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Skip to comments.A Canadian Protests: The Declaration is not entirely accurate, but the Founders had the right idea
Posted on 07/04/2013 7:01:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The last thing I would wish to do, as a Canadian and also as a British citizen, is dispute the worthiness of celebrating the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July. It is not in that spirit, but in the pursuit of historical accuracy, that I gently remind some readers of what that Declaration actually tells us.
Poor old King George III Farmer George, a stubborn, not overly intelligent person who was intermittently mad as a result of porphyria was certainly a limited man, but was not a bad man. Yet he is denounced in the most astonishing strictures by Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues on the editorial committee for the Declaration of Independence (Jefferson, Franklin, John Adams, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman): George III evinces [a] design to reduce [us] under absolute despotism; he has been waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.
Were Jefferson and the others delusional? What on earth were they writing about? None of this had happened or was an ambition entertained by the king, sane or mad. This was from a lengthy sequence of charges Jefferson launched against the king that is scarcely less grave in its content nor more temperate in its tenor than the charges against the Nazi leaders at Nuremberg. The king and his ministers were attempting to collect a tax, which was not in an excessive amount and was not an unwarranted ambition. The British, in the course of the Seven Years War (called the French and Indian War in the U.S.), had almost doubled the national debt and were running deficits as chronic as those in the U.S. today. The Americans had almost 30 percent of the population of the British home islands and the highest standard of living in the British empire.
The most expensive aspect of the Seven Years War which was in some respects the first world war, as it was fought in North America, the Caribbean, Europe, West Africa, and India was in North America. The principal British object in the war was to evict France from North America, and they succeeded in this, without which American independence would not have been feasible. The Americans could never secede from the British empire while the French empire was on the border of New England and New York; the possibilities for incursions by the French were extremely serious and could not have been resisted.
The genius of the Founders, Benjamin Franklin in particular, was to help persuade the British to throw the French out of North America, and then to persuade the French to help the Americans expel the British from the United States. That these colonists were able thus to manipulate the two most powerful governments in the world was an astounding achievement.
The British imposed on America the stamp tax, something the British were already paying, and they allowed for one year to pass before it took effect, so the Americans could suggest an alternative method of raising revenues from the American colonies. The only American to do so was Franklin, then in London as the representative of Pennsylvania and two other colonies, who proposed that the British government address the absence of paper money in America by setting up a credit bank that would issue credit at a fixed rate of interest, with an annual fee for renewal, and that this would, in effect, be a voluntary tax.
It was, as always with Franklin, a very imaginative idea, but the British government at this point unlike during the Seven Years War, when it was under the influence of Pitt the Elder wasnt interested in thinking of a new tax. The British were paying the stamp tax, and if the Americans were going to compensate the British for the services they had rendered the Americans, it was up to the Americans to either pay the same tax or devise an alternative (Franklin had no authority to speak for his colonial countrymen). Instead, the Americans came up with the concept of No taxation without representation, but no sane people on earth would vote to tax itself if it did not have to do so.
The British had every right to expect the Americans to contribute to the cost of removing France from their borders. The British bungled the issue and made the fatal mistake of trying to impose a tax that was not in fact collectible. But they did not deserve, and the British king did not deserve, the sort of abuse that is the core of the Declaration of Independence, between its famous and soaringly eloquent opening and closing.
As a Canadian, and a native Quebecker at that, I take particular umbrage at the claim that the beleaguered George III, and those acting in his name, were guilty of abolishing the free system of English Laws in a neighbouring province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies. This is an outrageous fiction.
The distinguished governor of Canada, Sir Guy Carleton, subsequently Lord Dorchester, produced a formula, adopted in 1774, for the governance of the 75,000 French Canadians in what is now Quebec (compared with 2.5 million free Americans and 500,000 slaves). At the request of the French Canadians, the British restored the civil law of France to Quebec, but undertook to establish a commission to codify French Canadian law in Quebec, promised not to interfere with the functioning of the Roman Catholic Church, which represented practically all French Canadians, and promised the retention of the French language, ensuring the cultural survival of French in North America.
The charges of Jefferson and his committee were a bit rich, given that the French Canadians received all they asked from the British, who did not threaten them with cultural assimilation, as the sea of English-speaking Americans did. The Continental Congress had attacked Roman Catholicism as a bloodthirsty, idolatrous, and hypocritical creed . . . which had flooded England with blood, and had spread hypocrisy, murder, persecution, and revolt into all parts of the world. The law objected to, the Quebec Act, was a liberal and generous measure that secured the loyalty of the French Canadians during the American Revolution, as Carleton, with only the support of a rag-tag of French militia, a few Indians, and a handful of British Redcoats, sent the then-loyal revolutionary Benedict Arnold and Benjamin Franklin packing from Montreal and Quebec. George III, that he might be spared nothing, was accused of having endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whom Jefferson accused of an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions. This is also wildly exaggerated, and the removal of the British from dealing with the Indians brought down on that benighted native people 160 years of theft and oppression by the United States government, highlighted by President Andrew Jackson tearing up the treaties, in defiance of the Supreme Court, and transporting 250,000 Indians by force to the West, to make way for more slave-operated plantations on the vacated Indian reserves.
Jefferson also attempted to blame George III for the importation of slavery into America, an unfounded charge (the king only assumed the throne in 1760). It was a bizarre accusation, given that the Sage of Monticello, who held to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights (and) that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, was a deist and a slaveholder, who, it is generally reckoned, had six children with his comely slave, Sally Hemings. And though this relationship came after the Declaration of Independence was written, Jeffersons committee colleagues suggested that the allegation against George III of foisting slavery on America was not appropriate. There was no more liberty in America after the Revolution than before, apart from having a resident, rather than an overseas, government, and Americans enjoyed no greater liberties than did the British, the Swiss, the Dutch, and some Scandinavians.
Having got all this off my chest, I must add that the Americans had the better part of the 1776 argument that, as the leading British statesmen of the time, Pitt the Elder, Charles James Fox, and Edmund Burke, noisily asserted, the American complaints were well-founded and the kings policy was, indeed, insane. Had they prevailed, along with their friend Franklin before he was completely alienated, the United States would probably today rule Britain and much of her former empire, including the treasure houses of Canada and Australia, thus increasing the present American population by 40 percent and tripling the natural resources of the United States. But they did not prevail, and Americans are right to celebrate July 4. The ensuing revolution and the representation of it as the dawn of human liberty have provided America with a powerful ethos, appropriate to the great country that it is, even if Jefferson took serious liberties with the facts, as revolutionaries usually do.
Conrad Black is the author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, A Matter of Principle, and the recently published Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership.
Yawn. All the same old arguments. Fact: The Colonists largely provided for their own defense and fielded not insignificant amounts of their own troops in the French and Indian War.
So the author is saying our current libs are not original in their thinking about taxing the wealthy.
A Canadian leftist who just did a stretch in prison for fraud
"The most expensive aspect of the Seven Years War which was in some respects the first world war, as it was fought in North America, the Caribbean, Europe, West Africa, and India was in North America"
The colonists had no representation. This is what it was about. Taxation with no representation. In reality, if I recall correctly, the whole 'tea tax' debacle would have actually reduced the price of tea, BUT to agree to it would have been to agree to taxation without representation. It was about principle, not money, and I'm glad we stood on it.
Everything was kind of pointless though. The UK became a totalitarian police state.... and then so did we.
He is actually considered a Conservative - all of his enemies are leftists. That is a not a bad way to judge someone's politics - who hates you the most.
The two largest battles led by British regulars in North America were near catastrophic losses. They marched straight into an ambush in one and attacked a fort without adequate men in another. The colonists had pretty much won Canada with no help from Britain by capturing, at great cost in fortune and life, the fortress at Louisport during King George`s War, only to watch the British negotiate it away for some piece of land in the Netherlands.
By the time the Declaration was written Royal forces had shelled and burnt down Charlestown During the battle of Bunker Hill, raided farms near water to support their army in Boston, and was in fact planning to subjugate the colonists especially in New England.
Canada`s public screwls must be as poor as ours.
> A Canadian leftist who just did a stretch in prison for fraud
And obviously is either on meds or other
Not to mention the blockade of Boston, which, had it happened today, would be considered one of the greatest human rights abuses in Western history.
The guy makes a lot of assumptions. And obviously written with antt-American bias.
"You been talking about the queen again? On Independence day?"
Little Bill
'Let me gently remind you not to do that."
Of course there is a completely different point of view which, IMO, is far more defensible, which makes the colonists case look alot better.
For example its hilarious to imply that the British engaged in the Seven Years War as a favor to the Americans, and that the Americans did not contribute blood sweat and tear themselves to the effort to maintain the British empire in the western hemisphere, yet afterwards still were not treated as full and equal citizens in the eyes of the Crown.
But then, this guy also wrote a book called FDR, Champion of Freedom. So what else would one expect.
George III evinces [a] design to reduce [us] under absolute despotism; he has been waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.
1. Everything done by the English government is done in the King's name- the buck has to stop someplace.....
2. Lord North's ministry owed its existence to a Tory majority in the Parliament, which owed its existence to widespread election rigging sponsored by none other than...King George.
3. The Intolerable Acts were all in violation of well-established English law. What do you do when the government is breaking the law, hm? Protest to Parliament, where you are not represented and just wants your money? Write a letter to the King, who has designs of absolute monarchy of his own?
4. As for the Parliament, the Tea Act was a nice way of trying to bail out the British East India Company by giving it a monopoly on tea - of which the stockholders were often members of Parliament. Can you say corruption?
Nope, the American Revolution was absolutely justified.
A man (Black) claiming the tyrant, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (who solidly emplaced Communism in our halls of Federal Government), to be a "Champion of Freedom" can't be all wrong. /sarc
In the pursuit of historical accuracy, here are the ACTUAL charges
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
who the hell would want it? we're already overrun with socialist parasites of our own.
"A Canadian leftist who just did a stretch in prison for fraud"
Needs to be emphasized. And he might ask Quebeckers if they are happy with the way they became part of Canada.
This is laughably false. The British were so cruel to my ancestors that they had to flee the lands that they had work so hard to hack out of wilderness.
Sound like Global Warming. Same paranoid fears, but The Villian changes.
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Everest Base Camp Tour most adventurous trip to experience the beauty of the 'Himalayas' from the 'earlier forbidden land' of Tibet cannot get better. The Everest base camp tour kicks off with a spectacular fly over the snow-capped peaks Himalayan peaks including Kanchenjunga (8586m), Everest (8848 m), Makalu (8463 m) just to name a few. Besides from the great mountain views and awe-inspiring landscapes, the tour also lets you capture the memories of some of the largest monastic institutions of the world. During the tour, we will walk through the well-preserved monasteries of Sera, Drepung and Tashilungpo, which adds a great spice of Tibetan culture and art to our tour.
After enjoying the beauty of the Turqoise Lake and a walk through to some of the most artistic monasteries and stupas, we head towards the North of Everest base camp. Here we get to explore the beautiful Rongbuk glacier set directly below the massive north-face of Mt. Everest.
August 22nd 2016 / Day 01: Arrival day in Kathmandu and transfer to the Hotel
August 23rd 2016 / Day 02: Full day guided sightseeing in Pashupatinath, Boudhanath and Patan Durbar Square
August 24th 2016 / Day 03: Kathmandu (1,300m) flight to Lhasa (3,650m):
Departure Transport to Tribhuban Airport and Trans – Himalayan flight to Tibet (Gongaar airport) (1hr.) Drive to Lhasa (1 and half hr.) – Full rest for acclimatization – O/N at Hotel.
August 25th-26th 2016 / Day 04-05: In Lhasa: Two Full Days Sightseeing Tour In Lhasa Visit Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple & Barkhor Bazaar, Drepung Monastery and Sera Monastery – O/N at Hotel.
August 27th 2016 / Day 06:-Lhasa – Gyantse (3950m) 250 Km to Shigatse (3900m) 90 Km
Drive to Gyantse via Yamadroke Lake and high passes: Kora LA (5,010m) & Kamba La (4,794m) – Sight-seeing in Gyantse including Pholkor & Kumbum Monastery. PM: scenic drive to Xigatse(1.5hrs) through the typical Tibetan Countryside – Hotel.
August 28th 2016 / Day 07: Xigatse – Shakye Monastery-Xegar (4,100m): 270km AM: Visit Panchen Lama's Tashilhumpu Monastery. Then Drive to Xegar via Shakya Monastery crossing over Gyatchula (a pass of 5,200m) – O/N at Guest House
August 29th 2016 / Day 08: Xegar – Ronbuk (4,980m): Aprox 90km Scenic drive to Ronbuk through the beautiful Tibetan countryside. Explore Ronbuk Monastery (highest monastery in the world) – O/N at Guest House.
August 30th 2016 / Day 09: Ronbuk – Everest BC – Nyalam (3700m) 315km Rent a horse cart or walk to the Everest BC and explore around – back to Ronbuk – and further to Nyalam Via over-crossing the high pass of lulang La (5,050m) from where one can enjoy the magnificent view of the Mt. Xishapagma (8,212m) & Mt. Cho Oyu (8,201m) and have overnight at Nyalam Guest House
August 31st 2016 / Day 10: Nyalam/Zhangmu – Kathmandu: 155km/123km after necessary border formalities continue scenic drive to Kathmandu through the green lush countryside- transfer to your Hotel. End of tour.
September 01st 2016 / Day 11: Free day in Kathmandu for shopping
September 02nd 2016 / Day 12: Final Departure to the Airport
For the second time i use the services of Skyline treks and expeditions and collaborate with Madhav to discover the city of Kathmandu with a group of friends (13 of us) and then spend a week in Tibet (6 of us) and i can rate the whole experience as excellent!

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The last MKE Creatives of 2016 was a wholly appropriate one to close out the year, to send us into 2017 invigorated and inspired. Anodyne Coffee was again our host, and a local independent writer, Kerri Grote, was our feature presenter. In attendance were Carley (the fine artist behind The Curious Artist podcast), Michelle (audio-technician and voice-over actor), Paul (a real-bearded Santa and storyteller), Angela (half the power-couple behind Married In Milwaukee), Paul (a creative strategist for small creative businesses), Paul W. (a graphic designer, and partner in Photavia), John (a local CPA and investment advisor), Tracey (a budding filmmaker and significant part of the ZipMKE Project (which has a display opening in January at the Milwaukee Public Library), and me (a photographer, trail runner, and fan of connecting dots between folks)!
Kerri, our presenter, is an independent writer, communicator, storyteller – and has a background in broadcast journalism and corporate communications. It was during her broadcast journo days though, that she said she had her best job – as a "celebrity karaoke host" out in Sydney, Montana!
While preparing for her talk, Kerri mentioned how she had some feelings of "impostor syndrome", and recognized that, probably, many creatives have those feelings, too, that nudge saying we're not good enough, or legit …and this led Kerri to remember a time years ago, during that time as a TV Reporter in Middle of Nowhere, Montana …and the big news story of the day was a new storage silo – and it meant her climbing up to the top of this 12- or 15-story silo, …and the wind was so strong up there and for a moment she looked out and felt an urge to jump, then wisely ignored it, but that moment led to her learning this impulse actually has a name – "high place phenomenon", or as the French so eloquently call it, "l'apell du vide" – the Call of the Void …and it's an actual thing, and apparently about 30% of the population have felt this at one time or another …and this got Kerri thinking about other times when we get creative impulses, but ignore this "creative call of the void".
Kerri came to recognize that so many of the things that have become BIG in her life resulted from her feeling a creative urge, or a "curiousity about something" urge, and then saying HECK YES to it, despite also feeling a little unsure or scared. And, she has also recognized that Fear can be a hella big opposition to accepting those creatives urges. Not long after those days of on-TV reporting, Kerri found a corporate communications job. Within a month, she knew it wasn't ideal for her, but still …"it's stable, you're paid well, you have a great job, you're good at it…" and eighteen years later she was still there. Even if it didn't feel fulfilling.
About three years ago though, Kerri had a health crisis that made her seriously reconsider what she was doing with her life. And ever since then, she's been working on saying HECK YES to her gut and instinct. And, "sure, the HECK YES moment is often followed closely by the OH SH*T moment, but…but that HECK YES moment was there, and you have to latch onto >that<, in spit of the OH SH*T."
Kerri's embracing of the HECK YES has led to some amazing experiences for her in the past three years. There was taking an improv comedy class that culminated in a performance in front of 700 people. There was helping build a timber-frame house in West Virginia. There was attending Camp Good Life Project. There was leaving that corporate job to be an independent writer.
The biggest lessons she got from her improv class were the "YES, AND" notion and the "discovery vs invention" notion. As she learned, improv isn't necessarily about being funny, but about going forward and making choices. Her coach had said, "You need to learn to love your choices – choices are about DISCOVERY, not invention." (now, I do think that needs some time for thought, so I'm hoping you write that down and re-read it a few times over the next week or so)
Now more than ever, Kerri suggested, we need to listen to those urges of creativity, to listen to our inclinations, push aside the OH SH*T and embrace the HECK YES. "We don't just 'need' to listen to our urges; we have an >obligation< to listen to them, and to keep practicing saying YES …and to be gentle with ourselves because every day is a challenge and we just have to keep trying."
Kerri's presentation sparked some good discussion and some ideas…
-"beware of "practical"."
-"everybody's path is different, everybody's circumstances are different."
-"having a job that gives a certain sense of "security" doesn't mean the OH SH*T goes away."
-"We all have to decide what's good for us, because >everything< is a trade-off of some kind."
-"you can get more money, more friends, more whatever, but you can't get more time…"
Whew, what a fabulous, thought-provoking, soul-stirring way to close out 2016. I can't thank Kerri enough for talking with us, and really, to ALL of the presenters of 2016 for their sharing with us! Check all the past meetups HERE, and see you in 2017!
(NEXT MEETUP IS JANUARY 11 and will feature the braintrust behind Bounce Milwaukee!)


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Old Irv finally kicked the bucket. He directed my favorite Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back.
Old Irv finally kicked the bucket. He directed my favorite Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back.
All six Star Wars films are going to be re-re-re-released – this time in 3-D. I suppose it's just a matter of time before The Lord of the Rings is re-released in the same way.
Here's the information from StarWars.com:
Empire Strikes Back is my favorite Star Wars film, and so the newest book on my wishlist is "The Making of The Empire Strikes Back", which even has its own preview trailer:
There's an interesting article about James Cameron in the LA Times here that mentions Tolkien, Roddenberry, and Lucas. (That was enough to get my attention!) In short, James Cameron doesn't want his Avatar world to be "one and done" and wants it to live on like Middle-earth and the Star Trek and Star Wars universes. Of note, he says:
TheForce.Net has gotten a hold of some footage that was deleted from the beginning of Return of the Jedi. As readers of the novel will know, at the beginning of the story Luke constructs his new lightsaber at Obi-wan Kenobi's abandoned residence while the droids wait for instructions…
Sir Patrick Stewart turns 70 years old today, which just doesn't seem right. (It doesn't help that I watch Star Trek The Next Generation all the time, and actors never age when you're watching them on an old DVD if you know what I mean.)
Meanwhile, Harrison Ford is just behind him, turning 68 today.
Here's what's interesting to me:
I went to Star Wars in Concert last night in Milwaukee. It was fantastic, though it was nearly identical to a DVD I have. I've listened to the music of Star Wars literally thousands of times throughout my life while doing such things as homework, housework, walking the dog, going to sleep, waking up, and what have you. I'm a fan of the Star Wars films as well, but it doesn't compare to how much a fan of the Star Wars music I am; I know every note. So it was quite an experience to have it played live before me with Anthony Daniels (who was most impressive) personally introducing each number. (The funny thing is Anthony didn't even get the biggest reaction from the fans. The audience was pretty mellow throughout the night, but for whatever reason – probably because she was cute – when they showed the girl playing the triangle up on the big screen during the encore, somebody just spontaneously shouted "Oww!!!" at about 200 decibles and the whole audience broke out in laughter and applauded her. It was actually kind of funny to see her try to keep her concentration but break into an embarrassed smile.) Anyway, Here are some photos from the event:
Anthony Daniels ("C3PO" in Star Wars) answered questions for a Star Wars news site about "Star Wars in Concert", which has been on tour for three years and which I will see in Milwaukee this weekend. Here's what he had to say:
I realize with The Karate Kid kicking butt at the box office it's further proof that the 80s are back in style and all, but really… do magazines and newspapers still have nothing better to do than stories about Star Wars versus Star Trek? Apparently the Vancouver Sun thinks there's still more to mine in this "feud". My take is that the two things are so different, it's really not worth comparing them.


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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 208886
translations : Please repackage system-config-network for FC6
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:44 EST
## Description of problem:
Various translations took place in various languages in various Core packages
(including this one). Translators would like to have this package rebuilt for
FC6 to include translations that were made until the devel freeze date/time.
## Additional info:
Translators request to have the packages that appear in `i18n.redhat.com`
*always* traslated before test and final releases, after the devel freeze
date/time. See also bug #207095.
I think this can now be closed.
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Further to the post at Maxwell's House earlier today, and FarNWide's post that's up right now, those government ads about the "action plan" that are inescapable when perusing major media sites really warrant some scrutiny. Here's one of the big offenders that's been seen on major media websites and one of my personal faves:
The Conservative government is "building a green economy?" How? Perhaps by paying advertising firms with taxpayer dollars. But in terms of substance, most of us missed the visionary "green economy" part in the "action plan." In fact, the "action plan" was heavily criticized as being the opposite of a "green economy" plan. And the Conservatives have cut back on environmental assessments for the next two years.
Other examples include one referenced in the Hill Times report, where the ecoEnergy renewable energy incentive program is cited as having been popular but there's been no more money put into what was a $1.5 billion fund. It's virtually out of money. Contrast it with the billions being put into a similar effort in the U.S. Yet Jim Prentice laughably states that the program "will continue as planned." Yes, on the books but with no more funds in it, so I guess that technically qualifies. A missed opportunity to invest in renewable energy. But "Building a Green Economy," don't ya know.
Would dearly love to see the total dollars being dispensed on the p.r. front for this massive campaign. The ad budget for the action plan site, ads, promotional tour for the PM, Conservative MPs, the whole shebang. "Building a Green Economy" taking on a whole new meaning...:)


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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have some useful men's health tips for the summer months.
Practice Water Safety – In 2004, men accounted for 78% of accidental drowning deaths. Learn how to swim, and never swim alone. Also, don't mix alcohol and boating.
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Cylcing, walkability, public transit and complete streets to be focus of all Candidates Debate
Over the next four years the Confederation LRT Line will change the face of downtown Ottawa, taking thousands of buses off the streets and offering a once in a century opportunity to build a walkable and cycling friendly Centretown. That's just one topic Somerset Ward candidates can be expected to address at the first all candidates debate of the 2014 municipal election season. This debate will focus on transportation, including cycling, walkability, public transit, roads, parking and how we build our streets and get around.
When: Monday, June 16, 2014 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Where: Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar Str.
This is an open event and all are welcome, but RSVPs would be appreciated.
What is important to you? What questions do you have for the candidates? Please send your questions to to the following email address and, if you are selected, Rogers TV, Cable 22 will video your question before the debate:firstname.lastname@example.com
The event will be broadcast by Rogers TV, Cable 22, and moderated by the Ottawa Citizen's Joanne Chianello.
Notably, this fall Somerset Ward will elect a new councillor. The June 16th forum is an opportunity for citizens to make an early assessment of the candidates.
The event is sponsored by:
Centretown Citizens Community Association (CCCA)
Dalhousie Community Association
Ecology Ottawa
Rogers TV, Cable 22
For more information, contact:
Paul Mennier, CCCA
Graham Saul, Ecology Ottawa
120 Lisgar St
Ottawa, ON K2P 2L7
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My daughter LOVES to bake. Like, daily, she is whipping up something in the kitchen. And of course, it's never anything easy - it's always some super creative complicated adventure that usually turns out delicious. This time was no different - she and her friend created a beautiful Rainbow Cake 5-layers tall. Obviously cutting into it was really fun but the best part was that it actually tasted really good! For this super simple cake that your kid can make, she started with 2 white cake mixes (the box ones) and mixed them up together in a double batch. Then she divided the … [Read more...]
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It's been way too long since I posted a recipe for you guys. Today I'm sharing a quick go-to breakfast recipe I use weekly for our busy family. Scrambled Egg Muffins are easy to make, can be prepared ahead of time, and can be ready in less than a minute on busy mornings. They are also packed with protein and will keep you fuller longer, which helps the children stay focused at school. To make Scrambled Egg Muffins you will need the following ingredients: - 18 eggs - 1 lb Breakfast Sausage - 2 1/2 C shredded cheese (I prefer cheddar/jack blend) - 1/2 onion, finely … [Read more...]
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Now that pomegranate season is in full force, here's a super easy way to peel a pomegranate. Have you ever wondered how to get all those little squishy seeds out of a pomegranate? I was terrified of this little fruit until only a few years ago. Every time I even attempted to pluck all the little seeds out, they would burst and my kitchen would end up looking like a crime scene. The power of the u-google-izer taught me how to tackle this harmless ball of deliciousness so I figured I should pass on my newfound knowledge to all of you. First, wash your pomegranate. … [Read more...]
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Gooooooood morning! I hope you are off to a fine start this beautiful Wednesday morning. Have you been following along so far on our Organizing 101: Back to Basics series? I hope so because it's been a lot of fun and a whole lotta great organizing tips! Today is my day to share how to organize that chaos each morning that is making the children's school lunches (and yours and the misters for that matter!). I am by no means a professional organizer or lunch maker. I am however, a mom who's been making school lunches each and every morning for more than 5 years. :) Before … [Read more...]


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Schwarzenegger, who replaced Trump as the host of "The Apprentice," premiered to terrible ratings on NBC.
Donald Trump just made a huge flip-flop
Trump said all throughout his campaign that Mexico would pay for the border wall, and now he's starting to back away from that statement.
Joe Biden slams Donald Trump: 'Grow up'
The outgoing VP has some harsh words for the incoming commander-in-chief.
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How to find a shocking video of Donald Trump
The Donald has earned four years as president even after damaging video was released, but what other videos are out there?
Donald Trump may soon face a massive lawsuit
Trump is known for his quick trigger when it comes to lawsuits, but his election to the presidency may open himself up big time.
Donald Trump just claimed something absolutely insane
Trump is no stranger to outrageous statements, but his latest has lit a firestorm on social media.
High school teacher tells students: 'To be white is to be racist'
A Hispanic student recorded the comments, saying she was offended.
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I have been busy since I got cold last week. No exercise, no study. I will spoil myself until this weekend. We have pascoa (easter) this weekend. We are not going anywhere and just hang out in Sao Paulo, but we will have something fun!
Breakfast : yogurt with banana and plum
Lunch : scrambled egg, bread, pumpkin soup
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9/30: Epistolary time!
Time to explore forms of communication.
First, make a list of five forms of communication. Bonus points for outdated or awkward forms of long distance communication. Examples: letters, postcards, answering machines, smoke signals.
Next, make a list of characters, mythological beings or historical figures. People who's character traits are clearly defined for you, or with whom you are fairly familiar. Examples: John Wayne (wa-ha), Charlie Chaplin, the Minotaur, Holden Caufield, Batman, Chiron the boatman.
Finally, make a list of people with whom you want absolutely nothing to do with... examples: the ex-, your abusive parent, the teacher who flunked you out of algebra 2, the cop who wrote you the speeding ticket last night.
Take the three with the most creative friction and write it up. Use the inherent language/idiom of the form of communication whenever/however you can throughout the poem.
See this postcard by Bruce W. Niedt as an example.


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Saturday September 24th is a fun-filled, action packed day at the 4th annual Friends for Life Walkathon in support of the Georgian Triangle Humane Society (GTHS)! Everyone is welcome with or without a four legged friend. Choose between a two or five kilometer walk or run, or a three kilometer adventure walk through the Blue Mountains. Visit the vendor village, see pet demos and much more to help homeless animals. 100% of funds raised support your local humane society and homeless pets in the Georgian Triangle community.
"We are excited to partner with the Blue Mountain Village for this really fun event. It will be heart-warming to see so many animal advocates walking together to help homeless pets," stated Sonya Reichel, executive director for GTHS. "This is our favourite time of year!"
Participant check-in opens at 10:00 a.m. on event day, with a fun warm up beginning at 10:30 a.m. From there the walk will start at 11:00 a.m. sharp. The vendor village will be open until 4:00 p.m. with tons of activities for children and pets alike. All funds raised from GTHS' Friends for Life Walkathon will help to support the hundreds of animals that need help in the Georgian Triangle area each year. In 2015, GTHS saw more than 1000 animals enter their shelter in need of help.
"As one of our two Signature Events, the Friends for Life Walkathon plays a very important role in helping to fund our shelter and the services we provide," said Sonya Reichel. "We are not funded by any level of government, so we rely on events like our Walkathon to help fund basic care, medical expenses, and life-saving surgeries for abused, abandoned or stray animals."
For more information or to register for the Walk please visit our website or call 705-445-5204 ext. 228. You can also visit the shelter at 549 Tenth Line in Collingwood for direct assistance.


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Safety Study of Nebulized Sodium Nitroprusside in Adult Acute Lung Injury
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
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Ian Ager + Kaity Neagle + Colleen Carroll + James Taylor + Preezy + DonJohn + Bry Bowden + Shane Rhyne
2/16/2017 830PM at DSI Comedy Theater
TICKETS $10, No fees online.
Shane Rhyne believes the glass is only half-shattered. While he turns personal trauma into jokes for strangers, he enjoys exploring the bright side of dark thoughts and looking for the hidden logic in life's more absurd moments. He uses playful, clean, intelligent comedy to leave everyone feeling just a little bit better about how bad things might really be.
Ian Ager: Hailing from Chapel Hill, NC, Ian Ager has been bringing his versatile wit and storytelling to Los Angeles audiences for the past four years. Ian also hosts the Canteen Points Comedy Show in LA's beautiful San Fernando Valley with a guy he met at summer camp.
Kaity Neagle: The beloved Queen of Basic B*tches, Kaity Neagle discusses unemployment, homegoods, and the Real Housewives. This Chapel Hill native returns to perform after crushing it in NYC as both a stand-up comedian and failed customer service representative.
Colleen Carroll: Local Comic from Durham.
James Taylor: Local Comic from Chapel Hill.
Preezy: Local Comic from Chapel Hill.
Bry Bowden: Local Comic from Chapel Hill.
DonJohn: DonJohn (born Donovan Rashad Johnson) is an up and coming stand-up comedian from Durham, NC. He currently performs as a member of Standup Corps at DSI Comedy Theater in Chapel Hill, NC. He can be heard on The Woke Squad, which airs Friday evenings from 7-9pm on Legacy Internet Radio. He can be found on Twitter @DonJohn90


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Saturday, 6 August 2016
Ex-Gov Akpabio Allegedly Trembles As Court Clears EFCC To Investigate Akwa Ibom finances
Justice Ntong Ntong of the Akwa Ibom State High Court, sitting in Ikot Ekpene, on Friday vacated an order of interim injunction restraining the EFCC from investigating the accounts of Akwa Ibom State Government as well as some of the state's past officials.
The court had on July 13 ruled in favour of an ex-parte motion filed before it by the Akwa Ibom State's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Uwemedimo Nwoko, seeking an order of interim injunction restraining the Federal Government or any of its agencies, including the EFCC, the ICPC and the Inspector General of Police from arresting, detaining or investigating any official of the state government, past or present, without any report of indictment by the state House of Assembly.
An EFCC source said one of those being investigated is Godswill Akpabio, a former governor of the state who is the current minority leader of the Nigerian Senate.
Akpabio is said to be have visited some APC leaders secretly to beg them to talk to EFCC to forget his side. But it appears those moves did not yield the expected results.
WE gathered from official sources that Akwa Ibom got the highest allocation from the federation account all through Akpabio's tenure, running into Trillions of Naira. Not much to show.
Now the restraining order has been vacated, sources say there is palpable fear in Akpabio's camp.
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*HIAN!!!..Is he next?abeg they should leave him oh...
29 comments:
- Tush baby said...
Corruption fight
- 6 August 2016 at 18:17
- LUCILE COCONUT OIL ABUJA 07059605320 Pin- 2BC6235E said...
- 6 August 2016 at 18:17
- Omasiri said...
End time Ini Edo. Lol
- 6 August 2016 at 18:22
When will Tinubu, Fashola and Amaechi be probed? No one can answer me this question.Chayee
- 6 August 2016 at 19:08
- La Bella Farnese(soon to be Mrs L♡♡♥) said...
I love akpabio, he tried in akwa ibom state. Infact he's better than my state governor
- 6 August 2016 at 19:46
They should leave him oh...u sound forever daft efulefu
- 6 August 2016 at 19:56
- IVORY said...
Never tremble, share jeep reach my side first.
- 6 August 2016 at 20:24
- MUVA said...
Ini Edo how far?
- 6 August 2016 at 20:26
Thieves everywhere.
- 6 August 2016 at 20:47
If this man is truly brought to account for stealing from akwa ibom, then I will vote buhari next time. Gej looked the other way when this akpabio stole from that state
- 6 August 2016 at 21:00
- Obama's Sister said...
Wawooooo! Fire on d mountain top & volcano erupting********
- 6 August 2016 at 21:02
- Obama's Sister said...
Wawooooo! Fire on d mountain top & volcano erupting******** if guilty, he must pay,after-all Ibori is human.
- 6 August 2016 at 21:31
Stella leave who? He needs to be probed. He stole and must be forced to pay back. Besides, do you know how many people he killed because they spoke against him? Abeg leave the government to pursue actual criminals. Hopefully, your dear Amaechi will soon be probed
- 6 August 2016 at 21:35
- ogo said...
If he is originally an APC member he will be pardoned
- 6 August 2016 at 22:12
- ILLEST music said...
They shouldn't say there's nothing to show for it.......we know he took some money but he transformed Akwa Ibom State obviously. They should take it easy on the man jare and face his Oga Badluck Jonathan!
- 6 August 2016 at 22:24
Hmmm so past APC governors were not thieves so is only PDP hmmm. D way APC will crash with all d lies they re telling
- 6 August 2016 at 23:01
- Yemi7up said...
Stella they should leave him Olohun maje. Any one that runs to court to stop EFCC from investigation him is definitely guilty. He should return what he has taken illegally.
- 6 August 2016 at 23:05
- Starlight. said...
Hmmm.... Atleast there are works to show he did aomething in his tenure, though ate more than half of the money. Abeg make una leave our ex governor alone joor. Who never chop from government seat?
- 6 August 2016 at 23:13
I agree with ogo, he would have been pardon
- 7 August 2016 at 00:00
T.Orji of Abia state,Gabriel Suswam of Benue state.aaaaaaaaarrrrrmed robbers!!!!!
- 7 August 2016 at 00:13
Anon 19:56 lmao.. you no go kee person. You talk true sha
- 7 August 2016 at 00:39
Efulefus will say it's a witch hunt...that they should leave akpabio alone
- 7 August 2016 at 00:41
Efulefu alert!!
- 7 August 2016 at 00:42
One thing is for sure, akpabio stole a shit load of money, probably millions or even billions of dollars. After deziani this man is next, he took advantage of his relationship with Jonathan to loot funds. Why do you think he was mr. Generous to the ladies? The money was damn there in excess
- 7 August 2016 at 06:21
- Princess Charming... The only crown princess on this blog since 2010. said...
They better leave him.
Yes Akwaibom state got the highest allocation from FG during Akpabio's tenure, but let's be factual here, he made good used of those funds, infrastructure were on ground as at his time of exist, what happened to Rivers and Delta state, Delta state was the second highly allocated, followed by rivers state if my calculation is correct.
In these state, the former govs did practically nothing.
I commend Akpabio's stride, and if he is anticipating as governor in 2019, I will surely mobilise and vote for him.
- 7 August 2016 at 09:12
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This man made girls millionaires...I wondered how he did it. Now I see.
- 7 August 2016 at 12:05
Let's see.... You give your maid 10,000 to make soup and she ends up making only 1k5 worth of soup, hope you'll leave her and say at least she did something, after all mama Nkechi's maid no kuku make anything! Clever.
- 7 August 2016 at 18:50
My friend, you don't know what you are talking about if you think Akpabio made good use of the money he got...
He did not use 1/10th of the money he got. If with that 1/10th , you think he did so well, Imagine if he made use of 1/2 of the monies. The amount of money he got, no state governor past or present has ever gotten.
Most of the projects he completed were those of the previous administration, yet he took glory for them yet his parochial mind didn't let his put together a technical team to provide a vision for the future.
No! If you compare the money he got to what he did...No, he didn't do well but if you compare the state to what it was before ,then one can say yes, he worked
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One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simple approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparison of the level in human development of the poor with the level of the non-poor within countries, but also across countries. This is an application of the method presented in Grimm et al. (2008) to a sample of 21 low and middle income countries and 11 industrialized countries. In particular the inclusion of the industrialized countries, which were not included in the previous work, implies to deal with a number of additional challenges, which we outline in this paper. Our results show that inequality in human development within countries is high, both in developed and industrialized countries. In fact, the HDI of the lowest quintiles in industrialized countries is often below the HDI of the richest quintile in many middle income countries. We also find, however, a strong overall negative correlation between the level of human development and inequality in human development.
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Is this 3NF?
I have a homework problem and I'm not sure if I am over thinking or under-thinking this. The problem is...
1. Examine the set of relations in Figure 4-37. What normal form are these in? How do you know this? If they are in 3NF, convert the relations into an EER diagram. What assumptions did you make to answer these questions?
imgur: the simple image sharer is Figure 4-37
Answer: Figure is a 3NF because redundancies and transitive dependencies have been removed.
imgur: the simple image sharer is my EER Diagram
Is this what I am being asked for? Should I treat figure 4-37 is a whole or look at each line and comment were or not it is a 1nf, 2nf, or 3nf?
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if you are unsure of what is expected of you go back to the person who set this course work and ask for clarification. either they have asked something beyond what they taught, or they haven't taught the subject very well. in either case they need to know.
failing that approach your peers doing the same course
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It's an online class, so its pretty much self taught. The "professor" doesn't reply until after things are due. I will try people in the class, maybe someone has a better understanding.
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In conversation yesterday we talked about the maximum size a subscriber list should (could?) be before it becomes unwieldy. The size we were talking about was 200,000 subscribers which we would obviously segment but is this too big to start with? I suspect it is, but any other users feedback on size of list or what works best would be interesting. This list is fully permission based just in case anybody's wondering!
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This article covers how I became aware about the one of many Special Ed Transition programs out there for young adults with disabilities and also some of the curriculum we still use today.
Back in 2011, I graduated from a Midwestern university with a Bachelors in Elementary/Special Education.
At this point in my life, I had no idea what I wanted to do. You could say that I was in a quarter life crisis. Did I want to teach in a public or private school?
I started to pack my belongings and gave my two weeks notice to the Human Resources Director for the agency I worked part-time at. It was a hard time saying goodbye to all of the people I supported as a Direct Support Professional since 2009. That is such an important Special Ed like job based on relationships and communication with the people you support.
After those two weeks… I left for the East Coast.
I spent the summer of 2011 depressed and trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. For some reason, I convinced myself to visit a recruiter for the United States Air Force. I passed the ASAB test, the recruiter told me to pursue a job field called Crypto-linguist.
Special Ed wasn't even on my radar.
Little did I know that fate would bring me out to the Midwest a second time…
On the weekends I would participate in a strength and conditioning program offered by a coach for my niece and nephew. There was a variety of age ranges there from young children to adults. One thing I noticed that there was someone who did have a disability; this was the instructor's son.
At the final day of class, we spoke about how his son was no longer attending classes in high school and that they, including the son, were planning on learning how to live and work through a community-based service provider.
I thought that was interesting as I used to work with one in the Midwest, but not with young adults.
Then, one evening, I received a phone call from the university I used to attend; the Chairman of the Education Administration department was on the phone.
He asked if I was interested in a graduate assistantship.
I had to make a big decision: Join the United States Air Force or pursue a graduate degree as a graduate assistant.
With no regrets, I chose the second option.
For the next two years I pursued a Masters in Special Ed called an Advanced Specialist in Disabilities. This degree focused on Autism and Intellectual Disorders; there was also an endorsement in Early Childhood Special Ed.
I reapplied and received the part time position as a Direct Support Professional again and was happy to see all of the old faces at their homes.
With the Masters program, I was required to do some sort of internship. I spoke with my advisor with helping out somehow with the agency. A few weeks later, I met with the Executive Director to discuss options.
The Executive Director spoke about a new Transition Program that the agency created that was in dire need of vocational curriculum. He told me that they started to provide services to people across regions of the state! He also spoke about the need for the creation of a custom online staff training program that they wanted to use with incoming DSPs. For example, Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs, 2 edition was a book that we used with the Transition aged people.
At that point, he showed me the Transition classroom which had about 10 people attending.
This used to be a room only for staff members and their training, but now it was shared.
I never felt so excepted and glad to be with people in my entire life. The students were young adults who were interested in coming to a college town to find work, live, and socialize.
Some of them started moving into the group homes where I worked. It was exciting seeing them in the classroom and at home in the evening.
However, most of the people still wish to find work, live, and socialize in the community. We have a lot of work to do to help them achieve it.
The agency is still in the process of modernizing its services. The Transition program occurs at the center, where most of the classes are still segregated from the rest of the community. The people who receive services know this and often feel that their day is being wasted. Special Ed needs to continue changing.
There will always be room for improvement.
Towards the spring of 2013, a position opened up called the Day Services Coordinator.
I applied and received the position where I've been working with the administration and DSPs on converting their activities to help people get jobs through competitive, supportive, or customized employment. The position also calls for the creation of volunteering opportunities and somehow I am Head of Delegation for the local Special Olympics.
Every two months I check the IEP goals of people still receiving Special Ed services too!
So what's your story? Are you part of the Human Services or Special Ed field? Did you pursue the position out of passion?


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