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SCOPE open access article published in Drug Safety
The Strengthening Collaboration for Operating Pharmacovigilance in Europe (SCOPE) Joint Action was aimed to help medicine regulators operate pharmacovigilance systems to the EU legislative requirements. Regulators have worked together to improve the skills and capability in the pharmacovigilance network to help safeguard public health in both national territories and the EU as a whole.
SCOPE open access article published in Drug Safety
Lead: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), United Kingdom
Work package 1 delivers the coordination and project management functions for SCOPE
Lead: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), United Kingdom
This work package aims to effectively disseminate information about SCOPE and its deliverables
Lead: National Authority of Medicines and Health Products, I.P. (INFARMED), Portugal
This work package focusses on the evaluation of SCOPE to verify that the project is delivers what was planned to achieve the objectives
Lead: Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices (HALMED), Croatia
This work package focuses on national adverse drug reaction reporting schemes, including patient reporting and efforts to improve awareness of national systems
Lead: Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB), Netherlands
This work package examines signal management at the level of the National Competent Agencies
Lead: Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios (AEMPS), Spain
This work package focusses on risk communications about medicines, including communications tools and channels and their effectiveness
Lead: National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition (OGYÉI), Hungary
This work package aims to support quality standards in pharmacovigilance systems
Lead: Agenzia Italiana Del Farmaco (AIFA), Italy
The final work package examines aspects of pharmacovigilance assessment including assessor competency


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the shows
Port Elizabeth-based production company, Centrestage, responsible for the popular music and comedy collaboration series with Aaron McIlroy The Magnificent 7, will be bringing the same band back to Durbans Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre to showcase 3 new hit shows at the end of March.
From 24 March until 4 April, the Centrestage All-Star Band will be joined by comedian Mark Banks to take a light-hearted look back at the decade which spawned lyrca, bad taste, outrageous fashion, the mullet hairstyle and neon stuff you guessed it the show is entitled The Crazy 80s Centrestage!
A schizophrenic decade in so many respects, Mark Banks will be using the gift of hind-sight along with his acerbic and irreverent wit to look back and remind us about at a time which the fashion police clearly forgot!
The 80s was the era which provided the now nostalgic sound track to the misspent youth of the middle-aged of today and Banks reminds us of the bitter-sweet embarrassment and inexplicable folly that went along with it all.
Musically, stadium rock, new wave, electronic and pop metal were blended and commercial, catchy hooks and increased pop aesthetic was embraced. This was the age which launched a new level of lighters aloft, with the marriage of guitar and keyboards creating an absolutely distinctive sound for the time.
Against this backdrop, The 12 piece Centrestage All-Star band will be joined by a brass section and 3 keyboards to again recreate the huge 80s sound with the same kind of authenticity and sheer energetic entertainment which was so apparent in their previous Magnificent 7 outings.
The show is jam-packed with hits by the likes of Duran Duran, The Eurhythmics, AHA, Talking Heads, Wham!, Dexys Midnight Runners, Bananarama, Talking Heads, Reo Speedwagon, Foreigner and Yazoo.
The energetic Wayne Kallis performs as John Cougar Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen, Donna Africa takes the stage as Tina Turner and Madonna, while Lani Botha pays tribute to Blondie and Cindy Lauper. The electric Melvyn Matthews, last seen in Durban tearing up the stage as Bob Marley in The Magnificent 7 2, takes on the role of Michael Jackson, while musical director Donovan Hattingh is Huey Lewis.
The Crazy 80s Centrestage offers a whirlwind of the best music and comedy combined, from a company which has proved its pedigree and knows how to thoroughly entertain an audience. The show will represent the sixth run that the Centrestage All-Star Band will be staging in Durban, their last outing before this being to perform Elvis Centrestage for the Playhouse in 2008.
The two week run at the Elizabeth Sneddon will be followed by 6 performances of their 70s salute The Magnificent 70s from 7-11 April, before the final week sees the Best of Magnificent 7 1 and 2 taking place at the Sneddon from 13th-17th April but more about that later.
Tickets to all shows can be purchased from Computicket, starting at R95.
For more information see www.centrestage.co.za or for video previews, type centrestagelive into Youtube for a collection of video highlights from various Centrestage shows.

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Sunday, January 31, 2016
Module B1 - Reply to a post
It is impossible to look at B1 now as it was when it was released. For me this was the first published module I'd ever seen other than Temple of the Frog from the Blackmoor supplement. Each step within those halls was filled with danger and mystery and every encounter was something new. Just that first encounter with the magic mouth became an iconic image in the future lore of the game in the same way as Tomb of Horrors Green Devil Face or Undermountains decent into the shield-lined pit from the center of the Inn. B1 is a test for the DM and either a frustrating experience or a spur to creativity.
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You seem to be implying that the fond memories of B1 are a form of nostalgia and that the module itself is lacking. The module itself is fantastic but I'm not sure that modern imagination and creativity is able to appreciate it. There is a sensory overload involved in the amount of material presented to those involved in modern RPGs that is inherently distracting to the creative and imaginative mind that simply did not exist 35+ years ago. We were presented with a fairly blank slate at the time RPGs were born with few if any options to fill in those blank spaces with anything other than what our own imaginations and creative inspiration could steal from other mediums. If you wanted to run a Cthulhu scenario you read Lovecraft or Lovecraftian fiction and distilled game material from that, If you wanted a dungeon that descended deeper and deeper into the depths you drew it passage by passage, room by room, and stocked it to the best of your ability. If you wanted to push your adventure up a notch you had to make it up because Holmes Basic just stopped and pointed you in the direction of Further. There is nothing like absolute necessity to spur creativity. B1 provided inspiration but never tried to force direction. B1 points to far horizons that have no limits. It provides a template that can simply be repeated but beckons to be personalized, expanded, strangely altered and enchanted by the hand of a DM who wants to make the game their own. I look at B1 today and it still inspires me to go in new directions, or revist old ones and think it is a shame if this small piece of magic has been lost to the world of gaming in the intervening years.
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Saturday, January 30, 2016
The WH40k Ciaphas Cain series.
I've been reading it for awhile now, among other things. I have the two three-novel collections that feature a few short pieces and the three novels that came afterwards. Just finished novel 8 'The Last Ditch' and making my way to novel 9 'The Greater Good'. It is basically 'Flashman' meets WH40k. I found the 1st 2 novels to be the best and a distinct lessening of quality in novel 6. I don't remember novel 9 exactly but I did read it and don't remember being impressed (hopefully I'm mistaken).
These stories are decently written but I wouldn't think they'd be as enjoyable or nearly as funny to anyone not fairly familiar with the WH40K setting and the novels. The setting and other fictional work, is of a grim and repressive far, far future. The Ciaphas Cain series makes sure that the reader understands that that future is also British. It seems to rest somewhere between the TV series 'Rome' Britishy Romans who are perfectly cultured and brutal and Python's 'Life of Brian's Britishy Romans making you conjugate Latin (or they'll cut your balls off).
I think the best book is the first so certainly the place I'd recommend to start with if anyone wants to give the series a try.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016
The Hill Giant Chief - Nosnra's Saga - Part 140
The mountainside was a wild, rocky place. As the summit grew nearer the trail steepened till they were all half-climbing, leaning into their staves or against each other for support. Harald had run up the path, quick and sure as a mountain goat despite his size and years. He ran back and now lead them to the camp.
"How did they get here?" asked Ghibelline. "Not the way we just came."
"Over the top and down from the other side," said Harald. "It's the peak up there, beyond it's a range, not just a single mountain."
"How can you tell?" Harold asked.
"You can see more from the camp," said the ranger, "it's on a ledge that curves round the side."
"This trail, the stones have been carved away by water, haven't they?" Ghibelline ran his hand down the smooth side of the rock.
"Water," said Ivo, "water and time. The two will split a mountain."
"No sign of it now I suppose," said Harold loudly. "All this talk, it's getting me thirsty."
"Quiet there..." warned Harald. "There's a pond by the camp, though the giants and their wolves have been at it. Keep him away from the waterskins, he'll drain them dry."
"Hey..." Harold started to complain, but Ivo put his finger to his lips and hushed him.
They came up from the steep trail between a boulder to the east and dense brush to their left, the west side of the ledge.
"We've turned," whispered Ghibelline.
"Yea," that trail seemed straight enough didn't it," Harald agreed. "Loose an arrow down that path and you'd see the curve."
The wood elf and the ranger circled the clearing, one to either side as the others made their way up onto the wide ledge. There was a clearing before them, much like the little spring they had left below, but here the trees had been felled and the stumps either pulled up or turned into the legs of a bench and table of massive size. The center of the clearing was bare except for a large pit, the remains of a campfire still smouldering within the circle of stone. A roasting spit was left above the embers and on it the bones of a massive elk, bits of bloody flesh and gristle still clinging to the ribs and haunch.
The ranger came back to the group as they gathered by the firepit. He watched them for a moment, a tinge of resentment and anger at the limits set upon him by Telenstil, but a stronger sense of care for his companions overwhelmed such petty thoughts. He was angry because he could not protect them, the same way that he had failed to protect his homeland from the depredations of the giants. The memories of the dead came back to haunt him. They fled and each step that took them further from Nosnra and his steading ate into Harald's spirit, gnawing him down to his heart.
"Could we cook some food?" asked the halfling staring at the smouldering ashes in the pit.
"We should not stay that long," said Telenstil.
"This place is no better than the spring," said Harald. "Up there the trail is above us, and there is even less cover here."
"They've cut down all the trees," said Gytha. "Those stumps are old."
Harald nodded in agreement. "They've been using this as a camp for some time."
"Where did they go?" asked Talberth. "And why did they come here?"
"They went downhill," answered Harald. "The path they took is to the east, it goes down and up along that side of the mountain."
"More settlements lie to the east," said Telenstil. "Those messengers, they were headed in that direction, and those herdsmen they were coming from the east."
"These mountains and hills are thick with giants," Harald said grimly. "They infest this land."
"Well, other than giants we should not have any beasts or monsters to worry about," said Telenstil brightly.
"What of those wolves?" asked Harold. The halfing felt more and more lost out in the woods beyond the walls of cities and the comfort of paved streets and warm beds.
"They serve the giants," said Harald.
"That doesn't make me feel any better," Harold replied.
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"What now?" asked Harold.
"I should have brought a sage along," said Telenstil. "Perhaps it would have been a good idea at that. We keep moving," he said to Harold and the others.
"Then we move," said Ghibelline firmly. He looked from one to the other of his companions till he had met each of their eyes, even that of the small orc who kept himself behind the halfling. "I tell you I cannot feel anything but hope about our actions. I was in a place equal to that of the very Hells. Death would have released me but not before much pain. Torture was my fate at the hands of those monsters, you freed me as you freed Jalal."
"I regret that he did not enjoy his freedom long," Telenstil said sadly.
"I wish that he had lived..." said Ghibelline.
"We all do," Gytha touched his arm. Ghibelline smiled.
"I can speak for him, escaping was enough, just one breath of freedom was enough. I never thought I'd see the sky or be among the trees again. Whatever happens I have had my freedom. All you have yours, before I was captured I didn't know, not till we stepped from Nosnra's hall, not till then..."
"We had better go," Telenstil told them. "But Ghibelline. Everyone. Ghibelline speaks true. We are here by our choice, free to go if that is how our fate takes us."
Harald shook his head but did not speak. The old ranger lead them from the giants' camp, taking them along the eastern edge of the slope where a path had been cut through the boulders and the trees. Stones had simply been tossed aside or split and the fragments rolled down the hill. The giants had carved their trail long ago and kept it in use, no plants had taken root. During the spring the path ran like a city sewer, dark silt and mud pouring down, cutting deeper into the oerth till there was only bedrock paving the way.
This was a stark land, the hills turned quickly into mountains and the mountains seemed to go on forever, rising higher and higher as they climbed toward the west. The lower slopes were thick with green, and valleys were plentiful between serrated peaks. As the mountains grew taller, snow sat upon their shoulders like great white shawls, the tops rising above, too high for the frozen carpet, some so tall that they disappeared in the clouds. The view offered to the party as they stepped upon the giants trail was breathtaking. It forced a smile to the ranger's lips. The grandeur of Oerth, its vastness and beauty struck a chord at the center of his being. He felt comforted by the sight.
"This is the Oerth Mother's true temple," he said.
"The trees are pleasant, though it is a little sad to see them penned by those mountains," said Ghibelline.
"They are a might high," mused Ivo.
"The stones up among the peaks, they're old, its said they make the howls that you hear on the wind," Harald told them. "They cry out as time wears them down and the cold splits them. That's why mountain dwarves are grim, living up among the ancient stones."
"We are truly in the middle of nowhere," complained Harold, but quietly.
They all stood for a moment, looking out from the ledge toward the north and west. The sound of the stones calling out seemed to be on the wind. It made the halfling shiver and brought the ranger back from his revery.
"Wolves!" he cursed. "Look down there." he pointed to the valley floor to their east. Half a dozen grey shapes moved along the bare path far below. They howled and their voices were not that of ancient rock or wind.
"They're above us too," warned Ghibelline.
The first call had come down to them from the mountaintop and the wolves below them cried out an answer to that call.
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The Luscious Lifestyle w/ Blake Sterling: Perfect Scrambled Eggs
Hey Guys & Gals~
I'm beyond excited to join the on the On the Moovz blog family and share my tips to living The Luscious Lifestyle with you. My passion for living life in a more beautiful, organized and thoughtful way will influence all that I share. You'll get a taste of personal tips, tricks & recipes as well as those from people who inspire me to live life a little more fabulously.
This week I wanted to share my simple yet very useful tip with EGGcellent puns, singing and one of my favorite tips on How to Make Perfect Scrambled Eggs. I can guarantee there will be a couple new tricks you haven't used or seen before or your money back! Wait, this is free so just sit back, check it, try it and let me know your thoughts.
Living the Luscious Life,
Blake Sterling (Follow me on Moovz!)
P.S. I have a bonus video where Kitty Hiccups, puts me on the spot and wants to know all about my fruits and veggies!


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Nigella Lawson's Double Chocolate Cake
Makes 1 two-tiered chocolate cake
400 grams Sydney Blend
250 grams white sugar
100 grams light brown sugar
50 grams unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
3 large eggs
142 ml sour cream
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
175 grams unsalted butter (melted and cooled)
125 ml vegetable/canola/corn oil
300 ml chilled water
Fudge Icing
175 grams dark chocolate
250 grams unsalted butter (softened)
275 grams powdered sugar (sifted)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Heat: Preheat the oven to 180°C/350ºF. Butter and line the bottom of two 20cm / 8 inch sandwich tins.
Mix: In a large bowl, mix together the Sydney Blend, sugars, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In another bowl whisk together the eggs, sour cream and vanilla until blended. Using a handheld electric mixer, beat together the melted butter and oil until just blended, then beat in the water. Add the dry ingredients all at once and mix together on a slow speed. Add the egg mixture, and mix again until everything is blended and then pour into the prepared tins.
Bake the cakes for 50-55 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool the cakes in their tins on a wire rack for 15 minutes, and then turn the cakes out onto the rack to cool completely.
Frosting: To make the icing, melt the chocolate in the microwave - 2-3 minutes on medium or in a bowl sitting over a pan of simmering water.
In another bowl beat the butter until it's soft and creamy and then add the sieved icing sugar and beat again until everything's light and fluffy. Then gently add the vanilla and chocolate and mix together until everything is glossy and smooth.
Sandwich the middle of the cake with about a quarter of the icing, and then ice the top and sides too, spreading and smoothing with a rubber spatula.


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Platinum 2015
At La Fortuna at Atitlan we strive to be friendly to the environment. Our power is 100% off-grid solar generated, except for a few hours a day when we switch to a generator to use larger appliances.
We have an anaerobic biodigester on the property. Biodigesters essentially digest waste in a series of biological processes in which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen. They clean our waste and ensure we are not leaching sewage into the lake.
All of our building materials are sustainably and locally sourced including the bamboo which is grown on our property. We also have implemented several bottle walls including our wine cellar – which are beautiful and a great way to re-use materials which could otherwise end up in landfills.
Many of our vegetables and fruit come from our property. We grow avocado, mango, papaya, bananas, squash, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, asparagus, and many more depending on the season – including 1,000 pounds of organic shade grown coffee annually. We also have an extensive herb garden.
As we are only accessible by boat we go to great lengths to reduce the amount of waste we produce as it has to leave by boat as well! We have a huge composting system, which takes care of all our organic waste.


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Alley Talk by William Dolan
This is a series of essays that are inspired by and inspire my drawings of Chicago alleys. It is meant to compliment and add context for the work. We are defined by where we are, where we come from or where we want to go. I come from the alleys of Chicago.


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Sometimes life presents the opportunity to visit a place that drops your jaw.
Catherines and some of my favorite bloggers Rochelle, Beck, Chante and Maddy of Plus Model Magazine.
Amanoka is a two house villa with 7 bedrooms, a private pool, private beach and staff of eight. The open air layout and Asian influence design makes for the kind of place you never want to leave. It's hard to feel home sick when you feel at home. We ate (so much), we drank (so much) and took full advantage of the water. There's also the most perfect Zen garden complete with a spa and gym. I don't think there was much working out, but a day filled with massages was a must.
This gem is perfect for large groups and I can't wait to get back!
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Charley Kempthorne has been keeping a journal for more than 50 years. Every morning before the sun is in the sky, the professor-turned-painter carefully types out at least 1,000 words reflecting on his past, his beliefs, his family, even his shortcomings.
The prolific fruits of his labor reside in an impressive storage facility in Manhattan, Kansas, where his estimated ten million words are printed, bound, and filed. This project, Kempthorne says "helps me understand my life…or maybe," he hedges, "it just makes me feel better and gets [the day] started in a better mood."
But Kempthorne (along with any journaling junkie) might be disappointed to learn that his enduring exercise may not have actually improved his self-awareness.
At this point, you're probably thinking, but everyone knows that journaling is one of the most effective ways to get in touch with our inner self! However, a growing body of research suggests that journaling has some surprising traps that can suck the insight right out of the experience. My own research has shown that people who keep journals generally have no more self-awareness than those who don't, with one small but important exception.
In another study, students who reported keeping diaries showed more self-reflection but less insight—and to boot, the journalers were more anxious.
And yet, 35% of the highly self-aware people I studied reported keeping a journal. How can we make sense of these peculiar and seemingly contradictory findings? The resolution lies not in questioning whether journaling is the right thing to do, but instead discovering how to do journaling right.
Psychologist James Pennebaker's decades-long research program on something he calls expressive writing provides powerful direction in finding the answer. It involves writing, for 20 to 30 minutes at a time, our "deepest thoughts and feelings about issues that have made a big impact on [our] lives."
In the 30-plus years during which Pennebaker has been guiding people through this exercise, he has found that even though some find writing about their struggles to be distressing in the short term, nearly all see longer-term improvements in their mood and well-being.
For example, he and his colleagues found that people who engage in expressive writing have superior memories, higher grade point averages, less absenteeism from work, and quicker re-employment after job loss. Expressive writing has even been shown to help collegiate tennis players improve their games.
Intuitively, one might think that the more we study positive events in our journal entries, the more psychological benefits we'll reap from the experience. But, this too is a myth. As G. K. Chesterton perceptively observed, "Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized"—that is, by examining positive moments too closely, we suck the joy right out of them. Therefore, the first take-home in seeking insight from journaling is to explore the negative and not overthink the positive.
Yet Pennebaker notes that journalers "who talk about things over and over in the same ways aren't getting any better. There has to be growth, change, or closure in the way they view their experiences." Mr. Kempthorne, for example, writes "short narrative scenes," which help him make better sense of his feelings and experiences.
Another trap journalers can fall prey to is using the exercise solely as an outlet for discharging emotions. Interestingly, the myriad benefits of expressive writing only emerge when we write about both the factual and the emotional aspects of the events we're describing.
Logically, this makes sense: If we don't explore our emotions, we're not fully processing the experience, and if we don't explore the facts, we risk getting sucked into an unproductive spiral of rumination. True insight only happens when we process both our thoughts and our feelings.
But we also need to guard against turning journaling into an exercise in self-absorption.
Earlier, I mentioned that the journalers in our study were no more self-aware than non-journalers in every area but one: Where many people see journaling as an opportunity to explore their inner workings, the truly self-aware know it can also help them understand their impact on others.
One person in our study told us a story in which she and a friend had a difficult talk, which ended in her friend crying for reasons she didn't understand. When she wrote about the conversation from her friend's point of view, she gained immediate insight that helped her understand her friend's reaction and gain a more objective perspective on her own responses.
The final thing to keep in mind about journaling should be welcome news to everyone but Mr. Kempthorne.
It's probably best that you don't write every day.
It's true: Pennebaker and his colleagues have shown that writing every few days is better than writing for many days in a row. "I'm not even convinced," Pennebaker says, "that people should write about a horrible event for more than a couple of weeks. You risk getting into a sort of navel gazing or cycle of self-pity. But standing back every now and then and evaluating where you are in life is really important."
Of course, if you're currently a prolific journaler, the right approach may require some restraint. So if you currently write daily, start by limiting yourself to every other day, then every third day, then try easing into just once a week. Mark the journal days in your calendar, and keep a few Post-it notes handy to jog your memory about what topics you want to tackle.
Reprinted (or Adapted) from INSIGHT: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life © 2017 by Tasha Eurich. Published by Crown Business, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
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Dr. Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times bestselling author (Bankable Leadership). With a PhD in organizational psychology, she is also the founder of The Eurich Group, where she's helped thousands of leaders and teams improve their effectiveness through greater self-awareness. Dr. Eurich has contributed to Entrepreneur, CNBC.com, and The Huffington Post, and has been featured in outlets such as Forbes, The New York Times, Fast Company, and Inc. She's been named one of Denver Business Journal's "40 Under 40" as well as a "Top 100 Thought Leader" by Trust Across America, and in 2015 she was named a "Leader to Watch" by the American Management Association. Her TEDx talk has been viewed more than a million times.More from this Author


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work unto us, viz. putting righteous men into places of trust, making way thereunto; as it the fulfilling of the many prophecies, and the expectation of the just, were now to be answered. Witness the first and h&w second gaubling the parliament, the like in the city, the same in the army, no legs in the ministry, as in the choice of Jesse's sons: neither this nor that must serve but the least, that the whole kingdom hath been in the refiner's fire. The Lord would do us good against our wills: but we content ourselves to give him a female when we have a male in the flock. This broke the axle-tree of the Jewish state and church, and that bought Aceldama.
However, I am confident, God will carry on this work, which is his own; and to that end I look above all present agitations, knowing if we enter into our chambers, and shut our doors for a little moment, the indignation shall be overpast.
Wherein is declared the wonderful bounty and patience of God, the wicked and monstrous unthankfulness of man, the unregarded injuries done to these creatures, groaning, as it were, to be delivered from the abuses proceeding from disdainful aspersions of ignorant, and from the intemperance of sinful man.
1 Cor. xii. 19, 20, 21.
If they were all one member, where would the body be?
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. Juven. Sat.
London, printed for I. C. 1647. Quarto, containing eight pages.
Lectori Candida et benevolo, S. P. D.
Courteous and judicious reader, to thy view chiefly do I expose these my ensuing lines, being urged thereunto by the loud cry of two horrible wrath-provoking sins, now reigning amongst us, viz. unthankfulness towards God, and uncharitableness towards man. These two like inseparable companions always go together, both dishonouring the Creator; some unthankfully vilifying, and others intemperately abusing the creature; to reform which lies only in the magistrate, yet blame and aspersions are cast upon those who suffer most (by such lewd and prodigal offenders) I mean the distressed company of brewers, whose sad condition groans for speedy relief; a company very needful, and also profitable to this city and suburbs, yet looked upon with an unkind aspect, but occasioned by those who may be well affected, but, being mistaken in their judgment, can give no true and solid reason for it. But, according to that of the poet,
Non amo te Volusi, nee possum dicere, quare;
WHAT, a vineyard in England? hath God been pleased to warm this western climate with a temporal blessing of so excellent a nature for the sustaining, yea, for the reviving of the poor wearied labouring men; and not only so, but also for the chearing up of the drooping spirits, and the gladding of the hearts of the sorrowful and afflicted? this is no small favour, which hath so long been bestowed upon us in this accidental part of the world: but it is a wonder, that, for so great a blessing, we should return so little thanks unto the Almighty; yea, many amongst us take not so much notice of it, as to account it for a blessing; and others, more ungrateful, little knowing what the want thereof would produce, seem to loath it in their thoughts, by their disdainful expressions and aspersions cast upon those creatures, without which this kingdom, especially near London, were in a sad condition, as I shall shew more plainly hereafter. And here is manifestly seen, not only the great bounty of God, but also his exceeding wonderful patience, that, notwithstanding such murmurings, he hath yet continued his blessing amongst us, though he sometimes threatened a dearth thereof. Thus God dealt with his Israel in the wilderness; although some murmured at manna, yet he withdrew not that favour from them. But our disdainers will say, it is their zeal against drunkenness; I may as well say, 0 sinful zeal! staggering and wavering no less through ignorance, than the drunkard through his intemperance. Because some do abuse the good creature of God by that detestable sin of drunkenness, shall others, therefore (such as would be thought to be religious)expose it to disdain? nay, cry it down as a thing to be extinr guished? let such ingenuously confess which they hold to be the greater sin, to abuse or to extinguish any of God's creatures; the abuse, by punishment duly inflicted, may be reformed; but to extinguish, or diminish the vertue of any of the creatures, is to deprive not only the offenders, but also the innocent, of the full fruition of those creatures which God hath appointed for the comfort of mankind.
After Noah had offended, and suffered reproach by his cursed son, did he, to manifest fair detestation against that sin, give order to destroy that vineyard which he had so painfully planted? had not this error been greater than the former? for he, that will serve God aright, must neither turn to the right hand nor to the left, but must walk before him in a straight path with an upright heart; to diminish or detract from the excellency of the creature, is to dishonour the creature. And it is a punishment from God upon a people, when a people degenerateth from its natural vertue, or is deprived of its proper excellency; as appeareth by the expression of the prophet, bewailing the sad condition of Israel: saith he, 'your silver is become dross, your wine is mixed with water,' Isa. i. 22. And our Saviour, who came to repair our ruins, and to purchase for us a better paradise than that which Adam lost, made it his first miracle to make water wine, and that of the best, John ii. 10. whilst some of us would turn our native wine into water, I mean our strong beer into beer of the least nourishment and meanest condition. For brevity's sake, let these two witnesses suffice, although the Holy Scriptures are full of expressions tending to the commendations of those creatures most (I speak concerning temporal blessings) which are most cherishing to the vital spirits, and most preservative to the health and well-being of weak mankind. Thesame holy spirit, that pronounceth woes against gluttons and drunkards, commendeth Canaan, because it flowed with milk and honey, and corn, and wine, and oil, Deut. xi.o,, 14- And, although England hath not naturally the wine of the vine, yet it enjoyeth the plentiful fruition thereof; yea, in such an abundant manner, that many English prodigals, though vast estates have been left to divers of them, yet have complained more of the want of money than of the want of wine. But grant that these foreign plantations should fail us, or that we should be disappointed, yea, almost destitute of wine by some unexpected means proceeding from providence, either divine or human, or that those ships that ventured, or those commodities transported for wine, should be otherwise employed, or improved to the inriching of the kingdom, that wine thereby should be scarce amongst us, yet hath England whereat to rejoice within itself. For of hops and malt our native commodities (and therefore the more agreeable to the constitutions of our native inhabitants) may be made such strong beer, being well boiled and hopped, and kept its full time, as that it may serve instead of sack, if authority shall think fit, whereby they also may know experimentally the vertue of those creatures, at their full height; which beer being well brewed, of a low, pure amber colour, clear and sparkling, noblemen and the gentry may be.pleased to have English sack in their wine-cellars, and taverns also to sell to those who are not willing, or cannot conveniently lay it in their own houses; which may be a means greatly to increase and improve the tillage of England, and also the profitable plantations of hop-grounds, thereby inabling the industrious farmers to pay their rents, and also to improve the revenues of the nobility and gentry; and so much the more may they be pleased to add some of those places, which, as yet, are receptacles for wild beasts (parks and forests) in which may be erected fair and profitable farms, and so become comfortable habitations, for laborious and painful husbandmen, with no small profit to the owners thereof, and also to the general good of the whole nation; should part of those commodities, transported for wine, be more advantageously disposed of, and our vineyard at home be better husbanded and manured, and at lesser rates such good strong beer as shall be most cherishing to poor labouring people, without which they cannot well subsist, their food being, for the most part, of such thing* as afford little »r bad nourishment, nay, sometimes dangerous, and would infect them with many sicknesses and diseases, were they not preserved (as with an antidote) with good beer, whose vertues and effectual operations, by help of the hop well boiled in it, are more powerful to expel poisonous infections than is yet publickly known, or taken notice of.
And should the Almighty, being provoked by our sins, afflict these parts with the infection of the plague, in what a deplorable condition would the poor of this city and suburbs be, it they should be deprived of the comfortable fruition of good strong beer and ale? For the providing whereof, the licensed well governed victualler is to be encouraged by suppressing of unlicensed ale houses, which ..re the only receptacles of drunkards, and by severe punishing those lewd livers, who frequent those disordered houses, which only dare harbour them, because, having no licences, they are in no danger of the loss thereof, and being accustomed to their evil courses, both they that keep such houses, and they that frequent them, regardless of their reputation, by reason of continual impunity, grow impudent and fearless either of God or the magistrate, which causes scandalous aspersions to be cast on those which offend not: but the licensed victuallers, keeping good houses and good orders, paying taxes according to their degrees, are no less necessary for the poor neighbouring inhabitants, and also for strangers, as occasion may require, than any other retailing trade; for, as the brewer is the poor man's treasurer, so the victualler is the yeoman of the poor man's wine-cellar, providing and preparing, for present use, such sound well ripened beer, as the poor cannot provide for themselves, neither without it can they go on in their labour, unless beef, pork, and bacon, and such hearty meat could be afforded them at a cheaper rate; but, although such meats should prove more scarce and dear, yet, if it please God, in mercy, to send plenty of corn for bread and beer, we shall not hear the cry of the poor complaining of want, so long as, for a small matter, they can send for so much good bread and beer, as will suffice their whole families, which is not only a sustenance against hunger, but a preservative against sickness. But grains, if they be taken hot, and put into a vessel fit for that purpose, they are an excellent bath for itching limbs; also they are good food for the cattle of this city and suburbs, without which, hay and other provisions would be at a far dearer rate than usually they are. Thus we see that, among the many temporal blessings, which the Lord hath bestowed upon us, this is none of the meanest; the Lord in mercy grant us thanklul hearts. But, nescio quia teneros ocu/is.?)ii/ii fascinat agnos: behold a foul monster called ingratitude, with two prodigious heads and scorching eyes, hath cast such looks upon this our vineyard, as if like Balak and Balaam they were conspiring together to bring a curse thereon, though of differing dispositions, yet both dangerously provoking the Almighty to displeasure. The one of these heads is of that sort of people, who out of a fervent zeal to the glory of God the creator, forget to honour him in a right taking notice of him, in his mercy and bounty towards us in his creatures, but, with an austere countenance and supercilious eye, and speeches agreeable thereunto, slight and despise the creature, and those (hat deal therein, because abused by intemperate persons: thus the creature is made the patient of evil, groaning as it were to be delivered therefrom, and yet is burdened with hard censure, a double injury. Zeal without discretion is like heal without moisture, every way destructive. Let such consider, if at any time afflictions befall them, would they be contented therefore to be evil thought of, because they fare so ill; nay, will not the calamity be the more heavy unto them, when they shall see that it lays them open to uncharitable censure? this is all one, as if we should afflict the innocent, because they are abused, and let the guilty escape and prosper according to that saying, Faclix ac prosperum scelus virftu vocatur. Optimi corruptio pessima, is a destiny equally fatal to every good creature, and, the better the creature is, it, being corrupted or abused, is so much the more dangerous and hurtful; the sweetest ointment, being putrefied, becomes most noisome; and man himself, by creation the most honoured of all the creatures, being degenerated into a condition tending to cruelty and violence, is more insatiable and unavoidably dangerous than any beast. Nay, religion itself, which is ilia aurea catena that golden chain, whereby God and man, with reverence be it spoken, are so nearly linked together, John xvii. 11, 21. I say religion, which is that scala milliarium, by which we are directed the right way to ascend the heavenly throne of glory, is not free; quis iatia fando temperet a lachrymis? from the foul abuses of audaciously wicked mankind, the profane person maketh a mock of it, the hypocrite maketh it his cloke for every occasion; but it will prove a mourning one at the last, full of lamentations and woes. But this is not a subject now to treat of; wherefore I cease, but I shall not cease to mourn, although in silence curce leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent. Jgne quid vtilius? what more needful than fire? yet many fair buildings have been destroyed thereby, shall it therefore be forbidden? then let not those, whose better fare maketh them so insensible of poor men's wants, deny them that good beer, which is so needful to their meaner food, because that some abuse it. But alas! who complaineth of that foul sin of gluttony r which, as a grave insatiable, hath swallowed up many'of those good creatures, which are appointed for our nourishment and comfort; but, by the excessive abuse thereof, many of excellent parts have been much disabled both in body and mind from the free and happy use of those good gifts, which God bestowed upon them to be improved, and also employed to his glory; and that in their latter days most, which is that age of man which should be most adorned with wisdom by reason of long experience; yet let not any cry out against, or lay any blame upon Eastcheap, plentiful Chcapside, or LeadenHall, or either Fish-street, or any other of those fair and plentious markets in about this city, wherein God's bounty is manifested and extended towards us in so large a manner; but rather, in a detestation of our own unworthiness, and unthankfulness, let us all cry out and say, new, Jkm inquam, desumus lapeti genus qui prxsumvs; Prometheus the son of Japhet, for the heathen look no higher but somewhat darkly concerning Noah, who was their two-faced Janus (who saw the end of the old world, and the beginning of the new) having, as poets feigned, stolen fire from heaven, and brought it amongst the sons of men, it occasioned


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I've been reluctant to talk about my efforts this time around, in terms of my blog and more specifically Youtube. Last time around I vlogged and blogged about my ups and downs, which although I helped a lot of people in the process, it became a case that if I messed up I felt like I was letting everybody down, and thats one of the worst things you can do when you're on a health and fitness journey. You have to want to do it for you, and nobody else. So I made the decision that this time around although I would still update about how I was getting on, it would be nowhere near as intense as the first time around.
So I've started to lose the weight again and I'm feeling great, but one of the things I'm guilty of is losing a chunk then losing the plot. So what do I do to overcome that? I just keep on going and take one day at a time. I concentrate on eating healthily most of the time, and increasing the amount of exercise I do. One of the key things that has had a huge effect on my efforts is investing in a treadmill. It allows me to hop on and do a 20 minute power walk whenever I fancy, instead of braving the Arctic weather conditions to run outside or attempt to make it to the gym. I'm slowly working up to my first fitness goal of jogging for 30 minutes straight. Then I'm going to look at signing up for some kind of race next year. The thing here to note is that a couple of weeks ago I could only run for 1 minute, and today I jogged for 10 minutes continuously. You have to keep your eyes on the prize at all times. If you're wanting to lose weight, or get fit, you have to know why you want to do it, and keep that at the front of your mind. For me, its that I want to feel better in myself, be fitter, and be able to wear the clothes I want to wear. I want to be able wear shorts with bare legs without feeling like I want to kill myself, and my ultimate goal is to fit into a pair of skinny jeans and absolutely rock them, not feel like a fat girl wearing a slim girls clothes.
And how do I do it? How do I keep going? I take one day at a time. Some days I'll have eat everything in sight (and love every mouthful) but the next day I'll reign it back in and watch what I eat. I think its important to actually enjoy life, and not be a slave to the gym which believe me I have been there in the past. Everything in moderation, including moderation as the famous Oscar Wilde quote says. As it currently stands my exercise routine consists of the treadmill and various strength exercises I do at home, and in terms of diet, I'm following the Weightwatchers plan and using the new app on my iphone. I'll keep you all updated along the way, lots of people have asked me to do a post about the new Weightwatchers plan, which I will write and upload this week so keep your eyes peeled for that. Let it never be said that you can't be the person you want to be. Because believe me when I say that you can. xxx


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Neighborhood Spotlight: North Central/
Downtown Charleston is divided up into over a dozen neighborhoods. North of the Crosstown hosts Hampton Park Terrace, Wagener Terrace, West Side, and North Central, to name a few. Last week, I listed a newly renovated home in the North Central neighborhood and thought it would be helpful to highlight what makes this area so desirable:
Developed mostly in the early 1900s, from farmland, many of the homes in this neighborhood are two story with front porches made for catching a breeze and enjoying an evening cocktail. Seen on the map below, it is bounded by Mt. Pleasant Street to the North, Interstate 26 to the East, and Rutledge Avenue to the West.
Eat & Drink
North Central Delicatessen
Charleston deli with bagels, Taylor pork roll, hot dogs, sandwiches, and salads. This place gets packed around lunch time with area employees.
Nourish your mind, body and soul with the freshest organic ingredients combined with the best of what the world has to offer; juices, raw bars, sandwiches, Acai bowls, and more. Their back courtyard is a refreshing open space for meeting with friends or enjoying a few moments of solitude.
The Park Cafe
Neighborhood cafe for breakfast, lunch, dinner, Saturday/Sunday brunch, and daily specials. Their interior is filled with clean design and a greenery wall that will make you want to go home and water your plants.
Moe's Crosstown Tavern
Popular watering hole for locals that serves a large menu with great food. Voted City Paper's 'Best Pub Food' for 8 years in a row. Brunch is a must here on Sundays, but arrive early with your whole party to get a table.
Rodney Scott BBQ (coming soon)
Whole hog smoking barbecue by acclaimed pit-master, Rodney Scott. A lot of press will accompany this opening before the end of the year.
On the cusp, but still walkable/bikeable:
Rutledge Cab Company | Lewis Barbecue | Home Team BBQ | Edmund's Oast | Butcher & Bee | Tattooed Moose | Santi's | Leon's Oyster Shop | Taco Boy | The Royal American | Palmetto Brewing | Revelry Brewing | Cooper River Brewing
Get Involved
North Central Group
This Facebook group stays active with updates from local businesses and groups that culminate in the area. On a larger scale, the Upper Peninsula Initiative also keeps you up to date with happenings and community planning efforts.
Romney Urban Garden
Community garden that hosts garden bed rentals, volunteer workdays, back to school bashes, movies, composting tutorials, and so much more.
Dart Library
Originally Dart Hall, this library, now part of the Charleston County Public Library system, was started as an African American Reading Room in 1927. This active library branch hosts story times, career fairs, book discussions, movies, and other community events.
Enough Pie (Vat Shack)
A catalyst for inclusive and inspiring community engagement in the Upper Peninsula through dynamic partnerships, artistic collaborations and creative placemaking. The Vat Shack, located in Joseph Floyd Manor Park, explores the history, culture, science and art of indigo with 'Community Dye Days'.
The Vinyl Countdown
Independent record store, specializing in new and used, vinyl, and turn tables.
The Faculty Lounge
Blink and you'll miss it. This neighborhood late night spot is good for meeting up with friends, making new friends, and getting sweaty on their compact dance floor.
On the cusp, but still walkable/bikeable:
Hampton Park | Kickball League | Riverdogs Games (you can most likely see the Friday night fireworks from your front porch)
Up and Coming
Not much is known on the new-builds coming up on what used to occupy 373-379 Huger Street, other than they're working on the sites daily that will likely feature eight, 2 and 3 bedroom homes around 1,400 square feet, all with drive under garages. Stay tuned!
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Fi-lan'thro-pe is a non-profit, US-based 501(c)3 charity organization which works with and supports indigenous, ethnic-minority coffee growing communities in India, Indonesia, Laos, and Vietnam. The focus of their work is to empower communities with knowledge and technical skills about that which they rely upon for their livelihood: coffee. Fi-lan'thro-pe works to realign the coffee value-chain in order to alleviate poverty, re-establish healthy ecosystems, and create a healthy social environment for communities based on principles of compassion, truth, dignity, and open-source knowledge sharing.
In essence, the immediate goal of fi-lan'thro-pe is to temporarily fill any and all knowledge gaps about coffee production which a community possesses. As the community builds its skill and knowledge, fi-lan'thro-pe carefully removes itself from each area it provides assistance. The long term goal of fi-lan'thro-pe is to no longer be needed.
Programs are based on a principle of community-driven development, meaning that the decision makers are the community members themselves, and a program is only pursued once a community decides for itself that they desire such assistance.
All of the coffee development work with the JCFC is performed in direct partnership with filanthrope.
Coffee development programs include:
Elimination of all petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides
Production of bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides
Re-Establishing native forests through agro-forestry techniques
Re-vitalizing soil fertility through Indian, Japanese, Korean and Lao natural farming techniques
Coffee Waste Transformation Programs
Organic coffee seedling production
Coffee cooperative structure
Traceability and transparency protocols
Coffee sensory analysis training
Coffee roasting techniques and roasted coffee production
Coffee brewing methodology
Coffee harvesting strategies
Coffee processing techniques
Coffee processing facility design
Coffee drying techniques
Coffee price/contract negotiation
Cooperative-level warehouse management
Coffee variety identification and re-propagation
...Anything involved with coffee
Community-level programs include:
Low-cost, community-level biochar/sand water filtration systems
Clean cookstove technology
Access to non-GMO, organic food crop seeds
Food garden programs for primary schools
Sustainable building material production (Compressed Earth Blocks)
Integrated aqua-vegeculture systems and methodology
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f e l t f a n c i e s b l u r b : one off & repeat pieces
As a youngster, the brightest coloured pencils and felt tips always seduced me – primary and secondary colours were my favourites (especially red), so too was the kids' toy, Fuzzy Felts… Art College beckoned. I wanted to do textiles, or something graphics based. But no, I was mysteriously cajoled into the realms of 3D design…
I become a jeweller. For many years, I expressed myself in silver. Pared down, sculptural pieces displayed a modernist aesthetic, inspired by nature and the machine. Planar forms and curvilinear works took shape, but lacked colour. A much needed dot of red found its' way in, via an interesting brief, entitled RED HOT, which required a set of works to be created celebrating that fabulous colour, and was open to any interpretation. Bliss!
Recent experimental flights of fancy, have enabled me to mix up various materials. New contemporary pieces include high quality, machine made, 100% virgin wool felt. Perfectly flat, and rich in colour, it is hand cut and strategically stitched to create 3d blossoms, leaves and pods. These objects are married up with classic, geometrically shaped forms, fabricated and constructed in silver (oxidised), stainless steel wire, wood and silicone rubber.
Result : Robust abstraction of structural forms, and graphic devices, are employed to create pieces of jewellery, which are timeless in their celebration of nature. These elegant works display a modest simplicity, yet reveal a bolder, more dramatic, context when worn.


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Speaker: Dr. Michael Brenner
Program Series: Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman Distinguished Scholar Series
Location: Congregation Olam Tikvah, Fairfax, VA
Date: March 19, 2017
Dr. Brenner tells the story of the rebuilding of Jewish life in Germany after the Holocaust and until today.
Speaker: Dr. Michael A. Meyer, Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History Emeritus at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and international president of the Leo Baeck Institute, a scholarly organization devoted to the historical study of German Jewry
Location: Temple Shalom; Chevy Chase, MD
How did the Jews of Germany respond to the rise of Hitler, which put an end to their dreams of political equality in a liberal state and cultural integration into a civilized society? This lecture deals with the radically changed circumstances and the remarkable moral resistance that rabbis and laity displayed in the face of ever increasing oppression.
Supported by Gary and Bernice Lebbin as part of a series on German-Jewish Cultural Heritage
Speaker: Dr. Michael Berenbaum, writer, lecturer, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and the development of historical films
Location: Ohr Kodesh Congregation; Chevy Chase, MD
Dr. Berenbaum speaks about the lives of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Gershom Scholem. Their different but intersecting journeys back toward Judaism had an incredible impact on Jewish life and secured places for Buber, Rosenzweig, and Scholem as three of the most influential Jews of the 20th century.
This program is the annual Abraham S. Kay lecture, made possible by the generosity of Jack Kay.
Also co-sponsored by the Georgetown University Program for Jewish Civilization
Speaker: Dr. Michael Brenner, Chair of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich in Germany
Location: JCC of Greater Washington; Rockville, MD
Contrary to common belief, Jewish life in Germany before the rise of the Nazis was culturally thriving. While one segment of the Jewish community was assimilated, there was a tendency, especially among the younger generation, to show renewed interest in Jewish matters. German Jewry in the 1920s was perhaps the first Jewish community that lived in a relatively open and democratic society and began at the same time to look for modern expressions of its Jewish identity. In many respects it serves as an example for modern American Jews, even though the circumstances of its existence were quite different. Dr. Brenner discussed everyday life among German Jews, their religious expressions, and some of their important intellectuals, like Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem, and Leo Baeck.
This program was made possible by the generosity of Gary and Bernice Lebbin as part of a series of programs on German-Jewish Cultural Heritage.
Speaker: Professor Marsha Rozenblitz, Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Jewish History at the University of Maryland,College Park
Location: Temple Shalom; Chevy Chase, MD
What has life historically been like for Jews in these bastions of Jewish culture? In this lecture, Dr. Rozenblit provides an understanding of Austro-German Jewry by exploring the place of Jews in these regions.
Speaker: Professor Walter Laqueur in conversation with Rabbi Joshua Haberman
Location: Temple Shalom; Silver Spring, MD
In this lecture, Professor Laqueur and Rabbi Haberman discuss the New Germany and its Jews, the rise of anti-Semitism, and Israel and the Jewish Future.
Speaker: Dr. Steven Lowenstein, Isadore Levine Professor of Jewish History, American University
Location: B'nai Israel Congregation; Rockville, MD
"Tumultuous" is an understatement in describing the historic relationship between Jews and the rest of the German state. Jews have been in Germany since the early fourth century, and German-Jewish relations have fluctuated between tolerance and violence. This lecture treats the topic of assimilation and strives to enrich our understanding of how woven into (or excluded from) the fabric of the nation Jews in Germany were before the Holocaust.
Endowed by of K. Peter & Yvonne Wagner as a part of a series of programs on German-Jewish Cultural Heritage


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JOHANNESBURG: Amnesty International stated that three young men in Cameroon have been jailed for 10 years for sharing a text message that joked about the Boko Haram extremist group.
A statement released on Wednesday by the human rights group said Fomusoh Ivo Feh, Afuh Nivelle Nfor and Azah Levis Gob were sentenced by the Military Court of Yaounde for "non-denunciation of terrorist acts."
Amnesty says Ivo had forwarded to the other two men a text message that made a sarcastic reference to the extremist group, which is based in neighboring Nigeria. Boko Haram also has carried out attacks inside Cameroon.
The rights group calls for the three men's unconditional release, saying they were exercising their right to the freedom of expression. It also raises concerns about trials of civilians in military courts.


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The government has today announced yet another review into gambling and Fixed Odds Betting Terminals. My view is that it would have been better to announce a crackdown on FOBTs today.
FOBTs cause untold misery. They enable people to gamble £100 every 20 seconds. I've heard many stories about addicts spending all their cash on these machines and then taking out loans they can't afford to carry on playing – and losing that money too.
Labour isn't opposed to gambling. But we do have a duty to call out exploitative practices. That's why we said we'd impose a £2 maximum stake for FOBTs in our manifesto. The Government could have followed suit. Instead, it is holding a 12 week consultation seeking views on whether the maximum bet should be cut to £2 or £50 or somewhere in between.
You can make you views known by responding to the DCMS consultation HERE.
I encourage you to do so. In addition, if you have any evidence to support your position then send this to firstname.lastname@example.com
The consultation deadline is 23 January 2018.
There are 34,000 FOBTs in Britain and bookies can have up to 4 machines in each shop. Each machine takes an average of £53,000 a year and the amount British gamblers lose on FOBTs has risen from £1bn in 2009 to £1.8bn in 2016 – an increase of 73%. The Gambling Commission estimates that one in every nine people who use them end up addicted. The gambling industry says that limiting their profitability will lead to job losses. My view is that some of our poorest communities already pay too high a price for their popularity. They cause poverty, debt and misery. Families can be torn apart.
The total cost to the taxpayer of problem gambling, including mental health services, policing and homelessness, could be £1.2bn a year.
FOBTs aren't the only problem but they are one of the most visible and arguably the most destructive form of gambling. We need new legislation to regulate a gambling industry that has changed beyond all recognition since the last Gambling Act in 2005.
Online gaming has become huge business. Bookies advertise on football shirts. The Gambling Commission has found that 450,000 children are gambling in England and Wales each week.
Most tellingly of all, the total amount gambling companies win from punters in the UK was a record £13.8bn last year, up from £8.36bn in 2008/09.
The Government needs to act to get a grip on Britain's hidden epidemic of gambling addiction. Instead of doing that they have let the industry off the hook. That's why bookies' shares rose this morning. Talking is not enough. We need action.
Read more about FOBTs here Bookies Are The Only Winners Of The Government's Gambling Review


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