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Barrick to invest US$38 million to purchase 19.9% interest at C$1.06 per share
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – Midas Gold Corp. (MAX:TSX / MDRPF:OTCQX) ("Midas Gold" or the "Company") today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:ABX / TSX:ABX) ("Barrick") whereby Barrick will purchase 46,551,731 common shares of Midas Gold in a non-brokered private placement (the "Placement") at a price of C$1.06 per share for gross proceeds of US$38,065,907. The Placement will result in Barrick owning 19.9% of the issued and outstanding shares in Midas Gold on a post-transaction basis. Barrick's investment supports Midas Gold's continued efforts to permit the Stibnite Gold Project, so that we can build and operate a world class mining operation that addresses legacy environmental impacts and generate economic benefits to the local community.
"Midas Gold is in the midst of advancing the Stibnite Gold Project through completion of a feasibility study and permitting for site restoration and redevelopment," said Stephen Quin, President & CEO of Midas Gold. "With our detailed plan for site restoration and protection of the environment, a large, long-life and low-cost operation, and a comprehensive proposal for the closure and reclamation of the site, Midas Gold is positioned to complete the critical milestones of feasibility study and permitting. Barrick shares Midas Gold's vision for the restoration of the site and focus on community engagement. We believe Barrick's extensive expertise and its core values, focused on environmental sustainability, make us natural partners."
"Midas Gold's Stibnite Gold Project in Idaho offers a compelling investment proposition, with low geopolitical risk, potential for production of over 300,000 ounces of gold per year at competitive operating costs, and exploration upside," said Barrick President Kelvin Dushnisky. "We are also impressed with the emphasis that Midas Gold has placed on building partnerships with local communities and share their strong commitment to environmental stewardship. We look forward to working with the Midas Gold team to explore opportunities to enhance the value of the project for all partners."
Use of Proceeds
Midas Gold will use the proceeds from the Placement to advance its Stibnite Gold Project (the "Project") through to completion of a feasibility study and permitting of the Project for redevelopment and restoration.
During the past five years, Midas Gold has conducted extensive, multi-year environmental baseline programs to determine and define existing environmental conditions at this brownfields site, while reaching out to communities of interest for their views and perspectives regarding a future for the Stibnite Gold Project site and the local area. Midas Gold has focused on the remediation and repair of the historical disturbance at the site during the construction and operating periods, incorporating concurrent reclamation and minimizing new disturbance. Midas Gold's goal is to protect the environment and provide stable and secure features that will serve as the foundation for a long‐term productive and naturally sustainable ecosystem that incorporates permanent fish passage through the area for the first time since the 1930s. The ultimate objective is the permanent restoration of the site, funded by a long-life, financially rewarding operation that generates significant economic benefits to the local communities of Valley County, the State of Idaho and the U.S.
In December 2014, Midas Gold completed a preliminary feasibility study which identified an environmentally sound and economically feasible Project that could also finance the restoration of what is an extensively disturbed brownfields site. Midas Gold has since: (i) extensively engaged with local communities and other stakeholders in respect of the redevelopment and site restoration concepts for the Project; (ii) completed a number of optimization and risk reduction technical studies that would be required to support a feasibility study and/or the permit application; (iii) in September 2016, filed a Plan of Restoration and Operations for the redevelopment of the Project: (iv) commenced work towards completion of a feasibility study for the Project: and, (v) worked extensively with regulators to advance the permitting process for the Project.
Transaction Details
In connection with the Strategic Investment, Midas Gold and Barrick will enter into an investor rights agreement on closing of the offering, whereby, so long as Barrick maintains a minimum of 10% ownership in Midas Gold, Barrick will be granted:
- The right to appoint one director to Midas Gold's Board of Directors;
- A right to participate in future Midas Gold equity issuances to maintain its then current pro rata interest in Midas Gold;
- Certain top-up rights in connection with Midas Gold's outstanding convertible notes, to maintain its then current pro rata interest in Midas Gold by undertaking additional funding; and
- A right of first refusal in respect of gold concentrates.
In addition, Midas Gold will be increasing the number of directors on its board from seven to eight and will be appointing an independent director to fill that position.
Paulson & Co. and Teck Resources Limited have both provided notice to Midas Gold that they do not intend to exercise their anti-dilution rights in respect of this transaction.
Haywood Securities Inc. is acting as financial advisor to Midas Gold. DuMoulin Black LLP is acting as Canadian legal counsel to Midas Gold and Davies Ward, Phillips & Vineberg LLP is acting as Canadian legal counsel to Barrick.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities, in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act"), or any state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold within the United States unless an exemption from such registration is available.
For further information about Midas Gold Corp., please contact:
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Facebook: www.facebook.com/midasgoldidahoTwitter: @MidasIdaho
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About Midas Gold and the Stibnite Gold Project
Midas Gold Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is focused on the exploration and, if warranted, site restoration and development of gold-antimony-silver deposits in the Stibnite-Yellow Pine district of central Idaho that are encompassed by its Stibnite Gold Project. As operator of the Project, Midas Gold's subsidiary, Midas Gold Idaho, Inc. is a modern mining company that believes that industry and the environment can work together. Commencing in 2009, Midas Gold defined a world-class deposit of gold and antimony in an area in need of serious environmental repair. The Stibnite Gold Project, as proposed in the Plan of Restoration and Operations currently being reviewed by regulators, would restore the site, create economic opportunity and benefit the surrounding communities.
About Barrick Gold
Barrick aims to be the leading mining company focused on gold, creating value by developing and operating high-quality assets in an environmentally responsible way that demonstrates commitment to the local communities. Through strategic investment in good projects and operational excellence, Barrick's vision is to use responsible mining to build wealth for its owners, its people, and the countries and communities with which they partner. Barrick has mining operations in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Zambia. Barrick was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Toronto. Barrick's shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol ABX.
Forward-Looking Information
Statements contained in this news release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking information" or "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "Forward-Looking Information") within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-Looking Information includes, but is not limited to, disclosure regarding possible events, conditions or financial performance that is based on assumptions about future economic conditions and courses of action; and the plans for completion of the Placement, expected use of proceeds and business objectives. In certain cases, Forward-Looking Information can be identified by the use of words and phrases such as "anticipates", "expects", "understanding", "has agreed to" or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "would", "occur" or "be achieved". Although Midas Gold has attempted to identify important factors that could affect Midas Gold and may cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in Forward-Looking Information, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended, including, without limitation, the risks and uncertainties related to the Placement not being completed in the event that the conditions precedent thereto are not satisfied; uncertainties related to raising sufficient financing in a timely manner and on acceptable terms. In making the forward-looking statements in this news release, Midas Gold has applied several material assumptions, including the assumptions that (1) the conditions precedent to completion of the Placement will be fulfilled so as to permit the Placement to be completed on or about May 15, 2018; (2) all necessary approvals and consents in respect of the Placement will be obtained in a timely manner and on acceptable terms; and (3) general business and economic conditions will not change in a materially adverse manner. There can be no assurance that Forward-Looking Information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on Forward-Looking Information. Except as required by law, Midas Gold does not assume any obligation to release publicly any revisions to Forward-Looking Information contained in this news release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.


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Long Term Care Insurance
The real threat to financial security in retirement is two-fold. Both health-related and investment related events can wipe out our estate drastically. We all know what the markets can do to our investments but what could retirees do to protect themselves from health-related tragedies?
Long term care insurance.
You do not want the largest part of your estate going to the children of the owners of a nursing home. Instead, you should develop a plan that will help protect your assets and not be a burden to your loved ones. A good long term care plan will do this.
First let's see what long term care is.
There are two types of care[5]: acute care and support care. Acute care involves those hospital stays where you get surgery and a few days later go home.
Support care is a little different. It is part of the normal aging process involving the loss of independence in one form or another. If we live long enough and don't die suddenly all of us will face dependency like this as we get older. This is where a good long term care insurance plan could help.
Let's look at three growing crisis in America today. The first is that people are living longer. If you live to age 65 chances are you will live into your mid-eighties and living into your mid-eighties should get you into your nineties. People don't realize that age 100 is the largest growing segment of our population in this country. New technology and healthy living has helped to bring this trend about.
The second crisis is that family support isn't what it used to be. We are living in a transient society and our kids are not staying in the communities they grew up in. I am a perfect example of this because I live in Colorado and my mother lives in Minnesota. How much help could I really be other than an occasional visit and some phone calls. Our kid's love and want to help but won't be there to change mom's diaper. They will be managing the care you will receive and could be where the long term care plan helps. As retiring parents it's important to make sure our children won't have to pay for the care. I have seen many client's assets in jeopardy because they have to pay for mom and dad's care.
A third crisis is that Medicare and Medicaid are cutting back on paying for care and pushing the burden to the public. This is a real problem for those not aware of what is happening with these programs. The government does not want to pay for your long term care stay.
The biggest misconception I hear these days is that Medicare will help me with these needs.
Is that really the case?
Let's see how much Medicare covers?
In order for Medicare[3] to pay for your long term care stay the below requirements need to be met:
- You need to have had a prior hospital stay of at least 3 days
- Admitted to a Medicare-certified nursing facility withing 30 days of your hospital stay
- The care requires skilled services
If those are met then Medicare will pay the below amounts:
|You Pay
|Medicare Pays
|First 20 Days
|Next 80 Days
|After 100 Days
|All Costs
After that 100 day period in a facility you are required to pick up the tab. A common response is that Medicaid will now cover my costs.
Well let's see what Medicaid will pay for?
Medicaid will pay for long term care services only after you financially qualify for the aid.
How do you qualify for Medicaid?
If you look at the requirements below you will see that it isn't so easy. First you have to spend down all of your assets until there is only $2,000 left in your bank account.
What Medicaid does is put a dollar value to all of your countable assets. Then you will have to spend those down until you have no more than $2,000 in your bank account before you can qualify for Medicaid. Below is a list of your countable assets.
Countable Assets:
• Cash, Bank Accounts and CDs
• IRA, Keough Plans, 401K and Securities
• Income or Vacation Properties
• Revocable Living Trusts
• Boats and Motor Homes
Medicaid[1][2] does let you keep some assets that are exempt from the spend down requirements. Below is a list of those assets that are considered exempt.
Exempt Assets:
• Primary Residence or Home
• One motor vehicle
• Household goods and personal effects
• Prepaid funeral plans and a small amount of life insurance
• Assets that are considered "inaccessible" for one reason or another
There are some caveats to the exempt assets. Take you primary residence for example, for most people their largest asset. Due to the Medicaid Recovery Act and their paying for your Long Term Care, Medicaid will keep a running tally on what you spend and upon your passing and your spouses passing will put a lien on your home to recoup the dollars you spent.
Medicaid[1] is going broke in every state and this is a way to recoup dollars spent for long term care.
So how can we protect ourselves from losing our assets due to a catastrophic event that lands us in a facility?
Traditional long term insurance gives you the opportunity to have control of the quality of care, where you get the care, and how you get care. It is underutilized because people often don't think of the consequences of not having this type of insurance. Therefore, only thin of it after the event occurs.
One of the biggest responses I hear when mentioning long term care insurance is that it is too expensive and I can't qualify for it. What people don't realize is they can get a plan that will fit their needs and more importantly, budget.
Let's look at some ways to build this plan.
When you meet with an agent for long term care insurance look at how much care you will need. We know that the average cost for a long term care stay for a private room in a nursing home is [6]$229 a day or $6,995 a month. Do we need a plan to cover the whole amount? No! You will have Social Security coming in, a pension, or money from a 401K that may help. Lets say you only need half of that so the plan may only need to cover $3,500 a month.
Next figure out how many years you need the plan to pay. The national average for a long term care stay is 3 years so that is the minimum you should choose. Plans could have 2, 3, 4, 6, or lifetime payment plans. Obviously the more years the more expensive your premium will be.
Now choose an elimination period. This is the period before the plan starts paying. The average is 90 days and the minimum I recommend but I've seen as high as 180 days. The longer you go the less expensive the premium will be. Most people could at least weather 90 days in a facility before having the plan start paying but it is up to you. You could also get what's known as a cash first benefit to cover costs before the plan starts paying but this is separate and has extra costs.
There should be an inflation rider attached to the plan so the benefit will keep up with inflation. Cost of care 20 years from now will be more expensive than today so an inflation rider is a good idea. I recommend a minimum of a 3% inflation rider. Most plans offer either a 3% or 5% inflation rider.
The last part is where the care is to be given. Most people would like to live their remaining years at home and this is the direction care is moving so make sure your long term care plan has 100% home health care. Out of all the traditional long term care plans paying claims today 51%[6] of them are paid to home health care. These plans will also pay for assisted living, adult day care and a nursing home stay. The most important thing is that you understand where the care is allowed and if it will pay for the care you want and will need.
Some things to think about:
- These plans get more expensive the longer you wait
- The cost of premium will go up over the years
- There is a health qualification
- Think of all pros and cons for your situation before purchasing
A good long term care plan will help to prevent a catastrophic event wiping out your estate. The number one mistake I see from clients is that they do not take this seriously until an event brings them to my office where, in most cases, it's too late.[4]
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A Visitor By Kitten D'Ville I stood in the living room and yawned, having just awoken. About to touch the computer's mouse, I was stopped when I heard a knocking at the door.
Thinking that it was probably a package being delivered I skipped over to the door and flung it open. But where a package would have been set there instead stood a remarkable sight: Jack! As he smiled at me I blinked out of my daze and threw my arms around him, holding him so tightly.
"Hey, baby," he cooed in my ear as he exhaled my scent from his nostrils. "Oh, my god!" I exclaimed in a loud whisper. I repeated, "Oh, my god… I can't believe it! I wasn't even expecting you!" He regaled to me about how he had made his trip and brought with a map to my house.
Excitedly, I immediately helped him bring his things inside and, completing that, suggested that we go for a drive. I dashed into my mother's room, informed her that I would be out having a meal and ran out the front door with my lover in tow. I pointed him in different directions as we spoke about so many different things. My eyes drank in every inch of him as we laughed and smiled. "Stop here," I said as I pointed to a sidewalk, which ran behind a small development.
He obliged and turned off his car and I leaned closer to him in my seat. His eyes caught mine immediately as he looked at me, his face just inches from mine, and he stroked my cheek softly with his fingertips. My lips pouted, eyes half-lidded, head tilted and body poised for a kiss, he pulled himself closer until his lips found mine and his eyes closed as his body filled with a sense of relief mixed with the stirrings of lust. I gently suckled his lower lip as he sharply drew in a breath between his teeth and our lips mingled once again.
With the slightest pressure I pressed the tip of my tongue between his lips and he readily greeted it with his own as he pulled me closer with his hand gripping the back of my head.
His fingers wove through my hair as our kiss grew more passionate and I ran my hand along his shoulder and down his chest. I barely pulled my lips from his and I looked him in the eyes; I whispered into his breath, "Hey…" and glanced my eyes towards the backseat.
His eyes widened with a touch of nervousness, but he was overtaken with lust and nodded with a shy and wicked grin. I brushed my hair out of my eyes and opened my door; we reconvened in the confines of the back of his Taurus. I pulled him to the middle of the seat and, resting on my knees, pressed my lips to his once again.
In the passion of the kiss I crawled closer to him and, being careful not to disrupt the kiss or get my feet caught, I gently pulled up my skirt and straddled him.
I felt a shiver run up his spine as he placed his hands on my hips and I cupped his face. While his hands explored the curves of my waist I drew myself from his kiss and stared into his eyes with complete adoration and a fiery passion. I nuzzled his nose and he reached up a hand to remove his glasses, but I stopped him and smiled. He smiled back and I kissed along his cheek to the top of his neck just below his ear. As he continued his hands along my curves I breathed heavily into his ear for a moment and took his lobe in my lips for a moment before I began nibbling ever so softly on it.
He gripped my hips as a hushed moan escaped from his mouth and I began kissing and gently biting my way down his neck as his head rolled back against the seat. He moved his hands up slowly but stopped just below my breasts, almost hesitant in his nervousness. With my lips back to his ear I moaned in a whisper, "Touch me, Jack." He complied immediately and I tossed my head back as he squeezed at my tender breasts.
He watched intently at my reactions before he leaned forward and began kissing my neck from just below my chin and continued down the low cut of my shirt to my cleavage.
He inhaled deeply the scent of my skin and I looked down at him for our lips to meet once again. Our kisses became heavier and I stopped for a moment to pull my shirt over my head and he ran his hands up my arms as I did so. As I tossed my shirt aside he fingered the lace along the cups of my bra and kissed my hard nipples through the satiny fabric. I could feel his hard cock twitching between my legs, seemingly fighting with the denim of his jeans to be released.
As he kissed my shoulders and pulled my bra straps down I gently ground down on his lap as his breathing became heavier. He reached around my back as he kissed at my cleavage and expertly unhooked my bra. I slid the straps off my arms and tossed that aside as well. He immediately began kissing and suckling at my nipples, biting down ever so often as I moaned and pressed down on him harder.
He looked up at me and smiled as a hand traveled down to my thigh. He slowly ran it along my leg until he reached the edge of my panties.
I pressed my lips to his again and he gently brushed his fingers across my crotch before sliding one into the lacy covering. He moaned through the kiss as his index finger felt the soft smooth flesh of my lips. Pulling my panties to one side he carefully explored my swollen mound until a finger found my wet opening.
His breathing increased rapidly as he slipped his finger into my wetness and slowly brought it up to my swollen clit. I rolled my head back and moaned and he took one of my nipples into his mouth as he began rubbing my button harder.
I grabbed his shoulders and began grinding against his finger as he kissed me hard before withdrawing his finger and tasting my honey.
He moaned and smiled at me and I climbed off his lap to remove my panties. As I slid them down he unzipped his jeans and pulled out his swollen member. I looked at it mesmerized for a moment before instinctively placing my hand around it and taking the head into my mouth.
He moaned hard as I suckled the tip and began licking the shaft in between stroking. I placed the head into my mouth again and began sliding my lips up and down his big cock, taking an inch at a time until it hit the back of my throat. At this point he was in complete ecstasy; his fingers were tangled at the root of my hair simultaneously pushing my head down and pulling my hair. I gently push myself down and allowed his throbbing monster to enter my throat.
I could feel him trying to restrain from shoving my head down and bucking his hips as I expanded and contracted my throat muscles to massage the tip. I worked at it until he was balls deep in my mouth and I sucked at him for a few minutes before I could no longer take it: I had to have his dick in my pussy!
I climbed back onto his lap with my skirt hoisted up and reached between my legs. I spread my pussy lips open with my middle and index fingers and lowered myself until his cock was pressed against my spread slit.
I let go of my lips and guided his cock to my hole, rubbing the head of it with my dripping wetness. I placed my hands on his shoulders and slowly began lowering myself onto him. His thick cock pressed itself into my small hole as we both gasped and moaned.
I had never taken a cock this size before, so I took it slowly, wanting to feel every inch. Again I could feel him trying to restrain himself from slamming me down onto it, but soon enough his entire shaft was buried in me; his head pressing hard at my cervix.
His eyes rolled back in his head as he gripped my hips and I squeezed my eyes shut in complete pleasure. I started slowly riding him and, with the assistance of his strong hands, I picked up the pace until my pussy was sucking his cock with such great expertise. I slowed him for a moment and tipped my hips until his cock found the opening of my cervix.
I smiled as I pushed down with care and watched a look of pure ecstasy glaze over his face as his swollen prick pressed into my womb. Again I began riding him gently as I watched him experience this tight pleasure before I began to ride him at a faster pace. My breathing came in quick gasps between screaming moans as he held me down hard from my waist and bucked his hips until he was slam-fucking me with as much force as an earthquake. He gritted his teeth as he breathed heavily between them, concentrating fully on the pleasure as he was abusing my baby pussy.
My back stiffened and my vaginal walls contracted as I was thrown into a hard orgasm. I threw my head back and dug my nails into his shoulders while moaning and screaming, "FUCK ME, JACK!" at the top of my lungs! Between my moaning, contracting, bucking and nail digging, he couldn't take it anymore. He began slamming me down onto his cock with all of his force and might while moaning through clenched teeth, "Yeah, that's my baby, that's my good little girl, such a good little whore," before he slammed as deep as he could, deeper than my body would even let him, and filled every crevice of my pussy with his hot cum.
As our breathing began to calm we kissed each other passionately before I climbed off of him. Ignoring the cum running down my legs I quickly took his cock into my mouth and gently licked it clean while he gasped and moaned.
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Over the last few years, a new and immensely clarifying concept has entered public discussion: "statism." It has been said that he who controls language controls history. The growing use of "statism" may portend a political sea change, because it pierces a major Leftist-created smokescreen: the placing of fascism on the Right.
This twisting of language and facts has reached ludicrous levels. On November 9th, The New York Times featured a page-one article whose headline blared: "Right Wing's Surge in Europe Has the Establishment Rattled." But it turns out that these alleged Rightists "want to strengthen not shrink government and they see the welfare state as an integral part of their national identities." The article reveals that "The platform of France's National Front … reads in part like a leftist manifesto."
We need a rational way of setting up the political spectrum. We have to have some axis of measurement in terms of which we can locate the political meaning of particular ideas and policies. I have no objection to calling this spectrum "Right vs. Left." I have every possible objection to defining the extreme Right as fascism and the extreme Left as communism.
Suppose that someone proposed a Right-Left axis for eating, saying that the extreme Right is to eat arsenic and the extreme Left is to eat cyanide. The choice would only be: which poison do you want to die from? And the "moderates" would then be those who eat a mixture of arsenic and cyanide. What would be omitted from this setup? Food.
The political equivalent of the arsenic-cyanide spectrum is the fascism-communism spectrum. What is omitted from the setup? A free society--which means: capitalism. What is the actual opposite of capitalism? Statism.
The term "statism" was tirelessly promoted by Ayn Rand. A computer search of her published works for "statism" or "statist" gives over 300 hits. She described statism as the idea that "man's life and work belong to the state--to society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nation--and that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own, tribal, collective good."
Fascism and communism are two variants of statism. Both are forms of dictatorship. Neither one recognizes individual rights nor permits individual freedom. The differences are non-essential: fascism is racial statism and communism is statism of economic class.
Communism advocates the abolition of private property; socialism advocates government ownership of the means of production. Fascism leaves that property in private hands--then shackles those hands, every economic decision being directed by the state. Property rights are non-existent under fascism.
"All property is common property," wrote Nazi spokesman Ernst Huber, "The owner is bound by the people and Reich to the responsible management of his goods. His legal position is only justified when he satisfies this responsibility to the community. … There are no personal liberties of the individual which fall outside of the realm of the state and which must be respected by the state."
Both communism and fascism establish total censorship and tolerate no freedom of thought--thus rejecting rights in the spiritual realm as well. Nazi writer Friedrich Sieburg stated: "There are to be no more private Germans … each is to attain significance only by his service to the state."
Few on the Left care to remember that "Nazi" is a shortening of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei: National Socialist German Workers Party.
Whether the dictatorship claims the mantle of the Aryan race or the proletariat matters little to the individuals crushed by it. To search for some trivial superiority of Soviet gulags over Nazi concentration camps, or vice-versa, would be morally obscene.
So, we observe a fundamental difference: one system grants the state unlimited power, holding that the individual is the rightless slave of the state; the other system holds individual rights to be supreme and inalienable, with the state limited to a single function: the protection of those rights from physical force and fraud.
That is the distinction that must be made. We can expect no clarity in political discussion until the pure, consistent poles are identified: the opposition between dictatorship and liberty, between the individual as the nothing and the individual as sovereign. "Left" and "Right" have to be defined accordingly.
But "Left" and "Right" are informal shorthand. The actual terms are: "statism," on the Left, and "capitalism," on the Right.
The term "statism" carries its meaning on its face. But the term "capitalism" does not and it has to be rescued from a century and a half of distortion, lies--and compromises.
Today's political-economic system is not capitalism--not pure, consistent, uncontrolled, laissez-faire capitalism. Today in America we live in the Entitlement State and the Regulatory State.
A government that taxes 40 percent or more of our income, that controls our medical care, that regulates business so thoroughly that every firm large enough to afford it has a department of "compliance," a government that controls the money supply, sets bank reserve-ratios, regulates stock offerings, margin-ratios, home construction, determines what pharmaceuticals and medical innovations can be sold, operates schools and universities, runs the passenger rail system, forbids "offensive" speech, increasingly intervenes in diet, subsidizes agriculture and "green" businesses, imposes tariffs, decides which businesses may merge, and, we have just learned, spies on its own citizens--is not a government remotely consistent with capitalism.
The closest the world ever came to actual capitalism was the United States in the 19th Century, the era of this country's fastest economic growth. Even in that era, the capitalist, industrial North had to fight a bloody Civil War to end the South's infamous anti-capitalist institution: slavery.
To defend capitalism is a task for another time. The point of this column is deeper. It is that the political spectrum--Left vs. Right--must be defined in terms of statism vs. individual liberty.
The growing use of the term "statism" to identify one of the basic alternatives is a very auspicious development. When the public understands what was understood at this country's founding--that "to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men"--the intellectual revolution will be at hand.


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The most common use of formal verification methods and tools so far has been in identifying whether livelock and/or deadlock situations can occur during protocol execution, process, or system operation. In this work we aim to show that an additional equally important and useful application of formal verification tools can be in protocol design and protocol selection in terms of performance related metrics. This can be achieved by using the tools in a rather different context compared to their traditional use. That is not only as model checking tools to assess the correctness of a protocol in terms of lack of livelock and deadlock situations but rather as tools capable of building profiles of protocol operations, assessing their performance, and identifying operational patterns and possible bottleneck operations. This process can provide protocol designers with an insight about the protocols' behavior and guide them towards further protocol design optimizations. It can also assist network operators and service providers in selecting the most suitable protocol for specific network and service configurations. We illustrate these principles by showing how formal verification tools can be applied in this protocol profiling and performance assessment context using some existing protocols as case studies.
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Two To Watch – Brian May and Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust on film
Here are two short filmed pieces well worth watching and circulating to as many folks as you can. Simple, informative and compelling. Please pass the links on to friends, family, networks etc and post on any blogs, websites and social media that you have access to.
Brian May – Brian May's recent interview on Alan Titchmarsh show is on YouTube.
Brian May is not only campaigning against the badger culls and for cattle vaccination but is also trying to get reasonable dialogue going to find a solution re bovine tb. This interview seems to have annoyed the National Farmers Union – much snorting and threats of complaints – for no apparent reason. Maybe it's because he is so clearly knowledgeable, committed and passionate. He summarises the reasons why culling badgers is not the answer to bovine tb really well. He's in this for the long run – and an inspiration.
Here's the YouTube URL – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKVAL4ApDQg
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust - Dr Gordon McGlone talks of the issues of a badger cull
A very watchable short film with Dr Gordon McGlone, Chief Executive of GWT talking about the disadvantages of culling badgers and what's involved in the badger vaccination project the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is undertaking on its own farm and reserves. It's clear, well explained and constructed - and has great footage of badgers by Pete McMurdie.
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BSML-mbeddr: Integrating Semantically Configurable State-Machine Models in a C Programming Environment
In model-driven engineering, developers express their solutions in domain-specific modelling languages (DSLs) that support domain-specific abstractions. Big-Step Modelling Languages (BSML) is a family of extended state-machine DSLs for creating executable models that have a complex execution semantics. In this paper, we present BSML-mbeddr, which imbeds a large subset of BSML within the mbeddr C programming environment, thereby extending mbeddr with language constructs for extended, semantically configurable state-machines. We also report on three case studies that exercise the expressiveness of BSML-mbeddr, assess the integrability of BSML-mbeddr into mbeddr, and demonstrate the need to provide support for state-machine models with different execution semantics.
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Eatocracy: CNN's food blog has partnered with Food & Wine to announce the 100 nominees for F&W's Best New Chef of 2011. As it goes, of course, not a single nominee -- even in the Gulf Coast region -- is from Houston. Dallas has two nominated chefs, while Austin has four. At least we have Star Chefs, I guess...
Eater: National food blog Eater has the news that magazine Saveur -- long known for its beautiful food photography and in-depth food journalism -- will now be printing restaurant reviews as well. As the interview states, "Saveur, at its heart, is a global magazine," so expect the restaurants to be international in scope as well. Long odds on Houston being recognized any time soon are...long.
Houston Foodie: J.C. Reid bit a collective bullet for Americans' palates and tried haggis for the first time this past week. At Feast, naturally. And he found it "not necessarily distasteful." I see more English "delicacies" like steak and kidney pudding in Reid's future...
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24/08/2017 - Attend Manor Royal Matters Conference
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09/08/2017 - Free WiFi and USB charging points on Metrobus
Travelling by bus to Manor Royal Business District and Gatwick Airport just got even more productive now that Metrobus has fitted its entire fleet with free WiFi and the main services services in the area now have USB charging points at every seat.
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Are we making cooking too complex?
That's the gist of a thought-provoking tweetstorm from economist Lyman Stone, which I've edited into a slightly easier-to-read paragraph form:
"There are two things happening in U.S. food culture: more eating out AND a complexification of cooking. If you look at recipes from a generation or two ago, there are few ingredients, few steps. Simple, largely working-class type stuff.
"A 'good cook' today is expected to be an expert at analyzing the vast panoply of globalized ingredients available on the market today. We are told that good cooking requires specific ingredients, has numerous rules, has to have a salt-rubbed cast-iron skillet, etc.
"The normative hurdles we erect for what constitutes good cooking are enormous as we have gotten more choices. … But what you're doing isn't excellent household food prep but farm-league restaurateuring.
"Some of this is welfare maximizing: Globalization creates new choices and scale efficiencies that make the whole food culture tastier! But I worry that the preference-forming mechanism in our food culture is changing, too; are people really more satisfied with their food now?"
I think that the answer is "Yes, they are." A once-common creature has nearly gone extinct in our society: the bad cook. My grandmother's generation was full of them, people who understood that they had an obligation to feed their families, but lacked either the skill or the willingness to do it well. Now, I'm always surprised when I sit down to the table of someone who's a bad cook; most people who don't like to cook eat out, or buy something they can heat up. And the rest of us don't much miss the rock-hard biscuit; overcooked vegetables; and flavorless gray meat which are so ubiquitous in the novels of yesteryear.
On the other hand, Lyman Stone also has a point. There's a common pattern you see when technology renders some skill less necessary: It becomes a sort of luxury, and in the process, demands vastly more and more well-honed skills.
A hundred and fifty years ago, lots of people climbed onto the back of a horse every day. Outside of a few specialty professions like herding, the people who do so in 2017 are likely to be affluent, and engaged in some fairly complicated sport like show-jumping, barrel-racing or dressage. The kinds of folks who just plopped themselves into the saddle and sat there like a sack are all off doing something else.
You can name any number of other activities where this is true, from rowing a boat to woodworking. When activities become hobbies, the average skill level rises, and the activity itself tends to become more complicated and intensive. After all, the people doing them really enjoy what they're doing, so naturally they look for more ways to enjoy themselves – and to show off for fellow hobbyists.
But that rising level of skill, effort and information intensivity becomes a barrier to entry for the casual aficionado who might well develop a solid repertoire they could at least occasionally haul out, if the core hobbyists weren't so busily complexifying everything: a phenomenon that economist Arnold Kling attributes to "matching technology."
"Instead of settling for a lowest-common-denominator activity, like a game of social bridge," he writes, "you can find something that really excites you and connect with people who share your excitement. With better matching technology, the total number of viable interests goes up, and the share of people who settle for activities in which they are only moderately interested goes down."
You see this phenomenon even within hobbies: I'm a pretty skilled cook, and there are still cuisines I don't really attempt, because I know I don't have the fundamental skill set to do them justice – while friends who are superb at those cuisines quake in terror of pastry and hollandaise. Forty years ago, we'd probably all have been more willing to do a thing half-well.
You can't put all the blame on matching technology – dressage hypertrophied into one of the world's least accessible sports long before the internet. But the internet has undoubtedly accelerated the natural human tendency to take everything to its illogical extreme.
Of course there are gains from all this – "gains from trade," as the economists like to say. But there are also some losses, too, in the people who never get to feel the wind on their face as their horse canters along, in the people who might have made something delicious, if they weren't too intimidated to pick up that first spatula.
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Blackstone looks to back builders
Blackstone is going into the British housing market by backing a fund that lends money to builders and developers.
The private equity group and other institutional investors, including Clearbell Capital, have invested £94 million in Pluto Finance. This is in addition to the £100 million raised last May and takes Pluto's total lending firepower to £360 million.
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Giroud: We don't want to waste this opportunity
Olivier Giroud believes a focus on mentality is the reason why this France team is different to the one that lost the European Championships final to Portugal in 2016.
Giroud, 31, will lead the line again as France play Croatia in Sunday's World Cup final, having started every game in the tournament except for the first.
Les Bleus are favourites to lift the trophy after impressive knockout wins against Argentina, Uruguay and Belgium and Giroud says France will not let another opportunity for international silverware pass them by.
"It's different. After the semi-final when we won against Germany we were a bit euphoric, whereas against Belgium it was different," he said.
"It's not the same feeling - we know we still have one game to win. There's that real focus and concentration to finish the job - that's why it's different. We've come a long way to get here and we don't want to waste this opportunity now.
"You can't win a World Cup on just talent. Talent alone is not sufficient. You need efficiency. The mental strength is 70 per cent of the job. If you're ready to work for your team-mates and each other with dedication and commitment then anything can happen."
The Chelsea striker is yet to score in Russia, but knows his role is part of the bigger picture in creating team balance and fluency.
"Against Belgium I missed efficiency, luck and something to score but hopefully I can have it for the final," he said.
"In 1998 [Stephane] Guivarc'h played a good World Cup but didn't score and I think I'm doing a good World Cup, I've assisted three times for goals, I'm committed and the work rate and the work every single player puts in is very important.
"I feel like I give everything for the team and if one goal has to come then hopefully it will come and it will come on Sunday, but if we are a world champions and I don't score, I'm okay with that."


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Long Island rapper Hoodie Allen—an Internet and college campus favorite—is back with a pleasantly vulgar tale of cougar seduction just in time for VD… er, Valentine's Day. "Cake Boy" has three important weapons in its arsenal: Well-chosen pop culture references, a cowbell beat (itself practically a pop culture reference) and a video of two cake-baking babes in Daisy Dukes. Some rappers drench women in water for their videos, Hoodie Allen dusts them with flour. You gotta give him credit for thinking outside the premade cake box.
Check it out above and keep an ear open for the inevitable Ashton Kutcher shoutout (it's a song about cougars, remember?) and an unexpected reference to The O.C. And while you're watching, try not to marvel at how high quality this clip is for a self-released video.


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Max Ernst was born in Brühl, near Cologne in 1891. He studied art history, philosophy and psychology at the University of Bonn from 1908 to 1914. He already drew and painted in his youth and never signed up for any artistic education. At the age of 22 he had his first group show. During World War I he worked very conscientious. In 1919 Ernst founded the Cologne Dada group with Arp and Baargeld. Furthermore, he became a member of the artist circle around Andre Breton in 1922. During this time he had first exhibition participation at the Surrealists. He was persecuted during the Nazi period and emigrated to Arizona in the United States. In 1953 he returned to France and got there the citizenship. Max Ernst died in 1976. Max Ernst had no artistic education and worked as autodidact. He revolutionized the language of 20th century art. He turned against traditional norms and joined the surrealists. Aside from his paintings, drawings and graphics, he also made sculptures.


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These last few weeks, I have taken a break from my blog, and from my book, to write some poetry and bend the ear of some poets and writers who caught my attention.
The lessons I have learned from the collaboration with other writers and other genres have been so beneficial to me. From discussions on concise language and a "less is more" approach, advice on focus, and limiting ideas to the best of the best, I have been energized and inspired to do what I do better.
The poetry reading and critiquing I have been a part of this month has highlighted the need to edit/simplify/reduce and keep only what is the essence and very best of what I write. Surrounded online (in a group forum) by poets and editors, I was able to see that poets say more with less. Using metaphor, simile, cadence, and word sounds along with rhythm and meter to reveal something, a great poet can use a few lines to say what I might take a page to say in prose. The result is that collaborative poetry and critique is giving my writing some edge and a more concise style.
The truth that I have been reminded of from the collaboration is that "When you surround yourself with people who do what you do, and do it well, you will learn, grow, and develop to a higher level."
So feed off the best in your field, collaborate, and share knowledge. When we check our egos at the door, we might learn something new...a good thing.
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The rustic beauty of a country Christmas fills the Simple Gifts crafts shop, while the Amish residents of Willow Ridge pull together in uncertain times—and in the face of an unexpected homecoming.
Nora Hooley's shop is abuzz with preparations for the holiday open house, and Rosalyn Riehl is handcrafting wreaths from evergreen boughs, pinecones, and other natural materials. The work is a welcome diversion for the only unmarried daughter of Cornelius Riehl: her gruff dat has been receiving envelopes marked Past Due, leaving dutiful Rosalyn to manage the household's inexplicably shrinking budget. Then another distraction swaggers into Simple Gifts—blue-jeaned and leather-jacketed, with a reputation that precedes him.
Marcus Hooley hightailed it to Willow Ridge on a wing and a prayer—not that he's the praying type. He rejected his Amish roots long ago. But behind the bad-boy attitude is a gifted horse trainer who's counting on some bent-but-not-broken family ties to throw him a lifeline. He can't erase his past, but a sparking attraction with strong, spirited Rosalyn holds the promise of a second chance . . . and of shedding light on shadowy secrets to build a bright tomorrow.


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Express accounted for 12.5% of Walgreen prescriptions filled during January of last year. The company's decision to drop Express was a major hit for Walgreen, whose total pharmacy sales dropped 6% during January 2012. Take a look at the annual percentages and the loss seems even greater. Express pulled in about $5 billion in business for Walgreen each year.
Now that Walgreen stores will no longer fill prescriptions for these customers, patients in the Express network are forced into the arms of Walgreen competitors. Which could mean more pharmacy sales for CVS Caremark
Walgreen is attempting to keep these customers in its stores by signing them up for the company's new Prescription Savings Club. Walgreen said it had a record 125,000 customers sign up for the program in the first week of 2012. Still, I think this is only the beginning of what should be a difficult year for the company as it struggles to maintain customers and cut costs. Click here to use The Motley Fool's free Watchlist to track these drugstore stocks in the year ahead.
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Implementing Spectral Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Algorithms for Scientists and Engineers
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Part of the Scientific Computation book series (SCIENTCOMP)
This book offers a systematic and self-contained approach to solve partial differential equations numerically using single and multidomain spectral methods. It contains detailed algorithms in pseudocode for the application of spectral approximations to both one and two dimensional PDEs of mathematical physics describing potentials, transport, and wave propagation. David Kopriva, a well-known researcher in the field with extensive practical experience, shows how only a few fundamental algorithms form the building blocks of any spectral code, even for problems with complex geometries. The book addresses computational and applications scientists, as it emphasizes the practical derivation and implementation of spectral methods over abstract mathematics. It is divided into two parts: First comes a primer on spectral approximation and the basic algorithms, including FFT algorithms, Gauss quadrature algorithms, and how to approximate derivatives. The second part shows how to use those algorithms to solve steady and time dependent PDEs in one and two space dimensions. Exercises and questions at the end of each chapter encourage the reader to experiment with the algorithms.


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Danaher, Patrick Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2289-7774 and Umar, Abdurrahman (2010) Contemporary research on open and distance learning in teacher education. In: Teacher education through open and distance learning. Perspectives on Distance Education. Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 7-21. ISBN 978-1-894975-39-1
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This overview chapter considers teacher education and ODL separately and then in combination, examining their synergies and divergences. The focus, context and politicised character of each domain are discussed, as is their diversity across individuals, institutions, nations and regions, and also the links between each domain and wider debates about such issues as access, development, equity, social justice and transformation. The discussion provides a framework for the chapters that follow. Policy-makers, practitioners and researchers who use ODL in teacher education to develop large numbers of capable and proficient teachers will need to engage with the types of themes canvassed in the current research reviewed here.
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Back in June we announced that Salesforce participated in Skyhigh's Series C funding round as a strategic investor. The move validated our status as a category-creating company dedicated to addressing compliance and governance requirements and boost the enterprise adoption of cloud services.
Now we are thrilled to announce Skyhigh's induction into Salesforce's Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partnership Program. Skyhigh for Salesforce is now available on the Salesforce App Exchange. This latest offering brings function-preserving encryption with customer-owned keys and tokenization, as well as comprehensive data governance capabilities such as activity monitoring, anomaly detection, and contextual access control. searchable, order-preserving, and format-preserving encryption with customer-owned keys, activity monitoring, and data discovery customers' Salesforce deployments.
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Some of my conversations of late have lead me to reconsider distinctions between Restore & Sustain. I try to remind/inform our church family of these basic ministries at least twice a year. Professionals say "That's not enough." Maybe they're right, but ministry isn't a profession, it's a calling, and I'm glad to be called with you to focus more on God's Word than on South Church distinctions.
But, I'm afraid our semi-annual efforts to declare the vision & mission of Sustain & Restore continue to fall prey to our preconceived ideas & definitions… particularly those surrounding "small groups." As you've heard me say before: Restore is not "small group," at least not the kind we tend to associate with that label. But many of us--perhaps even subconsciously--still import those misconceptions into our Restore families, only to walk away frustrated when those expectations aren't met.
In the past, some folks have suggested significant changes to Restore. While I grant that we haven't arrived at the perfect "program" yet, the changes most want made basically boil down to Sustain. Apart from participation in Sustain, they can't help but hope Restore will provide them an opportunity for sharing their more personal struggles, prayer needs & discouragements.
While I believe there is both the need for and ample opportunity to "share life together" in Restore, let me remind us that Restore is not intended to focus on the family so to speak, but to equip us in God's Word to carry out the Great Commission in our little corner of the world.
From time to time, all of us are going to experience trials & tribulations, fears & insecurities, personal sins & struggles, private matters that we'll need to share & bear with others. But a gathering of 10-20 adults (not to mention children of all ages) probably isn't the best environment for that.
I'm guessing that if we took time each week for everyone at Restore to share their personal needs, concerns & requests, some of our brothers & sisters might feel like they were being held hostage. And time would only permit 2 to 3 of us ample opportunity to share. Hmm? That's interesting: time would only permit 2 or 3. Wait a minute? That sounds a lot like Sustain. Exactly! Sustain provides the perfect opportunity for more personal Prayer, Truth & Honesty.
Having said that, "sharing life together" is an important aspect of Restore and I believe it happens best in two ways: 1) After Restore, in personal conversation with--you guessed it--one or two others. And 2) as we invest some sweat-equity together, serving, proclaiming & reaching our community; in other words, "living on mission" together.
Consider the missionary journey we just read about in Matthew's Gospel. Jesus gathered His men, equipped them with His message, gave them authority, and sent them out. Shortly thereafter they returned from the field, eager to share all they experienced as they "lived on mission." Can you imagine the camaraderie they enjoyed by ministering together? Surely a deep sense of divine unity--of true fellowship--rested heavily upon them. And isn't it interesting that not a single name of anyone they reached during those missions is even mentioned in the text? What's my point? Well, while it's true that the focus of this "small group" was primarily outward, on those in the community to whom they proclaimed, consider who it was that came away united, blessed, encouraged, amazed? The disciples, the very ones Christ equipped & dispatched to "live on mission" together. And as they "shared life together" in the ripened fields for harvest, the lives of these ambassadors were bonded together in inseparable ways to Christ their King & to one another. This is the fellowship we're after in Restore. This is "sharing life together." Many are the stories soldiers tell of their battlefield brethren with whom they shared the trenches, names they'll never forget, bonds that will never be broken.
Before I get the cart too far out in front of the horse, first let me ask a much more important question: Have you been born again? Seriously, do you possess such a "hunger & thirst for righteousness" that can only be explained by God's work within you? If you're uncertain, let me encourage you to spend some time meditating on First John? Out of his love for the Church, the apostle goes to great lengths to provide several litmus tests that may help you determine whether or not you've truly been born again. I would especially encourage some serious self-examination if ministry, fellowship & Scripture reading sound more like duties than opportunities. If I can help, let's get together and look at some Scripture.
Secondly, take a minute to consider your participation in & expectations of Restore & Sustain. Perhaps you've been trying to get orange juice out of apples? As I've said before, my heart would have been hardened a hundred times over were it not for my Sustain partners. I mean that... and have Scripture to back me up:
I hope you know that your elders love you, pray for you, and want to strengthen you in the Truth, so that when your adversary pokes his ugly head, you will glorify God as you stand strong against his schemes. We want the very best for you: Jesus! And we're convinced that Sustain is vital to your knowing & loving Him more.
What is Sustain? A little time each day meditating on God's Word, and meeting weekly with at least one other in the family to read & pray together, humbly & honestly confessing sin, and lifting each other up to the throne of grace.
Yes, Sustain takes a little getting used to. I'd say it takes at least six consecutive weeks to get know one another, to build confidence in and truly care for your partner. But, having enjoyed such a relationship with a few brothers for several years now, I can't encourage you enough to tap this "little" life-line of Living Water.


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Substance abuse treatment facility to open in Franklin
A new facility is expected to open up by mid-summer in Franklin to help those who are seeking treatment from addictions to drugs and alcohol.
Program helps pregnant Butler County addicts gain independence
One year after Sojourner launched its new program from pregnant Butler County women addicted to drugs, clients testify to the quality and growth of the MAMA's Program.
Butler County Taxpayers Could be Paying for Addiction Services
With heroin-related overdoses at an all-time high, Butler County Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Services is developing a plan that could include asking taxpayers to fund addiction treatment services.
2 Butler County Groups Merge to Better Fight Heroin
A mental health provider and an addiction services organization in Butler County officially announced their merger Friday, after nearly one year of talks in an effort to better combat the "growing heroin epidemic," according to the group's new CEO.
Two New Butler County Programs Target Drug Addicted Adolescents
With 26 percent of the population genetically predisposed to heroin addiction after one use, Sojourner Recovery Services has launched new programs for adolescents in the hopes of saving a whole generation.
Coroner: Drug Overdoses Set Record in '15
More people died from heroin-related overdoses last year than suicides, traffic crashes, other accidents, homicides and undetermined causes combined, accord to the Butler County Coroner's Office.
Expert: Low Cost, Easy Availability Make Heroin Attractive
Miami University Middletown students and staff learned some sobering statistics about the local heroin epidemic as part of a presentation Wednesday.
Pilot Program Test New Ways to Help Heroin-Addicted Mothers
Heroin-addicted mothers and the innocent victims – their children – are getting help from a new partnership between Butler County and Sojourners Recovery Services.
Opiate Task Force: Program to Help Addicted, Pregnant Women
There's a new beginning for mothers addicted to heroin.
Butler County Launches Heroin Task Force
Butler County has opened a new front in the battle against heroin addiction.
New Butler County Program to Help Drug-Addicted Pregnant Women
Butler County Commissioners and Sojourner Recovery Services are announcing a new Butler County Motherhood and Maternity Addiction Services Program this morning.
Opiate Task Force Program to Help Addicted Pregnant Women
On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released staggering numbers about the Buckeye State.
Ohio Second in Drug Overdoes Deaths Nationwide
Ohio had the second-highest number of drug overdoes deaths nationwide in 2014, a number that's soaring, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Friday.
New Butler County Program Helps Pregnant Drug Addicts
Butler County Commissioner Cindy Carpenter is on a crusade to get help for drug addicted pregnant women and has marshalled a large group of partners to help the women pull themselves out of their problem-plagued lives.
Heroin Proves a Formidable Foe in Butler County
Scenes from a community under siege.
Drug Treatment Facility Coming to Preble
The Mental Health and Recovery Board of Preble County elected to move forward with bringing two drug rehabilitation homes to Preble County.
Ohio Couple Calls out Heroin in Teen Daughter's Obituary
Confronted with the sudden death of their 18-year-old daughter, Fred and Dorothy McIntosh Shuemake made a defiant decision: they would not worry about any finger-pointing, whispers or family stigma.
McCrabb: From Homeless to Helping Others
Darryle Short looked at the bottom of a bottle trying to forget his past.
Harley's Against Heroin Raises $41,000
Harleys Against Heroin had another successful fundraiser this year, including a new ride on the west side of Cincinnati.
Hamilton-Based Nonprofits to Consider Merger
Mental health, addiction agencies already have partnership, overlap in clients served.
Harleys Against Heroin Expected to Grow
The 100 bikes that Harleys Against Heroin attracted its first year last year will seem like nothing compared to what is expected this year.
Sojourner doubles Size of Men's Drug Rehab Program
Non-profit agency now has 82 residential beds in Butler County.
Nonprofit Opens County's First Sober Living Program
The first sober living units available to Butler County residents opened Monday in Hamilton.
Change leaves $1M funding gap for local addiction services
A change in the way the state is finneling federal money to county addictions boards and local providers is creating a $20 million shortfall over the next year.
Butler County Heroin Addicts to Get More Help
Butler County's only nonprofit residential drug treatment center will open a dozen more beds Monday in Hamilton to help address a six-month waiting list for men as heroin addiction continues to explode.


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That is a great question! What the hell is the Mick Morris Musing about?
Let me tell you face to face…… what you're not in Australia and it's the middle of the night where you are… don't worry put on the coffee and I'll drop around …OK stop panicking about the mess, I'm joking.
The best way to tell you what this blog is really about (and something I should have done at the start!) is to let video do the talking for me. After today this video will be up on the ABOUT page… but for now…
Ok… what did you think of the video? Let me know in the comments (remember this is how I am going to find you as well!), and do you think I should add the occasional video post here to mix things up a bit?