought to Albus Dumbledore for so many years. ‘Things are so bad I got home last night and watched The X-Factor,’ he remarks at one point.
However, it isn’t until Barron dies that some meaning is brought to proceedings and although it’s still wintry – the winding, empty roads surrounding by bare trees and desolate fields along which Johnny drives up and down the country represent what little there is left for him at MI5 in the new world order – there is at least a spark of liveliness to propel the plot forwards.
The imagery remains remarkable throughout (there’s a beautifully blurry vision of central London at night, soundtracked by the shipping forecast, and anyone who’s ever had a cigarette in their mouth will ache a little at the surfeit of smoking scenes in the cold dark of a winter evening where the smoke billows around the smoker like clouds of warm, cancerous reassurance) and the story moves through the personal and political worlds that Johnny inhabits with aplomb until the final reel, where it loses its way and never quite gets back on track.
There is, at last, an emotional charge to proceedings that the opening lacks, but there’s more energy than activity and the resolution doesn’t quite ring true. Worse, the previously cliché-free screenplay drops a few clangers into the lap of Nancy Pierpan. Weisz is forced first to coo, ‘Try and stop me!’ in response to Johnny’s request for company and then trample all over the last great line in the script – ‘I’m frightened,’ Johnny says near the end, ‘I fuck everything up’ – by shushing and kissing him. Oh dear.
This feels like a pre-coalition drama – Beasley is more a shabby Tony Blair than a rugged David Cameron, even if Ralph Fiennes seems to have based his voice on the latter – but the notion of a British Prime Minister kowtowing to the Americans at the expense of his own people is one that remains resonant in 2011, and this enduring topicality more than makes up for the use of what is essentially an old-fashioned espionage trope as the central theme: the lone wolf agent battling for truth against a corrupt (or at least, complicit) regime.
The excellent cast add depth and texture and although this icy drama reveals a few flaws when it thaws, it never loses its appeal.
Airs at 9pm on Sunday 28th August 2011 on BBC Two.
> Buy the DVD on Amazon.
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Culturally Speaking Journal
Out and About with Cornelia Seckel, digital publisher of arttimesjournal.com
Cornelia Seckel / August 24, 2016
An exploration of music, fine arts and Crafts, history and museums
What comes to mind when you think of Virginia? For me, I think about the Blue Ridge Parkway that goes along the Blue Ridge, a mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains. This is the longest linear park (469 miles) in the US and the most visited park except for in 1949 & 2013 (but not sure why). I also think of quilts and other early American crafts, the Clock Tower of the Richmond Main Street Train Station as I’d drive along route 95 enroute to Florida and the most gorgeous views of the Appalachian Mountains.
I was pleased to be invited on a press trip to Roanoke Virginia where over several days we visited among other things numerous artists’ studios, historic sites and museums and of course learned about trains. Traveling with a group of other writers is fun. People ask questions I wouldn’t think to ask and friendships develop.
Our first morning David A. Bowers, Mayor of Roanoke met us at the Roanoke Star and Overlook, an historic landmark that provides a fabulous view of the city. Roanoke is located in the valley immediately west of the Blue Ridge Mountains and east of the Allegheny Mountains. It has been a crossroads since Indian days when people used buffalo trails through the valley as hunting and fighting ways. Salt licks at the valley’s heart drew animals, and Indians to hunt them. With settlement by the white man in the mid-1700’s, roads followed the buffalo trails, one, known as the Great Road, north and south; the other, called the Wilderness Road, east and west. A farming community developed, with a tiny village in the center called Big Lick in reference to the salt licks near by. The completion of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad from Hagerstown, Maryland, to its junction with the newly formed Norfolk and Western Railway in 1882, marked the start of Roanoke’s rapid growth. Mayor Bowers spoke passionately about his city and the great diversity of the population (105 different nationalities). There are 60 languages spoken amongst 100,000 people. He spoke of the cosmopolitan feel of the city and that as a result of their excellent Superintendant of schools the graduation rate is now up to 86%— up from 59% from when he began. The Carrilon Medical center of the Medical School from Virginia Tech is a brain injury research center and a leading economic drive and great supporter of the arts.
August 24, 2016 in Travels. Tags: Blue Ridge Mountains, David A. Bower, Roanoke, Roanoke Star and Overlook, Virginia
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7 Reasons to Rebrand: Part 2
Written by Rach
In this series we have been exploring reasons why a company may wish to change their corporate identity or rebrand.
The first part explored three situations, including a brand getting outdated, a change in the marketplace - or a need to reposition the brand as it heads in a new direction.
In this part we are going to continue to explore some more challenges and changes that can prompt a rebranding of a company or organisation.
The internet has not only meant that we are living in a digital age - but also a global one. As small businesses grow they will often find themselves spreading to new countries and continents. That can create its own set of hurdles to overcome and challenges to push a company's branding to be reassessed.
With an international market may come cultural or linguistic barriers and in some cases a brand may not translate. If a brand is too specific to its origins then the meaning may become lost or - in the worst case it may have less than optimal connotations or meanings.
This can result in a full rebrand to create a more appropriate, holistic brand that works for all, or it may result in several brand treatments for the same products- some famous examples of this are Cif and Jif cleaning products, Walker’s and Lays crisps or Lynx and Axe body spray.
The latter can obviously make marketing more complicated and dilute the global recognition of a brand, however the former can risk being slightly too generalised and not unique enough to appeal to each individual geographical locations quirks and culture.
Some brands use their origins as a feature of their brand in order to overcome this issue. Noticeably many alcohol products double down on their individual roots and stories to create a narrative around their brand and lend themselves credibility and authenticity (whether fabricated or not). Examples of this are Jack Daniels whiskey or Bombay Sapphire Gin.
New Ownership/Merger/Demerger
Any kind of major restructuring, destructuring or new leadership is going to affect a business. If your business is changing then your brand should be assessed to make sure it is still relevant
Merging or demerging will often result in immediate rebrands, this not only helps to illustrate any direct changes to staff and users but may also be a legal requirement. An example for this could be the demerhing of Lloyds TSB to Lloyds Bank and TSB - though some elements of the prior brand were kept such as parts of the names, they were shifted to better reflect the brand values of the two now separate banks and their strengths. Comparisons between the whimsical visuals of the characterful lloyds TSB adverts and the more recent homespun illustration of the TSB marketing schemes show a clear evolution for example.
A less obvious change can be in leadership. A new CEO can create huge change in a company or organisation. A clear, and obvious example of this is the return of Steve Jobs in 1997. Arguably one of the most well known and successful rebrands to date and interesting currently as apple now faces the first decline in profits since the mid-1990s. At that time Apple was experiencing low sales, low consumer interest, and struggling to compete. With no significant brand to speak of beyond the technicolour apple logo of old the company was in trouble.
Steve Jobs took over the company in 1997and with him came the distinctive modern, minimalist style that has defined the Apple brand and its products ever after. With a new, stripped back logo, palette and a host of innovative products that have fundamentally changed how tech is used in society, Jobs secured Apple ‘s place as an industry leader. Though a divisive figure his clear vision of what Apple was and could be, can not only be clearly seen in it’s rise under his guidance but also, in his absence, its struggle to stay on top.
Perhaps it’s time for Apple to reassess and remap again ?
The final instalment in this series of blog articles will continue to explore how a brand can be changed or redefined to create a better overall impression of the service or products provided, so check it out!
If you have felt that some of the reasons explored already may apply to your business or organisation, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
We can offer you a brand assessment and explore with you how we can mould your brand into something that works for you- whatever the scale or scope of your business.
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Iraqi woman activist on US occupation
These two videos say about themselves:
Houzan Mahmoud speaks at the ‘Remember Du’a and denounce honour killings globally’ conference in April 08 in London. Du’a Khalil Aswad, a 17 year-old girl, was stoned to death in Iraqi Kurdistan in April 07. The conference was organised by the Organisation for Women’s Freedom in Iraq.
By Louise Nousratpour in Britain:
Brutalised for Western profit
Iraqi activist Houzan Mahmoud is too young to remember the 1963 CIA-backed coup against Abdel Karim Kassem.
Five years earlier General Kassem had ousted the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy and retrieved land and oil from the British-owned Iraq Petroleum Company.
During the overthrow tens of thousands of communists, along with much of Iraq‘s democratic-minded educated elite, were dragged out of their homes and shot in the streets. Their “crime” had been to support a leader who was on good terms with the Soviet Union.
But while Mahmoud cannot recall this bloody episode first hand she remembers well the oppressive years under Saddam Hussein, who was installed a few years after the coup and was supported by the West – until he too showed signs of defection.
The bloody removal of Kassem was almost a carbon copy of the joint CIA/MI6 coup in neighbouring Iran 10 years earlier against democratic leader Mohammed Mossadeq, who also tried to nationalise his country’s oil.
“The West, which has been instrumental in defeating progressive forces in the region for generations, now dare to label us backwards. How dare they portray our women as burqa-wearing, submissive victims and our men as a bunch of bearded, misogynist terrorists?” says Mahmoud.
“They have installed a corrupt regime in my homeland, supporting its reactionary laws in the name of respect for Iraq‘s traditional values.
“In the same manner they called Saddam’s savage execution Iraqi justice, but we know they instigated the lynching to stop him from incriminating them in an open court.”
No-one knows for certain how many Iraqi women and children have been sold into sex slavery since the US-led Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
The group that Mahmoud works for, the Baghdad-based Organisation for Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), puts the figure in the tens of thousands.
“Crimes that were virtually unheard of before have now become commonplace. So-called honour killings have shot through the roof and mass unemployment has pushed many women, especially war widows, into prostitution,” she says.
“Women have all but disappeared from public life for fear of being raped, killed, kidnapped or trafficked to foreign countries.”
Once Iraqi women‘s legal rights and freedoms were the envy of their oppressed sisters in much of the Middle East. No more.
Thanks to the benign humanitarian intervention of two Christian extremists, they too face the prospect of an autocratic regime that sanctions misogyny in the name of religion.
Mahmoud points out that legislation allowing polygamous marriages was passed last year by the puppet Kurdistan regional government despite public outrage.
And Iraq‘s draft constitution has paved the way for oppressive sharia law.
“But the left is fighting back and will rise from the ashes, as we have done in the past,” says Mahmoud, who visits Iraq regularly and is active in her country’s rejuvenated women’s rights and union organisations.
Unionised oil workers in the south have been a constant thorn in the side of US and Britain’s plans to control Iraq’s rich resources. And since its foundation in June 2003 OWFI has organised thousands-strong demonstrations, seminars and campaigns against the occupation and for a secular, democratic Iraq.
The group also provides shelter and support for victims of domestic violence and women fleeing pimps and traffickers, though a lack of resources is a major obstacle.
“We brought 2,000 women out on the streets of Baghdad on International Women’s Day in 2004 at the height of the war, when women hardly dared go out,” Mahmoud recalls proudly.
“Since then we have had many successful campaigns, including breaking the silence around prostitution and forcing a debate on trafficking which has now led to a draft legislation to clamp down on it.”
Mahmoud emphasises that OWFI “is the opposite of many of the sectarian organisations that we have to contend with. We have secular women working side by side their veiled sisters. And many men support our campaign because they grew up in a society that was not so brutalised in terms of gender relations.”
The organisation’s wide appeal and its uncompromising stance have made it unpopular with the US-backed government, which is refusing to grant it NGO status.
“They have their own NGO stooges who have no grass-roots base and operate from plush offices, with huge salaries and private security,” Mahmoud says.
Back in Britain, she is forging links with progressive groups to raise awareness about the impact of the wars in the Middle East on working-class communities in this country and to challenge the West’s sinister portrayal of Iraqi and Afghan people as savages who need rescuing from themselves.
“Blowback” – the violent consequences of the war on terror – has expressed itself in disturbing ways.
Army recruiters target teenagers in deprived areas ravaged by mass unemployment. Brutalised by war and abandoned by the state that sent them there, increasing numbers of returning soldiers on both sides of the Atlantic are bringing the violence back to their own homes and communities in the form of drug misuse, domestic abuse and homicide.
“In times of war, violence, especially against women, increases as a result of a more militarised and macho society,” Mahmoud observes.
“Because minority communities continue to be treated as the enemy within … they are ever more vulnerable to racist attacks.
“Is it any surprise that some turn back to the musty comforts of reactionary and patriarchal tradition, when they are far away from the familiarity of ‘home,’ experiencing hostility and racism in their ‘civilised’ new home?
“This, in part, manifests itself in increased violence against women – honour killing, forced marriage.”
But Mahmoud fears there is an unhealthy focus on cases of domestic abuse and so-called honour killing in ethnic minority communities which serves to drive a wedge between them and the rest of society.
“There is an element of media bias and it goes back to the same racist attitude which seeks to portray these communities as savage, non-integrating aliens,” she argues.
Mahmoud is also concerned that the focus on grimly exotic, headline-grabbing “honour killings” serves to distract attention from the shocking levels of violence against women in wider society.
“The fact that in Britain two women a week are killed by a current or former partner is a form of honour killing,” Mahmoud points out, adding: “Women are constantly told they are ugly and fat and encouraged to have cosmetic surgery and to go on a diet – that too is violence against women.
“The difference is that, while in the Middle East the violence is often backed or sanctioned by law, here it’s sold to us as pop culture, fashion or even girl power.”
For Mahmoud, what unites us is the fact that we “all live in a class-based capitalist system,” a system that she believes we can only overcome “by fighting for our common class interest – for socialism.”
US Refuses to Allow UN Inspectors to Investigate its WMDs: here.
Report: U.S. Gave Saddam Intel, Ignored Chemical Attacks In 1980s (huffingtonpost.com)
Declassified CIA Documents Reveal US Helped Saddam Hussein Knowing He Would Use Chemical Weapons (reason.com)
Mutleg: Regional situation to affect upbringing children in Iraq (iraqinews.com)
CIA ‘helped as Saddam gassed Iran’ (stuff.co.nz)
US gave Saddam blessing to use toxins against Iranians (rt.com)
Foreign Policy: CIA Documents Show the U.S. Helped Saddam Hussein Use Chemical Weapons (libertyblitzkrieg.com)
US Soon to Go to War With Syria Over Previously Nonexistent WMDs (moonbattery.com)
New Docs Detail U.S. Involvement in Saddam’s Nerve Gas Attacks (theatlanticwire.com)
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The ‘coalition of the willing’ in Iraq becomes an army of one
By Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The British said cheerio back in July, around the same time the Romanians cleared out “Camp Dracula,” their compound on a U.S. base in southern Iraq. Tonga and Kazakhstan left ages ago, and no one seems to remember if any Icelandic forces ever made it to Iraq.
It doesn’t matter now, anyway, because as of Friday, former president George W. Bush’s “coalition of the willing” formally ceased to exist, leaving only the U.S. military’s 130,000 or so forces to shepherd their Iraqi counterparts through a volatile election season before a full American troop withdrawal that’s expected by the end of 2011.
U.S. commanders officially disbanded the Multinational Force Iraq, or MNF-I, and introduce the USF-I, or U.S. Force Iraq, at a ceremony Friday in Baghdad. American soldiers and officers said the transition is largely a formality because they’ve been going it alone since the summer.
Iraqis also said the change barely registers. To them, there’s never been a question that Americans were in charge for these tumultuous past six years.
“There’s no difference, even if they change the name,” said Mohammed Abdul Jabar, 40, a furniture salesman in Baghdad. “The main enemy, the ones who destroyed the country, who disbanded our military, it’s the Americans. If I see a fighter jet loaded with missiles, do I wonder whose it is? No, it’s always been the Americans.”
American officials spin the disbanding of the coalition differently, saying the end of the MNF-I brings Iraqis one step closer to regaining real sovereignty, “a new era in Operation Iraqi Freedom,” as one news release put it. On the lack of sovereignty, Iraqis agree. The name change is another matter.
In several street interviews, Iraqis of different backgrounds were asked how many members of the coalition they could name besides the U.S. and Britain. Some correctly identified the Italians (3,200 troops) and the Australians (2,000 troops). Others confidently named France, which refused to join.
“Coalition? Well, truthfully, we always called them the occupation forces,” said Yousra Abdul Zahra, 47, whose son lives away from home because the family still can’t tell its neighbors that he works as a translator for the U.S. military. “But I do worry that if they leave, what happens to my son? As a mother, I’m scared.”
For the military, the name change also brings some structural tweaks. USF-I will bring five command groups under a single headquarters, streamlining some operations and shrinking the American footprint.
That might be the easy part. Getting soldiers to use “USF-I” instead of “MNF-I” is trickier.
The U.S. military is staking its claim to the new acronym through a Twitter account and a Facebook page. One military-affiliated group already produces a USF-I T-shirt printed with the slogan, “Return with Honor,” and it’s probably only a matter of weeks before base commissaries are stocked with souvenir USF-I battle coins and uniform patches.
For now, however, a Google search of “USFI” turns up the Unmarried and Separated Fathers of Ireland and the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, a revolutionary socialist group.
“At certain levels and with certain people, I think that MNF-I will still be used for many months and many years. We say MNF-I or MNC-I and it kind of rolls off the tongue,” said Army Master Sgt. Edward Kosbab of El Paso, Texas, who’s in southern Iraq with the 4th Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade, 1st Armored Division from Fort Bliss, Texas.
Southern Iraq, a mostly Shiite Muslim region whose homogeneity made it relatively more stable than Baghdad or the north, was home to the biggest contingents of non-U.S. forces: Japanese, Australian, Italian, Romanian and British, among others.
“The British had that strong accent, but it was fun,” recalled Sgt. Maj. Craig Youngblood, 37, of Miami, Fla. “I remember ‘dungarees.’ It was pants or something.”
U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Lauro Obeada, 42, who was born in Romania and speaks the language, grew especially close to the Romanian troops on his base in the southern city of Nasiriyah. He said American forces viewed their coalition partners as equals, shared their grief over casualties and were united by a mission to stabilize and rebuild Iraq.
Sometimes, though, that unity was tested on the playing field.
“When it came to American sports, we did well,” Obeada said. “When it came down to soccer, they pretty much whupped us bad.”
As the Romanians prepared to leave last summer, Obeada was singled out at some of their transition activities because of his Romanian heritage. When he watched them depart, he said, it hit him that he was witnessing the end of the coalition.
“Obviously, having other countries here was better, and I wish they could’ve stayed until the mission was completed, but it’s OK,” Obeada said. “Now it’s just us and the Iraqis, and we can carry this through.”
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11.1113 History History: 2015 a. 117; 2017 a. 366.
11.1114 11.1114 Two candidate committees.
11.1114(1)(1) If a candidate establishes a 2nd candidate committee under s. 11.0202 (2) to pursue a state or local office for which the contribution limit under this subchapter is higher than the contribution limit for the office that the candidate originally sought, the 2nd candidate committee may accept contributions up to the higher limit, but shall take into account the amount of any contributions transferred from the first candidate committee to the 2nd candidate committee to determine whether the 2nd candidate committee has reached or exceeded the higher limits.
11.1114(2) (2) If a candidate establishes a 2nd candidate committee under s. 11.0202 (2) to pursue a state or local office for which the contribution limit under this subchapter is lower than the contribution limit for the office that the candidate originally sought, the first candidate committee may transfer its contributions to the 2nd candidate committee in an amount not to exceed the contribution limits applicable to the 2nd candidate committee.
11.1114(3) (3) Upon termination of a 2nd candidate committee, the 2nd candidate committee may transfer any of its remaining funds to the first candidate committee in amounts not to exceed the contribution limits applicable to the persons who contributed to the first candidate committee.
subch. XII of ch. 11 SUBCHAPTER XII
PROHIBITED PRACTICES
11.1201 11.1201 False reports and statements. No person may prepare or submit a false report or statement to a filing officer under this chapter.
11.1202 11.1202 Earmarking.
11.1202(1)(1) The treasurer of a candidate committee may agree with a prospective contributor that a contribution is received to be used for a specific purpose not prohibited by law. That purpose may not include a disbursement to a committee to support or oppose another candidate.
11.1202(2) (2) When a contribution is made to a committee other than a candidate committee, the contributor may not direct the committee to make a disbursement to a committee to support or oppose another candidate.
11.1202(3) (3) Except for transfers of membership-related moneys between committees of the same political party, no committee may transfer to another committee the earmarked contributions of others. Transfers of membership-related moneys between political parties shall be treated in the same manner as other transfers.
11.1203 11.1203 Coordination.
11.1203(1)(1) No political action committee, independent expenditure committee, other person required to report under s. 11.1001, or individual may make an expenditure for express advocacy for the benefit of a candidate that is coordinated with that candidate, candidate's committee, or candidate's agent, nor with any legislative campaign committee of the candidate's political party, or a political party, in violation of the contribution limits under s. 11.1101 or the source restrictions under s. 11.1112.
11.1203(2)(a)(a) For purposes of this section, an expenditure for express advocacy is coordinated if any of the following applies:
11.1203(2)(a)1. 1. The candidate, candidate's agent, legislative campaign committee of the candidate's political party, or the candidate's political party communicates directly with the political action committee, independent expenditure committee, other person, or individual making the expenditure to specifically request that the political action committee, independent expenditure committee, other person, or individual make the expenditure that benefits the candidate and the political action committee, independent expenditure committee, other person, or individual explicitly assents to the request before making the expenditure.
11.1203(2)(a)2. 2. The candidate, candidate's agent, legislative campaign committee of the candidate's political party, or the candidate's political party exercises control over the expenditure or the content, timing, location, form, intended audience, number, or frequency of the communication.
11.1203(2)(b) (b) If an expenditure for express advocacy is coordinated, but not in violation of the coordination prohibitions under sub. (1), all of the following apply:
11.1203(2)(b)1. 1. The political action committee or independent expenditure committee making the expenditure shall report the expenditure as required under this chapter.
11.1203(2)(b)2. 2. The candidate committee shall report the expenditure as a contribution.
11.1203(3) (3) None of the following are considered coordinated communications prohibited under this section:
11.1203(3)(a) (a) Candidates endorsing and soliciting contributions for other candidates.
11.1203(3)(b) (b) Candidates, candidate committees, legislative campaign committees, and political parties responding to inquiries about a candidate's or political party's position on legislative or policy issues.
11.1203(3)(c) (c) Using publicly available information to create, produce, or distribute a communication if sub. (2) does not apply to such use.
11.1204 11.1204 Unlawful political contributions.
11.1204(1)(1) Subject to sub. (2), no person may, directly or indirectly, make any contribution other than from funds or property belonging to the person. No person may, directly or indirectly, give funds or property to another person for the purpose of making a contribution in other than the first person's name.
11.1204(2) (2) A conduit releasing a contribution of money in the manner prescribed in s. 11.0704 does not violate sub. (1).
11.1204(3) (3) No person may intentionally receive or accept any contribution made in violation of this chapter.
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Get e-Books "The Invisible String 2" on Pdf, ePub, Tuebl, Mobi and Audiobook for FREE. There are more than 1 Million Books that have been enjoyed by people from all over the world. Always update books hourly, if not looking, search in the book search column. Enjoy 100% FREE.
The Invisible String
Author : Patrice Karst
Publisher : DeVorss & Company
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A steady best-seller and The Invisible String is reaching all over the World! OVER 400,000 copies sold! "That's impossible", said twins Jeremy & Liza after their Mom told them they're all connected by this thing called an Invisible String. "What kind of string"? They asked with a puzzled look to which Mom replied, "An Invisible String made of love." That's where the story begins. A story that teaches of the tie that really binds. The Invisible String reaches from heart to heart. Does everybody have an Invisible String? How far does it reach, anyway? Does it ever go away? Read all about it! THE INVISIBLE STRING is a very simple approach to overcoming the fear of loneliness or separation with an imaginative flair that children can easily identify with and remember. Here is a warm and delightful lesson teaching young and old that we aren't ever really alone and reminding children (and adults!) that when we are loved beyond anything we can imagine. "People who love each other are always connected by a very special String, made of love. Even though you can't see it with your eyes, you can feel it deep in your heart, and know that you are always connected to the ones you love." Thus begins this heart-warming and reassuring story that addresses the issue of "separation anxiety" (otherwise known as the sense of existential 'aloneness') to children of all ages. Specifically written to address children's fear of being apart from the ones they love, The Invisible String delivers a particularly compelling message in today's uncertain times that though we may be separated from the ones we care for, whether through anger, or distance or even death, love is the unending connection that binds us all, and, by extension, ultimately binds every person on the planet to everyone else. Parents and children everywhere who are looking for reassurance and reaffirmation of the transcendent power of love, to bind, connect and comfort us through those inevitable times when life challenges us! Let's tell the whole world that we are ALL connected by Invisible Strings! Adopted by Military Library Services & Foster Care Agencies Recommended by Bereavement Support Groups and Hospice Centers
Genre : Loneliness in children
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When Liza and Jeremy run to their mother during a scary storm, she comforts them by telling them about the Invisible String, which connects people who love each other no matter where they are and means that they are never alone.
The Invisible Leash
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
From the author of the modern classic and bestselling phenomenon The Invisible String comes a tender story about permanent loss that also celebrates the joy that animals give us in this life and beyond. "When our pets aren't with us anymore, an Invisible Leash connects our hearts to each other. Forever." That's what Zack's friend Emily tells him after his dog dies. Zack doesn't believe it. He only believes in what he can see. But on an enlightening journey through their neighborhood--and through his grief--he comes to feel the comforting tug of the Invisible Leash. And it feels like love. Accompanied by tender. uplifting art by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff, bestselling author Patrice Karst's gentle story uses the same bonding technique from her classic book The Invisible String to help readers through the experience of the loss of a beloved animal.
The Invisible Web
From the author of the picture book phenomenon The Invisible String, which has sold half a million copies to date, comes a moving companion title about our connections to each other, to the world, and to the universe. For twenty years, the modern classic The Invisible String has helped hundreds of thousands of children and adults understand that they are connected to the ones they love, no matter how far apart they are. Now, the author of that bestselling phenomenon uses the same effective bonding technique to explain the very best news of all: All of our strings to one another are interconnected in The Invisible Web. "It breathes as we breathe, pulsating all over our Earth, the single heartbeat of life and love. And do you know what that makes us all? One Very Big Family!" This uplifting inspirational title for all ages puts the concept of "six degrees of separation" into a new context that urges readers to recognize, respect, and celebrate their infinite, unbreakable bonds with the entire human family. Don't miss these other books by Patrice Karst!The Invisible StringThe Invisible String Workbook: Creative Activities to Comfort, Calm, and ConnectThe Invisible Leash: A Story Celebrating Love After the Loss of a Pet
An Invisible Thread
Author : Laura Schroff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Presents the true story of a friendship that has spanned three decades, recounting how the author, a harried sales executive, befriended an eleven-year-old panhandler, changing both of their lives forever.
Author : Bryan Mellonie
Publisher : Bantam
A pet . . . a friend . . . or a relative dies, and it must be explained to a child. This sensitive book is a useful tool in explaining to children that death is a part of life and that, eventually, all living things reach the end of their own special lifetimes.
Two Homes
Author : Claire Masurel
Publisher : Candlewick Press
"Parents looking for a book about separation or divorce will find few offerings as positive, matter-of-fact, or child-centered as this one. . . . Simple, yet profoundly satisfying." – Booklist (starred review) At Mommy’s house, Alex has a soft chair. At Daddy’s house, Alex has a rocking chair. In each home, Alex also has a special bedroom and lots of friends to play with. But whether Alex is with Mommy or with Daddy, one thing always stays the same - Alex is loved. The gently reassuring text focuses on what is gained rather than what is lost when parents divorce, while the sensitive illustrations, depicting two unique homes in all their small details, firmly establish Alex’s place in both of them. Two Homes will help children - and parents - embrace even the most difficult of changes with an open and optimistic heart.
You Are Never Alone
Publisher : Invisible String
This new original board book inspired by the bestselling phenomenon The Invisible String, which has sold half a million copies to date, celebrates the everlasting bonds between parents and newborns. As new parents are so aware, separation anxiety can begin in the earliest days, right out of the womb. This endearing rhyming verse focuses on milestone moments of separation as baby and toddler, always returning to a reunion between separations that establishes a pattern of consistency and security that will last a lifetime. A perfect new baby gift, You Are Never Alone opens up the proven healing powers of The Invisible String to a whole new audience of parents and children.
My Big Dumb Invisible Dragon
Author : Angie Lucas
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Publisher : Sounds True
An illustrated picture book for children dealing with grief, showing that although loss is hard and real, together we can move through it to find joy and hope again. When a young boy unexpectedly loses his mother, an invisible dragon swoops in and perches on top of his head. The boy wants the dragon to go away, but the dragon has plans of its own. It follows him to school, sleeps on his chest at night, and even crashes his birthday party. Yet as the boy comes to terms with his loss, his relationship with the dragon changes in surprising ways. My Big, Dumb, Invisible Dragon is an important book for children dealing with loss. Whether it is the death of a parent or loved one, divorce, a move, illness, or losing a friendship, this story shows children that loss is real and hard, but we can move through it. Young readers learn that healing takes time, and that it’s okay to experience a range of emotions when processing a really big loss. Filled with poignant yet playful illustrations and touches of humor, the book tackles a weighty subject in an easy and approachable way. For any child who’s lost someone they love, My Big, Dumb, Invisible Dragon is a tale of healing and hope.
Author : Robert N. Munsch
Publisher : Firefly Books
As her son grows up from little boy to adult man, a mother secretly rocks him each night as he sleeps.
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Satellite images reveal evidence of a rocket explosion in Iran
Published Friday, August 30, 2019
Charred remains and missing paint spotted in satellite images provided by Planet Labs are interpreted as a failed rocket launch.
Amid tight scrutiny from the US – which claims rocket launches of this kind would defy a UN Security Council resolution – satellite images have surfaced that suggest that a rocket explosion took place on a launch site in Iran.
The US called on Iran to undertake no activity relating to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
According to experts, the images are proof of a failed launch at the space centre, located around 150 miles south-east of Iran’s capital, Tehran. On Thursday morning, half of the fresh coat of blue paint that was previously visible on the circular launch pad "had been burned away".
According to David Schmerler, a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, this was enough evidence that there had been an explosion of some kind: “Whatever happened there, it blew up and you’re looking at the smouldering remains of what used to be there," he said.
Schmerler told The Associated Press that the images of the space centre suggested that the rocket either exploded during ignition or possibly briefly lifted off before crashing back down on the pad.
America's agitation with Iran's experimentation heightened in January when a failed launch of a satellite into space – due to missing the necessary velocity in the third stage of the launch – was reported. Iran's move sparked warnings by Washington against undertaking three planned space rocket launches.
In January, E&T reported that an official of the country's national security council announced that Iran had no intention to increase the range of its missiles. Instead, it would continue to work on its satellite technology to improve accuracy.
Satellite imagery is growing ever more important in news media reporting. E&T recently used satellite images to judge whether Chile's lithium production companies helped to dry out areas nearby to mining sites. Images also play an ever-growing role in spotting wildfires in their infancy.
Starlink launches 60 more satellites but commercial service faces delays
UK reliance on foreign satellites risks ‘economic blackout’
UK finalises acquisition of satellite constellation firm OneWeb
AI and satellite data used to build British air pollution map
Space junk-grabbing satellite’s control system to be built in UK
Deep Space Network dish upgrade lets Nasa talk to Voyager 2 again
Space engineering technician apprenticeships launch in 2021
Lockheed Martin to build Space Centre in Shetland Islands for satellite launches
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Easy Drawing Guides > cartoon, easy, food, plant > How to Draw a Peanut
How to Draw a Peanut
Easy, step by step Peanut drawing tutorial
"No more rhymes, now, I mean it."
- Vizzini and Fezzik, The Princess Bride
The peanut is a favorite salty snack, often linked with childhood memories of circuses or airplane rides, where roasted, salted peanuts are provided as snacks. Peanuts are also called groundnuts, earthnuts, monkey nuts, or goobers.
Did you know? Unlike most "nuts," the peanut does not grow on trees. It is a legume in the bean or pea family. The nuts are the seeds, and following the pollination of a sweetpea-like yellow flower, the stems grow downward into the soil and the nuts mature under the ground. The peanut plant is native to the tropical regions of South America, but is now grown in warm areas around the world.
Do elephants love to eat peanuts? This is a common trope in cartoons and animation such as Disney's Dumbo. The answer is no; this myth probably arose from nineteenth-century zoos and circuses that made extra money selling bags of peanuts for visitors to feed to elephants and other animals. Wild elephants don't eat peanuts, as they don't grow in their native range. Peanuts are used in some bird seed mixes, however, and the plants may be used as hay for livestock.
Peanuts, in fact, have many uses - over 300. Many of these were discovered by George Washington Carver. Peanuts are used to make foods and frying oils, most notably peanut butter, as well as paints, polishes, insecticides, cosmetics, textiles, plastic, and more.
Would you like to draw a cartoon peanut? This easy, step-by-step cartoon drawing tutorial is here to show you how. All you will need is a pen, pencil, marker, or crayon and a sheet of paper. You may also wish to color your finished drawing.
If you liked this tutorial, see also the following drawing guides: Bread, Popcorn, and Orange.
Step-by-Step Instructions for Drawing a Peanut
Peanut drawing - step 1
1. Begin by outlining the shape of a peanut. Draw two curved lines that connect at a very gentle point at one end.
2. Draw the other side of the peanut, completely enclosing the shape with a long curved line. Note the bulge at the end of the peanut.
3. Draw a long curved line within the peanut. At one end, double it back upon itself in a loose spiral shape until it encloses an egg-like shape. This encloses the edible nut within the shell.
4. Draw a curved line from the egg-shaped peanut to the other end of the line. This encloses an empty space where another edible nut once was. Texture this space with curved lines and cross-hatching.
5. Draw curved lines of various lengths along one side of the peanut, roughly parallel to the top of the shell, in order to add a rough texture to the shell.
6. Draw short curved lines at the end of the peanut shell, and vertical curved lines along its side to create a cross-hatching pattern. Then, use a long curved line to enclose an egg shape, gently pointed on its narrow end, and partially hidden by the first peanut shell. This forms another nut. Then, draw a curved line from this nut to the side of the shell.
7. Use a long curved line to enclose the shape of another peanut. Note the two humps on the top and the gentle point at one end.
8. Draw curved lines along the shell of the second peanut to give it a rough texture.
9. Draw vertical curved lines across the peanut shell to create a crosshatch pattern.
Complete Peanut drawing
Color your cartoon peanut. Peanuts are usually brown in color.
Hungry for more? Grab a slice of this drawing guide to create your own peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
The Complete Peanut Drawing Tutorial in One Image
How to draw: Peanut - all drawing steps
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2-methylbutan-2-ol
short-term repeated dose toxicity: dermal
supporting study
4 (not assignable)
other: only secondary literature (handbook)
review article or handbook
Patty's Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology
Rowe and McCollister
Bibliographic source:
Clayton and Clayton (eds.), Vol.2C, 3rd ed. (1982), John Wiley & Sons, New York, 4604 - 4605, 4608, 4701
no guideline followed
Principles of method if other than guideline:
Repeated dermal toxicity
Administration / exposure
Details on exposure:
Route of Administration: dermal, half of the dose was applied to the clipped backs of the rabbits twice a day.
5 days/week
Doses / concentrations
0.344 or 3440 mg/kg bw/day
5 males and 5 females
Results of examinations
effects observed, treatment-related
Dermal irritation:
mortality observed, treatment-related
not examined
Effect levels
344 mg/kg bw/day (nominal)
Basis for effect level:
other: systemic toxicity
LOAEL
other: local effects
Target system / organ toxicity
Any other information on results incl. tables
No adverse effects were detected in those animals that received the low dose other than the expected local effects to the skin at the site of application. These included erythema, drying, thickening, cracking and induration. The high dose caused similar but more extensive injury to the skin and caused serious systemic effects. Three animals of each sex became comatose and died or were sacrified in a moribund condition after a few applications. Gross and histopathologic examinations failed to reveal morphologic lesions that would account for the condition of these animals. With the exception of decreases in body size, adipose reserves, and glycogen of hepatocytes, all other parameters were within the normal range.
The repeated dermal toxicity of the test item to rats was tested in a subacute study. The NOEAL was determined to be 344 mg/kg bw/day.
The repeated dermal toxicity of the test item to rabbits was tested in a subacute study. The animals were exposed over a period of 4 weeks with a frequency of 5 days per week. The test item was administrated by applying half of the doses to the clipped backs of the rabbits twice a day. 5 males and 5 females were exposed to a dose of 3440 mg/kg bw/day. Control animals were used, treated with the concurrent vehicle. The NOAEL (basis for effect level systemic toxicity) was determined to be 344 mg/kg bw/day. The LOAEL (basis for effect level local effects) was determined to be 344 mg/kg bw/day. No adverse effects were detected in those animals that received the low dose other than the expected local effects to the skin at the site of application. These included erythema, drying, thickening, cracking and induration. The high dose caused similar but more extensive injury to the skin and caused serious systemic effects. Three animals of each sex became comatose and died or were sacrified in a moribund condition after a few applications. Gross and histopathologic examinations failed to reveal morphologic lesions that would account for the condition of these animals. With the exception of decreases in body size, adipose reserves, and glycogen of hepatocytes, all other parameters were within the normal range.
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Dual Recap: Edgemont Defies Adversity Against Eastchester Eagles
Jason Worobow ’13 decided the match for the Panthers securing a team victory over Eastchester.
It has been a consistent trend in 2013 so far for the Edgemont Panthers. While some of the more experienced wrestlers recover from lingering ailments, the less experienced wrestlers have been called upon to take their place on the mat. The second part of the trend? These less experienced wrestlers, a description that has suddenly become unfitting, have stepped up and delivered.
Last Tuesday, January 8th, the Panthers competed against Eastchester High School in a dual meet that already had them trying to get over the challenge of injury and 24 points to their opponent due to forfeits. Coach Jacobson reflected on the events in the gym that day:
“We always talk to our younger wrestlers about how these are types of opportunities they should get excited about. Opportunities where they have the chance to step-up and show where they’re at. We went with a line-up that really depended on a lot of these guys and put them in a position where they didn’t just have to be better to win, but be more than 24 points better. They really rose to the occasion. The feeling in the Eastchester gym was something really special for this team. Our older guys knew the outcome of this match really revolved around our less-experienced guys and the support and enthusiasm was really awesome. Every time we scored a point, you could hear our bench go crazy. That’s a great atmosphere to compete in, especially when you’re on the road.”
The performance of five Panthers gave the momentum and the eventual victory to the Panthers. Max Worobow was once again wrestling at 120 pound and came away with a huge pin in the 2nd period. Riki Mistry did the same at the 126-pound weight class. Sam Klein, battling the flu as well as his opponent at 132 pounds, really impressed the Panthers’ coaching staff. “Sam bumped up for us knowing how important his bout was. He looked sharper than ever on his feet and picked up the fall,” said Coach Jacobson.
Will Graybeal, who lost his match, also received plenty of praise from Coach Jacobson. “Will also bumped up to 145 to take on Rob Lalli, one of their best kids. Will fought hard, kept it close and was able to give up only a 3-point decision which in the end made a big difference for us.”
The entire match would rest on the shoulders of Senior Jason Worobow. The Panthers could have wrestled Jason at 195, ensuring a victory for the team, but Coach Jacobson was confident in his team and wanted to test Jason against a skilled opponent at 182 pounds. “A big part of our philosophy is to test our kids and put them in high pressure situations whenever we can. We did just that with Jason and he didn’t let us down. After a scoreless first period, Jason took top and got a turn to end the second period up 4-0. He capitalized on another opportunity he created in the third period to score a takedown and ultimately win the match for us.”
So far, 2013 has seen many examples of unsung heroes for the Edgemont Panthers. After duals like this and as those well-experienced wrestlers continue to get healthy, the Panthers have put themselves in a great position for the end of the season.
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No Place For Violence In A Democracy
Opposition supporters and anti riot policemen face-off in front of the post office in Kinshasa, October 13, 2011.
Calls to violence by disaffected parties and other forms of hate speech undermine both the electoral and democratic processes.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is due to hold presidential and parliamentary elections later this month. Despite enormous challenges, untold numbers of Congolese are participating constructively in the process, as candidates, party members, activists or workers putting the necessary logistical arrangements in place. Regrettably, there are also those who have committed acts of politically motivated violence. The United Nations, African Union, the U.S., and the European Union are greatly concerned about the potential for further violence as Election Day approaches.
The voting set for November 28 is an important milestone for Congolese democracy and should be a chance for the Congolese people to express their will in a peaceful and responsible manner. Calls to violence by disaffected parties and other forms of hate speech undermine both the electoral and democratic processes.
At this critical time in their nation's history, we strongly urge all Congolese political parties, their leaders and their supporters to renounce violence. We also call on the candidates to pledge to accept the results of a credible process. And we remind the Congolese government of its responsibility to make adequate preparations to ensure full participation and to provide a secure political space for candidates to campaign and for journalists to report on those activities.
The United States government reiterates its support for its Congolese partners in efforts to conduct transparent, credible and open elections in which the will of the people is peacefully expressed.
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10th anniversary of Woodlands Community Garden Project
That this House congratulates Glasgow-based Woodlands Community Development Trust in celebrating the 10th Anniversary of its Woodlands Community Garden Project; recognises that their original project to clear a derelict site in Glasgow’s Woodlands area has grown into a thriving community space; notes that in addition to their flourishing garden, they have also developed a community café serving free healthy and nutritious meals, and a community workspace building that is currently being utilised to aid the Woodlands Community’s response to the covid-19 outbreak; commends the enormous contribution Woodlands Community Garden has made to the community through initiatives focused on conservation, education, and creativity; respects the cafe's focus on a positive model of participation by actively involving beneficiaries in the preparation, cooking and serving of food; is grateful to all the staff and volunteers who work hard to provide a sanctuary in the garden and who bring the community together, especially during the current pandemic; and wishes Woodland Community Development Trust every success for the future.
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by bgilson8
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Brandi #8
The main character as well as the narrarator of the story. Doesn't know anything about his life except for his name, basic facts about animals, colors, words, etc. He wants to become a Runner in the Maze, but his fellow buddies tell him otherwise. His dream beomces reality when two of the guys are stuck in the Maze, inching closer and closer to safety. He went in to help, only becoming trapped himself.
Overall the main conflict is the fact that all of the children are basically trapped in their village. There is a big wall that opens everyday. On other side of the wall is the maze.There are runners that will go out into the maze to see if they can find an exit to the real world. This is really hard considering the maze changes its shape everyday.
The Glade is a meadow the size of several football fields surrounded by gigantic walls that fall in the middle of a vast maze formed by walls of ivy. No escape. Just the Maze, and the walls.Inside the Maze are ferious beasts called Greivers. They attack at night.
The right hand man to Alby. Minho told Alby about the "dead" Griever in the Maze. So Alby went to examine the dead Griever with Minho, but gets stung when it comes to life.
She was the first girl of the Glade. She slipped into a coma, she got medical care. When she woke up, she rememebred that the Maze is a code. She also wrote the word WICKED on her arm. But when she awoke, she was thrown into the Slammer by Alby with no trust. While Minho and Thomas were in the Maze, Teresa was While Thomas and Minho are running around in the Maze, Teresa was deciphering the code.
When Teresa told people about the code, she started to decode it with the help of the boys. Meanwhile, Thomas and Minho were inside the Maze trying to survive.
The leader of the RunnersAlby and Minho tried to retrace Ben's steps in the Maze.But Alby is stung unconcious. Minho appeared dragging Alby but is unable to reach the entrance of the Maze in time. Thomas runs into the maze to try and help, but results in trapping himself too.
Author: James Dashner
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EEAS homepage > New Caledonia > Brexit and the new EU Delegation to UK
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Goodbye Sadiq al-Azm, lone Syrian Marxist against the Assad regime
By Dilip - Tuesday, December 27, 2016
NB: An interesting obituary to a great intellectual. My knowledge of the situation is limited, but as regards this article, I'm uncomfortable with the argument that there should be no objection to the participation of communal parties in a democratic alliance. My views on this are conditioned by the history of religion-based mobilisations in India, where the communist movement has from time to time allied with communal groups of all colours, with disastrous consequences. Some material on this theme may be read here.
Nor can I agree that Islamists, Hindutva groups or Khalistanis etc. can be described as 'religious parties'. I do not mean to justify alliances with 'secular' tyrants, but to remind anyone who cares to listen, that communalism is also an expression of tyranny. Communalists proceed on the assumption that membership of a religious community automatically produces a political interest, and strive to create that interest. They enter democratic movements masquerading as democrats, and for their own ends; there is little evidence that they undergo a democratic change of heart via such participation.
The author quotes Al-Azm as defining “democracy as a neutral ground for the meeting of the various religious doctrines and beliefs where they are allowed to interact in the public space, the national arena, and the political landscape.” This requires a crucial corollary: that participants in democratic polities be committed to upholding and defending that neutral ground. This can only be done by the maintenance of autonomous institutions and freedom of speech. Have the Islamists or other religion-based parties shown themselves to be respectful of democratic institutions? Or have they been using democracy to destroy it? Notwithstanding this, the Assad regime is undoubtedly one of the most brutal dictatorships in the Middle East. And opposition to it has been unfairly and deliberately covered with a one-sided, blanket description, as if all opponents of Asad are Islamists. DS
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By Omair Anas
He was a Marxist and one of the harshest critics of Islamists, but to the very end, al-Azm defended the Arab uprisings and stood by his principles
Professor Sadiq Jalal al-Azm, a Syrian Marxist by his intellectual employment and a democrat by his politics, who created a storm when he published his Naqd al Fikar Al Dini in 1969, died on Sunday in Berlin. I had the privilege to talk to al-Azm during his stay in Germany - where I first met him in December 2012 - when he came to receive the Ibn Rushd Award on behalf of Syria’s revolutionary feminist Razan Zaitouneh. In his concluding sentences, Professor Sadiq quoted Razan saying, “This prize honours all those Syrians who dreamed the dream of freedom.”
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In Sadiq Jalal al-Azm’s intellectual and activist life, one can read the story of betrayal of Arab and international Marxists, who sided with a tyrannical regime and justified everything to which Marxists had been hell bent opposed in the past. But Professor Sadiq Jalal al-Azm, despite being a Marxist, despite being one of the harshest critics of Islamists, honoured the principles and values he believed and advocated for his entire life. This sad story of betrayal & opportunism by Arab & international Marxists has made Sadiq al-Azm an isolated voice among Marxists who initially were confused about how to respond to the Arab uprising after peaceful protests against Bashar al-Assad started all over Syria and gradually found themselves supporting the brutal regime directly or indirectly.
The celebratory Marxists, always Western, Slavoj Zizek and Noam Chomsky can be easily seen undermining the gravest human rights violations by the Assad regime and its allies. Zizek went on to advocate for restricting the contours of the Syrian struggle to a struggle for social and economic justice. His position against Arab immigrants was as alarmist and perhaps xenophobic in its outcome as the position of any right-wing intellectual could be. Subscribing and endorsing all the Iranian narratives of the Syrian crisis, Noam Chomsky branded the entire Syrian opposition spectrum as jihadists in his Harvard lecture in 2015. Here one will be surprised that the leftist forces who opposed the American “war on terror” have conveniently and blindly endorsed the same erroneous logic for Russian war on terror in Syria.
Not a civil war: Sadiq Jalal al-Azm, unlike most of Western and Eastern Marxists, stood alone in defence of the Arab uprising and subsequent Syrian revolution which he believed was a continuation of Damascus Spring of 2000. He problematised the entire crisis and concluded that democratisation requires an inclusive politics in which the Assad regime and his allies seriously disbelieve. He never subscribed the term “civil war” for the Syrian crisis, but rather explained it’s a one-sided war against the opposition. Syria, in which most groups have stayed united against the Assad regime, is completely different from what happened in the Lebanese civil war where each faction and ethnic groups fought against each other. To al-Azm, the Assad regime was “a highly militarised minoritarian regime depending on a strong form of sectarian solidarity which has a lot to lose, if they are out of power which is suppressing a revolt of the numerical majority which is Sunni". The Damascus Spring 2000 initiative onward, he remained consistent in his belief that Islamists should not be excluded from joining a secular democratic process anywhere from Palestine to Egypt to Syria. At the same time, he remained a staunch secular who believed that religion should not dictate politics.
The Left caught in the 'game of nations': There are two issues on which the Left's politics had been in great confusion and indecisive. First, how to engage with religious political parties, particularly with Islamist parties as the Left never had problems with engaging non-Islamic religious political parties in Europe or elsewhere. Al-Azm expressed his opinion about how and in what context the electoral victories of Islamist forces in Turkey, Egypt or elsewhere might not necessarily be dangerous. Knowing very well that the Muslim Brotherhood is still a dominating political and religious faction against the Assad regime, the left movement and left-affiliated civil society gradually abandoned the cause or rather joined the anti-revolution politics. For al-Azm, this was an opportunism embraced by the Left everywhere after the politics of the Cold War.
Al-Azm strongly disagreed with the argument that the Arab revolutions can not be supported because they have been hijacked by Islamists. Rather, he stood strong and unapologetic in his defence of the Syrian revolution against Assad. "Why would I not align with this overwhelming popular revolution against this form of tyranny and oppression, regardless of the nature of the convictions that I hold whether they be leftist, Marxist, moderate, or even right-wing?" he said.
The second question is how to respond to the Arab uprisings after they challenged the so-called secular and socialist authoritarian regimes such as of Bashar al-Assad. A majority of left thinkers do not even recognise these events as uprisings. They have consistently related the struggle as the extension of imperialist design or jihadi terrorism. Sadiq argued that the Left that used the argument of anti-imperialist conspiracy has “no problem with sacrificing Syria if it leads to a victory being handed to their international camp and 'geopolitics' that wants a global victory in the 'game of nations'. Their first priority is not Syria or its people in revolt to restore the republic, their freedom, & their dignity, but the game of nations at the global level of analysis & the side that they want to win".
Democracy as a neutral ground: Why did the Left choose this way? Sadiq traced the reason to the end of the Cold War when most of the leftists and their political parties reverted back to "their primordial and more primitive loyalties, especially the religious, confessional and doctrinal ones". As a result, they responded to the Syrian revolution, al-Azm argued, by calling it "an imperial plot against the only regime that still stands up to Israel and remains an obstacle to Western domination of the Middle East". They go too far in their theory of “the game of nations” that they end up with having developed “the same nature as that of the Taliban-Jihadis or dogmatic closed-minded sectarians, or even that of terrorist 'Bin Ladenites', in its blind defiance of the West, global capitalism (a global capitalism that Russia and China are now a part of) and imperialism". He pointed out that they are the most hostile to the Syrian revolution and the closest in their defence of the “tyrannical military-security-familial regime”.
Al-Azm's biggest intellectual success and contribution to the cause of the Arab democratic process is that he rescued secularism and democracy from being hijacked by fundamentalist secularism practiced by Joseph Stalin, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Habib Bourguiba and the Assads of Syria. Hopefully, he will be remembered and revered equally by his secular friends and Islamist opponents for clearly defining secularism and “democracy as a neutral ground for the meeting of the various religious doctrines and beliefs where they are allowed to interact in the public space, the national arena, and the political landscape.” Omair Anas, PhD in West Asian Studies, is a Delhi-based analyst. This article is also available here Middle East Eye French edition.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/sadiq-jalal-al-azm-lone-syrian-marxist-against-assad-regime-1800475666
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Tag Archives: Travel Alert
Amnesty International Issues Travel Advisory For the United States of America
August 9, 2019 By domani spero in Hotspots, Huh? News, Non-Gov, Real Post of the Month, Trends Tags: Amnesty International, Crime and Safety, gun violence, mass shootings, soft targets, Travel Advisory, Travel Alert, Uruguay
Here’s something we don’t see everyday but we may soon start seeing more and more. Amnesty International has issued a Travel Advisory for the United States of America. Uruguay has also issued a Travel Alert for the United States.
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The Amnesty International travel advisory for the country of the United States of America calls on people worldwide to exercise caution and have an emergency contingency plan when traveling throughout the USA. This Travel Advisory is being issued in light of ongoing high levels of gun violence in the country.
US Embassy Kinshasa Remains Closed to the Public For Sixth Day Over Terror Threat #DRC
December 3, 2018 By domani spero in AF |Africa, Americans Abroad, Consular Work, Diplomatic Life, Diplomatic Security, Foreign Service, Hotspots, Realities of the FS, Security, Terrorism, U.S. Missions Tags: Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, Mike Hammer, post closures, Terrorist threat, Travel Alert, US Embassy Kinshasa
On December 2, the US Embassy Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced that it will be closed to the public again due to a terrorist threat against USG facilities in the capital city. Below is part of the announcement:
The U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa is working closely with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to address a terrorist threat against USG facilities in Kinshasa. The U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa will be closed to the public on Monday, December 3.
Actions to Take:
· Maintain a heightened level of vigilance and practice good situational awareness.
· Monitor local media for updates.
· Keep a low profile and notify friends and family of your safety.
· Review the country page and remain alert for potentially dangerous situations.
US Embassy Kinshasha previously “received credible and specific information of a possible terrorist threat against U.S. Government facilities in Kinshasa” on November 24, 2018. It initially closed to the public with only minimal staffing on Monday, November 26, 2018.
#DRC Security Alert: The U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa is working closely with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to address a terrorist threat against USG facilities in Kinshasa. The U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa will be closed to the public on Monday, December 3.
— Travel – State Dept (@TravelGov) December 2, 2018
The U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa is working closely with the gov. of the D.R.C. to address a terrorist threat against U.S. Gov. facilities in Kinshasa. The U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa will remain closed to the public on Monday Dec 3. More details here: https://t.co/xfQeYy7Nyv pic.twitter.com/NbhiUv7x2d
— U.S.Embassy Kinshasa (@USEmbKinshasa) December 2, 2018
DRC: Terror threat shuts down US embassy in Kinshasa https://t.co/sUSuoBRiD0 https://t.co/wmiVFRPddK
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#DRC US officials told diplomats the embassy closure in #Kinshasa is due to the arrest of a cell of Tanzanian jihadists from the #ADF, a Ugandan Islamist group https://t.co/JSmIrhwYpo
— giulia paravicini (@giuliaparavicin) November 30, 2018
The Democratic Republic of Congo accused Washington of sparking "needless fear" after the US embassy in Kinshasa warned of a "possible terrorist threat" against its mission in the country as it heads towards key elections. https://t.co/GjtPue6abL pic.twitter.com/bdOHcq7hGA
— AFP Africa (@AFPAfrica) November 26, 2018
US Embassy/Kinshasa received "credible & specific" info of a "possible terrorist threat against U.S. govt facilities" in country's capital city.#DRCongo security deteriorating as Dec 23 elections near.
Concerns for #Ebola resp, tho far away: Rising chaos.https://t.co/9vceX9vVO4
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Travel Alert: 72 Hours of Hate in America
October 29, 2018 By domani spero in Hotspots, Media, Security, State Department, Terrorism, Trends, Trump Tags: attempted bombings, domestic terrorism, mass shooting, pipe bombs, Travel Alert
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) travel advice current as of October 29 notes the reporting on a number of suspicious packages and devices have been sent to prominent locations in New York City and Washington DC in the last few days, including the CNN offices at the Time Warner Center and the homes of former Presidents Clinton and Obama. “The FBI continue to investigate, but there is currently nothing to suggest that there is a specific threat to British nationals.” It also says “Terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks in the USA. Attacks could be indiscriminate, including in places visited by foreigners. You should monitor media reports and remain vigilant at all times.”
Ireland’s travel advice, current as of October 28 notes that “There is an increased threat of terrorism and extremist violence worldwide and this should be borne in mind by Irish citizens living and working in the USA. The USA has also witnessed a number of mass shootings in recent years.” They forgot to add that massshootingtracker.org indicates that there has been 363 mass shootings in the United States in 2018 alone (a mass shooting defined to be an incident of violence in which 4 or more people are shot).
Australia’s travel advice says “The United States has more violent crime than Australia, although it rarely involves tourists. Shootings, including mass shootings, can occur in public places.” (We must add that these public places include a concert venue, a nightclub, elementary schools, colleges, churches, synagogues, a fast food restaurant, post office, a movie theater, private residences, military headquarters, neighborhoods, an immigration center, workplaces, and cafeterias).
New Zealand’s alert is the only one that specifically mentions the risk of domestic-based extremists that we’ve seen in 72 hours: “The United States remains a likely target for terrorist activity by domestic-based extremists and internationally-trained individuals and groups, and we continue to receive reports that terrorist groups are planning attacks against the United States. Terrorist attacks have occurred in the United States in recent years and a significant number of terror plots have been disrupted.”
11 Stars of David now stand in front of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. 11 people were murdered here while worshipping. A grey sky, on a misty, cold night, matches the mood of Squirrel Hill: somber. pic.twitter.com/Spacz9VsdT
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) October 29, 2018
#FBI Director Christopher Wray’s statement regarding the arrest of Cesar Sayoc in the suspicious package investigation: https://t.co/VFfJDSRE9v pic.twitter.com/YjXSTkdVj6
— FBI (@FBI) October 26, 2018
Since Monday, 10 pipe bombs and suspicious packages have been mailed to top Democrats including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, news channel CNN and other hate figures for supporters of US President Donald Trump.
AFP explains more about the targets https://t.co/U9GxoO98uq
— AFP news agency (@AFP) October 25, 2018
In the calm of a sunny afternoon, at a Kroger grocery store in the east side of Louisville, Kentucky, a 51-year-old white man named Gregory Bush walked right into the store with a loaded gun, targeted two black customers, and killed them. https://t.co/jzcapdUT9Q by @ShaunKing
— Bruno J. Navarro (@Bruno_J_Navarro) October 26, 2018
Straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Just moments ago, Lou Dobbs guest Chris Farrell (head of Judicial Watch) says Caravan is being funded/directed by the "Soros-occupied State Department". pic.twitter.com/QBSong7uk1
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 27, 2018
Who smiles while saying this? Kirstjen Nielsen on whether migrants will be shot at the border: "We do not have any intention right now to shoot at people," but agents "do have the ability, of course, to defend themselves." pic.twitter.com/wHqfdz8xwv
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 26, 2018
AND NOW THIS FROM CANADA’S BRUCE MACKINNON:
@CH_Cartoon editorial cartoon for Thursday https://t.co/Vhp5WAe0YL
— The Chronicle Herald (@chronicleherald) October 25, 2018
#HurricaneMatthew Closes US Embassies in Haiti, Jamaica, and The Bahamas; USAID Activates DART
October 5, 2016 By domani spero in Americans Abroad, Consular Work, Evacuations, Foreign Service, Realities of the FS, Spouses, State Department, U.S. Missions, WHA|Western Hemisphere Tags: Authorized Departure, Cuba, DART, Hurricane Matthew, Hurricane Warning, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Travel Alert, Travel Warning, US Embassy Havana, US Embassy Kingston, US Embassy Nassau, US Embassy Port-au-Prince, USAID, USAID/OFDA
Posted: 1:44 am ET
Due to Hurricane Matthew, the State Department has authorized the voluntary evacuation of authorized family members of U.S. government employees from the The Bahamas, Jamaica, and Haiti. A Travel Alert for Cuba recommends that U.S. citizens defer travel to eastern Cuba.
Full complement of @StateDept #HurricaneMatthew messaging: https://t.co/0HbpvRLqII #Cuba #Haiti #Jamaica #Bahamas #DR pic.twitter.com/KUQgyLFGio
— OSAC (@OSACState) October 4, 2016
Alert October 3, 2016 Cuba Travel Alert
Warning October 2, 2016 Haiti Travel Warning
Warning October 1, 2016 Jamaica Travel Warning
Warning October 1, 2016 The Bahamas Travel Warning
#HurricaneMatthew: @USEmbassyHaiti will remain closed Wednesday; employees are sheltering in place. https://t.co/ag3QxFKYHI #Haiti @ACSPAP
The Embassy will be closed for routine consular services Oct 5-7. At this time the airports in Nassau & Freeport remain open.
— U.S. Embassy Nassau (@USEmbassyNassau) October 4, 2016
Due to #HurricaneMatthew U.S. Embassy Kingston closed for routine consular services today. https://t.co/fPO3XRkV00
— US Embassy Jamaica (@USEmbassyJA) October 4, 2016
#Jamaica Travel Warning Revised #HurricaneMatthew pic.twitter.com/YxpNoCRyM6
— Travel – State Dept (@TravelGov) October 4, 2016
JUST ANNOUNCED: @USAID activates an elite Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) in response to #HurricaneMatthew: https://t.co/3YFs7TevaB pic.twitter.com/s9UNae70ZP
— USAID/OFDA (@theOFDA) October 4, 2016
@StateDept Issues Europe-Wide Travel Alert; Still UNK Number of American Casualties Following #BrusselsAttacks
March 23, 2016 By domani spero in Americans Abroad, Consular Work, EUR|Europe, Foreign Service, Functional Bureaus, Realities of the FS, Security, State Department, Terrorism, Trends, U.S. Missions Tags: #BrusselsAttack, Bureau of Public Affairs, Daily Press Briefing, Europe, John Kirby, Matt Lee, Travel Alert
Posted: 1:36 am EDT
On March 22, the State Department issued a Europe-wide travel alert for “potential risks to travel to and throughout Europe” following the multiple attacks in Brussels:
The State Department alerts U.S. citizens to potential risks of travel to and throughout Europe following several terrorist attacks, including the March 22 attacks in Brussels claimed by ISIL. Terrorist groups continue to plan near-term attacks throughout Europe, targeting sporting events, tourist sites, restaurants, and transportation. This Travel Alert expires on June 20, 2016.
U.S. citizens should exercise vigilance when in public places or using mass transportation. Be aware of immediate surroundings and avoid crowded places. Exercise particular caution during religious holidays and at large festivals or events.
U.S. citizens should also: :
Follow the instructions of local authorities, especially in an emergency.
Monitor media and local information sources and factor updated information into personal travel plans and activities.
Be prepared for additional security screening and unexpected disruptions.
Stay in touch with your family members and ensure they know how to reach you in the event of an emergency.
Register in our Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP).
European governments continue to guard against terrorist attacks and conduct raids to disrupt plots. We work closely with our allies and will continue to share information with our European partners that will help identify and counter terrorist threats.
US citizens in #Brussels who need emergency assistance can contact the US Embassy at 028114000.
— Travel – State Dept (@TravelGov) March 23, 2016
For all safety information after the #BrusselsAttacks go to our page https://t.co/xL1O133028
In light of #BrusselsAttacks & related incidents, US releases new Travel Alert for #Europe: https://t.co/1tw29FriYl pic.twitter.com/MjcLyEvtX6
— OSAC (@OSACState) March 23, 2016
The State Department spokesperson has been unable to give a report on American casualties following the Brussels attacks and said in part:
Our embassy in Brussels continues to make every effort to account for the welfare of U.S. citizens in the city, including all government personnel. That work is ongoing. We know that a number of U.S. citizens were injured in the attacks, but we do not have an accurate figure right now. We do not know of any U.S. deaths at this point. I would note that it is still early on and that the situation is, understandably, still fluid and still uncertain. When we have more information that we can speak to, we will.
Pressed for preliminary numbers during the Daily Press Briefing, Mr. Kirby refused to give a specific number, or confirmed that members of the Mormon Church were injured in the attack. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has already publicly acknowledged that four of its missionaries were injured in the airport attack. Mr. Kirby was also asked if the State Department has been able to account for all chief-of-mission personnel, U.S. personnel to international organizations in the city. Mr. Kirby replied that “the work of accounting for U.S. citizens in the city, including government personnel, is ongoing. So as far as I know, that effort has not been completed.”
Is this the first time that the AP’s Matt Lee has actually walked out of the Daily Press Briefing in frustration?
Video below via YouTube/FreeBeacon:
State Dept Issues Burkina Faso Travel Alert (Expires on January 29, 2015)
November 1, 2014 By domani spero in AF |Africa, Americans Abroad, Consular Work, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Foreign Service, Security, Spectacular, State Department, U.S. Missions Tags: Blaise Compaoré, Burkina Faso, coup d'état, Travel Alert, US Embassy Ouagadougou, Yacouba Isaac Zida
— Domani Spero
We’ve previously blogged about Burkina Faso here (see Burkina Faso Says Bye Bye Blaise: Martial Law Lifted, Nationwide Curfew, Shelter in Place Still On; US Embassy Ouagadougou: Burkina Faso Now on Martial Law; Embassy Staff Shelters in Place; Some of the World’s ‘Forever’ Rulers Are in Town — Meet Their Fashionable Ladies (Photos).
Yesterday, after three days of chaos, the State Department issued a Travel Alert informing U.S. citizens of the risks of traveling to Burkina Faso following the fall of the government of President Compaore:
The State Department alerts U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to or residing in Burkina Faso and recommends U.S. citizens defer all non-essential travel. This Travel Alert will expire on January 29, 2015.
On October 31, Burkina Faso’s President Compaore resigned. The status of a transitional government remains unclear. There are incidents of looting throughout the capital city of Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso, and other parts of the country.
The situation is dynamic and closures or openings of border and airports are likely to change and remain unpredictable for some time. Currently, land and air borders have been closed. U.S. citizens should stay informed and abreast of local media reports for land border and airport updates.
U.S. citizens in Burkina Faso may find that at times sheltering in place may be the only and best security option.
U.S. citizens residing in Burkina Faso should remain vigilant and utilize appropriate personal security practices. Avoid large gatherings, protests, or demonstrations; maintain situational awareness and exercise good judgment; be alert and remain aware of your surroundings; and stay abreast of the situation through media outlets.
Read in full here.
Meanwhile —
Second Burkina Faso soldier declares he’s head of state; vows to lead transition to democracy: http://t.co/jXgWdGa7p6
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 1, 2014
An army colonel has assumed power in Burkina Faso after protests ousted the president: http://t.co/qVWoJDLSY7 pic.twitter.com/JZ6fbEpYco
— VICE News (@vicenews) November 1, 2014
Burkina Faso opposition parties, African Union reject army takeover http://t.co/0gCfQjhY2A via @reuters
— Diplopundit (@Diplopundit) November 1, 2014
#BurkinaFaso: the U.S. condemn any attempts by the military or other parties to take advantage of the situation for unconstitutional gain — USEmbassyOuaga (@Usembassyouaga) November 1, 2014
There seems to be a lot of that going around these days. pic.twitter.com/xYEabynqU1
— Liam Stack (@liamstack) November 1, 2014
Yesterday, the State Department expressed concern over the transfer of power in Burkina Faso:
The United States is concerned about the unfolding events in Burkina Faso. We regret the violence and the loss of life in Burkina Faso and call on all parties to avoid further violence. We reiterate our call for all parties to follow the constitutionally mandated process for the transfer of power and holding of democratic elections following the resignation of former President Blaise Compaore. We condemn any attempts by the military or other parties to take advantage of the situation for unconstitutional gain and call on all parties to respect the people’s support for the democratic process.
According to Vice News, Lieutenant Colonel Yacouba Isaac Zida, who assumed power has been a member of the military for more than 20 years, and served as the second in command of the ex-president’s security regiment. This is apparently, the seventh time a military officer has seized power since Burkina Faso won its independence from France more than 50 years ago. If history is any indication, he may still be around in 2022 in the “land of upright people.”
State Dept Issues Travel Alert on Ebola-Related Screening and Travel Restrictions in West Africa
August 29, 2014 By domani spero in AF |Africa, Americans Abroad, Consular Work, Foreign Service, MEDical, Realities of the FS, State Department, Trends, U.S. Missions, USAID Tags: Bureau of Consular Affairs, CDC, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ebola, Ebola Outbreak, Ebola virus disease, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Travel Alert, USAID/OFDA
On August 28, the State Department issued a Travel Alert for screening and restrictions related to the Ebola outbreak in parts of West Africa:
The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to screening procedures, travel restrictions, and reduced aviation transportation options in response to the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. This Travel Alert will expire on February 27, 2015.
Due to an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the West African nations of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued Level 3 Travel Warnings for those three countries advising against non-essential travel and provided guidance to reduce the potential for spread of EVD. The CDC also issued a Level 2 Travel Alert for Nigeria to notify travelers of the Ebola outbreak in that country. The Bureau of Consular Affairs’ website prominently features an Ebola Fact Sheet and links to the CDC Health Travel Warnings, Travel Alert, and general guidance about Ebola.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and CDC have also published and provided interim guidance to public health authorities, airlines, and other partners in West Africa for evaluating risk of exposure of persons coming from countries affected by EVD. Measures can include screening, medical evaluation, movement restrictions up to 21 days, and infection control precautions. Travelers who exhibit symptoms indicative of possible Ebola infection may be prevented from boarding and restricted from traveling for the 21-day period. Please note neither the Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs nor the U.S. Embassy have authority over quarantine issues and cannot prevent a U.S. citizen from being quarantined should local health authorities require it. For questions about quarantine, please visit the CDC website that addresses quarantine and isolation issues.
The cost for a medical evacuation is very expensive. We encourage U.S. citizens travelling to Ebola-affected countries to purchase travel insurance that includes medical evacuation for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Policy holders should confirm the availability of medical care and evacuation services at their travel destinations prior to travel.
Some local, regional, and international air carriers have curtailed or temporarily suspended service to or from Ebola-affected countries. U.S. citizens planning travel to or from these countries, in accordance with the CDC Health Travel Warnings and Health Travel Alert, should contact their airline to verify seat availability, confirm departure schedules, inquire about screening procedures, and be aware of other airline options.
The Department is aware that some countries have put in place procedures relating to the travel of individuals from the affected countries, including complete travel bans. Changes to existing procedures may occur with little or no notice. Please consult your airline or the embassy of your destination country for additional information.
JUST ANNOUNCED: Our director @JeremyKonyndyk announces additional $5M in @USAID funding to help combat #EbolaOutbreak pic.twitter.com/gWbptQmZ6u
— USAID/OFDA (@theOFDA) August 27, 2014
According to the WHO’s Outbreak News, the total number of probable and confirmed cases in the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) as reported by the respective Ministries of Health of Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone is 3069, with 1552 deaths. The World Health Organization reports that the outbreak continues to accelerate with more than 40% of the total number of cases occurring within the past 21 days. The overall case fatality rate is 52%.
A separate outbreak of Ebola virus disease not related to the four-country outbreak was laboratory-confirmed on August 26 by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The DRC’s index case was a pregnant woman from a village who butchered a bush animal that had been killed and given to her by her husband. From July 28- August 18, 2014, a total of 24 suspected cases of haemorrhagic fever, including 13 deaths, have been identified in that outbreak.
As of this writing, Senegal also confirmed its first case of Ebola related to the four-country outbreak in West Africa.
Senegal confirms its 1st case of Ebola (sfgate.com)
Ebola Africa travel bans to be axed (bbc.co.uk)
Ebola: ‘Even worse than feared’ (edition.cnn.com)
DFA readies repatriation of OFWs, peacekeepers from Ebola-hit countries (businessmirror.com.ph)
US Embassy Egypt: Ordered Departure Lifted, Issues New Travel Alert
January 7, 2014 By domani spero in Americans Abroad, Consular Work, Foreign Service, Govt Documents, Realities of the FS, Security, State Department, U.S. Missions Tags: Egypt, Emergency Message, Ordered Departure, Travel Alert, US Embassy Cairo, US Mission Egypt, USCG Alexandria
On January 6, the State Department issued a new Travel Alert advising U.S. citizens of the risks of travelling to Egypt due to continuing unrest. The ordered departure of US Embassy Cairo and USCG Alexandria staff have now been lifted but the personnel for the constituent post is still operating out of Cairo pending security upgrades in Alexandria.
The U.S. Department of State alerts U.S. citizens of the risks of travelling to Egypt due to the continuing political and social unrest. This Travel Alert supersedes the Travel Alert issued on December 18, 2013, and will expire on March 16, 2014.
Based on an assessment of the security situation in Egypt, the Department of State lifted the ordered departure status for U.S. Embassy personnel on November 6, 2013. The State Department lifted ordered departure status for U.S. Consulate General Alexandria on December 16, 2013. However, Consulate General personnel will be based out of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo while required facility security upgrades are made.
Political unrest, which intensified after the July 2013 change of government, is likely to continue in the near future. Demonstrations have on numerous occasions resulted in violent clashes between security forces and protesters and between protesters supporting different factions, some of which have resulted on occasion in deaths and injuries to those involved, and property damage. Participants have thrown rocks and Molotov cocktails and security forces have used tear gas and other crowd control measures against demonstrators. Of continued concern is gender-based violence in and around protest areas where women have been the targets of sexual assault. There have been instances of the use of firearms as well. Most violent protests have occurred in major metropolitan areas, including Cairo and its suburbs, Alexandria, and Port Said.
The security situation in North Sinai, including the major east-west coastal highway and the towns of El Arish, Shaykh Zuwayd, El Gorah and Rafah, has been marked by ongoing violent attacks on Egyptian security personnel and by continuing and frequently intense security operations against the sources of violence. The U.S. Department of State strongly urges U.S. citizens to avoid travel to North Sinai.
The security situation in most tourist centers, including Luxor, Aswan, the Luxor-Aswan Nile cruise routes, and Red Sea/Southern and Western Sinai resorts such as Hurghada, Sharm el Sheikh, Dahhab, Nuweiba, and Taba has been calm; U.S. citizens should remain alert to local security developments.
The U.S. Department of State strongly urges U.S. citizens to avoid all demonstrations in Egypt, as even peaceful ones can quickly become violent, and a foreigner could become a target of harassment or worse.
On the same day, the US Embassy in Cairo issued an Emergency Message with security updates for Coptic Christmas, observed today, the 7th day of January. It recommended that “U.S. citizens remain vigilant, particularly if visiting Coptic churches over the next 48 hours. If there are signs or indications that a problem exists or is developing the best course of action is to leave the area.”
A New Travel Warning for Egypt? No Comment or Howabout “There Are No Guarantees In This Business”
May 12, 2013 By domani spero in Diplomatic Security, Foreign Service, FSOs, Real Post of the Month, Realities of the FS, Security, State Department, Terrorism, U.S. Missions Tags: al Qaeda, Egypt, Jennifer R. Psaki, Nasr City, No Double Standard Policy, Travel Alert, Travel Warning, US Embassy Cairo
The NYT reported on May 11 that Egyptian security forces have arrested three militants with ties to Al Qaeda who were planning terrorist attacks in Egyptian cities and against a foreign embassy. An unnamed western official told the NYT that the Egyptians had privately identified the embassy as the US Embassy in Cairo. Egyptian officials have reportedly told their American counterparts that the US Embassy was a target.
Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said at a news conference that the suspects had been arrested with 22 pounds of explosive materials and instructions on how to make bombs and build rockets and model airplanes to use in the attacks.
He said the suspects were ‘‘on the verge’’ of attacking an embassy when they were arrested.
The State Department would not comment on the Egyptian allegations. ‘‘We don’t discuss the specifics of our operations nor the exchanges we have with foreign officials,’’ said Jennifer R. Psaki, a department spokeswoman.
As of this writing, there is no USG Travel Warning issued for Egypt. There is a Travel Alert dated March 29, 2013 that talks about “the continuing possibility of political and social unrest, incidents of which have led to recent violence.” Also that “There have been no reports of U.S. citizens being targeted specifically because of their nationality; however, in isolated instances, Westerners and U.S. citizens have been caught in the middle of clashes and demonstrations.”
That March 29 alert made no mention of al-Qaeda or terrorism in Egypt. The Embassy’s Messages to U.S. Citizens do not appear to include any details about the October 2012 incident where an al-Qaeda cell was caught in Cairo’s Nasr City. At least, we could not find anything on the embassy or OSAC’s website.
We have several contacts in Egypt and one of them shared with us the security advisory sent by an international organization to its 1,000 plus personnel in Egypt on May 11. Below is an excerpt:
Egyptian security forces reportedly apprehended three militants with alleged ties to al-Qaeda in Alexandria and Cairo on May 11. Initial reports indicate militants planned to execute suicide bombings in central locations in Cairo and Alexandria in the coming days, including in Metro stations. Mohammed Ibrahim then added that their target was a “foreign embassy”, which other reports claimed was the French Embassy in Cairo’s Giza district.
The minister further stated that the cell is related to a previous cell that was apprehended in Nasr City on October 24, 2012. In that incident, forces raided a suspected militant hideout in Cairo’s Nasr City District, killing one suspect said to have been linked to the deadly September 11 Consulate in Benghazi.
The security advisory on its assessment says that the arrests highlight the continued presence of Islamist militants “throughout Egypt and their connection with transnational extremist networks.”
The advisory also notes that the militants of the Nasr City cell who were apprehended in October last year were arrested on suspicion of possessing weapons, engineering attacks in Cairo, planning assassinations of government leaders, and smuggling weapons from Libya to support the rebels in Syria. It warns that “A suicide attack in the immediate term highlights militants’ ability to advance beyond the preliminary stages of planning attacks, which coincides with the ongoing security and intelligence vacuum that emerged following the January 2011 revolution.”
Apparently, there were reports claiming that the target was the French Embassy. The advisory addressed this but appeared convinced that “there remains a high likelihood” that the US Embassy Cairo may have ben the target due to the “notable rise in Anti-US sentiments” since the Arab Spring:
In case the French Embassy was not the intended target, we assess there remains a high likelihood that other Western missions in Cairo may have been targets, primarily the U.S. and Israeli embassies. This is due to a notable rise in anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli sentiments in North Africa since the 2011 upheaval.
Also — the security advisory points to the potential risk for reprisal attacks in the aftermath of the arrests:
As details emerge regarding the background of the detainees, we assess that the risk for reprisal attacks in Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt will increase. This threat is likely to include, but is not limited to, the targeting of security installations as well as foreign interests. Furthermore, in case the planned attack was indeed related to the situation in Mali, this threat applies to Western-affiliated interests in the Middle East and Africa regions as a whole, and not solely in Egypt.
Okay then —
We’re going to have to ask a delicate question – which will annoy folks at Embassy Cairo’s front office.
Did post management know that there is this threat? Does it know about the threat to the mission now?
If the answer is “no” — does that mean their local and intel contacts are plainly useless? But … but …see, apparently “Egyptian officials have reportedly told their American counterparts that the US Embassy was a target.”
Well, then if that is true, then the answer had to be a “yes.” In which case the policy of “No Double Standard” kicks in. That’s the part where if/when the Department shares information with the official U.S. community (as in travel warnings/alerts/consular info program), it should also make the same or similar information available to the non-official U.S. community if the underlying threat applies to both official and non-official U.S. citizens/nationals (see 7 FAM 052.1).
So far we haven’t seen anything from US Embassy Cairo. This is a curious case that’s bugging our OCD plenty.
Update on May 12@9:50 am: Wait — we posted this past midnight last night and this morning, a blog pal kindly knocked us on the head on this — telling the blog that it is “easy” to get around the No Double Standard policy. See, you only need to tell the public, if you’re alerting the official community. So, really — if you carry on as before, and you don’t change official behavior or advice, you don’t need to tell anyone.
Oops …. but… but … oh, dammit!!
If you missed our blog post on US Embassy Cairo on May 11th, see US Embassy Egypt: From the Real Post Reports, the New Cairo; Plus Western Embassy Targeted. That post merit at least a triple curse!
— DS
Egyptian interior minister: Al Qaeda cell plotted suicide attack against Western embassy (longwarjournal.org)
US Embassy Egypt: From the Real Post Reports, the New Cairo; Plus Western Embassy Targeted (diplopundit.net)
Egypt ‘al-Qaeda linked plot on Western embassy’ foiled (allbreakingnews.wordpress.com)
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Good morning Okanagan, here’s everything you need to know before you light up
By research on October 17, 2018
From kelownacapnews.com link to article by KELOWNA NEWS STAFF Oct. 17, 2018
Recreational cannabis became legal in Canada today but that doesn’t mean the sky is the limit when it comes to getting high.
Federal law is just a part of legalization. For example, it offers limits to possession—adults will be permitted to have up to 30 grams of marijuana and as many as four plants per household. Medical marijuana, which has been legal since 2001, will remain in place.
Marijuana flower, seeds, plants and cannabis oil will be available for sale. Edibles and concentrates will not be permitted until next year.
The legal age for the purchase and consumption will be 19— much like alcohol— but where you can smoke it is different depending on where you find yourself in the Okanagan.
RELATED: B.C. city wants control over its cannabis advertising rules
According to Elsie Lemke, chief administrative officer with the District of Peachland, consumption rules follow the town’s current smoking guidelines.
That means no smoking in parks — otherwise it’s a fine of $50.
“We’ll do some consultation with (the new council) to see how they would like to approach it (after the election),” she said. “It would be the same as any kind of smoking, in parks that sort of thing, but we haven’t taken any steps beyond where the government has indicated it is legal to use …so we haven’t made any different rules.”
Smoking marijuana will remain unwelcome on Westbank First Nation land.
“We recognize the fact that in Canada, it’s legal,” said Kevin Kingston, council secretary and legal council for the WFN.
In 2011 there was a community wide vote about cannabis and a safe premises bylaw to keep marijuana out of public spaces was implemented. However it will now be legal for community members to consume on their private property.
In an upcoming meeting the WFN Council will discuss their future with cannabis and whether or not to adopt regulations similar to that of West Kelowna or Kelowna.
“It’s legal for people to use in private spaces but the question is whether or not for retail options and use of cannabinoids and facilities,” said Kingston.
If found consuming in public, Kingston says they have asked local police to just let the tokers know it is not allowed instead of taking action.
“We don’t want them to make extra effort if they don’t need to, to follow up on nuisance of use of cannabinoids on Westbank First Nation land,” said Kingston.
RELATED: B.C.’s marijuana stores should shut down, Mike Farnworth says
The City of West Kelowna has implemented regulations that make smoking marijuana in public an expensive prospect.
Tokers will earn a $500 fine if they are caught smoking pot anywhere other than on private property, according to an ammendment of the parks and public spaces bylaw.
“This is another big download from the federal government via the provincial government where we had to put the production, retail and public use of cannabis into a framework where we were ready for it,” said West Kelowna Mayor, Doug Findlater. “I will also say it may not be perfect but it is the best we could have done. I think that over time there could be changes due to a greater social acceptance of cannabis.”
RELATED: West Kelowna to limit pot shops to four
Coun. Carol Zanon said that the societal shift will be similar to that of when the prohibition was lifted on alcohol.
“I think this is exactly the right place to start with this new venture because it is similar to Prohibition on alcoholic beverages.”
West Kelowna staff noted that the legislation and bylaws created by the City of West Kelowna were being looked to by the province to use as a framework and example in the future.
Smoking pot in Kelowna falls under existing smoking prohibition bylaw, said City Clerk Stephen Fleming.
“Smoking of any substance is not allowed in city parks, on city property or at bus shelters,” he said. “The fine is $100.”
No smoking is permitted in public, including parks, transit stops or any common area, according to the district’s smoking regulations bylaw.
Any person who commits this offence can be fined $100.
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Won’t Take The A Train
July 20, 2019 January 31, 2020 Arvin da BrghaLeave a comment
As I slipped into sleep, on Friday, July 9, 1993, the Moon transited both Pisces and my tenth house – though not the least bit focussed on Merlin prior to sleep – the dream shaman would manifest and weave the most sublime magic yet. As will become fast evident, the first three dreams that day were about process. I was during those dreams, divesting myself of the baggage that affects one’s waking consciousness/persona. These are waking state survival mechanisms which would be disposed of, in each successive dream, so that I could be elevated enough in spirit to have moved on to the truly noble experiences of the later dreams.
Whilst yet another stood beside me, I was looking into a full-length mirror. At the time, I was with Sjaak van der Velde – friend, current lover and Manhattan cabaret singer. As I stood there, in the near-darkened bathroom getting cleansed, I keenly looked at my face. On looking down, I noticed that my entire body was nude; it was completely depilated. This, of course, presented a big challenge because I am so vain – big hair and all. I was mildly horrified that my gorgeous pencil-thin moustache was no more.
To say the least, as intended, the moustache and big hair do nothing but scream vain solipsism. As I try warping self to stay with the ageist, lookist gang, vanity ends up making things that much more superficial. I spent a great deal of time really scrutinising the lack of facial hair. After assessing things, I finally came to like the naked look of my exposed upper lip. ‘What the hell,’ I thought. I began laughing aloud by grinning down my self-consciousness and vanity. Soon, I grew to like my smile a lot. It was truly wonderful.
Then who should appear in the mirror to my left, though never next to me in the dreamtime, but Len Morse. He, too, had recently shaved his moustache in the waking state. I was surprised to see him. I guess that there is some soul connection that we share which was clearly being alluded to. He has been present in a few dreams of late. He was warmly looking out at me as if to say, “Oh really now? It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Nothing to be self-conscious of…”
Frankly, I rather liked the nudeness of my face and head minus the moustache and big hair. The whole thing was a true revelation. I genuinely looked handsome because I wasn’t trying to run from or hide behind anything. It was truly uplifting. What was so empowering about the revelation, too, was the fact that the moment at which I became relaxed with myself – unconditionally accepting myself – my eyes awakened more completely. It was as though they had never shone so brilliantly, indeed, shone so beautifully before – absolutely revolutionary!
All this maya only caused me to hysterically laugh enjoying the absurdity of trying to get caught up and lost in lookism. ‘Who frigging cares?’ That was the essence of the wisdom being disseminated here by my higher self. This new perspective was truly a rare and treasured gift. It was quite the uplifting experience and one not soon forgotten.
Next, in the second dream, I was outdoors in the daytime. I was in this heavily trafficked, overpopulated metropolis. It did feel as though I was at Seventh Avenue and 23rd Street. Whilst, crossing 23rd Street, I was on the west side of Seventh Avenue going north in Manhattan. I wore a knapsack which was much like the one in the waking state. Close to my chest, my arms were crossed and folded. They clutched a book that I was currently reading. As I passed a young, White couple, they made socially aggressive, racist remarks about me.
‘I don’t want this kind of energy, at all, in the dream state,’ I thought impatiently deflecting their ignorance. When I got to the other side of the road, I felt unresolved about the whole thing. So, with that, I turned to look after them. They veered off, on seeing me eyeing them but I knew that they had wanted to cross Seventh Avenue – on the north side of 23rd Street. They headed off going east, to the right, on the north side of 23rd Street.
Impatiently I purposefully and heavily strode on my heels, back towards them, soon overtaking them. On catching up to them, I walked alongside. The woman was closer to me and him closer to the traffic. He was considerably taller than her. They were a very waking-state-focussed, hard-edged, racially aggressive, pinched couple. Big-boned and Yuppified – they were the epitome of North American, aggressive, merchant class greed. In a rapid-fire, ballistic staccato, I began aggressively repaying their racist bile bit for bit. I repaid their aggressive verbal abuse bit for bit.
They were stunned by my response. As with the codified behaviours of the racist paradigms in the waking state, which keep racially preyed on Blacks fearful of defending themselves against such actions, I was not expected to retaliate. I had no intentions of sublimating any aspect of self, either here or elsewhere, to suffer anyone and their bullshit. Yet what could they have done?
They simply turned glacial and remained petrified acting as though one were, all of a sudden, not there. I had no intentions of having them dump this kind of psychic garbage onto me. I slapped the racial animus back in their direction and was able to divest myself of such negative energies. Perhaps, though likely not, my response gave them pause for thought.
The third dream then found me going down into the belly of the underground. I proceeded to take, what would prove, an extensive series of train rides. I had been down in this particular sprawling subway station. There were no pillars in between the tracks. The station was not unlike London’s Liverpool Station and though similarly dimensioned, however, it was completely below-ground. Whilst waiting for the train to arrive, I had gone and stood close to one of the ends of the platform. Raising my leg, I had placed my right foot on an orange-coloured railing whilst waiting. Close by were two White women standing and speaking.
Long, flowing, drop-waisted dresses, that were light summer fare, they both wore. For being close to them, they fell silent and projected that cool steely edge that was informed by their racist perceptions. This was not the kind of energy that I wanted to be around. I strongly resented having this hideous grey light, of waking state racially-tinged maya, flooding and destabilising the Chi of the dreamtime. Since this was not my scene, I chose to tune out their invasive, racially predatory, psychic aggression altogether. Pretty soon, they came to realise how utterly ridiculous what they were doing was.
Immediately, they stopped their bullshit and resumed being human. The WST (waking state transference), in which they indulged, towards me evaporated. The air became noticeably clear… less dense-energied. Soon thereafter, the train rolled into the station and we boarded together. Unusually large, most impressively, there was also a dizzying amount of persons on board this train. It took the longest while, for us to get on board, as throngs flooded out from the train at our station. Even when finally we boarded, the bloody thing was still overgrown with humanity.
I eventually arrived at this particular stop where, again, it was densely populated. Wherever you looked, it was lushly overgrown here with incredibly large arboreal giants.
Not surprisingly, in this the fourth dream, it was impressively landscaped here. There was a dizzying array of flora and most of them were not readily familiar. I was up on a winding road that rose up a high hilltop. Along the way, I encountered an old Black woman. Goodness was she ever ancient. Hers was a face that was on the plus side of ten millennia. To match every lifetime-filled millennium that she had outlived, boy did she have a lot of life and personality. This was clearly her astral body, which I was encountering, whoever this well-travelled, marvellous old soul was. This sprawling metropolis was distinctly French.
This place did remind me of being at Montmartre when looking down into Paris. This metropolis, however, was several times larger than Paris. So many eons older than Paris, was this metropolis, it even seemed vastly older than the old woman. Her lovely dark-complected body, reminding me so of some West Indian women’s, she was so readily familiar. This metropolis was easily twenty millennia older than Paris. A truly august-souled metropolis this was.
The woman, along the road on the side of the hill, much reminded me of Clarice Jack who lived in The Alley, Sandy Point, St. Kitts. Of course, Clarice lived next-door to the church that Harella built. She was a big-boned, large-bosomed, full-figured lively gal. She was turning about, busying herself, doing some landscaping repairs along the side of the road. On approaching her, I asked how to get to a concert hall. I had been en route to some destination which, presently, I could scarcely recall.
“Oh no, no, no, my dear… You have to go all de way back down into town. It’s not at Palais Royale, in fact. Don’t even think of there. You have to go and get some other trains, to get you someplace else…” Her tongue darted back and forth, over her ever-moist lips, as her lively rapid-fire French gave directions.
She had pointed, off in the distance, to what seemed like Grand Palais. It, too, had a companion like Petit Palais in Paris. Here, however, these stately buildings were easily four times more colossal than their waking state counterparts. To anything in the waking state, the scale of architecture here was beyond compare. Gargantuan doesn’t, even remotely, convey the towering scales of the proportions here. Everything here was grown over. The metropolis, centred in this fantastic locale, was layered with each rise and fall of the civilisation readily discernible. In that sense, this metropolis was much like Rome is.
Everywhere, there were visible signs of crumbling architectural masterpieces. Still, other long-abandoned structures became the outer shell for more recent revivals of themselves. The latest additions, to an old ruin, could have occurred four millennia later and still have been easily a dozen millennia old – truly ancient. There were so many different strata of architectural styles layered one atop the other. This truly was a living museum of architectural giants. It was impressive, to say the least. One felt so utterly nouveau, for being of waking state Earth, as none of Earth’s civilisations can architecturally boast any such richness of character.
Great epochs of civilisations grew on top, through, about and around themselves in this impressive astral plane metropolis. This place was quite beautifully landscaped. Everywhere there were mound-like hills, like the one that I was on, which were forested areas of lush growth. They looked like some of the better-gardened neighbourhoods of Naples.
Next, the fifth dream had me taking my leave of her. I went down the hill, into the metropolis, where I entered one of the city’s many termini. This one much reminded of Gare d’Austerlitz in Paris. Here, too, this terminus was easily seven times more colossal. I began my marvellous adventure by taking a number of trains. There would be a few transfers at other, just as massive, termini along the journey. Here, at all times, I travelled with a silent astral guide who remained just to my rear. He seemed to be younger and was definitely White.
There was a staggering amount of people in transit here. People here were also very quiet. The majority of communication was telepathically engaged. There were so many tracks all of which were being used by trains. This was clearly a metropolis on a planet whose population easily soared beyond 17 billion (I meant to say 70 billion). With lots of transfer points converging all at the same terminus, this particular station was a major hub. This travel that I was doing, the vehicular transports I was using, merely proved secondary to what was really at play here.
I was going through different planes, travelling through different dimensions, and realities. I was in transit – for the ease of waking consciousness, much of this has been perceptually transliterated as being modes of travel comparable to waking state paradigms. The trains were capable of transporting one, to various locales, at protected faster-than-usual speeds. However, the travel was definitely destined. We travelled along a set, guided course. It was, if you like, a willed form of travel. It was not as though one were aimlessly wandering about a wilderness or city.
For being buried below-ground, it suggested that this was travel that was deeply rooted in the domains of the soul itself. There was a definite route, a purposeful intent, and a clear objective for undertaking the journey. Although for much of the time, especially when I was on the terraced hilltop with the old Black woman, I couldn’t quite recall why I was trying to make a definite rendezvous. All that I knew was that I simply had to get there. As it were, I had a destined appointment. For following along certain experientially mapped out routes, one could interdimensionally travel whilst on board these trains.
Whilst I was on one of the trains, when in transit, I sensed that I was not alone. Looking around, in search of someone’s familiar energetic signature, there on this utterly crowded train I found Merlin! I was so blown away. So that the dream wouldn’t be aborted, by my whiting out and prematurely awakening, I had to contain myself. I can’t say here how utterly arresting it was to have seen him.
Not since he had walked into the salon, in that dream on Saturday, July 25, 1992, had Merlin’s beauty so moved me. Merlin here was as real and as focussed as ever he was, the seven years that I had known him, on the other side of the dreamtime’s pandimensionality. I was so thrilled. I became overwhelmed with genuine happiness. I simply couldn’t believe that this was happening. I was acutely aware that I was dreaming. Oh my goodness – this was enlightenment and then some. Seeing him was akin, to having been away and upon my return opening the door, to have Whoopi come rushing towards me – her familiar pigeon-toed sweetness being the most treasured gift in my life at present.
One glimpse and you fall in love all over again. Seeing him, I felt all the quiet rapture that I felt – on Friday, October 1, 1982 – when he ambled into my life. On slipping in through the glass-paned door of a Hell’s Kitchen walkup, Merlin began weaving the most sustained, sublimed magic. Merlin, to look at him, was such an encapsulation of health and inner beauty. Goodness, I was completely blown away. Merlin wore a light, gauze-fabricked shirt that was very much so from the Indian Subcontinent. Caramel-coloured and ancient-looking, it was reminiscent of many of the ones he so favoured – ones which were perpetually sillaged with patchouli’s grounding signature.
The shirt was covered throughout with tiny rosebuds and other petals – exquisite. This was so Merlin in every refreshing detail. A long-sleeved shirt that was buttoned at the wrists, he wore, but with a bit of ballooning just aft the wrists. So thin and loose a fabric was it that it seemed diaphanous. Merlin was the picture of health, so much so that, his skin actually glowed near-imperceptibly. The light was the faint glow, which was the subtle undulating glow, of his aura.
This was much the effect that one would observe, if photographing someone, through a soft-focussed lens. Yet it was more than that, there was a definite hum to his aura’s vibration. There was so much flesh and vitality to his face and the rest of his still-rakish body that I was left overjoyed at the sight of him. His mane was beautifully coiffed in a long, leonine, gentle fall. Interestingly, it was not at all grey or greying. For that matter, Merlin’s hair was not greying as it was at the time of his passing.
Additionally, Merlin’s beard was not white. He looked like a much healthier version of himself, as he was at age thirty-five, when we met. It was so fuck-all fabulous to have seen him. It was great to have experienced him. Seated there, languorously looking into the forever of his familiar eyes, my spirit simply danced for joy. I vibrationally zinged at a higher frequency, on seeing him, to have experienced him yet again. To have drunk of his familiar spirit was that longed for elixir that my wandering soul so quenched.
Merlin silently looked over, validating that he recognised me, with the most intimate of smiles. A smile it was by which, for too long now, I had not been warmed. We communed, though our communication was telepathic, at the level of spirit. Our communication was not only mentally accomplished but it was emotionally complex and thorough. We immediately connected, more to the point, we did intimately connect. There was no getting around the fact of this having been why I had felt so compelled to quest, to journey, in search of this concert.
On finally having a rendez-vous with Merlin, what stellar music of souls this was. I knew, there and then, why I had been in transit making all these connections and travelling at such great speeds. I was in an astral plane metropolis, one which clearly served as a resting and inspirational space, for souls in transit – quite wonderful indeed. There I sat, on the fast-moving train, flying without moving. How utterly rapturous a living dream postcard this dream was – especially after our last profound encounter, a year ago. Sure, there had been other dream encounters during that interval.
This, however, was a dream of high order. This was a dream which existed at the same heights of spirit as that, on Saturday, July 25, 1992. Merlin’s eyes were so large, clear and focussed. Merlin here was so serene. He was transcendent. It blew my mind just to look at him. For resonating with him, I felt myself quivering with rapture. To feel the quiet purr of his spirit so close, and so familiar a spirit, was more than even I could have hoped for during pre-sleep meditations.
There was no getting around the fact that Merlin was now considerably more elevated than, when we last kissed in that dream, on Saturday, July 25, 1992. Merlin was now more in control. He had greater mastered his astral body since then. Back then, he wore a cloak that had a cowl. Merlin looked every bit the magus that he was. It was just like the cowled cloak that he had worn in our initial dream encounter, July 1978, four years before finally meeting on the physical plane.
Merlin here was so much more elevated than ever he had been in life or since his passing. Now, he was casually dressed but still looked every bit the magus. Indeed, Merlin here was the dream magus ascended. This dream was so very healing for my spirit. Then, on Saturday, July 25, 1992, Merlin was tying up loose – as he was experienced in that sublime dream. In that dream, Merlin thanked me for having served him nobly and in a healing capacity.
Thanks to his life task, Merlin had awakened the magus within me as I served him during his illness. This shared task of ours enabled me to become more spiritually focussed. As a result, as mentor to me, Merlin initiated my accelerated spiritual growth. In this dream, Merlin was simply saying hello. No postcard, across the seas of time and dimensions, could have been more beautiful a gift received. I could not believe that I was seeing Merlin. He did not, after having set out and sent me that one momentous dream on Saturday, July 25, 1992, have to send me yet another momentous dream. Yet here he was, by express transit no less, sending me a most magus, evolved and uplifting dream postcard.
Thank goodness my mind was fully aligned with spirit and the soul, as validated by my Venus-Uranus conjunction, enabling me to assimilate the potency and depth of this most sublime of gifts from Merlin. At that moment, when I found Merlin, the train was speedily travelling above-ground. The glow of his aura was further highlighted by the swells of sunlight, whose crests broke and oceanically flooded into the train, from the sunny outdoors. The merry sunlight added to the intensity of the encounter’s sensuality. I was so captivated by Merlin’s sublime beauty that I had not caught the conductor’s announcement.
A little dark-haired boy then announced that we would have to change trains. The boy had stepped up to a round circle, in the middle of the aisle, before the doors. In a vertical shaft of light, there the young, male astral guide stood perfectly still. He then announced to us the different transfer points – all of which he telepathically did.
Next, the sixth dream found all three of us – Merlin, the youthful astral guide and me – seated on a bunk in a rustic, near-dark, high-ceilinged bedroom. There were marvellous, dark wooden beams, high overhead in the ceiling, which created that familiar astral plane look. Whilst seated on the edge of the bunk, our legs dangled over the side. Merlin was on my immediate right as we visited side-by-side. His energies were so very warm and familiar. The house was unmistakably large, like everything else in this dimension. Incidentally, the ceilings here were vaulted. There was no mistaking that this dream was set on the astral plane.
*The key signature of the astral plane is its phenomenal architecture. The astral plane seems to serve as incubator and one from which great thinkers and movers, from time to time, come along and manifest their impressions thereof into the waking state. These great thinkers being architects such as: Antoni Gaudí, Frank Lloyd Wright and others. In these dreams, set on the astral plane, architecture is marked by the rustic, the aged, the organic – the fully concretised and usually in proportions that are not of this world. Everything seems much larger and more solid than even in the waking state.
There is nothing ephemeral about the architecture of the astral plane. The most impressive thing, about architecture on the astral plane, is the staggering amount of details that are worked into these true works of art. Structured and sound, one always immediately feels secure, is architecture on the astral plane. END.
The young, astral guide was on my left, silently holding the large book of photographs, as Merlin guided me through its pages. One series of photographs was of a guy who was water-skiing. The guy reminded me, as a matter of fact, of Maddox Pool. We looked at the photos which were taken, from the perspective of someone, at the rear of the boat to which he was tethered whilst skiing.
In one of the photos he had taken away his right hand, from the grip, to energetically grin and wave. The photos in the book were not static. They were holographic yet, somehow, they never extended beyond the page. They were three-dimensional but you were not looking at a film. Instead, you were looking down into a three-dimensional holographic image which was within the borders of each photo. It was in these shots that the waterskiing young man looked so much like Maddox.
He was dark-haired and the picture of health. The water was crystalline and eye-scorching blue. He was about twenty-two to twenty-three years of age – exactly the same age that I was when Merlin and I met in New York City. Merlin telepathically explained to me, as we looked at the photographs, that this photo was representative of himself after his first bout of pneumocystis with full-blown AIDS. Merlin told me that this was the nature of the work that he was presently doing.
Astral plane habitués, such as Merlin, after they had done work on themselves could elect to assist persons still incarnate and moving through the illness. The crisis of AIDS was so impactful, on humanity at this point, that those who were discarnate had to direct a great deal of energy planetside to those incarnates who were moving through the experience. When persons went from being advanced with HIV, all the way to being sick with full-blown AIDS, then they on the astral plane would work with them after their first bout of major illness.
Merlin explained that they were seen to have a resurgence of vitality because of the energy work, being directed to the incarnate full-blown persons, by astral plane habitués in his position. This is precisely as had been the case with Merlin, in the spring, summer and early autumn of 1988, after his first bout of pneumocystis – all of which abruptly atrophied when he was betrayed by that stupid drunken woman, Morag O’Hoare.
Merlin also intimated that the energy work came not only from persons such as him, between lives on the astral plane, as well as from souls above and beyond the astral plane. This was energy that they were sharing, with afflicted physical plane habitués, which they could then use to sustain their lives for a year or two or even a decade plus. Merlin further shared that they could indefinitely live on, to the full course of their lives, if they so chose.
Though they were fully capable of surviving long-term with the virus, which allegedly led to AIDS, people planetside had not yet made the realisation that they did not have to atrophy and die because they had tested positive for the HIV virus or for going full-blown with AIDS. This ability, of afflicted incarnates, to live on had to do with willpower. Choice was the issue in this situation. They must have wanted to remain incarnate.
They must have wanted to live and to accomplish certain tasks. The nature of the support system, that one surrounded oneself with, was crucial to being able to become long-term survivors. Persons really did not have to pass on so soon, Merlin intimated, after discovering that they were HIV positive or full-blown with AIDS. Humanity presently had such stultifying fear of death that afflicted persons ended up, literally, terrifying themselves to death. It did not help much that there were so many stigmas associated with AIDS. At present humanity, for the most part, did not yet realise that death was merely but a refocussing of one’s energies.
“Death…” said Merlin “…was no big deal. Come on, look at me. I’m here, aren’t I? How different am I?” he intoned in a quiet whisper rather than telepathically. ‘Can’t argue that one,’ I thought.
Merlin was as human and as real as, he had ever been every day of our being together, during our glorious seven-year relationship. Even though I could see him, and indeed touch him, he was so much more evolved and frankly better off for being in that dimension of purified vibration. This was definitely not the normal domains of the dreamtime. From the regular confines of the dreamtime, I had travelled – to this conduit space within the astral plane – to be able to experience Merlin from his regions of the astral plane which are exclusively inhabited by the discarnate.
We met in a dimension wherein persons, both discarnate and incarnate, could meet and interact. It was quite solid here and rarefied too. To be able to have experienced Merlin left me so immensely happy. Merlin further explained that people tended to die so soon, after having become full-blown with AIDS, because the spectre of dying became a vortex of fears – enervating energies – that literally depleted their reserves of willpower and caused them to die sooner rather than later.
By becoming so obsessed, with fear of death and the stigma of dying of AIDS, those subjects simply became victims of their own fears. Merlin said that they had to turn that vortex into a white hole rather than an imploding, enervating, gnawing black hole of fear. Such a vortex proved a vacuum that sucked the very life out of the afflicted and caused them to die what was clearly a premature death. Once transmuted, this vortex could be used to assist one to go on to live a very productive life.
This energy could simply be used to fuel oneself and serve as a conduit to channel pure, life-sustaining energies from discarnate souls, such as him, on the astral plane. This would ultimately enable one to stay focussed, in the afflicted life, for considerably longer. The thing to remember was that the mind did not have to become afflicted with fears because the body had become impaired by disease. All over the world, Merlin assured me, the afflicted could choose to triumph over fear of imminent death and it was being done with increasing success.
This vortex of transformed fears could, according to Merlin, become a catalyst for undertaking a great deal of spiritual work. The amount of growth that could be pulled off for becoming thus focussed, Merlin assured me, was no light matter. As Merlin imparted this wisdom, I was being illumined to this revolutionary approach to life and death which heretofore, I had not before thought of the paradigm in this manner. It, however, made perfect sense.
What was really impressive, about all this, was having Merlin return now as a teacher. He was so wise and magus. I felt absolutely proud of him. He was a guide to me, sharing of the wisdom that he has gained in his trans-dimensional sojourn thus far, as the realised dream magus who had long set out ahead of his much-loved adept and companion magus. I can’t say enough how very pleased that I was to have seen him. I was so moved by Merlin. It was simply profound.
I was so incredibly happy to see Merlin. The windows to the large hall, in which we visited, were all closed. This caused the place to be dimly and intimately lit. Here, it was very womb-like and nurturing.
After that intimate visit together, followed by journeying on some more, we arrived at this the seventh dream. On returning to the large terminus, we had to take yet another series of trains. We arrived after much high-speed travel at another terminus. This one was far larger than any before which I had visited. Here, the terminus was above-ground and wide-open at both ends. Multiple tracks were everywhere and veered off in all directions. After we got on board the train, as before he had, the little dark-haired boy who served as astral guide came up and stood in the centre of the aisle.
Here, there were many people with kids and several persons were travelling with a ton of baggage. They were carting around all this baggage which they really did not need. This baggage merely served to weigh them down and impeded their forward advancement. They did not yet realise that they did not need it. Neither Merlin nor I had any baggage. Similarly, the young astral guide had no baggage. Somehow, because of the travelling requirements here, I couldn’t ride in the same car as Merlin. Instead I rode one car behind him on the same train.
On pulling up into the large station, there was a PA notice that indicated that the train we were on would not go any further. We would apparently have to transfer at the next station on disembarking. The announcer said that one would be able to find one’s appropriate ride by following the colour-coded lines on the platform. When I got off onto the platform, I began running ahead to the front of the platform in search of Merlin. Not for anything did I want to lose him now.
A couple had impeded my progress as they wobbled along with a ridiculous amount of baggage. The luggage was so much dream symbolism – inasmuch as there is such a thing. These persons represented newcomers to the astral plane. More importantly, they represented persons who had recently died and returned to the astral plane but who also happened to be fairly young-souled. They were dead yet not already fully aware. Just as they were spiritually blind, when incarnate, they now progressed. They were now hobbling about, carting around all this baggage, as if they could truly ‘take it’ with them.
With them was all this Maya, the baggage of their perceptions and the worldviews, which had held them hostage whilst incarnate. Here they were, on the astral plane, arrivés habitués carting around mindsets that were totally redundant. What I found unique here was that no one interfered with anyone. No one came to their aid telling them that it was not necessary for them to be carting around all this baggage. Furthermore, they were repressed such that they appeared these Boteroesque persons – bloated in the style of Fernando Botero sculptures.
Their little merchant class worldviews had had them well-preserved, and puffed up, with pompous self-aggrandising notions of their greatness. They did look truly South American in that pretentious sense. They looked not unlike some of the parvenu-looking subjects of Fernando Botero’s paintings and sculptures. They were truly lost souls both here and when previously incarnate.
I, on the other hand, was nimbly walking whilst bounding down the platform. I had hoped to reconnect with Merlin whom I knew had also gotten off at the same stop. Here, too, in this station all the railings were orange and sturdy-looking. Rushing ahead of the Boteroesque couple, who vibrationally felt as if made of the heaviest metals in the universe, I noticed something truly spectacular.
High up in the walls of this terminus the wall would simply open up, much as a camera lens’s aperture would, then from the gaping hole would stream out a train at full speeds. The train was, as it were, intersecting dimensions. This fantastical train was, along with several others that I had noticed, simply splicing through our pocket of the astral plane en route to heaven-only-knows-where. At the far side of the terminus another aperture-like portal would gapingly open to accommodate the approaching airborne train.
Soon after, the train would be lost into the black void which moments earlier had opened up. Those trains, like the others, were massive and looked as though the stateliest trains from the late nineteenth-to-early twentieth centuries. More than that, they barrelled through the air without travelling on any overhead tracks. What’s more, they progressed as if along well-mapped out routes.
Some were higher than others. Others intersected our little cul-de-sac of the astral plane, in a diagonal manner, cutting perfectly across the immense width of the terminus. These trains, just like all the others, seemed so imposing for being as massive and as multi-carriaged as they were. Despite the fantastical spectre of these trains, the matter of Merlin’s whereabouts was of paramount concern. On noticing the initial train, I peripherally recalled that there had been a similar such train piercing through the earlier terminus. However, its outréness had remained peripheral or not readily assimilated.
Just as described over the PA system, there was a series of colour-coded lines on the platform. These colour-coded lines indicated where one had to venture, in order to make the appropriate connections, back to one’s final destination. As could be expected, the trains were all very massive. What’s more, they were distinctively leaden and stylistically looked as if straight out of the 1930s. They were very art deco trains indeed.
One of the trains was silver and black. It was a tone of black that was truly austere. The silver was used for most of the detailing. Its silverwork was so opulent that, by comparison, it made Erté’s deco sensibilities seem bland. Somehow, I knew that it was the one that I was expected to take. In all, there were two trains that I was supposed to have transferred to. This black and silver train was energetically the densest-feeling one of all the trains that I had seen.
This, I think, was the case because it travelled between this locale and the density of the physical plane – the waking state. Nonetheless, all that I could think of was Merlin. I did not want to lose contact with him. As ever, he had done in the waking state, I had initially seen him leaving the train then gone energetically bounding down the platform. With so many people everywhere, and for having been impeded by the Boteroesque couple, I had lost sight of him. My mind busily raced as I thought of the horror of possibly having to lose him here.
I did not want our encounter to end just like that. Besides, we were supposed to have gone off somewhere. I came down off the platform, desperate to find him again, by using a narrow flight of stone stairs. From there, I crossed the tracks ahead of the austere-looking train that I was supposed to have taken. No sooner than had I crossed its track that I saw, off in the far end of the terminus, an unusual-looking train.
It was stationed beneath a sunlight-flooded awning. It was a most unique mode of transportation. A series of long horizontal slabs, hovering off the ground, they lined one after the other. They were, basically, the floors of boxcars that had no wheels, no sidings and no roofs to them. They were, if you like, just a series of hovering rectangular slabs à la magic carpets. The awning, beneath which it was stationed, gave a sense of how truly massive this hangar-like terminus was. It was then, too, that I saw Merlin.
I had recognised him by the brown tweed cap that he always wore in the waking state. To look at his body, he was the sexiest human imaginable. Merlin still could work his magic on me. Merlin wore a faded pair of blue bell-bottomed cotton slacks. A pair of well-worn, doe-skinned shoes was familiarly upturned at the toes.
He was so true to form – realistic. This was so very Merlin and so like the Merlin, whom I had known so very intimately, but for the fact that he was not smoking a ganja joint. Also unlike the sublime dream encounter, on Saturday, July 25, 1992, he was not wearing his gold-rimmed round glasses. Naturally, he did not need those things anymore. It was so very good to see Merlin. Here, he was my astral guru – indeed, the transcendent dream magus had returned to impart his magical wisdom.
Merlin was so phenomenally alive and real. I was moved beyond belief to see him. So excited was I, to have found him again, that I went rushing up to greet him where he hung out on one of the slabs. Thrilled and delighted, I let out an excited squeal. Soon enough, I grew immediately self-conscious of the fact that no one here verbally communicated. In one graceful balletic leap, I went rushing up onto the platform broadly grinning. My love for him welled up from the very bosom of my soul. As soon as I got there, I realised that everyone else was seated in these circular groupings.
They sat in lotus position and faced inwards towards each other. Merlin was part of a circle of men, seven deeply meditative men, all of whom looked just as transcendent and centred as did he. They seemed to be so deeply engaged, at the level of spirit, as if a part of a coven of magi who were engaged in group energy work. Their silence was impactful – there was so much being said and done in its weighty stillness.
Merlin’s eyes were so brilliant and clear yet there was a fecund agedness to them. The clarity came from the intense focus of his energies, where he presently is, in his transition through the discarnate progression. They were older-souled eyes; there was no way to get around that fact. I realised, there and then, that I wasn’t supposed to have been there at all. So pleased was I to be with him, too eager to telepathically communicate, I began chatting aloud. It was a way to wrestle his full attention as there was no way that I could have competed with the union of spirits and minds that they shared.
They were simply too deeply telepathic, “Look Merlin, why can’t you come on this train with me? I don’t want to be here on this one. When we start moving, it’s only going to aggravate my allergies which are acute right now in the waking state. It’ll be too much wind, too much exposure to pollen. It’s just going to affect my allergies too much. There’ll be too much wind blowing in my face. Look, I really don’t know if I want to do this. Why can’t we go on the other one?”
The moment at which I paused, after having posed my questions, Merlin seized control of the dynamic. Very firmly, he entered my mind and said, “Be still. Be quiet. Don’t rush. Don’t you understand? I don’t care to go there. I don’t care what you want… what you desire. I’m going to stay on this one. Besides, it’s what I have to do. I’m going this way…”
When he intoned that last phrase, from the inflection and weight he telepathically used, I realised that there was no way that I could leave this place but on board that austere-looking silver and black deco train. Merlin implied, by his intonation, that the conventional old train was the one that I had to use to safely ferry me back to the waking state. Clearly, he couldn’t take that train because it was too mechanical.
It represented the past and the density, when incarnate, of his former physically ensouled state. He was now in a dimension of existence which was vibrationally infinitely less dense. Even the mode of transportation, for his dimension, was more advanced. There was no denying that these levitating slabs were being kept aloft by their focussed, united wills – Merlin and his kindred spirits’.
To have entered their midst, the air and the Chi were intensely purified. On entering the vibrational sphere of their midst, I instantaneously felt lighter in my body. Their seating formations only intensified their energies and focussed their thoughts and wills. It is safe to say that in these formations, they became a unit. They were a shared consciousness of sorts. They did though each still possess a will of their own. This was clearly the case with Merlin who was able, independent of his circle mates, to exert his own will when asking me not to be an intrusive presence.
He was never hostile but he simply asked that I not be so inconsiderate of their need for privacy. Meanwhile, the six others patiently waited for him. You cannot imagine how mentally powerful these seven men were – individually and as a shared consciousness. They patiently waited for me to either calm down or simply take my leave of them. What was really intriguing, in all of this, was the fact that they did not have a preference whether I should stay or leave. That choice was exclusively up to me.
It was truly insightful – they simply had no emotional engagement and were totally objective. This was so much like the Merlin I had always known. It was so good to see him that I really did not want to leave. There was no way that I would pass up on this most rare of treasures found. On calming my nerves, I directly looked Merlin in the eye and said, “Okay, I accept… I accept…. I accept. I realise that I was being so selfish. Do forgive me. I know how selfish I can get at times.”
Yet there sat Merlin supremely long-suffering and patient. I would not, nor could I, deny myself the elixir of those eyes. Impishly, I added, “Okay, please, let me come some of the way with you, at least. I don’t know. I don’t care…” For breaking protocol and wanting to leave this place by going in his direction, I was more or less quieting my own fears. I would gladly have given up the ghost, as it were, just to go on journeying with him.
As his eyes warmly smiled into me, a discernible smile drifted across his large, lucidly focussed face. I was thrilled. He telepathically suggested that I take a seat, which I did, just outside of the circle. Two of them shifted their positions signalling that I join the circle rather than not. The moment that I entered the circle of beings, which included Merlin, the procession of levitating greyish slabs began moving. They had been hovering, just above a groove that sat, between two knolls. These rolling mounds were covered by the most verdant cropped grass that zinged with a whisper of misty dew.
Instantaneously, we were moving at faster-than-sound through to faster-than-light speeds. It was immensely thrilling an experience for me. Merlin sat with his back always to the front of the procession of slabs. In that sense, he was in a powerful position. We were seated towards the end of the third or fourth platform. Each platform-like slab contained several clusters of seven asexual-looking men – even Merlin looked asexual.
Even more interesting, along the lines of the Michael Teachings, was that there were six or seven clusters of six to eight individuals in the tight circular formations. Here everyone was in lotus position. There were never any doubts in my mind that Merlin and every last one of these discarnate individuals were the ones whose focussed wills were directing the travel of this light trip. This was so right up Merlin’s alley – unabashed magic.
Each levitating slab measured roughly ten feet across by close to fifty feet at least. They were linear and, though wafer-thin, had the most softly plush comfortable surface. They were just as soft as if we were seated on satin throw cushions. The speeds with which we travelled were phenomenal. I did not experience any discomfiture for moving at such great speeds. There was simply a whizzing blur of everything, outside the confines of our progressing procession of levitating slabs.
We travelled some four feet off the ground as we jetted away from the hub terminus. The winds never affected us, nor did my body experience the increased G-forces, for travelling at such great speeds. The landscape sped past, even more rapidly than when on board the trains. Of course, when on board the trains, we were then in an enclosed environment. Yet here, as there, we were not at all affected by the winds. As a matter of fact, this proved an infinitely smoother ride than when travelling on the conventional trains.
There weren’t any of the chattering minds, for one, as experienced when on the conventional trains. So deeply internalised was this place that there was nothing but Zen order. No wonder Merlin so loved Johann Sebastian Bach’s artistry because it was so wonderfully suited to the ambience of this place.
*It was as though, this place was the grove to which he gravitated between lives. It gave him the sense of serenity, of order and of peace, which was so readily discerned to the core of his being. At such times, Merlin would become lost – grow intimate and private with his very spirit – for listening to Glenn Gould’s mastery of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Merlin’s intellect, at such times, would become expansive. Each time, his spirit and intellect were sensed, he would be spatially experienced. Quite simply, for experiencing him at such times, there is no other way to articulate how one would feel. END.
All around us were wonderful, rolling green plains situated in a vast expansive vista. Everything was so thrillingly filled with life. For travelling at such intense speeds, we were left in a heightened state of sensitivity – or at least I definitely was. Perhaps, this was par for the course with Merlin and his kindred spirits. I, on the other hand, found this so new and exciting for my dreamer self. Everything zinged with more abundant negative ions, at concentrations that were more pronounced, than in the waking state.
This dimension was a harmonious mélange of pure thought and pure emotion. It was so invigorating and completely centring. Pure emotion, minus the trappings of ego, it gave the sense of Merlin and his kindred spirits’ transcendent nature. There was an audible drone discerned here, to our splicing progress through space, which seemed as if their combined breaths held in a sustained meditative hum. Truly serene a spiritually uplifting experience this was. How transcendent they each were, too.
This sound was so intense and pure that it can best be described as being audible light. The sensations and emotions I experienced were so thrilling that I couldn’t believe such intensity of joy could be experienced whilst incarnate. At that moment, the experience was heightened when Merlin and I both directly looked into each other’s eyes. In that moment of connectivity, mere words could never do justice to what I experienced. We were truly intimate soul-to-soul.
Looking off to his right, impregnating me with this most beauteous gift, Merlin oceanically poured his very soul into me. This was the most sublime postcard yet, that he had sent across the seas of time, from his journey up ahead. I couldn’t ever have imagined that any gift could be so profound, beautiful and cherished. Looking to the left, I had done so as he had telepathically entered my mind, saying a warm and intimately familiar hello.
Slipping into my moist, expanded intellect, I felt the familiar purr of Merlin’s soul as he edged closer and squinged up next to me soul-to-soul. How many nights had we gotten this close when he was incarnate… Yet none of that – physical intimacy – could have compared to the exquisite ticklish touch of his soul deep within me. This was such a massiveness of spirit that I experienced. I couldn’t believe that I was feeling the intensity of sensations and insights as I was experiencing. This was such a massive experience that to look at Merlin the giddy ecstasy that I felt caused me to whiteout.
This had been fostered, too, by the enriching stimuli that bombarded my totality as the levitating slabs sped on. The feel of experiencing nature, as we so rapidly sped by, only made the vibrations of everything that much more pronounced. As I moved without moving, my body quivered throughout. Looking to my left into the most intimate pair of eyes that I have known thus far in this lifetime, I thrillingly flew whilst seated there in lotus position. Merlin’s eyes being the pair that has been more intimate than any other… This moment of Zen bliss caused me to quickly draw on a sharp breath.
As though I were nodding off, my body had bobbed a tad. With that I lucidly awoke – my body quivered as I remained in bed on my back looking up into and beyond the off-white ceiling. Merlin alas quite cleverly had hypnotised me, back into wakefulness, with one sensual look.
By far, those dreams were among the most truly uplifting dreams of this incarnation. There is not a year that passes since then that I don’t recall these dreams with the greatest fondness and humility. So, alas, dream your dreams of wonder – for having been so richly inspired by mine. Sweet dreams, you!
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The Fawn… It Definitely Was A Miracle.
On this the eve of what would have proven Merlin’s 72nd birthday, I share these rather totemic dreams. This November 18, 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of Merlin’s passing of full-blown AIDS, on a cold November Saturday morning when icy snowflakes aimlessly drifted across the city streets. Whilst at dinner recently, a dear friend asked if I am never saddened at the loss of Merlin and if I ever do miss him. Of course, as I write this blog, I am warmed by the fact that on December 2, 2006 – almost 13 years ago, Merlin was reincarnated in a canalled northern European city. Merlin is now female and the third of three children – two older brothers.
What’s more, Merlin reborn has eyes that would now be even more phenomenal than when last I gazed besotted and rhapsodic into those large, soulful hazel eyes. Whereas Merlin was on his sixth life as a seventh level mature scholar soul, now reincarnated and female that soul is now living its first incarnation as a first level old scholar. These next dreams were dreamt in May, 1989 when Merlin was then still incarnate and at that point, he daily listened to the audiocassette recording of my dreams. This he did because they fascinated him; more than that, he did so because ever the director, he was keen to give insight and direction.
“Come on, Arvin, you have to be more descriptive. I have no idea if the car was blue, green, for that matter a convertible and was it a tan or white leather interior?”
Certainly, it can never be underestimated the pivotal role that Merlin played in the depth and thoroughness of the audiocassette recorded dreams. He was ever a loving but tough taskmaster and happy am I to have had his loving input and direction. After having listened to the recorded dream being now shared herein, Merlin came to dinner at our 20 Amelia Street home and declared, “Well, let’s not get too caught up in trying to interpret and figure out the symbolism of those dreams.” After, he winked, we softly kissed; his lips as ever warm and full as internally an unrelenting disease determinedly consumed his body… but never alas his spirit.
These were potent, lucid astral plane dreams. To say that they were totemic would be understating fact. The dreams were a glimpse beyond the veil as Merlin shamanically wound down another incarnation and got ready to put to rest another life. Ever focussed on my spiritual maturation, I am immensely proud to have survived so long after Merlin’s passing. Had anyone wagered that I would be still in the game 30 years later, I would have said, “You are reading the wrong tea leaves.”
Well, here I am still shaking arse and the Rathore to the core. These totemic dreams were dreamt on Monday, May 22, 1989, audiocassette recorded on tape IX of the 250 audiocassette recording of my dreams and yet to be found in Volume one the 25 Volume dream opus. Too, at the time, the Moon then transited both Sagittarius and my seventh house – wherein my natal Moon is posited. Truly few are they who are brave enough to drink from the chalice that is life.
Your support and choice to be focussed herein are both humbling and a source of inordinate pride. I am immensely grateful. Sweet dreams and as ever do remember, death is just a shift in focus; one is merely focussed at a different frequency. Besides, as one rather beguiling astral plane habituée put it, “Trust me, death is not wasted on the living.”
Dreams serve as the most expedient conduit for sustaining the bonds and communion of souls between persons who are no longer focussed in the physical plane but refocussed on the astral plane between lives as astral plane habitués whilst resting, reviewing and weaving the tapestry of future incarnations. So, drink and live in the moment. Take a deep breath, open your eyes within – don’t be afraid – and there within the silken folds of self is the massive beauty which is spirit.. go on explore and discover the true you. I love you more.
The first dream found me posited on a hilltop looking down into a valley which then rose up into a lower hill. From the vantage of the mountains in Sandy Point, St. Kitts or Nevis, the view was of being down towards the ocean. Topographically, it seemed more like St. Kitts – however, this was definitely set in Nevis. I looked out and what did I see but a house on this hill; it was a very huge and lovely house.
Down from the sky, before the house on the rolling plains, fell a column of white light that shimmered. The manifesting light had the power of a tornado and it was a force that moved… it undulated. Truth be told, this was a liquefied white light – not unlike a waterspout. As compared to the left and right sides of the shaft, it was as though the centre of the light was faded. The centre of the column of light seemed invisible but it wasn’t. As a matter of fact, it was sort of greyish-coloured.
*A very fleeting dream this was but it was one that was potent. The sky overhead was ominously dark as though the cloud cover was simply to mask something else. There was no getting around the fact that the light was used as some sort of transport or conveyance. The light was being used for the relay of energies between the house’s occupants, if there were any, and whatever was beyond the clouds.
The dream seemed to have abruptly collapsed because I had happened on the scene. There was no one else about. Too, it was the only house on the landscape. I felt as though I had been ejected, from the dream, for having been there and witnessed what I wasn’t supposed to have been privy to. The dream collapsed around me; I was deprived any further knowledge of what was going on. In light of the dream that would follow, it became fairly obvious that the light column was channelling.
Eventually, the astra-human soul quality of Merlin’s would quite potently manifest. Of course, just as in the dream of Thursday, July 7, 1988VI, again, there was a lone house on the landscape. As will become evident, in later moments of the dreams, Merlin’s soul quality would manifest. END.
The next dream immediately found me in bed with Merlin. He got up and he looked very old. Looking very tired and old, he turned around to me then went out into the hallway. He turned around and asked me, “When are you going to start moving on because I’d like to die by the end of this year? When are you going to go back to school? I’m really tired of this; I’m tired of this illness… I just want to move on.”
He was terribly impatient. Indeed, Merlin here was very forceful. That was when he began shapeshifting; Merlin underwent a metamorphosis before my eyes. He became, as he spoke, more impatient. I watched spellbound as his physiology morphed into the very astral-looking faun – though elfin-looking, he was taller than his known humanoid self; Merlin became the archetypal Chiron. I started crying sounding real childlike and said, “No… no! Please, please don’t!”
His face then became part of the pink walls, thus his transformed face was flesh-toned. Here his face looked faunlike; his eyes were on the sides. He had the face of a faun and I only ever saw the right eye. The eye was black-within-black. The eye looked down at me because the head – which was the only thing visible when mounted – was up on the wall. Shapeshifted, Merlin’s was a very hard-looking eye.
Merlin’s eye rapaciously looked right into the soul. An ancient eye it was. I caressed the softness of the fur-like skin and pleaded with him and said, “Please, I can’t live without you. I couldn’t go on. Please don’t lose your strength and get ill,” I pleaded with the shapeshifted Merlin and cried. I was aware of being here in bed asleep whilst dreaming and that my body was going through the motions of crying and being pained. Merlin did not hear me, although, I thought that as I slept that I was talking aloud in my sleep.
*This was an intensely upsetting dream because it dramatised how Merlin wished to be allowed to move on. He no longer cared to be focussed in the life. Though it was obvious that he could have soldiered on for months more, he simply lost the desire to go on being focussed. Clearly, this was owing to the bilious discord created by Tytanikka and Oleg’s betrayal.
Though he never physiologically resembled the classic centaur, Merlin’s face not only further morphed becoming like a fawn’s, more accurately, his head and face did have the eventual shape of a young bison’s – very Taurean, strong and potent.
On preparing for the video to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Merlin’s birth back in 2017, I decided then to head off to the costumer, Malabar on McCaul Street where artist and lover George Hawken lived in the late 80s to early 90s. Inspired by the first dream of Merlin had 41 years ago in July 1978, I decided to get a cowl as a tribute to the cowl Merlin wore in the inaugural dream encounter with him, four years before having met on Friday, October 1, 1982 in New York City. So, there was I at Mount Pleasant Cemetery on Saturday, July 15, 2017 in my cowl and the panama hat purchased at Versailles to escape the heat. I thought it fitting as Merlin always loved wearing panama hats.
My trusty friend, J.J. who happens to be an artisan entity mate whom I have known in 20 past lives –- which is a high incidence of contact -– was the director. Initially, I had hoped to throw a white party on the lawn to the southwest of the chapel at Mount Pleasant Cemetery and have a drone film the event where a gathering of friends would raise a glass to Merlin on the anniversary of his ennobled birth. Merlin always threw a white party each year for his birthday at his parents’ stunning backyard in north Toronto’s Servington Crescent.
The plan was not approved by the cemetery and thus, one had to improvise. I got my panama hat and my cowl and together, we proceeded with a dozen long-stem white roses to visit Merlin’s resting place. I had a pretty good idea what I was after. With the matching white cowl, I wanted to evoke the magic of meeting Merlin in that initial dream which is shared in volume one of the dream memoirs, which is already published: Merlin and Arvin: A Shamanic Dream Odyssey.
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In the hardcover edition of human civilisation’s first dream memoirs, the initial dream encounter with Merlin is shared. The dream begins on page 110 in the hardcover edition. I wanted the same sense of wonderment and magic that I felt for having met Merlin in that first dream four years prior to having met reflected in the video. In that dream, Merlin’s appearance was preceded by a white totemic creature which seemed, in its astral plane outréness, to be part Russian wolfhound, part alpaca, part dog.
So, moving to the lawn, having descended the steps of the chapel, I began walking across the open lawn towards the statuesque lion-festooned mausoleum with the five remaining white long-stem white roses. Seven roses, of course, were left at Merlin’s grave -– one rose for each of our seven glorious years together. As I stepped onto the lawn, it seemed magical… timeless even. Slowly, confidently as I approached the filmmaker at the other end of the lawn, I thought of Merlin and that initial dream.
Just then, I very distinctly thought of Merlin greeting me by purring, “Hello Lambs.” As if right on cue, from off stage left, an adult deer came from behind the bushes and tombstones that line the far edges of the open lawn. Never before had I seen a deer at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Indeed, the good burghers of Forest Hill who clearly regularly jogged in the park-like setting stopped and were overheard remarking that they had never seen a deer in the cemetery before. All that I could do was tear up and continue walking as the deer then bolted and ran from stage left to right as I continued my stride uninterrupted –- unfazed by the appearance of an adult deer on the grounds of the cemetery. What is more astounding, is that J.J. at the time was filming my walk; at the last minute, I decided against a run-through as I was concerned about the natural light possibly changing if we were to rehearse the shot.
Unbeknownst to me, the deer after having made it to stage right, then returned to the centre of the lawn and stood there perfectly still whilst observing my progression across the lawn. J.J. who was astounded by the occurrence remarked that he had just witnessed a miracle. There is no doubt in my mind as I tried to recapture the magic of that initial dream encounter that there was a subtle validation of that dream from the magical shaman himself on the other side by having had Merlin’s spirit step in as director emeritus and had the deer enter the shot as validation and a token of his appreciation of the love that we shared and my steadfast loyalty to him. After crossing the lawn and turning to watch the deer stand there, looking down the lawn at me, I felt such utter peacefulness and abandonment of spirit — just as when alone and intimate in the dark with Merlin.
Yes, I believe in magic as did Merlin and as though an appreciation of having stridently done everything to fulfil his mandate to me, Merlin’s astral body conjure up the same magic here and now as he had in July 1978 –- four years before slipping inside a Hell’s Kitchen walk-up and readily winning me over with his sexy elfin charm, magic and sex that proved the most grounding shamanic passion… every time. Standing there, I was reminded, too, of that dream in 1989 before Merlin passed wherein he shape-shifted and became a fawn-like creature who morphed and became one with the wall in our Cabbagetown home.
All the music chosen for this 13-minute video is music that Merlin loved whilst incarnate and to which he returned time and again -– whether at Joe Morton’s tiny Upper West Side apartment in autumn of 1983, Toronto’s 20 Amelia Street in tony Cabbagetown. From Glenn Gould’s mastery of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, to Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and Dionne Warwick singing That’s What Friends Are For –- in that segment of the video, I included friends whom Merlin valued: Kareem Benezra, myself, Wayne Robson and his oldest and most loyal friend, the ever-gracious, Maxime Gascoigne-de Montigny.
Of course, for Stevie Wonder’s Isn’t She Lovely, I exclusively included photos of Merlin and his very handsome and gracious father, David Ben-Daniel. Whereas I favoured Sir Paul McCartney’s Hey Jude, Merlin ever loved George Harrison and especially My Sweet Lord. Of course, one Saturday, whilst staying at actor, Joe Morton’s Manhattan apartment, when Merlin and I secretly committed to being together, we slow-danced to Supertramp and Roger Hodgson’s unmatched magical vocals on Supertramp’s Breakfast In America.
Additionally, Jeffrey Osborne’s On the Wings of Love which was one of Merlin’s favourite ballads is also included. Merlin loved Black male soul singers: Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Jeffrey Osborne –- most especially –- George Benson, Al Green, Teddy Pendergrass, Donny Hathaway, Barry White. Most of all, I am especially proud of the video that J.J. and I have created; I think that it masterfully captures the depth of my love and fealty to the most fabulously magical shaman encountered on this incarnation’s spiritual odyssey.
Naturally, before having left for Mount Pleasant Cemetery, I had flooded my apartment with the music that appears in the video. Perhaps, unwittingly by so doing, I was invoking Merlin’s spirit, which later joined us when he played ultimate director and pulled off the most magical bit of stage direction –- an adult deer in the middle of a cemetery in the heart of mid-town Toronto. Lastly, I played the sublimely soulful Shirley Horn’s interpretation of, Here’s to Life! Whilst raising a glass of coconut water, I had forgotten to pick up some champagne the evening prior and it was too early in the morning to find champagne anywhere –- the lighting was way too good. Besides who knows if that magical deer would have been anywhere about.
Here’s to life… most of all, here’s to Merlin… here’s to dream shamans everywhere!
Merlin’s mandate to me ever remains:
“Please my darling, I want you to write about our lives together. I promise you, however possible, I am going to send you dreams to include in the story of our love… our lives together.”
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For now, here’s to life, here’s to you and thanks so much for your ongoing support all these years!
Anointed by Merlin; A Dream Like No Other.
As the Moon progressed through the early degrees of Gemini, transiting my first house, I would on taking to bed, slip up past the folds of restfulness. There, I would awaken into the most lucid dream experiences had in long ages. It was Saturday, July 25, 1992 – long after Merlin’s passing.
Regardless your combination, there is no greater gift to receive than the love of another to whom one has chosen to completely give of self. There is no greater validation of love’s superiority than to experience love from another, who has transitioned onto the next octave in that soul’s maturation, in a lucidly awakened dream as this shared between Merlin and me.
We have all loved and been loved and may you dear dreamer, by opening yourself up, experience your own moments of rapture as I did in this rhapsodic astral plane encounter with the one, the man, the elfin, the fuck-all fabulous, the ganja-smoking, groovy shaman from Babylon, Merlin!
The mark of a truly great love affair is the fruit it bears… dreams.
Sweet dreams you, I love you more!
The first dream was set, at nighttime, in Sandy Point, St. Kitts where I had spent my childhood. I was playing in the street, well past midnight, with three local youths. All Rastafarians, too, they were all in their twenties. I was my present age – thirty-one. They were younger. Everything about them was very real. There was a direct focussed tenor to their gaze; they looked into you. I felt very edgy with all this probity.
We had been acrobatically playing, in the street in front of the church, in The Alley, Sandy Point, St. Kitts. Of course, that same church Harella had built twenty-two years prior in the waking state. I tried not to outshine them, with my leaping tumbles, for fear of escalating the tension in the air. There was an edge to our interactions. It was a tension born of my having been so long off-island and their being suspicious, I thought, of my outré sexuality.
Just then, I noticed a light streaking across the star-punctured sky. In a bid to diffuse the tension between us, I drew their attention to it. However, I soon noticed that its progress was unusual. There was also something distinctly different about this light. It caused me to recall similar icons in dreams past – each had presaged rather momentous visions. Like all those before it, this streaking light seemed a silent observant probe. Immediately, I became open to what this comet-like streaking star could later reveal.
I began to explain to the youngest Rastafarian who was an impish, sexually-dynamic beauty – he was not the least bit self-conscious of his missing front teeth – that it was no doubt a very high geostationary satellite that had bombed and was now crashing to Earth. Further, I speculated that it was no doubt an orbiting space shuttle presently reflecting Sol’s intense light. As I spoke, I knew that I did not really believe either explanation but I thought that the ideas were a good way to ameliorate my position in the dynamic. The ruse failed to have done the trick. On returning my attention to the group, I was sent bolting – the leader was menacingly lunging through the air towards me, with a raptor’s ease, in eager flight.
Soon I also was in flight being chased through the streets of a Sandy Point, St. Kitts which quickly morphed and shifted becoming, more and more populous, like parts of old Havana. I was not certain which city this was but I was definitely still in the Caribbean.
I managed to escape into a house where I very energetically fought off their advance, securing the locks to the front door, thereby shutting them out. I climbed up the narrow and steep flight of stairs, in near-darkness, to the safety of the second storey. Winded and more enraged than stunned, at their behaviour, I took the time to gather my breath. I briefly visited with my aunt Pilar do Aragão† and Pandora – the latter whom Merlin favoured the most of my siblings. They were unaware of the tumult that I had just endured.
I took refuge in the darkened front of the house’s second storey. Next I found myself, in one of those rare dream moments, actually falling asleep whilst lucidly dreaming. I nodded… on recovering, I found that I had come to in an apartment. It was one more opulent than the one in which I had just grown suddenly drowsy. On a red antique chaise longue, in the most beautifully dark, wood-panelled, high-ceilinged digs that I had ever seen, I was now seated. Across the room was an open door that led out to a veranda.
A dark awning provided ample shade and allowed just the cool tropical breezes to laze in satiating the spirit. To have awakened into this new dreamspace had left my awareness more sensitised… more absorbing. The dream became more lucid and any sense of time dissolved. This left every moment infused with a sense of mysticism – magic even. It definitely felt like the West Indies here, perhaps, old-money Haïti or Guadeloupe if not Cuba.
Slowly, I drank in every detail of the stately furnished room. There were, on both walls to my left and right, floor-to-ceiling shelves which were not untidily crammed with old leather-bound volumes – some red, some brown, most were black. Slowly, from where I reclined, I pinpointed my vision to check the titles of some of the books. Thus I was able to see and read them, as intimately, as if I had gotten up and gone to stand before them closely peering. They were mostly ancient volumes. However, the script was not vaguely recognisable like any of the innumerable ones on the other, more familiar side of the dreamtime.
My spirit soared, as I felt fully relaxed, in this most bucolic of dreams. Strangely, though not unusual for the realm of the dreamtime, I felt that for having looked at these laden bookshelves my mind had absorbed the library’s voluminous wealth. Just then there was movement, to my right, across the room. I saw a cat that looked much like Whoopi. It appeared from behind one of three sofas, skulking towards another, situated opposite across the room.
Each sofa, like the chaise longue on which I reclined, had beside it a small round table. Each table was covered in either rich, dark earthy damask or actual rugs in deep though muted red. I was immediately reminded of the round table, across which sat the sibylline woman from Merlin and I, in the dreams of September 4, 1988. I sat up calling her name,
“Whoopi! Whoopi!” at which moment, the cat shimmered and became Julio – our black cat at 20 Amelia Street in Cabbagetown who, like Whitney before him, was killed in a hit-and-run as he ran across Amelia Street on New Year’s Eve, 1987. As I watched the cat disappear behind one of the three sofas, which accompanied my chaise longue, my mouth froze open in amazement. Whilst I assimilated that one and thought to myself that this certainly was a most unusual and lucid dream, there was utter stillness.
The cat’s metamorphosis had discernibly shifted the vibration of the dream. Now time seemed considerably measured as compared to its usual frenetic rhythm. The door in the far right corner then opened… into the room walked Merlin.
*I can’t here relay the rapture I felt on seeing him but the ecstatic descriptive of dream audio-cassette recording, for that day, comes fairly close. END.
Overwhelmed with emotion, my body quivered throughout. I tried to rouse from my reclining position. My arms outstretched to him, I greeted him squealing with delight. He stood, just in the entrance, raising his brows with the left familiarly arched higher. Staying me with the index and middle fingers of his raised right hand,
“No, don’t get up…” I heard Merlin direct me with the quiet familiarity that our intimacy knew.
This directive I telepathically experienced as though we were squinging up in bed, in the dark, at 20 Amelia Street in Toronto’s Cabbagetown. Our souls tickled, at such times, as we listened to some glorious thunderstorm drowning out the dog days of a too-hot-and-humid, Toronto summer. I obliged, sitting upright on the edge of the plush chaise longue, for the first time placing my feet on the beautifully designed and predominantly red rug. His face warmed towards me in a smile.
At once my mind expanded, simultaneously processing on multiple levels, becoming even more awakened. Rapture… pure rapture – I was enthralled. Here again, Merlin wore all the evolved energies that he had in that first dream encounter – that dream, of course, set in a Pacific west coast rainforest that was not unlike Vancouver Island’s Cathedral Grove in July 1978. A dream, of course, which occurred four years before I would physically meet him in the waking state.
Slowly, he walked the short distance of the room towards me. A breeze coming from the veranda not only cooled the place but it shifted the ambiance and made the place grow dimmer. The dimness highlighted the definite soft yellow glow that girdled his entire form. I sat there thinking,
‘My god, I can actually see your aura Merlin.’
He smiled and I was reminded that everything that I thought was instantly being telepathically shared. I was passive… moreover I was ripened as though I had just experienced an Alfred Brendel recital. I felt so lightheaded that I firmly pressed down both my palms, into the chaise longue’s plush red velvet, bracing myself. Merlin came and stood before me. He was casually dressed in loose, earthen woollen clothing. A cloak he wore stylishly draped about his narrow shoulders with its cowl removed.
As I looked up into his face, besotted by the beauty of his soul’s magic, he slowly arched his left brow in the way he had always affected when he wanted to be intimate. Merlin’s magical expression was exactly as it was, that gibbous-Moon October night, when we met in Babylon – which now for him was truly a lifetime removed. My face liquidly melted away in a smile. I was warmed by the knowledge that I was dreaming and that here before me was a man, Merlin, with whom I had shared such wonderful fortune. He had shared his grace, along with his beauty and his intellect, in the most magical combination with me.
As we made eye contact, still never having said a word, he slowly knelt into the bay of my open legs. Enthralled, my eyes slowly and unflinchingly shifted to look down into his as now he knelt before me. He wore his glasses, his beard cropped close, his hair styled in a leonine full-bodied mane. Moreover, I was moved by just how much this pose reflected the last night we had spent together – November 17, 1989. With an acuity rarely achieved in the waking state, my mind lucidly assimilated this rapturous encounter.
Here before me knelt Merlin. Merlin was the very embodiment of wholesome health, healing my spirit, releasing me from so much of the pain that I had endured. Like that last night of his life, before dying of AIDS, I was overcome with emotion. However, owing to the healing that this moment affected, now I wanted to melt in tears of joy. More than that, the moment’s poignancy rose from how uncannily it mirrored our final encounter.
About his slender long neck, Merlin wore a necklace of thick, copper-coloured coil that looked not the least bit malleable. The coil was half an inch in diameter and set with beautiful large crystals of various colours. The coil moved through each stone’s centre and each stone was deeply etched with golden hieroglyphs. Although Mayan hieroglyphs bore the closest resemblance, the inscriptions resembled none in this planet’s long history.
The effect of the bronze-coloured coil and crystals was grounding. The crystals gave off a low rumbling hum that was felt. It was akin to the definite effect of my pyramid, in the waking state, but easily thrice as intense. There were seven crystals in all. Principally, there was the large, smoky rough-hued quartz set at the bottom of the circular coil.
Its design slowly shifted from within but its glow seemingly originating elsewhere. It was huge and by far the most powerful. One quarter the way around the circle, which was duplicated on the opposite side, there were three crystals. The crystal in the middle was like nothing imaginable in the waking state. It was a coppery-bronzed colour with hints of blue-lapis lazuli dust throughout which actually glistened.
With any slight movement, the dust shifted becoming copper-coloured. When the colour shifted, I experienced a correspondingly subtle shift in the serenity that I felt. The unusual central crystal was flanked by two small and perfectly clear crystals. They were more radiant and powerful than any multiple-carat diamond yet found in the waking state.
It was actually difficult to sustain my focus on their exquisite beauty overlong. They were dynamic and seemingly made of the heaviest element imaginable. I was so pleased to see Merlin. The necklace he wore was like a grounding conductor. Seemingly, in order to manifest from his dimension to this dimensional dreamspace, he needed the energies of the crystals to join me.
He wore an argyle sweater that was not unlike one of the pastel ones I had bought him one Christmas. This one though was an earthy brown which he had, years earlier, interestingly claimed to have preferred. He effortlessly removed the crystal necklace placing it at my feet. The humming abruptly ceased. The crystals’ effect immediately shifted. I actually felt a cool energy, from the crystals, buzz through my entire body travelling from my feet to the crown of my head.
I watched as he detached the different crystals and made sure to leave the central one on the coil. Somehow, he was able to remove the six crystals from the coil though the coil remained a perfectly whole circle. As he kept placing the crystals, in different circular formations at my feet, he kept looking up at me with the warmest direct stare. Each formation affected a different temporal lobe and corresponding area of my body.
I was experiencing crystals with a potency that never before had I known in the waking state. I felt splayed by the experience. There were times that I felt as though my body and head were being stretched – elastically elongated with an ease nowhere else possible except the astral plane in the dreamtime. I thought then how absolutely incredible this man Merlin was – how truly fortunate I was to have met him, to have known him, to love him.
The lights noticeably further dimmed in the room. Next, the central large crystal grew black changing into the most unusual design. There had been an incredible energetic drain from me – energy which I suppose was collected in the now-transformed crystal which had remained about the coil.
From his left breast pocket, Merlin retrieved a little black pouch. As he looked down at it, I said to him,
“Oh my god Merlin, you are so beautiful…”
I knew that I was dreaming and I was thinking at the time,
‘…I will never be able to meet you, again. I’ll never see you again. You’ll never be that perfect mélange of bloodlines that created the magic that was your every idiosyncrasy.’
He looked up and smiled making me again realise that everything, we said without speaking, was so very clearly, readily known to the other.
As he opened the little black pouch, my lips trembled. I looked at those utterly gentle fingers that, I thought in passing, were now ashes in the earth at Toronto’s Mount Pleasant Cemetery,
‘Oh yes… those fingers, those beautiful delicate fingers.
‘Oh my god, yes…’ I simultaneously thought,
‘…These fingers, I will never see; they’ll never touch me again in the waking state – they’ll never exist again.’
Then, as if to eclipse my melancholy, he gently took my right hand in his. Merlin’s still-sensual hands purposefully began pouring the little, black pouch’s contents into mine. The touch of him was as intimate and as gentle, an evocative memory, as absent waves heard distantly lapping ashore on the beach in Pump Bay during childhood. How, as in the still of the night, my mind would race wondering of what new vistas I was yet to dream – when I was a child in St. Kitts.
All along, I had restrained the desire to touch him for he seemed so much more evolved. Truth be told, I was afraid that to physically reach out to touch him would only dissolve the dream. Naturally, for becoming emotionally overwhelmed, the fear was that I would undoubtedly whiteout. However, his touch was so real and so very familiar that I let out a heavy familiar sigh.
Into my palm spilled a dozen, perhaps more, of the most beautiful tiny crystals that were quite powerful. The touch of them actually made my mind further expand. My head seemed to contort, once again, with an élan that matched the lightning speed with which I assimilated the intense energies from the clutch of crystals into me.
They were more leaden, easily by ten times, than their small size betrayed. They glowed and they were decidedly hypnotic. They emitted a sense of music that was more experienced than heard. In spite of the fact that they glowed, I brushed aside the beauty of them and chose instead the real magic. I took his free hand with mine and began holding it, rubbing it, squeezing it.
Even more intently, I looked overjoyed into his arrestingly soulful eyes. I began groaning, moaning, I was overcome with intense emotion. This was, by far, the most alive and most lucid dream with Merlin since his passing some three years ago. I wanted more… I wanted no moment of this great intimacy to stop.
I asked him to remove his glasses so that I could really look at his eyes. He obliged and when he removed them his eyes weren’t their smoky grey-hazel-faded blue. They were brown, in fact, but they were his eyes and I thought, ‘My god, you’ve got brown eyes,’ to which he slightly blushed.
He wore a beard; it was the usual bushy affair. His lips were so moist, I said, “My darling, kiss me.”
Taking the lead, as I had when we met, I held the bottom of his ticklish beard and reached up his face to mine as I bent down. We kissed each other. It readily became a wonderfully slow and timeless dance high up our entwined greenhouses. My spirits soared to even greater heights. It was the greatest pleasure.
It was quite simply a sensory whiteout. We did not use tongue. We just kissed each other on the mouth. Throughout, until it was no longer possible, our eyes remained perfectly glued to each other’s. I turned my head to the right to kiss him, again. It was a soft lingering kiss; it was a kiss of complete surrender in which was communicated so much.
As though he and I were two leviathan creatures swimming together in a sensual medium of liquid blue light, our intimacy was pure movement. This aqueous light medium was immensely heavy and inhibited our progression to a slow-motioned crawl. Progressing playfully, as though so many nanoseconds were deleted from each time-stretched moment, we effortlessly danced alone. We were together and enraptured in a universe just for two – Merlin and me.
It was such great pleasure that, in its shared intimacy, it reflected the idiosyncrasies that we had known so well. It was a continuation of the dance we familiarly had always intimately known. It was such incredible intimacy that when the kiss was concluded the dream dissolved…
I sighed, on a deep sustained breath, besotted with the beauty of Merlin’s spirit. This was a most rare dream, a most soulful of dreams, with the dream magus. The sound of my breath was so loud that I actually felt the weight of my high-dreamer self as I crashed back into my body from, being astral-projected, high up the astral plane.
I felt fatigued, I felt spent, as is customary with such dream travel. Whilst remaining still, I kept my lids shut. Focussing on my weary breath, I allowed myself to drift upwards again. This time, I melted into true sleep where I could rest and recoup my energies. I awoke, about an hour later, in the nearly dark room of my tiny Queen Street West apartment in Toronto. Rested, I was truly rejuvenated after all that astral projection in the first sleep cycle.
As is customary with reparatory sleep, there were no dreams recalled of the second sleep cycle. I cried… I cried for joy. The realness of Merlin was so intense that after crying, for the first time since his passing, I grew aroused after dream contact. I savoured the beauty of this man, Merlin, my elfin-dream magus.
Pulling the black, satin blindfold back over my eyes, I slipped onto my stomach between the red satin bedding. Tightly holding on to a pillow, my left cheek pressed into it and the bedding drawn up over my head, I withdrew into a sweat lodge where I could continue communing with Merlin’s very soul.
My right knee drawn up, I allowed my rock-hard cock to ride up against the bedding and away from my tummy. Slowly, kneadingly, I ground my winding pelvis into the luxury of the bedding. Ploughing away, beyond its wet folds, I massaged my lusty thoughts deep and high up into the magical greenhouse. Whispering his name, my lips, my abs and body quivered.
From time to time, I managed my way up onto my toes. This allowed the exquisite play of cock and bedding to draw out greater pleasure. My abs ached. Whilst sweat sheened throughout my shivering body, I shuddered as the inside of my thighs violently tremoured. Merlin still knew how to work his magic on me.
Losing myself, my breath collapsed in repeated noisy, exhausted, shuddered grunts and groans. I whispered his name proclaiming my love to that point. In no other way could I have celebrated this truly profound astral plane encounter with Merlin in the dreamtime. As ever, hands-free auto-eroticism resulted in a most profuse and exquisitely pleasurable orgasm.
So richly deserving was I to have lost myself this way – beyond the usual daily auto-erotic ritual. I needed to savour this momentous dream encounter by making a solemn ritual of pleasurable thanksgiving. I had been moved anew by Merlin’s magic.
As ever, thanks for your ongoing support. Plié, push off and start flying whether awake or dreaming cause this dance called life is the most goddamn beautiful dream. I love you more.
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Dreamquest: Past Life As Welsh Warrior-King, Merlin (female) also Present.
The dream was the first that day and occurred in the B sleep cycle, on Thursday, June 25, 1992, whilst the Moon transited both Aries and my eleventh house. As with all past life dreams, this was inordinately lucid, all my senses were piqued. Of course, there was the sense of being locked in – not being able to change the outcome of events as they unfolded.
A marvellous hall at nighttime where I was with a companion progressing through the place. I don’t quite know who it was that accompanied me. Then I wandered off and was with myself. I rather relished having done so. On the right side of the wall, it was rather dark and dimly lit by candlelight or torch flames. There were all these books everywhere. They were of brown-covered, time-faded colours. They were in the fantasy genre.
Immediately, I was intrigued and got excited when recognising some as the same ones that I had bought before. Sadly, I had never gotten around to reading them. Interest peaked in me because I wanted to see what the covers of the books were like. As a matter of fact, one of the books was opened. Almost every one of them was opened.
Somebody had been reading them but hadn’t finished doing so. Whoever had been reading these books would, as a matter of fact, then turn them upside down on the ledge of the fragile-looking bookcase. Each night before going to sleep, this was the habit which the reader employed with the books. I progressed down the length of the shelf leisurely perusing their covers.
There was one there which stood out and immediately appealed to me. It was brown-covered with a young, handsome man on it. Another had a man with a dragon in the image. It was in the fantasy genre and terribly scorpionic in tenure. Its sensibilities were terribly medieval. As I kept walking along, I came to this one image on one of the walls. It was of a very large tapestry. Immediately on seeing it, I stopped dead in my tracks because it was readily recognisable.
It was something for which every residual resonance harked back to a former lifetime. It was a stunning tapestry. It was, as a matter of fact, quite large. On the bottom of it, there was this writing in red that was very Gothic. Arcane writing it was. Though it seemed to be in Latin, I was more so of the impression that it was in arcane Welsh. There were lots of Ws in the very long words.
I tried my best to read and interpret what it was saying but couldn’t quite make it out. It did have something to do with a particular event which was depicted as having occurred in the year 1209 or earlier. The writing was at the base of a stump in the tapestry. It sat there, a stone outpost that appeared on closer scrutiny, more so like a crypt. Whilst facing the tapestry, I looked at it and keenly recorded every lush detail of the very real experience.
The head was of this very princely man who was bearded and luminously silver-haired. He wore a long, flowing, white robe and as one looked at the wall, which was on my right, so too was the tapestry’s actions in that direction. As he lay there on this large, stone slab, the head of the man was plainly visible. His head was to the left of the tapestry. The robe that he wore came and hung over the edge of the stone slab.
The fabric beautifully cascaded over the edge and down to the floor. It was a wonderful, beautiful, shiny, white robe. The threads in the tapestry were such that the light striking it, from the room, caught and imbued it with a handsome glow. There was a woman there in the hallway, where the tapestry hung, who was dressed in medieval garb. Her arm outstretched, she was looking up with great yearning. The left arm on her heart, the right stretched up over the head of the prostrate ruler.
Supplicating the gods as it were, she was arched backwards. She was mourning. Her mouth torn-open birthed her bloody pain. She was wailing. All of this left one feeling such gravity at the sad state of affairs. Behind her was a large, brawny, warrior-like man. Basically, her arm was outstretched to block him off. He carried an upraised sword. He wore gold chain-mail. Experiencing this tapestry was very painful. I just couldn’t bring myself to look at the face of the prostrate ruler. Immediately, as I looked away, I was instantaneously made aware that I was participating in the action being depicted in the tapestry.
I was caught up in a re-enactment of the tapestry. Rather, it was a reanimation such that I was reliving the events depicted in the tapestry. There I was, of all things, lying on the slab. I was, in fact, the princely leader. As I reclined there, I immediately became familiar with the body. Large, mid-aged and overweight, I immediately became fully synchronised with the princely body’s every nuance. Also, I was instantaneously reminded of that large body which I had ensouled in that dream recall of that past life in Roman times. In that past life dream, I was murdered at the baths by my very shrewd wife’s centurion guard-cum-starfucker-stud agent.
In between feigning wailing at my loss, the woman was now leaning over me and whispering to me. Straight away, I realised what was afoot. I was not yet dead and she knew it too. We were trying to affect a faux death. This is why I was covered in all that heavy material which would easily disguise my shallow breathing. I was supposed to be faking being dead. Lying there, there was a commotion outside the large, heavy, wooden doors to the damp, empty room in a stone, fortress-like dwelling. Where it was seemingly at nighttime, there was a great deal of light coming through the high-placed windows about the room.
The man outside the door, who had been shouting in a violent display of temper, barged in and commandingly approached the cold slab on which I laid. I remained catatonic truly overcome with fear. He was a very large-bodied, brawny, hirsute study of Sagittarian, Martian energies. There was a dense concentration of warrior-spirited drive in his body. On his waist he carried his sword and was one impatient, disgruntled soul. He wore a chainmail suit of dull gold or bronze. When he walked there was all this noisy clanking from his armour, chainmail and sword.
He was bearded and much younger than I. He was long-haired, handsome, like a fierce warrior, with jet-black, glossy hair. His mouth was youthful, full and beautiful. His was the intensity of unbridled fearlessness and sheer, brutish force. He was cool and deadly. On seeing him, I was immediately filled with fear. My pulse uncontrollably raced. All I wanted to do was get up and bolt. However, I could not have. Approaching, he began talking to the woman in this strange, archaic, Aryan tongue. Basically, he was refuting the news that I had died. In essence he was saying, “He isn’t dead. Are you trying to fool me?”
He had the most powerful, booming voice whose echo slapped the damp chill out of the room.
“Look at him! He should have been dead a long time ago!”
I guess that he was my heir and was quite upset and wanted to claim the title that I had which, of course, was his by birth. Although he was my son or heir, at the very least, I had a mortal and ultimately fatal fear of him.
“Damn you! You should have died a long time ago. Why aren’t you dead yet?”
Then he suddenly stopped as it dawned on him that I could be faking it. He barked a loud breath of impatience and immediately drew his sword. At that the woman cried out, tossing herself at him, asking,
“What do you think you’re doing?”
With the most ferocious force, he brought down the sword vengefully attacking my body. The sword entered my stomach like an intensely hot spear. Simultaneously, it had struck my left hip as they both stood to the left of me – as indeed, she was standing in the tapestry. When he smote me the blade came down and hit me on the hip but then he moved it by thrusting it into my stomach.
Turning and twitching, I rigidly nudged my head to the right in pain. As he triumphantly laughed, the loudest most vulgar laugh erupted in the hall. Naturally, had I been dead there is no way that I would have moved.
*As I slept here, I had a corresponding cramp in my stomach. It was of a sharp, stabbing pain. This correspondingly made me simultaneously turn away to the right in the waking state. This was a very, very, vivid dream. END.
My sense of smell was quite piqued and there was no way to get over my being alive in this experience. It was very damp with a foul odour of agedness in the air. My stomach was convulsing and there was a taste of blood in my mouth mixed with the loud smell of faeces in the air. The woman, my companion, cried trying to explain that I had only recently died thus it was a nervous twitch – a nervous reaction if you like.
She was not very convincing to which he shot back, “Ha, well then if he is dead…” he began walking around her forcefully approaching the head of my body, “…he won’t mind having his head removed!”
All that I could see, from beneath my quivering lids, was her reaching up and lunging as she bawled aloud, “Noooo!” She reached up her hand and I tried to throw open my lids terror-struck. However, when the sword crashed down into my neck severing my head at the spinal cord, I swiftly felt a loud thud.
At that there was this immediate abortive blank. It was abrupt and with great finality. Gone was the woman’s horrified scream in mid-breath. I could feel the contact of the sword on my spine at the point of decapitation. This was, in fact, rather traumatic because abruptly and with great force my life was ended.
*At that point, the moment of blank displacement, I was slapped back into my body instantaneously awaking. Finding myself fully awake, I was in the midst of raising my head off the pillow as I slept on my back. When I heard my infamous neck injury snap and being aggravated anew, I had not yet sat up in bed. I collapsed back into the pillow stunned and short of breath.
It was all so overwhelming that all that I could do was just relax. I dissolved in a silent, teary cry. It was the only way to address the tense rigidity that my body had become. As I laid there it was extremely hard to simultaneously cry and breathe. I had no desire to get up. I was simply resigned with sheer exhaustion and the weightiness of having re-lived a traumatic end-of-life experience. This was a past life which undoubtedly was in the early part of this millennium, in Wales.
This obviously was, from every richly detailed nuance of the very intensely lucid, progressional experience, a slice of a past life. What was really impactful, even more so than the beheading, was the moment at which I saw the tapestry. It was immediately familiar and infused with a certain validity which couldn’t be denied in any way. I wanted to run, to not see it, on first contact with it but was incapable of doing anything.
The tapestry depicted the slaying, of the aged leader, as being a pivotal moment in that realm’s history. I did not get the sense that the man was my son but rather my usurper. Regardless, I was rather afraid of this man. This dream was much like so many others that relate to matters of trauma which resonate to the level of soul itself.
I can remember thinking at the time of that dream of Francesca and of the one with Merlin, in which he collapsed a great deal in that life in Spain with the Ludnezes and I protested by saying, “I want out of this dream, now!”
It does go without saying that as Merlin is a scholar soul, the upturned, unread books – which were brown-covered and time-faded – were a residue of his true soul in essence and agedness of soul. After all, it was Merlin who nightly read several books, one of which he would conclude. Until he was prepared to return to one of them to conclude the following night, the others were kept upturned or down-turned about the apartment.
In the event that they were to be accidentally closed, there were even times when he would wedge a piece of pretzel in between the pages. Of course, I was in the habit of going around and closing the books when cleaning house. Merlin, time and again, expressed displeasure at what he saw as interference. I would never mischievously close the books that he had kept opened about our home. Alas, such is wedded bliss.
Every detail in these dreams was so richly realised and resonant. There was no way that Merlin could not have been instrumental in this past life revisit and reanimation. I am confident that Merlin was crucial to the invocation of this past life milieu which awaited my arrival. Of course, thanks to the jarring vividness of the decapitation, I abruptly awoke.
However, I still felt as though I needed to dream on. I knew that there was more yet to come. Despite Whoopi having leapt from the bed anticipating being fed, I chose not to get from bed and do anything. I would much later after this dream learn, from Mathilde Duchenne’s channelling, that Merlin and I are indeed task companions – he a seventh level mature scholar to my seventh mature artisan. This validation only made the dream of the library, of much loved books, that much more relevant.
Obviously, that dream set in late-twelfth, early-thirteenth century Wales involved both he and I. I don’t, however, know whether he was the large-bodied woman who pleaded for me not to be killed or whether he was the Sagittarian-Martian energied usurper/heir who came to make sure that the job was done and I was truly dead. It was all very lucid and like every reincarnational dream one was incapable of affecting change in the outcome of events. One was, as it were, simply along for the roller-coaster ride. END.
As ever, straighten up and fly right, all the while singing, vocalesing and having a merry old time of it… because you are special and I say that you are damn well worth a flying dream. Thanks for your ongoing support.
Givenchy & Valentino
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Givenchy (Clare Waight Keller) Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2019/2020.
Monochromatic, feathers, and all that silver… to say nothing for the headpieces.
Valentino (Pierpaolo Piccioli) Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2019/2020.
Everything about this show was simply masterful… from the music, Ennio Morricone’s score to The Mission with the show being closed to Aretha Franklin singing Natural Woman. So much colour, so much verve and attack; the structure and that ruffled purple gown at the end. Bravissimo!
Go on cool kats, you know what to do, push down, plié, push off and start flying your merry little hearts out… cause life is a dream and you damn well can…. I love you more. Thanks for the ongoing support…
Iris van Herpen & Schiaparelli
At the intersections of Vision, Art & Commerce exists the most timeless Couture.
Iris van Herpen Paris Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2019/2020.
Schiaparelli Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2019/2020.
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Its goodbye to Mzansi’s favourite telenovela Isibaya
South Africa was introduced to Mzansi Magic’s Isibaya, which is set in the backdrop of the taxi industry.
But the curtain is now closing on the popular telenovela and it will be replaced by a new production called Diepsloot.
Recently we reported that the show was canned due to low ratings after it failed to make the top 10 repeatedly. In a few short weeks, Isibaya will be a thing of the past.
A source close to the production said:
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The End Time Bible Commentary
by Paul Macisker
4 Empires Timeline
Revelation Timeline
History-Kings
Numbers 23-24
Deuteronomy 28-30
Hosea 5-6
Hosea 13-14
Nahum 1-3
Zephaniah 1-3
Malachi 1-4
Why study end times
Science-Cosmic Wonders
Historical Fact
The Bethlehem Star
The Time is Fulfilled
The Weather Forecast
The Christmas Jigsaw
My Own Interest
Why Study End Times?
Has Satan Been Bound?
The First Resurrection
One Judgment or Two?
This Generation
Approaches to Scripture
The Abrahamic Covenant
The Church and Israel
The Fourth Kingdom
The Parousia
Isaiah reveals a message of future hope for Israel through the birth of her Messiah King, who will rule on David's throne forever.
The context of this chapter is the threat of invasion that hung over Israel and Judah in Isaiah's day. Assyria exiled the northern kingdom of Israel to Assyria in its invasions of 740 BC and then in 722 BC when the capital city of Samaria fell. The southern kingdom of Judah, and its capital Jerusalem managed to resist such a fate until its fall to the Babylonian empire in 586 BC. But into this context, in verses 1 to 7 Isaiah receives revelation of Israel's future Messiah.
Verse 1 speaks of a time in the past when God humbled the lands of Zebulun and of Naphtali (in the north of Israel), as happened during those Assyrian invasions and deportations. But verses 1 and 2 then look to the future when God would honour the region of Galilee and shine his light into the darkness. This was fulfilled through Jesus' Galilean ministry in the first century AD, and these verses are quoted in Matthew 4:15-16.
Verses 3 to 7 look forward to a yet-future day when Jesus will deliver Israel from yet another Assyrian invasion, that is by the Antichrist. The Antichrist is referred to as 'the Assyrian' in several end-time passages (e.g. Isaiah 10, 14 and 30, and in Micah 5). Though not called the Assyrian in this passage, the Antichrist is described as "the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor" (v4). In this future invasion by the Antichrist, Jesus' defeat of the Antichrist is likened to Gideon's defeat of the Midianites (verse 4), and God promises to enlarge the nation of Israel. That is, Israel will gain territory from its defeated enemies. Verses 6 and 7 look forward to the establishment of Jesus' Millennial kingdom, with him reigning on David's throne in Jerusalem, and over his kingdom which is ever-increasing.
Places: Assyria, Israel, Judah
Symbols:
Tags: Antichrist as the oppressor, Birth of Jesus, First coming of Jesus, Jesus delivers Israel, Jesus as the end-time Gideon, Jesus establishes his kingdom, Jesus rules as king
9 (8:23) The gloom will be dispelled for those who were anxious. In earlier times he humiliated the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali; but now he brings honor to the way of the sea, the region beyond the Jordan, and Galilee of the nations.
2 (9:1) The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness.
3 You have enlarged the nation; you give them great joy. They rejoice in your presence as harvesters rejoice; as warriors celebrate when they divide up the plunder.
4 For their oppressive yoke and the club that strikes their shoulders, the cudgel the oppressor uses on them, you have shattered, as in the day of Midian’s defeat.
5 Indeed every boot that marches and shakes the earth and every garment dragged through blood is used as fuel for the fire.
6 For a child has been born to us, a son has been given to us. He shoulders responsibility and is called: Amazing Adviser, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 His dominion will be vast and he will bring immeasurable prosperity. He will rule on David’s throne and over David’s kingdom, establishing it and strengthening it by promoting justice and fairness, from this time forward and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will accomplish this.
God’s Judgment Intensifies
8 The Lord decreed judgment on Jacob, and it fell on Israel.
9 All the people were aware of it, the people of Ephraim and those living in Samaria. Yet with pride and an arrogant attitude, they said,
10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with chiseled stone; the sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.”
11 Then the Lord provoked their adversaries to attack them, he stirred up their enemies –
12 Syria from the east, and the Philistines from the west, they gobbled up Israelite territory. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.
13 The people did not return to the one who struck them, they did not seek reconciliation with the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
14 So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail, both the shoots and stalk in one day.
15 The leaders and the highly respected people are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.
16 The leaders of this nation were misleading people, and the people being led were destroyed.
17 So the Lord was not pleased with their young men, he took no pity on their orphans and widows; for the whole nation was godless and did wicked things, every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.
18 For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.
19 Because of the anger of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the land was scorched, and the people became fuel for the fire. People had no compassion on one another.
20 They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!
21 Manasseh fought against Ephraim, and Ephraim against Manasseh; together they fought against Judah. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.
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, Banished requires you to build your town from scratch, maintain it so its citizens are content and it keeps growing. Unlike the likes of SimCity, Banished requires you to build a city in medieval times so there are a lot more challenging aspects to take into consideration. One of the major differences is that instead of wages and taxes in Banished, trading is the sole form of currency. You need to produce crops and goods to barter and trade with.
You need to ensure that the citizens of your Banished town are well looked after. Crops need to be grown to feed your people, houses need to be built for shelter, you need to avoid outbreak of diseases and protect citizens from extreme weather conditions! The world of Banished isn’t an easy one to maintain but it is challenging and entertaining.
Banished provides a tutorial feature for players to avail of if you don’t want to throw yourself into creating a medieval empire! The tutorial teaches youto set up your village from scratch and how to go about it successfully, although if you do skip the tutorial you can always learn quickly through trial and error which can be a lot of fun!
Graphically Banished looks great, the medieval villages are beautiful and the changing seasons each have dramatic effects on how the world looks. This isn’t the most detailed game visually but the emphasis of Banished is on gameplay, it is all about strategy and tactics so realistic looking livestock isn’t its first priority!
Overall Banished is a detailed, challenging and fun city building strategy game that is sure to have you glued to your computer screen for hours and hours!
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Banished is a highly addictive and insanely entertaining city building strategy game for your PC. If you’ve ever desired to rule over your own world and possess God-like powers then you need to get your hands on Banished!
Similar to SimCity, Banished requires you to build your town from scratch, maintain it so its citizens are content and it keeps growing. Unlike the likes of SimCity, Banished requires you to build a city in medieval times so there are a lot more challenging aspects to take into consideration. One of the major differences is that instead of wages and taxes in Banished, trading is the sole form of currency. You need to produce crops and goods to barter and trade with.
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SP-BSP Alliance Just What BJP Wanted: Congress
Jan 15, 2019, 15:15 IST
New Delhi: An SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh without the Congress was exactly what the BJP wanted initially and the two regional parties have fallen into the ruling party's design, the Congress said Monday.
Its spokesperson R P N Singh said the BJP wanted the secular parties to remain divided in the politically crucial Uttar Pradesh before the 2019 Lok Sabha election and contest independently so that their votes could be split. Its attempts have proved successful, he added.
On Sunday, the Congress said it would contest on all 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh in the general election, expected in April-May. That the party was left out of the SP-BSP alliance would not affect its prospects and the Congress would contest with "full force", it had said.
On Monday, Singh tried to raise doubts over the longevity of the alliance, wondering whether it would last till the UP Assembly election.
He also asked whether now BSP chief Mayawati and SP leader Akhilesh Yadav would attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi on "corruption" in the Rafale jet deal.
"The SP-BSP coming together leaving the Congress outside is what the BJP wanted from the very beginning, that the opposition parties contest independently. It seems they have fallen into the pattern that BJP wanted," he told PTI.
He said attempts are being made in all states to unite secular forces and avoid division of anti-BJP votes. "They (SP and BSP) did not express their desire to even talk to us," he alleged.
The SP-BSP alliance was formalised on Saturday at a joint presser by Mayawati and Yadav. They announced their parties would contest 38 seats each and would leave two seats for smaller allies. They also said they would not field candidates from Amethi and Rae Bareli, the traditional seats of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi respectively.
Accusing the leadership of the SP and the BSP of not attacking Prime Minister Modi on corruption, Singh said, "We don't see the leaders of these parties attacking the prime minister on corruption in the Rafale scam, the way Rahul Gandhi has attacked him." "We expect the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party to take this up as vehemently in the elections as Gandhi has taken it up," he said.
The former Union minister who hails from Padrauna in Uttar Pradesh and won the Kushinagar Lok Sabha seat in 2009, said the Congress is talking to other smaller parties in Uttar Pradesh for possible alliances for the general election.
He said whenever other political parties have undermined the Congress, the people of Uttar Pradesh have shown them what the Grand Old Party is. (PTI)
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Projects using EPD data
DYNAmic Models in Terrestrial Ecosystems and Landscapes
A Lund-Liverpool collaboration that will use and support the European Pollen Database
Funding STINT (Sweden)
Leaders: Profs. Snowball (Lund) and Bradshaw (Liverpool)
The consequences of current climatic, land-use and physical landscape changes are of international research and teaching interest. Understanding these changes during the Quaternary period places the present situation in a valuable perspective and aids the refinement of models used to forecast future conditions. The overall objective of DYNAMITE is to understand Quaternary environmental change by combining physical landscape research with ecosystem dynamics to improve models. The objective will be achieved through collaboration between nationally-funded research projects, exchange of researchers, teachers and students and a group of flagship activities that includes a jointly produced book for researchers, teachers and students. Lund and Liverpool have complementary expertise and experience in model development and Quaternary data-model comparison. An exchange programme will open new research areas for both partners and develop international teaching programmes at all levels. Four flagship activities will present DYNAMITE to a wider community:- 1. Joint Lund-Liverpool authorship of a book titled “From the past to the future: understanding long-term vegetational change”. 2. Joint hosting of symposia at European Geophysical Union 2010, International Union for Quaternary Research 2011 and sessions at the Annual General Meeting of the British Society for Geomorphology 2011. 3. Joint hosting of an international data-model workshop using the European Pollen Database and POLLSCAPE model to reconstruct past vegetation patterns. 4. Field-based graduate courses comparing relatively unexploited (Sweden) and exploited (UK) upland environments through time.
Fire management to maintain biodiversity and mitigate economic loss
An ERA-net BIODIVERSA research project with 6 European partners
Leader: Prof. Bradshaw
Fire is a natural disturbance agency of many forest and grassland ecosystems that contributes to species dynamics and diversity, physical structure and ecosystem function. Many European heathland systems owe their origin and maintenance to burning, and fire is a key disturbance agency in both Mediterranean and boreal biomes that impacts the biodiversity of ecosystems, species and genetic structure. Fire-ecosystem relationships are altered by changing climate and earlier European fire regimes are now heavily modified by human activities to generate both biological and socioeconomic problems. Intense or inappropriate fire can wreak enormous damage and following recent extreme fire years in parts of Europe, there is an urgent need for a co-ordinated European policy on fire management. The main aim of FIREMAN is to generate policy guidance and management tools for the appropriate use of fire to foster biodiversity in three major European ecosystems. The project will use European pollen data to compare and map Holocene fire-vegetation relationships. FIREMAN Webpage – http://www.fireman-europe.com
LANG revisited
Contact person for the Gerhard-Lang-book project is Brigitta Ammann brigitta.ammann@ips.unibe.ch
The textbook about vegetation history in Europe by Gerhard Lang was published in 1994 in German but is now out of print. Many Quaternary scientists have appreciated the book for its concise text as well as its clear black-and-white figures and maps for selected pollen taxa. A small team (B. Ammann, K.-E. Behre, W. Tinner, W.O. van der Knaap, D. Colombaroli) has now started to work on the up-dated version of the book in English, taking advantage of the European Pollen Database as one of the tools to collect and synthesize data on pollen and plant macrofossils. Many important studies published after the late 1980s are still missing from the EPD, and it would be very helpful to have them available in the EPD for many research projects as well as for the new book. In this book the maps will be a lot simpler than what the group “MADCAP” is planning, but still they should be as complete as possible. We therefore strongly encourage all palynologists from Europe to submit all their relevant pollen data (and macrofossil data if available), to the EPD. This will be of great benefit for every single scientist and for the scientific community because their results will be comparable and organized in a data-base; this is the best way of preserving valuable data (restricted or unrestricted*) that otherwise could get lost or forgotten.
MADCAP Projects
Coordinator: Simon Brewer
A description of the projects of the MADCAP group can be acceessed on the following webpage: http://www.europeanpollendatabase.net/wiki/doku.php?id=group_projects.
VR LANDCLIM 6000-200, LUCCI, and MERGE
Leader VR LANDCLIM : M.J. Gaillard (University of Kalmar, Sweden) Leaders LUCCI: Martin Sykes, Almuth Arneth, Svante Björck and Daniel Conley (University of Lund, Sweden) Leader MERGE: Markku Rummukainen (university of Lund)
Principal responsibles and investigators so far: Anna Broström, Ralph Fyfe, Marie-José Gaillard, Thomas Giesecke, Erik Kjellström, Florence Mazier, Paul Miller, Anne-Brigitte Nielsen, Mats Rundgren, Benjamin Smith, Gustav Strandberg, Shinya Sugita, Anna-Kari Trondman
The European Pollen Database (EPD) will be involved through its manager Michelle Leydet and its Support Groups, in particular MADCAP, Taxonomy and Nomenclature and Chronology.
The VR-LANDCLIM 6000-200 project (LAND cover-CLIMate Interactions in NW Europe 6000 BP and 200 BP: a novel model-data comparison approach) is financed by the Swedish Research Council VR (Vetenskapsrådet) and was launched in January 2009 for a period of three years. It is a collaboration between palaeoecologists/ palynologists (application of the REVEALS model (Sugita, 2007 in the Holocene); quantitative reconstruction of regional vegetation from fossil pollen data), vegetation modellers (LPJ-GUESS dynamic vegetation model; Lund University, Ben Smith, Paul Miller), palaeoclimatologists (synthesis of palaeoclimatic data, Lund and Kalmar universities, Mats Rundgren and collaborators), and climate modellers (SMHI, Swedish Institute of Meteorology, Rossby Research Centre, Sweden; Regional climate model RCA3; Lars Bärring and collaborators)
The major objectives of VR LANDCLIM are as follows: we will reconstruct Holocene land-cover at a regional-continental spatial scale over NW Europe and western Europe north of the Alps (see study area below) using the REVEALS model (Sugita 2007, The Holocene) and pollen data from lakes and bogs. Pollen records from the EPD and other sources will be used to reconstruct Holocene land cover (in % cover) of 35 taxa at the regional spatial scale. All pollen records that we will use and are not currently in the EPD will be submitted to the EPD at the condition that the authors agree. These REVEALS reconstructions will be used in a data-model comparison scheme with the aim to evaluate and refine the vegetation and climate models. The REVEALS land-cover estimates will be compared to the outputs of the dynamic vegetation model LPJ GUESS in order to calibrate the LPJ GUESS model before it is used in regional climate modelling (RCA3 model). The REVEALS reconstructions will also be used separately in the climate modelling. The RCA3 model outputs, either using the vegetation predicted by LPJ-GUESS or the land cover predicted by REVEALS, will be compared with palaeoclimate data.
LUCCI: Holocene land-cover reconstructions are also needed for another project on « Quantitative reconstructions of past land-use and its role in the climate-carbon cycle system » coordinated by Martin Sykes, Almuth Arneth, Svante Björk and Daniel Conley (Lund University, Sweden) and financed by the LUCCI project (http://www.lucci.lu.se/ 2009-2019). The latter project will work on the same time windows as VR-LANDCLIM and two additional ones (3000 BP and 600 BP). The independent data sets of past land cover and vegetation composition will be used to simulate carbon release with the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS in order to compare results with simulated carbon release based on potential vegetation and human induced vegetation inferred from REVEALS. For more information on this project, please contact Florence Mazier (florencemazier@yahoo.fr or florence.mazier@geol.lu.se ) or Anna Broström (anna.brostrom@geol.lu.se).
MERGE (ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system) is a very large research programme that recently got support from the Swedish government. It is based at Lund University and coordinated by Markku Rummukainen. It includes a large number of workpackages of which “Focus 1.2.1. Land cover/land use feedbacks on climate” is led by M.-J. Gaillard. In that part of MERGE, model-data comparison protocols will be set up to evaluate and improve existing vegetation and climate-vegetation models, working initially with the LPJ-GUESS, RCA3, and RCA-GUESS suite of models. The palaeolandscape reconstruction method REVEALS will produce spatially-extensive land-cover maps on ~1?1 km resolution, appropriate for comparison to gridded output from the climate and vegetation models (F1.1.1). Holocene time windows centred on carefully selected phases of contrasting vegetation and human impact scenarios will be analysed through model experiments for land cover-climate feedbacks. The vegetation reconstructions will be used both for evaluation and to constrain land cover fields in climate model runs.
The project VR LANDCLIM and the subprojects within LUCCI and MERGE are also linked to the NordForsk LANDCLIM network (coordinator: M.-J. Gaillard) (see below)
NordForsk LANDCLIM 10 000
Coordinator: M.-J. Gaillard (University of Kalmar)
The NordForsk LANDCLIM 10 000 network is a constellation of 13 research groups from 6 Nordic countries and other European countries (France, Germany, Britain). The Nordic Research Council gives financial support 3 years (2009-2011) for the organization of workshops including travels and accommodation for the participants. The organization of the NordForsk LANDCLIM is open and welcomes new members, i.e. any scientist interested in the topic of the network. The network aims at encouraging collaboration between palaeoecologists, historians, archaeologists, vegetation modellers and climate modellers in order to study climate-vegetation feedbacks in the past, and to develop robust dynamic vegetation models and climate models for future predictions. All collaborators-contributors to the VR-LANDCLIM and to the subproject of LUCCI (see above) are also members of the NordForsk LANDCLIM network. See www.hik.se/pages/9922_1.htm
PLEASE take contact with Prof. M.-J. Gaillard for any further information or to discuss collaboration within VR LANDCLIM or NordForsk LANDCLIM: marie-jose.gaillard-lemdahl@hik.se
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