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Friday, January 12, 2007
Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson, anarchist philosopher, humorist, and essayist, is sadly no longer with us as of yesterday. He will be deeply missed by freedom-lovers everywhere. This information thanks to the Void
Robert Anton Wilson probably did more to popularize anarchism in the English speaking world than probably any other contemporary person. His humourous novels, the most famous of which was the Illuminatus Trilogy, co-authored with the late Bob Shea, as well as a series of other novels such as Cosmic Trigger were read by hundreds of thousands of people. Not only did he populate his books with anarchists, Wobblies and all sorts of other freedom-seeking folk, but he made the reader aware of their ideas. But he did not stop with anarchism as a political or social ideal, but created his own distinct anarchist philosophy based upon his study of Semantics, psychology and the functioning of the human brain. He did this at a time when most anarchists remained trapped within 19th Century philosophies and a minority rejected scientific rationalism altogether. Wilson avoided both New Age irrationalism and the vulgar rationalism of the pseudo-skeptic. In his anti-dogmatic and thus genuine scientific viewpoint, almost anything was possible, but possibility did not mean that an alleged phenomenon necessarily existed. Wilson was open to the Marvelous, to Freedom, yet did not dance off the edge of the cliff.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Marxism, Anarchism and the State
Larry, I fully agree that whatever mass enterprises exist need to be worker-controlled. But I still think there's a role for a proletarian state in the transition, which is where we probably differ. "Victor Serge" of Monuments Are For Pigeons Blog
Yes, Victor, we differ on this issue, but the real question is why and to what extent? Don't worry, I am not about to feed you the usual anarchist dogmas about Marxists.
I would like to make it clear, however, that while social anarchists are opposed to the state in any form, we are not opposed to organization. For social anarchists there is a major difference between the state and the form of organization during and immediately after the revolution. Kropotkin says it well;
On the other hand the State has also been confused with Government. Since there can be no State without government, it has sometimes been said that what one must aim at is the absence of government and not the abolition of the State. However, it seems to me that State and government are two concepts of a different order. The State idea means something quite different from the idea of government. It not only includes the existence of a power situated above society, but also of a territorial concentration as well as the concentration in the hands of a few of many functions in the life of societies. The State: Its Historic Role, Peter Kropotkin
Nor do we think we can leap to full-blown libertarian socialism in one bound without an intervening period of transition. The archetypal models for this transition are found with the Paris Commune and the workers councils in Russia and Germany. You would agree, no doubt, but might well say, "Yes, but the Paris Commune and the workers councils are EXAMPLES of the worker's state."
So what you call a workers' state, we call a workers' non-state? Is this a case of "You say tomato, I say tomahto?"
I believe that the root cause of the distinction between anarchists and marxists over the state or non-state nature of the transition lies in Hegelian philosophy. The anarchist describes the real, empirical, existing state, whereas Hegel is searching for the ontological essence of the state. For Hegel,
A multiplicity of human beings can only call itself a state if it be united for the common defense... of its property... state authority is basic, necessary, minimal. HEGEL'S THEORY OF THE MODERN STATE, Schlomo Avirneri 40, 47
For Hegel the state is not a particular thing, a structure, but exists in the unity of the universal and the particular, the universal being those common agreements and defense that people engage in, and the particular being civil society.(1) Hegel saw the Athenian polis as the "eternal model", and an "unsurpassed paradigm for a contemporary revolution." (2)
The flaw in Hegel's thinking should be obvious. By his reasoning, any non-statist Aboriginal tribe defending its territory and possessing a council which engages in common agreements is a state. Not a single contemporary social scientist would agree.
The Paris Commune and the workers councils existed to defend the revolution. In their direct democratic and assemblyist aspects they were modern versions of the polis. For Hegel, these revolutionary organizations would have been examples of a state. Marx and Engels undoubtedly got their ontological view of the state from studying Hegelian philosophy. One could leave the discussion at this point, but the question of state or no state during the transition in Marxist theory is a good deal more complicated.
Marx and Engels did not chain themselves in perpetuity to the Hegelian ontological concept of the state. The living practice of the working class seems to have changed their minds and they rejected the notion of a workers' state in favor of a workers' commune, structurally based upon the direct democratic Paris Commune.
The whole talk about the state should be dropped, especially since the Commune, which was no longer a state in the proper sense of the word. The "peoples state" has been thrown in our faces by the anarchists too long, although Marx...directly declare[d] that with the introduction of the socialist order of society the state will dissolve of itself and disappear. As, therefore, the "state" is only a transitional institution which is used in the struggle, in the revolution to hold down adversaries by force, it is pure nonsense to talk of a "free peoples state"... We would therefore propose to replace the word "state" everywhere by the word Gemeinenwesen (community) , a good old German word which can very well represent the French commune. Engels, Selected Correpondance p.336
Such a pity their followers didn't take them up on this!
1. Joachim Ritter, "Hegel and the French Revolution", p. 25
2. Georg Lukacs, "The Young Hegel", p 4.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Lies And Exaggeration
Cynics say that left and right are the same, both a bunch of liars. Not really true, I say. Yes, there are left-wingers who can be dishonest – usually while on their way to a career on the right, and there are some honest conservatives, but I am referring to the general tendency. You see, the right-winger starts off at a distinct disadvantage. Exploitation, oppression and imperialist wars really do exist and it becomes well neigh impossible to deny their existence. Furthermore, unless one goes all the way over to out and out fascism, exploitation, oppression and imperialism are decidedly a-moral. The corporate state system that the right winger loves and admires continually produces these amoral products, indeed, as the left will point out, is based upon them. All the left need do is report the facts of the situation, nothing else.
These facts place the right in the same position as a child caught with its hand in the cookie jar – blubbering a whole lot of weak excuses. In order to see themselves as moral, rightists have to disguise or white wash these facts. Not to do so means admitting the truth and then one would be forced to adjust one's practices accordingly. But disguising reality is not enough, in order to see oneself as morally superior, rightists must degrade and besmirch the left. The left has to be converted into a gruesome tapestry of monsters against which the whitewashed corporate system and its ideological standard bearers stand sharp and clear in all their virtuous finery.
To degrade the left it must lie. (It is hard otherwise to knock people who are against exploitation, oppression and war.) The right has systematically told lies about the left ever since the notion of right vs. left came to be 220 years ago. These lies are repeated from generation to generation, as though they lack sufficient imagination to create new ones. Sometimes the names are changed but the falsehood is the same. Pacifists in WW1 were called "pro-German", in the Cold War, "communist" and in the Iraq war, "Saddam-lovers". Often the lies are identical to the originals. The US women's emancipation movement of 1850 was sneered at as being a group of women who "want to be like men", and are "unattractive and hence bitter against men." I read this nonsense in the 1970's attacks on feminism. Unrest is still the work of "outside agitators" and counter-cultural groups all the way back to the 1840's Bohemians, are castigated as criminals, drug addicts and sex perverts. Some of the most courageous and ethical individuals are demonized. Victoria Woodhull, pioneer socialist and feminist was re-named "Mrs. Satan." Emma Goldman, Gandhi, M.L. King all suffered at the hands of right-wing mud throwers during their time upon this earth. Those demonized today have names like Chavez, Sheehan, and Moore.
I have a personal recollection on the criminalization of leftists. Back in 1965, I was involved in a sit-down in front of the gates of the Comox Air Base as a protest against nuclear weapons. I knew one of the airmen and he criticized me for hanging out with nuts, commies and criminals and pointed at one person in our group. "See that guy there, he is a known criminal!" The person in question being Scott Lawrence, a Vancouver poet and one of the least criminal people on the planet.
And what about the left? Yes, a minority of the left, now almost extinct thankfully, did engage in systematic lies. These lies and vilification were not aimed at the right, but other leftists. Stalinists engaged in a campaign of slander and lies against the Trotskyists and anarchists that would turn Ann Coulter green with envy. They also engaged in a cover-up campaign for Stalin's monstrous crimes. Anyone who brought up the Ukrainian famine or the purges was attacked as a Gestapo agent. (Once again Ms. Coulter is green with envy) But the Stalinist Communist Party DID NOT lie about the dangers of fascism, lynching in the South, the need to support the workers against the Black Legion attacks etc. All the CP had to do was report the evils of the system.
However, the left has exaggerated, and may still do, for all I know. The great bout of exaggeration occurred in the early 1990's with "political correctness". But the PC era seems to have passed, and indeed, its incidence was largely exaggerated by the right anyway. The left has no need to stretch the truth. The truth is horrible enough as it is.


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Suppose $f$ is a continuous function on the interval (0,1). We consider the energy functional
$F(u) = \int^1_0\frac{1}{2}((u')^2+u^2)\,dx - \int^1_0fu\,dx$
which is well defined for continuously differentiable functions $u$ on $(0,1)$. Suppouse that $u_0$ is a local minimizer of $F$ in the class of $C^1$ functions satisfying $u(0)=a, u(1)=b$ for some fixed $a,b \in \mathbb{R}$.
This question consists of a few parts but im stuck on one in particular,
Suppose that $a=1,b=e^2,f(x)=-3e^{2x}$. Find an explicit expression for $u_0$.
I have found the Euler-Lagrange equations, $(u_0 -f)-\frac{d}{dx} (u_0'') (u_0') = 0$ but I'm not clear as to how to solve the stated question using this.
Any help would be appreciated,


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Some more Psystar news for y'all. You'll recall that the renegade company was more or less shut down last week, slapped with an injunction and expected to pay Apple an awful lot of money. Put all of that aside for a minute, for there's new news: Apple and Psystar have struck a deal! The deal, which ends a 17-month-long legal battle, means Psystar will stop selling computers pre-loaded with Mac OS X. This ends our long, national nightmare.
So here's what happens: Psystar has to pay Apple a boatload of money; Psystar will stop selling PCs pre-loaded with Mac OS X; and Psystar may be allowed to keep selling Rebel EFI, which lets users instal Mac OS X on their generic PC. That's pretty much it.
Or, in a single sentence, Psystar won't be allowed to sell PCs with Mac OS X pre-loaded, but may be allowed to sell the $50 Rebel EFI, software that lets people instal Mac OS X on regular PCs.
Or, rather than paying for Rebel EFI, you can OSx86 your PC, which I may well do when I get around to building my PC in the coming weeks. I'm either running Linux or Mac on the PC. I'll be damned if I have to run Windows 24/7!


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Where is a good place to watch the Rugby World Cup around the Raffles area?
Best location with atmosphere to watch Rugby World Cup
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Chijmes near the Carlton hotel will have it on.. outdoors lots of drinking or eating choices about 9 years agoAnswered by Greg via WorldNomads.com
You can go to Timbre @ The Substation (45 Armenian Street, Singapore 179936) This is a 10-15 minute walk from Raffles Mrt Station.
Timbre and ESPN STAR Sports on SingTel mio TV bring the LIVE and FREE screening of Rugby World Cup 2011.
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Have fun! :) about 9 years agoAnswered by Roktober via Travellr.com
anywhere else? Was hoping to find some coffee shops would be screening it like they did for Soccer World Cup. I wish Rugby was as popular here... about 9 years agoAnswered by Hedrick Kwan via Travellr.com


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I'm a native Nevadan and graduate of the University of Nevada. This means that each winter when my alma mater's football team packs up and heads to a bowl game to finish up their football season; I understandably get a little excited and nostalgic for the formative years I spent in Reno. This year, Nevada is playing in the Arizona Bowl in Tucson (which I will make the short drive from Phoenix to see) and I hope we can watch them get another win for the season to come out over .500.
For the past 3 years I have been doing illustrations to mark Nevada's bowl games. A personal project. An homage to my state and my college. I really do hope that they can find a way to bring back the excited kind of play I was able to see when Colin Kaepernic was our starting QB. But until that day, I will continue to be a supporting fan and proud Nevadan.


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Mr Guidee
Mahmoud Al-Sholi was born and raised in Malmo, a small city located in the southern parts of Sweden. He started off in the Internet Marketing world at the early age of 12 where he wrote and sold e-Books to users of online communities. He currently operates a platform named Mr Guidee which revolves around solving problems in a simplified matter. We have conducted an interview with him.
Who is the platform 'Mr Guidee' for? How does it help its users?
Mr Guidee is an online platform designed to provide educational resources as well as solutions to everyday problems in a simplified form. Our solutions are published on the main page in a simplified and dynamic step-by-step process which ensures that our Guidees (the people who regularly visit the platform) not only gets their problems solved but also learns to prevent any of them from happening again as well as get the ability to educate others who may encounter the same issues.
How do you plan to encourage a lot of users to this platform?
I have recently launched Mr Guidee (barely a month ago) and what I am more focused on during this year is building engagement by providing as much content as possible. The more solutions there is, the higher the chances of having people regularly visit the platform looking for a solution.
Why is participation an important essence for the success of the platform?
Participation is highly important and I am now talking about Guidee participation, if we don't have people engaging as well as letting us know what helped them and what didn't, we'll have difficulties improving their experiences throughout the platform. As for recruiting Guiders (contributors to the platform) I am not in a hurry for it as we've recently launched and it's common sense that people will wait and see what happens rather than just taking the step forward and begin contributing without actually knowing whether the platform is there to stay or not. Time is really important to me and the thing is you can never know how things could play out and I really do not want to waste anybody's time should we not be here to stay.
As a founder, do you foresee people to read more of the online resources on platform than the usage of e-Books?
It's totally up to their needs. On the Guider Hub (digital book marketplace) educational books are published in digital format and can come either with a price tag or not which depends on the author's preferences, however, on the main page solutions to certain problems can be found and if they can solve your problems then they can be of great use. They can also be of great use if your intentions are to learn in order prevent them from ever happening to you or someone in your surroundings. I'd rather have people take full advantage of what the platform has to offer than to prioritize things.
Which is the most difficult challenge to encounter in the creation of 'Mr Guidee' from the beginning til its founding?
Even though things tend to get rough every now and then, I would say that it was the moment when I almost had to give up the project back in December last year literally because I had made a very stupid mistake of not backing up my things and so when it was go-time (I planned to launch in December 25th of 2015) I had written a code that literally broke the platform and thus had me re-do everything from scratch. Shockingly everything I had written as well as essential files had suddenly vanished which caused a real panic, however, looking on the bright side, I had also learnt something useful from this experience. Backing up is more important than what people actually think it is. Always create frequent backups of your important files and/or documents, it'll help trust me.
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The incidence of stroke post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) remained constant over the first 5 years it was clinically offered in the U.S., the TVT Registry showed.
The 30-day rate of stroke was constant as it did not rise or fall in the large femoral access cohort (P=0.47 for trend) or among all the patients (P=0.22 for trend) who underwent TAVR over the 5 year period, reported Samir Kapadia, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, and colleagues in JAMA.
The rate of stroke was 2.3% and 0.4% for transient ischemic attacks (TIA) in the 30 days following TAVR, the investigators found, calling the findings "a framework for future efforts to reduce post-TAVR stroke rates."
These rates in a predominantly high- or extreme-risk population were lower than expected from the pivotal trials, which had 30-day stroke rates of 3.4% to 6.7%, noted Steven Messé, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and Gorav Ailawadi, MD, of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, in an accompanying editorial.
However, the registry likely underestimated strokes for a number of reasons, they suggested.
As to the stability of the rates across a period when progressively lower-risk patients were being treated, better devices were coming along, and centers were gaining experience, the editorialists noted that "the continual expansion of TVT with new inexperienced sites, less experienced proceduralists, or both may have offset this benefit overall."
Stephen Bailey, MD, of Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, who was not involved in the study, also saw a note of caution in the findings, considering that other clinical trials from the same time period have shown an improvement in various clinical outcomes after TAVR.
"I think that will be a bit of a surprise to most in the field, because the stroke rate has been going to lower levels in clinical trials, and I think we all would have thought that as the procedure has become much more common and procedural volume has gone up, that we have done better and that we were doing better in terms of this outcome," Bailey told MedPage Today.
Notably, other data showed that the median time for any stroke event was 2.0 days following TAVR, with 68.4% of patients who had a stroke within 3 days and 48.9% within 1 day, the researchers wrote.
The majority of strokes and TIA happened within the first few days following TAVR, indicating that the issues are procedure related, noted William Zoghbi, MD, of the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center in Texas, who was not involved in the study.
"To me, it brings about an area that needs further investigation with some randomization of the trials to look at each one of these possible factors" -- the procedure itself, the catheters, the aortic valve, the aorta and its structure, the device, and other coexisting conditions like atrial fibrillation, Zoghbi told MedPage Today.
So far, embolic filter-protected transcatheter aortic valve replacement has shown only favorable signals without definitive trial evidence showing that sequestering embolic debris actually reduces events like death and stroke.
Kapadia's group evaluated 101,430 patients who underwent TAVR from November 9, 2011 through May 31, 2017 at 521 hospitals using the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapies (TVT) Registry. Among them, 47.1% were women, and the median age was 83.
The analysis included both femoral- and nonfemoral-access TAVR. The 30-day stroke risk didn't vary by oral anticoagulant or dual antiplatelet therapy prescription at hospital discharge in either group.
The rate of 30-day mortality was significantly lower among patients without a stroke than with one (3.7% vs 16.7%; P<0.001).
Limitations of the study included its retrospective design, voluntary site-reported data on neurologic events, and no requirement for regular neuroimaging of asymptomatic patients or neurologic evaluation following TAVR.
Kapadia reported no disclosures.
Messé disclosed relationships with Yale University Cardiovascular Research Group, W.L. Gore and Associates, and Claret Medical.
Ailawadi disclosed relationships with Admedus, Edwards Lifesciences, Abbott, and Medtronic.
Zoghbi reported no disclosures.
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Source Reference: Huded CP, et al "Association between transcatheter aortic valve replacement and early postprocedural stroke" JAMA 2019; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.7525.


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Critical Literary Regionalisms (ACCUTE Conference Montreal, May 2010) deadline Nov 15 09
Member-organized Session:
Critical Literary Regionalisms
Organizer: Susie DeCoste (Waterloo)
Frank Davey has argued that regionalist ideology tends toward environmental determinism, resulting in certain assumptions about what effects place should have on a person. Within this set of assumptions, any identification with other possible grounds of identity, such as race or gender, is less important. More recently, in Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and
Culture in the American Landscape (2007) Douglas Powell contends that region is rhetorical: it is just as much a persuasion as a description. In light of these observations, it may appear that regionalist literatures are as limited as the geographical space they intend to depict. On the other hand, regional literatures perhaps require sustained critical exploration of the relationships between region and race, and region and gender. This panel can gesture toward a criticism of regionalist literatures which explores the construction of region and its effects on subjectivity. This panel welcomes papers on any aspect of the relationship between criticism and regional
literature from any disciplinary perspective and any time period. Papers may focus on a specific text(s), or may address theoretical concerns for the study of regional literatures.
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Sharpunkha has been reported to possess anti-hyperlipidemic and hepatoprotective activity. In an experimental study, it brought about significant reduction in serum aspartate aminotransaminase, alanine aminotransaminase, gamma glutamyl transpeptidase, alkaline phosphatase, total bilirubin, and liver MDA levels, and significant improvement in liver glutathione, when compared with thioacetamide damaged rats.
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Going to sleep, becoming part of the memory of the hotel room.
I remember another hotel room, then another, then another, and on and on infinitely. Like with photos sometimes.
Spending the night in a hotel as if you are on holiday.
Summer 2009. At the station, I had bought a magazine. « First man on the moon, the souvenir album ». That summer, spent looking at each image in detail.
Keeping my eyes open, a little longer, two more seconds, the little lights of the Pantheon. Leaving the curtains open on purpose.
And I see Walter Schirra on board Apollo 6.
I found the photo again, and a sweet wrapper.
1 – Walter Schirra on board Apollo 6 2- « They didn't know it was impossible, so they did it » – Mark Twain. (Sweet wrapper, winter 2011)
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Went up to Urban Fauna in NW Portland today. I didn't spend a lot of time there, just did boy-shopping (I went in, found what I was looking for, wandered for exactly 2 minutes, paid for the item, left).
I was downtown anyway for my eye doctor appointment, and I've got a project I'm going to attempt now that Smacky is big enough.
I'm going to leash train him.
I want to be able to take him on short runs with me (you know, after I can start running again. *sigh*). Or at least go for walks, or be able to safely restrain him if I ever take him visiting with me.
Call me craaaaazy, but I think Smacky is smart enough to train. I've done a good job of training him out of being so bite-y, and have gotten good results with the "ride on Brian's shoulders" trick (although it's painful when I'm only wearing a light t-shirt or no shirt, but I think teaching a cat tact and discretion might take a lot longer than I've probably got patience for).
I will, of course, post pictures of Smacky in his stylish new purple harness. Maybe for next Friday's cat blogging.
By the way: I totally stole "Friday Night Cat Blogging" from Atrios, a.k.a. Duncan Black.


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Cash safe and transportable safe
For the protected transport of values in non-armored or partially armored vehicles (one-man service). The diversity of the models and options allows a customer-oriented and demand-oriented solution of the transport tasks. An aluminum box can be used with various options as a box for the stationary (mounted in the vehicle) use or as a trolly for mobile use.
Applications, VTB
- For the safe transport of valuables in non-armoured vehicles (one man operation)
- As Container for collected and deposited valuables (through sluice)
Applications, VTR
- For the transport of large volumes and heavy weight by only one person
- For collecting valuables at supermarkets, airports, amusement parks, etc.
Protective functions
- Protection of valuables against theft and robbery
- Protection of the courier against attacks, blackmailing, kidnapping, intimidation, physical assault, suspicion
- Eliminating complicity
- Protection of contents (through colouring)
Protective devices
- Pre-set time limits for the transport to prevent being taken as hostage
- Alarm and smoke or ink for colouring the valuables
- Automatically activated anti-snatch protection
- Surface protection
- Protection against sabotage
The following options are available
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- Unlocking by entering code or electronic key VTB
- Grip protection (against snatch robbery/pavement risk) VTR
- Electronic surface protection (against cutting open) VTB/VTR
- Break-open protection (against cracking the cover) VTB/VTR
- Cash collector sluice (to deposit small Containers) VTB/VTR
- Touch point «hands free» (to let go of the grip) VTR
- Additional lock (to let go of the handle during transportation in a vehicle) VTR
Other options such as movement detectors, time limits and control lamps (LED) improve comfort and allow additional applications.
Force-controlled safety functions
All security functions are fully automatic and therefore cannot be influenced in any way by employees, thus complicity and blackmailing are excluded. The courier never has any access to the transported goods, so misuse and suspicions are also eliminated.
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The Treasury Department has released the results of the MPRA Voting. Those results can be viewed by clicking on the Funds website link below;
The NY State Teamsters Pension Fund has posted a voting notification for the MPRA Vote on their website. Click on the link below to view the posting.
The Treasury Department has approved the Fund's MPRA application. Cllick on the link below to visit the Fund's website for more information.
On Wednesday, 50 Monitors employed at Niagara Falls Coach Lines voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 264. Following a two month contested campaign, which included a full-court anti-union press by the Company, the Monitors voted 41-2 to join the Drivers and become Teamsters.
We join our International Union, not only today, but everyday, in recognizing the many contributions that Teamter Women have made in the fight for justice and equality. See the link below for their many inspiring stories.
Congratulations to Shaun Waziak on his selection as Schwebel Baking 2017 Salesman Of The Year.
On Wednesday Reps. Joe Wilson of South Carolina and Steve King of Iowa are introducing a National Right to Work law which would amend the National Labor Relations Act and not require all employees in a union shop to pay dues as a condition of employment. If this law passes, unions will be forced to provide services and protection to worker's who don't pay-in. This move will inevitably weaken, and quite possibly, destroy the union movement as we know it.
Right to Work (for less) is not new to this nation. Twenty-eight states have passed Right to Work laws. Most recently, Kentucky and West Virginia passed the legislation with Missouri close to making it the law of the land any day now. The Trump Train is in no doubt responsible for this recent push and this is not an isolated movement in Midwestern or deep Southern states. New Hampshire is expected to become a Right to Work (for less) state and its impact will be tremendous in the Northeast.
Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped. Our weapon is our vote." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking about right-to-work laws in 1961
Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped. Our weapon is our vote." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking about right-to-work laws in 1961
Right to Work has incredible negative ramifications. Let's ignore that the passage of Right to Work results in fewer union membership turnouts which affects the strengths of a unions legislative and bargaining power; Right to Work states have lower pay, benefit and health coverage. Workplace accidents and fatalities also increase dramatically. Organizationally, Union representation must be provided for free, creating resentment on the shop floor and a divided workforce. Anybody who has experience working in an enviornment like this understands that those who don't pay dues are the least liked employees.
In Wisconsin, when Right to Work was blindsided and passed, teachers unions lost 50% of its membership. Now, teachers in Wisconsin have lost about 18% of their pay with fewer students aspiring to be educators in the University of Wisconsin collegiate system.
Right after Right to Work (for less) was passed in Wisconsin, 10,000 jobs were lost, ranking the Cheese state 33rd in the nation in job creation. Since July 2011, they have been trailing the national average in job creation and rank last in the United States for start-up company opportunities.
This news also comes a few days after Koch Industries, have pledged $400 million in support for mid-term Congressional elections to anybody who looks to take out organized labor.
Teamsters understand the value in union membership. Higher pay, better benefits, and a greater voice in the workplace are standards set by union members that won't be given up without a fight, even after the Supreme Court's decision in the "Janus v. AFSCME" case.
While it is true that this ruling may create temporary roadblocks, public employees throughout the United States need to remain unified. We cannot allow the progress working people have made in union to be slowed down because of lawsuits that disregard the value of public employees.
The Janus decision came about because anti-employee forces spent millions of dollars on lobbying and court challenges for over 40 years. Attacks from these outside groups, backed by secret donors, seek to eliminate the freedom of public employees to negotiate with their employer over the value of their work.
Many Teamster members around the country have held conversations with their co-workers about the impact of the Supreme Court decision to reinforce the value of remaining unified. Whether at the worksite or at the ballot box, members are fighting back against these attacks.
Public sector Teamsters have made it their career to serve their country and community, and any attempt to take away their freedom to join together is an attack on those who are the foundation of America.
Our middle class was built by everyday working people, standing together in union. The Teamsters honor that history by continuing the fight to give working people the promise of the American dream.
That won't end with the Janus decision. The Teamsters will continue to organize, mobilize, and do whatever is necessary to achieve prosperity through collective action.
This Web page provides the latest updates for the national contract, riders and supplements that cover about 3,500 Teamsters at DHL Express.
We Are eXPOsing XPO's Global Greed
XPO Logistics is a top ten global logistics and transportation company with annual revenue of $15 billion and 89,000 employees, another 10,000 workers classified as independent contractors, and thousands more working for firms that subcontract with XPO. We are the REAL workers at XPO Logistics worldwide exposing the truth about the company's global greed, illegal wage theft, unsafe conditions, and abhorrent and vicious anti-worker, anti-union tactics.
This greed includes mistreating former Con-way Freight workers in the United States who are being kept in the dark about terminal closures and layoffs, and the company's illegal refusal to bargain contracts and denying their workers' federally protected right to organize. It also includes port, rail and last-mile drivers around the country and in Southern California fighting wage theft in excess of $200 million because they are misclassified as independent contractors and denied the right to form their union. This greed has caused numerous lawsuits and strikes. Greed also means an unsafe workplace and mistreating its warehouse employees.
XPO's greed extends to Europe beginning with breaking its promise to not layoff any workers for at least 18 months. French workers and the unions have been fighting back against XPO's disrespect, lies and attempts to slash jobs. Similar struggles are taking place in Great Britain, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, and across Europe.
Join the worldwide struggle now! Get involved with this campaign by joining the Facebook group "XPO Exposed."
Together, we can eXPOse the company's global greed and win fairness, respect and dignity for tens of thousands of XPO employees around the world!
This page provides the latest contract information to the 7,500 Teamsters—drivers, dockworkers and office staff—employed by ABF Freight System, Inc.
The Teamsters Military Assistance Program (TMAP) assists Active Duty Service members that are transitioning, Veterans and Military spouses with job opportunities with responsible employers.
Workers' pensions are being endangered by both Congress and those charged with overseeing them. The Teamsters and our members are standing united to say "No!" to cuts and "Yes!" to greater retirement security!
The 'Let's Get America Working!' campaign seeks to restore a dynamic and prosperous middle class to drive economic growth by helping to advance policy decisions that create and maintain good middle-income jobs, guarantee retirement security, expand access to the American Dream, and ensure that the benefits of the ongoing economic recovery are felt by the many, not just the few.
This webpage provides information on the Teamsters Union's legislative advocacy at both the federal and state level as well as our field activity to support those policy positions and to get strong labor candidates elected to office. Among other resources, you will find our federal legislative scorecard, formal statements of policy position and communications to Capitol Hill, a weekly update on federal legislative happenings, an overview of bills we are tracking at the state level, and quick links to take action on priority issues.
This web page provides information on the ongoing effort to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Since 1994, NAFTA has devastated working families, putting corporate profits ahead of people. What's worse is that NAFTA has become the blueprint for all other trade agreements, from the way that it was negotiated in secret, to the bad provisions that have made their way into every agreement that has been signed since then. Now, NAFTA is being renegotiated and we demand that it be reframed to work for workers instead of corporate interests.
The Teamsters have stood in solidarity with worker struggles in other countries since our founding. With economic globalization, our ability to organize increasingly depends on our ability to build alliances with workers on a global scale.
More than ever, Teamsters are organizing and bargaining with multi-national companies. A key objective of our Global Strategies Campaign is to build strong alliances with unions around the globe who organize and bargain with common employers. Our focus is on workers in the emerging global supply chains – the infrastructure of globalization.
Globalization creates new opportunities for international worker solidarity. We seek common cause with workers around the world to build social justice for all workers and the communities in which they live.


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Situated in southern California's Coachella Valley, Cathedral City is located eight miles south of the city of Palm Springs, California. The town gets its name from nearby "Cathedral Canyon, named by Colonel Henry Washington in 1850 because its rock formations reminded him of the interior of a cathedral.
Cathedral City boasts several golf resorts and tourist attractions that are a primary driver of the local economy. Cathedral City's famous landmark, the Fountain of Life, is located in the town square. It is an amazing stone sculpture featuring three stone columns surrounded by realistic sculptures of desert creatures. The fountain was created from pieces of adoquin stone imported from a quarry in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
There are five golf courses located within Cathedral City, including the Desert Princess Country Club. The club features a 27 hole championship golf course, tennis courts, fitness center, and spa, and has over six-hundred condominiums and villas for seasonal or long-term rental. If you enjoy sports, The Big League Dreams Sports Park is located approximately four minutes from the center of town. The park features thirteen playing fields, all representing scaled down versions of major league ballparks, including Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, and Sportsman's Park.
Cathedral City is in the Palm Springs Unified School District and boasts a high school, two middle schools, and five elementary schools, as well as the fully accredited College of the Desert community college. With a climate complete with extreme summer heat and cool winter nights, the need for reliable, efficient home comfort heating and cooling systems are of primary importance. Best in the West Air Conditioning & Heating is proud to call the Coachella Valley home and proud to offer service to Cathedral City and nearby residents and businesses for all of their air conditioning and heating needs.


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Read this tip to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Discipline and other Single Parent topics.
Jan Wilson at SOLO for Singles writes "School age children transfer more and more allegiance from their family to their peer group each year. By the time your child is a young teenager, you will have powerful competition from the peer group. That is the way it will be, like it or not. At this point your prior discipline should lead your teenager to self-control." If you have done your job well, your teenager should be secure enough and have enough self-esteem to be able to stand up and say "NO" when the situation warrants it.
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11 Aug 2013 : Quick Dandelion update #
Added Memory Threads demo video to the Dandelion page.Comment
8 Aug 2013 : Dandelion 1.0.0 released #
I'm pleased to announce the release of Dandelion version 1.0.0. Dandelion is an Open Source (LGPL) 3D network graph visualisation tool that can be controlled by other programs through a simple network interface. The source code is up on GitHub and you can download Windows and Linux deb installers from the Dandelion page. As always this is just an initial release. Hopefully I'll get time to implement the many more improvements planned in the near future.Comment


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Katie Was Heartbroken About Suri Speculation
Katie Was Heartbroken About Suri Speculation
The big day has come and gone. We have all now had a sneak peak at Suri Cruise (click here in case you missed it). As expected, Katie is rejuvenated after her massage and who knows what else to make her look radiant again. The cameras were all over the Cruise ladies and X17 even has a video where you can watch the craziness that surrounds these women as they leave The Ivy and head to do some baby shopping. Katie reveals in the video that a wedding is coming soon. While she may look happy in these candid photos, she reveals to VF that she was heartbroken about all of the gossip stories that surrounded her baby Suri. Here's more from VF:
"Some of the crap that's out there—the stuff that's said about my parents and my siblings [tabloid accounts implied that Katie's family did not hit it off with Tom]—it's really frustrating the amount of shit that's out there. And the stuff they say about Suri?! You shouldn't say that about us, and you can't say that about my child."
"I was overjoyed in being pregnant," Holmes tells Sarkin, "and then had to withstand ridicule about my pregnancy when it was the most normal, non-controversial thing imaginable." Of speculation in the press, Holmes says, "All those things were invented."
Poor Katie. Tom even reveals that they were never hiding anything. They were always planning on taking family photos with Annie and it was all just about the right timing. Well, I guess our time has come. Check out VF this week where you can see a 22 page spread of the family. In the meantime, enjoy a lot more pics of Katie out and about with her moms so read more


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Gas Reference Prices
The gas reference price is the price per 103m3 used to calculate the gross royalty amount for marketable gas and to determine gas royalty rates. The gas reference price is the greater of the Producer Price and the Posted Minimum Price (PMP).
Producer Price
The Producer Price is the average monthly sales price for each producer at the inlet of each processing plant where they have production. The producer price is determined by the Ministry of Energy, Mines & Petroleum Resources using information provided by producers each month.
Actual processing and transportation charges for each processing plant are deducted from the average sales value. For producer-owned plants, these charges are deducted using a gas cost allowance.
For more information on the producer price, see section 5.3 of the Oil and Gas Royalty Handbook (PDF).
Posted Minimum Price
The province establishes a Posted Minimum Price (PMP) based on current market prices to ensure natural gas resources aren't discounted. The PMP is 80% of the estimated average sales price for gas produced each month in a specific area.
The PMP varies by designated plant groups to take into account the wide range of costs that can exist between plants and the differing prices between markets. There are five plant groups:
- Fort Nelson
- McMahon
- Pine River
- Plants Delivering Gas to the Spectra Transportation System
- Plants Delivering Gas to TransCanada & Alliance Transportation Systems
See a complete list of plants (PDF) and the current Posted Minimum Price for each plant group.
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How the Warriors could conceivably, possibly, maybe lose in the playoffs
Get breaking news and SI's biggest stories instantly. Download the new Sports Illustrated app (iOS or Android) and personalize your experience by following your favorite teams and SI writers. This story originally appeared in the April 18, 2016, issue of Sports Illustrated. To subscribe, click here.
Could the 73–win Warriors lose in the playoffs and fail to repeat as NBA champions? Sure, it's possible. But likely? Not so much. With Golden State back in the postseason, SI.com's Lee Jenkins and Andrew Sharp examine how the Warriors could conceivably, possibly, maybe be beaten in the playoffs.
The Mighty Spurs
By Lee Jenkins
For anyone tired of hearing that the Warriors are the greatest team ever assembled, that they have revolutionized basketball, that they have triggered a cultural phenomenon, that they're smarter than everybody else and more likeable and have so much more fun, then the Spurs are now your team.
The Cavaliers, Clippers and Thunder all have a chance to topple Golden State, and record arguably the biggest upset in NBA history, but get real. The Spurs—Golden State's likely Western Conference finals opponent—are the only legitimate hope.
The Warriors talk a lot about their rhythm, which they call their "flow," and for the past 10 months no one has been able to disrupt it. The Grizzlies did, in last year's West semifinals, and the Cavs did also, in the Finals. Since then the Dubs have dropped a game here and there, but their flow has continued unabated.
The Island of Kawhi: Leonard gives second wind to Spurs' dynasty
The Warriors in general and Steph Curry in particular admit they feed off confidence. The confidence they earned from the championship last season led to more confidence from the streak that started this season which led to more confidence from their current six-month joyride. The team that beats them is the team that shakes them—the team that makes them feel fallible again.
The Spurs cannot outgun the Warriors, but they can make them clank a few shots, if such a thing is possible. What Golden State has been to offense this season, San Antonio has been to defense. The Spurs have allowed just 92.9 points per game, almost three fewer than any other team. In the NBA good offense typically trumps good defense, which is why the Warriors would be favored in a series. But the Spurs' D can rattle anybody.
So how would they do it? Downsizing, with Boris Diaw spending more time at center and Tim Duncan more time on the bench, as LaMarcus Aldridge punishes counterparts; switching pick-and-rolls, with Tony Parker and Danny Green hounding Curry and the bigs chasing him as well; Kawhi Leonard suffocating Klay Thompson. That was the recipe the Spurs employed in their second meeting with the Warriors, when they did what the Clippers, Thunder and Cavs could not: finish the damn game.
Leonard has taken his star turn this season, morphing from stopper to centerpiece, but this series will test him. He can't fade into the background anymore, the way he did in the first round against the Clippers last spring, deferring to the bygone Big Three. He has to piggyback the Spurs, on offense as well as defense, delivering at both ends every night. No one expects him to match missiles with Curry, but he can put up a string of 25-point performances. He proved as much all winter.
Many NBA players, plugged into their League Pass accounts, were demoralized by the Warriors. The Spurs, institutionally insulated from hysteria and immune to hype, kept grinding. They finished a tick below Golden State, and they couldn't care less if nobody noticed. While others were hand-wringing, they were searching for a way to beat the unbeatable team. If there's a formula, they're the best bet to find it.
The Ultimate Trump Card: LeBron
By Andrew Sharp
There have been cryptic tweets. There have been team meetings. A coach has been fired. There was an Instagram post by the franchise player posing as a morose cartoon Batman. There is uncertainty clouding the future in Cleveland, and angst in the present. But in the end, there is still LeBron.
From a basketball standpoint, LeBron James remains a cheat code. He is the size of Bill Russell with a point guard's vision and the power of Karl Malone. He's averaging 25.5 points, 8.1 rebounds and 7.4 assists since the All-Star break. He is the only player in the NBA who can make Draymond Green's versatility look ordinary, and he outplayed Curry through most of last year's Finals.
Yes, Golden State destroyed this Cleveland team in January, but I'm not sure a matchup this June would be so lopsided. Golden State will have to survive wars with two of the other teams on this list, and they'll have to stay healthy. The Cavs should have a much easier road.
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Whether they go big or small, Cleveland has more talent to throw at the Warriors than any team in the league. Tristan Thompson can punish them on the glass, and Kevin Love can chip in from the perimeter. Iman Shumpert is a capable foil for Klay Thompson. Kyrie Irving can do damage on offense, and his defensive shortcomings can be hidden on Harrison Barnes. J.R. Smith.... Well, he can't play any worse than he did last year. And while nobody is stopping Curry, Matthew Dellavedova is the most obnoxious defender this side of Chris Paul, so that's a start. The Cavs can make these games ugly, and that's the first step to beating the Warriors.
But mostly, this is about LeBron. Imagine how disgusted he must be reading this, a series of pieces whose premise is that any scenario in which the Warriors lose should be considered theoretical.
So the ball is in the King's court now. Toward the end of last year's Finals, LeBron announced that he wasn't concerned. "I feel confident because I'm the best player in the world," he said after a loss. "It's that simple." At the time, it was that simple. Now nobody is so sure.
Given the sudden rise of Curry, there's a real chance that LeBron will be known more for what he didn't win than the titles he did. There are plenty of people mocking and doubting him. It's not all that different from where he was in Miami once, when the Heat had lost to the Mavericks in the 2011 Finals and were roundly considered a failure. Back then, the basketball world wondered in hushed tones about LeBron's future—until he went off and dominated the Finals the following season.
I don't know whether LeBron has it in him to do that against Golden State. He almost did last year, but the Warriors are a better team now. All I know is that LeBron has no better opportunity to cement his place in history than in a head-to-head matchup with Curry. And if the Warriors want to go down as the greatest team of all time, they'll have to go through a pissed-off superhero to do it.
Western Wild Cards
By Lee Jenkins
Among all NBA teams the Clippers have the best odds ... of embroiling the Warriors in a brawl before Game 1 that results in mass suspensions.
The rivalry—almost certain to be rekindled in the second round—remains the most volatile in the league, and while it has mellowed a bit recently with Golden State's dominance and Blake Griffin's absence, Griffin is back and a playoff series will restore tension. If Griffin's quad injury limits him in any substantial way, the Clippers have no shot. But if he is at or near full strength, they have, well, a puncher's chance.
The Clippers lost all four games with the Warriors this season, but they blew 10-point fourth-quarter leads in two of them. There are a couple ways to look at that. 1) The Clips can't finish the Dubs even when everything is going their way. 2) They are closer than you think. Within the L.A. locker room, players believe in their formula against Golden State: using DeAndre Jordan and Griffin at center in small-ball lineups, switching pick-and-rolls relentlessly and unleashing Jordan on Steph Curry when Chris Paul isn't hounding him.
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Two years ago the Clippers ousted the Warriors in the first round, and that was in the midst of the Donald Sterling fiasco. The principals haven't changed much, even if the outlook has. The Clippers need Griffin to heal, Paul to saddle Curry with foul trouble, J.J. Redick and Jamal Crawford to set arenas on fire with their shooting. And a Draymond Green suspension wouldn't hurt.
Clippers coach Doc Rivers uses the term "emotional hijack" when players succumb to their anger. Usually he employs the phrase when discussing his own team. In this case the Clips have to aggravate the Warriors—which they've proven capable of doing.
Let's assume the Warriors eventually vanquish the Clippers. They'd be on track to face the Spurs in a dream conference finals. But what if it's the Thunder, imbued with confidence from a second-round surprise?
With Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, the Thunder can score with the Warriors. Their problem is slowing them. The OKC defense, while solid, is not elite. Like the Clippers, the Thunder can play small with Durant at the four, and they can switch pick-and-rolls, with Serge Ibaka hopping out on Curry.
But Oklahoma City has also looked good with bigger lineups featuring Enes Kanter and Steven Adams. The Thunder are deeper than the Clippers and can tinker with formulas, tabbing Andre Roberson for his defense, Anthony Morrow for his shooting or Dion Waiters for a combination of both. But all those players carry risk. The Thunder will likely rely most on Roberson to blanket the perimeter, but he can't shoot reliably and the Warriors could give him the Tony Allen treatment, sagging off him and clogging the paint to impede Westbrook and Durant.
In the end Russ and KD will have to simultaneously deliver the best series of their lives. They'll have to outshine Curry and Klay Thompson. They'll have to hit the clutch baskets that eluded the Thunder all season. They are still the best duo in the NBA, two of the top five players in the league. They won't be an easy out for anyone.
Bad Luck
By Andrew Sharp
Nobody needs Captain Obvious to come through and remind everyone that a Steph Curry injury could derail everything. But if we're surveying potential nightmares at the end of a dream season, let's be honest about this: Injuries are the biggest threat on the board.
Well injuries, plus the very real possibility of a Joe Lacob Ted Talk on what Gregg Popovich can learn from venture capitalists. Also, we still don't know exactly what happened with Draymond Green in the Oklahoma City locker room back in February, but a mid-Finals meltdown would be less than ideal.
For now, though, we'll focus on the most apparent catastrophes lurking out there for Golden State. This team is great for two reasons. First, Curry is one of the best players of all time. He may not officially be in that conversation yet, but he will be in a few years. And if the Warriors lose him, obviously, it's over.
The other force driving this Golden State season is the best chemistry the NBA has ever seen. On defense almost everyone can switch and guard multiple positions. On offense the Warriors' passing overwhelms opponents and their shooting at every position makes them more or less unguardable. It all adds up to a lineup that nobody can stop. The flip side of that equation is interesting, though.
GALLERY: NBA championship rings through the years
NBA Championship Rings Through the Years
If chemistry is this elemental to the team's success, then removing one piece makes the entire formula vulnerable. Take Andre Iguodala. His shooting helps spread the floor on offense, while his versatility on defense allows the Warriors to put Green at center without missing a beat. If there were any questions about Iguodala's value, those ended when he missed 16 of 24 games to end the year, and teams realized they could hide weaker defenders on Harrison Barnes. (Three of the Dubs' losses came in those 16 games.)
There are other potential risks too. Andrew Bogut is on the wrong side of 30, and he's a perpetual injury candidate. (He hasn't played more than 70 games in a season since 2007—08, when he was 23.) His backup, Festus Ezeli, only recently came back to the court after missing 31 games with a knee injury. Barnes sprained an ankle in November, and he was out until January.
None of the injuries derailed Golden State during the regular season, so maybe it won't matter in the playoffs. In fact, it probably won't. Curry is still good enough to elevate Golden State past anyone. Whatever happens, I will not go on record doubting the Warriors in 2016.
If you'll remember, though, that the most vulnerable this team looked came during the beginning of the NBA Finals last year, when Green was battling mysterious back issues. We may never know what was wrong. All that's certain is that Green stopped shooting, trapping Curry started working and for a few games there, the Warriors' offense froze.
It worked out in the end for the Dubs—but only when Green's back loosened up and Kerr inserted a healthy Iguodala into the starting lineup. What happens if they don't have those luxuries this year?


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He was born in Stratford and was 21 in 1916
Edwin Wedge (or possibly Widge) lived in Catford as did his brother Alfred who was also a conscientious objector. The family address in the 1911 census was 47 Heygate Avenue, Southend on Sea.
Conscientious Objection during the First World War:
He was a Christadelphian who was exempted from conscription under the terms of the 'work of national importance' scheme by the Pelham Committee.
War Service:
Edwin worked as a turner from 24 October 1917. He found the work too heavy, but his request for a transfer was refused.
After the First World War:
Cyril Pearce, University of Leeds, Pearce Register of British Conscientious Objectors
(information from the Pelham Committee Minutes in T.E. Harvey Friends House/Temp.Mss 835
Ann O'Brien, Volunteer Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre, 24 October, 2015
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I have helped thousands of others by simply sharing and donating solutions that helped my family, after we all developed a mysterious illness, including the dog. I had no choice but to seek out unconventional ways to try and get better. The medical and herbal professionals I sought out were puzzled, as not one of them had ever heard of the issues I spoke of, including the things that were coming from our body. With the feeling of massive movements and the rapid onset of sickness, of multiple family members at once, I realized that what was happening to us was something unknown……..
Ironically my son and I were experiencing the same symptoms, only days apart. We were visiting doctors and emergency units together, for the same reasons. In only two months time, we had a crisis 16 times, mostly together. Each time riding this "merry-go-round", we were disrespected, misled, and released from the emergency room with no further options. We were given prescriptions that had been taken off the shelves for years. Not one of the 22 medical professionals we sought out could answer any of my questions regarding a possible parasitic infection and our 9 stool tests came back negative. I always left more hopeless and unsure, and they seemed reluctant to see us again. I was even more reluctant to go back to them….
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My research repeatedly pointed to the possibility of parasites and fungus, although I dismissed it, as I thought that could never happen to my family. In the middle of the night, as I sat in my bed researching, something very large "stretched" from my navel to the center of my breasts, approximately eight inches in a single "thrust". It felt as though something had exited my stomach while partially staying in place inside my gut. I immediately took an antiparasitic and the next morning, I began to release horrifying matter!
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It seemed work had to be done to remove this mucus, as it doesn't just come out on its own, without initiation. There were also many health, science, and technical professionals alongside us who also attempted to understand this new phenomenon. We were always trying to find solutions but options and knowledge were slim, as herbals were not spoken of, nor mentioned often. We couldn't find that "one remedy" that would work for us all. Nothing seemed to stop or slow the mucus down, as it was coming back just as quickly as we would rid of it. For many, if they didn't constantly expel mucus, they seemed to become ill all over again.
By phone, I contacted over thirty herbalists, Chinese doctors, doctors, and health coaches, from all over the country, yet not one of them had any idea as to what I was even talking about. I quickly realized that we had been one of the firsts to have stumbled onto the unknown, or possibly purposely hidden aspect of the body!
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Bit by bit intestinal cleansing for the mucus seemed to be working for us and it seemed to appear lighter in color. I ate raw egg smoothies, with raspberries to mask the taste of the herbs. One morning my 2 yr. old daughter, took a sip of my smoothie, as my attention was elsewhere. I had not cleansed her at this point because of her age and I was so focused on us that were showing chronic signs of illness. The next morning, to my horror, she had expelled the same massive release of mucus that I originally found in myself and my son! There were about six feet of mucus in her diaper. I felt a lot of guilt because I almost missed it and that she may have become much worse, as we did. This is why I advocate that you must treat all the members of your family, including your pets!
As we started to feel better, my son always joking tried to convince me to start a business together, taking our newfound knowledge and offering the cleanse that helped us to our new companions. He felt such an urgency for them, especially the new sufferers that came along with little knowledge and no sense of direction, nor any answers. He became well enough to return home, many miles away, back to his old life and out from under my care-taking, protective wings…….
Two weeks later, tragically, my son was killed by a drunk driver. After his death, I began to feel my health regress, due to my deep sorrow. After months of grieving and receiving sign after sign, I decided to build that business, in his honor. I didn't want him to be forgotten, as that is a mother's worst fear. I now live to make his life make a difference. My logo represents a crying feather, the tears of a mother lost in worry for her sick children, and a recognition of my heartbreaking journey…..It then became my passion….and so my journey all alone began……..
Since the beginning, I have attempted to help every single person that has been placed into my path, in whatever way I could. I am simply tired of watching others suffer when the answer can be so simple. I am sick of no help from those that we seek out in a time of need, especially in the health profession. This is for our children's future. What kind of leaders, experiments, options, or path are we leaving them? We need health and pathogen information to become common knowledge, to make a difference! I have already witnessed a huge shift!
Please have a look around, as I have many things to offer! There is a "Graphic Photos" section where I share my own personal photos, alongside some from fellow sufferers. I have created an "In Memorandum" page for the two angels of heaven that inspired and helped me to get to where I am today. I offer you the option to sign up as an "Affiliate" to make some extra money while you work on getting well. I am consistently working on the site and I will be setting up a feather points system that will reward you with feathers for different aspects. So keep checking back to see what's new! You may just get a feather or two for that too!
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I utilize plant synergy and its assistance to our well being. I choose wildcrafted over organic because, for me, it was the best quality. I spend my spare time wildcrafting rare plants to offer you full-spectrum compounds wherever and whenever I can. I collaborate compounds, as a single herb may help but nothing compares to the teamwork of the multiple plants. They may assist one another. A single compound has limited capabilities.
Every package has attention paid to every detail and batches are made in small portions, some are even made to order. I formulate, keeping aspects in mind, for example, biofilm dissolution, sanitation capabilities, current infectious pathogens, and more.
Please do not take my product names as any type of advice, especially medical. I have attempted to stay with an "~Ease" and "Solutions" theme. I attempt to go as all-natural as I can. In some cases, a gentle preservative is required, otherwise, some products, like lotion, will only last a week. Only the use of the most gentle is used, where necessary.
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Herbs can be selective, meaning, they may fight the harmful organisms while passing by the beneficial ones. They may have capabilities of dismantling harmful biofilms and encysted pathogens. When biofilms, fungi, and mucus are involved, immunity may be compromised. As we kill, sweep, nourish, and support our bodies, what may take place is balance and stability, resulting in homeostasis.
Detoxification is a cycle of binding, deeply pulling in, and delivering compounds on a proverbial silver platter, then grabbing harmful compounds & carrying them out through excretions like sweat, urine, and stool. Sweeping the intestinal tract may reduce the levels of pathogenic biofilms, hardened fecal matter, and other types of matter and debris. The internal terrain needs to be revamped, including the gut biome.
Tinctures contain extracted and readily available compounds, just like how plants uptake them from the soil in nature! It is difficult for some herbs to cross the blood/brain barrier, therefore I use adaptogens to assist other compounds in deeper absorption and penetration. Tinctures are taken under the tongue, where sublingual absorption takes place. This may transport them to the organs and other areas, via bloodstream circulation. There are many routes to accomplish this, for example, suppositories, the nasal passage, belly button soaking, and utilizing the higher absorption spots on the body, like the armpits, under the breasts, and the veins on the back of the neck. Best results have been seen with taking tinctures in concert with other products.
A common question is for suggestions as to what to eat while detoxing. Thankfully I found the raw egg benefits when dealing with my family's issues. They gave our body sustenance on a cellular level. See my raw egg smoothie recipe below! As I cleansed they provided the excessive vitamins, nutrients, and collagen, which was key to our rebuilding.
Getting proper sleep, a clean, sugar~free diet, drinking clean water, detox baths, occupying thoughts and our minds, and appropriate exercise, may be imperative to climbing a steep but steady slope back towards well~being. A great tool may be to follow the glycemic diet that is common for diabetics to monitor sugar intake. Stopping all sources of processed sugar is a must! Collagen supplementation is essential because every pathogen may feed on ours. You would think that supplementing collagen would feed them, but rather the opposite. It seemed to repair faster than damage could take place.
I try to think outside the box and share my tips with you! Take this advice and run with it, as I come from a place of no help, no advice, and few to no solutions. I urge you to look and read up on the products and information shared throughout this site, there is a plethora of valuable research, information, and other things to learn!
Happy Cleansing !!!


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Ongoing Projects
This is a brief listing of ongoing projects in academics and in business:
- Book titled Death of a Nation. This book is due to be published by mid-2014, and dissects the trends towards an inevitable failure of Indian system to cope successfully with various challenges.
- Book titled Strategy – Multifinalities and Equifinalities.
- an NPD engagement towards evolving and configuring a simulation product that has universal appeal for Indian & Global businesses.
- Armoury of Negotiation & Takeover Defences.
- Freezing Standards for contrasting various Due Diligence Frameworks.
- Comparison of Deep Diving and Broad-based Analyses.


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Dr Pam Spurr, a psychologist with 20 years experience as a self-help expert, life coach and agony aunt, gives some advice on how to keep a spark in your relationship
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Video: Pregnant Kate Hudson Attends Idol With Ryder and Matt Bellamy!
Kate Hudson and Matt Bellamy took a break from real estate shopping yesterday for some American Idol fun! The actress and her rocker boyfriend sat in the audience along with her son Ryder to watch the Top 12 contestants compete. When host Ryan Seacrest gave the actress a shout-out, an embarrassed Kate hid — behind a bag of Cheetos! Check out her cameo.