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Haufe Group: Paving the Way for Cloud Native for Midsize Companies
Founded in 1930 as a traditional publisher, Haufe Group has grown into a media and software company with 95 percent of its sales from digital products. Over the years, the company has gone from having "hardware in the basement" to outsourcing its infrastructure operations and IT. More recently, the development of new products, from Internet portals for tax experts to personnel training software, has created demands for increased speed, reliability and scalability. "We need to be able to move faster," says Solution Architect Martin Danielsson. "Adapting workloads is something that we really want to be able to do."
With the ability to adapt workloads, Danielsson says, teams "will be able to scale down to around half the capacity at night, saving 30 percent of the hardware cost." Plus, shorter release times have had a major impact. "Before, we had to announce at least a week in advance when we wanted to do a release because there was a huge checklist of things that you had to do," he says. "By going cloud native, we have the infrastructure in place to be able to automate all of these things. Now we can get a new release done in half an hour instead of days."
CLOUD TYPEMulti, Public
CHALLENGESReliability, Scaling, Velocity
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Reduced 30% by
scaling down to half capacity at night
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More than 80 years ago, Haufe Group was founded as a traditional publishing company, printing books and commentary on paper.
By the 1990s, though, the company's leaders recognized that the future was digital, and to their credit, were able to transform Haufe Group into a media and software business that now gets 95 percent of its sales from digital products. "Among the German companies doing this, we were one of the early adopters," says Martin Danielsson, Solution Architect for Haufe Group.
And now they're leading the way for midsize companies embracing cloud native technology like Kubernetes. "The really big companies like Ticketmaster and Google get it right, and the startups get it right because they're faster," says Danielsson. "We're in this big lump of companies in the middle with a lot of legacy, a lot of structure, a lot of culture that does not easily fit the cloud technologies. We're just 1,500 people, but we have hundreds of customer-facing applications. So we're doing things that will be relevant for many companies of our size or even smaller."
Many of those legacy challenges stemmed from simply following the technology trends of the times. "We used to do full DevOps," he says. In the 1990s and 2000s, "that meant that you had your hardware in the basement. And then 10 years ago, the hype of the moment was to outsource application operations, outsource everything, and strip down your IT department to take away the distraction of all these hardware things. That's not our area of expertise. We didn't want to be an infrastructure provider. And now comes the backlash of that."
Haufe Group began feeling the pain as they were developing more new products, from Internet portals for tax experts to personnel training software, that have created demands for increased speed, reliability and scalability. "Right now, we have this break in workflows, where we go from writing concepts to developing, handing it over to production and then handing that over to your host provider," he says. "And then when things go bad we have no clue what went wrong. We definitely want to take back control, and we want to move a lot faster. Adapting workloads is something that we really want to be able to do."
Those needs led them to explore cloud native technology. Their first foray into the cloud was doing deployments in Microsoft Azure, once it became available in Europe, for desktop products that had built-in download services. Hosting expenses for such bandwidth-heavy services were too high, so the company turned to the cloud. "After that, it has been different projects trying out different things," says Danielsson.
Two years ago, Holger Reinhardt joined Haufe Group as CTO and rapidly re-oriented the traditional host provider-based approach toward a cloud and API-first strategy. A core part of this strategy was a strong mandate to embrace infrastructure-as-code across the entire software deployment lifecycle via Docker. Some experiments went further than others; German regulations about sensitive data proved to be a road block in moving some workloads to Azure and Amazon Web Services. "Due to our history, Germany is really strict with things like personally identifiable data," Danielsson says.
These experiments took on new life with the arrival of the Azure Sovereign Cloud for Germany (an Azure clone run by the German T-Systems provider). With the availability of Azure.de—which conforms to Germany's privacy regulations—teams started to seriously consider deploying production loads in Docker into the cloud. "We have been doing containers for the last two years, and we really got the hang of how they work," says Danielsson. "But it was always for development and test, never in production, because we didn't fully understand how that would work. And to me, Kubernetes was definitely the technology that solved that."
In parallel, Danielsson had built an API management system with the aim of supporting CI/CD scenarios, aspects of which were missing in off-the-shelf API management products. With a foundation based on Mashape's Kong gateway, it is open-sourced as wicked.haufe.io. He put wicked.haufe.io to use with his product team.
Otherwise, Danielsson says his philosophy was "don't try to reinvent the wheel all the time. Go for what's there and 99 percent of the time it will be enough. And if you think you really need something custom or additional, think perhaps once or twice again. One of the things that I find so amazing with this cloud-native framework is that everything ties in."
Currently, Haufe Group is working on two projects using Kubernetes in production. One is a new mobile application for researching legislation and tax laws. "We needed a way to take out functionality from a legacy core and put an application on top of that with an API gateway—a lot of moving parts that screams containers," says Danielsson. So the team moved the build pipeline away from "deploying to some old, huge machine that you could deploy anything to" and onto a Kubernetes cluster where there would be automatic CI/CD "with feature branches and all these things that were a bit tedious in the past."
"Over the next couple of years, people won't even think that much about it when they want to run containers. Kubernetes is going to be the go-to solution."
— MARTIN DANIELSSON, SOLUTION ARCHITECT at HAUFE GROUP
It was a proof of concept effort, and the proof was in the pudding. "Everyone was really impressed at what we accomplished in a week," says Danielsson. "We did these kinds of integrations just to make sure that we got a handle on how Kubernetes works. If you can create optimism and buzz around something, it's half won. And if the developers and project managers know this is working, you're more or less done." Adds Reinhardt: "You need to create some very visible, quick wins in order to overcome the status quo."
The impact on the speed of deployment was clear: "Before, we had to announce at least a week in advance when we wanted to do a release because there was a huge checklist of things that you had to do," says Danielsson. "By going cloud native, we have the infrastructure in place to be able to automate all of these things. Now we can get a new release done in half an hour instead of days."
The potential impact on cost was another bonus. "Hosting applications is quite expensive, so moving to the cloud is something that we really want to be able to do," says Danielsson. With the ability to adapt workloads, teams "will be able to scale down to around half the capacity at night, saving 30 percent of the hardware cost."
Just as importantly, Danielsson says, there's added flexibility: "When we try to move or rework applications that are really crucial, it's often tricky to validate whether the path we want to take is going to work out well. In order to validate that, we would need to reproduce the environment and really do testing, and that's prohibitively expensive and simply not doable with traditional host providers. Cloud native gives us the ability to do risky changes and validate them in a cost-effective way."
As word of the two successful test projects spread throughout the company, interest in Kubernetes has grown. "We want to be able to support our developers in running Kubernetes clusters but we're not there yet, so we allow them to do it as long as they're aware that they are on their own," says Danielsson. "So that's why we are also looking at things like [the managed Kubernetes platform] CoreOS Tectonic, Azure Container Service, ECS, etc. These kinds of services will be a lot more relevant to midsize companies that want to leverage cloud native but don't have the IT departments or the structure around that."
In the next year and a half, Danielsson says the company will be working on moving one of their legacy desktop products, a web app for researching legislation and tax laws originally built in Java Enterprise, onto cloud-native technology. "We're doing a microservice split out right now so that we can independently deploy the different parts," he says. The main website, which provides free content for customers, is also moving to cloud native.
"Before, we had to announce at least a week in advance when we wanted
to do a release because there was a huge checklist of things that you had to do.
By going cloud native, we have the infrastructure in place
to be able to automate all of these things."
— MARTIN DANIELSSON, SOLUTION ARCHITECT at HAUFE GROUP
But with these goals, Danielsson believes there are bigger cultural challenges that need to be constantly addressed. The move to new technology, not to mention a shift toward DevOps, means a lot of change for employees. "The roles were rather fixed in the past," he says. "You had developers, you had project leads, you had testers. And now you get into these really, really important things like test automation. Testers aren't actually doing click testing anymore, and they have to write automated testing. And if you really want to go full-blown CI/CD, all these little pieces have to work together so that you get the confidence to do a check in, and know this check in is going to land in production, because if I messed up, some test is going to break. This is a really powerful thing because whatever you do, whenever you merge something into the trunk or to the master, this is going live. And that's where you either get the people or they run away screaming." Danielsson understands that it may take some people much longer to get used to the new ways.
"Culture is nothing that you can force on people," he says. "You have to live it for yourself. You have to evangelize. You have to show the advantages time and time again: This is how you can do it, this is what you get from it." To that end, his team has scheduled daylong workshops for the staff, bringing in outside experts to talk about everything from API to Devops to cloud.
For every person who runs away screaming, many others get drawn in. "Get that foot in the door and make them really interested in this stuff," says Danielsson. "Usually it catches on. We have people you never would have expected chanting, 'Docker Docker Docker' now. It's cool to see them realize that there is a world outside of their Python libraries. It's awesome to see them really work with Kubernetes."
Ultimately, Reinhardt says, "the execution of a strategy requires alignment of culture, structure and technology. Only if those three dimensions are aligned can you successfully execute a transformation into microservices and cloud-native architectures. And it is only then that the Cloud will pay the dividends in much faster speeds in product innovation and much lower operational costs."


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Awakening Souls: A New Spiritual Journey by Psychic Indigo
Published Date 10/9/2014
Category: Life, Destiny & Meaning
Do you feel different? Are you more sensitive to the emotions and energies of people around you?
You may even have a few friends that have caused a world of drama for you lately, and even used your confidential life information against you. However, you know that these people are not your friends, and you feel these relationships needed to end in order for you to move forward on a spiritual path in your life.
You cut your losses and see that the positive influences are still there for you!
With all these negative things happening, which are there to pull you down, you're less stressed than usual. You know there is no reason to stress because there's a balance. When one negative situation leaves your life, you see that something better will happen in the near future to make up for it and more!
All of those awakening right now are here to change the world and everything in it. Forget about all the negative issues within the world; you're here to start the process of Heaven on Earth, and a peaceful place for every being within it. With energy, loving intentions, and visuals in meditations (or dreams), you can and WILL begin to manifest a better Earth for you and everyone around you. It's already happening with solar energy projects; a 19 year old is clearing our oceans of plastics using ocean currents, chemicals are being banned, and organic gardening is the new fun project to save the bees! People are awakening to replenish what has been destroyed!
Everyone has always thought that the end of the world is coming, and war is going to be a big cause of it. In your awakening, you know the only war is the spiritual battle between positive and negative energies and the SOURCE, the ANGELS, and LOVE is what conquers ALL!
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New entrants to the cryptocurrency market face a more difficult avenue of entry today, as customers at JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup will no longer be able to use their credit cards to purchase cryptocurrencies.
JPMorgan Chase confirmed its new polocy to CNBC, explaining that customers will no longer be able to leverage their credit cards to purchase cryptocurrencies – just days after the company conversely confirmed on January 25th that it would allow such purchases to take place.
A company spokesperson informed JPMorgan Chase that "At this time, we are not processing cryptocurrency purchases using credit cards, due to the volatility and risk involved. We will review the issue as the market evolves."
Both Bank of America and Citigroup have followed with announcements that each firm is reviewing its policies, and for the time being would not permit the purchase of cryptocurrencies made through credit.
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The news comes amidst a slump in the cryptocurrency market after a mass selloff, where Bitcoin – at press time – presently trades at values north of $8K USD.
Similarly, the news is an about-face from both JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America – both firms have previously expressed interest in blockchain-based projects.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, one of Bitcoin's longest-serving critics, recently admitted that he sees the blockchain as bearing significant potential.
Bank of America, similraly, has been awarded with a new patent for a cryptocurrency exchange system.
The system, as described in the patent, would allow the conversion of one virtual currency into another automatically by gathering external information of current digital currency exchange rates, and using that information to calculate a new 'optimal' rate.
Both JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America have offered to review their policies on cryptocurrency purchases as the market stabilizes.
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We also keep a note of where each and every one of our customers Granite, Marble or Quartz Silestone was sourced from, something which is essential should products be required further down the line. If in future you require new products we know exactly where to go to get the closest match in colour and texture possible – something which you may find essential in years to come.
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Trenchless Innovations is proud to provide effective, non-invasive air duct & sewer repair services to the residents of Lombard, IL and the surrounding areas.
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All the members of the Trenchless Innovations team were extremely helpful explaining the process and keeping me in the know of just how it was progressing. They were efficient in their tasks and courteous to me and careful to protect my home while doing the work. I would recommend Trenchless Innovations.
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Video inspection of underground air ducts. Ducts are concrete with metal fittings and connections that are extremely rusted. Customer is getting water n ducts during heavy rains. We will need to install an inside sump pit and pump in the lower level to control the water. After water is resolved the ducts will be spray lined with Duct Armor duct lining material.
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Video inspection of underground air ducts. Ducts are concrete with metal connections and fittings. Customer is getting water in the ducts. Customer needs to extend downspouts around the house then also fix gutters that are leaking. Customer should also install a sump pit and pump to control the water. Once the water issue is resolved the ducts should be spray lined with Duct Armor duct lining material to encapsulate the concrete pipes.
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Tropfest Australia have announced in partnership with CGU Insurance, the winners of both Tropfest and Trop Jr 2018. 23 year-old Greta Nash was announced as the winner for Tropfest with her film Two Piece, while 15 year-old Tadji Ulrich has been announced as the winner of the world's largest short film festival for kids, Trop Jr, with his film Outcasts Anonymous.
The event attracted over 45,000 Trop fans to Parramatta Park, as well as being live broadcast on both ABC Comedy and YouTube for fans across the world to enjoy. Greta's winning film is a heartwarming coming-of-age story about a young girl's horrific and awkward shopping for a bikini with her mum. 14 year-old Two Piece lead actress Freya Van Dyke was also awarded Best Female Actress for he performance.
The film was judged by an extensive panel of stars including Academy Award Winner Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Lousie), Oscar Nominated Actress Rachel Griffiths (Muriel's Wedding), Emmy-nominated filmmaker Garth Davis (Lion), BAFTA-nominated documentarian Jennifer Peedom (Mountain) and Logie award-winning actor Rob Collins (Cleverman).
Nash was awarded with a brand new Holden Equinox valued at $45,000 courtesy of Holden, $10,000 cash courtesy of Kennedy Miller Mitchell, a film immersion course and week of meetings in Los Angeles with with agents, studio executives and industry professionals courtesy of the Motion Picture Association. Greta will also receive a $12,500 Studio Filming Prize Package from Western Sydney University, a 12-month Event Cinema Gold Pass, and a trophy exclusively designed by Dinosaur Designs.
Meanwhile, Tadji Ulrich was awarded as the winner of Trop Jr, for his film Outcasts Anonymous, following a support group for supernatural entities such as a vampire, a ghost, and a pair of zombie brothers. The film was inspired by director Taika Waititi's What We Do In The Shadows.
Founder and Executive Chair John Polson commented on Ulrich's project, saying "What a brilliant film! Outcasts Anonymous was absolutely phenomenal," It's awe-inspiring to see such young filmmakers tackling everything from light-hearted comedies, to the real issues faced by kids and teens every day, with an incredible level of sophistication. I have no reservations in saying that Tadji and the rest of these kids really are the future of filmmaking."
Tadji was awarded with a $1,500 cash prize, a 12 month Gold Pass courtesy of Venue and Screening Event Cinemas, a visit to an upcoming Australian film shoot to meet the director, behind the scenes visits to departments, and a DVD gift pack courtesy of the Motion Picture Association, a $500 film course voucher from supporter AFTRS, a trophy exclusively designed by Dinosaur Designs, and finally an invitation to judge Trop Jr in 2019.
This year's competition was judged by a panel of young Aussie stars such as Lincoln Younes (Home and Away), Madeleine Clunies-Ross (A Place to Call Home), Sean Keenan (Puberty Blues), Julian Maroun (Romper Stomper), Tiarnie Coupland (Neighbours), and Trop Jr 2017 winner Nick Ward.
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Very creative blogger L.J. (aka The Common Tarte) has nominated me for a Kreativ Blogger Award. This tickles me because I began this 365 photos project on a whim and with the idea that it would be easy because I would never have to write anything. I am a third of the way through a year's worth of posting a photo-a-day and have probably used a dozen words. But I have "met" a lot more than a dozen very cool bloggers.
Anyway, a big THANKS to L.J. for the award. That was very sweet of you. I love your wit and that some of your most-used tags are Apocalypse and Sleep. Your Paper Crane Project is the most amazing and creative Stop Smoking strategy ever. In between origami and blogging, The Tarte creates art and writes science fiction. Oh, and there is tea involved. I am always up for a cup.
1. You must Thank the blogger who granted YOU the award, providing links to their website and any relevant information about them that you desire to disclose to your readers.
2. You must write 7 interesting facts about you, these can be purely informational or as personal as you like, no rudey nudey facts though!
3. Then you must nominate 7 others for the 'Kreativ Blogger Award' and provide the links, also notifying them of their achievement.
7 facts about myself:
1. Like L.J., I love science fiction. I've become a fan/reader of the genre only in the past five years. Sure, I'd like a Stargate and a spaceship. I also want to hang out with Klingons. Except Worf. He's sort of a weenie.
2. I get a kick out of growing vegetables and making jewelry and playing with my glue gun. I make "stuff" out of chicken bones and peach pits and odd bits of wood and metal. I'd love to grow plants in my apartment but one of my cats cannot resist removing the soil from each pot and pooping in the new dirt pile.
3. I'm a homeschooling Mom. In other words, my kid does his thing and I follow him around a lot. The world is the "teacher" while I'm sort of a facilitator/cheerleader/chauffeur.
4. I've been a fishing instructor both for my state's outdoor education program and for a private summer camp. My favorite fish is the yellow perch.
5. My favorite colors are calico and well-worn leather.
6. I've never liked shiny, perfect Superman but love Batman and Wolverine.
7. Horseshoe crabs are awesome and my family has been participating in counting programs for a couple years now. We are on the list to train as taggers this year. The recent full moon had me itching to see the 'shoes again.
There are a lot more than 7 WordPress Bloggers that I could nominate, but here's seven wonderful blogs that I hope you will enjoy as much as I do:
1. Simple Speedy Snacks: The name describes this blog very well and the presentations are as fun as the food is tasty. There's everything from soups to poached pears to zucchini fries here. My weekly women's wine night has enjoyed a few of the hors d'oeuvre type recipes. There are often skewers and toothpicks involved so that makes these snacks even more appealing. Everything tastes better on a toothpick, right?
2. Wilden Marsh: Another Year Living with Nature at Hoo Wood and Wilden Marsh Nature Reserve.: If a critter shows up in Mike's neck of the woods, you will see it photographed and lovingly explained on this blog. Mike & Spike take me along on their bog treks and I am always entertained and enlightened. Oh, and Mike still has his own teeth and I like that in a guy 😉
3. Rubicorno: Head on over to this blog and see what Davide can do with an iPhone camera. You will not believe your eyes.
4. Creativity Aroused: Fergiemoto calls this blog an "album" in which to keep her art. I love the way she pairs her photos with her own lovely haiku. I especially look forward to the posts where she turns a photo into what looks like a Japanese woodblock.
5. Beach Chair Scientist: Someone else who loves horseshoe crabs! I actually started reading this blog before I began my own blog. Lots of information for beach and ocean lovers here. Reading BCS is like taking a little trip to the sea.
6. Jack Tweeter: I learn something every time Jack posts an entry. The speech-disrputing gun gave me a scare and his post about the guy who survived in his snow-buried car for two months prompted me to put a bag of corn chips in my glove box.* If you've ever said, "Gee, I wonder how tough it is to drive a train in the Andes" or "What ever happened to that Japanese soldier that held out on Guam for thirty years?" then Jack's blog is the place for you.
7. E1aine works in a library and makes jewelry so we have books & beads in common. She recently posted some photos of a lovely castle, but I was way more impressed by her shed. Oooh, I want that! But don't get her started on squirrels. Hahaha. I am really enjoying both E1aine's blog and the photos of her handmade jewelry.
Some of my favorites were already recipients of the award but I must wave "hello" to My Daily Creativity and Megan's Creative Blog and
All About Lemon.
So, that's my Kreativ Blogger post. In words. Thanks again, L.J.
*Then I ate them while waiting for my son at one of his art classes, so I guess I'm a goner if I ever have to live in my car for two months.


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The stock markets pared early gains with the Sensex falling 20 points, or 0.11 per cent, to 18,288.74, while the Nifty traded 13 points, or 0.24 per cent, lower at 5,560.50 in early trade.
Index heavyweight Reliance Industries fell more than 1 per cent on the NSE while Infosys gained over 1 per cent.
Top gainers:
Bharti Airtel was the biggest gainer on the Nifty. Shares of the telecom major traded over 2 per cent higher after Credit Suisse upgraded the company to 'outperform' from 'underweight', and increased the target price to Rs. 335 from Rs. 225. The risk reward for the Bharti stock seems favourable now, the global brokerage said. Last week, Bank of America Merrill Lynch upgraded the stock to 'buy' on the back of the 2G auction outcome.
Other gainers on the index were JP Associates (1.37 per cent), Maruti Suzuki (1.94 per cent) and Tata Steel (0.77 per cent).
The market also cheered reports that debt-laden Kingfisher Airlines had begun salary payments to its employees for the month of May, and shares of the airline rose 2.6 per cent on the NSE.
FMCG major Hindustan Unilever (1 per cent) and cement maker Ambuja Cements (1.45 per cent) were the biggest losers on the Nifty. Ultratech and L&T too traded 0.96 per cent and 0.8 per cent, lower, respectively.
L&T last week said it had agreed to sell its medical equipment business in Mysore to Skanray Healthcare.
Asian markets
Asian stock markets rose Monday, registering optimism after negotiations late last week between President Barack Obama and leaders of Congress raised hopes the US would avoid the 'fiscal cliff' before the end-of-the-year deadline. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.6 per cent, recovering from Friday's nine-week low.
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The 'Clown Craze' has now spread from the US to the UK, Australia and Canada, with a recent flurry of clown sightings and more predicted in the lead up to Halloween. We read more about these creepy clowns...
This craze began in late summer, with many linking the phenomenon to the film remake of the Stephen King classic, It. With police called to dozens of incidents across the country, news outlets have been keen to explore where this craze originated, how to stop it and to broadcast condemnation from clowning professionals.
Bad Clowns goes one step further, describing the history of bad clowns, why clowns go bad, and why many people fear them, blending humour, investigation, and scholarship to reveal what is behind the clown's dark smile.
Whilst news analysis of the recent clown sightings explores some of the history of familiar clowns, most prominently Stephen King's Pennywise, Bad Clowns also details the history of other prominent creepy clowns such as the Joker, Krusty and John Wayne Gacy. Additionally, Bad Clowns features an in depth analysis of many bizarre, lesser-known stories of weird clown antics including Bozo obscenity, Ronald McDonald haters, killer clowns, phantom-clown abductors, evil-clown panics, sex clowns, carnival clowns, troll clowns, and much more. This history of bad clown behaviour fuels the hysteria surrounding the recent clown sightings and Bad Clowns presents this in a way that can help the reader understand the fear many feel towards artists whose purpose is to create laughter.
Praise for Bad Clowns
"Clowns with sinister sides and malevolent motives come under critical scrutiny in this pithy, abundantly illustrated study of the 'bad clown' as a pop culture phenomenon." — Publishers Weekly
"Radford's research is varied and extensive." — Times Literary Supplement
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The 'Clown Craze' has now spread from the US to the UK, Australia and Canada, with a recent flurry of clown sightings and more predicted in the lead up to Halloween. We read more about these creepy clowns...


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An attempt to smuggle more than a million cigarettes into the UK hidden in foot stools was prevented by Border Force at Manchester Airport.
The force discovered the cigarettes in 6 separate seizures between 23 December 2017 and 2 January 2018.
Each consignment was listed as foot stools, but when officers examined the furniture they found hundreds of packets of cigarettes, branded as Lambert and Butler but suspected counterfeit, hidden in the void beneath the cushions.
In total, 1,012,800 cigarettes were detected.
Had the smuggling attempts proved successful it could have cost the Treasury approximately £375,000 in unpaid duty and VAT.
All of the consignments came from China.
Paul Airlie, Deputy Director of Border Force North, said:
These significant seizures, 1,012,800 cigarettes in total, are testament to the expertise of Border Force officers who are working every day to prevent illegal importations, no matter how well they are concealed.


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Rite Aid, 1501 Broad River Road: July 2018 5 comments
Here's another Rite Aid this one where the River Roads come together at Boozer Shopping Center. I am having a little trouble thinking of a Walgreens within a mile of here, which is the usual closing criteria for this transition.
Apparently the LoopNet folks decided they already had a photo on file and didn't need another one -- that's certainly a blast from the past.
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The closest Walgreens to this one is at 1223 St. Andrews Road (intersection of Broad River & St. Andrews)...
7 Jul 18 at 5:47 pm
^^ Which is approximately 1.8 miles up the road
7 Jul 18 at 5:49 pm
The location was built as a Rite Aid and then became n Eckerd's after the Eckerd's inside Dutch Square closed. After Rite Aid bought up what was left of Eckerds, it became a Rite Aid again.
8 Jul 18 at 1:55 pm
Tom is correct, that is an early 90's build Rite Aid store.
10 Jul 18 at 8:44 pm
Rite Aid near Harbison is now Walgreens
10 Jul 18 at 11:08 pm


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As you may already know Obscura is a band from Germany (München) and was founded in 2002 by Steffen Kummerer (guitars, vocals). The band was named after the Gorguts album Obscura and that says a lot about their music. Obscura plays highly skilled, technical death metal, and among the members of the band we find ex-members of great old school death metal bands Necrophagist and Pestilence. After the show at Hatework fest. 2010, Ancient Beliefs made a short interview with Steffen.
Rep: First impression about Romania…
S.K.: I've never been to Romania before, we did a Balkan tour in 2007, when we started in Greece, we played everywhere, we just missed Bulgaria, Turkey and Romania, so it's a pity, but it was some years ago. Romania is very impressive, we saw the "Big Palace" (n. \"Parliament House\") which is one of the biggest building ever.
Rep: Yes, it's the second biggest building in the world after The Pentagon.
S.K.: Yes, we've heard about it from the organizers (Hatework fest.). The whole organization of the festival was super here in Romania. Also, the Arch of Triumph is very similar to the one in Paris. It's very sad that the inner city of Bucharest is…there is only a small part of the old Bucharest left.
Rep: When I talk about OBSCURA, I say that if Chuck Schuldiner would still be alive he would be a big fan of OBSCURA. What do you think about that?
S.K.: Thank you very much, but I guess Chuck Schuldiner listened to power metal and heavy metal, so I'm not sure he would like our stuff.
Rep: Why not? You covered their song "Lack of Comprehension" on the first album. For me DEATH represents the beginning of the technical progressive death metal.
S.K.: I have to agree, in the end we can all say that all of those old bands from the 90's that started to bring something new to the technical metal bands, we can all say it was the basis for our songs.
Rep: It was a surprise for us to see you wearing a DISSECTION t-shirt…
S.K.: Really?
Rep: Yes, because technical death metal and DISSECTION don't have that much in common.
S.K.: Well, if you see the harmonize, what DISSECTION made harmony wise is really really interesting; we have 3 die hard DISSECTION fans in the band, both the guitarists and the drummer. I have a DISSECTION tribute band – THULCANDRA. The last album was released by Napalm Records and we even have a Necrolord painted cover; and it sounds like one to one like DISSECTION. Also there are some slight influences into the OBSCURA sound. Rep: In a way… S.K.: In a way, if you just see the middle part of "Anticosmic Overload" you know, those guys listen to DISSECTION and you will remember it.
Rep: So, what is next for OBSCURA? Are you preparing a new album?
S.K.: We already recorded the new album, at the moment we are just mixing it, and mastering it, so I guess it will be out at the end of February, early March.
Rep: So, do you plan to come back to Romania?
S.K.: Yes, we do, at the first release of the album we will do a regular European tour, at the moment we are discussing a small east – European tour for one or two weeks. We want to do something like we did three years ago, but this time we want to go from Greece to Turkey, so we can play in Bulgaria and Romania as well. We would love to play here again, and I would love to work with the guys from DOR DE DUH. For my personal taste, it was the best band tonight; I really think they had the best sound the whole evening. I really liked them, I saw NEGURA BUNGET many years ago in Munchen. I like the avant-garde black metal stuff, it was like ENSLAVED… DOR DE DUH sounds like ENSLAVED with a good singer.
Rep: It is very interesting that you like DISSECTION, ENSLAVED and DOR DE DUH.
S.K.: Well, everybody listens to different stuff. I listen to a lot of black metal.
Rep: Do you listen to music outside the metal area?
S.K.: Yes, as well. Inside the metal area I listen to a lot of the old Swedish, Scandinavian metal bands like DISSECTION, I'm a huge fan of UNANIMATED, EUCHARIST, SACRAMENTUM all of those.
Rep: Most of them don't play anymore.
S.K.: Yes, it's a pity. Besides the metal area listen to PORTISHEAD, it's a huge influence. I think it's boring if you listen to only one kind of music.
Rep: Any jazz?
S.K.: Sometimes, as well. I am not familiar with jazz artists, but I like them.
Rep: When I look at your base player it seems that his music comes from the jazz area.
S.K.: yes, from jazz but also flamenco. We have some different influences from every sides, like the drummer, Hannes, comes from folk rock mainly, and Christian, the guitarist, did two studies, one for fusion and jazz guitar and the second was for jazz and rock guitar. We all combine it. It fits somehow.
Rep: There are some influences in your vocal style from brutal death metal.
S.K.: Probably, death grunts…
Rep: There are different types of death metal vocalists, and you somehow manage to combine styles.
S.K.: It's just screams and growls (hahaha)… I also do clean vocals as well. It's only a small color you can add, it's not something I do throughout the song, and it's more of a soft song which is why I have to grunt.
Rep: How much was the influence of the new members on the second album?
S.K: Pretty much. We are writing as a team; I am not the only song writer so we share.
Rep: But you write all the lyrics?
S.K.: Yes, I do, but music wise we share everything, everybody brings in what he has, so I would say that the drummer Hannes and I, we write most of the music, and the others contribute with ideas; it's working like a team, it's not a single person who writes everything.
Rep: In the end of our discussion, would you like to say something to Romanian fans?
S.K.: I hope we can come back pretty soon, I expect May next year, 2011, we would love to play again in Romania.
Rep: More than one show?
S.K.: Yes, maybe in Timisoara, Cluj, we will see, but I am not sure right now, but we are planning the south east European tour, so we would love to play in Romania again.
Rep: Thank you.
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Metalloids are elements whose properties are intermediate between metals and solid nonmetals or semiconductors.
A variety of elements are often considered metalloids:
- boron, considered here in the boronides,
- aluminum, a face-centered cubic metal, considered in the aluminides,
- silicon, here in the siliconides,
- gallium (it can occur in the liquid state as a mineraloid),
- germanium,
- arsenic,
- selenium, also included in the chalcogens,
- indium,
- tin,
- antimony,
- tellurium, also included in the chalcogens,
- polonium, considered as among the heavy metals and
- astatine, here is with the halogens.
Each of the metalloids, in the native or elemental form has at least one crystal structure, but these structures may not be the usual cubic structures: face-centered cubic or body-centered cubic that metals often occur in.
While native gallium would be the best source of gallium, it apparently does not occur on Earth.
Gallite (CuGaS2) is 25 at % gallium.
The sample of germanite on the right has a composition of Cu26Fe4Ge4S32. Generally, germanite has a composition closer to Cu3(Ge, Ga, Fe, Zn) (S,As)4.[1] "This sample also contains tennantite."[2]
Native arsenic such as in the image on the right and at the top of this resource occurs in silver ore veins.
Allemontite is a native alloy of arsenic and antimony, with a composition of AsSb.[1]
The first example on the right is from the mineral collection of Brigham Young University Department of Geology, Provo, Utah.
The second is from Příbram, Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic.
As a natural source of arsenic, it has 50 at % arsenic.
On the right is a photograph of native selenium from the mineral collection of Brigham Young University Department of Geology, Provo, Utah.
The second image down on the right shows dark gray selenium in sandstone from Westwater Canyon Section 23 Mine Grants, New Mexico.
On the right are microprobe fragments of native indium from Eastern Transbaikal, Russia. The electron microprobe confirms that indium is the only component of the metallic phase.
Native tin such as in the images on the right occurs in two crystal forms: α-Sn (cubic) and β-Sn (tetragonal).[1]
Native antimony such as occurs in the rock on the upper right with its various oxidation products is crystalline in the hexagonal system.
The second image shows hexagonal crystals with metallic luster.
On the right is an example of native tellurium from the Emperor Mine, Vatukoula, Tavua Gold Field, Viti Levu, Fiji.
- Traditional metalloid recovery processes applicable on Earth may not be so applicable on other astronomical objects such as Mars or the Moon.
See also[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Willard Lincoln Roberts, George Robert Rapp, Jr., and Julius Weber (1974). Encyclopedia of Minerals. 450 West 33rd Street, New York, New York 10001 USA: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. pp. 121–2. ISBN 0-442-26820-3.
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I need to find a solvent that will dissolve zinc but not dissolve Fe.
Dissolving Zn Nor Fe
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Posted 08 January 2017 - 11:46 AM
I need to find a solvent that will dissolve zinc but not dissolve Fe.
Tricky: they are quite close in the electrochemical series. I'd have thought since Zn/Zn 2+ has a reduction potential of -0.76V while Fe/Fe 2+ has one of -0.44V then in theory FeCl2 solution might dissolve Zn and precipitate Fe metal. But I've no idea of this works in practice. FeCl3 might work better (reduction pot +0.77V, so bigger difference from Zn) but that might risk attacking Fe metal as well and turning it all to Fe 2+ .
What are you actually trying to do, if may ask?
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My, how things change.
Last Thursday I was reinformed that I would, in fact, be going in a week's time. Well, as they say, no time like the present!
We had hoped that Mrs. E would be able to go with me on this trip. Unfortunately, the timing ended up overlapping with the play she is in and she can't go. I will get to see a few people I know over in Aberdeen - outside of work, that is. And I get that many more frequent flier miles, with the promise of taking Mrs. E on an actual vacation to Europe sometime soon.
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Saturday, 20 January 2018
Building giraffes......
Working on a baby quilt for grandbaby #13 due in February. This is Lorna McMahon from Sew Fresh's, Giraffe quilt....lots of fun!
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Sunday, 7 January 2018
Lava Lamp scrap quilt
In October, I finished another quilt that was in the works for a number of years. This quit was cut from scraps from my Diamond Quilt and Indian Orange Peel. I got the tiny little EZ quilting ruler called Fat Cats from a quilt shop a few years ago (no affiliation...just so you can see what it looks like :-). These little rulers are designed to use with 2 1/2" strips. I cut lots of scraps up and divided them into cool colours and warm colours and sewed them together alternately as leaders/enders. This produced an effect which remind me of those lava lamps which were the rage in the 1970's. So, I'm calling this one my Lava Lamp quilt. (Click on the photos to enlarge.)
|The finished quilt....sorry for the quality of this photo...the border is green (see next photo for better colours).
|I just quilted straight lines in the ditch and halfway through each row
|liking the lines across...I debated quilting in between each row, but decided to declare it finished :-)
|Once all the rows were sewn, I arranged them on the wall and tried to work it out so no same fabrics touched
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You're Mine is a Obama Song Parody of I'm Yours
Public Service Announcement for the Kool Aid drinkers who either have not reviewed or do not understand ObamaCare H.R.3200:
ObamaCare H.R.3200 is another proposed law that if passed will destroy the constitutional freedoms of all Americans. Whether you believe Obama will give you more healthcare options or not, it is clear that Obama will control whatever health benefits you select.
H.R. 3200 Sec 1173a: standardize electronic administrative transaction
Every American will be issued a National ID Healthcard which will track their eligibility for a specific health service. Note that the phrase, 'which may include utilization of a machine-readable health plan beneficiary identification card' is one way the government will track your health service eligibility. What happens in a emergency when you need life saving surgery and your government healthcard determines you are Not eligible for life saving health services?
"You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." – John Adams
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In my opinion, the only health care reform we need is to make preexisting condition exclusion illegal. Wait, I'd better stop before I get upset lol:)
I just wanted to say hello to you Debbie. I can't seem to maintain interest in blogging, but I haven't forgotten about you 🙂
Wow. See, I told you before, when YOU explain things, it makes SO MUCH more sense to me. And quite frankly? Now I am terrified. But, at least I am AWARE.
They had planned on using stimulus money for implementing the universal code structure of these cards before the stimulus was passed! Is it any wonder they are pushing this so freaking hard? It is already a planned occurance. How nice …….
People that are for this bill "in any form" are NOT informed (except by what Obamamie told them). People that see no danger in a Chipped Health Card baffle me.
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Archive for the 'Democratic Party' Category
Is It Time to Get Rid of the Constitution?
By Spartacus Thrace
As 2013 dawns across America, the Progressive Movement appears to be at the zenith of their power within the federal government and throughout major sectors of American society and culture. Buttressed by decades-long control or domination of the academy, the theater, the press, labor, and the Democratic Party, the Progressives have fundamentally changed the state of the nation by creating a secular utopian statist path as an alternative to the religious individualistic minimalist government path set down by the Founders two centuries ago and expressed in the obligations of the government to the governed they enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
The Declaration has long been treated by many in power as an irrelevant historical relic. The radical notion that the Constitution is a "living document" has gained wide adherence across several parts of the societal spectrum, even among those who hold themselves out as experts on matters of constitutional law. America is now governed by a semi-permanent ruling class, engaged in rampant self-entitlement, seeing itself as separate and apart from — and superior to — the governed. The notions of the American melting pot of disparate peoples and American exceptionalism have been lost to Balkanization of the population along the classic imaginary socialist fault lines of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. The fundamental concept of minimalism — where the power of government is a revocable grant from the governed and the government has only that power and authority necessary to perform the essential duties entrusted to it by the governed — has long been smothered by massive growth in the size, power, and reach of the federal government and the concomitant decrease in individual liberty. Read the rest of this entry »
The Obama Campaign Follows a Porn Feed on Twitter
By Spartacus Thrace
We rightfully expect political candidates and the people around them to be morally upright and of excellent character as a condition precedent to the ability to properly conduct themselves in the affairs of government if and when elected. The fact that a candidate for public office has pornography on his or her computer or subscribes to a pornography feed should be big news in any election, as it says a lot about the morals and character of the candidate. Presidential candidates and their committees are no exception. That is why it is significant and relevant to the election of our next President that the Barack Obama campaign subscribes to the pornography feed, https://twitter.com/ILikeTitsDaily, which features a daily posting of (often gaudy) photographs of the exposed breasts of women. Sometimes the breasts are not completely exposed, often the breasts are framed without showing even the faces of the women, and the sexual organs are exposed in some of the photographs.
Obama's Prophylactic
By Korso
It's actually rather fitting that the hot topic du jour has all the usual suspects in the media prattling on about what has become the Contraception Crisis, a state of affairs so dire than nobody even realized there was a problem accessing cheap and reliable birth control without the intervention of the Nanny State. After all, it's not like I can run down to the corner drug store and pick up a box of Jimmy Hatz for roughly the same price as a vendi mocha latte at Starbuck's, or hit up the local Planned Parenthood for some federally-subsidized Plan B. Oh, wait a second–I can. Come to think of it, your average Joe or Jane can pick from a variety of contraceptive options that would make the number of flavors at a Baskin Robbins seem paltry by comparison, for prices ranging from nothing to next to nothing. So why the sudden urgency in mandating that health care plans now provide that same stuff free of charge, even by religious organizations for which such things violate their most deeply-held beliefs?
Oh, yeah. There's an election this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Primary Colors
By Korso
There's an old Rush song that says, "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice." Unfortunately, that's not going to cut it for Republicans as we enter this, the winter of our discontent. It seems that we have finally reached the point where the battle lines have been drawn: Herman Cain is out, Rick Perry burned his sizzle even faster than his steak, and pretty much everyone else has settled to the bottom of the basket with the rest of the small fries–except for the two front runners, who are now preparing to duke it out for that most coveted prize, the GOP nomination for President of the United States.
Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed? Ah, if only.
Whoda thought when all of this started that the contest would come down to Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich? While the Romney part is no surprise (it seems like he's been running for president since the Truman administration), I had sort of gotten used to the idea of Gingrich being the color commentator, keeping things interesting with his debate flair and historical acumen but not standing a chance at getting the actual nomination. Now, at this late hour, it seems as if the Newtster's strategy of keeping his power dry (at least when it comes to attacking his fellow candidates) and going slow and steady has paid off with a serious surge, denting Romney's inevitability and throwing the party establishment into a bit of a tizzy. I have to admit, for a party that has a history of nominating the next guy in line, this makes things pretty damn interesting; however, with all the polls saying this and the pundits saying that, and the endless debates over who has the best chance of beating Barry the Most Magnificent next year, we are left to ask ourselves the most basic question: Why?
There are actually a couple of reasons. First off, the GOP rank and file are simply not that enamored of Romney. It's not that he's a bad guy–Lord knows, he'd be hands-down better than Obama–but after running McCain in 2008, the poster child for moderates, Republicans are ready for someone who stirs the blood a little bit. Hence all the flirtation with Perry, Cain, Bachmann–flavors of the month to be sure, but again you have to ask yourself why voters so desperately sought them out. It isn't just because they're looking for something new. It's because they want something to get excited about. Romney feels too much like an arranged marriage. Sure, he's a solid guy and all that. It's just a little tough to get all hot and bothered over him–and hot and bothered is what gets people to the polls.
Enter Newt. A flawed prospect, to be sure. That unfortunate first name. No such thing as an unexpressed thought. He may not even be that conservative. But passionate? That he is–and he inspires passion in others as well. Love him or hate him, he doesn't leave you wanting. In fact, he leaves you wanting more. As so much of politics is show biz, that last part is critical–and it's also why I think he's not just the latest Johnny Come Lately.
There's also another Newt X-Factor, related to the first, and that's his willingness to engage in political combat. We're all being warned in advance that this is going to be the low-down dirtiest, nastiest election this side of a Jersey Shore beauty pageant, and already the national GOP leadership has telegraphed its reluctance to go after Obama personally. Gingrich, meanwhile, tantalizes us with his direct challenge to the president to meet him on the battlefield for some Lincoln-Douglas style debate action–a prospect that no doubt terrifies Obama, given his record and aversion to all public speaking that doesn't involve a TelePrompTer. Conversely, the very prospect has Republicans licking their chops in anticipation. Hell, I think most of them would pay real money to see something like that. Mitt Romney, however, just doesn't conjure up the same image. He seems more like a retirement community production of West Side Story, with the Jets and the Sharks throwing down over who cut in front of whom in the buffet line at Ponderosa. The stuff of dreams it ain't.
So who's ultimately better against Barry? Who knows? If Hollywood could figure that out they'd never have a flop. Ultimately, though, I'll always bet on passion over indifference. Win or lose, at least you come away thinking it was worth the fight.
Political Warfare and the Mainstream Media Hatchet Job
One of the most enduring and effective weapons employed by the radical statists who comprise the mainstream media (MSM) is the political "hatchet job." Wielded for decades with near-impunity by the MSM against conservatives, Republicans, and other political enemies, the hatchet job has been a potent force for the Left in its efforts to reduce or eliminate political debate at the national, state, and local levels. This article is a primer for conservatives and members of the New Media on what a hatchet job is and how it is employed.
Hatchet Job Defined
A hatchet job is a biased, maliciously destructive, and often cruel written or spoken critique or attack on the character or activities of a person, organization, or institution. In its most common form, a hatchet job comprises a printed attempt disparage, discredit, and ultimately destroy a targeted person's or organization's reputation in the eyes of the public and to deny the target public sympathy or support through the use of innuendo, inaccuracies, and misleading statements. It is also used for the inherently undemocratic purpose of intimidating and stifling political opposition or dissent.
The hatchet job is a work of pseudo-journalist art, psychological warfare, and political disinformation. Hatchet jobs are in derogation of the ethical rule that journalists should always be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.1 While some hatchet jobs are one-time efforts, many are part of a sustained political campaign. The smear campaign waged by the MSM against Sarah Palin is an example of the latter. Few are blatant, and most are quite subtle. Sometimes, for example, a direct accusation against the target is merely the carrier for darker and more ominous insinuations. In many more cases, however, factual errors, innuendo, and implications of wrongdoing are placed alongside, and draw plausibility from, scattered truths to create a grossly distorting effect on the reader or viewer. Read the rest of this entry »
PCREC Chairman Beyrouti: Working Hard for Republican Victory in 2012
(Video courtesy PCREC)
(April 11, 2011) Jay Beyrouti is a man with a mission, and remains focused on Republican victory in 2012. As the Chairman of the Pinellas County Republican Executive Committee (PCREC), he has invigorated that organization's fundraising, recruitment, and political clout as he readies Pinellas Republicans for the fight of 2012. But the path to victory in 2012 remains strewn with challenges. Read the rest of this entry »
Pinellas Republicans: Work Hard, Think Deep, and Plan Long
(March 14, 2011) If one wants to see and feel just how much grassroots energy and strength is being generated by the Republican Party these days, one of the best places to go is to a monthly meeting of one of their county executive committees.
The county executive committee is the lowest level of formal organization in the Republican Party, and it is at this level that the future stars of that party are born and nurtured. One such committee worth watching is the Pinellas County Republican Executive Committee (PCREC), which has emerged as a political powerhouse in what traditionally has been one of the biggest swing districts in the State of Florida. Led by its chairman, Jay J. Beyrouti, the unofficial motto of the committee seems to be "Work Hard, Think Deep, Plan Long." Read the rest of this entry »
Happy Birthday, President Abraham Lincoln
By Allah Palooza
February 12, 2011 marks the 202nd birthday of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States. He was one of the greatest, if not the greatest, President the nation has ever had, and his principled leadership held the United States together in its greatest moment of national peril. He remains one of the Republican Party's greatest icons.
Born in a log cabin in Kentucky to a farmer and his wife who were barely literate, Lincoln overcame tremendous challenge and adversity to become, first, a successful lawyer, and, finally, the President who shepherded the United States though civil war and other national calamities. In the end, he left an America that was a stronger and better place, a nation of enduring strength of character, labor, and ingenuity that grew over the ensuing decades into the greatest nation in the history of mankind. It would be fair to say that without Lincoln, there could not have been a President as great as Ronald Reagan.
One can learn a lot from studying the words and deeds of Abraham Lincoln. Republicans, in particular, can benefit from the words and deeds of this great President as he successfully strove to preserve the great American experiment in democracy. Foremost of these lessons is that America would not have survived without his determined leadership.
For those who do want to learn more about Abraham Lincoln, the following is a short list of internet-accessible resources that may be useful in this endeavor, beginning with a video about Lincoln that was featured at the 2008 Republican National Convention:
Other quick links for learning more about Abraham Lincoln include the following: Read the rest of this entry »
Project Vote's Amy Busefink: A Progressive From the Neighborhood Gets Busted
By Le Corbeaunoir
It is not every day that someone from the neighborhood makes national news, and it makes sense for a member of the public to think that such an event would attract the attention of the local press. Alas, that is not always the case when it comes to the liberal media.
That having been said, it is remarkable that a 19-month criminal prosecution for voter registration law violations committed by a Pinellas County leftist working for a nationally-scandalized progressive activist group with ties to the Democratic Party has received virtually no coverage in the local press: As a result of this self-imposed news blackout, the recent prosecution of Amy Busefink by the Nevada authorities has made her notorious across the country, yet little is known locally about her and her crimes. That is unfortunate, because this case can be very instructive on the matter of how and why the radicals see voter registration as a key battleground in their class warfare strategy.
With that in mind, this post is intended to help conservatives get a handle on this case, and understand who was involved, what happened, why it happened, and what it means. Read the rest of this entry »
Conservative Hope: Sen. George LeMieux Addresses the PCREC
By Spartacus Thrace
On Monday evening, November 8, 2010, outgoing United States Senator George LeMieux addressed the Pinellas County Republican Executive Committee (PCREC). LeMieux, who had been appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist to complete the remaining term of Sen. Mel Martinez, spoke about some of his experiences in the Senate and how important it was to send the right people to Congress. He criticized the Democrat-dominated Senate for its passage of regulation that did not address the underlying problems that brought about the financial crisis, passage of Obamacare and the false promises of its proponents, and the Senate's adjournment without addressing next year's taxes. LeMieux also addressed the looming national debt crisis facing the United States, telling his audience that "it's worth than you think" and that failure of Democrats and Republicans to act will lead to a crisis similar to what Greece is experiencing. LeMieux told his audience that there is nothing that Americans cannot do, that it is not our people who are broken — it is our government that is broken. He told those assembled that they need to send the right people, "problem-solvers," to Washington who will do their jobs and come home home and live under the laws they passed, and he praised his successor, incoming Senator Marco Rubio, as one of the right people to send to the Senate.
Here is Senator LeMieux's speech in its entirety, divided into two 10-minute segments [Hat-tip to the PCREC]:
Exit question: Will George LeMieux run for the United States Senate in 2012?


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Here are the seven traits listed by the patients, along with the patients' definitions of those traits:
That list isn't in any particular order. The researchers didn't check whether confidence was more important to patients than respectful treatment, for instance. The Mayo Foundation funded the study.
One patient put it this way in the study:
"We want doctors who can empathize and understand our needs as a whole person. ... We want to feel that our doctors have incredible knowledge in their field. But every doctor needs to know how to apply their knowledge with wisdom and relate to us as plain folks who are capable of understanding our disease and treatment."
It's natural for patients to want caring caregivers. He drafted a list of seven traits that are the opposite of those mentioned in the study:
"Can healthcare really ever be high quality if the patient-physician interaction is hurried, disrespectful, cold, callous, or uncaring?"