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Memories with Food at Gipsy House(1991)
A non fiction book by Felicity Dahl and Roald Dahl
This book offers an insight into the life of Roald Dahl. It is a mixture of written anecdotes covering Roald Dahl's upbringing, his youth and early days in Africa and his later life at home with his wife Liccy and their numerous children, grandchildren and friends. For this extensive family, there is no more enjoyable way of relaxing than to share good food and wine. The meals they enjoy together round the old pine farmhouse table at Gipsy House are either fine examples of national dishes of their multicolour heritage (Norway, France, Britain), or favourite recipes that have delighted three generations of discerning diners. Many recipes have acquired a particular significance for the Dahl family over the years and these are introduced with reminiscences rich in nostalgia and humour. The text by Roald and Liccy Dahl, their children, close family and friends, is interspersed with personal photographs and the sketches of Quentin Blake. The recipes included here are for all occasions, covering family birthday parties, Christmas and Easter celebrations - and demonstrating Roald's passions for chocolate, onions and wine. A final chapter offers recipes for Hangman's Suppers, with contributions from Francis Bacon, P.D.James, John le Carre and Peter Ustinov among others.
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While Superman can flat out fly and is extremely difficult to catch, Flash uses his size, strength and superhuman reflexes to seemingly violate certain laws of physics and destroy his enemies.
Enter Trae Hart and D'Aundrey Bradley.
It was May 3 that the Purdue Boilermakers extended Hart his first offer, in turn, landing their first commitment of the 2014 class.
Since, attention has quickly risen for the speedy 5-foot-11, 155-pounder.
"I'm a Purdue commit, that's where I'm at," said Hart. "I would listen if other schools came in and talked to me. I would listen to them. But I'm at Purdue right now."
Texas receivers coach Darrell Wyatt is one of several coaches that have been by the school this spring and liked what he saw, extending both Hart and Bradley camp invitations.
The two will travel to Austin for the June 9th camp. Hart noted it will be the only camp he will attend this summer outside of Purdue.
Bradley, who looks for his first offer, will also camp at Baylor June 2.
"I would like to hear from Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, any of the Texas schools," he said. "I don't know about them, but I'm trying to stay in Texas and I want them to come with me. We're a team now, so we got to do it."
Their 2014 quarterback Max Partlo, a 6-foot-4, 234-pound passer, also awaits that first offer and could very likely nab it in state. He will camp at both Houston and Texas State, two programs he has been corresponding with for quite some time, along with Purdue, Iowa, Oklahoma State and Cincinnati.
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For the grids, it has been a day of change as the short term guidance has really done a poor job all day in handling the precipitation we have. Given the location of the primary instability gradient on the southeast fringes of our CWA we did cut back chances quite a bit to the west of where this boundary was at 2pm and also sped up the departure of pops. Not expecting much precip tonight, with the only possibility being some activity bubbling up along the I-90 corridor to the north of the eastern wind shift/outflow, which will be down in northern IA tonight. Wednesday looks like a nice summer day, with reduced dewpoints (save for south central MN where they will keep dewpoints in the low 70s) and plenty of sunshine until the second half of the afternoon when we should see upper clouds increase from the west as convective debris moves in from the Dakotas. That boundary that will head into northern Iowa tonight will come back north as a warm front Wednesday and will lay the tracks for what looks like could be a significant severe/excessive rain MCS at the start of the long term period. However, expect storms Wednesday afternoon to remain west of our CWA and initiate on the nose of the LLJ, which will be strengthening across eastern SD. .LONG TERM...(Wednesday night through Tuesday) Issued at 352 PM CDT Tue Jul 18 2017 A fairly strong Mesoscale Convective System should be ongoing at 7 pm Wednesday evening. This MCS will be capable of producing 4 to 6 inches of rain, and also pose a severe weather threat, with damaging wind, large hail, and even a few tornadoes possible. As of now, it is expected to track along the Minnesota River Valley and southern Minnesota. The Storm Prediction Center has issued a slight risk area for Wednesday, and WPC continues to highlight the potential for heavy rain. 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Sharp has reported record-breaking figures in its half-year financials. The company announced a 14.3 percent year-on-year leap in sales of its AV and mobile products, at 587.9 billion yen, while net sales reached 1,465.6 billion yen, up 9.7 percent compared to the same period last year.
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Conviction of Certain Crimes Can Lead to Deportation
United States immigration law allows for the deportation of immigrants who have been convicted of aggravated felonies. Immigrants who have been convicted of certain crimes risk severe consequences to their immigration status. They may not be eligible to apply for residency, citizenship, naturalization, or asylum, and they may be deported without a formal immigration hearing.
Definition of an Aggravated Felony
In the context of immigration law, the term "aggravated felony" can be somewhat misleading. Crimes that are not classified as state felonies can be considered aggravated felonies under immigration law and can lead to deportation. Aggravated felonies for immigrants are any crimes that Congress has deemed serious enough to warrant deportation. This includes crimes of moral turpitude and some crimes that are classified as misdemeanors.
An aggravated felony was first introduced into U.S. law in 1988. At that time, it only referred to the crimes of murder, illegal trafficking of firearms and other destructive devices, and federal drug trafficking. Since that time, Congress has expanded this list as it applies to immigrants. Even crimes that were not considered aggravated felonies at the time they were committed can retroactively be cause for deportation. Whenever Congress adds a new crime to the list of offenses punishable by deportation, any immigrant previously convicted of this crime is immediately eligible for deportation.
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Currently, all of the following crimes can affect a person's immigration status and can lead to deportation:
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Crimes of moral turpitude, as defined by immigration law, refer to any crime that shocks the public conscience and is considered depraved, vile, immoral, or against the rules owed from one man to another. The perpetrator must have been acting recklessly or had an "evil" intent. Some (but not all) of the acts that have previously been considered crimes of moral turpitude include murder, animal fighting, theft, robbery, incest, spousal abuse, child abuse, and rape.
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Immigrants who are convicted of an aggravated felony under immigration law who do not have lawful permanent resident status can be deported without a formal hearing before an immigration judge. Such persons are also not eligible for asylum or other relief such as "withholding of removal," and they can be physically removed from the country two weeks after the order is made.
When an immigrant is convicted of an aggravated felony and sent to jail or prison, upon release immigration officials must detain that person. Immigrants who are in this situation can request a bond from an immigration judge, but they must show that the crime they committed does not qualify as an aggravated felony under U.S. immigration law.
When convicted of an aggravated felony, immigrants are not eligible for voluntary departure from the United States. They are also permanently inadmissible for reentry to the country unless they obtain a waiver from the Department of Homeland Security. Immigrants who have been convicted of an aggravated felony who then illegally reenter the country can face a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
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Behind It All - Poem by ADENUGA TITILAYO
Pink rosy cheeks
white sparkling teeth
spread of laughter like a flowing garment
Giving comfort and hope
teaching love and peace
strong emphasis made on strength
Appraised by young and old
cherished by he lass
loved by the lads
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who never see her when
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the garment of laughter gathers
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the strength tears apart
behind closed doors
emptiness fills the air
If only she could get as much as she gives
If only they knew
behind all of it, lies something much more different
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I was going through a very though time at a point in my life. Yet i laughed and smiled and nobody seemed to see behind those managed smiles. Nobody seemed to know that the reason why i was so lean wasn't because i was modelling but because i was hungry. Yet, i still gave out the little i had and wished silently that someone could look deep into my sees and connect to the deep wishes of my heart... the wish to be heard and cared for too!
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MIAMI, February 9 – The Miami HEAT of Tuesday's 117-112 win did not resemble the team that had just run off six straight wins with its best offensive execution of the season. Isolation offense and high pick-and-rolls ruled the day, and with the HEAT failing to defend the interior for much of the night, the Indiana Pacers ran rampant.
115 points per 100 possessions for the Pacers, who had 66 at halftime with 42 of them coming in the paint. One of the fastest teams in the league, Indiana whipped the ball down court, off both misses and makes, before Miami could sets its defense, and though the HEAT survived on a 26-point half – and five dunks – from LeBron James, they were off their game.
The game continued as such, Miami's offensive talent saving it from a team shooting 57 percent through three quarters, until the home team found itself down seven headed into the final period.
The fourth quarter, however, was a different story.
If there's one trend that's shown itself during the HEAT's seven-game winning streak and offensive evolution, it's that as uneven as their early-game defense can be, Miami always finds a way to tidy things up before the end – hence their 4-0 record during the stretch in games decided by five points or less.
"When we find something that were not doing well enough we've proven so far this season we've been able to figure it out, be objective about it, and work together to fix it,†Erik Spoelstra said. "And now something we really needed to work on was our execution and discipline going down the stretch of close games, and you can see it the trust level was there.â€
Tuesday, Spoelstra fixed things by putting James (41 points, 13 rebounds, 8 assists) on Indiana point guard Darren Collison. The HEAT had struggled keeping players in front of them prior to the move, but the switch seemingly took Indiana out of everything it had been doing well.
"We could not keep the ball in front of us,†Spoelstra said. "That opened up a world of pain for us in the first three quarters.â€
In the fourth, Collison scored just two points and had zero assists. The Pacers scored 15.
"I can use my length,†James said. "A lot of those guys are quicker than me, but I'm just as fast.â€
"To hold them to 15 points is notable,†Spoelstra said. "But it also shows up that we're capable of doing more.â€
More on Tuesday was a slow and steady fourth-quarter comeback, with Erick Dampier manning heavy minutes in the middle – including a putback dunk with 4:34 to play that gave Miami the lead – and James hitting the shot of the game with 14.1 remaining, a pullup jumper from the elbow that put Miami up three.
And though the HEAT conceded a sideline-out-of-bounds alley-oop to Josh McRoberts the play after James' jumper, nearly everything about the fourth-quarter execution was spot on. A far cry from what Spoelstra calls a pivotal game against the New York Knicks two weeks ago where the HEAT found themselves desperate for even a mediocre shot in the game's final minutes.
"These last three weeks have been good for us,†Spoelstra said. "We've started to take another step in our maturity.
"Offensively we're reaching another level. The level of execution and trust is significantly better than even in December.â€
Some of it, as both James and Dwyane Wade pointed out, is simple comfort with both teammates and late-game sets. Some of it is maintaining an energy level through frustrating sequences, correcting missteps on the fly. All of it together has proven that the HEAT now have more than just talent to rely on.
But there's still the defense. And the key to that is simple.
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Finding accommodation in Denmark may not be an easy task. Find an overview of the country's rental market in this article.
Finding accommodation will definitely be one of your main priorities when moving to Denmark. Regardless of the city where you will be living, it can be quite difficult to find affordable accommodation. This is particularly why most expatriates tend to settle in outskirts. In all cases, most cities and their outskirts are connected to one another via a modern and reliable transports network. Note that, in all cases, you are likely to find modern and comfortable housing units in major Danish cities, but at high prices.
Types of accommodation
The city provides a range of accommodation options, from classical apartments to luxurious villas and houses with gardens. In general, housing ads specify the surface area in square meters.
The public real estate sector is available both to the Danish and to expatriates. In case you wish to benefit from this program, you will find yourself on the waiting list following submission of your application.
For more information, please refer to The Danish Social Housing Sector in the useful links listed below.
Rent prices
Rent prices in Denmark generally vary from one city to another can even double in the case of studios and apartments. If you would prefer to settle in the periphery or in the outskirts, you will need between DKK 4,300 and DKK 8,500 per month. In major cities, you will need an average of DKK 6,200 for a studio and some DKK 12,000 for an apartment.
Note that rent prices are also likely to vary in terms of furnishing and equipment. Indeed, furnished housing units can be 25% to 30% more expensive than unfurnished ones.
On the other hand, charges are not included in the rent price. In some cases, collective water supply and heating are included in the rent price. The amount can increase at the end of the year according to your yearly consumption.
You are thus advised to request for an estimate of your monthly bills either when visiting the premises or when signing the lease contract.
Find accommodation
Most vacant housing offers in Denmark are advertised by real estate agencies. However, some owners still publish their offers on the Internet and in local newspapers. In all cases, make sure to list your criteria before starting your housing search. Remember that you may have to wait for long before finding the ideal accommodation if you do not define your criteria at the soonest.
Long term lease generally has a six months duration. Contracts can thus be signed either for a limited or for an unlimited period. In the case of the limited contract, the lease contract cannot be terminated before the deadline, whatever the reason may be. Beyond this period, the limited contract automatically turns into an unlimited contract. In the case of the unlimited contract, the contract can be terminated by giving a three months notice.
However, the owner may terminate the contract only under the following conditions:
- property recovery for personal residence
- planned renovation or demolition
- misuse of leased property by tenant
- other emergency motives.
Good to know:
A guarantee and deposit equal to three months' rent has to be paid.
Other formalities
Once you have moved in, you are required to notify the nearest Borgerservice to your place of residence within five days.
Useful links:
Boligselskabernes Landsforening – The Danish Social Housing Sector bl.dk
Expat.com – Housing in Denmark
BoligPortal www.boligportal.dk
Boligbasen boligbasen.dk
Housing Denmark www.housingdenmark.com
Danmark Bolig www.danmarkbolig.dk
Lejebolig en.lejebolig.dk
Boligsurf boligsurf.dk


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Sauk Center organic milk could become a Walmart staple
You might experience some déjà vu with Deja Moo.
Fargo native Jim Odney, who first brought his Deja Moo milk to Fargo-Moorhead in 2001, has reintroduced the product in the metro area.
"I have a real affinity for milk and this product," said Odney, who shut down Deja Moo in 2006 because of financial problems.
Now, Deja Moo - made with milk from cows that haven't been injected with growth hormone - is sold exclusively at Walmart stores in Fargo and Dilworth.
The test marketing could lead to Deja Moo being sold at other Walmart stores in North Dakota and Minnesota and beyond, Odney said.
"We're excited to have Deja Moo in our store, and we'll do everything we can to help it succeed," said John Pies, manager of the Walmart store near the intersection of Interstate 29 and 52nd Avenue South in Fargo.
Odney, who once operated advertising agencies in Bismarck and Minneapolis, has long wanted to establish a national milk brand.
He bought the former Enoch Schultz Creamery in Bismarck in the late 1990s, and used it to help launch Deja Moo a few years later.
But renovating the Bismarck plant and bringing it up to code became too expensive, and Odney had to shut down the plant and Deja Moo in early 2006.
Just before he shut down, however, Walmart showed interest in carrying his product.
Odney, now an investment banker in Minneapolis, stayed in touch with Walmart while continuing to pursue restarting Deja Moo.
He eventually connected with the small Pride of Main Street Dairy in Sauk Centre, Minn.
Milk processed at the plant comes from dairy producers in Minnesota and North Dakota.
Officials with the Sauk Centre plant liked Odney's enthusiasm and the Deja Moo concept, said Joan Beilke, a dairy farmer and an assistant plant manager.
Pride of Main Street Dairy processes milk in a way that makes it taste fresher than other types of milk, Beilke and Odney say.
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Odney said he and the owners of the Sauk Centre plant are now partners in Deja Moo.
The price of Deja Moo is comparable to that of other milk brands, he said.
Deja Moo's name is a play on déjà vu, the sense of having experienced something before.
Odney is toying with the idea of asking retired baseball great Yogi Berra - who once uttered the classic line "It's déjà vu all over again" - to do a commercial for Deja Moo.
"That would really be fun," Odney said.
The decade-long effort to establish Deja Moo has brought frustration and temporary failures, Odney said.
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Jun 21, 2013
Essay on words like "Retarded", "Ni&&er", Christian hypocrisy, and what we should REALLY be talking about in America
So now, conservatives are indignant because liberal HBO comic Bill Maher called Sarah Palin's retarded son, Trig, "Retarded" (He's young and tragically, has Down's Syndrome, as a lot of Americans do.
Southern Cook personality Paula Deen gets fired from the Food Network for using the N word.
Lets kick this around for awhile.
I think the word 'retarded' is much different than the N word. It is admittedly used as an epithet by teenagers towards each other. But not on the same level. Some people ARE retarded. Today's PC society likes to find more gentle words. "Developmentally Disabled" is one of those. The feds used "SMH" and "SMR" (Severely mentally handicapped), (Severely Mentally Retarded) back in about 1980, when Congress passed 94-142, The first nationwide Education for the Handicapped Children law that mandated special education for all children needing services. Very EXPENSIVE SERVICES.
Services Republicans want to CUT to the bone...setting America back 40 years! Even so, educators are always looking for softer gentler words and phrases to label people after they wear certain labels out.
Remember when schools couldn't be called 'schools"? The trendy educationeeze phrase was "Attendence Centers." Just crap coined by people with EdD,s and PhD's who write research papers.
Now of course, we have school shootings and metal detectors. But the short-bus and schoolbus bullying and namecalling remains, doens't it Paula Deen?
And the point that reminds Christians of their hypocrisy. When it comes to charity, and helping the 'least of my brothers" with foodstamps when they work Walmart wages, "What would Jesus do?"....instead of building fundamentalist megachurches in the suburbs?
I'm kinda waiting for the churches, deadset against abortion and birth control, will pass their Sunday plates to pay the medical bills for these chronically unhealthy children who cannot take care of themselves from birth to death. They wouldn't let comotose Terri Schievo's husband cut her food supply and let her die with dignity.... but I didn't notice any Christians offering to pick up the tab for her and many thousands like her, hidden away in nursing homes and 'ventilator farms' for motorcycle accident victims, birth defected children now adults, and all the other stuff the media never tells us about.
What should we be indignant about? Who should decide these policy decisions? Government? Tea Partiers, libertarians? Liberals who apply Christian principles of charity to the infirm, or conservatives who just look at the costs so they can put their riches in the stockmarket to make more money?
Sadly, religious leadership in America has failed their flock on these difficult matters. How can talk radio not address these difficult matters?
Again, what would Jesus call "Doing the Right thing?" Have you noticed this new Catholic Pope is raising these difficult questions to his large flock. And creating quite a bit of controversy, especially among the conservative protestants, who the Catholic Church continues to patiently wait to return to the Universal Church!
(This of course is NOT the same Catholic Church of the 1940s who excommunicated my mother for marrying my protestant father. But we've learned not to say the N word since then, too, right? My dad died, by the way, no longer using the N word....for those N's were wiping his feeble ass in the nursing home where he died.)
A lot of attitudes have changed during my lifetime in the last half of the 20th century. But we still have a ways to go on all sorts of topics... money, charity, war, respect for each other, descrimination, judgmentalness, hypocrisy. And spiritual awareness of how we fit in a universe where the Hubble Telescope shows us millions of suns and planets in the far distance.
Wait til the aliens show up. We won't know whether to shit or go blind!
Jun 20, 2013
Jun 16, 2013
Syria is getting dangerous. New COLD WAR with RUSSIA. Putin Pouts!
Is the cold war back with Russia?
President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, put their escalating differences over Syria on display even as they agreed to urge both sides in the civil war there to the negotiating table.
"Of course, our opinions do not coincide" on Syria, Putin said when the two went before the television cameras after meeting on the sidelines of an international summit in Northern Ireland. "We do have differing perspectives," Obama said, while adding that "we share an interest in reducing the violence."
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, holds a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 summit at the Lough Erne resort in Northern Ireland, on June 17, 2013. Photographer: Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images
Some Western leaders publicly rebuked Putin for his support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as the Group of Eight summit of industrial nations began.
Obama and Putin focused on areas of agreement in remarks after the talks, their first one-on-one meeting in a year, both offering hopes that the Iranian elections would open way for progress in negotiations to that country's nuclear program and noting common efforts on counterterrorism. Obama began his comments by thanking Russia for assistance with the investigation into the Boston marathon bombings.
More on this from Bloomberg
Is this a precursor to WWIII? US going head to head in another MIDEAST SKIRMISH
Washington's decision to arm Syria's Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region.
President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, put their escalating differences over Syria on display even as they agreed to urge both sides in the civil war there to the negotiating table.
"Of course, our opinions do not coincide" on Syria, Putin said when the two went before the television cameras after meeting on the sidelines of an international summit in Northern Ireland. "We do have differing perspectives," Obama said, while adding that "we share an interest in reducing the violence."
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, holds a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 summit at the Lough Erne resort in Northern Ireland, on June 17, 2013. Photographer: Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images
Some Western leaders publicly rebuked Putin for his support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as the Group of Eight summit of industrial nations began.
Obama and Putin focused on areas of agreement in remarks after the talks, their first one-on-one meeting in a year, both offering hopes that the Iranian elections would open way for progress in negotiations to that country's nuclear program and noting common efforts on counterterrorism. Obama began his comments by thanking Russia for assistance with the investigation into the Boston marathon bombings.
More on this from Bloomberg
Is this a precursor to WWIII? US going head to head in another MIDEAST SKIRMISH
Washington's decision to arm Syria's Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region.
The Independent on Sunday has learned that a military decision has been taken in Iran – even before last week's presidential election – to send a first contingent of 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad's forces against the largely Sunni rebellion that has cost almost 100,000 lives in just over two years. Iran is now fully committed to preserving Assad's regime, according to pro-Iranian sources which have been deeply involved in the Islamic Republic's security, even to the extent of proposing to open up a new 'Syrian' front on the Golan Heights against Israel.
In years to come, historians will ask how America – after its defeat in Iraq and its humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan scheduled for 2014 – could have so blithely aligned itself with one side in a titanic Islamic struggle stretching back to the seventh century death of the Prophet Mohamed.
Remember... Vietnam started with "US Advisors"
Jun 6, 2013
Big Brother BUSH was watching the other side of your keyboard! And Phone Records! Bigger than you thought.
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
By Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras, Thursday, June 6, 4:43 PM
The program, code-named PRISM, has not been made public until now. It may be the first of its kind. The NSA prides itself on stealing secrets and breaking codes, and it is accustomed to corporate partnerships that help it divert data traffic or sidestep barriers. But there has never been a Google or Facebook before, and it is unlikely that there are richer troves of valuable intelligence than the ones in Silicon Valley.
Equally unusual is the way the NSA extracts what it wants, according to the document: "Collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple."
PRISM was launched from the ashes of President George W. Bush's secret program of warrantless domestic surveillance in 2007, after news media disclosures, lawsuits and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court forced the president to look for new authority.
Congress obliged with the Protect America Act in 2007 and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which immunized private companies that cooperated voluntarily with U.S. intelligence collection. PRISM recruited its first partner, Microsoft, and began six years of rapidly growing data collection beneath the surface of a roiling national debate on surveillance and privacy. Late last year, when critics in Congress sought changes in the FISA Amendments Act, the only lawmakers who knew about PRISM were bound by oaths of office to hold their tongues.
The court-approved program is focused on foreign communications traffic, which often flows through U.S. servers even when sent from one overseas location to another. Between 2004 and 2007, Bush administration lawyers persuaded federal FISA judges to issue surveillance orders in a fundamentally new form. Until then the government had to show probable cause that a particular "target" and "facility" were both connected to terrorism or espionage.
In four new orders, which remain classified, the court defined massive data sets as "facilities" and agreed to certify periodically that the government had reasonable procedures in place to minimize collection of "U.S. persons" data without a warrant.
In a statement issue late Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper said "information collected under this program is among the most important and valuable foreign intelligence information we collect, and is used to protect our nation from a wide variety of threats. The unauthorized disclosure of information about this important and entirely legal program is reprehensible and risks important protections for the security of Americans."
Clapper added that there were numerous inaccuracies in reports about PRISM by The Post and the Guardian newspaper, but he did not specify any.
Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said: "I would just push back on the idea that the court has signed off on it, so why worry? This is a court that meets in secret, allows only the government to appear before it, and publishes almost none of its opinions. It has never been an effective check on government."
|British Liberal newspaper broke this story, this week.
"We do not provide any government organization with direct access to Facebook servers," said Joe Sullivan, chief security officer for Facebook. "When Facebook is asked for data or information about specific individuals, we carefully scrutinize any such request for compliance with all applicable laws, and provide information only to the extent required by law."
"We have never heard of PRISM," said Steve Dowling, a spokesman for Apple. "We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order."
It is possible that the conflict between the PRISM slides and the company spokesmen is the result of imprecision on the part of the NSA author. In another classified report obtained by The Post, the arrangement is described as allowing "collection managers [to send] content tasking instructions directly to equipment installed at company-controlled locations," rather than directly to company servers.
|National Security Ageny Campus - Time Magazine
An internal presentation of 41 briefing slides on PRISM, dated April 2013 and intended for senior analysts in the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate, described the new tool as the most prolific contributor to the President's Daily Brief, which cited PRISM data in 1,477 items last year. According to the slides and other supporting materials obtained by The Post, "NSA reporting increasingly relies on PRISM" as its leading source of raw material, accounting for nearly 1 in 7 intelligence reports.
That is a remarkable figure in an agency that measures annual intake in the trillions of communications. It is all the more striking because the NSA, whose lawful mission is foreign intelligence, is reaching deep inside the machinery of American companies that host hundreds of millions of American-held accounts on American soil.
The technology companies, whose cooperation is essential to PRISM operations, include most of the dominant global players of Silicon Valley, according to the document. They are listed on a roster that bears their logos in order of entry into the program: "Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple." PalTalk, although much smaller, has hosted traffic of substantial intelligence interest during the Arab Spring and in the ongoing Syrian civil war.
Dropbox, the cloud storage and synchronization service, is described as "coming soon."
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.), who had classified knowledge of the program as members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, were unable to speak of it when they warned in a Dec. 27, 2012, floor debate that the FISA Amendments Act had what both of them called a "back-door search loophole" for the content of innocent Americans who were swept up in a search for someone else.
"As it is written, there is nothing to prohibit the intelligence community from searching through a pile of communications, which may have been incidentally or accidentally been collected without a warrant, to deliberately search for the phone calls or e-mails of specific Americans," Udall said.
Wyden repeatedly asked the NSA to estimate the number of Americans whose communications had been incidentally collected, and the agency's director, Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander, insisted there was no way to find out. Eventually Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III wrote Wyden a letter stating that it would violate the privacy of Americans in NSA data banks to try to estimate their number.
Roots in the '70s
PRISM is an heir, in one sense, to a history of intelligence alliances with as many as 100 trusted U.S. companies since the 1970s. The NSA calls these Special Source Operations, and PRISM falls under that rubric.
The Silicon Valley operation works alongside a parallel program, code-named BLARNEY, that gathers up "metadata" — technical information about communications traffic and network devices — as it streams past choke points along the backbone of the Internet. BLARNEY's top-secret program summary, set down in the slides alongside a cartoon insignia of a shamrock and a leprechaun hat, describes it as "an ongoing collection program that leverages IC [intelligence community] and commercial partnerships to gain access and exploit foreign intelligence obtained from global networks."
But the PRISM program appears to more nearly resemble the most controversial of the warrantless surveillance orders issued by President George W. Bush after the al-Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Its history, in which President Obama presided over exponential growth in a program that candidate Obama criticized, shows how fundamentally surveillance law and practice have shifted away from individual suspicion in favor of systematic, mass collection techniques.
The Obama administration points to ongoing safeguards in the form of "extensive procedures, specifically approved by the court, to ensure that only non-U.S. persons outside the U.S. are targeted, and that minimize the acquisition, retention and dissemination of incidentally acquired information about U.S. persons."
And it is true that the PRISM program is not a dragnet, exactly. From inside a company's data stream the NSA is capable of pulling out anything it likes, but under current rules the agency does not try to collect it all.
Analysts who use the system from a Web portal at Fort Meade, Md., key in "selectors," or search terms, that are designed to produce at least 51 percent confidence in a target's "foreignness." That is not a very stringent test. Training materials obtained by The Post instruct new analysts to make quarterly reports of any accidental collection of U.S. content, but add that "it's nothing to worry about."
Even when the system works just as advertised, with no American singled out for targeting, the NSA routinely collects a great deal of American content. That is described as "incidental," and it is inherent in contact chaining, one of the basic tools of the trade. To collect on a suspected spy or foreign terrorist means, at minimum, that everyone in the suspect's inbox or outbox is swept in. Intelligence analysts are typically taught to chain through contacts two "hops" out from their target, which increases "incidental collection" exponentially. The same math explains the aphorism, from the John Guare play, that no one is more than "six degrees of separation" from any other person.
A 'directive'
In exchange for immunity from lawsuits, companies such as Yahoo and AOL are obliged to accept a "directive" from the attorney general and the director of national intelligence to open their servers to the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit, which handles liaison to U.S. companies from the NSA. In 2008, Congress gave the Justice Department authority for a secret order from the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court to compel a reluctant company "to comply."
In practice, there is room for a company to maneuver, delay or resist. When a clandestine intelligence program meets a highly regulated industry, said a lawyer with experience in bridging the gaps, neither side wants to risk a public fight. The engineering problems are so immense, in systems of such complexity and frequent change, that the FBI and NSA would be hard pressed to build in back doors without active help from each company.
Apple demonstrated that resistance is possible when it held out for more than five years, for reasons unknown, after Microsoft became PRISM's first corporate partner in May 2007. Twitter, which has cultivated a reputation for aggressive defense of its users' privacy, is still conspicuous by its absence from the list of "private sector partners."
Google, like the other companies, denied that it permitted direct government access to its servers.
"Google cares deeply about the security of our users' data," a company spokesman said. "We disclose user data to government in accordance with the law, and we review all such requests carefully. From time to time, people allege that we have created a government 'back door' into our systems, but Google does not have a 'back door' for the government to access private user data."
Microsoft also provided a statement: "We provide customer data only when we receive a legally binding order or subpoena to do so, and never on a voluntary basis. In addition we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers. If the government has a broader voluntary national security program to gather customer data we don't participate in it."
Yahoo also issued a denial.
"Yahoo! takes users' privacy very seriously," the company said in a statement. "We do not provide the government with direct access to our servers, systems, or network."
Like market researchers, but with far more privileged access, collection managers in the NSA's Special Source Operations group, which oversees the PRISM program, are drawn to the wealth of information about their subjects in online accounts. For much the same reason, civil libertarians and some ordinary users may be troubled by the menu available to analysts who hold the required clearances to "task" the PRISM system.
There has been "continued exponential growth in tasking to Facebook and Skype," according to the PRISM slides. With a few clicks and an affirmation that the subject is believed to be engaged in terrorism, espionage or nuclear proliferation, an analyst obtains full access to Facebook's "extensive search and surveillance capabilities against the variety of online social networking services."
According to a separate "User's Guide for PRISM Skype Collection," that service can be monitored for audio when one end of the call is a conventional telephone and for any combination of "audio, video, chat, and file transfers" when Skype users connect by computer alone. Google's offerings include Gmail, voice and video chat, Google Drive files, photo libraries, and live surveillance of search terms.
Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. "They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type," the officer said.
Poitras is a documentary filmmaker and MacArthur Fellow. Julie Tate, Robert O'Harrow Jr., Cecilia Kang and Ellen Nakashima contributed to this report.
Graphic: NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program Special Report: Top Secret America
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Time Magazine's Report today...
And surprise surprise... newspaper 2006, the Bush Administration. Where was the right's outrage THEN?
Jun 4, 2013
You're paying THOUSANDS OF YOUR DOLLARS! DO YOU EVEN CARE, or just ACCEPT IT?Why is Congress trashing OBAMACARE but yet ignoring the REAL costs We're paying by Greedy hospitals?
Why are we being ripped off? Could it be that hospitals and doctors don't actually TELL us what they're charging, don't actually even KNOW? And your insurance companies quietly pay the bills with a nice negotiated discount, charge your boss and you higher premiums, and THEN... the hospital gouges you for your co-pay amount at a higher rate?
Think this is Obama's fault? Oh no. This is about MONEY for HEALTH CARE, not at all about presidents!
If the REPUBLICANS weren't so interested in making Obama FAIL, they would have helped make OBAMACARE actually WORK! Address the Healthcare RIPOFF by the industry itself... and the Congressmen looking the other way!!
But NO....they wanted Obama's ass...even if it costs you BILLIONS, (and you personally, THOUSANDS!) Now they're playing "See, we told you your premiums would go UP"! But they didn't turn a finger to stop the health care GOUGING on us all. This is how badly they want to take over the white house in 2016! They just don't care WHAT it costs you...and hope it'll cost you a LOT so you'll just vote for them in 2014 for the House and 2016 for the House again and also for the Presidency to an unchosen candidate!
Patriotic? I don't think so! Do you really? VOTE THEM OUT! They QUIETLY looked out for THEMSELVES, not YOU!
Take the case of just COLOSTOMIES... many of us get them cuz the doctor says we should HAVE ONE, once in a while....
MERRICK, N.Y. — Deirdre Yapalater's recent colonoscopy at a surgical center near her home here on Long Island went smoothly: she was whisked from pre-op to an operating room where a gastroenterologist, assisted by an anesthesiologist and a nurse, performed the routine cancer screening procedure in less than an hour. The test, which found nothing worrisome, racked up what is likely her most expensive medical bill of the year: $6,385.
That is fairly typical: in Keene, N.H., Matt Meyer's colonoscopy was billed at $7,563.56. Maggie Christ of Chappaqua, N.Y., received $9,142.84 in bills for the procedure. In Durham, N.C., the charges for Curtiss Devereux came to $19,438, which included a polyp removal. While their insurers negotiated down the price, the final tab for each test was more than $3,500.
"Could that be right?" said Ms. Yapalater, stunned by charges on the statement on her dining room table. Although her insurer covered the procedure and she paid nothing, her health care costs still bite: Her premium payments jumped 10 percent last year, and rising co-payments and deductibles are straining the finances of her middle-class family, with its mission-style house in the suburbs and two S.U.V.'s parked outside. "You keep thinking it's free," she said. "We call it free, but of course it's not."
In many other developed countries, a basic colonoscopy costs just a few hundred dollars and certainly well under $1,000. That chasm in price helps explain why the United States is far and away the world leader in medical spending, even though numerous studies have concluded that Americans do not get better care.
Whether directly from their wallets or through insurance policies, Americans pay more for almost every interaction with the medical system. They are typically prescribed more expensive procedures and tests than people in other countries, no matter if those nations operate a private or national health system. A list of drug, scan and procedure prices compiled by the International Federation of Health Plans, a global network of health insurers, found that the United States came out the most costly in all 21 categories — and often by a huge margin.
Americans pay, on average, about four times as much for a hip replacement as patients in Switzerland or France and more than three times as much for a Caesarean section as those in New Zealand or Britain. The average price for Nasonex, a common nasal spray for allergies, is $108 in the United States compared with $21 in Spain. The costs of hospital stays here are about triple those in other developed countries, even though they last no longer, according to a recent report by the Commonwealth Fund, a foundation that studies health policy.
While the United States medical system is famous for drugs costing hundreds of thousands of dollars and heroic care at the end of life, it turns out that a more significant factor in the nation's $2.7 trillion annual health care bill may not be the use of extraordinary services, but the high price tag of ordinary ones. "The U.S. just pays providers of health care much more for everything," said Tom Sackville, chief executive of the health plans federation and a former British health minister.
Colonoscopies offer a compelling case study. They are the most expensive screening test that healthy Americans routinely undergo — and often cost more than childbirth or an appendectomy in most other developed countries. Their numbers have increased manyfold over the last 15 years, with data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggesting that more than 10 million people get them each year, adding up to more than $10 billion in annual costs.
Largely an office procedure when widespread screening was first recommended, colonoscopies have moved into surgery centers — which were created as a step down from costly hospital care but are now often a lucrative step up from doctors' examining rooms — where they are billed like a quasi operation. They are often prescribed and performed more frequently than medical guidelines recommend.
The high price paid for colonoscopies mostly results not from top-notch patient care, according to interviews with health care experts and economists, but from business plans seeking to maximize revenue; haggling between hospitals and insurers that have no relation to the actual costs of performing the procedure; and lobbying, marketing and turf battles among specialists that increase patient fees.
While several cheaper and less invasive tests to screen for colon cancer are recommended as equally effective by the federal government's expert panel on preventive care — and are commonly used in other countries — colonoscopy has become the go-to procedure in the United States. "We've defaulted to by far the most expensive option, without much if any data to support it," said Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
In coming months, The New York Times will look at common procedures, drugs and medical encounters to examine how the economic incentives underlying the fragmented health care market in the United States have driven up costs, putting deep economic strains on consumers and the country.
Hospitals, drug companies, device makers, physicians and other providers can benefit by charging inflated prices, favoring the most costly treatment options and curbing competition that could give patients more, and cheaper, choices. And almost every interaction can be an opportunity to send multiple, often opaque bills with long lists of charges: $100 for the ice pack applied for 10 minutes after a physical therapy session, or $30,000 for the artificial joint implanted in surgery.
The United States spends about 18 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, nearly twice as much as most other developed countries. The Congressional Budget Office has said that if medical costs continue to grow unabated, "total spending on health care would eventually account for all of the country's economic output." And it identified federal spending on government health programs as a primary cause of long-term budget deficits.
While the rise in health care spending in the United States has slowed in the past four years — to about 4 percent annually from about 8 percent — it is still expected to rise faster than the gross domestic product. Aging baby boomers and tens of millions of patients newly insured under the Affordable Care Act are likely to add to the burden.
With health insurance premiums eating up ever more of her flat paycheck, Ms. Yapalater, a customer relations specialist for a small Long Island company, recently decided to forgo physical therapy for an injury sustained during Hurricane Sandy because of high out-of-pocket expenses. She refused a dermatology medication prescribed for her daughter when the pharmacist said the co-payment was $130. "I said, 'That's impossible, I have insurance,' " Ms. Yapalater recalled. "I called the dermatologist and asked for something cheaper, even if it's not as good."
The more than $35,000 annually that Ms. Yapalater and her employer collectively pay in premiums — her share is $15,000 — for her family's Oxford Freedom Plan would be more than sufficient to cover their medical needs in most other countries. She and her husband, Jeff, 63, a sales and marketing consultant, have three children in their 20s with good jobs. Everyone in the family exercises, and none has had a serious illness.
Like the Yapalaters, many other Americans have habits or traits that arguably could put the nation at the low end of the medical cost spectrum. Patients in the United States make fewer doctors' visits and have fewer hospital stays than citizens of many other developed countries, according to the Commonwealth Fund report. People in Japan get more CT scans. People in Germany, Switzerland and Britain have more frequent hip replacements. The American population is younger and has fewer smokers than those in most other developed countries. Pushing costs in the other direction, though, is that the United States has relatively high rates of obesity and limited access to routine care for the poor.
A major factor behind the high costs is that the United States, unique among industrialized nations, does not generally regulate or intervene in medical pricing, aside from setting payment rates for Medicare and Medicaid, the government programs for older people and the poor. Many other countries deliver health care on a private fee-for-service basis, as does much of the American health care system, but they set rates as if health care were a public utility or negotiate fees with providers and insurers nationwide, for example.
"In the U.S., we like to consider health care a free market," said Dr. David Blumenthal, president of the Commonwealth Fund and a former adviser to President Obama. "But it is a very weird market, riddled with market failures."
Consider this:
Consumers, the patients, do not see prices until after a service is provided, if they see them at all. And there is little quality data on hospitals and doctors to help determine good value, aside from surveys conducted by popular Web sites and magazines. Patients with insurance pay a tiny fraction of the bill, providing scant disincentive for spending.
Even doctors often do not know the costs of the tests and procedures they prescribe. When Dr. Michael Collins, an internist in East Hartford, Conn., called the hospital that he is affiliated with to price lab tests and a colonoscopy, he could not get an answer. "It's impossible for me to think about cost," he said. "If you go to the supermarket and there are no prices, how can you make intelligent decisions?"
Instead, payments are often determined in countless negotiations between a doctor, hospital or pharmacy, and an insurer, with the result often depending on their relative negotiating power. Insurers have limited incentive to bargain forcefully, since they can raise premiums to cover costs.
"It all comes down to market share, and very rarely is anyone looking out for the patient," said Dr. Jeffrey Rice, the chief executive of Healthcare Blue Book, which tracks commercial insurance payments. "People think it's like other purchases: that if you pay more you get a better car. But in medicine, it's not like that."
A Market Is Born
As the cases of bottled water and energy drinks stacked in the corner of the Yapalaters' dining room attest, the family is cost conscious — especially since a photography business long owned by the family succumbed eight years ago in the shift to digital imaging. They moved out of Manhattan. They rent out their summer home on Fire Island. They have put off restoring the wallpaper in their dining room.
And yet, Ms. Yapalater recalled, she did not ask her doctors about the cost of her colonoscopy because it was covered by insurance and because "if a doctor says you need it, you don't ask." In many other countries, price lists of common procedures are publicly available in every clinic and office. Here, it can be nearly impossible to find out.
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I love me some honey!
I cannot remember a time I didn't use honey. My nana was a lover of honey, and I have been ever since I was a kid. I remember sitting around on the lanai at my grandparents house eating saltines crackers with honey poured on the top I was so sticky by the end of that lol. I always put it in my tea and generally use it more than I use sugar.
When I was in chorus and musical theater lemon and honey were my best friend for sure.
Last night my little guy got into a coughing fit and had a lot of phlegm that kept getting caught in his throat and making him throw up. I gave him a teaspoon of honey, and he stopped almost instantly.
I use it for my hair to add moisture.
I found some other uses on Mother Nature Network:
Fight insomnia: If you don't have much trouble falling asleep, but tend to wake up in the middle of the night, it could be totally natural (for centuries many people had a two-sleep schedule), or it could be due to stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol, being out of tune. A bit of salted honey (you need both sweet and salty) can help reset these hormones and get you back to sleep. You only need a small amount (this shouldn't be a snack!), so use a teaspoon or egg spoon to keep yourself from overindulging.
Get rid of acne: Dab a bit of straight honey on your pimple, and let it sit for a half-hour, then gently rinse off. Repeat the next day; this works best for whiteheads.
Make lip balm: It's as simple as combining beeswax, olive oil, cocoa butter and honey (and an essential oil if you like). Recipes online abound, but here's a good one to start with.
Clean cuts: Honey is naturally antimicrobial (that's why it literally lasts forever; it has been found in tombs and such). So slather a bit on scrapes, minor cuts and basic burns, always using a clean implement, of course. Lightly cover the wound — basically you can use honey like a natural antibiotic cream. Skeptical? Here's proof — scientists are actually using the bee product as a potential future source of antibacterial proteins.


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George Weston Ltd. says its third-quarter profit dropped 52 per cent from year-ago levels largely because of the negative impact foreign exchange losses.
North America's largest baked goods maker reported net earnings of $86-million or 56 cents per share for the quarter ended Oct. 10. That was down from a year-ago profit of $180-million or $1.29 per share.
Revenue totalled $9.78-billion for the quarter, down about $100-million from $9.88-billion last year.
Analysts had expected revenue of $9.90-billion, according to Thomson Reuters.
Toronto-based Weston said most of its revenue came from the Loblaw , a publicly traded grocery retailer that it controls.
Its Weston Foods sector, which includes the baking business, accounted for just $502-million of revenue, down 26 per cent from a year before.
Excluding discontinued operations following the sale Weston Food's dairy and bottling operations at the end of last year and its U.S. fresh bread and baked goods business early this year, Weston's overall profit was $71 million or 44 cents per share.
George Weston said its net earnings in the most recent quarter took a beating from a 58 cent charge per common share related to unrealized foreign exchange losses.
Last year's third-quarter, spanning a 16-week period ended Oct. 4, 2008, Weston's net earnings from continuing operations was $119-million or 81 cents per share, while net earnings including discontinued operations was $180-million or $1.29-million.
But the company said that excluding the foreign exchange losses and other items, its performance in the third quarter was "strong" compared to last year.
George Weston said it is continuing its brand and product development efforts while plant and distribution optimization, coupled with other cost reduction initiatives remain a priority.
The company said the sale of its dairy and bottling operations in the fourth quarter of 2008 negatively impacted sales growth by about 26 per cent. Meanwhile it said foreign currency translation positively impacted sales growth by about two per cent.
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The horrendous truth about the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell isn't the horrible reality of what he has done.
The horrendous truth about the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell is that his crimes are only barely abnormal. They are exactly what "pro-choice" sociopaths created when they decided infanticide is a "right."
Gosnell, and his clinic, have been chosen as the face of the American holocaust that has been taking place since 1973- without photoshop. Having a college education and cleaning supplies shouldn't make us feel any better about the blatant slaughter of babies that takes place six days a week in our nation. Killing humans is a gruesome, bloody, and lucrative business, and Americans will never be able to clean up the facts: 55 million slaughtered and counting.
Why these stories aren't front- page news every day is pretty simple to figure out: we live in a godless society that is addicted to and runs on sexual immorality- and the innocent children conceived in this sin-loving world don't stand a chance, as we are sadly witnessing. We are a nation and culture that loves sex and death. Let us never confuse legality with morality- we cannot legislate morality. We must, however, give the Gospel message to those perishing, and may our loving Father convict, forgive, and save those lost souls who love sin and death.
Gosnell represents a society that demands death and chooses it over and over again.
I'd love to know how many of the sainted Sandy Hook parents who want destroy the Constitution because of their raw grief still support the far more deadly "choice" that has murdered 55 million other children. Does the absurdity of their hypocrisy registering in their tiny, vindictive minds?
We're caught between Sodom on the Hudson and Gomorrah on the Potomac.
May God have mercy on those who fear him… and to Hell with the rest.